skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rare for any post-apocalyptic setting to accurately depict the shelf-life of gasoline. Despite its whole "WE are the walking dead" schtick the cast seems to mostly prefer cruising around in trucks and RVs even several seasons in.

https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-long-does-gasoline-last...
The same effect was used to make stickers that lit up when you were receiving a call, with no battery needed!

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/26/heres-how-those-battery-free...
I think OP could have better illustrated their point. Which I believe is that governments are pretty bad at succeeding with projects that require innovation. This is especially true of the US in the last 20 years. Not to mention the public sector pays 2-5x more than government agencies. I’m not saying this is a problem purely solved by better pay and greater talent, but I don’t think we can say it’s not.
Is that applicable when the rocket scientists themselves mostly despise this thing?

SLS as a platform was forced on the scientists by the politicians.

Also from a science perspective: the funding of this boondoggle has sucked the air out of the room, lots of other projects weren’t funded to make this thing happen. Seems like all SLS discussion is inherently political.
It's annoying that negation, ABS, and division can overflow with two's complement. But how I look at it: lots of operations can already overflow, just a fact of signed integers, and you need to guard against that overflow in portable code already. It doesn't seem to be fundamentally worse that those extra operations can overflow.
Yeah it makes me really upset when the outside dew point is lower than inside (often in the fall) and I've got to dig out my lasko box fan and run it in the windows.

There are several kinds of HVAC systems for fresh air ventilation and free cooling (HRV/ERV) and it was a huge bummer to hear an ac expert say "your tiny house's tiny closet has no space for any new toys at all"
One thing to note is that long int is the same size as int on x64 Windows, at least in the MSVC ABI. clang also conforms to this.

This is relevant to the question asking if -1L > 1U.
Which User?
Actually, a mod checked the logs to find that the post was deleted by the poster 2-3 minutes after Keffals screenshot and Tweeted it. So it was up just long enough to serve its purpose.
Heatpumps at least in Austria are the preferred heating method for like 10 years if you build new or renovate.
They just work and it’s interesting to see that they are the new sh*t in the US.
If the house has no gas connection at all then, depending on local regulations, they may have been able to insulate to a higher standard, and so you save even more money.

Because of combustion you need extra ventilation designed in.

That and the connection cost make it an easy choice for newly built homes.
Did any of the current billionaires grow up so wealthy that they don't know how to function?

I think you're being way over the top.

I think they're quite likely to be one of the most valuable people. Way, way more likely than an average guy. Same with their health and ability to work. Bodies adjust quickly, their softness will diminish in a month or two.

If you don't agree with that, you must be surrounded by really competent, non average people.
I do not at all agree they are oppressing people or there's any kind of systematic repression. I view the settlements, although regrettable, as a normal defense mechanism, given that Palestinians have never followed the rules before when they thought they have enough power or enough dictators supporting them to force the situation.

As for oppression in general, would you claim Israeli Arabs have worse life than Palestinians? I doubt it. Living under Israeli control in a peaceful way I'm pretty sure working much better for them.

On the other hand, in the name of belonging to a different desert death cult, i.e. out of pure anti-semitism, surrounding states sacrifice the Palestinians' lives. They used to just invade every now and then; now that they are weak they instead invest in brainwashing people like you. They rejected 2-state compromise more so than Israel, then they captured the Palestinian territories in 1948 war and controlled them for 20 years (were people then crying about occupation and oppression?) but that was not enough for them either, etc. They are not good faith actors and are treated really well by Israel given that - compared to most other states treating people in the same situation, including now (e.g. Myanmar). "Keys to houses" lol. They could have been living normal lives in Israel OR Jordan for 50 years. But no, in the name of "different death cult"/nationalistic propaganda they choose to suffer and make Israelis suffer.

"Literally ever year Israel is doing its best to import as many people as they can settle them into strategic territories" funny, when right-wingers say it its rightly called out as a racist conspiracy "replacement" theory. I am personally pro-immigration; but hey, I guess it's horseshoe theory in action :D
Do you have more info on this specifically with the EFF? First I've heard of it, but admittedly lived under a rock in terms of news for a long time.
Well, it was handling a tank of compressed hydrogen. In your story the balloon was just a foil.
> In addition to a heat pump, I wish my HVAC had a filtered vent from the outside and would be intelligent enough to sometimes just pump in cooler or warmer air from the outside when viable.

Hell a modern AC can probably do with only filtered venting, with a heat exchanger which gets disabled when using external air to get to the target temperature.
Oh were the temperatures mentioned in Fahrenheit? Then that makes things a bit easier, I thought they needed 150°C.
You should look into a whole house fan.
> Yet it is obviously the right move to trade a worthless trademark for brand marketing and goodwill.

Just to play devils advocate... I think Oracle has so little goodwill with devs (quite the opposite), that releasing the JS trademark probably won't even move the needle.
Bedazzled by Energy Efficiency (2018)
To focus on energy efficiency is to make present ways of life non-negotiable. However, transforming present ways of life is key to mitigating climate change and decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels.
There was 2 specific threats. One bomb threat posted to KF proper, and one threat posted to 4chan from outside her apartment that referenced the KF forum on a piece of paper that was photographed.

> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof

Nice sloganeering, but it's hardly an extraordinary claim. I can see the 2,000 page thread of harassment and hate directed at a single person for myself.
> Regarding Trump and his immunocapitalist behavior: I understand the position of the "Great Barrington Declaration" would be to make a majority of the population "acclimated" as soon as possible. Only lock down the vulnerable population. This could be effective because covid is not as deadly as yellow fever and not dangerous to a significant portion of the population.

Hindsight 2020 (pun intended)

> I do wonder what might have happened with that approach.

2022 would have happened in 2020: we would have saved 2 years.

Right now in 2022, as most people have stopped caring, don't wear mask etc, I'd say the majority of the population has acclimated, while a minority is trying to hold back and use FUD for favor their preferences.
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On the other hand, solving these challenges presents many rewards in space. It seems like a chemistry gift from the universe, if you can transmute between one of the highest energy density fuels to water, electricity, air, and radiation shielding. And water is laying on the ground on many bodies in the solar system.

One final gift is you can quit burning hydrocarbons to get to space, if you can figure out how to do this sustainably.
I doubt anything someone writes here could change your mind. There are just so many things: knowing when to add tests, checking multiple places when fixing a bug, avoiding mutation, knowing when to do a rewrite, avoiding complexity… these are all things that are just knowing how to code that are difficult.
You lost me there in calling Sankrit the mother language. Telugu has a different lineage and Sankrit is alien to Indian Sub-continent. Please stop using HN to subtly push your agenda.
Nope, they asked him to give all information about everyone who posted about the attack (after the fact) viewed the video or read the manifesto. This was right about the time that their government was tracking down people in the country who merely viewed the video and arresting them. (remember that people spent months and years in prison for just viewing the video)

The media, with the same disregard for the facts as they have now and here when talking about the site, simply made up their own narrative as they went along. Some reported the truth, others made it look ambiguous and other intentionally reported it to sound like the information was related to the killer, or even to sound like the killer was a member of the site. When in fact he was not, nor was the site ever even mentioned by him.
24 years ago, today – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Surely this can be circumvented by, say, lighting a candle next to the thermostat, or any other small heat source?
We installed something like this, but for the purpose of getting fresh air into the house (instead of circling stale air over and over and increasing the CO2 levels). Our setup is:

Fresh air / circulated air -> Perfect 16[1] -> HVAC

I highly recommend it. You can also get an ERV or HRV to utilize heat/humidity when bringing in outside air.

1. https://www.iqair.com/us/whole-house-air-purifiers
This is a modern reappropriation of the phrase, really. There are two issues: what should the government be allowed to do to limit speech (historically, this was called "free speech") versus how companies should be compelled to police or host objectionable content (this is the "new" connotation).

It's unfortunate that these two concepts are often lumped together in online discussions, because they are obviously very different, and many people who would agree with the First Amendment and the classical notion of "free speech" as a restriction on the government could have diverse opinions on the regulation of platforms and how they display content.
Honestly I dislike TC because he rambles and is too verbose. I don't know why he has recommended so much here.
Paper had been around in the Mediterranean since the late Bronze Age thanks to the Egyptians
Truly, I don't think you left anything out. It seems like every controversy involving KF is incredibly complicated and nuanced. I was not there in real time, and from the KYM page, it looks like Null lacked pretty much any compassion during this saga and was more concerned about his user's ability to have "free speech". The KF response, including the link to the entire e-mail exchange, really highlights that lack of compassion.

I can see now how the "both sides to every story" implied KF had a moral leg to stand on. Not my intention. I think people almost intentionally avoid visiting the KF site out of some sort of fear, but people shouldn't be afraid to see what's going on over there.
There's an interesting post from last year by Moon explaining his choice to use Cloudflare for DNS: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-10-28/where-sidewalk-end.... quasar posted it on HN, but it's not getting much traction, presumably because it's hosted on ZeroHedge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711917.
> However this drops off as the outside temperature drops and you push up the heating demanded.

With Irish climate and modern heat pumps this should be a non-issue. Maybe in the colder areas a day or two in the average year. Newer heat pumps can maintain very good efficiency under 0°C.
Some of your preferences are ticked by the film "23"( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_(film) ).

Based on a real story with some addition of KGB and cocaine.
Water can carry heat around a building more efficiently (in power and space terms) than air.

In a heating dominated climate, this can make sense in a new building. (It’s also a good match temperature-wise to in-floor radiant heat.)

In a retrofit situation (such as my house), it also makes sense and is cheaper than running supply and return ducts everywhere.

It’s not as good a fit in mixed or cooling-dominated climates (though they can cool as well, but then you have to insulate the pipes much better to prevent condensation).
Ah, so he's entirely unqualified to write on the topic, and also not in the list of the first 10,000 people this "elite group of billionaires" would reach out to to talk about their super secret prepper plans. 100% fake article.
Note that the article talks about a different design of heat pump, compared with the common home and industrial HVAC units, for use in industry at that higher temp.

Especially valuable when you have some waste heat from another process.

Probably a good fit for existing district heating systems too.
"I hate touching the same ground as the poor. If only there were some way I could cut off my feet without reducing my mobility."
Marxist meets people who realize the inescapability of Red Queen's Race. Seriously, learn some history/biology, the one-upsmanship never ends and with the exponential increase in human abilities, the chance of unavoidable/chance apocalypse rises to uncomfortable levels.

Is it immoral that prepper mammals survived the asteroid when productive society member dinosaurs didn't?
This is how I feel about Mozilla.

MZLA used AI to generate wallpapers for Thunderbird that nobody asked for, somebody is in a salaried role doing it that's funded by donations. What a complete waste of money considering the AI isn't even FOSS, and they are promoting it on the Thunderbird blog. That's without even getting into the arrogance displayed by a big name from their camp on AI ethics. Did all kinds of mental gymnastics to say he was a very talented artist for typing text into Discord.

Open source email clients don't need marketing gimmicks, they need substance.

BTW, did you know the same person in that role is now introducing a Thunderbird podcast? Who asked for a podcast for a FOSS email client? Nobody.

Dude has proven once again that Mozilla should just focus on making great software as they close-to-zero credibility left after working with Meta and shambolic PR disaster after PR disaster.

FWIW, even though I'm a huge FOSS evangelist, I switched to Vivaldi and Gmail, because fuck that.
Came here to post this :D

The TC channel is definitely a hacker's eye view in to all the technologies that we take for granted every day. Tons of fascinating tech history covered, too.

Other fun ones:

- a defense of the simple drip coffee maker https://youtu.be/Sp9H0MO-qS8

- why do the turn signals not sync up when you're at a stop light? https://youtu.be/2z5A-COlDPk

- how humidifiers work and ehy the simple swamp cooler style are pretty ideal https://youtu.be/oHeehYYgl28

- why dishwasher detergent packs are stupid (use powder/liquid) and why you should use the pre-wash slot and not bother pre rinsing your plates https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04

- why do light switches click? https://youtu.be/jrMiqEkSk48
I disagree. Many, not all, billionaires are extreme outliers of wealth because of extreme leverage. They are very exposed to an economic downturn and the extreme stress it could cause to someone highly leveraged.
No, see everything is licensed. You cannot purchase anything. So yeah, first we need to see about actually purchasing things, then we can talk. Try again.
> They were harrasing people to the point of suicide

a random person on the Internet said. Meanwhile, another random person on the Internet[1] said KF has a ToS that bans anything illegal from the site.

I was unable to independently verify either side of the report.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32712037
> Oracle would not stand a chance in a court trying to enforce it now.

Assuming that is true (IANAL), do you want to be on the other end of that lawsuit, wasting your time and money?
>What exactly are you trying to convey here?

Cloudflare being a monopoly, or DDoS protection market being an oligopoly is absolute bullshit.

>It's not like you could start up your own.

You can. Vanwatech you just mentioned was run by a little kid who was bundling testcookie-as-a-service with filtering services from a bunch of other small providers like BuyVM.

You can get something like this started for much less than $1k/mo.

>Who else is big within the DDoS protection market?

Just off the top of my head: OVH, Voxility, Level3, Akamai, Neustar, Path.net, Stackpath, Hyperfilter, Javapipe, Sharktech, Blazingfast...
These issues are sociaital and everyone has some level of responsibility. Finger pointing at those who were able to profit isn't particularly helpful or even true in most cases. I think people partially do this so they can absolve themselves of their own guilt.
Using this line of thinking, those that obtained wealth by pushing green causes or energy are at fault for climate change and whatever impending conspiracy theory "event" for which they are prepping? I find that far too reductive.
Yes. There are more than a few shantytowns throughout Spain, but keep in mind that they tend to be inhabited by Gitanos (often called Gypsies or Romani in English) who haven't yet fully integrated into mainstream Spanish society. Gitanos are in fact systematically marginalized by governmental and other institutions in Spain.[a] And also, yes, there's quite a bit of dysfunction and corruption in Spain -- more than in its fellow EU members to the North.

That said, I have a hard time imagining Spanish politicians ever neglecting infrastructure in a major city (let alone the largest one, the capital, Madrid) to the point that the city's entire population finds itself without access to drinking water.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitanos#Marginalisation
I think HN is at least somewhat qualified to speak to the talent side of the issue.

Is this a matter of NASA failing to attract and retain the best engineers because of non-competitive TC? In this case, where are the 10x rocket engineers who would have prevented these problems?

Is this a matter of lost institutional knowledge, where it's been so long these kinds of rockets were launched that the people who knew everything about them died or retired?

Or is this just a matter of a problem being hard to solve, even with the best engineers and the institutional knowledge that comes with decades of experience?
Programming is still hard when you’re a lone wolf operation. How many one-person startups have achieved unicorn status?
That's why they are getting bunkers. Stocked with fuel, food, water and weapons. Maybe money will be worthless, but their bunker will be valuable. And people will happily serve them for a place in that bunker. And about money, rich peppers probably have gold and a few other resources that can resist a financial system collapse.

Feudalism is a typical result of a society collapse, and these guys are building castles. If you are rich and worried about society collapse, that the most logical thing to do.
Why?

Because the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation has not been over-thrown.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...

Doing so would require a universe with different physics.
In our climate there is simply no need for AC as it never gets uncomfortably warm for more than a few days a year. Air to water is used to heat radiators and supply hot water in lieu of gas or oil fired heating. In other climates air to air is more popular and it can be less complex as you don’t need all that extra plumbing.

With new builds air to water makes sense as it’s no different to installing any type of central heating system.

As a retrofit option an air to air system would seem attractive as the installation is much simpler. Our homes tend to be smaller and there wouldn’t be any HVAC ducting so you would probably only have a since source of warm air with an air to air system.
You imagine the state could fund everything with that but it won't because we don't have the kind of voters who vote for that kind of tax policy in the first place. Or even reasonable tax policies that are more progressive than what the US has now.

Thank goodness, because even the most progressive countries in the EU realize taxation at that level would be incredibly counter-productive.
My work uses a monorepo without precise dependency tracking (Bazel or similar) so every single diff builds everything and runs a ton of tests. About 6 kWh of electricity per diff. Even for typos.

Nobody seems especially bothered.
Waterfall / no process -> Scrum -> Kanban -> XP

Problem I found with this journey is that Scrum concepts pollute Kanban and beyond. We now just do what works, as little process as works for us - and we implicitly review the process with each commit.
In this situation exploding the rocket is the failure. Not exploding is the victory.
Ask HN: Seriously, how do you TDD?
Although I understand its mantra, I was never able to “drive the design” using TDD. To highlight my issues, let me share a recent failed experiment.

I have been trying to create a command line tool to categorise my expenses and show a total by category. I’ve been using this exercise to practice TDD.

In my latest frustrated attempt, my first test was along the lines of “it can categorise a single transaction correctly”. The problem with this is that this is testing the “tip of the iceberg” that will be almost the whole, final app. I think I was attempting a more “top down” design strategy here.

Before that one, I tried the opposite: a more “bottom up” approach. I know I need to, at least, read a CSV, parse a CSV row into some data structure and then categorise it. So I TDDed my way through to complete these “sub problems”. However, when I was about to apply the categorisation rules I realised that the data structure I created didn’t help, was just bad and didn’t work at all :).

So, how do you do it when you have a “larger project” (here, “larger” means something that’s not your typical “2/3 points user story” at work)? I always end up feeling stuck whether I try bottom-up or top-down.
I don't know if the Publisher would believe as if they don't see that the ideas are the same that they have to send the proof to the people I am complaining about. I don't know if the court will believe, as they are not domain specialists and will judge by the letter of the law.
Oh they did. You could call into the JVM from JS even in early 2010s Firefox. Called LiveScript, I believe.
The tyranny of the rocket equation (2012)
It is possible to considerably improve the heat insulation of a building while still allowing turnover of fresh air. We don't specifically want to throw away the heat, we just want to change the air, and you can arrange to do that. The laws of thermodynamics forbid us from arranging to keep all the hotter molecules and lose the cool ones, but they allow us to insist on a roughly fair swap, hot air going out gets cooler, cold air coming in gets warmer.

This will be more expensive than just sealing everything up and hoping, but that's the sort of reason why you want somebody figuring out how to do it properly and only subsidising work that we know insulates homes without destroying ventilation so that they're horrible to live in. Modern homes here have much better heat insulation than when I was a kid, yet there isn't the damp problem I saw in cheaply retro-fitted rental places where I lived.
It reminds me of how my google nest resets the temperature range I've set, and then even within that range sometimes decides to tolerate large variations. I don't like sweating at night.

I'm sure there must be a good reason, but next month the nest is going to end up on ebay (or the trash?) and be replaced by a "dumb" thermostat.

The google nest was too smart for its own good :)
Is docker eating up space?

Yes.