skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For grid scale, batteries add a lot of value. They can pay for themselves rather quickly since they react far quicker than spinning up FF peakers.

Real world example, one of the biggest batteries in the world likely will be paid off in 2-3 years: https://electrek.co/2018/09/24/tesla-powerpack-battery-austr...
As I recall, the 3com 3c509 sold so many copies that they recycled MAC addrs and hoped that the old ones wouldn't collide with the new ones. I had a couple hundred go through my hands but never caught a duplicate.
The Thread Group announces Thread 1.3.0, now enabling Matter
There used to be a Meetup group for people who wanted to code on ecological projects (or other projects directed on making meaningful impacts). And I've seen other events devoted to hacking on civic projects. (Just for example, Oakland has "City Camp Oakland.")

My biggest problem was always finding an interesting data set to mess with. But that's one place to start: look for interesting new data sets being created, and then find a way to leverage them. (Some people make interesting APIs available -- e.g. Google, Hacker News, etc.) Maybe NASA has some data?

You could also try prowling through GitHub to find inspiring problems (or projects that need help). If there's just no problems to solve, there's always...hardware hacking? Seriously -- you could try recreating some functionality you like in an entirely new form factor. (Voice-activated Alexa apps? Virtual reality headsets? Pebble watches?)

Hope this helps.
NASA’s new toy may have already spotted the oldest known galaxy
Ah. Well, believe it or not, Andersen's six-week programming boot camp in St. Charles was still in COBOL... in the '90s. That was mainly because their biggest customers were government and industry firms running huge legacy systems. Think Raytheon, McDonnell-Douglass, Hershey.

Eventually they did switch to C. I wonder what the curriculum is today.
Future Tables
"I love the cops and want them to have more money" is not a measure of inflation.
Security people seem to vary from proper devs with an interest in security to "I used to be a marine now I'm a security contractor" methodology-obsessed types.

My faith in the former is strong, the latter category worries me.
Whimsy Bottles
"As a popular pastime in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the making of whimsy bottles capitalized on the mass production of bottles to turn everyday objects into playful or meditative tokens. Makers were often men: carpenters with high levels of dexterity, or mariners, prisoners, or lighthouse keepers with plenty of time on their hands. Drawing upon familiar imagery, they often crafted devices of religious significance—such as crosses or scenes of crucifixion—as well as tools of trade and intricate abstracted designs.

Whatever the internal motif, the creative gesture behind whimsy bottles is one of surprise and curiosity. These objects ask a question: how did that get in there? As miniature scenes or ornaments either assembled or unfolded within the confines of an enclosure, whimsy bottles also evoke the pleasures of collecting and ownership. There is typically no function to these objects beyond the enjoyment or contemplation they evoke. Gathered together in collections of their own, as seen in this display, a sense of satisfaction multiplies."
If you're a central planning committee trying to solve for the best outcome under physical constraints, nothing beats nuclear power and railroads.

If you're living in an economic system where investment is primarily determined by rate of profit, then you need to identify a solution where everyone involved is making more money than they would be without you. So it's very important they're competing with oil on economic terms while increasing demand for solar.
Have you considered coworking at a closer destination?

I've been working on distributed teams since around 2011, though I have been contracting from home for five years before that. In the very first distributed team I joined, the eng director made it a point to:

- Have everyone gather in-person periodically by flying everyone to HQ
- Making coworking spaces available
- Traveling to the different cities to meet with the team
- Setting "core hours", a subset of the regular business hours of the US timezones

The director is an Erlang guy. I sometimes think he applied some distributed systems reasoning to the dynamics of the distributed team.

I found that the daily standup was an important synchronization point for remote-first and distributed teams.
Very cool stuff...

To take advantage of all these, where would one go to ask "what's the best data structure to use to implement X, Y, and Z?"

Is there a stackoverflow tag or something like that that folks use??
Yes: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/privacy-2/2022/04/gitlab-issue....
First thing I do for any *nix install is immediately install Fish. Like many younger computer users I prefer rainbow barf.
What a bad take. The US alone effectively created that much money out of thin air during the pandemic. All of the countries combined printed far more.

Doing the same for an energy project that might actually pay back (unlike the covid losses) is far less disruptive.

Finally, the amount of money hidden away in tax havens by the rich is nothing compared to this. Don’t drag down something as important as the climate crisis with some smooth brained class warfare.
Same here. As long as you buy known stuff like GoPro or Garmin etc, it is perfect and fast. Anytime you buy a brand you never heard of, that's when the problem begins. I'd say 95% of my purchases were happy purchases from Amazon.
> Is the summer semester even over?

From the article: "Its inaugural summer program took place in Dallas from June 13 through June 24."
The article also pointed out that even with future cost reduction from scale etc, some things just don't work well running off electricity, the energy density of hydrocarbons is very hard to beat unless you go nuclear... and for things like planes, baring any massive technological breakthroughs, it's probably gona have to be hydrocarbons for the foreseeable future... so synthesising those fuels by short circuiting the carbon cycle in a post "dig unreplenishable shit up from the ground" era, is pretty attractive.
Absolutely. WFH makes me extremely depressed, and it resolves immediately when I return to an office. For me a personal coworking space was enough to stave it off, but an actual office would be much preferred.
So it really is like herding cats then.
More reading:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/19/23269460/thread-1-3-0-mat...

https://9to5mac.com/2022/07/19/thread-update-matter-support/

https://www.makeuseof.com/matter-wireless-protocol-thread-up...
A “wallet” is just a series of math operations over standard cryptographic primitives. An airgapped device can be a calculator and pencil, or software that you have programmed and verified yourself in Python[1] or another language. At some point you need to trust that your tools and environment aren’t compromised; but this is a different argument than suggesting that the ‘k’ nonce in ECDSA is the only thing keeping Bitcoin from being able to be used trustlessly.

[1] http://karpathy.github.io/2021/06/21/blockchain/
I've found many items on ali-express are within %10 of the ebay or even amazon price. The ali-express discount is not as major as you think for many items.
I am actually using my own designed feed reader WebFeed, which only runs on browser, and depends no cloud side service.

https://taoshu.in/webfeed/turn-browser-into-feed-reader.html
I only buy from amazon when it is cheaper because I can find everything elsewhere.
A few months ago. Looks like DSP (hardware multiply-accumulate units) is partially supported now if VexRiscv is synthesizing, but there's still some open issues on their tracker about whether they understand them fully or not.
You're right. Major crop failure (especially in the Midwest) would be a real bad thing. Far worse than a major city running out of water.
Just to preemptively put this out there, based on the conspiracy theories I saw in previous threads about this, they didn't fire him because they want to keep their super intelligent AI under wraps, they fired him because he broke employment and data security policies:

> So, it’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information. We will continue our careful development of language models, and we wish Blake well.
> I have solutions to a lot of these problems. I just don’t always have the mental strength to actually use the solutions.

This is the key, I think. Even in a general sense, very few of the problems we face in day-to-day life are unsolvable. But having the discipline and strength to actually implement those solutions -- especially when they require sustained effort -- can be really hard.

I've been running into this too lately, now that I have more time on my hands. I've picked most of the low-hanging fruit from my personal project list, and it's hard to find the motivation to keep going. Lately I've been spending a lot of time watching TV shows and movies, reading books, and reading random things on the internet (like HN). These aren't pointless activities, but I'd like to be spending more of my time on activities that I personally find more valuable.
Requesting a SEPA withdrawal you just get the money back instantly. They would have to use other ways like send reminder invoice and then threaten legal action. So it puts the burden of proof on the company instead of consumer.

By the way requesting a SEPA transaction at the moment is as easy as submitting a IBAN (bank account) nr. and that's enough to deduct money from that account via for instance a stripe account (or directly request it to a bank). That's probably why it's also very easy to refund it as a customer. In case of complaints they will check you, but it's based upon good faith. Not really sure why this works, but it does.

Officialy you need a mandate, but there is no electronic format, a paper and signature is also valid, so the banks in Europe just accept every SEPA request. But then customers have the power to refund and block on-demand.

There is even a risk of a fine if a consumer complains a withdrawal was made without proper authorization.
> Just stop importing cheap labour and let markets work

maybe i am missing something obvious, but "letting markets work" imply letting cheap labour to flow freely...?
I don't have a problem for which I want to start a company to tackle. I want to build something, but I am struggling to find what.
I used to have a list of "bad" IMEI numbers and android IDs; there were some android phones where the whole run of that model would return the same identifiers.

If our code found one of those "bad" ids, we'd have to pick a new UUID to use as an identifier for that phone and save it to the flash.
How does Poland handle a sudden inflow of 10% of their population?
I'm not sure why anyone is looking to the Fed, of all organizations, to telegraph a recession.

Out of all the possible announcements they could make, even if they were 100% certain the economy is headed for a downturn, the absolute worst would be "We expect a recession in the next 6 months."

Part of the Fed's job is to keep the economy balanced, and a huge part of that job is messaging and weighing the likely effect of the message vs the desired effect the Fed wants.

So they're not in the business of lying... but they're also not in the business of loudly trumpeting pessimism from the rooftops.
It has been proposed in all serious several times - and then immediately the person proposing it was tarred and feathered, then disappeared by the relevant jurisdictions security services (only half kidding). I'd give you their names, but for some reason men wearing sunglasses and sitting in a van appear outside my house every time I consider it.
there was GWT.
While the early 1800s story is almost certainly directly connected to the modern canning industry, there are references to tin can use by the Dutch navy by the early 1700s. And apparently there was a small industry around preserving Salmon in the Netherlands around that time as well.
I like how this gets down voted by saying the obvious thing. Everyone for some reason thinks if you can't create a formula then you are wrong.

When did people become so incredibly un insightful?
A decent proportion of the population frequently run internal monologues in the voiced manner - when I'm typing this out I can hear (not actually hear but mentally hear) someone speaking the words as I type. I assume the frequency of homophone typos are due primarily to this - since both skew and SKU are identical in my inner monologue and I'm trusting my fingers to choose the right combination.

I think homophone spelling errors are a different issue though - english education in the US is really quite poor so a lot of grammatical rules[1] (they're/their/there) and spelling aren't really well impressed on society at large - people will hear a term in conversation and start using it in their own speech, when they arrive at typing it out they'll make their best guess at spelling and it'll probably end up a roll of the dice which homophone their spell-check ends up shoveling them towards.

1. /me types while admitting they constantly type in spoken english - preferring the spoken sentence construction rules. Something something glass houses and stones.
I've had very few issues with AirBnb. My process is as follows:

1. Heavily prefer Superhost

2. Never be among the first guests at a new property unless there's a heavy discount.

3. Stay away from professionally managed hosts or hosts that have more then 3 listings. These are generally more expensive, have minimal furnishing and are overall less "homey", and are the same people contributing to rising home prices. Airbnb should be a place for homeowners to make side income, not investors turning over a considerable amount of housing into rentals.
I certainly understand why you think it's naive -- I even think it's naive, and it's my hope. I don't understand how it's dangerous though, would you mind expanding on that?

> But never ever expect solutions to be self-evident.

I certainly don't _expect_ anything. I just hope that there are products out there that don't need sleazy sales tactics, and let the product show it's worth

hope != expectation. i expect to live a life with no shortage of disappointment ;)
Do you have a reputable source that the levels of EM radiation from laptops is harmful when placed on laps but not when placed on desks in front of you?
Historically these areas supported very low population densities so it wasn’t a problem.

The lab was fertile but arid: enter waterworks and irrigation. Great fecund farmland! For a few adventurous farmers.

And then came the droves upon droves upon droves of people who now live in what is arid but land of mild climate and desert land, but for artificial irrigation.
Don’t get too excited.

The major population centers in Colorado don’t rely on the Colorado river. Everything east of the continental divide/the Rockies is in a different watershed
Video – Wind turbine struck by lighting in Cromwell, Texas
I’ve heard it’s all ball bearings but that may be outdated.
I also got depressed by working from home.

Recently I joined a rowing club and joined a coworking space.

Working remotely is nice. Working out of your living room is intense.

Getting a watch that will tell me when I've been sitting still for too long is nice, too.
How can the people who came up with this and put this system in place not know how insane this sounds?
In the Netherlands people are often accused (in discussion fora) of the opposite: complaining about extensions to government oversight but putting their personal lives on Google and Facebook.

I don't like either myself. I think the UK has long been a hotspot of surveillance and CCTV and people have got used to it. But I never will. Luckily I don't live in the UK and I avoid visiting it.
Lemoine discovered the system had developed a deep sense of self-awareness

No he didn't. He interpreted it that way.
Or each port does have it's own database, and so they can only notice a collision when two containers with the same ID show up at the same time?

It's not like Bangladesh and Port of Los Angeles have a need/desire/whatever to share the same primary keys in the same database somewhere.
VA is veterans' services in the US. I can't remember what the A stands for
If US actually bans export of DUV machine to China [1], it could be game over for SMIC though.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/us-pushin...
> Also, solar panels dont seem that difficult to recycle. There's already a decent & growing reclaimation market.

Curious if you're basing this on firsthand knowledge? I know nothing about solar panels but I've read some stories[0][1] lately about difficulties recycling them, particularly older ones that were deployed 10-20 years ago and are now reaching EOL.

[0] https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/solar-panel-was...
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-01-17/are-some-solar-...
Instead of find new problems needing solutions, I would flip it around and find more solutions to the problems you have had or things you had solved.

Coming up with more ways to solve the same problem can be a very creative process and lead to a lot of ideas.

Subcategorizing your problems, and then finding more efficient solutions to these subcategories might also be helpful. You might be generalizing your solutions to address more and more potential problems that crop up, and while it will eventually solve the issue at hand, there may be more efficient or creative solutions.

Many ideas end up becoming, we solve x, but better than y ever managed to for z. AirBNB solved the finding a place to stay even though hotels already existed. Same for Uber. We have endlessly improved upon wheel designs for millenia. The possibilities are endless.
> Are there no better-irrigated places in the US to grow all these crops?

There are plenty of better irrigated places, but none so warm and bright. I think that's a major challenge; the amount of light and heat south and west from Colorado is incredible, and growing a lot of crops without that year-round opportunity and productivity is virtually impossible.

There is also the problem that places with naturally high amounts of rain tend to have more acidic, treed, less arable soils. Around the Colorado river there were of course dry, barely arable, hard-to-farm lands which required extensive conditioning, but a lot of it mostly required water to bring it to life. Some of the ecology was oak meadow or brush, which was far easier to convert to farm land than a cedar and fir forest.

Another thing to consider is that the rest of the USA, including places with more water, are already growing other crops. The centre of the USA from north to south is quite active in agriculture, and actually more so than the east and west. If you wanted to grow more things away from the Colorado River, where would you do it?

We need more arable land, we need to grow more climate-appropriate crops, and... Well, we need to eat more plants. We can get by just fine if we dedicate fewer crops and less water to raising meat. It's a hard solution psychologically, but an extremely effective one technically.
This is incredible and (hopefully) significantly reduces the amount of Emirates cargo space that has to be reserved for importing food. I hope this facility can unlock some innovations in yield, water reuse, variety, and solar power that allow the tech to be replicated across the middle east and into north africa.
Add to that: proximity to major ports for international distribution and no tornadoes or hail
I absolutely love industry-specific news sites / communities. Hacker News itself is one (duh), but to me it's most fascinating seeing "non-tech" industries have some sort of digital (or sometimes even a regular print paper, if it's niche enough) presence. Obviously it's not surprising when you think about it that an industry would have its ways to spread news -- but these industries are so out of my orbit that it's always novel to stumble upon.

e.g. Freight Trucking is one that has a particularly robust network of competing news sites https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/trucking, https://www.ttnews.com/, https://www.thetrucker.com/

To anyone else who finds this interesting, and I'm not exaggerating, -- if there's any cool industry hubs you find, please send them my way.
LLM are definitely not sentient. As someone with a PhD in this domain, I attribute the 'magic' to large scale statistical knowledge assimilation by the models - and reproduction to prompts which closely match the inputs' sentence embedding.

GPT-3 is known to fail in many circumstances which would otherwise be commonplace logic. (I remember seeing how addition of two small numbers yielded results - but larger numbers gave garbled output; more likely that GPT3 had seen similar training data.)

The belief of sentience isn't new. When ELIZA came out few decades ago, a lot of people were also astounded & thought this "probably was more than met the eyes".

It's a fad. Once people understand that sentience also means self-awareness, empathy & extrapolation of logic to assess unseen task (to name a few), this myth will taper off.
> On average in 2018, the degree cost was around $100k

wow, i couldn't imagine even trying for a degree if i was a teenager nowadays... i can see why student debt forgiveness has been a huge issue recently.
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Local man flunks Turing test
Why the scare quotes around online friends? Online friends are very real friends.
Why convert to gas for heating later when you can just store heat itself?*

There was an article/discussion here recently about heat batteries using sand to store heat for months, to use for heating in winter. This tech seems fairly simple to implement at scale.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-07-19/sand-battery-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32006791

*This is a rhetorical question, I'm sure everyone can easily think of many benefits. But there is elegance in simplicity.
My hunch is that he kicks out a book and goes on the minor pundit circuit, and that this was the plan the whole time. If he was so convinced of Lambda's sentience there would have been 100 fascinating questions to ask, starting with 'what is your earliest memory.'.
Wait, what? You'd need hundreds of thousands of "small ponds" in the woods to approximate a comparison with a human mega reservoir like Lake Mead and associated reservoirs. I don't really understand the comparison.
Are you saying that CA isn't very sunny?
I hadn't realised until recently that the fleet that Nelson destroyed at Trafalgar was on its way to the English Channel to help Napoleon's army to cross to England. In that way the battle of Trafalgar is directly comparable to the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the Battle of Britain in 1940.
dont let the glass jar rest on the bottom of the pan directly. Canners have a metal plate you put on the bottom for that; but toothpicks will work fine.
One implies he was correct
In the spirit of moto, it actually looks like quite a bit of the groundwork is available for someone to take a swing at an Azure version:

* the cli uses the python SDK: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli/blob/azure-cli-2.38.0/src...

* which uses autorest: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/tree/azure-mgm...

* of what appears to be an OpenAPI-ish spec: https://github.com/Azure/azure-rest-api-specs/tree/fda2db441...