skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was/is exactly the business model of SolarCity and a lot of residential solar. The more general concept, sometimes called "Savings as a Service" or "Efficiency as a Service", is pretty ubiquitous in the energy space.
That isn't their strategy.

The largest part of their strategy has been cutting central costs (which are, not coincidentally, obscenely large at consumer goods companies). That has been their strategy since the early days.

The cost-cutting that you are seeing across the industry started because 3G exposed the fact that a lot of companies were running with incredible amounts of fat. But during that time, you have also seen massive increases in competition across the sector due to changes in consumer demand that has led to brand-destroying behaviour.
> end commutes for all banking and central banking employees

Because central banks and banks didn’t exist when we were on metal standards…
> network/power company can't/won't accept surplus power

Oh, they'll happily accept the power I'm generating... They just won't pay me for it.

> your summertime production doesn't much exceed consumption then you have a big shortfall in the rest of the year

Indeed, that's the case with most homes who invested into solar power. Most of them are planned precisely so they'll generate just enough energy to cover their yearly comsumption.

Mine is set up to generate as much energy as possible. I just installed as many panels as possible.

> Here (Germany) there are limits on what the network will accept so people play elaborate games of trading off battery charging vs selling across the day, with one eye on the weather forecast.

That's interesting, I didn't know that. Everything I've read about the german solar power system made me think it was perfect: you could just generate as much power as you wanted and get paid for it. I had no idea people had to play those games. Why can't the network accept the power?

> But in your case you're probably not so much making money from the "free electricity" as reducing the potential loss on the cost of installing and maintaining the system?

In my case the equipment has already more than paid for itself. I generate more power than I consume almost all year long and my energy bill is almost zero. Maintenance costs have been minimal so far.

When I generate more power than I consume, they give me expiring kWh credits. I don't want these credits to accumulate under any circumstances since I'm already generating surplus at almost all times. So it's in my interest to increase my energy consumption: anything else means giving them energy for free. So I set up a miner.
This is an invalid argument.

Mining needs hardware, which loses value as new hardware is released and mining gets harder. Thus, it depreciates over time.
Did you just answer your own question? It is precisely for that purpose - to give the impression that this lesser-known manufacturer produces goods with the original quality level of the licensed brand.

Eventually, consumers catch on:

> but now they just license their name out to be stamped on cheap crappy laptops
Some app ideas from Krzysztof Kowalczyk (author of Sumatra PDF): https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/e4132d5a44014b2aad81d815...
He seems more annoyed about bad software thread management in Windows 11 (and none at all in Linux and MacOS) and that P & E cores have different instruction set support, which messes with apps.
hmm... i'm not sure that's how it works.

if i watch a movie in a cinema I will see it, right? I just take one more step and record my movie in the cinema so i can see it later.

also, just because you can see/hear/taste/etc something in a given set of conditions does not mean that you have the right to re-experience it in perpetuity for free.
epigenetic alterations which is very similar to genetic alterations are already trivial to achieve for anyone right now. It's not that it is coming, it has been there for decades. Despite popular belief, people don't care about transhumanism/gerontology, more generally people can't care about things that require more than their very limited attention span.
I had to quit Adderall, it made me an awful dad and husband too anxious to do anything other than work and I was only able to work on specific things. I was never able to focus generally on any particular thing with it. I’m on Strattera but it’s only 10 days in and it takes several weeks to kick in.

I go to the coffee shop and do 3 15-minute Pomodoros every morning. The combination of being at a dedicated place, limiting the work I have to do, and having a stimulant works reasonably well for me.

It’s amazing what you can get done in 45 minutes if you really focus. I struggle to write much—if any—code outside of that window. The rest of my day is chat, email, docs (reading or writing), or making simple one or two line fixes.

I was diagnosed in like the second grade and have struggled throughout my life. I’m in my mid-30s now.
Right now it's 12:53 PST

I think you mean PDT. Which may or may not account for some of the miscalculation.
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You are making very bold statements ("of course", "obviously") on a topic that has been deeply analyzed over the years without any decisive conclusions.

For one example, I really appreciate Lyn Alden's analysis [1]

[1] - https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-security-modeling/
I think soundbars have taken over for home theater setups.

annoyingly, you can't get a system without a wireless subwoofer.

I have a soundbar that creates a wifi access point for the subwoofer and it's really annoying. I really just want a wire.

So, I've been considering an a/v receiver and dedicated speakers, which means I can't mount them on the tv
If you haven't seen it yet, you might enjoy https://screenrant.com/tag/pitch-meeting/
In times like these, I'm just thankful I don't have time or energy to do anything more than dollar cost average and update my tracker once a month.
How can they sell vitamin c at 10x the bulk price and at the same time undercut you?
I'd much prefer 100% specs coverage to 100% code coverage.
There's a lot of chat about fly.io on HN. possibly just because the founders and friends are posters here.

Is there any in depth comparison between them and render.com ?
> the electricity value expended on mining is proportional to the total market cap of Bitcoin

That's not true, it's at most, equal to the printing rate of bitcoins (coinbase transactions)
One Black Mirror episode had these really cool round phone-like devices: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTg1NDE1MTEzMF5BMl5B...
Oh so that's why we're having thunderstorms the next couple days :(

I've done a bit of searching and can find nothing that corroborates your statement. If you could link me to a study or other data source showing a correlation between lunar eclipses and specific weather events, I would be interested.

Edit: As noted in a different comment, solar eclipses do impact weather: https://weather.com/science/space/news/2019-06-28-solar-ecli...
the point is that you cannot compare apples to oranges and the constraints around bitcoin are NOT the same constraints like the ones around a vending machine. (so that applying the same model is probably a flawed approach)
https://archive.ph/hSBw5
Loved the idea,I will be following this project closely!!
That was far more amusing and interesting than I thought it would be...

I wonder if it can actually boot DOS on the physical hardware, and if it can't ( DOS itself is very minimal in what it requires of the hardware), is it really PC-compatible anymore?
Yes! https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/
My guess is it is because that is the era when BK really leaned into the McDonalds sized chip on their shoulder.

So, kinda like the petty thrills that the "console wars" had.
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Violently agreeing with this. Both extremes hinder productivity, just at different times during the development cycles.

It's easy to confuse type systems with correctness or clarity of thought. I've fallen victim to this myself – "oh this didn't map well to Rust's type system, I must be thinking wrong", kinda. It tickles this ocd nerve and I lose focus on the problem I'm trying to solve, often without realizing that I'm just wasting time.

I also like Go for these reasons. It's dumb and predictable, which let's me focus on the problem I'm solving. My only annoyance is really verbosity and small amounts of boilerplate.
Worthless? People still mine on S9s released in 2017.
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> and some kids are pushed to say they are one just to be in trend with others

I don't believe this is generally true, and if it was true, I don't believe any doctors prescribing HRT are falling for it, and even if you proved a statistically improbable thing happened once or twice, the ratio of "trans kids hiding in the closet under coercion" to "cis kids pretending to be trans under coercion" would still be something like 999999:1.
If you're not an enterprise that wants a support contract, then just use Alma, Rocky, or (holds nose) Oracle Linux instead. Though if you're not an enterprise, you probably won't like RHEL because everything is so old (and "stability" is a joke: see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068505). If you like the Red Hat-ish way of doing things, then use Fedora instead.
It's not that it is a black box that can somehow be unblacked. Neural networks are inherently messy things that have contrived, complex and partial or ad-hoc representations
Here is a better and non-paywalled article from the researcher's university: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/scientists-create-reliab...

The paper: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EE00233G
I think he meant that if the price of 1 bitcoin rise, the energy cost of mining 1 bitcoin should also rise in proportion
I'd be fine going back into the office if I didn't have to deal with our horrible open office floor plan. The visual and auditory distractions make it really hard to get into the zone. I don't love commuting either, but there is something to be said about separating home and work, and interacting with people face to face occasionally.
The military-industrial complex strikes again!
Texas law allowing users to sue social networks for censorship is now in effect
It would be worth measuring the power usage/efficiency. I run a home server that runs quite a few things on it and the power usage is around 225 watts at idle. At my electric rates, that amounts to around $45/month in electricity alone.

225 watts is a bit high for most small servers, but mine seems to be rather high due to the fact that I have about 18 SATA HDDs connected to it for file server capabilities.

A Raspberry Pi 4 consumes around 5 watts running at full bore, 2-3W at idle. Of course, it also couldn't handle what I am doing or I would use it.

In fact, my Home Assistant is running on a small mini-itx Intel celeron box dedicated to that because the PI was a bit too slow for my needs. But I run quite a bit of automation stuff on my Home Assistant instance. It draws around 25 watts at idle.
The main thing I want is pipelines - review apps, staging apps, and promotion to production, all integrated closely with GitHub, along with a slack integration that lets me do all of it in a public chatroom.

Until another service has all of this, we’re sticking with Heroku.
Maybe instead this stuff will be kept away from the general public and is only accessible to the true upper class, who is above the equity reshuffling of the unwashed masses anyway.

Capital and social capital is already giving their offspring an uncatchable advantage on, or outside of levelled playing fields. Genetic engineering could finally cement them into a biological royalty.
what "mentally ill" means in this context? like literally?
early 90's too. internet killed them really. once communication between same minded people was possible online they transitioned from meeting places to just shops then ecommerce finished them off.
That's how they learn! I'm forever grateful for all the times I accidentally bricked my PC and had to work my way out of it.
governments are really immoral when it comes to crediting losses.

it’s pretty easy to be taxed while losing money, even in the USA.
Make this kind of nonsense illegal and jail the scammers to set an example.
I somehow got away with never adding this in my autoexec.bat.

I don't remember much with regards to tweaking that stuff.. running memmaker.exe comes to mind. Also loading the CD driver in extended memory mode (MSCDEX.exe /E). Then there was himem.sys etc

I would really love to see a good blogpost on all these things so I can finally learn what all these things actually did -- back then it was just trial an error. All the tweaks I had to make to free up "conventional memory" despite having a lot of RAM.
Windows executables can be signed, and Homebrew formulae are theoretically reviewed and check a hash when they download binaries. With curl | bash, maybe the download fails partway through, or a hacker has replaced the executable on the server or the URL in the copy/paste instructions with a homograph spoof, or the site serves malware when it detects a curl agent.
It's showing that we had to wait for 2021 for them to try it.. Thanks for reporting anyway!
Sure. Except supporting Ukraine means funding less killing. A hundred thousand dead Russian soldiers is less killing than many hundreds of thousands of genocided Ukrainians.
We've been kicking around ideas for managing files on volumes. This is a common problem – it's actually more difficult than you'd expect because "securitah". Once your volume is mounted in one of your VMs, we can't run tools outside the VM to let you manage the file system. On something like k8s with vanilla Docker, we could. But no one should run multitenant Docker.

It's not really an excuse, just a reason it's taking longer to solve than we'd like.

The errors on the web UI sucked. These have improved drastically in the last three months (because we have smart, dedicated people working on fullstack for us now).
It is coming, but too slowly. Everyone, including people itt, gesture vaguely towards "ethical considerations", without being able to specify what they are and how they outweigh the massive ethical benefits.

>I expect that human genetic engineering, both therapeutic and “vanity” applications, will become an unfathomably profitable industry in the coming decades.

The most important application, by far, dwarfing both therapeutic and vanity, is improvements to intelligence.
The API does not return the logged request body, you can currently access it via the web UI only. Happy to discuss feature suggestions and use cases at https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/discussions !
>Proof-of-work requires, by design, that the electricity value expended on mining is proportional to the total market cap of Bitcoin.

This is mostly true, but I think you're conflating a couple different things here. At market equilibrium, you would think it would look like the cost of power + hw depreciation = crypto price * (block reward + fees).

>if it takes an Argentina's worth of electricity to run Bitcoin now

It might be justified if bitcoin could replace the traditional financial system (think about how inefficient that is), but I do not think it can.

>how does the world manage if Bitcoin has a 10 or 100 times greater market cap?

I don't think bitcoin's market cap can multiply by a factor of 10 or 100
I feel like articles like this are always… behind. SHAP isn’t a perfect tool by any means but it would catch the low hanging fruit like the “R” example
It depends also on whether you need a real name brand Raspberry Pi or whether you can use any equivalent computer. For instance, pine64 makes significantly nicer hardware in the same price range and is actually in stock.
Troy Hunt did a short series on using Home Assistant

https://www.troyhunt.com/iot-unravelled-part-1-its-a-mess-bu...
> Does there exist an abundance of data for languages close to Linear A? If not, then I admire the work of all that try to untangle this with their brains alone.

In the article, Dr. Ester Salgarella says: "we have not yet identified the linguistic family the Minoan language belongs to (unless it has to be taken as an ‘isolated’ language)"

If we knew that the Minoan language belonged to some extant language family and we had an abundance of data, the mystery of Linear A would already have been solved decades ago.

In general, there's very little data for any of the Palaeo-European languages that got replaced by Indo-European languages.

Linguistic relatives of the Minoan language could have gone extinct when their speakers shifted to Greek or some other Indo-European language. It is also possible that other Minoan languages died out centuries or millenia before the arrival of Indo-Europeans. I don't believe we will ever know.
So why did you reply to that specific post, and not its parent?
Thank you for the response. I want to love your service.

Will keep an eye on the changelogs to see when I can test deploy my apps.
I've seen the errands and expectations problem from family. Clear boundaries can be difficult to maintain if one makes too many exceptions. Young kids especially can struggle to understand why a parent is visible on the way to the bathroom or for water but otherwise forbids interruption.

It takes diligence, patience, soundproofing, and sometimes locks and a detached shed / workshop.
How did you learn to tune those? It was all trial and error for me. I'd love to see a blogpost about this so I can finally learn all the things that I should have done but didn't back in the day :)
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Exactly. You could use anything as currency. Prisoners use cigarettes or ramen. Its not about the product being mined so much as work being done, and therefore work being stored.

Replace any currency with any power generation you want.

In prison, its the work of smuggling that stores economic value in cigarettes.
In a gold based system, its the work of mining elements out of the earth that stores economic value in base metals.
In a peer to peer network, its the work of electricity(of any kind whatsoever, clean or polluting) that stores economic value on a fair distributed ledger.

Money is about storage of work, and quite frankly the weaker the money used to store energy, the more lethargic and rusted the whole economic system gets. Fiat, i.e. "proof of wasted energy" just does a lot of work and lets it evaporate in economic terms leaving the entire society that uses it in constant need of more and more fiat because that energy, that work done, keeps dissipating.

It doesn't matter what money is: seashells, carved rai stones, arrowheads, cigarettes, ramen, non-livable apartment homes sold solely for wealth storage, luxury cars, art, gold, printed paper with your uncle sam's face and "guarantee" stamped on it, centralized entry in a private database, decentralized entry on a public blockchain. Society needs money in order to achieve higher levels of cooperation. Might as well use the strongest form of money that exists. And as far as I know, it aint proof of wasted electricity, i.e. fiat.
> If another country came to occupy my country I would bow down and hope I'll retain my life and my property. I don't particularly care whether my government is the current thieves I have or thieves from another country.

Sure, but if you're an Ukrainian, if you do this, you'll get raped and murdered by the Russians. "[Retaining your] life and my property" is kind of not an option if the invader has genocidal ambitions.
edit: I hope this will make you think twice next time. Using zipf law for linear A has only been attempted for the first time in 2021 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03207615/document
so had I commented last year it would have been prio art.
I agree the idea is not very original and yet we had to wait that much time for it to be experimented.
And here I am: still using my first receiver ever, an Onkyo. It's still runs great after being in use for over twenty(!) years. My Philips CD player won't open the tray and my Aiwa Cassette deck won't play any cassette, but my Onkyo is still kicking. Maybe the models from the recent years don't have the quality as it used to be.

By the way, I just checked the backplate and it's an Onkyo TX-9031 RDS receiver from 1993 - time just flies ...
Poor/late timing, as DTS is essentially dead at this point[1] in the streaming market which I’m guessing is generally what they are catering for.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30942269
Who cares how long the cake took. I’m a programmer. Most projects take far longer than a cake takes. Maybe you don’t believe coding is partially an art form, but I do. I can’t imagine discriminating against people would make sense as a programmer just because projects usually take dozens upon dozens of hours.

—-

By deciding bad faith people aren’t bad faith, you’re effectively, screwing over the victims of discrimination. Which effectively “degrade or otherize them”.

“I'd rather keep my too much good faith in people's arguments that take on your toxicity.”
What does this mean?

These are the exact sort of stuff that people say to defend bigoted grifters on Joe Rohan’s podcast like Ben Shapiro. Something like “Rogan says Shapiro is a genuinely good dude. Why assume he is speaking in bad faith when he pushes everything his billionaire fracking backers believe and thinks gay or trans people are awful…but that’s just against his Jewish faith which he is not consistent on any way. Since he isn’t consistent in general”
No. You can't change physics. What usually suffers is the midrange(woofer) because everything is tiny. So you get high frequencies, and then usually some paltry subwoofer. There is no replacement for displacement.
Kind of; flyctl deploy will “magically” build and deploy your app. They show how incredibly easy it is to throw this into GitHub Actions, which I’ve probably done about 8 times in the past week, and it seems to work about as well as you’d expect. (My only deviation from the example is that I limit the branches to deploy to just master.)

To me, flyctl deploy is perhaps even better, because it is VCS agnostic and integrates with existing pipelines. I think it is fully worth it.
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No open source project has the obligation to do what you mention. From my observation, the community that uses this kind of language already knows what it looks like.
Maybe it is for customers running weird old legacy hardware (e.g., lab devices, manufacturing, that only runs on DOS).
> The next step is realizing that the “theory of bullshit jobs” is at least partly true, and that modernization has removed the need for as many people to be working as there are.

The problem is that this cuts both ways.

Is society ready for 15% more people being unemployable?

It's been many decades, and we never really "solved" the issues caused by the mills/mines/factories all going under. We simply ignored the people hurt.

I still see no one proposing a solution, 40 years later.
I think it is because they are refreshingly open about their stack and people love their writing tone.

And the architecture seems solid.
Being a small-scale Heroku user, I have a hard time deciding whether to stay with Heroku or move to render.com or fly.io. Before the latest incident, Heroku seemed to be frozen but stable. Now… I don't know. Are they even trying to bring back Github Connect?

Fly.io seems cutting-edge but I feel I would not profit from their multi-region, close to the user infrastructure. So what are their tradeoffs? Render.com appears more complete (?) and cheaper. But they don't have the same elegant database backups or the pipeline with review apps.