skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World’s Longest-Operating Solar Thermal Facility Retiring Most of its Capacity
Do you have any large studies demonstrating the effects of intermittent fasting on focus, versus eating three times a day?
I wonder why they would repackage a Windows ISO rather than a Linux one. My bet is the software that is in these ISO's only runs on Windows? Otherwise it would seem that a Linux distro would be the perfect candidate for something like this.
It's not a quote from Peter Thiel, but from some unnamed confidante, but you're right, it's not something the headline editor made up.
Lots of SaaS services, like Google sheets, go the quick and dirty route: one central database and the UI displays a view which you all work on together. That's not collaboration imho - and no dev shop would accept that as a reasonable way to work (lets work on the code in a google doc!).
Show HN: Death Calculator
Simple "death calculator" using data from CDC & other sources. Suggestions on how to improve/develop please!
I’m not super familiar with kotlin, but swift does the same thing you’re describing so i get where it’s useful. My beef is with including metadata about the executable block (parameter names) inside the block. So per your example:

f(5) { square(it) }

My preference would be to tag the fn signature on the outside of the braces, something like:

f(5) [(x)->int]{ square(x) }

I’d also accept ||, (), or nothing as the delimiters around the fn signature. Key point is that it’s OUTSIDE the executable block.

I’m not opposed to using some smarts to infer/simplify the expression when possible. I.e. if it’s a closure with inferable parameter and return types the “it” construct could be used (in swift they use $0, $1, $2 etc for unnamed parameters). Just the only thing inside an executable block {} should be code that gets executed - not type information about that block
Right, and the only way to do it is to start. Action is the only thing that matters in the transition. But we should realize that it’s not at all hopeless. Post-WW2, our electricity production used to double about every decade or so, so we ARE capable of quickly scaling. We just have to BUILD.
You may see a material improvement in wifi usability if you can figure out a way to use an Intel or Qualcomm wifi chipset over the Alfa, aka Realtek chipset. You probably need an M.2 slot somewhere though.

Not every wifi radio is made the same. In particular, they seem to cope with the ambiguity of received packet collisions differently, and Realtek and Mediatek receivers don't do as well.
I fully agree. Energy, particularly gas, is certainly seen as geopolitics in the Kremlin.

That being said, I think the focus should be on (massively!) building out wind/solar/nuclear/transmission/storage, allowing Europe to tackle both climate change and dependency on a not-entirely friendly Russia at the same time.
>but also only having the number there when you're online?

If you make that clear, and explain why, I think it would be a good idea. If nothing else, it might even encourage me to call with ideas if I knew you were physically going to answer the phone.
The trick to being lucky in my opinion is quit while you're ahead. If you have a hundred million for God's sake pull ten out and keep it in a safe place.
Blogger is so underrated ... great platform. In my opinion the most valuable free service from Google after Search.
Hasn't the US done all those things in recent, say 30 years, memory?

Edit: election fraud in other countries
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I never said that, a sibling in this thread did.
My point was not to defend the crime rate in the US, but to address a question that a person from Russia asked - why does it sound like living in NYC is like watching some Western movie, whereas the same cannot be said about Moscow?

It sounded strange, because all it takes is a few YouTube searches to witness the level of violence that exists in Russia that far exceeds anything you'll see in the US. Russia really is something else in that regard, and if a Russian felt safer at home than in the US, it's simply a product of exaggerated reporting.

If someone living in Munich said that NYC is more dangerous than what they are used to, I wouldn't disagree with them.
Penson's 3rd Edition of “Heathkit: A Guide to the Amateur Radio Products” Is Out
> Yes, but without the word "play" (because you can't play it without paying for it),

You can play any F2P game without paying for it.

> it becomes "free to", which doesn't make any sense, or if you DO pay money, it becomes "to play" which sounds like toupee. Which is another kind of scam,

This doesn't make any sense.

> Free to play is a scam if you need to pay to actually win

You don't.

> except that relies on Apple's review process being any good, but as we see here, that's clearly not true.

F2P means it does not cost money to play. All F2P games allow you to play without paying money. These complaints are strange, but definitely founded in some sort of confusion. I would encourage you to downloaded pretty much any F2P game - you'll find you can absolutely play it right away!
The most likely case is that Firefox <65 still doesn't work (browsers almost always only fix bugs in new versions), and the question is whether or not it's still worth supporting the portion of traffic on pre-2019 Firefox.
The description might not be good enough, but I have to write something. It's used by many companies and projects. And the design is described in github readme, it's rather long to tell here. Thanks!
How many cases in the control group are we talking about when there were only about 1,100 kids in it?

Also, why is it believed that the vaccine is "very effective" against breakthrough infection in children when that is not the case for other age groups, where the story is "doesn't prevent infection but it works against severe illness"?
> It's almost like there's something cultural happening in America that's making everyone assume the worst when interacting with people they don't know...

My take on this is that most US firms have outsourced first tier tech support to non-native English speakers who have fairly useless scripts they have to run through. You're dealing with a human (sometimes), but it's about the equivalent of dealing with a robot. It's hard to remember to have empathy when whatever you say is met with a standard, often nonsensical readout of the next thing in their script. So I think we've trained people to expect a horrible first tier experience.

That said, I've done a lot of B2B enterprise software support and have found exactly the same thing as you. Initial emails or calls will come in and the tone is aggressive and impatient. I think this stems from the assumption that the response will be useless (until maybe it gets escalated 3 times to someone actually useful). But when you respond as a capable human who legitimately is trying to help them out (and not just pass them on to someone else), suddenly the tone totally changes and you have wonderful interactions. People are incredibly appreciative. Nobody is used to a support person actually solving their problem. Hell, they're not even used to someone replying to them at all most of the time. The bar is on the floor. So when you exceed that bar and actually help someone quickly and efficiently, they turn into super fans.
It all sounds so childish to me as a current atheist. Like, who's sports team are you a fan? If not mine, then you're against me.

In fact, an API that allows access to a religious text should be useful for everyone - even those detractors of said religion.

Next up, we need a legal code API and versioning.
They are a net exporter because they have to sell their wind/solar power for cheap when they have too much of it, but are then forced to buy nuclear/hydro power from their neighbors when their coal power plants are not enough to compensate the ramp-up in demand and/or the lack of wind/sun.

France could be electrically self-sufficient, Germany couldn't -- whether they would depend on FR/BE/NL/... being irrelevant.
In this case I'd argue this is more than just the usual iterative fodder. The architecture itself is not the interesting part, it's the evidence that many decent architectures exist and performant networks don't have to be analogous to human visual systems (CNNs). How do they stay motivated? 1) the pursuit of knowledge 2) publishing as a way to gain prestige and climb up the career ladder
Let's Build Blog with Authentication in Phoenix [video]
In an ideal world, seizures should be escrowed until a proof comes to light. And if innocent, they amount to a loan so the entity who did the seizure should pay interest along with the restitution.

(Sadly in reality even when innocent, it's hard to get the assets back without a legal battle.)

EDIT: typos.
In my defence I wasn’t the first comment - but I was waiting for a series cloudformation templates to apply so had a few spare minutes - hence I picked up my phone and left a comment - I’ve bit come back since so I’m surprised to see this comment has kicked of a lot of chat
Hah! I had the same thought. I proposed that after Y2K we shift all the old COBOL programmers to decoding the human genome, as 30-year-old code bases are the closest thing we have.

In a few years I should make the same proposal but for all the Enterprise Java developers.
"virtually nobody treats Excel seriously like a programming language."

Because Excel was not Turing complete until recently.
Visible's tethering is limited to 5Mbps (according to their pricing page). Have you been getting more than 5Mbps tethering? Do you do anything to get around tethering speed limits?

Deprioritization can be hard in some areas. Verizon has the most customers and the least spectrum at the moment.
I patched Python to include this great Ruby feature
> When the deck is completely stacked against you, going outside the rules is not "illegal".

Yes it is. Things are "illegal" when they're in the law book, regardless of which law they're breaking and what they're standing up for.
V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome, is fully open source. Many projects (including node.js) use it.
Did you include the $699 wheels in that?

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-w...
Buy high and sell low is not a strategy that's improved buy scaling it up.
Sorry, not trying to pierce your privacy, it was merely a factor on the discussion. Also, I don't use twitter for various reasons, so couldn't read the blurb there.
> they tend to seek part-time employment arrangements

Do you have a source for that?
Hello -

I think this news may be of interest to anyone who enjoyed building Heathkit electronic kits many years ago.

I downloaded the sample PDF that Chuck provides. It's a great source of detailed and historical information on Heathkit products.
The above poster asked you to clarify your point in good faith and this is how you respond? Clearly he was asking for details about how vegetarianism would produce a more robust food supply.
Ask HN: How do I make the largest positive climate impact with dev/CTO skills?
I am running an indie SaaS company and I intend to continue that work for next 2-5 years. However, it's becoming clear to me (especially after becoming a father) that I want to do something that is good for the climate. So I am spawning a background thread in my brain that will ponder what that means in the long run.

I can't do politics even if that is possibly the most important factor. I don't have any skills and I certainly don't have the desire. I also don't know anything about physics or chemical engineering etc. I think those are skills I could obtain but say I want to capitalize on the developer/CTO skills that I have amassed over two decades, where should I be working to maximize my impact?

I am slowly educating myself on renewable energy, battery tech, carbon capture and things like that. There are so many frontiers and since everything needs software, I feel that I should be able to help.

Should I create a company/NGO that creates software for a sector? Or should I try to join something existing and what would that be?

Alternatively, where should I start looking? Is there a publication or podcast that I should subscribe to?

I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas!
I totally forgot all the time I used to invest back in the day in working around those IE quirks. At one point I drew stats and figured out we spent a quarter of our frontend development budget on IE compatibility. Thanks for the memories.
Interesting! Could you say a bit about what you think might come next? Or from a different angle, the pain points you have that make you think a rewrite in a new stack is preferable?
the words physically is generally not considered synonymous with financially.
It happened to me. The only signs leading up to it were asking me to use a project management tracker a few weeks before and my manager asking me a month before if I was happy working on the project I was on.

My output wasn't great, so I wasn't shocked, but I'd gotten so little feedback about it that I assumed that low output was normal. It was a small company, and they person doing HR said they had no idea it was going to happen, so I think it was a quick decision. I was pretty bitter because of that, and that I was 9 months in after taking a large pay cut, and no options vested yet.

That place went on to do random firings for a year.
I wonder if we have the milling capacity on hand to convert feed maize to corn meal for a one- or two-year crop shortage. It needs to be milled and nixtamalized before it's fit for human consumption.

It might be more efficient to distribute it as feed and just raise a bunch more egg layers in suburban lots. Probably faster than trying to stand up a bunch of mills right quick, too.
Germany is a net-exporter of electricity

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
How incredibly insensitive.
Inaccuracy in US Economic Data
Show HN: Get 70 Years of Historical Weather Data via API
I feel like a lot of people choose permissive licenses due to inertia while not really understanding them.
>I am shaking my head. Is this the future we are entering? Drones delivering coffee?

Like it or not as wages creep up relative to "things" these sorts of business models will become economically viable.
Electrolysis is extremely inefficient. It's unlikely to be a practical means of grid scale energy storage any time soon.
It's sad that after nearly 50 years, the way we write programs has not changed. We still use keyboards and write code one line at a time. Sure, there are auto-complete extensions and helpers, but the basic idea is still the same: write your instructions for the computer to perform them.

When it comes to making programming approachable for the masses, it's actually kinda funny to think that Excel (and spreadsheets in general) have been way ahead of traditional programming software.

I hoped that new tech (AR/VR/etc) would help shift the focus from "typing" programs to "drawing" programs. But efforts to visualize programming only remain at the conceptual level and never gained traction.

It's hard to imagine 100 years from now we will still be typing code.
On the contrary, there's plenty of literature indicating a range of effects on lab rats and so on:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=microwave+exposur...

This is not to say that low power microwave exposure is worse than exposure to pollution, unhealthy food, risks of car accident.

But it would be incorrect to say that microwave transmissions are free from risks.
I get that there's a lot of anxiety involved in firing someone. But at the end of the day (lol) you still have an office to go to tomorrow, they don't.

Source: Been on the receiving end of 2 layoffs (dot-bomb and covid), it _reeeaaaallllyyyy_ sucks to be fired in a down market, like "how am I going to feed my family, how much is in the bank, and when is the mortgage/rent due" level of suckage.
This may be a very naive question, but is there a way for someone who is not knowledgeable about all the internet security issues discussed here of checking if my IP address is, in fact, being leaked when I'm using my VPN service?
There is an old joke. Robbery, except with a badge instead of a gun.
I recommended exploring this approach here <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998733>:

> Hot tip for handling office file formats or anything that uses a ZIP container: just unzip them and commit _that_ to the repo.

Even modern (zipped XML-based) office file formats do make some limited use of binary blobs. You can either keep these intact, or write a small objdump-like tool that serializes them to text†. For portability, it might be best to write the serializer/deserializer in JS dumped into a thin HTML wrapper, so you pretty much anyone can double click to "run" it. (My experiments on roundtrippability with including that file in the ZIP container yielded poor results.)

† I've used this strategy for Oberon .rsc binaries. Due to Wirth's affinity for single-pass compilers, the Oberon toolchain doesn't involve a discrete assembler or AOT linker tool, so there is no assembly format or linker scripts. However, Wirth's distribution of the Oberon system does have an ORTool utility <https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/ORToo...> (in the vein of objdump/readelf/nm) that will dump a textual description of the binary you give it. I realized that with some slight tweaks, you can use the output of ORTool.DecObj as a de facto "assembly" format—just write a tool capable of parsing it and then write out the corresponding binary.
I tend to agree. I prefer design drafts (documents) instead of pair programming, though.
Oh I don't disagree, I'm only pointing out that this has been going on for years. On any year I purchase ~$200 at most from Amazon now, and usually only items I can't find somewhere else

"Amazon Branded"/"Fulfilled by Amazon" and whatever other tier exists isn't a distinction I care to make
> The volume would decrease rapidly with depth but the available oxygen per breath would increase to compensate.

> Unless you have something specific to correct?

Firstly, how would you bring the highly buoyant bubble of air underwater, in a controller manner?

But let's say, for the sake of argument, that you could.
Even though the volume of the bubble would indeed decrease with depth (e.g. it would halve at 10m), the volume of each breath would remain roughly unaffected by depth. This is the reason scuba divers deplete their air supply faster the deeper they go.

The amount of available oxygen per breath is irrelevant. Even at sea level the exhaled air is about 16% oxygen (down from 21%). Giving the body access to more oxygen per breath won't make the air supply last longer[*].

[*] Interestingly, there's a point at which oxygen becomes toxic. The circumstances in which this happens is well outside the parameters of this discussion, however. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity#Underwater
There was a post last week about a weather API, so I thought I'd share mine as we had some major updates.

This is a historical reanalysis data (ERA5 from ECMWF) post-processed for fast time-series access. The primary dataset is a gridded (0.25 x 0.25 lat/lon) dataset covering the entire world so the data can be extracted for any arbitrary location. Later this year, a higher resolution dataset (0.1 x 0.1 lat/lon, about 9km x 9km) will also be added.

I've been working on this because I believe having access to historical weather is important for us to understand how climate is changing where we live. I'm not a programmer by training so it's a little rough around the edges but I believe it's the largest repository of weather data outside the primary sources, with 50+ weather parameters covering 70+ years with hourly resolution. It should be about 10~100x faster than getting the data directly from the source, and without having to deal with NetCDF/GRIB formats.

All in all, it's about 100~200TB of data that's been post-processed/chunked to Zarr format, with about 1TB/day on-going. Current users are mostly analysts who occasionally need large volume of data and don't really have time to go to the primary sources. We've just rolled out a feature to request multiple locations also request regional data (returns the data in NetCDF format) although most users seem to be happy with querying for single locations at a time.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Exactly—it’s a business issue. There are likely SLAs for support Roku or Samsung devices as well as the enterprise fleet you mentioned.
Oh, yeah, sorry, I guess that's not so clear. Just install, and you start on the free tier.
> The demise of blogging and the crap that is social media are both due to the same combination of two factors: zero friction to create content and instantaneous, perhaps wordwide feedback on whatever you create. Serious writing just isn't designed to work in this kind of world. You'll be drowned out by emotionally-manipulative crap and then people will build engines to churn out even more crap faster that's even more manipulative.

I spent the better part of a half hour trying to find a blog post a read about a month ago that talked about this very thing. It was one of the reasons why I stopped writing my old blog and moved to one where I effectively ramble on for my own amusement.

I think that this is one of the biggest changes in the web in some time. Content is being produced for search engine placement and social media aggregation. Once someone hits a site and the ad loads the content has done its work. The author of the piece doesn't care if you found it interesting or informative. That is irrelevant. They got your click.

Facebook and Google exacerbate this issue by owning the ad services that these sites use. It is a closed system that just feeds on itself.
What about Spanish deserts for starters?

Germany might get more kWh per euro invested in the panels it it was to construct them there, though of course it wouldn't be with german workers.
What kind of monster puts potatoes on a pizza?
>Does this include VPN-ing through some service that can understand duplicates and clean them up?

Based on other comments here, I think that's exactly what Speedify is.
if I am inconsistent how can I trust the conclusion that I am a machine considering that my desire is to not to be?
The Drone Industry's Politicization
I'm not an expert, but I became aware of this paper recently:

"A Battle of Network Structures: An Empirical Study of CNN, Transformer, and MLP"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.13002.pdf

I can't understand the technical jargon, but my interpretation is that MLP turns out to not be as good as CNN / Transformer. Maybe someone with more expertise can weigh in!
> that is not in good faith

I did not say that. I am sure that CRConrad is acting in good faith.

> but you are fine with

Yes, I explained why I said it in the post that you are replying to. My biggest mistake was using sarcasm to convey the message I guess.

Anyway, it would be nice if you focused on the essence of my post instead of the weak presentation of my last point.
How to Make Procrastination Your Superpower
Not always true. Especially for something running on client devices. You can't expect an app maker to own every possible device their code is going to run on.

Now maybe Google could do something like that, but 99% of people couldn't.

There's also, in this case, a question of if anyone is still using the device/browser/whatever. It sounds like they know removing the workaround will in fact break that use case, they just don't know if they should care or not.

The third party in this case might be Grandpa Joe. You can't exactly ask him to use the beta version of X and see if it's broken. Or if he's still on Firefox vOld.ancent.
18 cases. I'm not sure I understand your point about breakthrough infections in other groups; do you mean that a significant percentage of vaccinated individuals are getting infected, compared to unvaccinated individuals?