skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No mention of tint, only color temperature.

> In my experimentation I discovered that I liked closer to 5000 in the mornings and closer to 2700 in evenings.

The color temperature of the sun at noon is 5000K. So at noon, you want your light to be 5000K or higher, especially outdoors (who needs auxiliary light outdoors at noon? Exactly. High color temperatures are bullshit.) But it really has more to do with eyes than the sun: the more dark adaptation your eyes currently have, the more that blue, cooler light is blinding, the more warmer light is comfortable. I don't know what it is about old timers that insist on using 6500K light even after midnight. They are literally blinding themselves and slowly doing permanent damage to their eyes. Light that cool is unnatural, and I suppose that part of the attraction, but mostly it is the mistake of believing that the brighter a light appears, the more you can see. This is completely false, of course. Beyond low light levels, brightness has absolutely nothing to do with what can be seen. The accuracy of color rendition is more important than brightness in regards to what can be seen, and the state of one's eyes is more important than brightness in regards to what can be seen. It is very possible to likely that one can see more with dark adapted eyes in the dark than with 2000Lm of 6500K light.

Also not mentioned is drivers, and this is critical. Manufacturers are using the cheapest crap they can find, which means there's a lot of LED drivers out there with PWM. There is a huge rift in the lumens community about PWM, so much so that it is mostly banned from being discussed. The tl;dr is that PWM sucks and hurts some people, causes migraines, but some people don't notice PWM, and many of them are so egotistical and bereft of empathy that they don't care about anything that doesn't affect them.

In order of importance, a half-decent light should have

1) No PWM, nor anything like it, instead the driver should employ constant current

2) Good tint (neutral white, like white sand... without any green or yellow cast, but a rosy cast is ok)

3) 3200K to 5200K color temperature (depends on the eyes, which depends on the time of day)

and at a very distant last:

4) effective brightness
> ... because they did not write the compiler for their game.

That's like saying a painting isn't a single person creation because the artist didn't make their own brushes from scratch. Maybe true technically, but splitting hairs to the point that it makes the conversation about something else entirely.

I, pencil is an interesting essay, but it's not what OP is asking about, I don't think.
MacGregor and Gowdy are Putin apologists.
The Watts Towers in LA https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2021-12-24/how-the-watt...
> The day after the invasion, I was flabbergasted by how much people don’t give a sht. My Twitter feed was (and still is) people announcing their new ventures, doing their usual marketing, posting their vacay pics etc.

Your Twitter feed reflects your active choices in who to follow and what to interact with. My Twitter feed has been largely dominated with the invasion since it occurred (though there are a couple other things that are also notable still).
Or if it has Bluetooth (dunno why it wouldn't), use a bluetooth keyboard.
Most of the time I've seen people using Wite-Out, they're using the tape version because you don't have to wait for it to dry
Just about anything created by djb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein

Daemontools, a whole bunch of ciphers, tons of otero software. The man is a living legend.
> Do you answer for the actions of yours?

I live in a liberal democracy and vote; so indirectly, yes.
Nonsense. The "actual statistics" from the perspective of insurance companies are that if anything bad happens, your insurance company is going bankrupt. It doesn't matter how unlikely that's been calculated to be in some spreadsheet model, no smart insurance company will take that bet.
This is why programmers think they can treat the law like code. Because people often do and get away with it. Often they don’t get away with it, too. But still… programmers aren’t the only ones looking at the law this way apparently.
We recently bought a 2022 Nissan Leaf (SL 62kWh) as a 2nd car and it's solid. (Primary family car is a Honda Odyssey.) The 2022 Leaf has 3x as much range as the 2015 Leaf I leased awhile back. Simpler design and better UI vs. Tesla, and quite a bit cheaper. Numerous driver assist features but no false-advertising "Autopilot". Handles fine in the snow.
It also flew over Canada.

An AI I was talking to speculated it was a Gold to Bitcoin exchange that took place.
"The Bureaucracy is expanding to support the needs of the expanding Bureaucracy." - Leonard Nimoy, Civ IV (Oh and originally some old guy. Edited for accuracy.)
Why oppose nuclear and renewables? It's about getting rid off fossil fuels isn't it? It's like focusing on competition among EV manufacturers when they are tiny compared to ICE. Take a step back.
Sometimes the threat of war and invasion cuts through a bunch of cruft and corruption. This is another miscalculation on Putin's side. Ukraine was the comfort blanket for Europe keeping them complacent.

This crossed an emotional line with the entirety of Europe. Heck, I feel it in the United States. Russia/Putin are nuts and not entirely rational. They are actual palpable evil: a direct threat to your survival and prosperity.

Remember the dogs thing with Merkel and Putin? I'm sure the "elites" of the EU have wanted to get more coordinated against Russia, but the populace was a bit ... soft.

Putin may have motivated far more people than just the populace of the Ukraine.

Looking at the map and the conduct of the war so far, this is a massive geopolitical opportunity for the West. Set fleets of drones into Ukraine and repulse the forces. Actually, I would sucker Belarus into invasion (they've already announced it, have they actually done it).

That would provide a casus belli for Ukraine (ahem NATO) forces to then invade Belarus, the other major buffer state between the NATO and Russia. Topple their autocrat.

Then put Belarus and Ukraine into NATO. Then there is a wall of NATO states at the doorstep of Russia.
Loopholes in the law are like security flaws in programs. Whenever the letter of the law (code) doesn't exactly match the intent, inevitably some attacker will find it and exploit it, especially if there is monetary incentive as is the case in business. This doesn't mean the law is wrong, just that the people who wrote it were careless and didn't think about all the edge cases. What most democratic governments lack is a way to do a quick security update to zero-day loopholes as they are found. These things shouldn't be fixed with years-long lawsuits arguing the intent of the law, they should be fixed with a patch to the actual wording of the law so the intent is more clear.
> A watt is a watt

That was my point. And pollution is pollution. Shifting it to a third world country and clearing it off your books doesn't make you virtuous nor environmentally friendly. As I pointed it out with the european "recycling" scam.

> renewables are cost-competitive with carbon even before taking into consideration geopolitics

The largest source of renewables is biomass.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/renewable-sources/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/30/wood-pel...

> Not at all surprising when you realize that the entire political economy of the west

I didn't say it was surprising. Also why take this into a bizarre geopolitical tangent?
> “I'm amazed many of them are still on Slack and making PRs.”

I was talking with a friend yesterday about his teammates from Ukraine (we’re both outside Ukraine). They said that working is the only thing keeping them sane. This allows them to stop focusing every second at the war outside their homes.
This is a mischaracterization, gas for heating isn't converted into electricity first in most cases, so total energy share is likely much more significant than 5-10%, however, if the gas disappears conversions to electric heating are going to sharply increase electricity demand, increasing coal/other fossil fuel consumption.
They tend to be good articles, I get around the paywall with archive.is
That's why I posted it.

I think it is ridiculous that there is so much concern about age discrimination in software because, as I see it, the more things change the more they stay the same.

For instance the programming model used in the mainframe transaction manager CICS is very similar to that for Ruby on Rails except you're writing code in macro assembler.
>you could prefix the compressed file with this 400 byte interpreter to get autonomous self-extracting archives that anyone can use.

What could possibly go wrong?
Dwarf Fortress is one person right?
That screenshot looks like you're loading the desktop site on a phone. In this case I think that's triggering text auto resizing which has made the body text large but left the code text very small.

When looking at the site in mobile mode or desktop it does seem better. I do agree that many sites use font sizes that are too small these days though.
Pretty cool! nimblas in particular is what I was looking for. Will move to matrix if I have any other question ;)
uh, hoppscotch and postman look nothing alike on my computer...
Succession planning. Disaster recovery planning. We should have these.

Not having them can lead to hasty, unwise decisions. They should include prioritising tasks and cascades/durations of fall over.

There's not necessarily reason they mean dropping anyone either. Even if exclusively looking at a financial impact there are costs of switching, costs that might be low for a server needing restoring to high for acquiring knowledge specific to your field or product, or a whole lot in between, for example.

Just have a plan. If you don't, be aware of potential for flawed decisions made in haste.
1Password Legitimizing Blockchain
Why shouldn't you feel bad about buying a new car? Surely the environmental impact of creating such a large piece of machinery must be very significant? I don't care what people do with their money, but let's try to be frugal with our environment.
IPCC Climate Assessment
A supplier was hit, so they suspended domestic (i.e. Japanese) production. The title is actually a good encapsulation, and not at all click bait. Gotta celebrate these rare times when it's a legit title.
I just tried HTTPie beta GUI. For an app that is basically a wrapper of their CLI, not sure why I would need an account and join a waitlist. No thanks.
Not as serious, but super surreal from the other side too.

When my pregnant wife was feeling a bit uncomfortable, I sent a chat message to my Team that I need to pop out and expect to be back within a couple of hours (not giving reasons).

An hour later I messaged to say our baby was arriving 10 weeks premature and didn’t know when I’d back at computer.
I odn't think it is racial. I'm a Palestine supporter too, i housed Kazakh refugees recently, my mother housed Georgians, and had my very catholic, conservative family do the same in the 2000s. They aren't caucasians, and are ethnically close to Syrian (turkomongols i guess?). But they are Christians, and Coptics do have a really good reputation in France (or at least in my part of France). It has everything to do with how you dress, your accent, and how the media portrayed you in the last 10 years.
Engineering Management Lessons (2014)
An intern I met a few years back built a Farnsworth fusor while he was in high school. He showed me pictures of it in operation, complete with some really cool shots of the plasma.

It occurred to me a few years later that the helium atoms he snapped together will likely survive until they are swallowed up by a black hole or maybe have a front row seat to a supernova or gamma ray burst. So likely hundreds of billions if not trillions of years.
What is the tech that doesn’t exist?
The tech exists today with solar, wind, batteries, transmission, hydro (pumped and otherwise), demand response, and electrification using heat pumps and EVs.

We're not waiting on anything groundbreaking, no heroic technologies are needed. There is no magic. It's just a matter of manufacturing/install capacity and funds. It's like insulation for buildings: not sexy, but it works and it's a known quantity. Work backwards from first principles based on how much energy the Sun delivers to the planet.

US: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/faculty-and-impact/news/recent-new...

Australia: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421... | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.05.168

Europe: https://www.energyplan.eu/smartenergyeurope/ | https://www.irena.org/publications/2018/Feb/Renewable-energy... | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...

Central/South America: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173820

(if anyone has other resources for geographies I didn't mention, please comment with them to contribute to the knowledge graph!)
theoretically this situation could arise, in practice c'mon. I have friends in the U.S but I'm not ordering any delivery for them unless I'm there.
My experience on desktop with Debian vs Arch is that I honestly can’t tell if the LTS approach makes things better or not. (I did run Red Hat once upon a time, but given that was even before it’s split into RHEL and Fedora, it was probably nothing like it is today in this respect.)

Arch (or any other mostly-unpatched rolling distro, I expect—don’t know how, say, CentOS Stream does on the former point) requires constant tending, but every weekly or monthly update is pretty much painless. Sometimes one thing breaks, but usually with an accompanying warning, and if you put it there you know how to unbreak it. Upgrading and especially dist-upgrading Debian IME felt like you were running around putting out fires for a couple of hours every time, even if those upgrades were much rarer.

(It’s like the old joke about regular paradise vs college paradise: in the regular one everything’s peachy except a man comes every evening and hammers a single nail up your arse, in the college one everything’s wonderful for months but then a man comes with a bucket of nails and tells you it’s the end of the semester.)

I don’t know which ends up requiring more effort in the integral sense, and if that’s even the measure that matters, in particular on servers (even “pet” ones), I only know that I dread updating on a single Arch machine much less than I do a Debian one. I’m sure this won’t scale, but keeping a herd of like a homogeneous dozen servers on a rolling distro with a reproducible setup (Arch+aconfmgr, or hell, even NixOS unstable) doesn’t sound like an inherently stupid idea.

(If you need ABI stability, e.g. if you’re running a proprietary database, none of this applies, but in such a case a rolling distro is probably not an option anyway for other reasons.)
Not sure, haven't even tried them yet, still renovating the house, three years and counting. But according to the specs:

L70 ≥50,000 hours at 25°C ambient

L70 is "An LED is considered to have reached its rated life at that point in time when it emits 30% less light than it initially did. This 70% brightness level is termed “L70” and may also be referred to as Lumen Maintenance." (https://nunvdata.unvlt.com/uploads/Understanding_L70_and_Why...)
No. His research for a better filament was conducted by a large team.
No. Nuclear is inherently expensive.

It is expensive because any large unit of capital in a public works context is expensive. (A clear majority of this cost is in unavoidable structural corruption tax.) On top of that, operating a nuke is very expensive: this is where fuel cycle costs come in, including mining, refining, processing, and disposing, as well as others like fixing turbines and guarding access. On top of that, shutting one down is expensive. None of these costs are falling, while alternative cost are, so, relatively, they are all sharply increasing.

(Coal, oil, and gas are also expensive, mainly in environmental effects, and their costs are also increasing, relative to renewables. They do not count here, except in how they contribute to renewables construction cost, where they fall as their contribution to that cost does.)

Insurance for construction accidents, and disposal costs, are figured in: silicon panels and wind turbine blades are inert, so cheap to dispose of. CdTe panels and rare-earth magnets are valuable, already-refined chemicals, and are reclaimed.

Each cost alone makes nukes more expensive than alternatives. All added up, they make nukes ruinously expensive.
ECB assesses that Sberbank and two subsidiaries are failing or likely to fail
Its 56 even. That is a huge fleet to replace. I am not in the details of their decisions, but I think one can simply conclude that if a nation, which is so all-in on nuclear like France, doesn't have a good answer yet, it seems to be a non-trivial problem. France has their own fuel reprocessing industry and had breeding reactors in the past but gave up on them.
PoP, Proof-of-Possession.
>Yes but even those problems are far easier to handle than the ones of renewables.

I don't think so. Look at UK's recent transition to renewables. They're making big moves nowadays, but we only talk about Germany. France is going backwards (it was an excellent idea to build nuclear plants after WW2, but not so much today compared to renewables' plunging cost and progress in energy storage).
I suspect the clue is in your phrasing: Latinization. European scholars wrote in Latin, where "k" is uncommon and "kl" almost unknown, and transliterated Εὐκλείδης as "Euclidis". Later writers in French and English - but probably not in Germanic languages other than English - turned this into "Euclid".

If the Elements was discovered now, we'd probably favour a more direct transliteration of the Greek: Eukleidos.
Hacker News, including Arc.
Not sure about Windows but for MacOS, Paw is an excellent Native app. Thought not worth the $50 for me since I hardly ever work on API's.
Without a breakdown of vehicle costs it's hard to know exactly why they haven't increased range. Out of PURE speculation, I think it's due to lack of competition. If you get a better battery then you can reduce manufacturing cost, improve reliability, and reduce weight if you don't increase the range. Without competition, there is no reason to increase range. Especially if their charging infrastructure is lightyears ahead of everyone.
Where exactly do people move if they only chose between Firefox and Chrome, there is not enough competition in the browser market
I find that the formal requirements process sometimes helps me think about problems
This is not a simple website, looks like it's served on a platform called Hex. While this particular page is light on content, the platform seems optimized for more complex usecases.
I think that was because many of the 3rd reich officials transferred seamlessly into the government, intelligence services, and the military of the FRG; effectively there has been no denazification to speak of:

Fifty years ago, the Brown Book: War criminals and Nazis in the Federal Republic—in government, business, administration, the army, the judiciary and science was published on July 2, 1965.

In its first edition, the Brown Book listed the SS ranks and former Nazi membership of 1,800 business leaders, politicians and senior officials of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the third edition in 1968, more than 2,300 individuals were listed—including 15 ministers and state secretaries, 100 generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr, 828 judges, state prosecutors and top judicial officers, 245 leading officials of the foreign office, and 297 senior police officers and employees of the intelligence service. The veracity of the data was supported with detailed statements and quotations from legal, military and Gestapo archives, often accompanied by copies of incriminating documents.

“The whole system is infested with Nazis,” said publisher Albert Norden at an international press conference at the time. The Brown Book sparked a deep political crisis and led to the resignations of numerous officials and government ministers.

It played an important role in the protest movement of the 1960s. Suddenly it became clear that there had never been a “zero hour”—that is, a new beginning for German society after the end of World War II, as announced by the government of Konrad Adenauer. Despite adoption of the Basic Law (German constitution) and the official denazification campaign, key positions in the state apparatus, the government and posts for its representatives abroad were occupied chiefly by former Nazis.

The Brown Book set the ball rolling. After 1965, many more former Nazi perpetrators were unmasked in the German civil service. One thinks of the Baden-Württemberg Minister President Hans Filbinger, who served as a naval judge until the final days of the war, delivering death sentences that were only revealed in 1978

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/07/07/nazi-j07.html
> Shifting it to a third world country

I think it's highly unlikely that Germany will offshore its Mittelstand.

> The largest source of renewables is biomass.

I'm not really sure what point you're making here.

> Also why take this into a bizarre geopolitical tangent?

This is 100% your tangent... why mention Saudi Arabia and Norway PR on an article about Germany?

e: generally speaking, we're not disagreeing about much, so I think this exchange is possibly due to your confusion regarding what this article is about. You seem to think the article is primarily about Germany posturing around climate change and GHG. It's not. This article is about German energy independence and European geopolitics. This policy change was announced on the eve of war in Europe, not as a follow-up to a climate conference.
and his computer science bible: TAOCP!
1st guy is Dashrath Manjhi.
That looks like a pretty accurate representation of an elderly multigravida. Given the likelihood that it’s a fertility charm of some sort, it’s not really indicating anything about changing beauty standards. I imagine if it is a charm that indicating surviving multiple pregnancies was part of the significance.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/switzerland-imposes-fu... no paywall
The first thing that came to mind was the Roud Folk Song Index, a database of 250,000 songs all researched and compiled by a former librarian in the 70s, as a labor of love (and scholarly dedication, I guess).

And then Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, a dictionary researched and written by a single man. He thought it would take three years, ended up taking nine years. All the more impressive for the reckless confidence paid off by diligence.

The famous anecdote Boswell reported about Dr. Johnson's confidence in his own abilities as a scholar:

>ADAMS: But the French Academy, which consists of forty members, took forty years to compile their Dictionary.

>JOHNSON: Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman.
"The Phoenix Project"
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/switzerland-imposes-fu... no paywall, source is Swiss state television/radio
There's no battery which can handle months of consumption of a whole country and hydro is built to full capacity already
>why can't the UN members (which is all countries right?) come together and just establish a list of sovereign countries and their borders and then humanity can be done with invasions?

The UN has already done this to the degree agreement is possible. Without the military power to enforce those boundaries, the agreements are useless.
I unfortunately am actually a high school kid with no money.
Mostly self control. It only takes me about 15 minutes to go through all the actual news sources I follow. HN doesn't come out of the 15 minute budget, since its all technical focused not-exactly-news; it has its own budget of sorts.