skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting solar on parking lots (and of course all kind of roofs) should be so obvious, that it shouln't need to be mentioned. Besides having the area already ready, they would even improve it (shade) and the grid is in place and the eletricticy can partially be used on-site (cooling, heating, and of course, charge electric cars[1] while they park). In more northern regions like here in Germany, panels are already efficient enough when mounted vertically, as on walls, especially fences.

But it is worth stressing, that solar is even more efficient if you put it on fields rather then farming for energy production.

Another interesting option is to mount solar panels higher up with some gaps and then do farming below them. For many crops, the yield is barely reduced due to the solar panels and with the global warming, the partial shade even might result in lower water consumption.

With solar (and of course wind in suitable regions) we have all the energy production potential available, not only to fight climate change but overall have more and cheaper energy in the long term. Not to mention no environmental pollution.

[1]: For the average German electric car the math works out that on average 10 solar panels would produce enough energy to operate the car - they would basically fit on a car port. The driving distances in the US are certainly longer, but then there is also more sun and the car ports might be larger, in consequence, the calculation wouldn't be far different.
What "voodoo"?
Curious as to what are some medically important examples of disordered proteins might be?
> Anything to reduce the friction from thought to working software without having to worry about syntax.

The syntax complexity will just be moved into a visual layer, it doesn't disappear.

> VR with 3D representations of code as, I dunno, pipes, gears, something like that?

Those 3D representations will just generate some code again, adding another layer of complexity to the debugging process?
No, it would be a privacy feature, just like hardware microphone disconnect is [0]:

“All Apple silicon-based Mac notebooks and Intel-based Mac notebooks with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that disables the microphone whenever the lid is closed”

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/hardware-microphone...
I'm surprised you're surprised. Apple has been deviating from good UX little by little every year now.
I am always amused when I see people do not believe in competition in capitalistic markets.

>May be because flooding market with free money called quantitative easing isn’t anymore putting selective pressure on efficiency of company.

Quantitative easing does no such thing. Educate yourself about the banking sector. Private commercial banks create money. Quantitative easing is a bandaid to maintain liquidity between banks as depositors demand ever more liquidity.

I hope you are aware that when you have a mass of people being unemployed then hiring them by no means deprives another company of a potential employees because that other company can just hire another unemployed person. When there is unemployment there is no competition over employees. It is impossible for there to be competition amongst companies. The idea that somehow free money is ruining everything shows a complete lack of understanding of even the most basic concepts of a market economy.

>Can you imagine negative interest is literally like getting paid to subscribe to a loan

People pay money to store cash in safes it is only natural that people pay money to store risk free liquidity when the real economy consists of nothing but risk and illiquidity.

>So thousands and thousands of companies are keeping alive with zero or negative profit. Those company are totally inefficient or sustainable in a normal world where you have to fight to be profitable.

Fight to be profitable over what? What constraint exists that forces companies to win a competition? A lack of employees? No. A lack of physical capital? No. A lack of energy? Maybe but there are energy producing technologies that benefit from lower cost of capital.

Again, if you have a mass of unemployed and underpaid people it doesn't matter how efficiently you use them because you are competing with unemployment, a wholly unproductive activity or underemployment which is partially unproductive.

I find it amusing that your primary concern with the economy is that profit requirements have disappeared and hence we are able to create more wealth and employ more people, you deride those things as unproductive or inefficient, as if people have to operate at peak efficiency their entire life or get eaten by the commercial bank and investor sharks as threatening people with poverty and long term unemployment is the only way to beat the laziness out of people while blaming those people for the systemic unemployment you advocate for as that allows you to call people lazy and absolve you from any responsibility.

Anyone who understands the system knows that it is wrong and no, a lack of extortion through interest is not the part that is wrong.
code ninja? rockstar developer?
No, i thought the soviet part was wrong, 2019 the time the accident happened.
I'm surprised so many people's experience of LED bulbs is short lifetime. Most of the LED bulbs I ever bought have lasted many, many years. I only had one type ever fail and those looked clearly inferior in build to all the other types. ("free" with some light fittings, not my choice). Took one of those apart, no capacitors in the design any more but dodgy wire connections that creep with the hot-cold on-off cycle in an under-ventilated fitting. So am I a statistical outlier, or are most people getting the very worst dreg-quality bulbs, or are there a lot of very enclosed fittings out there cooking the lamps?
Yes. Great typo on my part, I got it right at least once
There are some (Penicillin and the Rob Roy off the top of my head) but I don't like them. But yeah good point re ginger beer and lime - that can be quite refreshing.

I'm quite content with drinking Scotch neat though.
who addressed to? who's pestering you?
Proving Ground review: the women who made American computing great
According to the standard, the USB Type-C connectors should have a much longer lifetime than the USB Type-A connectors or any other older USB connectors and also than most other kinds of connectors.

IIRC, the USB Type-C connectors should survive at least 12000 insertion cycles.

In practice, this does not seem to be true, so I assume that many USB Type-C connectors substitute the more expensive alloys and coatings that they should use for the metal contacts in order to achieve conformity with the standard with cheaper alloys, and this is not something that a normal user can check when buying a device.
Curta Assembly! What a cool idea.
>and much of that damage will be suffered by China

Signiciantly more will be suffered by US/west whose advanced industries extracts disproportionate patent fees and have extreme reliance on TW semi for short to medium term. We're talking trillions in knock on effects. Proximity of semi production / supply chain concentration in TW and broader east Asia is PRC's trump card in war. During peace US has trump card in sanctions / tech control, but during war PRC has leverage of simply setting the advanced economies back 30 years which will actually close relative gap. PRC might even pull ahead if they manage to mass rollout of 28nm indigenous fabs and complete indigenous semi supply chain before anyone else. That's without mentioning during war, PRC has incentive to attack SKR/JP fabs to draw US into first island chain where they're weakest to honor security commitments. If things ever get heated with US, it would be insanely smart for China to threaten TW/JP/SKR as well. And if PRC attacks TW, I surmise there's going to be three way side deal between PRC, US and TW leadership to maintain TSMC production continuity in exchange for evacuations for TW leadership to US who would otherwise get the noose for treason. Which itself makes the notion that TSMC is rigged to blow counterproductive - surival of TSMC is TW elites golden ticket off the island - US isn't going to look kindly to a TW admin that explodes US economy and tech lead.
Try to clean up your port with a needle. I am doing this with my phone about once a year. It is almost 4 years old now, no reason to complain.
Instead, try cutting the triggers with an ad blocker and a few changes to your settings.

I hide recommended content, unsubscribe from everything, unfollow everything, and generally have a "don't call me, I'll call you" approach to information.

I went as far as removing pagination buttons on websites I tend to browse too much.

I also use Pocket to save more interesting articles. Combined with a "things I don't understand" to-do list, I spend more time reading about practical things instead of just browsing. I don't regret that sort of reading.
"librar" should suffice - just remember to zip it
The opportunity cost of what?
I was like you few months ago. When summer started I decided to stop reading news from online. It was hard at first but quite fast I started seeing the benefits. More focus, more happiness, not being so worried all the time. Now I only read HN (way too often of course :)) and I ordered a newspaper to my home which is published 3 times a week. I get distilled look on whats going on in the world but it’s not eating my focus.
>I'm not sure how the browsing, docs and email is miserable, maybe you can expand on that.

I said the exact opposite:

"Many use cases ASIDE from "browsing, watching movies, writing some doc, and checking email" are miserable on Linux for the desktop" [empahsis mine]
"They" can be anyone with the latest 0-day exploit.
I don't know if Elon Musk's nonsense was involved - they had their own autonomous driving project in-house didn't they?
FaceID doesn't exist on the Mac and uses synthetic data for training [1].

And I don't believe anyone on here is talking about camera covers for their phone.

[1] https://machinelearning.apple.com/research?page=1&sort=oldes...
Recently I was arrested and had all my electronics seized by the police.

The whole experience was a wake-up call, not just in terms of being arrested but being without a computer or any way to get online for a couple of weeks.

It really made me realize how 'addicted' I was to the internet, and going cold turkey was horrible, time slowed down and I was sure I was missing out on everything.

But I read so much more and all the days seemed longer (time dragged so much) and then when I finally got back online I hadn't missed sh*t.
Ferraris don't compete with the essense of being human (human ingenuity and expertise) - just with walking, if that.
>> - Microsoft Office is not available for Linux

> Thankfully.

As a GNU/Linux user for many years, I strongly disagree. This is a single thing which keeps millions of users away from Linux and hurts adoption dramatically. Of course it's intentionally done by the Micro$oft.
Yikes! Was this in the US? Did you get a lawyer?
I wrote a living document interface. Nowadays it's probably similar to notion.

The idea was you could write code into it and see all the data structures of the code you wrote. There's a screencast and the code is available but broken. It's written in Angular 1. There was a cool feature where you could select different things on the screen for searching for an operation for them to merge them together.

Screenshots of version 1 (Jena fuseki, sparql, d3)

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/3064a94d00812c1373c4eb3b2...

Screenshots of version 2 in this document (angular, couchdb, pouch, paperjs, masonry, ruby, python, javascript)
https://github.com/samsquire/liveinterface

Links to screencast
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#4-living-documents
A lot of batteries are designated in this way.

E.g. a 2032 lithium battery for computer motherboards has a diameter of 20 mm (20-) and a height of 3.2 mm (-32).

A thinner 2025 battery, used in various appliances, has a diameter of 20 mm and a height of 2.5 mm.

There are many other such standard dimensions encoded in the battery numbers.
I have a phone with a pop-up front facing camera and it's great. Sad to see it going away in favor of in-display cameras and notches.
So then how come they're right next to China, "an unstable hostile power", and not in the middle of mainland US?
I don't understand why people go to such a great length to avoid saying GNU/Linux, even if it makes their words unclear.
I'm a senior software developer and experienced unix user, and I loved the nix principles. So I installed nixOS on my laptop and it worked like a charm! But after a few months those complex corner cases came up and I was forced to write my own packages. At that point there was no help reading the docs, so I gave up and deleted the whole OS. So I really hope things will improve, and if they do I'd give it another shot.
How often is the phone on, and when it is, not pointed at you or your immediate surroundings?

We’ve had plenty of app developers manipulate the microphone without permission until Apple cracked down on it. With the latest versions of macOS, Apple has done the same. But it seems to me if people are wary of their computer, maybe they shouldn’t forget about the other computer they’re probably looking at way more often.
It might need a low amp device to charge. My vape does not charge with my good chargers but it does with older ones and the usb port on my laptop.
Would add that the microphone is hardware disconnected when lid is closed:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/security/secbbd20b00b/...

So you should have some guarantee that no one is spying when laptop is sleeping at least.
I’m now imagining a sketch of British/American misunderstanding is similar to the Two Ronnies’ “Four candles”:

“I would like some biscuits and gravy.”

“Biscuits? And gravy? What do you mean, like bourbon?”

“Why would I put bourbon on my biscuits?”

“Bourbon biscuits”

“No, gravy biscuits”

“Gravy biscuits? So, like oxo cubes?”

And so on.

For the confused:

https://external-preview.redd.it/4_BpYSWJqOGo2R_SKAq9o8VVlec...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuits_and_gravy
Have you forgetton the whole Google lawsuit against Uber? Anthony Levandowski. Uber’s self driving project is still no where near production ready.
> Nope - trenching through a concrete or blacktop parking lot is much more work than running conduit on undeveloped land.

that is true, but on the flipside you can avoid a lot of the trenching by putting the conduits in the structure of the canopy. The other important thing to note is that large buildings tend to have large substations near by, so the actual amount of trenching required is a lot less.

However it does require a lump of capital to do, and it only makes sense really for the corporation that owns the land to do it.
We did research on solving the DOS issue using static analysis at IBM (cf. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.05632.pdf). Our findings were that static analysis allows to determine (relatively strict) upper bounds on query complexity, which we assessed for two production GraphQL APIs (GitHub and Yelp). However, the static analysis requires some configuration to determine the (maximum) size of lists.

I was later involved in productising said research into an API gateway (called DataPower) offered by IBM. We implemented our GraphQL static analysis in a quite flexible and performant way (all of GraphQL's query validation and the static analysis are implemented in C++). The required configuration for the static analysis can be provided using GraphQL schema directives (cf. https://ibm.github.io/graphql-specs/cost-spec.html). Unfortunately, DataPower is quite inaccessible to the common developer.

I find that persisted queries are a very interesting approach to also solve this issue. They still grant developers the full flexibility to define queries during development, but then require providers to validate and vet queries only once before persisting them (instead of validating and vetting queries on every request). This has huge benefits for runtime performance, of course.
I have a Philips toothbrush like that too, at least it works with any A-C cable, just not C-C
> You need the binary, the assets, and the environment it can be hosted in.

Those are the requirements for making it easy to host it in an alternative location. Laws for incompatibility don't need nor usually require it to be easy, only possible.

Microsoft was able to release the network protocol for smb without releasing the binary, the assets, or the environment for their Microsoft server. They were able to release the network protocol without needing to be responsible for the development and maintenance of samba. Microsoft is not in any form responsible for security vulnerabilities in samba.

If Ubisoft released the protocol for Assassin's Creed 2 multiplayer then the only person responsible software updates would be the group implementing that protocol. A law requiring that minimum disclosure would not be expensive nor take a lot of work (unless the protocol documentation is conveniently deleted).

The biggest issue would be certificates, but if companies know before hand that protocol and authorized keys need to be published by the end of the product life, then companies will plan ahead to make those things easy for them. People who run companies can plan ahead when they are required to do so.
Yes, they quite famously killed a person
> The theory is that you can only be below that during the takeoff roll and in case of a problem you have to abort the takeoff (close both throttles) to maintain control.

Or landing. A famous case is the death of Kara Hultgreen, who suffered a compressor stall and subsequent asymmetric thrust while trying to land a F-14 on an aircraft carrier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen#Death
> Using them for business processes is a recipe for sadness. People don’t have the discipline to use them for that, and the tools have too many shortcomings.

> In terms of “exploring data” I’ve been in way too many meetings where different users have worked on forks of the same original spreadsheet and come up with contradictory answers.

You shouldn't use a notepad of SQL statements for processes either!

Once certain things are figured out and planned around for repeated use, they need to be transformed into a proper maintainable form, probably involving careful code with error detection. But that's not a spreadsheet vs. SQL issue. If SQL causes fewer problems it's probably because someone that knows SQL is more likely to have programming knowledge/discipline, not something about SQL itself.

> Re: slowing people down - I’ve had the fortune to show a few “MBA types” how to do JOINs in lieu of the eldritch horrors they’d created attempting to re-implement JOIN with VLOOKUP. The productivity gains were significant. Excel is using a screwdriver to drive nails in some very glaring cases.

It's great to use a JOIN when it's appropriate. But a lot of the time there's still no real need for a database, and you want all the other tools a spreadsheet has. Or there is a good case for a database, but the best answer is having some queries that feed the spreadsheet.
Relicense might not the best word but compatible also doesn't cover it in this context.

Saying you can "assimilate" BSD licensed code in to a GPL project might be more appropriate. Since rights such as "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms" which the BSD gives you no longer apply after the code is in a GPL project [1].

You can't do this with CDDL licensed source code.

[1] https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-colla...
About 70 years ago, Tarzan used to be very popular and was also the butt of many jokes featuring his broken English and jungle life.

Q. What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants coming over the hill?

A. "El-e-phant coming ov-er hill!"

Q. What did he say when saw them coming over the hill with their sunglasses on?

A. He didn't say anything, he didn't recognize them.
There is no reason that the minumum wage should not apply.

Otherwise, you get institutionalized slavery, like we have now and is documented in this article.
Show HN: A Wiki Among Many
Prevailing market rates, at or above minimum wage, sounds about right.

Prisoners should be allowed to acquire and purchase necessities without markups with their earnings.

Prison facilities and services should be free.
> The theory is that you can only be below that during the takeoff roll and in case of a problem you have to abort the takeoff (close both throttles) to maintain control.

During takeoff, or while performing a high alpha/low speed pass showing off the aircraft's unique high-alpha capabilities in an airobatics display. Closing throttles would have been little more than a way to select the area of impact. Considering how close to the central axis the engines are in twin fighter jets going full throttle was probably the least bad attempt to save the plane.
She was compromised by social engineering, not by accessing a MacBook camera while bypassing the led
I have a few rules and habits that helped me kick. They might help you?

Never to walk down the street looking at my phone. Eyes on the road. If I need to look at my phone, I stop somewhere out of the way of foot traffic.

All notifications are silent except calls or text messages from specific people. Calls from people I don't know and text messages get only a slow blinking light. Social media get no notifications.

When I am with someone or a group in person, phone goes away.

If I wouldn't allow someone to interrupt a conversation, the phone doesn't either. I won't answer it if someone is talking to me, especially something important. When there's a pause in the conversation, I'll ask politely to check to see who called.

Finally, and this might be the biggest, I am constantly listening to audiobooks and podcasts. It scratches that itch of needing constant stimulation, but I can still be aware of everything around me.
Another myth that still lives on is that you need 1gb of ram for every 1tb of disk on zfs.
It's an internet meme that some goof at US Army War College picked up on and wrote a paper suggesting TW should blow up their own fabs to deter PRC invasion. Which is dummy take since for PRC, TW is a political problem and US can always strangle fab operations via supply chain sanctions. TW media saw this as serious traction and pushed some articles basically saying "leave TSMC alone". TW, at least TW leadership won't blow up TSMC for the simple reason that it'll destroy US advanced economy, and if they ever want a safe ride off the island to retire in US, it would be in everyones interest the fabs stay untouched.
I wonder if programming languages having precedence rules at all is an atavism from the 70s when it was an interesting problem for parsing. Adding parentheses makes things clearer in 99% of the cases.
https://wccftech.com/intel-foxville-i225-v-2-5gbe-networking...

Hosting specific things (minecraft and smb in my case) has a chance of crashing it so hard only a power cycle fixes it.

It's hard to reproduce with smb but with MC I can reliably make it crash by spawning a couple hundred mobs in quick succession.
Lenovo has a plastic bezel around the screen which makes it easy for them to add this feature [1]. I am not an Industrial Engineer but it would seem much more difficult to do this with glass and not impact the structural integrity of the screen.

Having just had my screen be ruined by a micro-fracture I would rather just trust the green indicator dot than be without my laptop for a week.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/lenovo-thinkshutter-laptops-...