skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In searching for the info... Eye injuries of early solar observers - https://aty.sdsu.edu/vision/others.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harriot#Sunspots

> Harriot observed the sunspot with the use of a telescope in a direct and hazardous way. ... Specifics as to how Harriot's telescope was set up remains largely unknown.

This lead me to http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/sunspots.html

> Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician at the university of Ingolstadt (near Augsburg), wished to preserve the perfection of the Sun and the heavens and therefore argued that sunspots were satellites of the Sun. They appeared as black spots when they passed in front of the Sun but were invisible at other points in their orbits. Their orbits had to be very close to the Sun for their shapes were foreshortened as they approached its edge. Scheiner observed sunspots through a telescope equipped with colored glasses.

> ...

> It was Castelli who developed the method of projecting the Sun's image through the telescope, a technique that made it possible to study the Sun in detail even when it was high in the sky.

This was a very rapid development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedetto_Castelli

> In December 1610, Galileo received a letter from Castelli, asking if the phases of Venus were observable through Galileo's new telescope.

This then lead lead me to https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/multimedia/Helio...

> In his work on sunspots dated 1613, Galileo refers to the method invented by Benedetto Castelli for observing through the telescope and drawing—without damage to his eyes—the spots that he had discovered on the Sun's surface.

> Galileo darkens the room and aims the telescope at the Sun. At about one meter from the eyepiece, he places a sheet of white paper. The solar disk is thus projected on the sheet. To heighten the contrast of the image and thus make it easier to observe, Galileo places a darkening screen around the sheet. He now draws a circle on the sheet with the compasses and, moving the sheet closer or farther away, he finds the position where the Sun's image exactly overlaps the circle. He then marks the sunspots on the sheet. Since the Sun moves, the helioscope itself must be moved continuously in order to keep the solar image in the circle.
For those missing the context; this guy wants new Rust software on Debian stable’s old Rust toolchain. And complains about it in every Rust thread on HN.

A similar problem afflicts other software in Debian stable; Rust is not unique. The reasonable solution is to stop using Debian stable if you want updates.
You make it sound like way simpler than it is in reality.

Tax criteria by canton:

Displacement only: AG, FR, GL, GR, LU, NW, OW, SH, SO, TG, VS, ZG

Gross weight only: AI, AR, BE, BL, JU, SG, UR

Horsepower and gross weight: SZ, TI, VD

Displacement and gross weight: ZH

Net weight and CO2 emissions: BS

Horsepower only: GE

CO2 emissions only: NE

And for the full picture you still need to add the discounts or exemptions for low and zero emission vehicles that also vary wildly.
It's also perfectly valid to hold an opinion and have preferences contrary to those around you.

And these opinions aren't about shoe style, they have consequences on the broader society, and thus are open to criticism for their societal impacts.
I skim a lot of research papers that pop up in articles here on HN and in other places, and one thing I notice is that papers coming out of the US American universities are overwhelmingly produced by foreign students and researchers originally from India, China, and Europe.
The optimism was always naive - and those of us who had been around in the usenet/bbs days knew better. And as linked elsewhere in the comments here, John C Dvorak was pretty spot on in his assessment (at the time).
Banks are handing out game studios now? Did you get one as well?
To the source.
A lot of it is specific, but it's not like chess and civ are completely disjunct either. There is some significant overlap between some of the thought processes involved. They both have minimax game trees, though civ obviously has a much bigger branching factor so you have to be a lot fuzzier about it. But I'd argue that just having played a lot of chess with a more managable branching factor makes it easier to make the meta decision of how to think about these games.
Seatbelts don't impede my ability to drive (having to constantly manage the car keeps me in the seat). Types _do_ impede my ability to write code: I have to write more of it.

Types can certainly help prevent something from going wrong, but they're not a zero programmer time cost safety feature.

OP worded it aggressively, but if someone can't see how others benefit from lower overhead, they should look closer.
That could explain it. Thanks!

Is this behavior documented anywhere on news.ycombinator.com?
I was just describing my oldest machine that I know works, my SPARCstation2 is older but hasn't been powered up for a long time.
I don't disagree.

At the same time, on a deeper level there are things that can be hard to deal with like asynchrony, performance, etc. These are not social but inherent in computing architecture etc.
"I heard some guy invented a car that gets 100mpg and lasts for 30 years, but the auto industry and oil industry had him killed."
Google's reaction was the Damore memo was that it didn't matter that Damore felt discriminated against. People felt attacked by the memo, so his opinion wasn't welcome. If they want to be consistent, they had to reject the caste talk. It's that simple.

>Might I add, if you weren't a party to an experience, an off handed observation that those are just subjective experiences, is frankly not yours to make.

Do you share the same opinion about the white activists who are supporting Gupta? Why are you calling me out for expressing a nonzero disagree of sympathy towards her opposition who also claim they are discriminated against? I'm not Indian, but I've seen fairly egregious examples of caste being used to attack Indians. Admittedly, it was on 4chan, but I'm sure weaker forms of this attitude exist in real life as well.
I can understand why Hindus would be resistant to being labeled the “oppressor” in an “oppressor/oppressed” dynamic. Instead of discussing individual discrimination and behavior these discussions always result in the “reverse” hatred where the oppressed group is vilified. See white people in discussions of racism and Christians in discussion of LGBT issues.
I'm still at a loss for how 'billionaire troll' isn't a personal attack but the others are.

What I'm asking is what makes his facts personal attacks and yours simply a 'fact'.
Sorry, that's terrible UX. I can't follow whats going on. And is it just me, or do only some cases have examples?

Space on a website is free, whats with the confusing newspaper layout??
That's because the "rest of the story" isn't as good. With a little digging you often find <minors>'s parent(s) are a researcher that studies that exact <thing> <minor> was building, or <minor> somehow got a job working at a lab that works on <thing>, or <minors>'s <thing> isn't as novel as article leads you to believe often with <thing> being known and unused due to some obvious flaw.
> You have a third choice, you could take your dollars elsewhere to get more bang for your buck.

This is true if you're just looking at entertainment in general (and that's a fair approach). If you specifically want Disney+'s content, there are only two choices (plus the implicit "choose not to have access").
Tricked out trucks aren't my thing. But I can see the appeal of buying a rugged vehicle and tricking it out.

To the extent that I have an axe to grind with the big truck owners, it's because some (not all, and not always) these big truck drivers:

- Drive aggressively in urban areas
- Blast their excessive lights which is a hazard for cars in front of them
- Are intentionally disruptive with their giant horns

Put more plainly - assholes seem to be drawn to such things. But I don't think they create assholes.

But for sure, where I live, there are a lot of disruptive assholes with big trucks.
I love this style of post. You cover a wide range of topics in an easy to understand way. Keep up the great work!
The tracking is independent of the subscription, though. GM could always track vehicles with OnStar, whether or not the owner was paying for a subscription. And you can rip the OnStar module out of your vehicle and it will still work, even with the new mandatory subscription.
We Often Don’t Think About Design–But It Tells Us How to Think
I linked the source above. The bucket count is a bit highter than 82139... just 101473717 :-P. Changing it with 82139 does make it twice as slow though. I used 101473717 because that was the number i got from bucket_count() after running it with the default buckets.

About hash(x)=x, that is interesting, i never thought to just use x itself as the hash :-P. The performance is actually a tiny bit better (~17%) for checking if a number is in the set.
Really? In my observations only 17 year olds have the time and patience to do crap like this.
I read this book. Loved it. Have applied many of the principles in it over the years and saw great results.

Smaller companies are a place where the ideas in that book can be put to significant advantage.
Depending on where you live, legislation will also eventually ban you from driving inside cities using ICE cars older than 10 years.
The sense of doom is there in 2022, all right. Or perhaps, just replaced with a resigned shrug, because the ability to effect systemic change as an individual is low.
Technically the speed of light in fiber is 2/3c because fiber has a higher index of refraction. Some HFT funds have actually moved away from fiber in some instances because they can pick up a few microseconds by going through the air instead.
Edit: delete, others have answered this better than I.
> business plan with a proper SLA

If I am that serious, then I'd also want the redundant power and would have a budget for it. For business, 130€/month is going to be a fraction of the cost of your first employee. The scenario posed was "as a normal consumer".
> It prioritizes concision and an abstracted ideal of "readability"[1] at the expense of mental model and ease of use.

That statement applies to all format strings, which are by necessity a small internal DSL. For the = syntax, the input is copied directly to the output with the value of the variable appended. Within the realm of language features, sure it's one more chocolate wafer of syntax. Within the realm of format strings, it's certainly more straightforward than the type conversion and padding syntax.

> That particular "=" syntax is really mostly just useful for dumping runtime state at debug time.

In scientific / ML development that's like 80% of the work.
I don't understand your point.

You are telling me I shouldn't miscommunicate in an article where I try to explain what it feels like when you have a disability that leads people to think you miscommunicate. I understand that I probably should have somehow expanded on the "I am wrong daily" part, but to me, I wrote a clear sentence: "I am wrong daily, it's absolutely no big deal, in fact, I enjoy it and seek it out."

This is the problem I am trying to highlight. I think I state something as clearly as I can, then people think I am lying, or wrong, or deceiving, or arrogant, or not clear enough, or overexplaining, or not explaining enough, and frame the rest of the article in that light. If i say "I am not trying to be arrogant", people will take that as even more evidence, so I don't even try. This is literally what I try to explain in this article.

So many people in this comment section apparently being blessed with the infinite power of nuance, mind theory, social grace, empathy and linguistic intuition could maybe try to be charitable in light of this.
It's interesting to know _busy_ Sun periods can transition to _quiet_ ones. I wonder how these cycles can affect life on Earth, climate wise, in the long run... like, what has been leading to the _short ice age_ we had in the middle ages?
Yes and it even has a lower energy usage : ~300kw/h :).
But since you probably upgraded from a similar one then you are probably more inline with the 60$ I mention at the end and not 200$.

From what I understand high end fridge are often less efficient because of features like ice fountain or freezer in the lower part with drawers instead of doors.

Anyway I'm thinking it's probably not just post-facto justification because it looks too much like a seller pitch and wondering where it comes from.
I'm French and I had never heard it.
'Stop Issuing Tourist Visas to Russians.' – Prime Minister of Estonia
Measuring Snark Performance
This appears to be more literally a schema for information sharing based on https://schema.ocsf.io/ which is probably a better link for the original submission.
No, what Indians are doing is not unique to them. Americans discriminate against black people, notoriously so. I’m sure the Indians who support these caste systems would merely say it’s meritocracy in action, same as all the whites/asians opposing any governmental rule that tries to level the playing field for black people in America.

(This comment will of course be downvoted heavily and/or flagged)
I don’t know about the energy usage of NodeJS but the jvm can be pretty efficient. Switching implementations or tuning an implementation is easier than rewriting an app to native c++ https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3475716.3475774?sid=SCITR...
> Whoever responded about a BMW sedan isn’t me. I’m talking about US pickup trucks, since that’s what the original post is about.

The point is it seems to be a general trend not exclusive to pickup trucks, which some blogger tendentiously latched onto get clicks by stirring up controversy and exploiting pickup truck hate.
It's not a very good one. Western philosophies and religions can definitely show this type of bias.

Some branches of protestantism do believe in predestination. It's also common to see (bad) Christian takes that suffering is a challenge from god (often backed by Job's trials) and thus a thing that may not need changing.

I believe Max Weber also covered this concept sociologically in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
>(in turn belonging to the Unix family), stepbrother of macOS and first cousin of Linux

To the common people this means very little

To those who understands version control this means a lot more.
> Doesn't diesels haul better

A majority of truck owners in the US will never haul anything more than groceries, and we love V8's
Interesting! As fundamentally goal-orientated creatures, I tend to think that there is always a why. The question is just whether you are clear yourself on what that why actually is.

So on that basis, maybe the why does always come first? You may just not be intellectually aware of what that why is? BTW I guess I'm taking quite a broad definition of "why". The "why" could be, because you learned early on that behaviour X makes you feel safe, due to some childhood trauma - but this is a deeply embedded instinct rather than a conscious process of decision making. And things like that can be very difficult to pin down.

I suppose you could discuss this point at a number of different levels...

Definitely agree that the "why" can change over time. I've 100% seen this happen with my own motivations!
I have civ ii working on wine without a problem. It's worked with every version of wine I've tried going back to like 2017. I have both the multiplayer gold edition and the original and I'm pretty sure both should work without any fuss.
The headline on the page is "The Real Reason Why Trucks Are Getting Bigger" - and it is not supported by the item. The assertion is that Obama-era fuel restrictions on cars and small trucks incentivized manufacturers to make bigger trucks which conformed to a less onerous standard.

At the same time, though, we can all agree that there is at least some consumer preference for large trucks. The question is how do these compare? Is the state of play now 95% due to consumer preference and 5% to manufacturers trying to push larger trucks. Or is it the other way round, or some other mix? Todd offers no evidence either way.
That’s awesome. I have a slightly similar story.

Some class in college had us do debates taking a side on some legislation that was being discussed in congress. I had just given my argument and the other side came up to ask me questions (like a cross examination).

One of the questions ended up being what I’d consider a gotcha question (though really I should have known the answer). They asked me what the bills name stood for (it was one of those crazy acronyms they like to use). I honestly don’t think I made it a point to remember that because it was a silly name, so I almost froze for a bit. But instead I answered by explaining the “moral implications” of “what the bill stood for”. I think the professor liked that because I wasn’t deducted any points.

Also, I wouldn’t take any credit for thinking on my feet because I’m pretty sure I simply misunderstood the question at the time lmao
My interpretation is that 150us is the minimum latency no matter what for any size, since the seek time is provided for comparison for HDs
koreader really is the way to go.

https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Ko...
Both things ring fairly true
Recently I heard a Windows 7-era machine being called very old. I gained a grey hair or two just hearing this.
Maybe you should provide some semblance of proof since that goes against ALL reason.
Newest version of the Paperwhite is a big step up. The larger screen and better processor are both put to good use.
Judging by https://schema.ocsf.io/ which is a link with more detail but less explanation, it's a schema for sharing information about events, incidents etc relating to infosec.
> Why? Your first sentence is reasonable, kind of like a setup that I should value your comment but then you just make a decision about which side is more trustworthy without proof?

This is a common (and effective) propaganda/conspiracy technique.
Do you enjoy bike riding?
Exactly! I was going to comment on the same phenomena.

We now have a "digital native" generation coming of age for whom the only thing they have known is a ubiquitous internet. We might expect that they would be more intimately familiar with the workings of the technology that has surrounded them than we could ever be.

Yet the opposite seems true, and I think you've put your finger on a primary reason — they've only interacted with devices that are basically appliances — you turn it on and use the app, but it is very difficult to get inside either the hardware or software. So, it just becomes another box that either works or doesn't.

It is not dissimilar to the generations of people who grew up with automobiles. the more "user friendly" they technology gets, the fewer people even understand what goes on 'under the hood'. If you don't need to understand how to change a tire or change the oil, or check the valve backlash, because these are rare events, few people even have a clue how to do it, unless someone took a special effort to teach them and they took a special effort to learn.

Kind of a sad paradox.
My thinking on this is that if you don't need to pack the energy storage into a small volume (like in a vehicle), and if weight is less critically important (as it'll occupy space in e.g. a garage), it opens up a lot more options for storage medium (as an example, iron-flow packs).

At scale the costs could come down quite substantially given that the basic chemistry is iron, salt, water and little else - at which point it's a substantial financial boon to the customer given that they could see an up to 50% reduction in their energy costs (going by tariffs in my own region) to compensate.
You didn't have to. It would have been good to hear your perspective as well.
I guess Russia also wants to see what happens in winter when gas resources will be important on several fronts ?
You're often stepping up into a truck or down out of them rather than sitting down into a car or standing up out of them.

It is an easier motion, that is true.
> A tesla Model 3 motor already is partially a reluctance motor. This youtube video describes it rather well, and I'd recommend giving it a watch [1]. Notice the air gaps - thats the reluctance part of the rotor.

> [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUb7Zy5Oio

I dont think he's using air gaps?

"Instead of using air gaps, Sansone thought he could incorporate another magnetic field into a motor."
1000 years is definately a figure I've seen bandied about by NASA, and the Bern model suggests that some percentage is effectively permanent, so millenia doesn't seem outlandish.

Where are you citing your numbers from?

A quick Google suggests it's a Climate Change Denial source:

http://euanmearns.com/the-half-life-of-co2-in-earths-atmosph...

And even they cite the climate scientists as saying hundreds of years (before going on to prove them wrong in their blog post of course):

> We hear all the time form the climate science community that even if we stop burning fossil fuels (FF) today the CO2 we have already produced will still be in the atmosphere for centuries to come. We have already lit a long slow burning fuse that will lead us to climate Armageddon. How much of this is actually true?
Sure, if you want a company's product you need to pay for it.
I used to have the similar service on a 2016 Volvo station wagon.

But the radio module in that car is 3G, and because carriers have been discontinuing 3G Volvo cannot provide their service to my car.

There was roughly 12 months when it was impossible to upgrade the radio in my older model car. Now the radio upgrade is customer-paid and optional.

My point being, if they require the subscription I’d be careful to confirm the service is guaranteed regardless of the carriers and obsolete radios etc.
What was written about Japan and China is absolute bollocks and I have no reason to believe what was written about the “Hindu Caste” is any more reliable.

Han was the name of a Chinese dynasty. It became the ethnonym of the core Chinese ethnic group later though Tang has also been used as such to my knowledge. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are other similar uses.

More or less everything written about Japan was false. Before the Black Ships, the Matthew Perry expedition when the US forced Japan open, ending its policy of isolation Japan was amazingly close to mono-ethnic for a pre-modern state. There were the Japanese proper, the Ainu and the Ryukuans/Okinawans and that was it. Not allowing your people to leave and come back rather damps down on foreign populations and absent constant replenishment immigrant communities assimilate. Insofar as Japan has a caste system it long pre-dates WW2. The eta/burakumin are still treated badly. The absolute dumbest thing about the comment was not referencing Japan’s long standing othered ethnic minority, the Zainich Koreans who were stripped of Japanese citizenship after WW2 given that Korea was no longer part of the Japanese state.
In 1997 many machines in common usage were still running DOS (even if they were a 386 or even a 486) - so the 8088 wouldn't have looked as "retro" perhaps.

But even a few short years later everyone was on Windows 98SE or XP and the DOS machines began to look seriously retro.
That's fine, as long as it's not some phoney PR thing like "...well and their parents happen to world experts of the same thing", or own a business around this, etc.