skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The very best solar installations have an EROEI of 7.

That sounds like a regurgitation of Ferroni and Hopkirk's analysis, which has been well debunked,

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/67901.pdf

The estimate for EROI of PV IN EUROPE is somewhere around 8, and of course Europe is a terrible place for solar -- the EROI for PV in a sunnier place, like Chile, Namibia, or the middle east, would be nearly twice this. If energy costs were really important, one would not put the PV factory in a place where energy were expensive.

That the EROI of solar is adequate should be obvious because the economic return on investment is good. If solar in Dubai can come in at less than $0.02/kWh then the energy cost (which will always be just a small fraction of the total manufacturing cost) will be reasonable.

Attempts to show PV has bad EROI very often run into methodological problems, extending the system boundaries beyond what analyses of the competing systems use (if you extend the boundary far enough, to the whole society, in steady state the EROI always converges to 1, since all energy produced is consumed somewhere. This is not a meaningful result.)
I was speaking more to the heritability of acquired traits, as that was the context of the discussion. I’m open to learning more about their negative aspects also.
Tamil (in India):

tik tik tik

Citation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tik_Tik_Tik_(1981_film)
> It’s pretty normal for people to talk about Linux as a computing platform. You know this yourself so making the “it’s just a kernel” argument is next level pedantry.

In this case the "pedantry" makes sense because...

> I’d put money on you having one installed and not even realising it (eg gnome-keyring, which is a dependency for many desktop applications even without having gnome installed)

...i do not have such a thing. I use plain Xorg with Window Maker and i have removed anything i deemed unnecessary from my PC.

> The issue isn’t that I don’t understand it.

No you do not understand it because you wrote:

> I mean have you never even used password management in Firefox / Chrome? Avoiding the need of clipboard for sharing secrets is a security and usability feature. Your solution is terrible in comparison and this is precisely why browsers have integrated password stores.

My solution is to *NOT* use the clipboard *exactly* because it is not secure for the reason mentioned in the *linked article*! Which is why i mention a *second* API to exist *alongside* the current one. The only reason i use the term "clipboard" is because from a usability perspective (for both the users and, for the most part, the programmers) the use will be the same so it is the closest to understand.

> Your solution was to add a new API. You stated that explicitly.

Yes i did. I explicitly wrote that new applications can use it, existing applications can be made to support it and with some minimal effort from the user even existing applications that do not support it can be made to do it.

> You then said users should authorise which applications have authority to use that API, that’s a new workflow too.

No i never mentioned that, in fact i never even mentioned how that part would work. Here, this is what i originally wrote: "that you can lock as tight as you want with explicit permissions for reading it, notifications for writing to it and whatever else you want."

> The standard approach (ie that way the industry works, this isn’t something I’ve just made up) allows applications to communicate directly to your secrets store.

Because...

> Plus you still need to copy your passwords from somewhere

...i do not...

> to use your API so why bother with it in the first place?

...refer to just passwords.

This is about *ANYTHING* that can go on the clipboard that can be sensitive. This is about stuff that is temporary. *THIS IS NOT ABOUT PERMANENT STORAGE*.

I already wrote that stuff, gave examples and yet you claim that i am the one who is "stubbornly clinging" to my idea.

How about following the HN commenting guideline about "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith" and using your imagination to try and understand what i refer to instead of calling me stubborn?

If you do that you may realize that what i describe isn't even incompatible with secure stores and can be functionality that is provided by them.
I’m glad you’re willing to sacrifice your fellow citizens jobs.

Very brave of you!
Is web3 really based on blockchain technology? When did we all agree that blockchain has any real value, let alone that it should be the central technology underpinning the next evolution of the web?

Personally, I hope blockchain is overblown. Given the amount of money in it, I know it’s not. It is here to stay in one form or another. But is it really already accepted wisdom that it will underpin the whole web?
I also do this on macOS with Chrome, but I found that if I join mega Zoom call (say hundreds of people) then the video will suddenly freeze after some random amount of time. That makes it unreliable and especially nervous when giving a presentation this way.
> This just drives me nuts. Lat/Lon. That's the answer.
In any kind of graphic design work if you're communicating with printers, pre-press, etc. you say Width x Height.

To me that would make (lon,lat) preferable, then? Longitude would be the width/left-right/x-axis coordinate, and latitude be the height/up-down/y-axis coordinate?

Or maybe I misunderstood, and you just highlighted that we every discipline should have it’s standard and as opposed to stating that geographical coordinates should match the printing and other domains?
Hence my question 2. If you can answer that honestly, and in good faith, at least my personal answer to this follows, and hopefully, eventually, why Rogan's approach is fundamentally invalid; why just asking questions is deceptive.

But even if your perspective differs - I don't expect everyone to follow my lead, of couse - I don't think you're going to understand my reasoning without at least trying to understand and answer that question. In essence - your assertion that it's (implicitly unconditionally) "very healthy to have an enquiring mind" is backed by an assumption I do not share. I know that there are conditions here, and Rogan isn't satisfying those. And the heart of that disagreement is behind question 2.
Sure, but with a toy that simple I would expect it to be a lot older than just a century. But I guess it may be a cultural context thing: in my country some houses were built before Europeans even set foot in North America and the city I grew up in was literally founded by the Romans.

Given how simple the toy is, I wouldn't be surprised to find out it dates back 500 or even 5000 years or more, even if it had to be re-invented several times in between.
No, it's not always that way. There are plenty of libraries mentioned all over this thread that do it the other way, just like in graphics you can't just assume you're in a left or right handed system, and in relativity you can't assume time has the negative sign in the metric. It might be "right" by someone's definition, but it's not universal, so it has to be documented (and there are always extremely important cases you'll run into where people have made the "wrong" choice). Even when it comes to matrix math there are textbooks that treat them as (row, column) and others that go (column, row), it's always best to be explicit.

And yes, negatives make sense and are "legal", by which I mean they pick out locations in a meaningful way and should not be considered out of bounds. What you probably mean is that they are not canonical, and by convention people usually wrap them to points within a certain range. Doing this wrong is a common source of bugs in maps.
There's also the notion that determining the longitude is much harder than determining the latitude. Figuring out latitude is easy if you can measure angles to stars or the sun at noon and is something that people have been doing for quite long. Figuring out the longitude requires an accurate clock and was something that had a lot of strategic value in the seventeenth century. To the point where multiple kings and goverments at the time created rewards to incentivize scientists of the day to work on that problem.
The European Court of Auditors likely do know the numbers for emissions and absolute subsidies. The critique is on how it is being reported in isolation and without consideration of those facts.

Since those facts are missing, the article does not describe how incentives and goals match taxation, carbon pricing and energy subsidies in countries. It does not for example explain how subsidies on heating insulation and heat exchanges compared to subsidies on wind farms, what incentives those gives, how it effects carbon pricing, tax money being given to fossil fuel industries, or ability to reach green goals.

We got countries like Sweden which built their renewable hydro power infrastructure many decades ago, and we got Denmark who relative recently invested a lot in wind power. Denmark has a lot of renewable subsidies, Sweden do not, but what does that actually mean in terms of incentives and goals? Should it not matter that Denmark actually consume more fossil fuels in their energy grid?

Going back to Sweden, the primary consumption of fossil fuel in their energy sector is in terms of reserve energy. Natural gas and oil has mostly been phased out from heating, but there are fossil fuel plants that get paid to keep the engines and employees ready in case of sudden demand. How does those incentives and goals compare to countries which use fossil fuel as part of their daily operations, or where most homes are heated through fossil fuels?

To make a small analogy, the article reads like someone announcing that electric cars are terrible for the environment since they consume 0% bio fuel. If we only look at the amount of bio fuel being used, as a measure for environment it will give us an incorrect and misleading answer. An article that presented the issue like that would be rightfully criticized, and the blame would mostly go to the journalist for not including the fact that bio fuel is only one metric in a otherwise complex picture. The conclusions that got drawn by only looking at bio fuel would be discarded.
Bonavita makes some good ones--recommend BV1500TS or BV1900TS. Ditch the default stainless steel carafe and upgrade to double-walled glass.
not an expert but the most straightforward way seems to be: identify potential leads on linkedin, contact them there or coldmail them with stuff like hunter.io+lemlist
> And to experience it all over again with proper nvme drives was very enjoyable indeed.

Second this... Felt exactly the same as getting SSDs for the first time.
The word ghetto comes from the name of the Jewish quarter of Venice, not from the Nazi ghettos.
It is very ironic that the only non-reproducible path in the minimal channel is Nix itself (> 2.3)
> Question: Does this mean it's possible to rework Rust to remove the accursed borrow checker?

Sure, with the "unsafe" keyword. But you probably don't want to do that in most cases as it will open new failure modes the compiler can protect you from. As another commenter pointed out, the borrow checker has become more clever over time (with NLLs) so if you tried Rust years ago i definitely recommend to give it a new try.

At first i was a little confused with compiler errors, but they're pretty good (unique error code, and usually suggestions for fix) but over time i realized the compiler was not my enemy but rather a very friendly reviewer preventing me to make obvious mistakes in my code. Nowadays i pseudocode my Rust on paper then write the actual code, then spend some time arguing with the compiler, but the design-code-debug lifecycle has been much reduced (compared with other languages) because there are very good chances the program works perfectly as soon as it compiles, and when it doesn't in 99% of cases that's because my logic was wrong to begin with, not because of a programming error.
The numbers in British National Grid references are eastings then northings, so lat lon isn’t universal in national mapping standards.
What is the keyboard you are using?
Head up, like leaned back sitting.
This has been a "culture" on the internet for as long as I can remember, dating back to the first printed picture from a computer (or first sent image over internet?) being of a group woman and one of the standard test image (for early machine learning maybe?) was a woman in a suggestive pose (from Playboy or similar magazine if I remember correctly). The term "No one is a woman on the internet" has also been uttered for as long as I remember, although many of the early pioneers of computers were women and the space wouldn't have been the same without them.

There are women-only spaces on Reddit (or at least they claim to be, impossible to verify obviously) just like there are male-only spaces on Reddit (and both goes for the internet in general), you just need to know where to look.

> Any attempt by women to start a subreddit exclusively for women inevitably gets banned.

I would love to see where this has happened, as I haven't seen it before. I don't find it hard to believe, but want to see it happening in practice before jumping to any conclusions.

Edit: To add another example from this very submission, which is a common way of framing things (on the internet):

> Alright boys, I think I have figured out where the timeline went wrong [...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30232117
Don't say stuff like that in a public forum there's bound to be people who fit that criterion reading this
Write down what are your expectations at 35. Maybe they are outdated and you have been imposing them to yourself unconsciously, making yourself feel bad because of it.

Re-asset them to match your current situation and find your new priorities. If you are lacking passion, it's time for a new challenge outside of your comfort zone. If that doesn't work, you can always go back to what you are used to.
Then you learn about how the medical system works. Everything present a learning opportunity; it's up to you to embrace it and earn some benefit.
My Rancilio Sylvia E has really gotten a workout since lockdown.

When it's not making coffee, it doubles as a very therapeutic thing to clean and maintain for a couple of hours every couple of months.
That’s right, jobs matter too and that’s the discussion that’s happening (otherwise they would presumably just keep the promise to not take it back apart).

For what it’s worth, it didn’t go off the previous time without a hitch, it ended up being covered with scaffolding for over a year I believe. That was where the promise to never do it again originally came from.
You can target ads in US at $1 CPM?
That's a lot of different issues in a single post.

IT is getting boring and a lot of things are just being reinvented badly, that's true. Aside from some very small niches that might be worth exploring if you still care.

That most things in life naturally get harder as you get older, is also evident. You'll just have to try more and build on your experience (regarding friends, relationships, startups).

Don't worry, at 35 you're still very young, it's the best age for many things (relationships...). Many people will envy you for that and for the freedom you have, not being stuck with the burden of responsibility (from family life, having your own company etc.).
I am sorry but this is tangential to what OP is asking.
At least you'll have an interesting epitaph.

"Here lies isoprophlex. An insufferable hothead, like his miniature steam engines."
Anyone do anything cool with this yet? I just found out about it and was going to post it myself.
1) A coffee grinder and espresso machine. Keeps me going. Wasn’t expensive ($200 all up)
2) A good chair with proper back support
3) Two screens, 27” each. Nothing fancy but makes me quite productive
Not only that, the administration overpaid ($1500 on a $1000 increase per child 6+, $1800 on a $1600 increase per child 5 and under) so most will see a much smaller refund in the coming months.
In general I guess you can say that server-rendered websites are easier to assume they are archivable, but that doesn't mean a bit of client-side scripting will break the archiving process. If the scripts are also fetched (and not relying on 3rd party domains), the fetching and rendering process should work the same as long as the UI doesn't depend on API responses. Lightweight scripting, especially done within the <script> tags of the page, will work perfectly fine for most archiving software. Keep in mind all of them already fetch data from <img> tags, and most fetch 1st origin <script> src's as well.
I think we should just ask GPT-3 what is the correct order.
I was in similar spot with around 30. My advice:

1.) Start dating. It might be a drag and maybe embarrassing at times, but obviously not being a loser having saved up half a mil in 10 years, you will probably find someone. Don't buy into that Hollywood "soulmate" crap. More likely than not there is already someone you know or at max someone one graph edge away which will be a perfectly fine partner for the rest of your life. So finding that person will keep you occupied for 2-5 years.

2.) Get kids. Having never imagined to be a father and now having three kids, I have to admit I always feel sorry for people who don't have kids. I have a hard time to see any relevance in a life without children anymore. This might be complete bs but certainly floats my boat. I got my "finding meaning in life" completely covered by getting those three buggers into a good position for their life. That will keep me busy for the next 15 years.

3.) Don't take your job too seriously. There is Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and Henry Ford but for 99.99% percent of the people here on HN (me and presumably you included) what you do in your work life will not really matter for generations to come. It pays the bills, it should be interesting enough not to bore you to death, you should have colleagues that are in their majority "friend material". That's it.

I always imagine my live as a pizza with three slices: personal (some sport, watching movies with friends, reading books, etc.), family and work. Ideally, each one should be about a third of the pizza, ie. have a third of your attention and time. There are times when this is not possible but it should be the state you are striving towards.
What was the HN scrolling topic yesterday?

Create something new, then tell people about it?

At the very least you’ll have a life-long anecdote or, at most, someone will write a Wikipedia bio for you by which you’ll attract job offers, invitations to write book chapters or to parties enthralling potential mates.

If everyone improved the world this way, no matter how small the refinement, the world ends up better, and as a side-effect we get closer to understanding everything.
Tyrannical or misguided management practices can temporarily increase fear, which masquerades as loyalty. The Soviet Union tried this. However, when the system finally truly needs support, it falls. Unheeded and unloved.
Please see my comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30227886 and the subsequent threads below.

Not all blocklist providers are the same.
It is a horrible language, I think some called it a write-only language.

But what it can do is powerful. For something there’s no alternative.

They have provided a Python interface and I always want to use the Python interface more to work around the language problem. Also Sympy has a way to read Mathematica expresssion I think.
How far are you sitting from that monster? I've never understood having large format displays for work (programming in my case).

I once (before children) had 3x28" 4K displays but they had to wrap pretty tight around my sitting position otherwise I had no chance of seeing what's at the far ends.
You can always move the decimal point. It's all just software, it's all mutable if you can get enough people to agree.

(Not meaning to come off as a fanboy, I think bitcoin==beaniebabies. I just don't think the "bad coins" problem is actually a problem, even if you consider Gresham's Law. Physical currencies have been through similar things and survived).
Exactly. The hard problem is to build and maintain the democratic institutions required by a developed country. I find some people seem to be willing to gamble that for a tech solution.
Well, just imagine if you had both RATd and straws ending up in landfills!

While a bunch of legislation is mostly feel-good stuff, straws are a long term issue, and RATs are temporary. Sure, their ecological impact should be reduced, but health crisis takes precedence. If it remains a long term issue, it will certainly be improved too.
It might even be, that the developers do not own a Windows machine. Did you ask them, whether they have one to test on and reproduce the slowdown? Or perhaps offer to buy them one? It is a pity that things slow down for you on Windows, but I don't really see, how it is their responsibility to cater to a proprietary system, that is actively hostile to its users.

Preferrably it wouls not slow down for you, ofc, but they may well deem it out of scope of their project to fix issues for asystem, that they do not have the code for to look at where it is going wrong, or simply do not have the time and resources to deal with that. Add to that, that any day MS could destroy the fruit of that work again.

I can understand, that they don't want to invest resources into that.
* an Onyx Boox Nova Air. It's an Android tablet with an e-ink display which i use mainly for reading web articles and RSS feeds, although I've tried the note taking ( with stylus and OCR) and it's fine, but not really my thing ( I like taking notes with my keyboard).

* A small waterproof speaker for the bathroom which i use to listen to short podcasts ( like Revolutions by Mike Duncan, in the 20-30 minute range) during my morning routine, shaving, taking showers, etc
I got rid of my 2 4K monitors and got an ultrawide. I’ll never look back. One 4K monitor was never enough for me. My ultrawide is basically 2 1440p monitors stuck to each other.
I remember feeling similar when I was about your age. All of a sudden I looked around and, where I was spending my time, everyone was a lot younger and I felt out of place. I didn’t want to be the old guy in the room.

So I made changes. Big changes. Rearchitected my life, if you will. They were not easy. But I’ve learned a ton over the journey. I miss the old life, and I’m grateful for this life I made, worlds apart from where I was before. And I don’t think about how it could have been, because that’s not how it is.

Now I’m in a similar situation again. I’m evaluating what changes I want to make. I think a lot about where I’ve been and where I want to be in 10 years, which helps me shape my decision making.

But it’s the little voice inside that I have to pay real close attention to before I make any big change. When I feel out of touch with that little voice, I know I need to work on my spiritual connection.

It’s not an easy place to be feeling lost, out of place, not sure what to do. I know that feeling very well. I was feeling it yesterday like a ton of sand weighing on my soul.

But today’s a new day. And I’m feeling alive. Thank you for your post, and this chance to think through my own decision making. Carpe diem!