skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ketamine really cuts through that compulsion, to the point where I find I get stuff done when I take it. It's very much a trade-off between capability and contentment, and it's nice to be enjoy the moment once in a while. I wouldn't be commenting in this post if it weren't for that fact lol.
How is it "so efficient for heating"? It's much more efficient to burn the gas for electricity then use the electricity to run a heat pump.
> Gas is so efficient for heating

Heat pumps are multiple times more efficient than gas for heating.
They're being smarter than that. The city also signed an electricity supply agreement with Hydro Québec, which is supposed to be operational before the ban on natural gas in new buildings comes into effect. [Minor correction: some smaller new buildings may have the ban in effect for 2 years before the new electricity becomes operational.]

Hydro Québec is, as the name suggests, hydroelectricity and therefore cleaner and more sustainable/renewable than natural gas.
I'm actually really hyped for 40 years in the future to see how historians interpret the mountain of videos we'll have.

My optimistic take is the next generation will be able to learn more from the past than ever before from it.
Tweet thread from Signal's founder (that touches on some topics in the article) https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1474067549574688768
What’s so stupid is this isn’t the problem - the amount of fuel oil heated buildings in Manhattan is astonishing
Heat pumps and induction ranges have changed the game. Dirty gas does not have the same advantages over electric that it used to.
My mom got an induction stove not long ago and I tried it in my last visit, and I was thoroughly impressed. You have really nice control over the heat (even better then on gas stoves) and it heats up really fast.

The only problem is that if you have gathered an impressive set of pots and pans you have to start from scratch. However that can be remedied with an adapter. I’ve heard people complain about the adapter, however I was able to cook icelandic pancakes just as easily on an induction stove with an adapter as I would on a standard electric stove.
I made an entire OS that only runs Tetris [video]
Great idea, but it would be nice to have https...
Per reporting from the beginning of 2020, fossil gas is far worse than was previously suspected. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/super-pot...
The channel is https://www.twitch.tv/codingwithscott. I don't have a schedule yet, especially with the holidays, but I'm going to try to stream at least a few times a week.
Redundancy is a great thing. If the power lines ice over, or there's a grid failure for another reason, heat goes, water pipes freeze over, and people will literally freeze to death in winter. There was power failure in the entire province in Quebec in 1989 due to a solor storm. This is not hypothetical happening, but something to be expected. Considering the age and general decline of infrastructure in large US cities.
Playing Age of Empires IV :D
Saas like Office 365 seems to be Microsoft's current flavor of proprietary, closed software moving forward.

MS has released some quality open source code, there are many organizations running fully open source stacks atop Dotnet Core, in our case atop Debian and Postgres. Microsoft makes no money off use cases like this (beyond hopefully selling Azure VMs)
Power plants are more efficient at generating electricity, mechanical work, etc. than small generators. They are certainly not more efficient at generating heat than just burning the gas is.
> Gas is so efficient for heating

Nope. Put one kWh of gas in, get maybe 0.9kWh of heat out.

Put one kWh of electricity into a heat pump and get at the very least 3 kWh of heat out.
Cool. I suspect this model will mostly work, but only if the price of the app is low enough to not justify a lot of inconvenience by compiling it yourself or maybe getting it from f-droid. I like this model a lot, apps like OsmAnd do the same.
Quantify "way more efficient". How many cubic meters of natural gas do I need to burn to produce a given number of joules of heat at point of use vs. at a power plant?

It's not just transfer losses. The power plant has to heat water to steam, use the steam to turn a turbine. There's losses all along that process vs. directly using the heat where you want to heat something.
This is the case in my country - any land within commuting distance of a middle class job that one can build a house on costs a fortune.

And shipping rough sleepers to parts of the country with low housing costs doesn’t seem politically popular.
Blunt Facts NFT #1: Moonbow, the most expensive weed in the USA
In NYC, it's almost certainly households.
WITH is a keyword already used for SQL common table expressions/subquery syntax. Perhaps use a distinct and different keyword... VIA perhaps?
My landlord replaced my gas stove with an induction stove (with convection oven), and it is without question the nicest oven I've ever used. Even the broiler is somehow terrific.

Most of my neighbors are clinging to their old gas ovens out of nostalgic attitudes or skepticism. I've tried to convince them that they're missing out.
According to https://github.com/derf/feh/commits/master, it is still maintained. I use feh as well. How to view gif or webp though? If either of those two support gif and webp, then I will switch.
> Put one kWh of electricity into a heat pump and get at the very least 3 kWh of heat out.

Even when it is below freezing outside?
I can't speak to the relative efficiency, but central power generation is much easier to upgrade (both in terms of scrubbing the emissions and switching to renewables).
IMO a blanket ban like that is stupid.

The amount of gas used for cooking is miniscule, accounting for under 3% of consumption[1].

Cooking with fire is different than cooking on an electric or induction stovetop. Banning the use of gas for heating would have been more than enough.

That's before we even get to the amazing fact that 40% of our electricity comes from burning natural gas [2], and that that natural gas powerplant efficiency is about 40%[3].

Which means that with the existing electricity infrastructure, switching from gas to electricity for heating results in more gas being burned.

Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

[1] https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/is-your-cookin...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

[3] http://needtoknow.nas.edu/energy/energy-sources/fossil-fuels...
Summary of Roe vs. Wade Case
(Stochastic) subgradient methods are used in practice to optimize non-differentiable convex functions. They have a slower convergence rate than (stochastic) gradient descent though.

See for example : https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~ryantibs/convexopt-F15/lectures/07...
On a per-unit basis, obviously the commercial users. But on a per-building and city-wide basis, almost definitely residential - huge amount of natural gas is used for residential space heating.
ORMs solve "don't accidentally introduce an SQL injection"
It’s -10C here right now and my heat pump is pulling less than 3kW to heat the whole house.
That study only analyzed pediatric cases
I always found this way too clumsy, because you learn X but accidentally miss Y, and X becomes your tool of choice at places where it doesn’t really fits best or at all.

Javascript traditionally had NO good language guides, and this one looks pretty like the one you should read in advance. Other resources are either more library reference-like, very situative or for unclear standard, not exhaustive, or just stupid and wrong. I’ve read a language guide A to Z for every PL I used in my life (a bunch), and can say by skimming through few rough/key topics that it is definitely a good one. No offense, but my advice is to not apply your advice when there is a good guide. You’ll save both your own time and the one’s who will come after.
The power plant burns the gas to heat water, which creates steam, which turns a turbine, which generates electricity which then gets turned back into heat at my stove.

The gas burned at my stove doesn't need 5 times as much because the heat from burning it goes directly into whatever I'm cooking on my stove.
Do you have an example of a DOM operation that is async ?
No, even if power plants are still run by fossil fuels, the electrification of the home leads to greater efficiency due to the economies of scale that centralizing the power production provides.

Also, once everything is electrified, it’s easy to switch out the source of that electricity to something cleaner, at any time. Whereas people purchasing new gas appliances now will keep them in service for the next 10-20 years.
I didn't know GIMP had been renamed till now, the repo is archived though, is that just because it's a mirror of some email-based-git approach?

https://github.com/glimpse-editor/Glimpse
Gas is actually less efficient for cooking than induction
https://www.treehugger.com/which-more-energy-efficient-cooki...

however, for heating, it does seem like gas can be more efficient depending on where it is installed. I don't think it's quite right to call it stupid though. Gas is, on net, worse for the environment.
There’s an extremely obvious difference in 0-60 times between a Prius and a Model 3, and that matters on an on-ramp. (Replace 0-60 with 5-60 or 25-60 or whatever you measure of acceleration you prefer).

Is it necessary? No, obviously, people aren’t dying left and right trying to merge in Priuses. It is very noticeable, however.
Reminds me of this film. "Die Brücke" (the bridge)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke_(film)

Not exactly the same but heart wrenching (and gut spilling). IIRC we watched this in history class once.
It’s a matter of the refrigerant you use. Don’t worry about the freezing point of water.
0.30000000000000004.com – Floating Point Math
Agreed. I have a comment from a while ago unpacking the idea where I note that it will probably a) devolve into meta-queues that reproduce the original queuing system, and b) encourage anti-social behavior because people no longer value their position in line and have nothing to lose by not playing nice.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182781

The whole article is embarrassingly bad, a bunch of stuff that sounds clever at first but wasn’t seriously researched or even pondered. Like the requirements to develop resources you buy or the incentive effects of paying off malicious behavior.
I guess part of the reason is that, in the long run, you don't want to maintain the gas infrastructure for a whole city just to let people cook with gas.
The Ways Shutting Off 3G Is Going to Suck for Your Car and You
Which overlord would you prefer to submit your voice to for tracking?
Couldn't they just cut off the gas and switch to electric once the power plants are clean(-enough)?
> ”That means I am less functional than 99% of people. Does that seem mild to you?” I asked her.

If you are less functional than 99% of people, but more functional than 99% of autistic people, one might consider that mild autism yes.
These restrictions are arbitrary and nonsensical. No new gas in buildings under 7 floors after 2023. No new gas in buildings over 7 floors after 2027. …unless it’s a kitchen, laundromat, or manufacturing.

So… we’re going to have 99% of buildings wired for gas for many decades to come. We will continue maintaining the infrastructure with no end in sight.

Is this the biggest display of virtue signaling in US history? How will this accomplish anything at all?

As a NYC resident I want to be annoyed by this, because I prefer cooking on gas, but if I die of old age in NYC I won’t ever be impacted by this.
Agree with this, but the green solution for this is home batteries, not fossil fuels.

We do need to harden and invest in the electric grid though, and I worry that climate activists may not be making it a high enough priority. You’ll lose support for electrification real fast if people lose their heat in the depths of winter.
The key take away is that apologizing and admitting fault doesn't absolve one of liability. There are a number of "amnesty" laws on the books where admitting fault can server to limit or reduce your sentence - especially with tax issues. I'm not sure how desirable such a thing would be in civil law among private parties. Especially in cases where a tort is minor to one party but a big deal to the other because of disparate wealth.

E.g. if Microsoft burned your house down would an apology and explanation be enough to settle the matter? How could we encode this principle into law for minor things but not large things?
Not sure about this, I wouldn't like having to look up the FK name every time or hope it was named following the convention.

The first thing (among many others) that I would change in SQL is the position of the SELECT clause:

FROM .. JOIN .. SELECT .. WHERE ..

instead of

SELECT .. FROM .. JOIN .. WHERE ..

That would make the construction of many queries more natural.
Out of curiosity, how old are you if I may ask? I just entered 30, but I do share some of my regrets and life perspectives from this post. Thanks for sharing your perspective!
Yes, and that was at $10k per home. It doesn’t need to be that expensive. And companies and celebrities would gladly sponsor this if there was a viable at scale solution
True, but the intersection of the Venn diagram has only shrunk throughout history.
I wonder where people will queue for the chance to pounce on that …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29687474
Thank you for this tip, I'll apply it.
Zoning is going to be your issue
Cooking efficiency is an odd metric. Probably boiling (via induction-heated water) or microwaving heats things best but blech for taste.
And it only gets better when you use the waste heat from the powerplant for even more heating.
You need to be bored. Long period of boredom.
You don't pay more than 50% tax. No-one in SF does.
THe article linked explains how it costs the gov so much to 'house'the homeless.
gas/electric/induction all co-exist for various reasons. i liked gas until i realized that for heating a pot of water, even standard electric is faster in the stretch because the element is in contact with the pot. also electric/induction are just a straight surface which is easier to clean.
i currently have gas in a rental, but i wish i had one of the other options. if we have gas we can roast marshmallows, which fun... but maybe it just seems fun due to the higher carbon dioxide levels.
Electricity is of (much) higher exergy than natural gas so it’s not a directly comparable measure.
Musk Says He Lives in a $50k House – Doesn’t Talk About the Austin Mansion
I assume the goal here is to eliminate the expensive and leaky natural gas delivery network entirely: nobody is going to build something that complicated just so a few foodies can make stir fry (and people who really care can purchase it in bottled form.) So any world where the LNG delivery network exists is going to be one where it’s used for heating. Getting to CO2 net zero involves moving those applications entirely to non-fossil electricity.
The amount of lane space scales linearly with the number of parking spaces. You can't add more parking spaces without adding additional lane length to reach those parking spaces.

Take a look at any aerial view of a parking lot and you'll see that only roughly half of the are is dedicated to parking spaces.
More than 900 flights cancelled in U.S. as Covid-19 sidelines staff on Christmas
A lot of gas distribution networks are experimenting with hydrogen blending (adding a % of sustainably generated hydrogen to the methane blend), much the same as adding ethanol to petrol.

However, beyond the engineering issues (existing pipes not always suitable for hydrogen blended gas) it just kicks the can down the road and delays the structural changes needed to get households away from using natural gas.

Only a few are doing full % hydrogen conversions, City of Leeds being the biggest project under way.
> He then went on saying that normal people plan their life 2 or 3 months in advance, and that's such a mind blowing, alien concept to me. I barely have an idea what I'm going to do tomorrow. The farther I think, the foggier it is.

So true. But do you notice emotional blindness as well? My emotions seem to only attract my attention when they reach a certain threshold, which leaves me missing a huge amount of information about how I am, while occasionally being blind-sided by intense feelings seemingly out of the blue.
Permits are more like 20-40k in California. An ADU is roughly 150-200k after permits. That’s not including land cost.
probably lying to get amphetamines, which enhance performance
The Julia crowd touting multiple dispatch all the time is so strange, it’s actually one of the main reasons the language hasn’t had much uptake from what I can tell.

Python is just more approachable and natural to people. Julia should learn from that
All existing residential is excluded. Any new residential is mostly excluded for the next 6 years. Commercial, manufacturing, and laundromats are excluded.

The city will be maintaining the gas infrastructure for eternity. There will just be a subset of unfortunate residents that have to cook with electric while 99% of their neighbors continue with gas.
Fight for mixed zoning[0] and to repeal laws against boarding houses[1]. Let people solve the problem, we're only in this mess because our hands are tied by regulations that favour certain interest groups.

[0] https://marketurbanism.com/2019/03/19/why-is-japanese-zoning...
[1] https://www.econlib.org/the-case-for-boarding-houses/
It seems like a lot of folks think of this ban as a way to tackle climate change when I always thought it was primarily a public health issue[0], with a second-order goal of eventually preventing natural gas explosions[1].

[0] https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion
https://archive.ph/SddJX
My blood sugar rises just by looking at the damn cake!!!

Interesting facts there too, learned something new today.
Kind of amazing that they're finally working on usability. I did some free usability testing for them years ago and they buried their heads in the sand. Basically "it's fine, how dare you say that it's not intuitive". Very frustrating. I actually got a few private emails from people saying they agreed with me and found it frustrating too but didn't want to speak up on the mailing list.

Anyway fortunately I found that someone else has made an alternative PCB designer using the Kicad core engine (which is good) but with a sane UI. Well mostly sane. There are a few rough edges but it's waaaaaay easier to use than Kicad.

I recommend trying it: https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon

I still haven't tried LibrePCB but Horizon is better than the other free options: Eagle (awful), GEDA (bad), Kicad (powerful but badly designed) and DesignSparkPCB (surprisingly decent).
I wonder why it needs to be boiling...
Thanks for posting this and all the comments. To those who thought I should have walked into the wealthier parts of Bucharest, that isn't really my thing. I try to treat each city I walk the same. Which is to just walk across town and usually end up in parts that many people live in, but few visit.

Chris Arnade (the author of this piece and a guy who likes to walk a lot)
All discussions are civilized until you start throwing stones at each other.
Have you ever tried to hold your hand next to the edge of the pot..? A lot of the heat is not going into the pan.
> most used tabs

who uses tabs? o.O
No you lose energy in the transfer.

While burning nat. gas is efficient, you do lose energy in the process.

A coal plant is 50% efficient, and CHP plant is 80-90% efficient.

A nat. gas heat pump is 80%-93% efficient depending on the money you want to spend.

A standard efficiency nat. gas furnace is at least 80% efficient, they top out at 98% efficiency.

Pretty obvious that converting from heat to electricity to heat is going to be less efficient than just converting to heat.

Not to mention the furnace is more efficient than the gas plant (max of 98% compared to a max of 90%).

Also the transmission and storage of nat. gas vs electricity is more efficient.
You'd think someone would have a service dedicated to this, but I've wanted a monochrome dslr or mirrorless for like a decade and a half, already.

Preferably Nikon, but my limited understanding is that the canon sensors are easier to debayer.
Burning gas for heating is less efficient than burning gas to produce electricity and use it to run a heat pump.

Burning gas for cooking is more efficient than burning it to generate electricity and turn it back to heat in an induction stove.

I can imagine banning natural gas from apartments to avoid catastrophic explosions, but it's not about daily efficiency.
Python is just more OO style, so people who have been taught OOP in school are comfortable with it. That will include the vast majority of generic SWEs writing generic CRUD apps.

But personally I find OOP ugly and unnatural, and Julia's model elegant and natural. And far more powerful - Julia programmers are using multiple dispatch to build out scientific computing to a sophistication not seen in any other language.

It might not be your cup of tea if you need to see object.method() in your code, but if you're more mentally flexible and want to build the next generation of technical computing tools, Julia is the place to be right now.
Edge is released as open source in literally the exact same way Chrome is. Microsoft is a Chromium stakeholder and contributor as well.
Would you be happier if they banned all gas outright? This is how you make change, in small steps.
Driving for fun on public roads is safe, legal, and popular. You won't wish it away.
VIA works for me, but I thought reusing an existing reserved keyword would be less invasive. I don’t think WITH is currently allowed in the FROM clause, so think it should work. But if an entirely new keyword can be accepted, then I agree VIA is nice.
It’s a little bit weird to call it part of the free tier in the post—I’d certainly hope a crowdsource, no SLA forum for their own product support is free!
Great news. Post is a bit light on details though. Anyone know what this might mean in practice?
I was thinking the same thing, even considering going into dev tools to try and change the font. Didn't realize it was a firefox on mac thing. I went ahead and opened it in Chrome. It's still pretty difficult font to read, but it is a bit brighter in Chrome.

https://imgur.com/a/KB5irZv
1password now has exactly this implemented with fastmail integration. You can generate a new email just as easily as a password when you make an account
Is it on librepay? I try to avoid patron.
> Given how we witnessed ironic edgelord racism on places like 4chan metamorphose ...

From suckless developers? Or from others? I don't understand how this is related to your argument.
You have to factor in the energy efficiency of heat pumps, and if you do, burning gas to produce electricity to run a heat pump can be comparable in efficiency to burning gas directly.
> Even when it is below freezing outside?

Yes. For instance, one of the heat pumps in my house has a coefficient of performance of 3.2 at 17F/-8C.

Reference: https://ashp.neep.org/#!/product/51106
Heating oil is one part of the problem. Natural gas is another.
You cannot just google your way through it. There are times when you don't even know what to google. I remember as an early beginner being stuck with something that had to do with closures. I had no idea what was going on and didn't know what to google and when I asked questions on stackoverflow and reddit please started saying things about decorators and whatnot!!! It is only when I sat down and went through some kinds of structured tutorials that I knew what had stomped me. Sometimes, you ight just have to be aware of some problems even if you'd don't understand them properly but you are aware of their existence and what they are called.