skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people live in cities where land is very expensive, but rural land is cheap. So, it makes sense to do large-scale solar projects that aren't near cities at ground level, and put solar panels on roofs in cities and towns where the power is being used on-site and land is expensive.

If people are putting installing solar panels at ground level in expensive urban settings, then yeah I think that's pretty weird. (It might be an artifact of land use planning rules in some towns where people put solar panels in places where they aren't allowed to put buildings or parking lots, for whatever reason.)
In theory, yes. But in practice it’s not at any rate that most people should worry about. Plus some records are more durable than others.

One could extend the vinyl argument and say there’s no such thing as a storage medium without a failure mode. Cassettes have problems, HDDs can fail, even solid state systems only have a limited life. The best we can do is backup.
I don't know about the details of why size matters, but in terms of producing energy: "When supplied with 300 MW of electrical power, ITER is expected to produce the equivalent of 500 MW of thermal power sustained for up to 1,000 seconds" [1]

That's thermal power, not electricity, so that's not enough yet to break even as a power plant, but it's a big step in the right direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
I think you missed the point of “behavior enabled by design”. Of course I can remove it, as can someone who just stepped into a pile of poo clean their shoes. We’d just prefer that the pile of poo didn’t exist by default.
Ha ha. I was doing that pre-Napster (I think it was 97 or 98). I would duplicate my schoolmates CDs if they provided a second blank disc for myself, so I could keep a copy if I liked it!
Goldwasser–Micali Cryptosystem
For some reason I often think about things like this in terms of NHS budgets.

18bn is, very roughly, 2 years of healthcare for London.
It's a bit of a shame Cantrill jumps from the PDP11/70 to the Sun blob without even a brief mention of DG's finest (and the namesake company of the title of the presentation) such as the Nova and Eclipse ranges of their day. We should all feel cheated by this :) But anyway...

I was once-upon-a-time a Data General field engineer back in the 80's and bumped into The Soul of a New Machine around '87. It's a great read and a nice insight into DG as a company who were still considered a wee bit of a rogue outlier compared to DEC and IBM.

I'm a member of a closed group of ex DG employees on Facebook (was still permitted membership due to being in the broker game back then despite not being an employee), they're a really nice bunch of folks, though growing older by the day.

I had the pleasure and luck to work on older Novas (like the 800, 1200 and 3's) and the Nova 4 and the Eclipse 16-bit range such as the S/130's and all their associated peripherals (Phoenix and Gemini hard disks, Zebra disk drives the size of two washing machines etc). Fun fact - you could upgrade the Nova 4 to an S/140 by "obtaining" the correct microcode PROM's and performing some other minor patching; we did this, it wasn't always considered legal, but every other broker out there also was up to this game. DG didn't seem to mind because by then their mainline product by then were the MV's. DG was a very leaky company with regards to getting hold of "stuff", I don't recall anyone being sued for unlicensed and pirated copies of RDOS or AOS etc. A thing that was an expensive item from DG but almost like a consumable were these things called paddle boards. They're basically passive PCB's that allow interfacing between the inside of the machine to the outside world. We never bought these from DG, they always came from "some guy" and a box of 20 cost less than a bonafide DG part. DG knew this but never complained.

The diagnostic tools were tremendous (DTOS and ADES) which coupled with a portable fiche reader allowed you to diagnose and fix most problems on site. These were good times and I learned a huge amount about problem solving as a young broth-of-a-boy engineer. I still have a copy of "How to Microprogram Your Eclipse Computer" where I learned about microcode and that assembler wasn't really the true bare metal of a CPU :) I have other war stories I should write down some time.
I can think of two reasons that they might think the new version is better:

- The new snippet might be more useful to a majority of the people searching. It shows you the keys on the keyboard, it explains how to input it instead of relying on knowing the shortened notation, and it tells you where the screenshot will go. Since I don't use a mac myself, I feel like I've learned more from the latter than from the former.

- As you can see in the other reply to this comment, the new info box can pull info from any page with a numbered list of instructions. I don't know how the earlier info was extracted, but if you're going to pull out instructions like this for more queries about more complicated tasks, then it's better to be consistent, even if it could be expressed in a single bullet point.

I also find it funny that the source link is far more prominent in the newer rich snippet, even though a lot of people in this thread are saying they've made it harder to find.
By definition this would be hard to test with an overweight population. The reason they're overweight is because their calorie indulgence is not one-off.
Apparently, people didn't really wash themselves during the renaissance era because they thought it spread disease. And they smelled awful.

https://blog.sylvaine-delacourte.com/perfumes-history-renais...
Don't know if you saw this recently: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sunscreen-chemicals-accumulate-... (http://archive.is/nvBBT).

"For the second time in less than a year, a study of common sunscreen ingredients has established that the chemicals are absorbed into the bloodstream at concentrations far greater than the Food and Drug Administration’s safety threshold."
This is what I would have thought, but I've heard from more than one friend who was frustrated by having to choose an instance in the first place. What makes one better or worse than another? What if I choose wrong? What if I need to move?

This isn't difficult, per se, but it's not as easy as signing up for Twitter for the simple dumb reason that you don't need to make that choice. And the concerns about "wrong choices" aren't entirely unfounded; the first Mastodon instance I signed up for was effectively abandoned by its sysadmin. The decentralization still makes it hard to search for new users to follow compared to Twitter (checking right this moment, when I click on someone I follow to see who they follow, it only shows me people they follow on the same instance); depending on the Mastodon client I'm using, it can actually be a little hard to follow someone even when I find them if they're not on the same instance I am. Again, technically none of this is super difficult, but for a user who isn't philosophically committed to the fediverse, tiny little frustrations start to add up quickly.
Somehow I thought OS 8 was the first major release to be PowerPC only. Wikipedia says they cut off 68K in 8.5 though.
My software startup was a huge beneficiary of the SSC cancellation, it freed up a nuclear physicist to write graphics software for us, which became one of our biggest products.

I’m in favor of pursuing basic research, but there is always a cost. When you take a group of your smartest people and focus them on non-economic activities, the economy loses something.
Ask HN: Does your significant other share your passion for tech/rationality?
If not, how has that impacted your life?

Personally, I seem to be forever caught between the two sides of the coin:
1) It's tragic because it feels like we're not on this adventure together
2) It's great because it grounds me and keeps me from burning out

Curious to hear some opinions on that!
Fun fact, in Ancient Rome people used olive oil as soap, and scraped off the excess using a...metal thing. Sometimes they put perfumed olive oil into their bathtubs. This is for richer folk, regular people used crude soaps.

https://hubpages.com/education/The-Many-Uses-of-Olive-Oil-in...
you'll find various games and demos preinstalled, thanks to an old MacWorld Demo CD from 1997. Namely, Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Alley 19 Bowling, Damage Incorporated, and Dungeons & Dragons.

Oh this is not just looks, which would already be nice, but it actually runs stuff.
The main steam media pushed every scary vivid theory they could muster. All scare tactics to shut us down.
This was the first graphical user interface I saw as a kid. Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Questioning my daily routine led to me noticing significant improvements to my hair health. My lightbulb moment happened on a scuba trip (diving 4-5 times a day for week) where I wasn't showering like I usually do, but just rinsing off the salt at the end of the day. My hair was incredibly healthy by the end of the week — no excessive oils, discomfort, dandruff, itchy scalp — just healthy hair. I had suffered on and off with those before.

I started using shampoo only once or twice a week (I do shower daily) and just using hot water the rest of the days. My hair is immensely happier now! I also switched to using a "fancy" shampoo with salt granules in it, since the ocean seems to make my hair nice, and that helped as well. Even though the shampoo is more expensive than the cheap stuff I used before, I use way less of it and it's cheaper overall.

I've tested my theory in a couple ways, and it's all been positive. After a Pre-COVID haircut, I had them use whatever shampoo they use for a wash. My scalp was itchy, dry, and uncomfortable for at least 24 hours after that, and my hair was totally flat for a few days as well. I also tried not using shampoo for a long time (3 weeks) and just using hot water, but I got dandruff again and I could feel I was getting dry skin and oil residue building up on my scalp. I'm back to my normal routine now, and have never been happier.
OP here. I'd love to see something like this exist. Let me know if it does already, or if someone is trying, and I'll link it below.

EDIT: This model is used by Flattr [0]. Unfortunately Flattr isn't targeted at open-source software; an OSS-specific approach (ideally implemented by a highly visible, established player) is (probably) necessary for something like this to reach its potential.

[0] https://flattr.com/
Sorry for folks with eczema, but maybe it's about the soap you're using versus not using soap. I've had the misfortune of working with people who thought showering was optional and it's not pleasant. So unless you want to offend others and be referred to as the stinky co-worker please wash.
i used to have trouble with dry skin, so i stopped using soap beyond shampoo for my hair and lower parts. i haven't had issues since.
What have you tried? Things should "just work" if you install ofono and MMSd. There are more details (urls, which forks are involved) at https://sr.ht/~anteater/mms-stack/

The basic debugging workflow is to run ofono, run MMSd, and try the scripts under the `test` directory in MMSd's source tree. Error messages logged from the script, MMSd, or ofono might be relevant.

MMSd (mms parsing, mostly) and ofono (dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networking) need patching to make MMS work on T-Mobile; other providers might also need debugging or custom patches.
Do you know of any research that shows that we should be soaping our bodies every day? Personally, I'm skeptical of claims that are based in nothing but consensus -- like the well-known "fact" that we need 8 cups of water a day, or that we lose most of our heat through our heads.
I have eczema and only shower every 2-4 days, depending on the season :(
As you've discovered, you can't transcode highly-compressed (meaning, encoded for distribution) digital media without either a quality or file size tradeoff. So, try to avoid that.

If you want to merge related VOB files into one video file, that can be done losslessly with tools like tsMuxer[1].

[1] https://github.com/justdan96/tsMuxer
They attribute it to regular workouts.
The additional information contained in the diacritics is essentially useless to English speakers: they certainly aren't going to get the tones right and the dipthong "ướ" has no equivalent sound in English. Vietnamese speakers themselves frequently elide diacritics as you point out, so you aren't really hurting anyone's comprehension.

Diacritics are pretty rare in English publications for the most part: most drop diacritics even off of the English words that technically should have them: cliché, crêpe, façade, piñata, protégé, résumé, risqué... Even the New Yorker, with its famously persnickety style guide, drops the tone diacritics from Vietnamese dish names: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/27/van-das-tour-o...

Outside of this, I think the point about "nuoc mam" being the standard (complete) romanization still stands: it is common enough that some common English dictionaries have added it (eg https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuoc%20mam and https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nuoc-ma...). This is quite a common occurrence in languages which use the Latin alphabet + additional letters: most speakers of German are used to seeing "ß" become "ss" in English publications. I can see why you interpret this as a disregard for other languages, but people are more likely to try to say these words if they think the word is easily pronounceable. And using the word makes the foods, places, names, etc of other cultures more likely to be shared and become a part of the common parlance; I'd go so far as to say that having an anglicized form of a name means that it is much more likely to become a common thing in the Anglophone world, which breeds greater appreciation of other cultures.
Not not showering, showering without soap
My addition is purely anecdotal, but I've noticed in my family that it's the overweight members who make the most noise about overeating on holiday meals. It seems to me that they're not fat because of overeating during the holidays, they're fat because they overeat all year.
That might be true but bear in mind that Deepl supports 11 languages while Google Translate supports 108.
You did not understand the question.
How so? The yen isn't even close to USD as a reserve currency and yet their central bank has about a 95% asset balance to gdp ratio compared to the US that has about a 33% asset balance to gdp ratio [0, 1].

[0]: https://www.swfinstitute.org/fund-rankings/central-bank

[1]: https://graphics.reuters.com/GLOBAL-CENTRALBANKS/010041ZQ4B7...
Who cares? Are they a non-profit? People who are offended by this have never run a business.
Up ~10% after closing. ~165 P/E, or ~120 Forward P/E.

Relatively little to show for in the Enterprise Market. Considering this quarter even Intel manage to grow 43% YoY in their DataCenter Market Segment, AMD with a much better offering, very low Baseline ( Last year it was still Zen 1 ) only managed to double their EPYC Revenue YoY. AMD claiming they have finally reached 10% of Server Market Shipment.

It is good, but not good enough. Market seems to be buying Intel is dying rather than AMD is doing great.

I just hope they have their Zen 3, RDNA2, CDNA all well planned out.
The article does not say that we should not shower. Water (especially warm water) by itself does a lot. Also, he is not a "doctor"; he is a doctor.
Yup, worthless. It doesn’t account for different metabolisms, age and eating habits sufficiently to be considered worthwhile.
> solar/wind have trouble beating nuclear on metrics like death/watt because you need lots of infrastructure per watt.

Really, this makes me think one thing, jobs. We can take steps to make jobs safer, but if solar/wind get even close to nuclear but employ a lot more people, then that's a huge gain overall.

Reducing personnel costs is a gain for a company's bottom line. Increasing personnel costs is good for society, as it means either more employed or higher wages (assuming it's not higher wages that somehow results in fewer people). Decreasing company/product costs with a new technology that also does so while employing significantly more people is a huge win for everyone (except those that refused to diversify from the old technology).

Edit: whoops s/jobs cheaper/jobs safer/
Yes, I believe in "closed borders, travel bans, visa applications, [and] passports [...]". I don't know what else "etc etc" entails though.

Is it possible that I believe in those things and find Trump repulsive? Look through my comments and tell me if you think I "love Trump". Another swing and miss at ad hominem instead of a legitimate argument.

> We can disagree on this issue, but don't tell me I'm "entitled" for saying that from a moral perspective, the concept of restricting one's international movement based on their nationality is ridiculous, especially if they don't actually live in their home country anymore.

I think it's entitlement to believe you are owed access to another person's homeland for no reason other than the fact that you're a person. By what right are you entitled to live in and enjoy the benefits of a country and society that someone else has built?

In my opinion you have no natural right to this whatsoever.

>[...] we can get rid of this border/via/passport nonsense.

Thankfully this will never happen. You can bet the farm on it.
Corporations aren't people. I can't get married to Google. If you can point to specific precedence of corporations being given access to certain data on grounds of their personhood then your argument makes sense but just because corporations are considered like people in the context of speech doesn't mean that applies literally everywhere else.
I can't begin to imagine how much MORE complicated reproducing a regex long-hand might be. They were invented to solve real problems.
> Just to acknowledge the fact that every single thing that is taken for granted today (by goodthinkers) was a heresy at some point in the past.

I should have responded to this when I saw it, but this is obviously not true
Sounds like a pretty good idea. You could run it as effectively two separate business, one is a power utility and the other rents storage or workshop space.
Here's a video where an energy professor goes through the finances of gas vs nuclear power (very slowly) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

In short, it takes a very long time for a nuclear power plant to become profitable. Investors would rather pick something like gas that starts being profitable earlier, so they have the profits available to reinvest into other enterprises.

I think this, rather than public perception, is why we don't do nuclear power (after all, our society does plenty of other things despite similar levels of outcry).
How does the "sets of strings" model express the difference between:

/x*/

and

/x*?/
You've conflated "not using soap to clean oneself" with "not cleaning oneself".

I have several friends who do shower, but don't use soap except for hands or when they're actually dirty. None of them get funky, except when we're camping and nobody's been able to take a shower for a while.
InnerSource Commons Fall Summit 2020
Q: Does it run my favorite game?

A: Even a Mac Plus runs Glider.
"Everyone" means most in casual conversation.

You maybe had it confused with the universal quantifier ∀ in a math/logic context, but it's not the same :-)
Title: Quadra, not Quandra.
Show HN: I rebuilt a web-based IDE
Alan Kay is a proponent for the notion of pervasive use of objects that work by sending and receiving messages, which leads to things like Smalltalk famously having no "if" statements. The attitude is pretty similar to the one that Lisp folks have. It's possible that Hertzfeld had a different takeaway than what Kay meant, but it's not clear.
>Increasing personnel costs is good for society

This is your brain on capitalism. :p

More seriously: more jobs, more human effort, more accidents and injuries and death, less free time... this is objectively a bad thing. It's only from the lens of the current economic system that it becomes a positive thing, which speaks volumes in itself.
A functioning local economy is a nice perk for the money.

The essence of the problems with both the online surveillance state we've created and the burgeoning meatspace one we're sprinting towards is that people (in America, at least) have effectively ignored the knock-on effects of their purchases for the last, I don't know, 50 years or so. The cost of a functioning downtown is a couple bucks more, the cost of a local economy that's worth a damn is a couple bucks more, the cost of knowing where your products came from and that there's not a dead body or slave labor in their past is a couple bucks more.

I'm not gonna judge someone who says "I can't afford a couple bucks more," but if you're on this site and working in this industry and you're mad that Rite Aid is stalking you, pay a couple bucks more.
One part of it is that it's a research project. The other part is the bureaucracy of international cooperation and the pieces being built all over the world according to a huge centrally managed specification. It's not like SpaceX that starts with a small design and then builds incrementally larger versions to have something to show in the meantime. It's from 0 to finished product.
I have always wanted to see that idea studied. Is it possible? Any further reading?

It certainly violates calories in/calories out. But I’m ok with that. We’re not steam engines.
Garmin Hack and Dependence
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In many ways I preferred PHP4. Can't stand all the pseudo-Java in PHP5+.
It's actually about verified buyers and running scams on Amazon marketplace.
Google Flights' list of booking options is much more reliable and trustworthy than the sketchy OTAs that offer slightly discounted flights and then conveniently disappear with your money if you ever need customer support, or worse, levy bullshit fees to do things that would otherwise be free if you booked through official channels.

If you want to screw yourself over for $20 savings, use another flight search engine. I'm quite happy with Google Flights myself and don't need it ruined.
As I got older the situation with my scalp kept getting worse and worse to the point I was using anti-fungus shampoo and still had fungus. So I just gave up. After an oily month or so everything was great. So I stopped using soap in the shower entirely. So far so good and it has been at least 5 years.
It'd be irresponsible not to be childish with this thing.
I have similar feelings about the James Webb Space Telescope too.
Fusion + AI = no more human labor
I’ve driven my entire career off of anxiety. I recommend you do not quit what you are doing, but instead draw a line between personal and work life.

Your career choice may lend itself to anxiety, but know that the anxiety comes from the self and not the career.

Invest in your own health. Someone here said weight lifting isn’t as effective as other forms of exercise but I disagree.

You get runner’s high from cardio but what is critical is that you spend time doing a physical activity where you focus on your body doing the work.

If you’re lifting, focus on the muscles being used and your breathe. If you’re running, focus on the motion of your legs and your breathe. You get the idea.