skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The above was meant to be pro nuclear. Though I see how someone could take it either way.

Point being, saying one energy source is too expensive Vs another is an idiotic argument should one lead to decarbonization.

But sure guys, go ahead and throw trillions on economic bailouts every several years but wring your hands at moderately more expensive energy.
>350 - 375F
want gram, still use freedom units instead of celsius :)
> There are reasons for short variable names

Which are? I suspect the reasons are a combination of the price of paper and ink, the history of teaching using chalkboards. None of those mean we can’t make the canonical version of an equation the expanded representation.

Why do we all know e=mc2 and not energy = mass * lightspeed^2.

The broader the base of people that have to interact with a formula, the less mathy the terminology tends to be. Think of trigonometry. Instead of greek letters the sides of a triangle and the functions get real world names. Sine(angle) = opposite / hypotenuse. Sure when you write that out you use sin ϴ = O/H but that’s just a compressed representation of human-readable variable names.
It took almost 700,000 of the most affordable cars off the market. That plus the reliability of newer cars means they stay with their original owners longer, so there are fewer used cars on the market at prices people can afford. Used car prices are still out of reach for too many people even before factoring in things like insurance and registration.
Open ended selection of music is a killer. Old cars had a limited set of ‘radio buttons’ for a reason.

I load a limited set of music on a USB stick and if I don’t like what’s playing I push a button.

The music and tech industries would rather I stream music than own it, but I say ‘why should I care?’
That last one (the “citation needed”) is solved by stores that have auto-updaters. When a store isn’t used, it’s up to the app developer to provide a notification of an update being available, and many don’t do that.

Linux’s package manages show that quite well. I can update (almost) all my packages with a simple command. On Windows, if Inkscape has a security vulnerability that an update fixes, I'm not informed of this unless I follow the development or use an RSS feed of sorts.
Oh no that’s even worse.
"Normal" (as in most common) means Google Play Store native apps. That's a lot of functionality to shim.
> Funny that until yesterday, I had never even heard the name Idris, and now I find it mentioned in two HN articles within 24 hours.

there's some sort of phenomenon for this, but I can’t recall the name atm.
I literally can't believe Linus mixes up loose and lose multiple times. Come on man!
the world would be better off abandoning the bezos' empire
Note that Cheddar isn't protected, but "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar" is.

My cynical take is that it doesn't have a more general designation because companies couldn't profit from Cheddar the way they do if it had to be produced in Cheddar Gorge.
Won't be surprised if India goes this way as well.
Lower pressure == bigger turbines
About the same. Just nice for stuff to suck in a different way occasionally.
Also, lumber is traded globally. US buyers have been importing more lumber from Europe during COVID than before. I guess that means that the demand has been higher in the US.
Actual units are less important than the mass vs volume distinction.
Out of curiosity, what are your other top 4 books?
> Groceries and toiletries are rarely shipped by sea.

You'd be surprised.
I feel the same exact way.

I wish there was a website or app that solved this issue once and for all.

There's obviously variation with cooking and no humans taste are exactly the same, but they're pretty damn similar enough to narrow the variation considerably.

Instead, you get thousands of blog posts that are inaccurate with 1,200 star ratings here and there, spread across an infinite, desolate web landscape.

It's not right.
Do you have a sense on how bad the increased cost is for reasonable sound isolation (talking/tv not garage band)? Because I have dealt with loud neighbors, and if the problem could be ameliorated for an extra $1/m or something else trivial, I will be enraged that it is not mandated everywhere.
The Aha moment for me came when I was watching Chef Jean-Pierre's video on the topic. His terminology is unfortunate, he uses 'caramelizing' to refer to what we call 'browning', but otherwise he's taught me more about cooking than any other YouTube chef.

There are two steps to caramelizing onions. Cooking, and browning. Cooking, that is, making them soft enough to eat, is what takes the most time. Most of the time when you use onions in a dish, they're browned first, then they finish cooking with the rest of the dish.

But when you make caramelized onions by themselves, if you don't spend the time to cook them properly, they won't have the right texture, even if the flavor is close. Since texture carries flavor, browned onions just don't taste the same as caramelized ones.

So Jean-Pierre separates the process of making caramelized onions into two steps. Cook the onions by leaving them tightly covered in a pot on very low heat, they poach in their own liquid. Leave them at least 45 minutes but since the heat is so low it's almost like sous vide where you can cook them as long as you need.

Finally, you brown them in a skillet to desired color.

Video for the interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o-u7zjlShQ
The answer is that a recipe is a seed idea for a creative process, not a fixed set of steps that you have to follow exactly or ruin the magic.

> What's "high heat" exactly?

A suggestion that you want caramelization and/or browning

> What is a "pinch" of salt, and how does it differ from a "dash" of it?

Doesn't matter, you should salt to taste anyhow, this is merely a reminder to do so

> When it says "sprinkle some X" how much should you sprinkle?

Smell it or taste a little and guess

> How much oil is in a "drizzle"?

Enough to tell that it's there, not enough to soak it through

> How many grams is a "medium potato"? Or an onion?

Doesn't matter, you'll wind up with a range of vegetable quantities and they all roughly work, just end up in slightly different places.
Fully got it now, thanks.

edit: As I wrote you the above, and explored the subject further, this just dropped into pre-print, which might be of interest, as it seemingly gives a number to the risk difference : https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/vaccines/vaccines-09-00693...

Key conclusion from the abstract : "For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination".
"But.. why?
The author had a C64 as a kid, but never got the hang of understanding proper programming until the x86 era of the 90s. This is his way of mending the hole in is soul. In addition, he hopes that he’ll get filthy rich & famous off this project.

Pricing
Free of charge. How the “rich” part will be achieved is still up for debate."

Seems as valid of a business model as most I see on HN.
F-22/F-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter competition had no requirements spec
I was working on a so called finless cooler around the time this first rose to prominence. The idea was that a toroidal vortex would give better heat transfer than a lot of fins subject to viscous shear.

Our cooler was simply a folded aluminium sheet with a fan placed into a hole in the top. We had a somewhat similar couette type flow under our motor hub directly over the heat source. We had a modest 15% gain over a reference GPU cooler which was almost entirely due to the better thermal conductivity of the aluminium sheet over the cast heat sink in the reference design.

It turned out that all that matters is cost, nothing else.
Which doesnt apply to deodorant, toothpaste, cleaning supplies... or much of anything that Dollar Tree sells. Unless you are throwing it away for some reason other than that it went bad like you had to buy some because you are traveling, in which case, you are not at all the normal customer.
Super interesting, I was thinking about append-only codebases very recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27492727

The implications of this, with the right frameworks and processes, seem potentially huge.
I’ve found that when most managers ask questions, they’re just trying to get a sense of what’s going on. I wouldn’t over analyze it. I would also suggest that honest answers are the best. If you’re having a hard time doing the work, is there something else you could be doing?

As much as it doesn’t feel like it, companies do not want to fire employees. It’s expensive to lose someone who knows the business, and expensive to hire someone.

Or maybe WFH has exposed that the work just isn’t worth doing and indicates it’s time to move on.
Detailed Analysis of the Government’s Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or Frequency illusion

It happens to me when I want to buy a specific car. I see it everywhere.
This terrifies me:

> Near survived that. Many wouldn’t, but Near was strong enough to overcome that level of emotional abuse. But Kiwi Farms is relentless. Not to be defeated in their pursuit of utter emotional and psychological destruction, they went after who Near treasured most: their friends. Doxing some, directly harassing others, and even specifically seeking out suicidal people to target.

> That broke Near.

[...]

> Some of you may be aware of Near’s notoriously paranoid opsec. After getting to know them, it became clear this was a defense mechanism; a product of all the abuse they received over their entire life.

Not that I'm doing anything particularly likely to attract the attention of the worst part of the internet (but then, you'd hope that "writing some emulators and going by 'they'" shouldn't either), but, I've thought about it and decided I can deal with people going after me. To some extent, I can be careful about opsec; to some extent, if someone goes after me, I'm all right with that.

But what if they go after other people in the name of targeting me? What if they go after my friends, or even my family, who has very little say in what I do? What if my parents, who have never had to care about opsec in their lives and like most people's parents own a house and have their real names on it, get SWATted because some monster on an internet forum hates me?

How am I supposed to respond except by deciding, I will not do anything with my life that could attract Kiwi Farms' attention?

This is terrorism, and I am terrified.
If you use the official repos, those packages are (generally) vetted by the maintainers. Unofficial repos (sideloading stores) aren’t.
Ask HN: Daily habits that have improved your life
Have been reading this book about building daily habits and wondering if you guys have developed any habits that have really made a big solid positive impact in your life.

I mean apart from the usual like brushing teeth and shower, Are there any habits which you would suggest cultivating?

P.S. I'm thinking of starting 5 minute meditation and if anyone of you has been doing this would love to hear how long you were able to stick with it, and your thoughts about it from your own experience. Thanks!
Systems software research was dying 21 years ago when Rob gave that talk. (A better URL for the slides is http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html; the version you linked is pretty incomplete.)

Since then systems software research has been quite vital, in significant part due to Rob himself; in no particular order, relevant developments in systems software research since Rob's paper include Golang, MapReduce, HTML5 (including Web Workers, <canvas>, and WebSockets), Sawzall, Hadoop, Rust, wasm, Fuchsia (as you point out), V8, protobufs, Thrift, Docker, Xen, AWS, Azure, ZFS, btrfs, BitTorrent, Kafka, nearly all of Google's "warehouse-scale computing" stuff, memcached, OpenID, QEMU†, kvm, PyPy, SPARK, Julia and almost all the automatic differentiation stuff, Clojure, iOS, Swift, Factor, AMQP, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Jupyter, the mainstream use of AJAX and Comet, QUIC and HTTP/2, Valgrind, LLVM, Kotlin, Bitcoin, Ethereum, OTR and Signal, Android, Dalvik, reproducible builds, seL4, Zig, Pony, CapnProto, Sandstorm.io, Fastly's fast-purging CDN, the Varnish cache it's based on, the fast SSDs that enabled it, TileDB as you mention (and Parquet), time-series databases like InfluxDB in general, Python 3, Racket, major new developments in ECMAScript, JSON, Z3, entity-component systems, general-purpose GPU computing, Intel ME (for better or worse, mostly worse, it's certainly relevant systems software research), OTR and Signal, Tor, Chrome, Firefox, Node.js, npm, LevelDB, record-replay for time-travel debugging, UBsan and Asan, stack canaries, epoll, io_uring, Qubes, Vulkan, CUDA, Wayland, Haskell's STM, XMPP, DTrace, the whole megillah around the shift to manycore, WPA for Wi-Fi, most of the work in making secure protocols resistant to timing and compression attacks, Git, SyncThing, ownCloud, rsync, zsync, GFS, BigTable, Cassandra, MQTT, and on and on and on. Oh yeah, and also eBPF.

Putting your filesystem on a ramdisk is a good idea but it's hardly innovative.

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† https://web.archive.org/web/20030601085257/http://fabrice.be...
What if Atlanta, GA, USA decrees that “Cola” has to be made in Atlanta, and that cheap stuff at Walmart has to be “RC Cola-style”?
Panasonic Nets $3.6B Selling Its Entire Stake in Tesla
And ASCII has the reverse problem: one symbol gets extremely overloaded semantically (syntax wars?!).

Tell me what does ":" mean?

Now if I tell you the language is Typescript, what does "?" mean?

I personally believe semantic overloading causes a lot of problems, but we are so steeped in the existing limitations that we don't recognise it is a problem.
When you pull funds how do you transfer them out? As fiat or Bitcoin or tether or?
Is one vaccine dose enough if you’ve had Covid? What the science says
TikTok is less of a censorship platform than tyrannical California based dictatorships.
That’s not a counterpoint, it introduces 3 additional techniques that reduce the time from 45 minutes to 20. None of these techniques are commonly called for in recipes that claim you can get carmelized onions in 5-10 minutes, nor do they get one to that promised land.

(And as an aside, his techniques do reduce the time required but result in a vastly inferior result imho. Probably fine for onion dip, but I’d never put those in an onion soup, a flatbread, or even on a burger - the texture is all wrong)
"There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than
any other filesystem."-Matthew Ahrens
Show HN: Zen, Content-Focused YouTube
After listening to Lex Friedman describe how he hides view counts and likes from YouTube, I thought it an interesting experiment to try out.

I had noticed that I base the choice video on the number of views and the date released. To my surprise, disabling these features emphasized the content rather than the numbers (duh), which made YouTube more interesting. I naturally turned it into a Firefox extensions after mocking about with Tampermonkey.

I'm curious to know how you guys experience this change to YouTube :D

The source code if interested, which is nothing more than simple css injection -> https://gitlab.com/floppydisken/zen
For anyone on Vim, you can insert lots of special characters by hitting Ctrl+K: =3 is ≡, -> is →, l* is λ, M- is —, etc. You can also run :dig! to see a list of all digraphs, and :help digraph for information on how to define your own.
I remember Dollar General carrying cheap/generic brands growing up, but when I went to one last year it seemed indistinguishable in selection and pricing to a Walmart or similar large chain grocery store.
The whole 737 Max debacle made two things clear.

First, Boeing doesn't prioritize safety anymore. Profit is the driving factor in their decision making. You can read about the issues they have assembling the 787 in South Carolina. It is so bad some airlines are refusing to take delivery unless the plane is validated by the assembly line in Washington.

Second, the FAA was caught being complacent with the 737 Max. It will take some time to fix that, but it is clear they don't want to make the same mistake. Also, the EASA is no longer just rubber stamping approvals following the FAA. Both agencies are combining to improve safety, which is highlighting the management problems at Boeing.
At the forefront?

https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/commits/Co...
"Move purposefully, and have a healthy culture involving thoughtful service architecture, documentation, knowledge-sharing and problem-solving with attentive, well-rested and detail-focused engineers who trust each other."
The Apple-Microsoft Tech War Reignites for a New Era
https://archive.ph/aQqYY
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/lbs
You're not going to have to worry about that.

Once rich people are inconvenienced, the problem will be taken seriously.

Case in point, there was no "opioid crisis" in America until some rich Senator's daughter overdosed on heroin. Then all of a sudden it's a crisis.
>
Wait, what? Are you claiming that mirror symmetry is "secretly" Langlands?

There is a geometric analogue to the Langlands correspondence called "geometric Langlands correspondence":

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Langlands_correspond...

There is a relationship beetween the geometric Langlands correspondence and S-duality

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-duality

a duality that is considered in string theory. Another duality that is considered in string theory is T-duality:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-duality

The latter duality is strongly related to mirror symmetry.
Also good[0].

0:https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/interrobang/
Merely having nuclear weapons does not produce daily barrels of nuclear waste. The comparison is ridiculously silly.

And I would like India to get its regulatory framework fixed before it allows more nuclear plants.
Oil is simply liquid cargo.
Not really, hidpi, multidpi, fractional scaling are the new Linux "sound cards", in the sense that buying modern screens and expecting them to work under Linux is an act of gambling. For example, for fractional scaling you probably end up using (broken for many drivers) raster scaling in xrandr, which is resource intensive and (being a raster operation on top of font rendering!) poor quality. But, hey, there is Wayland, you say. Well, Wayland does the same, maybe with slightly better performance because of some technical nuances, but still essentially the same, since it doesn't support fractional scales: just render everything to the next higher integer scale, then downscale using a brutal raster operation. This is the standard we have been waiting for a decade now and it's not only that its adoption and its support for important features are still far from what's required, it's also that it has design shortcomings that it's probably too late to change now. At least at fractional scales, I suspect that Qt, browsers and other rendering engines that already supported it (GTK being the conspicuous absence here) won't see any improvement but a loss of font rendering quality in the future. Now look at most of the current offer of budget laptops: FHD 13-14'' screens, good enough for most people, poorly supported in Linux even if Wayland was now shinning at its brightest, which is far from real. Not to talk about the poor fellow that wants to plug his cheap external FHD screen or, worse, that shiny new UHD screen that costed her hard earned money. The mishmash of scales a typical modern setup like this requires is too much for Linux and will be for the foreseeable future. I'd like Linux fans to be more responsible with their advice since Linux desktop is actually an expensive hobby for people with time, money and technical savvy.
I don't think it's recent. The first tower form factor cooler I bought was in 2011 or thereabouts.

Part of the reason I bought that one when I did was because the stock cooler wasn't effective and the fan was incredibly loud (poor heat dissipation, small fan, high RPM). The tower coolers have a larger surface area and ship with larger/slower fans, reducing noise. They're probably still popular because they work, and they're the only air coolers I buy now.
The author was likely referring to the original, not the expanded and updated second printing.
Uh, yes?

If you care about your privacy that much, just drop the envelope in your local postbox and it sends it to them.
I think your point actually corroborates the GP's point about "everybody will be a programmer" being a pipe dream.

It's gotten ever so easy to learn and write programs, and people still don't do it.
Kind Engineering: How to Engineer Kindness at LISA21
Iraq is included in Asia. Asia + Africa = 25.05% which is less than the 30.9% Europe + America. So you were incorrect when you said the majority of Jewish Israeli’s are from Arab nations.

As for your edit, that’s an ad hominem.
How to Win Friends & Influence Routers is a classic for a reason.
Is it bad to pay more for more consistent energy?

When you factor in cost of storage, I doubt the multiple is still 3.
Greece was just an example, hence the “say” it’s not close to my favourite.

My point stands, there is a huge gulf in the US and Canada, UK (smaller experience with local feta there but it wasn’t good) etc. I wouldn’t support a GI limited to Greece , edited to clear that up.

I suspect we are making compatible points - you that other countries exist that make good feta by default (true!) - me that countries exist where the default is not good (at least to my taste) and definitely distinguishable from the former category (also true).

I guess feta is a good example of the problem of defining these things by region not process. I feel pretty confident that "feta" shouldn't belong to any one country in the region with a tradition of making it; on the other hand differentiating it from cheap knock offs also makes sense to me.
> you cannot make some whisky in, say, France, and sell it as "Scotch"

I'm actually totally fine with geographic specifications for a general name. Like "Scotch whiskey" vs. "Irish whiskey".

But some things do reach ridiculous proportions like Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey all trying to lay claim to yoghurt.
I went with an AIO (all-in-one) water cooler for the first time in my latest PC build. Many PC cases today have an area in the front or at the top for a radiator and its fans. Mine is in the front and has 2x120mm fans that suck air in. I have the same amount of fans blowing air out (back+top). All four fans are running on very low RPM so it's very quiet.

I really recommend this setup. I think 2x120mm is a sweet-spot for price/performance when it comes to radiator size. Smaller will require a louder fan. Bigger is obviously better but more expensive and might not fit your case.

I used to have a big air cooler. One benefit that I didn't plan for is that I'm no longer worried about the stress on the motherboard mount from the heavy piece of metal hanging from it. Another is less stuff in the way since the bulk of the cooler is the radiator and fans off to the side.
See also the Compose key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key.

I started using a Compose key under Linux five or six years ago. I have progressively accumulated fairly extensive customisation in my ~/.XCompose. (e.g. Compose+;+; = ‘, Compose+"+" = ”, Compose+"+` = ″, Compose+z+Space = ZWSP, Compose+Space+' = NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE, Compose+++1 = THUMBS UP SIGN), Compose+-+-+= = −, Compose+l+* = λ.) Some are of my own division, and some (like Greek letters) are copied from Vim’s digraphs which I had used commonly before setting up a Compose key. I consistently type exactly what I mean. (If I type a straight quote, I meant a straight quote.)

My last laptop ended up being a Surface Book; had WinCompose not existed, I wouldn’t have been willing to shift to Windows.