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Gas stoves don't contribute that much, but gas heating does.

We are already switching away from gas heating to more durable alternatives like heat pumps. Equipping new construction with a gas hookup when you'll be ripping out the gas furnace within a few years makes no sense.

Once you get rid of gas heating, maintaining a hookup to the gas network isn't really economically viable. You'll end up paying literally orders of magnitudes more for maintaining the infrastructure than you do for the gas used for cooking.

Gas stoves will go the way of petrol and coal stoves. Not because there's anything wrong with them, but because reality has passed them by.
> many useful and popular libraries do not include full documentation of their types

> but many authors choose to show their examples in JS, in order not to be too opinionated

This is certainly true sometimes, but I don't see why it's a reason against using TypeScript? If you're calling a TypeScript API, the way you use it should look basically the same as the way you'd use it in JavaScript. You usually don't have to do anything special with the library's types unless you're getting fancy

There are exceptions- I've had a rough time fighting to get code using the styled-components library to fully typecheck, because that library gets super fancy with the way they represent things (I don't like it for that reason personally, but I know others do). But libraries like that are the exception in my experience, and if it's really that big of a drain on productivity, you can always bail out and use `any` types to skip dealing with it
In which languages is it implemented? I have seen a supposedly equivalent Rust library, but could not find anything else. Is there any C library or something like that? Unfortunately, these are the easiest to use from a lot of languages because of how easy they are to wrap.

(I am genuinely interested in any useful library better than libyaml).
Great news. Finding stuff that doesn't fit into the current model and we need smart people to get to work understanding may be the surest sign that the JWST is invaluable.
Have you read the rules? Politics is off topic.
Same here, I've found it very useful in projects where I don't have a lot of dependencies.

In another project with more exotic dependencies, it has become a hassle somewhat. I've found learning the .d.ts syntax to help easily get out of a situation, but it was a learning curve I still run into sometimes.
They do talk about that a bit in the article:

"These candidates await spectroscopic confirmation: Their redshifts are only estimates for now. But so far, spectroscopic confirmations of other galaxies have confirmed the vast majority of preliminary distances. Even if only half of Yan’s selection turn out to be nearby galaxies masquerading as distant ones, the latter number would still be unexpectedly large."
> than in other similar Nordic countries without government child care

Which are these supposed Nordic countries you're talking about without government childcare?

Oh, look, the source is a religious thinktank that is ideologically opposed to out-of-home childcare, who conveniently ignores that Norway, Denmark, and Finland has a very similar childcare system, because it doesn't fit their narrative.
I couldnt find an answer online... what does RSP stand for?
I am going to a community college for an associates degree in software development. I would like a remote job because an entry level job that requires me to be on my feet all day would hurt my body (I have ehler's danlos syndrome). If you like working with computers, data, and want a remote job I think this would be a good career choice.
I think it's safe to say that it is still uncertain, but few (not zero) astronomers believe that it means the Big Bang didn't happen.
I have a memory from when I was a kid and learning about the universe. In my head it definitely had an edge, and it resembled a really really big hockey rink with boards. But it was also only 2d at that time, which I think I remember knowing that wasn't right but not being able to conceptualize a 3d universe. So yes, in the universe of my 8yo mind the "edge" might reflect light
> but because reality has passed them by.

Maybe in a 100 years.
Are you referring to the mushroom kingdom?
The graphics and music are next level. I love it.
After years of Flow, Typescript, Webpack, React, JSX, etc, I went back to just vanilla HTML, CSS, JS for my most recent production project (https://play.d2lang.com, which is open source). The experience was great. I didn't find myself missing any of those tools.
"Norse historians claim that in at least one instance, a deceased chieftain’s concubines were slain so that they, too, could accompany him." I think This is a treference to Ibn Fadlan's account and it's important to note 1. They were slaves, not concubines. I know the latter can be a subset of a former but it's important to be clear about it and 2. It was after she was ritualistically drugged and raped by his friends. Here is a link to his account: https://www.mrtredinnick.com/uploads/7/2/1/5/7215292/ibn_fad...
The real conspiracy is the fake conspiracy was real all along!
Yeah that's fair. I guess it could also explain why DM has been so hard to pin down, if both MOND and DM are true then there might be DM candidates that have been unfairly ruled out.

I do think it significantly hurts the (more philosophical) argument that MOND is simpler or has fewer parameters than DM though.
Yes it is a theoretical mess. The article manages to conflate in the same sentence:

> The decline in smoking rates in the U.S., better early detection and innovative treatments including immunotherapy drugs have driven a drop in death rates since 1991

which mixes all meanings together (smoke → cases ; detection → fatality ...). So it's just "decreased number of deaths".

(Well, on the other hand, it makes sense that more factors impact such "final" result.)

From the CDC:

> In the past 20 years, from 2001 to 2020, cancer death rates went down 27%, from 196.5 to 144.1 deaths per 100,000 population

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/research/update-on-cancer-de...
Always have to watch out for a business with 1 donkey cart... you usually end up pulling everything, and being treated like an ass.

Thank you, I am here all evening... lol =)
Interesting podcast on the sub https://coldwarconversations.com/episode35/

And some video from 4 years ago https://youtu.be/nwLp0xwP9OI
You'll have a higher electric bill. Electric most likely generated by coal, and transported by train. Pray you're not Texas or Europe and power goes out in the winter.
> The universe is 13.7b yo, but due to acceleration of expansion, if you could "teleport", it's actually currently 93b ly across. So we're already in a bubble within a greater universe that we'll never be able to escape

This number, the age of the universe, has changed a few times since I learned to read 45 some years ago. What are the chances that this isn't really "the" universe, but what we know as the observable universe is really a mind-bogglingly massive black hole that was sucked out of the actual universe, and the actual age of "the" universe is incalculably old, trillions of quadrillions of years old, and it's only our baby universe is what is roughly 13.7Byo? Maybe the Great Attractor hides the mother of all singularities. I'm sure there could be a way to explain the CBR and what seems like the Big Bang and Inflation. Maybe this baby universe only appears to be expanding, when it's just a growing black hole.
There is a wonderful sequence in the (2nd?) Book of Enoch (~150AD?), where the viewer is transported up through the heavens, past the planets, and finally beyond the stars, and eventually sees the incomprehensible face of God lying behind it all, visible all across the far end of space.

So perhaps that? :-)
Why couldn't countries just keep dirty coal generators and coal delivery infrastructure mothballed such that if power delivery from the other country is cut, just spin up the coal plants for a while until it gets sorted out. The cost of all of that may be less than the cost savings of importing electricity from a far-away country.
COP28 president: UAE's oil boss
Geeze, why don't they go for MagicLeap 2 Enterprise edition ($?) or Meta Quest Pro ($1500)?

Also, I think the sticker shock is there but it depends on the value it brings.

If it's well-justified to bring a major advantage, then it's acceptable. Otherwise it looks like MIC wasting $$$ on toys when there's unmet social and health needs that are desperately underfunded.
> It the pattern of previous science revolutions repeats, there could come a point where reinterpreting the large existing body of knowledge using a different paradigm would explain an number of "oddities" in a more economical way.

Could we train a GPT3 like model with the entire corpus of astronomical research and try to answer some questions that way?
I have no idea if it is the end of the Big Bang Theory, but I think it would be super fun if it is:

* It doesn't have a negative effect on anything if it turns out to be wrong (other than some theses).

* It would be pretty cool to get a sense for how fallible we are

So I'm rooting against Big Bang Theory just for the experience of it :)
The motivation for doing that in JSON comes with best practices: you use the key-value objects thing if and only if you have an ad-hoc list of items that you'd really really like to shove into a well-typed schema.
Perhaps, but I probably wouldn't use a VC-backed industry "disruptor" as my leading indicator.
When you insert the Transfer records in my example, you indicate that they are "edges/relationships" between "Account" node records. The system interprets the values in those records implicitly as foreign keys to the Account records. This is what I mean by "predefined joins" in my example. When you ingest your relationship records, you predefine a join to the system and the GDBMS uses those Transfer records to join node records.

Hope this helps.
^D is from emacs, not Apple. macOS just implements emacs shortcuts in input fields, quite a handy feature.
Well, your applications haven’t used a serialized or JSON column. That’s how you go from truncation to downtime.

That said, I do remember this being an issue even with plain text.
Agreed. Go is the obvious clear winner here for a CLI executable.
Sorry, did you reply to the right comment? We are talking about writing code that uses a GC vs doesn't use a GC, not about writing a GC.
My question wasn't so much asking whether I should continue to use it, that depends largely on what people have already decided to use on a codebase, or what a team or company has decided to do.

I pose this question more so to understand how others are thinking about TypeScript, and whether there is sentiment out there like mine that the tradeoffs are not really worth it in any case, regardless of what is being built.
Yes, true -- the distance between two points doesn't grow linearly, but rather proportionally to itself :D
In general the worst cancers are the ones that are difficult to detect early enough before they metastasize. As the article says, this death rate has dropped mostly because of preventative care and early screening.
Don't worry, offtopic topics get flagged that are not about the hacker universe.
...and when you compare the size of JPEG with AVIF[1], dithered PNG may seem even more wasteful and pointless.

[1] https://afontenot.github.io/image-formats-comparison/#abando...
This unpublished manuscript was published in 2001, according to Google Scholar.
Yep. I've had the foolish (mis?)fortune of scaling a couple of frontend projects from small to not-so-small starting in JavaScript and then converting to TypeScript. In each one, starting out with vanilla JavaScript was faster (no build!), but at some point our velocity would slow as changes required more testing infrastructure. After switching to TypeScript, we were faster than before.

Sure, dealing with TypeScript can be a hassle, but it is less hassle than dealing with broken software.
Turns out it isn’t even 300 watts, it is 320!
Thanks for sharing and I'm excited to see what comes next!
I wouldn‘t agree with the BS label, as a good PM/PO can really help along.

but with that kind of role, contribution quality is rarely assed correctly, and at the same time, the sandwhich role between contributors, management, and customers, combined with a usually communication-savvy skillset can be extremely dangerous. even worse in impact than a highly visible „bad“ EVP/SVP.
Despite risk gaps, countries go ahead with new labs that study deadly pathogens
It shows how good their tech is that even their "competition" wants to get it
Reality Signal Processor: https://www.retroreversing.com/n64rsp

Basically a very, very early programmable GPU, but you were writing actual firmware for it, rather than writing the kind of high level shader functions that would come a decade+ later.
When I read this, it seems to me like this is more or less the same as saying that the speed of light is decreasing, but I am probably wrong?
Yeah, a lot of scientific writing is just downright useless, and I don't just mean that in the "haha, it's hard to read, but it's ok"-sense. For example, in many fields (parts of theoretical physics, many parts of econ) publications are so hard to read that "reading" a paper looks less like "learning from the author by following what they did on paper" and more like "rederiving the same thing that the author claims to do, except by yourself with only some minor guidance from the paper." This is, frankly, absolutely insane, but it's the current state of things.
The article leaves an impression that curtailment is a problem that is costing us money. See most other comments here as evidence of that.

I'm explicitly calling for more curtailment, because it isn't a problem and doesn't need to be solved.

Burning fossil fuels is a problem to be solved. High electricity prices are a problem to be solved.

Both of those problems can be solved by building more wind power, which almost inevitably increases the amount of wind curtailed.

To repeat, curtailment is not a problem and does not need to be solved. It's a normal part of running a renewable grid. Any low cost renewable plan will have some predicted degree of curtailment, because it's the cheapest way to meet our energy needs.

See:

"Reframing Curtailment: Why Too Much of a Good Thing Is Still a Good Thing"

https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2022/reframing-curtailment...

> Video Explains How Having More than Enough Renewable Energy Capacity Can Make the Grid More Flexible
It looks amazing. Honestly I’d rather see that in most books than colored pics.
100% my experience too. It's not that much more work to get TS setup for a projects and the dividends for doing so are vast in the long run.
What might be the meaning of "doesn't do well" in this context?
Something is wrong with the cosmic distance ladder. Space is anisotropic, or gravity interacts with itself somehow. The distances are not what they seem to be. I think this will eventually be the solution to the galaxy rotation / dark matter problem.
AWS Swift Multi-Region API
Java runs on one million devices plus one, it appears :-)
I guess it's reasonable to assume that there are parts of the universe that are far older and much further away (ie, their light hasn't reached us yet). Which would mean we can never really guess the age of the universe. We can only guess the age of our local area?

Which kind of sounds a bit like the whole "everything revoles around earth" transitioning to "everything revolves around the sun". The universe is what light has reached us transitioning to the area of light that has reached us is just a small spec of the actual universe?
An unquoted version 3.10 in yaml becomes 3.1. Fun stuff!
I'd say not a chance.

GPT3 can regurgitate, and, in my opinion, even use knowledge, but I don't think it can synthesize knowledge.
The purpose of automatic message deletion isn't to protect you from someone actively trying to record your messages, it's to limit both parties liability in the event one or both parties are compromised by a third party after the fact.
> Apple apologists will howl, NOOOO! Command-delete!

Cmd-Delete deletes text to the beginning of the input line, Fn-Delete is forward delete. Also, what’s with the inflammatory language?
All of the long-lasting waste generated by nuclear plants can be used as fuel in breeder reactors. Newer generation reactors are also immune to the kind of meltdowns that afflicted Chernobyl and Fukushima.

It took decades of massive government subsidies for solar panel production to scale up and advance enough to make solar as affordable as it is today. The same could be achieved with nuclear, with the additional benefits of not having the additional costs of storage and transmission infrastructure, which push up the real cost of solar to "$472 per MWH":

https://web.archive.org/web/20220916003958/https://files.ame...
Already done. They came back with the answer: "42"
Is there room for "convergent evolution" with patent law? It seems to me that the odds of developing similar systems are very high if two companies with light based sensors try to develop pulse oximetery.
A nuclear power plant can't just "keep spinning without a load" - all that energy has to go somewhere! If a nuclear plant is disconnected from the grid (tripped), the nuclear reaction must be stopped (eg: by inserting control rods into the core).
If _this_ is considered a high watermark, that speaks volumes in itself.
You can transmit a lot of power long distances with HVDC systems. 2GW systems are in development (TenneT 2GW platform & 525kV DC cables) & HVDC interconnectors can be several hindered km long…
Seems like a no true Scotsman
Imagine someone invents low cost high temperature superconductors which enable fusion reactors, to much fanfare. Until everyone slowly realizes that we can use those same conductors to balance low cost electricity globally for less money.
In US construction, a heat-recovery ventilator (HRV) would be used to mitigate losses from replacing indoor air with outdoor air. These are not heat pumps, but passive heat exchanges to transfer heat between the outgoing (stale) air and incoming (fresh) air. The HRV is commonly added as a dedicated, central loop to do air exchanges for the whole house, while the regular central HVAC system maintains a closed loop as described previously. A pair of fans pushes stale air out and draws fresh air in through the exchanger.

Tightly sealed houses will have ventilated "make-up air" pushed in to offset exhaust flows, to avoid creating a pressure gradient. In principle, you could also use an HRV with each exhaust duct for kitchen, bath, etc. However, in most houses these are separate vents to outside local to each room, not a centralized ductwork. To use an HRV you would need to add one to each vent location along with an intake and extra fan for the local make-up counterflow. It also seems like you would have to worry more about condensate and maintenance issues with pushing highly humid cooking or bath air through the HRV...
> [why not write shell scripts to do what we need]

The shell script needs to determine, for each resource, whether it exists; if it does exist, what changes to make and how to translate those into API calls, or if it doesn't exist, how to create it, and to clean up any resources no longer in the desired state.

Attributes of some resource that might exist only after creation need to be fed into other resources…

For even a single resource, over the lifetime of the many changes and adjustments to the resource, that is extremely complicated to do correctly in shell alone.

The declarative "desired state" style is more useful since the steps required to be undertaken often depend on the state of the infrastructure that exists, or doesn't exist.

(additionally, you'll also need to notate state about what infra exists and what doesn't, and store that somewhere, and transmit that state to coworkers … and TF handles that, too. While "its obvious" for some infra — i.e., the resource has a natural key — not all resources do, and often you have to deal with unmanaged resources and not decide to delete them simply because they're not part of your desired state.)

Lastly, you have to handle bugs and design flaws in the APIs. I've worked with a number of platforms where two, valid calls to the API in a shell script are a race condition because the API doesn't support read-your-writes.

All this reinvents the wheel that is TF.

There's also "why does this infra exist?": I can comment TF, I get a commit history and rationales for why infra exists. Shell scripts really push people towards "I'll just #yolo this small change to the infra" … and now, I don't know why the infra is the way it is. Often, I find dev/prd have drifted, or two prod instances of the "same" thing are really different. Comments cut down on this, TF modules really cut down on it, etc.

> And what is it? It is a shell script inside of a JSON that was created in the shell! What for are these layers of abstraction? Why does he have to wrap the Resource Group name in a JSON? Why couldn't it be just piped in plaintext format, as all the tools that try to be POSIX-compatible do?

JSON is a text format. Your shell scripter has piped that into what amounts to a buggy, broken, 5% reimplementation of a JSON parser. Pipe that to `jq`, instead. (You can also use --query on az to reduce the output to something that will be more easily handled by `jq`, but anything --query can do, jq can too, pretty much, and it might be better to have all the code in one language.)

Or just request that data from terraform, by accessing the appropriate attribute of the that resource.
I am the opposite. To me, dependencies in a project are a debt to which I regularly make my payments by keeping them up-to-date and resolving breaking changes as they arise. Allowing dependencies to fall too far out of date, in my experience, made updates — when they became necessary — too painful.
Ask HN: How to easily generate audiobooks from text?
I‘m a big fan of audiobooks since I love books, but am trying to reduce screen time. Given that statistical models can generate quality speech from text and since text is an efficient storage medium, I wonder if there are text to audiobook systems around. Anyone here who knows such a system or has tips on how to hack it together? Like a static site with some Javascript and API calls or some screen reader app maybe?
Why shut down the site if it was worth buying in the first place? It still had a half million users. Did JPM even bother looking at the website to see if it was worthwhile? This definitely casts a shadow of doubt on JP Morgan’s ability to vet acquisitions.

Also, the article mentioned that there were 4.5 million users that created accounts. That is different than active users.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

It is my first time to know that in US, there is a no law to make employees have minimum annul leave.
Exactly my point: how can there be a "best" slice?
Gas heat still needs electricity to work.
Just curious - how many developers worked on that project, and for how long?
I want one of those Everdrive 64s for myself to play with N64 development but it's nearly the price of a new console at $200...
Looks interesting! Want to know more, What is the tech stack used?
I think “intermittent” is what was meant.
Although this seems to be the opposite sentiment to what many are saying which is that it's more useful in larger projects, with many contributors, I think I probably understand this side more.

Dependencies are where it starts to get tricky. It also gets tough when someone else has configured TypeScript, or you need to add some complex config. I would still opt out for smaller projects because they don't quite benefit so much from TypeScript, and eventually I would expect to run into something that would eat at hours of my time for a simple change.
Different companies are over/understaffed. Different roles are over/understaffed. You could have too many devs and too few accountants, or vice versa.