skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was trying to figure out how much CO2 burning natural gas creates to get a grasp of how big of an issue this is. I found a source claiming 116.65 pounds of CO2 per million BTU produced by burning natural gas. Even if we assume chefs have a really hot burner cooking at 20,000 BTU per hour, that's 2.3 pounds CO2 per hour. Add on a little more for the methane released (some sources say 1/3) if you want. Let's just round up to 3 pounds CO2 equivalent/hour cooking for what is likely an overestimation. If anyone has better estimates or sees an error in my math, I'd be happy to hear.

Meanwhile producing a pound of beef causes 22 pounds of CO2 equivalent emissions. So, if you order a 16 oz steak that was cooked for 15 minutes on a gas stove, the stove was responsible for <3.5% of the emissions.

So yeah, seems like a feel good measure that doesn't actually make much of a difference. But maybe that's the point?

https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/co2_vol_mass.php
>did you mean induction

I did! Thank you, don't know how convection ovens got in my head.

> gas emits many times the amount of PM2.5 as electric

You are right. Gas stoves are worse on all air quality metrics, and the actual food cooking is only a tiny source of PM.

In your experience is cooking on induction still the #1 poor air quality cause in your house?
Your home stove is probably around 7,000 BTU/hr (perhaps up to 20,000 if you have a fancy stove). Professional woks use 100,000 at the very minimum.
It requires an API that Firefox doesn’t support by default
A valid question anywhere because investigating crimes is never really one of their priorities. Even their inflated, self-reported stats show they don't consider it a high priority or their main role.
LA actually has their own eléctrica utility, and could set their own generation choices.

Unfortunately the politics are completely attached to dirty energy transmitted from other states, due to jobs and weird Union personalities.
Artists now? You're moving the goalposts to outer space. What about the websites for those AAA titles that certainly run linux, which has 90%+ of the server market share?

It's clear now you're just here fanboying for your favorite company, so I'll end it here and leave you alone with your thoughts, the only place where the Mac is considered a gaming platform.
> if the nuclear power station isn't guaranteed to provide base load then it's too expensive to operate.

If nuclear can't guarantee baseload, then how is it a better investment than much cheaper renewables?
You’re confusing standard library naming. Rust has a layered standard library, “core” and then “std” on top of it. They’re using the core library, because that’s what you do in an OS context. But as far as I know they don’t restrict any language features.

They also didn’t have to write a new allocator; they did extend the interface of the “alloc” library (which sits between core and std) which was then also accepted upstream.
This is one of the biggest instances, mastodon.social.
The point is that he is erratic.

We’re not arguing against some point Musk made, we’re arguing against his fit for his role, and his erratic behavior is absolutely a factor to consider, and in particular it is not an “ad hominem.”

It is absolutely pushing things a little too far to make the jump from “this person is behaving erratically” to anything resembling what the Nazis did to children with Aspergers.

It’s incredible you can legitimately think it’s comparable.
You continue using this feature despite these errors occurring daily? The way you describe it makes autopilot seem like an inexperienced teenage driver; I think whatever marginal safety benefit you get from it might be erased by the life-shortening stress such erratic car behavior must induce.
The 'Benjamin Button' effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice
We already have the infrastructure and it works great. How about solve the planes and container ships then we can work our way down to the things that barely matter?
And now the vehicles you buy are tracking and selling your data. I worked as an SWE in research and development at one of the bigger manufacturers just a few years ago. The executive level rhetoric was "it's not the customer's data, it's our data." This is how they justified tracking and selling a customer's data. Let that sink in...

I made a big fuss about it at every opportunity and is one of the biggest reasons I left.
https://archive.ph/CSggo
I agree a suit is the more immediately realizable tech but something that isn't so clunky like what Mr. Zuckerburg uses here.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oQig6L2BtOo

There must be a way to provide torque and tension electronically in a suit. Millions of small points all over.
The real worry is what happens when countries reallocate away from US treasury bonds? If the US/allies can just decide to confiscate Russia's assets, every country has to be looking at an alternative
Wow, so it sounds like they actually had to go with used drives. I was thinking maybe they got lucky and found some unsold NOS ones in an old warehouse or something. No such luck. But at least they found something to let them move forward with the project.

It does lead me to wonder though: How many floppy drives would one have to commit to ordering, and how much would it cost, to get a company to manufacture a run of such devices?
> This idea that Exxon Mobile is solely to blame for gasoline emissions or that a factory owner is the only one responsible for the emissions from their factory, rather than the person who purchases and uses those products is quite frankly absurd.

No it's not. The cost of pumping CO2 into the air should be factored into the cost of running a polluting factory. If it's not factored in, there's basically zero chance that a "clean" alternative factory will be economically competitive today. Asking everyone in the world to voluntarily spend more on goods that they're not even sure are manufactured in a cleaner way (see "greenwashing") seems like a dead end to me.
Poor John Smith.
Ask HN: Decent Internet Router Recommendations?
Hi

My Asus AC86U gave up after 4 years and I am in the market for another router.
I used to run the AC86U with Merlin software, so I'm not shy of tinkering, especially if I can improve my security and privacy. I sometimes work from home, but mostly watch Netflix while my kid plays online games. Now I'm back to Virgin Media Hub 3, but it's worse in terms of range.

Do you have any recommendations for a replacement?
Maybe holding some real hardware gives much joy? I'm thinking about maybe emulating it using a Pi and buy some peripherals such as external floppy. Not sure if it's doable though.
A human driver is no longer the null hypothesis they have to beat. Most vehicles in the US are now sold with collision avoidance systems. The alternative to an autonomous vehicle is a vehicle with the combined efforts of humans + automated systems.

Also, until there's a SAE level 5 vehicle in existence, we're comparing different sample sets. The situations humans crash most often in are many of the same situations where current autonomous vehicles simply won't operate at all.

We may see these sample sets get even more skewed as we partially automate driving in levels 3 and 4. Because humans will have to drive in the more demanding scenarios where automated systems refuse to do so.
Another thing to consider beyond raw COGS is "attach rate": online price matching gets you in the door and buying the big ticket items, but once you are in the door how likely are you to also pick up accessories (especially if you are saving on the base item) or even unrelated things that you saw in the store while you were there?
> If the road in front of you is empty, it's not hugely different than being in a car.

What do you mean? It seems hugely different to me for the obvious reasons.
Relicensing CockroachDB (2019)
I'm woefully rusty on my compiler knowledge. Would the direction matter? That is, would it be easier or harder to build an interpreter for C or Rust versus compiling Python or JS to machine code? Or would it all be the same?
It takes a little work, but the restored SDK has info on getting the official emulator up and running on VirtualBox (you'll need an older version to create the VM, which is linked)
Those benchmarks are highly gamed. Don't trust them. Stuff like hardcoded response length ... Also, they use http and DB pipelining, which hardly reflects most real world usecases.

Have a look here:

https://web-frameworks-benchmark.netlify.app/result?f=axum,g...
Can you do a post-mortem on what happened there?
Just ignore the question and tell a story you wanted to tell anyway.

"Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a coworker"

==

"I know you have some stories about great things you've done in your career. I want to hear those stories - that's the whole point of this interview - but I don't know what to ask, so I am giving you a very open-ended prompt, on the assumption that at least one of your stories included some kind of disagreement with a coworker."

edit to add: don't make something up. Besides dishonesty being generally bad for a variety of reasons, it's very likely that the interviewer is better at spotting liars than you are at lying.
It definitely can be - I had a demo of Ultrahaptics' (now ultraleap) ultrasonic tactile system[0] 3 years back and you could definitely "touch" objects that weren't there. They only had the development kit out at the time - I now want to check out their new module to see how it's progressed!

[0] - https://www.ultraleap.com/product/stratos-inspire/
Turns out I'm the one who forgot what memory safety is o.o I think the part that makes rust's memory safety special is that it also lacks garbage collection
There's often an implication that an arrest wasn't necessarily mistaken, even if no charges were filed, the charges were dropped, or the person was acquitted.

I can see it making a sort of sense in some edges cases. Would you hire a bartender who had been arrested six times on suspicion of DUI just because he was never convicted? I think that would be hard to justify, if my insurance company would even allow it. (So, in my opinion, it's better if I never found out!) However, in general I find the idea distasteful, uncharitable, and un-American.

That said, I suspect most employers just like to have as many legal reasons to reject an applicant as possible to make it harder to be sued (irrespective of whether those employers are racists). In Michigan they were more or less explicit that they put their ban in place because black people are being arrested and charged at rates disproportional to eventual convictions versus other groups.
It is categorically about integer/numeric types in part. Why do you feel that "at all" is an appropriate qualifier?
Haven't heard of keyoxide before but it looks neat! Reminds me of keybase but decentralized and more focused!
Oh neat thanks for sharing that channel
Every time I visit Google with another browser I see a big pop-up which asks me to switch to Chrome.
Now you either gotta point out her mistake or you gotta admit you have crush on someone else. Good luck getting out of this :)
> It seems to me that the use of artificial sweetener is strongly associated with health problems such as morbid obesity and diabetes

Yeah. Cause and effect seems to be reversed here. I started using sweeteners because of my coffee consumption and watching the effect it was having on teeth. Later on cut the sweeteners completely, just because they don't taste as good as actual sugar, so why bother.

I don't think most are as bad as some people believe. A lot of it has probably to do with the notion that they are 'artificial'.

Well, no more so than pure sugar. Go chew on some sugar cane if you want something more "natural" :) Even that must be done in moderation.
Let's face it, it will be a lot cheaper to let the machines fly them...Said the last person right before Skynet took over.
It won't happen because the powers that be don't want it noticed much less spelled out in 24pt bullets. Even if there were some kind of enlightened CEO that set policy, it would just be a few quarters before (being replaced by a Balmer-clone) that said-policy would get thrown out the window.

The EULA you agreed to would no longer apply, and no software provides EULA diff tools.
Define "focus."

Sometimes, when a problem is interesting, I find that my mind naturally stays on it for a couple hours at a time. Rarely longer but if it's very interesting, after a 15 minute or so break I'm ready to dive back in.

For less interesting things, occasional short breaks (maybe 5 minutes) help me keep my energy from completely disappearing. Falling asleep in the middle of something is bad, even if it's pointless "training."

So, by your definition am I focused or not? I assure you, either way, my employer has been happy with my work output.
This reminds me that I have a couple games that I still have never seen available online, I should upload them to archive.org.
> Obviously the receiver rejecting something is entirely different from the USPS rejecting something.

How is the difference relevant? Also, the USPS can refuse to deliver child porn. Indeed, Twitter itself must remove child porn.

> why are you doing this?

I think that "theoretical government run social network" is a total red herring. Everyone in the comments is trying to tell me that "private company" is somehow a useful phrase to distinguish from "government run company", and I think the phrase and the distinction is doing zero work. I'm just following along with the game and trying to explain that the government/non-government distinction doesn't even help the argument.

The fact that Twitter is not run by the government is irrelevant, and saying that it's a "private company" doesn't magically exempt it from government regulation that may affect what it can and can't do.

It's kind of funny, when a big corporation does something terrible, half of the time the defense is "a private company can do whatever it wants", and the other half of the time the defense is "the lawyers made them do it", which is the exact opposite and contradictory idea.
Yeah, I'm almost certain it was the latter. I remember they shared the code snippet, but that was in 2007 and the game's forums have been replaced since then. I did find a recounting of it:

https://forums.achaea.com/discussion/comment/249213/#Comment...

(and the associated quest to discover the easter egg of a coin landing on its edge with 1 in a million odds that was added when the bug was fixed)
You want to check out this archive: https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive
> Two years before this, in 2016, Tesla bought the unprofitable SolarCity at a price that's truly ridiculous considering Tesla's share price today. I hardly think they've made more than a token profit in the eight years since. The thing seemed like a spur-of-the-moment decision.

It was literally to save a company his brother was heavily invested into from bankruptcy, and using Tesla to do so.
Using natural gas in an appliance is more efficient than burning it to produce electricity (heat pumps are the exception here). Plus, there's a good chance we will want to use the natural gas grid to move renewable hydrogen, methane, or dimethyl ether because those forms of energy are easier to store and move than electricity.
Uber loses appeal as top Swiss court rules company is an employer
There are different versions out there so I don't know if my statement is globally accurate but I would not call it auto-tuning. But for me the tuning process is magical compared to mech gearing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBIXq82M_oU

TLDR: You shift to the 5th ring, put it in adjustment mode, now each click is a microadjustment something like 1/10 or 1/12. You adjust until the chain begins to rub, then back it out I think 5 clicks and you are done. That single adjustment means you can shift across all gears.
Instead of getting your SO's name tattooed on your body that you'll regret in a few years, you'll instead get your names added to the blockchain...that you'll regret in a few years.
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>Zero knowledge means you can prove you know something without disclosing any additional information, at all

This is physically impossible and definitely not what ZK means.
Yes, the added memory was managed with an 8722 MMU.
I had a good long while where I made the debugger my habit & used it well. I have fallen off the path.

Part of the problem is I often am looking at interactions across systems, so just having a bunch of logs is helpful. Versus having a bunch of debuggers open. Learning the logs also helps me get better at debugging prod: using what's available. But I also add in a bunch of random `console.logs()` too.

I'm looking forward to tracing becoming a more regularly used tool. Being able to see a timeline, across services, is hugely powerful. I hope some-day we design languages that either integrate tracing, or, ascending into high-fantasy, languages where the runtime itself starts to be powered by tracing-like structures, where the tracing also serves like event-sourcing for your galaxy. Innovating on language capabilities, rather than just ever-struggling with language syntax & capabilities & types, feels vastly under-explored.
Most of my interview prep when I was last looking for a job was basically how to handle these type of questions. It took me a while, but I ended up with a lot of notes describing my past experiences. That way there was no memory test; all the hard work had been done.

I really recommend preparing for them; think hard about your projects, things you've done, why you did what you did, and so on. If you need prompts, I found Amazon's leadership principles (cringy though they may be) to be a good starting point.
In fact, having prepared for Amazon's, everyone else's was easy.

Now I ask these questions and it's super obvious when people haven't prepared for them. I feel bad sometimes. I personally prefer them to the hypotheticals, but people do tend to freeze up.
There is a text mode game called starship which is a very good game. And it is here :)

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Starship_Invasion_1984

I wasted lots of time with it years ago. Remember to reduce speed at first.
Because the journey is more rewarding than the destination?

Extending your thought, what if the journey of building/acquiring/configuring the meatspace thing was also emulated?
supposedly an invasion would have killed 5-10 million Japanese https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-atomic-bomb-saved-millionsi... although I suppose that would mainly have been combatants.
No need to even install dosbox, archive.org has a JS powered emulator right in your browser. Just press play.
I one time bought some 4 in 1 box set with Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer, The Hunt for Red October, and two other games, I forget. For some reason, the games were stripped of all display drivers except glorious 4-color CGA graphics.

One game had a teal sky, and a hot pink ground, and there other had a pink sky, and teal ocean.
> That was a negotiating tactic.

Afraid not, he was really going to do it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I'm inclined to agree with this. I often rant to my friends about weird bugs I've been hit by or the one guy I worked with who went out of his way to create drama. I can't imagine that's a unique practice.

If I'm talking about these things in an interview, I just repeat stories I've told before but with toned down profanity. On the flip side, I'm super skeptical if I'm interviewing someone and say "tell me about a time when a project didn't go well" and they insist that all of their projects have always gone smoothly, even after I prompt that they to go far back as high school group projects.
https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive

Thanks to that I was able to locate a game[0] I had been searching for for years by investigating likely candidates on a "1000+ Games!"[1] or somesuch CD.

[0] It was Space Exploration Mission Alpha[2]. A lunar lander clone where you play as aliens visiting all of the Sol system planets. I never did find the non-shareware Space Exploration Mission Bravo, so if anyone knows Jeffrey R. Marken please drop me a line, I'll gladly pay the $16.75.

[1] A bald-faced lie

[2] https://archive.org/details/SpaceExplorationMissionAlpha_102...
> Why would somebody fall apart after drinking one without sugar

Probably dehydrated and whatever hydration they did get wasn't sufficient.
So how many kitchens did you visit, what country, and what appliances were obviously gas?

> 41,000 electric devices and 9,200 gas appliances were sold'.

??? That's a 4.5/1 ratio in favour of electric. Anyhow tons of new restaurants in EU countries use electric appliances. Yes gas exists, probably large majority in some countries, definitely minority in new builds, and varies by country.

I also did say it's many, the "most" part was followed by a "?". Because as you pointed out, hard stats are hard to find.
We figured out that burning fossil fuels indoors is a bad idea.
Yes. I'm sure it works better in some locations and worse in others, but I know at least a few people who have proactively called law enforcement agencies about being a high probability target of SWATing and related activities.
> When people find it acceptable to make ad hominem attacks of a person or group instead of arguing the point

We were literally talking about his character - that was the argument and the point and nothing else.
I don't think there's any deep relationship between the functions we find that fit observed data well, and those functions being generally useful at making out of class predictions.

Really, I was making a comment about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness... which in my mind is still unresolved (that is: why do the math models we use for physical systems generalize so well, if we wouldn't expect them to do so?)
Consider checking out the mister project. The Mister is one FPGA board that lets you emulate many old computers, like the C64, Atari ST, Amiga 500, Macintosh plus, 486 based systems, even Japanese computers like the Sharp x68k, PC-88, MSX, etc. It's a great piece of kit, with some level of floppy support and more affordable (although you have to bring your own fancy case!).
Here is the prompt for "A still of Kermit The Frog in Dragon Ball Z (1989)"

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1332366/171921054-...
Creating tactile focal points in a specific 3D coordinate seems possible if we use the transducers described in this video. You can see that they are able to "place" tactility in specific 3D location.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QkbVr4J7CM

All that would be needed here would be an AR solution that projects an opaque hologram of a 3D object in the same location where tactility is being placed in mid air.

What stops us from increasing the power of the transducers as to magnify the torque, pressure? Like parent's comment: anvil vs basketball.

What is a safe and realistic range of pressure for anvil? Could such virtual object injure the user if dropped?
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