skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a wall furnace in the center of the apartment, I guess it blows via convection, outward on both sides of the wall.

These heaters are super common in California, and some larger homes have multiple of them. I assume they’re not as efficient as more modern solutions, but they are certainly reliable and low-maintenance.
Judging by the comments I think there might be a good amount of interest in reading
Gavin Bascom’s “On the Inside of a Marble”

As for the actual question of spacetime, I like the author’s conclusion for the time being:

“ But despite all the things that spacetime enables us to predict and know, it isn’t real in the same way that an atom is real. There’s nothing you can do to “detect” spacetime directly; you can only detect the individual quanta of matter and energy that exist within your spacetime.”

For the future, I think ...“it’d be really cool if”.... holography stitched spacetime from entanglement/entropy such that we could measure directly... something quantum... and believe it to be a real measurement of spacetime itself, right here in good ol’ de Sitter (or wherever we are, should experiment find things afresh;). Is there any hope there I wonder.
Dumping a political talking point like '20% more' without anything analytic to support it is just trash posting.

Interconnect with neighbour grids does not cost 20% more, AC or DC. In fact the huge peaking capability of a state with ~50% gas generation would generate revenue supplying peak demand and variations in renewable supply.

Pricing systems (i.e. market rules) that encourage reliability doesn't automatically lead to gold plating.
carbon monoxide is CO, not CO2.
> "It turns out 90% of people lose 90% of their money in 90 days, and that's what several firms told him. But of course they don't lead with this fact"

They do in the UK; the first one I googled is https://pepperstone.com/en-gb/trading/spread-betting/ and it has a banner accross the top of the page (like a cookie banner, above the header) saying "Spread bets and CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. 79.8% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider.". This is typical here on sites and adverts for sites.
My pets are cold and miserable like us but I don't think they're in any danger of injury. They have thick coats and blankets which go pretty far inside.
That understanding is correct. In fact, that type of technique is one of those recommended to use Great Suspender safely.

I should note that the manifest can specify an 'update url' that would enable auto-updating behavior: and it does, in fact, appear that this extension does. If you remove that line from the manifest, that behavior will cease.
Radiative heat actually makes you feel significantly warmer, so you can set your heating to a lower temperature and still feel the same warmth compared to airflow heating. This is the reason why floor heating is very efficient, because you have a large heat mass with radiative heat that sits at your feet (which typically get cold first). So it provides the same comfortlevel at significantly lower temperature.
That’s a cherrypicked low point, which is unsurprising given wind is not a permanent energy source. 30GW nameplate capacity is nowhere near the production you’d expect of wind (hell even nukes are not expected to come close to 100%).

Texas’ electric mix is 75% thermal, and that’s what shat the bed, at peak 34GWe of thermal was offline. Even if wind actually accounted for 6GW missing dieting the entire event it would have accounted for a small minority of the missing production.

And more specifically Texas gas is 66% of expected winter capacity. That’s also where most of the outages are.
Sure, but many don't even know it's usually there, even when the ingredient list just reads "salt".
I was around 15 when I changed highschool and ended up having an Italian literature professor that told us "sorry, I will not follow this year's program and you will probably suffer from this change across the next years since you will have a huge gap, but it's worth it".
He was so right about both things.

During one year didn't read other than the Inferno and it changed my life and appreciation for literature and history.
He eventually got fired or transferred, I don't know.
Not very well, I lived in an apartment with one of those in the hallway, had to set up a fan to blow warm air to the living room or bedrooms or it got way too cold on cold nights. (which fortunately, were rare where I lived). It'd definitely be better than nothing in an extended power failure, but forced air heat is more comfortable
SQLite continues to be a great lightweight DB solution with so many great features.

I love that for smaller projects (those that might have a few hundred or thousand rows in a DB at most) I can have everything self-contained in a single SQLite file.

* Backing up the DB is trivial - it's just backing up the file
* Establishing a connection is super quick
* No need to worry about Docker images or installation issues for psql, mysql, etc...
* A whole host of features like zipping, dumping, etc... make it really easy to use

Great work to the entire community maintaining this.
There are plenty of things that didn’t evolve to harm us but which can nonetheless harm us. Meteors are an obvious macroscopic example, while toxic chemicals are an obvious microscopic example.
> But if you’re toilet’s basin is full, it doesn’t need any power to flush and drain. It just won’t fill again.

typically there is enough pressure in the tank to allow a flush or two. you don't operate the well pump every time there is demand.
The most ugrent concern is probably for homeless people.
> Do you believe that rocks have free will? Why do they choose to be attracted to other rocks?

Having a conversation is like attracting rocks? What? Those things have 0.001% in common...
GitHub/Microsoft is really setting themselves up to be a customer-centric (different to user-centric!) tech platform.

If you try doing this process with Google, you are given a canned form and you'll probably (not) hear back from a robot.
Kotlin is eating Scala's hype by hyping how much better their ad-hoc informally-specified implementation of half the advanced type stuff is. Having had to actually debug errors from their "suspend functions", "platform types" and goodness knows what else, there's nothing simpler about it.
Appreciate the thoughtful reply. So it does address the immediate issue of being able to run OCI containers without the intrusive docker daemon, but not in the same way (and as you say, less standardized/universal).
By knowing Lisp/Scheme I found it easier to understand the core concepts in JavaScript. Brendan Eich set out to implement Scheme in the Netscape browser. Due to marketing and business management pressure he ended up creating a hybrid of Scheme and Self (a successor to Smalltalk) using a C-like syntax. Unfortunately, along the way JS lost the homomorphism feature of Lisp. That is partly the reason we have so many transpilers to JS.
He predicted the year correctly in 2007. Maybe he had a hand in steering this !
Nitpick: CO.

Otherwise - no, if there is enough oxygen coming in. When fireplace is done properly it is not a problem.
Mexico Blames U.S. as Energy Crisis Spills Across the Border
I agree, I think the word has lost it's instrumental value today, I read lately about "Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends" are fascist and that people who believe in truth "realism is a fascist" is fascist. The discourse today is a discourse of accusing people of things to exclude them from discussions
Photographers are just lazy painters
> No, I think that is only true if you cling to naïve assumptions about what free will is

Then explain what is "wrong" about it. When you write "I don't know what to write about it but it's wrong" indicates an ideological conviction which is not based on true developed thought process behind it.

Like explain for example: if you have no free will, why should I communicate with you? Why would that be interesting to me? Like talking to a wristwatch? It's certainly very complicated as well, but I have no reason to communicate with it as if it was my peer.

>If we only did things because of a roll of the dice

Who said anything about rolling a dice?
I don't think it's the "least amount of magic". A lesser amount of magic would be what rust has: let s = include_bytes!("./file.txt");

As a bonus, if you typo the "include_bytes!" macro, as say "includ_bytes", you get a compiler error.

With the go one, if you typo it as "//gp:emebd hello.txt", then you get no compilation error, just an empty string.

If someone compiles your program with an old version of the go compiler, they get no error, just a totally broken program.

Meaningful comments are some of the worst magic you can add to a language IMO.

It's far simpler to reason about compiler-checked preprocessor instructions or macros, both of which are valid alternatives the go team could have added just as easily.
Sigh.
Phoenix LiveView gets rid of most of this madness.
What are some good books and articles that you recommend to supplement this History and Philosophy of Science list?
Yes in Texas gas is used for base load.

Strangely the rules under which some of them operate involve them paying for gas at spot prices (or at least during peak demand), and with spot gas prices being so high (due to pipeline failures limiting supply, and gas for heating having precedence) they had the option to stop generating...
Almost all nat gas storage in Texas is very short term when demand is high. Texas already had 3 days of cold weather before this even and stored supplies where low. This means most gas will come straight from the field or from wet storage, this is having a high water content, so it needs dewatering before burning.

A number of years ago I was helping a relative attempt to restart one of these wells/dewatering units because it froze in at somewhere between 10-15F. And that was the next day when the temps had warmed up to around 25.

It's been far colder than that in the last two days so these units are staying frozen and its icy so techs cant get to them easy. I've not seen wells in colder climates, I guess they equip them so they dont freeze.
Countries like Australia that have large rare earth supplies should not hesitate to fill in the gap, and they should do so immediately.

Many of China's policies are already unacceptable - from human rights violations to - as here - trade policies (by attempting to hold the world to ransom).

The West has kowtowed to China for too long, it'll lose out if it wastes any more time.
Can you provide more detail / links please on how to avoid getting only international listings?
> but he owns 20% of Tesla, worth about $10B today.

Tesla's market cap is $764.255B. 20% of that is $152.851B.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/
It’s going to take months to get to everyone too. Contractors here are busy enough as it is.
That is deflation and is intentionally avoided by central banks because you don't want people to hoard their money. Hoarded money sits there and does nothing while money that is in banks can be lent out, invested, and be useful.
> They might be useful for some purposes

Yeah, purposes like living human life. Very interesting and meaningful endeavor, I highly recommend it. Instead of only restricting yourself to philosophical a-b-c logic, you can live and experience life as well.

>deterministic system is incapable of deterministically outputting a strings that audience members could interpret as referring to a mental state.

What is the point of that conjecture? Are you trying to equate yourself with a deterministic markov-chain generator?

In that case I have even less reason to communicate with you. It's like you have even further proved my point to comparing yourself to it, because it makes the distinction perfectly clear: when someone knows they are talking to a GPT-3, they immediately recognize that there is no reason to keep talking to it. "Free will" is a very good explanation for why people feel that way. They know that some humans have free will, and GPT-3 certainly does not, and they don't feel any reason to talk to anything that does not. You could have some other terms also describing this phenomenon, but free will is a good and useful one.

This is also the reason why people don't spend time talking to GPT-3, other than for 10 minutes as a fun thing. And after 10 minutes it is not even fun anymore.
I agree. I experienced the same situation. I don't even ask questions on SO. Too many times I have had questions closed "Too open-ended".

HELLO I make them open ended because I don't want the answerers to be restricted.
> SO, over the past decade, has been destroyed by power-hungry admins. These admins are (1) not technically competent, (2) not politically astute, and (3) do not have the best of the community in mind. Simply put, they're power hungry online weirdos that just want to be "in charge" of a community.

Sadly, your comment perfectly describes what happened to Wikipedia about five to ten years ago, and also exactly what is happening more and more every day on Reddit.

Recently a post of mine on Reddit hit the front page and got a ton of awards (i.e. revenue for Reddit). Quickly the majority of my comments were deleted and I was given a temporary ban from the subreddit. The rules say "Only one link to social media per submission", and I was linking to websites that were extremely helpful and relevant to the questions I was being asked.

My takeaway is that Reddit doesn't want me to submit content that garners a massive amount of attention (119k upvotes), over 4700 comments and 357 awards.
The incompetence of the Texas ERCOT is mind blowing. A relative works in a semiconductor fab in the Austin area. Apparently the utility gave the fabs an entire hour of warning that their power was going to be shut off. These plants can't shut down properly in an hour.
Doesn't seem to be anything to do with airpods, and a phone with a hot mic in your pocket should be all you need for this.

An alternative solution would be a smartwatch app which would spare you chanting out on a course.

You might also want to check these:
https://www.wareable.com/golf/best-golf-wearables-gps-watche...
I just looked up Dyson Sphere Program. What have... you done. Haha looks awesome - thanks!
I hope I'm reading that wrong and you're not saying you actually have the generator in the garage (unless that garage isn't connected to the house), that's a good way to kill your entire family.
Would you rather buy all the shares of Facebook for $1 or all the bitcoin?
SO has been invaluable for professional programmers like us who has to work on some many different platforms and use different frameworks that it is impossible to be master of all. But the one thing I don't like is being punished for a poor answer- the down votes, for just trying to help - a degree lesser than delete, but leaves a bad feeling still. I like more the medium way - just upvotes and then the rest naturally gravitate to the bottom
Yes, although all three books are beautifully written, it is in the Inferno where he shines.
This is because is the most dramatic in terms of passion and where it's more controversial.

In the Inferno he exercises a call for sympathy for putting certain characters there (is god fair for condemning them? Remember the beautiful case of Ulysses or lovers) but also criticism by putting others in that place, even some not yet dead at the time.
:)
In addition to the other comments your missing the heat delta.

We commonly cool from 100 to 70F, or 30 degrees.

Yesterday we were warming from 0 to 65, or a 65 degrees delta.
No worries. I was just pointing out that there's still a way to hack around it.
Water expands about 9% when it freezes. It's not a question of pressure relief, it's a question of the pipe bursting in multiple locations as it freezes end to end if you have lost heat in the house. The pipes don't leak until the ice melts.
If your gap is 40GW, and you could get another 8GW. That's enough to give everyone an extra hour of electricity every 5 which would be game changing. The different between a 33 and 45 degree house is enormous.
> Similar to vegan, bio labeled food.

What's with organic vegan food? It wrongly looks harmless? It targets most vulnerable and young?

Vegan and organic are criteria/characteristics, not things meant to be addictive. It's not similar. Sure, they can be highlighted for marketing purposes, but what characteristic seen as positive can't?
Um, macros are a huge amount of magic. You basically give language design in the hands of users.
Parler back online, now hosted by ‘SkySilk’
The people that don't pack them inside PowerPoint and Word attachments.
Video Game-Playing Pigs Stretch Our Concepts of Animal Intelligence
Yes, even LinkedIn is problematic. My dad is still listed on LinkedIn and Google while he passed away few years ago. Total silence from both, even when sending the death certificate.
The security's problem was probably with the toplessness, and not with the IP on his skin...
I mean, they have for all of us at some point.

No, not for great wealth perhaps, but using myself as an example - the fact that I'm in my own apartment across the country from where I grew up, with an engineering job, that pays well enough for me to afford an expensive pocket computer cum telephone to write this on - anyone of those things alone would have blown the mind of 18 year old me - all three of them as one combined train is astonishing in hindsight. If I look at all the just that I've done in the last 20 years, I'm ought to be astonished, I've been stupendously lucky.

Now for a moment, look at all the dots connected to get where we are technologically over the last, 20, 40, 80, 120 years. For example just in communications, In 120 years we went from messages for the average person taking months to span the globe, to a situation where the average person in any country, can phone another average person in most any other country at anytime day or night without difficulty - that alone is astonishing to me. Never mind all the other improvements we've watched blink into existence.

The dots connect for everyone, some folks just get more of them.
Natural gas follows all rollouts of renewables, though. In fact I'm not even sure you can separate the two. Grids with renewables would absolutely collapse without natural gas.

The only thing capable of replacing natural gas is batteries, which are extremely expensive and aren't exactly renewable, either.
Yep, LNG boiling point is around -160C so Texas weather would still have to cool a fair bit before you even get to the previous phase change that comes before solid form.
It's quite easy to mandate providers have certain winterization requirements, lots of other power grids do it. For that matter, it's exactly why insurance is so tightly regulated, because government wants to ensure companies have the resources to handle rare but predictable events.
Eh... Not really... It's pretty easy to generate a unique image url per customer and use that to determine whether a customer opened the mail or not and it's about the same cost as a traditional tracking pixel, complexity-wise.
There used to be the "FAQ" format for product/project documentation covering points that don't fit into regular documentation. There's also the format of "case studies".

Not sure SO should be a place for the likes of Oracle/MS to answer questions about "their" language stacks. AFAICS, Oracle has pretty much pulled out of pushing Java years ago anyway. In contrast, MS is all over the place to advertise .net and TS. Don't need more of that on SO, with staged questions and distortion of public reception by sheer volume and SO stats.
Homeownership in California
That is debatable. Close grids could not have supplied 30GW of power, they were also under near record loads. You would have had to pull from many states away which is insanely inefficient.

Also people miss how big the TX grid is. FL and PA are the #2 and #3 power generation states. TX produces as much as both added together.
It's more efficient to do number crunching on the front end whenever possible.

The only reason you would do number crunching on the back end is if the information is private OR sending the low entropy information over IO is too costly OR the algorithm is to costly to run on the client side.

In most apps only the first issue applies. The later two issues arise when you try to integrate your app with analytics or data science.

So essentially for the most basic web app, most of the "number crunching" should live on the client side and the server is just storage.
iOS mail, alas.

I just found it turned on. I forgot to disable it again after my annual OPSEC-cosplay device-wipe.
Until recently, I've mostly lived in apartments or condos where a backup generator is not easy to own or operate since there are limited places to store fuel or to put a generator while running. Even if I'm ok with putting it on the balcony and running a cord inside, my neighbor may not want the generator's exhaust in his balcony.

Now I live in a single-family home and have an entire RV parked beside the house (with an on-board generator, and around 100 hours of fuel in the RV's gas tank to run it). I can run an extension cord to power the house furnace as needed, but unless it was below freezing and I was worried about the pipes freezing in the house, I'd probably just let the house stay dark and move into the RV during an extended power outage.

So I can confidently say "You are crazy to not have a backup Recreational Vehicle!". Maybe I should buy a travel trailer to back up the RV.
Go 1.16 is released, ship Apple Silicon support
Well it used to be that you would learn HTML and CSS, then some JavaScript for basic UI, dom interactions then later Ajax.

However now it seems people are learning React, Vue etc first and so to a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

I truly believe we have lost sight of progressive enhancement in modern web dev. Especially with the business-oriented drive towards hiring full-stack, two for the price of one mentality but 9 times out of 10 you end up with someone who doesn't appreciate the subtleties of each layer of the UI and how they interact. And now with browser vendors pushing out new features faster than we can learn them, it really is becoming overwhelming, even if day to day things are still manageable.

When you have a million ways to do the same thing, each with its own trade-offs you can start to feel some career anxieties.

I fully agree with the sentiments in this article and hope it will be heeded.
on iOS: turn that off with Settings > Mail > Load remote images
How?

https://jioegijogeijesgioegeg.tracking.example.com/niowefioe.png?sdgsdbuegiu=rojpopwmrmwk

has four places to store unique information.

Does Gooogle's proxy remove all of them?
I do exactly the same with traditional RDMS. Export to single file isn't nothing new.
Still, that's a lot of electricity that could have been warming houses.
The weird thing is that my FreeBSD laptop hangs at boot at that spot but it eventually continues, I assume after some timeout. Not sure why it didn't work for OP.
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>And for the first time, Perseverance will be taking along a couple of microphones so that we can hear what Mars sounds like.

This isn't the first time NASA sent a mic to Mars, but it may be the first time that it works.