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Above ground "High Temperature, Low Sag" cables can reach 200°C. Underground cables can still go up to 90°C, which is still flamin' hot. They're usually buried at least 1 meter deep, which gives the heat a decent chance to dissipate. But in those areas with high chances of fires, I'd be wary all the same :-/.

Of course, the above mostly applies to high voltage & high current situations, think 150kV, 300MVA monster connections. I doubt PG&E manages 10k miles of high voltage power lines. If we're talking residential interconnections, there won't be any issues burying those.
Pretty much all of them, to my partner's chagrin.

Had a PDP-11/40 in college that I sold for rent money, one of my biggest regrets. Still have a lot of game dev hardware, some old Sun systems, a Mac 512k, an Alpha workstation (that I tell myself I keep around for a good reason, due to it's famously weak memory model), a POWER4 server, a bunch of prototype supermicro boxes with a redundant PCI-E fabric that they share, etc.

Would love some more mini computers, maybe a Data General?
> This is how a free market works.

Said free market tends to create weird customs that are not necessarily good for the most of us.

Someone once said radiation has healing properties and last radioactive items for healing appeared, oh well, on Amazon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0

and before that, there's a museum of the same stuff

https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/radioa...

Note that I am not saying the regulator can not or will not abuse their rights.
This is a big issue and I'm not competent enough to say where I'm leaning there.

I only disagree with "free market will lead to the best solution by itself".
> How do people install Linux then?

Basically, when MS started requiring Secure Boot on Windows computers, there were a few anti-trust actions against then that looked at this action. So they back-pedaled and required that people should be able to disable Secure Boot on x86 and amd64 computers. They also created a 3rd party certification program, that those distros one buys could pay for and get signed.

But make no mistake, MS completely control the specs of any PC available to you, and will not miss a chance to remove the support for 3rd party OSes.
Stories are nearly equal in convincing someone to believe you. Just look at US Politics right now to see that we live in a post-truth society that strongly values narrative.
Twm is slow on rendering. Choose fvwm, ctwm or cwm.

Source: I tried it on OpenBSD on a "moderm" machine (2007_ and with a medium-high load you could see redraws going on.

This never happened to me with FVWM or CTWM.
>If I'm buying gas, I'm being served ads via the little screen.

The first time I saw that, my immediate reaction was to hit the screen. My second thought was to pour gas on it and light it on fire.
I refuse to use any place that does this unless it is a last resort. It's not terribly common where I live (yet) but I assume it is becoming standard. It's enraging.
Obviously latency is important in synchronous use cases like video calls, however I wonder if a delay for slower one on one discussions would be all that jarring for users
>I believe that in a country like US every working adult (18 - 64) should get a minimum of 5k a month for paying basic expenses

$5000? The median pre-tax income in the US is only $2854/month. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
That would be fine if the assumption wasn't based upon thousands of content creators, who are also sharing their work for free, most who unknowingly were building Facebook and other sites into popularity through their work for no pay, that now have the rug pulled out from under their ability to be seen.

Now, on top of creators that drive Facebook's most interesting content while contributing their music, stories, and videos etc. (for no profit) Creators have to pay to run promo ads for visibility even among people who previously followed them for updates, while Facebook collects the profit from all that work.

The model was broken by greed, not by a desire to connect people better nor to do good.
I'd lay off. You seem to be walking onto "no, the 9/11 hijackers must have been cowards, and if you suggest that maybe cowardice wasn't high on the list of their faults, you're a monster" ground. Being correct within the limited context of what's at question isn't important to a lot of people, in these kinds of conversations. They find it hard to divorce that from the rest of what happened.
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Hm, Y2K issues were the result of conscious design trade-offs, not bugs. (Nobody ever looked back and said: oops, we accidentally left the century off of our dates.)
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> It’s unclear to me whether you’re defending the massacre or what your argument is.

My argument is that the way the comment is structured, it appears that Hindu nationalism randomly causes Hindus to attack and kill 1000 Muslims just for the heck of it.

The murder of Hindu pilgrims by a Muslim mob triggered the Hindu-Muslim riots, not Hindu nationalism.
I think Slashdot's system was vastly better, but it had different goals.

Social media needs counters that never stop going up, and buttons that are always available for people to reactivity click and express dis/approval.

Slashdot wanted a moderation system and they got one. The moderation points, categories, meta-moderation, comment filtering, it all shows someone was really thinking about what they system was trying to accomplish.
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What he did was horrible and evil, but it was also extremely calculated and carefully planned. He knew full well what he did.

For example, he researched which drugs he could take that would make it easier for him to shoot the kids[1].

He was not insane. He wasn't on a wild rampage. He had a specific goal in mind: to destroy the future of the labour party.

[1]: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/QJRjP/behring-breivik-var...
Dynamically typed languages are so prevalent, where the approach is "blow up at runtime". I think in some contexts, this is fine. But in other contexts, it's more like a 1000x problem. Nothing bothers me more than runtime errors that would not have been possible had a good statically typed language been used.
no filtering rules only work when you can consume the whole feed in a reasonable time. note that reddit gives you the option to sort e.g. by controversial. since you can't not have a first comment (notable meme on slashdot - FP!), you need to sort somehow; the whole point of activity feeds, walls, scoring is to show the most valuable (to someone... not necessarily you - but sometimes, you) content first.
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For Covid, I restored an HP-87. What's cool about it is the processor is fully custom, so a new assembly language to learn. It's too old that no one ever made a C compiler. The assembly is all in octal, which takes time getting used to when I've been doing hex forever.
Day 1 DLC is a consequence of spinning shiny discs is it not? They have to finalize a version to send to disc manufacturing months in advance of actual release date just like any typical physical goods manufacturing/distribution. There's clearly lots of work that can and is done on the code during that shiny disc making period. So it stands to reason that what ever the code is on the shiny disc once released is so antiquated it is not even worth the plastic is stamped in.

Do digital release only games suffer from Day 1 DLC like this? I'm not a gamer, so I have no experience with this.
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Most of this seems to be the advantage of cup-washers versus O-rings. Wouldn't that be possible with rubber also?
> and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

It would be great if that condition was used to distinguish between individuals that are intolerant and those that simply are dissenting.

A dissenter might disagree with the rationality of the arguments being presented. They might be in minority in term of public opinion. Suppression would still certainly be most unwise.
I hear that a lot. What are examples of good fonts that are free alternatives? And available in latex?
Every time I have been to a gas station that does this, the mute button is broken, presumably from so many people violently jamming it to make it stop.
Is that Computer Modern? Wow. Looks very different from seeing it in a PDF.
Well, rather than "sounds like" you could always ask the parent commenter if they are being dismissive because they are worn out of the topic. Why not do so?

I used to hang in some very lefty circles and nothing makes me mentally check out of a conversation now more than those sorts of angles, because everything we talked about just ... went that direction.
It totally can make sense in third world improved regions, just not in homes (and/or possibly not on all the time). You could pretty easily run a small business off of 100 mb down, 50 up, and in that setting, you can probably power it with a small solar panel and just turn it off at night.
I appreciate you probably don't personally set the priorities or anything, but maybe you could let your boss know I hate all of your companies' products and use them only under protest?

Thanks.
Exactly: If bugs cost 50x more in production, but only bugs that are relevant for the core product are reported , then I’ve won 90% of the development time. That’s what I did for my startup (no tests, no 3-tier), and it was extremely valuable seeing all reports focus on a few areas, half of the reports being requests for improvement, extremely useful in determining 90% of the critical path and proving the ballpark of revenue that people would put into it, and since we can now hire, we’re now fully 3-tier with modern tech an all.

Good management is judging where to put the team’s energy.
You need to strike the balance between effort and usefulness. There's no cost attached to us hitting like/dislike, but having more options would result in decision fatigue. That's less mindless scrolling and clicking on sh*t.

Don't get me wrong, I do agree that it would be nice to have something more meaningful/useful there, but too many options will reduce engagement, and that's a no no for a social network relying on advertising revenue.

(I think that ads should not exist as they're unethical and harmful)
Yeah, the quoted line clearly breaks the HN guidelines.
You have to be very careful with ubi (which I'm a huge fan of btw.), it could cause hyperinflation, probably would at $5k a month, because we have a pretty severe housing shortage there's going to be a whole bunch of people with an extra $5k that they could spend on housing so average rent may rise significantly.

Instead of jumping to straight UBI we need to build an abundance of housing that is of good quality, affordable to build, is operated by the state and is available to everyone regardless of income on a cost plus model. Also given that rent is most people's single biggest expense we could take the pressure off the poor. This plan however is politically untenable as affordable housing is something that anyone who owes money on their home does not want
Not from the UK, but it is a mistake to insist on press freedom. There should not be a difference between a journalist and any other civilian.

Doing this will only lead to government trying to attack the status of journalist, which will drag people through the mud. Everyone is allowed to report on everything, naturally. Especially on government misconduct.

That said, for any practical reason, just give the info that hasn't been authorized for release to someone outside of government jurisdiction and keep your head down. Problem solved, info is out.
I just wanted to say thanks, that review was super interesting. And thanks for all your many ansible roles! I use the heck out of several :-)
> So there should not be a list like this at all anywhere.

No there really shouldn't and yet there is, this is why every one is pissed at you NSO.

> You know, if a customer decides to misuse the system, he will not be a customer anymore.

If NSO has no access to customer data how do they know if their customers misuse the system? If they did find evidence of their customers misusing the system what stops them just ignoring it as a coincidence while putting out the pr message "We must hold ourselves to a higher standard"
Maybe beta is just part of the name that we've all just misunderstood the meaning of? Maybe the next version will be called BetaMax
You'll boot Windows but can't mount the system volume if it's protected by a Bitlocker key derived from the TPM key.
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And conversely, just because you're not paying doesn't mean you aren't a stakeholder. Companies value you based on his much money you make them, they don't care if it's ad money or not.
Oh, most of those mentioned in comment here are exotic. Atari? SGI? Mine isn't anything special. I have an old, 386DX MS-DOS PC with a large 5" Floppy Disc that somehow still turns on and work. Takes about a minute with cracking noise when booting up. I do that every few years and play around with it. I am pretty sure it is from the 80s. So that is coming close to 40 years. The old monitor is barely working though. But I have a Sony Trinitron CRT that still work. And I refuse to throw them away. ( Yes I have emotional attachment to them ) It was fun installing DOS Games you have to put in the Disc one by one, and I remember somehow getting Games running require some fiddling with IRQ.

That Sony CRT is attached to a MUCH faster, insanely great PC with Intel Pentium MMX. All I could remember was MMX was suppose to be the holy grail of CPU and solve every single god damn computing problem. At least that was how it was marketed at the time. And a S3 Verge, actually I am not even sure if it was a verge or something before that, Trio something? Doesn't matter it was a S3 Graphics card, and at a later date upgraded with 3DFx Voodoo 3D Accelerator!. The era of OpenGL vs Glide! And a Sound Blaster Sound Card ( Where is Creative now? ).

I was always a PC guy back then, because you know Apple Mac used to be insanely expensive. I mean if you do price adjusted for inflation the Mac today are down right cheap. And I really like to do tinkering. What really took me to Apple was teaching parents / elderlies how to use a computer. There is a (edited) tweet which sums things up very nicely.

>"I spent a week with my parents teaching them to use a Computer. It took much of the first day to get them to learn to map the horizontal plane of the desk to the vertical plane of the screen and to stop lifting the mouse in the air."

>"Left Click, Right Click, and Double Click might seem like three trivial things, but to them it was like trying to solve three body problem in physics."

I admit I was frustrated with their stupidity at the time. ( Yes I know, that was naive of me ) Some how after Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, he was talking about the user experience and how people have trouble using the computer. That was when every thing clicked for me. I got them a Mac. And it was somehow much easier for them to use it. At least easier than a PC, but still difficult in their view.

Then I made myself a hackintosh when they announced their switch to x86. And later bought a MacBook Pro.

After years of some of the most frustrating support calls to my mother-in-law to explain her Mac to her, we got her an iPad, to which I’ve not had a single tech support call in 10 years.

The iPad was really revolutionary in many ways. Those who never had to support their family and friends with computer problems might never grasp how frustrating it is. The touch screen and home button was the single biggest computing invention of the century. Anything messed up, press home button and you return to the original state. No worry or hassle.

Ok, this is turning into a long post of personal computing history.
>> it's potential to increase the risk of the Kessler syndrome

> This is a meme, not reality. I wish it would stop coming up.

I do too, but since that's probably the first or second most prevalent thing that people mention in response to anything not completely negative on Starlink, I figured I'd give it a mention.
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I use it for zoom daily. Yesterday was the first day in awhile where I had difficulty completing a call. The handoffs now last only about a second or two. Previously they’d be 15 or so seconds but that hasn’t happened for over a month. It is my daily driver though I do have back up DSL just in case.
> If you're paying cash for the service, though, you're well within your right to set expectations on the terms the service is provided on.

And you can vote with your wallet. Once the user is being charged, the choice becomes not “should I pay?” but “whom should I pay?”. If we imagine some evil exec deciding to sell user data, once that inevitably leaks it is much easier for the users to decide to switch to another search/email provider (which would have much easier time surviving, not having to compete with free). And losing users means losing advertising appeal, so both streams of revenue would be lost simultaneously.
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I wonder why. BLM is on record for murdering 60+ people last year.

BLM is on record for causing billions of dollars of damage last year.

Oh let's not forget that the BLM's founder literally blew up the fucking capitol in the 70s.

FUCK BLM!
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100W is a lot. It is a couple of very old incandescent bulbs or ten 60W equivalent LED bulbs.
That doesn't disprove my point at all.
Can you please show me where in my comment above I say that "science is "opinion
of experts"?

If I haven't said that in my comment, would you say I'm obliged to reply to your
comment and explain why I'm not, in fact, "doing it wrong"?

Do you agree that when having a conversation one should reply to what one's
interlocutor has actually said, and not what one thinks has been said?

>> Science isn't about authority or expertise. It's about evidence, critical
thinking, and the scientific process.

I disagree. "Science" means knowledge. What we call science is a process, like
you say, but it is the process of accumulating and organising the collective
knowledge of our civilisation. "Evidence, critical thinking and the scientific
process" are not the essence of science, but tools to acquire knowledge, and
this knowledge is the essence of science.

The people who have deep knowledge of a subject of scientific inquiry, we call
"experts". At least I do and that's what I mean by "expert" in my comment
above. To become an expert -to acquire deep knowledge in a subject- takes long
years of study and familiarity with the work of other experts. "Evidence,
critical thinking, and the scientific process" don't make anyone an expert. Hard
work and applying oneself to the task of learning is what does.

Yet, what I see on HN, time and again, is that it is the opinions of non-experts
that are supported by the majority of users. I say that because every time I see
a post like the one above, where some researchers announce the results of their
work, someone will always, always, jump in and dismiss the work of the
researchers, and that someone usually has no idea what they're talking about,
has spent a minimal amount of time thinking about or learning about what
they're talking about, and their comment will rise to the top of the
conversation, like a flag waving in the wind proclaiming "we do not care what
you know, we can do better with a quick google and some bungled logic". That
such comments rise to the top of conversations means that they are the ones most
other users agree with.

This, the preponderance of inexpert opinion found as the first comment in posts
about researchers' work, dismissing the researchers' work and supported by a
majority of HN readers, is what I think of as "anti-science".
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I dislike Elon Musk as much as anyone but I think it's becoming clear that starlink could turn out to be a very good idea.

What I haven't seen anyone do and something I'd be very interested to see is a comparison of the relative environmental costs of so many starlink launches in contrast to the building and upkeep of last mile connections to the backbone.
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It's not the only valid position, its just the only position that doesn't allow giant corporations to use their power to coerce people with no money to give up their agency.
How can you construe anything I said as defending anything? I was super careful not to do so, my point wasn't even about this particular shooting at all. At some point, when writing or saying anything, you have to rely on the person reading or hearing you to have some baseline of capacity or willingness to understand, which in this case I can only assume you do not have, if you insist (or even imply) that I am somehow "defending" this shooting (or any ideology that led up to it). In fact, it seems that your reaction is exactly what I warn against in the actual point I was trying to make.
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This comment seems disingenuous.

Hughes and Plath were lovers. You know that, others mightn't.
True, I still like it because it's probably the only benchmark focused exclusively on retail investors..

VIX index can provide a more general picture: https://www.cboe.com/tradable_products/vix/
It will rip through them so much worse because it is Delta and they have fewer people with natural immunity.
Yes, and we’ve been over this ground again and again, we should use it until another title gets us paid more. Please don’t ignore economic incentives when thinking something through.
The dataset is too small to “make” any point. 6M years out of 4.5B years( or even more if you expand out into the universe) is a fluke.

The climate can change faster than we can, and we can destroy each other or set each other pretty far back technologically. Either way, there are myriad reasons that the relatively recent past need not be indicative of the future.
It absolutely does, but also leaves me even less inclined to make much of the abstract alone. You clearly have access to the fulltext. I don't, so the abstract and hearsay from others is all I've had to go on. But my concern about a repeated measures study is that that extra power doesn't come for free. It comes along with a bunch of new and subtle ways for endogeneity to sneak into your model, and, sadly, the menu of techniques for dealing with that introduce a lot of new ways to (accidentally or otherwise) engage in p-hacking.

Since a lot of the things that matter happen behind closed doors, and aren't necessarily mentioned in the paper (elsewhere someone quoted Gilman, another of his good zingers is something to the effect of, "You don't talk about your exes during a date."), there's also just too much room for people to fire spitballs from the back row when you've got a complicated design like that.

On the other hand, a successful, independent replication can be quite compelling. Not only that, but it's on philosophically firmer ground. There's a reason why it was so central to Popper's original formulation of the scientific process. It's the empirical way to vet a result. Squabbling over the statistics, on the other hand, frequently devolves into a kind of sophistry with a different mix of greek letters. It's great fun for economists, but this isn't economics, it's science.
Out of curiosity, what does flash refer to in this context?
It will take a few years. We just got over the "written in Go" era.