skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a huge LFTR stan a couple years ago. Solar/Wind has shut me up about that.

I still think we should research it long-term...

But (HOT TAKE) redirecting any large scale funding to hydrogen, nuclear, geothermal, or hydro in the next ten years is just slowing down progress on global warming when we are, by all accounts, in a VERY critical time for mitigating the worst case.
The restic issue template has a question about this:

> Did restic help you today? Did it make you happy in any way?

https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_T...
It's not clear from the article what the water and energy cost is.
Most writes we do as engineers are rewrites. The only difference is whether we're rewriting a statement, a function, a module or an entire system. You are correct. It is the size of the rewrite that matters.
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"obtained by an authoritarian government that protects people from themselves"

Why fight nature? Government shouldn't protect citizens from themselves. Let it take its course. The stupid people should reduce through natural attrition. It's controversial, but it's the way the natural world works.
That assumes you replace. More likely, for every paper you take out, nothing replaces it.

Edit: that is, you are taking a zero sum approach.
> Moreover, does any Apple server going down mean you can’t use your lights?

As GP mentioned, HomeKit works when your internet is down. It only uses Apple’s servers for out-of-home control.
Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library
Good point. However: You need to account for the environmental impact of the grow lights.
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When I built beatsaver[1] for the modding community of beatsaber, I pretty much started with the data layout first, then the API for it. Ensuring everyone else would have access to the database as a source of truth to be built on. Its still around and has shaped the modding community early on to be as open as it can with API doing their one thing, and their one thing really well.

[1] https://github.com/beatsaver/beatsaver
You made 80k in dividends or appreciation in the value of your stocks? The latter is not usually considered as "income".
I’m sure most of the noise will come from the size/type of the vehicle (air displacement and styling) and tires. Truck tires are not known for being particularly quiet. The larger the tread, the worse the noise...
If you make $80k passively, you are above average and likely border on rich.
Most MLMs have a quasi-religious element to them.
It’s weird but I, as a Hispanic-American, also feel really connected to the old Roman Empire, I hear latin every Sunday at Mass (traditional Latin Mass), a lot of idioms we use every day can be traced back to the Romans, our food is a mix of European and native ingredients, even our law is based in Roman roots. It’s awesome to feel connected to Aztecs, Mayas, Spaniards and Romans.
Self driving cars via driveghost.com: "Ghost has assembled a team of leading experts in formal methods, an approach to software development that makes it possible to build complex software systems that can be proven to run without bugs or errors. Unlike existing systems built on error-prone platforms, Ghost will be the first to bring formal methods to the roadways with the world's only formally verified runtime built for your car, delivering you bug-free driving and unparalleled safety behind the wheel."
https://devjourney.info/
If you haven't seen Bert Hubert's breakdown of the Covid vaccine source code, worth a look: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

Think he describes a reality where we know a lot today and yet still have ways to go in order to do something that intentional to an apple. His presentation on DNA computing in general (linked at bottom) goes into some depth there.

What caught my eye is that a common apple has a DNA size roughly as large and complex as the human genome itself, with a disclaimer that the DNA size doesn't translate to complexity. But meanwhile, we don't even know how many genes a human being has (estimate changed in 20 years from 100k down to ~20k), but a level beneath that complexity we don't even know "how our own cells know where a gene begins" (quoted from his presentation).
Points taken.

CCP indeed has a plan for most significant historical events where the party has proper resources to work on. Those were mostly managed by the propaganda department. This is also reflecting my comments elsewhere about China is far more exotic than just being oppressive and authoritarian.

But for all those manipulation, Japanese denial has been extremely insulting and unnecessary, which I have been saying all the time.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is the only game I play. I agree with another comment that no other RTS has a comparable UI. I would also say that no other game has the scale of SupCom. It's by far the most satisfying game I've ever played.
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I've been looking on and off for a pair of ANC earmuffs for factory work, but reports that some people experience headaches combined with the pretty high price have caused me to keep putting off the purchase.
I like the approach taken by the restic project to inject a little gratitude into issues, their issue template asks:

> Did restic help you today? Did it make you happy in any way?

https://github.com/restic/restic/blob/master/.github/ISSUE_T...
Why you're checking work emails on holidays (and how to stop)
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25538820 . Please submit the actual source URL when one exists.
It’s relatively quiet but still has that distinctive diesel sound. It’s the latest Cummins 6.7 and for something that puts out almost 400hp it’s pretty quiet. I’m fairly sensitive to noise so between that and the ANC I’m pretty happy.
ITAR Regs and digital phone exchange sales to the USSR: European vendors excluded, rolm and IBM secured the contract. 1980 to present day, nothing changed.
You as well as your business partner are so creative at hijacking threads that it is almost cringeworthy :(

Typesense itself might be a great product but but please stop devaluating it in trying to hijack every search related post.
There is a Swedish podcast (Snedtänkt) that has a lovely email address for contacting the show (I've translated from Swedish) - preferablyonlypositiveresponse@[email provider].

Not sure if it actually works, but I think it might prime people into a more positive mindset.

On a similar note I loved that emails from Readmill came from pleasereply@readmill.com as a contrast to the usual user hostile noreply addresses most companies use.
In general, anything heavy related to headphones = bad.

You can get the equivalent of state of the art ANC performance with a pair of passive IEM's that fit properly.

Try using memory foam tips if you have trouble with tips fitting your ear shape.
Anywhere near the rustbelt is going to need their soil thoroughly tested for contamination. But maybe that's not too big a deal when you amortize the cost over the entire life of a farm.
The more I read your comment, the less I understood it.
> i hear this argument constantly, but i've never been able to understand it. you say the universe is big and has existed for a long time, but compared to what? if i say the universe is small and new, how would you counter that? i don't mean to come across as aggressive, but if there's any arrogance on this issue, i'd suspect it lies in thinking we have enough information to come to any meaningful position on the issue.

Basically, the universe is so ludicrously huge and so ludicrously old that it is as close to statistically impossible as one can imagine that human beings are the only things ever to evolve in such circumstances as to be sapient.

Note that the paper you have linked uses the term "detectable civilization", which is significant limitation due to our current level of technology, the age of the universe, and the propagation speed of light. It wasn't that long ago that we couldn't even detect extra-solar planets.

There is of course an argument to be made for us being "alone" in the universe in the sense that sapience is rare enough that pretty much all species, including ourselves, will die out before ever meeting another sapience, but the idea that in all the unimaginable vastness of the universe we are the only ones?
Firstly, the Middle East is a vast place, so there is really no “Middle Eastern analogue”. A regional version, maybe.

Secondly, the Crusades happened a very long time ago. From experience, I have never met or heard of an Arab who thought it was anything but a historical event. So, I highly doubt that anyone in the Middle East thinks of the Crusades as being relatively recent.
Haha that and other connections as well! It's also a song by Rush of an explorer who rides his spaceship into the heart of the black hole to become the god of balance. Balance -> keeping the rocket pointed up :)
Yep, that's what inspired me to make this. A lot of this stuff was directly learned about from the members of his Patreon discord channel.
> Unit costs of goods sold would be interesting

They didn't mention it because it's impractically high right now. As an experiment this is interesting but it's nowhere near cost effective yet.
“Watching the arc of excuses made by citizens of the US has been a black comedy: it started with excuses about how China managed to control Covid, it moved on to different excuses when some other Asian countries managed low death counts, then the excuses changed again once some first world countries got their shit together. The underlying premise was “USA #1” therefore if another country is doing better then let’s pipe up with a irrelevant excuse meme. The pattern is tragically hilarious.”

Seems like what you mean by ‘trying to help’, is to assert that and that the US problems are the result of excuses and an attitude problem.

Do you seriously think that no Americans are interested in how other countries do things? As people have pointed out elsewhere, one of the two major political parties makes a point of citing other countries as models.

You say you are trying to help, but you haven’t offered any helpful suggestions.

You keep saying other countries are better governed, but somehow you haven’t identified a single thing the US could actually do to govern better.

It’s entirely possible that what looks like ‘better government’ isn’t a feature of a system at all, and just the result of a simpler situation of not having had to face particular challenges.

Without actually saying what the US could do better, you really aren’t making a case for anything.

What we do know, is that you keep saying that other countries are better than the US, and that you firmly believe this.

How is this different from the people who believe that the US is better than other counties? Aren’t you just the mirror image of the thing you are criticizing?
Fits the "values dishonest harmony over honest conflict" description.
Yeah they’re also very poor in terms of aerodynamics by necessity. A tonneau cover helps more than you might think!
Renewables won’t make house owners independent of the grid either.

Have a look at Calfifornia where a lot of gas plants have to provide electricity when the sun is down.

It’s sometimes really bizarre how proponents of renewables completely ignore the low capacity factor of their proposed technology or claim that large-capacity storage is a trivial problem to solve.

There is a reason why Germany has the second-highest electricity prices worldwide and why California had rolling blackouts not so long ago.
Yeah sorry, Joe's AVA was definitely an inspiration. I'm actually part of his discord channel and a lot of people there have helped me with this design.
OPV cells are expected to be much lower efficiency than traditional photovoltaics, but make up for it by being even lower in cost by comparison.

To me it's never seemed like "inexpensive" and "indium" belong in the same sentence.

So off the top of my head I would say graphene which is just fancy carbon rather than a rare element like indium.

I would want to try them both in the lab but if you scale up there's probably not enough indium to go around no matter how thin you spread it.
Words You Can't Say In – Or To – The Univ. Of Michigan IT Department
How about Apache Superset?

Also, perhaps you could add a comparison between Datasette and existing tools on your webpage.
Poor to middle class, probably. The rich had kitchens; cooking facilities wouldn’t have been so common in normal-person housing. There would likely have been no significant numbers of tourists.
What's the real ELI5 reason for this though? Why does a drop in the fed rates from 1% to .2% matter much more than a drop from 4% to 2%?
Haven't put an engine into it yet but it's planned for an F15 engine
Try IEM's.
The article is a pain to read: it's a word salad with just a few bits of information. I can see how such articles will be generated by GPT with a prompt like "voyager crossed the heliosphere boundary and found weirdly turbulent space there". I feel like that most journalists are glorified GPT models: they expand a short prompt into a word salad so the news agency could stuff it with ads.

The really interesting question is "what is [solar] magnetism?" Wikipedia gives a thought terminating answer: magnetism is a vector field, as if vector field a real thing that can press back the sea of turbulence like the sun does.
I'm late to the thread but borg or restic or any of the attic/bup/Xbackup lineage will meet your needs. I haven't tried the GUIs but you can schedule it to run with anacron once per day and it'll run when the laptop first turns on. You can sleep 10 minutes before running to give yourself a chance to get connected. Because of how the repositories work, if a backup fails due to list connection the next one will use that partial data so the second backup will have less to transfer. NetworkManager knows the metered state of the wifi and so that can be read in a shell script to decide whether or not to run the backup. You may want to whitelist known good wifi networks instead.

Perhaps someone could take the excellent Deja Dup GUI, which is a front-end for the technically inferior duplicity, and have it shell out to borg instead.
Well I'm not here to talk about my character. I'm only interested in my point. If you want to talk about me, well I can only tell you I'm not interested and neither is anyone else reading this thread. It's sort of against the spirit here on HN.
At the point where you start telling the rocket to go anywhere but upwards I'd assume. As long as it's active stabilization and not active guidance I'm assuming.
How? I was under the impression that RISC-V was deliberately minimalist in the hope of obtaining smaller cores, and I can see how that would allow higher clock frequency, but I would've expected the trade-off to be longer programs. How did it get shorter programs than ARM? What were the cases where a single RISC-V instruction corresponded to multiple ARM instructions?
The people who got visas (however they got them) are not accidental citizens.

And, everyone else should just shut up and not cpmplain that something they didn't ask for is being done to them, regardless of it's cost or damage? Because you think it's valuable? Wow. I can only assume you didn't read the article you are commenting on, or are the last person whos opinion anyone should care about, given how thoroughly you just disregarded anyone else's. And at the same time having the balls to charge "first world problem"... holy cow.
That other site works, your suspicion is probably correct.
In the old days, the rectangles didn't even glow. In fact, they even stained our fingers black sometimes.
It doesn’t really because there is no viable and economic solution for storing large amounts of electricity other than hydro-storage.

There is a reason why California and Germany have so many gas power plants or are building new (17 new plants being built in Germany at the moment).
Yeah and UAV's last longer and it doesn't cost $15 a pop for a 3 second burn time.
> Working from home as a parent is awesome actually ... if there’s another parent or nanny also at home who takes primary responsibility for the kid.

And if there isn’t you can’t work from an office anyway.
If you're able to endanger a comparable number of lives while driving, you're probably a bus driver who will receive more serious punishment for speeding than someone in their Honda Civic
I love these sorts of computing history anecdotes. Stories about the work people do or have done in the past, the companies... the daily slice of life stuff. It’s an oral history of a culture that sincerely hope we don’t lose.
No comments -- !? This is a remarkable project!

The author reverse-engineered the original Turbo Pascal compiler, which was written in assembly, and wrote an equivalent compiler in Turbo Pascal itself! He writes:

"I am a big fan of Pascal. Pascal programming language is easy to write and easy to read. I was impressed by the compilation speed of Borland Pascal and was wondering how it works. On the other hand I was interested in compiler theory so I started studying compiler construction books. At some point I decided to create a compatible compiler – Turbo Pascal compiler written in Turbo Pascal. The goal was to create a compiler that would use the same algorithms and data structures as the original compiler. The compiler would then compile programs with Borland syntax and would generate the same code. ... After some time I managed to create a complete compiler that reveals Turbo Pascal internals and shows all the beauty of the legendary Borland compiler. ...

... The beauty of Pascal programming language is that it is easy to read and needs little comments. All the constant, variables, procedures and functions have meaningful names so the algorithms are easy to read and understand. Of course, this is not the original source code of the compiler since it was not written in Pascal, but the code of a compatible compiler written in Turbo Pascal. You will be able to see the internal functions, data structures, algorithms, tips and tricks used by the compiler. Even if Pascal is not your language of choice you can easily understand the algorithms and approaches used by Borland software engineers in early 1990s."
I know to winterize a camper you fill the water lines with antifreeze. I suppose to be really protected you'd need to go that route.

We live in a townhouse with a garage on the main level, so the water comes in on the main level, but basically all of our plumbing is on the upper levels. I've had several times when dealing with different plumbing issues where I turn off the main water valve, then open all the faucets and let the water drain out through our water heater.

I guess the weakness in that approach would be if there was a bend in the pipe somewhere to not let the water drain fully out, it would still freeze. I guess that's probably why people do the antifreeze method when actually winterizing water lines.
> Tasks and issue management, wiki, kanban board,
> discussions ci/actions to trigger other stuff [...],
> storage of docs, revision control, tagging and
> organization, notebooks (with code too!), static hosting,
> support tickets

All of these features either work only for devs, or are extremely bare-bones.

Would I love it if my entire company could live in Github? Sure! But fully half the company is composed of folks who will never, ever log in to GitHub.

And don't get me started on issues. For personal stuff I'm GH all the way, but for planning a year's worth of development? It just doesn't fly. I'm looking at Linear now because I dislike JIRA's UX, and GitHub/GitLab both are too lightweight for my needs.

As someone who is beginning to live in financial spreadsheets, I'm damn well happy to pay for SaaS that totals less than a FTE dev and also allows my entire company to move faster as a result. Like, not even a question.
A recent(ish) famous example is the discovery of the importance of trace contaminants in the manufacture of FOGBANK [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOGBANK
> You need income just to pay the ever increasing property taxes, the equiptment costs, etc.

The whole concept of retiring is that you've factored those things into your savings. If you can't afford to pay property taxes for the rest of your life you can't retire.
Yeah, I should have clarified: I’m not necessarily for disarming; I think the Canadian laws are fine the way they are, and people who want them and are reasonably fit/trained are welcome to have guns. I just never will and am glad my kids don’t visit friends’ houses where guns are a thing. But my point is that the Canadian laws are basically the reforms that are being asked for in the US and are described by opponents as totalitarian.

Regarding suicide, do you have a source for this claim? Everything I’ve read on this says quite the opposite, for example: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/guns-...
Not to take away from your point, but a lot of "career" reverse-engineers are no more knowledgeable about the details of their tools or the low-level than developers.
Both of your replies have just been you saying that you're right, you haven't added any new information.
I would definitely say that engines do better heads up in general than they do with more players.
That's awesome! As soon as I saw the name I was totally hoping for that :)
> Even if a four people of our 22-member team resume WFO, the rest are screwed. Soon we all need to WFO.

Pre-COVID I was one of 3 remote people on my team, rest worked from the office. This arrangement didn’t cause any obvious problems.
Netflix doesn’t offer the features of mailbrew and more?
Well yeah - What do cats do? Hunt little critters and patrol/defend territory. It is difficult to get suitable environmental enrichment indoors for something that can't read.
The Army’s Official Face Mask to Be Issued to New Soldiers in 2021
The new Croods movie makes a great joke of this. The cavemen come across a slightly more modern group of people and they have windows. One of the cave kids becomes obsessed with watching out the window and even builds a portable window to watch the world through.

Love when they give the parents little pieces of humor like that!
Because this thread always needs someone to say the obvious truth: "Screen time" isn't the most useful concept. Maybe it was in the TV days (though with diverse programming it may not have been), but with phones/tablets/laptops it's as broad a label as "technology company".

Are we talking about chatting with friends? Doing work? Watching a show? Playing a game? Reading the news? A novel? Meeting with people? Organising transport? Finding a place to eat?

There is a diversity of rectangles, and for each rectangle there is a diversity of uses.
Any issue can be made impossible to solve if enough details are highlighted. Deciding what to eat for breakfast is an impossible collection of nutrient requirements, bodily requirements, long and short term tradeoffs, economic problems and social expectations. Yet somehow we mostly manage.

"Oh but it's complicated" is a completely standard line of misdirection that comes up very regularly when people are making repeated bad decisions. Even small children sometimes try it. It is very, very rarely true and particularly in totally synthetic systems like the monetary one. There is always a point of greatest leverage that could be changed and it makes sense to call that the root cause and try changing it.

Now I'm totally open to the idea that I don't know what the point of greatest leverage is in the GFC. I haven't read the regulations and I wasn't in the room when the money was being handed out. But there were billions to trillions of dollars in fake wealth that turned out never to have existed. The fact that the banking industry skated through with the same people largely in charge suggests strongly that no serious attempt was made to figure out who exactly was screwing up.