skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That’s how the fossil fuel industry describes it, yes, but that’s just them trying to avoid competition.

Renewables, especially construction of new renewables, is a big, lucrative, growing business of its own. That’s actually a direct implication of the triumphant statistics people keep sharing about how much renewable power generation gets built out every year. So the “fossil fuel industry” is not unique in its vested interest to propagandize against its competition. And this incentive is only increased by the movement towards ESG in finance. But if we’re done accusing each other of being shills, let’s get to the substance of the matter at hand here.

> For example, the 2021 winter outages were caused by power plant operators not wanting to spend money making their plants more robust.

This included the renewables too, of course, along with the entire rest of the state’s infrastructure. But the near outage this summer was directly caused by low wind. There are probably issues with solar as well—heat, and cooling demand along with it, peak in the early evening just as sunlight starts to diminish—but usually wind manages to cover that gap. That doesn’t always happen though.
Reality3DSketch: Rapid 3D Modeling of Objects from Single Freehand Sketches
We have the whine-about-anything <previous culture name> on <location name>.
Please PLEASE enough with the character assassination of the Elm guy.

He wants to run his own project his own way.

There's a small but dedicated residue of people who just can't stand being told "no" and go around crapping on the kid whenever they get a chance.

I get it. You don't like Evan's project management style. Move on already.

- - - -

The fact of the matter is that he's a person who took his thesis, made it into a product, and got traction in the real world. People have used Elm to make things. Things that go.

How many of us can say the same?

And that's before you get to all the fascinating and as yet still-too-obscure things that the OP talks about. Things that are in part a little more widely known and understood thanks to Elm project.
Is there really any truth to the superior customizability (he calls it a Personalized Development Environment) claimed here?

VSCode extensions can change crazy stuff such as [1], and are also more numerous. I don't see much of an advantage to terminal-vim apart from performance and perhaps an inherent joy of building your own tools.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=hoovercj...
If you don't give it 8-shots (lol) it performs like ass.
These are always interesting to read because you get to see runtime quirks. I'm surprised there was so much function call overhead, for example. And it's interesting you can bypass range checkong.

The most important thing, though, is the process: measure then optimize.
The vast majority of lawns don’t get watered aside from the rain.
Another option is duff: https://github.com/elmindreda/duff
What It Takes to Wear the Sudoku Crown
Performance from Chromium.

Most people dont really know about all the Chromium derivatives other than Brave.
Ask Siri: Is corn a fruit?
Apple list the ability to ask Siri questions including, "is corn a fruit?" in the latest update. However, when asked all Siri offers is web results.
Well, considering that it's illegal to build apartments or condos in most places I don't think you have to worry about that.
If you’re going to refuse to answer the question, we’re pretty much done here. You won’t justify why you feel entitled to control your work merely because you made it. That wasn’t the point of copyright in the first place.

Bits are not property. Property is stuff, like a chair. You’re like the person who came up with "you wouldn’t download a car." Everyone would in fact download a car if they could, and frankly that’s a world that we should all be pushing for.

I don’t know what to do with you. I don’t do well against people who just yell, since I tend to meet their emotion in kind. It’s a personal flaw. So, as one human to another, allow me to raise my middle finger at you for saying that I don’t care at all about morality when I lose sleep over this very topic. Enjoy your anger; you seem to revel in it.

We also have a higher duty here, which is to foster good conversation on HN. If you can’t muster up some intellectual curiosity on this topic, we should both just end it — for the audience, if not for ourselves.
If they read 10,000 then it’s a judgement of someone who has a lot of experience.

As it is now, there’s no way to know GP’s experience so the reason I suspected shade as it seems more likely to fit into the “I don’t like it, so I’ll pick some weak complaint without any qualification to help people understand” shade.
that’s a strange qualification:

“no serious medical organisation endorses keto for the general population or cancer patients” - isn’t having it be effective for the obese and diabetics enough?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6566854/

as to using “medical organizations” endorsement as a sign of “truth” - it took over 10 years to go from the discovery that H Pylori caused stomach ulcers to GI medical organizations recommending antibiotic treatment, such endorsement is a lagging indicator. Or to take another example, almost every american medical organization supports widespread use of “gender-affirming care” for children, including hormonal treatment and surgery, while many european medical organizations have pulled back from their earlier enthusiastic support based on increasing data on harm. So are the european organizations correct, or are the american ones? or is human biology significantly different between europe and the united states?
or to take another recent example, were the medical organizations correct when they endorsed the CDC view that “masks didn’t work” (because the cdc wanted to ensure mask supply for medical personnel), or were they correct when they then said they were effective…. until later research showed they made no discernible difference?

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
Second time I have seen a post complaining about this on HN. I do not even use Brave but remember the announcement of it being added.

https://brave.com/desktop-vpn/

It's also mentioned multiple times on the home page.

> All the good of ad-blocking, incognito windows, private search, even VPN. All in a single download.

> Yes! Brave Firewall + VPN protects everything you do online, on your entire device, even outside the Brave Browser. One subscription covers up to 5 devices, across Android, iOS, and desktop.
It'll never be over--it's just Berlin will no longer be the capital of it. Actually would not be terribly surprised if the party moves to San Francisco next.
"Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence)."

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
I’m not sure what sort of decline the article is referring to. There’s not a single reference to revenues or guest count for any club in Berlin, nor mention of any specific club in danger of closing due to lack of patronage.

These clubs were great while the city was struggling, but now that it’s not, I can see why people don’t wish to tolerate the negative externalities associated with them. Hopefully most clubs can find a way to integrate into today’s Berlin. Some may not be able to and disappear. Cities aren’t static beings.

I’ve also realized I prefer underground parties or small social gatherings to 3-hour lines, 40 euro entrance fees, and uncertain door policies.
I agree that this is the best advice.

I was really worried about what I would do AFTER so I just kept working a day job even after I made FU money.

The difference was that I started working for different reasons which was meeting people and learning about the problems they faced.

Meeting new people and deepening relationships with people I already knew has been great for my mental health too.

It’s given me cool things to work on as well.
I thought the issue with wind in the UK was that its supply is (Scotland) where the demand isn’t (the south). So we’d (a) have to build loads of pylons or expensive underground cables and (b) lose a lot in transmission.
Personally, my family owned a Peugeot 406 Estate when I was a kid/teenager. According to Wikipedia the that is L 4576 mm, W 1760 mm, and H 1396 mm. For comparison, the XC90 is L 4953 mm, W 2008 mm, and H 1776 mm. The 406 has 526 l of trunk space, while the XC90 has 680 l.

With the 406 we did yearly trips to Southern Europe (from Denmark) with 5 people and gear for 2 weeks of vacation. IME people REALLY overestimate how much space they actually need. Hell, a colleague of mine has two kids in strollers. They're leasing a V60. She thinks the car is way too big, and she's looking forward to get a smaller car when their contract runs out.

The plural of anecdote isn't data, but I firmly believe people use the space to justify
I'm sure it is, but why didn't they localize it alongside the English buttons? At least print it in English on the cup, if not outright tweaking the corresponding water lines in the cook pan and the cooking logic to a more common measurement here.
most of those are also ineffective against anybody who knows what a regular expression is.
What's a "consumer mask"? The Powecom KN95s are tested near top of list in effectiveness (aka "work"), available with ear loops or behind the head loops for a dollar a mask, so $4 - $5 per month:

https://bonafidemasks.com/powecom-kn95/

Add a stick-in nose bridge seal for easier seal without having to be as tight or as carefully adjusted:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HJH2TQM/
"Kids these days!"

--Adults since the second generation of humans was born
there is a recent 5-part documentary about berlin, its unique history since the fall of the wall, especially the nightlife, culture, investments and projects, housing etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSSQJpICzTA
The land use change is a bigger factor than the mowing. Though you're right, we should work on reducing lawns and car usage.
what i meant was everything you see (and dont see) is there to shift your beliefs, as you noted... i like your idea of trying to stay rooted in facts and i agree this is a good strategy. however, the sheer number of sources competing for mind share nowadays is astonishing and i think facts are very hard to come by. so i try to err on the side of disbelief no matter the source (unless i see the same facts from multiple non-connected sources). again, non-connected source is a very difficult thing to determine too. often, its a case of follow the money, or follow the power, or just look at whos suffering and who isnt, while ignoring all the other messages.
The Prism/Alpha project was one long series of disasters. Prism was delayed because the spec kept changing and the architecture had to run on VLSI and ECL - which was already a huge mistake. There was also resistance from the VAX partisans.

So when samples arrived they were 2-3 years later than they should have been and MIPs had made some headway in the same space.

DEC - actually Bob Supnik - decided that even though Prism was the better arch, MIPS products would bring in revenue more quickly.

Which was true. But... then Prism was killed, which led to a mass walkout. The remains were resurrected a year later with some updates as Alpha. But by then it was too late for that particular market.

Prism was a solid arch - some quirks, but nothing unworkable. And very, very fast.

But it was a workstation-grade processor, not a mainstream PC-grade processor.

DEC completely failed to understand the PC market, and it's not obvious what would have happened if Prism had survived. IMO it would have gone the way of MIPS anyway, because the workstation market was already being squeezed hard, and the PC and Mac markets had already made their choices.

It might have had a good run against SPARC for a decade or so, but that would have been it.
The ones that arbitrarily didn't let people get in when they were in their peak? Fuck them!
I think most of your points have been addressed, but this one..

> a Zojirushi cup isn't the same as an imperial cup

Indeed, a zojirushi cup is 180ml, while an imperial cup is 284ml. Perhaps you meant a US Customary cup, at either 237ml or 240ml? Then there's a whole mess of other measurements people call a "cup" (118ml, 227ml, 250ml...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_%28unit%29
I’d also add automation becoming pervasive, especially after containers showed up. In the 90s, people bought relatively few expensive servers and ran a ton of stuff on them, almost always hand-rolled (yes, there wren a few crazies running BCFG, cfengine, etc. but that was uncommon outside of a few niches). That meant you couldn’t migrate easily since mapping out dependencies was non-trivial and your admins didn’t want / have time to deal with portability issues. As you mentioned, open source took a lot of that away (no more dealing with bizarre vendor compiler bugs or broken tool chains) and repeatable more isolated builds and deployments made it a lot more realistic to use a different server class where it saved money.
And coopt The Matrix in the background art (the upwards floating squares in the background): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149112
I appreciate that there are higher end devices but as someone who can definitely tell the difference between different sushi bar rice, I'm still satisfied with my Zojirushi rice cooker.
Is there a reason you don't just let the lawn mower mulch them up and leave them on the ground? After I mow over my leaves they pretty much disappear into the grass.
Yeah they're pretty crap in general. I hope they manage to fix them.
Show HN: Sshx, a web-based collaborative terminal
While you’re right, another complexity is that the salmon are just a canary for broader toxicity we cannot observe. Nobody, clearly, gives a shit about insects, although the environmental concern should be much higher for pesticides - they even were historically - even though pesticides also make yields on food higher and presumably let you use less land.

The thing is we have never used less land, and we have never used less fuel, you’re falling directly into a paradox of that kind of thinking. So while you’re right, honestly that line of thinking of yours has been totally co-opted.

This is coming from someone who used to do “Green revolution blah blah,” but I’m not in high school anymore, we all have more wisdom, we don’t have to say stuff that sounds smart anymore. We can obey what the most passionate and expert opinions are - reduce toxins everywhere, even at the cost of efficiency - and only good things will happen in our day to day lives.
In your CV, use "recent employment" rather than "employment"
Nope. I like Daylight Savings Time. In the summer time, the sun is up later in the evening to enjoy it, and it also doesn't rise at 4:00am. I'm happy to shift my time in the winter to get this payback later on.
and that's fine? Not everyone aspires to be CEO, not everyone wants to accept those trade-offs, or has the skillset.
I'm sorry, but this isn't so much an app as a very slow way to read the sentence,

"For better wellness, get enough sleep, don't eat junk food, get physical activity every day, and not too much stress."

The form you've put this in doesn't seem to add anything to the above, except maybe your personal opinion of the relative weights.
He is proposing put “heavier” tax, which means to increase tax. What’s the point of mentioning “taxes already exist”?
He named UNIX, he invented the "Hello, world!" program, he's the K in K&R (The C Programming Language), he's the K in AWK, and he's the co-author of other classic works like The UNIX Programming Environment and more recently The Go Programming Language. He's currently a CS professor at Princeton.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? It's just terse, it's not at all rude.
I'm not a fan of having more than a one page CV. Most people won't read more than one page and it's better that you choose which page they read.

Why not put a section, called "other experience", on page 2 and list it all there.
Ha, within a 15 minute walk? I’m going to guess you don’t have kids.

So parents need to pack everything up daily for their kids to go play (at least for the first N years of life until they’re independent enough to go do a 15min walk on their own) or be taxed for it?

I have a public park across the street from me.

I spent $20k converting the side of my house into a playground for my kids.

The QoL impact has been massive.

It’s gated in by a 6ft perimeter brick wall with a door that we put in that opens from the kitchen.

In the morning, my 2 year old can unlock the door to the side yard and go play before we even wake up.

The side yard lets our kids play without us needing to supervise. It gives them strong early independent play and gives us space to get life sorted out while they are entertaining themselves (chores, bills, etc.).

The park across the street does none of that, it is not interchangeable in any meaningful way.
Everyone would need to accept a significant decrease in their quality of living and very very few will actually accept that.

So no, nothing of any great significance is going to happen with preventing climate change.
My brother used to work for a web scraping company years before chatGPT. He informs me that all the obfuscation techniques people used were pointless and the scraper got around all of them. If you think about it this makes sense: All you need is a list of regexes.

He said the one thing that still works is by writing your email out to an image file. OCR exists, but not en masse in scrapers like that.
Not sure, but bikes remain a popular item here so apparently it's not stopping people. I haven't had a bike stolen, though most of my bikes are not especially fancy (I have a Brompton which is a bit pricier but, being a folding bike, I just take it with me instead of locking it outside).

I could buy a new electric cargo bike every year for the amount I spent on my car when I had one.
If you used Go (or something equivalent) couldn’t you bundle it into a binary and then it can be more portable?
I get very very little "obvious" email SPAM these days. I get a great deal of email from conference badge scans, retail that I've done business with, and a great number of other sources that I often/mostly don't care about but I'm not sure how you would algorithmically prevent outside of some labor-intensive and error-prone whitelist.

I'm sure some people would prefer to basically block email by default but that's not most of us.
FTA:

> shred most leaves with a mower, leaving them strewn on the lawn as mulch.

The shredding is a necessary step. Of course, this too is generally done by power equipment ...
One year ago, in November, I bought a house in GA after 40 years in the West, and it's got a bunch of Ents on a 1/2 acre lot. Upon moving in I had no tools to deal with the leaves, and the house had been unmaintained all Fall, so the leaves had piled up everywhere but importantly, on top of the "grass". I have a long concrete driveway also, and the piles of leaves were kind of annoying there. Raking was... suboptimal.

All my life I have hated leaf blowers with all my being, reserving a special place in that hatred for the landscapers working in the middle of the night in Santa Clara on commercial property.

However I have friends who don't share that hatred and as a surprise housewarming gift I received in Dec. a 20V battery electric leaf blower. My gawd that thing works great, and it's not very loud, takes 10 minutes, so problem solved for the driveway, deck, steps etc.

As for the "grass"[1], wherever the leaves had piled up and matted down after the rains, nothing grew. It was just mud. I'm not interested in leaf blowing a half acre so after researching it I got a Honda mulching lawnmower. I mulched for the first time last week. Worked great! This week the leaves have piled up again. I'll keep mulching until the accumulation wanes but I'm optimistic I'll have more "grass", and less mud, next year.

I retain my intense hatred for gas powered leaf blowers. I've got a neighbor across the lake and that mutherfucker likes to blow his deck for I swear to god an hour once a week with a tremendously noisy gas blower. Visions of setting the thing on fire. Maybe I should buy him an electric leaf blower. He also has a very noisy Harley and one of those extraordinarily loud Mustang adjacent cars, so possibly that would be a fail. Oh well.

[1] "grass" Well there's some grassy stuff most places, and it looks like dozens of other species of ground covering plants. All fine with us, what I care about is cover and not growing too fast.
“ They should not only not cause incidents, they should also not make existing incidents far worse because of terrible decisions.”

Just FYI, it made this terrible decision because people were mad at cruise for stopping in the middle of the road to decide if it was safe to proceed. They were asked to change that behavior and pull over and they did, this time just dragging a human along.

So yes let’s set these absurdly high standards, while we leave children to fend for themselves against human drivers that have met non-existent standards on a continual basis.

But then let’s actually leave the autonomous cars on the road to test if they’re actually meeting them.

As you agreed, some statistic they figure out in a sterile or simulation environment doesn’t actually matter. Let’s put them back on the road..
Patents and copyright are intended to encourage publishing of information (and profitability of individuals so they can establish themselves with economic mobility and unlock more potential investments for the world) rather than keeping it as trade secret. That doesn't mean they always do their job, but neither will there always be people running a company or a nation who can maintain such sharing in the face of competitive pressures during different times.
Its good app! I think its encouraging.

Its... Off for me though. I ate well, exercised to exertion, and slept like a baby for 7 hours for the last three days, and am not stressed. But I am a wreck today.
If it was cheaper, we'd pay someone to rake and broom the leaves around. But we decided human labour is worth more than that, so hey the free market found a solution for you. Maybe you should add a leaf-blower tax to fix that? Maybe similar to carbon credits we can have noise-credits?
There's no mention of a kill switch. Where are you and the OP coming from?
Article ignore how vaccination affect "long covid". Like most of articles about this topic. Even though we have plenty studies that monitor vaccine side effect injuries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37999349#38006436
That's part of it, but storage for base load is still a more significant issue.
I thought "finally, maybe someone gets it" and did the unspeakable sin at Hacker News and read the article.

Did they talk about efforts by governments to censor the Internet "for the {children,terrorism,morals}? Nope.

Did they talk about efforts by corporations to control access by adding proprietary DRM layers on top of the open protocols, a la Google WEI? Nope.

Nope, as the article states, "It is the conduct of the ISPs that is in question here".

Just like the last round of "net neutrality", I see Tom Wheeler's lips moving, but I only hear FAANG talking points coming out of his mouth.
Tesla's Long, Winding Road to Getting Europe's Approval for FSD (2022)
I have no objection to remove subsidies, why should I be against that?
People like living near other people. For friends, dating, leisure activities, etc.

I work from home but I love that last night my wife and I took a pleasant 15 minute walk through pretty streets to get to a wine bar and hang out.