skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To your point about "Electrifying everything will cost a lot of money ...", solar cells are at about $0.30 / W (used) and it's either possible or will be possible soon to get LiFePO4 batteries at $0.05 / Wh.

For a 30KWh home (the US average), that system will cost the consumer under $3k (assuming 8 hour days of sun, just in hardware, neglecting incidentals and labor, etc.). The average consumer in the US spends about $1-$1.5k per year on electricity. So building a solar battery system, in theory, would make its money back in 2-3 years.

There might be more savings depending on the area and incentives.
Good luck proving it was unethical as compared to a ‘misunderstanding’. A lot of people are pretty good at CYA.

Being on the shitty end of the stick, of course the poster sees what is happening. But until a judge or impartial third party with some pull sees it, it might as well not exist. And that’s hard.
> I'm convinced the best MMOs to come out over the next 20 years will have very little content and very sparse grinding mechanics.

Current open world survival games use grind as a main mechanism for driving emergent game-play and creating player differentiation/conflict, so I don't see it ending completely. Game designers have gotten much better at making grind that isn't actively unfun though.
That's amazing that you mention St. George. He's my patron saint! I have many icons of him in my home and in my office at work. I even have one of him in my car. Here's a great account of his martyrdom, where they tried many times to kill him, finally decapitating him: https://www.goarch.org/-/feast-of-the-holy-great-martyr-geor...

As for the dragon, it represents Satan, and also monsters who are tyrannical, hybrids that are not easily categorized that live in the forest or wilderness, and the foreign or the strange. It also represents time. I also like your friend's answer. Notice how the serpent's tail is wrapped up in the horse's feet, trying to trip the horse up.

Here's my favorite version of the story of St. George fighting the dragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon#Go...

The life of St. George has many interesting elements, and also has bleed-over into Islamic tradition as well.

The way I started learning about the language and symbolism of iconography was through watching videos on symbolism by Jonathan Pageau on youtube. He's an Orthodox iconographer and he uses fairy tales and movie symbolism to talk about symbolism in general and to introduce it to modern audiences, and he also does videos about the symbolism in specific icons.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask here. I don't think HN has a direct message system, unfortunately. If they do and I'm just too boomer to figure it out, feel free to hit me up in DM as well.
Right, but we're just following the younger crowd.
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Just a bit gauche.
Tiny aircraft have an enormous advantage over those big enough to move much.

It is easy to make an RC plane that can fly straight up. Or, an ornithopter. A 747 flying straight up is impossible. A 747-sized ornithopter is impossible.

Those "tictacs" swooping around navy ships are most likely liquid-fueled drones. If they haven't shot any down yet, that is a disgrace.
I think glibc is right to not change the defaults out from under the feet of users. “ This is the worst possible way to do this. Consider libraries: what if a dependency is built with -D_TIME_BITS=64, and another dependency is built without, and they need to exchange struct timespec or similar with each other? ” - this argument makes no sense to me. If you need new features and new values update your flags rather than breaking any program that depends on your CLI API
Term life insurance is basically just a put option on your life with an expiration a couple decades out.

Whole life on the other hand is actually buying equity in your presumptive future earnings. It's considerably more capital intensive, but less expensive overall in most cases.
If they said "yes" to that they wouldn't be the first in history with that answer.
You're misinterpreting the main point I'm making. It's not that I don't want Google vs blockchain cause I'm afraid of delistings or something. My main thought experiment is with an artist who is established and wouldn't get delisted. It's about the fact that humans have come together to decide this is what digital ownership means - it's on a distributed database and not by a company. Maybe there is a world in which Google was the oracle of NFTs, but in our world, society has agreed on blockchain.
I guess it's time to uninstall their HTTPS Everywhere extension https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...
I guess sometimes lack of common sense is indeed the reason. But I suspect that's not the most widespread case.

Here is an interesting related story: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/introducing_gogcom_drmfree...
I think so much of life is already gaming: sports, bowling, football, watching sports on TV/YouTube/cable. Many of these so called time wasters existed outside of the digital world and people have already consumed a lot of time and attention for hundreds of years. In fact empire building and war are probably two of the oldest sports known to humankind
Does this work?

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San Diego is doing it now, and the presentation I saw mentioned the TDS of the water is actually lower with toilet to tap. That's nice because normally the water is liquid rock.
Manually operated wood furnaces are also terrible with regards to particle emissions. The article acknowledges that and claims that oven stoves do not have this problem because they can reach higher temperatures. But that ignores the fact that there is a time period until the fire has reached the right temperature during which the particle emissions are very high (particle emissions from wood furnaces are scary high and dwarf emissions from cars). If the whole neighborhood is heated by these things, then you have several hours of the day with smoke and particles, even if everyone operates their ovens correctly so they reach the correct temperatures for a clean burn.

Furthermore, heat pumps are just so much more efficient, as they actually move several times the amount of energy as heat as they consume as electricity. Combined with floor heating - which gives a much larger surface area for heat dissipation than these oven stoves can ever give you - you can further lower the temperature of the water, raising efficiency even more. Floor heating is also way more comfortable as it gives an even distribution of heat throughout the house, and you don't get cold feet.
Apr 19, 1900: Barb-Wire telephone line, Cassius Alley insulator
In my jurisdiction the executor cannot be a beneficiary of the will. Getting named as the executor means that you cannot inherit anything.
This made me think a little more. When people talk about "dogfooding" they usually mean using a product as an end user, the consumer or customer. Who is the customer of doordash? The drivers are a supplier. How often do companies try to make the life of their supplies better?

What's good for Walmart might not overlap with what's good for the supply chain.
We use remote sampling. I don't have a ton of experience with Jaeger, but I've used it a lot, and implemented OpenTracing in a dozen or so apps.

The benefit of remote sampling, as I understand it, is that the sample rata doesn't need to be configured in each app. So in principle, you could have a little slider in the UI to adjust the sample rate for each individual app, perhaps increasing it during a particular incident to capture more traffic data.

Without remote sampling, you'd have to hard-code the rate into the app's config or code, which then requires a redeploy to change the setting. With a lot of microservices to maintain, it seems a lot simpler to have a central location for such settings.

Uptrace looks fantastic, by the way. It's about time someone gives Zipkin and Jaeger some competition. And Clickhouse makes a lot more sense as a backend than Cassandra.
The usual then. Pirates never have to deal with DRM and sometimes their games perform better — I recall a story about an anti-copy mechanism slowing the game down for people who purchased it. Good stuff.
A 'neuron' might be a kind of the biological equivalent to the CPU or microcontroller.

So saying that the Tardigrade has 200 CPUs sounds pretty good, actually.

If you build a drone for example with 200 CPUs, you'd expect it to be pretty capable I'd imagine, including some form of AI or machine learning.

And it seems to me neurons by default are machine learning "CPU"s...
And this is not just old laws, states are starting to implement mandatory long term care insurance. Another scam, where it doesn't matter what kind of retirement setup I have
> it would fracture your community into two disjoint sets, with one of those sets containing disabled folks, poor folks, privacy conscious users, amongst others

Drew is honest enough to quote in the footnote one of his blind friends who points out that Discord has made a lot of accessibility improvements and lots of disabled folks use it.

And let's be real, which FOSS software is, generally speaking, more accessible for disabled folks than alternatives? This is an argument that is made because accessibility is in the spirit of FOSS, which is true, but in reality most FOSS software is often less accessible, simply because it is clunkier, than whatever is on the market, so it's not a real selling point, just a theoretical one.

The same goes for performance. Yes in theory people in FOSS tend to be more conscious towards low-end or old hardware, but what is the number of developers who have a computer powerful enough to build modern software but who can't run discord? Not to mention that most feature equivalent FOSS projects are no less hardware hungry.

In reality how many disjoint sets of community members you have depends on just one single thing, the quality of the software, that's it. The fact that you can change FOSS software to your needs practically only makes sense for small pieces of software. Nobody is going to roll their own Matrix client for their three person FOSS project.
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> It should be noted that both approaches described above introduce zero friction to get the right thing.

If your code is called by any other code and took in a time_t recompiling would have broken your ABI.
I'm not a communist, but I recognize that one of the economic arguments for the State owning the means of production is that there's no longer any need for such jobs on a per-organization level. Why engage in tax-avoidance when the sum total of corporate profits belongs to the State anyway? Why answer per-client security questionnaires when the State audits and polices your security before certifying the company, so that it can continue to play a part in the State-managed economy? Why employ marketers and salespeople when the State guarantees demand? Etcetera.

Of course, in the real world, we understand that theoretical economic efficiency isn't quite as attainable as the real efficiency that is made possible with price signalling. Demand is a fickle and complex beast that eludes the best intentions of the best central planners. But, as contrasted to that theoretical efficiency, a price-signalled economy involves some waste and costs. This is fine / acceptable as long as we appreciate that it permits a larger system that is better than the alternative.
I agree! Perhaps one of us stumbles on a new branch of understanding one day.

Have fun.
It's not a particularly unarguable idea that the Abrahamic God may not be omniscient (at least, not at all points in time. There is a related idea that God changes over time).

The parent to your comment gave one example because it's the first. But there are many. Here's another one, again from an early point in time, that shows regret.

Genesis 6:5-9

> And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

> And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Immediately after this, God first decides to end humanity, but later changes his mind again after focusing his attention selectively on Noah.

> And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created [...] for it repenteth me that I have made them.

> But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

> These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

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Truthfully, the bible is full of tensions and contradictions. You can't explain them without developing an opinion/interpreting the book holistically.

The God of the Old Testament is physical, emotional, and generally more demanding and hands-on with humanity; the language clearly implies that he possesses a locus of attention that he directs where he chooses. He interacts physically with humans, and not-infrequently changes his mind.

The God of the New Testament, is more ethereal, transcendent, and more consistent in the emphasis of grace and mercy.

That the debate on subjects like these, even among fellow Christians, has literally been ongoing since Christ's death, is probably evidence that all these ideas cannot be reconciled. They are merely there for us to contemplate and interpret.
Producing data for something like that sounds like an incredible ask and I'd be super interested to see how other people have tried to tackle that problem.

My anecdotal experience is that they teach something close to that in philosophy departments, at least insofar as you need to be able to present the logical steps and connections you're making in a plain way so your paper is easier to engage with regardless of how abstract the topic is.

I think the actual critical thinking is something that happens internally and you can't really correct or improve that as a teacher if the student isn't capable of explaining what they're thinking - and if you can teach the student to explain what's going on inside their head, they can learn more effectively from people more intelligent than them later on because then it's public knowledge what they're screwing up instead of private. So to that end good writing might be even more fundamental than critical thinking skills.
While the principle of a lens was known, I don't think any glass lenses of that age has been found.
Just to clarify, are you saying that because one single bad event happened, it therefore means something general about where that single bad event happened?

You say you feel safe in Texas?[0] Interesting.

34 people were murdered in St. Paul in 2020 [1]. The population of St. Paul is 311,527 [2]. That puts the murder rate at ~10.91 per 100,000 people.

400 people were murdered in Houston in 2020 [3]. The population of Houston is 2,304,580 [4]. That puts the murder rate at ~17.36 per 100,000 people.

Can you please explain to me why you feel safer in a place that is substantially more murderous?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_in_Texas

[1]: https://www.stpaul.gov/news/saint-paul-police-department-rel...

[2]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stpaulcityminnesota

[3] https://abc13.com/houston-2020-murders-murder-rate-police-wo...

[4]: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/houstoncitytexas
That was exactly my point: perhaps it's best not to bundle all those features in a single piece of software.

I haven't tried all the alternative combinations because, ultimately, I only have so much time and interest, and their learning curve is significant.
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Nice touch w the tide pod.
Very interesting and easy to follow. I didn't realise some of the fabless names were IP and design shops outsourcing. And so much analogue!

I think the thinness of diversity behind NAND is going to hurt.

The join of this report over similar ones for LCD and battery tech would also be interesting.
FWIW, there are actually two definitions of lie listed in most dictionaries. The first is to present false information with the intent to deceive, but the second is just to deceive. I think perhaps people arguing about whether or not my example is strictly "a lie" are not working with the same definition. I intentionally avoided the word "lie" because of this confusion.

I've had people argue that answering a question with an intentionally misleading non-sequitur is not lying. e.g. "Did you reaearch your topic?" "I went to the library"; they didn't say when they went to the library nor that they did any research at the library. Or more recently: "Have you been vaccinated?" "Yeah, I've been immunized".

To me such non-answers are clearly a lie because it's not really any different than saying "Yes" and then claiming you were talking about the popular rock band from the 70s for no particular reason. I can see how some people would disagree and I'm not interested in arguing semantics, so I try to avoid the word "lie" in general when "deception" seems less contentious.
Now that ClickHouse has released async writes you won't need to use the buffer engine anymore, which has been always a non recommended solution anyway.
Part 1 is just a matter of public policy. This is all armchair theory anyway.

Regarding Part 2, I actually don't see the problem. If the result is causing insurance companies to be more cautious about lowball offers when there's a range of reasonable outcomes, is that bad? The plaintiff still must succeed at proving damages, so it's not like that outcome is unforseeable.

It does increase "settlement risk" for insurers, but _they're insurers_. Of every kind of entity out there they should be the most comfortable with risk. The greater risk of unfavorable settlements would obviously increase insurance premiums, but if premiums increase because insurers are actually paying more in fair settlements and/or punitive judgements because they failed to pay a fair settlement, again I cannot see the problem.
> No one is certain what lava lamps were used for.

Nitpick: I'm fairly certain lava lamps have been used as secure random number generators.

Edit: a quick search on kagi confirms it.
> Judith Miller was working with Bush Admin officials to push false information to justify war?

Maybe, but that's not what I said (the only group I said anything about her cooperating with non-overtly is the I.N.C.)

She was definitely manufacturing and laundering pro-war propaganda, and she was fired when that became clear. And it certainly served the Bush Administration’s purposes. And the I.N.C. certainly was working hand-in-hand with the Administration on some things. But was Miller working with the Administration, or just on her own agenda that happened to align with theirs? Not for me to say.
I don't see how hyperscale is a DAO...
> Every C file depends on every header file in the repo.

So change in single header file always becomes a full build? Do you use pimpl or other tricks to avoid frequent changes to h-files, otherwise class members usually end up in the headers for simplicity and to avoid incomplete type problems on non-pointers unfortunately. Was this C or C++?

What's the difference between a clean rebuild and a scratch build?
Wow. I wasn't aware that so little rail is electrified in some countries. I was especially surprised about my own country Poland that has barely over 60% rail electrified, with European average being roughly similar. USA is below 2% vs China with over 60% electrification of the network of nearly exactly same length. I have no idea why almost nobody talks about that. I know rail is superbly efficient, but it still would be a huge win if USA could bring up their electrification to at least first world countries average.

Mexico and Canada have even more abysmal rates. I guess entire continent of North America was sleeping when the world started doing electric trains.

I always thought that nearly all rail was electrified and have trouble even imagining rails without wiring.
> The reality is that even the most transparent companies out there (eg: Gitlab) do not disclose individual salaries.

I don’t think Gitlab is anywhere near the most transparent company. I’ve definitely seen companies proudy list all their employees’ salary in a blog post before, so the most transparent companies do actually do that (or they did when I saw their post a while back anyway).

To be fair I’ve never seen it in companies where it’s impossible for everyone to know everyone.
You should think of it this way. The reasons that tax policies are complex are that the government uses tax incentives both as a "carrot" to control people; and also to buy political support from interest groups who benefit.

The tax compliance and tax avoidance jobs should be understood to be part of one of these schemes. Either they're low-level enforcers in the government's heavy-handed tax-based system of control; or else they're co-conspirators in the influence-buying grift.
What the hell does this even mean?

Compensation is not "derailing". It is a core function of the business to pay it's employees. It's a core function of employees to make sure they aren't getting ripped off.

It's plainly ridiculous to be told that what ones coworkers get paid is of no relevance to oneself. This is enlightened self-interest, not guilty grandstanding for some abstract cause or whatever.
The amoeba has zero neurons, and yet it can hunt prey and can reproduce sexually.

Our understanding of intelligence is so laughably primitive that it is "not even wrong".
Once again: I never claimed there was a contradiction in the example given. It may have been unclear in my original comment, but I have clarified this twice now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29719559

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29720636
I’m not proposing machine specific additions to C. One of my complaints is that the C language doesn’t have enough features, so I end up using machine specific assembly or compiler specific builtins. And I’m complaining about C pushing developers onto the knife edge of UB or performant code — I don’t want more UB either.

I want higher level constructs in the C language (restrict isn’t a great feature, but it’s high level, so like that) that can map to the actual feature set found on actual machines since 2004 (and compiler writers can do that mapping per machine). But C is stuck with a simplified model of the machine that ignores what almost all hardware can do these days.

I think I’ll always have to dip into assembly/intrinsics sometimes, so I’m not looking for super advanced/rich features. Actually, I think the real benefit would be giving compiler writers ways to improve performance without pushing devs onto the UB knife edge.
>They're sending the clearest possible economic signal they can that the grind isn't a positive or rewarding experience for them.

For them, personally. There's a good deal of microtransactions where the person spending the money still wants everyone else to have to grind for it. MMO's tend to breed a lot of prestige-seeking behavior.