skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has the nickname 'Acid' because it's literally Lysergic acid diethylamide.
Altair MITS-Mas Christmas Catalog from Popular Electronics, December 1975
Induction is great but most budget apartments/homes are going to have resistive electric, either coil or glass top. These are objectively worse than gas for cooking, not least of which because you can't even lift up the pan 1 inch without losing heating completely. Glass top also has the problem of having to heat up a massive block of glass whereas gas heats up instantly.

If you've ever tried to make something that requires a hot pan (like a lot of Asian foods, or certain meats that you want to sear but not overcook on the inside) you know the difference is easily visible in the final result.
Electrification really is coming along apace! First california bans petrol lawnmowers and generators, now New York bans gas heating. I wrote a blog post on the first topic recently [1] but I guess there really is an impetus for rapid change now. Not that banning new users of gas in one city is going to fix the climate, but it's a start...

[1]: https://bearbin.net/blog/2021/california-is-not-taking-your-...
No, they were career criminals who came there to commit violence with impunity.
Though I agree that heat pumps are more efficient and cheaper (ongoing) - they're still more expensive to install. I'd say the #1 plus is that you get air conditioning or free, and so in that way it's simpler.
> not in the same league as the moon landings.

Why not? It seems an amazingly complex bit of engineering. The Apollo missions are impressive in their own right, but are they really that much more complex from an engineering perspective? The tolerances and precision required for JWST to be functional must be incredibly tight.
Go watch a movie, or at least this is something I would do before COVID. I haven't been since COVID started. The Coen brother The Tragedy of Macbeth is now showing.
More current, more wires, more circuits... seems to me the smallest unit of replacement is a whole building that gets a good electrical rewiring. In NYC those will be large buildings.
What you're missing is the basic fact that the ADD is a disorder of the reward system. That's why you can use a drug that increases dopamine activity (amphetamines) and thereby fix the ADD.

Without the exogenous dopamine source, the dopamine synapses in the brain do not fire. Without those synapses firing, the causal emotional chain is broken. The feeling is absent. The very same feeling that would be there in other people JUST IS NOT THERE.

Nobody "learns" how to fire their dopamine synapses. They either fire or do not fire. You either have a feeling or not.
It’ll be interesting to see if this stuff could open the door to treatment options for prion diseases.
Photographers and journalists are people who's time is rewarded with money as compensation, as well as fame and status in some cases. This follows in line with the claim --

>>>"People are transactional and do not have time for one's long and detailed explanation of a self definition unless their time is rewarded in some way."

People who are just empathetic or curious, sure. I will not deny those scenarios exist.
I did something similar. I installed ZeroTier, OpenSSH server, and TightVNC server on my parents' computers.

Their computers and mine are connected in the same ZeroTier network. I SSH to their computer and connect to VNC over an SSH tunnel. VNC is only bound to 127.0.0.1 so nobody on the network will be able to access it.

Perhaps I could have skipped the SSH part of it since ZeroTier should have covered the network security, but I also wanted an easy way to run commands too.

It's a couple steps to get connected, but it works well.
Correlation typically means y is a linear function of x, but people usually interpet it (incorrectly) as: knowing x tells you something about y. If y = x^2, then y is determined completely by x, but since it's nonlinear the correlation may actually be zero depending on the distribution of x. This paper proposes a statistic that will indicate if y is related to any function of x, linear or nonlinear.
You'll feel some "slight pressure and moderate discomfort" was how I heard an induction described. The party experiencing the procedure described it as, paraphrasing, "the most excruciating pain I've ever felt," but with many more words I won't reproduce here.
Yes. My house is what the Japanese all "all electric". We have heat pumps for heat, induction for cooling, and a heat pump powered water heater. We save a good chunk of cash compared to our neighbors.

The downside is an increased initial investment. So property developers prefer throwing in gas or propane, they get more profit and can advertise a lower price. At the expense of the owners long term.
Have you actually read anything about this before posting? ConEd pushed lawmakers to ban it despite selling gas!: https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/12/01/coned-gas-ban/

Cooking needs are nothing compared to air conditioning, and new buildings are markedly more efficient due to things like heat pumps and improved insulation.

There's also a certain irony in your other point when most new construction makes NYC more expensive...

Tons of areas getting rezoned to allow developers to build overpriced luxury pads with insane tax abatements in exchange for paying lip service to affordable housing.
It’s not being phased in. There is no announced plans for this to ever apply to existing residential buildings. There isn’t enough new residential construction in NYC for this to be anything but a rounding error.

The only reason the council is even able to get away with such a ban is because of how pointless they’ve made it. It’s just pure virtue signaling by a council that apparently can’t find anything better or useful to work on.
Poor set of options:

Windows 7/8

The problem with that option is that the best version (Windows 7) is bracketed with one of the nearly-worst versions (Windows 8)

And poor old Vista never even got a mention!
I wish there were more tinyhouse communities - like these: https://www.tinyhouse.com/post/10-welcoming-tiny-house-commu...
Another way to interpret these changes is to expect housing to become more expensive as heat pumps are more expensive than using (existing) gas infrastructure.

Random anecdote: in New Jersey installing a Mitsubishi hyper-heat heat-pump in a 8 room house (4 bedroom + 2 bathroom + living room + kitchen) is much more expensive than running hot water baseboard in all rooms. And with most heat pumps you can usually only zone 4-6 heads per compressor, so you'd need two compressors. A single compressor is probably pulling 50 amps alone, so you'd need 100 amps available usually for your breakers. For reference, a normal house usually 100 amps dedicated for the entire house, not just HVAC. Drastic upgrades in electric infrastructure will be required.

Heat pumps heat more efficiently than gas, but I wouldn't be surprised to see in the near future some sort of rolling blackout and thousands of people freezing to death because we went all-in on electric. Will these buildings also have generators to combat this potential problem?

Ideally we could just use existing gas lines and another, man-made produced gas through the same lines that's carbon neutral or negative.

I'm excited to see the development of heat pumps, though. I'm not a huge fan of the forced-air heat pumps. I hope something like a radiator-heat-pump can be made soon.
We looked at the BMW X5 Hybrid recently and it’s kind of a joke. There’s a large (24kWh) battery pack but it only gets 31 miles of range on a full charge. The charge itself takes eight hours on a 240V circuit because they only installed a 16A charger (the i3 has a 32A charger.) Meanwhile it’s gas mileage is lower than the equivalent ICE version. It does not feel like a serious effort to move a lot of customers onto EV usage, more like a compliance car. No idea about the Porches but I understand those to be at an even less affordable price point.
Presumably all progress, far above the quantum level, is discontinuous anyway. The main usage seems to just be "big".
It can also run in the server with Server Side Rendering[0]. I believe some CDN's also offer support for this, too.

[0]: https://reactjs.org/docs/react-dom-server.html
If you literally just took out the "whews" and "ahs" from that sentence, you would completely change the meaning by removing the intended level of skepticism.
I am an experienced programmer and have tried myself in many areas.

As a programmer, I am looking for the best development tools.

I love my creative coding project. I built it from scratch and it works.

https://twitter.com/acpustudio
In case anyone interested, I've made a polling website inspired by this thread, intended for everyday uses. Please let me know what you guys think! ;)

https://puaspoll.com/?ref=hn-qv
A scientist might start a Twitch channel for his rats that play Doom
You know what I would love beyond all measure?

No longer needing to use commas between the items after the SELECT and before the FROM. Wouldn’t that be nice? We don’t need to use commas in between joins and items in the WHERE clauses. I get that there is probably some syntax reason for this, but I would like to know why.
I feel obligated to mention Logseq https://logseq.com/ as well as Zettlr https://www.zettlr.com/ which are both markdown editors with knowledge base and management. Incidentally, I do all of this in Emacs.
Los Angeles gets a good portion of their power from a coal fired power plant in Utah.

They are looking to change that by 2025 though.

https://www.ladwpnews.com/ladwp-accelerates-coal-power-reduc...
Or if you bought a Tesla 3 to 8 years ago - the “waste” is probably made up for by allowing Tesla to survive financially. But yes - wildly complicated. I’d imagine any honest thinker has to retreat to “I suppose it’s unmeasurable”, which is unfortunate.
Yes, the author has shared the link to R package here:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XICOR/index.html

Edit: R code from Dr. Chatterjee's Stanford page is here - https://souravchatterjee.su.domains//xi.R

If you have never worked with R, the code seems clunky so I suggest checking out Python implementation on Github here:

https://github.com/czbiohub/xicor

The Python library is not from the original author though. But it's easy to read the code and it works with pandas as well.
I wouldn't because all of that comes out of the box with laravel.

It would take 5 or 10 minutes (npm install taking up the majority of that time)
Rethinking Cloud Data Architecture
Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters
I don't see how this is relevant. You're not being asked to give up your gas stove, nor are you being asked to give up gas in your already existing home.
That sounds interesting, how are they managing the invisible nature of hydrogen flames?
HN: Is today's hectic javascript making you tense and impatient?
Me: Shut up and get to the point!
Yeah, it's a futurama quote

On topic: This is quite a list so I just clicked a random link and voila:

> 7.1.1.3 Assertions

> An assertion describes what the result of a computation is expected to look like and throws an exception if those expectations aren’t correct. For example, the following assertion states that the result of the computation 7 plus 1 must be 8:

> ...

> assert.equal(7 + 1, 8);

> There is also assert.deepEqual() that compares objects deeply.

What? Am I going crazy? Have my years of wild hedonism finally caught up with me? I don't see jest mentioned but fired up my browser's console and sure enough, there is no "assert" in my window. What am I missing here?
The lifetime (in displacements per atom) of RAFM steel still isn't that great. Moreover, after some irradiation, the material becomes brittle unless hot. The temperature window (300 to 550 C) between where the material becomes sufficiently ductile, and the upper temperature where the material undergoes creep, is rather small. The upper temperature isn't that high, either, which makes high temperature blanket concepts harder to design.

RAFM steel is also ferromagnetic, which interferes with the design of the reactor.
> I have worked in many different fields(web dev, analytics, product management) but can't seem to stick to one.

I’ve moved around a lot in my career as well. For a few years my objective was to work my way from a low paying IT help desk role to an Engineer at FAANG/tech company. My other motivation was to work on things that were interesting to me. I used to worry that the diversity of my career experience and duration of certain jobs could work against me in finding future roles. It turned out that my diversity of experience was an asset to my future career prospects.

I think that is the nice thing about a tech career. You can do a lot of different things, make decent to really good money doing it, and you aren't penalized for trying different things.
The quotes from policy implementers suggest this is about climate change.

> The bill to ban the use of gas in new buildings will (help) us to transition to a greener future and (reach) carbon neutrality by the year 2050," said City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, noting "We are in a climate crisis and must take all necessary steps to fight climate change and protect our city.

Also health issues are almost certainly more likely with existing/older infrastructure and not newer buildings.
Well done, more scam garbage for the internet.
Indeed, and that makes a lot of sense. The qualm of tangent is that you get the source code translation but without the additional optimizations that the technique can provide. It was then natural to just target TensorFlow/XLA to do a similar thing but get the performance of TensorFlow as a result. The downside is that it loses the one true upside of tangent which was that, by generating Python code, it could in theory be easier for a Python programming to debug. But this was probably the right sacrifice to make for most people.
Yep, I agree. I was replying to my parent comment that said Apollo was more complicated than Webb. I think they are very different amazing missions that you can't compare.
Emacs too. IIRC, you right click and drag.
It depends on your definition of efficiency. Electric heat is considered 100% efficient as 100% of the watt hours that go into the device eventually get turned into the same amount of heat.

A heat pump moves heat from outdoors to indoors. The outdoor heat lost is ignored in the efficiency calculation (as it should be), and thus the efficiency question is how many watt hours of electricity does it take to move a watt hour of heat (joules) from outside to inside. Depending on the temperatures involved, it's usually a multiple, for example, 1 wH of electricity moves 4 wH equivalent of heat indoors, ie: 400% efficient.

If you consider the whole system, much of the electricity for a heat pump may come from burning natural gas elsewhere, which involves losses along the way. This is still usually better than 100% overall efficiency.

Direct natural gas heating is less than 100% efficient too. Most furnace systems are about 20% loss in exhaust, though they can be much better. This is still usually better than burning the gas at a plant, converting to electricity and then heating with resistive electrical in your home.
Interestingly this cousin comment of yours illustrates precisely why we definitely cannot trust every driver to be a responsible adult -- and would be foolish to pretend that we could:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678919
From a signal processing perspective: being able to recognise signals in the presence of interference, noise and distortion.

For example, you might have a radio signal (such as WiFi) that you want to receive. First step is that you have to pick that signal out of whatever signal comes out of your radio receiver: which will be the WiFi signal along with all sorts of noise and interference from other users. Typically the search will be done with the mentioned "Pearson's Correlation", using it to compare the received signal with an expected template: a value of 1.0 meaning the received signal is a perfect match with the template, a value of 0.0 meaning no match at all. If the wanted signal is present, interference, noise and distortion will reduce the result of the correlation to less than 1.0, meaning you might miss the WiFi signal, even though it is present.

This article is about coming up with a measure that gives a more robust result in the face of noise, interference and distortion. It's fundamental stuff, in that it has quite general application.
My house used to have a gas furnace, gas water heater, and gas cooking. When our power was out, none of those appliances worked. Gas doesn't save you in a power outage, unless you have some kind of gas fireplace, but even then a widespread long-term outage is likely to affect the gas infrastructure as well.
Curious to know what % of all companies you probed to get to your "usually".
What is stopping you from having a level headed, heart to heart conversation with your new colleague about your growing concern? Part of any job is to pass on the culture to new comers. I'm sure they'll understand.
as a ship or vs against?
i played with the default ship and luckily didnt get rekt by things boarding
Why are they out in the cold without clothes? Seems fairly reasonable to worry about
You can actually use a gas furnace, water heater and cook without electricity. You just have to manually light the pilot. For obvious reasons this isn't recommended as you're dealing with combustibles, but if the alternative is freezing to death, well...
LFP batteries have practically unlimited recharge cycles.

Higher density LFPs are coming too.

I would agree in general with the parent, but with LFPs hitting mainstream 200-300 mile range in pure EVs, and no real resource constraint, hybrids and "standard range" can be LFP and then NMC chemistries can be dedicated to higher density needs.
The first article is from Wikipedia so you are being highly disingenuous. The second thing is that it is pretty much okay and acceptable since this has never stopped. You seem to believe that if the US does something wrong and it is reported then everything is fine in the world, well, no. This guy went to jail for revealing that the drone attacks were ineffective and amounted to criminal actions:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/27/former-intelli...

I can read about it, that does not make it even 0.0001% better.

Since you asked:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3160705/year-chin...

The problem with most westerners is that they just simply dont understand China. Just read this, relax, it is from Harvard, not from Xi's wumao army

https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china
Pick the fire station to dramatically reduce the chances of being shot accidentally.
You can't half ass legalization, that just maintains space for the black markets. By keeping it federally illegal and preventing banking and insurance and the like, you make people vulnerable. Bootleg alcohol isn't a problem because we've found and refined the right balance of access and regulation. That balance needs to be achieved for all drugs. If someone wants fentanyl, it's probably prudent to require a license and valid medical reason and records keeping. If someone wants some laudanum or coca leaves, maybe it's perfectly reasonable to limit a purchase to a one dose per day 5 day supply.

In addition, maybe it's reasonable to establish drug use education licenses, like hunter's education and concealed carry training. If you want to consume a commercially available drug, attend a class that trains on the safe use and harm reduction practices and provides hotlines and local medical and therapy facilities.

Require pharmacies to sell to anyone whatever the single purchase limit for a substance is as long as the customer has a current card for that substance. Implement mandatory drug use education in the last two years of high school, and the first two years of college education. Broadcast free TV and radio programs on safe use and harm reduction practices. Destigmatize responsible use,and incentivize people to seek help early.

Don't merely decriminalize and foist a wild west half ass barely legal industry of dispensaries on the population, because that's how you keep black markets in business.
Why is electricity still ~5x as expensive as gas then? (in the U.K. at least)
Back in 1980 when I was working on my Masters in EE, my capstone project was a chip that would play music. The problem was; that back then, the amount of ROM you could fabricate (at least at our facility) was limited to about 1K at best.

I decided to take a music class to learn a little more about music and thought that would help me with my project. The professor would play various classical pieces and lecture about them. Our homework was to go in a listening room and familiarize ourselves with the music. Everything was on vinyl so you would put a record on, listen, take notes etc.

When the first exam came, the professor would take out a record, and place it on a turntable and play a piece and you were supposed to identify it. I was amazed that all the other students seemed to be getting all of them and I was struggling. I went to the professor's office hours and I explained to him my project and what I was working on. He was very intrigued and suggested that I consider Bach especially Fugue's which has a lot of repetition and cycles (good advice I ended up using Bach Toccata Fugue in D minor, which is used a lot in old timey horror movies and I just loved it).

Later, after talking with other students, they showed me their "system" which was crib notes with things written on them like "Blue label with yellow text = Bethoven", things like that. In other words, they were cheating. They were making crib notes about the record labels in the listening room and paying no attention whatsoever to the music.

Since the professor was so nice to me, I decided to tell him about it. He listened to what I said, and he just said "I see", then asked me about my project. He asked if he could come when I presented my project and I was thrilled he was interested.

But he seemed to continue to use the records and the same method, until the final exam when he announced to the class he was going to use a new system, a Tape Deck! You could hear an audible gasp in the classroom. Needless to say, a lot of students did not do so well on the final. I got an A.

I also got an A on my capstone and the EE professors were all very impressed I had taken the time to research the music and my music professor got up and said a few words for me. It was a really cool experience in my life. I hope it is OK that I shared such a long boring story, but every time I see something about a music chip like the kind in greeting cards or whatever, it kind of reminds me a little of my project and how much I enjoyed that experience.

As for the technology of the chip Ken covered, it is of course, quite a bit more sophisticated than mine was, at least as memory serves me (pun intended).
A reminder again about this:

The ARC reactor described in the 2014 arxiv paper uses a lot of beryllium. To provide the 18 TW of primary energy used by the current world economy with these reactors would require 10 million tonnes of Be. The annual mine production of Be is just ~200 tonnes, and the global estimated (by USGS) Be resource (not reserve) is 100,000 tonnes.

The gross fusion power density of ARC from that paper is 0.5 MW/m^3, vs. 20 MW/m^3 for the fission power density of a PWR reactor vessel. ARC is going to be a much more complex and expensive way to boil water than a fission reactor.
I don’t know enough about JvN to say he is/isn’t a terrible person, but this quote seems like weak evidence either way. Of course it’s entirely different: self preservation instinct applies to self.