skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're using "need" in wildly different ways.

You're saying there's a need for storage right now because without it peak demand can't be met by solar.

They're saying you don't need it right now because if you're ok wasting some of the solar power you can still reduce non-renewable use further without adding storage.

It's just two different ways of looking at it.
i think I was not clear (enough). not referring to random pay-day loan worker but people who own stocks through their pension or insurance schemes

this group (which is quite material in the scheme of things) is only remotely linked to their shareholding role.

with important repercusions on both i) how much strict economic value they derive and ii) whether that value is at all compatible with their other sets of values
> Maybe we should sometimes replace these with characters from other cultures?

Isn't that precisely what you're advocating for with angles and the greek alphabet? I don't know about you, but i personally had to learn about greek letters in math classes, and that's something i could have done without, especially when there's other standard means of designating an angle.
I think user karteum brings up good points, but they are more like industry excuses than reasons. It's clearly possible to clean up this mess, but the OEMs and OS vendors simply won't bother since there is no regulatory reason to do it. This move from Germany is a great first step, but it's a step down a long road that the industry will fight at every exit.
This is how I realise that I need to fill my spare time with something other than youtube/reddit/HN.
Probably both buying out their current homes, and providing a more reliable way for them to build equity over their lifetimes.
Literally the only reason I stopped using my last two phones was that the security updates stopped streaming in. Even now they sit in a drawer, perfectly functional, abandoned by Google.
Show HN: Query small data with columnq CLI
It’s all theft. Restitution and fines can be assessed without guilty-until-proven-innocent forfeiture.
Understanding the Decentralized World Through the Crypto Winters
To be fair, I'm pretty sure the term "bus factor" (also known as "lottery factor" for the less morbid version) was invented by developers. I use that term all the time, and think a lot about what would happen if I were "hit by a bus". Maybe grim humor is not your style, but I'd recommend you look past that because that complaint is detracting from your otherwise valid points here.
It's not a coastal thing, its just "any major city" thing. 50k is not enough salary to buy a better-than-median home in any of the major Texas cities (Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio). It might have been enough in El Paso, but probably not since the recent housing bubble.

Sure, not everyone lives in a major city. It doesn't make a lot of sense for a line cook to make $50k in Victoria or Amarillo. But in these places, they are not being paid the ~25-30k which could be equivalent to about $50k in the city (which still isn't enough to buy a house). They are being paid $7.25 an hour and the tips aren't so good.

You totally miss the parents point, which is that most restaurant workers are barely paid enough to rent and eat, to make the point that the US has a diversity of CoL.
It is possible for 99% of civil asset forfeitures to happen to minorities AND for 99% of minorities to not have to deal with them.

Also, If you are a minority, and the police stop you while driving, you are probably more worried about other things like police violence, than civil asset forfeiture (this doesn't excuse civil asset forfeiture ofc)
Ignore no, but if going after one case costs so much that other cases cannot be persued, then some sort of balancing act needs to be decided.

If they feel that the extra money being spent is essentially marketing money to get their name out there that these cases are persued, then they may feel it is justified expenses. After all, we're talking about it. Then again, mabye the first case costs $200k, but the second case will only cost a fraction since the exeprience is there.??
Nope I didn't really. Mental health is no joke.
I've donated from Germany. No police yet, though to be fair I also didn't try to deduct it from taxes. Maybe I should try that and report back.
One more news story that makes me feel like we live in Black Mirror.
4) Use components for which open-source drivers are available.
Phone vendors would then be able to build the drivers from source, possibly reducing the cost of shipping updates.
I mean two of those are agile goals.

Hitting a date by striping features, or a feature with fixed scope but no fixed date.
Waterfall is indeed the domain of valuing covering your ass over producing business value.
If it doesn't encourage developers to build more houses, then it does nothing.

We care more about the number of people housed, not merely just people who are housed who can afford their bills.
I Failed My Startup and Tactical Advice So You Don’t Fail Yours (4 of 4)
From a technical point: How would DNS blocks even work if DNSSEC is used?
Show HN: Age 1.0 – Simple, modern and secure file encryption
A friend and a bunch of her friends had visibly too much time and implement a chat protocol with a server implementation in rust, one in go and one in swift. As well as a client in flutter, rust (iced), Vue and Qt. https://github.com/orgs/harmony-development/repositories
Henry George is a forgotten hero of american history, swept under the rug by today's corporate conservative-v-liberal punch and judy show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George

When he died 100,000 people showed up at his funeral:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George#Death_and_funeral

Can you imagine anyone showing up at an economists funeral today, except to heckle?

It's unfortunate that this project mixes Georgism w/ dehumanized modern architecture. Most people want to live in traditional, walkable neighborhoods, as prices suggest.
My threat model is an un-educated population of people who don't value privacy or care about surveillance. I'll put up with shitty tools in the mean time but can only support those who are building a better future.

I would switch to Gmail and donate my $50/year to EFF.
> the majority of which are foreign purchasers

Nope, the majority of US debt is held domestically: https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-debt-33...
Give me a break.

In 1998, John Glenn went to space when he was 77 years old. Don't tell me that he was physically fit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

There is also a big difference between commercial flights and the ISS where astronauts have to perform spacewalks.

EDIT: NASA may have been messed up but the Soviet Union sent a woman into space way before in 1963.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

EDIT2: There is also a history of space tourism that preceded this era by about 20 years. There was a woman in there as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tourism
> As such, saying "don't self-medicate" is extremely unproductive and only serves to push such practices out of view.

Sure, this is definitely a strawman you could make.

Here in reality I suggested that those struggling with MH conditions shouldn't self medicate.
Someone has identified an especially gullible--vulnerable even--market sector.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/qanon-cult-2651308726

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-fr...
Mailvelope is basically Protonmail's OpenPGP javascript client done as a browser plugin.
Redesigning the Pioneer Plaque
> energy equation of building a city in a desert

Solar and nuclear work great in deserts.

I'd be more concerned about water.
Ebay (used to be) really, really bad for this. Over the course of 2-3 years I changed jobs twice.

On all occasions, a recruiter from Ebay reached out a month or two after I'd started my new job to ask me if I wanted to interview there.
Is Rust as blazing fast as Electron is slow?
> “What happens when the best writer, ever, does VFX for a film?”

My guess would be that somebody who was very good at writing, and also took an interest in visual (or in this case practical) effects, would probably be at least fairly good at it.

Lots of film people are good at more than one thing. I'm not sure what you're getting at with this question.
> Exploration of space began in earnest in 1947

22, 27...either way it's incredible.
One of the wonderful things about rust is it's a nice, modern language with good performance. Electron will be a performance limiting factor.
I wonder if the future of a company like Protonmail is that it has to be open source. Almost like simply an API, no privacy statement, no marketing, just a smart contract. More like UniSwap.
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/mobile/phones/galaxy-xco...

There you go.
The images remind me a bit of Neil Gaiman's MirrorMask[0], which was actually fairly advanced, when it was made.

Odd movie. I liked it a lot. YMMV.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366780/
> If some high quality, widely used and tested code already exists, why not use it instead of trying to reinvent everything?

This is precisely the spirit of free software and the motivation behind movements like public money public code. Govermnets immensely overpay for software (projects).
> what does Protonmail offer in terms of privacy that is better than GMail or Outlook

Encryption. That was always the point. Your emails are stored encrypted, and nobody can read their content except you.

Not sure why some people expected ProtonMail to act as a magical VPN, both truly anonymous and not obeying to any court order, to an unencrypted email account like Gmail.
Why did you guys go out of your way to make the marketing website more restrictive? I can't select any text on the page, or even find out more about your privacy claims. There's a bit of text that looks like a hyperlink but I can't click it.
Ah, the monolithic HN myth again. That's right, let's just ignore that this place has thousands of readers, thousands of commenters, and that there's no thing called "HN" to talk about as it if had intentionality and/or opinion.
The problem is not access, it's the confusion around what journals are for. Researchers use journals for finding information and publishing information. But research institutions use journals as a hedge to avoid having to figure out what is "reputable research / researchers" and what is not. Those are two completely different use cases, so you need a solution to both.

The simplest solution would be to separate those solutions, so there's one system for vetting information and researchers, and one system for finding or publishing information. Those can be different businesses or community-led efforts.

There's also the aspect that publishing does not have to be inherent to access. One thing is finding who can publish; another is vetting their information; another is editing and layout; the final one is publishing. And then on top of that, is access. All of these are discrete steps which can be done independently of the other, by different organizations.

App stores are one example. There's not one company putting out a million apps. They set standards and do curation, but the apps are completely constructed by an outside party. The app store handles publishing and access, but the publishing aspect is mostly just hosting.

Another example is an Operating System. They don't restrict publishing or access, but they do provide a platform on which to do all the things needed to make or use data. Technically you only pay once for access to the platform, and other parties deal with the rest (which may involve payments).
That an outrageous 0.0015% of the estimated 6.8 billion price tag of the 2016 election. Damn Ruskies and their election interference [shakes fist at the sky].

Fun fact, 100k is 0.4% of the price of the Mueller report itself, at 25M.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/election-2016s-price-tag-6-8-bi...

https://time.com/5557693/mueller-report-cost
Their math is wrong. The ISS solar panels plus supporting truss elements mass about 60t or 2KW/t. At the fantastical (unbelievable) $20/kg to LEO that's $10/W. That doesn't include the mass of thermal control elements, maneuvering systems, power conversion, or power transmission system.

Also that's only to LEO which is useless for an SPS since the system wouldn't dwell over any receiver on the ground long enough to transmit a useful amount of power. You'd need all that mass in a geosynchronous orbit which trebles or quadruples that cost.
You can of course install from your package manager [1][2][3][4]. If you're not going to install from your trusted source then I'm not sure curl https://... | bash is really worse than downloading and double clicking a msi/dmg/deb/rpm. Especially if you're not going to verify that or verify it using keys downloaded from the same https host.

[1] Homebrew - https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/...

[2] Arch - https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/rust/

[3] Ubuntu - https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/rustc

[4] Fedora - https://fedora.pkgs.org/34/fedora-x86_64/rust-1.51.0-1.fc34....
NXDOMAIN can't be signed. DNSSEC only insures that a positive answer is traceable to the trust anchor.
Also, the backend of Discord is elixir/Erlang, which is a great fit for a messaging app. To me rust would be a step back.
On the other hand, that's an hour during which none of those managers are bothering programmers.
The naive engineer in me thinks that a baloon floating at 4k-5k meters above sea level, covered with solar panels, would still get most of the efficiency, but would also be cheaper and simpler to build.

Where am I horribly wrong?
Ugh, don't lock the zoom on a mobile page please, especially if you're going to show tiny desktop screenshots.

I was interested, now I've bounced.
This is a great question, more generally what is the expected improvement in the quality of hire conditional on some selection method.

The famous Hunter & Schmidt meta-analysis suggests that only work-sample tests and IQ tests work well enough to use, but it's an old set of studies so hard to know if it still applies.
FYI, putting in heavy partisan asides in comments hurts credibility with neutral readers.

I think you're confusing the DNC and campaign server hacks with Hillary's personal server she used while at State. No indications her personal server was hacked: https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/18/mueller-clinton-arizona-ha...
Thanks for these comments, good to know!
And even tomorrow, if the natural gas is replaced with hydrogen.

A combined cycle gas turbine power plant might cost 10% of a nuclear plant of equal output. So even if we have to back up the entire fricking grid with CC it's still much cheaper than doing it with nuclear.
The temptation of power is always stronger than pay.
NOTE: I am not a physicist.

> They did calculations showing it was impossible

Doesn't mean they couldn't have been surprised by something their calculations didn't take into account. The yield for the Castle Bravo test in the 1950s was 2.5 times what was predicted [0], because some things they didn't take into account turned out to be important (namely that some of the material in the construction of the device would serve as additional fuel to the explosion).

For the first nuclear explosion in 1945, they were initiating an incredibly powerful chain reaction for the first time on Earth. To some extent you just gotta cross your fingers and hope that the chain reaction stops according to your predictions, because you don't know what the "unknown unknowns" are until you try it. The combination of "chain reaction" and "unknown unknowns" is frightening.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo
A very capable smartphone currently costs ~200€, so if prices rise by 50% (an unbelievable amount), that would be 300€. Certainly not nothing, but car repairs or a new dishwasher are much more expensive.

I expect the poorest to benefit the most from extended longevity, since more affluent people "need" the better camera or a more fashionable design the most.

I know quite a few people with >3 year old smartphones, but mostly with custom roms, since stock firmware isn't usable anymore.
There definitely are trends on HN and while they don't fit a 100% of the population, they drive a lot of the opinions and discourse.
So that activist was the leader and social media coordinator of the group.
> 2) Other names on American minorities with a shared heritage is already capitalized, like Latino and Asian.

What is the definition of "shared heritage" such that everyone but Whites have shared heritage?
Electron leverages web-style development, which Qt (or GTK or FLTK, or JUCE, or wxwidgets, or libui ... etc) does not manage to do in any real sense.

If your dev team thinks in web-like terms, Electron is a more comfortable place to be. Better? I'd agree with you that it's probably not.
The Idea of Work, from Below
Or here's my favorite: let someone go through the entire interview process at subcompany (Shipt) only to have your former, embittered, manager (Fuck you, Dave) at the parent company (Target) torpedo your offer.

Don't work for Minnesota companies, kids. Optum, CHR, Target, etc, they all suck with shite culture, bad pay, and poor career prospects.
The EU is not the perfect example of European Unity, congratulations for figuring that out.

Most European institutions are designed by dolling out as much as they get in. That is the inherent way most of these programs work.

Had Britain been part of it, a lot of those factories would be in Britain.

> considerably favoured Germany over those countries

Because Germany has better policy and better discipline. The Euro was a project essentially pushed on the Germans, if the French were to stupid to see this outcome then its their own fault. In fact, French economics have been obsessed with fixed exchange rate regimens for 200 years no matter how many times its proven to be idiotic.

Btw, France and Spain are free to leave the EU and the Eurozone. Its was their choice to join and its their choice to leave.

I have not argued against the claim that the EU or the Eurozone is not beneficial to German. Rather that in this program support is given to a large number of companies all over Europe and is not inherently centralized on Germany beyond what is appropriate with how it is financed.

You have not provided any defense of evidence that everybody of Tesla will be foreign worker either.
I want to talk about code just enough to know you can talk about it. Then, I"m trying to find out if you're curious, knowledge seeking, and refining your craft. I expect everyone I hire to get better over time and on long timespans measured in multiple years these other skills win out over point in time knowledge. Unfortunately, really identifying curiosity and growth mindsets is also hard.
The bill of rights doesn’t actually give you rights. The premise of the bill of rights is people have rights superior to the government and the government is explicitly required to respect certain rights as listed as well as respect other rights and authorities not explicitly listed (9th amendment). In fact the 9th amendment explicitly forbids construction of a rationale by the government to deny rights, listed or not listed.

Of course, I’m only a citizen of the United States, not a gov’t official or attorney or judge. So naturally my plain reading of the Constitution and the writings surrounding its adoption are JustMyOpinion. Considering the government’s resources are far superior its best to kowtow to the government’s interpretation should one run afoul of such things and hope that due process will sort it out eventually.
> Due to Proton’s strict privacy, we do not know the identity of our users, and

That is not something I'm ready to believe.

I remember trying to sign for a protonmail account a while back.

At some point in the process, they do ask for a valid cell phone number, which, unless you go to the length of getting a burner (not easy in many European countries except maybe the UK) basically means they know exactly who you are.

When I saw this, I walked away.

> under Swiss law, Proton can be forced to collect information on accounts belonging to users under Swiss criminal investigation.

There's complying with the law like a good little sheep, and there's acceptable civil disobedience.

In this specific instance, proton should have taken the latter approach.

Take the fine, go to court, fight the injunction tooth and nail, make sure that even if they lose, the Swiss govt. knows the kind of fight and waste of time and money they're in for each time they come knocking.

They just bent and complied like good little boys.

Now their business model is compromised, serves them right.
It just sounds like a scrum of scrums on a tricky project.
I'm on a major project now where there are 80-90 people across around a dozen workstreams trying to stay coordinated on a fast moving project in a highly regulated industry. We usually wrap in 20-30 mins but it has definitely taken hour in the past just due to the sheer number of interdependencies and hard gates.
I'd also argue that lack of software support has got to be one of the primary reasons phones get refreshed at the rate they do. I keep my phones until the vendor stops shipping software updates. If today's iOS remained compatible with past devices, I'd probably still be using my iPhone 3. There's no reason it doesn't have to, either. Apple and other phone vendors deliberately choose to drop software support for hardware they consider "too old".
They don't even have to do their own security updates. If they stick to vanilla Android, they have much less work than if they customize the ROM for every one of their devices. There might even be an industry-wide push for Google to make it easier to update phones independent of firmware blobs (beyond project treble), because suddenly there will be financial incentive to push as much work/effort onto the most obvious candidate.
The problem isn’t the capitalization of Black, which as you point out has good reason behind it - it is being used as a proper name for a group. The problem is that White is being used the same way and yet isn’t being capitalized.
> You are turning the exceptional case and pretending it is the usual case.
A small team of smart people all working together with a shared goal, a clear vision, flexible roles, open communication with subject-matter experts, and a manager who acts as a shield against external forces (obsessive changes, design by committee) and as a provisioner of resources to the team?
The UI is bad but also amazing at the same time. Am I getting old?
I love black and white websites and the text made me laugh
What kinda sick hell is this
I fail to see the point of a curated-but-unmaintained list when you can just go to the GitHub actions marketplace, where at least there are community stars that let you know how popular a given action is.
IMO the problem is that France use anti-terrorists law against environmental activist. It is not the first time it happens, and I bet that it will happen again.

If I were an environmental activist, I would definitely step up my operational security.
Why not the fifth entry? That seems similar to the highlighted ones.
But Rust runs on the server while Electron runs on the client. You can't compare them like that!
I'd go further and say I actually do like them. It is a kind of programming where instead of the humdrum realities of your daily work you can focus on pure ideas to solve abstract problems, which is fun to me. Besides that, as a self taught developer, they've given me the chance to prove myself on a level playing field and to measure my progress over time.