skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no overhead wires there. That's all Diesel-powered. Like most, or all freight tracks anyways? Maybe on the east coast, when shared with AMTRAK, or some local passenger network, if at all. Besides that, personally I wouldn't want to use any long sticks near any overhead wires. Brrrz, Brrrz, Brrrz
The person the Steller's sea eagle is named for, Georg Wilhelm Steller [1], has quite the list of things named after him.

He's in the common name of several animals: Steller's eider, jay, sea eagle, sea cow, and sculpin.

He's also in the scientific name of some animals and plants: Crytopchiton stelleri, Artemisia stelleriana, and Stellera chamaejasme.

In addition to living things, there is also a mineral, Stellerite, named after him.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Wilhelm_Steller
"The ruling allows dating app developers to avoid the commission fee between 15 to 30 percent Apple charges. "

Looks like everybody gangsta till regulator steps in.
Stainless steel costs quite a bit more than wood; and even if they pull vacuum in those cells (which i dont think they are) I'd bet this isn't as good a thermal insulator as wood.

Looks like an investor fleecing operation.

I helped build a place using "foam core" enameled steel panels in the 1980s; its still there but they had to do another layer of siding over the outside after about a decade, as the paint was beginning to chip and bubble. The "foam core" stuff turned to powder within a few years and settled at the bottom of the panels, meaning what insulation value they had is almost completely gone now.

The marketing speak for those panels had a very strong resemblance to this stuff.
It’s very bizarre to me how you can get very inexpensive single burner countertop induction plates ($50-100), but multi-burner built-in cooktops are dramatically more expensive ($1000-4000). Anybody know why this is?
So, here is an example. To make yogurt, I first heat up milk to just below boiling for about half-an-hour (this denatures the whey in the milk making for a thicker yogurt). If it boils, then it will usually boil over and make a mess. My electric stove heats on an on-off cycle. That means it goes through periods of being a lot hotter than average, and a lot cooler than average. If I set the electric stove so that the average is at the target temperature, then when the cycle goes up, it boils over. So I have to set it so that the average is below the target temperature, or constantly monitor it and adjust the stove. This is the type of temperature control a gas stove (and and induction i guess) affords.
I don't need to do that personally. If the professionals can't replicate results, then it is a sham [1]. They are selling snake oil and books full of promise they can't back up. She doesn't tend to mention that she had chemo, which you probably understand wipes out the immune system. It isn't uncommon to have little disease activity after that. You probably also don't realize that she didn't use a wheelchair because she couldn't walk, but because of fatigue. Fatigue and balance issues are really common in MS: It'd easily keep you off of a bicycle. There are medicines that help fatigue and sometimes this does ease even if you've had MS for years. There is also a good deal of overlap with depression/mood disorders and MS - which you might understand can come with their own fatigue.

And when I speak of fatigue, I'm speaking of "Oops, I showered today and I can't do anything else" sort of disabling fatigue.

Diet is not a cure for MS, and we should really quit pushing sham cures from folks preying on other people's feelings of hopelessness. Which, as you can imagine, is pretty common with MS. The most horrifying part of this is that it keeps folks from trying things that actually are proven to improve quality of life in the long run: MEdications. Medications actually prevent relapses. Diet does not.

At most, diet is important in the same way it is important for everyone else: Most folks have slightly better outcomes if they, in general, eat healthy and are active. This isn't special to MS nor do you need to follow some strict diet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Wahls
Or more likely bad pans ;-)
I don't think so but the title seems to be generalized too much.

"The ruling allows dating app developers to avoid the commission fee ..."

It says dating apps so I don't think apple allowed other app to bypass the rule. But good thing is it sets a precedence.
> I sign up to Facebook, which costs them money (storage costs, network traffic, CPU, etc) and in exchange they make money off me by showing me ads

How would you explain the fact that police forces, private investigators, credit bureaus, stalkers and intelligence agencies love Facebook if all the company is doing is "showing me ads"?

My point is that you're leaving out the most valuable/terrifying thing that this company does: creating incredibly detailed profiles of nearly every person on the planet including their likes, dislikes, relationships, private thoughts and behavioral patterns.

We may be powerless to change it because developers are easily bribed with FAANG salaries and people generally like their stock portfolios but let's at least be honest about it.
Your diffuculties arise from the way you talk about the problem.

You ask how you can be sure that a person can change their identity? Your question already presents a mechanism that naturally doesn't work. What is implicit in what you're saying is that changing somehow involves taking something out and putting something completely different in. As in taking out one set of desires and replacing them with some other desires. That is certainly not what happens.

To change some of your desires is to understand them and understand how they arise. That's very related to how you talk to yourself and what expressions you use and where they implicitly lead you. That is the way you speak imposes a certain view of the world, what it consists of and what is possible within it. (That's not to say that you would suddenly be able to fly but there is a whole human domain that you might start discovering from the inside as a human being rather than looking at yourself from the outside as a collection of organs).
What if many people collude so that the general consensus is wrong? What if many people are coerced (by their government/etc) to report wrongly?

> Assuming if the law in all jurisdictions around the world were as sufficient for all cases presently and into the future.

Are you saying that there should be one global jurisdiction and law? That is a completely separate can of worms.

At the moment the only law that matters is the law that can be enforced, which is generally the law of the country where you reside or have assets that can be seized, and this system appears to work well enough for everyone involved.

The law can also be changed if needed. I'm not sure how a blockchain can account for all future use-cases without changes either.
I'm at the beginning of a programming career, about to lean real heavily into learning C++ because it's standard/necessary in the field I want to join.

Stuff like this terrifies me that I'm signing up for some kafka-esque frustration.
You'd love federal elections in Canada, it's a pet peeve of mine to listen to both speeches of a candidate and note the differences. Trudeau did a lot of that in the last campaign where he wanted to appease both Quebec and the ROC so he added some qualifiers to his sentences in either language to create or remove ambiguity on some promises he was making.
The first line is a typo surely? Did they mean PCI? PCIe came out in 2003 which is just shy of 2 decades.

> The PCI Express® (PCIe®) architecture has served as the backbone for I/O connectivity spanning three decades
I think we’ll see if bandwidth and latency improvements bring more application development. Solana and Avalanche are orders of magnitude faster than Ethereum and their ecosystems are rapidly evolving.

Btw Solana founder is ex-Qualcomm and worked on embedded distributed (multi-core) systems and Avalanche founder implemented a faster more elegant consensus algorithm. Can hear them discussing technical aspects of development: https://open.spotify.com/episode/632rPGnMZlHag7DJ1SCDUV?si=F...
The MDN docs on inputs are worth a look, there's really good coverage now of the sorts of things that used to need custom JS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...

If you give the colour picker a little more height than the one in that link then it'll display the selected colour as well, which you can see in the MDN one.
Truly the exception that proves the rule. There are, too, urinals that hang in museums as art. That repurposing of the mundane is the art; the mundane remains mundane.
Alternatively, you where doing gradient decent with daily practice but got stuck at a local minima. Taking a real break helps you get past that.

However, I don’t think either represent what’s actually happening very well.
The website is “carbon switch”, so the solution to this problem is obviously going to be induction stoves, although that isn’t the problem.

An easier solution to the actual problem is to open a couple of windows slightly.

The obsession with sealed living spaces to yield marginal savings in HVAC has pretty obvious downsides and measurable, marginal savings.
Yes the stainless steel tri ply pans on an electric stove are pretty awesome. I haven’t really cooked on a gas stove to compare though. Some people think stainless steel pans are worse/cheaper than non stick, but that is not the case. Chefs use stainless steel all the time and prefer it. But the secret is learning to deglaze the pan to free anything stuck to the bottom of the pan in order to make cleaning magnitudes easier.
that is very confusing still, can you elaborate?
Hacking Your TiVo (2005)
Well, urban vs rural in the United States -- it certainly does suggest most people live in urban. Not sure what you mean by "dense" urban though.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/985183/size-urban-rural-...

As one guy put it, there are more Republicans living in Orange County than there are in the entire state of Mississippi.
It's kind of a compliment. "Hot take" is becoming common parlance, but a hot take as defined by Blind Boy Boathouse would be a connection you notice between two seemingly unrelated things, and then dive into to arrive at a smashing observation about, where you link those things by obsessively researching the connections between them, to reveal a hot take on events that no one has quite heard of, or had the same take on before.

Check out this, maybe the great hot take of all time.
https://play.acast.com/s/blindboy/pooanon
I don't understand your comment. What are you saying "no" to?
I have an induction cooktop and my cast iron pans have been terrible. Cast iron has lousy heat conduction and induction stoves do not have even distribution. They negate a lot of the benefits of induction, which is the ability to put a massive amount of heat into the pan very quickly.

High carbon steel pans (the kind used by kitchen services) have been brilliant. Every time I've seen an induction cooktop in use in a commercial service (for example, at my work place cafeteria at the "rice meal" station) they use high carbon steel pans.

The biggest problem: no cooking during power outages, which happen around 2-3x a year.
You may find this comic speaks to you quite a bit:

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
I think even if we find some markers it won’t be enough. It will take a full blown revolution in how we measure human anatomy in a clinical setting. That’s why it’s taken so long.
How about paintballing the perpetrators with NEON-GLITTER, laced with something extremely stinky?

Or Napalm?
I think what happens is that during the active learning part you heavily overfit and end up in a local minima. Afterwards life acts like a regularisation, and when you return to it you are no longer in a minima but now have a gradient to descend on again.
I wonder, would a gas dryer suffer from the same issues, or is it somehow better due to forced venting?
Persistence of clinically relevant levels of Covid envelope gene subgenomic RNAs
Will it stay in there forever? If so it will need long term testing.
> Humour on HN is generally frowned upon.

Hahaha, bravo, that's a funny one!
They are cheap to produce. A couple of grad students working hard for 2 weeks could create enough acid to keep the entire US trippy for a year.

Can’t charge exorbitant fees for something trivial to produce.
It's telling how many people posting live in areas with cheap electricity. Running a propane stove is still cheaper for me, they deliver propane every few months.
Nah, the filters and animation survive through Inkscape just fine, though if you change the filter then it’ll probably clobber the animation element.
You'd use a private, permissioned blockchain over federated SQL databases due to the technical difficulties of synchronizing audit tables across organizational boundaries -- since an enterprise blockchain is append-only, immutable, time-stamped, and each new entry has a hash of the previous view, it overcomes a lot of data integrity issues inherent to a distributed SQL database. None of the companies here will fully trust each other to hold an exclusive copy of the data, so the blockchain here replaces an expensive manual reconciliation step in the event local accounting databases don't match up.

As an external user? Nobody cares, it's not for you, move on.
The way I think about tests is: what’s the cost of failure here vs the cost of testing?

Sometimes, bugs in this part of the codebase would not be a showstopper, so why test as heavily?

The most important tests by far are smokescreen integration tests for critical paths through the system. I tend to care much less about other tests in many cases.

Obviously, if I was writing a compiler or database or medical software, that’d be different. But I’m generally writing web applications where if the entire application were to fail for a day, we probably wouldn’t even lose a customer.
Inflation went up 7% in 2021. Inflation in popular urban markets was worse. Market rate for good engineers probably went up more than that.

Even a 10% pay raise was meh with that in mind.

How many engineering companies are prepared to give 15-20% pay raises to keep up with these kinds of conditions? How many are handing out 7% adjustments proudly?
> Whoa that second link.. that guy is so lucky this didn't turn into a full blown tsunami.

That is what a full blown tsunami looks like, based on watching many YouTube videos on the subject.

Bear in mind this is only a minute of footage. If the water keeps coming in like that for an hour it will eventually reach the person shooting this video.

The scary thing about tsunamis is that they look fairly innocent in the beginning. And five minutes later there’s ten feet of water moving very fast with houses and cars in it.

Here’s a good example of how it can go from looking harmless to terrifying in 25 minutes: https://youtu.be/P8qFi74k2UE
> We should be subsidizing conversions like this.

This is the epitome of the current green movement. Proponents want an unnecessary luxury green product subsidized for higher income households, even though there are perfectly fine substitutes that are just as good for the environment at 1/5 the cost you just described. I just can't get on board with a movement like this.
I'm mainly interested Youtube functionality, and wanted to check if it was well maintained.

The developer was listed as Laurent Bachelier (https://github.com/laurentb). Searching him up, he unfortunately seems to have committed suicide a year ago. Bizarrely with some links to right winged political groups? (First result on google from "Laurent Bachelier")

My deepest condolences to the programmers of this project who have lost someone who I assume was a close friend and co-worker.
They are cheap to produce. A couple of grad students working hard for 2 weeks could create enough acid to keep the entire US trippy for a year, assuming they had the blessings of the lab owner and free access to inputs.

Can’t charge exorbitant fees for something trivial to produce.

I’d probably respond to your tone and assumptions with a string of vulgar invective containing ‘cope’, ‘nerd’, ‘sneed’ etc but I now realize this forum is not the place.
I wasn’t really aware of induction until the house I bought this year happened to have it. It’s amazing. I never want anything else.
I think the entire point of this project is show people that they can make a website without having to be afraid of having the type of experience you just described.

If you just use HTML, then the words that you choose to write will be the words that everyone will read.

Any "pixel placement" is optional and shouldn't be a detering factor.
Excellent tutorial for bitwise arithmetic this is. The key is the motivation you receive from the prospect of being able to do something that seems "l33t".
But like, why? Sure, blockchain can do a lot of things, but it’s not clear that it’s better than an API for the vast majority of applications while being worse in a number of ways. You can put similar governance rules on an API without the complexity. The flexibility inherent in human interpretation of legal agreements is a key feature of a common law system like we have in the US.

To echo the author’s thesis, we’re no longer in the early days of blockchain. We’re over a decade in and nobody has gained traction with a use case that isn’t purely speculative. That in and of itself should say something.
Arguably mRNA vaccines are specialised nanobots.

Also, depending on what scale you allow, the armies of microcontrollers now suffused into all sorts of machines are such things.

As might be the software bots for good and ill infecting some of our machines.

More generally, marketing folk and 'thought leaders' fling all sorts of (often unhinged) verbiage at the walls without asking engineers what is plausible, so no one should be astonished or disappointed when most doesn't stick.
Since the dec 20 2021 eruption it's been an island.
Which LG? I don't know if this is a consequence of GDPR but on my LG TV ads are an OPT-IN setting. Maybe you can opt-out?
Mosaic made by freed slave to thank God found in Turkey’s Hatay
My gas stove gets super super low too. Not sure how to compare it to 100 degrees; but it’s very very little BTUs. It’s a double burner with a normal one and a inner smaller one.

I 100% run my vent while cooking. Curious how much of the bad gas I vent…
Yeah, I have a humidifier that matches the square feet of the house running and it can't keep humidity over 20% when it gets colder. Need to work on air leaks I guess.
it goes both ways – "I used to be religious, now I am an atheist"

(I was also against crypto/blockchains when I first learned about them last year)
You only get two, availability and partition tolerance.

Consistency is more akin to an eventual consistency model. There may be two blocks found at the same time that are sent out to the network. At some point, nodes which accepted the minority block will re-org and become consistent with the rest of the network.

Re-orgs are why you wait for X confirmations before trusting that a transaction is finalized.
A page of Spider-Man comic book history just sold for $3 million
Other: a combination of factors.

Interviewing - as others pointed out, going through the interview rounds can be exceedingly and unnecessarily daunting and stressful since, as an employee, there's a massive imbalance in power between yourself and your potential employer.

Inertia - things are good so far, why upset the apple cart? They could be better, but not without initial (or long term) headaches: adjusting to a new culture, new colleagues and management, different rules, re-establishing social boundaries etc.

Remuneration: OK money, better than being a nurse, a teacher and plenty other, more useful and more important jobs than mine. So it's mixture of gratefulness and other, not so positive feelings.

Financial stability: being employed and doing something I know how to do well beats being a freelancer in terms of regular income, especially since I'm not great at finding clients and doing business. They require different skills and it's one of the main reasons many brilliant people (which I most certainly am not) can't start their own thing: being an excellent engineer / scientist / writer / carpenter doesn't make you good or patient enough with people in order to actually do business.

Some degree of freedom: my employer doesn't measure every aspect of my work or transforms social relations into KPIs (a dystopic thing, to say the least), doesn't actively spy on me and, because I work from home on my own machine, I don't need to go through an infantilisation process whereby I have to ask IT Dep to update a piece of software or install something new just because I want to try it. You know, like an adult should be able to. Say what you will about risks, they are all observed from the business' perspective; I find it extremely difficult and infantilising to accept that I am unable to control my own machine and everyday tools because the business can't cope with risks. My needs as a human being should not come after the needs of the business, because the only reason we have businesses is to make life better for human beings.

Changing jobs right now would mean navigating - yet again! - this complex reality where one is forced to research, apply, seduce, negotiate and maintain professional relationships. Which I'll have to do anyway sooner or later.
> Roguelike is a well-defined term, though there are multiple competing definitions. This article presents none of them.

Isn't multiple competing definitions the opposite of well-defined? How overlapping are those definitions?
Probably depends on which moka pot you get.

https://caffeinetalk.com/using-a-moka-pot-on-an-induction-st...
A problem I see with these optimized layouts is the they ignore mobile, which is probably a bigger use case today then traditional typing. The rules totally change when you’re thumb typing on a small touch keyboard. For instance vowels spaced more then a key aapart help improve word prediction from typing mistakes).
> that isn't really relevant to the points I'm making.

But maybe it should be.
The whole project was useless IMHO.
“ the climate community would risk backlash and not be as effective at convincing people to get rid of their furnaces and water heaters”

Is this a thing, wanting to convince people to get rid of furnaces and hot water heaters? Are we replacing them with anything? Seems like an extremely tough sell, especially for people living places that are cold. Take the poor little boy who just died because his “family” forced him to take an ice cold shower in the middle of winter as punishment. This seems like the hairbrained idea of people who don’t experience seasons.
what you can't get induction stoves with knobs? is this just a high-end thing in general?

man, in the kitchen, keep the controls simple.
That's some mustache-twirling evil stuff.

As a side note, this is a problem with ads as a business: since the morality of the very practice is dubious, the companies that sell them aren't expected to behave ethically.
That's a very energy-inefficient way of rewarding content creators. Given that most users are going to go through Coinbase et al, it's no different from any of the other similar schemes (anyone remember Flatr?) except that you have a volatile wallet and a payment mechanism that somehow manages to be even more expensive than Amex!
California passed a proposition that theft of property under $950 will not be prosecuted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47

That means criminals engaging in such thefts cannot be legally arrested or prosecuted.

And we haven't even started discussing LA's new DA Gascon's aggressive move to decriminalize a very large set of offenses:

https://abc7.com/george-gascon-los-angeles-district-attorney...