skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Passive radiative cooling below ambient airtemperature under direct sun (2014) [pdf]
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Is the water cycle not a thing any more?
Good luck teaching a 3-5 year old that when they keep receiving jokes from kids/adults they've just met.

This is not a regular bullying situation where the bully really means harm: those giving jokes out are probably just finding it funny that the kid is named like their smart assistant (when it is the other way around, actually). But for kids on the receiving end, it gets old really fast.

Kids would learn to deal with it themselves, sure: by not introducing themselves to new people, or by not wanting to go to places where there are people you need to introduce yourself to.
I concur with your reasoning and I've also observed this phenomenon with "text" and "texted", in the sense of "to send an SMS", eg. "I texted her earlier but she never replied"; most people I know would write this as "I text her earlier", which seems contrary to the way verbs normally work in English. (I always feel faintly ridiculous being pedantic about this since "to text" as a verb was only invented in the nineties!)
Have never had that issue in my few years of using it, and I regularly send to Gmail and Office365 addresses.

It is a bad idea to support monopolization.
> My uncle is a pipe fitter and Fab7/11 work has been practically seasonal since the 80s

Is it really seasonal? Like tied to their Capex announcements or something?
The problem is that most postgres clients can't handle multiple parametric queries in a single connection (necessary for them to be in a single transaction).

This came to light for me as I was trying to build an app on CockroachDB, and the cluster nature of that (at least for geo-redundant setups) implies a non-negligible latency in the low single digits.
"Tests on an MIT building rooftop showed that a simple proof-of-concept desalination device could produce..."

So doesn't look like they've even hooked it up to the sea yet, so still a bit to go for a real implementation, but still sounds interesting.

I harbour a small dream that I could buy some seaside land someday on a Greek island and hook one of these desalination devices up to the sea and build myself a small oasis.
Hey, I remember that nickname!

Yeah, for smaller projects with only a handful of people behind them, WebKit (via WebKitGTK) or Chromium (via QtWebEngine, Electron, Chromium Embedded Framework) are pretty much the only choices there are. The only exception maybe being Pale Moon.

For browsers which are based directly on the Chromium codebase without being supported by Google, there are definitely many more resources needed - I don't see a particular reason why those couldn't be based on Firefox either. From what I see in QtWebEngine, keeping up with Chromium isn't exactly easy - IIRC they said they need about a person-month to catch up with a new Chromium release, usually with millions of changed lines.

I was hoping for Servo to fill that embedding usecase gap, but it looks like that's been mostly abandoned by Mozilla nowadays. My only other hope is GeckoView: https://mozilla.github.io/geckoview/ - I know at least the people behind Tridactyl would love to see it ported to x86_64: https://tridactyl.xyz/ideas/#port-geckoview-to-x86_64
That’s also the year when table tennis became an Olympic sport.
> Occasionally, obscure email servers will block emails sent through us

The worst offender is Microsoft and their email services (hotmail.com/live.com/outlook.com/etc.).

They reject all emails from my server, because it's on DigitalOcean. They are ignoring all requests to unblock my IP address.

They don't mark it as spam, they just outright block emails, so you can't even workaround it by checking the spam folder.
That's why they're called "intel" :-)
But if I am using my own domain, what difference does it make if it is more "valuable"?

Sadly the lack of IPv6 is a deal breaker for me.
Why did you downvote me? Good for you if you never had an issue, but I did have an issue, and people should know that this is the risk they take by using small email providers.
> inconvenience of now having a single point of failure in the build process (unless multiple certs are purchased).

Except that's not quite true is it.

Most (all ?) devices (even the cheap USB ones) have secure wrapped backup/restore mechanisms.

All you had to do was set up your device correctly in the first place (since the wrapping can't be activated retrospectively).

Some of the cert vendors even have ready-made instructions available to follow on their website telling you exactly how to do this: https://www.ssltrust.co.uk/help/setup-guides/mofn-setup-nitr...

RTFM as they say. ;-)
Very interesting player, looking at a few of his wins it seems like he often emulates the Carlsen water-from-a-stone style of grinding out "boring", equal endgames until his opponent cracks. A young player with the willingness to study technique and endgame fundamentals to this level is extremely rare -- it will be interesting to watch his growth and see if he burns out like many of the other prodigies like Negi or Joshua Waitzkin or if he intends to join the ranks of the super GMs [0].

[0] 2700chess.com
It can sustain a flow rate of 0.
I have used Migadu in the past and I had absolutely no complaints. Everything worked as advertised and I had no delivery issues.

I chose them for their pricing model: they charge not per mailbox or domain, but rather per total number of emails in/out and storage. While this probably makes them less money, it always seemed like an honest and fair approach to billing.
This probably isn't everyone's experience but I have Windows 10 Enterprise and it runs for months at a time whilst staying very stable. Can't fault it really.
Agreed, AutoHotkey is awesome!
I understand and agree with your point, but I do not agree that the NYT represents the mainstream left anymore. The 1619 project is one of the most polarizing and radical points of view (not to mention being fundamentally wrong on many pretenses) in the west today. They’ve been sliding further and further to the radical side of the progressive left for years all for the clicks. They got rid of Bari Weiss for crying out loud. This piece is weird in that it’s treating someone with whom they fundamentally disagree with kid gloves.
Germany will introduce a highway speed limit when the US will adopt metric units.
The first comment on the substack links to this article, from 2010, that basically refutes this theory and this book.

https://blog.waikato.ac.nz/bioblog/2010/10/killer-neandertal...
Yeah, but a society of year 2221 is likely to look completely different from society of 2021. We do not yet know how.

It might be that Taliban-like theocracies inherit the Earth through their much higher fertility, or it might be that authoritarian countries start producing children in artificial wombs, or something completely different. But the current societal model where the old are more numerous than the young is likely to be unsustainable. It is not just raw numbers (population contraction); it is the structure of the population that is extra worrisome.
Or is it?

> In a free-floating configuration, any salt that accumulates during the day would simply be carried back out at night through the wicking material and back into the seawater, according to the researchers.

This is fine for a small scale demonstration unit, but with bigger plants you will again run into the problem of over-salinating seawater, destroying the environment (and reducing your still's efficiency).

So once you get past a certain scale, you'll again need to redirect the wick into some waste brine tank and figure out logistics for disposing it.
You need the key, but there are ways to get a .pfx out of it. Which I unfortunately don't remember, but that is probably documented by whoever you got the key from. And otherwise signtool can be used with the key, though it is not always trivial to get working.
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You're proving his point?

People will buy this with the intent of misusing it, therefore the government should stop people selling it.
Not an expert but I could imagine some local negative effects. Salt concentration may get higher in the area where the brine is returned. Depending on volume, currents, etc...
My personal favorite is Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé and Michał Jaworski.

Python High Performance by Gabriele Lanaro is also quite good.
Others already explained where the >100% efficiency comes from, but I want to point out that a good 1/4th of the article is repeatedly explaining how this works, over a couple of paragraphs.
I know you're making a joke about spurious correlations, but proposing that a link may exist between the reduction in incidence of a neurodegenerative illness and the removal of a substance with proven neurodegenerative effects from the environment is quite reasonable.

At the very least, it passes the sniff test for plausibility and it is worth looking into.
Here is a comparison which lists some cheaper alternatives to Migadu: https://blog.m5e.de/post/comparison-of-email-hosting-possibi...
Yeah, I guess. This style of chilli sauce is omnipresent here. But apparently the specific taste is from Thailand, I cannot really tell
I _always_ use that particular phrase for highlighting the importance of information sharing, but I never knew this page existed, thanks!
29usd a month is not "Humbly Priced" imo. I receive thousands of spam email.
I'm not the right person to answer but I happen to know that the answer is yes!
It’s tempting to see more data as the solution to everything. Yet, a lot of data creates a high-dimensional space where all the points are really far apart(aka the curse of dimensionality). That’s one of the reasons genome-wide association studies are often frowned upon. With many genetic variants making a tiny contribution to a disease it’s challenging to find the cause.
I think the disconnect (and downvotes, although I didn't downvote you) comes from mismatched expectations.

When you say this:

> There's real projects where you have to bind together 10 different things and using C++ is simply the most expedient option because getting FFI bindings made for everything is intractable.

My immediate reaction was: "But dude, that doesn't apply to web development, and Elixir is most of the time used only for that". So your aside seemed inapplicable and out of place for this thread. Elixir isn't used for such projects most of the time (with some notable exceptions like the Nerves framework that allows you to burn a full bootable image of an Erlang/Elixir app to an SD card and boot off of it to a supported set of ARM and x64 SBCs).

And then you say this:

> I have a feeling most of the people here (especially the ones downvoting me) only have web experience.

Which is, again, a bit out of place as a comment here, because again, Elixir is mostly used for web apps (REST, normal Web, GraphQL, WebSockets magic like LiveView etc).

So to me it looks like your comment was addressing a wider issue that is mostly applicable to projects that actually care a lot about backwards compatibility -- and most web projects don't.

> The people here are not really painting a good picture of BEAM vm languages. The typical complaint is some extremely energetic new hire wants to use Erlang for something, does, and then it turns into a hard to maintain mess.

This happens in every ecosystem I've participated in for my 19.5 years of career (including when I was doing C++) so I urge you not to end up being negatively biased against the BEAM ecosystem folk in particular.

People do get hyped and invest a lot of energy trying to fit square pegs into round holes -- and several months/years later people like myself are being called to beat the project back into shape. I have given up hope that the programmers at large will ever learn not to get hyped and judge tech based on its merits... :|
I think it tracks how well the materials they're using move heat between stages or lose it to the atmosphere. Their modelling (supplement figure 2, mentioned on page 4) depends on their specific construction. I wonder what it would do with gold as the plate material and aerogel everywhere else...
It's weird that clients have no idea what a page is supposed to look like until the server tells them. I mean, they could guess or cache the last layout they got, but it makes stuff like partial loading states a lot harder.

This kinda defeats the purpose of a SPA - a SPA lets you have instant page transitions through client-side rendering, but now you can't do that without a bunch of complicated prefetching because you need the server to tell you what the next page is.

> When would a client ever decide not to request a gql schema field? Which is another thing, you have to request these giant schema represantation of the UI which is bad for performance

I think the first part of your sentence solves the second - if the client is always requesting the same set of fields, you can probably give the query a name and pass that to the API instead of the actual giant schema.

Overall I think this sort of pattern is still valuable because shipping around fragments of HTML to update an existing document sucks, especially if multiple branches of the DOM are changing. And it won't work on mobile.

Also at the end of the day, this "server driven" UI is still a lifeless JSON blob that needs to be converted into HTML through giant JS blobs on the client. It seems really convoluted to download a description of the UI, convert it to React components, and then let React convert that to HTML. The new React Server Components project is intriguing, since it lets server-side React code render updates directly to the React runtime running in the client.
> That being said, I don't know what I'd honestly be doing if it weren't for work and some sort of economic status I could achieve.

I feel like that's pretty much what the essay is trying to get you (us) to think about.
It's definitely easy to shoot your foot off with syncthing. I use it to mirror my storage partition between two computers, but I also keep a dumb 3rd copy.
>The correct goal is not to take money from the rich (which can be achieved by taxing them; this is what Bolsheviks did and it resulted in millions of deaths from starvation), but to get rid of poverty.

Getting rid of poverty requires taxing money (and taxing nothing else). This doesn't have anything to do with redistribution schemes. Rather, the act of hoarding money in a 0% interest environment is regressive and makes it harder for all other participants to do the same. When everyone saves their money, it gets harder to save money because deflation will reduce your income and thus ability to save money. New money must be created to catch up with savings demand but all the demand for loans and mortgages has been saturated at this point.

The only entity that can take on further debt is the US government but it refuses all the time, forcing unconventional monetary policy at the last remaining institution that actually cares about the economy. Remember why the Fed was founded? To prevent irresponsible government spending and fight the resulting inflation. It was not created to create inflation, that's the governments job.

Just think about a simplified real economy that produces housing and food but nothing else. At some point you have more housing and food than you know what to do with and people stop building and making food leading people to quit their job but also losing their ability to buy food and housing. The village chief (the government) then decides to just build a luxurious house for himself with the help of the surplus workers because he doesn't want to see them starve.

This is an allocation problem. We expect everyone to pay for their own living expenses but we do not guarantee that they can do so. We cannot send them welfare and be done with it because the busy people building the few housing that is actually needed feel like they should also get rewarded for simply existing (more likely they get angry at the welfare recipients). Because we want everyone to work to earn money, we must create bullshit government jobs that ensure full employment.

Only when we run into scarcity of materials and full employment do we need to cut back on spending and an institution forcing the government to cut spending already exists, it's called the Federal Reserve. Wouldn't it be better if we didn't have to rely on our politicians to do the right thing and instead we have a mechanism that kicks the private sector in the balls when it is asleep? Absolutely but it would require the above mentioned "wealth tax" on bank accounts with large amounts of money. I don't care what they do with the money, heck, I don't even want them to pay the wealth tax because then the government has to come up with a way to spend the money, defeating the purpose of the wealth tax. They can buy stocks and pass the hot potato to someone else until they find somebody who actually wants to spend the money.
Same here. I mostly assume that people saying this either haven't used windows/desktop linux or haven't used MacOS. The difference between stability is night and day. Also I have been using macos from snow leopard time and could be considered power user. I don't like design changes and things like remove 32 bit binary support, but apart from that the stability has not changed so dramatically as people make out to be. I am fine with opt out security features like SIP and having to click open anyways.
Some other possibilities which offer more features and are cheaper: https://blog.m5e.de/post/comparison-of-email-hosting-possibi...
> Apps not having file system access at all until you grant it, and then it’s folder by folder.

This is actually a feature I wish Windows had. On Windows you can enable "protected folders" and mark folders as protected. Applications cannot access those folders until you grant it.

On Windows when granting an app permission to a protected folder you grant it access to all of your protected folders.

You cannot grant a specific application access to a specific folder only eg. grant VLC access to your video folder only but will have to grant VLC permission to all your protected folders. In the default configuration this includes all your personal documents.

I wish Microsoft would make the protected folder feature just as granular as I can hear it is an a mac.
+1 for gandi as a mail host.
Maybe it was used to 'solve' some data race?
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Thanks for spotting that.

I'm a little confused then, later in the article it says "The team estimates that a system with a roughly 1-square-meter solar collecting area could meet the daily drinking water needs of one person." So something doesn't add up.

[Edit: the paper is available at https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/ee/c9ee0412.... It says, "To meet the average daily water intake for one adult (≈3.2 L),49 100 TMSS devices can be placed into a 10 × 10 array, filling an 1 m2 area, which would provide approximately 10–20 L of clean water every day depending on the weather condition."

The lower bound of 10l is outdoor performance on a partly sunny day. So I think they are just being conservative by saying it would meet the requirements of one person - coastal areas are frequently cloudy, and in some locations, there might be little sun for extended periods of time.]
130 != 195 - new tax havens will crop up quickly in the remaining 65 countries. Even if unstable and not trustworthy today, trust will arrive there with money and people who deal in the tax haven services.

Apologies for being cynical, but this agreement is just slight change of music in the 0% corporate tax dance.
> Alzheimer's as a diagnosis is quite a specific one that requires a brain biopsy to prove

That’d mean you have a reliable biomarker. But as I read comments here it seems that protein buildup may be unrelated.
> The holy grail for me would be an email service that lets me set up catch-all, with the ability to send/reply with any address I want.

I have this with fastmail. *@my.tld all gets shoved in my inbox and I can send from whatever@my.tld.
I use Tutanota and it supports catchall aliases.

12€/yr for 1GB + custom domain + 5 aliases (plus catchall).
Does anyone know of any designs for DIY passive desalinators? My mum has a house on an island that doesn't have a natural source of fresh water (except rain of course), and it just occurred to me that a desalinator would be a fun thing to build there. Normally if there's a long drought she would have to have drinking water delivered by sea.
> So once OSM moves to Europe I can clone OSM database without worries just by residing in the UK?

You can already download https://planet.openstreetmap.org/ completely for free.
There are certain obligations for usage of the data though, you have to abide to the OpenStreetMap License: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright/en
This looks plausible. Also swap and return fraud can be blocked by this restriction.
Hmmm, yes it is. It's nearly too impressive!

From the article "The team estimates that a system with a roughly 1-square-meter solar collecting area could meet the daily drinking water needs of one person.", which sounds very different.

On this Q&A page [1] Zhang is quoted "Our current strategy, for example, is to use an assembly of 100 of these devices to achieve an area of 1 m2, which will increase the total production by 100 times to create 10-20 liters of clean water per day."

I don't want to sound too negative, but something doesn't add up here. Still, enough water for one person per square meter of desalination plant is an impressive result I think. The oceans are big.

[1] https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/feat...
I kinda agree but at some points I strongly believe being in awe and looking to be in awe can turn into escapism.

What I mean to say: if you have more serious underlying mental health problems then looking to be in awe will be a temporary relief.
GMail has ads. It's free because you are the product, not the customer. Google's customers are the advertisers. The money has to come from somewhere.
That's how e.g. Python and Go do it. It's not pretty, but it is reliable. Going the other direction - calling programs with non-ASCII arguments is also a pain. I remember having to manually encode everything in the "mbcs" locale when invoking a subprocess with Python 2. I think Python 3 handles it properly now, but it has been a while.
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I think the lament has some justificiation if you remember Mac OSX as the de-facto developer dream workstation circa 2009. As a consumer platform desktop macOS will be great, for a non-apple developer workload... not so sure.