skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The power co's have a legal monopoly and in the vast majority of states the commission that regulates these utilities have members that are open bought-and-paid for by the utilities. Thus, they'll never realistically stand a chance unless someone came along with a bigger checkbook. There aren't many companies that want to get into the power business these days that have billions of dollars and the know-how to operate power plants and all the distribution to reach nearly every home.

However, this is ripe for disrupting like Uber did by skirting laws in many areas. Could it possibly be legal to 'provide' power and create a residential subdivision with a microgrid and the price is part of the sale of the house?
Use some of those six figures to go to a tech festival or camp like CCC or Bornhack and you'll find plenty of fun and smart people.
The USA developed the technology, holds the patents, and licensed them to ASML. They basically are our machines. That’s why Trump was able to block the China deal.
Eh Make is not good for most problems -- see experiences here by dwheeler, me, frankohn:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32301606

And this other thread I linked there, with feedback from FreeBSD engineers:

https://lobste.rs/s/7svvkz/using_bsd_make#c_bfwcyc

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Ninja basically gives you the parts of GNU make that are good, without the cruft and slowness. And you can learn it in 20 minutes, unlike GNU make
Languages with GC generally have much cleaner and simpler APIs.
Especially USAGE with a few common examples, yet not a huge tome.
It is absolutely possible to earmark government funding and arguments to the contrary are cynical at best and deceptive at worst.

You can offset internal Rd investment with gov money and use that elsewhere, sure, but when the magnitudes are large and immediate, that doesn't play. You get one check, and it better be spent on the intended cause in X fiscal years or you pay it back.

The tech community has suffered under the Cost Plus and other workaround bullshit for long enough that the cynicism is inbred. But there's plenty of gov funded RD money that does precisely what it was invested to do.
> According to the article, a total of 6.1 terawatt hours of electricity was lost in Germany in 2020 (the latest available figure)

I don't think it makes sense to count all of that as "lost", at least in the sense of framing it as mismanagement.

If you want solar to supply a large part of a country's electricity, you have to overprovision to cover cloudy days, which automatically means that only a very sunny day, you'll produce more electricity than you can use, since large-scale storage is not yet feasible.
Since you talk so casually about travelling the world, please read your contract and local regulations to know what you can and can't do. For example, one can't just move to San Francisco and work from there. If you can, understand the legal (mostly taxes) implications.
Site is unusable on mobile. Anyone got a backup link?
The "RPG" element of "obviously good, obviously evil" decision always felt contrived to me. Most people would never choose to be evil. Evil grows out of processes much more complicated and human than that.

This seemed obvious to me even when I was 14, but maybe our culture has been stuck in a place where people's understanding of good and evil does not match reality. Propaganda during WWII (or any was, really) would be an obvious culprit.
My Tesla 2021 ModelY came with 4 USB-C ports (plus one in the glove compartment which is only for the camera memory stick). They support PD but they only go up to 9V at about 25W, which seems pretty dumb for a car that contains a 75kWh battery. They'll recharge a laptop but slowly. Still, I'm glad they exist.

The car has a two-phone Qi charger as well.
Consider finding an academic niche in which to really make this product sing; a community that is receptive to the idea. If the PoC can be shown to work in one community, neighboring fields can then point at it and say, "see, this thing is working over in community X. Journal Y is going to take three months to get this reviewed, and this paper is kind of a throwaway -- let's try X and see how it goes."

arXiv started in a narrow niche that absolutely needed it, perhaps the same will happen here.

Long-term, I'm not sure how this system will pay for itself. Keep costs low and dig in for the long haul. Academia can have very low switching costs (a professor can try your service on a whim), but has enough inertia that it can take decades to turn the ship (deans need to know a prospective hire's impact factor in top-tier journals).

Also, as a referee -- pay referees what their time is worth. For real. You'll get real good referees if you do.
Pieplow's books on bird song are fantastic. Each page has a tiiiiny picture of the bird up in the corner, then a big spread of spectrograms and a decent chunk of text to give the spectrograms context: eg, what are the 'typical' parts of it, vs what varies, how likely it is that subsequent vocalizations are the same/different, what to expect in variations by sex and age, and so on.

But my favorite part of the book is the introduction. In addition to just a great intro to reading spectrograms and what's up with bird vocalization physically (they have a syrinx, not a larynx), there's a lengthy section with a kind of 'phonetics' of bird song. It's great.
It's a popular meme so you don't have to have played the game or even really be much of a gamer. You'd have come across it at some point hanging out on social media.
Apparently I suck because I gave up after five tries.
Hi, I just downloaded demucs yesterday and started using it. It's amazing! I really appreciate all the work you put into making it easy to install and understand.

Is there any chance you can disentangle guitar and keyboard? I work a lot with Grateful Dead music and I'd like to be able to pull jerry's guitar out from the keyboard from live shows. Similarly, it would be cool if you could parse shpongle into its consituent tracks, but I think that's probably impossible.
During the piratebay trial, one of the founders got a question about if he had met someone IRL. He replied with that they don't use that expression but AFK (away from keyboard) instead. Becuase IRL (in real life) suggests that internet is not real life, but it is.

What we do online effects our every day life even when we are offline.

I thought that was very sane thinking
Now, let's imagine an APL-like language with precedence:

APL has a huge number of operators and worse, you can and will define your own, as the classic distinction between operators and functions does not apply to APL. So a huge precedence table to memorize! Plus, with user defined operators you would either have to force them to be all the same precedence, which is kind of a bummer, or you allow them to define their own precedence. It should be obvious that this would be a huge mess.

So actually no having precedence is the most sane way forward but you also gain something: Order of precedence errors are quite common both in mathematics and programming. Doing away with precedence rules gets rid of a whole class of errors. Awesome! (If you are going to respond that you never make any errors, well congrats on being smart, I am not. I try to avoid relying on lesser known precedence rules in my code as best as I can.)

So what do we gain from precedence rules again? Shorter and less noisy? Ugh, have you seen APL? I think they are good.

The notation of APL is explicitly designed to be human friendly. Lot's of thought was put into it. I recommend reading this Iverson paper: http://www.sigapl.org/Articles/Notation%20as%20a%20Tool%20of...
Yes and no. That API makes certain approaches easier and other harder. Even if you manage to render only the changed parts of the screen, you still execute all your UI logic all the time so the renderer can be aware of what changed in the first place. Also, more involved stuff like animations become much more complex once you go event-based, to the point where retained mode UI may end up being a better choice from the API perspective. It all depends on what exactly you're implementing, and games often are a natural fit for immediate mode as they usually allow to keep it simple with no real downsides.
I think indie game devs of Pope's talent, motivation and ability are exceedingly rare. We're seeing only those who survive a filter that removes 99%. But the results are absolutely formidable.
"The efficient-market hypothesis is a hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information." from Wikipedia.

There is a huge price spread on nearly-identical products because people don't have enough information to determine which of the various supposedly equivalent products available are more reliable, efficient, safe, etc. and this is reflected in people spending more than necessary.

If, in fact, a particular brand was consistently more reliable than others but priced at a premium then with perfect information everyone would know this and a new manufacturer could introduce a similarly-reliable product at a price point within the spread and everyone would buy that instead.
If you don't have kids with her, move on. She's made clear what her priorities are, or she needs the wakeup call that a failed relationship will bring.
Yup, its a nice Sunday during the Summer time and I'm here on HN.
Can someone please send a drone with powerful LED landing lights down into the hole and rotate for a 360° view? I think it would be interesting to see the rock and dirt layers all the way down.
> “Small-faced bills are not accepted.” The face in question is Benjamin Franklin’s. The black market generally offers 3 percent more for newer $100 notes with Mr. Franklin’s enlarged portrait because they are harder to counterfeit.

I fear we are headed this way even in the U.S. For decades, I've been holding within my residence some for-emergency-use currency in $20s, $50s, and $100s, but am now slowly replacing all my older Benjamins ($100s) with newer ones I get from the ATM every 4-6 weeks. I haven't had much problem spending the older ones (I guess higher prices means making change isn't such a burden for retailers anymore), but they do often get more scrutiny, testing with the special pen, etc.
Not necessarily; if a VM is properly configured userspace is out of the way as much as possible and performance is dictated almost entirely by the processor and the hypervisor, not by QEMU vs. Firecracker.
> Which is why forced birth is making a comeback - the only way to ensure local production now is to ensure you have a permanent underclass you can squeeze for your profits.

Correlation not causation.
Devzat is a custom SSH server that takes you to a chat instead of a shell prompt
"The ultimate effect of pay-to-play is that the traditional peer review and refereeing process has broken down. If a dishonest researcher gets rejected from a reputable journal, they can take their paper to a pay-to-play journal and have it published there. With over 10,000 academic journals, it’s impossible for the lay public to track which journals are reputable and which are not. As far as the public is concerned, a published paper is a valid paper."

Ok, but I take some issue with this.

Most scientific papers are not intended at the general public, but at experts working in the specific area that the paper covers. Also, often these papers are not even understandable by a phd outside the area, let alone a lay person.

Which journals and authors are reputable are known to experts in the area. "Pay to play" papers published in obscure journals will not get much attention or be taken seriously.
You skipped right over “True Tone” which has to use the camera. Because color.
It's also possible to leave your mailing address the same (I like to use a post box) and blur your background on calls and use a VPN router and simply... not tell anyone.

Where you sleep really isn't anyone else's business.

This whole "you can't work from $PLACE while remote, it's illegal!" thing is super overblown. Just keep your mouth shut and live your life.

Your coworkers/customers have no need to know with regards to your physical location.
Awesome effort. I really really hope this makes at least a minor dent in the scientific publishing deadlock.

My 2 cents:
Please be open to suggestions.
Please involve more people, who you feel comfortable working with.
You have solved multiple independent problems of decentralized trust, voting etc. Please try to be agnostic to a specific solution.
Are you not allowed to use Teams / Zoom / whatever on the phone? I used to do this before I had wireless headphones.
> bsd libc is rather more abi stable

I am not sure about other BSDs, but at least OpenBSDs is all but abi-stable; when they wanted to introduce 64-bit time_t to fix Y2038, they just changed the typedef and declared a flag day.
Because people don't trust the activity LED.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/perv-...

Has Apple fixed the issue? Most likely. But do you trust Apple completely? Would a $0.50 piece of plastic solve that trust issue?
Be careful what you wish for.

Here's a comment that I made, a couple of months ago, about someone that I used to work with[0].

I also remember the testimony of Fiona Hill[1]. If you know anything about her, she is seriously credentialed. Heavy duty The Real Deal.

She testified about how she came to the US, because she couldn't catch a break in the UK, with her "distinctive Northern accent."

Me mum[2] was raised by Scouse (Liverpool), and her parents went well out of their way to make sure she talked "posh." Worked a charm, but it was a pain for us sprogs, because she was constantly correcting grammar we'd use ;).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31567522

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/experts/fiona-hill/

[2] https://cmarshall.com/miscellaneous/SheilaMarshall.htm
Making up lies about yourself to make yourself look better than you really are is "fair play"?
If you never seen some of what audio restoration people do with a spectrograph view in Izotope RX, you should check it out. They clean up audio using a process somewhat akin to photoshopping images. The ears are still involved, but it's a very visual process.

I suspect doing it a lot leads to some purposeful synthesia where you can hear things and know what they would look like in a spectrograph.

Here's the first example I could find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKNYYR-uUEo
> people can “tell jokes”

I think his tweet lacked signaling that is was in fact a joke. That makes a difference.
As of February 2022, in the northeast USA alone, there was more than 136GW of backlogged solar capacity awaiting to be connected to the grid. This is the rough equivalent of 80-100 natural gas fired power plants

Source: google search on "PJM Interconnection Backlog"
It's just my anecdotal experience. Hinduism is a decentralized and diverse religion so my Hinduism might be different from my neighbour's Hinduism. The temples we pray in, the festivals we celebrate etc. are all different. My observation of ISKCON is that they are very conservative and sexist in their beliefs and more North Indian in their customs compared to other hindu organizations like the Rama Krishna Math for example. As a South Indian when I go to an ISCKON I feel like I'm in a building of a different religion. I personally feel that the ISCKON's interpretation of the Gita is kinda casteist and sexist and feels like "upholding the status quo".
Note : this is anecdotal and my opinion and I will try to get some snippets on iskcons interpretations of the Gita if I find it.
this is the first time i have seen an emoji rendered here
Happens everyday all day in BigCo land!

You think those execs really did all those things they said they did?
> It’s as if your brain is actually thousands of brains working simultaneously.

I had this epiphany recently while meditating. While trying to make my brain be quiet, I realized that there were different parts that were being quite vociferous and just had a lot to say at that particular moment, a la the "inner voice" phenomena. In this one case I just let them chatter instead of whacking them into submission. And it was then that I realized that consciousness was probably a fairly large collective, like a jellyfish, rather than a single thread.

My innate pattern matching is probably above average. Functionally, something always speaks up and says, "I think I know what that is," with the probable answer, in its estimation at least. I may decide to double check the answer and send it back, soliciting more feedback. But the review process is mostly the same.

I postulate that one of my "brains", "columns", or threads is speaking over the tumult with the possible answer. And the larger your collective of better-trained "brains" in this allegory, the better one will perform at these kinds of exercises.

In the example given, trying to identify a cup based on limited tactile and visual information, there absolutely would be crosstalk while a consensus is formed within probabilistic certitudes.

This is all very much related to the discussion in the past few years about "inner voice", how some have it and some don't, etc. The larger your particular collective, the more chatty your inner voice probably is.

These are just my thoughts after empirically observing my brain after developing fairly good control over it over the past few decades.
I'm a little surprised in ASML's pivot here TBH.

Just earlier this year they were complaining that Chinese companies were ripping off their IP [0] and IIRC even within the last 2-3 years they were themselves hesitant to send bleeding edge tech over for similar reasons. I wonder what has caused their tune to change.

That said, if I'm reading the tea leaves properly...

I think the last couple years were a wake-up call to the US that not only are they overly dependent on other countries for critical components, but that China is far closer to becoming 'self sufficient' than us (1).

Ukraine was a bit of a wake-up call to us, that we are too afraid of nuclear escalation (2) but also to China that embargoes can happen more quickly than you'd expect and hurt almost as fast.

What this means however, is we are now both in a race for self sufficiency on this front.

... Really random question, I wonder why Mexico doesn't have more fabs?

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1 - I think the US has a weird definition of 'self sufficiency' mind you. For instance in some cases it seems the attitude is 'Oh we did that again and can ramp up.' As a general comparison, I'm betting the possibility of getting a '100% China content' vehicle is far higher than getting a '100% USA content' vehicle.

2 - Without getting into it, there was a short window early on in the Ukraine conflict where I would have doubted Putin's willingness to go nuclear. IMO It's one of those cases where the would police card may have been worth playing, were it not for our missteps in using it over the last 20 years.

[0] - https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/11/asml_chinese_rival_ip...
I know it's bad form to complain about downvotes on HN, but I don't understand why your comment is getting downvoted. I'm just above there in West Palm, and while it's certainly not a "tech hub" by any real means, people are putting a lot of energy into turning it into one. It makes it more fun because it's kind of like an underdog thing. Having moved here from NYC, I like the energy in FL more.
> I’ll take an uneducated guess that a big chunk of cases of anxiety and depression are not caused by chemical imbalances, and are simply people’s brains telling them “you’re doing something wrong, correct course!

I've seen people educated in the field saying the same thing. Depression is nature's way to prod you to make a change in your life. Something isn't working. So you're probably not wrong, at least for some fraction of cases.
I knew an American working in the Netherlands without a permit. The company flew him home one weekend a month so he was technically on a 28 day business trip every month. They got him a fax machine and legally his office was his apartment in the USA.
My wife and I stayed in nyc when we were young. With kids now, we are thinking of coming back because of the schools. What is the best way to research the schools that you mention above assuming no prior knowledge.
I seem to recall a phrase involving death and taxes.

Be smart, pay your taxes and don’t have that hanging over your head the rest of your life.
To be fair, success of MSJVM wouldn’t have necessarily meant success for Sun. They made it as far as “Extend” and there was a whole lawsuit about it, culminating around the time Windows XP SP1 was re-released as SP1a minus the MSJVM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine
Unconventional startup culture by LATOKEN CEO (Russian)
CEO defending his method [1]:

BE PARANOIC - YOUR BUSINESS IS STEALING RIGHT NOW ON ZOOM
Or how to survive in crypto and create a scalable product with an effective team of 100-300 people remotely?

Upd. The video can be compared to a torture tape from someone's bedroom. Well, ok, this is "bdsm" with the rules that everyone agreed on and the zoom out button. You need olympic-level bdsm in a startup, that's your only advantage over legacy companies that they can't copy. Did you see the reaction to the video? Can not.

Briefly: New rounds of evolution and products are created by non-standard individuals under the pressure of a threat to survival - open the eyes of the team to it. Build the culture of Olympic athletes with automatic up or out. Describe it and reward with options those who identify free riders who break your rules. Hire and train athletes with case studies, bringing problems and even spanking to the general discussion. Teach them to conflict openly in order to achieve a result. As long as your up or out doesn't work automatically, push as hard as you can to get the result or out so that the free riders don't decompose the athletes. But at the same time, guarantee the execution of contracts, and allow employees to swear at you, but in front of you, and not in the locker room behind the “coach”.

You have to and you can afford it: in web3 channels this is a constant background - in any case, you will be attacked by free riders and thieves, and the public likes it. Think of these attacks as a publicity stunt to magnetize like-minded people who can create the future.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/valentin.preobrazhenskiy/posts/pfbi...
A few decades ago, when learning languages at school, we had access to tape recorders for particular phrases: listen, record, rewind, repeat ad nauseam. Very powerful.

These days recording tech is all around. But study and repeat. Ask friendly people to correct you (at appropriate times) - most won't!
Yes, you can and should pay all of your taxes in the place that the tax authorities believe you reside.
I didn't know that all these gestures are Italian. People around me and myself are used to use them despite we are not Italian
I used to go to meetups but since covid I see few now. Any recommendations for events that still exist?
What interpreter? Why do you assert that it's "not how Bazel would want to do it"?

No, it's not chroot -- it uses a tree of symlinks, created specifically for each process being run, that assumes the process isn't trying to escape the 'sandbox' too much.

At the end of the day, a _strong_ sandbox is going to require some OS-specific support, and this could be seen as a kind of graceful degradation when there's not a better OS-provided sandboxing tool.

(As an aside, your comments seem rather combative and I don't really understand why; we can discuss the merits of this tool without declaring it'll never catch on and won't _do enough_ for your standards.)