skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a new home partly heated (thanks to the gas company subsidizing installs) by natural gas, it's a fleece of the Monopoly power granted by my state.

In the southeast, my furnace is used 3 months a year, my highest bill is $50 in the last 12 months. But in ~9 months of 0 therm usage, the minimum bill is $30. (That's right, 3/5 of every home in my region is likely to overhead)

But it's not just a fleece from the billing and the rate. Maintaining the infrastructure is supported by my property taxes and state income taxes (and the additional overhead of unneeded infrastructure in road maintenance, disasters, or simple things like utility marking.

Then there are other fleeces involved that are strictly job creation. "De-regulation" where every year I have to play a game to get the best teaser rate to get the same gas (that might be traded differently) (when the state commissioner can require rates be a certain point in the market as they do of the - same company by the way - electric infrastructure.) So I have to pay with my time, and in many ways money, just to play this game.

The heat is quick, the gas stove is slower than induction (I have a single induction unit I use most of the time), and the fireplace is comforting.
> This is the tone-deafness that ruins all efforts to actually convince people to take climate change seriously. It's extremely harmful.

It doesn't help when critics exaggerate what's being suggested. They're an issue advocacy group pushing for regulatory changes that will of course involve a long, slow transition window when actually enacted by the legislature or EPA.

They're not asking for agents in jackboots to start seizing gas furnaces tomorrow. They're playing a necessary role in getting a slow-moving regulator to start moving forward on a plan that will take a decade to gradually roll out and that will incentivize further competition and innovation in alternative solutions over the course of five years or a decade or whatever.
Can TinyML provide on-device learning?
If you are alone and have reliable internet, then syncing the password db file can be good enough.

I mean you can only run into a problems when you change it in two devices without sync in between. But that is super unlikely (in general; if you have reliable internet; you can improve reliably of this setup by syncing to a kind of server/file storage as "source of truth" as it won't be e.g. out of battery or disconnected from the internet ;-) ).

And as long as what you use for syncing doesn't blindly overrides when conflicting syncs happen you can resolve the problem by hand, not that I would expect it to happen. (At least with KeePassXC this works well, I haven't use keepass as most places strongly recommend XC over keepass without XC.)
That's the problem that was raised by the parent comment. There is no single 'unit' for this formulation of velocity because it is too qualitative.

It's a similar property to "code quality" in that regard. There are metrics like 'test coverage' or 'dependency graph complexity' but these can also be gamed intentionally or unintentionally much like LoC.

There are lots of descriptive metrics you can come up with that can be useful in exploring how you are performing or how your performance is changing with regard to quality or velocity. But treating such a metric as an actual proxy for the underlying property is not useful and sometimes counterproductive as you point out.

I think this is where the notion of software craftsmanship appears. We are still at the point where it requires an expert who is engaged in the process to essentially sense how they or their team is performing on these properties. They can use metrics to inform that sense or to help in determining what actions should be taken.

But this is frustrating for larger organizations where frequently the people who want to measure a certain property are not actually participating in the process because they are separated by multiple layers of management. You essentially have to trust that every management layer below you is able to accurately assess a qualitative property, which is difficult to standardize and scale.
Yes, you missed a lot then.
Thank you so much!

> I do miss some native features (like the iOS letter column on the right that made it very fast to find something in the list), but generally get that there are tradeoffs to be made.

You are not the only who missed this feature and it is coming back soon. It wasn't available in SwiftUI and we had to go back to UIKit to implement it.
Imagine if all the national labs just designed tools like this to be built for the betterment of humanity instead of weapons. Humans are so silly.
yes, of course, but there are ways to reason about programs that are not expressible in assembly, so a purely assembly program is not able to reason about itself in this way in order to optimize itself in the same way as a higher level program can. both domains can do things the other can't. and, again, the more complex a concept is, the more difficult it is to implement in assembly, due to the sheer volume of code. you can't argue with that.
Yes. Exactly my point. Only better stated.
The supreme court just slapped down the EPA for trying to overstep their authority. Regardless of the merits of banning natural gas for heating, this is pure grandstanding because they know the EPA cannot do this.

On the merits, requiring replacement with a different type of unit is foolish policy and not the right starting point. As it stands now, new houses are still being built with natural gas. Eliminating that would be a bigger win, and twenty years from now you can work on phasing out what already exists.
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I don't know, this seems like a good compromise to me. Some apps (calendar) would be absolutely crippled without them. For everything else, I've just never turned them on in the first place.

> I wish there were a permission pop-up before playing sound at all

The browser can't actually play sound unless 1) it's triggered as the result of a user action (such as a mouse click) or 2) if you've often listened to sound on that page in the past.
It's hard to take them seriously with their policy prescriptions[1]. They mention that they oppose: coal power, nuclear power, hydroelectric power, and certain applications of solar power. Ok sierra club, please explain how we are going to generate power?

I see this from activists alot. They recommend some bananas policy prescription, and when the experts in that field say "that's not possible" the reply is always: "well you're the expert, just figure it out".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club
The main risks are around liquid staking derivatives and centralization to a specific centralized staking service or pool. See here:

https://notes.ethereum.org/@djrtwo/risks-of-lsd

https://research.paradigm.xyz/staking

Another area that is new and can be biased is RANDAO:

https://eth2book.info/altair/part2/building_blocks/randomnes...

There are probably going to be several issues that will arise during and after merge, and might require engineering solutions.
No, but Germany started a shutdown of nuclear power plants and the laying of the Nordstream gas pipeline as recently as 2011.

I appreciate that major infrastructure projects take a long time to build - but a gas-heavy Russia-dependent energy mix was the deliberate choice very recently.
The same way it is possible in Brainfuck or powerpoint — that’s just Turing-completeness and outputting a binary file.
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>invests in the entire stock market.

TQQQ indexes the Nasdaq 100, not remotely close to "the entire stock market".
This is patently false. There is a organization, hired by the company that makes these fake burgers, to measure their environmental impact. A holistic cattle farm then hired the exact same company to measure their environmental impact. The results show that the fake meat farms had a carbon footprint (I don’t remember how bad/large it was), but the holistic ranch was carbon negative. I am on my phone now, if I remember I will come back here and link to the studies. I also recommend watching Allen Savory’s Ted talk on this subject.
It is worth noting that three of the six community-and-affiliate candidates currently standing for the Wikimedia Foundation board support the following statement:

"WMF fundraising is deceptive: it creates a false appearance that the WMF is short of money while it is in fact richer than ever"

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_electio...

(Two candidates "supported" the statement; one "strongly supported" it. A fourth opposed the statement, but added: "I do feel that the online campaign can be improved. See videos for more." In the videos, she said: "The one thing that I think we can improve is our on-wiki campaign. It is sometimes too aggressive to my taste.")
I am afraid of being robbed in a dark alley, now in regards to programming languages I never understood what one should be afraid of.
I agree KeePass is free, open source and lightweight but calling it easy to use is quite a stretch, especially if you want the same kind of functionality (e.g. autofill in browsers) that other tools provide out of the box.
The one and only Feross randomly gracing our presence :clap:
Blockchains, smart contracts, web3.
I was a philosophy major, and my former coworker who is now on the Swift Runtime team at Apple was an English major. I would recommend reconsidering whether this bias is just based on your anecdotal data. Also, I would recommend not bragging publicly about this bias, for legal reasons. Do your bosses know that you actively discriminate against humanities majors, and are they ok with that? Is it company policy? Do the public job postings say that humanities degrees do not meet the job requirements? Your comment does suggest that humanities majors are applying for jobs at the company.
> anything expressible above assembly is expressible in assembly

parser for unicode, go. I'll wait over here.
> If you get a nasty February ice storm that cuts a power line, you can be without electric power in 0F weather for up to 5 days. I guess people can install natural gas generators for that occurrence

Why would they? They already have one. They don't have to rip it out just because they get a heat pump. Heat pumps don't go where the furnace is.

> I am not sure if heat pumps can work off regular gas powered portable generators that people usually use for emergency power.

Depends on the generator, although some heat pumps run on 120 V. More often they're like central air conditioners, washing machines, and stoves, and run on split-phase 240 [1]. 240 V generators are not as common as 120 V, but they are still very easy to find: https://www.homedepot.com/p/318061554

[1]: your house gets 2 "hot" (one positive voltage, one negative) wires and 1 neutral, with most things connected between neutral and a hot wire, with a ground to check for shorts. High power (anything over 1.4 kW) appliances get a NEMA connector between the two hot wires, and a ground to check for shorts.
I keep confusing IPFS with the (much older) I2P. Just in case someone else makes that mistake.
Ever since I became aware of this study I was on the lookout for this with my dog. There was no expressed clear preference of NS and an avoidance of EW. On leash / off leash doesn't matter.

Obviously I didn't do this methodically so I could be mistaken. However, without any replication and the note about potential p-hacking of another commentor, I'm going with BS for now.
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It's a strange commercial offering with a weird relationship to BitTorrent (it's "ex"), but Resilio Sync is an interesting device to device option as well.
I think the comparison to a "tree's worth of oxygen" is misleading, because trees overall produce very little of the Earth's oxygen; most oxygen (50-80%) is created by phytoplankton in the ocean.

Shipping tons of single-celled organisms to another planet (once we're sure it's devoid of life otherwise, a high bar, I suppose) is going to produce oxygen much more quickly if you can give them a good environment to do so.
Is there something that would allow a keepass db file to be shared through a REST API?

At my current work, we have a lot of credentials to test environments shared on one single keepass file and I am wondering if I could securely use it as a network accessible (VPN only) vault and ideally something I could programmatically fetch those credentials for CI.
> That's not a style I would be encouraging to use today

Shame on them for not promoting your personal taste in coding style.
It sounds like Malloy might be able to find a niche amongst some casual users, but it will never gain traction amongst DBAs. My reasoning is as follows.

Being a DBA is more than just writing queries, you have to be able to maintain the database, maintain the security settings, and (most importantly for this discussion) do performance tuning.

Performance tuning is incredibly important; I have, personally, seen a query that was running in only a few seconds have an absolutely catastrophic performance drop off when a few extra records were added. I had to get help from the DBA to find where it was going wrong and rewrite it to get the performance back to a reasonable state again. (I am talking about query run time going from seconds to minutes.)

You can't do performance tuning in Malloy I doubt; You'll be needing to run the analyser and rewriting the produced SQL. Since you'll have to know SQL really well to do this, why bother learning Malloy as well?
I'd be surprised to find any examples. People don't get fired for thinking that abhorrent free speech should be allowed, they get fired for sympathizing with it.
Maybe good, maybe bad. I suspect the good will be lower prices as we resolve major conflicting prices for the same service. Maybe bad as we find that nurse Jackie is spending too much time taking care of your sick husband and that needs to cut back as the prices the hospital is negotiating drops. The service will become more standardized and robotic.
The clinical symptoms of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) appear to be very similar to HCoV-OC43. That is another betacoronavirus which is classified as one of the hundreds of endemic "common cold" viruses. It is now suspected to have caused a worldwide pandemic which killed many people starting in 1889.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13889

There hasn't been much research on long-term sequelae from HCoV-OC43. I'll bet that if we studied it as closely as COVID-19 we would find similar effects.
Thanks for the instructions.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install texlive-latex-extra

sudo apt install dvipdf

sudo apt install ghostscript

sudo apt install texinfo

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/c-intro-and-ref.git

cd c-intro-and-ref

make c.pdf

makeinfo --html -v c.texi -o c.html --no-split
> Please explain to me how an electric heat pump - even one designed to be highly efficient in a cold climate - is supposed to keep me from freezing to death when my power goes out every winter from an ice storm taking down trees

The warm fuzzy feeling you get inside from knowing you're saving the planet should keep you warm enough. /s
My issue is with the idea that startups are harmed by using C#/.net.

The C#/.Net ecosystem is a batteries included ecosystem, we're not talking about trying to use C++ to implement a website.

Functionally the major difference between C#/.Net and things like node, et al, is that the C#/.Net framework will be supported far longer than the other and the upgrade path will be a lot smoother. That's not opinion, it's objective fact. I've made a lot of money supporting companies that paid for the flavor-of-the-day du jour and didn't realize they needed to stay on the rat wheel that is major upgrades. There's literally a company dedicated to support out-of-date RoR frameworks, including older versions of popular gems with security updates they maintain themselves because of this phenomenon.

My point here is this.

There is nothing inherent in C# or .Net that is dangerous to startups, that's a bubble you seem to exist in. Not choosing C# because the area is mostly Python and JS is a legitimate decision. What isn't legitimate is rationalizing that into C#/.Net itself being inappropriate for startups in general, rather than being inappropriate for that area (for ALL companies, not just startups).

This whole thing about enterprise is a red herring. Enterprise companies use Python and Ruby as well. It smacks of a community trying to rationalize something that has no true rationalization.
Bittorrent has clearly shown that p2p can perfectly scale with very little centralization, that is now becoming unneeded. There is an issue with IPFS, not with p2p.

My uneducated guess: content in IPFS is split in too small blocks, making the data-to-control ratio way too low.
It’s surprising because it’s dead wrong. Watch Allen Savory’s Ted talk.
The Tesla of Aviation? Flying an electric plane that takes one hour to charge
We built a BattleBot. It's terrifying
IHG hotels unauthorised access to technology systems
So you want young people to start working on some interesting ideas which have potential to help humanity?

Well, my top priority at that age was not to be poor. The optimal strategy was to work in the boring parts of IT and hopping to a better job whenever an opportunity arose. (This worked for me, thank you)

So, sorry but the deal where I work on some crazy idea and become poor if it fails was just unattractive to me (and probably isn't to a lot of people who are not born rich).
Here we go again: Some company (in this case, Bitwarden) "betrayed" its customers by doing what every other firm does. And Hn goes brrr over it.
I wonder, aren't the majority of HNers working at a for-profit company funded by VCs?

The hypocrisy is just intolerable at this point.
It said with just HTML.... that site requires Javascript.
Germany actually didn't plan to replace nuclear with gas, it wanted to replace nuclear with renewables+gas (later to be replaced by electrolysis). It was of course unfortunate for the climate to shut down the nuclear plants before shutting down the lignite plants.
Interesting open source software too:

-- https://as.tufts.edu/biology/levin-lab/resources/software

-- https://github.com/betsee/betse
I don’t think that’s the right takeaway from the study. Learning loss was barely different in the South vs the Northeast (and worse vs the West) despite more aggressive reopening, and cities had no learning loss despite reopening last. I think there was learning loss for the same reason there’s been a spike in crime - the pandemic was highly disruptive to routines and mental health, whether or not your school was open.
Not normal candles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_oxygen_generator
Sorry to pile on, but "we", as a civilization, are extremely unfocused on travelling to Mars.
If I knew that, I wouldn't be here surfing HN in my cube in this god forsaken company that I'm working for at the moment.
-Ofast isn't a good name for the option, but in GCC's defense the manual is pretty clear about all this, and there's no excuse for blindly turning on compiler options - they literally change the semantics of your code.
Can the Hall-effect sensor detect speed or force? I'm more interested in building a midi keyboard.
> On Perseverance we use up to 300 watts to produce about 8 grams per hour of oxygen, which represents not much more than 10 percent efficiency relative to the amount of electrochemical power it actually takes to pull apart the CO2 molecule. ... It’ll still require a reliable power source, of course. According to Dr. Hecht, a nuclear reactor capable of around 10 kilowatts (currently being developed by NASA) should do the trick.

To me, this is not "generating its own electricity". The device is still an incredible accomplishment, even more so because it's operating on Mars. But it doesn't generate its own electricity. They still need to connect it to a separate energy input to run the reaction.

I want to clarify this just in case anybody skimming the comments gets the impression that chemically splitting the CO2 into CO and oxygen gas somehow produces enough energy to sustain the reaction without external input.
> Should I ever bother with a Compaq..

I don’t know guys, should we tell him?
I suspect most people who go into a history major out of high school come from a background which informed them that it's something they can do, and still be okay.

Many kids couldn't go into history simply because their parents would be vehemently against it.

Among history majors, we can probably find a good many individuals whose parents supported them in their choice, and a good bulk of that support likely has economic roots.
Hi! I'm the CEO of Clerky — and you are exactly right to be careful, for the reason you mentioned.

If you have a non-US founder, the safest thing to do is to at least seek the counsel of a startup attorney. There are a lot of online services out there that purport to be designed for non-US founders, but they don't really do anything special other than make it easier to get EINs, bank accounts, etc. That stuff are annoyances, but not really what makes the non-US situation difficult.

And no online service, from what I've seen, can safely handle a subsidiary relationship like what you're describing. I would really advise against trying to do that on your own without an attorney.

It could very well be that you can still use an online service like Clerky for parts of your setup (especially since we have tools for working with attorneys), but someone good needs to do the legal analysis to see if that's the case, if anything else needs to be done, etc.
should be spending their time improving various systems to enable people to work on more important work. Universal healthcare, improved child care accessibility, affordable housing, anything you can think of that is an enabler of talent to do more than survive vs thrive

exactly that. when i see a call for people to do more important work, this is the kind of stuff i think of. things that society actually needs.
Inline Assembly is not part of ISO C and plenty of languages have such extensions.
I agree, the code style is quite ugly and strange. They also seem to prefer not using braces for `if`, which is really error-prone. And the first example is a recursive Fibonacci function… Recursion is often hard to grasp for beginners, and while this isn’t a beginner-programmer’s book, couldn’t they have started with something easier?
> Why not build a society where everybody is building their own business, and we connect them all together?

How do you achieve anything that requires multiple people to collaborate?
If I grab a C library that does this, compile it, and hand you the resulting assembly, will your mind explode?
Last time I looked only the pinephone had hardware switches, and they were under the case making it kind of clunky to turn them on and off.
I lived in Szeged for two years. Beautiful city and I have fond memories but it was a lonely existence there for me as an outsider - even speaking reasonable Hungarian after three years in Budapest. I do miss the Hungarian climate, the food and some of the people. If you go to Hungary, explore outside Budapest!
I use a 7x USB 3.0 expansion card for my gaming system, because I hate hot-plugging input devices into my front panel I/O. My gaming uses a mix of peripherals from a Keyboard and Mouse (separate from the ones I use for productivity work on the same PC) to an Xbox controller to a HOTAS & Pedal kit, plus charging cords for my Valve Index controllers that I leave plugged in and routed. And of course high-end gaming headsets usually use USB these days, plus a webcam. I use a lot of ports. :)
Can it detect speed or force? I googled, and it seems to be a binary sensor.