skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Furnaces don’t come with batteries because a 12v 100Ah battery that costs $180 will run a 1/3rd HP (700w) fan for 2 hours. To sustain the fan for 3 days, you’d need 36 batteries. Lead-acid batteries have a limited lifespan. You would also need a transfer switch and enclosures and at that point you may as well buy a UPS or a natural gas generator to provide backup power.

One thing the NEC 2020 update allowed is bi-directional power between an EV and its charger, you can set up an EV to provide backup power your house, with a transfer switch and everything.

Radiant heating systems with boilers require electricity for the pump, even if they’re gas fired. Electric resistive heating needs electricity. Forced air heating needs electricity to run the fan. All heating systems require electric power, even if the heat is generated by burning natural gas.
I'm watching it again now. It starts off slow but really picks up once they get into the atmosphere. For those that haven't watched it definitely watch the 7 minutes of terror video first so you understand what is happening as they call it out.

I'm getting chills again lol
Narrative Fallacy
Check out Aquameta, a web dev stack built entirely in PostgreSQL (self-plug): http://github.com/aquametalabs/aquameta

There's a ton down this rabbit hole. One of the great anomalies of our industry is that we've used the database to bring coherence to countless "user domains", but never applied the same principles to our own stack. The benefits of doing so compound exponentially.
Agreed that it's complex, but I think the "needlessly" part is up for debate. Considering we're all here on hacker news, we're all used to and just fine with the idea that if you want fresh data, you refresh the page. I agree with you that for 99% of websites, this is just fine.

But if the requirements are for less page refreshes and high interactivity with always-fresh data, then client side rendering with a client side cache and cache management become important. Like Apollo Client, or what have you. Does it add unbelievable amounts of complexity? Definitely. Is it needless? Depends on the goal.

I would argue it's easier than manually polling for new data, managing the cache by hand and ensuring that everywhere the data is needed has been updated, and updating the DOM as a response to that new data.

So to answer your question: when done right, the user is served by having the most up to date information displayed for them at all times, with the number of network requests for said data kept to a minimum.

Is it worth it? I don't personally think so in the big picture, but in my day to day having this complexity live on the client side gives us so much more control over the UX that it's necessary to build what is expected.
In my view, if you're looking for formal proof of a negative, you've already insisted on an impossibility, so there's no hope of persuading you anyway.
You would need the same to identify a fiat gateway with btc. You cant link a person to an account without that.
I had to learn how to manually light our furnace because the starter (or whatever it is called) died in the middle of a cold snap.

Scary as hell in the beginning, but only nervousness-inducing at the end.
Ahaha, I'm literally listening to a talk by Yanis Varoufakis right now and not 5mins ago he mentioned this as the reason non-fiat money, be it gold standard or BTC, cannot work long-term.
China wants to be carbon neutral by 2060, but can its provinces manage it?
Hey man, ignore the comment above, I hope things get better quickly and ya'll are safe, special the little one!
I don't think that, one day, there will be a person or system that recognizes every object on earth from every angle, with high accuracy. Such a system would be very inefficient. In other words, a practical AI system needs to be biased. It's obvious that people who made the ImageNet dataset has collected images mostly from their industrialized (and possibly Western) world. I think the future trends of AI will be a re-trainable and verifiable system that can be biased towards a user-preferred way.
Hey, author here — sorry about that. I don't use/didn't test with Firefox, but it looks like it's not setting the page background properly in dark mode. I'll get that fixed!
Except that with gambling, you get a rush and a chance of profit. In games, it's only a sad and short-lived rush.
Note that this ruling hinges on a corner case where the recipient is owed money by the sender (presumably in an amount less than or equal to the amount sent).

In effect, Citibank accidentally paid back loans early. Hopefully their terms didn't include prepayment penalties, so at least they can save on interest.
When "the market" does something that somebody considers to be irrational, the explanation is almost certainly that they either simply don't understand it, or that they do understand it and they're just being judgemental about the motives at play.

The reason it has value is because people have demand for it. People have demand for it for a variety of reasons. I think it's reasonable to presume that a non-trivial portion of that demand is driven by the features that make it a rather good black market currency. It's also obviously quite appealing to certain groups of privacy conscious individuals. I've heard it's somewhat popular for international remittances, which makes sense given the economic stability issues various places have around the world. On top of those fundamentals, demand is further inflated by speculators.

Your biggest criticism seems to be that it would be a bad national currency because you can't implement a bitcoin monetary policy. But none of the demand for bitcoin is driven by that factor, so the observation is simply irrelevant.
I’m in Austin, without power for almost 48 hours now. There’s ice in my roommate’s bedroom. It’s my birthday tomorrow, and I’m hearing that we won’t have power until Thursday at the earliest. I’ve gone beyond furious to just horribly depressed.
Well, let's test that hypothesis with a real-life example: the California DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). It's a messed up organization where you have to book basic services like license renewal and drivers tests months in advance, and where catastrophic bugs in their website remain unfixed for years. It's a good benchmark for a non-functioning government agency.

Yes, they could use better database management. But that would not cure these problems.
Parler Is Coming Back Online, but Its Users Have Already Moved On
It gets below freezing every year in Texas. But in the biggest city in Texas -- Houston, with a metro population of 7 million, it does not.

This is unprecedented in the modern era. Statewide load on the grid, for this time of year, is unreasonably high. Black swan.
What about freebsd makes it a better choice as compared to Linux based systems?
Geez, have you heard of being nice? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26161659

> author here — sorry about that. I don't use/didn't test with Firefox, but it looks like it's not setting the page background properly in dark mode. I'll get that fixed!
They take a year to build, and can be mobile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_pow...
The author wrote a corresponding Emacs theme[1] based on the principals laid out in the linked paper.

[1] https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
The fitness of the group drinking the milk was higher than group not drinking the milk (even with an intolerance). After drinking started, the individuals with a tolerance had higher fitness than the group without. This is super simplified.
It's still ongoing for millions at the moment but there was a nice map in https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/02/16/tex... for this morning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

> The word meme itself is a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins, originating from his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. ...
Here in central kansas we had a 2hr blackout this morning.
Just say Austin, TX please. You aren't living in a motherboard configuration.
Really? Did this article really have to go there and bring that up? Does it do anything to enhance the story at all or is it just dredging up mud for no productive reason, whatsoever?
>Most gun violence is gang violence

I'm pretty sure this isn't true. The total number of people killed with guns in the US in 2011 was about 9900. See page 6 here: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hus11.pdf

That year there were somewhere around 1800 gang homicides. See the bottom of this page: https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Measuring...

Note that not all of those gang-related homicides involved guns. Note also that the methodology to describe a homicide as "gang-related" will tend to overestimate the rate of gang crime, since the most common methodology is to check whether anyone involved is a gang member even if the motive was not gang-related. See FAQ #5 here: https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/About/FAQ#q5

I haven't done more than five minutes of reading, but the numbers I listed would have to be way off to make the majority of gun violence gang-related.
Simulating Martian air density is trivial, just build a vacuum chamber, remove the air, add some CO2 up to the right pressure. But simulating less gravity is incredibly hard:

Tethers are cheap but don't really allow free flight. Parabolic flights only give you a few seconds in fairly cramped space, and getting the low air density inside a plane sounds tough. A large spinning laboratory in space that can be spun up to simulate the desired gravity would be a solution, but we don't have that.
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Well, it’s not completely unrelated: bitcoin drives energy consumption, which in turn drives demand for batteries of all shapes, which are a massive part of Tesla’s business plan.
Do you think a chilling effect can only happen when police use subpoenas and search warrants?

Or do you think that a chilling effect is OK as long as some non-police agree to each search?

Please explain.
Europeans are not the only group with lactase persistence. It is a trait that is strongly associated with European ancestry.
I'm not opposed to TUIs managed in resizable windows on a graphical desktop. I just feel that most programs would be better suited to actual use if they were textual. Restraint fosters creativity and efficiency.

As an application developer, you'd certainly be much more in tune with how well your application is performing if you could feel a dip in performance the way I remember feeling it when a TUI wasn't responding quite as quickly as it was a few seconds earlier. Giving users insight into your application's performance is a good thing, because I think we put out and put up with unreasonably slow software far too often these days.
I'm not saying its not possible, it certainly is. Just back in the day, everything was new and exciting, so you could get to something new and exciting basically without trying, which makes modern times seem boring in comparison. Its a relative comparison (probably steeped in nostalgia for a past that never actually existed), not a statement that everything is boring.
KeePass is extensible. IIRC, with addon(s), your encrypted DB file can be stored on your Google drive, or even your own (or company's) server.
> In the weeks when Parler was offline, many moved to Telegram, Gab, MeWe, and other fringe platforms.

Telegram? A fringe platform? I was using Telegram in middle school to discuss marijuana with a friend because we were worried Facebook Messenger would be tracking that (this was unnecessary paranoia in hindsight).
It's hilarious to look back on this HN post and the top comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14630650

Exactly the same thing happened in South Australia in 2016

1) Renewables % of generation mix grows (wind + solar)

2) Base generation sources get pushed out by economics and regulation (coal)

3) Peak generation sources get squeezed by the economics of wind + solar over summer (lots of wind, lots of sun) and begin to be relegated to backup roles

4) Something bad happens (in SA it was software misconfiguration across multiple wind generation sources)

5) The backup generation gets used for the first time, suprise suprise it doesnt work

6) chaos
Sure if govt had perfect info on you and your life it may be able to do a marginally better job. But do you really want to keep giving govt more and more info about yourself?
That last sentence really resonated with my Ruby experience. After using typescript for a few years, it feels like stepping back to JavaScript development in 2012.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...

> The systems that get gas from the earth aren't properly built for cold weather. Operators in West Texas’ Permian Basin, one of the most productive oil fields in the world, are particularly struggling to bring natural gas to the surface, analysts said, as cold weather and snow close wells or cause power outages that prevent pumping the fossil fuels from the ground.

> “Gathering lines freeze, and the wells get so cold that they can’t produce,” said Parker Fawcett, a natural gas analyst for S&P Global Platts. “And, pumps use electricity, so they’re not even able to lift that gas and liquid, because there’s no power to produce.”

> Texas does not have as much storage capacity as other states, experts said, because the resource-laden state can easily pull it from the ground when it's needed — usually.
Would be nice but talking about billions upon billions of dollars.
And thus, the concept of war was born.
Yes. And it didn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing. It's also plausible that cow milk was used for babies who lost their mother. So to create an evolutionarily significant effect, it was sufficient to simply select for babies who could keep drinking cow's milk for longer and longer, on average.
I'm afraid it makes sense if they are hedging bets against a major global economy...
The house I grew up in in Scotland did exactly this.

We had fireplace powered central heating -— radiators throughout the house linked to pipes behind the firebox. In the morning I’d wake up to ice on the inside of the windows, and by my teenage years it was my job to head downstairs and light the coal fire first thing in the morning. It worked well once the fire was up and running.

This was in the ‘90s btw, I’m not _that_ old.
1. revive old internet culture

2. ...

3. profit!
I'm skeptical that you couldn't. Anonymous data is often not quite as anonymous as we think, and identities can be deanonymized by cross-referencing with other public info. If even one of your on-chain transactions leaks identity, your entire history with that wallet is compromised.
They burned wood.
The fitness "cost" isn't the "net cost." Pretty much everything our bodies do has a cost. Our organs are all consuming a tremendous amount of energy. Our guts harbor bacteria that can absolutely overwhelm the body if they get out. It takes us more than a decade of growth to reach sexual maturity.

You can only determine the value by taking into account the benefit.

Populations that could consume milk, an easy and plentiful supply of calories and calcium, did better off than some of their local neighbors who didn't.
> With a fair bit of luck, he manages to become wealthy, but not wanna-be-space-cadet wealthy.

You might be underestimating the value of the YC portfolio and PG's stake in it.
I want to clarify a few points in the article re. uBlock Origin, they might be seen as minor details but to me they matter.

> Raymond Hill, after (you guessed it) he transferred ownership of uBlock to a new, untrustworthy maintainer

Only the GitHub repo was transferred, I never transferred the extension in the Chrome Store, and Opera Store.[1]

The Firefox version was published by a contributor, and he chose to stay with the new maintainer, and as a result I created a new publication for uBlock Origin in Firefox store.

All this was nearly 6 years ago.

> Aljoudi began reducing blocking features, eventually choosing to permit certain ads via the "acceptable ads" program

"Acceptable Ads" was added to "uBlock" in February 2019 by the new owner, BetaFish Inc. (maker of AdBlock).[2]

BetaFish Inc. was itself sold circa October 2015 to an (still) anonymous buyer.[3]

> Hill created a fork, now called uBlock Origin, which reverted the changes

I didn't revert any change, I forked while I was still controlling the GitHub repo.[4] If you look at the project timeline, it shows that I have been in charge since the first commit in June 2014.[5]

> Nano Defender and its 200,000+ users, upon their recent acquisition, immediately began having their personal data mined.

Note that the malware did not require the blocking ability of the webRequest API to collect the data, it needed only the observational ability, which is not deprecated by Manifest v3.[6]

**

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/57

[2] https://github.com/uBlock-LLC/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.5.13

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318200

[4] This was the first release following the split, nothing had to be reverted:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases/tag/0.9.3.0

[5] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/graphs/contributors

[6] https://github.com/NanoAdblocker/NanoCore/issues/362#issueco...
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The problem is graphs like that are used to misleadingly portray lactose tolerance as a “racial” trait, using an out-of-context bit of science to propagate the falsehood of racial differences between Africans and Europeans. The (real) biological difference in skin color ignited a ridiculous false belief that Africans and Europeans constitute different “races,” and scientists have a duty to push back on racist propaganda asserting a “racial difference” where none exists, even on the racists’ own flawed terms.

The high genotypic frequency of lactose persistence in Northern Europe and Saudi Arabia is an interesting and incomplete story about human adaptation to geography and climate (perhaps droughts and harsh winters meant that people were not be able to wait for cheese or yogurt and need to consume large amounts of raw milk?) Another crucial part of the mix is that there is much less genetic diversity in Europe and the Middle East than in Africa.

Regardless, if you read the linked NYT article, it’s clear that a bunch of racist weirdos are stumbling across graphs like the ones you presented and are treating “the ability to drink milk without getting queasy” as another paper bag test. Although it’s ridiculous and abhorrent, such ideas wouldn’t be sustainable if people weren’t convinced pseudoscience was the real thing.
I'm pretty sure the disclaimer does nothing. If they put out a product they need to expect people will use it, and they need to take actions to keep those people safe.

At least that's how I think it works in Germany.
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You can definitely try to barter it.

The top reputable exchanges have daily liquidity in the billions https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/.
yes .. but elon (handwaving wooo)
TypeScript and Flow exist on top of JavaScript; given JavaScript (the language and ecosystem), an unsound type system is pragmatic, and a sound type system sometimes inconvenient. It is not obviously correct to generalise that property of soundness making life hard to other languages that are designed from scratch. (I think it is unwise to so generalise, but opinions may easily differ; my point is purely that the generalisation is not manifestly correct.)
As I mentioned it is mostly just packing a runtime with the binary.

But for most use cases, does it matter? It won't work well for microcontrollers, but for most other things a 60MB binary is not a big deal. It takes under 3 seconds to download on an average internet connection.

The main reason I wouldn't use it for system programming is lack of good Linux libraries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Fg88vG4E8
> Me: "Water is wet" You: "No, water is a type of matter. Wetness comes afterwards, when people touch it."

You: “water is hot because boiling it requires heating it up” Me: “there is water at many temperatures and not all of it is boiling”

> You are being so pedantic and incoherent that you're "not even wrong".

I’m sorry you think its pedantry to examine the literal facts of the issue under discussion. However there is a big difference between the idea of property and the means one chooses to enforce property norms on people who do not subscribe to them, and if you don’t see this (or fail to comprehend the significance) then I can understand why you’re confused.

> You're wasting both your and my time here if you cannot accept basic, obvious realities like the fact that property requires enforcement.

You’re wasting both your and my time here if you’re unable to question things you have taken for granted. If it’s so basic and obvious then demonstrate it, rather than arguing by assertion.
Market cap is a bad way to judge the real value of anything.

If you were to sell 50% of all the bitcoin floating around in the world, how much would you impact the price? Would it remain above 40k? 30k? 20k?

What's the cost basis of all the bitcoin holdings in the world?

If the US government cracks down on bitcoin purchases by public companies, what happens to the price of bitcoin?

Skeptics aren't skeptical because of lacking adoption, so they aren't going to be swayed by increasing adoption either.

Also, Facebook isn't some magical Rubicon for asset valuation. It's a company that sells ads.

One of the fundamental problems with "things are going good, what could go wrong?" is that inevitably, every crash is clearest in retrospect.
Heat pumps don’t work particularly well below 25F. Our heat pump switched to auxiliary heat (electric resistance heating) with how cold it’s been in Texas.
dude, go to the office. Its too cold to sleep in those conditions.
Even if your pipes didn't freeze, the upstream pipes could have frozen, or enough of your neighbors' pipes could have frozen, burst, and gotten thawed again, allowing water to flow freely out of the system.
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While we are growing rather quickly I know that I will need a technical cofounder with a background in SWE but a current focus in Data Science and AI/ML. Anyone who is interested in interviewing or just curious about what we do dont hesitate to message me.
"The go get -insecure flag is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. [...] To permit the use of insecure schemes, use the GOINSECURE environment variable instead."

I'm not a fan of using pervasive environment variables. It feels like cluttering my own, well, environment. I very much prefer using explicit command-line options, or even configuration files. Does anybody share the same opinion?
In the absence of a court injunction, those currently holding the money get the benefits of the money at least until final appeals are settled. The courts may decide that some interest is part of the end settlement, but as far as I've read, those currently holding the money haven't been required to set aside any interest in anticipation of any settlement.
Yes. Beyond a doubt, yes.