skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I also think they could do some clever stuff with home HVAC, possibly using waste heat from crypto miners as the H.

That doesn't sound... particularly clever. Crypto miners are essentially disposable, with a useful economic lifetime of a couple of years, typically. And they are 100% thermally efficient. Which sounds quite good, until you consider that an air source heat pump is typically around 300% thermally efficient, rising to up to 500% for ground source.

So, once your crypto miner is no longer really making anything (a couple of years), you're left with a really inefficient heating system.
This is changing though. Cities are getting bikes and bike lanes. They’re building dense developments close to transit. ebikes + protected bike lanes + TOD might be the solution.
This is why some razors have instructions to wash your face before using.

You can use an old toothbrush to clean the edges of the razor to give them more life.
I've long had this fantasy of a smart road pilot program wherein manufacturers would partner with governments (or toll road owners in some places?) to make self-driving-only smart lanes, where you have to surrender control but the car goes 120+mph. I imagine getting even a handful of popular longer routes enabled for that would be quite popular.
My last team used what I think of as a contemporary “Python paradox” language, only to find that the team refused to say “no” to any technology or pattern, and so they were over -engineering the project far beyond anything I had seen elsewhere.

Is but one single data point, but it cost me quite some months to learn (I tried to talk them into simpler solutions for a while and then gave up and bailed).
Through the big vendors--probably, and it might depend on who your travel agency is (Concur generally isn't it, although they have some kind of default travel processor). But I've noticed that it's not universal with smaller hotel chains, they just won't do it.
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2022/06/hew...
Really? Because autopilot works pretty well for me already. I have it on way more than I have it off. Long roads with lots of stop lights, and 6 hour drives no longer bother me.
I'm curious what the author means by "everything is a graph". Are graphs the primitives of the language? How are graphs defined or specified by the programmer, without using an even lower level primitive?

The author says:

> Give me a language where key-value maps are emulated with directed bipartite graphs

So this means you can't define graphs using key-value dictionaries (like Smalltalk or Javascript with their objects primitives). So how exactly are these graphs defined? RDF format?

Something I've found while trying to design languages is that the hardest part is running into contradictions and circular logic. And I feel this "everything is a graph" idea will very quickly run into this issue.
Also, the bottleneck that limits pocket computing is mostly HCI. It's really hard to design a good user interface for tiny screens and clumsy input devices.

Lisp ain't gonna help with any of that.
Looks pretty sweet! Love the declarative model. Imperative pipelines are super flexible but also a pain to maintain and easy to get wrong. The key features like canary and blue/green all that most deployments actually need.
Great

EV boom will propel the battery manufacturer to be the next manufacturing Behemoth. It's so much a core of any EV that the industry capital has to be consolidated to be able to produce sufficiently good product and iterate rapidly to match the market demand.

My bet is on CTAL though. Not Volkswagen
He had state secrets on his machine.. why would they need to do this or what would they gain from doing this?
This is offtopic but I am tired of pretentious people.

The money supply must grow exponentially because liquidity premiums aka interest payments. You can now either choose to eliminate liquidity premiums and hence abolish inflation and exponential growth in the money supply or you can choose to have inflation and an exponentially growing money supply with endless increases in public debt.

The fact that if the money supply is $100 and 2% interest must be paid which is then subsequently reinvested for compounding obviously requires the economy to keep track of $102. Hence compound interest which is caused by liquidity premiums results in a perpetual increase in the money supply. The fact that governments must borrow money is purely how we decided to run the system right now. You could in theory do helicopter money as well and it would amount to the same.

Now, since positive interest rates result in an increase in the money supply, reducing the money supply requires the opposite, i.e. negative interest rates.

Negative interest rates don't exist because of cash. That is the only reason. People don't want negative interest rates because they actually love the illusion of earning compound interest and subsequent inflation which cancels out the interest. People criticise inflation while simultaneously criticizing negative interest rates, the height of hypocrisy. After all, if you implement negative interest rates a while lot of people will have to work instead of living off the work of others. They say that it is unfair to not turn other people into debt slaves, while simultaneously criticizing how unjust it is, that their dreams of turning other nations and future generations into debt slaves is disrupted by so called defaults and debt restructuring. They yell out debt is bad while secretly desiring to have debt slaves of their own.
I think the way good investors look at it is based on the potential impact vs investment size.

Yes, investment in Helion is likely huge, 100x the cost of developing a SaaS app, but IF it works, the payoff is likely 1000x the return of a SaaS app.

This can't be ignored when looking at investments. Most investments will fail, but the larger investments won't necessarily fail at a higher rate than smaller investments. Market size to investment size must be considered along with probability of success.

Investors know they can't judge probability of success very well. But they try to judge opportunity return size.

This is why outliers like AirBnB are so difficult for investors. Sure, many investors didn't think it would be successful, but more importantly, they also didn't realize if AirBnB was successful, just how large it could be.

When you are looking at energy, it isn't difficult to figure out just how large the opportunity is, the risk is all in the execution of the technology.
> widely respected

Except he failed to achieve what he claimed he could.
I am thinking if it could be more hybrid. It seems to move too far to the "General English" spectrum.

If we could replace the most common syntax with 2 to 3 symbols to balance things out.
I've been wondering about this in the context of supply chain disruption and food security. I live far from farmland and fear what might happen if that connection were cut due to war or civil strife.

How well could I survive eating local plants and whatever I can grow? How well could what we have nearby support the local population? Resources like the ones mentioned here could prove lifesaving.
Me too :)

I remember that apparently for desktop applications icons to work it had to launch a process just to be each icon so was quite memory intensive. I seem to recall it also requiring “win32s”

My machine would throw a text mode confirmation prompt over the win95 graphical installer when it tried to write the boot sector as boot sector virus protection and this would freeze the system so windows 95 installation never worked.
I live in a similar place and I'm with you. I knew it was inflation but I almost started to believe I just started eating out more or something. But it's a very noticeable jump
Here is the readme: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

If that could be more clear, please tell me how?
A big part (majority?) of this work is rediscovery of the results from info theory (EE) community in the 90s (ctrl-f Orlitsky, Shor in the pdf).
I have two small issues with this

1. That when I close outlook (this doesn't happen on teams), and open it again, I need to put my password, it doesn't stay logged in.

2. That whenever I open teams or outlook, an empty Edge stays on as a different window.

Any solutions?
Caveat emptor leaking anything to “journalists”
Yuck oil changes plus battery wear. PHEVs are the best of both worlds, I would recommend them last (after EV and then basic ICE)
Showing $10k way back in the day would be a bit misleading since every graph starts in a different day and the whole idea is that inflation makes $10k translate to different real world value (baguettes) across time.

It could instead show how much back at the start date one would need for it to be todays $10k? Not sure. Maybe absulute dolar values should just be ommited and work only off percentages.
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Their leadership also doesn’t know when to STFU. There was a time when Tesla was _the_ luxury electric vehicle. But Musk is polarizing. He’s isolating formerly loyal customers and more and more compelling alternatives are coming to market every day.
Makes him look really scummy?
Yes. Script kiddies want to use javascript everywhere and desktop apps are dinosaurs. I wish it weren't that way. Maybe the lack of a good, widely adopted cross platform toolkit is to blame? Its a really hard problem though...
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Exactly. They were made to check compliance boxes and not be a useful car.
This is a long-standing and oft-repeated myth.

Milk is in the back of the store because that's where it makes sense to have a refrigerated wall.

Milk is increasingly available in smaller quantities in compact refrigeration units at the front of the store.
I guess you are probably forgot what NSA did to your phone calls?

That has not weaken their legitimacy as the government agency, or US government's legitimacy over US citizens.

Equating some online hacking with punching in the face, is probably as convincing as Trump stating Kungflu with Covid.
In my case it's almost irrelevant because I don't have anything of real importance on my phone. I have an Android phone that does not have my gmail account on it. It does not have any enabled payment mechanism. It does not have access to sensitive documents. It has a few contacts on it, but that information is basically public anyway. I do not use it for 2FA. I do not have a password manager on it. It's just a throwaway device that is convenient for accessing the outside world without any identity built into the phone.

I realize that this means I forego many of the advantages of having a personal device, but that was a conscious choice I made a long time ago.
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I think this is one of those things that need to be evaluated retrospectively. How “key” is anyone when their project is yet to be successful?
This article (https://archive.ph/G6V9m) is a joke. New transportation in Silicon Valley? Downton SJC and Diridon BART isn't expected completion in 2030 and at best, it opens up commute options for some employees.

What I would like to see, impractical as it may be, would be a full BART ring around the bay with trains constantly running (15m interval) 20 hours a day. While we're at it, please take the fentanyl sleepers off the train, thank you.
Then there are a lot of Chinese companies are banned from US market.
ohhh win32s... that's another memory from ages past lol
No, because China doesn't produce chips (a few minor exceptions aside).

Producing modern chips such as found in smartphones, laptops, etc is pretty much done exclusively using ASML machines. Which are under embargo and cannot be sold to China. Hence, China imports chips.

They are machines so complex and high-tech that they basically cannot be reverse-engineered or copied, despite their attempts. China has launched a program to set up their own semiconductor manufacturing and is throwing a huge amount of money at it. You should see this as a two decade effort with absolutely no certainty if it will work at all.
sadly, it doesn't support mic if on windows - at least last time I've tried
But there wouldn't be anywhere near the same level of demand (pent up or otherwise) if there wasn't any money printing / near 0 interest. (Government spending is over budget - they were able to spend more than they have because Fed gave them a good chunk of the money they printed in exchange for treasuries).

This is what people seem to forget. Trade involves two items, so you gotta look at both sides of the trade (in this case credit+dollars vs goods). Dollar supply has increased dramatically since 2020, credit near free, while the supply of goods has decreased. Obviously that's a recipe for inflation.

Had dollars+credit decreased with the supply of goods instead, people selling goods would have trouble demanding more dollars. For hyperbole, if only 1 dollar existed, no one could sell something for more than 1 dollar, no matter the supply of goods. People might still try to demand more than 1 dollar for their goods, but trade with dollars would cease to happen until they reduced their demands to <= 1 dollar.
Google/Alphabet is stuck and will make advances in specific territories but will never get there without a fundamental change in approach. Their approach relies on very detailed mapping/modeling of specific terrain, so they can make a usable case sooner, but outside of the map/model territory, they're literally lost. And maps/models change constantly and rapidly.

Tesla is taking a fundamentally more broad and deep approach - working with the fundamental fact that a pair of visual sensors and a compute engine (eyes & brain) can successfully figure out driving in strange areas in real time, ergo, it should be possible without a map/model or lidar. Once they get it solved, it will be solved once and for all. Bigger gamble, bigger payoff. Equipping the car with dozens of eyes is the easy part. The question is whether enough compute power can be brought to bear on solving the recognition problems, and the edge cases. They have obvious issues with failing to recognize large objects like trucks in unexpected orientations, left turns etc. Using millions of miles of live human driver data as a training set is great, except that the average driver is really bad, so it's entirely polluted with bad examples, ESPECIALLY around the edge cases that get people killed. There, examples from professionally trained drivers, who really understand the physics and limits of the car, adhesion, traffic dynamics, etc, are what you want to train on, but that isn't what they have. It is also possible that even if the set of training data would actually be sufficient, the big question will kill them - perhaps the solution requires orders of magnitude more compute power to approach human performance, and they just don't have the hardware to simulate human compute power. So, have they just hit the limits of what their compute power can do?

I think Tesla's approach is fundamentally the way to go, as it is a general solution, compared to everyone else's limited map/model approach.

But both may require either or both a more specifically programmed higher-level behaviors, and/or something much closer to AGI than exists, something that has actual understanding of the machine-learned objects and relationships, which does not yet exist (if one is known, pleas correct me - I'd love to know about it).
If you want to dispute the cancellation fee Uber occasionally hits you with when the driver cancels, it helps to know the driver's name, which you can't find in the app after he cancels.
Hah, I like to think that we're finally wrapping up with mainframes redux, but someone has to make the next phase happen.
My computers went from DOS 5 to Windows 98 - never had one with 3.x or 95 (though a friend did).

The jumps were big back then!
>You need third party repositories if you want full ffmpeg with h.264 support

Repository. Singular. Packman.

>each third-party package is often either compatible with the latest or older snapshot, or tumbleweed, but often not both

The conversation was about TW. There is a packman repo for TW.
Labor force participation rate is below pre pandemic levels, not above. 63.4 in February of 2020, 62.2 in June.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

Real wages are declining not growing. $393/week median in Q2 2020, $362/week in Q4 2021.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Number of job openings are declining after peaking in March. 11,855,000 in March, 11,254,000 in May.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSJOL

Gas prices went from $1.94 a gallon in May of 2020 to $5.03 in June of last month.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...

Yes, prices might have come down slightly since June. But overall, the statistics you cite are all trending negative.
As a recent PHEV purchaser, I have to disagree on most counts. All typical driving is fully electric, meaning routine commuting, shopping, etc. is all covered by the battery. The home charger is required, but so so simple because it fully charges off a normal (15A) circuit overnight. So it's literally just plugged in to a normal wall outlet. No big deal. Sure you're lugging around the ICE, but it has a much smaller and lighter battery compared to an all electric. Id be curious to see what the real weights involved are, but it's not like you're adding an ICE to a full electric battery. The thing still gets 46mpg even when the battery is depleted, which is better than any other ICE car I've ever had. And there is no transmission in the electric power train as far as I can tell, if there is it's seamless. As for maintenance costs, we'll see. I suspect your analysis will be at least partially correct, having the two independent drive trains and the system to combine them seems like a minefield of long term maintenance. But that was the risk I was willing to take given all of the other benefits.
Tip #1: Try a mechanical keyboard.

Tip #2: Try a split keyboard.

Giving any of that a heartfelt attempt, I promise you, makes it really difficult to go back to the old way. Some mechanical keyboards are very durable. I've been using Kinesis Advantage boards and can you believe it? I washed them multiple times.
First time I spilled beer. The keyboard worked, but some keys felt different, they've become "sticky". I opened it, removed all the keycaps, took out the PCBs and washed them in warm soapy water. After drying and reassembling, the keyboard worked better than the first time I unboxed it.
The second time I spilled soup on it, without any hesitation I opened it; and washed it again; and it worked just as before.
I had more incidents (with different boards) and each time I would follow the same procedure, and the keyboards still work.

So, if the idea of washing the keyboard feels appealing to you, then Tip #1.
That's not a bad idea. My first crack at this has been with a linux x64 target, but I have the infrastructure in place for mips, armv7, thumb, etc. I haven't tried compiling to very old/simple targets but I was considering using the MOVfuscator as one of the compilers.

Or maybe I can figure out how to tell LLVM to do some extreme strength reduction and target an ultra reduced subset of some ISA. Great food for thought, thanks!
Tesla will face sad (for them) reality in years to come
It is not going to fill the oceans with cement, it is a naturally occurring algae. I would like more information about how you get limestone and not just powdery calcium carbonate.

A slightly better link at: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/06/23/cities-future-may-...
30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled
There was a thread a week or two ago on r/synthesizers about the quality of Moog... lots of people chimed in saying they got shipped broken synths.

Also, the Moog One seems to be plagued with problems, which is sad given it's humongous price
I was thinking of trying my hand at making some games…. so what are the alternatives to Unity?
Which is funny because everything sort of comes back to trains.

The very marginal benefits of laying road vs track more or less disappear when automation in play.

Is is really worth maintaining the ability to go off road/track when you’re not even driving anymore?
Then there's the case of Reality Winner and the Intercept's bungling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Winner

That despite the EFF's technologist Micah Lee being on the Intercept's staff. (Lee was not consulted in managing the documents.)

The ICIJ seem to have robust practices and a proven track record. I'm aware of their handling multiple leaks and not compromising any sources.

https://www.icij.org/
sqlite, golang, typescript, esbuild.

Frontend framework: (p)react, jotai.

Backend framework: none; homegrown.
We haven’t seen Musk’s usual “full self driving is coming Xth of next month” tweet in a while now. I really hope it’s Andrej convince my him to stop, if so that is a great win in my book. After his leaving musk may feel the need to sell his company again to show everything is fine. I will not be surprised to see that tweet again in the next few months.
New app technologies might be dying a bit, but new apps themselves sure are not. Every restaurant you can think of has their own app these days. And "Try our new App and get <some incentive>!" is definitely not a rare thing to see in the junk mail flyers.
No concern for security helps a lot...
DD has to pay drivers, stick to regulations, fight lawsuits and pay their employees and pay for the usual marketing and growth as well. Based on the slim profits they make, it's no wonder they still burn VC cash.
I am not thinking digitally.

VHS stores the video as it was broadcast.

But how the audio is stored, has nothing to do with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_television

There were different ways to transmit audio over the air waves, but it was done on a different frequency from the video. There were even schemes to broadcast the audio on regular FM stereo as. Some VCRs had a separate audio in so you could use a separate audio source for instance for dubbing. (But you had to record video at the same time, because of the head switching. So no going back and edit only the audio or only the video, with VHS.)

The audio on VHS was originally stored just like on audio cassette tapes, quoth the VHS wikipedia:

"audio was recorded as baseband in a single linear track, at the upper edge of the tape, similar to how an audio compact cassette operates."

HiFi quote from the same article:

"Hi-Fi audio is thus dependent on a much more exact alignment of the head switching point than is required for non-HiFi VHS machines. Misalignments may lead to imperfect joining of the signal, resulting in low-pitched buzzing"

The audio is not stored at the end or beginning of anything, it's continuous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF_rTTptah0

The HiFi audio is recorded "deeper" in the tape, then they video is laid down on top of that.
Mobile apps are "dead" in the same way web apps are.

The average mobile app gets opened 1 time. People have enough apps on there phone, they don't go browsing in the app store for the new new thing anymore.

It doesn't mean that people won't use apps, but the selling feature of your product being an app has no meaning any longer.

For almost all companies, it's table stakes, if you expect people to use your app on the go.

When Uber came out, being able to leverage the tech in a mobile app is what made the app possible. So that was a huge selling point of the company.

There is almost no new capabilities in phones today that allow new experiences.

So, yes, people will still develop apps. Apps themselves are not dead. The web is not dead. Web3 will be a thing, and will change some of how these things operate, but for it to truly work, I think the average person won't understand the difference between their web3 apps and their mobile/web apps.
> Elon in 2028: “time machine!”

We might well have one - back to the stone age based on the potential to escalate ongoing conflicts...