skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to know as well.

A 12" Lodge skillet costs $30 [1].

A mirror-polished 12" Lodge skillet costs an eye-watering $250 [2].

Even if this is a special case, what is it about the polishing process that adds $100 or more to the base cost? I'd be interested to hear from anyone in the know.

----------------------------------------

[1] https://www.lodgecastiron.com/product/round-cast-iron-classi...

[2] https://www.summershinemetalpolishing.com/product-page/mirro...
Dear reader, unless you are the idea of masculinity itself, we're talking about two different things. Capitalism can be in crisis without all capitalists being in crisis.
Ok, I'm not excluding the possibility of a lab leak, but I would expect it to be just badly handled regular microbiological/pathological research rather than genetic engineering.
You mean that kind of unsafe vehicle ?
https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=self+driving+car+pedestrian&...
ICE vehicles turn less than 35% of their energy consumption into productive work. The rest is waste heat. That's the main reason transitioning to pure EVs must happen.
IT looks like the 900 number is discussed in chapter 3 of this document [1].

As far as I can tell the current usage of 1200 TWh include electricity and combustible chimerical energy of gas. Electricity use is ~300 Twh, and Gas usage is ~800 Twh.

The proposal is that gas heating would be entirely replaced with heat pumps and most gas generation would be replaced with modular nuclear reactors and offshore wind.

The numbers are a little misleading because of the way gas and electricity are summed to get the top level numbers. A TWh of gas consumption is not the same as a TWh of electricity consumption. In thier model, 50 TWh of electricity can replace 400 TWh of gas. The challenge with this approach is that it is not show what is going on with user consumption. Are they getting more, less, or the same thermodynamic work done?

https://www.nationalgrid.com/document/138976/download#:~:tex....
Do they just lose all their money in those accounts?
DVS1 is definitely pretentious, but he's got the skills to back it up. Very good DJ.
I was left wondering why only 8% of roofs quality for rooftop solar. I haven't checked the underlying paper, maybe it has an answer.
Speaking of monopolies, the article is "celebrating" 40 years of brazen anticompetitive behavior and monopoly that inflicting billions and possibly trillions of dollars of economic damage on the world.

And of course a long slide from any sort of meaningful enforcement on monopolies and cartels, once in the American market, and now largely in the international sphere.

Finally, Microsoft Office itself is an information prison. The information is locked in proprietary and defensively changed file formats that either require more Microsoft "products" to access the information meaningfully, or decades of reverse engineering.

And keep in mind that 90% of the data in office documents is just ... text.

Anyway, Happy Microsoft Word day apparently.
Taxpayers fund them because it's part of our culture that is worth supporting. For example, Berlin clubs were financially supported as part of the Neustart Kultur campaign after covid.
Yep, I use Llama2 70b for larger tasks on my MacBook and 13b for more “single use” type tasks. It’s a game changer.
My understanding is that that if they have nice properties they'll enable substantially more efficient motors/generators thanks to strong magnetic fields. I can't say I'm that confident in that knowledge though.
It is a pretty cool result. Basically the lay summary (from my understanding) is that a multivariate function with n-arguments can be perfectly represented by a network with 2 hidden layers (one having width n and another width 2n) and two activation functions.
Devil's advocate: Profits from what exactly?

Windows 11 is a free update and they don't make profits from the sale of new hardware since they're not in the business of selling hardware (barring the niche surface devices which don't really sell meaningful numbers to be profitable).

Edit: -4 downvotes already? wow. What's with the downvotes my dudes? Should I juste come to HN to spam "hurr durr Microsft bad" for karma farming to coincide with the acceptable party line?
Be specific. You don't really give any examples for why or how one would influence the other. If you've got both bouncing around in your skull, of course they do. It's a question of how and to what degree.

It's also interesting that you've framed it as "enjoying music" (consumption) and "coding" (production). Would "enjoying software" make one a better musician or composer?

> They both seem to dance on the fine line of structure and freedom.

This could apply to almost anything.
They won’t stop until all words are taken.
Can you share what you bought? Model number and such? Thanks
The problem with nuclear is that it’s slow and expensive to build and there is FUD that it is not.
> To be clear: this does not mean that this is the ‘optimal’ electricity mix in 2050. Not least because energy storage costs would be very high. We would probably want to diversify a bit, not least to help with grid balancing. Before all of the nuclear fans get mad: I think there’s room for nuclear in there too.

> But the point still stands: it seems we have a lot of untapped solar and wind resources and they could make up a large chunk of our grid, even if they’re not 100% of it.
The words you’re looking for are SAX-like JSON parser or streaming json parser. I don’t know if there’s any command line tools like the one you wrote that use it though to provide a jq-like interface.
This really undersells the risk here. If you have birds and don’t want to watch them die in agony just put the PTFE stuff in the bin.
You make some fairly reasonable points, but it’s very clear you’re talking explicitly about cities which is a small (but significant) part of the problem. Realistically if you’re trying to get rid of vehicles, most modern cities are already well set up to do that.

I disagree that cars are more excluding than cycling; very few people of older age would be safe cycling compared to driving. Yes, bikes are far more affordable though.

Electric bikes could be quite revolutionary (I’ve owned various modes of electric personal transport - which I’ve turned into a “net 0” project and entirely charged off solar), but when you said “cycling” I don’t consider them to be part of that: many cities exclude powered vehicles from cycling infrastructure
Yeah, orthographically it was the most sensible choice.
> in over 30 years
Ceramic pans these days seem like a pretty great option - non stick and non toxic. Only trade off is lower heat.

I use ceramic mainly then switch to cast iron for high heat
Ubuntu Asahi Talk with Hector Martin and Tobias Heider at Ubuntu Summit
Isn't this how the Maya did it?
Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
Awesome news for other QDrant users. I started using QDrant in April, after determining it was significantly better than alternatives. Its downside was that it’s a smaller company with fewer resources. But since X has bet on it, QDrant now has a much improved likelihood of survival.
See my sibling comment :)
Wrong!

Methane (the primary component of natural gas) has a global warming potential 21 times higher than carbon dioxide over a 100-year period, though methane persists in the atmosphere for much less time (around a dozen years) than carbon dioxide (many decades).
It's super non-stick.

I know you're going to rebut with saying that iron pans are too, and I'm sure they are, but most people don't want to put in any level of the effort needed to make iron pans as non-stick as teflon.

A lot of people care only a mild amount about cooking, and don't want to invest the time to know how to properly use a cast iron or a carbon steel (which I have and only seldom use). They'd rather get a non-stick pan which lasts a while anyway, throw whatever on there, and never worry about food sticking or cleaning it after.
many of your "complaints" seem easily solvable.

Rice washing is a fairly common practice in cultures that cook rice. You are likely from a culture where rice is not common so the solution is to look it up. My ten year old zojirushi rice cooker came with instructions telling you how to wash rice.

A "cup" is a horrible measure of volume because there are so many definitions. This is clearly not zojirushi's fault.

If you don't know what GABA rice is, may i suggest you look it up? Seriously, if you do not understand what something is, look it up instead of dismissing it as "unfriendly to a westerner".
Recent versions of MacOS with AFS can do this to some extent: At the time you make a copy of a file with the Finder, MacOS makes a COW (copy-on-write) copy of the file which behaves like a hardlink until you modify one of the copies, at which point the modified one becomes a separate file with its own identity.

But AFAIK MacOS doesn't attempt to proactively dedupe the file system.
Yes, I used a DA orbital sander (pneumatic) to remove all the rough surface from the inside base of a Lodge pan. This, of course, removed the seasoned finish. The new surface was harder to season (took several months to get a uniform surface with no spots that would wear off under scraping/abrasion), but it's very capable now. I prefer it to the rough stock surface.

Wear a respirator unless you want to taste rust every time you breathe for several days.
Because even in C++ people don't use json simd most project use rapidjson which Go is on part with.
If the Internet has taught me anything, it's that someone, somewhere will object to something, no matter how mundane or usual that something is. I guess I can now add 'having a lawn' to the list I'm keeping of the many ways my boring, suburban, SFH, car-owning lifestyle is killing the planet.
The near outage this summer was more accurately described as wind being low enough that it almost wasn't able to fill the gap caused by the gas, coal, and nuclear plants going offline. Unlike wind and solar those are quite heat sensitive so you can get nasty correlated failures at peak summer demand, especially if the same weather system causes any kind of interruption to the cooling water supply.

And, yes, renewables are becoming a big industry but it’s nowhere near as big as the fossil fuel industry and orders of magnitude less lavishly subsidized. Texas Republicans tried to ban wind and solar expansion because that party has been owned by the oil industry for decades and the renewable industry has nowhere near the same level of lobbying clout.
Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List
That thing about 'you had to do more thinking up front, so you wrote better code' is total nonsense. Maybe the guy he interviewed; there rest of us were struggling with wasted runs because of syntax errors, cards out of order, worn cards that didn't read right...a total waste of human life.

Terminals meant you could iterate 10X to 100X faster. Which was the whole ball game right there. Because iterating wasn't (mostly) about thinking; it was about bookkeeping, typing. Expecially on a keyboard that operated a cardboard-punch-device that rattled and shook and jammed.
>> Often the software doesn't take into account how things work in other languages

Not just languages. In my area we run into constant issues with MS products using American date/time formats in places it isn't wanted. For half of ever month this is a big deal, even inside the US as many organizations use the international standard. People cut-and-paste from popup windows or error logs only to discover that the tiny bit of MS code that generated the notice doesn't respect realworld date formats (day-month-year) and just defaults to the US format (month-day-year). Non-MS software (apple/google) and open source more often than not respect date formats. It is MS that seems to just not care.

I was once involved in a heated debate re a contract when everyone suddenly realized the issue: 05/06/18 had been confused with 06/05/18, resulting in an extra month of costs being attached. I think to avoid further ambiguity I jokingly rewrote it as "On the sixth day of the fifth month of the year of our lord two thousands and eighteen and ..."
Linux doesn't solve the problem of TPM support, and in fact it kind of illustrates exactly the problem. There are a lot of services that you cannot use unless your device supports DRM with a certain set of properties. These services are the main reason that Linux is basically unusable as your only device.

So Microsoft is basically making the decision that you need a new device if you want to use apps that have a certain security level, and rather than just disabling those apps they've elected to disable the entire operating system.
Have you ever messed with an LLM and had it seem like it's on the cusp of an idea, but it just couldn't connect two different things together and you felt a little bit frustrated...?

Just pay attention to humans and you'll see we do similar things all the time, at the individual level, and at the societal level. History is filled with "We have X, why didn't we do Y with it sooner?" moments.
How would an end user simply check them for backdoors if they were open source? Security auditing is a skilled job, and the people best capable of identifying security flaws or backdoors are generally able to do that given a binary blob as well.
I would say it is even worse when considering tablets and smart phones, and maybe even laptops (although they have a significantly better shelf life than tablets and smart phones).

They are garbage the moment the battery ages out. For some tablets, that meant one or if very lucky, two years. That's a lot of nice screens to the bin for something that otherwise should be trivial to replace.
I would have disagreed about supporting 80286 PC-DOS and Apple ][ computers all the way to the year 2000

but supporting 2+Ghz 64-bit x86’s in 2023 isn’t really asking a lot.. and android phones in particular need to be prosecuted criminally for their ocean garbage
Even the name of their compiler flag already is an oxymoron.

Relaxed atomics are not ordered.

If you want some ordering guarantees that are weaker than acquire or consume just add a new word for it.
hi all, i am experimenting with a roomba create 3

i am figuring out how to visualize ROS data using a roomba.

is there a better robot with an arm that comes with it?

or do you know the cheapest one i can buy that works well with roomba create 3

many thanks!
Not sure the @ symbol does any sort of tagging or notification. You may have better luck by emailing the suggestion to hn@ycombinator.com.
Sounds like a strong danger of applying a modern form of red lining & financial deplatforming. If you’re a higher risk, of course any financial products that you can access will cost more in fees and interest. Who is considered a higher risk by the impersonal algorithms and bank systems being applied?
Host and Build Your Website on the Only True Green Hosting Provider
... I could be wrong, but I -thought- it was possible for the JIT to see there are no side effects and inline on property access (so long as the property is not a virtual call or otherwise able to devirt.)

.ElementAt() OTOH has a chance to throw in most implementations AFAIR so yeah, a bit of a moot point in this case.

Edited to add:

Actually, there -could- still be side effects in the case of .Name on a class, specifically, it's possible that .ElementAt() could return a null. I'm not sure what cases (if any) that the JIT could get around that.

OTOH, in the case of a struct, as long as .ElementAt() -doesn't- throw, .Name will always return regardless of if it is a property or field, and as part of a struct the compiler should do a good job of inlining as long as the access has no side effects (and you don't have too many fields on the struct!)
Windows 11 is an advertising platform to sell ongoing/subscription services.

For consumers, Xbox Game Pass, OneDrive, Office 365

For businesses, Office 365, Azure, etc.
Ah yes, because if there's one thing the left is famous for, it's its placid acceptance of the status quo. Idiot.
I'd like to know more about why it was changed from March to January.
Hm. My cast-iron skillet I've used for 20 years doesn't stick. Ever.

If there's a little stuck-on stuff on the bottom after use (should have put a little wine in there, gotten that flavor back into the dish, oh well) then a Scotch-brite bad and 30 seconds fixes it.
I'm also left handed, but in the UK, that means that's the hand you have to take off the wheel to faff about in the centre console.

I'd still rather everything was a physical control, but if they have to remove every traditional control, the least they can do is provide access to that function though the dashboard interface, which they already do for several functions. Just not that one.
Netflix doesn't make use of the TPM.
Not like the sun is renewable either. Everything is finite if you use enough of it. The problem is that the old "limited consumable resource dug out of the ground" changes our natural habitat as a side effect of creating energy, assuming we continue to use it as we do today.

(By that last bit, I mean: powering EVs from coal plants with carbon capture at exhausts might be different, idk, but probably not cheaper than just not polluting in the first place.)
I would bet that electricity demand goes up, not down. When a good becomes cheaper/more efficient, demand increases.
At this point with the way political will is structured on this planet, the most direct way might be to overlay a satellite map of industrial emissions, drop leaflets to tell people not to show up to work, strike these targets, then argue you had no choice in front of the UN.
It can be communicated when it becomes stable and goes to 1.0.0 for the version. Until then it shouldn't dare move past 0.x.0 just because people think it should.
Guterres, the UN chief, is telegraphing fear and despair, and everyone knows it on some level.

This appeal is merely Guterres putting head in sand. The problem isn't knowledge of the catastrophe, it isn't science, it's simply a socio-political force: The reactionary right - the right-wing movement, in the US, Europe, etc., that embraces extremism, demonizes (literally at times) anything liberal, including classical liberalism like human rights and freedom.[0]

Everyone knows that they are the obstacle to solving climate change, that unless they are dealt with then nothing will happen. If Guterres, the UN, leaders, activists, etc. - and you and I - are not dealing with that problem explicitly and directly, we're hiding from it. And that spreads like a cancer; others see you and I, and especially leaders hiding, and they despair and give up too. Worse, they see where the power lies and for safety and conformity, follow it.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/opinion/sunday/conservati...
PTFE fumes are also not exactly healthy for us humans.
I received a granite pan recently and I can't recommend it enough.

It doesn't stick and contains no teflon or any other such material.
The point was to sell Teflon pans to you repeatedly.
It takes small flap/disk sanders, lots of flaps/disks, and lots of time. Just taking off the high spots takes 10-15 minutes. A mirror finish requires working through progressively finer polishing compounds and can be quite time consuming, particularly in the spots harder to reach with power/pneumatic tools (like the transition between the base of the pan and the walls).

Edit: Given the text on the site, it appears this is a single individual craftsman polishing those pans, which likely also contributes.
If it's that simple, can you point at a single example of Hollywood using the TPM for access control?
Still, you can get a collection of like 10-20 regexes for most common types of obfuscation, and that will solve the problem like 90% of the time. And it is much cheaper, computationally, than running LLM on the whole content.
It's absurd that this is the case; it's purely about short-term profit, as others have said. I regularly refurbish and resell machines from more than ten years ago which run Windows 10 (or Windows 11, if you're willing to modify it to accept an installation) just fine.

For normal office or school use, there's nothing wrong with them! You need an SSD, about 8GB of RAM, and a first-generation i5 or i7 or newer, and you have a PC that is more than good enough for most people's needs.

I am worried about how my business is going to be impacted by the forced retirement of Windows 10, but, I'll adapt, just as the industry always does. Probably, that looks like installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware with a disclaimer and instructions on how to keep it updated. It's unfortunate, but given that the alternative is enormous amounts of e-waste, I'll take it.

(For those who would say the alternative is Linux: Yes, for you or me, but not for the average customer. Linux machines won't sell.)
Linux is not an option for me. I think I've heard the "just move to Linix" thing more often than I've brushed my teeth.

I'm staying with Windows both because I've been using Microsoft's tech since MS-Dos 2 back in 1985, and work is a Microsoft estate, again making Linux a no-go for me.

That said, I have Windows 11 on my Surface, and usability stinks to high heaven, squared. And so I will stick with Windows 10. I'm keeping an eye on 11 via the Surface, but not hoping for usability to get easier in the near future...
Weeks have two ends. The front end, Sunday, and the back end, Saturday.
I’ve never seen alternative firms not exist unless, like I said earlier, government regulations exist to make it harder for new market entrants to pop up (see eg investment banking firms or local cable companies in some regions). In a free society there are always a set of people eager to take advantage of existing vendor weakness.

I commend your exceeding politeness but it seems like this position is based on feelings of consumer harm and missionary zeal rather than rigour (including a lack of true acknowledgement of second order effects of this regulation - all regulation has costs). Yet here I am as a consumer speaking for myself otherwise.

Maybe this why Lina keeps losing her cases.

WhatsApp can’t figure how to make money -> Facebook buys them and can afford to keep them free -> consumers continue using them instead of losing access to a wealth-generating service (the third world is full of small businesses that run on WhatsApp and Instagram).

Still not clear to me why preventing this from happening is good.
The phrase is a common example in the analysis of speech acts:

https://chat.openai.com/share/280d6759-5ab4-49f3-ba60-6b37bc...
In an abstract sense, yes, but were anyone to do that in a widely deployed manner there are fairly easy and cheap ways to circumvent it.
I really enjoyed reading this comment, thanks. I love the reason why min/max aren’t thought of as basic arithmetic building blocks (they’re too easy), it makes so much sense now you put it that way.
Windows 10 IOT Core isn't. Windows 10 IOT Enterprise is though[0]. Good luck getting a legit license for it however.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_IoT#Enterprise
Love this! Voting is as easy as starring the repo...
I'm firmly in the steel pot camp, for any marginal benefit you can get from a timer or auto start feature, it just takes five minutes to cook some rice in a pot.
Beyond technological changes to the power supply and carbon taxes and regulations for industries, the bottom line is that the number of people is the multiplier for the carbon footprint. So a country like Japan, which is often ridiculed as being xenophobic and foolish for allowing their population to decline (what about the economy??? the liberals say), is really a model for a more sustainable future. Economic growth is propped up by population growth, and both of these are at odds with tackling climate change.
I think they fixed it, it seems to be working now https://x.ai/legal/privacy-policy/
Didn't read it though