skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The price difference is not going to be a factor of 100, and you'd be lucky to get a factor of 2 and still be able to pay back your costs, no matter how cheap the panels themselves get.

Perhaps not x100, but likely more than you think too, as european domestic PV installation costs were significantly lower than US installation costs last time I compared them.

I'm not sure what installation costs are now, but here in Germany several local supermarkets are selling PV systems you can install yourself on your apartment balcony for €199:

https://www.archyde.com/the-lidl-parkside-solar-panel-review...

I've seen other things like this with batteries for a similar price, though I can't remember the brand or exact specs.
Is there a publicly accessible book catalog where books can be searched by isbn, title or author?
> Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

This is a truth but it's not the foundational issue we should be concerned about. Instead:

Privacy is the key to self-determination.

That is, it's not the loss of privacy that is hurting us in some way. It's that those details are being used to influece us, often used against us, and in ways we are not completely aware. The persistence and ubiquity doesn't make it right.

In short, when we lack privacy we are not be allowed to be ourselves.

https://www.amazon.com/Stand-out-our-Light-Resistance/dp/110...
A comparison with municipal water should have been done alongside.

"Next, the researchers plan to look beyond bottled water to other potential sources of nanoplastics, including tap water."

Hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.

I imagine the results will be of no surprise to anyone - both sources contain an unacceptable level of some form of plastics.

Additionally, perhaps prompting better processing of all water source used for drinking, and potentially kill bottled water, or at the very least significantly reduce the cost of it - unless the industry manages to find some new spin for bottled water to justify its price and stay in the game.
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Richard Lindzen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LVSrTZDopM

Judith Curry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PQ1cOlCJI
Might be useful to imagine all the stuff you buy in a year, even well packaged. And now multiply that by amount of people that aren't essentially sustenance farmers...

Now that I think of it, maybe 1 billion TEU is not that much. Single person does not even use full container...
Regarding your last paragraph, interesting idea about the compiler doing the work, but isn't RPC/serdes basically built into CORBA or OLE transparently? Never used the former, and the latter was so long ago I forgotten it, but I thought that was the idea.
The reading experience on official webtoon apps is bad. Webtoon doesn't let you scroll within an episode, Tapas is buggy, both have horrible recommendation functions that shove more or less NSFW things (especially tapas) into your face without regard for your reading history or interests. The download limitations (like pay and access for a limited time, time limit on local download) that are certainly legally circumventable, at least in the EU.

I don't mind paying the creators and publishers, but I do mind being fenced in unwieldy apps.
ICO's pricing of spam doesn't seem very well thought out.

For one, there's a lack of enforcement on this tax. Many customers get away with sending spam while evading payment. ICO is in the business of selling forgiveness, so they need to catch people.

Then the pricing structure is strange. In a given time period, spam can be taxed up to a maximum of 500k, but there is no limit on the amount of spam you are allowed to send.

This benefits larger players, as long as your spam operation scales profitably beyond the fixed cap of the tax's pricing structure.
ISDN was widely available in the US (it ran on the same copper pairs you already had) but was never all that popular. You could essentially _always_ get it deployed and it was the base-level connectivity back in the 90s for remote sites. I had it installed in a few crappy apartments much to the confusion of the local installers, the line price wasn't crazy expensive but finding a local ISP that would agree to reasonable always-on pricing was more challenging.
I know that Reverse osmosis membranes are able to prevent these from passing. That's what I installed at home for drinking water for this exact problem.
So, in your opinion, bare metal is cheaper just because there's a demand/supply imbalance in the cloud business?

Why's there so much demand for cloud and, despite empty DC spaces you pointed, there's no demand to fill it?
Not to diminish your visuals, but this is typically a non-artistic case of generative AI, where it was only used to cut costs, not by choice.
Perhaps this is a subject where no good options exist, and chasing a win-win solution is unfruitful and unnecessary.
There are many reasons, but the simple idea of "containing" is a big part of it. You could run several versions of Python, database systems, etc. on a single machine, but it rapidly becomes confusing in most cases with dependency clashes, losing track of where everything is, etc. Anyone who worked on multiple projects ~20 years ago and didn't use VMs might remember how it felt.

It's like if you have a workshop and you diligently organize all of the different parts into different trays in different units so it's easier to do all the types of work you need to do. You could just have a giant box in the corner where you chuck absolutely everything.. far less complex, but it'd make your day to day work a nightmare.
While we're on it, a Surface pro will only need a bluetooth pairing to work as a second display for the windows laptop.

Bonus points: it can a accept pen/touch and mouse/keyboard inputs as well, which makes it pretty useful.
Korea in much stricter on Copyright issues, and Kakao is losing 10 millions USD on webtoons yearly.
Watercoolers are devices for dispensing cold (or hot) water from huge plastic bottles in a classic office. People go there to get their hydration fix, say hello to each other, and this ostensibly turns into a longer chat, as everyone keeps procrastinating.

I haven't seen an actual watercooler for the last 10 years, so they're probably becoming less common in tech companies.
It’s funny how the opt out mechanisms are the buggiest part of all the systems in a company. And the slowest.

I had a message the other day: “We will try our best to unsubscribe you within 30 days”. Well, don’t strain yourselves
New study from Anthropic exposes deceptive 'sleeper agents' lurking in AI's core
Building a Multi-Modal Image Search Application
found it.. it's just a slide in "Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018"
For reference:

"
The Australian BHP Iron Ore is the longest train ever recorded in history at approximately 4.6 miles (7.353 km). In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, BHP owns and runs the Mount Newman railway. This is a private rail network designed to transport iron ore
"
HelloFresh seems to be optimising for user count above all else (incl profit).

They keep offering their big -40% loss leader promos to people that cancelled. Must be costing them an ungodly amount.
Comment by DC reporter on tax policy, https://x.com/lauraeweiss16/status/1745201276730683754

> potential bipartisan tax deal, per an office briefed today on where the deal stands -- $35B ... for ... 3 business tax benefits ... deal would include R&D, interest expensing, bonus depreciation. Full, upfront R&D deductions would be ONLY for domestic spending
That is interesting. I've never heard that 'immigration' was a possible cause. I know 'sea people's as part of it, just hadn't heard that spun as an anti-immigration argument.

Didn't realize the 'right' had even managed to co-opt something like Bronze Age Collapse to promote anti-immigration. Since isn't a lot of studying history, about tracking 'immigration', the movement of peoples. People move around. It isn't bad, it is what actually happens.

What would the world look like if during all of history, there was never any immigration? Wouldn't humans have died out.

"If only they had built a wall to keep out those 'sea peoples', then today we would be living as good and just Hattusas".

If it hadn't happened, would there even be a Jesus? or Christianity?
What is DBA?
I had 56k FR at home in the 90’s. I worked for an ISP and it was a perk offered to some employees. The connection never went down once in 4+ years. The reliability must have depended on your LEC.
>they submitted coherent papers that they considered absurd

I’ve never heard anyone describe Mein Kampf as coherent. The ramblings of an asshole clearly abusing stimulants would be closer to the usual.

>Of course some things that Hitler said won't be awful if you literally change the key words in the sentence

The idea that swapping around the group being discussed is all it would take to make it not awful is, well, novel if nothing else.
Them knowing that it is bad isn't much of a consolation for the dead production

The magic that happen in someone's mind that leads to their actions matters very little for everyone else. Their actions and the consequences of their actions are what everyone else actually cares about
> Grocery Delivery E-Services UK Limited

Very transparent
Fraud of what, you pay, they give you food? They're not selling shares or something
Do you plan to handle custom folder hierarchy?
He did on this post, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38988220
You just dig a trench and fill it with seawater, then float it over. The train just needs to go next to it to pull the boat.
Ish.

A tty can refer to a device name, or a physical terminal.

A terminal can refer to a physical or virtual terminal.

A console could also refer to a physical device, although I'm not aware of it being used in this context.

The problem is that computing is all metaphors. Metaphors leak and once we lose one meaning (enough) we stop clarifying to differentiate. We don't generally need to differentiate between a physical terminal and a virtual terminal, so we don't.
Lots of physics experiments are actually thought experiments, they don't require money. The motions of the planets and stars had been largely mapped for more than 50 years or more by the time Newton came up with his novel mathematical description of them.

> Evolution of ideas is plausible, but it suggests a remarkably homogeneous intellectual environment in a time where communication was expensive.

Science doesn't often advance alone, it requires communication between scientists. And that same communication spreads ideas among those scientists, until they build a common understanding.
112 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974802
There are all sorts of reasons for using any language and there are just as many reasons for not using that language.

But the problem is not the terseness or the relevant clarity of any language or its ability to compile to fast code. It is the ability of any programmer who comes along later to make changes to that code in support of its use.

All too often, programmers want to show their [leet] skills and fail to take into consideration the poor sods who have to come after to support that code. The reality is that much [leet] code has to be discarded or completely rewritten to get something that is supportable long term.

It took me a long time to understand this and after this, I made sure that my code could be supported by others - clean, simple and comprehensible. Too much throwaway code becomes the basic infrastructure used in organisations and becomes entrenched and incomprehensible to following generations.
The service is really good. But very little to differentiate it from any of the other services with the result that when we used it we just swapped between whichever service give us a discounted offer. We could keep it up for months on end without paying the full subscription price.
Nuxt-Orama, type-ahead search for Nuxt3 in minutes
> Linux is only free when our time isn't worth money.

that's funny, because having rotated through all 3 major cloud providers in the past 5 years now (at different places), Azure support is the most time-wasting not worth it even if it was free, and i'd much prefer if i could waste my time reading documentation that makes sense, but Azure doesn't have that either.

Azure doesn't happen to be an outlier in Microsoft products, right?

> Playwright is developed by Microsoft, by the way.

And I'm happy the people there get to make things that work outside the eldritch horror that is Windows Server.
Am I right in thinking 9.8 joules per kilo per metre * 20,000,000 kilos * 26 metres =
5,096,000,000 joules or ~1.4 MWh?

That seems low, so I must be missing something?
This is really cool, I've wanted to build a sort of AI home assistant that can do this kind of thing as well as look things up. Having homepods and trying to get anything out of it after using ChatGPT you realise just how utterly awful Siri is.

The biggest issue for me is the costs involved. Getting a local LLM working reliably seems to require some pretty expensive (both in terms of initial outlay and power consumption - it aint cheap in the UK!) and has made it a non starter.

It does make me wonder why we're not seeing the likes of Raspberry Pi work on an AI specific HAT for their boards, especially as they've started to somewhat slow down and move out of the focus of many makers.
idk, could be addressed with segmentation and redundancy thou
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984282
agreed, but in pretty sure they have to serve you termination papers and you can just argue the reason stated there with your lawyer. i could be mistaken on this however.
It seems insane that the right choice for PostHog is to build (using a CMS) and then self-host their own forum.

Surely there's a Discourse or similar that provides a hosted forum solution equivalent to Slack?
https://imdb.com/title/tt0083946/

Joke aside...
RoRo has much quicker transfer but ship capacities are much smaller.
You're likely thinking of microplastics not nanoplastics. RO is actually suspected of ADDING nanoplastics

>In what the researchers called an ironic finding, they also found plastic compounds in the water that matched the primary material in reverse-osmosis filters — suggesting that the plastics had leached into the water by the very process of filtration

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/439572...
Man I wish no private corp was allowed to contact you without an opt-in. Would really make email useful again....
There's no way they are losing money at 40% off unless they are doing something unreasonably bad.
How would this work exactly? It's like suing qBittorrent's contributors because some people use it for copyright infringement. AFAIK, Tachiyomi extensions maintainers are independent from the core maintainers.
Do you happen to have the passage in question at hand? Mein Kampf is a fairly long book, and it seems likely to me that there are passages of it which – with key words changed! – would not express anything particularly awful. But it is hard to judge without knowing what the modified passage actually said.

Edit: What the hoaxers actually say suggests that the passages were altered quite substantially: "The last two thirds of this paper is based upon a rewriting of roughly 3600 words of Chapter 12 of Volume 1 of Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler, though it diverges significantly from the original.". And you can read the paper here: https://newdiscourses.com/feminist-mein-kampf/#solidarity
So no chance at a consequence until the third time or fourth maybe. How long did this one take?
"open your shell" can mean the same as "open your terminal".

One always (?) Involves the other.
Still about two or three decades too cheap...
Ten Charts That Explain the U.S. Economy in 2023

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/12/19/...
Chat is poor UX for most users
> Currently this feels like you are promoting this and its not a sincere recommendation.

Indeed, https://twitter.com/hardikjain29
As someone who is stressed by all the spam emails, texts, whatsapps and robo calls in my digital life, I appreciate this news a lot. Great going Mr. Sunak, keep giving them more fines until this "spam business" becomes unprofitable!
Maybe, maybe not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation#History

It's odd how blatantly simple stuff can be so difficult for even experts to see sometimes.
Cloudflare account executive records herself being laid off [video]
Echoing Darthrupert but you could look at Learning Factory

https://luden.io/lf/

https://luden.io/lfedu/
The component model seems like it's just a re-invention of JBoss-like application servers.

Maybe it is explained somewhere in the paper but how do atomic updates work if at least one of the components has to be a singleton that does not support rolling upgrades?
Be thankful you don't have to manage a gear stick or roundabouts.

If you have ridden a bicycle in traffic before you'll find it way easier as it's mainly managing position on the road and watching out for other traffic. Might be worth learning the controls first in an empty car park if you don't already know them. Small cars are generally easier to learn in.
The smaller the pieces get, the more of them (for the same mass). So a title like this makes it hard to gauge of that's a lot of plastic or the problem is that the pieces are very small and whether that's the reason it's a problem (presumably because they pass through some membranes?).
The GC works fine. Why waste energy to duplicate the functionality that requires it? Programmers who don't want the GC are already using C++ or Rust instead. The GC is one of those tools that makes programming in D productive. The lack of libraries and modern tooling is the part that ruins it. That's why you get software written in Go and Java instead of D.

I'd love to use it for embedded work instead of C and C++, even in the current state. Embeded meaning 32bit MCUs running some kind of RTOS, not ARM SBCs powerful enough to run Linux. If not D, then maybe Zig. For this it needs to be able to link against and build upon existing C/C++ libraries.
It stands for Doing Business As[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_name
If I'm honest I struggled to complete the write up as I wanted to be reasonably detailed about each step of the design and build. I appreciate it could do with a few more photos or illustrations, and I may come back to this in due course.
Worth noting that Microsoft has taken real steps to diversify their leadership and BoD compared to Apple which remains largely white and male.
Discord is also an especially bad choice, at least for two reasons: it is not searchable, and everything might be gone at any point for any reason, when discord or its automated algorithms feel like it.
As the post notes, these are additions to MIT's longstanding OpenCourseWare project.

https://ocw.mit.edu/search/
Or has the economy come to mean that most of stock market is going up... And as long as that continues everything is great and it really should be only goal of any policy...
Companies are made of individuals, and individuals can be shady and crooked. In a vacuum, it’s probably somewhat as likely that the person getting fired and the company doing the firing are scumbags. I’d personally argue that companies have more of a reputation to uphold for profitability reasons, and will therefore be incentivised to act less scummy than individuals.

In this case, the company has nothing to gain no matter how they sever the contract. They’re simply getting rid of an employee who was either costing them money, or getting rid of many employees at a time to navigate a difficult economic situation.

The person making the TikTok on the other hand has a lot to gain from making a controversial and attention-grabbing spectacle out of this.
I'd argue that running all of those things inside docker containers also rapidly becomes confusing. The confusion is inherent to the complexity of the things you are running.

I don't hate docker, but I find that it's just not that useful until you reach a certain scale. I stopped using it for personal projects and am much happier for it.
And they're essentially inert.
Yesterday I created an account on John Lewis' website, and I was please to see that during sign-up, they had an unchecked "Tick here if you want our newsletter."

Then, later I placed an order, and during credit card checks I noticed a "Tick here if you do NOT want our newsletter", which was of course unchecked and that's how the fuckers got me.

Fuck this dark pattern, and fuck the Product Manager that requested it. There literally should be a law that says you cannot ask a user to check a box NOT to give away their data.
Water evaporates at temperatures above its freezing point, so distillation will separate the water by way of evaporation. I think heating to produce steam just speeds up that process.

Plastics can potentially leech into other materials they come into contact with, so I'm not 100% certain they would not chemically combine with water and be distilled with the water.

I suspect some sort of substance could be used to bind to or otherwise attract those chemicals from the plastics could be used to allow only water to evaporate. Charcoal etc perhaps?
That would work for (some) fields, but I do not expect enough people will volunteer to clean up the streets or stock up the shelf at the stores.
Such a depressing post with so much resonance. Rule number 1 of freelancing or having a job with mental workload: Priority number 1 is to play the long term game and not let burn out kill passion.
It remembers me when I pasted a multiline SQL query started with `begin;`, but psql ignored the first due to a connection timeout, it automatically reconnected to the server, and proceeded to execute the following lines...
I know people who use Nix for this... May or may not be another level of confusing though. Also, I heard it's a bad choice for JS ecosystem.
Can they sue Google or MS, since manga can be viewed in their web browser?
Sorry but no. Then it wasn't a perpetuum mobile. There's no way to violate the laws of thermodynamics. Likely the video was not showing everything, and/or giving a false impression/explanation. Typcial example are those toy birds picking water: it looks like a perpetuum mobile, but it in fact uses the energy present in the water. Once the water evaporates all it stops. Adding new water constantly makes it run forever, but that's by the grace of adding energy into the system hence defeating the idea.
Except the advantage of not having ads in the command line and not having confusing messages that some security updates have been withheld unless you sign up for a pro version.
Man lives 30 feet underwater for 100 days, explains the impact on his body
That's surprising. The companies I've worked for have always asked me to select the fuel plan option.
Thete's a big difference between a private firm and a private equity firm.

Private firm - no public trading of stocks.

Private equity - a business model created by syndicates that borrow money to buy companies, saddle the companies with that borrowing, demand a quick return (-> layoffs, selloffs, and wage cuts), then bankrupt the company when all the value and productivity have been extracted.
It seems like they are basically selling papal indulgences on the cheap? Who gets the revenue they generate from absolving these companies of their sins?
I still have PCI and ISA Fritz ISDN cards somewhere, if anyone wants them.
"Absolute disaster" .. or "transform the canal side environment into similar to the seaside environment" ?

> Also pumping up that much water would require an absolutely enormous amount of energy, and dozens of pumping stations.

Similar to other water pumping projects about the globe that cover distances further than 65km across rises of a similar magnitude?

The canal system already has dozens of pumping stations, abd there's a regenerative energy recovery factor to the operation that makes the total energy required somewhat less than just a straight lift x tonnage.