skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice analysis. But the premise of the discussion here is that people do the desalination for its own sake, not in order to harvest Uranium.

This [1] article from 2012. It presents a Uranium extraction method from seawater that would put the extraction cost at $300/kg. Nowadays the market price is about $70/kg. However, if method were to be applied to brine instead of regular seawater, maybe the cost would go down. Hard to see it going down by a factor of 5 though.

[1] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph241/ferguson2/
There is also Slab City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
Me too, but I'm loading it on a $3000 computer with 150Mbps/<10ms internet. Generally it's a good idea to only focus on the mobile score. :)
I wouldn't be surprised if what contributed to this message is the same emergent corporatist message that individualism /career progression is what really matters in life. Not that there is some conspiracy, but that media always tends to push whatever narrative requires people to give away the most money (or stay in debt working as wage labor).
I think you overestimate the energy in uranium. 8000GWh per tonne and year would be 28.8 TJ/kg, while the numbers I have seen is more like 0.7 TJ/kg (http://www.plux.co.uk/energy-density-of-uranium/).
I work in that niche and if my experience is anything to go by many companies don't care about IE11 anymore.
Apparently how badly it smells can vary pretty widely. Last I was there it was moderate. I've read accounts online saying everything from it doesn't smell at all to saying it is absolutely terrible.

Neat place though, but not for everyone.
in android you can start a chat just pressing in the + button, and in desktop, just typing the email address in the search bar should show a button to start a chat with that contact
I have to admit I find that quite sad. Rather than accept eating blant foods until your taste buds/brain adjust you should sprinkle powder onto your tongue before every meal to confuse your taste buds? What are the long term effects?

Nothing against the berry/your product (although I find adding $1.30 of powder to each meal crazy) but is that how weak-willed the average person has become?

More personally, why would you need this for Greek yoghurt? Are we talking about actual high-fat-high-protein Greek yoghurt made purely from milk, or is there some 'Greek(-style) yoghurt' that actually tastes horrible? Everyone I know seems to love pure Greek yoghurt, with at most some berries or granola on top.
This is unusually insightful for a LinkedIn post. One question, though: towards the end, it suggests that GPL/AGPL products, which are more defensible against commercial competitors who simply resell the open source project, are "legally murky" and might be rejected by customer legal teams. But does that matter? Can't you just do what Sleepycat did, and offer commercial customers a clean commercial license?
Check it out for yourself first. To me it s a pretty depressing place and f...ing hot in the summer.
I think it is slowly adopted everywhere, and we are facing resistance from the traditional energy industry as they try to protect their current investments.

Profit seeking behavior from the fossil fuel industry is to resist change at all costs. Profit seeking behavior from our politicians here in Australia is to not upset the fossil fuel industry as they are a large source of donations.
Having suffered recently from randomly waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get to sleep again I found 2mg time release melatonin the way to go. If you do wake up it's much much easier to fall back to sleep again.
At one point China had aspirations to turn CNY into a reserve currency, which would almost certainly necessitate releasing their capital controls. But now I think they've gone back to the viewpoint that there's no safe way to do that (even a trickle of dollars from China would be a deluge elsewhere due to sheer numbers) and that being a reserve currency is more trouble than it's worth.

Heck, I'm sure if they could Switzerland and Japan would like to cease being a safe haven currency overnight; the role comes with a lot of things that have lots of downside and no upside domestically.

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The other thing might be an increase in housing supply. Housing supply increases are now firmly out of the realm of wonky think-tank policy with real advocacy happening at a grassroots level. Already Minneapolis has removed exclusive single family zoning. But this would probably take the better part of a decade or two to start showing real progress.
Do you believe this is also true of the situation in Europe?

Seems like lockdowns are getting a real "no true Scotsman" pass, if they don't halt the virus's spread it's because they just weren't sweeping and severe enough.
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Would your experienced well-being have been higher in 2008 with half-million in income? Would your experienced well-being in 2020 be lower if you were making $100K/yr?

I suspect the answer is yes to both, from which I conclude "2020 was worse across the board by important stability measures that you value, but for any given year, $500K in income is better than $100K."
For a good chunk of the year it's oppressively hot and smelly.

There's infrastructure near the sea leftover from the heydays.

Many of the locals don't want increased popularity and all the problems that tends to bring, so don't expect a red carpet.

Edit: oh and there are annoying flies that bite

The High Desert is way nicer, go to Joshua Tree instead.
Lenovo X1 Carbon. Fantastic form factor, reasonable price, durable (mine has seen more kms in my backpack than some of my running gear!). Runs Ubuntu just fine.
Our infrastructure is being built based on past climate data
So people expect these pandemic conditions to just be the norm for so much longer than they are buying/designing houses around it?
It might be super interesting if someone could make a native Android/iOS app for this since mobile web browsers can't do "real" full screen. Would be useful for turning spare tablets into displays and also perhaps for quickly checking color calibrations of photo adjustments on mobile displays.
That would fit really well with their brand and current smartphone business. I wonder what they will do about the issue of people leaving the car dirty.
We’re headline consumers. Nobody read articles, everybody remembers, react, and propagate the headlines they read. It’s a real issue which we will never be able to fix because it is a deep flaw of humanity.

On the other end, IIUC gossiping has got us to incredible places as a specie.
That study was funded by the international employers society.
> Designing scalable systems when you don't need to makes you a bad engineer.

Oh no. He is 100% correct. Also I am a bad engineer.
24yo, $5.5k Full Time Developer job, starting into the SideHustler world.
Commenting here for my future (millionaire) self :3
I would say it's more accurate to call an HTTP request or a JSON object a subset of the set of all strings.

If step out the realm of sets and into programing languages types are very similar to sets. Heck there is type theory which also is very similar to set theory, but has a few difference.
I think it’s good to have such places though where misfits can go.
About six years ago, I built a similar app for an old long-distance (many timezones away) girlfriend and I to send voice messages to eachother. (called 'duovox' - not released to public). It created recordings and other metadata/attachments and simply zipped them up with a password and custom file extension and sent via email.

The app was naturally registered with the custom file extension, so that clicking the email attachment in the Mail app would simply open the app and the message it contained.

Very simple. Very effective. And using an existing and secure (one would hope!) transport: email.
I'm real happy with my Pixelbook Go. It's like having linux with a good windowing system and UX. Linux APP is Debian 10 in a VM+container, haven't really missed being native linux since the switch about a year ago.
This is a great alternative way to have a fun evening with housemates during lockdown. Tried this with a cheap whiskey + lemon, it was dangerously tasty. Congrats Daniel!
People choosing not to replace themselves is a strong indicator that we are failing to thrive.
This is funny. I laughed.
Please no! No one is asking for ownership to be disrupted, we want someone to disrupt terrible cars. Modern cars are terrible, the UX is horrid, the software never gets updated, and the look and feel of a good middle class car is just trash.

I own a model 3 and love it, yes it has some gap problems, yes structurally it might not be as sound as a Toyota but the car is a dream to drive. The experience is so much better than an internal combustion engine that i'll never go back. There's nothing quite like instant torque on the freeway while traveling 80 miles an hour.
If some stories are to be believed then Tesla has sales people that expect Tesla owners to buy a new car after 3-5 years.

I don't think that's possible for the vast majority of people. A car should reliably take me for A to B and not lose 70% of its features just because the manufacturer decided to EOL the online service.
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I've found sauces tend to be more vinegary, at least low fat salad sauces. Salt should also be looked out for too.
I'd suspect there's two different flows towards "non-traditional" listings.

There's the firms with clear market appeal who think they're getting underpriced by a conventional IPO model, but I suspect there's also firms who just want to bust onto the market and sidestep the normal disclosure and research cycle.
They are arguing for the world at large which to me is driven by self referential hate rather than any particulars.
SOLAR POWER IS LIBERAL POWER. ONLY FOSSIL FUELS ARE AMERICAN.

or something.
I agree but I think there's potential for celebrity owned and managed federated instances.

Twitter doesn't really give handlers the tools to manage their celebrity client, otherwise we would have seen things with Trump go very differently.

An owned and managed instance can invest heavily into moderation and image cultivation in ways that Facebook and Twitter will never provide.

The whole thing with Wil Wheaton on mastodon.cloud was a good example of what goes wrong, however.
> IMO Germany is more set up to benefit from future developments than France and the numbers you cite may very well look a lot different in 10 years

Within 10 years, Germany will already have to replace a good half of their renewable capacity so I doubt that assessment will change. That's the next issue which is not often taken into account, those renewables have a very low lifespan.
> We’re heading towards a handful of giant companies that can afford to pay large teams to build and maintain FOSS, and hence own developer mindshare, for their own selfish reasons.

"heading towards"? I'd say we're there.

And it's been a while coming. I wrongly discounted Stallman. Like many, I found the GPL onerous and annoying to deal with as a developer. But we've paid a high price.
Although I have no issue with the gist of what you wrote, I wouldn't classify South Korea as a developing country.
Reasons Apple won't build a car: (1) low margin industry, (2) diverse, well-capitalized, experienced legacy players, (3) fundamentally different business model, (4) limited technical ability to differentiate (that integration doesn't already provide), etc.

Reasons Apple will build a car: (1) it's one of the few industries big enough to move their revenue needle, (2) it's one of the few greenfield physical platforms that their cloud competitors (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft) don't own a major stake in (from this perspective, think of it as XBox-for-Apple).

With the Biden win, the only way I see Apple going into cars in a big way is if it's fully electric, speaks to an environmentalist company ethos, and is a low-volume, high-margin product (e.g. Tesla Roadster) that's effectively subsidized PR & marketing spend and lets them make presentations about it for the next 5+ years.

Which seems like an awful lot of R&D and product polish dollars and hours to spend, and I think would say more about their alternate options (or lack thereof) than how attractive building a car is.
Ask HN: How do you find good documentation writers?
I've been looking to hire a writer to help out with documentation, but I've had a hard time finding someone who has experience writing really good developer-focused documentation. Most tech writers from big companies like Microsoft just aren't able to write clear and concise documentation.

Does anyone know what places I should look for good tech writers? Or any recommendations
I drive a 10 year old vehicle and I feel like it has all the technology I really need or want. I might upgrade to something electric in the future, but I don't feel 'compelled' for any reason.

My vehicle's primary purpose is to get me from Point A to Point B. Anything else that gets crammed in there is just more gravy on my meat and potatoes.

Help me to understand why the "feeling dated" part of a vehicle is important to you? Or rather, what does a car from 2015 lack, that a car from 2020 has, that you find differentiates them enormously?
2014 data from an IPCC meta-analysis here roughly supports this [1]. 800 gCO2-eq/kWh for coal, 490 for gas, 48 for solar, 12 for nuclear, 11 for wind.

To be clear, any non-carbon energy source can decarbonize almost to zero assuming all the lifecycle activities are converted to the non-carbon energy as well. One exception might be hydro with it's potential biogenic methane emissions.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
I lived in a condo for many years. Mostly worked pretty well, except when the one set of neighbors had a...sanitation...problem and we all got a rat infestation. (Ever seen what happens when rats knaw through the sewer drain stack? It's hilarious.) Or when the DJ-in-training moved in and we got to listen to his music until 3am.
Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector
Growing up in Texas "Are you ready to have your son judged based on his suitability for a future career in football?" hit a little too close to home.

My district built the most expensive high school football stadium to one up the town south of us that previously held the title, but we were using half sheets in class because they couldn't afford paper.

However, there's a lot of different school districts and you can surely find what you want. Not sure if growing up in the Bay area would've necessarily been a better experience.
I hear rumors that they might add forward secrecy in the future, it is not impossible to implement that over email
>Do you have a source to cite for your claim that it's not true?

excellent discourse here on hacker news.
Good point, if you put too many in one place it might cause a gravitational collapse & create a new singularity.
I agree with sticking to the M1 macs. I stayed with my older 2015 MPB for now until the new MPBs come out and by then there will be better Apple Silicon support. Instead I bought a used System76 Meerkat, which is an Intel NUC essentially, and I have that small thing sitting in my desk. So, I can ssh into it, or when at home sitting in front of my desk, I can connect it to my monitor and have a Linux machine.
Guess the article was wrong then.
That was a typo, I fixed it, thank you.
We live in a fundamentally capitalist society. Venture capital, entrepreneurship, the startup culture, etc, are all fundamentally profit driven.

Open source is a movement which is ultimately driven by ideology. Even open source advocates need to put food on the table.

While there are business models that can support open source projects, these will always be the exception when humans are involved. There is always an entrepreneur willing to ignore ideologies (and sometimes laws and/or morals) to make a buck.

I believe that there is a need and important place for open source and free software, but the fact is that this needs to be funded by philanthropy and dedication to ideology, at the exception of profit in most (almost every) case.

In this context, I think the article is correct. Depending on a majority of people for good behavior, good will and altuism is naive.
> But we've paid a high price.

What price?
This is why I recommend self-hosting via pleroma if possible. Mastodon is a huge resource hog compared to pleroma, which can run nicely on a raspberry pi.

But yes, the issue gets outsourced to the user, and you have to trust a random individual instead of an entity like twitter.
Never wait for the next best thing. Buy what you need now, you can always resell and get the new model later.
Thanks Dave! I hope ToDesktop is going well :)
I find it amusing that people try creating these concept cars purely based on what already exists and slapping the brand's logo on the front. Like the early Cybertruck mockups[0], without any actual leaks, it's just a shot in the dark.

Note: not trying to dig on this guy's work, creating such a complete concept is good work, but speculating on the design feels pointless.

0: https://emrehusmen.myportfolio.com/tesla-pickup
Basically luck, survivorship bias. See Morgan Housel's Psychology of Money book, and this passage about luck and risk in it:

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-mon...
Nietzsche wrote quite a bit on this - philosophical outlook and physiological heath are very strongly correlated. Of course people can hold philosophical views dispassionately, with no real investment in them, but when you see someone like this, it really is a sick person.

The best thing you can do for it is have some empathy for people that feel so miserable and who therefore remake the world in that image, and then move on. Reading it isn't good for you either - a single miserable person can ruin the day of many happy people.
with 75k you'll have a hard time doing anything else than renting, some saving/investing ... buying a house f.x. will come with a long-term commitment and the stress resulting from owing money. not sure how far you get with 75k in the US. in Germany you won't be able to do much. so, obviously earning more will make life better. somewhere north of 100k one will be able to buy a house with tolerable risk, a car etc. below that - possible but difficult and risky. 75k means either enduring that stress or accepting having to rent forever - which is also a stressful prospect for a couple of reasons.
A world with unswimmable lakes, polluted seas and rivers, etc. is not "livable".
You have a mortgage. If your property is worth more than $0 you should add it to your net worth.

Potentially the same with your credit card debt. For example if you bought 100 guitars worth $1,000 each, you might have $100,000 in debt, but also $100,000 in assets, assuming somebody would pay you what you paid for them.

Of course, if you spent the $100,000 on restaurants and vacations, they are not likely to be worth anything to anybody other than you.

Not judging here. Just demonstrating the power of buying assets.
It's not totally unprecedented, it's the Volcker playbook.

Granted he never hiked above 20% but that was still extremely high.
I explicitly refrained from mentioning the Uyghurs here because inevitably someone mentions the "violent bomb attacks" that they're conducting against the Chinese government.

I mean, I can't imagine why someone would actively attack a government that was rounding them up and systematically jailing them.
AFAIK, Switzerland and Belgium are very different.

Belgium is culturally very divided: the two major cultures (Dutch-speaking and French-speaking) are hardly mixed, especially in recent times, with the exception of Brussels.

From conversations with a Swiss friend, I gather that the cultures in Switzerland are much more mixed in daily life.
How does one define a coordinate system on such a grid? I considered making a game with the same kind of grid (five squares meet at each corner) but I just couldn't figure out how to individually address each cell in a way which allows easily finding which other cell IDs must be neighbors.
I'd really like to see Twitter white-label their app as a managed SaaS on custom domains.

Perhaps that's what Bluesky is intended to be.
Microsoft spent a lot of money and energy in the late 90s and 00s to convince the world - especially business and legal people - that the GPL was a "cancer"

The GPL is one of the cleanest licenses out there. Use the code in your project, give the source of your project to anyone you give the binaries to, job done.
I'm sure Apple could, but not overnight. I'd imagine it would take them at least a year. Which would make for a pretty major disruption.
Havent you basically just described a lease with no down payment and a flexible cancellation policy?
People who are struggling to pay rent. American public policy favors homeowners over renters. Suburbs were popularized with government intervention (toll free highways and government backed mortgages). We could choose to relax overly restrictive zoning and change tax laws to throw city dwellers a bone.
Ok, if we are talking about 'forever', just put it into the subduction zone of the tectonic plates. In a few million years it'll be deep in the mantle, which is far more hazardous to humans than the disposed nuclear waste.
It was public, it went private when Softbank bought it. No reason it can't go public again, though.
>I can promise you the energy industry knows about both CapEx and OpEx and has incredibly in depth models on them for all relevant energy technologies. And on the topic, I can also promise you that they do in fact know about the concept of capacity factor and that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow.

Well, con-men also know that they sell BS, and what exactly is in the snake oil that they sell, but they still push it...
Please add game instructions!
Dude, this is exactly me. Same age. 4.5 hours. Read for a while. 1-2 hours more.

Just this morning, I think I finally diagnosed my central sleep apnea. I was laying there and just as I fell asleep I started awake because I wasn't breathing. My diary has notes about this happening all the way back to last March. This happened to me after my first sleep.

To add to that, I've become hyper-sensitive to caffeine. It causes palpitations (started in late 2019).

I don't snore, but I have been using Breathe Right strips to make sure I have adequate air flow, and so I'm really sure I don't snore. Curiously, I haven't used them for a couple of weeks (long story).

EDIT: if you want to contact me, my info is in my profile
The IMF tracks aggregate statistics for each country https://data.imf.org/?sk=7A51304B-6426-40C0-83DD-CA473CA1FD5...

The World Bank's visualization is a bit nicer:

net inflows: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_...

net outflows: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BM.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?most_...

But if you want to know about investment flow between each pair of countries, then I have no idea whether there's a publicly accessible resource for that.
My guess from most of my 20s and 30s living in big cities- when you live in a tiny apartment almost anything you do from food, entertainment, exercise, transportation is a repeated consumption expense since you don't have space to actually own anything, repair anything, wash anything or buy in bulk. Now that I live in a suburb I give away way less money just to exist.
Is there a reason that the copying process needs to be aware of how bytes are organized? Why can’t you just read the bytes from disk A and write those exact bytes to disk B?
I don't know anything about Citylab (never heard of it) but for StrongTowns this is just a blatant slanderous lie.

https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2015/12/why-conserv...
What are the actual differences between Scheme and Common Lisp?