skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mainly use three different pans: 1) A carbon steel wok 2) A cast iron skillet 3) A dutch oven.

The wok is very versatile. I use it for most things by default.

The skillet is great for pan frying.

The dutch oven is great for braising without me stirring it too often.

Cast iron is situational because it has large heat opacity: you can think of it as a pizza stone for pan frying.

The advantage is you can compensate by long preheating if your stove is inferior.

The disadvantage is it's slow to respond: When you turn to high it delays a while, when you want to lower the temperature you still need to wait.
Look, I'm not out here to argue that the United States is some incredible bastion of freedom on every issue for all time - but arguing that it doesn't deserve a favorable comparison to Russia or China or, yes, Chile, on the democracy front is just nonsense. It's not grounded in facts or reality. Arguing that the US itself isn't governed as a democracy because you don't like how the elected government behaves on the world stage is just a non sequitur. That America did something bad doesn't mean other places aren't worse.

Living in the United States now, as oppressive as it can be, is still living in one of the freest societies that's ever existed in history. You may think I'm saying that because I'm ignorant, but no, I am fully aware of all the ways the US is awful towards minorities of every stripe, of the poverty, of the gun crime, problems with access to healthcare, etc etc etc. I made my original post to criticize the US education system. I know about all of that and the United States is still better to live in than most of the world.

It doesn't mean I wouldn't like it to be better, that I'm not worried about how things are changing, or that everything - or even most things - the US has done are good. But we need to talk about the reality of the situation and you're not.

When my point is "the US should live up to its ideals", arguing "the US will never live up to its ideals no matter what" or "well, other people in X country don't like the US" is just unhelpful.
Get the Message: Google asks Apple to adopt RCS standard in advertising campaign
I was struck by this bit in the passage about hubris: “The STEM student is taught that hubris is a useful vocational skill.” I recently asked a successful senior engineer how he was able to start an influential project, and the answer came down to a combination of hubris (he had to have confidence that his solution, starting from scratch against a well-funded team, would win out) and appetite for risk.
In most parts of Europe getting to a specialist (e.g. a neurologist in this case) may still involve a long wait.
that source is quite biased, do you have any links to content which is not in the crypto camp?

He's actually wrong in that it executes on the ethereum blockchain. It actually executes on Optimism, a layer-2 solution, and they are quite concerned for their own situation.

He also says that there aren't people tied to it, but who was collecting the contract fees (beyond gas)?
Vegas, yes. What was wrong with it?
I don't fully agree with this.

If you're writing a video game for example, the emotional authenticity and character building would be equivalent to cohesive mechanics which work well together, graphical quality / aesthetics, even story and level design all require programming to one degree or another. The same can be said for other types of programs like meeting business needs, but I think the video game analogy illustrates the point best.

In other words, the authenticity and character building is how well you're fulfilling the purpose or goal that you set out to accomplish.
Any food on a cast iron pan is converted to carbon ash by holding the pan at 750F for a few tens of minutes if you have a functional exhaust fan. This is useful for the most extremely stuck stuff like large amounts of meat mixed with blood. No amount of scraping would get that off. However the ash came off effortlessly. The electric range was old and worn out but got the job done easily.
Same intro but in 4K HDR (or it will be once YouTube finishes processing it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGLBvQ0mvb0

Disclaimer, I cut this clip.
Related? https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2022/jul/25/homeless-...
Rather than geodesic I think you meant geoid.
I bought a key off eBay.
Ask HN: Help! Tech stack for web scraping and simple frontend graphs
Hey all, starting to work on some of my own projects after a 5 year hiatus.

My personal projects in the past have often utilized a Node.js backend (Express) that served a React frontend, with a postgres db with Knex. I have a bit of familiarity with Rails.

I'm wondering how much things have changed in the past few years. I'm reading that React should probably be avoided, Vue seems popular, Svelte seems like the shiny new thing. I'm considering looking into Django as learning Python might be worthwhile.

My day job uses Kotlin, so Ktor or Spring seems like an option.

The project I'm building will basically scrape some data every day, store it in a database, and serve a front end primarily consisting of graphs. Is there a particular tech stack that is more suitable to that these days? Are there any stacks that should be avoided for such requirements? "Overengineering" is something I want to avoid.
Americans tend to romanticize revolution in general, especially ours, but if you actually look at history violent revolutions with a positive outcome are the exception, not the rule.
I use Xfinity and have had no issues running PI-Hole for over a year. However, I do a few things that could make a difference - I have my own modem, not an Xfinity rental. And I use better (and generally a more privacy focused) DNS (Quad 1, OpenDNS, and also Google DNS, yes aware that last is not very privacy friendly).

Only problem is my Pi died and I haven't set up a new one, been considering setting up a Pi cluster so if one goes down I don't have to scramble to fix it for Internet to work in our house (although I can just update the DNS at my router until it's fixed, so not too bad).
>Who can look me in the eye with a straight face and say bitcoin protects against volatility?

Can you really say with a strait face that you think BTC's volatility is worse than literally losing your bank account with all it's content?!

People who live in places like the US forget that the average fiat currency has a lifespan of roughly half your life expectancy (37yr irrc).
That literally means she can't find someone who wants to be with her. That is literally the definition of an incel.
> started off by plundering the rest of the world of riches

Cope? Mongolia, Rome, etc plundered the world more than anyone and not much going on there.

> Half the startup in the US are run by immigrants

but were they STARTED by immigrants? Important distinction.
Compile time typing is awesome (in Nim its `{.compileTime.}`). Combine it with compile time "duck typing" and you can write some powerful but still simple code. I hope the style becomes more common!
IIRC there's no way to use RPKI with legacy blocks; ARIN has been using this as a lever to get people to sign an LRSA. Has that been a problem for you? Do you expect it to become one?
> I can't copy a book I read if it's still under copyright, even if I were to type the entire contents out after reading them. I also can't narrate those same words in full, because that's one of the rights retained by the author.

Isn't this only true if you distribute those reproductions? Would it be illegal for me to take detailed notes (for my own viewing) about a book, even if they were substantial portions copied verbatim?

GPT-3 and the like aren't reproducing the works they're trained on, they are substantially transforming them.
Great article, although I would quibble with the reference to the “tragic flaw”. What is Oedipus’ tragic flaw? That he’s smart and inquisitive? That he won’t rest until he learns the truth? These aren’t flaws but strengths. Aristotle, the originator of the term tragic flaw, fundamentally misread Oedipus: Oedipus is not destroyed by a flaw in his character, but by his very strengths! This is partly what makes humanity’s tragic condition so terrifying: that we fundamentally cannot consistently foresee the consequences of our actions and that the thing that ultimately destroys us could be one of our personal strengths applied well but without perfect foresight.
But you have to also take into account damage caused by not using these chemicals.
No one has anything to say about this?

OK, I'll try: a character from an ancient tragedy with hubris would now be psychologized as "narcissistic." Or something.

Or even just called "very self-confident" as though that's a good thing.

Suppose our "tragic hero" is a Director of Engineering or Marketing, and they decide to become an entrepreneur. They fail spectacularly. A modern audience wouldn't say they were a victim of hubris. Maybe they really were.

On the other hand: Walter White could be one, as Gioia suggests. But Vince Gilligan has actually said that Ikiru was his inspiration (a character who "broke good"), rather than any classical tragedy.

So I don't think it's really that we're in a "digital age," it's just that we have a lot more explanations for things than the classicists did.
Your best hope is to add a section to this page: https://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

The dev community should settle on a string that would mean that bots which are scraping data for ML projects should stop indexing.

> Is it ethical that OpenAI, MS, Google, and others monetize their AI models while using the web data without asking for permission from the authors?

They already made fortunes and empires based on indexing web data so there's no hope there will be a law to prohibit a single, much more narrower use-case for web crawling.
Ask HN: What's keeping you from writing a book?
We're all experts in something; or at least we all have a unique viewpoint to share with the world. What's keeping you from writing a book to share your expertise?
I doesn't often say that CO2 emissions for a new EV are higher than an ICE. After 10-20k miles you're just breaking even. Over the life of the vehicle the EV does have fewer emissions but it isn't a huge difference.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lifeti...
How to prove the Big Bang with an old TV set
Can Tech Reshape The Pentagon?
There is nothing wrong with some income inequality. Too much inequality is known to be destabilizing (sorry, don't have a reference on hand).
I think that would mitigate some problems, but you'd still have many situations where specialization + transportation is cheaper (and even less energy intensive) than full decentralization.

And in any case, that's mostly orthogonal to capitalism. Capitalism is far from the only economic system where people keep secrets.
Would you be? If the economy doesn't produce enough food, what food there is just goes up in price. You can say "buy from the global market" but that requires having money, a tall order for a country with a weak economy.
GNU autoconf was first released a few months before Linux.

Is there some older implementation/standard/practice of ./configure before autoconf?
Seems absurd but there is an invisible x in the upper right. I tapped it and the email popup disappeared.
I call New Orleans the city too.
Not only that, but if I can afford it I will now buy all the land around me to insulate myself and make sure it doesn't get developed.

Also, what people don't get is that the same people that set the tax are the people that have the land and the political and economic power. Why would they do something that goes againt their best interest? We're all cool and open to all kinds of things until it happens in out backyards.
When you say "we", do you mean China?
Are normal activated carbon water filters NOT eco-friendly (by implication)?
> Citation required

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake
you need to dry it perfectly every time or it rusts very easily

If you dry it with a kitchen towel (you don't even have to do it carefully) and then hang it up overhead instead of placing it flat in a cabinet or on the stovetop, it will never rust.
Sometimes I wish books and movies were a bit more like software. We have all read or watched something as version 1.0 and thought "that chapter or scene needs to be rewritten". Some things need big changes and not just minor edits.

It would be cool if version 1.0 would be released and get user feedback on what works and what doesn't and then the author or director would make big changes and release a version 2.0.
Meditation can help ... or it can make you psychotic. Tread carefully. Might be best to speak with a therapist on this before you experiment.

What finally brought peace is acceptance and the idea that it may even have advantages in some situations where things might be too stressful for one personality to handle, but another one can take the reins and steer us through the situation more gracefully.
completely unrelated here but is banking secrecy a thing in Lebanon? As in an anonymous numbered account.
This is literally true in terms of Larry Wall's comment about the three virtues of a great programmer. (Arguably he doesn't really mean it in the classical sense, but he does use the word.)
> If they occur in nature, esp. in food, our bodies have had time to adapt to them, so that's a distraction.

That's some serious woo and you just pulled it right out of your ass. Infant botulism. Anthrax. Cyanide. Belladonna. Poisonous mushrooms.
I'm 30 as well. But I feel the opposite. I have much more context about what I'm learning and generally know related things as well. I feel because of this I can learn things much more quickly then when I was 20. Maybe if I need to learn something completely outside of my knowledge sphere I would struggle more then before. But I have no reason to believe that.
Diesel engines, like all internal combustion engines are limited by the Carnot Theorem. The maximum theoretical efficiency for diesel is in the low 80% range.

No actual diesel engines can muster up much higher than 60%.
Does the dog die?
It hasn't been a problem so far. The majority of Internet routes still don't use RPKI. I'd sign an LRSA if I really need to, but until that time...
Not familiar with it, sorry.
For me, when you are using a cast iron, you have to adjust your idea of clean. I think of it like a grill. You're not going to spotlessly clean your grill every time you use it. There are always going to be some carbon on there that wipes off.

Honestly, the reason why I love my cast iron is because of how lazy and rough I can be with it. I rarely clean my cast iron unless I leave oil in there for weeks or there is a ton of residue from sauce or something. I use scrap out the bottom with a metal spatula and call it a day.
It makes it less surprising that the social impact of the internet has so curdled in the last decade, doesn’t it?
Because ICEs and EVs are equivalent in capabilities. Trains and cars are not.
> Because DID suffers are innocent victims who deserve sympathy for their trauma while schizophrenics are just born mental and don't deserve such good treatment?

Search your mind for why that is the first thing you go to, because it was the farthest thing from mine. You don't know what goes on in our head or anyone else's and it would behoove you not to guess at such. Much less state outright that I remind you of a dichotomy in an unrelated disorder because of this projected line of thinking.

> You seem to really not want people to confuse DID with schizophrenia, but why?

Perhaps because, as stated, DID is not neurochemical and does not respond to medication. Perhaps it would be good to differentiate between the neurochemical and the neurological disorder to prevent people who don't need strong drugs from taking them and suffering unnecessary side effects, which is a VERY common thing in populations with DID because of the misunderstandings of the differences between DID and schizophrenia.
Which is doubly ironic as tools and languages described as "declarative" often require the human to jump through many kinds of hoops just to finally make what they've written do what they actually wanted.
Of course you're not going to be as quick as you were at 20 for the rest of your life, but you will get wiser. [Edit: Or maybe just more opinionated? I think I was pretty opinionated when I was young, though]

As you get older, you learn metapatterns about the world. You see the things you thought were unique new wisdom, were actually just a fashion. So you get more selective about where you apply the limited resources you've got.

If you've seen the hype cycle play out in your life once, you're going to be slower to invest in the next wave. That's natural. I've seen the idea of making things portable by implementing things in a Virtual Machine play out more than once in my life... the UCSD Pascal P Machine, then Java, and Flash, and now WASM.

However, I've also learned why each failed, so I still have a strong interest in WASM, despite it seeming to be the latest in a pattern. It's because of the unique nature of its security guarantees that I hold out hope for it. Like I said, you get more selective, not just stubborn.

I'm 58, and grumpy as heck about some things, and experimenting in direct manipulation of Abstract Syntax Trees for fun as a diversion for now. Once I get my new glasses, and can get about the world again, it's back to learning C and working on MSTOICAL a typed forth variant.
You can't transport oil on a container ship though.
It would frankly shock me if there wasn't some pricey but extant way to handle garbage collection more quickly. It would be laughably stupid to implement in a caloric desert, but I can't imagine there isn't some way to do time-sharing or a larger support network.
I was working for a large (American) integrator in Brazil leading a commerce development practice and had a very hard time finding developers in 2021 mainly because so many of them were working for companies in the US and earning 4x what they would with a local company. The hot market in the US, WFH being accepted, Latam being a nearshore option (mostly same timezone) and local currency devaluation played a big role on that.
They gave me their card in a VR meeting on my OcculoQuestXCubeRift
That's an interesting philosophy. One of the personalities is spiritual and believes in souls yes. You should read "The Holographic Universe" if you haven't yet. It kind of dives into some of these concepts.
epgui doesn't know what he's talking about. Science in it's purest form can only falsify things. Absolutely nothing can be proven correct. There is no "pure" science. That's garbage.

What's going on is epgui likely mixed up logic, math and science. In math and logic things can be proven because math and logic is a game where you make up axioms and prove theorems... but in science and reality, nothing can be proven.

Basically by posting that wikipedia article he proved you right. and demonstrated to you that he doesn't know what science truly is.
We're talking about modern Lebanon. No matter how foolproof you make a system on paper - if most of the actors involved are corrupt and passably clever, it can only appear to function correctly for a while. Until they've stolen so much of the assets that the facade collapses.
Possible privacy issues?
I don't want to feed the trolls, but this requires a response as it is highly misleading.

Cars last 100k+ miles now, and that 13k break-even number in your link is with the current US energy mix, which is rapidly decarbonizing. It is a big deal, and worth moving to EVs.
Whereas Bitcoin has been around for hundreds of years and is still going strong.
Keep in mind, too, that demonstrating a recipe on TV isn't the same as cooking at home. He might just be doing that because it's what they gave him on set. Or maybe he can afford to go through pans at a pace that a normal person at home wouldn't be able to do.
Or...I could do all those things 10x faster and better by burning 10,000 calories a day, breathing pure oxygen, redirecting bloodflow to my brain (necessitating sitting in a chair), and running a 50 watt cooling system at all times. That's not necessarily the Electron app style, if you're already doing the best you can do your only option is MOAR POWER
> The generator doesn't need to be large (and expensive) enough to be capable to drive from directly at highway speeds, but just enough to extend the range when needed.

So you would need to park and let the generator slowly charge your car? Why not just charge the car at a charger at that point?

Make the generator large enough so that it can generate enough power to directly run the electric motor for highway driving.
The row: architecture designed by artists in metaverse –'members only' community
Well yeah, obviously. It's just a dream after all
I like how people often suggest to “just” open an account in a foreign bank.

Even assuming the foreign bank would not “just” refuse you for not being a resident, or being a significant risk, or not accepting your identification, or whatever. Then your Lebanese bank would surely wire the money there without any issues, and your Lebanese employer would be happy to do so as well, and of course there are no laws stating that only liras are legal payment currency for services rendered in Lebanon.
I'm assuming 22% is meant to indicate the average based on aggregated driving conditions.
I'm kind of surprised that ABSEIL even bothers with exception safety since Google builds everything without exceptions. Can you shed some light on why the team decided to invest in making it exception safe?
Hmmmm ... time to look at the 'anomalies' again? (And then there's Oumuamua ...)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyby_anomaly]
I'm so curious how many people from Slab City relocate to Black Rock City (Burning Man) for a week or two. Seems like a similar ethos.
> Would you be?

Think about the existing right now situation. Imagine if someone, in lebanon, had 50k USD equivalent, in a lebanon bank.

Now, imagine the same person, who had 50k equivalent value, in not the lebanon bank.

Who's better off? Clearly the person who had the global currency.

> You can say "buy from the global market" but that requires having money

Oh, you mean like the money that now wasn't confiscated or inflated away to being worthless? That money?

Yes, that is what you would use the money for. The money that now wasn't taken away, or was not made worthless, is what you would use to buy things.

Situation A: you have no money. Or you have 10 thousand percent inflated money.

Situation B: you do have money, in a global currency. And yes that money can be used to buys things from the international market.

Situation B is better. Much better.
Huh? It does execute on Ethereum, and the contracts are still accessible at the same addresses if you run your own node. This is where it was first deployed. It also runs on other EVM chains and L2s including Optimism, Avalanche and others.

The first reports on this situation originated from non-crypto sources so it should be easy to find them. A lot of the more in depth discussion is coming from crypto camp because it negatively affects all those users and their privacy.
If you live in this place, can you make your lodgings more comfortable without AC? Would putting a reflective material on top of the shack/caravan help reduce the effect so you can stay inside? And then lay in a bath or something during the hottest period?