skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note the one of those limited, presently suitable areas in the US is Yellowstone: a geographically immense caldera. But if this tech proves cheap enough, as it may in time, we'll be able tap geothermal anywhere rather than pay to transport or transmit the energy. That's what's notable about the tech:

"Houde began his talk with a quote from the Department of Energy’s 2019 Geovision report, an analysis of the geothermal industry in the United States: 'Supercritical resources can be found everywhere on Earth by drilling deep enough…Drilling to this depth is financially prohibitive with existing technology…Economic production of supercritical resources will require the development of entirely new classes of drilling technologies and methods.'

Quaise is working to that end."

https://bioengineer.org/quaise-inc-drilling-technology-could...

Here's hoping the pudding will prove palatable.
With solar arrays now operational, Lucy’s got some shimmering to do
Well that was easy:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/migrations/migrating...
It all gets turned into heat anyway. Whether at the solar panel or in the electrical transmission process, inverters, or the actual devices being powered.
While that is true on rhetoric - on practice it is not. While 60% of bills went through parliamentary scrutiny prior to 2014 - the number today is just above 10%. Also Modi has the distinction of passing maximum bills without debate and bypassing the state senate altogether.
> Middle-class-or-better people don’t like to talk about money... You realize you are talking to people who have a problem you can’t solve for them.

This extends to not wanting to discuss salary with coworkers, by the way. The common conception is the bosses want to hold us down so they tell us not to talk about it. But I’ve been in multiple situations where I didn’t want to.

I knew I was making more, and it wasn’t because i was the best- in some cases I was lucky, sometimes I just negotiated better. But in either case there’s really no upside to disclosing.
For what it's worth, what I would call the "fake SUV" from Ford (the Escape) is listed starting @27k. The Explorer, you might call a real SUV, starts @35k.
That's just wrong. About 5% of cars are scrapped every year. Many people need to buy a replacement vehicle on short notice because their old car suffers a catastrophic mechanical failure, or is totalled in a collision.
Apparently the Right Time to Start Farting in Front of Your Boyfriend
What will motivate people to develop their careers and businesses beyond the middle class level? Flying a private jet is about the only thing of any benefit that someone making $1M per year cannot do while someone making $10M per year can.
I don't think it's possible. "Knowing" and "understanding" are inherently human experiences. The most reasonable thing to do would be to invent new terms and relegate the older ones, that have too much cultural baggage attached to them.

The same way when the creator of humanity turned out to be "evolution by natural selection" we didn't redefine the term "God" to mean that. Eventually we just started using the new term.
The problem is that a certain segment of society is passing laws insisting that everyone neatly fit into 2 distinct buckets. Also, insisting that the bucket you were categorized in at birth is immutable. They are using the phrase “biological sex”, where as this paper shows, that concept is both ill defined and messy.
>Try again

I don’t need to try again, I own the GeoCities trademark and IP.

I’m really not sure what you are on about in terms of your hate for crypto & DAOs but love for Coinbase, whatever it is, your suspicion isn’t a reflection on me and what I’m doing with GeoCities, it’s a reflection of yourself. Good luck with all that.

They say you haven’t made it until you have haters…so thanks for spending your time and energy confirming that I’ve arrived.
"falling apart" seems like a clickbait headline compared to the actual content. As usual.
In the past we used to make the sacrifice ourselves, by throwing such beautifully perfect people into a volcano or similar.
> We'll see if Apple's ad efforts extend beyond the App Store but even so, the incentives here are all fucked up. Why bother making App Store search better and cleaning up spam/scam apps when these problems enable a new revenue stream in the form of paid placements?

All commercial vendor app stores are trash fires. We need anti-trust action to force the ability to subscribe to alternative app stores. There's just no incentive to improve them once users are locked in and as you say there are often perverse incentives to do the opposite.

I'm really glad both power users and developers on the Mac roundly rejected the Mac App Store. I actually do use it for things like communicator apps and other limited-scope apps since auto-updates are nice, but if Apple pushed app-store-only for Mac or even made installing apps outside the store too hard (pushing via dark pattern) it's one of the things that would drive me off the platform.

I realize there are security benefits but like I said the App Store is a trash fire. They all are.
I remember seeing bits of an old movie when I was young that used this has a plot device: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22504592

Made about $600, put it toward a treadmill that I then sold because it sucked.
Oower ICs require a mostly seperate form of bleeding-edge manufacturing knowledge. Power electronics has been improving immensely over the last few decades, in large part due to such advances.
The "New China" has long been famous for bombastic threats.
Just as long as the math is correct and it doesn't turn out to have the opposite effect..
Related:

If you want to read policy research on Indian goverment PRS research is a good resource. They usually analyse new bills and amendments in Indian parliament.

https://prsindia.org/
I had a similar experience. I would write whatever I felt like writing and put it up on my blog, but the first real appreciation I got was on reddit and later HN.

This doesn't make me any money, because I don't monetize my blog. But having people read, critique and enjoy my writing has given me immense satisfaction over the years. Can't put a price on that.
This is one of the main reasons I moved all critically important services (Government accounts, banking) to a different email provider. I should really do the same for SSO with Google account, but damn it's convenient...
Backbone One – an officially licensed controller for Playstation
It should be, except there's a significant subset of the population (in the US) that is actively complicating the issue to score political points.
>Today it’s a tragedy that air travels enjoy very low fuel taxes while better forms of transportation has higher taxes.

that's more of an artifact of what "fuel taxes" represent. For roads at least they're not typically taxed as some sort of sin/environment tax, they're taxed as a way to finance road maintenance. Obviously that does not apply to airplanes. I'm not sure about other "better forms of transportation" (trains? boats?) have fuel taxes.
https://prsindia.org/
Baserow: Open-source no-code database and Airtable alternative
Having a gay CEO in times of re-emerging bigotry and homophobic oppression probably does help make Apple genuinely committed to some privacy for its own sake, and its revenue model does give it more latitude to serve the needs of customers.

But at the same time when it comes to advertising, it's clear that Apple has the same sense of self-serving "we mean private between you and us, not private to you. Total coincidence that that means we can build a walled garden around our ad platform" that is an industry norm in the US.

I recently unlocked my iPad mini while staying in downtown Boston. Right there on the Home Screen was a geo-based app suggestion for Dunkin' Donuts. It felt very wrong, like when a Smart TV tries to give you a suggestion. I don't want my iPad spying on me. I've never used the Dunkin' Donuts app and had no interest. Apple had clearly used my location to target me with a suggestion. That told me everything I need to know about how far they are willing to push privacy.
This draws a very strange line around people who visibly display sex ambiguity and those who don't in terms of which gender roles are available to whom.
The goal is to disincentivize people from speculating, especially in the housing market.

Low rates -> more money flowing into housing markets -> higher rents
The only real solution to the abuse of anonymous protocols is to stop using anonymous protocols and use protocols where clients can be held accountable. But that's politically nonviable in the West.
I've got your book sitting on my coffee table right now.

My primary reason for picking it up was to get my head around writing a triangle rasterizer from scratch. I found it to be a really good reference that addresses some of the nastier things like clipping, which most other tutorials happily omit.

At some point, I will probably end up writing my own book about all of this as well. I don't know that any 2 people can ever have the same trip through this jungle.
Its not the licence shit that bothers me, its the absolute garbage state of GNU maintained code.
One more reason to learn the command line.

Once you know how git cli works, any UI is easy to understand.

No vendor lock in.
I think "understanding" is a super vague word.
If it takes < 1 month to build, and it fixes an issue you encounter every day, then it’s worth building an MVP of and putting it out there.
I doubt it. I remember the uproar about those body scanners that look through your clothes. That seemed to be the closest we came towards actually re-evaluating the TSA and what kinds of measures they make passengers take at the airport. Nothing came of it, and now it is normalized.

I don't believe forcing CEOs and celebrities to go through the same process as us proles will result in any meaningful change.
A sad consequence of one political party having a majority in the parliament. Modi supporters tout it as a harbinger of efficiency bill passing when in reality it's just eroded democracy.
Immediately. We're all human, we all do it, many of us find it funny, and anyone who would judge or dump you for a human bodily function isn't worth being with.
> This is a free update for existing Tower users.

Given the pricing model precludes ongoing use without ongoing payment, this would seem to be a rather disingenuous thing for them to say.
What? No. There's still electric leaf blowers allowed. They exist and work fine (but are a little more expensive)
Supply chain shocks and an official Chinese ban on exports are very, very different scenarios.
Also worth noting that the internet has massively accelerated the importance of English already.

As an ESL speaker who grew up on the internet, Norwegian was more or less useless to me outside school and family. Most of my time was spent on the internet, reading and writing lots of English. Norwegian wikipedia is pretty much useless unless you don't know English. That's still true today for the vast majority of articles, but back then was universally the case.

There were Norwegian forums, but with a population of just 4 million and change at the time, they were never as interesting or active as international/American forums and IRC channels.

In fact I'd say Norwegian is only my native language in spoken form, whereas English feels more natural to me to write and read. Doesn't help that Norwegian has two very divergent written forms, either.

I even write my private notes in English, even though I will be the only one reading them.
It was irony
>That's just reality.

Except it really isn't. If the datasets used, truly represented everyone in the world, that would be a reasonable argument. The point is that right now, the most cheaply available and voluminous data sets online tend to have a whole bunch of examples from western nations and far fewer from other parts of the world, for the simple reason that historically most of the people taking photographs and sticking them on webservers were from those places.

"Reality" doesn't have the same statistical anomalies as these data sets (e.g. there are a hell of a lot more people with brown skin in the world than are included in common training data), so "that's just reality" really isn't a strong argument.

This is a very, very common problem in ML and isn't limited to politically-charged words. For example, in some of the earliest attempts at using computer vision to detect tanks in an image for military purposes, the photographs with tanks in them all had different lighting than the ones without tanks and so the (super simplistic ML model) overfit the model based on a bias in the data. Unless the data set is truly representative, you'll often get biases in the resultant model.

> If you have your own set of politically correct answers hardcoded by a team of blue haired people you're not doing machine learning.

Well, this is just silly. We all know Deepmind has a policy of only allowing green hair dye on campus.
Not sure it's just desktops. Laptops are probably reaching the point desktops did 10 years ago: current models are capable enough that only the small number of power users see a need to upgrade.

EDIT: Just remembered also that sales boomed two years ago due to the sudden need to have a voice conferencing computer. People did their upgrade cycle early.
What is you're "Hello, world... again" project? for the trial?

Maybe you have a small trial project for each language which you support, allowing for a quick evaluation with real results?
I'm a bit of cynic and I think part of Apple's privacy push is that they see the writing on the wall - advertising is way less valuable than the current customers of advertising think it is, and by removing a bunch of the "targetability" of said advertising they can get closer to the more profitable advertising of yore (where you couldn't directly track all metrics all the time).
Let's not play word games.

Do you know what a giraffe is? No, you just know what a giraffe looks like, where it lives, and maybe that it's vaguely related to a horse.
This might be the most Nautilus article ever.
I have a phrase I'd like to coin in contrast to AI. "Artificial Bullshit". AB.

I of course mean "bullshit" in the highly technical sense defined by Frankfurt [1]. The defining feature that separates a bullshitter from a liar is that a liar knows and understands the truth and intentionally misrepresents the matters of fact to further their aims, whereas a bullshitter is wholly unconcerned with the truth of the matters they are discussing and is only interested in the social game aspect of the conversation. Bullshit is far more insidious than a lie, for bullshit can (and often does) turn out to be coincident with the truth. When that happens the bullshitter goes undetected and is free to infect our understanding with more bullshit made up on the spot.

DallE generates the images it thinks you want to see. It is wholly unconcerned with the actual objects rendered that are the ostensible focus of the prompt. In other words, its bullshitting you. It was only trained on how to get your approval, not to understand the mechanics of the world it is drawing. In other words, we've trained a machine to have daddy issues.

A profoundly interesting question (to me) is if there's a way to rig a system of "social game reasoning" into ordinary logical reasoning. Can we construct a Turing Tarpit out of a reasoning system with no true/false semantics, a system only designed to model people liking/disliking what you say? If the answer is yes, then maybe a system like Dalle will unexpectedly gain real understanding of what it is drawing. If not, systems like Dalle will always be Artificial Bullshit.

[1] http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_...
I'd expect we'd use this energy source for only 50-100 years, before tech & science developments makes it obsolete.

So it's the wrong time to worry about effects after that.
I think geothermal can be part of a solution, as can solar, and nuclear, and wind, etc. We need all hands on deck here. I think you're not wrong to worry about cooling the interior of the Earth too much, but that's a much slower problem we would have plenty of time to adapt to. Millions of years is longer than humans have been a species. Given all the other very viable energy options out there, I don't see us overdoing it on the geothermal front. Global warming on the other hand is going to fuck us up over the next century.

One thing I would like to see happen is tap the energy at Yellowstone in a big way. We want to cool that down before it blows up in our faces.
> In Submissions

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> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

Also dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32331781
This thread was made 2 hours ago, it's 745AM in silicon valley, where majority of people on this site are at... Don't expect it to explode so fast with people sharing.

The difference between your anecdotes and everyone else's is they aren't saying "Well only 6 people replied to this thread in the first hour and a half, therefore I claim nobody has made money from HN"
Understanding modular and functional programming with JavaScript and Firebase 9
Good to know :)

Edit: I just noticed the list has one requirement for an emoticon, and another for an emoji. Carry on.
It could be that a route is down between your ISP and their server.
http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/ has links to a ton of really great examples of technical writing
Gitea can import all those things, it's referred to as a Migration - you can sign up for a free account on, say, codeberg.org and give it a try before committing to running your own instance. Click the + button top right after logging in and choose New Migration -> Gitlab and follow your nose. Create an access token in your Gitlab account first, Gitea will need to use it.
Venus doesn’t have an internal magnetic field and has a thicker atmosphere than earth.
“ It actually knows what a giraffe is.”

No. You know what a giraffe is, Dall•E simply creates pixel groups which correlate to the text pattern you submitted.

Watching people discuss a logical mirror scares me that most people are not themselves conscious.
LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained
Vogtle 3 approved to load fuel
Sublime Merge is terrific. I've been using it since 2019 and haven't had any issues. Was such a massive leap up from SourceTree.
Unfortunately, in app data collection and in OS data collection in a completely uncustomizable OS is unavoidable.

Watch as they cripple Safari to no longer be able to block their own services (or collect it in the background)
>In what way would this benefit the organization?

Who cares. Benefit the customers. Improve the world you live in.
We don't really have noblesse oblige these days. (If we ever did)
Similar to the level of healthcare one receives in the US as a function of wealth, so is the level of mobility.

Litmus test: if cost was not a factor, wouldn't you prefer to travel via private jet?

Tells me that we're still hurting for better mobility in this world.
Augmenting jobs is more likely, from what I have heard. It would be useful for rapid prototyping of artwork and could help designers get design specs to artists quicker.

The initial impressions are that production ready designs will require an artists touch. But this discussion was in the context of AA-Games and up. For indie and small games fully AI produced art may be fine.
I’ve had a few HN posts reach the front page and they’ve enabled me to make many tens of thousands of dollars just this year.

How? Well my penchant for yak shaving SOMETIMES produces interesting projects —- so now people and companies pay me to do interesting work/experiments/writing with their software (or software we both like).

Some recent examples:

- https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-06-rise-of-o11y/

- https://supabase.com/blog/2022/07/18/seen-by-in-postgresql

It’s often very hard to produce something of high quality (I’m still working at it) —- I’m essentially doing controlled rabbit hole rappelling —- but as far as paid work goes it doesn’t get much better than this.

Can’t ask for more than working with prestigious companies to do interesting greenfield work to actually accomplish something — the incentives are aligned and it’s awesome.

I’ve liked this so much I’ve started trying to branch out and find more companies to work with, it might change the course of my career.
Max Factor's Beauty Calibrator: A beauty-measuring device, 1930s
I've used GitUp for years: https://gitup.co

Free, open source, and has really nice keyboard navigation / shortcuts.
If she doesn't trust me enough to fart in front of me, she probably doesn't trust me enough to fuck, either.
Columbia Engineering Roboticists Discover Alternative Physics
I'm a Data Scientist who builds ML models. My bachelor's is in psychology, I just studied and learned how these algorithms work.
When people downvote something I wrote because it's sharing an opinion they don't like it, I kinda get it, that's not really what HN downvotes are for, but sure.

However in cases like this what I wrote was just a fact about a world which they weren't aware of, I'm not sure what they hope to achieve by downvoting.

ivanbakel wrote "In order for password security to work, you have to send Steam your actual password" and that's not true. It's not going to become more true if you can just delete my comment explaining why it's not true, that's not how our universe works.
I think caravan might be extremely left wing though.
Instead of banning them, tax airplane emissions enough to remove an equivalent amount of carbon from the air. At scale this is in the range of $150/T.

For example, if you fly commercial BOS-LAX for $500 this means your flight costs something like $200 in carbon removal, while if you're in a large private jet emitting 150x you'd need to pay more like $30k.
Pictures of Snow King Chairlifts without any safety bars, 1950-1970
+1 for Sublime Merge, I use it every day and love it. Also seems to be one of the few git clients with Linux support, surprisingly.
Any OS vendor that tries to trick or harangue you into signing into/up for cloud services and telemetry before you even log into your device for the first time is absolutely not privacy-oriented. That Apple automatically opts users into everything and tries to alarm them with popups if they dare opt out should have made things clear enough.

The only way that Apple has managed to seem even sort of focused on customer privacy is that Microsoft is my now so god-awful and free software desktops are so marginal that most people no longer trulyv remember what it's like to even set up a system whose mission is not to monetize the user by plugging them into a ton of services that collect data about them.

The only companies not tempted to do this are (some of) the ones that don't collect data like this in the first place.
I'm a little paranoid about getting locked out of my account because what if the automated service provider thinks I'm not who I claim to be? Hence I see the advantage of being able to reset passwords in person.

What I prefer is being able to reset it online, but also having the ability to physically go somewhere and reset it in person as a last resort.

Also, wouldn't this (in-person reset only) be hard to scale beyond a certain point?

If there's a million users, and 0.1% (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) needs to reset their password everyday, that's 1000 resets everyday.

On an 8 hour workday, there's 480 minutes; you'll have to verify and reset a little more than two people every minute. Or you could hire more people, which raises costs.

This is hard to scale.
Could be for a lot of reasons. Probably something to do with the infrastructure of your ISP. Often it is caused by DNS issues, failing ip4/6 translation by your ISP etc.
Isn't Sublime Merge also Saas at $75 a year per user for a business license? (which is slightly cheaper than Tower's Pro license)