skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These were not fabricated events in Portland. In fact the mayor restricted what the police could do and how far things had to escalate before the police could do anything. Lasers, fireworks, fires, bricks...not much was off limits to the rioters every single night for months. You can claim the group was stationary and peaceful...but there were agitators mixed in and causing problems. There are tons of videos showing the violent tactics being used by rioters...but usually the only ones to make the MSM are when the police responded. Antifa...yes they exist...were well organized and restricted journalists from documenting everything unless they wanted them to. Even the local news reporters were harassed and assaulted by them.
> But is that maintenance lower than the existing maintenance burden?

While I haven't looked up the data yet, it seems plausible to assume that maintenance on photovoltaic electric generation is not only lower but significantly lower than thermal generation.

For example, having no moving parts in the generation process must be a large maintenance savings, though of course there must be unique costs associated with photovoltaics - cleaning, perhaps?

> Even then, this is still a wildly conservative estimate in terms of price.

I just did some quick calculations to check this statement and found it basically true - I estimate the cost of 100% PV solar generation at around $180tn 2019 USD for 30 years of capacity.

For reference, I used these figures:

173,340 TWh energy consumption in 2019 [1] * $35/MWh for utility-scale PV solar[2] * 1,000,000 MWh/TWh = $6.1t yearly energy cost for 100% PV energy production, or $182t over a 30-year lifetime.

This, of course, does not take into account the increase of energy consumption over that period which would raise costs, nor the economies of scale of this level of PV deployment which would surely lower costs, but as a BotE calculation it sounds about right and corresponds with your earlier estimate of $210tn for the same investment. Note also that the $35/MWh figure includes all operating expenses and amortized capital costs i.e. it takes all costs into account already.

However, as you imply with your first question regarding maintenance burden, the correct comparison is not "how much would it cost" but rather "how much would it cost relative to projected costs of energy" - and again per [2], utility PV solar is already cheaper than new utility thermal power generation. There is of course plenty of nuance when it comes to energy consumption - you point out, for example, that aviation will be a difficult sector to "electrify," a true enough statement in and of itself. However, it's pointed out in [3] that jet fuel represents 12% of transportation energy consumption and that transportation overall represents 25% of global energy consumption, implying that aviation only represents about 3% of global energy consumption.

Based on this, I speculate that aviation fuels can be produced in a 100% solar PV energy regime without increasing - and likely lowering - energy production costs above the current regime.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption
[2] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2019
[3] https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/transport-uses-25...
Statistics is a science as well. Unfortunately it’s overloaded in business terms and can mean anything from “knows means and regressions” to “has a copy of _Meyn and Tweedie_ on their shelf”.
If you google "court declares oklahoma belongs to native americans" you'll get dozens of articles about it from 6mo ago.
FAQ is not the license, it's their rosy interpretation.
Pretty much all helicopter flight paths going through LA follow freeways to navigate, that doesn't suggest anything.
What drawing apps are you using? Any success with those? I've tried drawabox.com in the past, and try coming back to it every year or two for a stint. It's definitely helped me improve my drawing, but it's hard for me to stay focused with it...
Which means AWS is going to fork their own version of ES and not push their fixes upstream.
Actually as Joe Rogan is quick to point out, if you're confused about your feelings for a woman, or you're feeling tempted by someone who's not your partner. Rub one out and you'll be surprised at the clarity it brings.
I've heard wonders of Lisp OSes, but haven't tried one.
I don't think this is correct. It definitely seems like code that would otherwise be proprietary does end up being open sourced in the case of the Linux kernel with certain drivers.
that's clearly true, of course. I don't want to defend Bill or Microsoft (not that he needs me to). I simply see it as a way to explain his behaviour.
Telegram and Signal are the next target
There are few truer hacks than recipe substitutions. You have to know the mechanics of what you are doing and how things react with each other to do it right.

Cooking in general is a tinkerers dream in that regard.
It looks like it's more complex than just testosterone, but there is a link between testosterone and risk-aversion: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X1...

There's a biological basis for men being less risk-averse than women. If you think about cavemen days, as a woman, if you are pregnant, or could be pregnant, going hunting, making physical threats, or taking unnecessary risks will reduce your chances of reproductive success. It's better to be safe and conservative, because the life of your children could be at stake.

As a male, in primitive times, it was the opposite. Obviously it wouldn't be to your advantage to just pick fights with everyone, but there is much more of a competitive dynamic. The men who go out, hunt, and bring the food, will have more success within their tribes. In order to succeed as a caveman, you had to leave the camp in a hunting party and risk getting killed.

AFAIK, based on studies on mitochondrial DNA, we have 2-3x female ancestors as males. Meaning most males died childless. This is obviously not a model for how we want modern society to be, but I think it's healthy to understand where we come form, and why males may have more of a tendency for violence, or to get themselves killed in motorcycle accidents. It's not just because of socialization. There is a biological basis.
Facebook iOS app has a 2.7 average rating on the App Store
Economics, I guess. I wonder how much it costs to ship a pigeon safely from Australia to Alabama. It's probably a few thousand dollarydoos.
If it's not happening in Europe then both of your points are destroyed, just a thought. Very comfortable place to be, most of Europe.
Withnail and I: The ultimate cult film?
'It always irks me when passion projects or pre-MVP "startups" are hemorrhaging money (even if it's just 10 bucks a month)'
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. Jumping into the nearest lava pit immediately upon some provocation is, to quote my son when he was two, "what we not do".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks, that makes much more sense!
Trying really hard to scale a newsletter/resource/community site in the startup space with a former colleague of mine. Some of you may have seen it around here already: https://boringstartupstuff.com.
Bitcoin miners have no role here. Anyone can sign up to be a Stack-miner by bringing in their own BTC into this network. That amount (in BTC) is distributed to those who have staked their Stack-tokens. A pRNG process (based on VDF or VRF) selects one of these miners at random to create the next block

Source: https://blog.blockstack.org/realizing-web-3-proof-of-transfe...

Edit: typo
I don't know.

Receiver could delete picture ASAP, and discourage behavior. If they keep, spread, or encourage they're complicit. Of course, there's a difference in severity between 1 nude of 1 person, or a myriad, or being an adult with a myriad.

Sender getting prosecuted for spreading their own nude as minor might be weird, but also makes sense. Its not as if they'd be a registered sex offender as a minor.

Put this way: what if it was an illegal firearm? We can't just turn a blind eye to youth breaking law, but we can't treat them like adults either. There's a solid middle ground: hold parents accountable till teenager, then both, and at age 16 the teenager but not with fully implemented adult law. Interestingly, that's approx how countries deal with it, or variants of that at least.

TL;DR if properly nuanced, we can deal with issues like these, though we may disagree on these nuances, I'm quite sure we'll agree on the outliers.
Even if I agree, you're citing this as a measure of general/overall health, so testosterone levels are not specifically implicated.

High testosterone levels in men are linked to much higher heart problems, a major cause of early death.
Changing time is less expensive than billions of schedules. Noon at solar noon is already broken for so many people, I'm not sure it matters if its off a little more. I do find both equally arbitrary though.
Yes, I discover nhost a couple of months ago when the founder replied on a post I made in IndieHackers. I was not aware of both before.

My goal with StaticBackend is to go more in dept in features like sending emails, Stripe payments. Features that a SaaS / web app typically need in the backend.

I'll not stop at Database and WebSocket. I'd like to go further based on demand. I'm building more a backend teamate for frontend developers.

I recognize that my choice of using a Document database instead of an RDBMS can be argued. But one as to make choices.

Thanks for your comment.
Thanks for sharing. It sounds like the claim is dubious then.
apparently the land can't change hands until the study is published. it's just a delaying tactic while they seek a favorable judgement.
CMake made me give up on C++ development. I actually liked C++ as a language, but it was exhausting and deeply uninteresting to write my own build system with a stringly-typed language that almost completely punts on package management (even the approach described in TFA is embarrassing to anyone who has used other mainstream languages) and has first-class support for certain dependencies (IIRC CMake has builtin functions for Qt and gtest and probably others). No doubt that CMake is a moderate improvement over Make, but it's still far, far worse than just about every other mainstream programming language's build tooling.

EDIT: I remember being amazed when Go came out circa 2011 that I could just "go build" a project and it just worked. One had to understand "GOPATH" which was slightly counterintuitive but not too bad, and of course it wasn't reproducible (both of those problems are pretty much addressed nowadays via modules), but I was blown away that I could actually just "go build" or "go test" and focus on my application code instead of my project tooling.
Still tinkering with a static blog generator.
This is the moral razors edge companies have to walk on nowadays.

Do they sell their company out and get rich, or do they stick to their principles and safeguard their users data?

I don't have the right answer. What I do know is when you're facing down a multi-million dollar payout, principles tend to get tossed out the window.
https://permapeople.org

A platform consisting of a plant database, marketplace and (soon) a garden planner and log to research, grow, harvest, trade surplus and share knowledge.

If you are into growing plants for food and other human use and doing this in a regenerative way (for example with Permaculture principles) then you should check it out.

Currently working on a concept for the MVP for the garden planner.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments.

Edit: you've been using HN primarily (exclusively?) for political and ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, regardless of what ideology they're battling for (and regardless of overgeneralizations about "deities"). We have to, because this is the #1 thing that destroys HN for its intended purpose of curious conversation, and because raging hellfires have burning all over this site lately. You've also broken the site guidelines egregiously and repeatedly in other ways, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25694321. That's not cool.

I've therefore banned your account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

No, we don't agree with whoever your political adversaries are. We're merely trying to maintain some semblance of an interesting internet forum, or at least to stave off decline: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
If the educator cannot explain why the knowledge is useful, then he is unfit to teach it.
> Because all of these statements of ethnicity have to be contextualized.

I don't see how it wasn't contexualized? They were responding to the Fourteen Words racist trash.
I haven't written any Tcl/Tk/Expect recently. It is interesting to know they are still being used, thanks for the updates. Expect was also quite useful for testing command-line applications. Even back then, RMS's arguments may or may not have applied to what he was doing, but our department got a lot of use out of Tcl for our sys admin work. We had many new-hires at the time, some without much CS background, and we found they could acquire and become productive in Tcl quickly, which was important in meeting our schedule.
On what is a National Forest but apparently legally Apache land? That's a fair number of hoops to jump through and personally not something I think the US Government should be undertaking for a foreign extractive company like Rio Tinto with such a checkered record and horrendous reputation.
You think this rot is because of Trump? Joe Biden said Mitt Romney, the most liberal milquotoast Republican in existence want to "put y'all back in chains" (referring to black people). Remember Hillary Clinton and the "basket of deplorables"?

This cancer is not unique to Trump's administration - it goes back to Reagan, if not further.
Can you provide a ballpark/average cost of this ? I see that you can start for Free but let's get real. The real thing costs money. I am interested but want an idea of the ballpark cost if you can share.
Interesting. My younger brother stays away from all legumes. Chickpeas have caused reactions for him in the past, although much less severe than a peanut.
https://www.oceanwaves.io

make beats with friends in your web browser
SmartThings Is Down
Somewhat of a reflection of Australia's approach to immigration in general.
Can you give examples of things that it gives a better texture in?
The laptop was given to the FBI first and then someone from the FBI leaked it to Giuliani after the investigation was not moving. Once it became public a senate committee verified the validity of the evidence and the investigation made it to the public.

Edit: I stand corrected. The repair shop owner shared an image of the disk with Giuliani, after first sharing it with the FBI.
I'm working for a browser-based app for electronic musicians to jam together online (not real-time, I think I found a compromise)

Funny how I didn't anticipate that the biggest obstacles to launching it will be my own mind, in the form of imposter syndrome and insecurity. That, and the lockdowns have been a bit rough. Almost there though, and a lot of lessons learned. I assume there's probably some more lessons in actually getting the first users coming up next, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there I guess :)
Great read. Two days I wrote about my own experience learning Elixir to build Xkit[1]. As I wrote there, the language guide is one of the best I've ever seen and is pretty much all you need to get started.

There are drawbacks of course (typing, deployment) but the pros far outweigh the cons for me so far. Here's to the next ten years!

[1] https://xkit.co/post/pivoting-with-elixir-how-i-learned-a-la...
It's not a Twitter problem specifically. It's an internet-wide problem. You can't hold users accountable if you can't even uniquely identify them. There's hardly any point trying to search for bots because they are, effectively, in infinite supply.
You write this as a hypothetical but this exact discussion has played out on torrent sites focused on music.
While I fully support and love the fact that this is on the front page (aquafaba rocks :D), can we just take a minute and muse on how nice it is to see a sensible, clean, old-fashioned web site that gets information to you straightforward and unobtrusively?

I miss the old web.
As I understand it, the bits they carved out of HTC and motorola are what became Pixel. It's not like they stopped producing phones.
What must be communicated to management: It is easy to find other magicians. It is not easy to find another blacksmith. Without the right blacksmith, there can be no magic.

Magicians will be magicians, always hustling (bullshitting), but they will never have the value and job security of the blacksmith. The blacksmith can see the fruits of her own labour, whilst the magician must lie to herself and others in order to claim the blacksmith's value as her own.

If the blacksmith is good enough, she will earn the trust of management and management may consult the blacksmith in the selection of magicians. Management may ask the blacksmith to interview magicians and seek her advice on the final hiring decision.

The blacksmith may not carry the "prestige" of the hustling, bullshitting magician but she can command a high salary and dictate her own working conditions. This is only if management understands her value. What the magician thinks of the blacksmith is irrelevant.

Reliable blacksmiths are hard to find. Magicians are a dime-a-dozen.
Hey, that's a good idea.

I've been doing a lot of cocktails lately (gee, wonder why). And I do enjoy a flip. I don't make them simply because I don't want to deal with leftover egg yolks. But I tend to throw away aquafaba. Next time I have it, I'll try a flip made with it.

Maybe tonight. Thanks.
For what it is worth - I am in my 30s, but not really having a healthy lifestyle. Had test of about 250 (one of the labs I done in search of getting motivation back). Doc put me on trt. In 4 month we dialed it to about 900-1000 stable. Had no noticable improvements in any areas (except morning wood like I am teenager again). Later there were some side effects and I discontinued it. Again, no noticable differences.

For what it is worth, it appears that my body seems to need just that much of test.
Thanks! Yeah this is it. I'm still trying to find the other details about the case
>Of course he uses the most advantageous legal tax strategy available. Almost every US company prevents union organization

>just because he's wealthy it's not his job to fix the US financial system.

In other words, he should be lumped in with all the other billionaires that avoid taxes and aren't doing anything to uphold the social contract.
MeetInOne, a Mac app for Google Meet with lots of additional features (dark mode, picture-in-picture etc): https://apps.apple.com/de/app/meetinone-for-google-meet/id15...

Launched in December and currently at about ~75k downloads
I want to (and do) spend money to lessen our impact on the environment, and I want to do more, but I've met environmentalists who unironically wish that humanity would cease to exist. I am not interested in appeasing them.

I am doubly uninterested in environmental policy that encourages bad options over much-better-but-still-imperfect options.
Digital data is not hard to duplicate. Both can be true.
It doesn't just affect BART within SF, it affects BART all throughout the Bay Area lines. Just my own personal anecdote: for a while I was taking the BART from the Millbrae stop to the Warm Springs Fremont stop (>1 hour ride), and the frequency of aggressive money-askers walking up-and-down between carriages talking to themselves became too much to handle and I returned to driving my gas guzzling car in rush hour traffic.
I’ve been wanting this for YEARS. Can I be a beta tester? :)
This is as good a place as any to ask the following naive question: what is the name for the cooking liquid of pasta? Just recently, I cooked some spaghetti in a very small pot and fished it out using a fork. I forgot the pot in the sink. After 8 hours, the liquid had formed a pancake-like mass at the bottom of the pot. Is it the same as aquafaba, just from a different plant (wheat?). Is there any use to it?
https://pitchy.ninja -- An online vocal and ear trainer using real-time pitch detection.
I very strongly agree. It's always seemed like a quintessential tragedy of the commons to me. Everybody benefits from open source software, no matter what they're doing. Proportionally, very few people/organisations contribute to open source, and I would guess that nobody contributes to every open source project that they consume. I've always seen one of the core aspects of the value of open source being the common utility they provide. The idea that an open source consumer should contribute back value in some way proportional to the value they derive runs counter to that. The moment you start to restrict access to open source software based on some model of deservedness, you start to undermine the principles of common good that a lot of open source values are based on.
> Creating and operating one's own data center is easy-peasy

Building, maintaining and operating data centers is not easy nor cheap. It requires expertise in everything from physical construction to thermal engineering to networking. It requires significant amounts of capital. It takes months to years to complete.

Sure, many organizations have the resources and expertise to do this. But MANY more people just want to put up a web page or crunch some data. Using the cloud allows you to try things faster and with lower risk.

Obviously you can save money in the long run by investing in vertical integration al the way down to the physical data center, but ONLY if you have access to the capital and you have enough demand to keep the utilization up. Oh and you have to have the management capability to handle all those contracts, recruit and manage all the relevant people, etc.
This is both horrifying and tantalizing
I'm glad with all those development into egg-free alternatives. My wife is severely allergic to eggs, and this really opened the door to produce she couldn't never have eaten otherwise.
Thanks yeah, that's definitely the case. I'm trying to find the other details regarding the issue of revoking the public access and developing areas around some public-access lake that was on the land.
Can someone contest this patent on the grounds that it is obvious?
I believe the right approach is for the US to apply for squatter’s rights. The land was not otherwise in use, and the US has been occupying it for years.
Also if you live in a mansion and can afford delivery instead of living in an apartment and getting groceries after work.
Portland doesn't sound like a very nice place.

The push to change how the city responds to violence came after dozens of people vandalized businesses on New Year’s Eve, spray-painting buildings and breaking windows. At least three people were arrested and police declared the event a riot.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/01/mayor-ted-wheele...

Wheeler was five minutes into a dinner at Cafe Nell with a friend when a small crowd began yelling obscenities at him and soon pushed their way into the outdoor tented area where he was seated, according to Jim Middaugh, the mayor’s communications director, who was briefed by the mayor on the incident.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2021/01/mayor-ted-wheele...