skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I achieved a 50% heating cost reduction after investing in the insulation of an older house. This included replacing the single pane glass.

Such properties are common over Europe; especially in properties built before the 1980s (which thank to the rebuild after WW2 are a decent percentage of all building stock).

Overall you'll maybe cut gas usage by 20% in 2-3 of years by insulating those buildings, building out renewable electricity with storage and incentivising heat pumps (which reduce/remove gas usage of resident-owned properties where they are viable).
At the end of the day, they will have IP rights for a lot of VR related technology, and that will be worth something.
Ask the 12.3 million who watched Travis Scott have a concert in Fortnite [1]

There is no way to convey this without being a little bit of a jerk, but I think your take demonstrates being out of touch, in the "no wireless, less space than a nomad, lame, also Dropbox is just some tooling around rsync" sense that HN tends to get sometimes. This is enough of a phenomenon that other mainstream artists are starting to get into it, which means there are enough people getting joy out of it for it to have a market of its own.

I think you ignore the metaverse (the concept, not Facebook's janky implementation) at your own peril. The next generation is growing up with virtual concerts, and in many cases virtual artists.

[1] https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/travis-scott-fortnite-...
The general idea behind these kinds of bills is to do supply-side management of fossil production: reduce oil production is order to help with pollution/global warming. This sounds alluring but in reality, the same demand exists - it's just being directly or indirectly satisfied by imports from less scrupulous countries, usually dictatorships or theocracies. Inasmuch as there's an effect on demand, it's a very slow one.

The proper way to limit fossils is at the demand side, even if this plays less to the view of oil companies as the ultimate villains.
> This avoids various headaches down the line, since Unicode is not cross-compatible across devices and having everything in ASCII is a saner way to approach that.

Did you mean to say that not all programs support Unicode? It's been a long time — at least a decade — since I ran into a device which doesn't support it at all, as opposed to something like PHP code which has built-in support but didn't enable it.
For a website the vanilla tools are exactly right—it's what they were designed for and they still do a really good job at it.

The frameworks are only really worth their weight if you have a web app. I'd only consider a web framework if there's going to be >2x as much JS as markup.
if they do it long and consistently enough i think i would oscillate between finding it funny and driving me crazy
You get that I'm using that a touch poetically, which is a common usage of "we" in this kind of context, right? I.e. "what changed such that this is now how society operates, even though it seems kinda worse than how it operated before?" I (obviously?) don't mean that we all got together and decided this, and that only a small set of probably-biased-by-their-own-interests people are the ones making the decisions is exactly one of the possible reasons for it that I highlighted, making it (surely?) even clearer what my post was about.
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Compute / VPS: Railway, Render, Fly.io, Dokku on any VPS

Managed DB: Railway, Render, Planetscale, Supabase
Well put. Intentions can start off genuine, where the non builder truly believes the processes and barriers they set up improve building (and early on it's usually true), but it easily morphs into a tool for maintaining power and influence regardless of the value add.
Price of oil goes up, demand for EVs and other non fossil energy uses goes up. Demand will only go down when you make consuming fossil fuels economically painful.

No one is going to voluntarily leave cheap energy in the ground unconsumed/non combusted. You must continue to drive down the cost of clean energy and using that clean energy for work (mobility, battery storage for grid balancing and energy arbitrage, etc).
Well they couldn’t have made that comment, for one.
There is a difference in where the mutations occur in the body. Sunburn still primarily causes mutation in and near the skin. radiation can cause mutations in the organs deeper in the body which are less robust against radiation, for the exact reason that the skin is usually a sufficient barrier.
You’re eliding an entire body of research with “>2% of something.” That assertion is cited, and links to a full study.

This is an observational study, and you may be analyzing it as a designed one. There was no randomization, no large scale matched control group per se—that wasn’t the intention. The intention is to analyze a specific population, and compare it to the existing literature on prevalence of mutations. That’s how these things are done, you have to use the citations given to understand the broader context of a study. One study is not useful on its own.

Also, there’s this—they did hypothesis tests against a control group:

> Variants (SNP/ InDel) generated with this method were compared with a normal dataset using Archer’s analysis pipeline to distinguish noise from a true call. The normal dataset was created with sequencing data from seven young, healthy individuals.
I'd agree with that. Of course, figuring out where the "non-trivial" line is is the hard part ;)
I used slide rules a bunch when I was in high school, just before calculators killed them forever.

I felt that I had a better grasp of what a particular computation meant. The need to keep track of orders of magnitude and so on helped me catch errors that would have slipped through if I was just pressing buttons and copying down results. The practice helped me later on with "back of the envelope" calculations.

It doesn't make me nostalgic for slide rules, though. Give me an HP calculator any day.
I don’t particularly care one way or the other. I like Vue because it offers flexibility and some opinions. If I want to write a jsx render function, I can do that. If I have a simple functional component for an icon or whatever, I can use the DSL and it’s statically compiled for the final build.

I don’t agree with your point about copy cat frameworks generally, as we’ve reached the point where all the major players are adapting each other’s ideas constantly. I think any of the modern JS frameworks are more than capable of handling any use case.
I bought a car in-person in 2020, and tried a "get a quote emailed" search earlier this year. 100% prefer the in-person experience.

Response to my online quote request came back with "we don't have any of that model/year in stock" and then thus far, 15-20 marketing follow-up emails trying to sell me other cars, following up on my experience, etc, in addition of course to the modern marketing "guilt trip" emails ("Hi chucksmash, I sent you an email the other day with a few other models you might be interested in but never heard back, hope everything is okay, please let me know" 3x times). When all I did was click an "email me a quote" button because the web page didn't show a price.

Adding insult to injury, the page for unsubscribing cannot process a "+" in an email address.

At least when I walk into a showroom I can also walk out. Giving anybody your email address in 2022 is basically subscribing to CatFacts.
There are two basic approaches to work. You can be a minion or a professional.

If you're a minion, then you just build the volcano headquarters and the atomic missiles because, hey, it's your job. They don't pay you to think. Your job is to make your boss look good. You give 110% and think outside the box only when it's firmly inside the box of the primate dominance hierarchy you are embedded in.

Professionals, though, explicitly recognize they are part of a society. They owe something to the client/employer, but also to the public and the profession. For example, read through the preamble here: https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...

I see myself as a professional. I sell my labor, not my ethics. So what I would have lost by selling my ability to speak out about a problem? My integrity. My independence. My freedom. $40k is a lot of money, but it wasn't worth 40 years of shutting up about anything Twitter would want me to keep quiet about.
How would the economy function without infrastructure and affordable transportation?
> "Hey, is there a way to be sure this next feature is responsible for zero deaths?"

What makes you think this possible? I don't see where Facebook is particularly responsible here. Telephones and radios have been used to coordinate assassinations and genocides. Movies have been used to justify invasions. Why isn't anyone burning the effigies of Alexander Graham Bell, Guglielmo Marconi, and Thomas Edison?
Everyone should stop smoking. ....

... says a man while smoking ...

... and on oxygen, dying of emphysema.

We need to break Facebook's effective monopoly on advertising ...

... says a club owner whose club advertises on Facebook ...

... because not doing so will cause the club to go bankrupt.

Or, in comic form, https://www.gocomics.com/matt-bors/2016/09/13 .
At one point in the 1980s I counted 30 C compilers available for the IBM PC. Programming on the PD dominated programming in the 80s, hardly anyone had access to Unix machines. Probably 90% of C programming was done on the PC.

The 1980s C++ compilers on the PC also dominated the C++ compiler use. C++ on the PC vaulted the language from obscurity into the major language it is today.
For me the real pain was paying vendors or freelancers. They all had to be input as an additional vendor, which is reasonable, but there were dozens of fields within each vendor, many of which were esoteric in they're labeling (likely a fault of implementation on our side). Then I would get a rejection via email that a particular field wasn't filled out (why wasn't it a required field?), and it was often hard to find where to input that field -- very unintuitive. I think I even had to go through a company admin once to add an associated email address to a vendor.

Beyond that, just the philosophy of creating a "purchase order" to pay a UX researcher who did 10 hours of work over three months seemed goofy -- purchase order is what I think of when doing something like ordering printer paper, not getting an invoice paid.
do you happen to know if they were ADHD and it was prescribed meds? The effects of my ADHD were pretty severe before I got a diagnosis and was able to start stimulant meds, and when I run out it comes back in force.

With how difficult it can be to do anything with an executive dysfunction disorder ( what ADHD is ), I can totally see someone being fine on their meds, running out, and then being super unproductive as they also navigate scheduling mandated check-ins with a medical professional so they can get a refill ( it can be a huge pain in the ass )
Perhaps we are searching in different domains or have different expectations but I haven’t had the same experience. I use DDG as my primary search engine but very often I end up adding !g to get to results that are usable and it’s to the point where for a lot of things I !g straight from the start.
Unfortunately I've just lurked for years.
I literally said that private companies have been using studies to deflect liability under the guise of social good.
No reasonable person reads “found genetic mutations in every astronaut” to plausibly mean “found bog standard genetic mutations everyone’s got.” This is pop science communication—journalism—not the actual scientific study. The goal isn’t scientific precision, it’s democratizing technical work
How in the world did y’all find that?

I saw it posted below. The system was/is called Balanced Flow.
Well, Winamp 2 skins were basically just BMPs that were drawn directly onto the desktop. How would that work on Android? Would it show the player as a traditional window with microscopic buttons?
Yup, if you were looking for a sign, this is it!
They'd show failure bias, the same problem but in reverse.
> Stop being a crotchety and elitist angry person ...

Sounds familiar, like I just read an example of it :/
Recent voter surveys disagree with your remarks:

>Before seeing any messaging, voters support the government eliminating tax subsidies and other financial incentives for fossil fuels by a 24-percentage-point margin (54 percent support, 30 percent oppose). Democrats support this proposal by an overwhelming 52-point margin (70 percent support, 18 percent oppose), while Independents support it by a 15-point margin (49 percent support, 34 percent oppose). While Republicans are nearly split, they oppose it by a narrow 3-point margin (39 percent support, 42 percent oppose).

[0]: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/8/6/voters-support-endi...
The people who choose to build things (it's not a binary quality, everyone can build, some are better) are not taking moral responsibility for the things they are building.

It is hurting society. What is to be done? That is the issue at the heart of this headline.
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If the democratic socialist faction of the american Democratic Party invented the whole concept of Climate Change, just so they could do what they wanted the whole time, which apparently was "Build Offshore wind turbines bigger than the Eiffel Tower and also capture the energy of the sun via quantumn mechanics to cheaply power highly efficient union-made Electric Vehicles and stop funding some of the most regressive nations on earth via fossil fuels" then that is seriously inspiring in a solarpunk kind of way.

I'm not sure there's much evidence for that view unfortunately. But I may now pretend it is true because it would be a much more interesting world to live in if it was.
Because most stories, if they are at all compelling, are about change.

As for models, The Story Circle is easier to use, but these are still models of stories.

It's like arguing that "I've never seen purple weather" when discussing how weather models are shown on newscasts. That would be missing the point.
The lower the budget if nobody uses it is a perverse incentive. Costs at units are variable, but the budget model does not reflect that which incurs silly expenditure so that you can ensure that next year when New variables occur (radios, weapons, etc are a year older, new climate changes, solar flares, etc) will not hinder the progress of unit affairs.
Definitely, I meant that they were similar in regards to packaging, marketing, and distribution in our quasi-legal current system.
I read that but I don’t think it changes my position. It’s lock-in if you buy software for your Xbox but does that mean that Xbox has a dominant market position?
Responsible innovation implies creating value. Why bother if you make more money by extracting value from your own users.
Yeah, things got messy, laggy and sad.
Because there are no longer "sites" - there are "apps".
Because why spend money on expensive servers while we can run JS garbage on client side?
Because why our corp has this boring page? We need something more splashy-flashy than our rivals have!
Because why keep old bugged codebase? Let's write a framework!
Because can I haz animated website with no skillz? I heard I only need a few clicks with some "frameworks"...
You don’t seem to understand basic math or finance. It’s true that interest is compounding. Any educated person knows that. And any educated person also knows that inflation is compounding as well.

Ignoring inflation is total idiocy. Otherwise you might as well just push the government to add a zero to every denomination. Then there are more dollars in circulation and you don’t need to wait a century.

> If you want to introduce inflation, then I will increase interest rates to counter it

Your “argument” is basically “I will make up numbers and conditions to match the desired imaginary future I want to see.” You truly are a deep thinker.
Thank you for responding to this topic, although what you're saying does disappoint me. I've been an on-and-off Reg reader since the Slashdot days, and I loved the style. But, like many UK media outlets in the past few years, there seems to be a push to "globalize" the product - most notably by replacing .co.uk domains with .com, but also in reducing the cynicism and irreverence that used to make UK media worth reading even for people who weren't living in the UK. Nowadays I'm finding it's getting hard to distinguish British outlets from American outlets a lot of the time - presumably because everyone needs to optimize their content to suit the lowest-common-denominator algorithms of US-owned tech giants. I can't really blame you for following suit, but it does contribute to the overall homogenization of the media, in my opinion.
Really enjoyed the draft story, I need to put you on my reading list. Keep it up you have a great writing style and have obviously lived an interesting life!
The mountains I climb nearby can have the trails erased or dramatically altered by rainfall. The marked route can become dangerous when going slightly off trail can be entirely safe.

We also don't have "foliage" in Iceland :)
Later:

> Variants (SNP/ InDel) generated with this method were compared with a normal dataset using Archer’s analysis pipeline to distinguish noise from a true call. The normal dataset was created with sequencing data from seven young, healthy individuals.
If you want to stay close to vanilla, I'd recommend lit: https://lit.dev/
Some of the better ones do most of the thinking for you in a clever and minimal way and seem to reset the status quo of giant dependency trees that take a long time to install and update and deploy (relatively to your scenario). deno fresh for example is a reset coupled with deno deploy. Its better to not have to worry about manually updating the dom and think of updating state instead just like updating a variable ideally. As long as it gets out of your way and speeds up results, it is a win IMO. It gets even better when its a super fast deployment baked in. Not fun to FTP as I remember long time back. FYI coming from simple user-land and I do think things are getting better when those resets happen, not worse.
>Reversing a string is a useless operation in the real world

I'm not sure why you focused on this one example, which was just meant to indicate the nature of the issue, not cite a broad concrete problem. There are plenty of situations where you'd want to operate on graphemes, not code points, like deleting the previous grapheme in a text editor. It would certainly help programmers write correct code if the two were the same.

>doing away with combining marks and encoding everything as precomposed would be impossible because you cannot have a definitive list of every single combination of letters and diacritics that may mean something to someone

It seems to me it would be trivial to enumerate these combinations, and assign code points to them. For example, the Germanic umlaut is only used with vowels, so that's at most 5 code points.
Okay, what are privacy and security implications? If WebGPU goes GA, and a website requests it and gets approved (if it's gonna be behind a permission at all), what it would be able to learn about my machine and what it might be theoretically able to do beyond doing "normal" GPU compute?
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> What it translates to in practice is a bunch of (mostly irrelevant) mandatory training for employees, and an approval from an auditor who isn't very familiar with the business.

In the context of ensuring a bank doesn't transfer money to terrorists, this is completely wrong. Banks have a whole list of operations and processes, and failing this is enforced by actual jail time. This is why "know your customer" exists in banking. In the context of terrorism, there is no police enforcement regarding terrorists; often, we are talking military enforcement.
Did you know it has a Jupyter Notebook interface with python support?
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>Mozilla's management is incompetent and shady.

Yes, and plenty of guys have been saying that since day 0 of the new management taking over, only to get ignored and hushed away. Yet, here we are 8(!) years later :).

New unpopular opinion: Mozilla needs to disappear. The faster it does the better, as it is already dead.
It's easy, I think, to forget how bad the basic HTML / CSS / JS behavior is from a modern aesthetics standpoint.

So I'm currently maintaining a totally static blog I build in Hugo. It's almost nothing but plaintext, one static CSS file, and some images. One time in a hundred, when I select a new story, the lightly-shaded background of the page blanks through white because loading a couple resources takes too long.

For my personal blog, for fun? That's fine. For most corporate sites? Unacceptable. Looks unprofessional. This is 2022; we're not using teletypes and command-lines anymore where the user can feel the individual bytes coming over the wire.

So to prevent just that one visual hiccup, I'd need to do dynamic fetching of page content and a hollow-and-replace of the content div instead of reloading the entire page when the user navigates around, but I also need to support direct navigation to the page loading the full page content, and I need to do this all correctly from Google et. al's point of view so search crawling doesn't break. And at that point? I'm definitely using a framework (probably with both client and server-side components). All because the aesthetic of the end-user has evolved and your page looks unprofessional if it navigates like a traditional '90s-era page.
Note: introduced in March 2021 and hasn't made it out of committee (Ways and Means). This probably isn't going anywhere.

Here's something to consider though: energy is a matter of national security. Don't believe me? Look at what's happening in Europe right now with energy shortages as a direct result of Russia cutting off the natural gas supply.

The US isn't really suspceptible to this at the moment.

We subsidize food production for much the same reason: the US can't be starved by external forces. I have an issue with corn subsidies in particular but having enough food is a matter of national security. Just as having enough energy is. Over-producing food means severe events like droughts and floods don't mean a large number of people will starve.

If we cut anything it should be the ridiculous amount we spend on the military. We need this generation's version of the Truman Investigation Committee [1]. Some of our weapons programs are unjustifiably expensive (eg F35) and the amount of money thrown about in 2 decades of war in Iraq and Afghanistan in defense contracts and private militaries ("security companies") is disgusting.

But oil and gas? LIke it or not, this is something we need and will need for some time to come.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Committee
DuckDB, database wrangler used by Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, hits 0.5.0
Here's the regular reminder for people to carefully pay attention to the distinction between the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation.

The Corporation makes the browser (and presumably gets the Google money), the Foundation collects the donations and does PR/social justice/bettering-the-world initiatives.
Yep, and honestly this is why people don't see as many vanilla sites. Fear of flak, or being labeled a cowboy from the pro-framework, declarative is better, crowd.
I'm a layman, and I understand that Coq is a proof assistant that uses type theory. This comment seems true to me.

Why is it down-voted?
IME, they don't have the authority to invent/implement blockers. Instead, they attend/hold conferences, give talks, and write documents that nobody acts on. In theory, it's a good way for a company to advertise/lobby to the think-tank set. Clearly that hasn't played out for FB, hence disbanding the team.