skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not arbitrage because of the labor spent looking through ebay listings and dealing with surprises (broken hardware, incorrect listings etc.)

Also the machines have to go somewhere and that costs a lot because if someone can do it cheaper they'll just sell VPSs for cheaper than you can host them. Doing it cheaper means more compute per rack/watt which means newer hardware.
Thanks and sure, I can understand that.
Practicing your “circle of control” is one of the best things I’ve done for my mental health. I’m not going to worry about a VPs problem. That’s the whole point of not being a VP
Loki and Grafana running locally on a server (raspberry pi 3B+), your preferred userscript extension plus a script that POSTs to Loki's API [1].

The post function:

function post_to_loki () {
const data = {"streams":[
{
"stream": {
"job":"browser",
"user_agent":Navigator.userAgent,
"nodename":"desktop",
},
"values":[
[Date.now()*1000000, {"location":window.location, "referrer":document.referrer}]
]
}]};
let control = GM_xmlhttpRequest({
"url": "https://loki.example.lan/loki/api/v1/push",
"method": "POST",
"headers": {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
"data": JSON.stringify(data)
});
}

Now whatever actually triggers the POST function is up to you (I ended up using [2]).

In Grafana, I have a few dashboards specific to the facets I want to see.

I have one for Dev stuff which tracks the latest 100 urls, the frequency count of websites, and a State Timeline of all the events. This filters specifically stackoverflow, MDN, any url contains "docs", github, and a few internal urls.

In an other dashboard I have a view of all the places I read online with similar panels to Dev, but with different filters.

Then I have a final dashboard which works solely on Google search queries, but instead of grabbing the search page's URL, I grab the search term from the page I actually clicked on which makes searches much more interesting.

---

[1] https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/api/#post-lokiapiv1push

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/18997637
There's a lot more room for multi-million (maybe even billion) dollar businesses than there is room for professional footballers. They aren't even in the same, err, football field.
Fun books!
This quote reminds me of a book I just finished: "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd https://think-boundless.com/the-pathless-path/

It's about rejecting the default career path which our society considers normal and desirable. The default path is the one where you go to school, enter a career, work the career until you retire ... etc.

I have been a lot of trouble lately figuring out why I'm so unhappy with my career. I knew I was on the wrong path, but I couldn't see the next step on my trail in life. This book made me see that there are plenty of people living happily off the default path. The books made me more determined to seek the pathless path.

I suggest reading it for anyone who is feeling listless in their career and needs a fresh new perspective.
Ignorance is by far the best breeding ground for FUD.

Tech has gone so radically anti personal computing, exists mostly in modern mainframes (data-centers) once again. There's so little hope for good when so much of computing is so very very far away, when technics have all so swiftly effervesced up into the cloud.
How can they charge a product that's not their own?
I've seen this company on linkedin Vanhack[0] they are a recruiting firm that connects devs with companies in Canada. Might be a good place to start. This is for the purpose of relocating to Canada of course

[0]: ca.linkedin.com/company/vanhack
First monkeypox case in US this year reported in Massachusetts
Show this data please
It's funny people always forget this. There is a much bigger temperature differential to overcome to provide heating compared to cooling in most of the US. Burning natural gas for various forms of heat is probably the most energy intensive thing most houses do. Electricity is more efficient, but once heating is electrified, most residential electricity will be used to heat homes and water.
I would be very happy if more research time was spent on the replicability crisis. I don't consider "actually this paper is garbage and we cannot trust its conclusions" to be "expunging" -- it's an improvement of science.

But in this particular case, (after I looked into it again) calling their "research" bad science is giving it too much credit. The issues are not just methodological (though they do have plenty). They outright fabricated data, came to conclusions that do not make sense given the data, and did not care at all about the health of their subjects (which was supposedly the primary point of the "study") so they didn't accurately record what effects different hypothermia treatments had (which was again the main point of the "study"). Pretending that these "studies" should be treated as anything other than pointless and cruel human torture pretending to be science is being intellectually dishonest.

A lot of science comes down to how you interpret data and you have to have a reasonable amount of faith in the academic integrity of person who did the recording and interpreting because if you can't trust them then there's no way of knowing if the data is good or not (and using it is going to lead to bad science by good scientists in the long run) -- call me a skeptic, but I personally don't trust the academic integrity of Nazi scientists who were torturing innocent people (and we know fabricated their data).
What do you mean by: "if you can stand Metal for your use case?" What is Metal?
> In the EU, "Parmesan" cheese must be legit Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Yep, but it's also relatively cheap if you live anywhere near italy... In slovenia, you can get it even for 12-15eur/kg in some italian discount stores (think aldi, but italian), eg: http://vsikatalogi.si/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Eurospin_ak... (i know it's from 2016, it's just an example).

Getting stuff that you see in american youtube videos is a bit harder here... even "american cheese" (the artifical processed one) is impossible to find.
Shill is the wrong word for this. A shill is someone who is paid to promote something, but pretends that they are neutral and impartial.
Yea it says how to on the ticket.
This will probably end up being worse for financial-services people who violate the Securities Act. The SEC by itself can't send someone to jail. If they have to go to court, though, the SEC may as well get the Justice Department to bring criminal charges. The court can send people to jail for up to 20 years for violating the Securities Act of 1939.

Until now, the SEC seldom bothered. But if they have to prove their case in court, they may as well go all the way and go for a jail term.
Yeah... Such a great idea to have every company discussion validated and approved by an AI.
Why would you do that when you could just lobby the government to make the tax code even more complex, then sell a service to handle that complexity for you under the threat of jail time if you get it wrong?
Unless you’re a lawyer you should be reading articles by lawyers instead of trying to come up with cockamamie interpretations on your own.
“We” the engineers (working for the government) still have to develop those APIs and the backends that power them.

The only way to reduce the pain instead of just shifting it around would be to massively simplify the source of truth - tax codes and laws.
"And that you could never intersect that curve with $today, you had to estimate your delivery date and use the intersection at that point for all planning."

Otherwise known as "Skate to where the puck will be, not where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky."

This is fairly common in other software-related industries, eg. mobile. Uber was not physically possible when the company was founded in 2008 - most phones didn't have GPS, and when they did, it drained the battery too quickly for the phone to charge from a car. Same with Whatsapp's founding in 2009 - the push notifications that let it catch on weren't actually available until a year after the product first came out. I know a number of Silicon Valley drone transportation companies that know their product isn't feasible today, but are betting on improvements in battery technology.

Oftentimes the market (and underlying technology) pivots into the startup, the startup doesn't pivot into the market. Many of the big pandemic successes like Zoom, Toast, Marco Polo, Peloton, etc. already existed before the pandemic, they just happened to luck out when everybody got shut up at home.
Maybe I don't want (to be) the best
Yes, advocates for hydrogen need to explain this.

My guess: there are major engineering challenges that drive up the cost. Storing and transporting hydrogen (compressed, adsorbed/absorbed or liquid) are difficult.
OpenZFS is licensed under a free software license. There's no mechanism by which they could demand anything. At best they could try to sue Canonical for CDDL violations, though the legal arguments online suggest that Oracle wouldn't have a leg to stand on here because the license incompatibility comes from the GPL side (meaning that Linux copyright holders might be able to sue Canonical but even that is a stretch since it's hard to argue OpenZFS is a derivative work of Linux).

The thread you linked is someone who was using software with a proprietary license against its terms and is being asked to pay for its usage -- obviously I think Oracle is being scummy but it's not a comparable situation at all. This would be like saying that you won't use VS Code because Microsoft once demanded that someone who was using a cracked copy of Windows pay them -- it's a complete non-sequitur.

Would you refuse to use ZFS on FreeBSD as well?
Storage is measured in units of energy, i.e. something akin to Joules. Watts (and thus kW) are a measure of power, i.e. energy rate: 1 W is 1 Joule per second. kWh is a measure of energy (a kW for an hour) and is directly convertible to Joules. You could of course price based on energy discharge rate in kW, but not that alone...
Working From Home With Wang Computers (1981) [video]
99% of jobs are not interesting or fulfilling.
To be cheap, they need to operate at multi-GW scale, have a long operating life, and good reliability.
Need? What will happen if you don't get it?
Just for the record enzyme does not mean organism. Enzymes are non-self replicating so the "grey goo" scenario isn't a problem until we introduce them into organisms but then the energy they derive from the plastic must be greater than the rest of the machinery used to turn it into energy/nutrients. And I would be skeptical of that any time soon.
Data/Metadata/logging/telemetry
That's like arguing you shouldn't the read source for the software you use because you're not an expert.
CDC concerned about possible undetected monkeypox spread in U.K
If a search engine is full of documents curated directly by the user, through commands to save and index such and such site and this and that document, then a language model is well capable of making judgments on the user's behalf based on their interests. Further, conversations about such documents over time may give priming that narrows the judgments down to what the user approves of the AI's judgments and what they don't.

Just speaking from my experience in thinking and working on this concept over the last 2 years...I could be wrong, but testing shows some hope in this idea being a reality.

The document set is the critical part here. The user must obtain the documents that are of interest to them. Keeping the document set small and focused allows for higher quality results and discussions about the content.
I misspoke. I meant people would have fewer *issues. However fewer results would also happen and I agree that it's a good thing (if you reread my original comment, you'll notice that I didn't make any value judgement on whether fewer results was good or bad).
Some effects will be relatively small. For example the SEC has authority to haul you into court, in a proceeding which reflects how the system is supposed to work, with the executive branch prosecuting the law and the judicial branch deciding it.

But the principle invoked in this case, non-delegation doctrine, is far reaching. The non-delegation doctrine is a theory, some might say a legal fiction, that says that Congress can’t delegate its power to make the laws, but can make a broad law and allow agencies can fill in details so long as Congress gives the agencies “an intelligible principle” for doing so.

This is not without basis—there is no obvious line to be drawn between Congress’s power to make laws, and the executive branch’s power to enforce them in a discretionary manner. There is nothing wrong with Congress making a broad law “fraud shall be illegal” and the SEC making rules for itself about how to enforce that. But clearly at some point executive regulation looks more like law making and less like an agency imposing guidelines for the exercise of its own discretion.

Historically the Supreme Court has been unwilling to police that line, but that could change. One thing I think you might see is greater scrutiny of agencies applying existing authority to enter new areas of regulation. The theory might be, for example, that it’s fine for the EPA to cut sulfur particulate targets, which clearly falls under the scope of the Clean Air Act, but that the agency needs new Congressional authority to do something like impose limitations on CO2 emissions, which involves a different problem than the Clean Air Act was intended to solve. There is already precedent in this direction, under something called the Major Questions Doctrine: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12077
Molten metal batteries have the advantage of not wearing out, and of welcoming heat produced when charging.
There are many good books on game design. Here are a few that I own:

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, by Jesse Schell

Level Up! The Guide to Great Video Game Design, by Scott Rogers

A Theory of Fun for Game Design, by Raph Koster

Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences, by Tynan Sylvester

Game Feel: A Game Designers Guide yo Virtual Sensation, by Steve Swink

Designing Virtual Worlds, by Richard Bartle

Here are a few more that I haven’t read and don’t own, so don’t know anything about them:

Elements of Game Design, by Robert Zubek

Advanced Game Design: A Systems Approach, by Michael Sellers

Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design, by Ernest Adams & Joris Dormans

The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design, by Flint Dille & John Zuur Platten

I’m sure there are more. You have quite a few to choose from! If you plan on reading just one, I recommend the first one on my list.
> Are there 435 people in this nation well versed enough to write detailed regulations

That's part of the problem. 435 is far too low for a representative democracy. The U.S. has the highest representation ratio among OECD nations[1]. The size of Congress has been held at this arbitrary number despite the size of the country growing threefold. The value of being in Congress, or being able to influence a member of Congress is enormous. As is the competition to get into one of those 435 seats. Is it any wonder big money controls so much of politics now?

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-populat...
"whole is better than ground" is a general rule in the food industry

canned whole tomatoes > tomato sauce
It takes a new grad software engineer between 1 and 3 years to master a programming language. Why do you believe that knowing any particular programming language is a barrier? In 2022 it’s unusual for experienced engineers not to know multiple languages.
we need to bring people in without respect to their skin color. diversity is good, despite so many efforts to convince us of the contrary
This seems like a pretty simple addition but that probably has profound effects on end-games. Also the fact that it's a duck is pretty adorable.
But a used old dSLR. It'll still be light years better than a cheap webcam.
The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding
> Or is that comma before “militia” going to mean that the time of war phrase is on for people who in a militia?

Findlaw (usually reasonably accurate) claims that is the case

> The protection of indictment by grand jury extends to all persons except those serving in the armed forces. All persons in the regular armed forces are subject to court martial rather than grand jury indictment or trial by jury.33 The exception’s limiting words when in actual service in time of war or public danger apply only to members of the militia, not to members of the regular armed forces.

https://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment5/annotation01.htm...
Why though? Microsoft is already working on full AOT for .NET 7
Getting a bad rate doesn't mean you also accept it.
Yes, we have 435 people who could do that.

But in any given year, at least 200 of them will be elected specifically for the purpose of ensuring that government does nothing at all. So the remaining ones go to extraordinary effort to achieve even the basics, and often fail.
The chemical industry have has a much more lengthy history of bad chemicals: PFOA, asbestos, leaded gas, HCFCs... how can we be sure that plastic is not one of these ?
Good ol' esoteric Star Trek references
It’s more like arguing you shouldn’t self diagnose your symptoms because you’re not a doctor.

And also, someone who doesn’t know how to code isn’t going to be able to make sense of the source so that particular type of Dunning-Kruger problem is self correcting with programming in a way it’s not with law (or medicine).
No clue, I assumed it was fairly general, but could be wrong. Googled it quickly just now and I didn't find an answer.

Incidentally I did find an answer to your previous question (about who the clause applies to), pasted it above.
People is lazy and will copy&paste the constitution of the founding country.

The treaty are nice while nobody can make a profit there. Once there is money involve, it will be back to the usual method that depends on who has more weapons there and more weapons here to defend the launching sites.

(Note that it's not always brute force and nuking. Politics is the continuation of war by other means.)
This is obviously very common for logic design and silicon manufacturing. They frequently design for technology that does not exist yet.

I don't quite understand what you think is missing though, every industry and company I've had experience with has forecast things and planned based on some estimated intersection of many moving parts.

The thermal coal industry has to forecast electricity demand, competition, coal demand, coal prices, building and mining prices, regulatory environment, etc. to build and operate mines and power plants., out to about 50 years.

I don't know how much renewables have really caught the industry off guard, but rapid advancements in technology has caused many to come unstuck, especially those in the technology industry (Nvidia et al killed SGI, Intel killed DEC and Sun, and so on).

It's not that it's just renewables catching the old dinosaurs off guard here, it's going both ways because energy is obviously very volatile and highly complex. The Moore's law era gains in transistor performance and density were obviously vastly larger changes but they were actually very consistent and easy to predict by comparison, some guy can't remember his name now even made up a trivial formula for it that held up extremely well for 50 years! With a few relatively minor tweaks. In contrast there have been proclamations for many years now that wind and solar have killed coal. That the price points have crossed over, that coal is dead and coal infrastructure is a worthless asset. Today, thermal coal prices are at historic record highs. Someone is buying it and someone is making a killing digging it up. And a lot of executives are kicking themselves for divesting at the bottom of the market thinking it was worthless except for the free kudos they thought it would get them boasting about something they were going to do for financial reasons anyway.

It's hardly anything to boast about predicting silicon device improvements when others struggle to predict energy markets.
For that matter, it would be good to prioritize EVs to those that drive the most, or have consistent long commutes.

There has been some work on modding how well this could work for changing EV rebate incentives, but getting legislatures to adopt such complicated ideas is nearly impossible.

Another approach would be to add a realistic, risk-adjusted carbon tax to gasoline (probably north of $200/ton co2, or $2/gallon gasoline) and let the market sort it out. Unfortunately when it comes to car purchasing, consumers are less economically rational than even legislators.
If you take a snapshot in time, maybe.

Over the long term, any batteries sold are good batteries, because batteries exhibit large economies of scale. Profit on existing sales can fund new production facilities; incremental improvements in battery technology; R&D into capacity increases; improved distribution networks; R&D into new sources of lithium; and so on. The way you get dirt-cheap storage is to build lots of it.
Amazon RDS was MySQL first, so was Aurora.
> Why would you not charge your utility battery bank with surplus solar or wind power?

Because you spent the money on more generating capacity, instead, and displaced exactly that much more carbon emission.

You put any excess power on a transmission line to someplace else that would otherwise be burning fossil fuel, and collect revenue. Maybe spend that on more generation.

If you are maxing out your transmission lines, spend money building those out. The more of those you have, the more places you can get revenue from.

When it starts to look like there will be nobody left to sell your excess to, then build storage.
Well, if you had 100 million dollars, what would you do?

For me, I would build something. A certain thing. And I realized that it's easier to get a job and get paid doing that instead of building/buying a team. I can be a billionaire later, but I won't necessarily be able to do what I really want to do.

Another angle is that I won't have the energy to be a developer when I'm old, but I can always do (senior) management 20 years from now. The entrepreneur route locked me out of development; I was making some sketchy decisions like coding stuff instead of buying.

If you just want free time and family, go for it. Family can also be a limited period - many people don't want kids past a certain age and only want to see their kids grow up. You're not going to play blocks with your son when he's 25. After that, you can go and chase material stuff. Many new careers start at 50. A lot involve family. An option is semi-retiring at 25 and then really get into hustling and stuff at 50, once you have the resources, skills, and connections.

Financial freedom is often completely separate from your life goals, and not a subgoal. In fact, many people switch their goals and become boring because they focused too much on financial freedom. The trader who makes $100k per month hits financial freedom... do you think he'd do his childhood dream job as a janitor at Disney World? Most likely he'd aim for making $120k next month.
It's just a different type of transaction. Not sure about your bank, but mine has separate alert settings for ACH vs. Debit transactions. I have alerts set up for both (and wires for that matter).
For reference, what I said is based on my experience in California and Oregon. Where are you that you see lead soldered copper in 50s homes?
First thing I do in Zoom, immediately followed by repositioning the window right below my DSLR camera up above so it looks like I am looking people in the eyes

Impossible in Google Meet or Teams, which really sucks.
You don’t need computers to administer entitlement programs; but computers are implemented as labor saving devices.