skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AC came to public transportation pretty late, mostly due to reliability issues; a broken AC in a car is a personal problem, but a broken AC in public transit is the operator's problem.

It also didn't really help that the US made a "standard" streetcar that was such a lemon that they were starting to get scrapped only 11 years after entering service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Standard_Light_Rail_Vehicle

Most of our modern improvements to modern light rail vehicles came from manufacturing designs either straight from or derivatives of successful European ones. But that wasn't an option in the less globalized mid-century.
If its not the physics then its the simulation. Free play is a lot slower than the tutorials, time feels like it is running at 50% speed. Android tablet, firefox.
Out of curiosity, do you believe souls exist? I have asked myself if it is possible that all living beings do not technically have been "assembled" before "shipments." A person is really just a conglomerate of low level functions (souls) that assembled based on genetics and environments. The soul disperses and recycled after death. Low level programs remain, data (memory) most likely not.
For anyone downvoting this: The person who wrote this comment is the same person who created the e-ink project. If they might have created a popular project partly in an attempt to get enough visibility that their sister might see it, it's really cruel for you to downvote them.

@Max, have you considered hiring a private investigator? I have no idea if that works in real life like it does in fiction but maybe it's a possible route?

Another thing you might be able to try is to access public records starting from the time when you were children and working forward through time to today. In some cases the public records might be accessible through legal requests (whatever is the Israeli equivalent of FOIA or something like that), or if you are willing to do whatever it takes you could try asking favors of government workers or even try to get someone who's a gray hat to try to obtain the records on your behalf. If your sister wants to reconnect then a gray hat method of obtaining records should in my view still be considered the right & moral thing to do. If anything, part of what I believe the private investigators do (at least the good ones) is provide plausible deniability by using gray methods or hiring those who do, for you, without ever saying so.

If you're really dedicated, you could even apply for a job at the relevant government agency and look up the records yourself once you work in that job.
The video creator made that reddit post and is actively answering questions. The twitter post was created by someone else.
France unforunatly stopped investing in nuclear in the 1990s, from 1970-2000 their total nuclear power production went up, but then if flatlined. That is why they have problmes now.

They had next generation plants ready to be rolled out, but because of the politics at the time never produced them in large numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix
To auto-update without requiring authentication every time. Useful for multi-user or enterprise setups where the current user may not have sudo access. Chrome and Firefox do the same thing.
You know, for the last couple of months we learned quite a bit about the reliability of gas power.

It's not really that great.
> The portion of nuclear has remained constant since the late 90s.

That just reflects the failure of French state to continue to invest. The socialist and green party based on general anti-nuclear sentiment stopped much of the investment.
I am trying to break down your response and none of the parts make sense. Adobe should have discontinued its OS X lineup in 2005 and only decided against that in the name of security? And now in 2022 because of that fateful decision Adobe is dead?
Bob Nystrom – Is There More to Game Architecture Than ECS? [video]
That's the one. It was full of those fun little notes. A nice balance of humor without going over the top. Helped me figure out how to use all of the features of the printer.
But is it the same problem, really? Static typing eliminates a whole class of issues that dynamic typed languages don't. Of course you can still have logical bugs, but it's definitely not the same thing. I don't know how to put it better, but you should try writing haskell sometime and you'll see what I mean.
The most important countries in the world are democracies. Even if the demos is occasionally influenced by poor arguments, the laws made are valid anyway. And the laws say (simplifying) that those who carry out money transfers have to take reasonable precautions against money laundering. Details vary, particularly wrt what's reasonable.

"Doing nothing" isn't reasonable though, and the people has decided. Calling the people's arguments puerile or useless makes no difference.
It's not as high-minded as the examples in the link, but as a kid I really enjoyed Woody Leonhard's "Mother of All..." books about Windows (the 3.1 and 95 ones, specifically).

Woody introduced a series of characters, each with their own personality & level of familiarity with Windows itself, then used them in asides to explain things. The great thing about those books (and something I seldom see anymore) is that they were really great about riding the line between 'the power button is the button you press to turn the computer on' and 'the A20 gate defines when low memory etc. etc. etc.'

Having the characters gave a great way to get super-deep into minutiae but let the reader know they could skip if it didn't interest them, plus their interactions with each other were really fun.

Also, and I'm sure most people know him already, I always really loved how David Pogue would put weird little stories or dialog in the examples he'd give when demonstrating a program. Like I think Macs for Dummies had a bit where his Word examples had a really flowery story about a guy riding a rollercoaster or something. Really influenced me, whenever I create a demo UI or example page I try not to use boring "This is example text" or "Lorem ipsum."
You are not alone in your own mind.

Thought control is real and they are the enemy.
I use copper
test minute = test * minute, i.e. 50 tests = USD 1

However, based on everything I've read in this thread, I am leaning towards max parallelization based model, e.g. maximum 50, maximum 100, etc, and charge extra for tests that take longer than 1 minute.

This allows straightforward sales while providing most of the value to an avg. client.
Does anyone know how well enameled cast iron works for eggs? I've seasoned my cast iron and I wasn't able to get it to be efficient with eggs. But maybe the enameled ones would work.

Personally I'm not really that worried about PFAS uptake from non-sticks for my one non-stick meal per day, but it'd still be interesting to know the most efficient way to do things outside of non-stick.
Probably as a package in a trojan horse type app. Remember, the who ecosystem is turtles on turtles.
But Uranium can be found in many places and its very easy to transport. You are not actually dependent on Russia.

> This would have been a much bigger step toward energy independence.

You know what would have been a much, much, much bigger step? To keep nuclear and invest in nuclear instead of gas and coal.
Have there been a set of cures in the last 20 years that would explain this curve? Would love to see the data.
Financial scams ? Email and spam supported a fair share such as the 419 scam
In Russia there is depressing Vorkuta city, where prices for flats are literally near zero. :-)
It's clear indicator that most people prefer to be homeless than own 2 bedroom flat in Vorkuta :-)))
Yes this is what I'm thinking. The replay links already include the full input. I would then just have to verify it and show the link for each entry.
For example this is my flight just now for today's daily with a time of 12.97s: https://rocket-drone.lol/?level=5550594399&replay=IIgmIUWAJB...
What would have really helped me during my PhD, would have been to learn some project management skills. Just basic stuff like tracking where you’ve spent your time and using documents to track various projects. I wasn’t exposed to any of these things until I entered industry and by that time it was too late.
I see, great! I'm having a lot of fun still after many hours on Landing Confirmed. I think the auto generated levels are a great touch. I would add a threshold for collisions, so that under a certain low speed, collisions cost no health. Either that or add landing legs :) You could also easily have different types of vehicles by just varying the thrust and the distance between the two engines. Would make a easy variety being able to pick a spacecraft. Also you can easily make different "planets" by just changing the background color and the gravity value :) and on some planets add an atmosphere of various thickness which adds drag!
This is pretty bad advice. Price based off value delivered. If I was a sales person selling this product the first thing I’d want to do is calculate out the value of the time saved. “It pays for itself” is a wonderful proposition - why would I not buy such a product? Not only is it time saved, but it’s more efficient engineering cycles/sprints/etc.

If you know your market, you know your price. It’s very easy to A/B SaaS pricing. Does the proposed pricing sounds too high? To me, yes, but go out there and test it. Worse thing that can happen is nobody buys it.
This is why Tornado Cash was built, to provide privacy. But oops, government does not want you to have that freedom. Users are now forced to mix with a centralized service at cost of giving up privacy to them.
It's an interesting article from 2004; might not be reading it right but seems like this one from 2020 is less optimistic about hydroxyl radicals (OH) breaking down PFOA in the atmosphere. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31978654/

Your same link notes that the majority of PFOA is not broken down in the atmosphere and points to "wet and dry deposition" mostly, which sounds like it's being dropped down to Earth remaining as PFOA.
Environmentalists are unwittingly keeping fossil fuels at play by opposing nuclear power.

Ideology always seems to lead to dead ends.
Which one works for you?
What is a decent rate for you?
No. Scams have always existed and folks were wary of providing personal information. There was a discussion about what to call it. Ibahn was my favorite. Broswers and www did not exist. You could poke around and find file folders of organizations, open them up and read the files therein. People were clueless, the CFO at my company spent most of his day looking at pron. Even before ATT built its data vacuum in SOMA there was a sense that that worst fears of a surveillance state were neigh.
Germany didn't think rationally. Nuclear was strongly associated with cold war and nuclear bombs.

Berlin is incredibly anti-nuclear. When I lived there, even when there was little going on, you would see constant anti-nuclear propaganda. Lots of anti-nuclear footmats and stickers.
Pooling is not an easy problem.

As I have only two clients at the moment who are helping to test this, keeping a hot pool allows me to focus on other feature development while sacrificing some of the costs.

Keeping a hot pool makes it a lot easier to immediately start test runs. Run tests, restart browser, clear sessions, return to the pool.
Maybe GP's mention of "boiling salt" does not refer to "table salt" but salt in the more general chemical sense. Perhaps they use Ethylammonium nitrate with a boiling point of 240 C (464 F).
Great job with the feel and aesthetic!

But it's way too hard for me: I couldn't get past Level 3 of the tutorial :/.
oh I see, yes it could be performance-related. I will need to decouple the game update loop from the rendering loop. Will do soon.
controls are way, way too sensitive.
I left the Android ecosystem in 2014 because I couldn't get OS updates despite the hardware still being better than most newer phones.

I moved to a Blackberry Z30 (best phone I've ever owned); it gave me five good years and is still my backup device despite now being unsupported. The Sony XA2+ I replaced it with in 2019 is running SailfishOS. It's given me three years and I expect at least another three. Meanwhile my partner's Samsung S10, also bought in 2019, is already struggling because there are no Android updates.

It seems to me the key to longevity is the availability of OS updates. Or perhaps I should say; the availability of OS updates that don't cynically downgrade your phone's performance to encourage the purchase of a new one.
Kratky method – Passive hydroponic technique
In my experience regular seasoned cast iron works better than enameled for eggs. I use my enameled for sauces.
That's not a distraction at all. There are plenty of naturally-occuring chemicals in plants that are deadly poisons to humans. Some of them are even naturally present at low levels in food we eat, such as cyanide in some fruits.
Maybe the perpetrator stopped dumping it when it became a news story? Like, they started dumping it recently and when they realized they were the cause to a catastrophe they stopped to try to avoid blame.
Comparatively mainstream but I enjoyed reading "Windows 98 For Dummies" front to back as a kid. It really kickstarted my computer skills.
This is hydrogen electrolysis and the Sabatier process. There have been attempts to do this, but difficulties continue to prevent it from being deployed at scale. Hydrogen electrolysis is less efficient and maintaining the electeolysis systems expensive.

The Sabatier process (aka power to gas) requires hydrogen as an input so it shares all of the above. It also requires a source of carbon dioxide to fix into hydrocarbons. Usually this is only done opportunistically when industrial processes produce carbon dioxide as a byproduct. The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at too low a concentration to be useful. This could be delivered through biofuels but there's not much energy density in them.

If they can actually deliver these systems at viable costs, great. But no one has accomplished this so far.
which books you could recommend?
would you mind explaining that a little more please.
my understanding is that 'slowdown' only has to do with the ease of using existing 'understandings' rather than an inherent ability to 'learn' (new organisations that work). I'm way past 30, the biggest barrier I find is letting go of things that were 'easy' and reorganising understanding in new ways.
> I've seen Chef Jacques Pépin beat an omelette in a Teflon pan with a metal utensil, so who am I to judge?

Lots of people do it who should know better. That's going to damage the coating, shortening the lifespan of the pan, and putting little bits of Teflon into your food.
> I mean 911 was pretty much all Saudi Arabian terrorists.

The leader had a German passport and his main motivation was Israel attack on Lebanon.

US mostly didn't depend on middle-east oil, the US wanted middle-east oil to make sure that Europe and Asia didn't go communist.
If you want high quality resources and skill and talent, you need to pay for it. I don't think Linux HowTos was a paid service such as lwn.net
I mean, it seems like the guy went into the viewing already with a notion that capitalism is bad, and then watched a lot of really boring video, and then attributes the self-imposed tedium to how capitalism "distorts or ability to understand time and space". Only someone predisposed to this perspective would think that makes any sense at all.
I think the simple answer is that distributions got a whole bunch of polish and automation.

I install Ubuntu these days by building a boot drive using a gui tool, then just clicking my way through the installers. Getting online involves ... typing in my password. In the late 90s I had to figure out AT commands and set up ppp and so on, and getting X11 up and running required config voodoo.

I miss some of it. Not that much though.
This woman netted $25k after being removed from a local hearing. I think being kicked off Twitter is several orders of magnitude greater in effect.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2020/12/09/hillsb...
I would be interested to measure what impurities are in cast iron cookware: I presume they use the cheapest recycled iron possible?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9287087/
Really great suggestion -- @logisticsfilm you should consider it!

Also https://ubu.com/ might be interested to host/distribute it and it's a great fit as well.
Who Makes Ridgid Tools?
It’s the blanket “just walk it off” advise that’s dangerous. No amount of mind over matter will let you walk off a broken leg.
Except for a few programs like ss or nftables nothing has changed.
you can still use shred, despite the usage of journaled filesystems, cp works like 20 years ago and nothing has changed with ln and i make still errors with the target and the source.
so the old howtos are still valid.
So this is releasing a pretrained model DALLE equivalent right? Where can I grab it?
This is a live and learn moment. There might be a legal / contractual reason you are entitled to them, but you'd have to sue the legal current legal owner to get them, if they won't otherwise turn them over. The terms might be codified in some sort of employee agreement / vesting agreement.

For example, you could demand the emails, as a part of "returning company property." If they don't, you might be able to pursue legal action, that would entitle you to discovery.
Insane? This is just what stealing a car was like in 1970. If you get the ignition to turn, you've stolen the car. If you're dependent on technology to stop vehicle theft, you've basically already lost. At the end of the criminals will just use a flatbed tow truck to steal the vehicle if it is worth enough.

The "immobilizers" you're referring to are the bane of my existence from my perspective. Instead of getting cheap $5 copies of my keys made, I have to pay something like $120 to Ford to get copies made.
regarding your last point first: no, it doesn't require the vote of the nimbys. The state and/or province could force this very easily and that group of politicians is beholden to a group of people with more varied interests so are less under nimby pressure.

regarding your first point:The loss from rezoning will happen at the time of rezoning and will primarily affect the currently zoned high density land. With newly repriced lower, non scarce multi unit residential land it is unlikely to end up in a large downward risk situation because the sophisticated reits will be pricing what they will pay now for land off of what they think will happen over the next twenty years and will likely be pricing in a rent drop (which is what drives the drop in land prices for high density). You also aren't really at risk of technological disruption because the total turnover/increase in units is low relative to total housing stock even if we ented a building boom. If it suddenly costs half as much to build a high density residential building, it's still going to take decades for that to erode rental costs by half because you don't suddenly have enough supply of that cheaper to build stock to house everyone.
I tend libertarian sometimes. Downvoting on HN reduces the readability of the post, so if I downvoted posts I disagreed with, it would be to reduce the influence of people that disagree with me. I'm not very comfortable with that, to be honest. I have opinions, but they can't all be correct, so reducing the ability of the community to read posts that contradict my own seems counter-productive, and imposes the will of the collective (through voting) on the individual by reducing the reach of their speech. I feel this is somewhat anti-libertarian.

Because of this, I reserve downvotes not for disagreement, but when I think someone is making an argument in bad faith, particularly if it's bullshit. In particular, some posts on HN make bold, unsubstantiated claims and tend to put the onus on the community to debunk those claims. I downvote those posts when I sense the "bullshit asymmetry principle"[0], in action because it's a tax on folks that post thoughtful comments for the benefit or amusement of the bullshitter. The link has more context, but the idea can be summarized simply:

> ...the “bullshit asymmetry principle,” holds that "the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than what’s needed to produce it.”

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Education_and_reasoni...
> If you're really dedicated, you could even apply for a job at the relevant government agency and look up the records yourself once you work in that job.

That is going to get you fired at the least and serious criminal charges at the worst, pretty almost everywhere.

Do not ever, I repeat ever, abuse any kind of database access you have for personal stuff unless approved by whomever you are reporting to and allowed by law.
Methane is a valuable resource that can be used for production of chemicals. It takes a catalyst and very high temperatures. Here is an article on technology to use solar energy to convert methane:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...
Stackoverflow et al probably win the search results. The landscape is also too diverse to write a howto that would be very broadly applicable.
Crazy Jane from Doom Patrol
Tangent, but given all the recent discussions around PFAS and Teflon and metal toxicity and all that, does anyone know of any kind of cookware that we can consider to be "safe" for cooking aside from cast iron? Or is that literally the only option left?
Python is statically typed though. [1][2][3][4]

These aren't just some third-party tools bolted on. The type annotation syntax is built into the language[5] and standard library[6][7].

I personally find static typing to be more trouble than it's worth most of the time. Industry typing metalanguages are not expressive enough to deal with even fairly basic real-world programs and force you to write bad code to work around the type checker's stupidity. And, of course, you still have to write tests. Maybe someday they'll catch up to Idris. Python's static typing is no better, but at least it allows you to turn it off when it's not worth it.

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/pyright

[2]: https://github.com/python/mypy

[3]: https://github.com/google/pytype

[4]: https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check

[5]: https://peps.python.org/pep-3107/

[6]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0484/

[7]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#module-typing
Rules for meetings I try to follow. I got these from a book but I forgot which.

- All meetings must have an agenda distributed in advance, stating purpose and topics.

- All meetings must have a time limit and no more than an hour.

- Every meeting has someone assigned to take notes of decisions, questions, and action items, including responsibility and expectations agreed to. The notes get distributed to the attendees shortly after the meeting (email works).

- Stick to the agenda and schedule. Respect everyone’s time.

You can take notes on paper or on a laptop. The people responsible for following up can transfer to whatever medium works — tickets, issues, memos, more meetings.
You can also do neopolitan-style pizza in cast iron(and oven):
https://www.seriouseats.com/hacker-free-neapolitan-pizza-for...

We have a Ooni(koda 16) and I'll occasionally do the cast iron one. Using basically the same recipe. It's very similar but different, we like both.
Hmm, I’ve been meaning to check out Nim. Now I definitely will.
Applies to German citizens, regardless of where it's hosted :/
For road trips, I always go to the classics. Lord of the Rings. Either the Rob Inglis audiobook or the BBC Radio adaptation.

If I get to The Ride of the Rohirrim, I know I've driven too far.