skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want anything to be economical or "worth it," you create the conditions where you are providing something to external parties, and the money will come in to sustain it. The economics of desalination are trivially viable if you can set up a stable financial regulatory environment in the region that has competitive taxation internationally.

Desalination is economical in the middle east because they export oil. In Israel it's economical because they export tech knowhow, and have foreign income sources from their diaspora networks. Some people will moan about "tax havens! for the filthy rich!" But really it's just viable habitation for locations without a lot of resources to export. Favourable capital rules are a valuable export. We do this in customs-free zones around the world today. If you have those rules in an area that needs a desalination plant to survive, I guarantee you it's going to work really, really well.
What's the cycle life on these batteries? Because €50/kWh would be wonderful for stationary storage.
why did elon buy twitter just to destroy it
What type of tracking does it provide? Open tracking and split-tests and stats would be essential for this to stand on a more solid group beyond hacking own scripts
Cuties controversy was only about some versions of the poster, and no one involved saw the movie. No one who watched the movie thought it was super controversial I think.
They already had their own format before that.
There are many, many…

It’s a little puzzling to me still why this is. Physical attraction to almost-adults isn’t some big mystery, but most cp is something else entirely.
Yes, reads like that for sure. Creepy.
How did nonce get that meaning in the uk? I've always known nonce to be a single use number
"101 out of 193 (52.3%) United Nations member states, 22 out of 27 (81.5%) European Union member states, 27 out of 31 (87.1%) NATO member states, and 33 out of 57 (57.9%) Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states have recognised Kosovo." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_K... (includes a map)
932 miles. Not 931, not 933. Seems legit.
FreeBSD on any headless machine (my servers, my IoT nodes, my build machines, etc) and Debian on my laptop.
Just general security. I wanna see whats doable these days.
‘Oppenheimer’ pulled off an atomic bomb explosion without CGI
i remeber x.com branding back in the day when i was selling on ebay and found a new payment processor that spammed every auctions footer automatically, and it was so cringey shitty back then they rebranded to paypal.
Just when you thought Google's branding couldn't get worse, they name a speaker after a thermostat.
> So I can die on the road with enough energy to drive another 50 km?

My gas car has a 42 litre tank, if i wait until the light has come on and the gauge is on (and then drive another 20km past that), I can only get 38.5 litres in.
Ubuntu latest lts 22.04, jwm desktop manager.
We just created a homeschool transcript in Libreoffice, since it was required as part of the application process. Our daughter was admitted to both universities applied to and offered a "full ride" scholarship for one (which is the one she accepted). She was also offered (and accepted) a part time role in the CS dept at a different university.

Not sure what "a recognized homeschool program" is; we used a mixture of materials.

When you start homeschooling, you will begin to meet other parents who are also homeschooling, but it's still your journey and not anyone else's; we've found that different tools work for different kids, even within the same family. Choose the tools that work best for your children and your style of teaching.
Alpine as my main / Playing with Void / NetBSD for some side projects

Plan on playing with Nix at some point.
I still can't decide if it was just a bad movie or satire by someone that didn't quite get how satire works.
Fun fact: I briefly had a .gov domain in the early 90s through internic until they figured out I was not a government agency
Exactly the same for me :-) Because of the package management I have only been using Arch based distros since 2020. I used Manjaro with xfce for quite some time, but now I have installed EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma on my work and personal laptops. Everything works fine, even the bluetooth connection to my Bose noise cancelling headphones works very reliably. I just needed to deactivate some animations, especially the default one for switching between desktops because I do that about 100 times each day and would get sea sick if I kept that.
Is Threads tarketting an older generation who might prefer a desktop experience or is it targeting a younger generation who might not care about desktop?
That's not something that one would even need to argue against if it actually wasn't on the cards...

You don't defened something (in a WP editorial no less) from an absurd and far-fetched prediction, because there's no point in even ackowledging it.
I feel like you are being a bit unfair to Bjarne to to my knowledge isn't so much saying "we didn't make mistakes" as much as "we didn't make mistakes we should fix".

C++ is the juggernaut it is because it just works. Your antient C++ codebase doesn't need many changes to get up to date on a language level.

That doesn't mean it is painless to update toolchains but it does mean that the language isn't making that pain worse.

As part of maintaining this the bar for breaking old code isn't "we shouldn't have done that" or "we wouldn't have don't that" but something more like "almost all code using this is wrong anyway".

Most critiques of C++ do not raise to that level and so aren't fundamentally needing to be fixed.
Debian on servers. Boring and predictable.

Arch on desktops. Recent versions of packages is usually more important for me on a desktop.

Has served me well for a long time at this point - in excess of a decade.
I assume the change is that System1 let them go? It was a very vague statement
Yeah, if you don't want the code to run when you're compiling it, don't have it do anything until some function is called.

And it would be the same as in another language if you run a program that has no side effects. For instance "python abc.py" will gladly run a abc.py that is empty or has "class ABC: pass" in it.
This. Everything is written in native Rust and wgpu has all of the FFI stuff built into it so we don't really have to worry.
macOS with Homebrew on my laptop

Debian on my servers and dev box

FreeBSD on servers at work

QMK with chibios on my keyboards
Japan depends on continuously imported oil and gas.

The BIG difference for lithium batteries is that you need to import lithium only ONCE then you reuse/recycle.

And yes there's big big money at play, so lots and lots of FUD around lithium and geopolitics, the obvious difference with oil is nearly never mentionned thanks to oil money.

Also : https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Japan-to-subsidize-half-of-c...
I was using Ubuntu until about 2021 or so when I started to become frustrated with it and switched to Arch. Not only did it solve my complaints, but I think using Arch has made me more knowledgeable about my systems as a whole. It's now what I use on my desktop, laptop, and even my home server. I do still use other distros for other things, like Ubuntu for my web server or Raspbian for RPi devices.
It will eventually cease to exist.

I went to Grenada in 2014 and used offline maps to drive around the island. In 2015 the tablet suffered an accident and I powered it off to deal with it later. 5 years later I power it back on without internet connectivity. Turns out the maps expired. So much for many years
I've run Fedora for many years; I think my first install was Fedora 22. Pro: my distro looks good, is easy to manage and never feels dated. Con: stuff breaks. I'm still annoyed about the time Fedora reconfigured the DNS resolution service of systems and I lost Internet for a few days until I could figure out what the hell is going on.
Whenever folks like you denigrate 'lawless' libertarian shitholes, it always ends up that the reason such territories are so terrible is because of a government using its monopoly of violence to extract rent from business, either through outright taxation or currency inflation. Yet, every single time, people can't get the irony.
I suppose it would allow one to question specific clauses, suggesting those are not part of the contract. That would of course be fraud.
Fedora on home desktop, Fedora on work Thinkpad. I’ve also got an M1 MacBook Air that I’m probably going to replace with a Framework laptop soon and run Fedora on that too. It’s just rock solid and any issues I do encounter I can easily fix myself. OSX on the other hand is an inconsistent mess that seems to get buggier with each release as of late.
Yes, wearing a helmet when biking is obviously safer than not. Maybe there's some kind of upper and lower bounds to the idea.
Very similar to this were a handful of resellers of resellers in Amsterdam that would totally ignore abuse reports and allow hosting anything. They were half a block from The Hague and an Interpol office. They would get raided a few times a year. I am still unsure how they managed to run for a long time unless they were a honeypot looking for specific targets.
Agree. But it should be doable to set this up using open LLMs, right? For example, using Siri to trigger a shortcut that sends a prompt to the dedicated processing device.
I'll update my beliefs after your data point :)

Congrats on EmailOctopus; it looks like a nice product!
I’m the older generation and I’m desktop mainly for Twitter.

I signed up for Threads but I don’t use it.
The significant development after the end of apartheid was more due to a very favorable international economic environment and the elimination of sanctions that restricted south africa's ability to export resources. Additionally, the end of apartheid was in itself a massive economic boon as it created new sources of labor.

The performance of the ANC has always been poor in South Africa. The party engaged in widespread AIDS denialism and dramatically cut investment as it attempted to help poor black africans through a variety of mostly poorly run schemes. Corruption was always present and connections with the ANC became essential in south africa. Today's troubles are the result of decisions made years ago.
New visa programs spark brain drain fears across Africa
Yes I think they underestimated the level of interest and how many first impressions they were going to deliver. Regardless if they actually do generate a user base having meaningful conversations organic growth back to the launch numbers is very doable.
> but the reality is that if you actually drive it 300 miles on each charge, you'll only be doing about 30,000 miles before it no longer meets your needs.

False. Nowadays manufacturers include a capacity buffer, so you're not actually fully charging/discharging. Teslas used to have no buffer whatsoever - exactly like smartphones - but they dropped the practice a few years ago.

Case in point: the battery in the Mercedes EQS 450+ has a nominal capacity of 120kWh, while usable is 107.8kWh - that's a 10% buffer - likely on the top end because that's where most of the wear happens.

You can reasonably expect 200,000 miles out of that before range degrades to 80% of the original figure. And no wonder - that's less than 600 cycles assuming highway driving. Consumer-grade batteries last this much, and the ones in EVs are anything but consumer-grade.
I guess the OP thinks anyone sufficiently motivated by financial self-interest such that they won’t want the job unless it pays ‘enough’ is also someone who is going to be more open to bribery because they value personal wealth too much. I can see both sides on this but I don’t think it’s unreasonable.

People who are drawn to positions of power and also highly motivated by personal wealth seem like particularly bad choices if you want to avoid corruption, so keeping the salary low may sufficiently disincentivise this sort of person from entering the public sector.

On the other hand, public sector work is harder in many ways, so not providing equal or superior compensation may discourage many people who are entirely scrupulous but not foolish enough to both take on the extra burden of public sector work and make less money at the same time.

> It feels to me like you’re proposing we financially exploit those who are magnanimous and duty-driven enough to tolerate public service.

I understand that it may seem foolish or unjust, but it feels unreasonable to me to suggest it’s exploitative to pay someone a 97th-percentile salary[0] just because it’s not commensurate with private sector peers in a highly compensated industry.

> For instance, what you’re saying feels logically equivalent to me to saying we should tax charities more heavily since they aren’t driven by greed, or that we should underpay active duty military personnel since they’re driven more by love for their country than by self interest.

The problem as it applies to judges and legislators is that they represent a very small group of people with the ability to make high-stakes decisions that impact a large number of people, and their decisions are enforced by the power of the state.

Charities don’t have the power of the state behind their decisions, and personnel within the military apparatus tend not to have much individual power, so the incentives for corruption are much more limited (and if it does happen, much less impactful).

> It seems to me that the current system isn’t working, and leaning further into the aspect that makes it not work is not a good idea.

Is there some proof that under-compensation is the main source of the corruption in the current system? I have no evidence either way, but my sense is that it is not.

[0] https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/ at $250k
Variables were added now
> People vote for the ANC in SA because there isn't an alternative party.

I'd say that there is not a _viable_ alternative party, due to fragmentation.

The DA has good representation in the Western Cape:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in...
sudo fstrim / -v
But my point is even the social disagreements are only social for your repo.

For the entirety of git they are local disagreements.
Evolution is making us treat AI like a human, and we need to kick the habit
Hey, variables are there now
Well, I don't like to call customer service but prefer that to a chatbot any day of the week.

If I want to return something or let them know about some issues with my purchase, I'd like to talk to someone on the other side of the aisle. I'd hate to "talk" to a chatbot and waste time trying to get to a human representative. Heck, I highly doubt this would work for old people, angry people, etc...

I could see a company selling its products with "100% human touch" as a marketing gimmick.
Look into exploring SELinux and similar systems.
Looks like a worse version of ProofWiki but with a more modern design.
My apologies, I see the OP's comment you're referring to.
This drives me mad about these sciences. They seemingly get captured by the PR need to sell a digestible narrative.

I appreciate if they want to posit ideas, but so often there’s this tone of absoluteness to them.

I wonder if part of it is just the desire to make one’s discipline more exciting.
They were for assange, and various other dissidents..
>>I still remember the slight feeling of oppression ("menace"?) every time I drove west towards downtown Atlanta with Coca-Cola's North Tower growing slowly in size in my field of view for about 12 minutes in a row.

>Do you think this might be your own issue and not about skyscrapers or other people?

I was traumatized and never got my life back on track after that experience :)
Unemployment Rate at or Near Record Lows in Half of US States
To backpedal just a little, I take offence at the simple conclusion, that removing lines, signs and lights will make things better. If you read a bit closer most of the experiments are a bit more nuanced, for instance "a traffic circle, an extended cycle path, and a pedestrian area". It seems that in the famous experiment Monderman actually did add a fair amount of paint to the asphalt.

Also, bad paint is worse than no paint, in particular dividing the road into more lanes than there is room for.
Long ago, programmers were conditioned to break long programs and libraries into small translation units ("files") because the compilers were so slow. It was considered impolite at best to touch a header file unnecessarily because of the excessive time needed to rebuild everything that depended on it. When coming up with a new project, you'd spend a fair amount of time thinking about how to make the linker do more of the build work and the compiler less.

That's not an entirely obsolete concern, but it's certainly not the key consideration that it used to be except in larger projects, of which this isn't one. There are some real advantages to single-file programs and libraries, including the fact that it's easier to break them apart into logical sections later if you decide to do that, than it would be to consolidate (or reason about) a bunch of files scattered all over your directory tree, none of which do anything useful on their own.
Oh, khoya is a really decadent treat. I call it decadent because of the amount of sugar (they put) in it, at least the times I've had it as a kid. But some of that may the naturally occurring sugars in milk, such as lactose, when concentrated by removing the water in the milk. Or maybe they put no sugar in at all.

Anyway, it has a really rich taste and texture.

It is an even more concentrated milk product than paneer.
> profoundly better

How? Better/newer algorithms? Faster? Cleaner code? Better APIs?
To add to your excellent points: Elixir is compiled ahead of time while Ruby bytecode is generated as the code is loaded, which is probably the source of confusion in this case.

This leads to differences such as Ruby meta-programming happening at runtime, Elixir’s at compile time. The Elixir compiler (the Erlang compiler really) can also afford to do more work at compile-time which then leads to different approaches at the JIT level too.
Blackpool zoo hopes 'special' baby orangutan could usher new generation
Have you tried to buy a paper map lately? It's next to impossible, at least here where I am atm.
> His hypothesis in relation to road traffic safety has been refuted by several authors, who point out that fatalities per person have decreased in many countries, when according to Smeed's law requires they should increase as long as the number of vehicles per person continues to rise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed's_law#Empirical_contradi...
Because it's a broken model that is just one small step away from a complete disaster. Think about the value of inserting yourself in the signing process of a whole slew of official documents. Just the ability to fake it with authentic looking signatures is a real problem. See TFA...
I'm not technical enough to be able to hack this together, but I do hope that enough other people have the same itch, and are able to scratch it!
Introduce a stupid 45mph speed limit on drivers for 1 year after they've passed their test in NI. That means I could be on a motorway or big A road where people are going 70+mph, and be supposed to do 45mph.

Of course I don't do that unless I see a car that I think is a police car. I've been flashed at before for doing 45mph and find it way easier to drive at the same speed as other cars.
I'm so happy to read the glowies were unable to extradite him to the US.

Hard working nice people

Hard working mean people

Local politicians

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Property criminals

Violent criminals

Government apparatchiks

MAPS

Federal politicians
When will “Swift: The Good Parts” be available for preorder?
Knowing that the vast majority of water use is not the water flowing to homes for drinking, plants and washing, the government (local or federal) could subsidize it for individuals while taxing industrial water consumers.

As mentioned in another post. Basic utilities can easily become affordable with proper regulation.
All the desktop only users are going to be hard to bring back, if they wanted to try and bounced off the two obstacles of Meta not owning the domain, and then on the other domain having nothing to use.
The saying is no honor among _thieves_. Unless you mean chiefs as in c-suite, in which case it's also accurate.
Yes, but it is a very weak defense that can be smashed e.g. your device is seen communicating with the BSSID of the closed wifi, or your mac address (open wifi) is seen communicating with surveilled target.

Maybe in 2008 this was plausible, but it was also plausible to disguise one's self and walk to mcdonald's free wifi with a burner wifi card and/or Kali Linux. With the proliferation of surveillance devices everywhere it becomes an uphill battle
My comment never said that, so either you misread or you are being dishonest. It said "No one is asking you to" (come into the office to boost property values).

That's a lot different than "No one is asking you". I think you owe me an apology.
I've found Llama-2 to be unusably "safety filtered" for creative work: https://i.imgur.com/GFY0wSL.png
South Africa's HDI skyrocketed from 2007-2013, which can be attributed to a mix of FDI as well was investments in human development in the 90s and early 2000s. Before then, South Africa largely plataued developmentally.

Economic growth =/= Development btw
I use Arch Linux on my personal machines since I left macOS in 2015ish. I briefly tried Ubuntu before but I wanted some newer versions of some software and I thought Arch would be a good way to learn about Linux (whatever that means). Since it worked for me I never really bothered trying anything else.

At work I basically have to choose between Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS. Everyone else seems so use Debian or Ubuntu. I gave Ubuntu another try but snap was acting up so now I'm using Debian.

I don't really have any strong opinions on various distros. I'm just happy I don't have to deal with WSL anymore which I had to for my previous job. :D
It’s listed on the Data page! No need to open the database up to the whole internet. Just whitelist one IP.
> it would be much better for battery life.

I wonder what the numbers actually are for local compute on custom hardware compared to firing up the wifi antennae to make the remote request.
Saurabh Kumar's fast-cmix wins €5187 Hutter Prize Award
Before shoot-from-the-hip comments on this, click through the URL and read the explanation for why the Hutter Prize is more important than mere language modeling.
Superannuation savings are mandatory like social security, to the best of my knowledge.
Yep. I meant at a national level there isn't a real alternative.
I think the only ones that reach the end of warranty are the ones that are lightly used. Any contractor would go through a dozen of them before the warranty expired, especially if they do a lot of demo work.
Mint was my first distro and still the one I would recommend to newbies.