skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but it's also valuable for analyzing air quality for lots of other things (including Covid safety using CO2 as a proxy.) I use it at home and also bring it to the office occasionally to make sure things are reasonable there.
Recent and related:

Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264777 - Jan 2023 (203 comments)
Are there (effectively) finite resources when it comes to computation though? We are so unbelievably far from the limits arising from theoretical physics that we could probably have millenia of Moore's Law, without having the computer collapse into a black hole (or whatever other limits are known apply).
I mean I wouldnt look at this like organs are somehow gatekept : theyre just fucking expensive so you have to get in with the institutions that own them to be able to play em.
18 people is the absolute maximum number of innocent people that might have been executed in 2022, for the entirety of America. Texas only executed 5 people in 2022.
What did the brightest and least ambitious do?
USD? Mid range where I am is over $1k USD, from a big box store. Amazon shows similar results. Are you thinking a little countertop unit?
The paper goes astray in my view right at the start, when it points out that time is a parameter in the Schrodinger equation, not an operator, so that equation gives no way to uniquely derive a probability distribution for measurement results as a function of time--but then fails to note the solution to that problem, which is to not use the Schrodinger equation in the first place. The correct framework in which to treat time on the same footing as other observables is relativistic quantum field theory. That is never even mentioned in this paper.

(To be fair, I have never seen any discussion or comparison of QM interpretations that uses QFT as its framework; they all use non-relativistic QM, even though we know that's just an approximation. But it's still an issue even if it's an extremely common one.)
If you're bright enough to be useful where there's this shortage, you're bright enough to see how much those jobs suck.

"We need more suckers willing to do incredible hard things for little reward beyond the work of doing them. while the management and their consultants reap millions in ongoing profits for bringing a diluted, not-quite-good-enough version of that work to market"

edit to add: These jobs are often at places founded by "genius motivated by love", but now its the second generation or more on from that. the management wants that kind of success but they want it on their schedule (gotta make the quarterlies). they want it without the risk of failure and need for multiple attempts and extended effort, which made the original company work as much as the genius, but no one recalls that part now. they want meetings and reports and rigidly regulated routines more than they actually want the genius level output.
TikToker: Can you name 3 AC/DC songs?

Fan: How about... "Ballbreaker" ?

<crunch>

(Disclaimer: this story is fiction – and I'm sure that AC/DC do not actually advocate violence against most TikTokers.)
Not really [1]:

> The evidence is clear that vitamin D toxicity is one of the rarest medical conditions and is typically due to intentional or inadvertent intake of extremely high doses of vitamin D (usually in the range of 50,000-100,000 IU/d for months to years)

[1] https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(15)...
> Meta's position until now was that FTE offers are NOT at risk. Up to even a week ago.

This is the danger of fixating on the economic rearview mirror. And few things are more rearview than hiring and layoffs.

Leading financial indicators such as yield curves and oil futures are painting a very clear picture and it's not good.
>An interesting level of this scene is that it implies neither terminator is able to identify a fabricated voice even though they have a full understanding of each other's design. The T-1000 cannot tell it is talking to a T-800 until it realized it has been tricked and the T-800 cannot tell it is talking to a T-1000 until it tricks the other machine.

What made it even more amazing was that the T-800 ran on a 6502 processor.
I would be all for moving off gas-stoves, but can we acknowledge that the alternatives really suck if you like cooking ?
I want to be part of the solution, so here are few things that alternatives need to figure out before I move off gas:

Easy problems:

1. No more cycling-induction/electric stoves. I do not want my food alternating between burning & sitting around.

2. A power setting where low-to-medium aren't only kind of burning your food.

3. Off means off. I don't want my food cooking for 5 more minutes after I turn the stove off.

4. Kitchen ranges having high quality broilers to make up for the lack of a charring mechanism on alternative ranges.

Hard problems:

1. Being able to change the shape of the surface element to trace the shape of the pan. I cook with a wok, and all non-gas-ranges only heat the very center. If I can use a wok to fix the shape of the coil into a bowl, then I can ensure even heating even in a wok. (It's a spring coil, the shape should be mechanically adjustable).

2. Can the good ones be competitive on prices with top gas ranges ?

I really dislike electric stoves, they have the worst of all worlds. Induction stoves: I could live with, but the good ones are too expensive to be a reasonable alternative for most people. There are additional good reasons to switch as seen from this[1] video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX2aZUav-54

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Final caveat for tropical countries. Here, windows are always open. Houses often lack a gas connection, and instead have a gas-cylinder supplied to the house. So the pollution & removal-of-gas benefits do not apply.
The cooking culture often relies on instantaneous fire to give certain staple flavors. They rely on curved pot shapes for cooking techniques & and the price differentials hurt a lot more when you're a poor country.

Gas stoves sound a lot less evil in these tropical circumstances and this is the region where a majority of the world's population lives.
Land value and inflation driven by supply shortage are the actual drivers of house prices in the UK. Especially with new builds, the BOM is very small, and houses are built typically to an exceptionally poor standard.
NO2 is not easily measured accurately with inexpensive sensors like the uHoo. The US government tests a number of sensors and generally finds them lacking - my limited research suggests NO2 in consumer equipment is generally estimated mathematically based on correlations with other more easily measured pollutants, meaning it’s just not measuring NO2 at all.

The uHoo was tested some time ago and found to not be that great, but not for NO2 (which wasn’t tested)

http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/sensordetail/uhoo

Indeed, as far as I can tell uHoo’s own website does not list an NO2 sensor as part of the equipment, despite listing it as a pollutant it reports:

https://getuhoo.com/blog/business/performance-precision-and-...
Built a shack in the woods and raised dogs.
I don't think this comment should have been flagged, and would encourage others who can do so to vouch for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34316709

I don't agree with the comment, insofar as I've submitted and commented on many stories about the collection and sale of cellphone location data over the years, and submitted this one because it was about the issue rather than the Heritage foundation (although it does happen that their politics are anathema to me). I can't speak for the consistency of objectivity of the source website on this topic, though public radio outlets stereotypically skew liberal.

I also disagree with the notion that this is the best possible application of the data, since it was gathered non-consensually and used to disparage the subjects in the Heritage Foundation report (eg assumptively labeling detected phone users as 'illegal aliens' although the statutory term is 'nonimmigrant person/alien' and has been for ~25 years). In my view it fails to meet any recognizable standard of academic research and is pseudoscientific at best.

Nevertheless, I think that the poster's arguments would have been better discussed than disappeared.
Sadly, yes. I honestly encourage you to do it too. It is the only thing that will make them care.

You will need to have access to the privately sold cell carrier lookup services. Ask your local bounty hunter, private investigator, cell carrier employee, or dirty cop. You can also anonymously buy lookups with bitcoin on darknet markets.

Joseph Cox from Motherboard proved the above at Defcon 27 to raise awareness.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=3e6n7jDDmj0
The emissions from such stoves is a large part of what makes them "extremely bad"
Cities are able to take this action because they know they have no intention of building anything ever again, so the impact to actual residents and voters is zero. I should know: my city of Berkeley was the first to ban them. It is pure greenwashing.

The final insult is single-family home construction and remodel can elect to use gas if they want.
I assume that North Cascades is influenced by the fact that it's not visited a huge amount but that there are a fair number of non-trivial peaks in the park that people climb. A bit surprising it's such an outlier but presumably the intersection of accessibility and challenging. There are probably other examples that are not national parks.
What possible steps would a developer take to "make-ready" for 1 gigabit internet? Does the front door need to open and shut faster? Are the toilets going to have 4k flushing? I'm struggling to figure out how a developer could impede internet access if they actually wanted to.
And in other news the FBI has been doing the same tracking on Conservative Groups, without warrant, for the better part of a verifiable 6 years.

What really blows my mind is Democrats/Far Left Progressives siding with neocons, deep staters and warmongers. Is that what is meant by "side switch"?

I just want to be left alone.
Also safety: you can boil over a pot, pick it up, and just wipe the spilled gunk off the stove and the bottom of the pot with your other hand using nothing more than a rag.

That's not to say you can't get an induction pan searing hot (small pans can actually get much hotter than ones over gas), but you have to work at it. Generally the pan is no hotter than its contents.
> Why did Paizo use a license not designed by them?

Let's imagine a scenario:

1. Paizo releases Pathfinder 1E. It's uses material from D&D 3.5 SRD which requires it to use the OGL.

2. A third party releases a campaign for pathfinder 1E. It uses material from pathfinder 1E which requires it to use the OGL

3. Paizo releases Pathfinder 2E. They change to CC BY-SA for their open components.

4. I now want to update that campaign to the 2E rules. But the original campaign publication insists I must use OGL, and Pathfinder 2E insists I use CC BY-SA and now I cannot.

I think a mix of (a) the scenario above, (b) legal CYA in case it was found Pathfinder 2E was too close to 3.5e material and (c) using what they're used to led to the decision to continue to use OGL for Pathfinder 2E.
It’s not “cheating the user artificially.” Comcast delivers service over shared-medium coaxial cable that was originally designed for one-way service. The available frequencies are split into upload and download portions, and increasing the upload speed decreases the download speed.
I like how it looked like a regular mainstream action movie, but incorporated things like time travel. Accessible for the whole family to think or have fun at same time
Insulation is pretty good in new build flats. I bought a new build in London where I lived for 5 years, I used the heating all of about 10 days in 5 years, the gas bill was a rounding error; what they really need it cooling; that place was 38°C in my living room with all windows and doors open in the summer.

To put that into perspective, I just moved to a 1930s house where I'm paying £600-800 a month for the heating right now.

For the record, I'd rather spend that on heating than live under the absolute racket of London leasehold ever again.
My older brother habitually turns his phone off when he goes to bed. Not even legitimate calls from family could make it through. So when I tried to contact him urgently about our younger brother, I got nothing but voicemail. I left a voicemail, and he got back to me in the morning. My younger brother had since died.

He'd have died anyway. Sure. But still, I have to tell you that my older brother was really upset knowing he had missed that call by his own choice.
You do know climate change is making some cold places even colder and increasing the severity of winter storms. Your comment only further strengthens the climate change argument.
I really can’t understand this perspective. Perhaps cheap gas is better than cheap electric cooktops. But my Miele which is radiant, not even induction, heats up VERY fast and provides a very predictable amount of heat via the digital interface. I cook a lot, and thought I’d miss gas when buying my new house, but just about the only change I needed was to get a flat bottomed wok. Electric can definitely be more than adequate on the high end, imo.
> Everyone opted into tracking

No, everyone opted in to using services. Tracking was buried in legalese in an unenforceable unilateral "contract".

> and we can opt out again too

Too little, too late, and unenforceable. You might opt-out of the ways you know are being tracked but there's hundreds of ways that you can be tracked without even knowing about it.

> Anyone who wants to track me will have to pay someone to actually follow me around which would cost more than anyone stands to make from the data they would obtain.

I'm not sure you understand just how much profit there is in controlling entire populations by monitoring and predicting what they do.
>but most installs are coax.

Good gawd! It's like cable is in their DNA and they invested heavily in a cable manufacturing company and are trying to keep it alive /s

also, is it pushing the limits of marketing to say you have a fiber connection if the cable coming into your home is actually coax?

edit: just to clarify, is it really fiber if the demarc isn't in/on your house? I get running fiber to the home to a device that then turns that into coax to run to the modem of choice for the vendor. i have fiber to fiber so the demarc is sitting right being my desk with a 6' cat6 cable from it to the modem. if your advertised fiber service brings fiber over long haul to the neighborhood but then breaks that out into standard coax for last mile delivery, is that still a fiber connection?
>"But I am saying that just because we (I am sixty) grew up without such technology and turned out all right, does not mean there is no risk."

I am 61 and I understand that yes there is a risk. But maybe this is the risk worth taking. As a kid I walked to school and back every day and generally much of my life at that point and later on was spent outside. I am now looking at my 8 year old grandson, all the gizmos he has, access to information and being constantly accompanied by adult for security. I love him and sort of feel very sorry. I think no fucking way I would trade the type of childhood freedom I had to the one most of modern kids are having.
I have a new house (built in 2020) and it did come with an inefficient, underpowered mechanical ventilation intake that just pulled outside air directly into the home. Given the house is in Austin, Texas where the weather outside rarely matches the conditions inside, this results in a lot of cooling or heating loss, as well as losing the humidity conditioning of the indoor air. It's no wonder that I regularly hear locals advising folks to simply turn off the mechanical ventilator; bringing in hot, humid summer air or cold, dry winter air is not good, even if the fresh air is.

That's why shortly after moving in, I had the garbage ventilator replaced with an ERV. Based on my research I selected a Renewaire EV-Premium L, a variable speed unit which does up to 280 CFM. That's a ton of fresh air, even for a 4300 sqft house. But importantly it preserves some of the temperature and humidity when exchanging the air, so it's a lot more efficient than a plain mechanical ventilator.

I have it wired into my Ecobee thermostat. It runs at its configurable low speed 24/7, and the Ecobee puts it in boost mode (full output) for 10-15 minutes per hour.

This setup did cost some money of course, but the $2000 cost was pretty minor in the context of a new home. With this setup, we never see a buildup of CO2, VOCs, etc indoors. Definitely worth it when we're both working from home and spending most of our time there. And although we have a gas cooktop, I never see any indoor air quality issues so long as we're running the hood while cooking.

I hope indoor air quality becomes a bigger priority for homes, offices, and schools. The building codes in this area haven't yet caught up to the need for improved ventilation to account for how much better sealed up modern buildings are.
There’s something very odd to me about the modern progressive position that, more or less, if you can explain a crime, then you can in some sense excuse it.

That description of his childhood works for me in sociological terms — let’s avoid stuff that we know to create monsters — but not on individual ones (i.e. the monster, having been created, is indeed a monster).
However, there is such a thing as an even dirtier burning gas stove. For instance, put a natural gas regulator on a propane supplied burner, or vice versa.

Also, even a properly tuned range will emit all sorts of things that are much worse than methane.
Absolutely. There are many flaws with the American legal system that need to be dealt with, but it'll likely have to happen one step at a time.
The Heritage Foundations means and methods used here is abhorrent and should be seen as un-American. This is the kind of precursor action to Kristallnacht.

To you and @TechBro8615, it feels like there is some other law being broken here.

> The Heritage Foundation locked on to the locations of at least 30,000 cell phones at non-government (NGO) migrant aid shelters and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities.

This sounds like they are getting device/tower information directly. Again, this sounds like an illegal interception/wiretapping.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government...

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli...
the cost of training is exponentially decreasing. It's only a matter of time before a codex-like model is released to the open.
i'd say the usb wifi's are for the many smaller form factor motherboards lol. then there's planned obsolescence like what has happened with Dell and Intel parts; wifi industry is literally an oo-new-shiny and drop's the mic on old stuff
And then Blizzard updated the user agreement (around the Warcraft 3 Reforged), mentioning that all player generated content is owned by the company.

So in case some genius comes with another successful custom map (or whatever), the company has new ideas to work on, for free.
The best fit is probaly the Oxford Nanopore MinION. However, it would still be good to have a range of lab equipment available.
If you read past that you'd have seen why I was actually arguing against it and due to the bigger issue I see in our justice system. But yes, there are people out there like me that do support capital punishment for various reasons/conditions; sorry to upset you about that news.
Shinylive, which lets you create and share data science apps, takes this approach: https://shiny.rstudio.com/py/docs/shinylive.html
But gas is used also in the summer. And energy is not only electricity - heating is currently done mostly by natural gas, and is often absent from those calculations.

Efficiency is irrelevant. The only thing that matter is cost and feasibility. The cost of energy from solar is ~$0.02/kwh and sometimes even $0.00/kwh (when the grid curtails production). Even with 30% efficiency each kwh retrieved from storage will cost a record-low of $0.06/kwh (3-10 times lower than the consumer price).

The biggest factor here is the capex and ease-of-use of the equipment. Not the energy input cost.
I read your comment of "and law enforcement" as implying non-law enforcement can also purchase location data "regularly" and "cheaply."

What's an "individual?" Does it really make a difference if it's you or your LLC requesting my data?

I have no - ok, maybe some - doubt that mobile internet service providers are selling "anonymized" and "aggregate" location data - but I seriously doubt they are selling individualized location data of a specific phone number to anyone who pays the right amount of money.

I'm not trying to be daft; if I'm wrong I would really like to know the details of how/where this is possible, and also how I can opt out of it.
What if the government doesn't want to be functional?

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/2020-census-u...
this is sickening. makes me not want to move to the US. that, and mass killings without gun law changes, & health insurance letting people die or bankrupt, even if I wouldn't have that problem myself
I'm not surprised about the gas stove pollution, but am surprised at how ineffective kitchen fans are. I got an air purifier with a sensor on it. It's about 8 feet away from the kitchen and it always goes on a few minutes if I switch any of the burners to a high setting. This happens even when I have the stove fan setting on high. These are suppose to suck the bad air out, but don't seem to do a good job at it.
Related ongoing thread:

U.S. safety agency to consider ban on gas stoves amid health fears - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310218 - Jan 2023 (114 comments)

Also related:

Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630946 - June 2022 (122 comments)

What a gas stove ban means for restaurants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31603850 - June 2022 (592 comments)

My best estimate is gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275953 - Feb 2022 (117 comments)

How bad is my gas stove? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935939 - Jan 2022 (520 comments)

Cities try to phase out gas stoves but cooks are pushing back - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27874912 - July 2021 (481 comments)

Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332332 - Dec 2020 (343 comments)
> Leading financial indicators such as yield curves and oil futures are painting a very clear picture and it's not good.

Care to elaborate?
They probably won't even blacklist you, if they wanted to hire you then (and you come up with a good reason for walking away) they'll want to hire you later for the same reasons. Be kind to your recruiters, have a good justification, and nothing should come of it.
You don’t need to use all of make’s features (I’ve been using it for something like 30 years and still can’t fathom sets of it). But TBH I just don’t see anything in those Justfiles I couldn’t do with make without needing to do anything special…