skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tbh i just skip solar panels. it's such a grind. by the time i can make them at scale, i need so many of them, and i hate placing them. even with pretty OP construction bots it's not worth the effort IMO.

this might be mitigated if you tile something that can self expand, but even then you'll have to AFK or just have this going on for hours while you don't have access to the power you're trying to generated.

i end up scaling coal as far as i can and then rushing nuclear. nuclear is also a grind but at least you have to place them less frequently.
It's hard for me to meaningfully distinguish the advantage of this v. e.g

1) "half" is six words you memorize

2) "other half" is a long annoying non-memorizable string that must be written down?

Am I missing something?
This article makes me think I really need to get down to my sailboat and fix those last few things.
win win win. a green new deal where we make abundance for this planet, and get rid of existential threat? just too much winning. belief & trying & planning for success counts for most of the marbles.
The Browse All Templates → link on the Vercel homepage returns a 404:

https://vercel.com/new/templates
>> but the energy demands are astronomical

Maybe not the best idea then.
Definitely has a prehistoric look. I could imagine it sharing the Cretaceous forests with Quetzalcoatlus and other pterosaurs
Website seems like the opposite of one of their competitors, https://www.prometheusfuels.com/
Even in my country, where we generally despise religious conservatives, orthodox Jewish community is rarely criticized.

I understand the historical reasons of course but it is not helpful. All must be uplifted from darkness.
This is kind of like the "why would I use Dropbox instead of cron+rsync" comment. There's lots things you have to do in AWS that have nothing to do with actually publishing your app. IAM, vpc, relevant vpc endpoints, secgroups/nacl, lambda, cloudwatch, cloudfront, API gateway, hopefully cloudformation/terraform, some wrapper for actually deploying the lambda, billing alerts, extra time because even though you know how to do this, it's easy to make trivial mistake that makes it not work.

Or... Just use vercel or similar packaged solution.
realpolitik would tell me that a scenario where europe was highly dependent on libya (or morocco, or other north african countries) for electricity would be vastly preferable to a scenario being dependent upon russia for gas pipeline supplies.

if sufficiently threatened europe could summon enough political will to require libya to do its bidding through threat of sanctions and adverse action against it, worst case, military force to set up a cooperative libyan puppet regime. the balance of the size of the economies and population of western europe as a whole vs libya is very different than western europe vs russia.

not exactly something that can be done with a nuclear armed state the size of russia.
One of my favorite high(ish)-concept energy storage proposals takes the "store heat in tanks of something that melts and stays hot for long periods of time" is the "sun in a box"[0] idea: use excess electricity to heat silicon up to an incandescent 4500 deg F. Later, when you want to extract the store energy, just shine some of that incandescent light into some super efficient multi-junction solar panels!

Sounds pretty wild but apparently scales up very well thanks the to square cube law.

[0] - https://news.mit.edu/2018/liquid-silicon-store-renewable-ene...
That is a good question.

Do you have any uses for the plant, or does it create interesting byproducts for you? Photosynthesis is not very efficient, but it is great at making complex organic molecules like sugar or cellulose.

But a plant needs more than power. It needs nutrients, usually in the form of fertilizer.

They also don't generally make hydrogen, not directly at least.
Here's a quote by a person:

> And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down. All irony is a variation on a sort of existential poker-face. All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today's irony ends up saying: "How very banal to ask what I mean." Anyone with the heretical gall to ask an ironist what he actually stands for ends up looking like a hysteric or a prig. And herein lies the oppressiveness of institutionalized irony, the too-successful rebel: the ability to interdict the question without attending to its content is tyranny. It is the new junta, using the very tool that exposed its enemy to insulate itself.
Symlinks are great from a "just make it work!" point of view but they're absolutely terrible from a "make it robust, sane and secure" point of view.

All of the points in the article are valid but there's even simpler stuff like the fact that you can't canonicalise paths (resolve ..) without reading the filesystem.

This should be required reading: https://9p.io/sys/doc/lexnames.html
Well I was forced to add password rotation to an enterprise product by a large enterprise user only a couple of years ago despite password rotation being rejected by research for a decade and no longer recommended even by Microsoft. So, yeah. Like most enterprise stuff it’s all just a bunch of boilerplate.
I've been trying to read The Phoenix Project but it just fills me with rage.

I took a break to read At The Mountains Of Madness. That made me feel a little better by comparison.
Removing a Feature Is a Change in Behavior
It’s disappointing. I’m all too familiar with the phenomenon of marketplace spam by seemingly nonsense all-caps brand names, and have been curious about the reasoning behind the names. How are they chosen? Is it really nonsense or just a language I don’t know? Are there patterns to it? Plausible influences?

I waded through Twitter’s hostile interface only to be made a fool of by hostile content.

Update: At least the title here has been changed now to remove the trick lede.
Can I borrow one for my Sodastream? :)
Ramen profitable and your student loan
Gives new meaning to "crack open a cold one".
Note, the sequence used here is what's normally known as the Fibonacci word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_word
Of course there is otherwise. Windows (more or less) doesn't have symlinks. Plan9 doesn't have symlinks. You don't have to have symlinks.

Can you not imagine anything other than POSIX?
> I wouldn't be surprised if Cloudflare or someone wanted to acquire them soon if they successfully pull off cross-language support.

I've also contemplated a Cloudflare acquisition or merger with Vercel several times. Some of their products compete with each other, but I think they target very different customers.

But maybe this is shifting as Vercel moves towards the back of the stack and Cloudflare moves towards the front.
Conspiracy Theory: Maybe the sellers aren’t human but actually an ML model run amok
I've watched a number of friends, family, and acquaintances move out to Colorado over the past decade. Several of them even proclaimed that our home region, the upper midwest, was dying on their way out. I really try to avoid indulging in schadenfreude, but it's tough sometimes.
This is an important point. There was a recent article inquiring the issues in recycling solar panels installed 20-25 years ago: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-07-14/california... .
Such things can happen very easily even when everybody has good intentions especially if nobody keeps the entire team focused.
There's a super strange trend I've been seeing, since COVID, where science is no longer allowed to be wrong. Even though the very discipline is about making hypothesis and proving them wrong; I'm seeing a lot of arguments that kind of boil down to "Science is a liar sometimes"[1].

Do you have the same opinion on particle physics? Scientists have spent the better part of 80 years on an obviously wrong standard model - has that caused you to doubt Maxwell's equations or how the circuits in your computer works?

More seriously, "lack of skepticism" is bunk when the "skeptics" don't provide equal or greater research and reasoning. People have started to think of themselves as nobel laureates because they can say "no, I don't think so", and have 0 data to back them up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ak-SmyHHQ
The password doesn't look randomly-generated, suggesting it was manually generated - someone thought a hardcoded password is OK in this day and age (presumably this is relatively new).
For context, this is The Amalgamation: https://www.sqlite.org/amalgamation.html
Ah, but if you both learned to write from the same person, then you would expect the handwriting to look similar (even if you didn't let them see your notes).

And I think that might be going on here. Take a look at a Chinese-language web site, like http://news.baidu.com

You'll see that it has the "niche" punctuation you mentioned, lots of point form descriptions with emoji bullets, and nearly all the latin script on the page is composed of short strings of all-caps text (many of which are acronyms like "IPO" or "AEX" that would be nonsensical if you didn't already know what they meant).

Some of these stylistic elements are naturally going to bleed over into Amazon listings too.
Cache oblivious data structures are absolutely used in every serious database.

From what I remember/can find online (don't take this as a reference):
B-tree: relational DB, SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB.
B+-tree: LMDB, filesystems, maybe some relational DBs.
LSM trees (Log-structured merge tree, very cool) for high write performance: LevelDB, Bigtable, RocksDB, Cassandra, ScyllaDB, TiKV/TiDB.
B-epsilon tree: TokuDB, not sure if it exists anymore.
COLA (Cache-oblivious lookahead array): I don't know where it's used.

Maybe modern dict implementations can qualify too, e.g. Python.
I'm working through "The algorithmic beauty of seashells" by Hans Meinhardt and it's fantastic. It's been on my list for quite a while, but I only got around to it about 2 months ago. I'm through the first 90%, which means I got through the seashell pattern modeling. I'm reading the last part more slowly, both because it's not building up the model and because I'm building an interactive implementation of the models.

I'm also reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Started less than a month ago, am at p256/867. It's not my 'priority book', but I've been enjoying it when my brain needed a break from the seashells.
I kind of feel that you need to read the Colour of Magic to get a proper introduction to the Discworld itself though (just ignore the story though, it's rather flimsy), but it might not be necessary to read it first.
A couple of things.

I am not sure that they need a use case for Starship's "bigger" capabilities. If a Starship launch ends up being much cheaper than F9 (like Musk claims), then SpaceX will be using it to send payloads to orbit even for things that don't require a 1000 tons to orbit. That's a win right there.

As for what payloads will utilize Starship to the max...NASA is already thinking about it. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/spacex-engineer-says...

Yes, it will take a while, but they'll get there eventually. Meanwhile, Starship can do the NASA missions to the moon and whatever F9 is doing today.
I work for a security company that helps with the audit process.

Nobody on my team can tell you the first thing about SOC 2. It is an external selling point, not something actually adopted by the org.
He specifically mentioned Brooklyn though, so to me that sounds more like starting the story with a general feeling of the place.
Various product safety standards and some states' regulations requires the surface temperature of devices not exceed ~50°C
Yes, that's posting that is a common practice I think. I always look for nitter mirror and post one myself if there's none. Probably it would be easier for me if I used a browser extension to do an automatic redirect, but maybe this way more people will be able to see the tweet without having to register a Twitter account
Maybe amazon cracked down on those weird barckets, just for cleanliness sake.
Feels bad man....They turned down $3bn acquisition offer from Facebook and now they will slowly fade out of the importance.

I know their market cap is multiple times greater than $3bn they were offered but still they can't survive on their own in the long term.

They also supposedly turned down acquisition offer from Google which was greater than Facebook's $3bn. Maybe they will come back to it again when ad spending starts flowing to TikTok and other competing screen attention apps.
A monoculture of generation and distribution technologies is not a desirable outcome from an engineering perspective. Your goal shouldn't be to put PV everywhere and then just "solve the distribution problem." You're almost certainly going to make things worse that way.

Also.. if you have excess residential electrical supplies, I'd think a good goal would be to get electricity to the people that don't have it first, rather than imagining new industrial processes that rely on continued excesses to function.

It all smacks of thinking that the Earth is a giant inconvenient ledger that just needs to be balanced, at any cost, apparently.
The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan for the past week and a half.

About half the way through it. Would recommend
If we forget about where the power is coming from for the moment, wasn't the US Navy experimenting with fuel synthesis? Did that go anywhere?

A nuclear powered carrier has no use for fuel itself, it only stores fuel for aircraft operations. Having the ability to make fuel on site with all the excess cheap electricity seems to be a game changer.

Wondering what happened to it. That is the latest I can find: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/us-navy-aircraft-carriers...

300k grant? That's peanuts for something that has incredible potential.

Obviously, I'm looking at future civilian applications for the tech.
And ships 12-24 weeks later..
Until energy density of batteries improves by a couple orders of magnitude, we're at least going to need hydrocarbons to fly planes, no?
I'm curious why you want to "like sports," because it sounds like you might already. Maybe not at a devotional level, but what do you think you're missing out on? Is it because you think it would make it easier to bond with other guys and make more friends? No pressure to answer if you don't want to.
Just because you yourself might be physically fit, that doesn't mean we don't have an obesity epidemic in NA. Apply this same principle to my earlier statement about ibuprofen.
Security audit means someone ran Nessus and checked that the version strings were in the acceptable versions spreadsheet.
2022:

The Ministry for the Future, Rise and Fall of Third Reich, Benjamin Franklin's biography by Walter Isaacson, Leonardo Da Vinci's biography, Crafting Interpreters, The Overstory
This is an amazing space. They have a jaw-dropping range of equipment and the cleanest / largest / best shared work space and private offices I've ever had access to. It's unclear what the specific issues causing them to close are but it's definitely not an issue of quality.

I have no experience organizing and my free time is unfortunately very limited right now but this seems very much like a place that is worth saving somehow...
You just space them out a bit and life will thrive all around them. A lot of species will appreciate the shade.
It's been shown time and time again that you do not need to, nor do you go toe to toe with the "entire armory of the US government."

It's possible to want to ability to defend yourself while also thinking violence for the sake of violence isn't right. The issue most people had with the protests were that so many innocent people got caught in the cross hairs.
If you don't want peoples opinions don't post on a public website where people can opine
https://sfist.com/2022/07/22/mark-zuckerberg-has-sold-his-mi...
> electrical heating elements

Very inefficient compared to heat pumps or even peltiers for that matter.

> store heat in tanks

Oh I already do something similar at home for sub-ambient cooling but I wouldn’t call it cheap.

> If the $ per Wh cost from PV is extremely low

IMO this is roughly equivalent to saying “assume that you could clone dinosaurs, and that you could fill a park with these dinosaurs, and that you could get a ticket to this ‘Jurassic Park,’ and that you could stroll throughout this
park without getting eaten, clawed, or otherwise quantum entangled with a macroscopic dinosaur particle”: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/thisworldofo...
Loved playing this for several years, an absolutely mindblowing game with a great (if rather small) community! Eventually had to stop because I just didn’t have the time to play regularly anymore, but I still miss this world…
I'm eagerly waiting for an option in Safari to translate text automatically, without having to click every time.
a piece of software is "finished", not once there is no more to add, but once there is no more to remove...
Fortunately(?), most companies aren't expecting to survive long enough to see a bad reputation come back to bite them.
mturk might be legit worse
replying here because of depth, but your latest response is a much more charitable and productive way of stating things, and one I fully agree with.

The problem here is that the default position in society is: "you should just know intuitively what to do, and if you don't, it will be detrimental to you and your career". As you point out, being ND is not being able to intuit what is typical behavior, which means being faced with a catch-22. I can make up rules by which to play the game, but then I am by definition not intuitively handling situations. I have no way of knowing when to deviate from these rules and when not.

If you tell me "our goal is to build a great product", which is what I thoroughly enjoy, yet I am expected to play some nuanced game of kiss up to your manager, then it is no surprise that I am going to at some point call out the bullshit and leave. It is not wrong nor dysfunctional.

As illustrated by some of the responses here, NT people are not very proficient at understanding that people might play by different rules than their own either. Because are the majority, it is expected for ND people to "concede", and not the other way around.

This is where we can all make progress. Part of the more widespread recognition of neurodiversity is that it provides more tools and knowledge for neurodiverse people to work within society, but similarly, provides neurotypical people more tools and knowledge to reduce discrimination and communicate with their fellow humans.

For example, as a manager, being able to gracefully point out that the discussion is not productive, and either tabling it, or learning to listen better, or respectfully pointing out what might be going on and how to better approach such topics, rather than calling people pearl-clutchers, wrong or antagonistic, and ultimately firing them or demoting them. No-one benefits here, except maybe the manager's sense of being right.

While some aspects of being ND are handicapping by themselves (say, sensory sensitivities), operating under different assumptions and models is only so when they lead to discrimination and backlash, instead of acceptance and accomodation. As a ND, I accomodate and mask pretty much 24/7 already.
But the point of this article is that they extract carbon from the air to make hydrocarbon fuel, which can be transported using our existing infrastructure...
Hacker selling Twitter account data of 5.4M users for $30k
It sounds like you didn't read the article. They aren't talking about putting solar panels everywhere, they're talking about using massive amounts of solar panel in a specific location and use the energy to convert the CO2 in the air into methane.
maybe, but it's also a national embarrassment that most of the major population centers in the US Northeast seemingly cannot be connected by 350 km/h high speed rail such as what China has very rapidly built since 2010. Flights of 1-2 hour duration between many locations in North America should be replaced with rail in most scenarios.

either the political will or budget to do this apparently does not exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
I highly recommend Dr. Kelly Starrett for all things mobility. Thereadystate.com (his website) is my daily source of mobility instruction, both for daily mobility work, and for getting me through many an injury. Reading the Supple Leopard (his book) is useful, but it’s hard to beat the follow-along videos for usefulness.

Plus, he’s a huge Dune nerd, which comes through in occasionally hilarious ways.
That is likely luck: if your order makes a nice round truck full, and that truck full makes a nice round container full at the next stage, and the container is one of the last loaded onto a ship that is due to leave soon, you'll get the best delivery time. The next order will get the worst or close to.

As some of the recent supply chain issues are easing off things will be feeling better when they are in fact moving back in the direction of what was normal.
The death of otherOS was entirely to do with the fact it facilitated a lot of the reverse engineering efforts on the PS3, nothing else. As others correctly note, this was largely in response to George Hotz's hacking which required otherOS. Sony actually exposed themselves to legal action in many countries by selling a customer a product with an advertised feature then removing it after the fact, as such behaviour can often fall foul of sale of goods legislation.

Sony absolutely adored that supercomputer project if you lived through this period and followed the company; the idea that the cell processor was a supercomputer for the living room and we'd all be using our PS3s for media editing etc was genuinely a thought Sony had back then. It all fed into much of the (at times ridiculous) marketing for the Cell chip. Sony had plans for more Cell based devices that never materialized too.

> https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-gives-glimpse-of-ps3-...

"First, the company will manufacture a high-end workstation using the Cell CPU. Planned for release at the end of 2004... the Cell workstations will be marketed directly to the game and special-effects industries. The labor in their creation will be divided between Sony and IBM. SCE will develop middleware and other tools for game development and film effects. The Cell chips themselves will be manufactured by IBM, who will also work on the OS."
Fixing Races for Fun and Profit: How to use access(2) (2004) [pdf]
Just started an overdue reread of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, as of last weekend. About half done now.
There are lots of comments on this Twitter post from Paul Graham about an Airbnb cofounder and his commitment to users:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1550276733110063104

They are similar to the ones here.
It would violate their terms-of-service and they'd unplug you in a heartbeat - or after you'd sold a million dollar of stuff, and they'd keep your affiliate cut
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Started about a month ago, just finished earlier today.
One thing I love about Discworld is how it evolved between novels. Each of them added a piece to its history and you could see how the events of one book affected the lifestyle of the citizens of Ank-Morpork in others.
Happened also to me with some products when shopping online either from Ebay or directly from some seller's web shop (I don't have a Amazon account): items came in a Amazon box with all their markings. No problems whatsoever, but the sellers were reliable.