skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much less efficient are they exactly? I wish the article mentioned that.

Is the lower efficiency partly offset by the panels not getting as hot? I’d imagine that reflecting more of the suns energy would help them stay cooler.
> or you could use a Hugo binary (I'd love to see anyone call its templating language simple)

I dunno, I'm a Go dev, so it makes sense to me ;)

> Is this too complex a step?

If it just stopped there, sure, that would be fine. But it never does. My experience of front-end devs is that they will do anything to avoid writing any actual code. So there's a tendency to pull in dependencies and bloat the thing until it suffocates in its own complexity. I've seen node_modules with thousands of subdirs, and a build process that takes minutes, for really very simple sites.
I don’t love that tweet because it’s not the suffering, but the fact the diamonds were naturally grown in the Earth. Put another way: why would anyone buy sea salt when can we produce pure NaCl?

(This is not to say you can or should ignore the suffering caused by the diamond industry)
I am across all my devices. It's basically Chrome with some nice additional configuration options (such as vertical tabs). I do it because between Google spyware and Microsoft spyware, I'll take the latter - Microsoft doesn't have such vast ads network and I hate Google's aggressive contextual ads. Firefox is nice, but not as performant.
> No offense, but who keeps perpetuating this myth. Is this Zeihan bullshit?

The origin is a mistranslation/misquote, albeit maybe one that played into the desire of the left to believe that communist dictatorship is a system in which wise long-termist technocrats get to make better decisions than presidents with an 8 year term limit, or CEOs focused on the next quarter.

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In 1972, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai was asked about the impact of the French Revolution. “Too early to say,” he replied. Given that the French Revolution of 1789 had occurred nearly 200 years before, Zhou Enlai was expressing the long view of history in a very witty and Oscar Wildean way. News of this quote flew quickly around the chattering classes in the west, and it was soon used as evidence that the Chinese (especially Chinese intellectuals and leaders) took the long view of things, that they were a patient civilization, and that, when they thought about the future, it was hundreds of years distant.

Alas, Buzzkillers, it seems as if this was a case of mistranslation or misunderstanding the question. Prominent American diplomat Chas Freeman was a translator during that trip, and he was there when Zhou Enlai made this statement. Along with Chinese records of the exchange seen by historians, Freeman has confirmed for us that Zhou Enlai did reply to a question about the French Revolution — the 1968 student uprising in Paris, that is, not the 1789 French Revolution.

https://professorbuzzkill.com/qnq-26-zhou-enlai/
I don’t think the smallpox vaccine for instance was particularly controversial?

There were already several states in Europe which required compulsory vaccination before 1810 a few decades after it was developed. I think it seemed like a no-brainer to most at least slightly educated people in the 19th century (after all everyone back then had grown up seeing loads of people around them dying from all kinds of nowadays easily preventable diseases).
Optus identifies cause of nationwide outage
Yea, continuing a long tradition of secret government programs lying about what’s going on.

I would be cautious at take anything they’re saying at face value.
Well, it can't be (a). The inequality in Rome had already reached a breaking point and was completely resolved problem by then.

And by that I mean a revolutionary people's party had replaced a corrupt elected government with a divine monarchy.

(I don't think I need to describe the wonders that did for equality in the Roman state. Archeological record indicates when barbarians conquered Roman lands, the nutrition of the lower classes often improved. But for some reason those same lower classes that had destroyed the republic never complained about inequality in imperial times.)
I have an even cheaper solution: just don't buy a ring.

It all depends on what your partner wants obviously. If it's important for your partner to get a diamond ring and you value your partnership more than the cost of a diamond, then buy a diamond. If your partner wants a "I'm married" sign (as my wife did), just buy a simple wedding ring without a stone. If it's not that important for her, don't buy a ring.
Interesting. I do run an adblocker and didn't have any issues
This is really quite new. China and India, just over the past few years, have turned synthetic diamond production into a serious industry, and the fact that there are so many small producers is leading to a "race to the bottom" on pricing. A race we're now right in the middle of. Within just a few years, synthetic diamond might be nearly as cheap as synthetic ruby. (The raw materials are equally cheap, but making diamond is a more laborious and energy-intensive process, so it'll always be somewhat more expensive.)
This assumes you want the 5.03 item, and it's just a way to consolidate change instead of having a change jar.
Basically all jewelry is a scam if you look at it as an investment.

From people that I observed over the years I saw people who had low self esteem mostly that would pull up with loads of jewelry.

There are also people who like it as small accents but I don't think they do it because it is worth something but more like they just like it and that's fine.
> The company's financial difficulties were caused by mismanagement, wasteful efforts to establish toeholds and run pilots in too many countries, the high investment required to develop the charging and swapping infrastructure, and a market penetration far lower than originally predicted by Shai Agassi.

In other words, you can't bootstrap this thing on a shoestring budget (relatively speaking). It will work if governments will it into existence.

They're also gonna have to will an electrical grid into existence that can support 3-5 times the current load if they want to ban combustion cars.
"I love being governed strongly. Government is like my mum or dad, and keeps me safe!" says every Scandinavian everytime. I thought you guys were vikings!
There is a reason you get this impression.

C++, the unparalleled language for writing fast libraries, is a complex beast.

C++, the sort of decent language with footguns for using said libraries, is getting more and more simpler over the years.
Previous discussion from 2022...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32530035
Technically “shammy” is an alternate spelling. It just happens to be one up with which I shall not put.

“Whamois” is good though.
Ah, I also had a 386SX, and some games (not a lot, maybe three or four) never run properly on my machine. :(

Edit: I just remembered one of them was "Eye of the Beholder III"
Non-paywall, non-archive.ph:

https://www.livemint.com/special-report/why-are-we-so-obsess...

Alternatively, JSON version:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1jHBvi

Readable in links(1) text-only browser, as-is.
> style.type='text/css';

Superfluous. I don’t understand why people often do this on stylesheets or scripts (type="text/javascript"), because it has never at any time been necessary or useful.
> Why does HN then get to modify titles with glorified and inaccurate regexes?

In the same way HN doesn’t give you an option to delete your comments and accounts at all.

Oh yeah, there’d something like “why not email <someone at HN>”.
I think they got it backwards and meant highest performance per watt or lowest wattage per performance.
Yeah

Though given the website I'm surprise it's actually reasonable and balanced

(and I agree, the risks are not too small)
> I've never met a libertarian who believed in the right to secretly adulterate product

Yes but they are not necessarily able to clearly explain how can that be prevented from happening without the ‘nanny state’. Which I assume what the comment above was implying, instead of explicitly supporting poisoning food.
Hosting a file on a url anyone can access from anywhere is the whole point…
your marriage was protected from falling apart by shiny metals on your fingers :)
> I don't think Moissanite is the right replacement - they have too much of the so-called "fire", almost too sparkly as the article shows. I think Moissanites are inferior to diamonds in appearance in my personal, subjective opinion.

I feel the same way. Moissanites are basically TOO good. They reflect light in so many carnival colors, and they shine so brightly, that they frequently look like fake carnival jewelry.
Lets build an Amiga Network Adapter [video]
"Used things are for poor people" - they know their market well and don't even have to actively diminish used diamonds/rings value, their customers do it for them.
Value is defined in free markets by what you can sell something for.

Artificial tradition as in created by a marketing campaign to sell a product. Same things as eating “KFC on Christmas” in Japan or more recently “Happy Honda Days” just slightly older and more widespread.
The AI pin, the future of portable AI?
Without regulation, advertising "non toxic" doesn't mean anything because adverts can just lie.
A fair chunk of modern corporate data ends up in OLAP systems that are now more often or not stored using s3 (or their MS/Google equivalents) in 'Data Lakes'. The concept of 'private data' whilst using cloud providers is an interesting one, but there has been enough work done by all parties involved to ensure that all but the most sensitive data is now created, stored and analysed using the systems provided by "Big Cloud".
The lack of “How” strongly implies recency.
I vaguely recall this case. I sure hope police have become more cyber literate in the past 10 years, but yeah this is the virtual equivalent of leaving fingerprints on the crime scene.
nearly fifteen years in the industry
Very pretty. And to relate it somewhat to the topic: 1/27 = 0.037 repeating 037 and 1/37 = 0.027 repeating 027 :)
Odd - works pretty much unfailingly for me - have used it on long random strings - indeed that's where I normally use it.
The devil does not need an advocate.
Title is misleading, it appears to promise no reasons, which I assume would mean an article full of arguments against. Not as advertised.
What's the profit margin on a 0.6 gram chunk of fancy carbon being sold for three grand?
From my point of view, if you have no dependents, why are you concerned with life insurance?

Life insurance is better if you are married and/or have dependants, and your partner doesn't make as much as you, or they would be in a bad financial situation if you didn't. Example: having a mortgage with a partner that can't foot the payments alone.

Also take into account the social welfare net that your country has, some countries have pretty fair safety nets, where it makes paying for life insurance not a necessity, as you already pay them in your taxes as you know your family basic needs will be taken care of in case something bad happens.

In the US I'd find that important, but not so much in Germany, for example.

There are too many insurance or financial products to take your money; if you decide to pay for all of them, you'll lose the ability to save.

Furthermore, you might lose your ability to do an extra thing or two before you die. Better to make that vacation before your time is over.

I notice some people are overly concerned with when they die. After having lost one of my parents, and having seen other family members passing away, you'd be surprising on how people adapt.

On that topic, I saw family members completely change their personality and reach financial independence, because they had no choice to, and overall nowadays they are more mature than they would, if they could keep relying upon others all the time.
If you go to the crypto communities on reddit you can get some clear information from time to time. Right now the summary appears to be that it isn't that widely adopted, some people use it but most don't except in spots known for bitcoin tourism. Most people want dollars.

I don't expect this to be the case forever. The value proposition is just too strong. These things take time, especially in places where the people are very suspicious of government actions.
They for sure know about it, but asking themselves will yield 1 average and 5 bad ideas. Asking THIS GROUP RIGHT HERE (pardon the caps) will yield 100 great ideas. ;)
Honest referral - I like multiple products in a category, and competition!
Such people are posting in this thread. Mind you, I've never met one in person either.
Do you have an alternate email? The one provided here doesn't exist.
The point of this paper is that the authors realized they could write a nature paper about this and not get called out in any meaningful way.
They will definitely continue to harvest (and process/sell) data. The only thing that stops is displaying ads.
Especially since it has so little resale value.
Let's assume it were a problem big enough to address, then what?
Yes, gold (or gold jewelry) holds its resale value better than diamond rings.
Convert standard Geiger counter to RNG
There's a great divide between perfectly functioning economy and using ammunition as currency. Something as simple as a broken fiber optic cable, or a small scale war, both could be considered catastrophic (particularly if electronic payment is impossible) while still allowing people to go about their daily lives. But in those daily lives they can do no commerce, rendering the situation much more catastrophic, whereas if they had cash, they could buy groceries and dodge shells on the way home to read a book.
One thing to keep in mind when working with/in small groups is that there is a critical difference between something being said in front of the group VS something being said to any single member in isolation. And someone interacting with groups needs to be aware when to choose which.

On the flipside many people tend to be either more comfortable with a one-on-one OR with a group situation. We all know that friend who is amazing when talked to alone and utterly useless in a group (or vice versa). Someone interacting with groups should ideally be aware which members are outliers like that. Many bad group dynamics can occur e.g. because some group members taking the spotlight steal it from group members that don't particularly like putting themselves into it, but deserve to nontheless.
x86 is a legacy platform, ia64 could've served the niche this article is catering toward, f.e. HPC and data center. Sadly intel squandered Itanium by being actively hostile towards developers
> It just happens to be 37 for this list

What do you mean by “this list” here? It seems to be misunderstanding the result.
A good prompt (MUD humor ensues) is #CharName #HP/#MaxHP - #SP/MaxSP >

You need both the HP/SP and the MaxHP/MaxSP because you may end up wearing an item that gives you +CON or +INT so you need to know the at-the-time max so you can decide whether continue eating/drinking.
This of course is true and makes sense, but you could also say the same thing about eating dinner in a restaurant: you could save money by skipping a meal, or by getting a frozen meal at the supermarket. A restaurant meal at a decent restaurant isn't that expensive (though it is pretty bad in the US these days; other countries are much better).

A ring doesn't have to be expensive: you can get a nice titanium ring for under $100. And unlike some other rings, it has some major benefits: 1) it's super-lightweight, so you can barely feel it (gold is heavy), 2) it's hypo-allergenic, in case you might have a sensitivity to anything in other rings, and best of all, 3) if you're stuck in an undersea oil rig that's flooding and one of the automatic flood doors is closing and about to trap you inside, you can stick your hand with the ring in the door and prevent it from closing, so you can escape.
I think that's what the person above was saying already, just that it's a surprise that many intelligent people still prioritise tradition over the logical arguments.
This drives me up the wall on Android, don't use Windows.

I like to feel that I actually own and control my powerful general purpose computer. Instead I've got a phone that's good for reading HN and not much else.

There shouldn't have to be a discussion on HN on how to select arbitrary text.

/Rant
“Why is it that no one has undertaken the task of cleaning the Augean stables of elementary
differential equations? I will hazard an answer: for the same reason why we see so little change
anywhere today, whether in society, in politics, or in science“

I see a lot of parallels with the Physics department and I think the reason is much more depressing. Both fields embrace a sort of masochism and active desire to keep knowledge impenetrable b/c it acts as a mechanism to feed out the dummies. The system acts an an informal IQ test - that maintains the prestige of the departments. If you're pigheaded and clever enough to get through the masochistic torture is that their undergrad textbooks then you're probably pretty clever and so the prestige of the degrees is maintained.

There is also a certain veneration of the establishment and traditions. I remember on my first day of Classical Mechanics the 50+ year old teacher beamed with pride when he told us he used the same exact textbook when he was in school. As if it was written by the Shakespeare of textbook writing and nobody has managed to surpass it in decades. It' frankly should be an embarrassment

As he observed, other departments will step in an do much better. The best linear algebra class I had was a graduate course in the electrical engineering department

I had a lot of hope for things like Khan Academy, but the issue is video is not text and it's hard to iterate and improve on. I really wish textbooks with open licenses would take over and they could be reworked and improved year after year by different people
I clicked on this because my bicycle has SRAM gear shifters. Disappointed to see an article about computers.
It says a lot about the state of the BBC that they produce so little sci-fi that this is actually considered news. Look at Netflix, for whom sci-fi/fantasy is the most popular genre of show and as a consequence they invest heavily into it.

The BBC seems to be staffed by an incredibly narrow and stifling cultural homogeneity in which period dramas that appeal to middle aged women are good, but sci-fi shows that appeal to young men aren't even on the radar. Dr Who is notable primarily because it's one of the only recognizable sci-fi shows they ever made, and it's targeted at kids. The others are mostly comedies like Red Dwarf or Hitchhiker's Guide and they're all from decades ago.

One day the BBC is going to lose the license fee and discover it doesn't even know what types of shows are popular, let alone how to make them.
> Part of the comparison here is that the alternatives are both cheaper and practically better.

It's not the case here, because you're not buying gems for their practical value. If you were, then there would not be an issue - lab-grown diamonds for cutting things would be even cheaper than they are, and you wouldn't care about other gems unless you were playing with lasers or something.

As much a I hate it, the entire point of jewelry is that it's expensive and useless. It's the OG "proof of work" kind of thing - you prove your affection by burning significant resources on some piece of junk, and the recipient can use that piece of junk to prove their status to others ("look how much wealth I can burn on stupid shit", or "look how much wealth I can get someone else to burn on my behalf"). Layer a millennium of traditions and a century of De Beers marketing on top, and we get to where we are.

Being practical devalues jewelry; being cheap is opposite of its point; being alternative means being unauthentic, and makes the wearer a liar.

> The reality is that we regularly choose minor improvements to our lives or even just spend through laziness at a cost of other people's lives.

That's the unsolved part. For any given thing enjoyed by me and a billion other people, with hardly anyone talking it's wrong, I suddenly have to take some stranger's accusations and/or guilt-tripping at face value. The math goes like this:

- Surely my responsibility can't be more than one-billionth of the whole thing;

- It's not like I can actually make a difference without upending my whole life. That doesn't feel commensurate with one billionth of whatever the bad thing is;

("Voting with your wallet" is bullshit; boycotts don't work; you can't really make a dent without a large movement here, and good luck creating one over random consumer decision - you're competing with efforts to start a movement over ever other such decision, and people's attention is finite.)

- You came out of nowhere and started guilt-tripping me, it's not just inconvenient and makes me feel bad, but it's also a technique used by scammers and cultists and politicians - so why should I trust your math in the first place?

With a little hand-waving, the solution to above inequality is "I'm not going to change, and I don't like you anymore".

I'm not saying this is good - just that it is. That's the bit that's unsolved in practice.
I, as a European, cannot fathom how anyone would spend a significant amount of money on an engagement ring! The engagement rings we got ourselves cost 18$ and were made from wood. After all, they only need to last a few months, or maybe 1-2 years, until the wedding.

Regarding the wedding ring, I can understand slightly better how someone would put a bit more money into that, considering that you wear it for life. But there are so much better options than buying a shiny rock. Why not go to a goldsmith and pay 1000$ for a workshop where you forge your own rings? That will result in a lasting memory of a nice event, for a fraction of the cost, instead of throwing thousands of dollars out the window for a shiny rock that you simply buy at the store. Or maybe you don't even need gold? In my opinion, silver, titanium or maybe something like steel combined with carbon fibers looks better anyways.
Yes the tradition spread, but people don’t live in the same place our ancestors did 600 years ago either. Traditions diffuse across generations, cultures, and geographic borders that doesn’t somehow make them new or fake.
I had Battletech on the Amiga (showcased in the video) and it ran much faster even though the Amiga only has a 7Mhz CPU...
A good lesson to never do that - just use VPN to login to IRC to some hacking channel and report the issue there.

Of course you should also do the white hat part in anonymized fashion.
Malot - En Famille.

I decided it's time to revisit some classics. I finished the "Sans Famille" a few days back. Those are quick/fast reads but with immense value/wisdom/philosophy.

Next one is to re-read the "Hold on to your kids" by Neufeld & Maté.
In particular, adding lead to tumeric was illegal before they made a show of enforcing it in 2019. So their previous policy was the worst of both worlds; telling people they were safe while allowing them to be poisoned.
Offtopic but not: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#p
Communities that wish to keep existing do need new users, yes. Existing users die, lose interest or leave in other ways and if they do not get replaced by new users, the end of the community is inevitable.
her description of physicists being asked about string theory out of nowhere is what feel like being a comp sci being asked about cryptomoney or AI all the time.