skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes total sense for incentivizing development, as you can essentially price out the locals to get access to their land.

It's definitely a double-edged sword with no right answer, though. You can encourage the efficient use of land with high land taxes to bring in development of badly needed housing, but you will be altering the ability of previous residents to stay in their homes.

Likewise, it's not unreasonable to see local governments reflect the will of their constituents saying "We recognize that these actions mean that new people and businesses will not be able to move in here, and we're all fine with that."

It seems like this is directly a tradeoff between the rights of current residents vs. considerations for prospective residents. Neither one of those groups is intrinsically more valuable than the other. While land tax is really great at making places more livable for new residents at the expense of current occupants, restrictive zoning and current-valuation taxes are great at preserving the neighborhoods that people already live in, at the expense of new people being able to join those neighborhoods.
I meant partner with them then clone it’s products. Or just clone their products. That’s a total difference in meaning.
I've gotten some pretty good results just using the left over pasta-water with some flour.

AFAIK, the cheese I'm using doesn't have anything particularly special (some cheap hard cheddar). I don't even grate it, just chop it up a little before adding it to the water.
> I assume location must play a large part in this? Solar must be more cost-effective in, say, the Mojave desert, than it is in Alaska.

Yes, each peak kilowatt of utility-scale solar produces about 240 watts average in Arizona, 140 in Maine, and 100 in Germany ("capacity factors" of 24%, 14%, and 10%). I assume the number for Alaska would be even lower.

> Every solar panel you put on the ground is going to take up solar energy that could otherwise be absorbed by a plant, which in turn means that plant can't absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

Yes, and also it will reflect less heat back into space than the plant or bare dirt would, locally raising the temperature. These will start to be important problems when the quantity of power produced by solar panels is about 100 times larger than current world marketed energy consumption. I expect that this will happen in about 30 years. However, merely switching all our energy to solar will have an effect that's about 100 times too small to matter.
GuixSD looks interesting
The GPL license is incredibly corporation hostile.
> Voluntary with a threat of hunger, homelessness, healthcare loss, etc if not.

No, the threat is that they'd have to work somewhere other than Amazon, same as everyone else. Most people in our society work non-Amazon jobs, it's not that bad a "punishment" for taking a bathroom break.

It's also not a "threat": a job today is no obligation to a job tomorrow. Things change.
Oh say can you see, by the Dawnzer Lee light!

Lots of good childhood memories. RIP, Bev.
> Takes about 20min to cook a nice weekday meal based on whatever's in the fridge

It takes half that to prepare it from a box. And most of that time is waiting (either for the water to boil or for the pasta to cook).

And further, you know what you're getting with the blue box. Less risk of messing up, and less painful if you do somehow catastrophically mess up.
> an 8oz block of cheddar cheese is already $2 at target

Well there's your problem! A portion of cheese is 1oz :D

That's 880 calories for $2. Pretty good imo
70 floor tower is a bit extreme. What would really benefit places like San Francisco is replacing single family homes with 3-4 stories apartment buildings. Such a low buildings still make neighborhood look nice and cozy, while increasing density 10 times.
I'd say Digital Ocean's newish Apps platform. Static sites are free and they can run a build step for you (still free).
An attacker doesn’t need every attack to work every time. One breach is usually enough to get into your system, so long as they can get access to the right machine.

I heard a story from years ago that security researchers tried leaving USB thumb drives in various bank branches to see what would happen. They put autorun scripts on the drives so they would phone home when plugged in. Some 60% of them were plugged in (mostly into bank computers).
What if this goes international? Montréal always seemed like a secret hidden in plain sight, second biggest city in Canada but with a much cheaper housing market than both Toronto and Vancouver.
Something I've heard fairly consistently from people who've learned English as a second language is that it's relatively easy to learn English to a basic or intermediate level, since English grammar is relatively simple (no genders, no cases, simple verbs, etc), but taking your English from intermediate to advanced is much harder because of all the weird quirks, irregularities, idioms, phrasal verbs, inconsistent spelling etc..

My experience of learning several Asian languages as a native English speaker is kind of the opposite - the initial learning stage is very hard and it took me a long time to get to a point where people would understand me at all. But once I got over the initial hump, things progressed from "basic" to "intermediate" quite smoothly. (I never stuck around for long enough to get from "intermediate" to "advanced" though, so who knows.)
I'm not sure how that addresses anything in my comment, which is entirely about how non-corporate entities perceive him?
Take a look at sourcehut pages (srht.site) too.
>there is really no longer the idea of a "secret town" that is perfect, if one is found, people flock to it and drive up housing prices.

The place I live aggressively builds dense highrise apartments. People are flocking here and it's still awesome. My rent didn't go up this year and if I were willing to move across the street I could have saved money.
> He hasn't done this since 2006

He's done it at least as recently as 2012 (and I think he did it later than that in a side comment reacting to a political issue that some adovocates on one side had equated with pedophilia to underline how bad it was, but I can't find the quote at the moment), and didn't recant on the issue until 2019, during the furor that led to him leaving his FSF role.
Nobody gives a damn about Stallman's beliefs. He got booted because of his behavior. Specifically, his Epstein apologia and general hostility towards women in open source.
Have you tried guided meditations? Those were essential for me to get started. I think it's Tara Brach that has some on her website. Maybe 5-10 minutes and having the voice cues helps keep me on track.

Don't beat yourself up if your mind starts wandering. When you realize you're off track, just refocus on your breathing, seeing the things around you. What do you hear, what do you smell, can you feel the pressure where your body meets the floor, the bed, or chair? Your mind will wander off every couple seconds at first, just don't even worry about it and bring your focus back onto the sensations your body is feeling.

If you start to feel restless, think about what sensations you are feeling. Don't try to calm down. Focus on regular breathing, feel that your heart rate is elevated, feel out where the tension is located in your body. Is it in your neck, your chest? See if you can gentle relax those muscles.

Theres no right way to meditate and there's no wrong way. If you're worried that you're not doing it right, bring your attention back to the physical sensations and your 5 senses.

Sorry if it's not helpful. I think you were the one looking for a more concrete guide and this is what works for me.
Erasing and dragging are enough to make my reMarkable worth it, but for random brainstorming I need real notebooks that I actually keep on hand. Never been sure why, something about having to physically locate my writing somewhere is huge for me.
It's a little hard to predict how the price of battery storage will change as demand for it increases by orders of magnitude, and also how energy usage patterns will change as the relative cost of nighttime energy usage goes up. I've explored these themes in the past in a number of notes.

https://dercuano.github.io/topics/solar.html and in particular https://dercuano.github.io/notes/energy-storage-efficiency.h..., https://dercuano.github.io/notes/heliogen.html, and https://dercuano.github.io/notes/lithium-supplies.html. https://dercuano.github.io/notes/balcony-battery.html and https://dercuano.github.io/notes/the-suburbean.html explore the question at the household scale.

More recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26219344 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26229595 explore this question in more detail, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26308189 explores specifically what it would cost for California to switch to an all-solar grid with only battery storage over the next decade.

David MacKay wrote a wonderful and highly accessible overview of the topic in 02009 as part of his excellent book, Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, which is specifically about sustainable energy in Britain. Unfortunately it needs to be updated—in particular, it doesn't consider utility-scale battery facilities at all—and he is sadly no longer in a position to update it. The license does permit third parties to provide an updated version, but he did not publish the source code. Still, here it is: https://www.withouthotair.com/c26/page_186.shtml
It's kind of (but not exactly) like proprioception. Close your eyes and hold your hand out. Even without visualing (because we can't...), you know "where" it is. It feels a lot like that. I just have a good sense of where things are relative to me and each other.
Looks pretty awesome, was hoping for at least three 2.5 Gbit ports though. Know of a variation with 2.5Gbit ports?

Hardkernel has a J4115 Celeron (10 watt max tdp) board with max 32GB ram (two sodimm slots), and 2 x 2.5Gbit ports. They also have a 4 x 2.5Gbit board you can add. So relatively low power, 6 x 2.5Gbit ports, plenty of ram for running any network services you want.

No idea how well OpenWRT or similar would be supported though.
With all respect, do you feel odd about benefiting personally from a system you despise?
The cloning problem is as old as consumer products is. It's not happening faster, people just don't know the history. That's why there were a billion auto makers in old Detroit, all cloning eachother rapidly. Those automobiles were more complex and difficult to manufacture than hoverboards.

If you're trying to compete in such a saturated segment, you have the same competitive targeting as has always existed since consumer goods became a mainstream thing. You can try to build a brand of some manner, which provides a self-constructed moat against competition (this is what Smartfood represented). You can lower your prices under everyone else and give up margin, in which case you compete through executing better than everyone else (being able to survive on 3%-5% profit margins). You can leverage a network you possess, human connections, to gain an advantage over your competition in one of the industry tiers (manufacturing, marketing, distribution, etc). You can cheat, bribe, get your competition put out of business (Preston Tucker was attacked that way; and it's common throughout most of the world). You can use a resource advantage, for example capital - you can out-spend the competition (economies of scale; locking up manufacturing (Apple does this); advertising, which ties to brand building), or sue them out of existence if they're far weaker (Microsoft was almost bankrupted early in its existence with this tactic).

Not much has actually changed structurally in a century about how all of these things work.
Intriguing to see this. Someone from on deck mentioned they can spend upto 50 hours coding per week. That seems a bit excessive.

I haven't been using supabase much since alpha but it's really a good example of open source startup. I did notice your attempt to integrate deno for Postgres function recently though. Any conclusion to that MVP?

Best of luck for the launch and deciding pricing.
I make that $20 per MWh. That's somewhere around half the wholesale price of electricity in the UK. That's pretty incredible.
> That's true, but at the same time block mode allows for highly standardized and always latency free data entry and manipulation. I wonder if this is just a case for different technologies for different use cases.

Other vendors – such as DEC and HP – had dual-mode ASCII terminals that normally operated in character-at-a-time mode, but had an escape sequence you could use to switch them into block mode. Maybe that's the best of both worlds. However, in practice, few apps used the block mode, even "data entry" style apps which could use it often didn't. Part of that was that using block mode basically tied you to a single brand of terminal, whereas manually generating forms using character mode was more portable. A lot of clone terminals and emulators emulate DEC VT terminals but few of those clones and emulators included the block mode functions.
I suspect that this effect has something to do with why I can search a book faster for some non-indexed thing I've previously read in it if it is a physical book than I can if it is an ebook.

The physical book is 3D. As I progress through the book the stack of pages on my left grows and the stack on my right shrinks, giving a sense of moving through something physical. And as I alternate pages I'm first looking to one side than the other.

And so when I'm later wanting to look up something, my memory of that thing has associated with it a memory of the feel of the book at that point and what side I was looking at, and that gives me a sense of where to start looking.
Never Mess with a Guard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (YT)
Engineers circling the wagons for one of their own. If this was a CEO, politician, broadcaster, or anyone else with an ounce of notability they would probably be calling for their head.
> Combining characters are their own unicode codepoint, so they count towards length.

This is incredibly arbitrary - it depends entirely on what "length" means for a particular usecase. From the user's perspective there might only be a single character on the screen.

Any nontrivial string operation must be based around grapheme clusters, otherwise it is fundamentally broken. Codepoints are a useful encoding agnostic way to handle basic (split & concatenate) operations, but the method by which those offsets are determined needs to be grapheme cluster aware. Raw byte offsets are encoding specific and only really useful for allocating the underlying storage.
Afaik Gavin McInnes was only one of the three founders, Suroosh Alvi and Shane Smith are the other two.
Good idea, I'll remember that for the occasions when I do have a pen & paper list!
Even with the cookbook, I find it hard to see what it does.

If I understood correctly, it is an ORM over any Promise resolving data?
The GPIO war: macro bunkers for typestate explosions
Warning about computation using light. The DeBroglie wavelength of practical light is huge! Don’t expect miniaturization.
Lower rates increase house prices. High house prices push buyers out of the house market and into the rent market. More renters increase rent prices.
Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on Apple silicon nobody buys it.
The trial included people all over the country. Alas, the original trial is coming to an end, so they haven't been accepting new participants for quite some time.

If you want a V2G, you might try contacting Indra though we really sell more to installers rather than direct to customers. Alternatively, if you have a local(ish) installer that installs Indra's smart chargers, you could try inquiring through them.

I know it is possible to optimise to octopus's tariffs, but I don't know how available that is yet from the commercial side of things (I work on the technical side).
>Amd and Intel CPUs are still 100% backwards compatable with 40 year old chips

The CPUs might be, but the chipset drivers definitely aren't. You'll have a hard time booting windows 95 on a ryzen system, for instance. Hell, ryzen doesn't officially support windows 7. Still, I get your point, standardization in the PC space (mainly stemming from the "IBM compatible" standard) has made backwards/forwards compatibility much easier.
In the US, it's pretty rare to be behind CGNAT or not have IPv6. We're lucky in that regard.
The difference is mind-boggling in some cases. On one trip in 2019 I had the following coach fair choices for SFO - Moscow return trip tickets booked 3 weeks prior to departure.

* UA or Lufthansa round trip (single carrier) $3K

* UA round trip SFO - Paris + Aeroflot round trip Paris - Moscow: $1K

No amount of search could reduce the gap. I went with the second option. The gap is even bigger if you have a route with multiple segments.
Don't tell me that cheap, easy, unhealthy food doesn't exist in the Ukraine. Ask yourself why that exists and your question is answered.
When I did this I used netlify.

However for my use case I now use cheap shared hosting and Wordpress, because the sheer amount of plugins to solve all kinds of problems is amazing.

One of the built in themes I think 2019 is a nice starter for a modern site and with Gutenberg you can create a fairly modern responsive site out of the box.

There is a plug-in for free that’ll backup the entire installation to your Google cloud and other clouds.

There are cache and SEO plugins for free to sort
that side of things out.

Ive not used it but there is woo commerce for shopping although I wouldn’t blame someone for skipping it and using shopify for ease of use.

I also love not battling with Hugo etc. at the technical level.
I do not miss reading Hugo docs thinking wtf!

Hosting for unlimited sites is costing me about $50 a year so pretty much zero.
For the purposes of authenticated interactions between HN and the user, you are the third party who now has full access to the user's account. App/extension stores generally take a dim view of/outright prohibit this because of its high abuse potential.
yes, I agree.

Honestly I was looking at this and thinking it's not too far off from introducing yourself as Tyler Durden and then testing him.
On a related note, an F-35 shot itself a couple weeks ago on a training run in Arizona causing over $2.5m in damage: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjp7nq/one-of-americas-dolla...
That's pretty cool actually, I don't visualize things much and I've only experienced it in the reverse direction, and another commenter above mentioned something similar. Do you feel you are more likely to visualize or internally verbalize things (or perhaps both are relatively balanced)?
Would need $20/KWh battery storage to be competitive with nuclear for baseload according to https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30300-9
At the moment, we're at about $800/KWh.
Are you implying the 'no stable binary ABI' policy is responsible for a lot of e-waste?
Would just handle routing and wifi separately. Ubiquiti has a wifi-6 AP for $99 (2x2) and a "LR" version with 4x4 for $179. Then you can add whatever router you want and not have to worry about what next years wifi standard is.
> On an aside, should employers be able to talk about if someone has a criminal or sexual assault history?

It would be illegal for an employer to do that in my country. Though it's unlikely they could even find out.

You can't just go and ask the police or courts for someone's criminal past here, and newspapers don't use convict's full names.

Once you have served your sentence and paid your fines, you're supposed to be free of it.

I don't know for a fact, but I would imagine it is similar in a lot of places. The US are likely an outlier.

I should add that there are obvious exceptions, like if you are going to work with children or you will be handling a lot of money, in which case your employer is allowed to ask you for relevant criminal record - which you can only obtain yourself and in person.
I think that Galton figured that one out at some point in the 1800s, no? There's a huge amount of variation in how precise your mind's eye is, from absolutely nothing to vague impressions to photo-real images.
> it will reflect less heat back into space than the plant or bare dirt would, locally raising the temperature

I'm not sure this checks out... the light gets absorbed, but the energy doesn't get turned into heat, it gets turned into electricity. If anything, where it's covering up concrete or asphalt it should reduce the conversion of sunlight to local heat.
Well, Intel's employees are fixing Intel drivers for Intel hardware released >15 years ago on the Linux Kernel main repository, among other trees such as the Mesa project. So yes they are providing support. Other companies do that too.
Hence "ostensibly".
YES! My kids do this themselves (our micro is mounted at waist height and easy for kids to access). They use microwave all the time to reheat leftover dinner for lunch too. Heh - my school-at-home kids are a lot like my coworkers in the office.
Atmos – free savings accounts that fund solar with your deposits
If you added yourself we'll onboard you soon.
That got me thinking, why aren't Dell, HP, Lenovo etc selling "enterprise" Android phones? They could get probably pretty good margins on basic devices if they'd have good well-defined support periods. Bonus points for good MDM compatibility and various silly standard compliances that nobody cares about. Just being able to do purchases from same supplier as workstations seems like a major benefit for IT depts. They could probably do some bundle deals ("buy/lease workstation and get phone for free").
what exactly would i be wrong about? I am open to a persuasive argument. Dropping calculations based on speculations not even factoring everything in isnt one of them.
The video starts off with a factual error:

> MIT fired him from his job as a professor at the university

He had no such job - he in fact emphatically left MIT employment (as research staff, he was never a professor) before starting GNU so that MIT wouldn't have a copyright claim on his work. He had an office at MIT, nonetheless, because he had politically powerful friends.

See https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.en.html: "In January 1984 I quit my job at MIT and began writing GNU software. Leaving MIT was necessary so that MIT would not be able to interfere with distributing GNU as free software. If I had remained on the staff, MIT could have claimed to own the work, and could have imposed their own distribution terms, or even turned the work into a proprietary software package. I had no intention of doing a large amount of work only to see it become useless for its intended purpose: creating a new software-sharing community. However, Professor Winston, then the head of the MIT AI Lab, kindly invited me to keep using the lab's facilities."

The speaker goes on to make these comments about what cancel culture teaches:

> The other thing that cancel culture teaches that there's no forgiveness about anything, right? The minute you make a mistake, you are forever shunned by everyone else, and - that's wrong, that's completely antithetical to everything the free software movement is about.

That's an excellent sign that what happened to RMS is not cancel culture - multiple FSF board members spent a long time working with him and trying to help him understand his mistakes (see e.g. http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html and https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html), because they don't believe in cancel culture.

I do agree with the guy's conclusion, though - the FSF should be transparent about this and take a stand and make it clear why they believe RMS is an asset to the board, and also make it clear whether they believe that signers of the petition are part of the free software community. The announcement shouldn't have come as a shock. (All the people who keynoted the FSF-run conference where RMS announced his return were coauthors of the letter. The guy seems to focus on Ehmke a lot, but she's just a signatory.)