skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure why HN always falls into black and white thinking. Maybe engineers aren’t good at seeing gray.

But your point is true. There are good and bad people on each side of every war.

People love to talk about how the South Vietnam government was never democratic and heavily corrupt but never seem to consider the state of the country today in that same light.
everything works for my workflow*.

That said I don't use a lot of kde specific apps, rather opt for best-in-class, and terminal for others. Still - the system itself is stable.
It's not photosynthesis that's .00001% efficient or whatever, it's the whole process, because it's also fuelling the entire lifetime of those organisms before they become fuel in the ground, and all those organisms that don't have just the right conditions for becoming fuel in the ground, and all the fuel in the ground that didn't stay there over those millions of years because it didn't have the right conditions.

And in any case, the problem we need to solve is not at all replicating the amount of energy stored by fuel in the ground. The problem we need to solve is generating the amount of energy we're actually using. And that has the advantage that we know that number quite precisely, instead of having to derive it based on ridiculously imprecise guesses.

And TFA makes a projection for required area using exactly this, and arrives at

> 300 TW of solar generation capacity, occupying about 5% of Earth’s land surface area, and split between roof top installations in cities and dedicated plants on nearby less developed land. For comparison, agriculture uses 18% of Earth’s land surface area, and largely uninhabited deserts are 33%.

And that completely ignores the additional power generation capacity of wind power.
> And, to quote Oliver Sachs: "I'm not sure about octopuses..."

I thought this quote was about the octopus that correctly predicted the outcome of games in a FIFA world cup. But seems it was something else?
A German article [1] summarizes the technique as using the laser to reduce the size of coffee grains without generating enough heat to break apart the aromatic compounds. Based on this explanation, I would say this method is not equivalent to heat extraction.

https://www.scinexx.de/news/technik/skurril-cold-brew-per-la...
I love Carmina Burana. Do you remember how "O Fortuna" captured the public imagination when the film Excalibur (1981) used it, and then a year later, HBO began showing it nonstop?
Breaking a coin's crypto doesn't sound all that amoral to me. People holding those coins have specifically chosen to put their financial faith in tech, instead of society (which they are arguably undermining).

A have less respect for those hacking the minds of the general public.
Ask HN: Dear Cisco, free licenses for home labs?
If anyone from Cisco reads this:
Why not offer free licenses for EOL hardware, with some verification that it is for home-use only?
Besides being great for learning, we also reduce E-waste by using products that corporations can no longer use. But quite often these hardware devices are locked down with no possibility (or budget) to acquire the license costs.
I was under the impression that it was because quantum computers would make the simulation of quantum mechanics significantly faster as well.
>The expected economic lifetime of a building in Germany is approximately 100 years

Source?

Counter examples: my house is built 1908. Lots of other houses built around the same time in the area I live in. My parents live in a house from 1749. The entire village where they live is made of houses built 200+ years ago, it's written on the house in general, hence easy to check.

Hence I very much stand by my prediction it will take 100 years to isolate the vast majority of houses in Europe. Of course it's just a prediction based on my observations, I'm not an expert in the area.
There are plenty of people making $500K total comp annually right here on HN.
Cinnamon feels like the best alternative to me as well, but it didn't work out of the box with my multi-monitor setup when I tried it a few years back.
The house I live in, like everyone's in my street, is from the late 1800s. Insulating those houses from the outside is very expensive, to the tune of 200k, where the house is worth around 500k in the inflated environment we're in. At the very same time, I haven't found a single insurance company willing to insure the house after insulation for insulation related moisture damage.

This makes insulating this house an absurdly bad financial decision, since once you have moisture damage in any part of this material, you can basically demolish most of the walls since it soaks like a sponge.

Mind you, I have not started going into the pitfalls of the legality of even touching a house this old in Germany, where you have to deal with "Denkmalschutz".

Insulating new construction and retrofitting insulation are two absolutely different things and barely have anything to do with each other from the cost-benefit ratio.
It’s known as agrivoltaics [1]. It works especially well with highly shade-tolerant crops like leafy vegetables, stone fruits, berries, etc., but also works with grazing or arable cultivation.

There are various possible configurations of panels that still allow farm machinery to access the crop beneath, and the crop itself is protected from heat stress, wind, heavy rain, and hail. Shading reduces evaporative water loss, lessening the need for irrigation, and the crop has a local cooling effect for the PV panels, which improves their efficiency.

According to an extended report from the Fraunhofer Institute [2], the main challenges are regulatory – at least in Germany, but I imagine similar hurdles in the rest of the EU. Essentially, difficulties obtaining building permits; negation of farming subsidies from enclosure of land; and obstacles to connecting to the grid and receiving feed-in tariffs.

Those challenges all seem surmountable, and there’s surely huge promise in the vast amount of land that would be unlocked for energy generation, never mind the synergies favorable for horticulture in particular.

[1]: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/key-topics/integrated-photo...

[2]: https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/p...
I wish it didn’t take this much crap being sold to make you figure this out.
Precisely :)

This should be a political discussion: Do we want US internet infrastructure to be remote-controlled from China, in exchange for cost savings? Or do we mandate US internet infrastructure providers to train their own US-based employees?

Looking at Comcast's 36% gross profit margin, I don't think they would have any issues employing +100 network engineers to maintain their phone systems themselves ;) They just don't want to.
I knew I'd seen something like this in Julia. Fantastic to see it's already implemented!
So is your friend contacted through LinkedIn or something similar? Because it would be terrible if these shady sellers bribed someone who had just set there company to Amazon but didn't really work there ...
Seems you're more focused on the "my consumer device does new stuff I don't like" issue whereas I'm more focused on the "my nation's telecommunications backbone has a malicious FPGA hidden somewhere so it can man-in-the-middle critical communications" aspect.
> These days companies just slapped the terminology like "artificial intelligence", "blockchain" and "web3" thinking they are innovative

Some startups actually only throw around these terms to get more funding. They may get asked to do more "innovation" with AI when the core system doesn't really need any, so they push more buzzwords into the marketing and maybe tinker a bit with ML on the side.
Four Tet on His 155-Hour Spotify Playlist, the Coolest Thing on Streaming
The very artist who recently prevailed in a legal battle with Domino Records over streaming royalties.
I'm thinking either production or the warehouse still uses manual stamping of lot (or shipment) numbers with those auto-increment stamps... The number is then captured by hand into a system somewhere.

The system worked fine when production was X times smaller, but no attention has been paid to it since it was first designed.
There’s an admin page where you can manage the slug and preview (which correspond to the link url and meta description). E.g., if your email subject is “hello world”, your url will be “/hello-world-a1b2c3d.html” and the default preview/meta description will be the first 200 characters of your email. Now, the admin page lets you edit the subject and the preview. So if you change the subject to “Goodbye World”, your url will change to “goodbye-world—a1b2c3d.html”. Notice how a1b2c3d stays unchanged? That’s the string used to identify the email internally.

I haven’t exactly implemented post editing but I have a Medium style post editor built into my inbox. Next step will be to surface the email in the inbox and reply to myself with the correct content.

Also, sorry for the late reply. I didn’t realize someone had replied to the original comment. Hope it helps.
USPS tracking numbers are at least 22 digits long (depending on shipping method; some can be 27); I don’t think ease of data entry was a priority for them.

22 digits and they somehow still manage to reuse tracking numbers. 10^22 (or 10^20, if we assume some encoding overhead) valid numbers should be able to uniquely identify a lot of mail.
That estimate seems insane. Was that a “we’re too busy, go away” estimate?

How big is the house?
> Why do we still do so much farming in regions that have such marginal water supplies?

If a region has surplus water, and is reasonably flat, it will get used for agriculture until it becomes marginal.

Also global warming is changing the distribution of rainfall and evaporation, so that there may be less water available in the first place.

> Are there no better-irrigated places in the US to grow all these crops?

"There's a great region for agriculture here, but we have nobody to farm it" -- a thing nobody has said in the US since about the foundation of Oklahoma
There's a balance. Let the tourism bring wealth, but let's not get absolutely mugged. A good deal is one where both sides are happy
The primary purpose of a centralised order book is pool liquidity and enable price discovery. Interaction with the fiat system is fairly easy once you have 1 reputable party willing to issue a digital token with 1:1 redemption
The commenter I previously replied to has a PhD in those “other” fields, yet I haven’t seen a falsifiable definition of sentience made by them.

As a field of study, sentience has been a topic of philosophy more than ML. That’s why top-level comment’s claim of having a PhD in “this domain” is not apt. Comparative quality of studies in different domains is a different question.
The first one is a very common technique among siblings too, let one of them split a cake and the other one gets to pick the piece. Applied game theory.
If you have 15m and lose half of it, you are still pretty well off with the 7.5m you retail. Even a quarter of that would get you a house and you probably won't have issues having a stable life, even though both parties have to set up house again.

Half of 35000k - 17.5k - might be the difference between living on your own and having to move in with relatives.

It is basically the difference between some money when you are nearing poor and money while rich - the poorer you are, the more you are going to depend on the money and the bigger difference losing/having it will have on your life.
So, question for any armchair generals or otherwise, has the situation since 1999 changed much with regards to the same political and tribal influence on the military?

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Also this line caught my attention:

> Even the much-lauded Egyptian crossing of the Suez in 1973 at its core entailed a masterful deception plan

It's a reference to Operation Badr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Badr_(1973)
Vodafone to introduce persistent user tracking
Some legacy identifiers come in fixed length fields, insufficient for contemporary usage. I know a company where some identifier should have been lengthened long ago, but that would impact a couple hundred systems (and by system I mean whole applications, front and back) - so they keep plodding on with what they have and yes, it is a drag on operations and it causes endless hacks.
Where I live, I can own a gun if I want to, provided I pass rigorous psychological examination, and repeat it every few years. But because there is practically no guns on the streets, I dont feel the need to. Admittedly, it would be difficult to reconsile my opinions on gun ownership with the need for personal safety if I lived in the US.

But yes, I absolutely do appreciate there being a control structure that prevents psychopaths from going to walmarts artillery section and shooting up a school every other week.

Following the same fallacy you used previously, should we abolish all laws because everyone should be able to excercise their free will completely unrestricted?
Witeguard isn't made to do this . Even the author said so . It's blocked in many countries
If the bots continually outpace the majority of humanity’s purchasing ability does that mean they don’t exist or do they pass some capitalist Turing test? I asked on behalf of all the bots checking for semantic values on social media and then drop shipping unique /s shirts.

I’d link things like this[1] but I can’t be sure you’ll see the same thing I’m linking because they are constantly mutating.

We have to accept the fact that algorithms have reached the tech level of convincing a double digit percentage of humanity to do what the algorithm wants because that is what is current reality

[1] https://newyorkshirtcompany.com/products/queens-are-born-in-...
I Got Scammed on an EVGA Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090
I wonder how common actually duplicated serial numbers are in various things. In some cases they do matter, but in many others not really. Think of the non-smart devices.

And it can often be simple human error. Some fat fingers the wrong range in morning, forgets to list the used codes, reads the wrong line, some glitch preventing machine from saving the last used code...

Just remember how much stuff is made by cheapest possible bidders, who might not be so much interested to deliver best work always.
If you're spying on people who use plain HTTP, why would you expect them to be clever.
Is it bad news for a non-sentient being to hear they are non-sentient?
I'm pretty sure if you offer a high enough bounty, some of the people working to deploy your infrastructure will go searching for those FPGAs.

Also, I expect enthusiast users and large companies to purchase similar devices as small telcos. Scorned network administrators are probably even better bounty hunters.

But yes, I was focusing mostly on the end-user aspect because if you want to create such a law, you need your citizens to like the idea.
A perpetual motion machine. ("Free Energy" has long been a used as a synonym by those who believe it is imminently possible.)
Quebec has a communist government? Wikipedia tells me liberal / constitutional monarchy.
Ok, now the flood of pseudo-"brand" names that you encounter when searching for electronics on Amazon makes much more sense. I searched for a USB-C dock recently and got a wide selection of items from "brands" such as Lemorele, Sitecom, GIISSMO, Probuk, Baseus, Hulier, Inateck etc. etc. etc.
> I think most physicists think that if you started with a description of the positions and velocities etc of all the particles in a human, and put them into a supercomputer the size of the moon, and had the computer run a simulation using the standard model, then the simulated human would act identically to a real human.

Just created a throwaway to reply to this. As a trained therapist (currently working in another field), with a degree in psychology, this seems... Seriously ill informed. Do physicists really think this?

Imagine you create your perfect simulated human, that responds according to the exact phenotype of the person you're simulating. Lets remember you'll have to either duplicate an existing person, or simulate both the genotype and the in-vitro environment (especially the mix of uterine hormones) present for the developing foetus. Now you have to simulate the bio, psycho, social environment of the developing person. Or again, replicate an existing person at a specific moment of their development - which depending on which model of brain function is correct may require star trek transporter level of functional neuroimaging and real time imagining of the body, endrocrhine system etc.

So lets assume you can't magically scan an existing person, you have to create a believable facsimile of embodiment - all the afferent and efferent signals entering the network of neurons that run through the body (since cognition doesn't terminate in the cortex). You have to simulate the physical environment your digital moon child will experience. Now comes the hard part. You have to simulate their social environment too - unless you want to create the equivalent of a non-verbal, intellectually disabled feral child. And you have to continually keep up this simulated social and physical environment in perpetuity, unless you want your simulated human to experience solitary psychosis.

This isn't any kind of argument against AGI, or AGI sentience by the way. It's just a clarification that simulating a human being explicitly and unavoidably requires simulating their biological, physical and social environment too. Or allowing them to interface with such an environment - for example in some kind of biological robotic avatar that would simulate ordinary development, in a normative social / physical space.
This is how my mom avoided fights about the fair sharing of cakes and pies between me and my siblings :D It works well!
I never understood the laziness of the coal lobby, why would they not want to own the next new energy source en mass. They could have blanketed the hunter and all of FNQLD with arrays and just printed money.
Such a classic stuffy old white man style way of trying to bend the world to their way of thinking. Though it did work for a while, I must admit.
> I mean, it could be interesting to discuss a more European style of employment where he couldn’t be fired for this

As a French person employed by a French Company, I can assure you that a regular employee talking to the media without the proper chain of approval is a fire-able offence (without any severance). Especially if your comments are not a glowing praise of the company.
That's not what alimony is.

The person staying at home has given up work, and cannot enter the workforce in the same way after marriage because they've not been in the workforce for years. They've given up earning potential for you to work and alimony (in theory) is to make sure you are regulating someone to poverty after they gave up that earning potential to be a homemaker without the benefits of employment (days off, insurance, hourly wage).

In states without alimony, you just split the stuff and move on. This is what you describe - divorce without alimony.
> That use case alone completely justifies investing into them

Not at very massive scale of investments required.

Take for example, GPGPU (general purpose graphics processing unit). The wast investment needed to get there was funded by gaming industry. Supercomputers as a investment target were tiny compared to gaming and general purpose computing.

AI boom was created on a tails of gaming industry and the benefits spilled into scientific computing as well.
Current consumer friendly rack battery LFP prices are at around 400 EUR/kWh, here an example of a 5.12 kWh for 2100 EUR:

https://www.europe.sokbattery.com/product-page/sok-battery-1...

These are rated for 6000 cycles to 80% degration, so if we take an average of 90% assuming linear degration we will be able to output 6000 by 0.9 so 5400 kWh for each kWh of battery capacity before the battery reaches 80% of its original capacity.

400 EUR divided by 5400 is 0.074 EUR per kWh out the the battery, an order of magnitude lower than the 0.80 EUR per kWh you quoted.

These have low self discharge but capacity prices (price per kWh stored in the battery) are way too high to do seasonal storage.

Note: if you DIY the battery it's half the price: 150-200 EUR/kWh at the cell level currently.
That reads like Wolfram is generally pretty ignorant of the current state of quantum measurements. We can do continuous measurements now that barely perturb the system (Google “quantum non demolition” and “weak measurement”). Also while measurements are difficult to explain in QM (incompatible with Schrodinger equation) our theory of them is quite rich and complete now. This just seems rambling and imprecise from Wolfram. We can actually do the idealised measurement, which is why the standard quantum limit is such a big deal in gravitational wave detectors

EDIT: I should actually qualify the above, in order to surpass the standard quantum limit we will turn GW detectors into QND (quantum non demolition) detectors using techniques such as frequency dependent squeezing (see Kimble 2000) which is an ideal measurement
Absolutely, and the thing about old houses is that they've evolved to keep moisture and ventilation in check without access to modern tech. Modern tech, as you point out, usually makes things worse.

My house in Sweden is from the 1950's and I still had to be _very_ mindful when adding insulation. The best thing I've found is cellulose-based insulation, basically shredded newspapers lined with salts and pressed to sheets. The can buffer a lot of moisture without developing mold.
Sorry to bring this out of the blue, but I can't resist.

The developer in these tweets is surprised that this Chromebook can run Flutter applications. This just shows how bloated and slow software development has become. Why wouldn't a low-powered device such as this run an application without a problem? I guess when you're developing and testing on thousand dollar computers, you don't really consider all the millions (likely billions) of people running low-end computers such as these.
Thanks. You absolutely nailed what I have been doing yet always have had trouble to explain. This is exactly it. Thank you!

Where's your book?
Small world - I'm the (as of 4 days ago former) board chair of a makerspace in Salt Lake City[0]. Our former shop manager is from Port Townsend and couldn't say enough about you guys.

We are also a financially sustainable nonprofit. I'm convinced that's the only long term viable way to do a makerspace that targets hobbyists and small businesses/craftspeople.

[0] https://makesaltlake.org
Some wording seems a little off in this (don't know why/how), but no paywall:

https://www.businesslend.com/technology/inside-ukraines-open...

This is an archived copy of the original:

https://archive.ph/QUajh
And this is why we need nuclear proliferation.
Those generals were on the losing side ... when you are winning it is a bit more complicated.
yeah, I have a theory that "goodness of product" is inversely proportional to[(number of buzzwords squared) times (no. of emojis + font size on homepage)]
What people don't realize is that solar power is not enough to support industrial production. Neither is hydro and wind power.

To have enough solar energy, you would need huge fields of panels where the sun shines bright. Panels block the sunlight beneath, so you can't plant anything where the panels are. On the other hand, you need space for agriculture. So, you see where the problem is.

Large wind turbines also need a lot of space to be efficient. And you can't just place those anywhere, either. Wind turbines need strong wind to work.

Hydro power plants need water flow to generate energy. So you can't have those anywhere, of course.

The only reliable and eco-firendly way to generate power are nuclear power plants. You can build them anywhere, they produce small waste per output and they require about the same space as any coal-based plant.

Sadly, you need good experts and no bad luck to operate them safely. Otherwise, we saw what happens.