skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any green gas could be that storage. With solar power around $.01/kwh in some sunny places, converting that energy into storable gas/liquids can be profitable even at low efficiency rates. And we already have an existing network to transport, store and burn gases. Converting those from natural gas to other gases is likely easier than rebuilding everything.

From all that I read, Ammonia is a prime candidate. Especially because there's an existing large market for it, so producers don't have to bet on a new market to ramp up production. But there's no real reason why some power plants, ships and maybe even trucks couldn't be driven by Ammonia in the future.
Ah, so the answer is basically no, since the key to the zone would not allow this mapping so long as everything was configured correctly. I did not see the key part but I did skim the article. Thanks!
I would want to analyze the inverse in order to see the issue from at least two different sides:

How does it benefit local Mexicans?

For example, having additional money in their economy: in the hands of tourist businesses, services businesses, industrial product (vehicle?) sales, grocery sales, etc.

Additionally, how does it affect the culture? For example, I'm a 100% remote software engineer. I love talking about Business & IT, and encouraging people to learn accounting & web app development, for example. And I speak Spanish, so I chat about it with locals. Most aren't interested, but occasionally I encounter some.

Where ever I go, I enjoy talking to people about how they can be self taught engineers (or self-taught in many domains, really). I encourage people to research the skills in high demand in their country, region, state, and city.

Why? Because it worked for me: Someone encouraged me to grow my skills-- So did research and saw I could become a software engineer without a degree, and lo and behold: I taught myself (mostly) via online video series, ebooks, chatrooms, forums, and 3-4 in-person classes (statistics, databases).

So, for me personally, I proactively intend to benefit the local economy where ever I go-- not just by buying what people are selling and thereby supporting their businesses, but also supporting them by encouraging their career & skill growth.
I may be misunderstanding your comment, but as I understood it you are talking about industry failures academia can't do anything about. If industry is massively behind on outdated, closed environments and academia work's with different, open tools then that's not academias fault. Like:

> it's legacy product support and ease of onboarding new hires.

I don't see how academia can help with this, this so very much an industry problem.

> But I need these to be accessible by Billy Joe, whose only credentials that got him the job in the maintenance department is that he helped out his daddy working with a welder and an old clapped-out Bridgeport on the farm growing up.

While accessible interfaces and forms of human-computer interactions are researched by academia, they are not building products. Research has to be relevant, but it's still research. Those problems, they might be better addressed by a startup than academia, if that's even realistic. Academia can't solve a problem if it's not a research-problem.
My thoughts exactly! It’s confusing to me coming from the desktop+mobile software world, how little automated off-device testing there is in the embedded world.
> if you need a better alternative to C or C++...Rust is pretty much the answer. Is that not accurate?

If the thing(s) that you're looking to "better" about C++ are its atrocious compile times and/or the C++ culture's even more atrocious shared aesthetics, then the answer is "no".
On the other hand, if you own a house and don't miss payments, you are left alone to do what you want with the place and have no real risk of someone making you homeless on more or less a whim.

If you're renting, your landlord can decide to sell your home out from under you, or evict you to have family move in, or renovate without your choice, or or or. You aren't really in control of your own home when you rent. Most rentals I've lived in wouldn't allow pets for instance. And you can't even choose the color of paint on the walls. It's a joke.

So yeah. Borrow money from a bank, buy a house. Paint it whatever you want. Plant whatever flowers you want. Grow your own food. Have pets. Enjoy having actual choice and freedom about your surroundings.

In the world of "we only rent" we limit our options by an extreme amount.

This extends to cars too. You can't even change the tires on a rented car. And you're limited to only driving what is available for renting. What if I want a sports car? What if I want an SUV? What if I'm doing some yard work and need a truck, but none are available?

Seriously if you're ok only ever renting, houses or vehicles, or anything else... How do you apply any kind of agency on your surroundings? You just live by other people's rules and accept the surroundings other people have crafted for you all the time?

No thanks. People need stuff that is thier own.
Single source of truth is prob the biggest offender I see.

Same conceptual state gets represented in multiple variables or derived variables, and these must stay in sync. Very brittle
A horde of lunatics stormed the capitol, some wearing outrageous outfits with names like "Q Shaman"
I think you under estimate how many OEMs there are.

Which “few titanic entities” are you referring to? Tesla? BMW? Toyota? Volkswagen Group? Gheely? BYD? Hyundai? Honda? … the list goes on. Basically there isn’t a more competitive anti-monopoly industry than the car industry.
Google rewrites a lot of their software components from scratch every few years, at least according to section 2.11 of this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.01715.pdf
It is very easy unless shitposting is your dayjob.
> populations in actual hypercompetitive hellholes, where they're not just competing for a job/status/basic financial solvency, but literally for their food security, physical safety, etc., are those which are having more kids

That's the problem we should solve. We don't want just "more children". We want "more children in the environments where there are resources available for their proper development". The "more children" in places like you describe problem is currently solved by more polytical instability, more war, more disease etc..

> "make raising kids cheaper/easier" and "make life easier" are not interventions proven to boost birth rates

Nothing's proven until you run an experiment to f prove it! You're the perfect example of "thinking prfoundly, but in the wrong direction" - under the whole flawed paradigm of "social science" you take the problems to be solved as "implacable natural tendencies" and from this you build flawed arguments against why the actual problems to be solved "can't be solved".

> The pretty-much-universal trend appears to be that once people become more educated and comfortable, they stop having kids above repopulation rate.

That's the freakin problem you need to solve, not a "trend" to placidly observe. We need to run experiments on multiple ways to alter/reverse this human behavior that's not natural but a product of the nasty society we've build for ourselves. OK, it was a price for a faster evolution towards post-industrial stage, but now we can tweak it and adjust the externalities.

We might want to start with the fact that people are rarely "educated and comfortable". Education often makes people slaves of social-loops where they need to work harder to keep the higher status they've got used to and so on. Most higher educated people are more stressed and less happy than lower education people. We need to give people stuff like "job tenures" etc. to create stability - the lower class people actually have this stability by virtue of being "rock bottom", eg. "it's hard to fall any lower down the social ladder, so at least you can lay back and feel good and comfy about it, with whatever rationalizations you can concoct, then start having some kids to get a feel of meaning in life, yey!".

We need to think active social engineering not passive social-"science". We've sold ourselved a bunch of feel good stories about "how things are" in our "society", instead of realizing that society is nothing but a mechanism with thousands of levers we can start tweaking until we get better outcomes...
It's getting easier. Portugal's D7 visa and NHR program make it very attractive for FIRE, and the Dutch American Friendship Treaty seems popular with US software developers who can contract themselves out.

The best law you could pass to protect the locals would be to allow people to build homes, I'd think.
> They're not singing "God save the king", but rather "we will water our fields with the blood of our enemies."

Well, when the Marseillaise was written, they were about to kill the king, forgo any reference to God and were watering fields with the blood of their enemies (and French soldiers), so it was appropriate, no?
From the article:

Nonprofit hospitals get billions of dollars in tax breaks in exchange for providing support to their communities. A Wall Street Journal analysis shows they are often not particularly generous.

These charitable organizations, which comprise the majority of hospitals in the U.S., wrote off in aggregate 2.3% of their patient revenue on financial aid for patients’ medical bills. Their for-profit competitors, a category including publicly traded giants such as HCA Healthcare Inc., wrote off 3.4%, the Journal found in an analysis of the most-recent annual reports hospitals file with the federal government.

Among nonprofits with the smallest shares of patient revenue going toward charity care—well under 1%—were high-profile institutions including the biggest hospitals of California’s Stanford Medicine and Louisiana’s Ochsner Health systems. At Avera Health, a major hospital system in South Dakota, charity care was roughly half of 1% of patient revenue across all its 18 hospitals.
I believe much of the implementation is OSS:

# Hypercore (core datastructure)

* https://github.com/hypercore-protocol/hypercore-next

# Hyperswarm (net)

* https://github.com/hyperswarm/hyperswarm

# Secret Stream (e2ee)

* https://github.com/hyperswarm/secret-stream

# Sodium Universal (crypto)

* https://github.com/sodium-friends/sodium-universal
Isn't the _actual_ problem here the fact that these kids weren't vaccinated against hepatitis?
Like in Waterworld, where did they get all those cigarettes? Who's growing all that tobacco?
The Sonic Colors PC port is also running on Godot Engine.
Our source format is epub, and the conversion is part of our toolkit. Azw3 conversion is done using Calibre: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools
How to make your replacement for a C language Google-able: name it after an API for a C language:

Carbon was one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Apple for the macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X) operating system.

Compare also keywords or key terms:

Carbon will be built on a foundation on modern programming principles, including a generics system, that would remove the need to check and recheck the code for each instantiation. Another much needed feature lacking in C++ is memory safety. Memory access bugs are one of the largest culprits of security exploits. Carbon designers will look for ways to better track uninitialized states, design APIs and idioms that support dynamic bounds checks, and build a comprehensive default debug build mode. Over time, the designers plan to build a safe Carbon subset.

Versus...

Carbon libraries are extensively cleaned up, modernized and better "protected". While the Mac OS was filled with APIs that shared memory to pass data, under Carbon all such access was re-implemented using accessor subroutines on opaque data types. This allowed Carbon to support true multitasking and memory protection, features Mac developers had been requesting for a decade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(API)

Go Get 'Em!
There's enough gaps in the specification (move/copy situation in particular) that would make me hesitant to use this for any production code. Given that the code seems to date from WG21's rejection of the Google-led "we want to add a hard ABI break in C++23" proposal, the project is barely 2 years from literal first commit, which is likely too short to attract any substantial internal usage.
That may be true in some areas of Austin, but in most cases, it's about cost and expectations. Austin straddles the border between dry, rocky west Texas and wetter, black soil east Texas, but houses have traditionally been built without basements no matter what kind of soil they were built on, in Austin and in other parts of Texas. These days, a lot of newer, more expensive houses are built with basements to maximize usable square footage.
I mostly agree with what you have said, except that I believe that anyone who updates their older digital devices to a newer node now would be wise to choose 28 nm instead of 40 nm or of any other older node, unless constrained by suitability of the node for certain analog parts of the devices.

The 28 nm node is the last before FinFET, so its costs do not differ much from 40 nm, but such a choice would be much more future proof.

Already now the production capacity for 28 nm is greater than for any older nodes. Because more 28-nm plants are planned to be built, the difference in capacity will become even greater in the next years.

Choosing 40 nm now might force another process upgrade after not many years.

EDIT:
After writing above based only on the existing and planned production capacities, I have googled and I have found that representatives of TSMC have made public statements that no new plants for nodes older than 28 nm will be built, so everybody who upgrades must choose at least 28 nm (which was state-of-the-art 10 years ago):

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17470/tsmc-to-customers-time-...

While this statement is from TSMC, it is quite certain that also none of the other foundries will build new plants for nodes older than 28 nm, because they would not be able to recover their investments.
Some DNS revolvers filter results to protect against malware, malicious sites, or NSFW content. You can always add another layer on top of the blockchain that filters/censors based on your/your company's/your government's wishes.
That doesn't seem particularly relevant when some of the other things are highly poisonous?

Why would you focus on that when the review is talking about studies showing health impacts and only mentions tires once, explaining that general environmental dust becomes "road dust" when kicked up by tires?
Unit tests, while good at promoting decoupling, can absolutely be a major driver of complexity, as it may break the code into far more units than what is reasonable.
> Car extras are already very much a thing and always have been – the alternative is that BMW physically has to remove the heater components or disable them permanently, so as a second hand buyer, I'd be permanently locked out of the upgrade. Forcing the car maker to have to physically neuter the hardware out of "purity" strikes be as something a bit silly.

this is buying into a market differentiation approach that I see no reason to tolerate

it's one thing to differentiate by installing something extra (at cost) to charge a price higher than the cost to some market segment. sure, do that as much as you want, makes sense
There's a great section in The Practice of Programming where the book describes how you should structure your code to not just be structured nicely now, but to plan for the future; to structure it so that changes are easy, organized, and don't break anything.

It's not exhaustive but it's a powerful general idea and I always like introducing developers to it for the first time.
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This is correct, not sure why it was downvoted. I think a major reason why people did not get very sick from poliovirus when very young is because of maternal IgG passed through the placenta before birth, and maternal IgA (edit, sorry, probably IgG through breast milk as well) passed through breast milk. This only lasts for six months and even by then it's waning, so children should get vaccinated with trivalent eIPV (enhanced Inactivated Polio Vaccine) as soon as their immune system is developed enough, probably by four months of age in enough cases to start giving the first dose. Some countries can't handle the cost and logistics of giving safe injections of eIPV, but you can't give multiple serotypes of OPV (Oral Polio Vaccine) at the same time because there is a dominance hierarchy that interferes with generating immunity against all serotypes, so at least one dose of eIPV should be used before starting OPV if at all possible. Polio has three serotypes without long-term protective cross reactivity, so you can't rely on natural infection to prevent future disease (possibly as a teenager or adult) caused by a different serotype.
Of course. The more sideways you are the more you’d still like your wheels to point the direction of intended travel!
This is a great write up of why Casablanca is an immaculate screenplay: economy of vision. Great architecture doesn't need a thousand beams but just a few, perfectly placed arches. Picasso could draw a single line and capture more than the thousand lines of a poorer artist.

In Casablanca, there are no unnecessary scenes: every single scene has one or more uses in terms of plot. As they say here, Yvonne's a background character found in three small scenes and when we see her in her third and final scene, joining in 'La Marseillaise' it's like a gut punch so hard that it takes my breath away -- every time I see it.

This is what you can do with storytelling. These are the heights we can reach.
It's probably not as cut and dry as we'd like it to be. How do you weigh a number of children with hepatitis vs people missing out on care because hospitals are overwhelmed with covid patients (in a world where there were no lockdowns)? Can we confidently say "lockdowns were bad because X children got ill and only Y people would have suffered from hospital-collapse"? Or the reverse?
It is better. If you have a predictable low rate other people can still plan their schedules around you, while you figure out how to speed up / scale up. If you have an unpredictable rate, you block everyone else (and often yourself).
I love unit tests, but admit I have absolutely seen unnecessary complexity including complete classes and namespaces solely to enable testability in many cases.

It's a justifiable trade off for me, but I don't pretend that unit testing reduces complexity.
Considering a) ze German penchant for interesting control linkages and b) the lack of an 80degree CV shaft shown in the demo video I'm assuming this is a RWD thing.

If they could pull of an 80deg CV joint, hell even a 60deg one, at a decent price/performance point that would be the real money maker here. Every fork lift made in the last century can turn the wheels near 90, being able to transmit the power there (like you need in a FWD application) is the hard part.

Furthermore, work trucks and vans need this kind of stuff a lot more than compact cars do. A tiny car already turns good enough to be not a pain point in practice, the opposite really. People are already highly satisfied with them so making it turn better is just dick measuring. Taking a van that turns bad and making it turn good is a competitive advantage.
I think real workaround would be getting in contact with your local congressperson and passing legislation outlawing the practice because this is a prisoner's dilemma that forced cooperation would fix -- the car market would be better for everyone including sellers if this was forbidden. But that kind of thing requires a functioning government.
This is a question I've often asked myself - albeit from in the US rather than from Germany. While I cannot answer your specific question, I can at least tell you where I landed after asking myself the same question.

> quality of life, politics, social life, social net and tax situation just reached their 30 year low.

I first recognized that this trend was not restricted only to where I live. And so you recognize that this is not about fleeing your location specifically, and is moreso about fleeing a set of conditions that exist in many places and looking for a location that is not characterized by these conditions. The difference I think is important.

Second, I recognized that these conditions are temporal - that is to say that they were not always the case and need not necessarily always be the case in the future. Furthermore, a location without these conditions today is not guaranteed to be free of these conditions in the future. And so any change of location could very well be just temporary - I might need to move again in some X num of years.

Third, when you look at for example Californians fleeing the state and moving to places like Austin, TX - bringing along with them ideologies that are anathema to that of the legacy population, you recognize that it is not just geography that defines the conditions of where one lives, but to a greater degree the people who are living there.

Putting this all together, I arrived at the conclusion that fleeing could at best be a temporary solution and that I would be better served by building relationships in my local community which would produce a higher quality of life for my family. The way you push back on the trend is to re-establish your roots with your people, your nation, and its history. Fleeing will only result in greater isolation and disconnectedness from those around you.
Microplastics pass through fish, altering nutrient metabolism
Ah the Unix philosophy. `man ssh' gives `ssh [-46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-B bind_interface] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-E log_file] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file] [-J destination] [-L address] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port] [-Q query_option] [-R address] [-S ctl_path] [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] destination [command]`
Revealed: Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Original title:

Against Restaurant QR Codes

Subtitle:
They degrade the social experience of dining out.

It is (right or wrong) an opinion piece, where the harmfulness is mentioned as follows:

>QR codes may also raise data-security concerns. Data collection on our food choices will leave some people justifiably unnerved. It may seem farfetched to tie QR service to authoritarianism, but provincial governments in China are already using similar consumer data to nudge behaviors in their preferred direction. In Guangdong, people are docked or credited with price adjustment at local restaurants and retailers for their transit choices, all via digital platforms. In light of this practice, coercive pressure on food choices hardly seems implausible.
Cheers. I actually think that we all agree a lot more than not on most things, but the algorithms make line go up when we're fighting. Line must go up.
> "I don't like these people and these people support EA, so EA is bad. Also I think trickle down economics is an accurate model."

This would have been a much shorter article without losing substance.
Yeah, that struck me as well. The demo video uses an i3 which, unless they’ve done some serious reengineering, is a RWD vehicle.