skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For context, 1.6 kW is about enough to power 1 home appliance: a dishwasher, refrigerator, or toaster.

Most (US) homes put outlets on a 15A breaker (sometimes 20A), which gives have 1.8 kW to play with. So this is less power than a typical home outlet.

> I think your A/C would be more - but I'm not certain

A/C definitely requires far more power—you have to deal a high peak load for motor start. Absolutely not happening with this setup.

The applications of this are rather curious, and definitely not for the any typical person. Probably defense, with a very short lead time, with the need for faster mobility?

> If you had Solar panels deliver this power [...]

Yes, definitely. And it can still be highly mobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTiDklyEYaI (and once a setup is at a location, you could throw it on the back of a truck for some short-range transit. You'd just need to spread out the solar in each new place. FWIW, Solar and Microwave both have interesting yet different line of sight requirements.)
I thought the idea was to integrate, not splinter your consciousness.

Why would you want to make yourself more confused?

There is only one you; pretending otherwise, while perfectly possible, can't possibly lead anywhere worth going.

I find these trends among people who are too young to know better deeply troubling.
My friend and I keep a link to the following because of our similarly neurotic tendencies :-)

https://github.com/timvieira/justified-variables
Like you said, my M1 Mac mini “officially” supports two monitors plugged in directly.

It’s nice that DisplayLink connections let an M1 machine have unlimited displays, and that the performance of their driver under Big Sur and above has been fantastic (for me) for the past half year driving 2 extra displays. (Four total, 1 is vertical)

I sometimes add an iPad in Sidecar mode, but that needs to connect before DisplayLink or it will error out, likely since the mini is flabbergasted at the number of monitors it sees attached at that moment. Since my DisplayLink connections are both on the same ThinkPad dock (1 built-in, 1 USB), I just toggle the dock off, connect the iPad with Sidecar, and turn it back on. After a moment everything is working as expected.

BetterTouchTool has a newish feature to capture your current window layout across all open apps and displays and lets you assign a shortcut to put everything back where you intended. I use it after first boot if needed, and keep one for ‘4 monitors’ and one for ‘5 monitors’ (when using Sidecar with iPad)

On-topic: Thankfully the Apple Silicon USB ports are more than fast enough for DisplayLink adapters, which (in my experience) are often using an early version of USB 3.0 aka USB 3.1 Gen 1 aka USB 3.2 Gen 1.
love my pixel 3a xl. big screen, cheap, no stupid notch/hole punch, and runs great. I never understood what people have trouble with on Android. all my banking, chatting, food, and travel apps work fine. also, has a headphone jack and uses usb-c!

my biggest complaint with smartphones these days is front facing camera makes no sense. put mini screen on back with back camera for selfies. if people want face unlock, a low quality, underscreen front facing camera should be suffient but to me, finger unlock on back is superior experience.
Do you see a substantial benefit in combining both? I already use AdGuard Pro.
Show HN: Def – A zsh plugin for default folder behavior
These are called consumer staples.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerstaples.asp
No, it's that there a definition of free software based in the four freedoms that the licences only approximate.

That's why GPL has an 'or later' clause, to patch fix issues when people find out ways to remove the four freedoms while complying with the letter of the license.

So I'm specifically not making the argument that "FOSS licenses are perfectly infallible", only that everything proprietary licenses do, FOSS licenses and support contracts do better from the user's perspective.
That's how I explain it. I'm not sure it's clear to people but I have no other word to describe it.
So it is like that there is an ICD code for lycantropy - that doesn't mean the patients actually turn into werewolves, but that they delusionally believe they do.
About Max Goldt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Goldt

Usually, Bild articles are paywalled. This one is not, but it forces you to disable your ad blocker, something I certainly won't do.

But Bild has long lost any sort of reputation in Germany and it's absolutely not worth reading their articles. They are on the same level as the worst Murdoch dreck. There's a whole website dedicated to disproving their lies and uncovering their propaganda: https://bildblog.de

If this was not enough, there's more news about their former editor-in-chief:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/22/scandal-rocks-...

Btw., Springer bought Politico last year, so they are trying to expand their reach to US politics: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/business/politico-axel-sp...
Yes, you can definitely do this on iOS. Mitmproxy for example works by installing a trust profile (or something like that, can’t remember the name).
Very cool!

https://github.com/thesephist/modelexicon

Looks like it’s powered by GPT-J. My understanding is that GPT-J has comparable performance to OpenAI’s Curie model on many tasks (their second-best variant of GPT-3) but it’s an openly available model that you can run yourself if you have the resources.
I'm already maxed out at $10,000 for this year.
As a game developer I’ve always been saddened by the ephemeral nature of games. It seems impossible to make a game that would last 20, 50, 100 years. Books, paintings, even movies have such an advantage
I have a company issued iPhone, and the atrocious notification system is enough to assure I will not buy an iPhone personally. If notifications in iOS were ever completely overhauled to the Android model, I would probably jump ship.
I switched from rooted Android to an iPhone that has the checkm8 bootrom exploit and use a tool called checkra1n[0] to 'jailbreak' it. It's been really nice, super stable (i.e. months between restarts) and unlocks so many little comforts for me coming from custom Android. To an android user, it's similar to Xposed, but with almost every change to the system going through Xposed instead of modules, random scripts, etc.

[0] https://checkra.in
Most people's mind do not care about protocols, they think of products. And speaking of products, every major xmpp server implementation I know (and I know at least five) supports all these features.

Also. You don't really need any of them to send messages between servers. All this stuff matters only for communication between your clients and your own server.
In my opinion, 5gbit would be an useful upgrade (probably not worth that amount of money). In practice 1gbit is normally the limit of downloading in my experience. However, with multiple devices doing updates, downloads, streams actually having 5gbit and limiting each device to 1gbit ensures a high speed all time. Especially with roommates/family.
The article does say it’s “experimentally extremely well confirmed”.
If you really used iTunes, it seems like you ignored the phone’s attempt to transfer data for you and forced through an ancient unsupported process. I’m pretty sure iTunes even warned you.
You should take a look at SailfishOS. I switched from Android to Sailfish OS 8 years or so ago. The original Jolla Phone was really nice and the OS too. Later I switched to an Sony Xperia X with Sailfish OS, but it goes only downhill from there. I think the problem are the devices, the software might be okay. Now I'm with an IPhone and I'm still not happy, it's just something that is not horrible.
Very cool, but can someone remind me what "GPU" means again?
> Sure, but realistically how does Apple tell perfectly fine apps apart from apps that are abandoned and do have security issues?

Not to mention, the more apps with an inch-thick layer of dust there are on the App Store, the more they become trapped in the same kind of backwards compatibility mire that Microsoft is now stuck in. They could just hide apps that don’t run on newer versions of iOS I suppose, but with the extremely high system upgrade rate of iOS users that’s practically the same as removing them from the store.
Dang! Good for you guys!! I’m in TX and ATT+Frontier have a firm grab on the infrastructure here. Charter is trying but still cannot compete with symmetric fiber.
That's exactly how you get people to buy statins for 50 years because the consensus is that cholesterol should be a certain number. Or covid vaccines for everyone x3. And I can't wait to see what taxes we'll need to raise to fight climate change.

If science and profits wouldn't have a chance to mix in there would be value in a shared policy. In the real world, you'd better pay a good doctor for advice (enough to offset big pharma) and hope that policy being enforced by "the people's" government won't break your bank too much.
HN just had an article on the front page yesterday talking about how Google Docs will now suggest you not use words like “motherboard” and “landlord”, and instead use more “inclusive” language. This stuff has literally gone from “it’s just college kids” to “it’s just Google”. And please, no “you can just build your own Google Docs” responses.
Trying to replay a-politically (with the knowledge that nothing happens in a political vacuum in reality).

It can be successfully argued that the political left have adopted the drama and status of victimhood in a way that hasn't been done before in mainstream politics and given the strong correlation between political affiliation and age I think it's a concerning edge to the topic of mental health, or perception there of.
The right is also capitalising very late on this claiming that marxist censorship by private entities is akin to victimisation so the whole arena is now filled with it :(

Not saying you're wrong for tuning out the article certainly is a little rambly.
> the Bristol team warned that their radioactive diamond batteries wouldn’t be suitable for laptops or smartphones, because they contain only 1g of carbon-14, meaning that they provide very low power —only a few microwatts, which is less than a typical AA battery. Therefore, their application so far is limited to small devices that must stay unattended for a long time, such as sensors and pacemakers.

I assumes that more research can make or more usable in the consumer market?
I am exactly like you describe 100% to the dot. I can get lost on a straight road with a gps at hand.
Yep, that's spot on. The overall performance is comparable to Curie, but depending on the particular task GPT-J performs better or worse (I believe empirically it's slightly better at chat and code, worse at some others).
It is a three years old version that uses stock ejabberd 2019 version. It is far behind our current state of the art. We plan to update it with the next server release, but we have only four hands each so it'll take us a while.
http://jfloren.net/b/2022/3/2/0 has pictures and a video
It's a bandwagon thing. Founders and early joiners of a movement are very different from people who join after a movement is already successful/catching on (perhaps widely or perhaps in one area/subculture).

After something becomes so successful that you can't challenge it in any way (at least in some circles) it takes on the characteristics you describe. If someone pokes you in the eye and says it's for climate change, you can't say anything.

None of this has to do with the accuracy of the original movement. CC can be very real and abused by politicians and other opportunists.
Say you have 100 million Turkish lira, and suspect that Erdogan's terrible policies will reduce the value of that, so you want to buy bitcoin with it. How are you going to acquire BTC without access to an exchange (or some equivalent) that agrees to buy your lira? You could buy mining equipment and electricity of course, but then the state may crack down on your operation before you have a chance to recoup your investment.

And even if they don't, if you then want to buy tomatoes at your local market, how are you going to buy lira for your BTC without an exchange (or equivalent)?
Well, PoW needs to assume that 51% of miners is honest, while PoS needs to assume that 51% of stakers is honest. The bigger downsides of PoS to me are that

1) a pure PoS system starts with the creators holding all supply and can keep an arbitrary portion for themselves while selling the rest as they please

2) the truth in PoS is subjective (nodes need to rely on other nodes to determine what is the current state of the system).
A particularly famous example are the South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I don't have a handy list of other people that have made the same or similar statements.
Clearly Musk's main goal in everything he does is to put as much distance between himself and everyone else as possible.

But slightly more seriously, not everyone can or wants to do everything through the internet. Sure, some white-collar jobs will be less location dependent, but that's hardly everyone. Some people will still want to see other people, and places. Stuff will still need to get from one place to another.
Indeed!

I remember a few years ago when the drop was supposed to fall. It was so exciting watching the drop almost fall, but after a few weeks of no visible movement it got dull.
> The internet should make your location unimportant

Musk is paying attention to the world as it is, where location is still important. For example, London and San Francisco are still terribly expensive; if location was unimportant they would not be more expensive than other cities or towns.
It is possible. Just¹ make a free software game. The community will support it forever if there is any interest.

¹ I know, it may harm your profit, but...
No dude. Zoomlennials are disrupting the market with their apps and TikTok ads. Because.
His bits about 'the left' are poorly articulated, and mostly of wrong.

But he's correct to ruminate that we live in an age whereupon everything can be considered an issue of 'identity' to the extent that it's some kind of intrinsic, principal orientation of personae. Coupled with the fact that challenges to 'identity' can be considered 'hate crimes' (I'm not being hyperbole, this is the legal situation in many places) - and you have a problem.

We used to have 'Hippies', 'Punks', 'Goths', and even 'national' and 'religious' identities - but most of those were forms of expression, perhaps 'important' but never really intrinsic.

We've taken it to a new level entirely and it's a rapidly expanding social problem.
WhatsApp, Messenger, or even Instagram are all potential alternatives. All from the Facebook family.
The difference in design and potential between an EV and ICE is an order of magnitude less than between a smartphone and feature phone. The likelihood some traditional carmaker will beat Tesla at EVs eventually is fairly high. Meanwhile, Tesla can never hope for a serious lead on margins there.

The hail Mary is self driving.
I think reddit is more suitable for specific topics. Stackoverflow has the issue that you simply cannot send an open ended question because it is "opinion-based", however most questions I encounter in work, once I get over the basic language stuff, are open ended questions. For example:

- Given these constraints, how would you design you system?

- Can you please give a few examples of previous work done on topic X?
I can't say I've heard of "horny sentient planets"
the cassegrain reflector design dish aimed sideways like that looks remarkably similar to a 1970s era troposcatter data link system used by the DoD.
Generic Processing Unit, it seems.
Blockchains are the natural evolution of fault tolerant database systems into the multi-stakeholder domain. Databases that are not just architecturally fault tolerant (eg. using Paxos or Raft), but politically fault-tolerant (using BFT). Money is an obvious and natural use case for such multi-stakeholder database systems, but conceivably much other critical infrastructure is as well. Though of course, since we are talking about multi-stakeholder, uptake in commercially meaningful areas will inevitably be slower and riddled with political conflict.
If we stay within scope of the action taken here we can clearly see that this is Twitter enforcing some truth in its advertising. Now if it would just ban crypto ads … but I’m not head of advertising at Twitter so it won’t happen.
From what I've read (which makes me worse informed than ill-informed) most experts are still stating that most split-personality symptoms develop once the diagnosis is made and there is a chicken and egg concern that people aren't diagnosed without being made aware of it which may be hiding broader/other mental problems in the process.

Out of curiosity does experience in treatment match these concerns?
half your comment is spent debunking my "claim". You cannot even discuss discussing taboo ideas.

>The "years in the wilderness" is a feature not a bug!

You just invented that. Never have I heard a suggestion that for a new theory to become mainstream, you must first create a new fringe journal that can exceed the existing journals in reputation.

In fact, I can think of several examples of brand new findings that upended the mainstream that were published directly in Nature or Science.

You literally just invented this entire process just to give a reason why politically taboo ideas are unpublishable.
Yes, they really hate diversity, love weapons, tend towards manly displays of machoism, abhor weakness, prefer strong leaders giving orders over endless group discussions, seek to return to a glorious traditional past where men were men and women were in the kitchen, and tend towards uniformity (torches, uniforms, short haircuts)
Yeah wlan is by far the weakest point of OpenBSD networking - especially
as an AP. Slipped my mind completely actually. The way most do it is to have separate APs.

Still, you can check https://man.openbsd.org/pci.4#Wireless_network_interfaces to get a general idea. Unfortunately only a few support host AP mode (last I checked).
I think a lot of people mistakenly believe "multiple personality disorder" (DID) is real because there are people who believe they have it and act accordingly.

There's a lot of evidence that cases for it are iatrogenic - that is to say, caused by the psychologist (and I suppose now, by social media). This lead to multiple lawsuits by patients who had spent years being convinced that they had DID and repressed memories (DID is usually linked to the also controversial idea of repressed memories by psychologists). See this New York Times article[1] from a few decades ago that talks about it more. You can Google "multiple personality disorder lawsuit" to see many more such cases. You see a lot of cases where bad psychology destroyed lives.

And the history of DID has always been _very_ questionable. If DID was a naturally occurring disorder, and one that's particularly noticeable, it's striking that (as far as I can tell) no one saw cases of it until very recently. Two cases and their dramatizations - that of Chris Costener Sizemore ("Eve") and Shirley Ardell Mason ("Sybil") - in particular where responsible for cementing it in the public's imagination, and leading to an enormous uptick in the diagnosis. If you look into those cases, you see that it's highly likely that they were iatrogenic - the patients weren't showing signs of DID, but he attention seeking psychiatrists "discovered" alternate personalities during their sessions using questionable techniques like hypnosis, and then used this to get rich and famous.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/06/us/memory-therapy-leads-t...
I suspect the metaverse will be a bandwith hog. This matters where you centralize or distribute the world model; ditto for the rendering.
I watched the whole video.

My current physics acumen is probably in the lower half of the average HN reader.

I enjoyed AP physics in high school. Took the test, got a 4. I’ve been helping my wife back in school with half life decay (as much chemistry as physics) and relished that. As a Mechanical Engineering student, I got A’s in my three required physics class. In short, I really liked physics. It helped me make sense of the world.

I’m old enough, that quantum mechanics was not the public fascination it is now. Cold fusion was the big topic those days.

Despite all of this early formative appreciation for physics, I have yet to really appreciate QM.

It just has never helped me explain the world around me. And unlike many of the transcendental changes that occurred in the industrialized world as we got better and better at physics, whatever QM is supposed to do for me (it’s supposed to have bigger application than the double slit thing, right?), isn’t apparently obvious to me.

The brief parts where Sabine is referring to QM particulars in the video, and when I skim the other articles and such I see on QM, always include a lot of phunky math, amusing names and symbols, and a sort of talk that sounds like convoluted philosophy, or an attempt to explain transubstantiation or the “mystery of the trinity.”

I was amused at the end of the video. There’s a “keep your cake and eat it too” thrust. She clearly states a sort of collegiate/professional “you do you” support. At the same time she tells the viewer they don’t need to pay attention or care about it. But if we the lay masses don’t care, the PR that exists for the sake of securing funding to go on with these papers dries up. So in a round about way, she’s saying “I support my colleagues wishes to continue to pursue these studies, but you my reader shouldn’t bother to support them in any way, direct or indirect.”
Yet another entry in the emerging genre of making an entirely uncontroversial point (criticizing people for glorifying and faking mental illness for attention), followed by the second half which is the author complaining about how everyone silences him for saying brave truths.

Much better than false victimhood due do fake mental illness to get clicks on tiktok is of course false victimhood due to fake controversial journalism on substack.
The point of the article was to try to convince people to donate blood.
I'd use iOS if they let me install whatever apps I wanted ("sideloading" as a term feels weird, as if they deign their users to load apps on the side, by their good graces. No, it's our hardware, we should be able to run whatever we want).

Android lets me do that, so I use it. No way I'd be without Vanced (rip) and other such apps. Android also has more interesting form factors, such as the folding phones, which Apple does not yet have.
Also this is the actions of a company. Not a government. A company seeking to limit who or what to advertise. That’s gotta tick a few right of center (politically) boxes no?
google "microwave atmospheric path loss calculation" or "microwave free space path loss" - standard calculations for point to point microwave telecom systems, you lose quite a lot to the molecules in the air. probably would work a whole lot better in a vacuum.
You used to be able to do this on android, and then they changed it that you can only sort of do it, unless you have root.

Root is an insurance (to a degree) against apple changing their mind, like google did.
I think you can hire training. It's available everywhere and some have reasonable prices. If you have specific programming language questions you can probably consult Stackoverflow or Reddit which are free.
I-Bonds are getting a lot of attention lately, and with good reason. Still underexplored, and there's a cap on them ($10k/person with limited workarounds), but well worth checking out for everyone reading this.
Could that trigger rain?
GitHub Copilot: will you be jobless?
Yes! I described it once like the sense from Daredevil or Toph from Avatar.

I can kind of feel shapes and directions in my mind. When it comes to colours, though, I have to "paint" "manually" over this mental sonar image.