skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With mtpelerin.com you can buy synthetic token like jEUR or jUSD whithout any bank fee, and then it is on a ETH sidechain (polygon MATIC) and the current fee to swap is $0.014061 ~ (https://polygon-gas-watch.vercel.app/) So no, it's far cheaper than any VISA/MASTERCARD/SWIPE/PAYPAL that took far too much with they big percent... It's time to change
Star Citizen is actually the perfect game for me. What I’ve noticed over the years is that I almost enjoy the wait for a game more than when its released and I get to sit down and play it. I love reading up news about games, seeing announcement of new features and developer blogs. With Star Citizen never properly releasing I get to watch youtube videos of people dissecting new systems etc and looking forward to the new tech coming in a few years.

The moment Star Citizen releases I know for a fact I will lose all interest, so keep up the current pace CIG!
I just realized you're basing your ire here on a misread of my post.

The joke is not from a journalist.

The joke was copied widely when originally posted, and it wasn't clear to me who wrote it in the first place -- but if I was going to reference it here, I wanted to give proper credit.

I found a story in the WaPo about online joke plagiarism, and it used this joke as an example -- and cited musician Kevin Farzad as the original author. Based on this, I credited him in my comment accordingly.
Where I live we have to pay to the electric grid for the amps on the main breaker. Because the grid has to be able to provide those, needs to be planned accordingly, needs to have the proper diameter cables and transformers, etc. Even if we don't use them. So having 300A "just in case we need it" would be insanely expensive on the monthly bill. This amount of apmeres is more like for a workshop, small industrial or office building
Honestly, this may be worth doing for a little while to see how it goes. Usually, I'll go and skim the big topics that make it to the front page, or the first few pages. "New" might be a better place to go.
NH electric rates are $.20/kWh [1]. If you are spending $15/month for heating the hot tub, then you are consuming ($15/month)/($.20/kWh)=75kWh/month to heat it.

Assuming you are using are using a resistance heater (100% heating efficiency), to raise 200Gal of water (typical small hot tub size) from 50F to 100F requires about 25kWh of energy.

To only use 75kWh/month (255kBTU), you would need to only raise it to 100F less than 3 times a month, and that assumes that the water temp doesn't naturally drop below 50F (unlikely in NH).

It's likely you are spending significantly more than $15/month to heat it with electricity.

Propane is about $30/MBTU, which would work out to about $9/month for the equivalent amount of heat.

1. https://www.electricrate.com/residential-rates/new-hampshire...

2. https://bloglocation.com/art/water-heating-calculator-for-ti...
I don't think MMOs should be counted as a single project. Each expansion should be counted separately, at the very least.

Star Citizen hasn't even released the base game, and the fact that they haven't segmented off any of their feature creep into future expansions is itself a story of project mismanagement. Part of a successful project is knowing how to divide it into multiple sequential projects.
Building for Balance
Just because the distances are shorter doesn't mean they drive to the destination and back again.

They could easily have multiple destinations they drive to one after the other, with different cargo each time
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That's cool to read.

I hope they finish it

At that point, would it even be fun to play for folks that have messed around with it in its extremely unfinished state for so long?

I can't imagine in-house beta testers really have fun playing the games they've helped to shepherd to release once they finally ship...
In a 4-stroke engine, throttle or not, intake valves are shut down when in compression so cylinders are sealed off, compression happens anyway, diesel or gas. Indeed, in 2-cycles engines there are not intake valve so LinuxBender's point is valid.
>So how much money do you think is enough to be satisfied with one's life?

A very difficult question, there are so many variables and you know for sure the value of only one or two.

I like to play it differently in times current life cost/income.

Let's say you have a net yearly income of 100,000 US$, depending on where you live that may be "slightly more than average" or "well off" (in the sense that you are not anywhere near the poverty line).

Provided that there is no inflation, that your income is stable, and that it doesn't change when you retire and that you are 25 years old and single.

Over the course of the 60 years you have before you eventually die, you will get 6,000,000 US$.

Now, let me (hypothetically) double that.

Suddenly you have 200,000 US$/year.

What you would do (probably) is to get a more expensive car and move to a larger/better house.

Let's double it again, 400,000 US$/year, you can buy another car, move to a yet larger house, maybe hire some domestic full-time, then you might want to marry and hopefully have a couple sons.

Let's double it again, 800,000 US$/year, what can you do more, sure, a seaside or mountain villa, a couple more nice cars, and a boat, then what?

Let's double it again, 1,600,000 US$/year, that's it, you cannot think anymore how to spend or use that kind of money.

We are between the 2^3 and the 2^4 times what your current normal life income and costs are, beyond that point you will simply be not capable of using/spending it (without throwing it out of the window, mis-investing it in futile endeavours [0], or giving it away).

So the upper limit is 2^3 or 8 times what you make now, guaranteed for the rest of your life, in this example, the most is 48,000,000, what will you do with the 250,000,000 "excess"?

In the real world, 2^1 or 2^2 are already much more than enough.

[0] considering that if by any chance you are successful, the end product will be more money, which is what you don't know what to do with by now
What's modern about that house? Ridiculous amount of electricity required, flat roof in an area where snow is expected for a big portion of the year, heated outside pool, very remote but VERY dependant on electricity, internet and TV must be fun. It all starts kicking in pretty fast once you move in and realise your kids grow up alone because there's nobody in their age group for miles, no days when you feel like doing nothing (especially in the winter), no way your kids can play outside (in the wilderness) unsupervised, no way can they play outside when it's darker - so many WTF's and ifs there.

That's something I would build when I retire and grow sick of the world. Even asylums can be "modern" I'll give you that.
Only way this works is if the one reading it knows your culture was technologically advanced, for-real and not just in your own estimation, and has some appreciation of what that might mean.

Otherwise, "curse of the mummy? LOL, yeah, I'm sure that's a real thing. Must be something great buried here. Watch out for actual traps, but we're about to get rich, boys!"
Beautiful house and there was a day I would have been extremely jealous but...

I live in Oregon and in 2020 chose to (was not officially in an evac zone but the smoke was awful) evacuate when the horrible Beachie Creek and Lionshead [0] fires ripped through the Santiam Canyon. Houses that my wife and I had looked at possibly purchasing were torched, as well as some of the most pristine ancient forest I've seen [1].

My outlook about living in the forest drastically changed after these events. The Beachie Creek fire reached 130,000 acres overnight at a growth rate of 2.77 acres per SECOND. [2].

You couldn't pay me enough money to live in a forest at this point. It's just too damn dangerous. Also, the flat roof seems problematic. Everyone I know in the PNW who has owned a flat roof has had issues with it due to pooling water. That far north, I imagine snow accumulation would also be a really big problem in terms of stress on the roof.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiam_Fire

[1] - https://www.opb.org/article/2021/09/02/oregon-field-guide-op...

[2] - https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7001/
But there's a huge difference between actual zero usage and net-zero usage. That's the whole point.

If you're using a generator (or, as another comment said, just use hardly any electricity) then you're not a burden on the system at all (or barely).

If you're "net zero" because you feed the grid your excess power during the day and take away power during the night, you're using all their infrastructure.

In your example, you don't need the grid, so it makes sense not to pay grid overhead (minus arguments about how we still pay for schools with taxes even if we're not using them).

In the solar example you absolutely need the grid. So net metering down to zero is definitely a subsidy. A subsidy I absolutely agree with, but a subsidy none-the-less.
Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online
> There's two parts. 1) the negativity is increasing a bit 2) the commenter came back and chose to defend/counter themselves

I've noticed this, and am not innocent myself. I suspect many of us have been abusing HN as a cathartic output from the frustrations of reality over the past couple of years, and as a form of escapism from the increased hysteria online in general.

As an example - I recently agreed fairly clearly, with a reply challenging one of my upvoted comments... the commenter then replied with even more aggressive rhetoric - Almost as if the expectation has become that comments must be adversarial and that people are not open to changing their minds, that our only recourse is to publicly ridicule others with more aggressive rhetoric. I don't think the commenter misunderstood even, they simply couldn't change their mode even after convincing their "opponent". Discourse has basically become too adversarial.
Especially in a unicast environment. There are ways to handle it though, like let only a limited number of people land or enter a given stations.

The real world has capacity limits, both physical and rule-based (fire-codes). Implementing these shouldn't be very hard and wouldn't necessarily break immersion.

Lots of ships congregating at a random point in space could be a bigger issue though.
The underlying paper lists 3 different hypotheses that could explain the results.

1. Unrelated fragility of this particular sequence in Africans

2. Modifier theory

3. Having mutations makes future generations more susceptible to nearby mutations. This what the authors are suggesting.

There's a sort of soft-assumption in modern biology that mutations are approximately random, which underlies things like the molecular clock. It's well-known to be wrong, but at scale the experimental evidence suggests that it still holds in many useful situations.

Combine a paper pointing out a limitation of that assumption with popsci press and you get the breathless headline above.
If you bought a house _anywhere_ in Metro Vancouver and held it for ten years, you could likely finance this project if you sold it now.
Cheap enough that you can get them on fivr
Very excited to see this, my ongoing prediction is that the metaverse will be WebXR based. No 30% cut from walled gardens, and sites can evolve from static, 2D flat experiences to immersive ones. Of course, apps will work day one on any headset in a platform-agnostic manner. And for the spark, just wait until the Apple headset ships with WebXR and WebGPU supported by default....

Also, my team are currently working on bringing Unreal Engine to WebXR.
I haven't heard of any ethical issues in retail banking. What are they? Anyway, it's not usury if they eat breakfast with you.
Quite a few arms control discoveries have been made by civilians using open source satellite imagery. For example, US citizens discovered the massive new missile silo complexes that China has been building. They have identified rocket motor static test burns in Iran,and preparations for missile test launches at the Novaya Zemlya test facility in Russia.
Yii seems to have its fans in that space. I know CraftCMS loves it.
Dystopic TikTok Trend Demands Amazon Workers Dance for Surveillance Cameras
Absolutely, but with about the same fervency I use when a $2 taco sucks.
Surprised it took this long. If they would have taken a more reasonable 5-10% of developer earnings they’d still collect billions upon billions in rent while not angering millions of developers and lawmakers writing this legislation. Or at least charge a tiered annual publication fee plus payment processing fees. But greed got the best of them. Their fees are akin to a shopping mall owner taking 30% of store revenues off the top, plus the usual monthly rent. Oh and by the way, there’s no other malls in town to move your business to.
Yes, I fully agree: criticizing Trump when when he was saying/doing something that makes sense just because it's Trump was very stupid.
> We ran into an error which took us 2 days to track down to a library, and you may find the same.

Fun times! Preact is React until it isn't. No reason to assume that won't happen again, by the way.

Once upon a time I had some people who wanted to include Preact because it's so small/dependencies/etc. Then they bitched because it wasn't React. Ay yi yi.
In other news, Jeff Bezos gets terrible PR advice

Nice! What PR pros can learn from Jeff Bezos’ curt communications style

https://www.prweek.com/article/1722976/nice-pr-pros-learn-je...
That only turns off using WiFi for data. If you have location services enabled, which is necessary to get ypur location on iOS, iOS will continue scanning WiFi networks and uploading them to Apple.
Unfortunately, most people don't understand the technical nuance between protective measure X and Y will fall for it. People do seem to get the concept of defense in depth through when explained through the castle analogy.
so pay for privacy?

I thought privacy was supposed to be available for free?
I had an employee who worked two jobs during his last month with my company. He was generally unresponsive during the time and only admitted to doing this after being confronted with a lack of productivity and responsiveness. As we were winding down operations, we cut him his last check and terminated his contract. I won’t work with him again and would be hard pressed to provide a positive reference. He was someone I had previously worked with and was the first person that came to mind when I started my company so quite a bit of trust was lost in that month.
This is a concern. In exploring any space we risk getting stuck at a local maximum. But this may occur when one holds on to their current ideas too strongly and immediately rejects ideas that go downhill so to speak. Flagging does seem overused on HN lately. It would be interesting to know many HN active users there have been over the years and perhaps that is the reason flagging occurs more frequently. For the record I have had various HN accounts for almost a decade and last month was the first time I was ever flagged.
> They don't pretend they're made from animals.

Food and brand names like "chick'n" "mock duck" by their very titles literally pretend they're made from animals.

> don't see why we wouldn't be allowed to eat items in a hotdog or hamburger form factor.

The problem isn't the shape, whether it is a burger or sausage, the problem is the attempted replication. We should be moving away from the concept that it is OK to eat, or to pretend to eat, animals, not reinforcing this perverse belief. Vegan foods should, and do, stand on their own.
Solana Internals Part 2: How Is a Solana Program Deployed and Upgraded
Most of these games are made by publicly traded companies, which have to release information such as dev/marketing costs to their shareholders.
Everyone knows bad, terrible, and non-functional is bad. But it seems like lots of people don't know that chasing perfection is also bad.
>work the same way as 4cyl

I'm not sure what you mean, both Otto and Diesel cycles are four-stroke.

In petrol engines power is usually controlled by throttle plate which limits volume of air going into cylinder, and enough fuel is added during the intake stroke (either by injection or carburetor) to have combustion close to stoichiometric.

In diesel engines there's no throttle plate and engine always runs on lean mixture, and power is controlled only by amount of injected fuel, which is done after air is already compressed and hot.
I personally can’t wait for students to be forced to install apps from third party stores that collect all their information because their schools have a contract with the developers and have made it mandatory.

Same will be true of employees and their employers.
It's hard to get proportionality w/o spending a lot of time getting data.

But the simplest Google search and you can find Nature articles talking about T-cell response with respect to Covid:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24377-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-00436-4

If you aren't aware of these discussions it's not because of lies of omission, gas lighting, or a vast conspiracy theory. It's because you buried your own head and then said someone is holding your head down.
I am quite happy to be proven wrong.

We shall see. And for me, safely and at a distance.

Frankly, the small cost of robustness in contracts should have been factored in from the beginning. It just does not need to be so damn lean and rickety.

The incentives are wrong here.

My prediction is the current state of affairs all gets ripped up and replaced after a time. And until that happens, we are likely to see activity largely limited to people who have a healthy appetite for risk.

Perhaps it all is as it should be too. Had the reverse been done, emphasis on slightly more expensive contracts that are robust and able to deny the costly errors, I would imagine others clamoring for people to adopt the rock bottom lean stacks...

What it won't all be is dull, will it?
I just wish they had some overview on their website of what's already in the game and what you can play. I bought a ship pack back in 2012 (or whenever the initial announcement was).

I'm not too invested in the game but it would be nice if there was an at least somewhat playable version (mostly interested in ship to ship combat - don't care about the FPS parts).
There are ways around that though; you could give a small rebate on the meter fee for low-use customers, to encourage conservation. (My water bill is that way, the full meter charge is around $50/month, but if you use less than 700 Cubic-feet of water a month, the meter fee drops to $30/mo.) Is a little less pure than just charging a fair rate, but seems a reasonable hybrid approach.
Volvic is a brand of water then Wolvic is probably a mineral water wolf
I really don't like Dan Ambramov's style of communication. It's terse, impersonal and authoritative in a way that implies an attitude of "I'm right, you're wrong, stop wasting my time and go away". In my decade plus of experience in the software industry this has been a reliable indicator of the type of people I don't enjoy collaborating with.
A hot tub is easily super insulated, brominated and locked up but I'm pretty sure a heated outdoor pool in the mountains is going to end up costing him far more time and money than he budgeted for, especially if there are no pool services in the area.
Hearing about the long demise of this game makes me really start to wonder: is there an opportunity here? The concept behind Star Citizen is spectacular--unfortunately, that concept is also all it has going for it at the moment. But there's nothing fundamentally impossible about realizing that concept if it were approached efficiently.

I sense a major opportunity for a motivated, well-managed team of developers to do "Star Citizen, but like actually this time". I imagine a project where an MVP is shipped as a number one priority, and the project is incrementally expanded from there, instead of what's happened with SC and CIG's obsessive perfectionism.

Is there anyone doing this?
Weatherproof RJ45 fittings are well established and used by most outdoor CPE. I do assume that Starlink figured their connector design was easier to use (the typical weathertight ethernet ferrules are kind of fiddly), but it seems like a poor choice overall considering it's going to make installation a lot more complicated since the cable needs to be fished with connectors on. It seems like a decision that was made to benefit consumer "jammed through the window" install to such a degree that it will make professional installation significantly more difficult, especially that right angle connector is never going to be fishable through smurf tube the way an electrician would install it, and it'd require a huge hole to drill it through the siding the way a cable installer would. That's the big advantage of modular connectors: installers have the tools to terminate cables, so they can run the cable sans connector.
> reduce ambiguity between the U.S.A and Latin/North/Central/South America,

And the continent 'America'.

Just for comparison: what do you think 'South Africa' (the country, not the region ;) should be called?
Pemberton (where this home is located) is much wetter than Kelowna, so I think it's less of an issue. It's similar to the difference in Washington between the west slope of the North Cascades (such as Mt Baker, which holds the worldwide single season snowfall record) and the east slope of the North Cascades, which are dry and have large wildfire seasons.
This is the best wordle variation i've seen yet! Would love to see stats added for registered accounts. Win rate, word solve time, knock-outs, etc.
you don't seem to know Matrix and XMPP
There are a lot of data guzzlers in a modern household... seriously, the proliferation of high-speed broadband internet has had massive consequences for everyone not enjoying that luxury.

The worst offenders are social networks like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, especially if you have video auto play enabled. Because almost everyone has an ultra-high-DPI screen these days, they expect high video and image quality, and that's a lot of data.

Next up are media sites: auto-playing videos again, followed by "normal" advertising and actual content. Just for popular papers and media: A single (!) page load of the front page of Germany's respected newspaper Süddeutsche clocks in at 7.7 MB, Spiegel has 6.6 MB, tabloid BILD has 10 MB. US NYT is 9 MB, Fox News is 6MB, CNBC 8.7 MB. Even relatively plain Stackoverflow's front page clocks in at 2 MB.

And then, there are all the updaters (looking at you, Windows Update), the other phone-home telemetry and analytics stuff, even more ads side-loaded by modern "smart TVs"...

Where the fuck have we gone wrong? Is there any chance to get "the old" Internet back without putting everyone in advertising in jail for a decade?
Check out Astrox Imperium.

Don't expect Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen... but it's made by just one developer.

For that it's amazing, and honestly, for me it's come closest to capturing what I want out of an Elite-style game, even though it's still got a long way to go to meeting its potential.
Would help explain the 400+ amps of electricity they pull from the grid.