skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is for small scale, family-sized units, where power and cost are the limiting factor, so brine will not be an issue at this scale.

As for condensation, the plate is hot, but colder that the vapor, and heated by the vapor only, so when it is too hot, condensation stops, the temperature drops quickly due to evaporation on the other side, and condensation can continue.

At equilibrium, each successive plate is colder than the next, the last one using the sea water as a heat sink.

This is actually innovative and the optimization of the design parameters (e.g. The distance between the plates) is not trivial.

I think you are overly dismissive of this solid piece of engineering.
Even the changes to the UI are following current design trends in general. More space, bigger elements, and removing what can be removed for simplicity. See the upcoming Android 12. For years the industry moved towards more and more information density, and is now moving back. Whether macOS is a good implementation of this trend can be debated.
If you dont state clearly why you even need the emails, fake one is the way to go.
There should be PSAs warning users about exposure to Facebook and other ML curated feeds.
> casings and hinges

this was exactly my experience. Bought an Acer in high school; it was cheap and did the job for me. But after a year both hinges were damaged to the point that the display was tilted. After two years the laptop split in half.
> Also, be aware that free 3rd-party mail hosting with a custom domain does not exist.

I believe two of them still exist in Russia.

* Yandex even has a page in English:
https://360.yandex.com/business/tariff

* Mail.Ru has a page only in Russian:
https://biz.mail.ru/mail/#tariffs
> Right around the time Donald Trump was flexing his conspiratorial muscles on Saturday night, recycling old ruses and inventing new boogeymen in his first public speech since inciting a siege of the U.S. Capitol in January

An article that starts like this is not likely to contain a fair representation of reality. And I am not a Trump fan.
> and were trained veterans of the reconquest of Spain from the Moors

Cortes was 7 y.o. when the Reconquista ended...
Another good article from Ed Young.
I wish I could say the same. I have tasted the dark side(seamless integration between iPhone and Mac) and can’t imagine moving away from it without a significant irritation of reduced productivity.

Some examples of perks to be had because of giving in to the ecosystem..

1. Copy something on phone, and paste it on any application on Mac (and vice versa)

2. Instantly access all photos taken on iPhone for quick edits on Mac, or even to upload somewhere on a website(passport, dr.license and such).

3. Notes.app that is the same on iPhone and Mac because of iCloud. Notes has become my knowledge base.

4. I also have an iPad. Need to sign a PDF document? Right click and send to iPad where I can use my Apple Pencil. Save the document and it is instantly on my iCloud Desktop.

I can’t imagine the independent way of doing things again :-(
Who except for very prominent professionals are not invisible to the world at large?

It’s a nice article and it’s good to remind us of the amount of individuals dedicated to activities in the ocean.
It's amazing with concrete examples like this people are still hoping that they will be moderated to "save" people. It's truly insanity.
It looks awful. If they wanted a yoke, why didn't they also just give it a ±90 degree movement have it steer via wire, controlling a solenoid rather that through the shaft? How did the regulators let it pass as it is?
The term "influencer" is basically the full-time equivalent of celebrity endorsements. Marketing has known for ages that your product sells easier if a relatable/revered face is promoting it.

An influencer, then, is someone who made their entire career about becoming famous enough to sell endorsements for a living.
Probably in some miserable way that involves a yearly $100 fee and occasionally faxing Apple your ID.
Microplastics is probably a big one. We're just making more of it every year and they will never disappear. It's incredibly stupid and everyone just keeps using it, even in stuff like body wash, sunscreen and toothpaste.

People like us should get together and fill the world with at least sensors so that it becomes more visible.
Are there any open-source projects similar to Barracuda’s Archiver product?
A nice fairytale. And like all fairytales it doesn't need to be falsifiable to be worth telling.

>> If early Greek, Roman, Norse, and Chinese mythologies are anything to go by, the legends spun by early humans centre around an heroic human (almost always a man) who is pitted against an ugly, evil cruel monster with superhuman strength…

As a PoGO (Person of Greek Origin) my impression of our ancients' myths and legends is somewhat different. Yes, there was the Titanomachy and the Gigantomachy, but neither Titans nor Giants could be mistaken for "orcs" or "ogres"; the former were nightmare beasts with tentacles and the latter simply had a hundred hands. But most of our mythology is about the sexual lives of the gods, particularly Zeus' transformations to various animals that allowed him to sneak into maidens' beds (no accounting for taste) or the deeds of great heroes like Hercules, who however typically fight chimeric monsters (like the chimera itself, or the sphinx, or the harpies etc) or actual beasts (like the Erymanthian Boar or the Stymphalian Birds) rather than big burly monster men.

Where ancient Greek heroes fight beast-men, those are literally beast-men. The Minotaur is the child of a woman and a bull. The centaurs, who are not evil monsters, are a cross between man and horse. The sirens are depicted as birds with human heads. The Sphinx has a lion's body and a woman's head (there was clearly something going on with bestiality in ancient times). The cyclops Polyphemus and the giant Antaeus, slain by Heracles, are porbably the only examples of "orcs" that could be plausibly identified in Greek mythology. And even those are not very orc-like. Why would memories of Neanderthals be recorded in myths and legends as one-eyed giants?

Now the tale of Antaeus is an interesting one: Heracles wrestles him and keeps winning but everytime Antaeus bounces back. At length Heracles realises that Antaeus is drawing power from the Earth. He grabs him by the waist and crushes him preventing him from touching the ground, and so he wins. There is a clear symbolism there, of victory over an enemy that draws his strength from the land. But what does it mean? Who was this enemy? It doesn't have to be another species: a more ancient tribe that pre-dated the tale will do fine. It's an interesting question but we will never know the answer. As with the Neanderthals, that should not be license to imagine whatver we fancy, though.
Tragedy of the commons is the killer of decentralization since day 1.

Try polluting the shared space around your building (with clutter for example) and see how long it takes for you to be censored. Self-censoring is how we maintain our liberty to pollute but it can go too far though; some deep-pocket people can largely avoid feedback because no one dares to go against them.

There is always some tension between censorship and pollution, our goal is to minimize both so we can give ourselves space to breathe and live. This is why we create law. Law should be created when the cost of censorship is lower than the cost of pollution. Consider nude beach vs downtown big city, pollution and censorship inverts, law is similar and we need more local law and more aggressive refactoring.

Enforcing law is a communal effort and also local. We need better tools to accomplish this. But they are rapidly emerging fwict so hopefully these things become actionable soon.
It looks like such a disaster. I am really not happy about it. I tend to use Chrome for general browsing and Safari for longer reading but I’m still really not looking forward to it.
Cryptocurrency and the Great Unbundling
A lot of interesting hypothesis in this thread. But I’ll offer the simplest, and unfortunately least optimistic: This is simply downstream of the Flynn effect.

There were serious gains in IQ between the cohort aging into Alzheimer’s 30 years ago and today. This was mainly due to improvements in childhood nutrition, healthcare, and education in the post war period.

It’s well known that Alzheimer’s rates tend to be much lower in the high IQ. Not because the incidence of disease is lower, but because it’s harder to diagnose. John von Neumann would have to experience some serious mental decline before he started failing the standard cognitive batteries.

This is less hopeful for two reasons. Number one the disease still exists and is having an effect. It’s still bad if you experience mental decline even if you start at a high baseline. And if life extends far enough, eventually it will get you in a real bad way sooner or later. Number two IQ gains, like height, started seriously after this cohort. So we wouldn’t expect to see continued declines at the same rate.
You're right that it removes some (honestly perhaps most) of the craftsmanship that comes with creating art. I do think the resulting work is still interesting, valuable, and art from a practical point of view, though. There is perhaps a threshold where this is not true, perhaps related to how much curation/pruning/how indiscriminate the human is in determining the final outcome.

That is to say, if there is some text to image generation program, and the human generates 1 image based on the first phrase they thought of, that image they generated is probably not going to be very interesting, at least based on the image generation stuff I've played around with so far. It often takes time and several attempts / variations on the phrasing to get something which is interesting and novel.

People have been finding tricks like appending the words "Unreal Engine" onto the phrase in order to produce certain types of results. Some people actually go into the code to tweak things to get desired results.

I do wonder how true this will be going forward. It feels like this media synthesis stuff is progressing at the speed of light, and perhaps it'll only take 1 iteration / attempt to craft the interesting and novel stuff that we're looking for.

So at least at the moment it's maybe not so different from anything else. I think of it as exploring the possibilities in a given space. I work on video game development, and it's the same story there. If you're creating a game prototype, you might have an initial idea which sparks development, but once the initial seed is implemented the game often takes on and is guided by a life of it's own, shaped by the possibilities in that given space which you are narrowing down into a subset which seem to work and gel together. That's how I view it anyway.
There are indeed a few non-lawyers grasping at straws in the replies to the twitter thread. It is not like Mr. Zimmermann is alone in his assessment. Other renowned experts like Professor for law Andreas Fischer-Lescano are of the same opinion. [1]

But if you think the public broadcasters are biased towards the Green party, I must really question your political literacy. How would you even come to that conclusion?

[1] https://www.waz.de/politik/annalena-baerbock-plagiatsjaeger-...
I agree with this. There have been numerous products and fantasies of a phone that could dock to use as a laptop. And now for the first time we have a single platform for all devices.

If they are sensible about it, unification would be fantastic.
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I agree with you. It would seem that the response to Covid has rapidly accelerated all that was going wrong with society, while largely halting all that was going well.
I have the same problem, but they fixed it.
I opened a issue and a kindly guy did some checks and then removed the ban.
I think they mean "death prevented" vs "death inflicted".
Thanks much for the summary.

I really wanted to find the payload, but the reams of gobbledegook were just too much. You've made the world a little bit better place.
Does the article ever explain why it matters whether the US is a “nation”? What is the significance of distinguishing between whether it is a nation or a hegemony? Does that have some obscure implications that requires a word-salad article to lay it out for everyone?

From the definition of nation, it would seem that when George Washington said it, it would be accurate but the author disagrees. Currently, one could argue that the backgrounds and birthplaces of many citizens of the US vary so much that it is not a nation. Why does it matter?
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There might be more serious studies out there, but the abstract in your link says that they selected 26 patients with severe covid and verified that they died of covid. It is a bit circular and certainly not applicable to the countrywide covid stats.
To me this is just bored developers working on their own interests and their CV.

Crazy.
The ‘more than 100%’ is only in comparison to a less efficient process. A heat pump itself is operating below 100% efficiency - it’s just kind of “cheating” by using an external source of external energy as one of its inputs in addition to the electricity running it.
(Not an expert, I just happen to have read a fair bit about the topic, grain of salt highly recommended)

Cities. Very deadly pandemics generally come from diseases that jump from another species to humans.

It is not advantageous for a virus to have a very high lethality, for any parasite there is no advantage in killing large numbers of your host. It's the diseases that are kind of new to the host that can be more lethal.

This jump of a disease from one species to another happens more easily when there is a lot of close contact between them. Large cities where humans lived with animals, and in not-very sanitary conditions, were a perfect ground for this.

In America cities appear to be less dense, and animal husbandry was way less extended (AFAIK, llamas and alpacas are the only animals domesticated in America).
Why not both? The Conquistadors had guns and steel armour and swords, versus the Mesoamericans' copper, bronze and obsidian weapons plus bows & atlatls. Technologically, the Spanish had the advantage, and won militarily. In addition, the indigenous population was ravaged by disease brought by the colonisers.

Having better weapons is not an argument to ethnic superiority. It comes down to geography and history. The myth that needs to die is that the Mesoamerican civilisations were inferior because they didn't use wheeled transport; that's a Eurocentric idea based on the idea of the wheel as "fundamental" technology, even though they help on Europe's mostly-flat land and not Mesoamerica's mountainous and heavily forested territory.
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What efficiencies are gained by having Germans fly down the autobahn? Isn't at least possible that whatever CO2 is added is outweighed by the increase in growth?
He should have self exiled back in Ukraine for the next 9 years to avoid prosecution, whoopsie
I don't know anybody who trusts facebook (the company).

But I do know a few people who are all to eager to trust everything that gets posted on facebook, and a sizable chunk of these people would indeed take such an "extremist warning" by facebook to mean that "they" are trying to hide things from the public.
> Violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment.

Anyone else find it weird that Facebook is calling themselves a "violent group"?

Joking aside, I "love" how the language in the warning pretends that Facebook is a perfectly neutral party here, in no way responsible for what content floats to the top of people's feeds.

> You can take action now to protect yourself and others.

Yes. That action is deleting your Facebook account.
All of my right-wing friends and acquaintances who received this message mocked it and took it as more evidence of Facebook's bias, so I'd say it was inversely effective.

It will reinforce views.
Which part is not a literal statement of fact? Please be precise.
Yet another example of a deeply patronizing stance on the part of those who deem 'ordinary people' too stupid to make their own judgments. They behave like some in the monarchy who spout questionable opinions but never engage in public debate. A similar mindset was evident in those senior EU officials in 2016 who privately told John Longworth, Chairman of the UK Independent Business Network that they were shocked British non-graduates were allowed to vote in the Brexit referendum.
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Yep, they’ve been great. Too bad they stopped their free tier.
related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27695486
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"0.1% of the time" indeed
> It's very simple - if you work with artists and you make them a presentation of your software, and at any moment there is some amount of code displayed on the screen, some of them will get up and leave the presentation.

Surprisingly, this is also the case for mechanical engineers. The proportion might be smaller, but they still exist. I know people in freshman classes that are retook the intro to programming class which was stuff like variables, conditionals and loops in Matlab.

Then there's people who did OK in their Fortran classes in the 1990s but never touched a line of cosey since.

The people have a good chance of being intimidated by code. This is where LabVIEW and Simulink come in.
Why? He doesn't give a definition, and the individual points are largely wrong.

Actual academic definitions:

- Nodia, 1994: "a nation is a community of people organized around the idea of self-determination"

- Haas, 1986: "a socially mobilized body of individuals, believing themselves to be united by some set of characteristics that differentiate them (in their own minds) from outsiders, striving to create or maintain their own state"

- Barrington, 1997: "collectives united by shared cultural features and the belief in the right to territorial self-determination"
Kind Engineering [video]
/me looks at his work gmail account that regularly spam filters emails from github, and emails from his work google apps domain that pass DMARC, DKIM and SPF.

Nobody can send emails to Gmail with any certainty. Not even Google.
myemail+newsletter@example.com

Filter it out so it doesn't get in the way, read them when you want to (still generally dislike newsletters in email, rss is nicer)
CT > 40 then vs CT 28 now. I can't help but be reminded of "yellowcake."
America is not losing the digital-currency race
With the explosive proliferation of cryptocurrencies, including China's introduction of a digital renminbi, it is not surprising to hear panicked warnings about the looming decline of the dollar. But the truth is that the greenback is the prime beneficiary of today's market developments.
Some that spring to mind

- Database Migrations

- Kubernetes

- Basic RPC and code generation i.e. gRPC, OpenAPI and GraphQL.

- Realtime Concepts, i.e. Kafka, MQTT

- DevSecOps

- Builds. i.e. make files.

- Jobs, i.e. cron or batch and job workflows.

- Offsite incremental DB backups and restore.

- Infrastructure as Code i.e. Pulumi.
Isn't peer review usually blind?
I think "requiring" is a funny word to use here.

Producing anything to sell commercially requires work up front. That work has to get paid for. While that work is happening, the people involved need to eat and to keep their families fed. Is the universe a big ol' meanie for "requiring" people to keep eating? I guess.

Regardless, up-front money is required. Previously something like this could only happen if you managed to find somebody with millions of dollars sitting around and then managed to convince them to give you enough to get your product built. And then you had the problem of finding your buyers, which cost more money for marketing.

I have my issues with Kickstarter. But inviting the individuals who want your product to participate in financing it seems like a giant step forward to me. If you have a better idea, I'm all ears. If not, maybe just block Kickstarter in your browser? Then you'll be free of any perceived burdensome requirements.
I don't think Catalyst was mentioned at WWDC much if at all. Also no new Catalyst apps were announced. I think it's already on its way out.
It wouldn't surprise me. My memory is of two things:

- I was into E in the 90s and this idea was new to me then.

- I vaguely remember reading someone online mentioning that E was the known prior art to Hettinger's reinvention of this. But this dim memory is not reliable, so I wanted to check it.

And yeah, storing the hashcode is a technique I saw in the wild earlier than I saw the insertion-ordered hashtable.
Isn't an ORM the perfect example of something that is not language agnostic?
> Is the fear of arbitrage or people from richer countries buying products in foreign App-Stores the reason this is not done?

No. This isn’t common because most entrepreneurs don’t consider fairness to buyers (by any definition) to be their primary pricing goal. Most price based on value delivered to the buyer (how much better is your app than the buyer’s alternative?), the seller’s costs, or a combination.

Pricing based on perceived fairness to buyers has some practical challenges for sellers, like that the seller’s expenses - particularly team compensation - are not adjusted based on buyers’ locations.

Also, the alternative choices (in economic terms, “substitute products”) are often different across markets - not just different available apps, but completely different ways to accomplish the same task or spend time. There’s no reason to think that buyers in two markets receive the same amount of value from your product.

(Of course, there’s an argument that pricing something differently in certain markets might lead to more total revenue from that market, but that’s that’s optimizing for total revenue, not fairness.)
I quite like these two:

https://0bin.net/

https://zerobin.net/
But the aggressiveness with which this theory was dismissed and ridiculed is unbelievable. In the beginning i had often to double-check that I got the context right - that in fact it's about an accidental leak, not intended, but still treated like some tinfoil hat preaching, a conspiracy theory. If anything, that kind of response could push me to believing conspiracies i otherwise wouldn't.
I lost a lot of respect for the general population and even the crowd here.
From the GPLv2 licensed code:

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-Arena/blob/master/c...

copilot repeats it word for word almost, including comments, and adds an MIT like license up the top
Really miss the days when feeds were just chronological lists of posts from your friends/family. No re-shares, suggested content, etc...

Ironically providing this and just charging like $1/mo would be far more effective than labeling content as extreme or not.
Yeah, this feels like a thinly-veiled advertisement for their service.
Who trained Cortes? The Spanish developed tactics for decades and decades, building knowledge from previous wars and conquests.
Isn't a corporation just a group of groups?
Yes, this is a nice solution, but email security services do click on links before delivering to the client's email inbox. As such, you may need to set the link expiry click number to greater than 1. And then you lose the security due to being ephemeral. Of course, you can log the IP addresses of the clickers, but still you have the leak.