skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what that 20% means in case of solar? Utilisation factor also doesn’t make sense - what matters is how many GWh you van get per dollar of installation, but you don’t measure this in %.
another reason I think taking twitter private immediately was a wide choice
>Because prisons don't have a clear role, they end up being a weird and ineffective mix that achieves virtually nothing.

I think the role of prisons is really clear, we just have a common social lie we tell ourselves because the truth is really ugly. The prison system exists to provide slave labor to those willing to use it and as a tool to hurt marginalized communities.
Some people do immediately project a gay vibe just by stereotypical mannerisms. Yeah I know that isn't always a reliable indicator, but it's something I notice. Beyond thinking "he's probably gay" it's not something I think about any more than "he has brown hair" or "she is Japanese" it's just a characteristic of the person that I notice.
> The 50mm lens, once the mainstay of 35mm photography, has been all but forgotten by today’s photographers.

> Before falling to its current level of disfavor, the 50mm lens had a long and distinguished pedigree

umm, I'm pretty sure nifty-fiftys have been top recommendation always for people wanting to explore beyond the kit zoom. And quickly checking some camera stores, indeed, they are one of the top selling lenses around. Not really sure where author is getting the idea that it is some obscure forgotten relic.
No, not really. It’s silly to blame the US for actions of other groups working to pursue their own goals.
My bad, I read 16g/kwh. Nevermind.
Fair enough. The initial reaction to the company creation still makes me think that in this case, some community contributors feel like they got the short end of the stick. Clearly not the sketchiest part of these events, but maybe food for thought when considering contributing to a project that may go commercial at some point.
My decision to use gitrc over gitea is looking better and better…
Who needs infrastructure when you can drive 2000 km to the next gas station? :)
you are wrong, I did not say anything about sentence of 10 years.
And keep them in cages indefinitely just in case the wrong person was convicted after all, or are you also for 'eye for an eye' at that point?
I find his short stories to be quite good -- if not a bit repetitive if read in bulk. His paranoia and the bleakness of post nuclear war are overwhelming after a while.

Quite a lot of his stories have been made into movies, for better or worse. They seem to be enough of a chunk to hang a story on, without getting too much in the way of telling a good story.

Minority Report -- much better in the story. We Can Remember it for You Wholesale -- both worked.
I think artists are just happy if they can make a living. If it becomes lucrative to do the same kind of work repeatedly, I think most artist will jump at the chance because it beats working at an office 9-5 every day
This is incredibly misleading. Your childs personality is not set in stone after 6. Don't wager yourself safe because you have done your best until 6.
The lignin hypothesis:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-...
How would broad index funds with some bond exposure protect against this?
The point of prison to me seems like a place you can put people that are dangerous and take them out of the equation for society.
Colleges Should Bring Back Testing Requirements
You’re more literate than most patients. You’re right, it should list all of the above. I think your post reads (and per other poster, I’m not alone) that you had a $1300 normal outpatient visit, so I read that as you misreading your bill.
Stuff like this didn't help:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201204090050/https://twitter.c...
No, Elon and Jack are not “competitors.” They’re collaborating
What I've learned about learning a language
Touché. Although I don't think that's quite what the questioner was getting at.
The penal system generally solves along three axes, whose distribution varies based on the society in which they exist.

1) Segregation. Taking dangerous individuals and putting them in a separate area away from society.

2) Rehabilitation. Changing the behavior of these individuals to avoid recidivism.

3) Retribution. Just making these people miserable because it people outside prison feel good knowing the people in prison are having a bad time.

The US penal system is designed principally around (1) and (3) and pays lip service to (2).
Just seen this response. Thanks for the comment.

I was on the fence about including mentions of querying mechanisms like AWS Athena and the like, but you’re right it’s all part of the same horse (or house).

Was 5am by the time I finished writing this though… so I kind of had to stop (hence the very short data mesh section!).
Would divers use these locations wreckreationally?
Gogs is a clone of GitHub and GitLab (which were both originally written in Ruby with the Ruby on Rails CoC Convention-over-Configuration Web Framework), which were built because Trac didn't support Git or multiple projects, Sourceforge didn't support Git or on-prem, and git patchbombs as attachments over emailing lists needed Pull Requests, and Issues and PRs should pull from the same sequence of autoincrement (*) integer keys.

- You can do ~GitHub Pages with Gitea and an idempotent git post-receive-hook that builds static HTML from a repo revision, tests, deploys to revid/ and updates a latest/ symlimk, and logs; or with HTTP webhooks.

- "Feature: Allow interacting with tickets via email"
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/2386#issuecomment-6...

- It's not safe to host Gitea on the same server as the CI (e.g. DroneCI) host if you grant permissions to the docker socket to the CI container: you need another VM at least to run the CI controller and workers on_push() with Gitea. https://docs.drone.io/server/provider/gitea/ :

> Please note we strongly recommend installing Drone on a dedicated instance. We do not recommend installing Drone and Gitea on the same machine due to network complications, and we definitely do not recommend installing Drone and Gitea on the same machine using docker-compose.

GitHub and GitLab centralize git for project-based collaboration, which is itself a distributed system.
2010's? Dude, I'm still in the 80's. I'm not some GenZ tiktok child who can't be with a screen for 10 seconds and thinks everything needs to be gamified. This dependency on phones is stupid. So I refuse to participate. The more people that do so, the less this BS takes over life. We're responsible for the world we live in.
Guess they want you to pay for their bundled phone plan instead. I’m guessing you can bring this to their attention and get some boilerplate response containing words like “abuse” and “safety”. Prognosis: This will go to court on common carrier terms and the block will be lifted in 3-4 years.
I would say having housing is pretty important and rents are rising too.
Maybe we need to start plugging motherboards into GPU cards and have the GPU supply the motherboard with power.
What are you taking as “advice”? I am stating what should be the un controversial observation that CPI measures things that make up a large percentage of a poorer person’s costs, whereas for the rich, inflation per CPI is meaningless and that their “basket of goods” purchased in a year is primarily financial assets, which have objectively seen deflation over the last year.

Which part of that statement is unclear to you?
This overlooks the fact that automation is eating jobs requiring human input *much* faster than new human jobs are being created.
I miss it too. For me, the replacement is Web. It lacks VB's all-in-one-ness, and it lacks the GUI designer, but other than that, I can get a pretty close approximation of GUI toolkit with events binding.

I don't use almost any frameworks or toolkits, save for a cryptography module, and I am quite happy and getting a similar experience.

Bonus is if I keep it to 2010-ish era DOM-style code, I virtually never have to worry about cross-browser compatibility issues.

It pays to stay off the bleeding edge.
That's a pretty good idea. I'd consider this more if I wasn't just putting some keystone wall plates through the floor into my basement. I'd also have to put trim around a door frame.
I looked that up. It appears that glyphosphate resistance in Palmer amaranth and some other species is due to duplication of their own EPSPS genes, not horizontal transfer from genetically engineered crops.

_Glyphosate Resistance and EPSPS Gene Duplication: Convergent Evolution in Multiple Plant Species_

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29040588/

It's a "natural" response to the high usage of glyphosphate, similar to the emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria as a response to antibiotic drugs.
Yeah, it's basically 20th century Candide for much of that generation.
Is that even legal? Blocking network traffic because it competes with their offering?
This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Just for listing a few simple, non-controversial points I'm told that I'm in a "bad place" and that I have a "skewed view of current reality". Ad-hominem garbage.

Oh yes, I'm drowning in luxury right now.
I haven't read The Man in the High Castle for a long time, but I thought that it was a rarity amongst PKD's output in that he edited it rather than just writing and selling it. It's also notable for winning a Hugo.
Does make one wonder about the incidence of your case versus what I think most people presume to be the common case (bad environment leading to bad actions).
I have read a fair bit of pkd and found Valis an unsatisfying struggle. Radio Free Albemuth is an earlier attempt at similar ideas and is accessible.
Coax stapled to the studs is different than coax running inside of a conduit.
Personally I was willing to believe the Musk Twitter company will be a net benefit

I notice that Musk is spending his time tweeting that it is possible Paul Pelosi was attacked by his gay lover, so it's not looking good.
I could not agree more, and the reason is an empirical one:

Looking back over the past 10 years, the best and most photos that I've taken were with a simple ~$300 Sigma 50mm f 1.4. I do have Canon L glass, but the bokeh and low-light speed just dominate most other considerations.

There's also one super important benefit/limitation that I love: With a prime lens, you zoom with your feet. That's not actually bad, you just need to get in people's faces to have them close up. And that in and of itself (often) yields great shots.
Such a list would include hedge fund managers, such as Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen or Jim Simons.
we mostly talk about Crichton as an author rather than about the actual contents of the books. He's "famous for being famous", sort of like Madonna. look at the article we're commenting on which like almost all Crichton pieces talks about his success and sales rather than talking about his work at all.
While it's not rocket science, I always find it to be super annoying to do. Getting things smooth/flat when you're done (generally, I think I wind up doing 4-5 layers of mud) takes a fair amount of time. Plus sanding it down without getting the powder everywhere is difficult; I use a wet sander / sand "sponge", but even then I wind up with some of it spreading around.
For a scientist, you sure do ignore the facts of fallible human nature and basic mathematical set logic theory. These platforms are not newspapers and magazines printed by individual companies with a cultivated set of content creators; they are platforms that are open to all people in the world. Applying the same principal to these platforms is inconsistent and arbitrary.

“This is the rhetorical slight of hand due to which any meaningful discussion of this topic is impossible on Hacker News. I talk about a lack of moderation and editorial work and you reply about "taking away peoples freedom of expression".”

You fail to see that we are saying the same exact thing and your attempt to equivocate by avoiding stating the obvious that moderation and editorializing is restricting expression doesn’t pass muster with me. We will have to disagree on this.

“We require so much structure in the scientific enterprise to guard against our own individual vanity and fallibility.”

Yet vanity and fallibility still reign amongst scientists, especially given the way science is funded. I refuse to accept such a naive notion and blindly apply that principal to discourse amongst people.
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Amazing the standard of pulp fiction in that era - we need a big dose of dystopian 'nuclear war will be an apocalypse that will end our lives' right now given how amazingly unaware people appear to be to the grave danger of nuclear war threat we are facing right now
What the hell is this weird "news" site?

Next article is about MotoGP bikes switching from 2-strokes to 4.
That was 20 years ago!
And a poor translation at that..

https://www.ruetir.com/2022/10/30/motomondiale-2002-yamaha-y...
Some time ago I saw a presentation from the chaos computer club where an expert on the matter explained there is a lot of misunderstandings about hydrogen technology as an energy source and how is gonna useful for society and why it is necessary.

In a nutshell some industries that currently rely on natural gas cannot switch effectively to electricity, hydrogen seems to be the only solution at the moment.

Regarding transportation, it seems to be widely accepted that hydrogen is not an efficient solution for small vehicles. There may be some cases where it makes sense (heavy trucks, train locomotives), but overall it doesn't seem like anybody expects hydrogen cars to be mass produced.
I don’t have much time to look deeper but around 3kHz there are two peaks 300Hz apart. Wouldn’t surprise me if there is a signal there and could be ASCII.
That and right wing shooters originating and radicalizing in there.
I think this gets at the most important question implicating the death penalty: what do we we do with people who can presumably never be allowed back into society?
> So is prison meant to reform or punish?

Both, and some other stuff. Traditionally, the justice system is supposed to have 5 recognized goals, they are: deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution, and restitution

deterrence is about preventing others from breaking the law (this one is not about the incarcerated individual, but about currently law-abiding citizens outside of prison)

incapacitation is about preventing harm to society by completely removing certain people from it

rehabilitation is reasonably obvious. That being said, there are traditionally considered some people who are "beyond rehabilitation". From this view, that's not ideal, but still not the end of the world, as prison in these cases has value for several of the other reasons described.

retribution is about making the victim (or victim's family) feel better by inflicting pain on the guilty. This is a combination of explicit revenge, and keeping buy-in from the local populace by making them feel like the system is just, and keeping them feeling secure/valued.

restitution is just about financial payments to make up what the victim has lost. If someone steals your car, having them buy you a new car, plus pay some amount extra for your time is generally seen as a reasonably fair solution. This one doesn't necessarily involve prison unless the defendant refuses to pay.
There was a company doing something like this for ios apps.

The approach was to charge a monthly fee to maintain a company’s apps.

Anytime there was a reported bug or the app needed updating. It was resolved.

This company had a number of clients. And gave their clients peace of mind.

One can start this by soliciting companies with apps.
People always only think of themselves, democracy or not. That's been true since the dawn of time. That's why I said the younger generations will need to overcome some of the institutional barriers. Nothing is going to be just handed to them.
In more straighforward terms, what are you saying is wrong with their argument? Rather than beating around the bush by remarking upon what they are or aren't likely to be in your opinion
For those who aren't familiar with this particular chapter in Apple II history:

- "Copy-2-Plus" was the ubiquitous disk copier/disk utility software for Apple II computers in the mid to late 80s. The makers of Copy-2-Plus, Central Point Software, had a distribution deal with VTech, makers of a popular legal Apple II clone, the "Laser 128".

- The Laser 128 was a legal clone because because VTech provided a clean-room implementation of the Apple II firmware that was, for the most part, not super buggy. They also legally licensed Microsoft BASIC. The Laser became very popular in the late 80s as VTech was able to undercut Apple's pricing while extending the hardware in ways that Apple was unwilling to do.

- At some point in the late 80s, the source code to Copy-2-Plus went missing. In order to keep the lights on, Central Point Software had to re-implement their premier product from scratch.

- In the early 90s, a dead hard drive shows up in dumpster of a hardware recycler. This hard drive apparently contained a copy of the Copy-2-Plus source code that went missing in the late 80s, as well as the code for VTech's Laser 128 firmware and Microsoft BASIC.

- By fluke, a worker at this recycler happens to notice something about this dead hard drive, fixes it, and discovers all of this missing and/or notable Apple II source code.
The Mossad/not-Mossad security duality [pdf]
No, it seemed a bit generic to me, but maybe I'll take a second look.
> That’s a significant contribution and Elon Musk is largely credited with moving the auto industry in that direction.

Which is a direction which doesn't benefit the quality of life of contemporaries in any way and it's contentious that it will benefit people living in the future.

When something benefits you, well you know because you use that stuff. Today is Sunday and I used dozens of different flavors of Microsoft. Same with Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, Exxon, BP, Fidelity, Wells Fargo, JPM...you get the gist. I don't suspect, I KNOW that Jobs was an asshole and so is Gates, not to mention Zuck and Dimon...but quality of life provided by company they direct, trumps assholery.

I can't say the same for any of Musk companies, and he's supposedly the GOAT and he's 51. Mind I am not a sub-saharan farmer , I am a well traveled person, but I never used one of his products or services, the closest I was when an Uber was supposed to come pick me up in a Tesla but canceled.
Life in prison without the possibility of parole reminds one of French oubliettes.
They weren't rude or whiny, just stating their experience.

This is a really weird thing to get angry about.
Are we supposed to feel bad for the Americans with a crummy hand? To most of the rest of the world it sounds like if Prince Harry laments he's not in as high of a point of succession as his father was.
You might be right, and I was clear that it was only a model.

This gives a starting point. You can then measure the value added by the externalities you mention.

Or, as the author of the source article did, you can also measure the value added by low interest rates and low tax rates, then make some guesses as to what happens when those reverse.
Discovery of unknown habitats in the carboniferous flora in the Pyrenees
There's a bit in Ubik that stays in my mind. Joe Chip gets into an
argument with his apartment door that refuses to open for him because
he owes it money. I kinda got that the door was an autonomous
money-making agent that held him hostage - a conversation reminiscent
of that between Doolittle and the Bomb in Dark Star. It made me see
the ridiculous side and ultimate absurdity of micropayments leading to
world where a dollar value is put on everything so that every silly
little thing becomes a coin operated nuisance whose actual function is
replaced by squeezing a few more micro-credits out of you.
Electronic locks create future revenue opportunities! Maybe the next auto industry innovation will be subscription doors. "Upgrade your vehicle from 3 doors to 4, just $19.99/month!"
Imagine a robo-doctor insisting on "take your medication".
No one is mentioning airframes, but the technology put in the composites of the F18 airframe was worlds cheaper and more flexible to repair in a fleet than the pre composites airframe of a F14
They probably already have lobbyists at the ready should these concerns appear as a blip on some political agenda. :(
Putin's fascist regime may be finally blocking access to Telegram inside Russia
Sure, in a pure mass vs. mass scenario where the adversary's systems are no more advanced than yours, more mass likely wins. But this is really the only scenario in which aircraft like the F-16 or F-18 give you "air dominance".

The fighter mafia tended to overextrapolate from Vietnam that systems/technology were never going to be the force multiplier originally thought, and you needed to equip lots of smart men with incredible knife-fighting ability.

The maybe underappreciated lesson from the F-15 (air-to-air variants anyway) is that the systems did indeed catch up to airframe capabilities and proved their mettle. Not just in combat with lesser-trained adversaries but also in western military exercises. Moreover the F-15 doesn't give up very much in the WVR dogfight situation either, despite a lack of fly-by-wire (until F-15SA) or lack of relaxed static longitudinal stability. I'm sure you can setup a WVR fighter maneuvers set where the F-16's characteristics give it an advantage but that is likely to be a small window in the envelope of potential engagements. The F-15's size actually ends up being a pretty sweet spot and is (ironically?) a better airframe for getting within the adversary's OODA loop.

That all being said, John Boyd is credited with keeping the F-X program from foolishly pursuing a more complex and less maneuverable design - design direction which deserves immense praise.
I wouldn't overlook the money angle either. Privatization, either outright, or in part via service fees for phones, books, commissary, etc, has changed the system.
I have no experience with terminating connectors directly. There appear to be all kinds available, even ones with gel inside them but they suffer a lot more loss than if I splice a fiber.

Using the splicer gave me the flexibility to splice pig-tail ends or just two fibers together with a small loss.
Summary

A study reveals how the Sigillaria brardii species -- a fossil plant typical of peatlands and abundant in the flora of Europe and North America during the Upper Carboniferous -- colonized new areas in the riverbeds of the great European mountain range known as the Variscan mountains, far from their natural habitat.
I am not suggesting anyone can judge ahead of time when assets are going to fall (though there are certainly indicators). I am stating that CPI inflation is not a “tax” on the cash held by the wealthy. It isn’t relevant. Their “basket of goods” purchased differs dramatically from what CPI measures and largely includes financial assets which have seen deflation. This is objectively a “cash is king” situation despite inflation running hot.
I could see the US gov declaring Linux a threat to national security.
One low-hanging fruit to help the medical system is to replace/supplement GPs. GPs just route to a specialist, with some treatment short-circuits along the way. Sometimes you are forced through this pipeline for insurance reasons. There's a shortage of these doctors, at least in the US.

Create what WebMd should be: an actual working expert system. Take some modern medical textbooks and create a basic expert system. You can use ML for any imaging/sound/whatever needs, and you can schedule lab tests yourself. It might never be as good as a great GP, but how often do you have access to a great GP?
Lives and health, he's also included in the list.