skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is arguing whether or not they are more efficient. Yet, in practice:

>Heat pumps

Most governments seem awfully eager on pushing the costs onto individuals. With big inflations and a breakeven point anywhere between 5 and 20 years case-by-case, that's a hard sell for individuals and causes no end of political pressure. In practice, a lot of people are not eager to move to heat pumps in older houses, while (re)building is still severely hampered.

>Similar numbers for electric cars and many other usages.

Same as above. Electric car subsidies are incredibly limited, used electric cars still have to flow to the market at a rate they become affordable for the less fortunate. At the same time, there's not a whole lot being done about the short duration of generations which is part of what causes environmental issues (goes for everything, not just cars). Of course, combatting that means products have to become more expensive to keep the current cashflow alive, something most stakeholders aren't willing to bet on. Alternatives are cheaper public transit (which would beat out EV altogether, especially if the used vehicles become electric themselves), but again, governments don't seem too eager to invest into it beyond some token experiments.

And you can say this for anything. We already have solutions. We have tons of solutions, some for individuals, some for entire communities, some for the rich, etc. We're just not implementing them or trying to implement them without hurting the status quo (or pushing the pain onto specific groups). Which makes everything just not work in practice and we're waiting for the theory to magically solve our disputes, instead of adapting to the theory.

Case in point: remote work. If the environment was our biggest concern, remote work wouldn't be a discussion.
Title of the Metamers paper (which sounds really interesting) referenced in the text: "Model metamers illuminate divergences between biological and artificial neural networks".

This is literally the opposite of the main editorial push in this article and headline. Misrepresenting researchers in this way to beef up a silly mainstream narrative about ML/DL is definitely uncritical STEM worship-type territory.
Where in southern Europe did you go? Where I'm from (Greece) it gets down to -20 C in the winter, so our houses are very well insulated and heated. They have to be, otherwise we'd burn up in the summer as well.
> Your theory is that a few select women are massive whores?

You keep putting words in my mouth. And furthering the stigma I'm arguing against.

I will not continue discussing in this thread.
I didn’t see a sign at the time, but I’ve been asked to leave after the server confirmed we couldn’t read Japanese. Honestly didn’t think much of it, just assumed it was because the menu was only in Japanese.
It appears as alarmism until the evolutionary dice roll lands on "Ebola-like severity with Covid-like infectiousness". Some prudent concern and hard thinking being applied to unpredictable tail risks isn't alarmism.
Energy storage is still hard, unfortunately. I don't think any gravity storage other than pumped hydro (where nature allows for it) is viable.

The question I've been asking myself in case we were to go for battery energy storage: would we be better off using decentralized system with solar + battery on every home / small community or just make massive installations and keep using existing power grid to move energy to homes?
Putting nav down the left hand side of a narrow mobile view seems unfortunate. Should be sticky footer nav like a mobile app with sections easily reachable by thumb.

Boring but doesn’t cramp the view.
> Even though renewable energy capacity is 60% renewables, energy consumption is only 10% renewables. This is every country. Because renewable energy comes in bursts.

Any engineer could have told you that switching to renewables requires grid expansion and ideally energy storage with renewable overcapacity generation. The more grid expansion, the less storage you'll probably need and vice versa. Germany is just another case of politicians not listening to experts.
I have a lot of respect for Dillo. It uses the FLTK, and is the very definition of "non-bloat". The real problem is that nearly all website render terribly. It just can't keep up with the complexity that it the modern web. It's a real shame.

Lately I have become interested in the older protocols like Gopher, and some of the bulletin boards. There are some recent protocols that address the complexity of the web: Gemini and Spartan (which is Gemini without TLS, basically).
This. I always generate my keys or certs or whatever as part of my dev workflow scripts, configure the local environment to read these, and then gitignore the resulting files. This way it just works for the rest of team and the mechanisms are plainly visible in the repo.

There are many ways to do this, but one that often fits what I am doing is to use terraform’s TLS provider [0]. Terraform has become pretty ubiquitous for me. I am probably already using it to power other parts of my dev environment setup and teardown. Adding in a call to a little module that spits out a dynamic CA and certs signed by it is really easy.

[0] https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/tls/latest...
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After decades of issues with the storage layer and even some of the most popular programs written by top notch developers having bugs due to the problematic nature of the APIs and filesystems involved I wish a completely new storage API would emerge. Something that exposes an asynchronous (and synchronous build upon it) API with ACID semantics. Filesystems are nothing more than specialized databases but they don't expose the necessary interface to use them as such.

We need an API that is dead simple and hard to misuse with clearly defined semantics and guarantees but lets seasoned developers still exploit the hardware to its fullest with additional work. Hope dies last I guess :)
Pretty sure Jitsi lets you do this as well.
It works in exactly the same way.
If it's anything like onshape (the only browser based CAD I know of), browser based means: everyone uses the same version of the software, you don't have to wrestle your it department for installation rights, you can login and work on your designs from anywhere with any average laptop, there are no files (houseV3finalfinal), probably proper baked in version control with branching and merging... everything software developers take for granted that we poor CAD designers only can dream of.
Facebook: we are connecting people.

Coal industry: we are heating people's homes.
Sick of clicking on a link just to read an introduction paragraph and be prompted for a credit card. @dang there needs to be some type of warning icon on stories that pull this clickbait trick
Imo this depends on your definition of open. Others being allowed to edit your content opens the door for abuse from opposite political parties.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it should be illegal? Pretty obvious.
The downloaded version has slightly different video processing to make you look better. It may be that it's not possible to do on webrtc.
I didn't know what it is either, but what is interesting is that the Dust attack actually worked.
> the biggest source of new diseases is animal farming.

There was a study(I don’t have a link handy) on microbiota in Neanderthal dental plaque. You’d be surprised, but pathogens existed even before farming.
Ah, all right, I understand if it's used to rate accumulated damage for incidents. For ongoing arcs, or comparing them however, I think it's a weird.

A small arc, not even dangerous to touch, could have the same energy rating as a gigantic one if you measure the first over a year and the second over a millisecond.
You cab get your oven to 500 degrees C?? I need one like that, not for cooking but for heat treatment of blades at home!
I went from teflon to ceramic to cast iron to steel ("carbon steel"). You still have to season it, but it's a lot lighter than cast iron and things stick less. The price point is roughly the same. Searing with gas or induction is straightforward.
I love my cast iron skillet, which must be at least 4 decades old. It’s great for cooking with the only challenging task being scrambling eggs on low heat (for fluffier eggs), which can stick a little.

I recently bought a new cast iron skillet and it just doesn’t seem to be of the same quality, it’s a lighter colour and doesn’t seem to season as well. Are there different grades of cast iron, or are they just not made like they used to be?
> For instance in Britain solar in winter has 1/10th of the output in summer, and we can have lulls in wind output for many days at a time.

Grid expansion can average over regional lulls. Renewables also need to be built to provide significant overcapacity. Storage can help, but you can do it with only those two.
Barely any. I’ve forgotten my backpack on the train and my wallet at the supermarket and felt pretty secure they’d still be there when I returned hours/a day later, and they were. I leave my laptop unattended in cafes and nobody takes it. My friend only had his city bike stolen after 4+ years of not owning a bike lock. Women can generally wander the streets alone at 3am without worry. You still should have some amount of common sense and probably not do the above lightly, but knowing that your actual chances of getting in trouble is low is a great thing.

Most of the crime I hear of is stuff like people getting ripped off in rip off bars; perverts taking up skirt photos in crowded trains; desperate people taking insanely bad loans from loan sharks and then being intimidated to pay them; and the occasional off the chain beheading once ever now and then. Hence the general bewilderment when Abe got shot.
That's your takeaway? Wow.

I went out of the way to describe how they are not mutually exclusive. Religion helps you understand and realize truths that you may or may not be able to do so with science. It isn't religion that trumps science it is experience. Of course you will still manage to misconstruct this as something beneficial to your agenda that science is the enemy of religion.

If science claimed the earth is flat (which it did for the record in the past) and you built a baloon that lets you go high enough to witness the spherical and rotating nature of the earth. If you can't get others back up to that height to witness what you witnessed then should any other argument convince you to disbelieve what you saw and measured first hand? That is essentially what you are asking. In your world, others would come up with theories to explain why you saw what you saw and because they are smarter than you and there is popular consensus you should explain away what you saw to conform to their consensus. I am saying that is silly and in fact any viable argument would need to involve a similar level of experience as in perhaps going higher up the atmosphere and demonstrate the exact principles that make the flat earth look round or something. Mere hypothesis and theories don't trump experience is what I said (for the record I am not a flat earther lol). Only an experiment that experientially and reproducably demonstrates your argument can trump a belief gained by experience.

Any time someone challenges popular consensus ideas about science you come out with the pitchforks. I guess what they say about becoming what you hate is true. Popular science is how religion has been in the past, it really is a control and power system either way that helps the rulers maintain their grasp be it science or religion when abused this way.
I don't consider (breast)milk a baby human right, much less diapers.
I think you download a clone of new pipe.

There is no Newpipe on the Play store, it breaks the T&S of the play store.

Here is the official website for Newpipe
https://newpipe.net/

Git repo
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
I have never seen this framed as performing work too slowly. It's more about cutting scope, gathering context, asking for help, identifying dependencies, etc.

It's often really helpful for someone to ask these questions, especially when they have higher level context you weren't aware of.
Too paywalled; didn't read;

The Robinhood case means the next time a short squeeze happens (I'm looking at you BBBY), then anyone is going to think twice about turning off the buy button.

Although saying that, usually when it comes to survival, companies will do anything.
I don't think it's dishonest.

The person is just communicating they have that time booked. If it takes a different form for people to respect that, so be it. The content is the same and truthful: that time is blocked.
Do you know what's up with molten salt batteries? I've heard GE was big on it but then after investing a ton of money they just closed it down.

Is the technology not viable? Seemed to me like a green solution that is working ok and can be used now.
People say kissa all the time in Japanese. Source: I live in Japan and speak Japanese with Japanese people.
What is “modern software”?
TV created influencer marketing. Since before social networks existed products would make appearances in shows. See Sheldon drink a coke in big bang theory, that was paid for. See someone shopping at a particular store in a mall, paid for.
Is it surprising that people who are looked down upon and kicked at every opportunity might not want to lower their quality of life so those who never miss a chance to broadcast their hate for rural folks can increase their standard of living even further? "Uneducated rednecks" in "flyover country" at least understand the concept of reaping what one sows.
> Renewables without grid scale storage are a pipe dream.

Renewables don't technically need storage, as long as you overbuild them and expand the grid to average over regional variability. Storage just obviates the need for expanding the grid. This was all known decades ago when I was studying engineering. The technology is not the problem, the political will has always been the problem.
But that's using Slirp, which has its own problems.
> My evidence for this is that in the vast span of human history before these things existed, neither did climate change!

Well that is just factually wrong.

If you didn't notice, we are not living in the ice age right now.
Alternative for Germany
Ironic that you say this. I have a MacBook pro and the zoom application just wouldn't start successfully one day, reinstalling doesn't help. But the web version and other video apps work fine.
Nub City': Vernon, Florida's Decade-Long Insurance Scam (2015)
Yep, I recall being bitten by that.

StarCraft actually let you save replays which were just player inputs - which begs the question why save games couldn’t do this, but I digress - and I clearly remember attempting to watch a replay after a major game update and seeing it fall apart after a few minutes.

The replay was of a 40 minute game. It ran fine for the first few minutes, then I’m not sure what went wrong but suddenly all the characters stopped moving (except the automated mining drones) and the game just stayed like that for the next 30+ minutes.
I gave you a reason why I think this pattern should be illegal under, e.g., the EU privacy laws. So what's your reason for believing it should be legal to force people to use an app tgat collects all kinda of tracking data about users over an equally fine browser solution?
Nowadays it’s also much easier than it used to be to buy smooth cast iron, which becomes extremely easy to cook even fairly sticky foods on after just a seasoning or two (e.g. https://fieldcompany.com/products/field-cast-iron-skillet).

As sibling commenters have mentioned, smooth vs. rough does seem to make a difference.

Source: I have cast iron like these and use it to comfortably cook eggs and food where sticking would be a problem all the time.

Unlike several other commenters here, it absolutely hasn’t seemed like a tool ‘mostly for steaks’. In fact I cook most things in cast iron, carbon steel wok or finally fall back to stainless if neither is appropriate.
The last 6 months have not helped your cause. Turning off the nuclear plants in Germany and stopping new oil leases in the US has turned out to be a strategic weakness for NATO, and allowed some dictators in Russia and Saudi Arabia to create a recession. Things also aren't looking good for heating in Europe this winter.
This does miss one huge drawback of cast iron for cooking some dishes - heat control. Cast iron retains heat like crazy and doesn’t change quickly. Get that thing up to a searing temperature and it’ll be 10-15 minutes before you can get an egg anywhere near it for example. A thinner steel pan will heat up and cool down much rapidly allowing for a lot more control.

Luckily there’s a fantastic non-nonstick option for that too; a carbon steel wok. Amazing tool that is frankly under-utilized in the western world.

J. Kenji López-Alt released a book this year that goes over how to use it in great engineering-focused detail for anyone wanting to give it a shot.
Corporations which contribute code to Blender have mostly contributed patches for supporting their hardware. AMD and Apple are the ones I know for sure have done that, Intel and NVidia may have done it as well.

Ton Roosendaal also knows what he is doing. As he explained at the 2019 Blender conference keynote, the message to corporations is not "how can Blender help you" but "join us in Blender's mission". [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/Jcl3--cbULk?t=397
Yes that would be fantastic.
> You can't use dish soap on them because it'll destroy the seasoning

I believed this before reading the article.

Is it commonly accepted wisdom that this is bunk?
"that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks."

It has a lot in common... human beings talking over a distance. > No empathy, and a lot of reduction and generalization.
Did he define 'work' during the podcast? Since he also mentions reading CS books, perhaps he isn't defining work as literally typing at the computer, but instead always improving. Think of what people could do if they took part of the 3 hours of TV watched per day and instead read a book.

He's also a high level grappler (nerd worlds collide if I ever had a chance to roll with Carmack :) ), which is not an easy feat.
Something very important that I didn't mention in my post - the virus mutates very quickly and each of the major variants seems to evade the vaccine of the last major variant.

Here in Australia I will be going to get my 4th shot in a few weeks. I only get one 'flu shot a year though in comparison, and I got MMR decades ago.
I agree overall, but there are a lot of misconceptions about cast iron that can give it a learning curve.

The post glossed over this, but it is certainly possible to damage your seasoning, especially if something you're cooking sticks to the pan. However, this doesn't mean you need to do some day-long "reseasoning" process that involves stripping the whole thing and baking it in the oven. Just clean the pan, put some oil in it, put it on the burner, and rub the oil in with a balled up paper towel until it gets hot. Do this after you cook until you build up a good seasoning and then stop. If your seasoning gets damaged for any reason, just rub some oil into it after you cook until it's good again.

The key for me was learning to care for carbon steel woks. It's basically the same as cast iron, but there's a lot less misinformation and internet superstition out there.
There is no panacea here that I’m aware of. We’ve been getting pretty good mileage out of a mix of Telegram, Discord, and Google Meet, all of which I prefer to Zoom, but none are crushing this and none are optimized for big video calls like Zoom is.

Not surprisingly given it’s gamer heritage, Discord is slick and fast for many-party voice and the present/screen-share is better than I expected, but video chat needs work and there are other nags.

I have somewhat high hopes for Telegram because it usually does things well or not at all, but I also wouldn’t want to try getting 20 people in a videoconference.

I never liked in-person meetings with tons of people in the room, and one presenter, many listener video/screen broadcast is very achievable today without Zoom. Maybe it’s a hard UX problem because it’s a fundamentally flawed collaboration model, who knows.
I do that (not just with Excel) knowing full well how ridiculous it is, but sometimes I just can't be bothered with other tools.
I’m actually wanting to build my own nTop adjacent tool because I’ve been wanting a programmatic style design tool that uses a similar internal rep (signed distance function), but with a programming sort of Ux to build up shapes on top.
Yes, I am not a fan of the idea, but the design is very good on mobile.
mrxvt

It has tabs and hot keys to increase / decrease the font size
Namely they can’t negotiate the strike price for obvious legal reasons. Keep in mind the 409A valuation is not what the investors in the previous round paid, it’s usually based more on the formula grounded in reality and less on hype. I would not be surprised if the upcoming 409A valuation rises if the company is growing.
I’d go for historically very uncommon. fsync() meant “write RAM buffers to hard drive,” and if that failed, you were in a world of hurt, and should probably shut down while doing the least amount of additional harm. With NFS, the situation probably changed to “keep trying for a bit, but don’t do anything dramatic.”
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... as opposed to the dictionary I have on my bookshelf.
I can't say if it's commonly accepted wisdom, but I personally use dish soap on my cast iron when I need to (i.e. if it's too greasy). I think this is confusion that stems from dishwasher powder, which you should definitely keep away from cast iron (actually, a little might be OK as long as you don't run it through the dishwasher; not sure, never tried).
"After decades of playing the villain in science fiction, robots are now part of life in many towns and people haven't just embraced them, they rush to assist them. What is going on?"'
No one is going to build high density development that is not near reliable, dependable, fast, frequent, comfortable, and appropriately scalable transportation infrastructure. Buses and Ubers are not scalable to the target density.
This isn't a far-fetched as you might think. This damned virus seems to mutate at an alarmingly fast rate.