skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wouldn’t solar benefit desert ecosystems by providing more shade?

Potentially. Just as likely to destroy the ecosystem though. Barring a few human-caused ones, most deserts have been around for a long time, and the plants and animals that live in them are adapted to them as they are. Maybe additional shade will provide a new niche for some organisms, but it will also disrupt the existing ones.

> I don’t think solar means “paving the desert”

If we take any solar installation of notable size as disrupting the existing system, then the difference between literally and figuratively paving the desert becomes moot.
Despite technological challenges ahead, 400K as critical temperatute is Hot!
We are into Hot Temperature superconductivity regime, not room tempearature.
> I mean without using 4 separate power "bricks" using 4 wall outlets which is quite wasteful

By using 1 power brick with 1 wall outlet. You just need to fancy a way to split one output to four, probably a bit of soldering.
I know a few people who are celiac and there are much bigger giveaways than having a hangover after 3 beers (the latter of which isn’t that uncommon of problem for people who don’t drink often).
Recycling was pushed forward by companies so they wouldn't have to cut down on plastic. It's like carbon credits for oil companies.
> Over the past few years, the Internet has been almost entirely taken over by commercial interests.

As if the other interests are better. Eg Russian trolling ain't a commercial interest, it's a geopolitical one. Or [politics](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...) in general.

The web of 1997 was so much more innocent, when we mostly had to worry about those 'evil' commercial interests.
So react native in fancy clothes ?
I concur. And I have some insight into this. I wrote a command line invoicing tool[1] which I referenced on an earlier thread since I knew a bit about generating PDFs and thought that was the "hard part" of this.

The real value is in being able to respond quickly to queries like "What were the invoices numbers for client X in Jan, Feb 2022?" when your accountant asks them. Managing that, timesheets etc. in a way that can give you insight into business financials is what's really useful once you cross a (low) volume of invoices.

That being said, the output of the tool is extremely good looking.

References:

1: https://github.com/hamon-in/invoice
I'm the same, 1pm is an absolute cut off otherwise it'll be a restless night
Look, we get it, you are deep into this cause. I agree with some of it, but as always situation is way more complex than simple zoos = prisons for torture.

There are zoos which have massive spaces for animals and generally animals are very well taken care of, there are 'zoos' full of animals that would otherwise be dead (ie taken from smugglers, illegal ownership, overpopulated, injured in accidents etc.).

You can't watch most of say african big animals in wilderness on your own, even if you go on African safari its very much modern zoo-like experience.
I'm not sure you get a full enough taste though. I've made low-alcohol beers with fewer grains and lots of hops and it was unbalanced, the base was not there.
Thanks. I may have already read that post (or I just correctly backtracked the reasoning), as I was pretty much convinced namespacing conflict (the second bit of rationale) was a factor for the dunder-ing of methods, but I had no source so ultimately decided not to put it in.
Another reference book I've always loved is Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. It's been around since 1870, and you can always flick through it and find something interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_Dictionary_of_Phras...
True within limits!
I always read it as "gang of four ai" first.
> if your only goal is to make the water safe to drink?

The point of medieval beer and ale making exercises was to make beer and ale, (which required boiling water as part of the common recipes of the day).. which very likely created a notable difference between those drinking mostly large amounts of low alcohol beer | ale made from boiled water compared to those that mostly drank unboiled liquids.
That’s amazing. My liver thanks me for never thinking that was a good idea.
One thing in developed countries is that instead on focusing on increasing productivity we're importing cheap labour through immigration.
Can't tell you the exact reasons but it happens to me once in a while, usually something in the network stack hanging. Laptops usually, so I just long-press the power button to "fix" it.
Pyramid or Crab? Find a testing strategy that fits
The LHC has found no new physics. So what's next?
Benefits agency UWV using tracking cookies to spy on welfare recipients
I am from enterprise background, where 80-90% of the works is simply supporting the existing infrastructure. Any successful technology after adoption becomes "mundane" as you can't always write code or build new products, you have to support them too.
Dude's getting eviscerated for his opinions, but you're right, it's the attitude that's the red flag. I'd avoid hiring his political polar opposite too, if they were this petty/angry about it.

I wonder if he's going to listen to the advice and present as more milquetoast when using his real name, or double down.
Your [citation please] got me looking. https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/7159/etymology-of-... ; Google Scholar seemed to provide some references in a search for 'salt salary etymology'.

It is somewhat documented, well documented perhaps.

Correctly documented?

I never finished the recent popular book 'Salt'. After a few chapters it became tedious, repetitive, plus the book consistently omitted tying text to sources. A frustrating read.

As I didn't in fact tie Salt to Roman soldiers' salaries, that was your reading, simply salt -> salary, I'm curious what references you could provide for different etymology? I'm genuinely interested, I rarely reply to replies.
Ironically, it was the trash handling companies that complained when the county introduced separating plastic from other general waste, because they had just invested in new machinery that could do it. And they have to keep that machinery and staff because not everyone will separate their waste properly.

But even then, what's the point? The separated plastic is bundled up and... then what? Exported or sold to the highest bidder, who will do whatever with it. Some is recycled / reused performatively, but I'm sure a lot is just put in landfill or burned.

See I don't even mind so much that plastic can't be reused as well yet, but it has to be stored responsibly. Landfill, concrete / impermiable basin, neatly stack the compressed plastic bales there, cover it up, and just forget about it until it can be "mined" again as a resource. Else, it'll just sit there and (naively of me, I know), be inert and harmless until it won't matter anymore.
Sometimes, we break our tools with our tools.
It can run on few devices like

- Acer Switch Alpha 12
- Intel NUC
- Google Pixelbook

Its build by Google so im not sure it will get mainstream or just killed. But calling it "nothing OS" is big understatement, When was the last time a new OS from scratch was created? or if we comparing it to linux/Windows/Mac Im sure a lot people work on these

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/refs/changes/56/1013....
Reminded of a slightly less dignified politician: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/aug/09/thatcher.williamh... "Hague: I drank 14 pints of beer a day" - brand not specified, but if we take as "standard pre-CAMRA british beer of the time" Watneys Red Barrel at 3.8% that should give you an idea. He is also accused of exaggerating wildly; to me one pint an hour while doing manual work seems plausible-to-high for someone who's built up a tolerance.

Americans should probably date "stopping being drunk all the time" to Prohibition; the overwhelming national support for it, especially from newly enfranchised women(+), gives an idea as to how big a problem it was.

(+) As a non-American, I had to check this, and Prohibition very slightly pre-dates universal votes for women although both were in 1920 and it may be possible that the franchise differed by state? It's certainly true that women temperance campaigners were very important, given the role of alcohol in domestic violence and budgeting.
Even today the editors will know and corresond with you. They then send it to the reviewers, to make it double blind. But I see your argument with already popular researchers for the selection step..
Who Is Jumber Lezhava? (and Why Should You Care?)
Is this what HN is now, sharing memes and trolling? Why not post this on Reddit instead?
No, typically what made beer safe to drink was the boiling, not the alcohol.
I don't like this type of down-cycling - while this is good because it double-uses a single use thing extending the use of the material to another cycle this is bad because it is sold as recycling to the consumer (on the milk bottle side at least). Those containers are probably easy to identify visually even at larger scales so its probably actually pick them out of the general plastic waste.

The main issue with recycling plastic is that there are several plastics that just look the same until you check the embossed mark and number. This is not always easy to find / visible or even there at all. if you manage that you need to identify and remove the other plastics that make up the bottle.

Many PET bottles have a shrink wrap label on them that uses a different plastic altogether. Generally it don't have a mark and can't be identified so it needs to go into the general garbage.

same goes for the lid and related parts (bottles often have a ring that splits off when you open them) but realistically this does not have a mark showing the plastic type so you have to discard it into normal garbage.

So basically plastic recycling while possible isn't really viable unless you reduce the allowed types of plastic and colors massively, school consumers a lot more and somehow create a cheap way to sort out the mistakes that happen.

even then plastic is only good for a few cycles at best and after that down-cycling is the only thing you can do.

glass, steel and aluminum do not have that issue.
> I've yet to see any recycling guidelines with anywhere near the amount of required precision.

The main one I can think of is the plastic bubble mailers and also the air packaging bubbles Amazon uses. The city says not to put them in the blue recycle bin. The mailer itself says take it to a grocery store. I take it to Whole Foods, owned by Amazon, ask the Amazon return staff where to put it, and they refer me to the general recycle bin in the front. Then there's a web address on them that says the same thing as above.

I don't know what to actually do with them or where a magic plastic mailer dropbox is at.

No one uses plastic bags around here anymore, so I don't have to worry about them. When I did have them, I typically reused them until they basically became trash.
More options (and when you have a keyboard): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
One thing I can imagine is desktop MRI machines, or, at least, much cheaper and less finicky big MRI machines that don’t take days to chill to operating temperature.

Maglevs are also a popular guess - safer, faster, and more power efficient ground mass transport would be a huge thing.

Maybe even magnetic rail space launches.

And, of course, military applications (the last few examples I mentioned involve acceleration of big-ish masses to surreally high velocities, which is popular approach to weaponry).
At what time in the past was this less true than now?
>What exactly are you arguing? It is unclear from your statements.

Jeez! What exactly makes you think that I am arguing anything at all, in the first place?

In my above comment, I had used words like:

>chicken is supposed to have come from

and

>as it says in the above Wikipedia article

Note the italicized words.

So that can't be considered an argument at all. It was just a casual observation, along the lines of saying "hey, I heard or read 'foo' statement somewhere".

Make of it what you will, but don't try to turn it into an argument when it is not one.

>Umm, the epicenter of wild chicken biodiversity is not within modern or historic Indian borders, as far as the science can tell. It is in Myanmar, well beyond the range of direct subcontinental rule (excepting perhaps the British period).

As I said, my words were not an argument, even though you interpreted them as such. But even if they were an argument, you may be taking a narrow view of what was considered "India". And this is not about political boundaries (referring to your word "rule"). It was meant in the ecological / geographical / biological region senses of the term, under which, BTW, Myanmar is fairly close to (distance-wise) and similar to India anyway (although I was not even thinking of Myanmar above, nor had I even mentioned it). In those senses, a much larger geographical area was considered as part of "India", even in pre-British times. You might want to look up your history / natural history / geography of the India subcontinent (and even South-East Asia) a bit.

To end, I think you might be one of confused, pedantic or trolling, none of which interests me, since as I said, mine was just a casual observation, not an argument. So I am exiting this discussion.
Any news yet?

You could almost make this stuff in a pizza oven.
I'm looking at the comparison page, and they say PI's OS hasn't been built since 2021. I don't know where they get that date from, but the raspberrypi.com website says their latest release is from May 2023.
What does number of users have to do with the amount of components/code and related support an OS needs?
What tools do you use for tracking performance on your website and social media?
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Exactly! You get it, bro! Nice point about Occam's razor. People just don't have systems thinking when it comes to systems of people.
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I was disagreeing with it being about experts "praising" each other.
First, who said anything about profit? That isn't even part of the definition of monopoly.

The killer feature none of those you've listed has been able to achieve is the shipping logistics. This enables their vast selection to be more than just window dressing; contrast this with say Best Buy if the part or item isn't at a local store.

Meanwhile, there have been quite a few previously thriving retailers whom are now either on life support or gone. Anecdotally, I watched several major chains die at the hands of the one upon a time up- and-coming Amazon.com. The number of book stores alone that were killed off is tragic.

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/9-major-companies-face-threat...

https://ilsr.org/fact-sheet-how-breaking-up-amazon-can-empow...
> Never trust a for-profit company

Seems a little dark, considering that's almost every company on the planet.
> Nobody wants an opinionated operating system in which files are fancy trees of objects done in One Way that everyone has to follow who codes for that operating system.

And yet there is ChromeOS. There is iOS. There is Android. These are highly opinionated platforms. So I think that yes, people do want these things. Developers in particular want lots of high level APIs because it makes software production easier, which is why so much software targets the web (effectively an "OS" these days). The web follows implements zero of the standard UNIX API primitives yet is very successful.

There's a lot of stuff that can be done with operating systems research, I'm really pretty sure of it. That doesn't mean you can't layer things properly, or that you can't implement your "OS" also as an app in the same way that Chrome is both an app and an OS. We're constrained by lack of imagination and the difficulties in getting market adoption for new approaches. Developers prefer to be locked in to a multi-vendor API with open source implementations, than a single vendor API with a proprietary implementation, even though they'll do it when a market is there (mobile apps). But that preference kills the commercial incentives to innovate, and open source devs just won't do it, which is why every new OS project you see is a clone of commercial operating systems from the past.
Isn't [2] what happens in Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis? Postman is drunk every day at work, and his new boss thinks he's got a drinking problem. Turns out he gets served, or even forced to drink a nice glass of liquor at every stop.
The post you reply to sounds quite angry as well. Many "social justice" people are extremely angry, form mobs and defame anyone standing in their way.

All while striving for positions of power that they keep and deny to those whom they pretend to represent.

They do not work well with other people, they dictate, intimidate and eschew real work.

Yet they are hired. The irony is that I agree with several of their positions, but make no mistake. They are horrible people who would march under any flag if expedient.
Apple is absolutely incredibly slow by any standard.
Many many people still drunk all the time
We're doing a lot less of "society as babysitter" now. The ability of people to be open about being gay, trans, non-religious, Jewish, mixed-race, and left-handed are all examples of society no longer caring about things it once pried into deeply.
> Are we running out of landfill? No

Varies by country.
it would truly be useful if the options didnt have to be submitted. it adds a bias. eg: i cant ask what are the top usecases for X. but like someone else said. for 1% of the effort - if you're getting a slightly biased 90% accurate result - there should be lot of takers. congrats!
The problem isn't abundance or scarcity, the problem at this point is equal access.

We have entire countries stuck in poverty selling their resources (human and natural alike) for a pittance like indentured servants and we have individuals hoarding and amassing more wealth and riches than they could spend or use in a thousand lifetimes.

We also have a global economic system that by necessity wastes these precious resources in products that get shredded without being used, food that gets destroyed without being eaten and machines that are being run without getting to fulfill their purpose.

So on the one hand we have wasteful overproduction for the rich (relatively - which, globally speaking, includes everyone on HN) and on the other we have a handful of the extremely rich (the fraction of a permille of the globally richest people) wasting the equivalent of dozens of poverty lifetimes worth of resources on their fancies. This seems like an easy problem to solve but we need the extreme poverty to maintain the narrative that enables the extremely rich to exist.

In other words, no matter how much we expand the "abundance" we also need to maintain the scarcity because the differential is what enables our economic system and those benefitting from it the most. Those who have the most also have the most to lose from the elimination of scarcity.
It depends. In Spain plastic bags are recycled along with other plastic and metal in the same bin.
> intentionally starved and subjected to freezing cold weather.

> Was that torture?

Yes, that's quite clearly torture.
Also might be worth a try to watch some design YouTubers, it's interesting to see their process, what they focus on, etc.
If you read your link carefully, it says:

"Low alcohol" -> 1.2% ABV (the threshold at which beer duty has to be paid)

"De-alcoholised" -> 0.5% ABV

"Alcohol free" -> 0.05% ABV

"Non-alcoholic" -> "should not be used in conjunction with a name commonly associated with an alcoholic drink" except communion wine.
That's the myth that tech people willingly participating in this exploitative behavior tell themselves; that they are going to be part of the elite - that's what they get told by upper management.

That way "upper management" has been turning workers against themselves for ages; just convince the more lucky of them that they are entitled and destined to be part of the elite. Someday.

It's working splendidly.
> ...minimum agricultural footprint for a city...

Nicely put. But bear in mind that agricultural output of a given piece of land varies every year, sometimes greatly. Weather is the farmer's eternal frenemy, but there's also flood, disease, pestilence, vulcanism, ...

> ...are viewed with contempt...

Hard scientists and engineers have good reasons to sneer at much of the social "sciences". But the human and social realities which those folks claim to study are dangerously real.
I thought about it but no. I am OK with who I am, and I don't have any hate speech to share that I need to hide my identity. I just want to show the Internet world a side of me that is not only the stereotypical software engineer, because I'm not. No one is, is the point I'm making.

We all have our quirks, and we should celebrate them. I know your blog, I can't say I understand where you're coming from or that I relate very much with your persona, but I appreciate that you're able to stand out as your own, and I'm able to recognise you among the masses.

But in many cases, outside the fight for gender identity freedom, this is not possible in the world of modern social media, where you're always one step from being lynched by a mob because you dared go against the grain. The Twitterverse is the reason we're all sterile clones of each other, dividing everybody into a us vs them culture battle. That's too much nonsense for me.
I have some nostalgia for most technologies.

Tapes and printers, not so much.
Up until the Neolithic Revolution human population was stable, before that people were venturing out to hostile lands in search for food, as populated land couldn't carry any more.

Infanticide as a population control measure was the norm, early Australian explorers recorded about 30% of children being killed and/or eaten business as usual. There is no reason to think they were unique, equilibrium with your food chain is a cruel mistress.

Early stone quarries don't necessarily speak of abundance, it might have been a measure to extract more food out of existing area when time spent hunting/foraging barehanded didn't yield more food.
Life was harsh, lots of work was physically taxing (no machines to do the heavy lifting), and there was not much in terms of relief for any sort of chronic or recurring pain, like back pain, tooth aches etc.
Alcohol helps endure, as it made you more numb to such pains. It might also help you sleep at night, when otherwise your aching body might have kept you awake.

In some physical jobs like the construction business, workers used to rely on alcohol to make through the work day until very recently. In some countries they might even still do so.

I can confirm from my own experience building a house and doing heavy lifting on the construction site, that after 10 hours of taxing work, an evening beer works wonders to relax your strained muscles and regain some feeling of comfort.

It's no surprise to me, that the reduction in alcohol consumption coincides with a switch from more hard physical labor, to more sitting jobs.