skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This cool but not as great as you might think. I made a animated graph showing this moment and its implications here https://youtu.be/Sq9Uq1DqhU8

To deeply decarbonize you need to meet current demand and also make enough to charge the energy storage systems...on a cloudy string of winter days.

However we will see headlines like this for the next 20 years at least.
Stuntmen existed long before "apps". Didn't they fight lions in arenas thousands of years ago?
i doubt that components for consumer electronics can be made cheap enough manufacturing them in the US. you just never are going to be able to make a TV for $150 in the US. it’s a pipe dream made up by politicians.

and why the great lakes? pollute the beautiful nature in minnesota and surroundings?

also, VCs just follow trends and don’t understand many industries. no VC or angel funding does not mean anything.
I'm quite excited about the concept of working in VR. I've tried out Immersed with Quest 2. I really wish I could try SimularVR headset on physically before committing to it though. Quest 2 was cheap enough so I could risk it.
Just did that. PG&E's not quite bad enough to justify going off grid with current NEM 2 rates. (Trust me, I checked.) NEM 3 would have been bad enough for the middle finger treatment, but they're reworking and delaying it.

Anyway, if you want to use it as a backup, you'll need to oversize the solar so the battery can get you through power outages on cloudy days.

At that point PG&E will pay you 10-20% market rate for the excess energy you produce on most days. It's much better to dump those electrons into an EV battery than into the grid. My commute costs $4/week in electricity I don't send to PG&E, vs 20x that for the gas for the same commute.

(The EV gets 4.5 miles/kWh, and PG&E pays $0.04 / kWh, or $.008/mile. The old car gets 30mpg. At $5/gallon, that's $0.16/mile)

The punchline: Budget money for an EV for each of your household's commutes when you purchase the solar panels. Regardless if whether you buy panels, consider charging at work, assuming your employer subsidizes it and/or has solar panels.

(Also, check the milage on the EV you want. 3-5 mi/kWh is typical, but they can vary from 1 to 7.)
The efficiency of an RDBMS treats trust as both an assumption and an externality, and that's not efficient in any risk adjusted model.

An RDBMS depends on trust, where web3 uses consensus, and that consensus is a different product, which also has some useful anti-technocrat and anti-leviathan properties. Are all these kids writing crypto protocols for smart contracts just too dumb to spin up postgress? Doubtful. The ideology behind it is from a generation raised on narrative and they are inventing a way to relate based on something concrete that requires proofs and truth.

The problem I think web3 techs solve is the forfeit of trust that institutions and platforms have engaged in over the last decade. There's no point in even talking to anyone involved in them because there's no reason to believe they would argue in good faith. Consensus protocols and proofs provide stability and some of that trust the culture has lost.

The people who still believe in those institutions are just clinging to a precarious bourgeois and managerialist aspiration to become a part of them, where it's people from wealth (material and cultural), and working class people with less education and money who are the marks of those institutions who are typically the ones flocking to cryptocurrencies and now web3. They're also where growth comes from. In this sense, web3 is less ideological than just a polarized class strategy.

The question isn't why not use an RDBMS, it should be, can you reasonably expect that anyone involved in the EMV payments partners, banks, government, social platforms, google, media(hah), non-stem academia, etc, are willing or able to act or debate in good faith? Consensus protocols route around that problem.
Inflexible return-to-office policies are hammering employee experience scores
Can confirm, am mathematician.

It's not like I can't understand it, but it never attracted me enough to put in the work. (And I am quite put off by questions which require statistics to settle, which, yeah, I know, it's most of science.)
People looking for a viable government based model to do municipal broadband can look at some of the counties in eastern WA.

In those counties, which are fortunate enough to also be their own last-mile electrical grid operators (so they already have bucket trucks, linemen, spool trailers, lashers, etc), the county builds and owns a dark fiber network. Various 3rd party ISPs can rent space on it. It works great.

The great advantage of being able to build a last mile and middle mile dark fiber plant with municipal money is the extremely long time scale of a typical municipal bond. And the low interest rate paid on it. As we have seen with fiber from the mid 1980s that's currently in use with 100GbE DWDM systems, modern singlemode fiber can have very long lifespans.

There's no reason to believe that a new-build last mile dark fiber network serving single family homes today, if architected correctly, can't be viable for 40-50 years.

In places where there is a duopoly from the incumbent local phone company (centurylink, frontier, verizon, AT&T, whatever) and a cable operator (comcast, charter/spectrum, altice, wave, etc) neither of the two incumbent operators has any interest in seeing a new entrant 3rd party network built. And I can expect that they will lobby hard against the concept of municipal broadband, claiming that their DOCSIS3 on coax last mile service (250 down x 16 Mbps up and 0.03% packet loss) is "good enough".
Yeah. Something that I've told myself never to do but have continued to do for the last decade is to take some code that's in review ('cause reviewers be slow) and then branch off of it and write something else. There is always "one little thing" in the code that's out for review, and merging that into the future work that you branched off is always a colossal pain. Every time I do it I regret it.

(Is it just me, or is it not a social norm to treat code reviews like interrupts? I do that; I have Github connected to Slack and treat "I need my code reviewed" at the same level of priority as something like a production outage. It takes 5 minutes and unblocks an entire developer. But that favor seems rarely returned to me. I can usually get a fast review if I whine and nag, but it should just be automatic. And this isn't an artifact of any particular job, it's been like that at every job. I guess we could just stop doing code reviews, but they are pretty valuable for fixing dumb mistakes and sharing knowledge. But I digress...)
California eyes four-day workweek for larger firms
And YouTube is one of the highest paying platforms.

https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1484616451281588227
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/let-s-use-tau-it-...
> It was never really clear what the disruptive innovation was supposed to be.

Unbundling TV/Movie content from Cable providers was the disruption.

You wouldn't need to pay for Cable TV just to get internet.

You wouldn't need to pay for Broadband, just to watch the show you wanted - assuming you had internet access some other way.

It also offered the promise of relaxing control of where/when/how you watched content.

Content on Demand used to be a premium feature, you largely had content delivered to you in channels, and only a limited range. You could record content to watch it later, but that required another device (or a Cable box capable of doing it)

Location was also tightly controlled - you could only watch certain content in one room, in one house.

Wanted to watch a movie in your Hotel Room? Buy it from the Hotel. At your friends' place while you're staying with them? Only if they had the right Cable subscription.

Yes, Cable companies offered streaming, and on demand, and all that other stuff - but largely only after Netflix had proven it out.
Yes, 90% by number transactions. Binance chain, Solana, Luna, AVAX, ADA, DOT are doing around 15 million transactions a day altogether while Bitcoin and Ethereum are only doing 1.5 million altogether.
Why do Apple products require special treatment when everything else works?
I reckon you could sell this, a PDF printer driver that fakes the "scanned" look
the modern trend is for cable operators to amalagamate themselves together, if you look at the investment group that bought Wave/RCN/Grande and similar as an example.
Major cryptography blunder in Java enables “psychic paper” forgeries
You can use https://adnauseam.io/ and automate your clicking away.
This is good advice for Linux-native applications, since jackd would be using ALSA anyway.

Wine applications may suffer from extra latency (40+ ms) when using ALSA directly, because Wine's ALSA driver uses hidden additional buffers. Using WineASIO with Jack will get around this, but setup can be painful.
All merge conflicts. You can never resolve them as everything is screwed. Takes days to figure it out. You usually just delete the repo and start all over again from a working commit.
> Fully controllable with just a keyboard (with hand gestures, eye gaze tracking, etc)

If it is precise enough, this would be very pleasant to work with, to the extent that you describe, a productivity boost over working with monitors and a mouse.

Glancing at the start button, it being detected with no latency and high precision, and then I press say CTRL + ENTER and I get a left click.
What do you mean by dog whistle? It's literally an important part of the actual thing. And I'm not the only one noticing this: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15166002698990264...
No one is claiming that crime or stupidity were invented by social media.

But they do help people monetize those things. If YouTube pays people for views without human review, they're funding videos like this.

Nothing as powerful as YouTube should be moderated mostly by algorithms.
OP said it's not noticeable on their phone but it is on their Dell monitor.
It's case-by-case. You can calculate whether ads are worth it for what you're selling by using cost per click, conversion rate and customer lifetime value.

My general sense is that paid ads is still valuable for niche markets as the ad will be cheaper and ad platforms allow quite specific targeting (they do gather huge amounts of data after all). It's probs too expensive for big competitive markets.

As an aside, it's quite risky to rely too much of paid ads as your business becomes subordinate to the whims of Google, Facebook etc.
Guix uses a fork of the daemon. Guix, however, is not a fork of Nix.
I've seen a handful of cases where a small software house with very limited name recognition that provides some genuine value to customers gets a big bump from advertising targeted to "lookalike audiences" on facebook. Some of these shops run either 0 or 1 ad campaigns at any time, so the correlation is actually visible and quite irrefutable.

However, that is also the exact type of adtech that is extremely dodgy in terms of privacy, because it thirsts for data. I'd love the whole thing to end in favor of some genuine user recommendation system. But as always, any ranking system that drives revenue will be gamed to no end.
I read there was a sound recording of the explosion in Pompeii I think. But it was kinda, hmm, because yes there's some record of vibrations and stuff, but it seems like a big stretch to really say it is the actual sound of the volcano that one might have heard. Though I guess technically, it is.
Jurassic-X: Crossing the Neuro-Symbolic Chasm with the MRKL System
I'm happy with our enphase system. We have batteties from them too.

The Democrats (and Arnold) pushed back hard against the proposed NEM 3 rates that would have killed rooftop solar.

I have nothing nice to say about PG&E.
Google's style guide is well known in the C++ community for not being that much worth to look into it.
Even if you kill the spores, there can be toxic compounds produced by the fungi that won't be denatured by heat and end up being consumed.
> This is a dangerous thought. There is already too much decision making of what is allowed on our social platform by the big corps

In this case though the FAA has made the decision, he didn't do something in bad taste - he did something that could have been very dangerous to others, could have started a major fire, and was illegal (or at least broke the FAA rules enough for him to loose his license). And the reason he did that was (almost certainly) to make a YouTube video - I think YouTube would be justified from kicking him off their platform for this.
Irony: when cops get in trouble, they're usually suspended with pay. Due process for me, not for thee...
"The change would apply to businesses with more than 500 workers, with certain exemptions, including having a collective bargaining agreement with a union."

Why not everyone? The implication is that only the largest companies can afford it but this creates 2 sets of workers. There needs to be a way to fix this.
Antimatter catalyzed Orion pulse nuclear can get to proxima, with a big ass payload to boot.

We'd have to launch from the moon though.
Occasionally there'll be posts where somebody has lost their entire inheritance or all their savings overnight. It's crazy.
Genetic algorithms are known to produce quasi-optimal results in a short time, if set up accordingly. They can be also applied to problems where constraints are very complex to explicitly formulate. Designing one is no picnic, though, and always problem-specific.
That channel looks awesome. Looks like they have a bunch of videos where they play classic PC games on old Windows versions running inside QEMU.
Good for them. It’s good to improve on the standard library sort, but if you’re looking for performance you probably aren’t just blindly using the standard library sort anyway. You try a few things until you find the one that is best for your situation.
At least where I live (UK), seems to me that we all sat confined under house arrest while all of the vulnerable old people were discharged from hospitals (presumably, to make space for the tide of sick people that never happened) and gave each other Covid in retirement homes.
One of the great advantages of a last mile rural electrical coop is that they already own/control the ROW (right of way), for the most part, wood utility poles, they have crews of linemen, bucket trucks, spool trailers, GIS people who know how to do aerial ROW planning, etc.

If you have the aerial ROW fully under your own ownership and control the $/km to do rural FTTH is vastly reduced.

There are a lot of efficiencies if this is done as a nonprofit at a municipal/county level entity, one random example, county run fiber PUD calls up the same-county sheriff's department and is like "oh yeah we're gonna need to block a lane and have some traffic flaggers at place X and Y and Z, and we need to shut down avenue C for a while", and everything goes very smoothly.
There are more cars then years ago. Way more cars.
Maybe he only writes

#!python
pritn(“Hello world”)

nowadays? I reckon I can spot all the bugs in there, and I wrote it too.
It seems like just trading pre-loading for lag on first interaction and trading bundling stuff int as few requests as possible for many smaller requests with their respective headers.

I mean it's fine to have choice about this trade-offs but you can do it right now just by splitting your application into parts and hydrating only the part the user interacts with. Which gives you additional flexibility of automatically hydrating the part the user is most likely to use and hydrating others in the background in the periods of user inactivity.

Also this article focuses very much on event handlers, but main part of hydration is creation of dynamic structures that allow the application to re-render dynamically and efficiently, sometimes swapping out large parts of page contents that are not delivered with initial pre-rendered HTML.

If you really wanted to improve the situation one could work on introducing partial hydration on demand into React and work on ways to serialize most of internal structures of React apps like virtual dom, so they can be passed along with the pre-rendered HTML to make the remaining requests lighter.

Creating new framework is way less impactful.
I remember the first time I absentmindedly pressed . or , on YouTube and was shocked that they used MPlayer's keybindings (and implemented such an obscure, but useful, feature). Oddly probably the least copied feature across video platforms, I like it a lot, but nobody else seems to have stolen it. (Can anyone believe that Twitch has gotten away with such a terrible player? I remember people used to send streamers Twitch VODs to review, and every time they paused the video gets greyed out. Twitch never changed this, and now people use YouTube for that.)
The strongest example I've found of Chromostereopsis that I've found:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeaBIWdWEAAmm4_.jpg

I have another example in my design inspiration notes that is based on a live action image: https://i.imgur.com/Tau4fHc.jpg
You don’t have to look that far back in the US to see how Irish immigrants were treated, then eventually became the dominant ethnic group in the NE.

It plays out in the way you describe in a lot of places.
No, two wrongs don’t make a right; they are simply two wrongs.
That seems like more of an issue with tuples than with expressive if/else. Tuples are known for having this easy-to-miss disconnection (take for example a function call that returns a tuple, which couldn't be avoided like the above situation can)
That's only for one of the many optimisations he did, making use of different sections of memory to improve throughput. Many (all?) of the other ones don't increase the memory requirements. Quite a few (such as re-rolling unrolled loops) should decrease code size (though that won't improve memory use on a ROM cartridge based system) improving cache efficiency.
One of the advantages of soldering RAM is better signal integrity - shorter paths and easier routing, plus connectors tend to be awful for high frequency stuff.

So I fear this isn't a "Better soldered RAM", as it may lack it's advantages.
> Therefore one interpretation of the fourth day narrative is that it describes the sky becoming clearer so that these individual bodies can be seen.

It is not an interpretation which is justified by the text, but sure - you can interpret any text any way you want. But you are basically just writing your own text then.
Citizen is going to get someone killed.
This recent article by Rick Casteel (XRforWork on Facebook) is a good overview of the current software/hardware options for Personal Productivity Using Virtual Reality [1]

Immersed is excellent now with the keyboard visibility and I also like vSpatial but it's all still highly dependant on your individual app behaviors like how they do scrolling/zooming/spawning windows etc. so lots of trial and error.

[1] https://medium.com/xr4work/personal-productivity-using-virtu...
Phone does not imply detailed tracking by parent at all.
The best example I heard from a friend who was a recent immigrant from India.

He had quite a few friends who were the children of immigrants who arrived from India a generation earlier.

When my friend’s parents visited (from India where they still lived) they were shocked when these 2nd generation American-India kids greeted them in a super formal way that had disappeared in India decades ago.

Basically the immigrants to the US held onto old customs more strongly than the ones who never left India. And they passed that onto their kids. So they were “more Indian than people from India”.
Apple defaulting to Google search in exchange for tens of billions of dollars almost certainly suffices to declare them an "ad involved company" as per the original phrasing in this thread. And that is a very significant chunk of their net revenue bearing in mind that there is effectively zero cost to Apple for this deal.
As well as a job, I too am a hobbyist programmer, and have nothing ready to show for it. Bunch of shell scripts, impressive idempotent .emacs, some half-baked ML projects galore.

I don’t see why it is so surprising. Finishing and polishing something off is often 80% of the work and 20% of the fun, if you’re not paid for it then why bother if it’s a hobby?
Show HN: I made a web app that lets you automate Slack statuses
> The problem stems from parents deferring their responsibilities to the State when it comes to every facet of Life,

Gotta love this comment under article and issue of overparenting literally about parents putting in more work so that kids don't go alone.
Cars have become less safe for bystanders. There are huge SUVs and trucks with front grilles at head height everywhere in North America now. No chance of a pedestrian or bicyclist surviving a collision, and massive blind spots. It’s unconscionable.

There’s data out there, much has been written on the subject. Here’s one example from a quick google search (I’m not going so far as to claim it’s representative): https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/new-study-suggests-todays-s...
He's seeing a subset of items that are increasing in price. When inflations is measured the number of items is much larger so the inflation number reported will likely be smaller.

I think his statement should be," inflation is much higher for the items we use in our cars"
Netflix doesn't sell ads, though it sounds like that is changing.
Is it only a techno limitation concerning the size and details of the levels ?

Mario 64 was already pioneering basically everything in the 3D platformers, and maybe even 3D games as a whole.

Given it was a launching title, they had to stop somewhere and ship the thing. So, like any software with ever, they had to make tradeoffs.

And, well, here we are talking passionately about this game 26 years after. For me it’s an amazing proof that they made amazing tradeoffs.

Because, yes, we now have plenty of time to analyse the thing and find issues with the game. But, the 6yo me, the player me, they have nothing to criticize about this game.

For me it is still a perfect masterpiece given its era and technical context. I don’t think the game could have been really better than it is without breaking something and I’m pretty sure that the engineers at Nintendo considered the game as « finished » and liked the result themselves. It shows in the game. The better would have been the enemy of the good.

But in the meantime you are also right because Mario 64 DS was a really good extension. I miss this game, it really deserve to have its remake. But this version hugely benefited from the evolution of the Mario universe and the technical superiority of the DS so I’m not even sure it could have been done in the 90’s.

I hope we’ll today be able to play a newer version of this game. Be it official or not, I crave for SM64DS with the original controls.
so the behavior is going to change: sorting becomes unstable, i.e. it doesn't preserve the relative order of equal elements. I'm pretty sure this will affect users
Every fire starts small. And besides, the guy has already demonstrated that he lacks critical thinking skills.
That skill can be learned, in part, by taking OR-related business administration classes. Some supply chain management courses I looked into were about learning about standard problems (say, travelling salesman problem) and being able to formulate constraints to extend them. Not very theoretical, but useful in practice.
A space where you can work? Potentially with spaces with others. With break out spaces for working with others, with a few perks thrown in? Call it WeWork?
Eh, I’ve never seen a machine actually use any notable amount of swap and not be functionally death spiraling.

I’m sure someone somewhere is able to use swap and not have the machine death spiral, but from desktop to servers? It’s never been me.

I always disable swap for this reason, and it’s always been the better choice. Not killing something off when you get to that point ASAP is a losing bargain.
The FAA can take immediate regulatory action without involving a court.