skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar thermal inherently has built in storage: the molten salt heated during the day continues to provide energy through the night.

> Even the link you provided has thermal storage as a component of the system-- you need to figure out how to dispatch electricity at night.

This is referring to the thermal storage of the molten salt tower.

What I'm getting at is why is solar PV -> electricity -> thermal storage preferable to solar mirrors -> thermal storage. Is solar PV less expensive than mirrors?
Pew research estimated ~700 million are interested were the borders to be completely opened.
By either definition because I am pro getting the vaccine but anti forcing others to take the vax against their will I am anti-vax? New or old definition this is still a HUGE problem and should not be acceptable in a society that values freedom.
NAT works for some use cases, not so well for others.

I know a database that's updated every night via a server-to-server connection that passes five levels of NAT, and when that crontab broke someone had to fix it by finding and correcting a bug in a 1500-line NAT configuration on one important router where the consequences of a mistake would be very bad indeed.

It works in the sense that the database is updated, but I cannot help thinking of Truth 3 in RFC1925.
That's actually the whole point.

In the 80s you had one small stereo CRT TV.. now you may have a 8k wall with 12.1 thx++ sound system.

Yet I bet 10$ a movie theater is still different.

It's not the technical merit, it's going somewhere else, public place, size of the room.. ambiance.
Right. Good decision making when in trouble is a hard problem. AI is still very bad at "common sense", which I sometimes define, for robotics, as "getting through the next 30 seconds without screwing up".
They should probably just special case uBlock Origin at this point. It's too important an extension to allow it to be limited.
I paid the $250 and it's an incredible time saver for prototyping & making decent looking, fully responsive internal apps for clients. Based on the number of billable hours saved, it's paid for itself many many many times over.
Most families that hunt for meat, including mine, are not wealthy. We are not talking about sport hunters, we are talking about subsistence hunting. It's still very common in large swathes of America. Just looking around for the lowest prices possible, the cost of steel shot is more than double the cost of lead shot for #3 shells (commonly used for waterfowl). For #00 shells (used for deer and medium game) it's more than three times as expensive. Ammo costs add up quick, as you need to practice with the same shells you hunt with.

Working in tech, I can afford to buy higher quality and more expensive things, and the ammunition I use is no exception. But for many people it's not really within their budget. Lead is cheap, it's one of the main reason its used to make projectiles in the first place.
All the complications with federation and fitting poorly-defined "communities" into well-defined servers, and the author's idea of "neighbourhoods", are incredibly prone to failure. From experience, I only got along with a few people in such small "communities", and, at best, felt no connection whatsoever with the rest; thus I can only reject the idea that having a small and rigid community is ever a good idea. I seriously think that having to pick just one community, and then manage everything via a community, is the cause of most moderation/administration/management/etc disasters on the Fediverse.

Servers should just be public utilities, and no further associations should be given to them; leave the people who use them to decide what a community is!
Was hard to find the J&J page (parent commenter linked to Pfizer), and I can't find anything about Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

In my view, the CDC site seems to be designed to promote confidence and authority, and hide any reason for doubt.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/jansse...
Thank you for that. I hadn't seen that case before. I sued the State here in Illinois a couple of years ago because I tried to FOIA some statutes and was rejected under the copyright exemption. The State even had their database admin come to testify that they paid thousands of dollars a month to LexisNexis. I cited all the previous district court and appellate rulings (from other circuits), but ultimately lost.
No you have to understand, as long as a company doesn't commit enough crimes to be literally run out of business, we have to pretend it is good for some reason.
Setting the record straight about Web3
I believe the next article in the series will explain it, but you can search google for "tax incidence land value tax" to find an explanation as to why. The short answer is that if you pass on the lvt to the tenant that means you just increased the land rent, so the land value goes up and then the land valye tax goes up. You can't repeat that into perpetuity because the tenant is already paying as much as they can afford (in aggregate). So you lose your tenant if you try to pass it onto them.
I don't think any CEO will be as good as Jack. He was the founder and had lots of control so he could at least steer Twitter towards some goal he had in mind. He wasn't trigger happy either. Now corporate interests will prevail and Twitter will likely get a lot worse than it is now.
The golden handcuffs can be pure torture. Your soul is being ripped out daily as the new leaders destroy anything that was great about the place. You go to an event and you can't even recognize the place anymore; interlopers everywhere and you're the outsider. You smile and cheerfully agree with them about "how amazing the culture is here" even though they've ruined it already.

But you're 2 months away from an early RSU grant from vesting you a few hundred thousands dollars on top of the ISO's you haven't cashed out yet. But eventually the right opportunity comes your way and everyone is shocked you're leaving like you were when a legendary person left 6 months earlier. You take a pay cut and probably worse benefits and more ISO's than you could imagine to join that series a or b startup you connected with as soulmates and it's going to be OK.
So, best to ignore it, keep consuming, go to Church or say you do, and celebrate Independence Day like it means something, yes? People should be sent down that rabbit hole until they are so sick of it, they actually get off their asses for change and then maybe the US can be a tiny bit better than other countries. "Angry and sad", needs to turn to "furious and motivated".
Davy Crockett nuke was a point-and-shoot rocket launcher.

A bag makes some semblance of sense: you are intending to run away before the bag goes off. That's not the case with Davy Crocket: you almost certainly will be exposed to the radiation.

EDIT: Hah. Apparently the Davy Crockett used that W54 you were talking about as the warhead.
> Does this mean that the employer now has effectively full control of the person's home?

Yes, this is not hard to understand is it?

I guess they don't, they can only fire you if you don't comply.

All workplaces should be assessing how people work at home. If you have to walk to the kitchen to make coffee, then that has to be assessed. Noise from other parts of the house needs to be assessed. Your chair should be assessed.

It's your workplace, they are your employer. Else make them contractors.

Remote work is not just a cool HN cult word, it means things. Even if you don't agree you should understand as an adult in a job this is how the world works. Falls on stars walking to a work desk have been claimed in other countries, this is not new. The 'commute' bit is interesting, but I assume that's just because the insurance company was trying not to pay because the worker was not at work yet.

> Even if die in the arms of a prostitute

This attitude is bullshit. When I travel for fun I have insurance. If you employer makes you travel they also should have insurance, I can do what I want in my unpaid time away for work but I don't want to be there, I want to be home, at home I have less risk than in this new place. We understand it's more expensive away from home, we should also understand there's more risk.
We aren’t running out of easy energy, $/kwhr solar is now the cheapest energy source ever developed by humanity.

Had the west actually supported building things instead of supporting NIMBY-isms, we would be even faster on our way to TWhr installations.
Renewable energy has pushed the spot market prices for electricity into the negative last year in germany and UK. Soaking up that energy and reselling it later may be viable at low efficiency.
It's not so straightforward. While there are solid copper projectiles available in some jurisdictions, most lead-free projectiles have been decried by gun control activists as "cop killer bullets". Lead is extremely soft, and thus uniquely bad at penetrating body armor. Projectile composition is heavily regulated in the US, ironically in favor of the continued use of lead projectiles.
Other than autocomplete, I would also suggest using this cheat sheet to help you: https://nerdcave.com/tailwind-cheat-sheet
Cheaper for some, more expensive for others.

Even though you aren't likely to build a petroleum distillation column in your apartment, you don't mind helping to pay for the ongoing R&D involved in producing the engineering codes governing that equipment? For esoteric stuff like that, I kind of like the user-fee model. If we all pay, it feels like another subsidy to (in this case) oil and gas companies.
I don’t think you’ll find a better return on investment than working through The Elements of Computing Systems (https://www.nand2tetris.org/) which recently got a second edition. It won’t teach you how to make a rendering engine, or even necessarily any data structures or algorithms, but it will give you a big-picture understanding of the practical fundamentals (literally “what is a computer and how does it really work?”) which you can then use to direct your own learning based on what you want to know next.
The idea that today’s innovations are incremental and the innovations of the past were leaps is not quite right.

History of technology is a hobby of mine and I have been struck by how incremental all the big innovations of the past really were, once you take the trouble to look into what was going on at the time.

Also, it takes decades to assess how important an innovation. And in the early stages all new things are much less impressive than the things they mature into.

So recent history seems always less impressive, and also more incremental because we have all the context of how new things arose.
Great. I have heard "anecdata evidence" that sometimes poetry fails to install a combination of packages or something along those lines, did you find any of those shenanigans in your own experience?
Steel shot is terrible. I don't know exactly why, but I have seen geese have the feathers blown off of them, you can see them shiver in the sky as they get pelted, and the will wobble and shrug it off. Usually to get just far enough away that they die in a place where they are irretrievable.

Lead would stagger them enough that they'd go right down. The newer bismuth and tungsten rounds are almost as good, but at something like $5/round, it's absurd.
This is the approach that I take! (Note: I write graphics and rendering code for a living. "Good enough" for me tends to mean quantizing to either identical pixels at the display bit depth or at least perceptually identical pixels. Also, I usually do see a measurable performance benefit to -Ofast over -O3 or -O2. YMMV.)

Just like cranking the warning levels as high as I can at the beginning of a project, I also like to build and test with -ffast-math (really -Ofast) from the very beginning. Keeping it warning-free and working under -ffast-math as I go is a lot easier than trying to do it all at once later!

And much like the warnings, I find that any new code that fails under -ffast-math tends to be a bit suspect. I've found stuff that tends to break under -ffast-math will also frequently break with a different compiler or on a different hardware architecture. So -ffast-math is a nice canary for that.
It hasn't been mentioned yet how Lenovo preinstalled malware on their machines in 2014-15. There isn't really anything that can redeem that sort of behaviour in my eyes. Also they've used Uyghur forced labour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_inci...

https://theintercept.com/2020/08/21/school-laptops-lenovo-ch...
Steel. At least in my state, lead shot is illegal to hunt with, but you can use it for clay pidgins.
One option is to just move away from browsers entirely. We can take some of the good things. Like maybe a small subset of HTML and web assembly. Add some minimal IO to web assembly.
Thank goodness it’s not just me who has noticed the two are quite different!
> I've seen people using telegram to post messages to their Roam graph,

I've so far gone the other way: I use the share sheet on my phone to share to myself on Telegram.

If you could get something like that working it would be super smooth. That said I have already subscribed.

I hate subscriptions but the pricing was reasonable enough to let my urge to support it win.
Firefox has already been forked multiple times because of decisions from Mozilla, see [Pale Moon](https://www.palemoon.org/) or [Waterfox](https://www.waterfox.net/). Few people use those forks, for the simple reason that what has been removed from Firefox is not game-changing enough to mandate an exodus. However I agree that removing support for uBlock Origin will surely be another story.
Here is the original research: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/50/e2102144118
Wouldn't those all apply to a simple stateful firewall too?

I mean, clearly OP doesn't need to worry about the lack of NAT, but not having gone through all of the things listed on that list, I would assume that they all require an active participant behind the NAT/firewall, and would still be required for just a plain old stateful firewall (assuming you don't have the ports open) when you want to communicate with some other endpoint behind another firewall.
Glad to see Revolution OS in the list! Helped me get through times in grad school when I'd get stuck on something working on my thesis. Grab a bowl of ramen and put this movie on!
Polarization and Tipping Points
Painting.

God loves museums and art galleries, and she often hangs around them, sipping a cup of coffee (one cream, two sugars).
50 years of casually playing and I had no idea. As soon as you described it I knew what you were talking about though.
The browser team could implement the ad blocker itself, instead of relying on third-party code. But even the apparently-best one of those (Brave) has a lousy interface for it.
The Tao of HashiCorp
I love it for just being able to run a quick snippet. I’m not sure if the one minute interaction I give to it can be monetized.
It's like radio presets instead of the full dial. Dial is still available, but a great majority of the time you use the presets.
For global data, search for "covid-19 vaccine" at http://vigiaccess.org/. Be sure to read the long disclaimer on the page.

> VigiAccess was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 to provide public access to information in VigiBase, the WHO global database of reported potential side effects of medicinal products. Side effects – known technically as adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and adverse events following immunization (AEFIs) – are reported by national pharmacovigilance centres or national drug regulatory authorities that are members of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring (PIDM). WHO PIDM was created in 1968 to ensure the safer and more effective use of medicinal products.

The US VAERS database has about 50/50 US and foreign reports. It is simultaneously criticized as unverified (i.e. GIGO) and missing data due to disincentives against reporting. If you have a vaccine lot number, replace the last six characters in this sample query URL, for a summary of adverse events. The raw data can be download and imported into a SQL database for deeper analysis: https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=...

US Vaccine Safety Datalink (the source for the paper in this article) has data from some HMOs. The raw data is not available to the public. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21502240/

> The Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) project is a collaborative project between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 8 managed care organizations (MCOs) in the United States. Established in 1990 to conduct postmarketing evaluations of vaccine safety, the project has created an infrastructure that allows for high-quality research and surveillance. The 8 participating MCOs comprise a large population of 8.8 million members annually (3% of the US population), which enables researchers to conduct studies that assess adverse events after immunization.
Sounds like another vote for using a bow and arrow...
1. FOIA/sunshine requests cover a lot of ground. Tons of stuff that isn't digitized or easily dumped to the internet is none-the-less subject to FOIA.

2. Still more is subject to FOIA but requires by-hand PII filtering before release.

3. TONS of stuff that's not subject to FOIA/sunshine passes through .gov Exchange email servers.
I was at Facebook when the IPO happened and it was a pretty positive experience overall.

We had an all-night hackathon the night before (one of the hacks was to wire into the "Nasdaq bell" button to post an opengraph story) and the whole company was mostly in a "stay focused and keep shipping" mode.

The leadership team shared a few funny jokes each week at the all-hands events leading up to it talking about the roadshow but prep work for the IPO was mostly framed as "this thing we've got to do" and not as some kind of goal. The company was overwhelming focused on the work at hand.

Overall the IPO was cool and I'm sure for many momentus, but as a somewhat newly acquired employee it was mostly a non-event and no one made me feel like I'd missed out by not joining earlier. Everyone was really just starting to feel comfortable at the newish physical HQ and morale was generally high. Most if not all the internal chatter was around the idea that "this journey is 1% finished" and at least everyone I knew there was in "let's do this and move on" mode.

Mark had publicly committed to not selling any shares for at least a year so no one thought he was going to bail or anything.

The stock price then proceeded to fall from $30's to the $10's and despite the on-paper financial hit for many of us it was kind of validating that "those silly people in wallstreet still don't get it" and that we weren't at the end of anything, we were still at the beginning.

As FB then consistently grew for the next 9 years to nearly $400/share there was still plenty of upside so there wasn't much of a pre-IPO vs. post-IPO tribal thing going on either.

In short, the culture was never built around "let's get this thing to IPO" so it wasn't really impacted negatively by reaching that milestone.
I don't think they're disagreeing with you, just saying that one cannot "ask smallpox" because it's already eradicated.
I think this is not well understood.

Tailwind is great if you're a startup, or someone who is a webdev and also has to be the designer. But in a large organization, with a company-wide style book, and a design department, it's not a good fit.

Tailwind works for "I see this control in my head, and I'm going to code like this to make it happen." It's not really a good match for "I see this control from the design department, and I'm going to make it fit into the rest of the site codebase like this."
The trend on the "IPv6 Adoption" tab is fascinating. It looks like the inverse of the usual "high traffic during the week, low traffic during the weekend" pattern that I'm used to seeing in traffic graphs.

I wonder why? Is IPv6 adoption significantly higher for residential internet connections vs. corporate networks?
How Wrong Is Veritasium? A Lamp and Power Line Story [video]
Lot of places have banned lead shot for water fowl hunting. California banned lead bullets for hunting. The replacements are steel shot and bismuth for bullets.
Seems like completely made up pseudo-scientific bs?

Edit (due to downvotes):
Like they make up a model based on the past. Probably the model is massively tuned to the past data set. If it makes any testable predictions about the future, I would be very surprised if those predictions ended up being more accurate than chance.
I’d posit that your best value for the dollar is going to be joining both IEEE Computer Society and ACM.

The membership benefits between the two will easily add up to $600 in value, plus you’ll be able to professionally participate in regional or local activities.
Take a look at http://nyxt.atlas.engineer/.

It's written to be extensible/introspectable, and the extension language is Common Lisp.
It depends on whether you consider vaccines and human intervention as part of the 'natural' feedback process that tends to make viruses less severe.

In other words, the high-level theory is that more severe viruses either kill their hosts, or make them so sick that they stop interacting with other potential hosts. A form of social distancing, if you will.

In both cases, the virus is triggering some form of behavior change in its host that reduces its reproduction, providing evolutionary pressure towards milder viruses.

One could argue that the development and wide distribution of a vaccine is just one form of host behavior change, and should be factored in.
> [Amjad Masad] initially doubled down, saying he was doing the right thing. Only as the whole thing escalated more, he back-paddled.

Folks should be allowed to change their mind. How is that a bad thing? Given more input / data, it only makes sense a rational person changes their opinion / outlook.

> Ever since, the way Replit represents itself (as the "revolutionary" new platform) is quite off-putting for me and I've stopped using/suggesting them.

For better or worse, they're going after the next wave of developers. Not you and I:

"Replit wants to build the future, and to build the future, you don't rebuild the old thing for the old customers. You build something new that starts out looking like a toy, and you build for the underserved, not just for moral reasons, but for strategic ones. It's disruptive innovation meets the compounding power of young users."

...

"For example, it means not targeting experienced developers to start, even though they're the more valuable users today. If they've already written their first line of code elsewhere, they definitionally can't write their first line of code in Replit."

https://archive.is/JC3Ux
That’s an interesting direct question, because it definitely depends on one’s worldview.

E.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(virtue)#Overview covers a religious view, but I would also be interested if there were writings by secular folks in the current context of complete nihilism (which seems to have the ‘don’t ask that question’ approach to life).
> How happy would you be if you were an engineer who developed a set of equations ... Then the state government comes along and says "nice work, now it's the law".

Personally, I'd be ecstatic if my work could have such a wide reaching impact as that
Didn't the CEO have some incredibly megalomaniacal tweet where he claimed that Replit was going to replace all software?