skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a strong theme here of assuming the worst possible motivations in people and responding to the worst interpretations of people’s words and actions; first in the case of the company’s founders, which is my main point of contention with your position, but then also in response to my comments, which is not just bad-faith debating but a breach of the HN guidelines.

I note that twice in the above comment, you’ve put statements in quotes as if they were things I wrote when I clearly wrote nothing of the sort. If you can’t engage in a discussion by simply addressing things that were actually written, it’s time to stop commenting.

My comment about it being Christmas Eve was a way of noting the fact that it’s a time when most of us who are in parts of the world that celebrate Christmas probably have better and kinder things to do than perpetuate arguments like this.

As for your apparently-continuing claim that Occam’s razor supports your argument: your central claim seems to rely on the assumption that most company founders are dishonest in their stated intentions to do right by customers, and that we should assume that founders are lying when they claim that.

If I’m wrong that that’s your position, you’re welcome to clarify, but please do so without further ad hominem attacks. If it is your position, OK, but I profoundly disagree, and I point out that that it’s not the kind of uncontroversial, accepted fact that puts your argument on solid ground. But sure, you’re welcome to believe it.

For what it’s worth, my own position comes from a belief, and at least 10 years of looking very closely at the phenomenon, that most people are essentially good and well-intentioned, and when they do wrong it’s not just that they’re inherently dishonest or evil, it’s due to reasons that are important to understand, if nothing else so we can avoid getting into situations where we’d end up doing those kinds of wrong thing ourselves.

This is why I push back against scapegoating rage fests when I see them on HN; only if we’re willing understand and dispassionately reflect on how and why people do wrong can we expect people, including ourselves to do good.
Not kidding, totally doable with batteries. The power density in hybrid car batteries is roughly 500Whr @ 50C, so max power output is 25kW. So 72s at max power, even at industrial cooking of 9kw we see 200s. At max home resistance heater output we see 700s of runtime.

We can cook with batteries and have better performance than gas right now. Which means you don't even have to run 240v to the range. You can run a high power stove top off any regular circuit.
I do not use SQL in anger on a regular basis at my day job. So I'm no expert. But it seems to me that the footgun is still there, it just fails slowly instead of immediately. The "fail immediately on ambiguity" footgun will manifest itself immediately in a test environment. The "performance is bad if column names are ambiguous" footgun is more difficult to observe in test, and may not show up at all if your test environment doesn't mimic prod closely enough. But it will bring down prod with precious little help from your logs/analytics: it will tell you one of your queries is taking exponentially more time than it used to, but can't tell you why. The fact that it takes exponentially more time means that your database servers will slow all requests, perhaps catastrophically. The "fail immediately on ambiguity" footgun will have obvious "query failed because <reason>", which depending on how good your logging is might tell you exactly what the problem is. (I do use SQL at work -- rarely. But in our app a failed query just returns a "fail" error code with no additional information. Soo... yeah.) And in the meantime, the database servers are not performing full row scans, meaning unaffected queries are unaffected.

Again, I'm no expert, but I'm a huge fan of "fail fast" in general. I'd rather have a miswritten query refuse to execute instead of executing poorly. I guess if you have an SLA where you're allowed to ... stretch the truth about the state of your servers, it's better to have everything grind to a half than error immediately. So that way your dashboard stays green. I guess I can see it both ways.
It definitely does. 4-5g is our standard dose now. I used to think 1-2g was intense. A big variable is whether or not you're combining them with anything else. I find smoking pot sends things into overdrive and results in hallucinations which are difficult to separate from reality when doing 5g. By itself, 5g is a nice trip(although I can temporarily lose my language functions sometimes, which is kind of interesting).

To add to this, my partner does 5g and it's more or less a fun and intoxicating experience with no visuals at all. 5g for me is intensely visual. YMMV.
My oldest is a daughter of two parents with ASD diagnosid and certain things have to go in her way, she needs to know in advance what happens, and she has difficulty adapting to a situation. In my country, you can only get an autism diagnosis at age 4, and she's well into 3 years old. These temper tantrums or meltdowns are common for age 3 though.

PS: We were both misdiagnosed as having anxiety disorders (GAD and avoidant, GAD and agoraphobia respectively). I also got Ritalin prescribed against fatigue (because I could not officially get ADHD diagnosis as adult according to my psychiatrist this was back during DSM-IV). It would not surprise me if other people with social anxiety diagnosis (also) have ASD, but as usual if you can function in society with your current diagnosis (or lack of it), who cares, it isn't worth the hassle (time, money, effort).
Norway has been almost all-in on electric for a good while now. I can't remember experiencing a blackout in like 15 years or so. As with many things, Norway may be special in many ways, but I can't help but think if you start building everything in society around electricity (and free up some of the money needed to maintain gas and other parallel energy distribution infrastructures), you'll make really damn sure that it works 100% of the time.

I've heard that some keep propane heaters for backup/emergency. I have used one at a cabin and it's damn effective.

Your example sounds really inefficient.. modern houses should have balanced ventilation, and you should only need one compressor and 2-3 heads. I installed a small balanced ventilation unit (TwinFresh) in a bedroom, and that helps keep the room warm by pulling in warm air from the hallway which is connected to the living room with the heat pump head.

We also have some electrical heaters in the other bedrooms just to make sure it can't get too cold there. Though maybe my perspective is a bit warped: everyone I know likes to sleeping in a cold room.
Having some legislation mandating product support for X years after purchase would be a good place to start.
Super smart move by AWS (I have a suspect it has to do with Adam Selipsky's recent appointment to CEO).

Quite bad for the community at large: in a nutshell, knowledge and free sweat is going to be used as a funnel to AWS services.
Very rare in UK at least .. and the few that exist are only active when traffic is at a near standstill.
What's a generation? Longer than 10 years certainly, but many people have kids by their early 20s if not before.
> By contrast, the microspeakers from Arioso Systems GmbH measure just 10 to 20 mm^2

Traditional speakers in BT earbuds if I recall correctly take more space since there’s a volume component. They also would take more power than a MEMS solution would. If they get it to production and audio quality is good, this could be quite huge.

By comparison an AirPod pro is 20mm^2 by 30mm in height so this would allow a significant miniaturization and power savings/larger battery. Ultimately the quality of the audio will be key and my guess is that’s the primary obstacle between it’s current PoC state and production.
Pandoc is a great piece of software. It‘s great on its own, but also is great as a basis for automatic book generation with R Markdown or the Julia Books.jl package that I wrote. People told me not to use Pandoc because I would have a bad day if I ever ran into the boundaries of what is possible. That turned out to never be a problem, the templating system is extremely powerful and provides a lot of flexibility in combination with passing variables directly into the templates
What’s particularly frustrating is that the only thing that separates one from the other is the inclusion of a $20 reversing valve[1], and some software that can use it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversing_valve
> I am somewhat surprised a single quote can render someone a terrible person

You should be surprised. It can't.

The important extraction from that premise, is that the opinions of essentially all people on such a subject are worthless, unless you happen to specifically know the person and value their opinion accordingly.

One of the mass delusions that is very popular today - and particularly destructive - is to treat everyone's opinions on all things as having some great value and their feelings as being the most important thing to consider. We live in hyper irrational times.

> All of us are just one quote away from having our entire lives reduced to "good" or "bad"!

Reduced by whom? Who cares. That's the correct response to such a reduction by opinions of people that do not matter to you.

A stranger on the Internets said my life is bad. Comeon. Who cares. It's meaningless garbage and a waste of precious time to consider such things.
The Russian Novel That Foresaw–But Underestimated–Totalitarianism
There's a great story about one writer, Yevgeny Zamyatin, author of We about the relation to the State ideology at the beginning of USSR and his subsequent emigration.

The Russian Novel That Foresaw — but Underestimated — Totalitarianism

https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/the-russian-nove...
Replacing natural gas for heating is something I could get behind. Replacing it for cooking is an adjustment I would never make. Cooking represents a minuscule portion of natural gas consumption, prohibiting it will have basically no impact on emissions. However it would mean that many of the things I routinely cook, I would no longer be able to cook. Induction is great, I have an induction cooktop, but there’s simply things you cannot cook on it. I wouldn’t give up stir fry cooking for some tiny and irrelevant impact on emissions.
That reminds me of xteddy (because it is also adorable, but alas not animated in any way).
I've read of a couple that dug a huge hole with bulldozer.... then dropped 2 shipping containers and buried them back up... cost like 20k... mostly for the welding done to connect the containers, add rooms and windows...

being impacted by earth is a natural insulator... and it faces south...

I'd love to do something like this... team up buy land then place yurts and things while we build earth bag or container homes... maybe we use some of the land for Airbnb rentals to pay for supplies for the rest of what we want to do ....

ideally next to Zion national park in kanab.... could easily make 150 per night for our glamping spots...
Where will these batteries be stored? How will the risk of a fire be mitigated? What's the plan for recycling the batteries or dealing with battery failure? The infrastructure should have a lot of redundancy - I like batteries but I personally wouldn't rely on them in extreme scenarios.
I would say that it depends on how the core and addons are attached and how the core is licensed.

If the core is a library, and licensed under LGPL, the proprietary add ons can dynamically link to it without issue. You could take community contributions. This would not be true if the library was GPL. Anything that links to GPL has to be GPL compatible (make source code available).

If the proprietary addons are libraries and the core links to the addons, the users could violate the GPL when they link to them, unless you as the original author of the core, specifically enumerate the addons in the license you distribute to them. You would not be able to take community contributions in this case.

If the core communicates to the addons without adding the addons to its assessable region, such as talking over pipes or sockets, you would have no licensing issues even if the core is GPL and has taken community contributions.
Just another one in an endless stream of bloatware Electron markdown text editors. Stop giving these projects recognition.
When transcoding some streams, if you use ffmpeg's defaults, sometimes the way it handles PTS, DTS and keyframes isn't ideal, and you'll get weird video pauses, blanks, and strange but distinct visual artifacts while the audio plays just fine.

Having spent a lot of time using ffmpeg for transcoding, it's one of those things I recognized because I'd often forget to set the correct settings and got similar results, as well.
Which is silly, since induction isn’t inherently expensive. I got an induction stovetop in Germany in 2016 for 200€.
Here's the thing: I really like Loqseq's interface (it mimic's Andy Matuschak's Evergreen notes[0]) but I really hate the fact that it doesn't let me edit plain Markdown files and write free-form text. (Looks like I'm not the only one[1].) It forces me into this weird outliner format that I personally don't like at all – and I'm saying this as someone who used org-mode for years.

[0]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

[1]: https://discuss.logseq.com/t/allow-non-outline-freeform-text... , https://discuss.logseq.com/t/how-about-separately-supporting...
Internet history timeline
People eating food and heating/cooling their homes is what consumes the most energy.
I think you’re a factor of 5-10 out on your calculations.

2 outdoor units running 110V x 50amps is 11.0kW which using a base efficiency you can expect from a heat pump of 4:1 input electricity to heat results in 44kW of heating / cooling.

If your 4 bedroom house needs 44kW of heating I would be looking at other winter warmers first, like buying glass for your windows.

For comparison a reasonably large heat pump would have a heating cooling rating of 12kW
pandoc is great.

for emacs users, org-mode is another, even greater option in the long quest to treat tex like an intermediate representation.

(for everyone else: org is to latex like markdown is to html)
In DSM-V they did the contrary. In DSM-IV, things like Asperger's, PDD-NOS, etc existed. Now, with V, it is all under the same umbrella: ASD ('Autism Spectrum Disorder' in short 'autism' or ASD).

I'm not sure why, but I know there was discrimination going on. People looking to e.g. headhunt idiot savants or high functioning autistics with Asperger's.
Yeah, they are the same in the US, only metered when there is a lot of traffic. Which exacerbates the need for acceleration because you need not only match the speed before the ramp ends but also find a hole in the heavy traffic.
A JOIN is simply a special predicate.

FROM A ... FROM B ... SELECT ... OUTER JOIN A.Foo = B.Bar ... WHERE ...

That also happens to incredibly compatible with code completion.
This is... quite wrong? The dictionary says:

1. a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things
2. [Statistics] interdependence of variable quantities.
3. [Statistics] a quantity measuring the extent of the interdependence of variable quantities.

The most sympathetic to your definition is Wikipedia:

In statistics, correlation or dependence is any statistical
relationship, whether causal or not, between two random variables or bivariate
data. In the broadest sense correlation is any statistical association, though
it actually refers to the degree to which a pair of variables are linearly
related.

And that's the mathematical formulation. Correlation also has a meaning in everyday speech, and mathematics doesn't have the authority to just adopt terms and then claim people are wrong after they've changed the meaning.

Also correlation very definitely means that knowing <x> tells you something about <y>. And vice versa. Like, for example: its value. Or at least a better idea of it than pure guessing without correlation.
How is it possible to make a general coefficient of correlation that works for any non-linear relationship? Say if y=sha256(x), doesn't that mean y is a predictable function of x, but its statistically impossible to tell from looking at inputs/outputs alone?
You should by a coal mine and close it. Is equivalent to saying „you should buy the freedom of every slave“. Somethings have to be done at the National level and collectively.
By “monitoring” did you mean “cameras everywhere in case something happens” type of monitoring or the Orwellian mass surveillance?

As for the play-time restrictions —- how is it much different from drinking age restrictions that are pretty ubiquitous around the world?
Thanks, I already knew about Obsidian. However, it is anything but lightweight and, personally, I don't like its UI that much, either.
Does org-mode handle mathematical notation and citations? From what I've seen, it was more of a note-taking / calendar / journaling type of format.
It seems a general pattern that any suggested positive change in the world is resisted by assertions that “the infrastructure isn’t ready”. Of course it isn’t, nor was it ready when the city was first built using gas heating. We built it. We will build it again.
SysAdmin 201, very nicely done.

I await with bated breath for upcoming ML series to get those most elusive lower severity alert ones.
My calculations were not talking about the usage of electricity, but the breakers the panels require. Hyper-heat models require 50 amp breakers and are 230V. Peak load usually only happens when the compressors cycle. The actual non-peak usage isn't that high as you've stated. Regardless the breakers must accommodate peak-load.
> It's not a fully synthetic kind of "i now see an object that is not actually there"

This was generally my experience until I combined high dose(5g relatively fresh) mushrooms with pot. I've had a number of experiences on that combination where I experience vivid hallucinations which are indistinguishable from reality. It's rather uncomfortable at times because of that.

On mushrooms alone, up to the 5 or so grams which is my current maximum, I would classify the hallucinations as colorful visuals combined with intense daydreams.
This.

If you have no visibility to the Credit Industry, you might as well not exist.

In my younger days, I followed on in my father's footsteps and paid cash for everything, and never ran any sort of credit. When I finally needed to open up a store credit card, which had been advertised widely as "Instant credit up to $5000" or something like that, I was only offered the minimum, something like $500. When I asked why they only offered me such a low amount of credit, their answer was "Simple. You have no history of using credit at all. We don't know if we will be paid. So we gave you as little credit as possible."
We are talking about a battery pack that is 100x100x600mm. LiFeO4 and other chemistries don't have the same failure scenarios. A home stove is not an extreme scenario, I believe you are just throwing up chaff and moving some goal posts.
> a normal house usually 100 amps dedicated for the entire house

Is this true on the east coast only, or have I been really lucky my whole life? I currently live in a little cabin in the woods built in the 70s and it has 200amp service, as have all other homes I've lived in the past 15 years.
The Sound of Silence: A Noise Map of the U.S.
>is to expect housing to become more expensive as heat pumps are more expensive than using (existing) gas infrastructure

Only if you ignore the externalities
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29665494
Sounds like the car you drove was defective.

I have an auris which is mechanically identical to a Prius. I have not driven those exact roads but I have never struggled going up hills and it will hit 60mph from a standstill in just under 10s, so with a rolling start of say 20-30 getting onto the onramp you are at 60 or so in 6 or 7 seconds. If your onramps are so short that you can't drive for 6 or 7 seconds before merging, then I guess that is a different problem.
> The big problem with piping natural gas to buildings is that the miles of pipes that deliver the gas leak. Gas leaking is a real issue since an equal amount of un-burnt methane has 25x the climate change potential as CO2.

This is only true in the short term. Methane has a half life in the atmosphere of less than a decade. By comparison, CO2 has a half life of thousands of years. Methane's greater immediate warming is drastically overshadowed by CO2's long-term persistence.
True, the monarchy doesn't govern as such. Still rankles with me to be a subject and not a citizen.
Of which there is a submission on HN. See my other comment. :)
PSA: Ruby 3.1 isn’t compatible with Rails 7.0.0. There’s a patch in the world that’s coming soon.
I noticed the same thing probably 15 years ago when I bought a TV with a digital tuner. You mirrored my experience exactly with one thing to add - another thing that cracked me up was when they would order it in Spanish!

That pausing thing was annoying - on Friday or Saturday nights though you could usually change to another channel and find someone else watching the same movie at almost the same spot that didn’t have it paused.

Oh and around 1985 and 1986 I wrote my own software to guess calling card numbers between midnight and 6 am. I would either use Sprint or MCI access numbers and get about 20 working codes per night.
Give me Matrix protocol or death.
> But personally I find OOP ugly and unnatural, and Julia's model elegant and natural.

This definitely fits with my experience. It took me quite a while to really "get" dispatch-oriented programming as a paradigm, but once I started to get it there was no going back.
In this case, we are talking about client side software. It runs locally on the device. This means that the distinction between the GPL and the AGPL is not really relevant. And any competitor preparing modified binaries would also need to release their source.
I think typically a generation is around 30 years, but this changes over time. Currently it's higher in the western world, but it was shorter 100 years ago.
Larry Ellison has an ASD diagnosis? TIL. The guy runs and breathes Oracle like a true psychopath. Then again, psychopaths and autistics can get along very well.

As for your other point. You need to overcome or work around your weaknesses. Everyone has to do such, but for some it requires more (out of the box thinking) effort. For example, I have ASD and get disgusted by certain foods (smelling or seeing them). I explained this to my employer and colleagues when I got hired (they were aware I am autistic). What they do is they ask if it's OK if they buy/eat X (I don't wanna get into the specifics) and I ACK it (usually). They know if I look weird or go away what's going on.
That’s an interesting point about search developing in an absence of a standard for sites to self-index. I can’t quite imagine what that standard index would look like.
I know that this is talking about household energy use, but one of the larger uses of natural gas is metallurgy and industrial processes (like making fertilizer). Industrial natural gas use almost matches consumption for electricity generation in the US: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/use-of-natur...

Changing these systems to use something other than fossil fuels is a big conundrum. In theory, hydrogen could replace it. But almost all hydrogen today is generated via steam reformation (CH4 + 2O2 -> CO2 + 2H2) which emits greenhouse gases. Electrolysis powered by renewable power is theoretically possible, but scaling it up proves difficult. Some hypothesize that thermochemical hydrogen production [1] with heat provided by fission could produce hydrogen at the required scales.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermochemical_cycle
I make stir fry on an electric cooktop all of the time, and it's not even induction. Have I just been dreaming?