skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When we say a camera can see—or a computer can sense—we are using an anthropocentric metaphor.
My mother was prescribed a glass of Guinness a day by her Ob/Gyn when she was pregnant with me in the 70s for the same reason.
I worked for a company that made a networking product and we managed to build 1,000 units with the same MAC address (we had a big block of assigned addresses) because of a miscommunication with the vendor who provided the preprogrammed microcontrollers..

Luckily the MAC was in a rewritable location so it was possible, if a royal pain in the ass, to reprogram them all.
It should run you about $0.75/W to install them and hook them in for a grid tie system, maybe a hair more. Interestingly, that's the same for roof mount (with rapid shutdown) or ground mount (without rapid shutdown). Costs vary slightly depending on what you're doing in terms of panel orientation and inverter DC:AC ratio (if it's not 1.2 or greater, add more panels).

This project (CO2 to CH4) would benefit from maximum raw production per panel, if you can ramp the plants up and down, so aim them south. I've been deploying, both for my solar and for some other residential projects I'm helping with, east-west facing panels, to get production up as early in the morning as possible and run it late. You get less kWh per panel than south facing, but you get a system that, on a good day, is producing from sunup to sundown, even when those set far north of east/west. Out here, peak days are almost 45 degrees north of E/W for sunrise/sunset.

Iron Ridge XR1000 and some locally welded frames work pretty darn well for this sort of thing, if you have the ground area for it.
Much as I dislike Eucalyptus trees, every owl calling from a Eucalyptus is a vote to keep them.
I read that the Tandem NonStop OS from the 1980s had a built-in transaction manager (because the OS was designed to run databases) and they built their filesystem on top of the transaction manager which gave them filesystem transactions for "free".
The huge problem in many US states is that nothing is well defined in family courts. Virtually all answers from lawyers is “court can do anything”. For example, there is a good definition of separate property but it still doesn’t mean that court isn’t going to dip into that to give more assets to opposing party. Except for few US states, there is no real law except some hand wavy guidelines like “need and ability” for community division and maintenance. I don’t know why law makers don’t get their shit together and make things predictable.

Apps like this is good start to get neutral picture.
I've now used Linux nftables for firewall rules and it went okay
If you’re buying something that Lee Valley sells, and you typically go for the higher-end rather than the budget pick, you can basically skip the Wirecutter guide and just buy whatever Lee Valley stocks. (Not much in the way of electronics, but lots of tools and home stuff.) Extra benefit if you’re Canadian; lots of Wirecutter stuff isn’t available in Canada, and Lee Valley is Canadian. The Lee Valley curation is incredible, probably the best of any store I’m aware of.
Wish they went into a more in-depth analysis about busts from Cuban's Shark Tank portfolio beyond one.

Also interesting that he didn't have any leverage over the work-shy founder.
The only link I have handy is this comment from him in 2019 [1]. I feel like I've seen more in the past, but I can't find them now.

[1] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4372from=timeline#comment-1822...
Not in NY, an “equitable distribution” state. Our mediator informed us that my wife was entitled to maybe 10% of my ipo stock since she didn’t sacrifice or contribute to it (I had a normal salary). Sounds like ny is an exceptionally fair state!
The whole point of agile is that you deliver something every two weeks. Whatever it is you're suggesting, it's not agile.
I think Blake started a very important conversation though: at what point should we consider a being sentient? Sure, DeepMind is not that smart. But neither are babies. Neither are hamsters. Yet we still have ethics when it comes to hamsters. Whats our ethics framework for how we treat AI?
This is something that breaks my brain as a young ambitious software engineer... the problems of the older days, so red tape, lack of infra, access to capital, and all the other problems have still not been resolved after hundreds of years? to the point where you are forced into the digital world to start a business.

there's something wrong with humans, let alone the way we handle policy, economics etc
This Polygon story explains what hypertapping is and what rolling is. There is no need to go deep in the Reddit comments to find out.
The area has had ebbs and flows. There are massive Intel and HP campuses so I wouldn’t say you are not going to find tech jobs but you are right in that tech is a blip on the radar. It’s honestly awesome not having everyone you know being involved in tech. It’s actually a really diverse place, both in what people do for work, economically, and race. Also a lot of long time residents that make it feel much more real than the revolving door of the bay area
> I could also swear he said they had purple blood, but I haven't been able to verify that detail.

That would mean they likely don't use cells containing lots of iron to transport oxygen in their blood. That... exists. Not all animals have red blood.
South Korea also does this, and this tool is well known as one of the best circumvention methods (alongside with VPNs, but they cost money)
As a German it's super surreal to me. Ibuprofen are only sold in dedicated pharmacies here, behind the counter, the higher dosages ones even require a prescription from a doctor.

I don't even understand why/how somebody can take/need so many of them in such high dosages. Usually half a 400 mg pill will deal with any headache I occasionally have.

Took higher doses regularly due to problems with my teeth, which had a noticeable bad effect on my stomach. Do people just medicate that away too?
Here we go, a other person in the tank for big potato ...
Oh dear, that is even more locked down than many expected and much more distant from the typical Linux distro that the many Linux Desktop fans have been used to.

Either way, it doesn't matter, I'd expect whatever is running in ChromeOS (Linux Kernel) to be replaced by Fuchsia (Zircon kernel) underneath. They will more likely keep the 'ChromeOS' name to limit the confusion and that will be what these devices like that $100 Chromebook will be running in the future.

So it will be even more locked down and tightly controlled.
Yes, I read the manual every time I need to do anything but push and pull. Because I have to. ;-)
the irs defines the rules for an ISO, so to be incentivized it must exercised within 90 days of leaving. with an NSO(or ISO), the limit is ten years from grant, again set by the irs - you can still be employed and have to deal with this. until recently, companies typically gave ISO - this means they had to do ninety days. so first, blame goes towards the IRS.

ISO are generally more favorable because you dont owe regular income tax at exercise - with NSO you do owe tax on the difference between grant and FMV prices, even if you can't sell it. However, AMT does not recognize ISOs so you may owe AMT against that same difference. AMT is weird though, you can get that money back over future years by claiming tax credits

luckily, the trend seems to be to convert ISO to NSO and extend the expiration, but thats still a relatively new change and not everywhere.
Applications have default admin users. Nobody saw log4j for 15 years. Hindsight is a great thing to have.

This has nothing to do with elevated binaries or anything else.

To be clear, security is assurance. It’s not just security who screwed up here, it’s also the devs that shipped it, the testers for not raising it, and product managers for not ensuring better quality assurance didn’t occur.
Just use nuclear power.
The author mentioned that they have lots of time but cannot commit to new hobbies.

This does not seem like a problem due to remote work. Presumably, working in office still permits people with time to pursue hobbies.

Or are the number of hours vastly different working remote versus office ?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make.

Nuclear physics has nothing to do with the construction logistics of massive construction projects that take a decade and requires miles upon miles upon miles of piping with high-precision welding. It's all about management of thousands of people, massive construction plans that can't fit into a single person's head, and execution.

You seem to be performing some sort of free association on elements and lots of hero worship of physicists. But in the end we need shovels in the ground, rebar in formation, high precision concrete pouring, and high precision welding that gets validated and checked and can last 40-60 years under extreme conditions.

The reality of nuclear power isn't some physics miracle, it's just a bunch of piping and steam and pushing construction accuracy far beyond what is usually needed, because the heat source is so toxic, even if it's kind of cheap. In the end nuclear is a cheap source of heat for boiling water, but engineering and construction to contain it is pretty damn excessive and expensive.

If any of these people you idolize were still alive today, I think they would be far more enamores with the quantum physics of solar. The physics of solar are just better all around.
Show HN: Data-driven routing, reverse-routing, and OpenApi library for ExpressJS
This is my first-ever open source project.
That is because almost all applications use filesystem calls (directly or indirectly), but only some apps may need a transactional API.

Consider a process P1 using a fictional transactional API in an OS and is accessing the path `/a/b/c` and is creating some files under directory `c`.

Consider another process P2 executing a `mv /a/b /x`.

P1 uses the transaction API, but P2 is not. So, under the covers the system calls will all have to use the new transactional API to ensure global correctness. That is asking a lot of the kernel and possibly makes a lot of legacy programs slower.

The other question to answer is: do we want ACID properties or eventual consistency to be guaranteed by the transaction? What to do when some processes want ACID guarantees and some processes are okay with eventual consistency? How does the kernel handle concurrent running of these processes in contention with the same resources under two different transaction semantics.

These are some of the reasons why the transaction management is better handled in userspace.
I think the actual answer is that it only works in languages where you can eagerly execute async code disconnected from the Promise/Future construct. It would've worked in ES3 using a Promise polyfill. (Which is notable because it does not fit the aforementioned criteria—it had no real async support.)
No medical treatment is natural. You know what's natural? Infant mortality. Nature sucks.

If you cared about these kids you would learn about why they want puberty blockers rather than suggesting we torture them by denying them medical treatment because of some concept of "natural".
One not only can watch the sun rise and set over the ocean in a single day in Florida, I've done so.
There are reasons for it. Probably less so today now that most people just credit cards, but having one place that handles money solves some issues as opposed to having a bunch of places handling money.
While there are some jobs that can go the way of the buggy whip maker, this was probably not a good example.
> Google, like many SV companies, has "banned the box".

All SV (and California, more generally) employers with more than 5 employees “ban the box”, as a consequence of state law [0]. However, that only applies to not seeking criminal background information before making a conditional offer of employment, and making and individualized assessment after such an offer if there is a criminal history. It doesn't mean that relevant criminal convictions have no adverse impact on applicants.

[0] https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/fair-chance-act/
Gnome Turns 25
Pretty sure that's for HN comments, not submissions?
As someone who moved to Singapore this year, I'm amazed at people who say their personal finances are okay. I think it depends heavily on who pays you, namely if you're paid in your home currency or not. SG is hell of expensive for almost everything, even more so if you're paid in SGD.

Moreover, that "people aren't friendly to expats" has got to be the most incorrect thing I see on this list. Who are these people running into? Once you get into a conversation with people, cats are generally cool and can talk a bit about themselves, just like in any country. They aren't as courteous as people were in the say the Midwest (where people are very very nice even to strangers) but I do not get at all that people are unkind. If anything, I find people are curious about you.

If people are reacting to how some situations people are busy, that's just how it is. In certain situations like buying food at a hawker centre you just have to keep things moving along. If the worker isn't busy (likely they won't be) they can be more "friendly" I guess.
Raspberry Pi Pico W Silicon Level Teardown
This is both hilarious and alarming
Playbook on how to handle a uuid collision
Brushing on on 3d game engines. I really want to make AR apps.
Move _on_ the same filesystem/partition is atomic ;).
I believe that any time you await/then you wind up going back to the event loop. It's cheap ish but definitely not free. This is, of course, to make the behavior more predictable, but in this case it might be undesirable. Unfortunately, I don't think there's any obvious way around it. It can sorta be done with vanilla callbacks, but that takes you out of the async/promises world.
How much VRAM will minDALL-E plus the MEGA model take?
Yes, but you spend so much time at work it's natural to want meaningful relationships and purpose.
‘So the meaning of sentience is subjective, so there can't be an objective definition acceptable to everyone and everything claiming to be sentient.‘

It feels like your begging the question here, I don’t think this follows from any of your arguments. Except for maybe where you state you believe sentience can’t be defined, which again, begs the question.

Though admittedly I don’t see much of a traditional argument — your conclusion is interesting, could you try supporting it?
The system producing the shadow isn't a 2d lattice, because it also involves the sun. Changing the location of the sun relative to the window will change the pattern of the shadow.

If you wanted to really convince yourself, add multiple windows such that the shadow is affected by the 'swiss cheese' effect of the holes of all the windows lining up relative to the sun.
"future leaders in environmental science and sustainable business"

PhD students in a worthless program that would traditionally exist for children of the rich to dabble in get mad at being told to get a job.
I suspect Chromebooks will last longer than el cheapo Windows PCs. When a "disposable" $100 computer lasts six years... a $1,000 computer won't last 60 years. You'd have to show that e-waste has an incredibly high cost to justify that thinking.
Contact all the members and have a discussion. If they are shutting down, they expect to raise a certain amount of money from the assets. If you bid higher, they should sell to your group.

One of the members is probably a lawyer and can provide further advice.

Maybe form a non-profit organization.
Not sure why this is downvoted.

Either advertising is effective to some degree, in which case banning it would necessarily help curtail consumption.

Or it's ineffective, in which case it would necessarily save a ton of wasted resources and man hours.

I would happily defend the position that advertising does more harm to society than good, if anyone is willing to reply in good faith instead of just cowardly downvoting me into oblivion.

Just look at the cosmetics industry, the fashion industry, and the modelling industry. Industries that arguably provide next to no tangible worth to society, are run by sketchy people and wreak havok on the mental health of young people, girls especially. They're terrible for the climate, you got companies like HM using child labour, and generally inhumane working conditions, to create low quality clothes that break quickly, so they can sell even more. These industries are pretty much completely dependent on advertisement, and devoid of moral and ethical fibre.

Then look at IKEA, running ads bragging about their refurbished furniture, while their business model still relies on cheap, illegally sourced wood from the Balkans and planned obsolescence. Why are they allowed to so falsely represent themselves as "sustainable"?

Then you have the whole surveillance capitalist industrial complex of Facebook, Google, etc. Heavily ad based business models.

The ad industry is clearly out of control. It's a tumour on our society.

I probably wouldn't go as far an outright ban myself, but I would definitely welcome far, far more savage regulation of it.
Wet forest land cools the air. When humid air hits cold air you get rain. We don’t know the extent to which biological systems create their own rain, but we know it’s greater than zero. Also ground water recharging helps restore the water table, which helps keep the flow rate of the river higher for longer.

So yes, keeping water in the system longer doesn’t magically increase the rate you can draw it down… unless it does.
Are quantum computers being used in economically significant ways that only are possible with quantum computers yet? If so, what is the best example?

Last time I checked few years ago, my understanding was the answer was still no; specifically, believe I asked Scott Aaronson as a follow up question to a talk he gave:

https://www.scottaaronson.com/
It is true that svn has improved over the years since dvcs became mainstream. New workflows developed as well. Unfortunately no one wants to use anything but git+hub any longer. Networks effects sucked all the air out of the room. gitlab is decent I have to say however.
You don't control the myriad of routers between you and your server, and between the server and its destination. One reason to use commercial VPNs is to at least attempt to launder your packets.
You're only following the winners, but computer science has also had a lot of flops, too. Time will tell if quantum computers is one of those, but it sure isn't looking great so far.
really? They are fingerprinting video out or something?
How is minDALL-E better than DALL-E mini?

I can run DALL-E mini with the MEGA model with 12 GB of VRAM. What are the requirements for minDALL-E in terms of VRAM?
Is a child who cannot verbalize why they are ignoring a question considered non-sentient in your eyes? What about an adult that is a dumb mute and communicates via agitated screams? How about those barely clinging onto life support, whose brain activity can be meausred but for all intents and purposes never really have a chance of communicating other than faint electronic signals requiring expensive tools just to perceive? Still sentient?
A great writeup about Shor's algorithm linked in the article: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=208
I'll also add that if it's a case that doesn't require more than one process writing simultaneously, sqlite really shines. I know that's probably not satisfying in a thread that starts as "i want fs transactions" - but it's a solid consolation prize.

they've put a lot of effort into making it work well even in likely-to-crash situations (e.g., running on a phone with a user who doesn't tend to the battery)

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html

https://www.sqlite.org/hirely.html
https://youtu.be/kgCUn4fQTsc

Not supporting the guy, but just pointing out that he doesn't actually believe his claim. He's an activist.
Except well trained circus animals have the capacity for depression.
it was certainly lacking few years ago when I used it instead Nova and last drop to move back to Nova was dev censoring apps he doesn't like and consider pirated or supporting piracy, these days main dev left team after another dev was found stealing code from Pixel launcher and implementing it exposing Lawnchair to legal issues

since this Nova announcement I checked Hyperion and Neo launcher and those are pretty much unusable for power user, so currently the best option seems to stick with 7.0.57, disable updates (or resign tge APK for instance through Mixplorer) and not allow it internet access
I can run DALL-E mini with the MEGA model with 12 GB of VRAM. What are the requirements for minDALL-E and MEGA, in terms of VRAM?
Seeing Extravert with an "a" instead of an "o", as in Extrovert, really bugged me. When these sorts of things happen, I normally try to dig and find out the why and wherefore of the situation. Sometimes, the difference is regional. Sometimes I am wrong. Sometimes I am right. As things turned out, there is a story here.

Below is a portion of the page contents from https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/01/extrovert-extrave... to discuss this issue.

Extrovert or extravert?
January 11, 2016

Q: I make a point of using “extravert,” not “extrovert,” because that’s how Myers-Briggs spells it. I did the personality test and learned I’m neither an “introvert” nor an “extravert.” I’m right on the line—I call myself an “ambivert.” Your thoughts?

A: We’ve checked six standard dictionaries and all of them list “extrovert” as the principal spelling for someone with an outgoing or gregarious personality, though five include “extravert” as an acceptable variant. The two spellings showed up in writing at about the same time, “extravert” in 1916 and “extrovert” in 1918, according to citations in the Oxford English Dictionary. Etymologically, “extravert” is the term one would expect. In Latin, extra means outside and vertere means to turn. So an “extravert” turns outward.

...

Despite the questionable etymology of “extrovert,” speakers of English overwhelming prefer it to “extravert,” which explains why “extrovert” is the principal spelling in standard dictionaries. The term “extravert” is more at home in the literature of psychology. That’s why the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the personality questionnaire you filled out, lists “extraversion,” not “extroversion,” as a psychological preference. As Oxford Dictionaries online explains, “The original spelling extravert is now rare in general use but is found in technical use in psychology.”

In fact, standard dictionaries generally define the term one way in the language of psychology and another way in common usage. In psychology, according to the online Merriam-Webster’s Unabridged, it refers to “one whose attention and interests are directed wholly or predominantly toward what is outside the self.” In general usage, however, it simply refers to “a gregarious and unreserved person,” Merriam-Webster’s says. However, the principal spelling in dictionaries is “extrovert,” whether the word is used in the psychological or the general sense.

...
Did they also ask the laborers from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc.. how it's going in Dubai? Or they're not expats enough? More like.. migrant workers.
the incentive part of ISO is you don't pay regular tax - other stock options you do though. unless you're talking about an 83b election(early exercise), or double trigger rsus, but those are not really types of options. also, amt limits are rather low, they didn't adjust for inflation for a long time so its surprisingly easy to hit, anecdata but I know a ton of people hit by it