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As I understand it, it’s a ban on piping gas lines in new construction, not installing gas equipment in existing buildings.

In summer 2035, you won’t have any buildings than less than 12 years old with gas available,
But, as I understand it from the article, someone could replace their stove or heating system in a building that has pre-ban gas, no problem at any point in the intervening 12 years. Even the winter of 2035.
> Very few resources explain this, but having the code in strict positions was what allowed old computers to read the instructions on punched cards. On punched cards, a certain COBOL statement, let’s say an IF statement, is mapped to a pattern of holes. If you know that a statement starts at a certain column (12-72 in COBOL), it is easier for the hardware to read (this was done by passing a light through the card).

i think it would be more accurate to say that dividing punched cards into predefined fields was a pre-existing practice (dating back to the census of 01890) which was unthinkingly copied when punched cards were adapted to applications for which it is a stupid idea, such as programming

it's true that iterating over the leading blanks on a free-form card to find the first nonblank character takes more cpu time than just looking at column 8, but those cpu savings are so minor as to be lost the first time a compiler run has to be aborted because someone accidentally punched their statement starting in column 7

cobol, being a dod initiative, didn't care much about whether ideas were stupid as long as they could be made to work, and hci (and even ergonomics) was still in its infancy

(what would i know about unthinking copying? well, just last night i formatted my code to fit within 80 columns, ultimately because that was the width of ibm cards, and therefore of many printers, terminals, and character generators, and is still the default width of many terminal emulators)
My wife, my son and his piano teacher all have perfect pitch. Me and my daughter don't have it. Watching my kid figure out pitch is interesting because sometimes he will know, and other times he'll use a reference note, like middle C and then get the notes from there. When we listen to a song, I will ask him what scale the song is in, and he'll dissect it to figure out. It's all fascinating to someone like me who has no concept of perfect pitch.
I was seriously contemplating creating a Hover remake, but I feel that the game mechanics probably didn't age well. It was fun for its time though.
I get the argument, but to me it seems overly myopic. Our current electrical grid isn't alien technology we're just stuck with. If it's so bad we can't realistically rely on it to heat our homes or cook our food, maybe we should work on making it better, and in the process have all the other benefits of a reliable grid. The recent Texas outage is a perfect example. It was incredibly rare weather, but my understanding is that a lot of the problems could have been significantly mitigated with some investment in improving infrastructure. Again totally understand the concern, but having to keep gas around forever because we can't be bothered to fix our grid seems like not a great long-term solution compared to fixing the underlying issue.
>Gas is used for 2 main reasons: for cooking, where it represents a miniscule amount of overall energy use

Gas cooking makes sense when the infrastructure costs can be amortized with that of heating. One of these costs is the 2-3% of gas that leaks, and this loss will occur even if you heat your home with heat pumps so long as you're connected to the gas grid. If your only use of gas is cooking, it makes much more sense to simply buy cans of propane.
Know any resources for reading more about present / old solutions? Was into this scene a while ago, interested to see where it has evolved since
There's no reason why it has to be defined this way, though. Create a new category for "marketing mail" (or whatever), define what belongs to it, and require senders to continue to presort it, but make it cost 10x as much (or whatever).

This is never going to be perfect, of course, but anything that reduces the amount of crap I get in my mailbox every day isn't just great for my levels of annoyance, but also great for the environment. 95% of what shows up in my mailbox ends up in the recycling bin. Creating, printing, shipping, and recycling that material is a huge waste.
Wow now I feel really grateful to have maybe one or two outages (that last maybe an hour) per year!
I have just improved the word translation so that it doesn't send you to Google as the first option. Let me know what you think :)
Just change it to "This incident has been logged to /PATH." and that should be fine, right? Or, if you're really concerned about not exposing system log paths just mention it's been logged.
If you email me at fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com I'll zip the folder and send it to you.
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Gas is cheap except when it isn’t. If you are a European depending on cheap natural gas from Russia, well, a simple war with Ukraine could be enough to shut you off.
A further counterpoint: if you follow the Fence proponents' logic to its conclusion you can never remove any code which is clearly an absurd situation.

I think the real logical flaw is that Fencers (as I will now call them) put the blame on the person who removes an apparently useless fence. But they're wrong. The real blame lies with the person who built the apparently useless fence and didn't put a sign on it explaining why it shouldn't be removed.
Thanks for the feedback! That should be fixed now :) If you have some time, let me know what you think
it's not that simple, there is of course the question of who is paying for this, since the respective transportation businesses do expect to be reimbursed. but, regional tickets that are valid in all transport businesses in an area already exist everywhere, so the technicalities of working out how to count and reimburse different businesses has already been worked out, and expanding this to an additional nationwide ticket is a small change.

this is a very different approach and culture to for example japan where lots of independent companies providing transport exist, but as far as i can tell no collective ticket, but pay as you go everywhere.
At 50 it's affordable to almost everyone. It's a big improvement, but still incremental.

At 10 (or less) it's a safe assumption for everyone. You can start building things with zero provisions for cars, no excuses. It's a massive social shift.
tianhe-1, cerebras, the ga144, and the ambiq apollo4 do not generally run cobol
Good; I was worried I'd stumbled into some some paleo-esque "only drink from puddles at dawn and dusk to maximize your gut flora development" nonsense.
How about all of youtube, and sensor data from a highly articulated robot?
I have just improved the word translation so that it doesn't send you to Google as the first option. When you have a chance, let me know what you think :)
Most US residential housing is fed off a 240V center tapped transformer. Center tap is connected to ground and neutral at the breaker panel. That gives you two 120V phases to neutral. And 240V from phase to phase.

In the breaker panels the phase alternates as you go down the rows of breakers. So you can install a dual breaker for 240V. Typically only large appliances like stoves, water heater, driers, and air conditioners are 240V. Everything else is 120V.
Typical lunch in NYC can pretty easily hit $15-20.
Sure. Python isn’t going away. But Python has tripled in popularity over the past 7 years and a very very large portion of that growth is due to AI, imho. [1]

So, will a given AI Python package be popular in a year or three? Maybe, maybe not. Will the top Python packages be AI related in 3 to 5 years? Absolutely, imho. I’d definitely take that bet.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends/?tags=java%2Cc%2Cc...
They're only required to do it in MA though. They do it everywhere because it's more revenue, so I think it's fair to say they don't mind. It's the dealers that mind.
> If I ask GPT4 about some arcane math concept it’ll wax lyrical about how it has connections to 20 other areas of math. But it fails at simple arithmetic.

The only reason failing at basic arithmetic indicates something when discussing a human is because you can reasonably expect any human to be first taught arithmetic in school. Otherwise, those things are hardly related. Now, LLMs don't go to school.
That is incorrect. Q is considered a (written) source underlying Matthew and Luke, not Mark.
Bespoke Synth, an open-source modular DAW
An argument for backups is an argument for backups, rather than an argument for gas stoves.

Gas systems could make a backup, but don't unless they're designed to, and even if they do, you're gonna have a cheaper time installing just the one system than multiple. A generator, or a community generator with rollover practice is the right answer.

You don't see hospitals making every other room gas so they can survive a power outage. Instead, they have a generator
"This code has been dead for six months" is a very good heuristic that the code is not relevant. I do occasionally reject the sensenmann CLs, but only very very rarely. This isn't weird code that nobody knows why it exists but it is currently doing something. This is code that cannot execute.
I think that comment is just referring to power plants using steam turbines to generate electricity. But there is also a stream distribution system in NYC. My apartment complex has heat and hot water from Con Edison (power company) steam.
PAM is included in milestone 1.
When I would do Linux support on forums in such it was always an uphill battle explaining to newbies why _not_ to run Kali as their first distro.
What do you find disturbing in that dynamic?
Built a service and web app that listens to Frigate car events via MQTT. It analyzes the video and image to determine the make and model, as well as OCR the plate.

Uses some fuzzy matching logic in an attempt to match it to a historical vehicle. Also attempts to look up Make, Model, Year and VIN based on the state and plate.

Been running pretty well for a few months. Can easily see history of a vehicle or search vehicles by make or model. Has come in handy once when someone in the neighborhood experienced a road rage incident and I was able to provide info on the car to the police.

Next step is to build “detections” for anomalous vehicles. Or weird behavior like a vehicle passing by multiple times in a given window.

Built with Python and HTMX cause why not.
Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Your critique is: has the author not considered magic?
Fellow hypochondriac here. I was at the point where doctors, hospital staff, and lab techs would immediately warn new practitioners about me so they wouldn't waste finite medical resources in a small town, and I just completely discontinued normal activities out of terror as a result.

When I finally blacked out and fractured my spine, first responders detected a lifelong cardiac arrhythmia in the back of an ambulance. Only with that knowledge have I been able to receive treatment and begin to heal emotionally from the gaslighting and medical abuse I experienced while in the care of licensed professionals.

AI-assisted medicine will prevent so many of these mistakes in the future. It can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned.
Still fairly easy to find IMO. You can search deleted code easily, and blame layers allows finding how code evolved fairly quickly.
Same here, maybe they ran out of trial budget for a day considering it's been 3 hours since this is posted.
I am rabid about privacy... but I am also involved in government and am rabid about transparency and completeness: these are not incompatible thoughts. I both believe everyone should have access to decentralized end-to-end encrypted communication technology and also believe that public meetings should be permanently archived.

If you want to send me content in private, you should get to do so... but, the ability to retroactively delete content you sent either to me or more so purposefully sent to the world has absolutely nothing to do with "privacy".
Yep, it’s pretty much that except using GPT-4 and a wider context.
And this is why privatizing essential government services (ok, the USPS is a weird public-private hybrid, taking on some of the worse attributes of both) is a bad idea. The USPS should exist to serve regular-Joe recipients of mail, not to serve the bulk mailers that pay the USPS to put literal garbage in our mailboxes every day.

But once they have to worry about revenue and income statements and all that, an organization is going to care more about the interests of the people who pay them the most money, rather than the people they're actually there to serve.
Similarly, at a place I used to work, messages such as "sudo echo 'Hey John, please would you chmod -R a+r on /storage/data/filename.txt, thanks!'" were used.
This usually resulted in irate "Stop that! You have to submit a ticket!" emails.
I will move out of Germany at the end of year. The country has insanely high taxes for singles. Also a court may ask you to pay life long support, paying 3/7 of the difference of your incomes, to your ex wife even if you don't have any children. Bureaucracy is one of the highest in the entire world and every process takes a lot of time. Many authorities will not even accept anything but paper letters for communication. May be some day I will write about all the drawbacks of living in Germany, but that book will be bigger than the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Show HN: searchgpt - ChatGPT as a Search Engine
for companies it's a tax haven

for private people it isn't

except it is because if you have a very high amount of money you can do all kind of tricks to reduce you personal income (on which you pay high tax) without actually losing out on much, e.g. by having a company have this income instead of you, and you just happen to have 100% control of the company ;=)

for money you spend on private exp-endures of luxury there is often a limit on how much you can trick around so you still have to pay yourself out a not so small amount of money as income and in turn Luxembourg still get a nice amount of tax.

(Edit: Legal tax avoidance of very wealthy people, works roughly like this pretty much everywhere, not just Luxembourg.)
I live north of New York, in Canada, and use a heat pump for heating. It works perfectly well.
Have you tried induction? A kettle on an induction stove will boil pretty quickly and evenly, induction stoves are superior to gas stoves for most tasks (the exception being wok cooking, but you can get curved induction stoves for that). When we rewire our kitchen, I want a 220-40V plug for a separate kettle as well, just because water boiled so much faster in China than when we moved to the states.
100€ just for one/two Länder would've been a huge improvement for most people I know. It can be a huge improvement but we can still demand better.
Some of that lab work is contracted out of the NHS, but your NHS doctor is largely steered by clinical guidelines rather than profit or ass-covering.

Eg https://www.synnovis.co.uk/about-synnovis
When not in deploy, you'd be stuck with a non distributed SQLite database for each instance your application is hosted on. There currently isn't a way to swap the backend for the deno kv API, so you would still need to update your code to use the new kv store that would have a different API.
If you use redis instead, you'd be able to easily be able to switch providers by changing configuration options instead of having to update your code wherever it is used.
Do the ads want you to buy engines, or invest in the company? Last time[0] I saw this on HN, it appeared very targeted toward military UAV applications rather than anything most consumers would have a use for.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35455286
Do you have any data on the difference in cost between the two paradigms you mention? I'd be curious.

I think there are a few additional problems. One is an education problem that I discovered while writing this post. I was taught that tolls and taxes paid for road construction and maintenance. Seems fair to me; those who use the roads more pay more toward their maintenance - they will incur more tolls, and spend more on gas taxes (a little outdated, but still mostly holds). Apparently, that's not true [1]. Driver-related fees cover less than half the cost of road creation and maintenance. The rest is covered by general taxes. So, one big barrier to public transit is stopping the misconception that roads pay for themselves, since people then hold public transit to that standard. Or, public transit proponents could insist that the road system is held to the same standard they are: it must be net-neutral.

I will say, though, roads cover much more of their own expenses than public transit do. At least in my own Massachusetts, the MBTA's fees cover only 10.6% of expense [2].

The other financial issue that public transit faces (and financials are what cause most people not to support public transit, IME) is, who pays for it? Again, using Massachusetts as an example, a lot of the general taxpayer revenue that supports the MBTA comes at the state level. The MBTA has lines that cover less than half the state. Why should someone who receives none of the benefit have to pay as much as someone who receives some benefit? If I lived in a rural area, I'd be very opposed to public transit, because I would get negligible benefit and pay the same as someone who gets substantial benefit. So, if urban areas want to have urban projects with taxpayer dollars, it should be their taxpayer dollars. It's unfair of folks to complain that others who would not benefit from their public transit plan don't want to pay for it.

1: https://pirg.org/massachusetts/resources/who-pays-for-roads/

2: https://cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2022-06/FY23%20Item...
≥ Predictions based on assuming a perfectly understood relationship that led to 6 degree predictions, combined with no reduction in CO2 growth and yet a much less than 6 degree rise = way off base

the predictions weren't based on a "perfectly understood relationship", but yeah, they're assuming we didn't do anything, and we did stuff, in order to reduce that number, and succeeded

so what's off base?
Arithmetic requires a step-by-step execution of an algorithm. LLMs don't do that implicitly. What they do is vector adjacency search in absurdly high-dimensional space. This makes them good at giving you things related to what you wrote. But it's the opposite of executing arbitrary algorithms.

Or, look at it this way: the LLM doesn't have a "voice in its head" in any form other than a back-and-forth with you. If I gave you any arithmetic problem less trivial than the times table, you won't suddenly come up with the right answer - you'll do some sequence of steps in your head. If you let an LLM voice the steps, it gets better at procedural tasks too.
Third world? I live in Western Europe and in my entire time before finishing college I saw a single Macbook in class. Among all people I personally know about 2-4 others use a Mac and we have a single Apple store in the entire country. Want a custom configuration from the officially licensed vendor? Have fun waiting 6 months.

I can't see any shrinking Windows market here.
Dependence on the electricity is fine, dependence on the grid alone can be disastrous.

Depending on two different grid's is better whether the second one is gas or your own electricity generation
Yes. Makes you wonder how real this is. And how long it lasts.

The military might want it for drones. Even if it's only good for an hour, that's a good survival time in modern combat.
I use https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=&target_language=... which summarizes YouTube, articles, books, links...
There are about 3.5 million total housing units in NYC. Say half of them needed electricity to heat the space all winter. The grid simply cannot deliver on that load.

That sounds pretty fragile to me.
Arguably propane may be better for serious cooking, too. Chefs like to cook things a lot hotter than the average person, and LPG burns hotter than natural gas.
The point is most of the harm comes from the cooking, not the gas. Classic over optimizing. Might as well ban Teflon while you’re at it (the eu did this, as it’s harmful)
> This isn’t true. This is a common misconception. GDPR strictly defines personal data into a narrow band of attributes. Generally any content that you make public that doesn’t identify a natural person or is sensitive by some other definition is not personal data.

No, this isn't correct. I've spent too many hours in calls with lawyers (from the EC) regarding this. You quoted the exact line that makes it difficult:

> Personal data that has been de-identified, encrypted or pseudonymised but can be used to re-identify a person remains personal data and falls within the scope of the GDPR.

This is applied very strictly. If you have a datum that can be used to identify a specific person out of *any* arbitrary set of people then that datum is personal information. Remember the COVID apps which worked using pseudorandom numbers shared by bluetooth? Those numbers are personal information despite the technical implementation being required to link person to ID being very hard. Same thing for the SHA2 of a COVID certificate (just the hash, no other information over the holder).

Not all regulators apply the laws the same / correctly and commercial companies who have an army of lawyers ride roughneck over the laws because they have bigger pockets than any regulator.
In 2002, I wrote a CMS in Python and later Zope 2, in a tiny company with 3 SWEs. At a given point, it was used for internal sites in 20 banks, a couple of 5k+ employees companies and a division of Deutsche Bank that managed investment funds. I left that company more than 10 years ago, and Zope 2 itself has reached end of life years ago, yet that initial codebase has seen quite a few migration but it is still alive. I connected again with the CEO of that tiny company, which has grown a bit but it was always a lifetime gig on (his) purpose and not a growth or die startup.

I think they are finally going to put it to grave, after a long discussion / brainstorming about AI and the impact on their main product (now no longer a CMS, but a low-code platform for SMEs).
Apple has done a remarkable job moving the Mac from 68K to PowerPC to x86 to ARM over the course of three decades.

Their latest static-translation based emulator (Rosetta2) is pretty cool as well.

The CPU world seems like it was a lot more interesting in the early 1990s, with Apple creating native versions of Mac OS for 68K, x86, and PowerPC – and running Mac OS in emulation on 29K and 88K (on Apple hardware prototypes) as well as on SPARC, POWER, and PA-RISC (on Sun/IBM/HP workstations.)

Shame that Apple didn't try making an ARM-based Mac back then as well - though they did use ARM chips in the Newton.
Living there has some advantages too, no?
There needs to be a slight dedicated to tracking all these models with regular updates.
MIT engineers “grow” atomically thin transistors on top of computer chips
I agree, but it needs to be a combination of change of infrastructure and people's habits. After all it is just culture and culture evolves,so let it evolve in the right direction. 200 amps to every household seems not to be the right direction.