skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Async is easy as well.

An off-topic question: how do modern development practices using async code avoid race conditions and intermittent heisenbugs?
And it’s important to note that “energy absorbed by the fuel capsule” is not measured; it means the absorbed energy calculated by a model using a classified code that no one outside the program is allowed to see.
What was the worst version of Windows?
Are you sure it's not executive dysfunction, which can be a symptom of ADHD and/or autism? Your first paragraph sounds exactly how I'd describe myself before getting diagnosed with autism.
It has its positives and negatives - but I'd say mostly positive.

It's a little difficult to hold conversations with chat while trying to remember what I'm doing with the program. It also feels a little awkward talking to an empty chat (which is what to expect when first starting out). You potentially need to handle spammers and trolls.

On the positive side, I've watched other streaming programmers, and met programmers in chats. We've shared ideas with each other, and it's giving me new ideas and interests. And, it gets me out of my comfort zone, which is the only way to grow.

If it ever becomes more pain than pleasure, I can always stop.
So what you're saying is that you have no effing idea. Funny that.
Whataboutism has nothing to do with morality. If country A does something bad it doesn't mean that it is not actually bad because country B did something similar.

Do you find it interesting that anytime there is a thread about the US doing something bad that nobody jumps in and say well China did the same thing? It only goes one way. That is why I am calling it out.

The reason why it goes one way is because people who support the west know their side has done bad things. People who support China refuse to accept it.

You cannot accept any criticism of the CCP and somehow I am brainwashed? I understand the US and other western countries have done and continue to do bad things. I just don't bring it up when it is not related to the topic at hand.
Quality over quantity - and if prices indicate anything it’s a more efficient approach. Battery building is also limited to lithium availability, so there’s many more cars you can convert if you put 1/5 of the battery in each one. Fuel is much more energy dense than batteries so the removed weight is making the car more efficient as well. Ultimately I think it’s important to value flexibility and maximizing tradeoffs, which I feel plug in hybrids achieve.
“because it's not your money being stolen (it's easier not to pay the CC company than getting your money back from someone).”
Even burning natural gas in a peaker plant to generate electricity (nTh ≈ 0.6), and account for transmission losses(~0.9), and then using that electricity to run a heat pump (~2.5) - is still more efficient than natgas space heating
NYC already has relatively low-CO2 electricity and is signing an agreement with hydro Quebec to keep things that way.
Do you know how to get more batteries on the road? Make more batteries and sell them for less.

This is Tesla’s business model and a huge reason Li batteries are so much less expensive today.

I’d say the inverted logic is more like buy electric cars now even though they don’t hold their resale value due to economies of scale catching up on you.
It compiles and runs! You need to set the SIMHOME environment variable to point at the root of the repo. It also generates a ton of warnings on a modern compiler, but in the end it pops out a running executable.

As an added bonus it runs perfectly well over the network, as a good X app should. You don't need a fast or low latency connection, it runs perfectly well over even mediocre connectivity.
as I take a look at some of the comments in the threads about China, I wish you were more consistent with your stance, especially with comments on the opposite side of the spectrum.

Hacker News was supposed to be niche, but your inconsistency to demote threads of China (as they are consisntely upvoted), is now making Hacker News very generic.

You can ban me, I spend much more time reading than I do posting anyways.

But I know where Hacker news stands with their ulterior motives in doing so.

Almost evil.
Ultra-fast delivery services are ditching the gig-worker model
On the bigger local BBSs there were many people who were phone phreaks. What you say might be true for your area but certainly was not for mine.
Start with Javascrip, the Good Parts.
That's pretty much the tech scene in London right there..

"We're creating a new way for super-rich people to access their swiss bank accounts!"

Yey...
I'm so glad to see this! I saw this explanation in a Lisbon museum a long time ago about this and always wondered if I'd imagined it. The expanse of egg yolk desserts is so distinct to Portugal. My favorite remains the chocolate mousse, not full of air like the French style but thick and with a touch of sea salt. So good when it's done well.
At first I didn't really understand but then I realized this is America. Funding and maintaining infrastructure is not exactly a priority...
Neither. Why would you want a surveillance device willingly planted in your home? Return them both.
Oil heating and poor thermal insulation. Burn more oil in winter, and more electricity in summer!

I think adding good insulation would make the largest improvement both for energy efficiency and quality of life in such buildings.
So, AWS is hoping to exploit developers' willingness to do free work in exchange for nebulous "reputation" points ("Klout", anyone?) that they have been convinced is worth something on their resumes.

Instead of actually providing a real technical support team.

Well, they've successfully convinced thousands of developers that AWS certifications are worth thousands of dollars, so I expect it might actually work.
Probably because it’s a friend’s house he just couch surfs at?
While I haven't given it serious thought, I've been wishing for something like this

SELECT u.name, r.role
FROM users u
JOIN user_roles r USING FOREIGN KEY
WHERE u.id = :id

Using this syntax one could optionally specify the foreign key name as well, in case it is ambiguous. It's more explicit than NATURAL JOIN and it feels very SQL-ish to me.
Why not? When you use a stove, look how much of the flame is open, and take note of how much heat is being thrown off and not going into your food. When gas is burned in a plant, much more of that heat is captured.

But it’s really a moot point, because the goal is to change the power plants to clean energy sources anyway.
What I noticed from many people growing up in former communist states is that they seem to have similar issues as people that lived in jail for a long time. In jail you have a very regular live and you don‘t have any responsibility for anything. You also cannot change anything. You try to make the best out of it.

But after you leave jail live outside seems awfully complicated. So many decisions, so much responsibility, so many expectation what you should or what you should not do is often overwhelming for these people. And if they don’t get help (and many people from former communist countries never got any kind of help) they struggle with their new freedom. So many of them glorify their time back in jail, where everything was so simple. And this is of course true to some extent. But it still was a jail.
> Christians in our society, or their contribution.

This is not a contribution by Christians the contributions are by taxpayers. Their religious affiliation is irrelevant. In a secular nation like the United States it is inappropriate to conflate the two.
The “Happy Birthday Chip” and Beam Robots
This concept is new to me… any chance you could offer a quick summary? Is there like a fascist movement within software development called “suckless”, or what’s up with this?
Yeah, the same thing is happening at the power plant.
Chris, I’m surprised to see (on your Twitter feed) that you didn’t know HN. You’ll like it, sometimes.

Dignity was a lovely book and a really nice counter-narrative to the Trump vs Dems story that was (is?) dominating the news.
It hasn't been renamed, looks like Glimpse was a fork that's no longer maintained (while GIMP goes on).
Did you run the numbers on savings with insulation vs using "smart" tech?

Usually, it's only a matter of time before insulation pays for itself, the time being roughly a decade. Still, people would rather limp along rather than fix it up.
Working in a lot of fields and not sticking to one is in itself valuable. You should capitalize on your need for novelty and perhaps work at a higher level, a generalist who can connect the dots across many areas and lead others.
1-1.5 hour? sick — 30 minutes max
What Should EVs Sound Like?
A stock tactic for fears and anxieties during trips is to allow yourself to experience them, to accept them, and to allow them to pass.

Another is to put yourself is a goofy/stimulating/amusing situation that distracts the mind from the negative loops it might be manifesting.

But really, the "setting" part of "set and setting" might just mean staying away from bugsy walks and going somewhere cozy and comfortable instead.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Set_and_setting
Ask HN: How do you delegate to the first hire?
hey thats cool! but it's APPWALLED!
Is it 3-D printed?
He can say what he wants on his own time. When he speaks in an official capacity he needs to leave religion out of it. Unless he wants to also thank Satan, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, and Sauron.
If they actually banned gas I would just leave.

Fortunately, they can’t do that. Instead, they focus on writing rules that will have zero impact.
Reading Ken Shirrif's excellent exposition on the 1980's chip that plays Christmas tunes it flashed me right back to the BEAM Robot scene (also in the 80's). People had figured out they could use a similar chip (this one sang happy birthday) to create behaviors in a very simple robot.
A friend of mine has ADHD and is a street performer in Covent Garden in London, and it fits him to a tee - 15 minutes of hyper-focus on doing the show and interacting with the audience then an immediate reward of gratification and money, which he has to do two or three times a day. It wouldn't fit my ADHD but it fits his perfectly.
No, you need to transition over time.

Your idea is to just cut off the gas one day, and expect everyone to go out and buy new appliances at the same time? I don’t think I need to explain why phasing in such a change is preferable.
> 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%

Like electric cars, a benefit would be that the energy source is generalized. I like thinking of it as a good separation of concerns. If nearly everything is electrified, then everyone benefits as better and more efficient energy sources become available over time.
Yep. Practically everyone in New York has gas, and it is so wonderful. When I left I had to get used to electric again, it's like an easy bake oven.
Didn't NY just shut down a few of their remaining nuclear plants that need to be made up for with coal and natural gas plants?
> If some software is mirrored on github by someone that isn't the copyright owner, it seems like github shouldn't be able to use it.

If they don't need permission from the copyright owner, either via license of GitHub T&C, because it's fair use, which is their overt legal theory, then why would it matter legally whether the code was posted to GitHub at all, much less by whom? Ingesting only code form GitHub is a practical convenience that has nothing to do with their legal theory of the right to do it.

> Yet they said nothing about that specifically

Their theory of fair use means they have the right to ingest any code, irrespective of who owns it and what conditions (if any) it is licensed under or where (or even if) it is hosted online. They don't need a separate justification for your scenario if the theory they’ve cited is correct.

> In that case, is the only option to put code somewhere else than github under a license that forbids reuploading to github, and issue DMCAs when/if people reupload your code

Nope, that doesn't help at all, legally; it may help practically as long as they are just using GitHub hosted code and not consuming code from other public hosting platforms, but it has no bearing on their legal theory of why they can ingest code without additional permissions.
According to my power bill, 50% of electricity in my Brooklyn apartment comes from nuclear generation, about 25% from hydro and solar, and the remaining 25% from fossil fuels, mostly natural gas.
I’m not trying to shove it down anyone’s throat; I’m just saying that culturally it has separated itself from religion almost completely and, because of that, is celebrated by people of all backgrounds and faiths.
> Just islands of blue in a sea of red.

Yes, that's population density. People vote, land doesn't. Ideally.
wow your landlord sounds awesome, do you live in nyc? I think I’m resigned to using gas until I buy a home (if that day ever comes).
We've banned this account. Nobody gets to attack others like that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's cool I'd be down to spend the rest of my life hanging out with people but not into the drug aspect of it. Glad you found something you love.
It’s deeply depressing that none of the comments here so far are positive toward this move. The earth will be utterly transformed by climate change in next century to detriment of nearly every living thing on it. We have only one reliable mechanism to mitigate to harm we are causing: ending fossil fuel use. To do that everything that currently uses fossil energy needs to be electrified. Every year we waste letting new buildings get built with gas furnaces makes it that much harder to limit the damage we’ve caused.

Stop using the fact much electrical generation still uses fossil fuels to argue against electrification. Petition to bring new renewable generation online and close coal and gas powered plants instead. Stop romanticizing a gas stove that pollutes the air in your home as you cook at it. Get an induction stove heats just as fast instead.

Stop pretending we have time to “wait and assess” and starting fighting for a livable future on only home we have.
Bake a cake or some cookies, find your next fire/police station and bring it to them. It will brighten up their day.
If you were developing in JS in 2015 this hurdle is understandable.
Austria’s GDP is 429 billion dollars. Population 9 million. California GDP is 3.09 trillion dollars. Population 40 million.

There is no comparison.
Never thought about the order, but now when you mention it, I realize I always write

SELECT
FROM

and start writing the FROM clause first.

So if we could rewrite history, I agree the order you suggest would make more sense, but it’s probably unrealistic to change it, except for entirely new SQL inspired languages.

To comment on having to look up foreign keys. The idea I had in mind is to allow changing the default formatting of foreign key names, so you could figure out the name, except in special cases such as if there would be two foreign keys referencing the same table. For such cases you should explicitly name the foreign keys.
I have been driving Priuses for a good chunk of my life now, and there’s really no way I could safely max out their acceleration while merging. Typically the right-lane traffic on highways here flows at 75 MPH when there isn’t much congestion. Why would you benefit from greater acceleration?

It makes very little sense from my perspective. What am I going to do, cut someone off? Floor it and merge with no consideration for the trajectories of other vehicles?

It’s not that difficult, and I live in an area with notoriously short on-ramps. You’ve still got plenty of road to match the speed of the cars on the highway and shift your position so you land between two cars. Accelerating as you’re about to merge just makes that more difficult, especially with a short on-ramp.

Yeah, sometimes people don’t know how to drive and stop or slow down on on-ramps. I don’t care how fast my car can accelerate; if the person in front of me isn’t reaching the same speed as the cars on the highway, I’m going to stop much farther back on the ramp, wait for them to do their thing, and resume proper merging once they’re out of the way. I don’t want to have to deal with flooring it and trying to time everything while accelerating.
There’s already an industry making cost-optimised, factory-built tiny homes - you should look at the travel trailer/caravan industry.

Perhaps you could talk to some rough sleepers an get their opinion - and if they agree with you, as an MVP you could give them such a home, and see if it keeps them off the streets?
FYI https://blog.race-conditions.net/ 's cert has expired, and the GitHub link under its header 404s.

Edit: realised that's a bit dry. Good luck with the cute guy and enjoy New Year's!
> They're not objective IMO and there is some sort of societal pressure against seeking truth

In my (speculative) opinion, it's not "societal pressure" but rather "capitalism pressure" narrating the recent weed uprise. As in, the opportunity to capitalize on weed has been pushing the narrative that it's a harmless cool drug.

The risks of heavy cannabis use are well documented and easily available to those who care to research it. For example, try CTRL+F "cannabis" on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia.

Once again, just like alcohol and tobacco, capitalism wins over public health.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29685852.
It may also be probable that you were not flagrantly abused by nuns in mandatory cataclysm classes. I was not so lucky, but unlike my classmates, at least I did not get beat again at home when parents learned I had angered the nuns by asking (admittedly loaded) questions.

But "is" is no less than exactly what I carry now.
Thank you for you for reaching out to broaden your horizons.
I second this, especially now that Matrix Resurrections is out. :-)
Interesting that what you describe as special is what I consider normal working environment for myself: quiet, empty and just me humming along. And I don’t get that except on weekends and holidays.
Enumerable alone is enough to outclass many stdlibs. Easily one of my fave things about Ruby, compared to dealing with different types of iterable interfaces (and conversions between them) in other languages.
A New Coefficient of Correlation
I do not intend to ruin the mood, but these kind of posts are available on Facebook as well (there are A LOT of them), but we would not call that a great platform. :P
One year on, most voters say Brexit has gone badly
I am approaching retirement age, but I suppose that I could qualify as a school teacher. For that matter, I could fall back on my stock boy experience of almost 50 years ago, though perhaps not for 40 hours a week.
Definitely our home boy Lex Fridman
Just as Easter is a celebration of Ishtar, the Babylonian deity, and All Hallow’s Eve is a remembrance of departed saints.
> 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.)

There are inductive surfaces explicitly designed for woks, with a very deep, concave "bowl" to accommodate the wok.

I know two families (both Thai) that have bought them with zero regret and no complaints. Not cheap and certainly niche, but they do work as expected.

UPDATE: There are also adapter rings designed to work with woks. These aren't "half-assed, maybe they work" items. They are made for commercial kitchens, as in actual restaurants. Restaurants don't pay Gaggenau for hoping something works and doesn't disappoint customers -- they pay them because it does.
We called them GT's for short!
Is that the case for an orbit around the earth-sun Lagrange point? It seems like anytime should be GTG
Thank you so much.

And this will sound a little weird, but these type of forums (like reddit, with nested comments and listing of stories) I have a hard time reading. There is something about the layout that scrambles my brain & overwhelms me.

I want to like them, it is just hard for me to follow.
I found it interesting that Starbucks in my area was open until 5PM today. Sadly they were only getting time and a half, I’m told.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly in your HN comments. People are supposed to get the benefit of the doubt here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This article is now published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association [Volume 116, 2021 - Issue 536]

https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2020.1758115
It's another day for you and me in paradise.
There's not much new info here since the last time the project was discussed. The first two comments here link to informative videos about how the reactor works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629828#24634733

News since then:

CFS has now raised $1.8B

They have demonstrated a full-size magnet with a field strength of 20 Tesla

They have started construction on the new SPARC reactor facility.
Yeah I’m definitely mentally flexible and have coded in many paradigms, I don’t love OO and generally don’t write that way but multiple dispatch as a primary design pattern is odd.

I’ve tried it for close to a year and the ergonomics still felt off, it reminds me of how the scala crowd talked about functional programming, and we’ve seen how that turned out.

I hear this from a lot of people that try Julia and yet the Julia crowds answer is always that they are dumb. Sounds a lot like the scala crowd…
I do live in NYC. "Awesome" isn't quite the term I'd use… he's highly motivated to get gas out of this building (one highly illegal piece of plastic ductwork from Czechoslovakia was found in our system — had there been a fire and this piece melted, BLAMMO).

Personally, I am convinced by recent studies that indoor gas is just blanket bad for health, so I was quite happy to cooperate.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...
How do the EV incentives compare to fossil fuel subsidies?
This is hardly the issue within the USA though. The biggest issue we have is a general resentment towards building anything. Once we've built up a lot - it would be a good discussion to have about whether what we're building could be improved. For the time being - we just need to build anything.
Hello paywall
We obtained similar results a couple of months back using Angular, Tailwind and Scully: https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsungazer....

We are no longer at 100% on Desktop, but we are at 99% on both Desktop and Mobile whereas OP is at 95% on Mobile.

For as long as you using these fancy frontend frameworks to ultimately build a static or SSR website, everything is possible performance-wise.
I see comments saying that heating with electricity is more efficient than with gas. So, will it cost less?
It looks like Jeff Wilcox who seems to be in a decision making position about this has addressed this (on Christmas no less), and I think whilst this is bad and definitely violating, I don’t think there was any ill intent, and I hope we can all put the pitchforks down for a while.
Please don't pile on like this. You can make your substantive points without "how can someone be so bad at their job" hyperbole. Any mistake can be made to look terrible if you're uncharitable enough.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I like Google, or better Stack overflow, when you’re at your desk writing code. Books (preferably paper books), to browse in free moments when not working.

I used to keep a paper copy of “JavaScript pocket reference” on me, and pull it out on the train, or just sitting around at night, to help get the concepts.