skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wood itself is sustainable, but in making a choice of building materials, we're also looking for total embedded energy cost and impact of the final product. Traditional buildings from a century ago relied on the harvest of old-growth wood with denser rings than the new sustainable forestry, and they were built with fewer features - when built well they didn't fail, but they weren't targeting high energy performance, climate control, dust and mold resistance, etc. We can't go back - we could lower our standards but the stock of old-growth remains depleted. New wood constructions often use processed and glued timbers because the processed timbers can be lighter(good glue is really strong) and they don't experience nearly as many quality control issues(solid wood tends to warp).

The thing is, once we start looking at wood in detail, it's never just wood. It's wood, plus adhesives, paints, and finish. You can't use just wood because it rots - you at least need to add some pigment to block UV rays and drainage to limit water pooling. Each of those additives are a potential source of VOCs(volatile organic compounds, the term that more accurately describes "chemicals"). And each step taken during processing adds energy cost. Paper and corrugated cardboard are not innocuous - they use one of the higher-energy processes relative to the amount of input material.

When you look at what you can do besides wood, you get similar tradeoffs. Stone is great, but it's still hard to work with directly, hard enough to not scale to our industrial population - as it stands, you need an artisianal economy of stonemasons to make those huge ancient constructions. Concrete has a huge climate footprint and the dust is a major VOC source. Steel is high-energy and not abundant enough to be used everywhere.

Thus, plastics enter as a way of getting some of the qualities we want. Plastics are not all one of a kind and have varying VOC content. We can't afford not to use them to have this population and quality of life, which means we have to study how to use them safely. The microplastic issue is a part of that, but it's oversold as "plastic is scary". Wood smoke is also scary, as anyone who has been around a wildfire will attest.
I think virtually every conservative party in Europe supports single-payer healthcare. That's a big one that would put the Democrats to the extreme right in Europe.

Maybe even more importanly, the way Democrat representatives seem to be able to enrich themselves from lobbying money etc, would be totally unacceptable most places in Europe. It would place them more in the class of Plutocrats than conservatives. Democrats tend to have far closer ties to Big Capital than even the most business-friendly conservatives where I live.

It seems to me that their focus on identity politics is a cover for doing very little to actually help the unprivileged, but instead doing the biddings of their donors.
Why do you think so? The convenience of taking a few moments to plug in when you park for the night, over taking a specific trip to a charging destination, seems pretty hard to beat (and that's before factoring in that home electricity rates are in general considerably cheaper).
I can see 2 interpretations of that objection, and I'm not sure which one you mean.

I agree that protectionist legislation harms some individuals within the country enacting it.

If you're arguing that the analogy does not take the harms into account then I disagree with you - the analogy collects all benefits and harms into the same person - if Carla is a more efficient homebuilder, then not trading with her results in having a worse home (or more time being spent on it).

If you're arguing that people have a right to free trade and depriving them of that right cannot be offset by gains to others, then I think you should state this more clearly, as I'm not sure it's less controversial than the somewhat utilitarian philosophy implicit in the analogy.
Maybe its a good time for Roku to fund some of the developers like Yurii who has built SmartTubeNext and make it a native app in Roku. That will be a reason to buy Roku over its competitors.
HTTP Basic Authentication was a thing in the 90s. Couple that with TLS+PFS and you already have all the benefits of PAKE, plus the more useful benefit of having a third party verify the identify of the web server the first time you visit.

The major reason HTTP Auth failed, despite the primitive crypto, is the bad client side UX.
They didn't have that for all the development of Falcon 9. SpaceX deliberately vertically integrated and moved to automotive and other suppliers because space suppliers were so bad.

I would be surprised if they have to use this process all that often, specially now that they have reduced construction rates.
> "I don't know if I would qualify that as working well."

Maybe not working well for you then. Other users on Gab seem to be happy that it is working well for them and that is okay.

Them them be.
Some folks like being forcibly restrained as a matter of course, though it wouldn’t be my first choice.
The not-insignificant portion of the population that either doesn’t care about or sympathizes with such an employee’s politics?

Maybe not in SFBA though.
A lesson I've learned over time is that it's incredibly common for people within a company to have very different mental models of what different terms mean - especially if they work in different teams or departments, but sometimes even people the same team.

My favourite examples are things like "what is a user?" - the marketing department may be counting leads generated, engineers are thinking about records in a database table, some other team may think of users as company or group accounts.

This holds true for all kinds of other things too. You might have a project called "the login optimization project" and find that some people think it's about page load performance while others think it's about increased conversions.

For this reason, I'm always ready to ask the stupid questions.
Have you evaluated, or even bothered to seek out, the literature that disagrees with you?
They need to steer it so it can address more than 32Gb of memory. On any particular day I can chew that up with a couple of fat VMs running legacy stuff that customers still need supported but I don't want a physical machine hanging around to work on.
I think the main patents that haven't expired yet are about to expire in 2022.
How do I execute /usr/bin/chromium on my Roku?
Hold your horses, it hasn't been launched yet.
Can someone explain the subscription on Google Play and Apple App Store today?

I launched an app for a B2B SAAS service that clients paid ten of thousands of dollars a year for. We put the app which was secondary to the web dashboard which the clients used mostly during business hours in the Apple App Store and on Google Play without mentioning any payment in the product description which both allowed. When I first submitted the app Apple said we had to remove the link to the payment form on our website after which they were cool with as long as it wasn't on the app description. We billed the users and maintained the accounts through the web application and web dashboard without giving any money to Google or Apple.

Is this still allowed today?
There are a couple replies about why Tesla doesn't still do battery swaps, but none of them got it right:

Back when Tesla demoed the battery swap capability, California's CARB was offering extra ZEV credits for each electric vehicle sold with "fast refueling" capability. Tesla set up the single "battery swap station" in order to comply with the letter of the law and collect a few extra tens of millions in credits. That one station they opened was right across the street from a free Supercharger station, had no capability for automated battery swaps, and was available by invitation only. As soon as Tesla collected its extra ZEV credits and the qualifications changed, the station was abandoned.
Then compare it to BMW, Geely or other manufactures that are more comparable.
Papert is/was wrong. I was a year ahead in math in school and taught myself machine programming when I was 11. Nobody encouraged me to do this. Quite the opposite. Other kids did everything they could to discourage it and nobody understood what programming was and why it was useful to learn. That didn’t stop me at all.
So the real question now is: can the FSF sue?
Tourette’s wasn’t considered a disability until after my time in college, but they were given notice that a student with Tourette’s was joining their class. Did it help? Nope. The amount of times a professor would point out my outburst, throat clearing, grunting made me hate going to school so much that I dropped out with only a semester left to graduate.
It's all of the above. Censorship, control, easier to target (for ads, etc.).

Basically it's just tagging everyone like the sheep that we are. Terribly scary for anyone who isn't already brainwashed.
That particular implementation (NetBSD's) (which is transcribed in to the article) does something more optimized than making repeated calls to `putchar()`.

But as pdw's link shows, what you suggest is exactly what the historical implementation was. So NetBSD is simply matching historical Unix.
Honestly? Yes, you are. The behavior of other folks that aren't on your payroll & aren't hurting you by isn't your domain; your option is simply to not read it. Or, more colloquially: they're not your b****.
Truth Social app – what you should know
> GP is saying PG is probably wrong, and probably misleading many people. This is useful, even if its not the same as saying "here is proof he is wrong".

It sounds like we'll have to agree to disagree.

> PG's new ideas aren't going to raise a kid. They're not going to save any souls, or save a relationship on its last legs. They're also not going to plant any crops, or build any houses.

I'd be surprised if YC's investment portfolio didn't include both farming and construction startups. But I haven't looked.

(Although this isn't raising a kid, Legacy helps people have them: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/legacy which happens to be quite relevant for my life.)

Of course there's more to life. But that's true about any idea you could talk about. Why talk about anything at all, if there might be more to life? (I recently tried to face this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866558 ... Some of the replies were very good.)

You've made a very concrete claim here: "PG appears to be a dishonest writer," and then showed no evidence of dishonesty.
Change in the way Elon operates, i.e. actually follow laws? I doubt it.

Change in the way the German government operates? I hope not, but I also doubt it.
Median household income in DC is 92k. Their single income is almost double what the average person in DC makes.
Last updated 7 months ago? There is no way they've gone that long without updating anything in their codebase, does this imply that they are no longer following the license (or does the license allow delays of this sort)? Also I seem to recall in the past being able to access their codebase but it was just a normal repo with recent commits (I can't remember how long ago this was, I believe it was shortly before/after they got hacked).
This is really only the case on some older Model S from around before 2018 or so. That is a vanishingly small % of their cars produced.
> The larger the org, the more services etc. the more stable versioning I would suppose happening.

Which is why I said in my original comment this may work fine in a small environment, but it won’t scale well.
Anil Dash made a great point earlier today in this tweet thread:

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/1451209739141066756

"My wish is that media gives proportionate attention to the many thriving, interesting, well-moderated, non-fascist Mastodon servers that are enabling healthy communities across the web before focusing on one doddering fascist's vaporware social network.

Given that this is unlikely to be a request that media honors, at the very least make sure your story gives equal emphasis to the violent fascist agenda, and countless deaths, that the person behind the new social network enabled, before delving into its photo sharing features.

And by contrast, the wonderful @tinysubversions
has, for years, been leading a movement to create healthy, supportive, pro-human, independent social networks with efforts like https://runyourown.social that are home to thousands of thriving communities. Each deserves coverage."
> Basically, do a good job for the economy overall and then your net worth will increase.

The economy's health is not necessarily accurately reflected in asset valuations (which is what index funds track).

When it becomes clear the pie will stop growing for a little while, wealthy politicians have the perverse incentive to enact policies increasing asset prices at the expense of overall productivity (in 2021-2022 this manifested in money supply increase combined with lockdowns to delay inflation until after the transfer of wealth).
Apple allows B2B to bill outside of the app store. Can't speak for Google's Play Store.
I don't buy this at all. Even if GH is down for the entire day, how the heck does NO-ONE on your team know what they're doing? Was no-one working on something already? Did nobody pay any attention during planning? Do you not have anything you can do from memory from your backlog?!

If you can't work for a day just because Github is down, then there's bigger problems in your process that github being down. I'm sorry of that sounds harsh, but you're either being hyperbolic or you have some real issues to fix in your team or organisation.
Battery swap stations are never going to happen. They make up too much of the cost of the vehicle. Maybe in government public transport fleets or something.
> typewriter

Now that you mention, I remember my grandfather used to sit us around the fire and regale us with stories of how he used to edit 60fps 8k video on his old typewriter. I pulled it out of the attic just now and ran geekbench, and you're right, my new MBP is basically the same.

Thanks bud for bringing so much insight to this conversation!
170k is already a functional equivalent of the minimum wage, relative to the power they yield.

You're describing what we already have.

The argument being made is that if you're going to pay people a low wage, they'll just increase it by trading some of the power they yield in exchange for money for themselves, which is the problem we're trying to solve for :)
If it's arbitrary, then yes. In this case I don't think it's arbitrary because country of origin has significant ramifications for application of patents, etc.
I'll never understand why it's always "stop climate change" or "deny climate change" but there's essentially no room for "fix climate change" or "reverse climate change". The resources are allocated for polarization and not pragmatism.
Right after read an article on WAPO about Truth Social likely violating Mastodon's license, I hop on HN and find this as the first post.
The vast majority of people have zero outstanding skills or talent. It’s just a fact. A tiny minority of people are the ones that produce the art/products/music/tech/politics/… that actually move humanity forward. Unless you lower your expectations of what it means to be “gifted” so low that it has no useful meaning.
Overkill Solar https://overkillsolar.com/

I've ordered twice, and plan to order another 5kw soon

After having 2 unbranded circuit breakers fail on me. Everything else will be Blue Sea, or Victron. They're the most expensive, but they feel as high quality as they are expensive which makes it worth it. Especially considering the alternative is explosions followed by fire.
If you have thousands of clients writing to the database individual rows, one per request, and thousands of clients making queries (some of them are complex, some are not). Does ClickHouse even get used in this scenario?
My main development rig actually uses a 1080Ti!

The normal vGPU_Unlock steps aren't a part of the user setup process, rather the optional merged driver package is built with a C version of the code that's been prepackaged. If you decide to use the vGPU_Unlock merged driver option during setup you won't have to do the (somewhat intense) process of vGPU_Unlock setup, you'll just skip straight to the end result. :)
best solution in the entire thread
Still cracks me up to know that the "mark of the beast" is just a rudimentary hash folks in the bronze age used to communicate semi-secret names, in, for example, love letters.
The Democratic Party’s “fiscal” policies are a scourge on the very disproportionately impoverished African American population. Any suggestion that the Democratic Party has any sort of commitment to overcoming racial divisions in the US is undermined by that fact.

There is no such thing as a decoupled “fiscal” conservatism. Politics in practice are inseparable from their historical context and Democratic politicians know that. Their virtue appeals in the media are not supported by their politics but rather serve to distract from their politics. Their politics, in fact, are a conservative politics.
If we wanted progress, we'd build rail tracks. This factory is for toys for rich people.
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The battery swap stations were a scam to get subsidies. They aren't any more real than the Cybertruck, Model 2, Roadster, solar roofs, semi, or Full Self Driving.
> I'd argue we should strive for a society where the suffering you're exposed to if you're unlucky enough to be in the bottom quartile is bounded, while still allowing for the top to be unbounded in pushing humanity forward.

FWIW, being unbounded in pushing humanity forward is different from being unbounded in pushing your individual wealth up, so those aren't really two sides of the same topic.

Or perhaps you really meant something different from what you wrote, because what you really meant doesn't sound so nice.

I'll second the recommendation of the Ted Chiang short story, it's well worth a read.
But the SPAC associated with TMTG almost quadrupled today.
Roku and AndroidTV aside, has someone come up with an opensource alternative to either of these spammy services?

Im in neither camp as I have had both functionalities preinstalled on a TV. Recently with my newer Android TV it is riddled with ADs and is noisy on my network with telemetry data, even when not in use. When I just want to turn it on and play PS4, it takes time to load the latest on Amazon Prime, Netflix and whatever other streaming service they are shilling, none which I pay for. When most of my media is on Plex or a gaming system. I just want my TV to be dumb again.
Blogs will be reborn, I'm sure.
I think you're misreading me. I'm not on the denier side. I personally think we're spending far too much time around defining the problem (or that it exists...) instead of systematic approaches to change not driven by industry. I think we do need to be careful that the 'green' solutions do not become distractions from real solutions - i.e. things quietly proposed by the fossil industry that point the blame away or avoid solving the real problems.

I am always happy though to argue for space to exist for those that I disagree with to speak, we are in the most trouble when only the 'truth' - as much is it seems certain - is allowed to exist at all.

We tend not to care if we agree with the consensus, but imagine if Facebook/Twitter decided (or were influenced to...) that Solar energy solutions are misinformation and started removing/labeling that content. Is that fine, or is it a trickier question when you no longer agree with the 'truth' they are protecting?
The important part is that Stack Exchange mentioned Monica Celio by name in a press release in a manner that was perceived to be defamatory by Monica. The original disagreement was about the CoC. That disagreement/misunderstanding should have been handled in private, there was no need to throw her under the bus
I thought it was odd the maxed out 14 and 16 have such a large gap in power requirements (99 watt charger vs 140 watt), but this makes the pricing a bit less palatable since 16 is only about $200 more.

Still got the 14 since the 16 seems too bulky and heavy for a daily carry.
I am following you until your last sentence. How does having less regulation help here?
Windows REvil ransomware gang taken down by US spies and allies: claim
With the current system, yes. YouTube could do something where the content creator specifies the sponsored part (if it's not straight up merchandising and product placement) and paying subscribers could have that skipped.

Anyway, I chimed in to say YouTube Premium to me is worth a lot. I watch more YouTube because of it, it's better, better for the kids, less annoying, the whole thing is fantastically better. Every time I click an YouTube video on my employer account and get an ad it's such a shock.
Index/bond funds are openly (all the holdings are open to public inspection) and passively managed. What you're describing is a mutual fund.
Last update was 7 months ago, either gab didn't do any chance if this timeframe or they are also violating the license.
That's very true.

CEO compensation might be another thing to look at when designing these policies: Often it's paid out only if the company reaches certain goals or paid as options that can only be exercised in the future at a certain price, ie, they are completely worthless otherwise.

"You only get your pension if the carbon emissions are down by X% in 10 years", or something like that.
Businessman + lots of money = bigger/new business/investment in business.

Politician + lots of money = golden toilet?

In other words, money works for building a competence hierarchy in business. It doesn't for politics.

What you want is a competence hierarchy in politics. It needs its own separate currency that can only purchase political decisions.

Because it doesn't have that, money is used and that creates a business-in-politics aka corruption problem.

ps. Has this been tried anywhere? This is an idea I thought of on the fly and have not looked into or thought through.
Friendly reminder: if you feel passionate and excited about someone else being denied employment, or otherwise punished based on their views, you are likely being manipulated. By caring about those things you care less about demanding a better deal for yourself, and that's exactly what the media wants. USSR was built on that kind of manipulation and now it's coming here.