skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desalination is indeed a nice way to drain excess energy from the grid, because the end product is directly usable. But let's keep in mind that large-scale desalination comes with its own externalities.

Removing salt from sea water leaves behind a concentrated brine, which in turn has to be handled and managed properly. Otherwise you'll risk endangering the coastal ecosystems.[0] On the other hand, there is research indicating that the waste and side products could themselves be used to enhance the desalination process (to make it less destructive to surroundings) as well as generate secondary income streams from the side products themselves.[1]

0: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

1: https://news.mit.edu/2019/brine-desalianation-waste-sodium-h...
So when will his engineers tell him that hyperloop won't work (assuming he honestly doesn't know).
> The recovery rate for solar panels in developed countries is already close to 100%. Very few people are going to simply dispose of them in the trash, because they don't fit in the trash, and the contractors they work with are not going to dump them in the woods.

The garbage will get shipped to corrupt third-world countries, then they can be safely dumped in the woods/water.
Your VIA suggestion seems to use the column name(s). The problem with that is when you have multiple foreign keys on the same column, or more likely, a foreign key on multiple columns.

My suggestion instead uses the constraint name of the foreign keys, which is defined using "CONSTRAINT constraint_name FOREIGN KEY ...", which avoids these two problems.

Some examples:

CREATE TABLE users (
id bigint NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,
parent_user_id bigint,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
CONSTRAINT parent FOREIGN KEY (parent_user_id) REFERENCES users
);

SELECT parent.id FROM users JOIN users->parent WHERE users.id = 123

CREATE TABLE a (
id1 integer NOT NULL,
id2 integer NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id1,id2)
);

CREATE TABLE b (
id integer NOT NULL,
a_id1 integer,
a_id2 integer,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
CONSTRAINT a FOREIGN KEY (a_id1,a_id2) REFERENCES a
);

SELECT a.id1, a.id2 FROM b JOIN b->a WHERE b.id = 123;
Interesting. Can you please try to find some links to these?
Map tiles are actually one thing you can still justify bare-metal for, imo. I don't do things with maps professionally but when I did some non-profit stuff involving maps in the last couple of years it didn't take long to figure out that RAM costs made cloud hosting/serving of maps prohibitively expensive, whereas doing it on bare metal with NVME disk arrays was a whole lot more feasible.
Your summary leaves out that no proof is offered that Freenode owns it.
As the other poster said, it’s Carv (https://getcarv.com/) . It has helped me a lot to improve technique, I actually learned how to carv in skis, and I’m much more comfortable when going fast (my speed record is now 105 km/hr) .
It’s beautiful having objective data to tell if you have improved and what did you improve, as well as what needs more work.
For me it was a cheap buy as a private lesson one whole day would go for the price of the device, which I can use the whole season and gives me objective data.
Stomp it tutorials in YouTube is also a big help.
The idea is to use hydrogen as easily scalable battery. All of the things that prevent fuel cells from being easily applicable in cars are not such a big factor in closed loop system.
It hurts me that some people seem to consider this a luxury position. I completely wrecks me, to the point where I wished every day that a semi would drive me off the road and end it all. Switching jobs makes these thoughts go away instantly, but the boreout always returns.

Even in times where I have plenty work to do, it's all so meaningless or unchallenging. It's becomes easy faster then I get promoted. Most work is busywork, work on an advice that you know will be ignored in the end. Build a product nobody needs. If it's actually used my input feels minimal. Sure I made it, but 15 people had to review it in an "alignment meeting" at which point I am alienated from it. Imagine building a table and 15 people pointing out small things that could be done better. In the end it might be a better table, but damn would I hate it at that point.

It's heavy, every day feels like a drag. Appearing busy to avoid other bullshit tasks. Hoping IT doesn't look into your browsing behaviour. Rotate the same social media all day. And what maybe stings most, is that your performance reviews are very positive, further strengthening the point that it does not matter how you do it, as long as you are present.
I think nobody expects Datteln 4 to run until 2038. They just claim this in case there is a possibility to grab tax money to shut it off earlier. Even today coal barely makes economic sense. With rising CO2 prices very soon burning coal will be net negative.
What I really like about Prisma et al is that they provide me with a native client. I don’t have to think about my queries as strings, I have autocomplete for everything that can possibly be part of the select/delete/update (in typescript at least).

Now that I’ve gone there I don’t think I can go back, even if this looks otherwise amazing.
You may have misread the pay schedule. You'd have to be a GS14 in San Francisco to make $150k. In most of the country a GS12-qualified biologist would only bring in six figures at the highest stepping. Good universities and national labs (contractors, not DOE employees!) pay way better.
How much was that? 1200ug?
https://www.sonantic.io/ voices which Obsidian used in The Outer Worlds sound pretty decent to me. I wonder, would that be affordable in a small indie project?
It’s not useless; it just doesn’t get us closer to AGI. That doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Nuclear energy presently accounts for 4.3% of global energy mix.[1] Expanding that proportionately, rather than 3 major accidents, we'd be looking at something more on the order or 70 such accidents.

Using coal as a baseline is unjustified where coal is being actively phased out for cleaner alternatives. Much of this has been natural gas (a nonrenewable greenhouse gas contributor, though one with a good safety record), but wind and solar are cheaper than coal, competitive with gas, and growing rapidly (increasing over 2020, in a year energy consumption overall declined).

The biggest risk with nuclear power time and again has proved to be organisational, not technical. (This is a major focus of the late Charles Perrow's work, which I strongly recommend.) Unfortunatley, organisational failures tend not to have technical fixes. In the case of nuclear energy, they have very long-term consequences, on the order of centuries.

Well-running nuclear power plants are some of the safest forms of energy production we have. They are not the safest, with solar trending far better, as well as most hydro (there is one notable exception, as with nuclear, it's a case of organisational failure, unlike the notable nuclear accidents, the incident site is now home to 17 millions of people living without any residual risk). Wind power carries some risks, but those are all but entirely limited to workers, not the general public.

IPCC have studies of risks on a per-GWh generation basis, which largely corroborate this.[2] If we were to compare nuclear with coal only, based on 2020 generation mix, the multiplier for accidents would be closer to 6-fold rather than 70-fold, though that is still 18 major nuclear accidents rather than the three commercial operation incidents observed. Note too that there are several further nuclear incidents where non-generating plants and military operations are concerned, as well as numerous near-catasterophes such as the Tokaimura criticality incident (again: an organisational failure).

________________________________

Notes:

1. This and other energy statistics are from the BP Annual Statistical Review for 2020, released two days ago. https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...

2. http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report esp. p. 845.
The $2k violin is a $3k+ violin in 5 or 10 years, unless you drop it. The computer is generally not (especially if you drop it).
I agree with the article's conclusion that as bad as this manual merging process is, Apple trying to offer an automated account merge would be a nightmare.

They don't provide any backwards compatibility when adding even minor new features to apps like Notes or Reminders that synchronize through iCloud. If you update your iPhone but not your Macbook, new notes created on the phone may be silently ignored on the Macbook, or mysteriously vanish into the void if you perform one of the bulk operations that replaces the canonical list of existing objects with the older software's limited accessible subset.

I also know from experience that changing your Apple ID email address (which is permitted) will leave many iCloud services confused and trigger sporadic strange pop-up messages about your account status for years. I would not trust a merge button that needs to deal with disparate photo libraries (any of which may have existing byzantine compatibility baggage from the upgrade from iPhoto to Photos), Notes, Reminders, and all of the other services to leave a well-used account in a reasonable state.
The background of the video with music instruments looks cool.
Please. Start checking for precedent when you see stories like this. I think you'll find it eye-opening.

The math for a big newspaper is something like 100 years x
365 daily editions a year x 100+ stories per day. It's rather hard to avoid innocent repetition after you've published millions of stories.
Reminds me of Terminal Slam by Squarepusher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhV-OKHecI ... and They Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w
It presents genuinely black screen after «downloading» gauge, so I can confirm what its fair use indeed.
It’s Terry Pratchet’s Glooper.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Glooper
Elon Musk has repeatedly over and over made "bet the company" product decisions at all his companies. You aren't that lucky that many times without being able to skillfully grok technical things.
I don't necessarily think you're experiencing an important flaw here.

I'd wager that the vast majority of people interacting with content related to evangelical Christianity are in the "pro" category, so people in the "anti" category are an acceptable false-positive.

For example, if I'm trying to sell something to evangelical Christians and 95% of my views are "pro" and 5% are "anti", that's still hugely valuable to me and something Facebook can charge a lot for.

Maybe FB could increase the price without the false positives, but neither they nor their advertisers care that much.
> In Japan, in summer, you don't survive without aircon. 35 C with 90+% humidity, fans and opening windows won't help you anymore.

How did people survive until the widespread use of AC?
Reminds me of school. One of the coping mechanisms I found was daydreaming while pretending to do the work.
Sure the algos can always be better, but consider the possibility that conservative churches just spend absurdly, mind-boggingly large sums of money on fb advertising.
Nice article. Could you make like a picture to show this? Would be nice for intuition.
Great article. Is there an according one about Google Cloud Functions?
Not necessarily with that line of thought, Red-Hat has already acknowledged many years ago that there is no money to be made on the GNU/Linux desktop (Mandrake, SuSE and Canonical also found out years later).

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2536558/red-hat-sees-n...

https://lwn.net/Articles/56947/
This is insane. I looked into this because I have a work (my own work) iPad and then my primary user account across like 5 computers. Because they all have like 1-2TB of storage each, I havent found a consistent backup solution that makes sense in terms of price/convenience and I just manually backup like 1-50GB of "very important" existentially critically pieces of info.

It should be very easy to merge accounts. Even a naive implementation could just modify references from account_you_dont_care_about (A1) to account_you_want_to_be_primary (A2) and then delete A2.

Such a burden on the everyday consumer. Extremely, extremely frustrating. I understand why my parents and others in their generation feel confused by some nuances, because this is just a non-transparent, de-prioritized product goal that will never be improved. I hope we legislate this as part of the Right to Repair plan, it's adjacent.
Yep 5% of electricity just wasted on resistance [1]. Also all the dangerous/expensive components of an electrical grid could be reduced, if energy was more decentralized. Don't think we're any close to that though.

PS: it's also a harder system to attack for malicious operators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...
Step 1: Form an LLC

Step 2: Buy the mine

Step 3: Go bankrupt

Maybe that would work?
> C. The renaissance dam is a gravity dam. Giant concrete structure. It's not going to be easy to destroy.

To put this into concrete terms: the Renaissance dam is 476ft tall. According to Wikipedia[0], non-nuclear bunker buster bombs are limited to a penetration depth of ~20ft of reinforced concrete, which would barely dent a dam this size. Even the USAF would have a hard time destroying this dam from the air.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_buster
Gnome feels like what you’d get if someone read a lot about macOS and wanted to emulate it, but had never actually used it. Gnome makes it very easy for new users to get started and very hard for experienced users to adjust it. Mac makes it easy for new users, but still gives power users room to grow.
It only got to 32°C in Japan when I was there but it was 100% humidity and it was the worst, like the air was impossible to breathe, immediate sweating and a feeling of almost claustrophobia. Aircon was essential and luckily ubiquitous.
Totally agree. I have 0 experience in this but they sound super robotic to me. No character, no charm, no excitement or emotion or anything human. No ummmms or uhs or laughs or pauses to breathe.

It's a better robot voice sure, why not sell it as such? Selling this as human is harmful to the industry reputation and also plainly ridiculous.
Are you saying German sites doesn't follow the law (only freely given consent is legal)?
Thanks for the tip, it's nice to at least be able to do that for one group at a time.

However, I follow about 300 groups :-/
Can think of so many examples of threes. But for the sake of confirmation bias...

Rise and shine
Rinse and repeat
Lock and load
Wax on, wax off
Netflix and chill
"What's this 'sek-u-rity' thing?"

"I don't know. Wow what do all these words in capital letters mean?"

"Oh that doesn't matter. As long as you use the same words in the deliverable report, noone will ever double-check the code before the sale."
GTK3/4 alone not really, as my Linux netbook is doing just fine with XFCE.

Now having GNOME with its Javascript based shell and extensions, making every click take a couple of seconds longer and me wondering what it is doing, no thanks.
US drug overdoses up 24% since start of pandemic
Some don't.
I don't think innocent repetition does much harm. What I'm saying is harmful is reporting some current event as if it is new and startling and unprecedented, when in fact it's not that unusual, and has even been reported on before in that very newspaper, which would be uncovered by a search. Obviously they're not even doing that.

But why would they? They don't want to report "thing that happens fairly frequently happened again"... the story being scary translates directly into dollars going into their pockets. In other words, they terrify people by lying, for money.
The same as million of people who unvoluntarily give their real-time GPS coordinate to Google so they can tell everyone where the jams are? The same as CC owners (everybody) whose data gets constantly harvested to produce models for Walmart? We benefit from wages for our programmer and AI skills in a way that is often used unethically by companies, it’s quite fair that we feel the heat.

I don’t know, GitHub Copilot was an expected result (why would anyone propose to host most of civilization’s open source projects for free? SourceForge did worse with shipping malware into people’s binaries.)

It is a bit disgusting, but we programmers have done it to the rest of the world.
How do I check what my current settings are, list all the people I've set to "show always", and all which are hidden?

I also do not recall ever hiding anyone intentionally, because then I'd probably just unfollow them. I could be wrong, however.

Also, is there a way to see friends I'm currently not following, in case I did that by accident?

Thank you, that would be very helpful.

Edit: I am reminded now of the settings you must be talking about, the "show me more of this" preferences. I tried them, but they seem to have no effect on what I see or don't. And, of course, I can't hide the ads.
Functional programming courses by Graham Hutton
It's non-deterministic because they don't care about it, because caring about or not caring about it are treated equally - there are no forces that make them need to care. There is no profit motive. I have an iPad signed into an account I created on the fly to try to "start from scratch" - I didn't realize that there would be no way to have interoperability with another 15 year account I had with Apple. Of course, now that that's the case - I just have to deal with some nonsense restriction that's imposed because of some risk-averse lawyer sitting in a corner office.

Glad I can still torrent movies, cheers to Bram Cohen for advancing the field and denting the absurd DRM culture that's developed.
Japanese people are adapted to their environment and barely sweat, it makes you feel pretty gross as a westerner there with all these Salary Men in black suits and ties looking crisp while you’ve sweated through your shorts and t-shirt…
I don't understand the mechanism that hexafluoroethane would be produced by a solar panel.

I guess, that gas might be produced as an impurity during manufacturing, but wouldn't that be at the factory? That seems like something that would be really easy to monitor and regulate because fabs are expensive and rare.

could you explain more about the hexafluoroethane?
The comment was hoping that Elon would have an arrest warrant out on him, of the belief that he would never enter Thailand and was pointing out that the maximum penalty was imprisonment. There is an element of crazy - nobody should be facing arrest for saying nasty things. Maybe a fine, after a difficult court case.

Leaving aside that Thailand's defamation laws are largely a club to stop people criticising the government and not really intended for use against people like Musk.
It's almost that the more senior you are, the less you get to do the "poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine" thing.
I've seen grown adults rarely seek data when observation and testimony conflict
If you were running these ad-campaigns, how en who would you target and what would be the revenue?

I think those ads could have a very good return, the more provocative the ad the more they will be talked/thought/bought, and that is the whole idea of advertising.
AI appears to be more going after creative work then it does relieving us of the mundane.
> I'm telling how patent litigation works in general and why you can't expect anybody to spoonfeed a random stranger on internet with a list of patents.

I'm unsure what's with the "spoonfeed" remark, it seems intended to be insulting. As I said, I'm really curious what patent and what lawsuits or similar criminal activity has been done (or from the sound of these comments is being done) by E-Ink. HN people are referring to it in many posts and because I happen to work in the display industry, I'm really surprised. I'd never heard anything like that amongst my peers or during conferences. The main place I've seen this refrain is on HN. Please have a look at my comment history as I keep asking about which patent people are talking about. It is the equivalent of a bunch of my display industry people claiming that Google is blocking search engine progress and then justifying it by giving you a set of Google patents and then shouting, see there's the clear proof that Google is a bad actor. I hope the analogy is clear and that it is also clear why I remain unconvinced about both!
It seems like the battery issue is actually a solved problem. Just a matter of getting it done.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectric...

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/620288114

Maybe someone smarter can tell me why pumped storage is actually not going to work, or why we don't have more of it already
> Photovoltaics have largely left these technologies in the dust

How so? CSP tech continues to advance on multiple levels and usage continues to grow globally at grid scale with advances with tech in the solar field, concentrator design [1] and molten salt storage [2].

PV is not currently competitive at grid scale on its own (I've seen it being used more recently in tandem with CSP, but more like CSP providing most [gt 70%] of the MW), because storage costs are joke (wrt underlying materials for batteries and recyclability[3][4]) compared to molten salt (I'm totally ignoring environmental concerns).

I really think PV has more of an edge in small consumer market that wants/needs no storage at all.

[1] https://www.solarpaces.org/beam-down-demos-first-direct-sola...

[2] https://www.solarpaces.org/for-100-renewables-doe-speeds-up-...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25383534

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25403694
No it was from being in the zone, which eventually caused me anxiety about doing it. I would spend 10-12 hours getting a major project done, barely taking a break. Wrist issues, back issues, and a kind of agoraphobia afterwards if I was in too long that accumulated with lack of sleep as well.
Strange to focus on compile times given libraries can be precompiled to object files over not having to deal with Turing complete templates.
This shines in the mundane text that is still useful read aloud. For example, the Financial Times uses an AI voice actor to read their articles as soon as they're published. It's not as smooth as a professional human, but it doesn't need to be if I just want to listen to a news analysis instead of read it by eye.
Why does a time bomb need to be involved?

What marketing genius thought this would go over well?
> Parsing

But why? I thought PSD was all-binary...
Besides the above links ( thanks for those)

What's your resource that long covid isn't a thing @chitowneats?

I don't understand how people can think that dying is the only issue with covid.

I know young people ( mid 30), that had it very bad. And I was scared as shit to have the same. I'm vaccinated now though.
FYI: Bloomberg had an interesting article out just a few hours ago about the Ethiopian elections (tl;dr the current PM won in a massive landslide although some regions didn't participate and some opposition groups sat out the election).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-10/ethiopian...
Specially in the what concerns the developer experience of macOS, regarding frameworks, IDE and languages.

On GNOME the documentation seems to have stagnated, then we had Anjuta, now GNOME Builder (which tries to be XCode like), a UI design tool that is being re-written from scratch, the various frameworks don't seem to compose, and then each binding does their own stuff, only adapts a couple of Gtk tutorial samples to their own language.

Naturally being GNU/Linux, everything that falls out of the UI only has POSIX or GNU/Linux specific C APIs to refer back to, yet another experience completely devoid of how things work on macOS (there is no Foundation, Accelerate, Core...).
Which thread is this? I'm curious.
Doesn't the correlation between this statement and reality depend mostly on the definition of "local"?