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>Yeah hunting is not in the same moral landscape as some of the Texas wild hog "hunts".

A hunt is a hunt.

>A lot of people are drawn to it because it involves shooting semi automatics at fleeing pigs from a helicopter, without even gathering the meat.

I don't know anyone loaded enough to dedicate a vehicle that can require up to 10 hours maintenance per flight hour to hog hunting on the regular, but I suppose with all the Cali money heading Texas' way that might be a thing. Fewer still who can even pull off a shot reliably/safely from that platform. That semi-automatics are used isn't even controversial. When you're dealing with a pest that isn't guaranteed to go down in one shot, you don't hanstring yourself with unnecessary handicaps. I also assure you, the maintenance and loading just for the firearm for the expedition is no small investment of time or resources.

Most land owners I know have a rifle and a truck, and even then, it's ususlly a dedicated field truck, because you do not want to get stuck out in bumf Texas. We still have areas you can effectively get lost in.

Stop romanticizing hunting (which is exactly what you're doing when kavetching about how people hunt). It's a fact of life, and an important part of ecological stewardship. If you don't handle hogs on your property when they become a problem, they just stick around and become someone else's.

If you'd like to share the address of your property, I'm fairly sure it would be no trouble at all to wrangle up a few specimens and ship em out to you so you can get hands on experience. Might want to warn your local gov and neighbors though. It can rapudly get out of hand...
Why is he quoting primary energy and not final energy?

Does this world famous energy historian not know the difference?

Or is he hoping to fool people who don't?
> sounds like a good idea anyway?

Heck, yes. If you are butting against constraints then you may have misunderstood the problem.

I don't mind people turning constrains off for a mass migration under the following conditions:

• This is not production, or if it is production you are in a maintenance window during which you have exclusive access to this DB

• The data you are piling in will be verified against the constraints once the job is complete (no turning things back on with “WITH NOCHECK”), and you have a rollback plan for if that fails (“restore from backup take before the maintenance window” might be acceptable, if that can be done in the timeframe of the maintenance window and you are happy taking questions from your team/clients/management if this means planned updates have to be completely postponed).

• You can explain why not getting the data to be modified in an order that allows the constraints to be kept on through the process would be significantly more complicated (simplifying migration code is a valid reason for temporarily turning off constraints if it makes maintaining the relevant code less error prone) or significantly slower (sometimes doing it most right unavoidably takes more time) or both.
I do this and have been for years. If you're really interested we could Zoom through it.
.NET/C# SV startup here.

Very encouraging to see the stack getting a big funding round.

.NET/C# is a very underrated backend stack for startups. Stable, mature, secure, supported by one of the tech behemoths.
Wall Street literally values Apple / AAPL as the most valuable company in the world. So I literally don't know what you're talking about.

VTI in any case is "the market average", because its literally the whole market. Its surprisingly a difficult strategy to beat, becaust most stock pickers perform below average (!!!).

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The only thing is that the stock market is very volatile. So it makes more sense to mix in bonds with regards to historical risk/reward. You lower your average gains, but often reduce your losses. (Long term bonds are doing poorly early this year, but with interest rates rising, I'd expect that moving forward bonds are going to do well)

And that's where a "target lifepath" fund goes. Those funds mix "total stock market" with "total bond market" and call it a day.
This article has very good points and shows that things are more complex than just insulin price.

Probably most activists demanding lower insulin prices haven't even heard about SGLT2 such as dapaglifozin or GLP-1 agonists such as liraglutide or semaglutide.

The problem is clearly the insurance system in the US. Other countries can deal with this better. In any case, the cost issue remains and we also need to balance incentives to companies to innovate and interests of patients.

Even with insulin there are newer, better formulations (long acting or mixed short and long acting) etc. If we capped one type of insulin, then the companies will make another one which will only be slightly better.

So far the best way to reduce prices of drugs works when patents expire and companies compete on making cheaper generics. The manufacturing of biological drugs however are quite complicated and the cost savings are not as big as with small molecules. Complex problems require more thoughtful approach than just capping the price of drugs.
>you should strive to have solidarity with workers

Kind of weird to make this point at the end, right after you apparently say you intentionally make the cleaning jobs harder. As a cleaner if people make more of a mess of things, you'll just get overwhelmed with too much work and then things will look messy and you'll get fired. Cleaners usually don't get raises, and especially not raises for doing more work. You maybe get token raises when you threaten to leave due to low pay and the managers can't find a replacement straight away.

Nobody ever saw a clean office and came to the conclusion, "Our cleaning staff must be lazing about because someone else is cleaning for them, we should fire them all!"
It's feasible in most places. You can also usually run power lines to the ones where it isnt.

Europe is essentially already using the alps as a battery.
I'm fairly certain that was a joke
Take lithium for example. Famous for being the big part of an EV battery. Lithium is up about 5x in approximately a year and about 3x in 3-4 years, in terms of price. And we are going to need even more, hence we need to procure supplies.
How long does a lithium mine take to build? Can we build this lithium mine in a country that Europe/US can do business with(question that is really serious after Ukraine)? Do people want to see a lithium lake in Europe/USA, knowing the sorts of pollution it causes? What about recycling those batteries?
And all of those questions just for lithium. Cobblt, REMs needed for solar panels, etc have their own questions.
Paying Bitwarden user here.

This doesn't worry me that much. In the event that incentives get skewed (which isn't certain), I guess I could just stop updating the app before that happens, or fork the last good version?

I'm interested in your alternative. I hadn't heard of it, went on your site and it looked decent, I think if I had seen this before going with Bitwarden I'd have seriously considered it, BUT now that I'm a keen BW user, it doesn't seem as if there is enough for me to switch.

Are you also definitely never going to take VC money? Or an acquisition, say, by Bitwarden? Why should I trust you (and a product I've only just learned about)?
In the future, every country in the world will be competing to produce the most...

...gold?

...computer chips?

...robotic soldiers?

No, we believe that they'll be trying to make the most superhumans, and for this they need genetic engineering.
No one asked me anything - they had no issues for which they had to reach out to me.

More likely no one cared.
It doesn’t work - when combining the velocities sum to zero. Redirecting them in up isn’t free, it needs additional energy.
That is a LOT of money. $100M. That's enough money for ~50 people to live on $100k/year for the rest of their lives. You could pick 50 thinkers, scientists, artists and say "hey you never have to work again, just do your thing". But instead you invest it in a startup that will almost certainly burn it up in a couple of years of 7 figure salaries for execs and fail.

What a waste.
> Exponential drop in the cost of solar/wind is good, but will not necessarily continue for long

Maybe not, but the predictions on this have tended to do linear extrapolation of a clearly exponential trend. Things like this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAXDEAYXgAA7up_.jpg

We won't be exponential forever, an S-curve will show up eventually but the conservative estimates are not even close.

> and to become a large % of the grid will also need to come with gigantic storage projects

This isn't really true. There are already grids with 60%+ renewables without any storage projects to speak of. Large grids already have a lot of diversity and the existing hydro is already a big buffer.

> Lots of pumped back hydro? Trillion dollar projects, and we have water crises all over, so we can't just dam up any river that it is convenient to do it either.

Most of the time those kinds of estimates are predicated on the assumption that we must produce exactly what we consume and thus storage needs grow exponentially. If you have a really really cheap source of power (right now solar) and your problem is that you can't store it, just overproducing it is a better solution. The reality is that we will do a mix of many things but all the simulations I've seen show this to be well within even our current technology and cost. Most claim the total cost of the resulting energy goes down not up.
I use Bitwarden mainly because I can self host the server (vaultwarden).

And even though I don’t use Windows much, it’s nice that I can use the win client there.
What else it is going to do is keep looping until the end of the input file is reached, which was the programming model at the time.
For an even better reference, total social media advertising spending in Ireland was 386M euros in 2021

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1197773/social-media-adv...

Naively assume that meta captures 100% of this total and that it's the same in this year, that means Meta has lost more than 100% of its revenues and is running at a net loss in ireland.
I think any use cases where a digital receipt for something that is digital are good examples, like tickets. A distributed, verifiable database of transactions can have valid use cases but the amount of hate towards it is odd in hacker/engineering circles on HN and elsewhere.

Yes there are many, many ways to solve that problem (tickets) without blockchain. As a software community, we invent how many JS frameworks that end up with the same exact outcome of dynamic web pages? A quick search says 83 with a top result of some article about "Top 40 JavaScript Frameworks". We jokingly hate on stuff like that but the vitriol about blockchain is odd. The argument that its not needed to solve X is fine, in software nothing is really necessary and there are a plethora of options with known solutions. Hackers/engineers are known to over-engineer things and do things just because they can.
You do you, but I've enjoyed not even getting the slightest cold for the last couple years that I might just keep masking in a lot of public spaces for the foreseeable future. It's anecdata for sure, but my experience seems to suggest that masks can help protect against airborne transmissible viral infections.

For more anecdata, pretty much everyone in my extended contacts that has chosen to relax their masking posture has gotten covid at some point since. Those that continue stricter protocols get sick less, bet it colds covid or flu.

I haven't heard about any surgeons giving up wearing masks in the operating room. Wonder why...
Yeah, save the excess nuke bombs for a nuclear orbital cannon to get stuff up there.
> Restated, are sports specific ELO scores real? Alternatively phrased, does an X ELO score in one competitive endeavor represent the same relative strength as the same ELO in another subject?

Yes and No.

Yes but in the long term. ELO is a self-fulfilling prophecy so if your ELO states you should win say 30% of the games vs a different ELO but you win 50% your ELO rises until you have an ELO that states you should win 50% of the games vs that ELO (at which point you lose the same amount of points in a loss as your wins so it stops rising. Previously you gained more points for a win than a loss so you gradually increased in rating).

No because not every sport starts ELO at the same baseline and not every sport league (i.e. Chess website) starts the base ELO at the same (i.e. Lichess starts everybody with 1500, Chess.com starts everybody with 1000). It's also a relative metrics amoungst active players (who indirectly/directly play each other) so if a GM 500 years ago reached an ELO of 2100 that doesn't mean they're the same strength of a current player with an ELO of 2100.
I think this is how PHP was invented
I wouldn't say we haven't solved it. The solution are straightforward, but they represent an scale of project that most people don't understand at all. However, there are examples of humans doing projects at such scale before. Most notably, the totality of the infrastructure we built to extract and refine the amount of fossil fuels we do today. The gigantic offshore rigs, the thousands of miles of pipelines, the refineries, etc.

Doable, but can't happen overnight without everyone dropping everything and working on only this.
Usually when someone has some trouble, if you can help you do your part, and the trouble isn't your fault.

But when the issue is wealth inequality, the wealthier person can help, but doesn't want to, out of selfish greed, and is on the "team" that is at fault. The wealthy person is either wracked with guilt (and a hypocrite for not acting) or is an entitled jerk.

Unless the employer are paying the cleaner a good wage (almost never happens), there is direct responsibility.
Compete with Okta, essentially
Eh, there are a lot of people who don't like using FK constraints, calling them all idiots is just bad faith and ignores the reasons they did it. Just because you can enforce a constraint at a specific layer doesn't mean you have to. DB people love shoving all sorts of application logic into the DB and there are good arguments to do it as well as downsides. App people sometimes prefer to do everything in the app and just let the DB be a dumb data store and there are good arguments for that too. But it depends isn't a hot take.
Even just restricting the scope to a jar works surprisingly well. It's even better if the language has a module system that can further reduce the amount of exposed APIs.
> With every iteration in the research and with every technological breakthrough in these areas, 100% RE systems become increasingly viable. Even former critics must admit that adding e-fuels through PtX makes 100% RE possible at costs similar to fossil fuels. These critics are still questioning whether 100% RE is the cheapest solution but no longer claim it would be unfeasible or prohibitively expensive. Variability, especially short term, has many mitigation options, and energy system studies are increasingly capturing these in their 100% RE scenarios.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

If land use is the hill to die on a much better target is the beef industry.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-per-kg-poore
A little bit of a feeling of the lamps going out all over Europe in this one very big, very unusual lamp's dimming.
Quite frankly very few people can do TDD well. Hence why most developers hate it. They've never been taught by a master.

The majority of developers have less than 5 years experience, and they're teaching new devs. So the skills that we're developed by people who embraced TDD in the early 2000s have been swamped out by new people.

I think the best way learn if you don't have access to a master is probably videos. See if can find kent beck doing some examples. There's subtle knowledge & flows that hard to teach through just text alone.
What a bizarre article. Basically shows that if you don't take any animal protein, then you probably need vitamin supplements to go with your vegan diet in order to achieve optimal nutrition. That's hardly news. But it also shows, without trumpeting it so loudly (maybe because of their meat industry sponsors), that the average French diet could well do with a lot less meat (in as much as most of the target populations studied already get MORE than 100% of their protein requirements from animal sources).

Personally, I'm going to stick with my almost vegetarian diet (I probably average 2 servings of meat a month, at most, but get most of my protein requirements from eggs and cheese, while the bulk of calories come from grain, vegetables, fruits and nuts). To me the reason to cut back on animal products isn't nutrition, or health (moderate animal product consumption is clearly not a big health negative), but environmental and ethical: the way most meat, especially, but also dairy and eggs, is produced is environmentally unsustainable, and ethically abhorrent.
Chinese Social Media Sites Are Putting Digital Fingerprints on Screenshots
There you go. Is that something all COBOL programs do, loop back to the start? Did other programming languages do this?
It's a hilariously oversaturating market though with everyone and their mom rushing into that space with VC and non-VC funded products for the past 2 years.
They knew what would happen, but felt it was necessary. The other risk is Russia knocking on your door next if you let them walk over Ukraine.
When it's the dead of night, no wind, no solar, and the ambient temp. is 85 F here in Texas how are we going to power everyone's AC without an energy storage solution?

Texas isn't really a state known for building hydropower.
Thanks for the links! So I've had a look at the resources - [0] for example goes to great lengths explaining why JSON APIs are not true to the original "spirit" of REST, but it doesn't exactly do a great job at explaining what problems would be solved (better) by hypermedia-based APIs rather than JSON (or GraphQL,...).

Tbh, some of this feels a bit like "What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux...". I am eager to do studying before I just hack away with whatever tool I don't really understand (hence why I created the post) and it seems there are some useful resources there. But my main goal is to study for the sake of building, not getting drawn into a niche for the sake of purism. For example, would I be able to create a nice-looking game app with smooth animations such as [1] using mostly basic HTML, like HTMX seems to encourage?

[0] https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi...
[1] https://figure.game/
It's more than that. The reality is what what the rich person is doing is wrong (taking advantage of people's desperation, as an opportunity to underpay for labor), but they can't handle facing it.
Unpopular opinion: complaining about life circumstances isn't polite conversation with an acquaintance, especially a client. Your interlocutor will feel put upon, that if they don't engage sympathetically and try to help they will be seen as unfeeling or cruel. They may wonder if they are being emotionally manipulated.
Perfectly put
No, I would expect risk and effort minimization through perfection of strategy and technique. When 1 v 1 combat looks more dangerous than a farmer killing a goat it breaks my suspension of disbelief.
Ah, I missed that bit
There is also a pretty large overlap between the set of scientists who would be positively impacted by major policy changes in virus research. "We need more money to research coronaviruses because we can't trust our counterparts in China" and "Funding should be restricted to labs in $homecountry with better biosecurity controls" are fairly natural conclusions to draw from discovering it was Chinese error, and "this is an arms race we have to fund to win" from discovering it was Chinese malfeasance.
I see it very often when using VPNs, both including needing to select pictures and it just letting me through immediately. I find it happens less when you are actually logged into a Google account. It doesn't completely prevent them, but Google will "trust" you more.
There are long odds against VC investment.

Of all the things that move you toward such an event, time spent optimizing company structure is low return for value compared with talking to potential customers and converting them into actual customers by building and shipping.

If you get that right enough for VC investment, then there will be money for lawyers will make a Delaware C happen.

Or to put it another way, your company structure will not prevent a Yes, but prioritizing that sort of playing house will.

Good luck.
Why isn't there more interest in the dirigible launch/landing platform idea? Heck of an engineering feat to construct one of course, but nothing obviously defying the laws of physics and it would get us out of the thicker part of the atmosphere pretty effectively. And a self-landing rocket wouldn't need as much fuel for the return trip because the buoyancy of the landing platform would absorb some of the shock.
Do you mean 2005?

Have you seen a graph of wind generation?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wind-generation?tab=chart...

For solar it's 2015 that it curved upward:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-consumption?...
Some people have thin skin and sometimes its tiring to work around it. I wish i could be more open about my "this and that is in shambles but i'll have managed it next week" without people getting uncomfortable.
Fair enough, I'll conclude there was nothing to it. Thanks!
Wow, I've been running OpenWRT for years and never heard of this, thanks. Although I suppose it does nothing to resolve config upgrade issues, right?
Are you claiming that this specific contractual obligation is against the law?
I assume you are referring to the part where article says that (hall effect sensor) "output being used to trigger MOSFETs". I have no idea where that came from, but in the schemeatics and code I looked at hall effect output was read using ADC like you would expect. Otherwise how else would you change the actuation point? You could digitise it by comparing it against adjustment pot with a discrete comparator IC, but that seems like 80% of hassle with 20% of functionality. Sample keypad in the linked repository doesn't do that. Either I am looking at different repository or Arstechnica writer blindly copied from the hackaday article, and hackaday writer was half asleep while reading schematic so wrote complete nonsense.
I do the same. I run bitwarden_rs as a docker container on a raspberry pi on my home network. Then use wireguard so I am always connected to my home network.

This works great for my family. Simple set up, and I've done 0 maintenance on it.