skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> LCOE

No, because that usually completely ignores point 2. For example the commonly used Lazard data on LCOE ignores storage and has zero cost component to allow for time shifting over short or long periods. You need more than LCOE to make a fair comparison of costs of different energy sources.

Yes, there are solutions to correctly costing externalities, and delivering required power to load over time. My point is that too many commenters wilfully ignore the details, and they write specious cost comparisons.

I feel your comment is not helping because it contains half-truths. LCOE is useful, but not valid. Optimism is nice, but just another opinion.

For example, let’s look at https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-... and compare the cost of solar they give, against a storage system that delivers the stored power over 10 hours of night (completely ignoring the bigger issues like seasonal requirements and peak power at noon). 1MWh of utility PV costs $28. Wholesale storage costs $131/MWh which is $1310 for 10 hours. The storage costs totally dominate the costs so tomorrow’s cost of wind or solar generation is completely irrelevant for a fair comparison. Currently, solar and wind can be cheap when comparing on LCOE MWh, because we have existing nuclear and gas plants providing power when they can’t. It is not intellectually honest to make dollar comparisons without trying to make the comparisons have some basis of equality. The cost of storage is dropping, but it has to drop a hell of a long way further over many years before it can compete with baseload generation.

I am not pro-nuclear. I am anti-misinformation.
Same, so much that it is one of the reason I am holding off buying an M1 (that and the fact that I am still waiting for Asahi to get more polished and that 2013 laptop works just fine were it not for the plastic case that is breaking apart as they always do, which is incidentally the reason why I am eying those Macs, long digression sorry) but I guess Mac users would disagree.
Some people like to map Ctrl to Caps Lock as it used to be where it stood on older keyboards. Vim users prefer to map to Esc, but some clever have hackers have it behave like Esc or Ctrl when combined with another key. In the end, as always there are better ways but better ways are not standard and you loose the priviledge on the standard. I have to use other people's machine and I swear the first thing I do is launching a command to remap Caps Lock to Esc else I can't work. Tough call. In the end one gets used to anything, and old habits die hard, change is not welcome. And... Oh ! A better layout than qwerty that looks way more rational, I must try this. I am already writing a blog post in my head lamenting on how that new layout although better does not work well with the rest of the ecosystem.
Medibank reveals customer data breach much wider than originally thought
> I switched to a cheap version of the pixel last time I got a new phone.

Recommend GrapheneOS for your Pixel phone. It is so good I wonder how long it will last.

https://grapheneos.org/
Couldn’t come at a worse time for Musk. The Twitter acquisition has to be the worse tech acquisition ever, judging purely based on the dollar value on day 0.
> Your ARM laptop will be way slower, but it will be cheap because the only ones you can buy are ultra-low spec with terrible components like eMMC storage.

It's not clear what you're quoting from. But it's out of date, now. The last generation (or two?) of windows ARM laptops certainly have NVMe storage. And they're not generally cheap (in cost nor components).

> MS can’t fix it (without their own chip) and Qualcomm seemingly wont either.

Well, launching these laptops without a native Chrome build was a bit of a blunder IMO. That was ~2-3 generations ago and while Google might not ship Chrome for windows-arm64 (last I checked), you can download native binaries of Chromium.

IIRC MS does somehow co-brand w/Qualcomm for the SoCs used on the ARM Surface. But I kinda doubt Microsoft will start designing their own.
Author here, feel free to ask me things I guess. I never expected this page of all things to get on the front page of Hacker News.
I'm on board with curing aging-related illnesses, just not aging itself, which is definitely not a disease. It's humanity's single most important pillar. Looking at it like a disease is completely misguided. Humanity wouldn't be able to exist without aging. Aging is the key to everything.
Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm, eBay, and Adobe got caught explicitly colluding to fix wages (some somewhat hesitantly, e.g. Apple threatened to use its patent portfolio against Adobe if they didn't participate). Their internal communications made it completely clear that they knew what they were doing was illegal, too.

They were fined a small fraction of what they saved for the wage fixing (and essentially nothing to the total impact which included people far beyond these companies due to market distortion-- when the scheme collapsed and my pay went up something like 20%, even though I didn't work for any of the involved companies).

So why shouldn't anyone else do the same?
Yes, heat from radiation can also be damaging.

Fortunately we are well equipped to sense and avoid heat.
But wouldn't that be trending the right direction? Seems like a case of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
I like Gocryptfs. Easy to see and reason about that it is working.
I basically agree though I can't figure out how to get system preferences to show me the list of wifi networks I've used so I can edit it.
I guess another way of saying that is that the US does not have "modern, well regulated landfills".
Darn it- sorry Dang for the duplicate post!
They won’t blow forward if you’re tacking into the wind though.
I wish I could upvote this more
....what value does tiktok offer??? I honestly wonder...I would happily bet money that it's net negative across the world.....
Yeah, Abhishek has seen a lot and has proven to be an invaluable advisor to us at Oso.
Suspension with pay.
I feel like a lot of the people who are into salary transparency stuff are not high earners. I would like to see some game-theoretic analysis of salary disclosure dynamics from someone who is on the right tail of the distribution; my suspicion is that salary disclosure is bad for the rightmost X% of the distribution, where X is somewhere in the 10-50 range, depending on things like:

* What is the scope of the distribution? Industry, company, friend group?

* What are the social dynamics of their company/industry like?

* Is there a partitioning mechanism that reduces the stress of having a wide range of salaries for the same conceptual job type?
I use a custom implementation of rot13 I implemented in Rust
They’ve had it for a long time already. Was using it over a year and a half ago. Not really “new”
Yeah I lived in Mountain View and it smelled like garbage. Apparently the shoreview outdoor event venue had to mitigate some of the outgassing at one point because you could light the methane coming out of the ground on fire.
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How many toilets would this facility have for workers there? 10 million would only allow for 5 at the current price of 1.7 million per toilet.
Requiring back to office will be a popular method of cutting labor once this recession goes full tilt
It worked for most of the planet.
https://matrix.org/blog/category/this-week-in-matrix#matrix-...

> our friends at Bluesky announced their application protocol for building decentralised social media called AT. While not based on Matrix, there are some parallels, and some stuff we may be able to get inspiration from around portable identity :) https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/10-18-2022-the-at-protocol

Sounds like some there are some parallels, and the protocol might inspire portable account identities in Matrix!

The only account migration tool I know of at the moment is proprietary [1], I'd love to see portable identity in Matrix come to life.

[1]: https://ems.element.io/tools/matrix-migration
I think that's just reusing, not recycling. To this day I still buy milk in a glass bottle that comes with a bottle deposit I need to pay. After I'm done with the milk I bring it back to the store to get my deposit back, while they ship the empty glass bottle back. They wash it and then fill it with new milk. It's easy to tell because the bottle only contains a printed logo, all the information that can change such as expiration date or the type of milk are not printed on the bottle at all.

That's different from aluminum can recycling or paper recycling. Those are made into raw aluminum billets or pulp to be manufactured again.
This is very bold. I always post my salary anonymously but I'm afraid that acquaintances/coworkers will resent me if I do something like this.
It doesn't seem to matter if he wants to at this point. Not only is he being told he has to, but also faces court rulings about messing about with the process. Unless something significant changes, it's likely a matter of time before he does. (or pays significant penalties)
> Rich countries aren't really the problem.

Eh, we ship a lot of waste overseas and we delocalised a lot of industries there too. Rich countries are definitely part of the problem, it's too easy to say we don't have a role in this and point our fingers to Asia and Africa... it's time to start taking responsabilities
> We, unfortunately, are simply too binary in our thinking "Oh, asbestos causes cancer? We better purge it from everything everywhere".

I don't think this has anything to do with the OP. It is focused on the process of knowledge being lost simply through the raw fact that nobody remembers it. This is applied to everything:

> We have lost more than 50% of all feature films made before the 1950s

The message of the piece is that we've forgotten the asbestos because, when you go to look at the preserved rockets today, it isn't there.
Just skimming the docs, it seems like Mastodon built on top of DIDs to me: https://atproto.com/guides/overview
Can you provide a link to where you got your definition of atmospheric pollution? I have tried Google and DDG and I haven’t found anyone claiming that “pollution is everything but this small handful of gases” in anything scientific. I keep finding it as being relative to outcomes and not a function of what is or isn’t in an Excel column.
Can someone ELI5 how this works and why it's useful?
Out of curiosity: what was the reason for quitting your job at Pure Storage?
This is a step in the right direction. Federated protocols that aren't moderated or controlled by private organizations is critical for free speech -- but I wonder how moderation will be handled on systems like this... It seems inevitable that it will still centralize around hubs which are efficient at keeping spam off, and that inevitably leads to other types of censorship.

I think they're spot on with needing control over your identity, and them being transferable. Being locked into <username>@host.com is a big pitfall of email.

I've been working on a similar federated protocol awhile which integrates Hal Finney's RPoW concept. Moderation isn't federated which is where it diverges from things like mastodon and bluesky.

Instead, you're paid in messaging tokens by the sender to keep spam off the platform. Tokens are free, assuming you don't need mass amounts of them to spam.

I'm hoping to find some other engineers that might be interested to help work on it. Can contact me Stamp at lotus_16PSJPAVocAM5behRWxqwQnpEVRPJrV4XxbthBhJR. (Human readable handles using DIDs are something we need to get working.)

https://web.stampchat.io
Having benches mapped was recently very helpful for me on a long tiring day of touristing. Knowing I could have a rest in 300m was a huge help. Google Maps fails at this: either they don't have the data 0r they don't display it. OrganicMaps was great.

Entrances also are really useful. Without that data many apps like Uber assume the entrance to a building is at its centroid snapped to the nearest street. Which is usually wrong, often by a whole block.
Super interesting comment, but it was marked "dead", so I vouched for you.

But let's not suggest taking research chemicals for maybe mitigating a known negative side effect for the chemical family of compounds, as it could do good... but it could also bring another negative side effects on top of this one, or a worse one!
One of the job postings actually spells it out: they want "experience" and coursework counts for it

> Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences, Engineering, Sciences; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor’s degree.

> 1+ years of work experience or coursework in design capabilities using modern technologies.

We can argue if modern CS curriculum is really equivalent to work experience, especially with reduction in number of large projects, but at least the companies are pretty upfront about what they want and why.
Raycast looks really interesting. Is there anything you miss from Alfred?
Question is whether they should get a degree. Is the investment worth the return? Not to mention bringing down the value of a genuinely good person because now there’s someone cheaper on the market.
Maybe I'm misremembering, but right now, expose is still available by unticking "Group Windows by Application".

And it's not great if you have many windows. The arrangements of windows changes every time I invoke it. And even if it was consistent, I can't imagine that visually scanning through 30 tiny windows is efficient.
I doubt that Bluesky (which I guess has the unfortunate position of being shortened to "BS") is going to capture the "cool" factor to get wide adoption.
Yes, ban/restrict PFAS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980712
Huh? Your universal handle is yourusername@your.domain, you
can follow anyone on any instance (moderation polices of your chosen
instance notwithstanding).

Search I get, decentralized search is hard without centralizing because you can’t even know all the Mastadon instances that exist. Just like email Mastadon is open federation.
Boom. Thank you for bringing my abstract concern into the real world.
First, I'm not in Apple's corner by any means. Before I left this comment, I left another one on a different story critical of what they've been doing with macOS.

But I've tried a lot of laptops over the pandemic and nothing has come close to the Apple silicon ones in terms of responsiveness, power efficiency, and just plain reliability. And in terms of sheer battery life and weight, the MBA is king of the hill. Sure, I'm not gaming on it - but then again, I can't stand gaming on a laptop to begin with, as the heat and fan noise really bother me. A typical consumer picking out a laptop for college or for use around the house would be better solved with an M1 MBA than almost any Windows laptop unless they have an absolutely mission critical software need.

The MBA isn't for everyone - heck, it can only support 1 external monitor - but it 's the right fit for that middle part of the bell curve.
Nothing much interesting. They shut down the plant and called the cops. Some of the people in pre-sort (where things first enter the line) were kind of shook up by it.

We'd get guns come through a couple of times a month. Those were supposed to get called in to the police too, but since the job is only worked by felons that didn't happen (no snitching rule in effect).
> Edit: I looked at the github, not the medium page, I see I'm wrong. It is some web3 BS

Where exactly does it say that BlueSky is yet another web3 / blockchain project?

The Medium post isn't from the BlueSky team, its from a random crypto blogger and even he doesn't reference where BlueSky is a blockchain or crypto token platform.
We need a law akin to Godwin's: if any online discussion continues long enough, someone will almost certainly argue about the definition of "roguelike."
Presumably channers seeking to claim the glory of a 1666666666 GET.
I wonder if you're right. What do you think the risks of disclosure are for those towards the right of the distribution?
The Company Once Known as Restoration Hardware Is Opening Restaurants. Why?
This prescient talk "The Birth & Death of JavaScript" by Gary Bernhardt in 2014 is slowly but surely coming true:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Are there any 12th gen Intel laptops that support Linux well? I was under the impression that 12th gen support on Linux is rough all around.
LUKS for my main drive. VeraCrypt for everything else.
https://archive.ph/P2VLp
While asdf solves lots of pains, I still feel it solves the wrong problem. What I've instead started to do is to build docker images for various needs. Like, multiple of our projects need terraform, but all different versions. A project should then include that in its dev-dockerfile. No setup, just git clone a project and ready to go. No messing around with "to install and run X you need to have Y already installed, which half of you don't so for some reason it wont work in your environment".
> No laptop released by Microsoft or most of its OEMs officially supports Linux.

I disagree that "Most OEMs don't officially support Linux". Lenovo supports Linux on 17 laptops released in 2022 alone [1]. Dell also has a similar effort, with Linux supported on the 2022 XPS 13 Plus [2] among others. HP has its DevOne[3]

But at the moment, I don't know of an modern, high performance ARM laptop with official Linux support.

The closest thing I know of is the Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Dev kit by NVIDIA[4].

[1] https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426-linux-fo...
[2] https://ubuntu.com/certified/laptops?q=&limit=20&release=22....
[3] https://hpdevone.com/
[4] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-sy...
GPT3 is that good. Sign up and try it for yourself. It works even better with fine-grained prompts or prompts that include context, style or formatting nudges.
It writes better than me with a little help.
Maybe it was just in the German speaking world, but such projects were called "template" or "boilerplate" ~10 years ago. When did we start calling them libraries? It doesn't add any functionality as one might expect from a library, it 's just an opinionated change to the default CSS shipped by browsers. Not to say that this is a bad thing, I just disagree on the terminology.
Bitcoin is the first (and most stable) theoretically unseizable currency. You can store bitcoin in your brain, get persecuted by your national government for criticizing their actions, travel across a border, get kidnapped, offer up a decoy wallet, get released 3 years later, wander into a town with an internet cafe, and theoretically, you could have access to your funds within hours, without the consent of or dependence on any other centralized entity.

Is this a fantasy that few if any people will ever utilize? Sure.

Is it also super cool? I think so.

I think the main demand of bitcoin is "money that isn't subject to federal reserve policy". No fiat currency in the world is effectively accomplishing that today.

(Note: I had to stop using brainwallets three bubbles ago because I had recurring nightmares of getting a brain injury and losing access to my funds. Don't recommend it.)
Moxie Marlinspike's quiet leaf blower prototype
> Privately communicating with direct competitors about pricing is invariably the first step of an illegal price fixing conspiracy.

Sure, and having a drink is invariably the first step to drunk driving. That doesn't make having a drink = drunk driving.

To be clear, I'm not defending the practice or saying it's never illegal. I'm saying sharing is not sufficient in and of itself. This article may be more convincing than an internet rando: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/wage-fixing...

> While wage fixing is easy to spot, a more subtle and related antitrust problem springs from wage disclosure: the mere agreement among employers to exchange wage information, even if they don’t agree on the actual wage itself, CAN lead to liability IF the information exchange negatively effects wages.

> Antitrust can be complex, but even a simple agreement on wages is a violation. Proof can come by the agreement itself without proof of competitive effects.

> An agreement between or among employers to exchange wage information, even if employers do not agree on the amount, can be illegal if that exchange resulted in lower wages.
Not that that word has any real meaning, but what exactly is "web3" about this (as the author keeps touting)? From what I can see it is a new protocol that social media servers can use to communicate with each other, very similar to Mastodon, ActivityPub and the rest of the Fediverse ecosystem.
Are you happy with the move to Canada despite the reduction in salary?
Assuming there'd be a nice UI in userspace to adjust the keyboard firmware settings, that would be a lot more accessible to casual users than going into BIOS. (Although, casual users probably don't care that much about Fn-Ctrl vs Ctrl-Fn)
The company was a bad fit for me. I only really got that job so I could work with Foone. They said I would be doing product development but ended up maintaining Python 2 code. I left as soon as I could find an alternate employer. It being the year that the 45th president of the US was elected didn't help either. That whole year was a wash for me and I only list that stuff here because I use this data to help me write immigration forms.
> Cosco Shipping Ports last year agreed to buy 35 per cent of Tollerort, a container terminal in Hamburg, from logistics company HHLA for €65mn.

$65m doesn't seem worth jumping into bed with that mate for.
I wonder if average users would actually care about the selling points he is touting or even understand. How compelling is it for people to use? What’s going to make them migrate away ?
The strict roguelike fans would argue that these are in fact roguelites, since there is some (small) amount of carryover between runs. The more orthodox view is that every run starts from zero.
We must live in parallel universes. T15 gen 2 here, works phenomenally on ubuntu 20.04.
Oh sheet, I never realized you could do that! Thank you.
I know this is an unpopular thing to say, but I'm broadly skeptical of any federated/decentralized communication network. Email and phones exist for historical reasons; and both are absolutely infested with scams and spam.

I'm not saying that any of the centralized networks are immune from those maladies, but the problems seem to be substantially less challenging on that front.
Would you be happy to live with your husband/wife in another country if it meant a reduction in salary?
For anything to be a universal handle, you need everything to support it. Will every single project start using this protocol? Probably not. So it won't be a universal handle, just another account.
Huh? How did you conclude that from what you read?
That's not entirely true. California allows non-competes for someone selling a business. We don't know if Dorsey actually did sign a non-compete, but Musk is buying Twitter so this might be one of the rare instances where it'd be legal in California if he had.

Source: California law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...

> [...] any owner of a business entity selling or otherwise disposing of all of his or her ownership interest in the business entity [...] may agree with the buyer to refrain from carrying on a similar business within a specified geographic area in which the business so sold, or that of the business entity, division, or subsidiary has been carried on, so long as the buyer, or any person deriving title to the goodwill or ownership interest from the buyer, carries on a like business therein