skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What If We Covered the Sahara With Solar Panels? - https://youtu.be/62ASvupr8Zg

The Problem with Solar Energy in Africa - https://youtu.be/7OpM_zKGE4o

One of the difficult problems with extremely large solar projects is the infrastructure to move the power. In a lot of these cases, the space to build solar is large areas of land that no one uses... which means that there's not much infrastructure to build the solar power plants, and then not much infrastructure to move that power back to places where people live.

Yes, there's a lot of land that could be used for solar. Moving the enough power to power all of Spain (or all of Europe) based on solar requires some very impressive transmission lines.
Being a bit older, coke used to be extremely popular in some firms I worked at
There's nothing wrong with single character variables if you're not using them like a complete idiot. A line like reports.map(r => whatever) makes it blatantly obvious that r is a report.
Unfortunately this is how it works at a lot of companies. Just a mess.

I was working at Best Buy when the stock price was $8/share... we had "Tornado Thursdays" where every Thursday for months you'd hear of a small amount of people getting notice they were laid off. I suspect they did this to avoid labor rules of notification/SEC?

Prior to that, we went through a LARGE layoff where they gathered everyone in a room, said "go back to your desks you'll see a 15 minute meeting on your calendar if you're impacted" and at the end of the day they gathered the remainder in a room and said "if you're here you're safe".
Lemmy maintainer here, its great that you are interested in our project. However it would be better if you linked to https://join-lemmy.org/ instead, which is the official project website and includes an extensive list of different Lemmy instances with distinct communities and rules. What you linked to is just one of these instances.

I will try to answer any questions you have.
Tesla software is not good overall. The engineering for the batteries is amazing. Drivetrain efficiency is good. The further the software gets from those two things the worse it gets. We ditched our model 3 for an e-tron and could not be happier. We gave up some range for an overall superior product. Our main complaint was the software, especially the shoddy constantly changing main UI. Tesla are good cars for what they do but for most drivers there are better EVs now. Also the Tesla infotainment system constantly breaking /was/ our main complaint. Bluetooth behavior was bad. Crashed and needed resetting (mid drive) pretty often. And it is way more than just infotainment, it is your main UI to do critical tasks like turn on wipers, etc.
How do you really feel about teachers?
Protocol Is Shutting Down
Flake8 took down Gitlab repo and pre-commit broke 20k pipelines
Sharing consequences of Flake8 taking down the gitlab repo and pre-commit having this repo as a direct link which is in 20K pipelines, in my first ever blog post!
Exactly. The humans aren't the problem, it's the plane itself.
A Six-Figure Income Is Needed Just to Afford the Typical US Home
I can’t help but feel this is just a form of propaganda or self hype now.
Elon’s latest interest always becomes “incredibly important for humanity” and using that to justify poor working conditions and lower pay is horribly convenient to his bottom line.
This is called parallel construction. The story as told didn't actually happen IMO.
> to be open source, you must comply with the 10 rules

The open source initiative didn't not invent this expression. They worked hard to promote their idea of it, and its application. They did a lot of good, but aren't an autorative source when it comes to its definition.
> also most of the formats used today to archive digital media are lossy (mpeg4, h264, jpeg etc)

"Lossy" doesn't mean it wears out. If you are a digital media librarian, you will use MPEG and put it in a container with error-correction codes and store multiple copies.

"Lossy" refers to the encoding between the full data you got from your scanner/digital encoder and the final file. It doesn't mean that meaningful information is lost from the original analog artifact and it doesn't mean it's not great for long-term preservation.
> None of that is remotely generalizable.

What? I apologize, but that is absurd. Entire industries are built around the idea that people of different ages _generally_ have different tastes.

Take the "children's" television network Nickelodeon - someone realized that kids like different shows than adults, so they made an entire, 24/7 tv network dedicated to it.

Then they realized that kids go to bed at an earlier hour, so they made "Nick at Nite" for adults where they showed reruns of old tv shows. Then they realized that really young kids like different shows than older ones, so they made Nick Jr. Then they realized that ~college age people liked different shows, so they made Adult Swim. Then they realized that some older adults wanted to watch classic cartoons so they made Boomerang.

These weren't one-off "oh, one person likes different shows". These were entire age-based demographics. And this is but one example, plenty of industries - especially entertainment industries - target exactly this.

And plenty of hard science is based on the fact that human brains "mature" and adapt over time. Young kids brains are different that geriatric brains,

That is not to say any of this perfect. As these algorithms collect what a person does and doesn't like or watch, they can and should change.

And if someone wants to show their kids "age innappropriate" material to their kids, that's there choice. But don't recommend "The Human Centipede" to a three year old when they turn on the tv, and don't recommend Cocomelon to me.
How is all this insane Twitter news not making the front page of Hacker News?
Not sure how reliable the source is but this [0] shows 60% of US EV sales were Teslas in Q3.

0: https://joinyaa.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and...
I have no dog in this race and no opinion, but it's always interesting when USPTO rejects a trademark application on unusual grounds. Remember "The Slants?" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/19/533514196...
An ad doesn’t itself provide (significant) entertainment value, and exists primarily to get you to consume something else later.

All entertainment wants to get you ‘hooked’ but that’s mostly a good thing since it makes it enjoyable. Even Homer wrote a sequel!
Does anyone have detailed instructions on how to get Erlang Observer up and running on WSL/Win10? This has been my biggest gripe since I started learning Elixir. I love everything about it expect why isn't there a web-based observer for folks not using MacOS? Having to install all this JVM stuff to make it work gives me a severe headache. I've already looked on Google and didn't find anything with the level of detail that I was looking for. Someone please help!
So you think the “artistic film student” isn’t trying to get into the industry “with the intention” of getting noticed by the industry to make money?
So was he like ... hey bud, don't tell anyone this, but ... "the left side of my mouth can't taste"

Because I can't figure out how this would be helpful in any other context.
Metaverse can unlock humans’ creative potential
Indeed. Although I have mostly stopped using OOP in most of my code, I sometimes encounter certain classes of problems that are exceedingly complicated to solve in a purely functional way, but that are a breeze to solve using OOP, believe it or not.

One can mix functional and OOP code well by compartmentalizing the parts of the code that are in OOP style, and situating it in an overall functional context. For example, the methods of a class can certainly be written in a very functional style, and classes themselves can be instantiated within functions.

The mark of a skilled developer is to know which paradigm is the best to solve a particular problem, just like the choice of a data structure can greatly affect simplicity of code to address a problem.
Local and Regional eSIMs for Travelers
Translate it back & forth. It'll as a bonus also clear out any specific words used to trap you.
From my personal experience
Stress free 5 days > Fire fighting for 4 days
> Plenty of experts think now is a good time to be spendning at least some resources on this. And we're not talking nuclear fusion level resources here; I don't know the numbers, but I imagine the amount of resources are actually fairly tiny compared to almost all other scientific spending. (And this was certainly true 10 years ago.)

The risk theses experts are talking about isn't existential. Its stuff like GPT3 being truncated to generate propaganda for dictatorships, deepfakes, algorithm-reinforced biases in all kinds of models (because the data used to train them was generated by humans). This is concerning to some degree and deserves funding and research (though all too often the results boil down to unusable advice and guidelines). This is entirely orthogonal to any existential risk a supposed AGI might create. One is a testable scientific hypothesis and the other is a futurist horror story which is untestable by definition.
Elon receives a disproportionate amount of hate. Nobody is perfect, but people seem to dwell on his mistakes, and ignore his.... gigantic successes. I'm not sure I would have given anyone with $8 a blue checkmark. But i've also never ran a company that put a rocket in space with astronauts on it. Elon is human, and Twitter was a failing business (it was losing Millions of dollars a day, that's failing). Drastic transformation is necessary.
The "to" line is just a header and you can put whatever you want. The actual recipient is specified out of band (RCPT TO). This is how "bcc" works.

Likely the To: line is some sort of mailing list in this case. The mailing list watermarks when redelivering to everybody. The To line remains unchanged. A reply-all causes one copy to be leaked (but it might be re-watermarked, depending on configuration...) Edit: A reply further down says it was actually a forward which does seem more likely, but nothing about the original setup is impossible.
Makes me mad that my mustang has a spot for a spare... But no actual spare

They give you a fix it kit and some good wishes

edit: I suspect it's something to do with tire size as you say, but also brakes. Can't fit a donut with what's on the hub

For > $40k I would've liked they throw in a real spare wheel/tire lol
Its a better metric than "I've never worked with her but i hear shes great"
Windows Subsystem For Linux a.k.a. WSL 1.0.0 released
Changelog

Removed the "Preview" label - WSL in the Store is now generally available!
Use an override in generator.early to prevent the /tmp/.X11-unix socket from being removed during boot
Don't create a pty for systemd to fix issue where systemd would time out during boot
This is the route I've been going w/ my work on 3D --- I program in BlockSCAD and make modules for each component, or aspect of a component, and then the design can be visualized as the options/logic which arrive at a particular iteration.
The trick is actually very, very old. Mapmakers used to add very small and intentional "mistakes" to their maps so that they could identify who was copying their work (because they would copy the mistakes along with all the legit parts of the map).
The gating factor for the scaling issue isn't the battery production (mining externalities notwithstanding), but the infrastructure to support them.

Wave your magic wand to will everyone a Tesla, and watch the grid collapse the same instant.
If you dont like the rules or userbase of lemmy.ml, you can choose one of the many other instances, which are administrated by different people and have completely different rules. There are also some instances which have the slur filter disabled.

https://join-lemmy.org/instances
> It's like being trapped in a hamster wheel. Why have we as consumers become to addicted and depended on brands?

Because that is the goal of advertising operations. Hence, it's just working as expected.
I think you're missing the point. Nothing is wrong with deprecation, but it should be done properly. Ideally, breaking changes should correspond to a major version increase
That's what I'm thinking, someone could always throw it up on pypi
That sounds like a terrible workplace in general.
I love the charity of this, and I think as a Heuristic this is a good way to approach pedagogy.

Worth recognizing however that natural variability means there's going to be people with harder times in certain areas.

Our job (collectively) as educators is to make it easy to integrate the wide range of human diversity into regular life, so as to make life easier for everyone in total.
Learning latent part-whole hierarchies for point clouds
The difference is that house prices were for material objects that people actually need, and sales are supported by a huge industry of agents, lawyers, and governments to facilitate the safe transfer of houses.

None of that exists in the crypto space. The exchanges control the price and regularly trade against their own customers, and recent events have shown that they are all co-mingled and propping each other up.

Exchanges going down is bad news even if you keep your coins in your own wallets. With the exchanges gone, actually using your coins will become much harder. Worse, as power consolidates among fewer exchanges the price becomes even easier to manipulate.
We have a Montessori nearby we considered, but ultimately decided it was too risky due to the small class size - if we went in blind and ended up with a bunch of kids ours didn't get along with it would be painful to roll back.

The local public school seems to be fine (this is elementary/middle grades). Thinking about going from there to a more elite private high school though, biggest downside being that it will require a bit of a commute.

I wish you could load this all up into a world simulator and see which option worked out best 10 years into the future :-)
I didn't mention lambdas because this is obviously transitive

def f(myVar):
def foo():
return myVar + 1
return foo
Ask HN: Building a multiplayer, offline-capable app in 2022 (like Figma, Linear)
Am curious what tools and stack you would use to build something like Figma or Linear in 2022
Not your keys, not your coins.

Also, be mindful of what the FDIC (or its equivalent in your country) insures per bank account. It might be worth it to use multiple accounts.
> Functional programming's great when you have immutability to drop an entire class of bugs and the mental energy that accompanies that, can pass-around and compose-with small functions easily which makes writing, testing and figuring much simpler and can make your brain click that "its all data" without trying to over complicate it by attaching methods to it.

A hundred percent. FP for me, is "let's stop gluing state and functions together for no reason" and get all the benefits above. I understand pure functions, avoiding state, closures, and using first class functions as the basic building blocks of creating higher level structures.

When it becomes "a functor is a monoid of the schlerm frumulet" - ala the typical FP advocacy blog / latest React state management manifesto masquerading as library documentation, I zone out. The odd thing is, I don't feel I've lost anything by doing so.
Given how frantic Elon seems to be right now, I'd doubt that he would even notice if you were slacking off or just BSing. If Twitter has employees that now just snitch on the others to inform Elon, then it's already dead as all trust is gone.

If I were in the position, I'd sign the pledge (after reading it for legal gotchca's) and just try to get another job as my full time job. What's the worst that's gonna happen? You'll get fired again?
I jumped to it from Evernote and was super excited until sync issues irreversibly destroyed data.

I then moved to Obsidian and it's been absolutely amazing. I recommend it to anyone.
Thisiswhyineverusespaces.Problemsolved.
> If you think the battery prices will remain roughly where they are now, then sure it makes sense to invest in hydrogen road vehicles;

No it doesn't. Electric cars are already beating Hydrogen vehicles on price. And Hydrogen vehicles don't make a profit, they lose lots of money. while Tesla has a 30% automotive margin on their EVs.

Also, batteries will certainty get cheaper. Even if the materials don't get cheaper, production and an density improvements will make them cheaper. We know pretty well what standard batteries will look like 5 years from now because the product cycle is so long.

And the problem you mention is equally solve by people taking on bigger loans and paying more interest instead of paying for gas.
Genius used a similar technique to check whether Google was scraping their lyrics. Apostrophes in selected song lyrics spelled out "red-handed" in morse code.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande...
That’s likely a road hazard issue, not a maintenance or reliability problem. But it’s fairly common for vehicles to not include spare tires these days. My last three vehicles have not had one.

Spares are expensive, heavy, take up space, and nobody buys vehicles based on their inclusion. A vehicle without them gets better fuel mileage, has more space, and costs less.
I try to not install specific version but always the latest.

Also to not install something that needs sudo.

On windows I used Scoop. I installed fonts through scoop and to update them I first needed to uninstall them and then install them again.

But sure in the end nothing is better then pacman with aur.
Congratulations!

Being a (part-time) youtuber myself, can I ask what you are using for audio?

It is indeed great!
Look at the HN new Tab. See all the negative press about Elon and Twitter. You think this is organic?
What are the odds that he calculated a certain number of bytes, and exactly one other employee had sent a file to the printer that contained that number, but it was just a coincidence? If the method indeed doesn't work (as you suggest "is possible") it's impossible it would turn up a false positive, only a false negative.
Every time a new easy-to-use content generation AI tool drops, the collective blood pressure in Google's spam detection department goes up by 1% :D

This one should be promising!
That's true, but a lot of paint issues are not so severe. Many are things like the white bumper not matching the rest of the car. That one is common across brands. Tesla's get a lot of scrutiny for dust nibs and uneven application.

I'd bet its the minority that would have a functional impact.
My daughter went to a Montessori until she was in 2nd grade. Her friend went through 5th grade. They are both together again in 6th, in the same middle school, and her friend is really struggling with math.

FWIW, my daughter also struggled with math coming into 2nd grade out of Montessori, but it being second grade math, it wasn't hard for her to catch up.

Also, something to watch out for: Montessori is not a registered trademark, so any school can call itself a Montessori school, without offering a Montessori education.
I did acknowledge that they are orthogonal when I said that not every pure FP language has to be like that. Thanks for pointing out ZIO, I didn't know about it.
Let's be clear about something: this is not "contagion", as if panicking people are causing bank runs against iliquid financial institutions that have strong assets in the long run.

No, this is a ponzi scheme running out of suckers: the fundamental source of crypto growth and liquidity was getting new people and new money in, and that flow largely stopped this spring. Without that inflow, the bubble explodes because it has unsound fundamentals, there is nothing in the crypto space today that could justify a 1 trillion dollars value creation. Maybe some day crypto will create that value and some people want to be there and invest today, but this is only a belief, and a belief shared by enough people and with no basis in reality is called a bubble.

Of course, the first to go are the most fraudulent and sketchy shops, like FTX turned out to be, and it would apear they "caused" the crisis, like Lehman in 2008. But the economic reality is that the crisis was unavoidable, it's intrinsic to the limited real world utility of crypto.
To me one of the biggest surprises around the pandemic and remote work has been how Airbnb did practically nothing to cater to it and nobody else did either. Cool that I can look for a monthly stay, but I need a filter for places that are actually set up for real remote work. I want minimum, verified internet speed, a real desk with a real desk chair, a external monitor I can plug in to. I don't want to book a place for a month and then have to leave because I cannot work. The only way I was able to make extended remote work while traveling possible was by staying with family whom I shipped almost $500 worth of equipment beforehand that's just sunk cost. I can see that the market for tires is relatively small, but probably quite lucrative.
I found this comment from an anonymous tech industry insider interesting:

"Amazon is very, very bloated. So there's lots of people there but they're not providing a lot of value so they're first on the chopping block."

This is counter to what I have heard about Amazon, which is that it is a ruthless environment where low performers are stack ranked out of the company. Does anyone have any insight?
> Part of the decline in basic competence and critical thinking.

Yes because back in the good ole days kids didn’t watch cartoons that were meant to sell characters and Star Wars didn’t make billions selling merchandise.

Disney has been selling and licensing merchandise based on movies since the 50s.

People have been buying Coca Cola based on marketing for a century.
Self-sovereignty is an excellent goal, and it is true that something is lost when all of us use the same email service providers and social media sites and so on.

Web3 is unnecessary to achieve self-sovereignty, and is not going to help with any of that. It's a money-hungry fever dream by crypto maximalists and would damage the open web as much as the current status quo, while not actually fixing the current issues.
The two you linked are different communities, with different rules, different content and moderated by different people. They just happen to have the same name.

What federation lets you is view and interact with communities that are hosted on another instance, for example:

https://beehaw.org/c/technology@lemmy.ml
https://lemmy.ml/c/technology@beehaw.org
Elon Musk Gives Twitter Staff an Ultimatum: Work ‘Long Hours’ or Leave