skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes very, very specific conditions (you'd have to go out of your way to minimize radiant heat transfer) for a fireplace to put less heat into a room than it removes with airflow.

Back in the day (i.e. 1700s) everyone heated with fireplaces. And many of them (e.g. 2nd floor ones) weren't that big.
But think of the great excuse for killing off V2!
Excel has been dryly noted as the most popular functional programming language before: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3033912/functional-languag...

In Excel you can't modify existing state in a cell, but only transform and output the results in a new cell.
> Its why you need engineers running your grid, not some politically connected organization which seems to prioritize free market theories above delivering power.

Why do engineers seem to think that it's possible to do things at scale without politics being involved? A statement that boils down to "trust this group of people that I am affiliated with because we know better" is an inherently political statement, even if you really do know better!
Can Intel’s new boss turn the chipmaker around?
Except Node.js doesn't have a proper stdlib. Big difference.
Quality comment and helped me think about Airpods in a different way - thank you.
Given the first paragraph, you should also make clear that he is a proponent of free speech. Because it sounds like you want to say the opposite.

And it does not provide any context, just a veiled attempt of saying what, exactly? Tory or Labour, cancel culture is a mob looking for blood.

Let's discuss the topic at hand, not whether the speaker is in the black or white camp.
I'd bet humans invented warfare way before animal husbandry.
It's 'only' ~$50M or so [0], per what I could find with a quick googling. Other resources would be appreciated though!

[0] https://www.wealthypersons.com/paul-graham-net-worth-2020-20...
Sure, I think it is possible. I do not know the situation very well. It is not the first such case I know, however.

My friend's young 4-5-year-old, for example, the child of two model parents, has had similar behavior. Her screen time is very limited, but once there is a smartphone or a tablet in sight, she's inconsolable.

She does not use anything like TikTok, just watches some parent-curated videos.
It will. You can bet on it. The Texas Legislature is currently in session (it only meets every other year). Maybe a quarter of them will have personally experienced this power outage and all of them will have a parent, sister, son, neighbor, friend who suffered through it. And while these people may not know much about same sex bathrooms, a lot of them know a lot about energy. When this session is out weatherpfoofing will not be "suggested" or "recommended", it will be law.
The heavy reliance on natural gas is not traditional. Its a side effect of 1)
Also if firewalling/packet filtering was a consideration, ipfw was (is?) leaps and bounds nicer to work with than ipchains/iptables. This (c. FreeBSD 4.x) is what introduced me to FreeBSD.
If you can get people to buy/use it (like BTC, ETH, and countless others did), yes it would be.

The number of coins is just a definition. Bitcoin has satoshis (similar to cents) that represent one millionth of a Bitcoin. You could have defined it such that Bitcoin is actually a single coin worth $1T, and BTC is 1/21,000,000th of it.
Wait, what? I'm pretty sure you can't be allergic to sodium chloride. Salt is literally part of your body. You'd die if you didn't ingest any salt.

Do you mean you're allergic to some common additive in table salt, or specifically to elevated salt concentrations? The former sounds like something you could call an allergy (but not to salt itself); the latter I probably wouldn't call an allergy so much as higher sensitivity to significantly hypotonic food or drinks. An allergy is usually defined as an excessive, damaging immune reaction to a foreign substance that is itself harmless at that concentration. Salt isn't a foreign substance.

I get the feeling a lot of people are lumping tons of things into the category of "allergies" where the underlying biological processes are very different. That doesn't mean the reactions aren't real, but it makes it very difficult to reason to reason about them. When everything's an allergy, the word allergy stops having any useful meaning.
C# has metaprogramming through generics, the Roslyn compiler API and source generators.

C# supports limited manual memory management through unsafe and manual memory allocation methods, but this is primarily aimed at C/C++ interop. Newer performance oriented features like stackalloc and Span/Memory give most of the benefits of manual memory management without the dangers.

Performance of .NET on Linux is on average better than Java and Go.

Mono has an AOT implementation and Microsoft are expected to release one soon.

C# normal coding style may not be to your preference, but it's become a lot less "enterprisey" in recent years. XML is nowhere to be seen any more, for example.

But yes indeed it's not a very good language if you're wanting to directly manipulate registersand hardware addresses.
You missed-out debugging.
They're immensely difficult to restart once the aluminium solidifies: difficult enough that the answer is throw it out and make a new one. But there's a big enough difference between operational temperatures and solid that you can deprive them of electricity for e.g. 8 hours while you restart your other power generation infrastructure.
IIRC for some aluminium smelters you can even run the reaction in reverse briefly if you need to jump start something.

(citations needed.... I'm recalling this from a story someone told me ~15 years ago about the Alcoa plant in Victoria, Australia)
That's not recommended for some areas of Texas. There's low water pressure and water has to be conserved.[1]

(Edit: Houston only.)

[1] https://www.wfaa.com/article/weather/if-dripping-faucets-sav...
Right, but it turns out the mortar fails more often than you would like and you'd get smoke & carbon monoxide leaking into houses from that central chimney, which is why that went away (or so I've heard)
A logic puzzle I made last year largely consisting of jokes about this:

https://eff30.cat/kitty-o-games/gentlemen/
Ahhh. I actually don't have a Homepod, so I use my iPhone in the same way. As far as I know it's still limited to a single timer.
That's what the OP says. It's either security (your wallet) or convenience (exchange).
That's terrible. I'm in Driftwood and a touch rural and we've had no hits. The subdivisions up the road have not been doing very well either. Bang for you buck with power probably has them focused on the higher density locations. Stay safe and stay warm. Glad you got some place better for now.
Apollo client? you mean where the Meteor Dev team suddenly leaped to when it dawned upon the world that Mongo as a primary-store and a bizarre architecture that let you walk away with exactly one artifact towards your inevitable rewrite? (moustache templates!) was probably not going to take-off in a big way.
Awesome integration and polished docs etc.
Mini-mongo and pub-sub with websockets always for everyone? mmmm it ran rather slowly...
Put that at 30 degrees North North-West and integrate "what is good for a FAANG may bankrupt me and not provide foreign keys" lol..
Nothing against VC, but lets separate busy-work trends that mega-corps use in trench warfare of attrition (Google has more developers than you do.) from productivity tools.
GraphQL? I'd probably Postgrest if I were a one-human front-end/SPA shop
[Speaking only for myself, with poor eyesight, a cognitive hearing disorder, and a variety of sensory sensitivities related to ADHD]

Hey, it's awesome that you were so quick to address the issue. But I think you might want to take this one with a little grace. Putting aside the contrast you intended and missed by mistake, try to understand that accessibility is a pretty sore spot for people who need it. It's often ignored completely, or just jammed into a Lighthouse or similar score/checklist without regard for whether people can actually... access things. When people have difficulty with vision or hearing or any other sense, and when it's commonplace for that to be disregarded in very pronounced ways, it's not uncommon to feel invisible and react that way.
The restriction worth for security, but also pain for some extensions. For example, A Google Translator add-on on Firefox can't be regitered to Mozilla's store.

https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/google_translate_this
Whatever has been running without daemonizing for longest?

Or just all the things currently running interactively.

Or maybe just everything that hasn't started yet.

Any option is better than having to chose between waiting indefinitely or hitting ctrl-alt-del and starting in single user mode and hoping to be able to disable it there.
Though, heat pumps lose efficiency in very cold weather, and right now it's very cold in Texas.
The problem is that getting a good sd card or flash drive is still a roll of the dice - you can't tell if a given device will suit by looking at its specs.

eMMCs are made pesirically for this purpose and its a shame there is bo pi model using them
The economics are changing quickly, and storage is replacing gas plants. There are now more GW of battery backup in the pipeline than gas plants, and many multiples of solar and wind GW for each new gas GW.

https://rmi.org/clean-energy-is-canceling-gas-plants/

Texas is experiencing the interchange first because it's one off one of the few places where independent operators can connect and undercut those who have made bad long term capital investments.
Most healthcare apps not up to NHS standards
I'm sorry, but it's bad. Every programmer seems to think music is just a bunch of markov chains and generating some chord sequences or a rhythm will yield listenable music. Or maybe they train a deep learning network on a collection of recorded songs. I've been listening to efforts in generative music for >>20 years now and have yet to hear anything even remotely catchy.

Honestly, if you're not already a musician then maybe you should learn some of that first. Don't bother with harmonic progressions, try something with just 3 or 4 elements like a drum fill generator. You would find an eager audience for a simple 2/4/8 bar drum sequencer that could reliably invent fills that don't suck.
I really don't think Fortnite is as bad as you're making it out to be (certainly not even in the same league as most mobile microtransaction fests). The core of Fortnite is a pretty good (imo, although I prefer Apex Legends) battle royale fps, and the microtransactions are purely cosmetic items.

In contrast a lot of the big mobile games are barely even games. They're just AI controlling your gambled for gacha characters, which are very not cosmetic only. And the games that aren't AI controlled are still just basic turn based battle mechanics with very little strategy (and what is there is vastly less important than just getting better characters, probably by gambling).

I suspect the market of "people who play mobile games" and the market of "people who play PC games" are not even the same kinds of people, and if you tried to release the same stuff that makes money on mobile on PC, you wouldn't actually attract many new players. Likewise if the mobile market ceased to exist overnight, I doubt the players would be that attracted to many PC/console games. They're getting different things out of them.

Of course this is all just speculation, I don't really know.
I am not sure it's that simple, I read some where else yesterday that at least one of the non-ERCOT grids had paid to winterize their local power plants after the last ice storm so their plants have been operational throughout this storm and as a result had no outages. I have no idea how accurate that is though, I don't know anything about the electric grid...
There was a post earlier today about audio interfaces as platforms. I think something like this (perhaps a version without all the marketing crap) is way more likely to fill the niche of handling screenless user interactions
It's in the headline:

"Texas"
ByteDance denies in preliminary talks to list TikTok on NYSE – Global Times
Again, this is not what is actually happening. Texas has heaps of on demand natural gas generators. They froze up with the storm and failed to turn on. Has nothing to do with renewable.
Having grown up with wood fireplaces, the thought of having to change the batteries to turn it on is hilarious.
The molecules are quite resilient compared to anything we consider "biodegradeable", which means they also persist when in our bodies.
The whole idea of extensions is fundamentally broken. You are letting an unknown person who you have no way to trust or hold accountable access all of your web data.

It can't be fixed without crippling the system. You can't sandbox permissions because the most basic and useful tools require full access to every website.

The only way I can think of is having all extension developers required to have their identity verified and from a country that follows some common law so that google can take legal action against malware developers.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/how-can-you-eat-dair...
Yeah, see, finite supply entirely in the hands of early adopters doesn't really sound very legit to me.
They have an international version, called Windy Maps. It's the same app, just with international branding & marketing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.seznam.wind...

I definitely recommend it for worldwide use. It can do _everything_ offline, which is something rarely seen in this age. I have found it very practical for hiking Japanese countryside.
For me, early days of computer = the computer was mine and what I interacted with on it was largely mine.

Now : constantly opting out, denying cookies, blocking ads, installing piHole, blocking scripts, filtering emails for spam, ticking or unticking that tickbox, opt-out etc etc.

And I haven't even touched on the straightforward malicious stuff. Scams, phishing, cryptobombs, dodgy links etc.

And more and more of our lives rely on it.

End result = More angles to guard, stakes are higher.

This feeling of being "on guard" all the time is fatiguing and does drain some of the fun from day to day general use computers.

[edit: snipped examples, reworded bits for conciseness]
There's more to milk than lactose, Stone Age people would (and did) kill for the ~4% fat content.
All I see on CH is people like this. That and a very strange phenomenon...

I’ve noticed a trend on Clubhouse. I think it’s a new marketing gimmick. I’ve noticed these types of rooms that have celebrities in them. The celebrities never say anything, they’re just there, but it gets 1000s of people to join the room. One I noticed was talking about “climate change” that has Brad Pitt in the room...but it’s literally a YC company pitching to investors, everyone aside from Brad Pitt is either at this YC company, or an investor, Brad doesn’t say a word.

So the scam is this. Find a celebrity. Get them in a room. Pay them some fee to just stay on the line. This in turn funnels 1000s of people into the room because they see a room with “major celebrity” and then the scammers shill their scam to 1000+ people.
I've found that it's much easier to sleep in this temperature than the rest of the day. You just bundle up under several blankets and it doesn't feel that different. Living in a 30 degree house does take some getting used to though.
I read ERCOT predicted "real" demand was estimated to be at least 75 MW at one point Monday. I imagine it's not much better with everyone needing to reheat their entire homes now either.
I got into computer programming when I got a Mindstorms Lego set, which built off my love for Legos.
My younger brother learned some about C literally because he wanted to write cheats for Counterstrike, or more accurately how to remove the DRM-components of cheats that he didn't want to pay for.

You just gotta find a gate-way drug activity, as well as a gate-way programming language because going straight to Lisp is like going straight to heroin.
Believe it or not, just because a tool says the contrast is fine doesn't mean that it is. Even assuming a "normal" human range of color spectrum vision, many of these tools measure contrast ratios in color spaces that aren't even representative of that "normal" spectrum. All of the color spaces in native use on the web are not proportional to "normal" perception of color. Of course that gets even more complicated when different vision conditions are introduced.

Don't just quote some automated tool at people who very clearly experience something else.
Dank memes, as in they are so old they have started to stink a bit (but also a backhanded compliment, like how 'badass' is actually pretty good)
yeah, but there always will be someone who doesn't turn it off, especially when the prices are going up.

Also, they hold up the "floor price" for electricity and push it up, meaning that electricity prices will never be cheaper.
Be that as it may. Frozen pipes can be catastrophic.
The design work that TC-39 and the browser makers did is also much better than what the NodeJS community puts out

Like the dumb broken Maps and Sets?
IMO, full stack is primarily "can write the business logic in both the FE and BE". Someone with CSS and design skill still needs to step in to makes things look great.
Ah true. Maybe some day the iOS team will catch up with Homepod. Or even Android ;)
We used to call them Ponzi schemes. This is the same but in slow motion. People are going to start taking their profits at some point and whoever takes them last will be holding the bag.
What Elon understands is that if you are interesting you don't have to pay for advertising. Tesla got hundreds of millions in advertising for this and it cost them nothing but a bit of risk on some of their cash position.
When you've got a culture where all research must be "relevant" don't be surprised when tenuous connections are made in order to sustain the grants.
I would say the situation is getting bad. Many of my colleagues don't have heat. Water pipes are bursting everywhere. I never imagined this would happen in Texas, which from my observations was well run compared to other places I've lived
Can you not do ... whatever this is. It's not contributing.
Fun event? Bruh sit this one out.
Depending on when you heard the advice it may well have been correct each time you saw it.
Most "plain old salt" available through commercial sources does contain several synthetic additives as "flow enhancers".
Without you even telling me your company, cap table, strike price, or even your intention to stay, I'll buy all of your options on the date of grant for $20, provided that once we strike that deal, that we do it consistently through the rest of your career.

They're clearly not worth anywhere close to $0, but if you believe they are, hey "free $20".
Just for the record, VOCs are literally "anything organic that boils at less than 250°C" (in the EU).

Farts are full of VOCs. No, seriously, every time I fart the TVOC sensor in my air purifier goes nuts, as does the one in my air quality meter. It's almost like the thing is shaming me for it :)

I would encourage you to learn more about the different types of VOCs, and at which concentrations they are known to be harmful. You might be having true allergic reactions to some harmless VOCs. You might be having psychosomatic reactions to other VOCs. You might not be having reactions to some harmful VOCs at all. Lumping it all together into "VOCs" is not helpful.
My favorite Soviet Russia joke was 'in Soviet Russia, television watch you' but somewhere along the way capitalists decided this was a brilliant idea ¯\(°_o)/¯
No, it's because natural gas got cheaper, and they switched to the cheaper source.

"The report also addresses the interdependency of the electric and natural gas industries. “Utilities are becoming increasingly reliant on gas-fired generation, in large part because shale production has dramatically reduced the cost of gas,”

In 2011 when this happened before, Texas had even less renewables. I realize you're trying to hard to sell an ideology to blame renewables for what is really, gross mismanagement of the Texas grid, including fossil and nuclear power, but the reality is much more complex than your simple narrative.

https://twitter.com/i/events/1361767999200317440
Technically they run on at different phase, but the same frequency (60hz)
Some septic systems require power for a lift, essentially a pumping station. When the ground is too flat, you need to pump the waste higher than the drain field.

If you've ever seen a septic system with an audible alarm, this is probably why.
In 1996 (or thereabouts), I lived in Maryland, and my family lost power for 6 days due to a snow/ice storm that took out a ton of power lines (water froze on them and the added weight pulled them down). We had no natural gas service, and our running water was provided by a well in the backyard that had an electric pump. So no electricity, heat, or running water for 6 days in ~20-30°F weather. (Fortunately we'd prepared by buying many gallons of drinking water, and filling up bathtubs and buckets with water earlier in the week.)

We had two fireplaces in the house, one each in the living room and master bedroom, so we kept all doors closed and all slept in the master bedroom. They did a decent enough job keeping us somewhat comfortable while wearing several layers and winter coats at all times, and sleeping in sleeping bags and with extra blankets. (An oddity of our house was that the chimney ran through the middle of it, not outside an exterior wall, so even some of the heat going up it would warm the house a bit.)

After 4 days my dad felt the roads were clear enough for us to go to a motel where we could shower and experience some heat. Going back to the house after that (before power was restored) was in some ways worse than enduring the first 4 days.

Granted, the reason for that outage was very different from what happened in Texas, but I just wanted to highlight that our power grid everywhere is still very susceptible to bad weather. (Well, ok, this story is 25 years old, but I suspect things haven't changed all that much.)
Surprising amount of erotic energy in this comment. :)
Even before mobile gaming and in-game purchases was a thing. I remember there was a very wealthy player on Asheron's Call Frostfell who paid players to feed his XP chain, bought all of the rarest items such as nexus armour etc etc. There was a huge botting scene that sort of ruined the game but forced me to learn C++ and made me a bit of money as a teenager selling accounts.
> Also you can send a 50 cent tx fee and it will make it through but not be the fastest.

This has tended to be true (that it’d go through within a few days), but right now it’s probably largely false.

Assume a small 226 byte transaction (one input and two outputs); at $50,000 per bitcoin, 50¢ is 1000 satoshi, which is about 4.4 satoshi per byte.

Per https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,30d, transactions with fees under 5 satoshi per byte were last cleared on February 8 (~8 days ago), and before that last on January 28 (~11 days). (Before that, such transactions stalled for about 12 days in October/November; other than that, it looks like such transactions never stalled for even a week back to the January 2018 craze, to say nothing of 50¢ being more satoshi per byte back then anyway.)

And if your transaction expires after a week——
Sad news, honestly wish more states would or even countries would do something along the lines of this bill.

It's not apples phone after they sell. The user should be able to side load and use it as they see fit. Even if that means installing an other app store.

The payment processing not sure if that would be needed if users were not locked out of their own hardware. Just install the app directly or an other app store that is not as strict with payment processing.