skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are using ground-source heat pumps for cooling, which are more efficient than air-source heat pumps. The target temperature has simply been set higher than some would prefer.

France using nuclear power is part of the problem. In summer 2022 and 2023, fewer than expected reactors were operational, for a number of reasons. Some of those reasons could repeat if the summer is hot and dry.
I can’t trust any paper with y-axis labels that are all over the place paired next to each other. Figure 1 is a hot mess.
Ideal for whom? I and many others own firearms and would like to continue owning firearms.
> I don't really understand why this would be important.

It is important because not everyone does this:

> [...] and then put commits around it as needed to ensure that it can be merged with by fast-forward to preserve it.

Good quality rebases like those are more likely to happen on patch-based workflows (not necessarily email), compared to PR-based workflows, because there's more focus on the individual commits themselves being meaningful, with straight line history being mostly a nice side-effect. With "more likely" I mean literally that, more likely; I'm not saying it only happens there.

In PR-based workflows on the other hand, people tend to care only about HEAD. PR color is green? LGTM ship it :rocketemoji:. Most just read blog post by git shaman saying straight line pretty and then go to GitHub and enable the setting for that without thinking more than that; or learn that you can reorder commits to tell pretty story and do it without thinking more than that.

Though it's also true that some repository owners only care about the tagged commits; all untagged commits could be broken and they don't care because "it's supposed to be in progress" and "as long as the most recent commit works, it's fine". They've never needed to checkout any specific commit on any repository (understandable if they never contribute to others' repositories).

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Also, you probably noticed already because of your edit, but re:

> If I'm not the one committing, why should I care about what intermediate states that the person who committed them don't even care about enough to preserve?

With "intermediate states" I don't mean what other people committed; I mean all your own commits that you just rebased (all your own commits whose hash changed) that are not the most recent one.

You are in the minority that fixes those; most people I've met would be like:

* All commits are tested and work fine.

* Create PR.

* See CI fails because branch is outdated.

* Rebase PR onto most recent commit of main branch.

* See CI fails because, idk, let's say it's something easy to fix like a more strict linter config.

* Make a new commit that fixes the linter errors.

* CI passes.

* Everyone LGTM's the PR and it gets fast-forwarded.

* The PR had `n` commits, but now `n-1` of those fail the linter because they contain the new config for the linter, but the committer never bothered to look at those commits, they only cared about HEAD. Those `n-1` commits "contain trees that the committer never saw at any point at all" (copy-pasting that quote from my message). And it doesn't matter that those commits are broken because for those people having pretty straight line is way more important than a working commit.

The recent FreeBSD/Netflix thingy[1] had a successful bisect only because when people rebase stuff in there, they don't YOLO those `n-1` rebased commits. If that had been any of my previous workplaces, or anyone who only rebase because "straight line pretty" without thinking anything more than that, then that whole bisect could have gone way worse.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630699
As you said the benefit of combustion fuels is the energy density. Air isn’t dense. 4% of not much is… not much.

So how much air do you have to move to put a day worth of propane into a car?

It just doesn’t seem feasible to me at a home but I’m not a chemist or physicist. At industrial scale it works but involves a lot of fans and energy.
If anyone else is as lost as I was, here’s a primer[1]:

Cognate is a project aiming to create a human readable programming language with as little syntax as possible. Where natural language programming usually uses many complex syntax rules, instead Cognate takes them away. What it adds is simple, a way to embed comments into statements.

…Cognate ignores words starting with lowercase letters, allowing them to be used to describe functionality and enhance readability. This makes Cognate codebases intuitive and maintainable.

Cognate is a stack-oriented programming language similar to Forth or Factor, except expressions are evaluated right to left. This gives the expressiveness of concatenative programming as well as the readability of prefix notation. Expressions can be delimited at arbitrary points, allowing them to read as sentences would in English.

Cognate borrows from other concatenative languages, but also adds unique features of its own.

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1. https://cognate-lang.github.io/
I'm worried that if you use this, Facebook will permaban you for something like "using modified or unauthorized clients to interact with Facebook services".
Don’t worry, we’ll find something similar to BS on.
There is still a lot of research and innovation, but it doesn't always come in the way of completely new software projects. The cost of trying to build a new OS is simply massive. You need to be compatible with existing useful software if you want to do anything other than an appliance. Anything that provides a new paradigm shift that requires changing existing software has a huge slog ahead of it to make it successful. That said, there is tons of incremental progress in the operating systems.

I think a lot of folks have thought about the idea of a truly distributed operating system. I'm pretty sure existing operating systems will eventually evolve in that direction. You already see bits and pieces of it popping up.
Haven't had any issues with authn/authx in phx land. What are you trying to do?
Is a 62% increase in youth suicide since smartphones became ubiquitous just typical teen angst?
I wish you could self-host your own sync server.

There are sources and a docker image available to do this, but the missing piece seems to be that it requires a mozilla account server.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...
The sudo binary is suid root / privileged and is exposed directly to the untrusted user. If anything goes wrong inside of sudo (with the user's entire environment as the surface area), it may be exploited.

The ssh approach does not expose a suid binary. Instead it uses the ssh network layer so it is no less secure than accessing ssh over a network, which is considered pretty secure.
One idea for high heat industrial requirements is to move those factory locations to places with geothermal power (like Iceland).

We won't see discussions on that until we're serious about cutting fossil fuels.
I think it's not an extraordinarily rare word in the US, but it does feel to me more at home in a blog post or business strategy-ish document than a PubMed abstract. People are making a big deal of it just because the signal is so strong (25x more common now than in 2022).
> This is outside the optimal sleeping temperature FYI as a normal human being going to work. This really surprised me actually, but some say it should be as low as 18C.

I'm definitely with you on that these athletes should do whatever they think is best for them for the few days that they're in the olympic village, but generally cooling down the entire world's bedrooms to 18C would be pretty catastrophic, at least using today's technology. One day, hopefully!
The Google One VPN was never meant to compete with the likes of Mullvad or PIA. It was more along the line of Cloudflare’s Warp or Apple’s Private Relay.
You have no idea what a very simple object or shape, like a Christian cross or a McDonald's logo, looks like without having one in your sight?
Can’t wait to be able to hail a Waymo from SFO. They are truly a marvel of modern technology.
The spike is global.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=delving&...
Dreaming of unlimited home computer storage capacity
It's also possible that humans are starting to sound more like LLMs too, due to reading (wittingly or otherwise) more LLM output.
I'm not at all across the Nuclear Energy political discourse, though I understand it's a uh... hot topic here. The article you linked is about what I would expect from both sides.

Theoretically I'm not against nuclear power. It's miles better than coal and oil, and Reactor design and safety has come a long way. France is a great example of a country who has made it work.

However. It kind of seems unnecessary at this point. Solar and wind are cheaper, and already have industries in hockey-stick growth - including Lithium which Australia is also getting better at (locally and with Australian-owned companies abroad). Australia's key strength has always[1] been digging stuff out of the ground, and we still get to do that in a renewable future.

Solar and wind also don't have black swan risks like nuclear - regardless of how much safer its become - and they're distributed, with fault tolerance / buffers built in by batteries. I assume the Libs' nuclear plan does not include building a ton of batteries to address those issues.

I feel like we've just leapfrogged Nuclear as a useful solution, similar to the way many developing countries will be able to leapfrog entire industrial revolutions once clean energy is ubiquitous.

Investing in nucalear at this point would literally be going backwards.

[1] "Dale dug a hole"
Mozilla's Original Sin
I keep thinking about how ChatGPT was a name that clearly wasn't given much thought, but it's one of the most popular brands in recent history.
FWIW, California’s ban on PFAS (in textiles and cosmetics) starts January 1, 2025.

https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2022/10/california-bans-pfa...
Also, prefab units are not a new thing. They're common in Japan and I remember my dad mentioning the low-rise apartment he bought in the early 90s (not in Japan) being prefabbed by a Japanese company
> is something like 68 x 68

I got to 4624 in 8 seconds on that now, and I haven't done significant amounts of mental math in over a decade. The 60x8 etc took a couple of seconds each but other than that it just happens automatically. A decade ago each of those would take a fraction of a second and it takes about the same time to calculate as to write it, I tend to calculate the numbers left to right instead of right to left as you are taught since you write it left to right, also more useful when calculating approximations since I just do what I normally do but stop earlier.

> Not in a doubting way, I just have no idea how I could do it in 2 seconds

Words are just slow. I never did math with words, so arithmetics is fast, and so is all the other things you learn in a math degree. I think word based processing in math is a big reason people have such a tough time with it, it really makes it much harder to think, like you are bogged down in a fog instead of up and free and agile with clear sight of everything.

Maybe it was easier for people to get past this stage when calculators were less prevalent. Calculators lets people get away with keeping their arduous word based math instead of just internalizing the concepts.

> What if you were to have to do something more difficult e.g. 3 digits multiplication or 4?

When on tests I write down some intermediate values. I am not a human calculator, I am just fast at math reasoning and being relatively fast at arithmetic's comes for free from that.

I did some physics tests without a calculator, you can approximate all those special functions using regular math logic you learn in high school. I did still ace the test, it isn't that hard once you have internalized it all.
Right, but it wasn't the feature Google was offering. They were offering privacy.
While it would never be published, I imagine if they broke it down by author surname you’d see most of this is non English speakers using a juiced up grammar check.

I see no evidence actual findings are changing.

Lots of people have good science to contribute and suck at writing English. Making findings easier to digest isn’t bad per se.
Integrated circuits, basically. The term if "grid forming inverter" and the standards are somewhat new. I'm not an expert, but here is one standard, I don't know if it has been adopted or if others are preferred:

https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2023-09/Specs%20f...
all the sun displays were built by Sony afaik, so you're probably not far off.
What frustrates me about things like that, there seem to be no proper tests for that. Shouldn't there be an easy test for Aphantasia, for example, that doesn't ask me things like "do you have a mind's eye" (what does that even mean?). Such a test should not ask the test subjects to self-diagnose themselves, but it should objectively test abilities and put them on a scale. Anything else really is not that helpful.
I'm skeptical of the approach in the linked article, but:

> I honestly don’t even know how dangerous that is because I’ve always been told to never allow it.

You've fallen for the FUD. In reality, logging in directly as root over remote SSH is strictly more secure than logging in as user over remote SSH and then using `sudo`.

If user@home uses ssh to root@server, then root@server is only compromised if user@home is compromised.

If user@home uses ssh to user@server then sudo to root@server, then root@server is compromised if either user@home or user@server is compromised. In particular, it is fairly common for user@server to be running some other software such as daemons or cronjobs. Please don't give out free root escalation (and often lateral movement due to password reuse) to anyone who manages to infect through those!

(This of course does not apply if sudo is used in whitelisted-commands-only mode and does not take either passwords or credentials fully accessible from the remote host)
So rebase then force push a', wait for CI, push b', wait for CI, push c'? Personally I just squash on merge.
> SpaceX's goal is landing people on Mars, which has never been done

Cheap, frequent flights on reüsable rockets would seem to be space’s commercial fusion power threshold. Colonising Mars is like fusion SMRs at a fraction of solar’s cost.
Whoever left this, thanks!

storms don't last forever. brighter skies are just around the corner for you
To enable this "feature" I believe you have to specify fast math while linking the .so, it is not enough to do it when compiling.

It had also been fixed recent GCC versions.
Two astronauts wait to come home as Boeing races to understand spacecraft issues
They are either tarnishing their reputation or gaining reputation points.
No, I translate that to the same concept in my head and then I do it.

Edit: Thinking more about it, in my head the numbers are numbers, but the operators are invisible, not sure what to call it but I don't think of the multiplication operator as anything tangible, I just know it is a multiplication of the two numbers.
Russia is a North Korean 'proxy'. With South Korea considering lethal aid, Ukraine may soon be a 'proxy' of South Korea.

In the end, Russia made their own decision to invade, and the Ukrainians' own decision to resist.
> If you copy and pasted the original from someone else, that doesn’t matter in this situation no? You still ‘reposted’ it as your own. [...] Any timestamps would be provided by the forum the posts are in.

Oh, you're assuming all of this in the context of an authenticated/tamper-proof communications platform with trustworthy timestamping?

Sure, then your scheme works, but it'd be little more than cargo culting: You don't need any signature scheme at all if you trust the messaging platform :) And vice versa, if you don't, you can't trust it to not tamper with the original "key establishment" message either.
Good. These companies need to pay to clean up the mess they've made. So far they're not paying anything close to what it will cost to clean up PFAS contamination globally.

It's not acceptable for them to externalize the cost of the clean up on to everyone else.
You might want to read OpenAI charter. [0] It might be not very close to reality currently, but building this replacement and becoming the gatekeeper is literally their declared goal and purpose of existence. And this is what you probably should see as the main "AI threat" (not from the tech itself but from the people controlling it), because if it's possible at all, it might come to reality way earlier than the nonsense rogue AGI fantasy used as a red herring to distract everybody.

[0] https://openai.com/charter/
I was wondering how a drug could help with the mechanical process of the airway collapsing.

(honestly, I could more easily imagine an exercise pill)
You should match them at +/- 30% or so character count so paragraphs pair with paragraphs and things like test pairs with test
A 50KW battery is <$10,000.

Sounds like he is allowed to sell excess back to the grid and payback period would be <20 years. They are warranted for longer. If financing is available it is basically free. ;)

Big if that but more realistically the real kicker here is that all of that is about x3 larger than what most households need.

I get that not everybody has $10k laying around to plop down on panels/batteries all in one go but if you do you can get off the grid now.
Diffusion Limited Aggregation (1991)
I don't think that's the same thing, but what expenses are you thinking of specifically? The German grid for example got much more reliable with additional solar.
You can't think of what a STOP sign looks like? Or your country's flag?
These are great points, if you already have Ruby in your stack.

For me, when Bash ain't enough I upgrade to the Project language (PHP, Python, JS, etc). For compiled project I reach for LSB language (Perl, Python) before introducing a new dependency.
I think the problem is largely determining “dustiness” of a given space, and cleaning it appropriately. Humans are good at arbitrary judgements like “this is dusty”.

It suffers the same kinds of problems as robotic pooper-scoopers, and even self-driving cars.

Would you solve with compressed air or a motorized feather duster?
Honestly, a light fluff piece without any real insights or actual content.

SpaceX doesn’t value their software engineers enough. They are paid lower than top-market salaries and then put through the grinder. This is well known in the industry. Most people leave at the 5 year mark when the vesting cliff is over, if they aren’t stack-ranked out before that. Lovely work environment.

Also, when you see the mission control room in Hawthorne, during a live webcast, there are several rows of engineers overseeing the mission and only 2-3 of those are for software.

Software is for sure an important part of the picture but the bytes don’t put themselves into orbit.

Also, I resent the “nerd” name-calling.
Ironically, the actual Lincoln Town Car has been out of production for years.
So much of the answer, for better or worse, depends on company culture, personalities, leadership, etc. But...

To the extent possible, prioritize complete vertical slices. While it may not be feasible for foundational or generic technology layers that must be fully developed before building on them, aim to avoid focusing on large horizontal layers that delay end-to-end functionality or demonstrable results within the new system.

Again, depending on many factors, you might consider the strangler fig pattern, in which you implement some component of the new system and operate alongside the original one, route some usage from the old to the new (or even run in shadow), test and validate, repeat incrementally, and so on.

In my mind, what it comes down to is just being really vigilant in ensuring you minimize the risk inherent in a massive migration...which basically means try to achieve the ultimate migration with a series of much smaller, iterative migrations that carry significantly less risk.
When it comes to the UK DPA they will only even consider your complaint if you have evidence of trying to resolve the issue with the offending company directly, so it will not have the desired outcome because most companies will opt you out, removing your grounds to complain to the ICO in the first place.

Source: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-protection-complain...

> You'll need: a copy of the complaint you have made to the organisation about how they have used your information
What does LSB stand for?
In the context of the original article in which this whole discussion takes place, I assume we are talking about verbal, natural language. Specifying every little detail would make my comments sound like legalese.

To my understanding, this is not a type of natural language the paper discusses:

N10 G21 ; Set units to millimeters
N20 G17 ; Select XY plane
N30 G90 ; Absolute positioning
N40 G00 Z5.0 ; Raise Z axis to 5.0 mm
When you say you think in words, does that mean like you see printed words like a page of text? Or just audible words?
You might want to copy-paste the URL for this one, or find another way to not send a referer HTTP header.
That's because it's easy to get started with one of the hundreds of services available in the cloud and before you know it your cloud project is using 50 of them that depend on each other.
Whoever wrote this:

> One day I forgot to put the toilet seat up in the bathroom and the janitor got pissed and yelled at me. I have severe anxiety and ever since that moment I've had almost daily panic attacks and my anxiety has been through the roof. Sorry for the trauma dump but it's something I've kept inside for a bit.

I’m sorry for you dude, that really sucks.
This seems strange… this is an old partner, who had a job long enough to know that the only way to hit a quota to was to use ChatGPT, which came out less than two years ago?

It seems strange that something that experimental became essential that quickly.
I expect this, much like racial bias in many AI applications (e.g. facial recognition), is considered a feature by the companies using ChatGPT to screen resumes - it gives enough plausible deniability to dodge a lawsuit.

Anyone want to bet it discriminates on gender too?
We did so because it would have been even more confusing if one day we just switched the meaning. Electricity had been studied for a hundred years by the time we understood electrons as the charge carrier. In the mean time, many formulas were derived and books were written. To flip the meaning of everything would result in mass confusion about which way we were defining current flow. To disambiguate, we would want some unique name to describe one system versus the other. And so we did: we understand a distinction between conventional current flow and electron flow.
I’m still baffled by the assertion that right-to-left evaluation of novel arithmetic syntax “enhance[s] readability”.
Enveda raises $55M to combine ancient remedies with AI for drug discovery
I think this is just a convenient excuse, there were plenty of sedentary office workers in the 50s and 60s, and they weren't obese at nearly the same rates. It seems pretty clear from where I'm sitting that it's something dietary or environmental.
Linux Standard Base. Already on the system.
Ruby is fantastic for the main project language, too! And is also standard on many Linux distros.
Bring the risk forward .. if there is an easy to identify " most risky/gnarly " part.. aim to get a proof of concept of that done first.