skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of complexity of JWST is driven by the very restrictive mass and size limits. If you get a wider rocket and a 50% larger mass budget, then you can skip a lot of the complex unfolding and you can probably make a comparable diameter space telescope for literally 10 times less effort, cost and time.
And he was right.Somewhat cold?Meh, i personally don't think so, maybe for some.But that doesn't make him a bad person or terrible at all.
Most modern gas furnaces are 95% AFUE, the minimum in northern US states is 90%

And comparing AFUE efficiency to HSPF is not really a thing, you can not look at a gas furance that is 95% AFUE, and a Heat Pump that is "400%" claim that the gas furnace is must less "efficient" that is not how any of those works. To be clear a heat pump at temps above 25 degrees Fahrenheit is more efficient but comparing the metrics in this manner is a bit misleading

Further heat pumps are good to 25 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit, under that a gas furnace is normally used to supplement a heat pump in colder climates. Most heat pump manufacturers do not recommend operating a heat pump in below freezing conditions
We usually do have to present ID these days, but more importantly a credit card. There is no registration with the police as you say, America has nothing like the hukou system either.
Google Fi, along with many other mobile telecoms, tend to limit the speed that you can attain from tethering, especially when roaming. Since computers don’t usually expect this, programs tend to misbehave on such metered connections.

In fact, I built a tool to specifically circumvent this: https://github.com/nneonneo/iOS-SOCKS-Server. It provides a SOCKS proxy through which you can tunnel any TCP connection, and have the connection appear to originate from your phone (and thus not be subject to the tethering rate limit). I used this when I was in China recently (2019).
Some of the modern Indian dating apps seem to follow this approach and do quite well. It’s likely more accepted there because of the tradition of arranged marriages. Western audiences might find it strange.
And I criticize the Chinese government because I want the Chinese people to live a life that is free and void of the constant danger of abuse (while at the same time I can as well recognize that we in the West have a big list of problems and abuses we have to tackle).
> it requires some adjustments, but really not much

can you be more specific here? What sort of things would other readers interested in electrifying a house not be considering?
> v?foo^Md/bar^Mp ... the opposite extreme from being an exercise in frustration.

Master class in Unix user interface design right there.
> Architects (and society) should periodically question the layers of safety codes that define our art, architecture and design

Architecture and design, okay maybe, but art?

> They are not a part of the building

What does this mean?
Many of the nice qualities of natural gas is the much higher power output. Gas burners go up to 60kw (normal kitchen burner is 9kw) while an electric resistance stove is 2.6kw. We now have inductive stoves that can surpass electric resistance stoves in power output and can match burners more powerful than a typical industrial kitchen.

tl;dr the need to deliver gas to anything other than a grid scale powerplant is over.
> Would you have any references on the subject? If so, would you mind sharing in here?

I read it in an old recipe book, probably out of print. But after you asked, I tried to find an online reference and got this one: https://www.portugalthings.com/portuguese-conventual-sweets/

Just look at the huge amount of yellow on those pictures.

To the "egg whites were used for starching rich people's clothes" (engomar os fatos dos homem mais ricos) they add another one: filtering impurities in wine. Probably they'd mix egg whites with wine, warm it to coagulate the whites so they'd grab impurities in wine and make it easier to filter them.
This gets brought up on every single JvN post on HN. Can we please let the man rest in peace? Someone tried to cancel Feynman the other day.

Hell, even James Webb was on the chopping block until NASA administration pushed back on the cancel culture nonsense from Scientific American.
If he hadn’t promised an induction model, I would have fought the change like everyone else. We fortunately have a moderately powerful and highly organized tenants association.
I sometimes re-read this article to chill after a stressful day: http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/self-publishing-pleas...
What is the cost to 'upgrade' to pure electric supply / generation household? Say per SF? And why would you remove gas connections when they could be used as backup? Plus why is this what future holds should look like?
Has it? That would be an interesting diagram but I wouldn’t assume anything
- Does your house have the proper infrastructure (e.g. 200amp+ panel)

- Is your house wired for the load? (e.g. you need bigger wires to handle the higher amperage. Walls might need to be taken down in order to rewire the appliances)

Those are the two biggest issues. Depending on your house layout, you might basically need to gut your entire house just to rewire a single appliance. I'm obviously throwing out a catastrophic example here, but it can happen. This sort of thing is best done if you're doing major renovations anyway.
I'd like to know this too -- have had my eye on the Bolt for some time.

The 2022 Bolt base price is $31k and it is no longer eligible for federal tax credits. In my state, EVs are partially exempt from state sales tax, but that just means the total price is something like $32k including tax (instead of $33.5k).

If Build Back Better passed, the Bolt would be eligible for a $12.5k federal credit, so I'd be looking at $19.5k. But that bill is stalled and the Bolt isn't even available to buy new right now -- GM halted manufacturing until at least February due to a battery defect.

It looks like a few states offer tax rebates of $3-5k, so that might get you close to $11k if you could get the dealer to knock a few thousand off MSRP, but I have no idea if that's realistic (and again, this assumes BBB or something similar passes).
As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, until about 0 degrees F, electric heat pumps generate more BTU per watt than burning natural gas in your room.

And the power plant is far more efficient at capturing the heat than the furnace in your home or building.
This is the step we were waiting for to start plotting a path to eventually abandon Altium Designer and migrate to KiCAD. We'll do that in 2022 with new projects as it becomes possible. Also starting to donate towards future KiCAD development.
I doubt that they’re cheaper to install if you’re already putting in air conditioning.

Plus you save the $30/mo meter fee from the gas company.
It should always, because the APNs (gateway for your IP packets) for Google Fi are in the US no matter where you are roaming from. That’s standard fare for any cellular service: you always connect to the internet gateways in your provider’s home country when roaming.
Free42 also on Android.

Actually launches faster for me that some of the "native" calculators, which I find very strange.

I just checked: although I have Free42 on my Kindle Fire tablet, it's via Google Play Store. I don't see it on Amazon's App Store.
It doesn't work because of energy loss converting mechanical to electric and back is higher than mechanical transmission straight to the wheels. Honda does do something like what you describe at low speeds but the efficiency is not very good. Toyota and some other manufacturers use clever arrangements of planetary gears + motor/generator to keep the engine closer to optimal parameters independent of wheels. I'm not sure a modern hybrid system is more complex than a modern automatic transmission.
At least with AGPL software, if this happens, it will force those competitors to release their secret sauce, too. Those competitors will have to open source all of their changes, meanwhile as the copyright holder, you're able to release proprietary modules or changes at any time, and those competitors are out of luck if they want to use them. Should they attempt to compete on feature parity, their additions will need to open source.
One thing that has always baffled me is why nitrous oxide isn't commonly used in these sort of situations.

There are formulations available (mixed 50/50 with oxygen) that don't require an anesthesiologist.
This would work for a passive gas furnace like an old gravity furnace. Modern high efficiency gas furnaces require electricity for the blower.
Seems likely. The presented coefficient only looks at the ordering of the X-values, and how it relates to the ordering of the Y-values. All other information is thrown away. That's how it can be so general, but it should come at the expense of power.
This does only apply for air-sourced heat pumps though. Unless you are literally living on an ice-sheet, a ground-sourced heat pump can be efficient all-year round and beat out an air system easily.
> None of the government/public workers are working that schedule. Or someone who finds a job in the private companies who aren't insane.

Oddly enough, on my first trip to China in 1999, everyone was still expected to work Saturdays. The change to getting Saturday off is relatively recent…maybe 15 or so years ago?

> Except that everyone does, and I'm not aware of any prosecutions. Also, Spiderman, BTS, squid game does not even touch laws, they just haven't been screened in cinemas, you can still get them from different sources (which often means piracy in China).

“Rule by law”, as opposed to “rule of law”, means laws are arbitrarily enforced according to the whims of the party. So they aren’t going to prosecute you for watching banned media…until they want to get you for something (and in that case, they’ll find something).
I love our induction stove - on the same burner that I can boil a full pot of water in 2m, I can keep a soup going at a precise simmer. I could never get our old gas stove setup that precisely.
Already happening. https://www.instagram.com/p/CX2AXu-vzpN/?utm_medium=copy_lin...
Similarly - the keto fad has been an absolute boon for diabetics.
AWS enterprise support is amazing. Everything from calls and emails to multi-day workshops with the product team. You get more than you pay for with them.

I'm also a fan of the AWS certifications from the employee side. Not everybody is pulling X00K at a FAANG. If you want a cloud job at regular enterprise, it's a good way to get your foot in the door.
Or Windows?
I do that with org-mode https://orgmode.org/ it's integrated with Emacs and I can run code in the document as well as export to PDF for presentations for example.
http://www.lotgd.net/
People used to say that coal is great for cooking, and the coal industry had PR campaigns around this just like the gas industry does today.

Personally I think that for anyone looking to buy a new cooking range today, induction is the obvious choice.
Cloudflare Firewall rules are case sensitive
I agree that we're trending to your conclusion, but we're not there yet.

You're kidding if you think the electric grid, especially in NYC, could handle the removal of all gas appliances and replacement with high amperage electric appliances. You're talking about an order of magnitude (or even two) increase in electricity usage.
I lived in a very old SF house that had some original gas lamp fixtures. These are overhead lamps from the 1900s that burnt gas for illumination.

There was a very faint gas smell in the entryway and we eventually traced it to one of these lamps. Its gas line was still under pressure and it wasn’t fully shut off. I tightened the valve and the smell stopped. (Though also the leak was so small a gas inspector’s equipment couldn’t detect it, but some people’s noses could)

Agreed that running gas lines everywhere may not be the best idea. We were dealing with the repercussions 100 years later.
in a way these disorders are fake ... I'm ADHD diagnosed and I think also asd. not saying they aren't real...

I'm saying they're as real as an apple is really an apple as in would it be an apple if somebody didn't label it as one?

diseases of the body have very specific symptoms but also an underlying cause injury, cell damage, virus, bacteria...

mental health isn't just the brain...

we can't tie consciousness just to the brain...I mean it could be something in our entire central nervous system...

all these things are... are buckets...

imagine you're fishing and you throw in a bunch of similar fish into a bucket and separate them into two big buckets as similar as possible... you might still have 4 different species of fish per bucket...

that's all mental health diagnoses feel like ..a big bucket because everyone behaves differently in different circumstances under different stimulus...

were you exposed to lead recently and are more aggressive? are your hormones elevated or lowered than norms?

all these little chemical signals going through the brain shape the consciousness to a star or a square but it's not really a star or square... it just closer to a star and square and it's soft around the edges so you can push it into the star shape diagnoses hole even though it's different ...

my point is it's all a spectrum and you can't be on the spectrum with aids, cancer, COVID. you have it or you don't... you can have more serious cases or not but there's a definite... solidity to what is infecting you...

so personally I think it'd be better if we made smaller buckets that were more about labeling what our symptoms are... then treat those specifically better and maybe have a few broader treatments that treat maybe a trifecta of symptoms...

I'm not sure if my point is coming across... basically mental disorders are real but at the same time they're not... because it's an illness if the consciousness.. of thought... and emotions... and the smallest imbalance in even our gut which has brain cells can cause certain reactions...
There is no ethical alternative to voluntary assortative mating unless you want to legalize nonconsensual sex.
I borrowed (actually traded; swapping with my truck) a ~2016 Prius for a month and hated driving it.

Merging is slow; I ended up flooring it and only reaching ~50 mph by the end of the onramp. Bay area ramps are, however, very short. Try the SB 101 Rengstorff ramp in Mountain View, it's horrible. In fact, that very ramp is why I replaced my 2002 Saturn LW200 with a 2010 BMW 135i in 2012.

The Prius also can't maintain speed up hills. I would engage cruise control and find myself dramatically slowing down on any uphill segment. By contrast none of my cars have this problem - the 2010 BMW 135i, the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt, and the 2000 Chevrolet Silverado all do just fine. Of the three, the Bolt is my favorite to drive.

That is, of course, not an indictment of PHEVs in general, just the Prius in particular. It's under-powered for unremarkable basic driving. Hopefully the Prime and other models newer than what I drove are better.
I don't know the full history, but a bit of searching shows that linear feedback shift registers were in use in the 1960s, so it's a pretty old technology.
Things I want in a markdown editor: Grammar check. Auto-capitalise start of sentence and known proper nouns. Auto fix obvious typos without bothering me. Grammatically smart spellcheck. Detect and flag accidental double space. Detect and flag duplicate words. Word count excluding headlines.

It's nice when I use Google docs and it has that stuff. I wish I had it in markdown.
After further inspection of Scala 3 capabilities, especially code quoting and splicing it seems that Scala 3 has all the building blocks necessary, base collections with consistent interface and syntax expressive enough to take it where I want it to be (Linq and J).
As you say, it could be done simpler. What we have is a manifestation of wastefulness.
I haven't had the batteries long enough (just a couple months at this point - took more than a year to get them) to work that into our habits in all seasons. I expect for 6+ months of the year the batteries will enable us to run virtually off-grid, with minimal draw from the grid, perhaps with the exception of charging the cars. Power production in those months vastly exceeds our usage.

Conversely, this time of year (winter) the way our house is positioned with the sun (on a hill, surrounded by tall trees) we generate a pretty small amount of solar, and are running the heaters a lot, so very grid dependent. The batteries would power the house for maybe 12 hours in an outage.

Last summer I'd often charge a car during the day instead of at night because we were generating more than the draw of the EV charger. I have an internal debate about whether this is better, because the power company's time-of-use structure incentivizes me to not do this, but instead export the power to the grid. So I'm not actually sure whether maximizing my energy usage at the time of production is less carbon intensive than exporting it to offset the rest of the community's usage. I guess it all depends on what's generating that grid energy at night.

For the most part within the house though, the batteries let you not care too much about what energy you're using when.
My gas stove heats the pot, but also the cabinets above and around the stove and the entire small kitchen. Just being able to feel the air temperature go up by a couple of degrees would certainly suggest it's throwing off more waste heat than what's actually going into the pan.
von Neumann was one of the "Martians of Budapest", https://web.archive.org/web/20211002112153/https://www.priva... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists) & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28726489 (162 comments, Sept 2021)

> The term refers to—what appeared, from the perspective of Americans—to be a group of men with superhuman intellects, arriving from an obscure country speaking an incomprehensible foreign language and English with strong, characteristic accents (later popularized by Bela Lugosi in Dracula). Scientists typically thought to belong to the group include refugees from the University of Göttingen, early associates of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and members of The Manhattan Project.

> Persons frequently included in the description: Paul Erdős, Paul Halmos, Theodore von Kármán, John G. Kemeny, John von Neumann, George Pólya, Leó Szilárd, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner are included in The Martians group.
Ah that makes sense intuitively. I was confused how non linear correlation could be detected without knowing anything about the function itself.
Yes. At least, in some significant ways.

I've abandoned smartphones for the time being (but have a PinePhone to hack on for sport and challenge - it in no way resembles a functional device at this point in time) and have gone back to a flip phone device with a removable battery that generally lives on the kitchen counter, and has a pretty poor room mic. It gets rebooted (full power cycle with battery removal) often enough, and I frequently don't bother bringing it with me places, or at least bringing it with powered on. I've found since I'm looking at it far less, it falls out of mind, so I will quite literally head into town and not realize I don't have it until I get nearly back home. It's fine, I did that for years before cell phones existed, I see no reason why I can't go back to that.

"No phones in the bedroom" is just a standing good policy for a range of reasons anyway.

However, I generally trust phones a bit more than I trust the "room mic" class of "assistant" devices. First, they're on battery, and widespread abuse will mean rapid battery drain and a warm phone. A phone, warm in the pocket, is cause for either turning your phone screen off, or alarm if it's already screen off and you don't know why it's warm.

But they also have a less effective microphone. Most of the ones I've experimented with over the years won't pick up a normal conversational tone across the room with any accuracy - but you can walk into a room, query for an Alexa/Google/etc device, and the one across the room will generally respond to you. They have far better microphones than a typical phone does for room audio.

I'm aware that the various devices are not supposed to be a live stream of room audio to the internet and generally don't seem to be doing that unless triggered, but the reports of people who have done a deep dive into their triggered captures have been that it captures a lot of nonsensical chunks of audio for no discernible reason beyond, presumably, "When in doubt, capture and send" - ease of use, of course, meaning that false negatives in detection are far more serious than false positives.

But neither do I trust the companies involved to not be doing a range of audio analysis locally and sending the information up in random updates. I don't know that they do this sort of thing, but I don't trust them not to. You could do things like unique voice count in the room detection to identify how many people typically live in a place, or if people are having a party. You could do vocal stressor analysis to determine if people are frequently angry, upset, etc. And I'm sure there are many papers written on what else one can use this sort of stuff for. I object to the capability being present, even if not used. Hence my general trend of not keeping smartphones around me regularly - but even there, at least Apple devices do tend to indicate if something is abusing mic privileges, and I can remove audio privileges from apps. I can't do that with the... skills? whatever the audio helper additional functionality code is called.
Creating a new element on the DOM, especially when it is creating a new script element. It takes non-zero time to load and parse but returns control to JavaScript immediately. So you need to wait on the element with like onLoad before calling a function in that script. There's some more instances I've forgotten.

The situation is better now with promises but it was a pain in the ass just a few years ago.
Ask HN: What do you call “scriptable” software?
Some software has two "levels" execution. A primary level, which is developed by the vendor, and secondary level which may be provided by the users to perform relatively complicated custom logic -- logic beyond that would be reasonable for simple configuration or a UI.

Is there a name for this?

Consider a software system that "delegates" execution points to some other language or runtime entirely. These are systems that have some level of "scripting."

For example, say I have a web application written in .NET which has a workflow engine. This engine can be configured, and might even have a UI to drag boxes and arrows around.

However, at the end of a workflow step, I also allow the option for my users to provide some JavaScript that is executed server-side that produces the next workflow recipient. It can execute whatever logic it wants -- all the engine cares about is the result it returns.

So, the PRIMARY execution engine delegates control to a SECONDARY execution engine, then incorporates the result that comes back into further execution.

I intuitively know about this architecture model, and I've used models like it many times, but I'd like to know if there's an accepted, general name for this model.

(Note: I am fully aware that I may have answered by own question in the title. If so, let me know.)
Seems like rubber [1] is a commonly-used wrapper for this sort of thing. Works well in a makefile.

[1] https://gitlab.com/latex-rubber/rubber/
The benefits of electrification are not limited to those with local solar production. But obviously if you are generating your own power, running everything on that same fuel type has big benefits.