skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m curious why you suspect there’s any effect.

What am I supposed to say?

> CO2 absolutely has everything to do with this

In fact, it's not. The climate is not comprised entirely of CO2. You're so wrapped up in the unrelated issue of CO2 that you're not addressing the actual question. My question is "can wind turbines provoke climate change?" It's not "how is wind better than coal?" Why not ask "how do wind turbines reduce atmospheric H2O?"

It's ridiculous. This is a reasonable thing to consider. If there is no material effect, or if there is a mitigation, then we're golden. But I'm hearing "you're so dumb for even thinking that, and have you even seen them from space, and what about coal?" Well fuck me for asking then.

> Does the introduction of turbines have any chance of compensating for the number of trees we’re removed from exposure to surface winds?

Let's ask that question. I don't know why we should conflate those two things, but yeah, what has deforestation done to the climate?
I pretty much agree with all that. I'm not doing high-fives about the shift to USB-C because as a long-time Apple phone (and other Apple products) customer I'm perfectly happy with the existing Lightning ports. But the shift is also sort of inevitable European regulators or not and everyone knew it was coming. And Apple have never been ones to maintain legacy interfaces even in devices less space constrained than a phone. (e.g. would it have killed them to maintain a USB-A port in a MacBook Pro?) But here we are.
I don’t think there was electrical infrastructure in 869 CE.
Apple unveils Apple Watch Ultra 2
I don't think that feeling is unique to Apple.
Apple unveils its first carbon neutral products
Good riddance. Apple created so much e-waste by refusing to play ball with USB-IF despite starting to use usb-c 8 years ago. Praise to the EU for forcing their hands.

If they really wanted to they could have always waited for USB-C to mature to jump straight from the iPod connector straight to USB-C. Or they could have made Lightning an open standard. They did neither.
GamesFromScratch has commented on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlPOn0nAOeo
I may end up renaming it let and hiding it in --posix mode.

GNU Awk has switch, which is an extension and not hidden by @.
Is he still outside of prison?

Dark times are looming ahead.
Finally, less charging cables to carry while traveling.
Or you could just continue reading what you quoted.

> By suggesting the United States was testing or using secret weapons against its own citizens
I wonder if this shift away from developer happiness is due to Unity now being beholden to a new master: the stockholders
Does unity want to support games where the vast majority uninstall it within a few minuites?

Seems like having less of those games on Unity might improve Unity's brand.
Is ChatGPT (GPT 3.5, 4.0) with conversation search and forking available?
I'm wondering why search through conversations, and forking of conversations isn't available in the official ChatGPT client? Perhaps it is and I'm not looking in the right place? It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult to build out. I'm wondering if it's just not a priority right now?
This is also the common pattern for using Prolog in Common Lisp. It goes back to the first generation AI days back in the 70s. Peter Norvig's Lisp AI book has a nice rundown.
> Exercise is the silver bullet.

This is a very 2008 perspective on health. The article doesn't mention exercise at all but the studies I alluded to with “sitting is the new smoking” outright rejected that exercise counteracted all the negative effects of sedentariness. So exercise was deemed to be no less benefitial compared to before, but it didn't make you “catch up” if you also were sedentary for whatever cutoff they had found.

And indeed the very study (or DailyMail rehashing) that we are talking about wouldn't really make sense under the old exercise-only regime since the general public would have no interest in an article that doesn't even mention whether people got any exercise or at least a brisk walk now and then (like making a distinction between someone who only sits for six hours a day and doesn't exercise contra someone who sits for twelve hours a day and jogs for two hours). But the anti-sitting paradigm has penetrated the public consciousness now (notice standing desks and the ilk). Which is why the DailyMail can make tabloid headlines about it.
The gesture thing (double tap?) seemed like an odd announcement, since they pretty much already announced that feature a year ago. They tried to tie this feature to the AW9, as if the new processor made it possible. But it seems basically identical to the accessibility feature they announced last year: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-hand-gestures-control-a...
DRF has been fantastic in my experience, it fits in so well I often forget it's a plugin and not just a default part of Django
> FEMA giving victims in Maui a measly $700 while other parts of the US federal government spend billions upon billions to fund not only the war in Ukraine

You’re comparing cash handouts to military aid. (Also, the $700 figure is incomplete [1].)

[1] https://www.fema.gov/node/fema-only-giving-hawaii-wildfire-s...
Rare Apple Trainers With Vintage Rainbow Logo Go Up for Sale in US
You wouldn't pay anything to Unity in that scenario - you need 100k installs and 200k in revenue for the game before the fee applies.

And the charge is incremental after the 100k and 200k in revenue, so if you had 101k installs and 200k in revenue, you'd only pay $15.
I own an Excalibur food dehydrator (since approx 2005), but using it requires adequate space and electricity.

We have a fig tree, a pear tree, and tons of herbs. Most of that is for whatever frolics outside though. Last year I was also on vacation at a farmer who had tons of fruit and nut trees on his yard. But people didn't wanna come to pluck so it ended up rotting on the floor. That made me sad, and it makes me sad I have this amazing device unused. But at least the birds and other animals such as bees and insects get to utilize them.
When were these things ever more than pie-in-the-sky solutions to litigation? this is apple we're talking about, the EU had to threaten to axe them from a third of the world if they didnt comply with USB-C laws.
A broadly used application that requires tor for everyday use would be beneficial for the general normalization of tor. How would many people using quiet be anything but a step in the direction of general normalization of tor?
> Imagine you live in a world where no part of the build has to repeat unless the changes actually impacted it. A world in which all builds happened with automatic parallelism. A world in which you could reproduce very reliably any part of the build on your laptop.

That sounds similar to https://concourse-ci.org/

I quite like it, but it never seemed to gain traction outside of Cloud Foundry.
The “multi cooker” unit I have made by Ninja has such a feature, though I’ve found various aftermarket “racks” are needed for good performance dehydrating various stuff.

It’s fucking excellent for drying mushrooms, for example. Whenever I have some left over from cooking or harvest that I can’t use immediately, I just dry and powder them to use as seasoning in soups and stocks and such.

Other food scraps from cooking that are not destined for compost can be treated similarly, if one wants to get into making their own spices.
A Database in the Browser in Sqlite3 Steps
Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C.

Every year it's a new camera, new whatever, but USB-C is going to mean I can get rid of all these lightning cables.

Not increasing the price is nice, I guess. Will have to buy more USB-C cables, though. (Technically the low highest end phone is higher, but higher spec, too).

It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also.

Pre-order Friday, delivery 22 Sept. Probably going to move on it just to get that USB-C, need to see what carrier deals I can find.
The Tesla Model S has been out for more than a decade by now. Nissan Leafs, Renault Zoes and a couple of others have been available as production cars in decent numbers for a similar length of time. Tesla says that Model S and X cars experience a 12% degradation after 200.000 miles on average. My 2016 Nissan Leaf fares slightly worse than that but it is built on considerably less advanced battery technology as Tesla's of the same era.

Yes, batteries degrade to a certain extend. But especially with higher range cars, this seems to be an issue of limited severity and it certainly does not seem to impact i.e. resale values of EVs.
My favourite in the USA, which I'll never forget, is outside Washington Dulles: NEVVR just next to FORGT.
Apple introduces new AirPods Pro (2nd gen) with USB‐C charging capabilities
I haven't cared about new phones in a while, but the DSLR-like sensor image stabilization looks really cool.
> after people complained about them switching connectors frequently

If they complained about that, they're wrong. Lightning was their first switch in connector after the original 30-pin, and this is their second switch ever. But I'm sure we can strap in for a year or 2 of people complaining about how "Apple always changes the connector" even though it's been twice in a couple decades (30-pin started with the iPod)
More likely to be a scalar electromagnetic weapon of some sort, a Tesla howitzer etc.
There are many differences. When you look at the typology of most temples, they were viewed as the architectural embodiment of the cosmic hill or mountain. For example, the Egyptians view of creation was a vast sea and some land rose up out of the water and the gods (Osiris, Isis, and their son Horus) came down and dwelled in a hut on the land. Well, all Egyptian temples after that were viewed as having been built on the very ground that first came up out of the water (this was symbolic, they knew that all the temples could not really be built upon that one spot). If you looked at an egyptian temple you will see that in the hypostyle hall you have reed columns which represented the waters around the hill/mountain. As you progressed inwards to the holy of holies you would go up steps and the rooms would get smaller and smaller, just as when you go up a mountain you progress upwards and the circumference of the mountain gets smaller an smaller. Etc.

Churches/synagogues/mosques, on the other hand, are more like community gathering places. Whereas temples are viewed as being sacred and cut off from the profane world and required higher and higher levels of worthiness the closer you got to the innermost parts, churches/synagogues/mosques are more open to anyone who wants to come in and join the services. They are places where there might be activities, sports, clubs, etc. - more community oriented things, things you would never find in a temple.

Churches/synagogues/mosques themselves have different architectural features, but those have more to do with supporting the different ways of worshipping. For example, in Mosques the men and women worship separately. And a mosque needs an area where people can wash and do other ablutions before they enter.

And not all churches are the same. A catholic church will be much different than a protestant or an LDS or a Jehovah Witness church.
The skills are transferrable enough. It's Python with a little syntactic sugar for Godot-specific things.

It's an easy language to pick up for beginners and powerful enough for experienced devs. Kind of the sweet spot for game dev, IMO.
I realize it's hard to solve the "put clothes on a specific person" problem because there's trouble with sizes and shapes. Okay, let's not solve it.

I want to see how these new sneakers I'm about to buy will go with my (or similar to my) pants and shirt. We already have hundreds of thousands of models of different shapes, we already have pictures of merchandise in three planes (right on the official websites), why can't this be framed and combined?
Here's the wiki page for ways around it. Of course, it's all hypothetical and theoretical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch
Favourite in what way?

Unreal seems to produce the most impressive visuals.

Bevy seems to make it easy to produce WebGL. As a hobbyist and a Rustacean, this is my choice. But I have no aim to release anything commercial with a timeline. I’d go Unreal then.
That doesn't help with non-deterministic failures and I've also yet to see a true "write once, run anywhere" system ever. It may be 99% "write once, run anywhere" but there's always that 1% edge case.
https://www.fema.gov/node/fema-only-giving-hawaii-wildfire-s...
These presentations look like something straight out of some dystopian corporate hellscape fiction.
While I feel like heat pumps have come a long way and have their uses, the article/study grossly misrepresents the advantage that heatpumps have over fossil fuel heaters.

1. Overall efficiency: fossil fuel heaters burn fuels directly and produce heat, whereas heat pumps require electricity to be generated somehow and then for the electricity to be used. If you have a heat pump with a COP of 2, but the electricity comes from a natural gas power plant with efficiency of 40%, then that's an "overall" COP of 0.8, not 2. If you have a natural gas heater with 90% efficiency, that's actually more efficient than the heat pump overall, despite having a lower COP.

2. Price efficiency: similar to the above, electricity is more expensive than gas in most markets. Even if the efficiency is double that of a natural furnace, if electricity costs more than double than gas (per unit of energy), you can't really conclude that "heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels".

If you take these factors into account, heat pumps don't really "triumph over" fossil fuels once you get below around freezing. Things get more complicated when you're optimizing for carbon emissions vs energy/cost alone, or the upfront cost of the fossil fuel heater (to have the option of using fossil fuel, you need a fossil fuel heater which costs money, so you forgo that and only use the heat pump you might come out on top if it doesn't get too cold too often), but it's frustrating seeing articles proclaiming "COP > 1 therefore heatpumps better".
That whole presentation could have been 30 minutes shorter. It's a product announcement not an investors meeting. Show me the products. Make a sustainability PR as a separate piece. Get your name in the news twice. Seems strange
This really is mind blowing, I used to play games like Subnautica and think how impressive it was that it was made on Unity. It was advertising of the engine/framework in itself!
Create your minimum viable SaaS positioning statement in 10 mins
Literally every world-famous work has replicas and recreations, what's your point? Those copies are also part of the work's cultural influence, and in many cases (if the replicas are sold by the original artist) part of the monetary value as well.

This doesn't provide any more credence to the falsity that art's scarcity is the source of its value (when overwhelming evidence proves that the exact opposite is true)
And there's no launcher for Linux :(
This is really cool, but also seems rather indexed on physical cards. I have to imagine as we go towards more tech centric physical checkouts, we’re probably leaning more into device-based methods (phone, watch, etc). I imagine we will see less physical cards moving forward due to devices being able to fill this niche in a more secure way.
does neutrality extend to their actual country of manufacture?
>WASHINGTON -- One week since President Biden declared a major disaster declaration for the state of Hawaii in the wake of the devastating wildfires, the Biden-Harris Administration and voluntary agencies provided survivors with immediate needs such as food, water and shelter and approved millions of dollars in disaster relief. To date, FEMA has approved more than $3.8 million in assistance to 1,640 households including more than $1.57 million in initial rental assistance.

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20230817/biden-harris-adm... should probably do a bit of research. That $700 is the initial instant money somebody is allowed to collect through FEMA, and then they can apply for more
Reliable, configurable, and compatible. That's what, at least from the work I do, seems to be what the market is looking for.

Most CI/CD for sizeable companies have integrations into other systems, such as static analysis and things lime SBOM. Those tools tend to take a bunch of time outside the CI. They also need to ensure the results from those tools can break builds along with other alerting. Eventually the CI itself becomes a small fraction of total execution time.
Apple Discontinues 5.4-Inch iPhone 13 Mini
That's assuming you pay a not insignificant sum to have more than a paltry 5GB of iCloud space. To me it's pretty ridiculous that the iPhone can't match features that android phones have had for a decade.
Conversely, I miss:

- dedicated “home” button instead of the fancy “swipe up” - because of how frequently my toddler accidentally swipes up when playing her games. Or how often I enter the “expose” mode when trying to drag something like an email near the bottom of the screen.

- power button located on top, rather than on the side where i typically hold my phone because of how many times I accidentally lock the screen that stops the video i was listening to when trying to grab my phone, or accidentally take a screenshot of the lock screen when trying to insert the phone into the cradle in my car.

- the small size of the original iphone which was tiny rather than the modern versions that keep getting larger.

- and yes, I miss the damn stereo connector which allowed me to charge the phone while playing audio without dealing with bluetooth.

I wish they released “iphone classic” the size of the original iphone with modern insides and hardware buttons in places where they used to be.
I'll need to buy new AirPods too, unless I want to carry a lightning cable around too. Or just always use wireless charging with them.
I was really hoping Apple would tell the EU FU, and remove the port altogether. Some sort of wireless data only or some new port like magsafe, but for data.
how would that benefit consumers?
And get new iPhones and Airpods for the rest of the family...
Dynamic Island, USB-C and camera enhancements make me glad this is my upgrade year (I have a 12). I will probably grab the base Pro model for $200 more due to even better camera though, but I would be pretty happy with the 15 regular as well. I stopped with the big phones a few years ago... the battery bump is nice, but my phone goes everywhere and I prefer the regular size in my hand and pocket.
> Honestly for me the best part is the USB-C.

Some people predicted that new iPhone will be completely portless and allow wireless charging only, just to not having to support USB-C out of spite.

I guess we'll need to wait a year or two more.
A simpler example may be that a person with one clock knows the time, but a person with two clocks is never quite sure.
my AirPods came with a USB-C to lightning, so that will still work with the phone to charge on the go
I was expecting it to end with "all these presentations were rendered live on the A17 pro, on this iPhone". None of it really seems "real".
Supplementing it is totally different in my experience.
What's wrong with having a standard serial port?
If we get the infinite resources needed to retire capitalism then those others should also be solved as well.
> Figuring out whether, in practical cases, you will have a sufficiently large n that the conclusion is valid is a necessary step in the analysis.

The econometrics textbook I studied has more words “asymptotic” in it than there are pages. Oftentimes it’s impractical or even theoretically intractable to derive finite sample properties (and thus to answer when n is really large enough).
I don't know of anyone who has converged on that.

Although after reading that Babble link it sounds like a great idea for product id's. Scenarios where it is unlikely for people to have to read it out but when they do it's easy enough to convey.

I regret that there are scenarios that we should have converged on it but didn't.
These guys are insane. Every year the bloody product looks great (EDIT: not visually/aesthetically, looks like its got great features) and then the next year it somehow is even better. Satellite connectivity is fantastic. I believe T-mobile is bringing some of that too. If we get satellite backup calling or satellite data in the coming years it will be incredible.

I think I'll wait another year before I upgrade my iPhone 13 but this is great stuff.
IMO, this was a pretty weak announcement. They spent so long talking about environmental stuff, like getting rid of leather, that it felt like they were trying to pad the presentation to reach a reasonable length. There were a few new things (more optical zoom, slightly smaller bezels), but these were all leaked in advance.

I was also disappointed to hear that the satellite stuff is limited to 2 years. Is it going to be yet another subscription after that?
I miss Jobs. These prerecorded presentations are soulless and almost embarrassing at times.

Happy to see USB-C on the iPhone (thanks EU) and no price hikes.
Small (anec)data point, but I got invited last week by my local Apple Store to attend the event there and upgrade on the day. Never had that happen before, and have a history (that Apple surely knows) of buying 6 months after launch and then holding for 4-7 years.

I get the impression — admittedly having not watched the event — that Apple feel the need to work hard and drum up interest for this release.
Next article: UK pub chain shuts down
USB-C should have been the lightning connector, it is a better connector than USB-C.
They've done no ports on devices before. They've already removed headphone jack. So how would it hurt consumers?
PC/console titles Assassins Creed and Resident Evil are coming to iPhone 15 Pro
I haven't bought a new iPhone since the 5. I typically would wait a year and buy a used year-old model for half price (with AppleCare). But I didn't do this after the XS, and now with Pro and non-Pro models it's incredibly complex to find the best value since used prices are so dynamic and there are so many models to choose from.

Might be time to just buy a new one with USB-C and use it for 5+ years.
I don't have a ton of experience in Bazel, but from what I have experienced with Bazel I think it would be more accurate to say that you configure the dependency graph yourself in Bazel. Then Bazel can determine what to build from scratch and what to take from cache
Yup - finally ready to ditch the 2020 SE which, TBH, is still good enough except the battery's toast and has been for half a year at least.

(Worry not though dear mr. Cook, I'll pass it down to one of my kids so the environment won't be hurting while the new toy shows me which gate my CO2-spewing flight departs from. ;))
It's the only way I've used Django and I love it.
That reputation for switching connectors frequently always felt unearned. The 30-pin and Lightning connectors were each used for a solid decade, which is longer than the time between USB Mini and Micro, or Micro and C. The 30-pin kinda sucked, but so did USB-Mini, and Lightning came out before USB-C.

My criticisms of Apple are vast, but their proprietary connectors never made the list.
Am I wrong or is iPhone 15 usb-c is usb2 just with a different connector. Seems to me like only the pro is getting usb3 even though usb3 was first released in like 2008.
Update: confirmed in iPhone specs page.
Slow, long-duration mission have their own issues. Even a jellyfish or fungus has to eat. Carrying enough food for a multi-thousand year mission is a problem. And an AI needs power, which might be hard to come by between the stars.