skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah geothermal is amazing here for heating and cooling but not quite hot enough for “standard” geothermal power generation. There is an experimental pilot project happening in the south of the province where they think they may have found a technique that might work for power but it is so far unproven and the first plant is targeting only 5MW.

100% it is the way to go for carbon-free heating and cooling here. For new rural builds it’s even cost competitive. A friend of mine recently built a house and getting a gas line installed was going to cost $40k. Installing geothermal came in below that and with a COP of 4 it ends up coming out marginally cheaper on a monthly basis (1kWh of electricity costs approximately the same as 3kWh of natural gas heating here). He has resistive heating backup but I think it has only kicked in once or twice over 5 years.

And yeah, definitely not scalable for everyone to just split a hobby-grown cow with their whole family. It sure is nice for us though!
Show HN: fh, the FlakeHub CLI
Ah geez. You're right. Thanks. I set up one for a back-up for when eternal-september is down but never tried actually posting on it.
It's worth noting that the eScooters are one of the most efficient (and thus greenest) form of transportation around. The mass overhead is very low, especially compared to other devices like cars, mopeds and even bikes.

This is definitely a short-sighted move by the city.
Isn't it literally why it exists - to push stuff to kids? It's pretty much a way to work around regulations pertaining to advertising to children.

At this point in Poland we have a Paw Patrol variant of literally anything a kid could use or consume - from regular and electric toothbrushes, through clothes, sheets, toys, shower gels, food, beverages. Whatever you think of, there's a version with a Paw Patrol dog being sold somewhere.
Meta disrupts Chinese misinformation network linked to law enforcement
yeah, i'm not google of facebook or ny times or whatever, i'm a lone dev in montana

what other options did i have?
> OS corruption” sounds like it can be repaired while keeping files

If it corrupts your OS and it corrupts your files, that sucks, but it's not bricking unless it's impossible to install a working operating system.
You think Google is watching your location only when you're using Google Maps?
Subsea Cables – What is at stake? [pdf]
Alaska became a state after ww2. Just like hawaii. And japan was trying to liberate the native alaskans being illegally genocided. Not as clever as you think you are.
> Outlawing slavery, for example, only working against good people who commit sins of omission?

Yes. So much so that you are led to believe that people don't still practice slavery today.
Cognitive upsides? Sounds like Cowboy Man copy… the Surgeon General aproves this message.

Or do you mean people worked faster because they couldn’t during their cig break?
If you are an Angular developer, you might be familiar with the concept of Observable, which is a way of handling asynchronous data streams in your application. Observable allows you to subscribe to data changes and react accordingly, using operators like map, filter, switchMap, etc. Observable is a powerful tool for managing complex and dynamic data flows..
I have the suspicion that they're more concerned with aesthetics than with airflow. Transparent PC cases are a plague.
Worth noting here that we only have a bunch of rich technocrats bearing the burden of regulating this sort of thing unwillingly and at the behest of advertisers due to massive public outcry after those very same rich technocrats spent decades undermining and dodging regulations in their industry and fostering this notion that all the rules of common society spaces and co-existing peacefully didn't apply to the internet, which in turn fostered an absolutely _stressful_ amount of anti-social individuals coming into Internet spaces, which they perceived they could exist in free of judgement and of the bounds of not being able to function interpersonally.
> How many cyclists use Google Maps to navigate?

The Cowboy bike company have started using Google Maps for navigation in their app, which is a bummer: Before the change, the navigation would reliably take direct me to use roads that a bike friendly. Now it does just the opposite: it wants me to take big roads that are only friendly to cars.
> SPE has no obvious advantages for home users over something like Monoprice's Micro SlimRun cables, which are extremely thin and flexible, for example.

PoDL does have real advantages over PoE. I agree that there's no home-user-ready products at this point, but I could see future exploration of this space for that reason alone.
I agree there is a complexity cost for bundlers. Whether to pay it is an equation that roughly aligns with how robust and interactive your client offering needs to be. Applications probably, websites probably not.
When I was in high school we had a few smokers. They seemed to make a lot of friends while smoking and have better social skills than others.
Calling it piracy is cute and generates clicks, but this is just conventional theft that happens to take place on the waterfront rather than farther inland. In my city it's people's trailers and sports vehicles that get stolen.

Piracy traditionally involves a ship-borne attacker that boards another ship. We do have modern-day pirates in Somalia and elsewhere, but this isn't it.
> Your accusation is baseless slander.

Rich coming from someone who struggles yet to make a single substantive comment, and can only evade and spew uninformed bile. Not what I'm on HN for. Good bye!
By all accounts, smoking is (at least early on, before your lungs rot out of your chest) pleasant. I would think the mentally healthy would enjoy it too. What would account for the selection effect here? Is there some smoking initiation mechanism that could account for it?
That's just beating around the bush hoping some tangential cost might make the fundamental problem moot. What's needed is a comprehensive privacy law that gives individuals legal power to prevent/audit/delete/restore companies' dossiers on us. Critically one that can't just be nullified through more boilerplate legalese "terms" that nobody reads. Something like a US port of the GDPR.
The problem is that browsers started out as hypertext clients and unwittingly evolved into application platforms to implement, among other things, custom hypertext clients in it. Somehow “lets add more features to make hypertext more capable” turned into “you’re on your own now to implement a usable application with this big incoherent pile of impedance-mismatched features”.
I don’t know about nicotine, but I am all cognitive upside from never smelling a cigarette again.
Make sure it’s correct on OpenStreetMaps. I believe Google it as one of their data sources, and it’s something you can actually go in and fix yourself.
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That's... I don't have words. It's saddening.
I really don't understand why one would go see such a thing, it's clearly meant to input fear on the people.
> Google has an actual human call

I guess congrats to google on passing the turing test
i think the idea is less that the regulations aren’t followed, but more that the companies are maliciously compliant.

GDPR and the cookie banners are the perfect example. GDPR never says you need the gigantic banner, just that you cannot track without consent and it must be as easy to retract consent as it is to give it. somehow, this devolved into the cookie banners/walls, which are not required and in fact likely not compliant as very often there is no way to reject everything. i travel a lot in europe and asia and google is a clear example of a sort of malicious compliance. some countries in eu they show the reject all option easily. for others you have to log in and go through many settings pages. most other big companies are not much better or even worse.

that is the issue in my opinion. the goal of the privacy laws is very clear but the companies just do not care usually. i am very happy when a site truly respects my choice on their cookie/tracking consent banner, and even more so if they just don’t collect anything in the first place or ask for telemetry data instead of assuming it’s their right.

that is why i personally am not happy with the regulations from the US so far as they’re anaemic; the companies still treat your privacy and personal life’s details as if it’s their right to mine for data. until there is effectual law stopping all this and making such broad data collection something extremely rare and limited, nothing will change. and with how much of this data governments are buying, i’m not holding my breath that it’s going to get better.

until then i guess we need to continue to teach people that the technology they buy and use often is actively hostile towards the users in favor of giving the companies more personal data.
> Besides, if users want permissivity and it doesn't exist, one of them can step up, make it, and be a hero.

Or instead of that we can recognize that we live in a society and we can make rules that cause society to be better.

We make laws all the time.

And it is perfectly reasonable to make laws that increases peoples permissive ability to do whatever they want with things that they own.

> Makers have no obligation to make things maximally permissive.

Well, they would if we remove the "makers" ability to leverage the law to target users.

If we take away their ability to use the government's monopoly on violence, we can effectively cause things to be much more permissive.
I wonder why this app isn't more popular. Basically, there's a map app which is much better than Google Maps for a lot of use cases and very few people outside of Czechia use it. Is this a matter of marketing or is the app actually not that good?
Yes?

If you want to get it amended, then by all means, make a case for why it should be amended.

In the meantime you wanted to know why mass surveillance isn’t an option. The answer “because it’s against the law” is a simple, good answer.

If you want to know why we decided as a nation to make that such a fundamental law that it is in our constitution, you could do worse than reading about what prompted the writing of the Bill of Rights.

I agree with a lot of the original reasoning.
Hey HN, after we launched FlakeHub last week, a common question was: what about the CLI? We heard you loud and clear, and here's a scrappy first pass at a useful fh CLI tool.

It supports searching and adding inputs to your flake, plus a few other things. In the future, it'll do more -- like publishing.

I'll be here to answer questions, but what would you like to see it do?
Also a long time programmer. I worked in a maintenance shop for 7 years. I loved it; welding, fixing appliances, operating equipment. I've also jumped on small fishing vessels for friends who are fishermen in various fisheries.

Maintenance shops are everywhere and give you a 9-5. Fishing is on the coast and gives you a highly a non-standard mostly summer/fall schedule.

Both are an absolute blast when you're with the right people. But then again, nearly everything is like that.
Sorry to tell you brother, but there's an official Steam Deck support with perfectly usable defaults.
> Interesting, the recent tobacco age limit increase in the US from 18 to 21 should help.

New Zealand has recently banned smoking for anyone born before 2009.
This is fantastic. Thanks for the link.

Always frustrating to purchase a book, read the first page, and immediately realize that it really isn't my style.
The question is enforcement.

Can you enforce, whether by force or by norm, the act?

Enforcement of marijuana prohibition, and before that alcohol prohibition, were failures.

On the other hand, ending slavery was very enforceable.

Enforcing AI uses is extremely difficult. Bad actors act with impunity and only the stupidly innocent suffer from the enforcement.
The value of the sacrifice hasn’t changed, just the perceived value.
When I was a kid my family owned the (dumpy) neighboring house and used it for my dad's office. I ran cat5 between them, and it worked fairly well—except for one time when four ports (including the one feeding that line) of one of the switches blew out after a lightning strike.

For my own outbuilding office (above our detached garage), I ran fiber to avoid this issue.
Useful test case. I've just tried it in mapy.cz which is my prefered mapping app for cycling directions when I'm out and about and it too makes the same mistake: https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?planovani-trasy&rc=9LCtmxhwst9Ks...
To me either extreme end of this debate spectrum seems problematic. Stable diffusion not generating ahem picture of minors for example seems quite sensible for obvious reasons. Meanwhile something rude or mildly illegal (story about weed for example) feels like overreach if blocked.

Where to draw that line has no clear answers though.
> Unless you mean the Chinese invasion that came after end of the war that the Americans were involved in?

That's the dumbest shit I've read here. Why would the chinese try to bring democracy to vietnam. I'm talking about the vietnam war where we liberated more than 4 million innocent vietnamese of their lives to bring them democracy.
I’m a huge fan of this kind of setup and I hope it becomes the norm across other manufacturers as well.

The last Intel Mac Pro had an extremely similar power delivery method, and it really makes for a very clean look + simplifies things ever so slightly when replacing cards.

I’m sure people will say that neither of those things are worth it for the change involved, but I’m still hopeful that this becomes part of the ATX standard going forward
I also love Bluey but I think we might be somewhat biased, because it clearly makes an effort to cater to adults as well (most chapters can be seen as being about parenting, and sometimes contain non-obvious lessons for parents). Perhaps from the viewpoint of a child it wouldn't be so superior to other cartoons.

Although it does have the quite objective advantage of not being overstimulating. Most current cartoons look overwhelmingly overstimulating for me as an adult, and move at such a fast pace that in some I can barely follow the action, and we throw them at small kids...
I tend to compliment people when they do something well at work. There is rarely a week that goes by where I haven't at least one compliment. To me that is more genuine. I am complimenting them with no ulterior motive. Not as some ploy to soften criticism.
Other than instants in time and durations, other expressions of time information tend to be a bit more "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey". For instance, I might specify the week of the year without any more precision.

Another example is that a date can't be converted to a range of instants in times (the first and last second within the day) without knowledge of where it is observed. Games for instance will measure this at some business-decided timezone (say UTC or the timezone of their first server), because having events time out at different times for different people is much more complex.

So when representing an instant in time, a UTC shortcut is easier - if people agree that times are shared with a Z offset, then you simplify parsing. However. there are reasons people would also want a fully specified point in time that preserves a timezone offset as well.
A. I am not presenting arguments. Only observations and inferences based on my understanding on the evidence.

B. If you declare my “argument” subjective (and therefore false for you, but true for me) you agree with my overall claim Q.E.D

C. Is it this one then? How would you prove this?

D. It is mighty presumptuous of you to assume that I subscribe to classical logic; or even a consistent logic for that matter. Or that I subscribe to the same logic at different times of day.

E. I am not impressed neither by your religion; nor by the writings of your prophets. Nullius in verba
The solution of "huge beefy modular power supply" involves starting with a power supply that is way overkill; here, we can expand piecemeal. Nothing is more modular than a separate unit. Modular power supplies don't allow you to "upgrade" them, only to reduce cabling.

Re: voltages. I mean the opposite. The idea here is that we could supply, say, 50V for the graphics card to step down now that we're no longer constrained by system voltages. Now there is much less current going through the fiddly connector. A 2200W power supply constrained by 12V is delivering at least 180A.
Where I live, the sharing is done at a meta level. I live in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California and we often get experienced snow drivers who get stuck immediately because they aren't used to driving on 25% grades that experience frequent freeze / thaw cycles (and therefore generate ice). The issues here are predictable and don't even require real-time sharing.

When someone new moves into town, someone will typically explain to them to watch for where the sun hits the ground in winter. Where that happens on a steep slope, avoid driving there when there is snow. Before they know to do this, a human will attempt to climb that hill, not make progress because of the ice, back down, and try another route. This is a rural area without much traffic, so conditions might change significantly between "real-time" updates.

So, we have human drivers "zooming out" in a couple of ways... in time/context (observing conditions that lead to certain routes becoming high risk) and in problem resolution (try another route). This is quite different from what is currently being tried algorithmically.
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Denver uses mini street sweepers for the protected bike lanes, which are just small versions of the same type normally used for the street:

Picture at the bottom of the page. https://www.bortekpwx.com/bike-path-lane-cleaning-sweeping/

Product page (I notice some of the pictures are in Denver) https://www.bortekpwx.com/product/dulevo-dzero%c2%b2-electri...
Yes. But we stopped studying the Greeks for a long time and had no paper. So we could not distribute copies of Greek works until paper was introduced here, and until we had those copies.

That trend, that lasted a long time, ended with the help of the Islamic civilization influence, with the arrival of paper and translated copies of the works you are talking about.

They were studying them. We were not. Our copies come from them, and the technology to distribute those copies also comes from them.

Our scientific tradition is a direct continuation of theirs, as they are the first advisors to the first doctors in the West.

https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/
That would make a fine dessert.
I was playing around with it a few months ago and set up a relay for fun (https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/taking-a-look-at-nostr/). I found it to be a very nice starting point if you want to follow how a protocol is being developed as it's all very transparent, simple and easy to follow here:

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips
I they they have designed a routing algorithm that works very well in cities where Google employees live and work, and they either haven't tested elsewhere or aren't willing to make targeted changes to fix specific areas. It does work very well in US cities that have Google offices, but it's not surprising to me that it would fail elsewhere.
I notice you didn’t argue any specifics.
Why is it silly? Because knot tying is about as harmless as it gets. This isn't the Twitter or LinkedIn app. From my memory of when I had one of these apps, it didn't even ask for my name.

People like making apps, and users seem to like them, too. Grow up.
I've been using this website for at least a decade, so maybe I'm just used to it, but the clove hitch formed with loops is very easy to follow for me. All the animations are super clear, which is why I use the site. It's consistently easier to follow than most YouTube videos.
You misstate your truism: "correlation does not imply causation". Which is true. But in either case, you then deny correlation, so not relevant.

In my personal experience, most schizophrenics smoke like bastards.
This happens everywhere. I wonder what the internet and subsequently the world would look like if we did not have governments filling it with hate to manipulate minds. We need a new international convention for this.
Still use it - I even read HN via RSS - but I've never found a tool with the critical mass of users you need to show trending content the way GR did.
The difficulty here is you have to attempt to predict the path of least harm, which many times is only discovered in hindsight. There will never be 100% compliance in anything. Which forward path has the best social impact with the least social costs is the question.
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