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There is nothing wrong with HTML evolving, the problem is that it has evolved in the completely wrong direction. HTML should be a document language, yet it has barely improved in that in the last 20 years and is still missing really basic features (e.g. long-form document support). Instead it can talk to my Bluetooth devices and my camera. Something went very wrong in the evolution of HTML.

It's nice that we have a portable app platform now, but I really wish that would be a separate thing from the document centric Web, which slowly but surely is getting killed and replaced by a bunch of always-online apps.
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I feel similarly, but when the thing being imitated is just breaded and fried "stuff" like a nugget, it seems like an inexpensive, tasty vegan filling should be simpler. Maybe the distinction is making a bite that is delicious, not necessarily something meat-like. If the nugget is good, you won't care if the filling is chicken, mozzarella, bean, or something else.
Have you used this before? This looks great - much lower overhead than what I was doing with a Pi, USB camera, and motionpi
On the contrary: the sizeof operator is the only way to generally get the size of an arbitrary array (with e.g. no known sentinel to mark its last element) in C. You couldn't use a function instead even if you wanted to.

Many other languages however don't have the equivalent of the sizeof operator because they don't expose an object's memory representation quite as much as C does.
I think this highlights the folly of regulating transactions. It should really be as neutral as a power utility.

As an analogy - where dissimilar things are compared for the ways that they're similar - if you asked people "should we keep the power on for people involved with CSAM", many people would say "no!" and vilify anyone arguing against the premise itself, because any punishment is a valid punishment to them.

So our liability laws should factor this in.
It just takes time. For me it was a few weeks, with longer and longer sessions each time. I’m someone who gets sick from spinning in circles a few times, so if you can stomach that, probably less.

Car sims took the longest. There’s just too much hard wired in there.
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Ok, lets think this through a bit. About 48% of homes in the US are heated with natural gas. This is mostly because it is the cheapest option available in many areas. The immediate result of banning natural gas heating is more expensive heating for 48% of homes. The longer term result is more expensive home ownership. More expensive home ownership means less people able to afford a home.

People are going to use the cheapest option to heat their home. If you truly want people to switch from natural gas then make a cheaper option. Forcing change is rarely the best course. Make something cheaper or easier and people will change on their own. You don't see many horse and buggies or gas lights around much anymore. They were supplanted by better options not forced.
If this petition was to ban the general cutting and burning of wood for cooking and heating, we would all laugh because the downsides of powering our lifestyles that way are so obvious to us today.

Some people do use wood for heating (in a wood-burning stove for example) but those are rare exceptions that either make sense contextually (a cabin far from infrastructure) or as a sort of aesthetic experience, like playing your favorite album on vinyl instead of Spotify.

But we all know why we should not heat, say, every house in Chicago primarily by cutting and burning trees.

I think folks in the future will feel the same way about pulling a bunch of gas out of the ground and individually burning that in our basements, closets, or kitchens. Furnaces are, let’s face it, very old school, dirty and poorly optimized technologies. I can literally see the blue flames through gaps in the metal when my furnace is on, and it’s a nice new high-efficiency model that is less than a decade old. I have carbon monoxide alarms in my bedrooms. Great.

Sure, this petition is a blunt instrument that would cause havoc if implemented as written. But the thing about transitions is that you have to start somewhere or it will never happen. Can we agree that phasing out gas makes sense? Even if this specific petition is flawed.
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Why wouldn't one want sit through another Teams meeting?
I didn't do this for anybody but me. As long as I know how to do it, that's all the matters. Let them spend 42 years in the computer industry to figure it out.
>Unfortunately 30ish years on, people still don't seem in general to understand capabilities

That's because they think they've seen it, and what they saw was horrible.

First was the UAC stuff in Windows Vista that caused no end of unnecessary headaches. Next was all of the permissions flags (capabilities) in their phones in the name of "security"

It's a Java/Javascript situation. I'm not sure what the best way to route around this is. Recently I've used these analogies:

Cash in a wallet - if you hand someone $10, there's no way that it can lead to a loss of more than $10, as opposed to access to your entire wallet

Circuit breaker / Outlet - An circuit is only capable of delivering up to the limit of the circuit breaker that is protecting it
Eventline lets you schedule any script; you can of course build and test software, but you can also run recurring data import or processing jobs, report generation, backups, monitoring checks (I have multiple jobs regularly verifying properties of live systems)…

Since you can add parameters to your jobs and run them manually with an auto-generated form, it becomes very simple to create complex tasks and let colleagues use them. You could have tasks to create feature environments, prepare onboarding for new employees, process GDPR requests, all kinds of jobs really.

I do know anything about Ansible AWX, but looking at the documentation, the only thing I can think is that it seems awfully complex when I just want to be able to run script and have a platform to monitor what happens and alert me when it fails.
great point. I am glad they took this into consideration.
Even in rural places with more room and potentially cheaper excavation? In my case I'm on 6 acres.
Not to mention all the code running at Ring -50 or whatever they're down to now (at least -3 iirc).
The majority of any population (not just USA) are ignorant about most topics. Masses are not intelligent. This is particularly true of a range of topics, from economics and financial domains to anything in the sciences and engineering. The masses are also really bad at being intelligent about anything that requires a long term view or planning.

Given that, it is probably fair to say that the intelligent people are likely not where the majority opinion lies. Not always, of course, there are no absolutes. Being outside the majority generally requires applying critical thinking and sometimes a lot of work to truly understand something. My mother used to vote based on who she liked. I mean, quite literally, not much different from a beauty contest. If she liked the person --for whatever reason-- she voted for them. I loved my mom, but her voting was ignorant and likely damaging to society. I hypothesize, based on conversations, that most people vote this way (or straight-up party affiliation, which is equally stupid).

As an example I use the work I had to undertake in order to understand something seemingly simple: The reality vs. the fantasy of photovoltaic solar energy. I was 100% on the fantasy camp when I built my 13 kW array. It didn't take long for me to, as an engineer, start asking questions based on what I was seeing. The full understanding took an honest evaluation based on actually having skin in the game, experience, math and more. It probably took me a couple of years to go from being a solar energy cult member to being a solar energy realist. I venture to guess that 99.9% of people will never take that journey.

If understanding that the masses are wrong makes one "extreme", so be it. These days we find all kinds of ways to denigrate and stomp on people who don't push accepted narratives. The masses don't realize that politicians create divisive narratives with the sole purpose of capturing votes and retaining or growing power. They do not --regardless of party-- work for us. They work for themselves. They work to stay in power. That is, in CS terminology, their fitness function --what drives their evolution and actions. Their power is evidence of just how stupid populations have been over the years.

On a much darker side, this statement out of government --any government-- is scary in ways history has shown us time and time again. Genocides have been perpetrated because the masses --ignorant and stupid as they are-- are easily manipulated to fall in line with the politics of the those in power. The Armenian, Jewish and Darfour genocides are just a few examples of this. Mobs are not intelligent. We should actually embrace those who do not agree with the majority, not expunge them.
BitWarden is based almost entirely on open source so it's possible to branch the project. Given some of the language on their website and their more recent attitude towards OS licenses, my prediction is that they will use the new funding to build as many closed source modules as possible to increase user switching costs, similar to what Google is trying to do with Chrome on top of Chromium. But that is a slow process that takes years, and a lot can happen between now and then.
True. If you look at porn on the internet, you're almost certainly visiting pornhub-owned sites whether you know it or not.
Never had problems with connecting to the browser (as long as frequently you update the software/browser plugin).

IMHO The UI of the Linux app is ok, not grate but very usable. The Android app I think is worse though.

Failing to fill auto-fill is in my experience 100% to blame on the website in question. It happens more often then with some commercial alternatives. They just don't have the same amount of resources to work around websites doing stupid quirky things with password input fields. Which websites would stop doing quirky password input field stuff.
I know nothing about this. It looks cool. I want to learn more. Where do I start ?

DDG search does not help much [1], [2]

Any pointers ?

1: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=waveform+generator+for+wavetable+s...

2: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wavetable+synthesizers&ia=web
These are very different because of the end goal. A world where we don't drive our food and eventually ourselves extinct is a world with vastly less gas use, to the point where the uses you highlighted (both electricity generation and home heating) are both eliminated entirely while I assure you we're not going to stop using water. We need to change how it's assigned, who gets access and to how much, but we're not going to eliminate it.

So then the question is, if we're eliminating all gas usage, why do A before B rather than B before A and the answer to that is very simple. Electricity is fungible, and it's much harder to change all the millions of individual home and small business installations, so you should begin with that first or you'll never get done.
In the US, there is a recent "inflation reduction act" that passed (< 1 month ago, after 2 years of discussion) in reconciliation that offers tax credits for heat pump, heat pump water heaters, solar panels, and electric cars - subsidizes renewable energy sources - and to some chagrin, subsidizes traditional electrical generation energy sources.
That may be true but in an industry that produces millions of new computers every year there's quite a bit of room for outliers. After all someone has been buying all these specialised expansion cards for all these years.

Graphics, sound and networking may have been the biggest reasons and may now be adequately catered for in everyday PCs without the extra hardware. However the high end of all of those markets still needs more than what you get on any basic motherboard and processor and then there are all the speciality cards as well catering for who knows how many niche markets.
Interesting, I'm building a website builder myself and I've arrived at a similar conclusion to start with a multi-step form, at least to get users onboarded.

I feel there's great benefit with collecting [core] data upfront which affords you to do things like suggest a bio based on your title and name using GPT-3 to mitigate the blank page problem.
Out if necessity I've started working with Microsoft's Kusto Query Language [1] which is used by various services in Azure (e g. their Log Analytics Workspace).

At first I found the language rather akward and was wondering why yet another query language. But the more I used it the more it grew on me. The thing I really like is that unlike the clauses in SQL, the order of operators isn't really fixed and it reads and feels like a pipe command in a Unix shell.

One example where I find this far superior is when doing aggregations. In SQL I would have to modify both the start and the end of the query, which is quite a nuisance.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/q...)
I find PCIe USB expansions and SSDs very uncommon, but I guess my sample size is mostly nerds who also game, not even sure when I last opened up a work-issued desktop PC...
Are you using A-Frame?

https://aframe.io/
I've been under the impression that IPFS has way lighter computational requirements than Filecoin, which is basically impossible to run without a server.
I actually disagree, but only because I'm reading between the lines. The place for carefully outlined policy with explicit exceptions, or funding associated with grid improvements or the like go through Congress and they know that. My take is that the Sierra Club is essentially making a very public opening bid in their bargain to reduce gas heating as much as possible. In a negotiation, you don't start with what you'd settle for. You start with the most extreme position you can plausibly stake out, then give up ground inch by inch to land at something reasonable. They'll get the chance to put their evidence on the record, maybe drag some witnesses to speak on the record, score some discovery wins, force a few rulings to set some precedent. And also they can fundraise like hell off of it. It's gamemanship for sure, but I support that they're pushing in the right direction.
In my gameplay circle it was equally frequently COUP SOUFFLÉ!
Not exactly what you're asking but here's an anecdote:

I recently got an air quality monitor because I was worried about CO2 levels in my apartment having the windows closed and AC running all day every day. It turns out the levels were higher than I'd like (nearly 2000 PPM) and just cracking a few windows open very slightly, less than an inch, is enough to reduce the concentration to between 400 (outside air) and 900 depending on how many people are home. The window AC unit was still able to handle cooling the apartment with a relatively small change in usage.

I also run an air filter constantly so my PM2.5 and PM10 levels were already near-zero, but I'd imagine cracking a window helps with that.
Machine learning on mobile – hard mode on?
How easy is to rollout your ML solution on the mobile device now days?
I am about the biggest advocate for moving away from fossil fuels as there is, but it certainly isn't going away in our lifetimes. And even in a world where 0% of fuel comes from fossil fuels, we'll still need petroleum for other uses.
Agreed. People don't have to define themselves and/or their worth by their day job.
I've always liked walrus https://www.caida.org/catalog/software/walrus/
I largely agree with your take!

But just to clarify one point: Plasmic (importantly) doesn't require using any specific libraries. You can bring your own arbitrary React code.
Ohhh I think I misunderstood how this works. You write the visualization ahead of time, and then you livecode the music only? Bauble would work well for that -- you could just grab the compiled shader source and integrate it into your livecoding environment; wouldn't even need to integrate the Bauble runtime. All you'd need to do is set a few uniforms and issue a draw call.

I was imagining something where you switch between coding audio and visuals on the fly -- which is still totally possible, but would require a bit of work to get them talking to each other.
I think solar and battery will be there so soon! Why not let people be comfortable during the transition instead of destabilizing society?
> private jet flights

Why not all flights? It shouldn't be so cheap to fly for pleasure OR business given the climate externalities caused by _every_ flight.
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Mine also uses electricity but a very small amount. When the power goes out I use a car battery, with a mini generator or my car to recharge. Also use it for my well water pump. (Afaik I'd need substantially more power for an electric heat pump for 2 weeks)
In the US, just 21.8% of electrical generation comes from coal.
it is not everyday that a few tens of thousands of humans come to visit at once
Just read an interesting article on here which states: energy, education, housing, healthcare, and transportation src: https://perell.com/essay/what-should-you-work-on/
A: Functional Programming, because it lies about having no state.
I use Bitwarden. I don't trust that service with my data. I host an instance of the community-developed backend: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden on my own server so that I don't need to, and use the FOSS clients to access it.

I feel more comfortable with that than syncing a KeePass file over dropbox or google drive, mostly because I got myself into a nasty situation that way with a corrupted KeePass database a while back.
Question, while these Moxie things seem like they would be obviously good assets for a long term self sufficient base, is there any reason we can't just burn candles like on nuclear subs? I would assume that any effort to start colonizing mars would have to get the transport so cheap that shipping an absurd quantity of these candles is probably much more economical than a MOXIE unit?
This is the umpteenth attempt at replacing SQL. Just like all previous attempts, it may well address some weaknesses of SQL, however, it introduces a whole new range of issues. SQL has been around so long as it mostly works.
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Doesn't the heating system need electricity as well, for the electronics, fans/pumps etc.? Or is it more like a gas stove with a simple valve to open the gas line, and manual lighting?
> We haven't built a completely self contained, perpetually self reliant colony in some place like Death Valley or the Arctic?

McMurdo Station [1] in the Antarctic is generally self-reliant/self-contained. Regular shipments of things like diesel, of course, but it also sees a sometimes surprisingly large residency (Wikipedia points out it can support around 1200 people at times) for what people generally consider a "small" science installation, and it has been in perpetual, year-round operation for decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station
Riff, automatically provide external dependencies for Rust projects
Gamesmanship like this is counterproductive when it gets everyone on your side grouped in with whoever on your side is playing "bad cop".
To add to this, there was a major storm last week that knocked out power for significant chunk of the Detroit area for up to three days. That's in August, mostly from wind.
It needs to be golden so that corrosion doesn't alter its dimensions.
Natural gas is not required for anything. In particular, it's not required to back up renewables. It may currently be cheapest for doing that, but it's not required for it, and alternatives such as batteries and hydrogen would be affordable (and cheaper than nuclear).
Let's start one step before that: do you want to work at all?
> To put another one out there, there's no universal and practical way to electronically transfer money from one person to another. The only options are cash, checks, wire transfers and ACH. Wire transfers are expensive and ACH is difficult to use.

The FedNow system, scheduled to roll out next year, is designed to fulfill this purpose.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...
> Has anyody done a thourough calculation with statistics and all?

Yes.

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1qzuPRvsM0 and read the papers referenced in the video.
30 years late to the party, and in a format that is inaccessible to anyone just casually browsing the web but needs to be built using 40+ year old build systems, hosted on a server that apparently cannot handle the "gentle" influx of HN readers...

Sounds just like any other GNU project ;-)

I mean I seriously admire RMS's endurance and persistence, and I'm looking forward to this manual, I'm sure it'll be great, but is this really what GCC needs most? A new language manual?
It is not possible for any modern technological society to be "perpetually self reliant" with a population of less than a few hundred million people. And that's with access to a planet's worth of resources. Hell, it wasn't even possible to have a bronze-age civilization without international trade. One of the reasons the transition to iron/steel based civilizations was so widespread was that there's a lot of iron ore and it's spread out all over the place.

It turns out that resources are not evenly distributed. There are only a handful of locations where it is economically feasible to gather or mine some elements. And until we have techno-magic replicators that can turn energy into matter, this problem will remain.

No colony 100's of thousands of people is going to be self-sustaining on Mars. It's simply not possible. They will always be dependent on Earth.