skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geothermal isn't competitive with PV and Wind. Neither is coal or nuclear. (Hydro can be used as storage so it's a bit more complicated, but still basically not competitive)

See any recent Lazard's Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis for full details.

For my specific claim about the cost of running just the steam part, look for the golden diamonds on the first chart here:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

They mark the marginal cost of running a fully depreciated nuclear, coal or gas plant. Note how you can build new wind and PV for the same price as running the existing turbine based plants.

Those costs still include fuel, but don't include building the structures. So magical, fuel-less heat source powering steam is still going to struggle as PV and wind continue to drop in price.
maybe they're just really really into kazoos
> potatoes

Also an american import.
Or an editor that somehow makes Cuda programming easier.
Just by reading the first paragraph I can see how unbiased this article will be.

The gplv3 has been an utter failure. Trying to rewrite history so the gplv2 works like the gplv3 is pathetic and will be the last nail in the coffin of the GPL.
That's exactly fair. MongoDB Inc. et. al. love to take others' contributions alongwith their rights too. This applies to everyone who demands a copyright assignment or exemption. They don't "collaborate" with the public to build something for the public, they take public contributions to enrich only themselves.

Open Source allows us to build software greater than any single contributor. Any single contributor can go out of business and the software still has a chance of surviving. Any single contributor can decide to take their work a different direction and other people can still build what they want with it. We've seen this happen so many times, over and over, and the world is in a much better place because that happened.

Closed, source-available, software vendors are the anti-thesis of that. They want others to participate and contribute, but they want to keep all the rights and benefits to themselves. If they go out of business, or just decide to drop development on a piece of software, the software dies. If they decide they don't want a certain feature in that software, you've got no recourse. That's them having the cake.

But if I offer them some code under the same license they hold everyone else to, using the same copyright rules they use against everyone else, they demand I sign over my rights and use a different license. Were MongoDB to accept a patch, under their own SSPL, under fair collaborative conditions, they'd have to actually abide by the intentionally-insane conditions of their SSPL. But that's impossible, so do they stop taking public contributions? Absolutely not. They take contributions, when accompanied by the contributors rights, just fine. This is them eating it too.

This environment actively discourages collaboration. The parasitic demand for copyright assignment deters me from even touching the concept of improving their code. When I have a client with an insurmountable database problem that could be solved by going to the source code, I'm glad when it's a database that has an actually collaborative approach, like Postgres or ClickHouse. In cases of both those databases, I've been able to actually collaborate with the maintainers and improve the software. When a client has an SSPL version of Mongo? I can't even take a look at the source code.

That last client had actually already paid MongoDB Inc. to come in and have a look at the problem. 10K USD later, the consultant gives up and says, "I'm sorry, this will never work." At least the guy was honest, as opposed to the company, which in their report says, "We promise we can bring down your latencies to single-digit milliseconds. Just move to Atlas."

What can the client do? Nothing. What can I do? I have some ideas, if I could modify the source code of the DB to add some acceleration engines specifically for this client. But I can't. Not out of technical limitations, but legal. Because of a hostile license that was itself plagiarized (illegally) from the AGPL.

So the client moves to ClickHouse, and along the way ClickHouse gets some improvements.
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>I'm sure they're the same ones that complain about interviews being too hard

It was a fine and relevant comment until that part ._.
Twitter operates in a world where money is power and power is power and in the scheme of things Twitter doesn’t have much of either. The corporate governmental complex has made its threats clear.
I thought the point of a water pipeline was to even out floods and droughts across an area or allow for superior planting locations to be utilized for more systemic efficiency than just local growth, heretical as the last notion may be.
put down the intel certification pamphlets and go find a single key encryption where those two things are true.
Figure 2 in the study says

Adjusted for all covariates
Odds
1.09 None
1.19 Decaf
1.02 <1 cup/day
1.00 1-2 cups/day
1.02 3-4 cups/day
1.13 5-6 cups/day
1.53 >6 cups/day

Earlier they say

> We used light coffee drinkers (1–2 cups/day), instead of nondrinkers, as the reference group to avoid bias from individuals with poor health, who may avoid coffee due to
their health status (49, 50).
Japan Inc wants to become a hydrogen superpower
The same as today. Be very rich or be young and very attractive.
Growing cows you mean. Half of California's water usage is growing alfalfa to feed to cattle. Not half of agricultural usage, half of total usage.

The almond thing is basically a meme in comparison. Not that the almond farms shouldn't also be made to deal with this. Someone else in this thread mentioned Israeli almond farms that use 1/20 of the water the Californian ones do because they have smarter methods of irrigation.
I've been using this and a custom React wrapper at work to build an automation tool for legacy Windows apps with a lot of success: https://etacautomation.com

Blockly is vanilla JS and very easy to extend as needed (I added a better type system, for example), and their new plugin system is super helpful. Its performance isn't quite there, but I have high hopes for the future with the changes I've seen so far. The devs have been wonderful to work with, too.
It seems this is not the first study. The introduction says

>A Mendelian randomisation study has provided evidence for a potential adverse effect of higher coffee consumption on the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, with each cup of coffee increasing the risk by 26% (13). However, observational evidence is inconsistent, and of the 11 most recent longitudinal cohort studies on habitual coffee intake and dementia risk, five supported a possible protective effect (14–18), whereas six studies found no association (19–24).

... and it looks like we have a long way to go before there's a conclusion.
I am running 5 k8s clusters on behalf of customers on 3 different cloud providers.

By myself.
I read that not as ”no reason to single out […] farmers”, but as ”no reason to single out California farmers”.
I've had some success teaching workshops to adults who aren't familiar with programming for the product I use it on. A lot of them are able to really grasp how to get things done within a session, but figuring out more advanced things (e.g. loops, functions, dictionaries) is still somewhat clunky.
Thanks so much for this. Sadly Bundleron's are online only now.
> Microsoft has their AI stack

TBH this is better on Google as well. MS has better corporate integration with IT teams that use MS internally.
Only after a lot of heat on HN & twitter did they do anything
Figure 2 of the study says the ">6 cups/day" cohort had 123 of 9,265 dementia cases (1.3%).

The "1-2 cups/day" reference group had 953 of 123,516 dementia cases (0.77%).
Yes, I found out the attacker was buying links. One site was offering links for a monthly fee. After I got removed from that one, about 1000 were gone. So he is using multiple link farms
Have played for a while, some childhood memory
I guess Japan is the biggest market for konbu (kelp) at the moment. It does go well with some dishes, such as miso soup. Healthy and tasty.

Nevertheless, even in Japan, it's not very lucrative for the farmers. Perhaps they should switch to farming mixed shellfish and kelp too.
And there you went, down to the same stupidity level.
If you need a next stage from scratch, do consider Kojo.

https://kogics.net/kojo
CiteSeerˣ is a great resource for CS papers: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index
Imagine if every citation contained a URL: "Email author to request a preprint". Authors often include email addresses in papers or at least an affiliated instution. Their contact information is usually public. Aside from people who have been graduate students not many doing research are going to understand that this is possible. Never have I seen a citations service that makes users aware of it. There must be reasons they dont.
This changes everything!

I would find it interesting to see how a layer on top of reality would allow non-technical people to perform technical tasks.

For example I don't know a lot about car engines. I can imagine being guided through minor repairs by utilizing these types of overlays.

I can imagine this kind of overlay system also to provide a big boost in diagnosis for problems and systems such as car engines or even medical diagnosis.
Do they actually just go by what it says on the paper, or do they contact the organisation which issued it and check their records?
The astronauts were all chosen because they had a set of skills and experience that were actually relevant to the task of going to space. These guys were selected on the basis of their ability to sell books.
I would suggest that the problem here is corporatism rather than authoritarianism. The store will always have made a judgement call over whether you were responsible enough to be sold certain medications. What seems to have changed is the removal of that authority from the local shop workers, which has been centralised into a bureaucratic process. Scenarios like this are one reason why I believe we should proactively bias our economy against large organisations and in favour of smaller ones.
This was absolutely machinable with late 1970s CNC mill. Probably pain in the ass to design with then existing CAD/CAM but ultimately this demo runs on same G-Code that was there in 1970s.

And as far as parlor ticks go this is not particularly impressive, compared to old ones like turning cube inside a cube on a lathe.
Six of the Most Unsustainable Cities, Analyzed
> as a software freedom die-hard myself.

> gpl is too difficult to enforce. throw hands up in the air

riiiigth.
Oh, a tech from a decade ago adapted on the closed SDK of a closed device!

The fact that they have to write a paragraph promising that everything is local and that videos don't get sent online, curiously, makes me even more suspicious.
Here too (on a brand new HP laptop, also Firefox). But it isn't related to the age of your device.

> Firefox Can’t Open This Page

> To protect your security, www.youtube.com will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window.

> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/xframe-neterror-page?as...

Which says

> If you see this error, it is usually caused by a misconfigured website that is trying to display another website without the consent of its owner.

> Websites can use x-frame options or a content security policy to control if other websites may embed them on their own pages. This is an important security feature to prevent clickjacking, which is an attack that allows malicious sites to trick users into clicking links on a site.

Generally speaking this kind of situation represents the opposite problem to what the OP describes: the web browsers themselves are constantly changing and breaking previously working websites. This imposes a burden of continuously modify the websites to comply with the latest and greatest APIs; most of the web isn't going to upgrade and will slowly rot (like happened with sites that relied on Flash, a proprietary, non-standard plugin). Obsolete devices - the theme of this post - aren't a moving target like the web is.

Now, for this particular website, being a 2021 course, it's just a bug. It _should_ just be fixed and set the proper CSP.
Theres a certain thing about race, that we can threaten to be racists if things don't go our way. Is being a racist somehow a good thing? I'm not implying we should hold hands and sing kumbaya, far from it.

But why threaten to become a racist particularly?

We need discourse, demonstrations and solutions, that insititions should very well look for and nuture young talent from wherever it may come from.

But to threaten to be actively racist, without ecploring any other solution is truly telling.
And in fact:

> Habitual coffee intake was self-reported as cups per day, as part of the touchscreen questionnaire at baseline with the question ‘How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?’ (38).

So, yes, it's self-reported in a non-standardized unit.
I am so glad I invested in an Oculus Quest 2 recently. So far, I've been having so much fun just exploring the various things to do in VR.

I initially bought this to explore UI/UX for VR, but with AR, it opens up the technology and my personal research to a whole slew of challenges.
They squash commits when PRs are merged and use "Conventional Commits"-styled messages in the main branch: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
sliping in divergencies in the protocol so that you can only connect to Apple-Active-directories or something.

Microsoft wrote the book in the 90s about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
In my experience, lack of consensus is always due to people who have strong opinions and potentially a lot of knowledge in a general area, however the specifics/particulars of the problem are not known or understood by them, hence they are effectively “trying to solve the previous problem, not the current problem”. The metaphor often used is “they were fighting the old war” and I think that makes sense: people who get into high management positions think that they know everything, and they do, but about “old stuff”. New problems, or problems in a slightly different subarea come about and they are suddenly finding themselves unqualified, so they try to re-establish dominance through pulling rank.

Just my 2 cents
Recent sibling comment has added to the overwhelming tone of HN comments on TFA - that C++ is a poor language.

Has Ken Thompson ever retracted those comments? I can't find anything to suggest he had a different assessment. The phrasing used in that interview / book sounds like this is a subject he has deeply considered and well-reasoned - certainly not an off-the-cuff 'C++ is awful'.

Ken and Bjarne may have some history, as you say - I do not know - but suggesting that implicitly reduces the legitimacy of his assessment may presuppose an inability to maintain impartiality on technical merits. I note that in the comments I quoted, and in other comments he's made about C++, his arguments are foremost about the quality and features of the language, with some hints about why it got to be the way.

Whether it's an appeal to authority, or a deference to someone with unarguable expertise, is perhaps a subtle distinction.
Yeah it would be easier if they had put the skeleton "as it anatomically should". That was tricky

I think the laser machine puzzle was in a sense "easier" because it gave a better idea of what it was supposed to do

The puzzles definitely needed more "in-game handholding" and if you see, for example in the Thimbleweed park blog they paid attention to some of those aspects.
I find it hard to imagine to use the current bw only and grainy cameras of e.g. the quest 2 for such tasks, it really doesnt feel natural. But might be easy to improve this in future generation hardware
> Companies may not distribute GPLv3 under an exclusive patent arrangement

what is that even supposed to mean?
I dunno, by the end of 1970s most high end camera lenses were CNC machined with bezels and scales CNC engraved. My 1980 Summicron 35 is certainly one, although the optical stack sits in an injection molded envelope.

When it comes to MBA enclosure it's likely the infill or separation problems with long thin walls that led them to abandon injection molding. Even then it's not done on a mill in one take. Things like speaker grilles are probably something like EDM or etching rather than 8000 operations with 0.2mm drill bit.
Or something is a mix of both: semi-self-hosting, like this app: midinote.me, all your data is on your own computer, but you still can connect to the server, to backup your data, in case you break your computer.
So how do you prove you actually passed the exam, if all you need for a drivers license is a birth certificate and a utility bill?
full extensibility
Acre feet. The article literally used acre feet to measure amount of water. Is 1 acre foot 10000 cubic meters? Or is it more like a 1000 liters? I have no idea, journalists should communicate their information more clearly.
You obviously know close to nothing about real USSR. There were HUGE amount of very different (and quite known to citizens) disasters before Chernobyl and Chernobyl by itself added almost nothing to what people already knew about their country and regime. Moreover handling of Chernobyl consequences was a much better than handling of other disasters of the past. So you point about Chernobyl being at least somewhat visible reason in USSR collapse is totally invalid. It may have played some role, but no bigger than minuscule comparing to other reasons.
“USA TODAY could find no scientific evidence that it's possible for reptiles or aliens to mask themselves as humans.”

So did they like... Search the literature?
I disagree. Sure it might be an anti pattern, but it’s also for safety. Everything which is production should be called production.
I have seen this in the places I’ve worked for the last 10 years or so, and never seen code like: “ if env == 'dev' then ”.

There is a story of a bank who sent out cancellations in production of all their trades because of a mistake due to something like that. That was a costly mistake.

Production and test environments should not even be on the same network. And, ideally, in my opinion, whoever has acces to a production server should not have access to a test server, and the other way around.
Wow, that's amazing! I wonder if this was NN upscaling, re-animated or a technique mix
I think that at the time when Slashdot slid from mainstream as a discussion platform, the top complaint was that the site's moderators were deciding the posts that got to the front page. Only after Digg and Reddit captured a lot of their original audience, did Slashdot introduce the "firehose" concept, which showed all submissions, before being vetted by the mod team.

Until then the process was that someone would submit a post, someone from the mod team would review (and, maybe edit it) and only then it got to the front page. This, in my opinion, allowed for better quality, despite some of the biases the mod team showed. The community was adamant that it should be in charge of what makes it to the front-page and in this regard Digg and reddit were doing it better, so Slashdot became less and less relevant.
Why is Elon even in that discussion, he clearly doesn't know Bitcoin
Just in case you're unaware of the context of these rules:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoephedrine#Manufacture_of...

I'd perhaps prefer a world in which many drugs were legally sold, which might make this specific issue disappear but even then I'm happy that cigarettes and alcohol, and some other potentially dangerous items are age restricted.
You are missing the point. or the forrest for the trees as some say.

Yeah the installation requirement is silly. But android in general is plagued by GPL violations in that every single piece of it is linux based (or other GPL code based), and yet no user will ever get the source no matter how much they ask.
Are you remote-friendly? How is your tech stack like?
also, 21 is crazy. making it it so that 18-21 year olds have to illegally buy booze is just a net negative.
The best solution, IMO, is using Firefox with First-Party Isolation enabled, Multi-Account Containers, and Cookie Auto-Delete.

This way you can whitelist sites per-container for persistence, while starting with a clean slate everywhere else on the web.

Adding a VPN makes fingerprinting just a bit harder, when combined with Firefox's anti-fingerprinting settings.
‘Father Ted’ poked fun at Catholic Ireland; a faithful audience appreciated it
It works about the same as my actual laptop. That is, uncomfortable but technically possible.
Linux wasn't mass market ready back then. So much hardware was unsupported, or extremely difficult to get working. Multimedia support was severely lacking, with XAnim the only video playback option, which worked with few formats and very poorly. It wasn't until after 2000 when avifile and MPlayer came out that there was even the start of something.

Office applications were an even worse state. You could write documents in Netscape Composer, but spreadsheets were a text-only affair. Some were starting to come out, but there was no clear direction. Sun really had a huge positive impact buying StarOffice and releasing it as open source, giving the community one largely complete Office suite to focus efforts on.

I don't see the reason for the distro hopping, though. Nothing wrong with sticking with Slackware through to today. I don't, because work skews heavily towards Redhat, and managing one platform is complex enough.
Every time I mention this here on HN I am down-voted. But I really think that in a next few decades sending (dangerous) cargo to (deep) space will become cheap and reliable. Space tourism just started this month and that will fund thousands of engineers working on that goal.
Do you still need a fb login to use oculus ?
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Vaccines + ivermectin. The numbers seem to work but only if you accept the Mexico City study. Or the numbers coming out of India.
Might require some investigation and modeling to figure out a good cause. For example, the stats based on drunk-driving incidents compared to total might be misleading as the totals might vary significantly.. we'd probably want something more like [drunk-driving-incidents]-per-[driving-hour] for a starting point. Then probably explore stuff how frequently police catch people and typical consequences, how much folks in an area drink, how people drink (late nights at bars, or earlier at dinner?), if people in an area tend to car-pool, how the roadways might play in (safety features and well lit?; twisty backroads?), etc..

Really seems like there should be research on this sorta thing already, but not immediately seeing one on Google, which is odd..

But, yeah, dunno why folks'd do it in the first place. Seems like simple self-destructive behavior.

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[This study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3823314/) seems to use a multi-linear-regression (rather than a causative model), but still looks neat.

Overall, looks like they found that stricter regulations and beer-taxes significantly reduced drunk-driving incidents, while drivers-under-24, higher speed-limits, and unemployment had the opposite effect.
That Sinking Feeling (When You Push Bad Code)
He was the one who gave the theory the name "Standard Model" - which in my opinion is such an understatement to a theory that unifies EM & Weak forces. He was a great story teller too. will be missed.