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Yes, historically, all major economic booms coincide with some dramatic evolution in the use of energy. If you stop thinking about renewables as some hippy pipe dream and start thinking about them as a roughly two orders of magnitude drop in cost for energy, it's immediately obvious that this is going to kick off another such boom and that it will happen a lot faster than some people expect precisely because of that drop in price.

Initially, not a lot of people believed this and it was kind of expensive to e.g. put solar on your roof and even make the argument that it was at all economical to do so. That changed a few years ago and people around the world are doing the math and coming to the conclusion that these systems pay for themselves in well under half their supposed life time. Ever since that became obvious, there is a lot of demand for solar panels. Companies building more or better panels are popping up everywhere. There's a lot of innovation happening. And the net result is better, cheaper, technology produced at a rapidly expanding scale. We have already hit the point that even the subsidies and incentives that are available for this are not technically needed any more.

IMHO, learning effects, and ongoing research will cause cost to drop much further still. We have nowhere near reached the point of what is technically feasible here at all. What happens when you drop the cost of energy by about 100x in a few decades or so? An economic boom is what happens. Things that used to be prohibitively expensive now become cheap to do. And people start doing these things as quickly as they can.

You might think 100x is an exaggeration. But actually, we've already experienced that with solar in the past 20 years. Price parity was reached more than 5 years ago. I'm actually talking about another 100x improvement So four orders of magnitude in total. About 2 orders relative to fossil fuel powered energy, which is a fair benchmark because that's what we are trying to get rid off. At some point renewables are going to be so obviously cheaper that they start pushing out anything more expensive out of the market. The cheaper things get, the faster that happens. The more it happens, the faster learning effects, R&D, etc. will happen. That massive acceleration is basically what is causing people to move targets.
Wasn't expecting to see st be on the slower end and emacs on the faster end.
Not every Ph.d requires the same amount of deep thought. Experimenting and hypothesizing and writing code is just not the same as logically deriving a new proof, but not any less worthy of a Ph.d.
> agriculture, the foundation of the food supply, is one of the most commoditized markets that exist. Does this bother you too? Why not?

It does bother me
Plenty of landlords out there don't take care of these things.
> The real problem is that nearly all website render terribly. It just can't keep up with the complexity that it the modern web. It's a real shame.

I was thinking since quite a while now to write a wrapper around the Serenity OS browser [1] that supports JS, CSS and WASM, and passes ACID 3 tests [2].

I did have a quick look at the source, but couldn't think of a nice way to wrap it as it's quite closely tied to the Serenity OS GUI.

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

[2] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/serenityos-web-browser-passes...
We want businesses and entrepreneurs to try new things with real estate, just like any market. I strongly believe that our physical spaces can get better/cheaper, but only if you allow investment and risk taking.

The main issue at the root of the OPs concerns is that as a society we have attempted to make real estate ON AVERAGE a good investment, which by definition means increase faster than inflation. There are demand side subsidies for home ownership, but many supply side issues as well. For example free parking and minimum parking requirements and max height restrictions. Many others have pointed these out. If we as a society tried to increase entrepreneurship in real estate by opening up more options, we could see a flourishing of options for people, with more range than ever, including lower cost options.
Yes, deeply and obviously.
It isn't the latest release from my experience. Microsoft releases new ISO's on MSDN every month. The one that is publicly available is usually the first major build, which can be months to even years behind.
>We are headed for a massive population crash almost everywhere

We're not. Many countries predict stable populations at worst for several decades still. Some continue to predict population growths. Politicians are all too eager to use immigration as a way to band-aid low birthrates, and many are already subsidizing children more.

Your last line gives it away too. Japan is primarily crashing in the countryside. Tokyo is lagging behind by almost two decades, only just starting to drop. The high housing prices globally are primarily in urban and suburban areas. Many of those areas are still growing tremendously at the expense of rural areas. People don't want to live in rural areas because there are no jobs. Even if there was a crash, it hardly matters if populations continue to rise or remain stable in areas where housing is getting too expensive for the jobs provided.
>Consider what happens when initialisation of an object can fail. Constructors have no return values, so failure can be reported only by throwing an exception. However, I've decided not to use exceptions. So we have to go for something like this:

class foo
{
public:
foo ();
int init ();
...
};

>When you create an instance of the class, constructor is called (which cannot fail) and then you explicitly call init function (which can fail).

Hmm? Use Builder and if you can then also Result<T>
Yeah, I don't understand how these firms (especially Adobe) are so completely oblivious to what actually made them successful.

One of the main reasons Photoshop and Illustrator became widely used, is that every eleven-year-old with an interest in design or photo editing would torrent these products and learn the workflows inside out.

Autodesk seems to have somewhat figured this out, with Fusion360 having a free hobbyist license for instance.
Nestle gets all the water they want for a $200 permit. That's not water commodification. They sell bottled water, but that's also not commodification of water. Almost 0% of US water consumption comes from a plastic bottle, and you can't commodify a market with ~0% market share.
By nuclear deterrence. None of this would have happened if Ukraine had nuclear weapons. And nuclear weapons are best developed when you have nuclear power production and a lot of nuclear physicists.
yes, I get what you mean about the pool of liquid in the centre, my wife is Asian and I've seen her using that technique before.

You're right about pans getting warped, I have this issue from time to time with my carbon steel pans, luckily it is an easily fixable issue (using a sturdy rubber mallet on a pre-heated pan is my favourite method).
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough by Team in California
Sweet, will look into those, thanks.

I just spent a while in wonder at a node-based parametric design tool for Blender called Sverchok[1] - looks super powerful but wayyyy too much for my 3D printing toothbrush holders and phone stands haha.

CAD Sketcher looks much more like what I'm used to.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu_31Cigflc
Ansys (which includes Spaceclaim) does, completely free for student and hobbyist use. Even offers a class with Cornell on edx on how to use the simulation software.
> You might expect John Carmack to be pretty old school and dogmatic on using e.g. C and instead it seems he has a very broad taste and experience with different languages and tools.

He has been using various programming languages for a long time. Basic, assembly, (turbo) pascal, etc. In my experience most old school dogmatic C programmers started with C and never even tried to use any other programming language halfway seriously.

He especially gives a lot of praise to Borland for making turbo pascal and how far ahead it was of its competition back in the day when it comes to developer tooling (IDE, debugger, etc)
As noted above, from my experience these releases are often months and sometimes years behind their monthly ISO updates from MSDN.
Among those the UN counts as members are the Taliban (by way of Afghanistan) and Putin’s Russia, which makes it arguable that the UN as a body is in a deciding position on fundamental human rights, let alone a coherent position.
> His research pinpoints a few square metres where the virus is likely to have been transmitted between animals and humans

To your point, there's still no proof, only "likely". The guy had a theory prior. Now it appears as if he predicted the future. That's it. That's all there is. His self-bias is not proof.

It's these type of "scientist" and this type of "journalism" that gives science and journalism a bad name.
Rice U models moving ‘washers’ that help DNA replicate
This sounds like the quick way to create a nation of renters. Otherwise, people would be priced out of their homes in short order by the ever increasing LVT. Which of course, isn't a bug, but the feature of Georgism (a family of 4 living making a home there probably won't permanently be the most efficient form of land use on that plot)
That would be true if rent was a percentage on top of cost. But it is not, it is whatever maximum renters are willing to pay.
First Stars and Black Holes
Amazing stuff here folks - this big brained developer just generalized a literal continent of billions of individual people and is the top comment on smart people site hacker news dot com
APIC fail: Intel 'Sunny Cove' chips with SGX spill secrets
That is correct. But having the storage filled to the maximum is the best we can do in preparation because... we can't fit more than 100% into the storage :)
That is the one preparation goal, to enter storage at maximum levels.
In parallel, all options for other sources are evaluated. Towards the end of the year, a temporary LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven should become operational and contribute to the gas imports. Furthermore, there will be gas imports via other European countries. Norway and the Netherlands are producers themselves. France also has pledged some support as they are currently quite depending on German electricity.

There is also some reason to assume Russia isn't completely stopping gas delivery to Germany. They need the money, the don't want to damage their own infrastructure, which could be the result of stopping gas export entirely for a longer time span. Finally, if they stop gas export entirely, it is unlikely that Germany ever would consider buying Russian gas again.
Populations are expected to keep rising until 2100 at least. India and China may see a big drop but everywhere else will continue to grow albeit slower than before

https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth#global-p...
So, your top three choices are Google (weird ties to the US state dept), Microsoft (lobbied for cloud act, acquired linkedin and github so they could join the data with mandatory windows and office telemetry) and an independent company with weird ties to the Chinese govt.

Do you really have a strong opinion about which one is the least bad choice?
I also found the point about Nazis keeping quiet to be odd and ahistorical.
Read law of induced demand. Real estate is not fixable. It is the way it is.
There are thousands of homes/apartments around where I live that are about equally attractive for me to live at. Most sold by different sellers. Housing is fungible.
By number of installs, maybe vim :)
A unicellular walker controlled by a microtubule-based finite-state machine
The problem is that when the cost of living goes up, it tends to force out poorer residents that have been there for many years.

Encouraging people to just live somewhere else because they can no longer afford the home they've owned for decades undermines the entire premise of home ownership because it means that you may own the deed today, but you only control the property as long as the financial system underpinning your local real estate market operates within a range that you can afford.

And in 40 years when you're retired and on a fixed income that assumed you'd be paying a property tax rate that has now doubled and you can no longer afford the property, then it becomes your turn to GTFO and make room for the people who can afford it.
Storage via gravitational potential energy is extraordinarily inefficient.

Let's say you have a medium city, like Columbus, OH. This city purchases about 890 GWh of electricity per year [1] for costumers and street lights. Let's say they need to store 100 GWh. A kg of matter raised 1 meter stores about 10 joules, or watt-seconds. We need to store 100 times 3600 billion of watt-seconds, which is 360 trillion. You can trade mass for height. For example you can raise 36 trillion kg to a height of 1 meter. That's 36 billion tons or gigatons (GT). Or you can raise 3.6 GT to a height of 10 meters, just 36 MT to
a 1km hight.

Let's say you want to use blocks of stone. The total US production of blocks of stone in 2021 was 2.3 million tons [2]. You need 15 times as much to only cover Columbus, OH, and only assuming a 100% efficiency in the conversion of the energy from electricity to gravitational potential energy and back.

The only substance that can be useful for this type of storage is water. But even for water, you need the same huge quantities. 36 million tons of water is a lake with a surface area of 1 square kilometer and a depth of 36 meters. If you have some mountains around you, then you can do it. But Columbus, OH is out of luck. It does not have mountains, or even hills around it. Building an artificial hill that's 1000 meters tall, that has a 1 km2 lake at the top with a depth of 36 meters is a monumental undertaking, that was never attempted.

Of course, you can try to play around with the tradeoffs. Maybe you build a lower hill with a larger footprint. But how long is it going to take to offset the emissions from such a huge construction project?

Bottom line: pumped hydro makes sense, if geography allows you. If not, it is uneconomical by many orders of magnitude.

[1] https://www.columbus.gov/greenpower/
[2] https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-stone-dime...
whiteboard leetcoding
I agree. What are your ideas on fixing that?

I watched my grandparent’s hometown (Newton, IA) become less and less desirable over the decades after Maytag moved the factory to China. They diversified a bit by adding a race track, but it’s a shell of its former self. Cheaper offshoring (not from one party or another, but encouraged by politicians on both sides) really wrecked the economy of small US cities and towns.
I was mostly poking fun at the commenters on this article at the time and their absolutist literalist reading of the article headline. Japan didn't invent these techniques necessarily, but they are a part of the defined culture of Japanese cuisine. Like French cuisine, there are defined processes for how a vegetable is treated for a specific context, whereas an amateur or other cuisine might not make a big point of dicing vs chopping for example.

From my imperfect understanding of Japanese cuisine, there is usually "a way to prepare a dish" and deviation from that way can be unwanted or problematic, a bit of a social faux pas.
Yup, cast iron has all these advantages. Yup, I, too, have both 10" and 12" cast iron skillets.

Yes, on seasoning, as you explain, it's easy, natural, would be tough to avoid, is good to have and easy to maintain. The common complicated descriptions seem to be to make the authors look like they have some advanced, tricky expertise -- nope, it's all just dirt simple.

If have a cover, then can also use the pair effectively as a stove top oven, e.g., for pizza, as in my

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32433275

Stamped steel can be similarly good and is easier to work with for some things, e.g., flipping an egg or an omelet, because it is a lot lighter than cast iron and has sloping sides.

For a pot, say, 6 quarts, stainless steel with a thick aluminum bottom bonded on the outside can also work well.
It doesn't misrepresent the researchers. It mentions the "metamers" paper specifically to say that "Not everyone is convinced" and has a subsection titled, "Uncured Pathologies" to tell about the research works with opposing view from the main work talked about in the article.
Good question. It seems like often judges and lawyers are almost immune from justice. I've seen lawyers do some awful things and face no repercussions aside from maybe a 30 or 90 day suspension, but the impact of their actions will affect people for life.
>more people are looking at real estate as a financial tool, not a basic human right to have a roof over one's head?

When was this ever the case? I can't think of a time in human history where housing was seen as a human right
> . But you have to make it cheap. Deregulate construction, get rid of unions, prioritize developer rights over tenant or homeowner rights.

What's insane is that we never consider the obvious alternative. GOVERNMENTS HAVE TO PAY FOR THE HOUSING THEY NEED.

It's true that developers will not build if they can't make a profit. So we raise money through taxes and treat housing like an investment in our future.

This American notion of "free market or nothing" has left us with unlivable cities of sprawling suburban houses because that's where the profit is. But that's not what's good for our long term future. It turns out you can't laissez-faire your way to good urban planning
Ok fair, but IMO there are few threat models where that would make a difference. In practice the attacker can just edit your bashrc and alias ssh-agent to log the password. Same for the password manager. Btw user mode rootkits are a thing and they typically don't need root despite the name.

If attacker code can run under your user, you're kinda screwed.
They are a major part of the future in medium-density areas. Less so in high-density areas, where individual vehicles of any kind create too much traffic to be a majority solution. Just look at pictures from Chinese cities in the 1980s to see how dystopian the combination of bikes and high density can be.
Solid Edge should do what you want. Their CAM is pay-for, but iirc the 3d printing parts are part of the free offering.
I might be the outlier but the hardest part for me is the lack of contact with people. I like solving a tough problem or the challenge of grokking a new library/skill but then doing it over and over and over... not so much.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm good enough at the technical side (I have never outright failed at it) that I was never pushed/suggested to look at roles that are more human-facing. I have done -- and greatly enjoy! -- public speaking at user groups and even conferences on technical topics and the number one comment I have gotten both from programmers and non-technical people is how I can communicate concepts that were previously opaque in an easy to approach and understand manner. I definitely like people more than machines, even though I know the machine side well enough to hold my own with the most advanced architects and lead devs.

What would be the ideal role for someone like me? I don't think "software developer" is it.
I guess the affect really depends on where you live. Where I am land is really expensive. So even if you owned an undeveloped piece of land, your taxes would still be significant.

But I see what you’re saying. In a lot of places the land and taxes are relatively cheap.
Yes, we need 83714 build systems, no more, no less. That's the only way to improve the current software situation in the world. Just joking.

Build systems are only worth it if they are tiny and already included in the repository (or so common that everyone has them, like make) so that when I build the project, all code necessary to build the project is built (please no download) and executed.

Something like: build.sh executes `cc build.c -o build && ./build` which then builds the software; it's also pretty important that the build system is written in the same language as the rest of the project so that you don't add another dependency just to be able to build. The question is just whether you need that. Is your software really so complex that you can't just build it with a small script or Makefile?
TRRN is a left leaning publication.

Citing the mission statement of any publication is silly. If a publication has bias or accuracy issues, the same would also extend to their mission statement.
This is a wish just waiting to be granted by a creepy mummified monkey’s paw if I ever heard one.
How come rents for high-end real estate in Paris are vastly higher than in London? Sales prices on the other hand are vastly lower.

Are the prices so high because people in Paris are willing to pay much higher rents more people in London? Or are they so high because renting in Paris is super risky for the landlord due to aggressive tenant protections?
There is an extension to go straight to the webjoin link. you can also just edit the link manually.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zoom-redirect...

Check the screenshot. You just need to edit the "/j/" part of the path to "/wc/join/".
No, throughout history people have waged war over consumables (food, ore, oil).
HN is getting worse with these kinds of posts.
On being tired
people trying to carve up a piece of universe for themselves. don't hate the player, hate the game. and use cmake...
I literally thought that was the case until I went full-time on my start-up. I was delusional to think I could do a 9-5 well while trying to build a company.

Frankly, I should have realized this was the case when some moderately complex problems felt impossible (because I was giving the best hours of my day to my 9-5).
There's definitely a need for creative ideas. But also thinking about AirBnb I don't think this can come from the private sector.

That said I don't get why people don't invest in something else. There are some many different assets, using real estate to squeeze out a few percent every year on average seems a very weird thing to do. If landlords feel they get screwed over it's exactly because the margins are so thin.
> So, what instead? You want to build more housing in NYC? Great, that should work. But you have to make it cheap.

> because that's the only way a developer can recoup their enormous land acquisition,

There you go - in order to make it cheap you need a land tax, nothing else will work (alternatives have been rehashed over and over decades by georgists).

Without land tax the property market is stalled without market clearing and both tenants and developers get stuck. You won't find a solution by catering to either. The solution resides outside of this left and right dimension.

If you want the real solution, you go asks georgists. If you want to score politics points with YIMBYs or NIMBYs you keep beating the same dead horse forever.
There was post some years ago how teslas code is a mess. Do you attribute the quality of that code to blue eyed Europeans?
"Taxes have no effect on what the renter pays"; by this I assume you mean "market rate is market rate regardless of cost". Sure, to a point. The tax situation of my individual property does not impact the market rate. Just like how the market rate does not change if there is a mortgage on a property, or paid-in-full.

If the entire market is faced by a new tax all at once, you will see rents rise. Costs across the board went up, and every property owner isn't going to operate at a loss.

> Tax everyone according to the value of the unimproved value of their land.

Sure. This is the exact opposite of what the parent post was suggesting, where they suggested taxing people different based on the use of the same land improvements.
Why do people care about affiliate links? If someone benefits from me clicking on something then good for them so long as the price stays the same for me.