skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are very affordable, but you need to order from somewhere that wholesales to restaurants.

https://www.wasserstrom.com/restaurant-supplies-equipment/pa...

These pans are pre-seasoned and ready for use.
Why is this downvoted? This is very much true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_II_weapons
> You’d be surprised, but pathogens existed even before farming.

Yet if you look at recent papers from microbiologists and virologists you'll find that the field experts are very concerned at the rapid evolution of antibiotic resistant pathogens linked to the widespread use of antibiotics in animal farming.

There is a whole field of research on the topic, not just a paper or two, and they've been sounding the alarm for almost a decade.

But of course, leave it to the HNers to handwave the whole problem away.

EDIT: the FDA is "well aware" and still has some of the most lax regulations amongst developed countries since decades...
> I use it for steaks because they are hard to sear in other cookware.

Stainless steel is perfect for searing. Easier to maintain than cast iron too.
I’ve researched this extensively and I don’t agree, so there’s that.

This is a common insidious tactic of the media…pay attention to how presumptuous they are especially in headlines. I can’t even keep track of how many baseless claims they make as if they’re accepted fact anymore.
And why is that?

Maybe it hurt Facebook more that Apple?
A man behind stable Diffusion
I'd love to use this datum to bash people over the head about volatile markets or so.

However, the reason oil prices dropped below 0 for a short while was due to the pandemic and temporary slowdown of the economy of course. So I don't think that's indicative of long-term trends either way.
I don't really know what to say. It's not that you're wrong or couldn't' be right, it's that there's a whole ecosystem of language and tooling, culture of idiomatic program design and human psychology at play.

So you draw a line in the sand and say that using exceptions for cases where errors are commonplace is fundamentally misunderstanding. Is this true for every library you use? For every programmer you're going to hire? For every scenario that you're going to encounter? Maybe, but it's asserting what reality should look like rather than what it actually is.

Arguments about which programming to use on a philosophical level are always hard because it's, in my opinion, effectively a psychological argument. The language provides intrinsics that allow you to think about problems in a certain way and use tools to help express ideas within that framework succinctly. So saying "this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what this intrinsic is there for" is kind of besides the point. How is it used? Does it's presence in the language make sense to use it in the way you think it should be used?

I actually don't have a big opinion on this, I was mostly trying to "strongman" the argument so that a better discussion could be had. I will point out that many more "modern" languages, like Go (and Rust?) use the more C-like error handling than the try/catch type error handling.
iTerm2 has tmux support where a tmux session on a remote server would be rendered with native iTerm2 panes.

https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
VS Code with a vim plugin is in the uncanny valley of text editors. It doesn't work quite right and a lot of functionality is missing. It's enough that there's more frustration and less productivity for no advantage.
Love this story. The sheer level of stubbornness by some companies and and then the energy they spend fighting back, when they are clearly in the wrong, is mind-blowing. I’ve had my own battles, and it’s this kind of story that reminds me sometimes the energy is worth it.
My grandmother has some cast iron pans (one of which came from her mother) that are so smooth to the touch that it is hard to believe they are the same material as the gritty Lodge pans at the store. This is what I love most about these pans! It completely flips the script on our disposable culture and gives you something that just keeps improving as the decades go by!
People have called the Onion the world's most reliable source.
> I recently discovered scooters (lime, bird, etc), and have to say that they now compete with walking for me.

FYI, these are illegal to use in Japan without a license. They require the same license that low CC motor bikes/mopeds require in Japan. They also require license plates.
Not exaggerating. I agree.

As someone who is interviewing at the moment. I won't completely dismiss the company for using Teams (and expecting the interviewee to 'cope' with the crap experience) but it immediately puts that company in the "hmm, I'll do this interview for the practice and maybe they'll surprise me" camp ...
I was in Northern Vietnam in 2019, happily riding my rental scooter around.

I ride right past a dog on a rotisserie.

I stopped to talk to the guy and he showed me his sign that said Dog Meat. After learning the words for dog meat in Vietnamese, I saw the signs everywhere.
GDB can work as a backend for an IDE and even in mid-2000s you had VS-like IDEs like Anjuta that provided a very decent interface. A little bit later Eclipse/CDT did a great job and IMO in terms of features it was better than VS around late 2000s / early 2010s. It did eat up all the system resources though (i used to have "only" 1GB of RAM on my midlate-2000s PC and until i added another 1GB i had to choose between Eclipse/CDT and Firefox if i wanted to avoid constant HDD noises :-P).

I remember working at a gamedev studio around 2007 and while almost everyone else used Visual Studio 2005 (i think, i don't remember exactly), i used Eclipse/CDT with some makefiles that another developer (who used Vim) had written and always felt VS was more limited overall.

(it has been almost a decade since i used Eclipse/CDT though, i don't even remember why i moved on from it)
If he brought all his old buddies from Pune, India to join him, I think I worked for him too.
It's on the context, and useful one highlighting a feature of a product that helps with legal compliance.
"Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds"

— Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, 1797
That is not what project managers do.

Project managers set priorities, communicate requirements to developers, and communicate expected timlines, problems, needed changes, and other developer-surfaced issues back up the chain.

If engineers (like me) are left alone to work on it, either one of them becomes de-facto project manager, or you probably end up with a well-engineered product and wholly unsatisfied customers.
The moon is a pretty big target. A missile needs to hit a sat that is the is 1m² very hard to detact and moving fast with its own propulsion and avoidance system.

> But I think the capacity of the soyuz and falcon is about the same.

Per launch a Falcon 9 lifts about double and in the last couple years Falcon 9 has launched 2-4x as often.

> It’s probably not fair to use Starship for that comparison (as much as I want to) because it has yet to successfully launch.

As of right now Russia likely also doesn't have the missiles you suggest. I would argue that Starship is closer then an advanced anti-sat weapon that can split up in orbit and hit many targets.
Thanks for your answer.
So I have to provide two versions of my videos. One with and one without BM.
This will increase production effort, but will give me a safe zone for my audience.
None of the scientists say we'll be extinct.

Some areas will become uninhabitable. Others will become more habitable. Humanity won't go extinct.

Some other species will yes, but that was not what I meant. And we've made species extinct long before the industrial age :( I should have elaborated.
Oh wow, I hadn't heard of Spartan, but it looks like what I'm after. Gemini is interesting, but I didn't like how TLS and Unicode rules out a lot of old retro machines from being able to access it.

Looks like Spartan is already supported by the excellent Lagrange [1] Gopher/Gemini browser from v1.13 onwards, so I'm happy to discover this! Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
Sound has worked better for me on Linux than it did on Mac and Windows. Albeit, I haven’t used Windows in 5 years or so.
Nukes have only ever been "profitable" where heavily subsidized with public money. These subsidies are often cunningly concealed, as for instance the liability cap which amounts to a tax-paid insurance policy. No nuke could afford to operate if it paid market insurance rates -- if indeed anybody could afford to offer to insure one at all. Similarly, decommissioning cost is never included.

And, a system an order of magnitude more costly, as fusion would necessarily be, would certainly be far from competitive, even were regular nukes honestly viable.

Neglecting all subsidies, and also construction cost, current nukes are considered about on par with renewables, but renewables costs are still falling very sharply. So, any nuke started today, without neglecting CAPEX, absolutely could not compete with renewables built at the time it is finally fired up.

Corollary is that existing nukes, where not explicitly propped up by coercive funding, will be mothballed long before their design life is up, and their CAPEX amortized over the many fewer kWh actually produced will mean they cost way more per than originally projected.
That feeling seems to have been wrong, though. There isn't enough wind, solar, and nuclear to actually replace fossil fuels yet, and there isn't nearly enough energy storage to cover the gaps in the renewables. I believe there is a need to drop fossil fuels, but it seems to have happened too fast.
They work splendidly on wood-burning stoves, give it a try. If you don't have one of those a metal bucket with holes in the bottom-side (for air intake) and top-side also works very well, just feed it dry sticks through the air holes to keep it going. I regularly use a big carbon steel wok to make nasi goreng (fried rice), to deep fry fish and for similar things.
And even in Europe the weather patterns tend to be quite larger. So you would need very long transmission lines. And then compete for the supply from the areas that have momentary production, with other areas that don't.

Theoretically long distance sounds like fancy idea, but I don't think geopolitics are exactly ready for that yet. At least not on intercontinental scale.
> That's frightening they don't know that

It's a common problem when moving from Mysql. We personally ran into that shortly after switching to Postgres, but seems like something they should've discovered a lot earlier for sure.
> Filesystems are nothing more than specialized databases but they don't expose the necessary interface to use them as such.

Most FS are not even transactional, so they can't expose the necessary interfaces (hell, most individual FS calls are not guaranteed to be transactional).

I assume you could build an application-level transactional system on ZFS, but I don't know that it exposes any such APIs either.
French is centralized, but not stationary. It's also, at least among languages I'm familar with, an outlier in being so formally standardised - if English was treated as stringently, variations like Hiberno-English, American English or English as spoken in India would be considered errors, rather than regional variations. Finally, it's not hoping for adoption among a group 40x larger than it's current speaker base.
Do you have links to papers on this?
Frink beats everything including Maxima when it comes to unit conversion and dealing with mixed-unit calcs. You can do money exchange calculations like:

54 USD - 25 SAR, and Frink will spit out 47.33 dollar (currency)

I use the graphic example program and customize it to print out graph paper. You can set the graphics to print at true measurement!

Animations, input forms, graphics, all with mixed-unit calcs. You program in Frink's lang, which is a simplified Java. Reminds me of Groovy. I just like the fact it is a desktop IDE with choices on programming or simply converting units.

The examples you can download off the main page are amazing and fun. The documentation is great too. I have been using Frink for a long time now, so I just made a donation to Alan who created and maintains the project. It has saved many a headache and error with carrying different units, and I've had fun with it. It's like a cool little programming environment.

EDIT: It also runs on Android, and there is a GCJ compiled exe version for Windows (experimental).
I trust Chrome, Brave, and Firefox more than Zoom, by a lightyear or so.
"An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management" by Will Larson also draws from the author's experience at Stripe (among others, and is published by Stripe itself [1]). I guess you can choose to see it as "there are lots of problems at Stripe as shown by the numerous published solutions".. but the transparency is worth something imo.

[1] https://press.stripe.com/
Agreed based on test drives. Hyundai are at the top of my EV list. Congrats on the car. Looking to pick one up inside 12 months.
I found reading technical books on any computer platform to be somewhat awkward. I much prefer physical books for this: even with the best software it's just so much easier to flip back a bunch of pages.

Funny enough, I found this holds true especially for things like programming books where I very frequently go back to see if I understood something correctly, and having a book separate from my computer in front of me is also useful.
This is one of the areas where piracy is good and moral, as a low-cost vigilante solution to harass corporations who have grown safe and fat. Piracy is a fresh slap on the backside to wake those kind of people up.

And this is why all this "muh cloud" bullshit is a nightmare world where you, the client, have 0 leverage or rights or any kind of weight. Aside from the astonishingly dumb UX choice of "You always need a reliable network to do anything" off course.
I thought it was clear I was talking about a timeframe of the next 10 years not the next 6 months. The idea that the carbon industry might start giving up the ghost in 6 months is fantasy.

But yes, war has been good for the carbon industry, both in Russia and the US, and no doubt both are keen to perpetuate this war as it gives them a new lease of life.

German nuclear plants are a blip. The amount them getting turned off get talked about is baffling, frankly, given their extreme high expense, the need to plan out decades in advance, the fact they can only do baseload and how little they actually contribute to german electricity. The current german gas crisis wouldnt be much different if the government made the decision 10 years ago to not kick off the shutdown process.
This is a very common story, not at all specific to one guy from Pune.
And where's "you should feel bad" ?
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> Germany is just another case of politicians not listening to experts.

The politicians pay the “expert”. So unfortunately, I think you’re mistaken. This was my primary point, you get what you pay for.

I totally agree any engineer or frankly anyone with baseline competency and a minor amount of research would come away with the same conclusions. The challenge is these “experts” have every incentive to push the political agenda. Further, they’ll ban anyone who disagrees. How many “global warming deniers” (99% of whom just believe humans aren’t the primary cause) are banned from discussion? All of them. They are all ridiculed, banned, and many can’t get grants or publish.

Th challenge is even with storage capacity (even a hell of a lot of it), you’re still going to get issues on the edges. For instance, if a volcano erupts and blacks out a region relying on solar… you’re out of luck.
I use Yakuake with the Awesome tiling window manager and as long as you add it to the rule for floating clients in your rc.lua it works perfectly.
You should read more attentively before jumping in on a high horse.

Making statements that imply that the "cost" only boils down to "fuel cost" is essentially lying.

Calculate how much it will cost to power a city 100% with renewables for a week. Oops, you can't, cuz we don't have the technology for uninterrupted power draw from non-nuclear renewables.
Thank you for the recommendation, adding it to my list.

Meta, but my favorite part of HN is the exposure to books I'd never come across otherwise.
On land you just can’t make it tall enough, you get roughly 2.5kWh of potential energy per km of delta-h per ton of mass. I think if you store energy in a gravity battery out in the ocean where the depths are 10km, you may end up with a system competitive with pumped hydro.

The incremental cost of a ton of mass and a ton of buoyancy are probably gonna be a factor of 2 to 10 less than lithium batteries. For any storage project: if it needs $1B of infrastructure costs for wires, dynamos, robots etc. just to start then you must be talking about building at least 10GWh before it is practical. so probably millions of tons for an oceanic gravity battery
I read it as saying you don't need 500C if you have a pizza stone or cast iron pan for transferring heat fast. So use a object that has a significant heat capacity to buffer heat, and you don't need the oven to be as hot. (Stone has higher heat capacity per unit mass than iron, but large cast iron pans are heavier than typical pizza stones, so the two objects probably have similar heat capacities.)
Poor comment considering where they are now.
> Most people buying AR-15s in the US are not buying them to keep pests off their farm.

Now, explain why you think an AR-15 is so dangerous? Tell me why you’re so focused on that gun when it’s both not the major gun used in mass shootings[1], and when more homicides are committed with pistols[2].

I know quite a lot about guns, and I can explain the obsession. AR-15’s are hopped up 22’s. Literally. They take a 55-ish grain bullet and stack a lot of powder behind it. For reference the “not at all dangerous” 22 rimfire the government wants everybody to move to has a 40-ish grain bullet. What this means is low recoil, with good power. Coupled with relatively cheap ammo, you can sport shoot, compete and defend your farm with a single gun. Further, the AR platform is highly modifiable. I can swap uppers and change the caliber entirely. I can have an upper used for sport shooting, and a different one for hunting.

1: https://www.newsweek.com/ar-15-rifles-were-used-26-percent-l...

2: https://abcnews.go.com/US/type-gun-us-homicides-ar-15/story?...
The Factorio developers claim that they didn’t have much issues with floats, beyond trig functions (which are in software).

> Originally we were quite afraid of Floating point operations discrepancies across different computers. But surprisingly, this hasn't been a big problem so far (knocking on the table). We got away with implementing our own trigonometric functions.

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-52
There are numerous ways that you can store some amount of power - batteries, various potential energy storage options, hydrogen and other synthetic fuels, even stuff like flywheels. The unsolved problem is storing power on the vast scale actually needed to make an 100% renewable grid possible. In particular I think the numbers on storing energy by lifting and lowering concrete blocks work out really bad and a long way from being useful as a form of energy storage.
Those look like railings to me, more for safety than for security.
I did the same, but unfortunately iOS 13 added a lot of APIs that are indispensable for modern iOS development.
My own apps are supporting iOS 9.3 though, it’s a good feeling giving people the option to dedicate their obsolete devices to just one function, forever.
> I don't really know what to say. It's not that you're wrong or couldn't' be right, it's that there's a whole ecosystem of language and tooling, culture of idiomatic program design and human psychology at play.

It seems you wanted to say that there are frameworks out there that use exception handling to handle flow control.

There are indeed. There's also plenty of fundamentally broken code around. That is not a justification to perpetuate mistakes. It's like someone complaining that sticking fingers in power outlets hurts because of the jolt. Well, then don't?
Otherwise it would lead to a concentration of wealth among the few, and increase the gap between the rich and the poor. And are you asking why personal freedom is so important to people?
> However even the first picture (on the right side) shows that windows have bars - probably to secure the building against thieves? How much theft is there in Japan?

I think the bars are more for protection against flying debris during typhoons or to protect children from falling out of open windows.
The budgets were not actually going to the F-35 or the mythical $50 hammers etc. They were going to projects that work.
Green is good for the environment because the plants absorb the CO2. You have cause and effect backwards.

Not to mention, you neglect the waves of climate refugees who will be on your farm's land as soon as their not-Sweden cannot produce the crops that your land provides.
The drop below zero was literally predicted by experts and even in published articles weeks before it happened. However, it occurred due to the pandemic shutdowns causing a historic demand drop, and the oil currently flowing through the system had nowhere to go.

In contrast, oil and electric markets are actually some of the most predictable markets that exists today. Renewables and the weather are actually the most unpredictable factors involved.
It's not a statement about your general motivation for a PhD -- I don't think you can easily find a subject for which you will find a non-stop motivation 24h/7days for 3-4 years (or so, eqv. period required to get a PhD). If you encounter a dip in interest, which most likely will happen, you need to understand that changing a PhD is not always a best option -- just because it sounds good now, it doesn't mean it will in 2 years time. You supervisor should be there to guide you into interesting areas of research and may play a substantial role in rekindling your motivation. Naturally, mental health issues are another problem -- but I think they have often different origins than "just boredom" with subject. I may be completely wrong though.
> He works 10-12 hours a day, 60 hours a week, 6 days a week

> Work life balance and taking care of his family is just part of that deal as well.

I don't judge anyone for how they like to spend their time (and certainly admire Carmack), but what work/life balance? There isn't much except work there.
Yeah, I think it's impossible to encapsulate feelings anyway. I think we think we remember how something feels, but we just simulate it on demand, and there's no way to tell the difference.
As an immigrant who walked everywhere where I grew up, this is one of the things I miss the most about living in America. Walkable neighborhoods are rare in most parts of the US, let alone the cities. I wish we had more places to walk. Sigh.