skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in this area. Build prices for modern, architectural homes up there is probably in the $300-$400 / sqft range at the moment. Sure, you could do some work yourself, but unless you've got an army of friends and family that can do complicated concrete work in remote areas, your going to have to hire professionals, and professionals are _really_ expensive right now.

My guess is this build was between $900k-$1.2m CA. Hard to guess without knowing the sqft or acreage. This isn't necessarily outrageous given the market up there, and was probably a great investment and has substantial equity, but you need a strong personal balance sheet to handle that and the cost overruns.

Your right, though, that if you live in a low cost of living area, and you keep your expectations and footprint manageable, you can get a lot for very little. Like these cob homes, gorgeous - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlzpfkjjqOw
It depends where the port is, and where the store is. While it is true that a cargo ship produces 20% of the carbon per km per ton that a truck does, the distance is very large. This also does not account for freight rail which produces half the carbon per km per ton that container ships do. So yes, if a cargo ship goes the 11,000 km from China to LA, then a semi-truck takes this from LA to NY the overland route would produce more carbon.

Also, the part about the raw materials not being produced locally, this is true abroad too.
And the reason for that is because they haven't been actively developing AlphaZero anymore. It's not worth it to them to spend their limited resources doing so when others in the Chess community are perfectly willing to. DeepMind has meanwhile instead been spending their efforts on solving protein folding, which I think we can all agree is a better use of their limited resources.
Probably 4k video content ?

> The download size of a 140-minute 4K video, for example, would be approximately (14 GB x 2) + (.233 GB x 20) = 33 GB or .233 GB x 140 = 33 GB.
It's amazing how much bitterness and jealousy can be encapsulated in just one sentence. It's almost poetic.
it's worth the OP trying to find data on how much risk covid presents to their children and what the risks of the vaccine are. the UK has this risk calculator for COVID in adults: https://qcovid.org/ . I'm not sure if there is anything similar for children. probably, the risk of the vaccine or covid is so low for children it doesn't really matter what you do.
Any recommendations on manufactured homes?
Microsoft has been giving itself permission to build the next internet, with itself at the center, since 1995.

But hey, Microsoft gonna Microsoft. Sorry, VSCode and WSL fans, the scorpion is gonna sting you too because that's its nature.
You can go to any place, anywhere on Earth, at any point in time, make a joke about marriage and some human will get it.
Not on HN though :)
It's really easy to spin a naive fanboy narrative like this and when you aim your tropes right at audience's bias you're sure to get a bunch of virtue points in response.

That's one of the big problems with internet blogs. They do a bunch of Googling and speculation and that's it. Laughably, they sometimes they even call themselves "journalists."

How hard would it have been to go to a truck stop and sit at the counter and ask some truckers? They know all about trucks. And after being along all day, truckers love to talk.

If you're afraid of people, get a $10 CB radio from Goodwill and talk to them on the radio.
> The general type of person on HN is more rigid-minded than a decade ago. They are less interested in exploring new ideas and more about the status quo. None of these people actually believe this about themselves, but it is obvious when reading through the comments.

Examples? Sometimes interest in particular types of "new" ideas is just naivete, and seeing those "new" ideas fail or not live up to the hype can lead to a new appreciation of certain aspects of the status quo.
That's true of all messaging apps besides base text messages, though, isn't it? It's not like I can send a message on facebook messenger to somebody who reads it in telegram.
Looks like if I go that way, I will go down even more in how I work, rather than raise the bar and try to achieve that.
You may be correct about that (I eventually decided the topic was too complicated for most people to figure out and disengaged with it). But the argument you present is slightly different and more nuanced than "cows drink a lot of water, we should use that water to grow soybeans instead". There are other solutions if you accept those conditions like "figure out how to get incentivize importing feed from places without drought conditions instead of growing alfalfa during a water shortage" and "figure out how to encourage more pasture-raised cattle farming on un-irrigated pastures". The point is that the extra facts (feed can be imported, cattle farming is possible in some place using minimal irrigation, not everywhere has droughts, water is used in alfalfa farming) change the initial A->B->C logic to A->D->E->C, and maybe there's an A->D->E->F argument that you miss if you don't know that D and E exists (and maybe F is more sound than C, or even directly challenges it). That's kind of the point of the original article.
Star Citizen will limit its roadmap, as players are getting upset over delays
You can also use jackfruit to substitute pulled pork
When your business model is getting a guaranteed ~10% return on equity, you’re going to fight hard to not give up your cash cow.

https://dms.psc.sc.gov/Attachments/Matter/5f64b1b3-d2bc-4b20...
The site has slowly been turned to mostly clickbait headlines, and outrage comments. It's not just turned that way lately though, it's taken several years.

Things used to be hopeful and encouraging around here. It's not that way anymore.
It would be no surprise to hear, I think, that a lot of us on this forum are well off 'tech persons'.

Internet scores higher than running water for me on prioritization, but I still couldn't bear to waste the resources to have a sat uplink for the 1-2 days a year comcast goes down. Taking a slot from somebody that actually needs it feels off to me too. It would only likely be worth it if your particular area has abnormally bad comcast uptime.

That said, we just purchased a beautiful rural property with a wonderful house, and will rent it out until starlink or fiber( local company is 1-2 years out) hits it. So maybe I'm just sore that people are taking starlink slots when they absolutely don't need it and its 2 years out =P
For each kwh you feed to the grid you get a credit for the value of that kWh during that time. Say off-peak is $.20 and peak is $.40 (this is an exaggeration but makes the math easy). You would need to feed 2 kWh to the grid during off peak to cover 1 kWh drawn from the grid during peak usage. On top of this there are non-by passable charges for every kWh drawn from the grid regardless of any credits on your account.
Simply beautiful! You -- and your children, especially -- will be completely different people as a result of living in that home.
Or it could not be volatile and actually create something original?

I think the original complaint was it's volatile, to which the solution was "well use this one tied to the dollar"... well what about the ones that aren't volatile and aren't tied to the dollar?

(They don't exist, which was the whole point)
Not to mention, they're one of many public. One has to think that there are many more like NSO that don't have huge media publicity around them.
People try all the time to prove things that can't logically be proven. Probably lifetimes spent on Euclid's parallel postulate alone - over 2000 years of attempts! Before Russell Frege thought his logic was consistent. Before Gödel it was believed we could formalize a complete arithmetic even if Frege's specific design failed. Before Church and Turing the Entscheidungsproblem was considered potentially solvable even if Gödel's work ruled out the resultant proofs wholly capturing powerful theories.

It took a very long time to even notice the axiom of choice, and longer to ultimately prove its proof futile.
Ouch.

Bezos makes many faux pas like this that aren't really so bad but keep coming and make him look like an insensitive jerk who doesn't care how his actions affect people or what they think.
This would be a perfect submission to the SIGBOVIK conference!
ctrl+f "missing money" no hits.

A lot of this is actually a very well explored problem in electricity markets, particularly at the wholesale level, and part of why, e.g., capacity markets exist in most deregulated market sin the US (outside of Texas). I know this post is focused on retail, and net metering, but this concept extends pretty broadly across electricity generation and sales.

For a little more explanation on the capacity market side of things I'll quote from the Independent Market Monitor for NYISO, ERCOT, MISO, and ISO-NE in a FERC filing from last year (disclaimer, I used to work there)[0]:

The purpose of the capacity market is to satisfy resource adequacy requirements. Because an efficient energy-only market would generally sustain a long-term capacity level far below the planning requirements of the Eastern RTOs, additional revenues are needed to sustain capacity levels to satisfy these requirements. The capacity markets, therefore, set prices that reflect the marginal cost of satisfying these planning requirements and provide the “missing money”. This marginal cost or “missing money” in the long-run is equal to the cost of investment minus the operating revenues from the sale of energy, ancillary services, etc.

If resources are under-compensated for energy and ancillary services, it will tend to increase the missing money and raise capacity prices. Importantly, if flexible resources are systematically under-compensated, it will inefficiently shift revenues into the capacity market and shift incentives in favor of investment with less flexible characteristics. For this reason, we have repeatedly sought to promote energy and ancillary services market reforms that will reduce the need for out-of-market actions to maintain reliability, which while necessary in the short-term, are particularly harmful to incentives for investment in flexible resources.

[0] https://www.potomaceconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/...
That's what it is. You can also try it here: https://eatkind.co
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People need to be off the grid completely and when that happens what will these power companies do? If we ever get the affordable battery system that are always just around the corner that will allow this to happen. I look forward to the day. Our electric company has been raising rates and the system is not fair. It is tiered so the more you use the more you pay in hopes to reduce usage. Fair enough. But in my house we have 5 adults and 4 children. We have the same tier as someone with 1 adult and no children. So even though we are more environmentally friendly and our heat heats 9 people, our lights provide light for 9 people, because we use more electricity in other areas like showers we always end up at the higher tier paying a lot for electric even though on a per individual basis we use less electricity. I unfortunately am in Canada and the solar power just isn’t efficient enough here to make it worth while.
Google....?

I don't recall much have changed since ... 2012, except perceived quality of search results
The entire debate about natural immunity was shut down. No, you need the vaccine, was the argument for a long time. It was also ignored in mandates in many countries.

The entire basis of this is that T-cell immunity is ignored, and only sky high antibodies caused by the vaccine offer any protection for future infection.
Most users (especially county assessors) of high res imaging use aircraft since it's cheaper. There are other benefits, like smaller path width and reduced angular distortion. And flying when you know there isn't cloud cover, if timing isn't critical.

So using a balloon is novel, but using aircraft in general is much more common than satellite. It just isn't all marketed to the public. "Satellite imagery" has had more success as a publicly known term than "aerial imagery", and it doesn't occur to most people that they're different things.

>Whoa. I didn’t know that daily satellite imagery was available to civilians.

There at least used to be a requirement that imaging satellite operators only release imagery up to a certain resolution, and that anything higher was subject to review/ approval (presumably from NGA). And in exchange for this cooperation, the operator gets a nice federal contract for providing NGA copies of everything imaged, plus they get their launch permit approved.

>How much of the planet’s surface is imaged and available daily?

I think Planet Labs claims full coverage every three days? But that doesn't equate to 1/3 every day, and coverage that isn't evenly distributed, due to the nature of orbital ground paths.
In an abstract way it's not really different. Next you'll want namespaces and sub-namespaces, and we're back to files and directories, just built again on top of something that's not a file system.
Modified for context, the german adage holds. If you have Trump and 3 people talking at a table, you have 4 Trumpers talking at a table.
For physical currency, there's the example of the 500 euro bank note that was eliminated because it was used mostly often in crime. Now there are call for the US $100 to be eliminated for the same reason.
Are you in EU? Recall North America uses 120VAC, so a 400A service is equivalent to 200A in the EU
The rich are different from you and me. (Yes, they have more money.)
One of the end-of-year projects in my high school C++ class was to implement a simplified version of this, and the project was titled "Hammurabi", so you're not alone.
What Is Biohacking, and Is Any of It Not Stupid?
Angry and low-effort comments became more common at the beginning of the pandemic. I can't find it now, but I recall dang (HN moderator) even commented on the shift.

I think as remote work has become more common, many engineers are reaching to social media sites like HN to fill the void left by previous in-person office banter. The good comments are still there, but it feels like more work than ever to find them among the noise. I've also noticed an increase in the number of familiar HN screen names that pop up with the same angry perspectives on every thread of certain hot topics (Facebook, economics, cloud hosting).

This effect isn't exclusive to HN. The signal-to-noise ratio of the public forums and Slacks/Discords I frequent has also taken a dive since the start of COVID.
not for volume detection specifically, but we use the Web Audio API pretty heavily for this!
I looked into this. It's very doable and easy. It's funny but the actual thing that annoys me is that if you want to get an A when you already have a C and M1, you then need to do the C and M1 tests again. And to be honest, the M1 written test is pretty hard (like at least 10x harder than the C). I obviously passed it on my first attempt but I definitely know people who decided to just keep their out of state motorcycle license instead.

EDIT in response to reply: I actually don't think it's obvious that if you get C, M1, and A separated by a month that you should do 1+2+3 tests but that if you get C+C separated by years you do 1+0 tests.
The challenge isn't to only use CSS, it's to "connect to a DB in CSS", which this does with `--sql-query: SELECT name FROM test;`.

So, in the strictest sense, "yes really".
That's a valid perspective, and there is legitimate difference of opinion on this -- but it's adaptation, not censorship. They changed the line but they didn't tone it down to appease people who might be offended.
One can still dream about the Bering Straight bridge (or tunnel) [1] coming to life someday, plus the connecting (and now missing) railway parts over the two continents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing
I just spent the last hour browsing through the book and figures. Thanks! Lots of great inspiration in there.
Maybe I should have said "tribal" instead of "turned political". Because that's what manipulative politicians do and it's what everyone hates and loves about politics.
This range is not 70 miles, it may be 300+ miles. My location in eastern Europe currently can connect to ground stations in Poland and Turkey (600 miles apart).
You just park the truck and disconnect the extra trailers, usually there's a lot on the outskirts of town where the local short-haul trucks will take the trailers to their final destination.
Well if that happens that's great.

I think there will always be some sort of market for it if they can get ships/planes onboarded.
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There are many areas of the US where a truck driver might find themself hours away from a mechanic or tow truck. I assume there is some value in fixability, assuming the reliability is not too much less than a less fixable truck.
I believe it is our duty to downvote.
> Interesting fact that since cancer research started the deaths from cancer went up by 1000%.

Same could be said of any deadly and widespread disease.
Tuberculosis, COVID, etc. This is the result of expediency+improved testing, not some reverse causation.
I've been thinking about going to a demoparty (Function) but none of my nerdier friends who'd appreciate the skills on display are fond of socializing unless necessary. :/
Ironically, the context in which the linked post uses the word "master" is closer to the slavery-related usage than the git context of the word.
My static IP geolocates to a town 50 miles away. So unless it's some list that has good accuracy i wouldn't think so.
To a finite amount, as part of the program itself. If I write a JS program that loops infinitely, pushing a number to an array, that will consume infinite memory by the standards of the JS spec. There’s no hard, upfront bound on memory.

If we can hardcode memory limitations in our programs, then every ‘uncomputable’ problem just becomes a lookup table.
Not surprising as diplomat and spy is often interchangeable and there probably was a reason they were spied on.
California had proposed a rule (NEM 3.0) that would add a grid access charge for solar, which is reasonable. However, the cost for the average solar install would be $50+/month.
The hard part is detecting what has changed in the user's declarative desired state. What are they writing their desired state description in? At least it's not HCL?!

We're building CUE powered dev tools, so our users and descriptions start with CUE, but we also keep you close to the underlying tech / lang.

There are a number of options for declarative, but I haven't found any that handle the change detection and subsequent migration diff needed. They all seem to be whole schema. This is why I'm working on something for this problem, but also our declarative data models are for more than DBs, and they are composable and sharable.
Its only a matter of time before more nuanced posts with optimistic conclusions get traction on HN

The people that are fine using and working with Web3 are here and numerous, just not paying attention well enough to bring traction to better posts
> If a house on average generates as much as it uses, the electric bill will be zero. (In practice there’s a minimum monthly fee, but it’s pretty low.)

This was the case in the last house I lived in. The solar panels generated enough power that there was never an electric bill other than the $12 fee to be hooked into the grid. And this was in cloudy, rainy Oregon.

I did think about this scenario. If everyone had panels like that house, how could PGE make any money?

Note: we lived in that house for about 10 years before installing panels, so we knew the average monthly electric bill. We paid for the panels with a loan and the monthly loan payment was lower than any of our monthly payments during the previous 10 years. It was cheaper to get panels and pay the loan than to pay the monthly electric bill without panels.
My dream is to build my own product and I feel like I am ready to start, and I have some ideas I analysed, researched and thought a lot for some years. But, I still have to collect some amount of money that makes it possible.

Thank you for the honest reply, I really appreciate it and it makes me the feeling that people eventually face this problem, and hopefully can see a solution.
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I have 10+ years of web dev experience. I've worked in-house on a team that built up a e-comm cart from scratch with CodeIgnitor (owner wanted way too much customization for an off the shelf solution - or so we thought at the time...). Worked in an agency putting out custom sites for clients.

Up until maybe 2 years ago I was dreadful with Javascript. I could copy/paste/tweak code snippets but could not build anything with it.

I would recommend Brad Traversy's youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA) and Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/user/brad-traversy/) tutorials. At least as a starting point. He is a great teacher and takes you from nothing to competency and building multiple projects along the way. He updates his Udemy courses periodically so they are somewhat up-to-date.

This was the order I worked through and I thinks it's all under 200 hours of tutorials, but working through each will obviously take more time. Hope this helps a you as much as it did me.

DISCLAIMER: I have no affiliation whatsoever with Brad, Youtube, or Udemy. This is just what I found useful.

(YT = YouTube, U = Udemy)

HTML Crash Course (YT, 1h);

CSS Crash Course (YT, 1.5h);

Flexbox CSS in 20 Minutes (YT, .5h);

CSS3 Animations & Transitions Crash Course (YT, 30m);

Sass Crash Course (YT, .75h);

Modern HTML & CSS from the Beginning (U, 21h, $15.99);

Bootstrap Beginner Course (YT, 1.25h);

Bootstrap 4 (U, 11.5h, $13.99);

Tailwind CSS Crash Course (YT, .5h);

Materialize CSS from Scratch w/ 5 Projects (U, 10.5h, $13.99);

Javascript Crash Course (YT, 1.5h);

Ajax Crash Course (YT, 1h);

Modern Javascript from the Beginning (U, 21.5h, $16.99);

Pick one framework if you know which you need/want for your job:

React Crash Course (YT, 2h);

React Front to Back (U, 20h, $13.99);

Vue Crash Course (YT, 2h);

Angular Crash Course (YT, 2h);

Angular Front to Back (U, 11.5, $13.99);

Node.js Crash Course (YT, 1.5h);

Node.js API Masterclass with Express and MongoDB (U, 12h, $15.99);

Express.js Crash Course (YT, 1.25h);

MongoDB Crash COurse (YT, .5h);

Build a MEAN JS app in 30 Minutes (YT, .5h) (if you picked Angular above);

MERN Stack Front to Back: Full Stack React, Redux, Next.js (U, 12h, $16.99) (if you picked React above);

MERN Ecommerce from Scratch (U, 15h, $13.99) (if you picked React above);

50 Projects in 50 Days - HTML, CSS, JS (U, 18.5, $13.99);

20 Web Projects with Vanilla Javascript (U, 16h, $13.99);

Typescript Crash Course (YT, 1h)

EDIT: formatting
Just? :)

And don’t forget about all the other ways such corruption could happen, use after free etc.

On top of all that, in managed languages you generally have a stronger runtime type information on top, that doesn’t accept arbitrary memory address to implicitly be read as executable code. Even explicit static casts from Object to more defined type will fail if the object is not of expected type. Code must be defined as function objects in the language to begin with.
Here it seems "INTERNALS" is the "why". If it's not a public API then of course it could change or disappear without warning between releases (including minor releases).
Carmack is still part time, which is like full time for mortals :)
this seems accurate

source: We're currently working with an architect on a similar project.