skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Pumped hydro storage does not, as I already pointed out, require river valleys. It does not, in fact, need those other things. You make clear that you know nothing about, even, pumped storage. (Maybe look up the word "penstock"?) Why would anyone trust you about others?

I'm well aware of what a penstock is. This [1] graphic shows how a penstock functions in pumped hydro storage. You see that "upper reservoir"? That's an alpine lake that forms the body of water that flows down through the penstock and drives the electric turbine.

You have to have the right geography to form that upper reservoir. If you tried to build a pumped hydro storage in Nebraska, you'd have to move massive amounts of earth to build that upper reservoir - essentially building an artificial alpine lake. This is prohibitively expensive to do, which is why hydroelectric storage is geographically limited.

> Pretending that fuel synthesis depends on access to scarce raw materials (hydrogen, nitrogen? Really?)

Hydrogen is almost entirely produced through steam reformation, which emits carbon dioxide. Effective hydrogen electrolysis needs expensive materials like titanium electrodes.

1. https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_artic...
They're also simpler when it comes to options. I had an Audi once and it had electronic everything, including adjustable lumbar support and heated seats. With these kinds of cars, if an electrical component dies you'll likely have to take the car to the dealer to get it fixed.
That was the case, now its more like 4-5.
Glad they're doing this, though I think there's a place for globalization too.

I bought a couple USA-made Milwaukee carpenter squares a couple years ago and found the quality (accuracy) wanting, unfortunately. I hope whatever strides they make with manufacturing in the USA keep quality at the forefront and don't just end up eroding trust in the idea that USA-made means it's going to be a quality product.

I ended up trying a number of bad squares from them at the hardware store and finally found a couple I was willing to buy because I like them and wanted to make it work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilwaukeeTool/comments/jmv52u/squar...
> the app is free

I think I found your answer. Even then, paid apps/services still do that too.

In the Play Store, it just says it collects User ID, App Interactions, and Diagnostics, all for Analytical purposes. It doesn't seem like it collects location data.

I don't know if they really need User ID rather than some kind of instance indentifier, that's the only somewhat-shady thing I see.
K just wondering. Sometimes they serve guests in silver plates, and usually they don't have more than one set. So it might appear like your utensils are separate.

The food thing might be separate to tone down the spice levels for what's served to you.
I'd also check how the place is bound to be impacted by climate change, e.g. https://coastal.climatecentral.org/

You don't want to end up in a coastal city just to find yourself under 1m of water in a few years!
Nice to see Emporia mentioned on HN. A bit of a surprise but a nice surprise. I've always liked it. I've personally never lived there but do live in the region.

Eastern Kansas in general wouldn't be a bad place for a remote worker. Many of these towns have fiber. Homes are incredibly cheap. I picked up a 120 yr old farmhouse with broadband, a few acres and several 100 yr old trees for well under 100k. There's a deep calm here I really enjoy.

One interesting choice in Kansas is the town of Humboldt. Locals got tired of seeing their town decline as many others in the state. They've taken some impressive steps towards reversing that. Revitalizing their downtown with a string of new businesses. Here's a (paywall free) Kansas City Star article on the town and their newfound success.

https://archive.ph/Bhntu
GuardDuty is another example of brilliance of AWS pricing scheme and how they manage to twist your hand to pay extra which can cost quite a lot in the end of the month.

When comparing EC2 to servers, nobody adds the added premiums of the extras. Things like CloudTrail, Support, GuardDuty, CloudWatch. All of these things have a variable cost that grows with usage and very hard to predict ahead of time.

Just last week I discovered our GuardDuty bills went up from $15/month to $400/month. Inspecting closer, the issue was a small script that did AWS API call at a tight while loop in a couple of EC2 instances.

So if you choose to enable GD, make sure to have your monitoring in place, gradually enable GD across the infra and establish clear baselines and alerting in place for costs.
> The Ugly
> Cost can get sky-high

Is there _any_ service on AWS where you feel like you're getting more value than the dollars you're paying with (other than IAM and Free tier services)? It's no secret that AWS is one of the most successful and profitable modern businesses, but perhaps there's a hidden offering that does something, does it well, and costs very little compared to the value it brings.
illinois winters though...
What's keeping the economic situation from freefalling even deeper into the abyss, is the money of the diaspora. Expats send back money to support their families. That's the lifeline, without which there would be famine.

What's keeping the economic situation from coming back up, is exactly what brought it down in the first place:

It's the complete failure of the state, with a political system that is rotten with power-hungry warlords, old and new, who won't let go. A people who remains divided because every few decades a faction decides it's so powerful now that it's its prerogative to hijack the country's destiny by use of force... And some big countries with huge influences (follower factions), using Lebanon as a card on their negotiating tables - some even see the situation as "chemothraphy to remove a cancer", and don't mind it staying. (Pardon the vagueness; the politics is quite complicated and not possible to give a clearer picture than this in a brief comment).

If with a magic wand all of those problems disappeared, and a new government materializes with full support from everyone to start fixes and reforms, it is estimated that it would take at least 10 years to bring the economy back to a healthy state.

But 3 years into the crisis and the governments since then still have not provided a single plan to come out of it. Just grandstanding, mutual accusations, deadlocks, hindering investigations, etc.

They always hope that some rich country would want to help and make big investments. But those countries, and world organizations, rightfully, do not trust the country's consecutive governments anymore because no reforms have been made and it's still the wild west of corruption.

The biggest problem is that those 3 years have witnessed the largest brain drain in the history of the country. Most doctors and nurses left; engineers, technicians, scientists, students, you name it. Resilient people who had seen everything and stayed, but there's always an edge too far.
People do that too, but even with all these mitigations in place, the risk just isn't worth it.

No major medical company wants to risk recalling defective product by using a disreputable Chinese manufacturer. Unknowingly selling counterfeit product is a pretty bad look to the FDA and consumers.

This is the main reason why many procurement departments have a no China policy.
I've been building on top of Stripe for awhile now, and I've always wanted a way to see live charges as they come in. I also needed an excuse to finally learn WebSockets/ActionCable, so I made this.

I plan to add more sections of data in the future, and maybe some goal tracking, so that people can track progress toward their revenue targets (and share them with others for support!)
> you can't jailbreak "an" Apple, and you can't order "a" McDonald's.

Nor can you drive a Ferrari, but people often say such things anyway, especially when they don't know what kind of Ferrari it is that they see being driven where only recognizing the Ferrari branding. This is not uncommon at all.

It's only less common when specifics are common knowledge. Most people are familiar with Apple's products, so they can be more specific. Most people are familiar with McDonald's products, so they can be more specific. Most people have absolutely no idea what John Deere does beyond some fuzzy notion of "farm equipment manufacturer".

In hospitality, "I'll order a Local Craft Beer Co." is something I hear quite often, where the individual beers made by 'Local Craft Beer Co.' don't have wide recognition. This is functionally the same as your McDonalds example.
West Chester or Kennett Square, PA, especially if you were already considering Lancaster. Both fit the bill.
Rust in Perspective
The good news is that this list very closely describes the job market. Even better news is that at least Python and golang are trivial for experienced people because they are just a subset of a Java/C++-like big boy language. From what I understand Rust and TypeScript would require more effort for developers not familiar with modern languages.

But this answer doesn't cover frameworks at all. React and PySpark come to mind, many people say golang doesn't require more than its standard library. Depending on your background those are at least as time consuming to learn. It would be interesting to know what other people think about it.
Take a look at the great main street awards: https://www.mainstreet.org/mainstreetamerica/mainstreetaward...

I'm currently living in Carson City, it has some walkable (older) areas of town but not great. You could try Walla Walla, WA or Baker City, OR.
The main leap imo is you need to think about the project as a whole, not just your piece. You need to "see around corners" to identify anything (even if it's not technically under your purview) that could block the project, then raise the biggest stink necessary to fix it before it becomes a problem. Some lead devs do this naturally, some never seem to be able to.

Do not let your first project with a new company fail. You won't recover from that, even if it's not your fault in any way. Succeed and you will become known as a person who gets things done.

Also be a mentor to the other devs. But I assume you're already doing that if they hired you as a lead and based on your ideas.
There needs to be an equivalent of Choice/Consumer Reports/etc that dismantles products and calls out anything that should've been made from metal instead of plastic. It's frustrating dealing with unnecessarily broken parts.

I would pay a crazy amount of money to subscribe to a service provided by a professional reverse-engineering outfit that takes the Consumer Reports concept to the next level, with highly technical teardowns and critical analysis of a wide variety of products that covers everything from the BOM to the firmware.

This kind of thing happens sporadically -- e.g., some of the Juicero postmortems offered a lot of engineering insight. And there is no shortage of passionate amateurs like AvE who don't have a consistent methodology and/or don't always have the domain expertise needed to give a given product design a fair assessment.

What's needed is a consistent, professional, and above all objective approach to informing the purchase decisions of technically-literate consumers.
WaniKani, a Kanji Learning Application
Hey Tamilians are gonna represent right?
House I bought recently came with samsung kitchen appliances (great /s). I shouldn't have had to crawl inside a 2-year old gas oven to replace a bad igniter, but... I did.

I remember when a range could be expected to last a couple of decades at least. They aren't... complicated.
Mleccha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mleccha
So a chapter is like the tweet and the book is a twitter thread. Got it.
You can cultivate "chicken of the woods" fungus on certain wood mediums. This has decent flavor texture and protein content. It's a little fickle to cultivate and getting spores or plugs may be tricky. But this is probably your best bet at growing something similar to Quorn without a proper lab space.
This still sems mixed up. In fact Texas has among the highest property tax rates in the country, above both NY (which it beats by a little bit) and CA (which is way down in the middle of the pack).

You can find data on states by total tax burden (which, sure, is going to depend on your particular assets and flows being taxed). It's not nearly as big a differentiator as you seem to think it is (especially, again, since it's quite minor compared with your federal liabilities), and I worry about the sources that might have informed your opinion.
Guitarists (or mixers) record IRs by playing a sine wave through their cab and recording that. The difference from the dry vs recorded sample is then your IR. While exhaust systems have no digital input, if you have good enough audio gear that can output the signal dry as possible through the exhaust setup, it should achieve the same result I guess. Not that trivial for everyone to do, but if you do this enough times for different kind of exhausts, you'll also have great dataset to start researching and developing a software that can model exhausts accurately.
Go on... build that!
Is "according to my personal experience this person generally knows what they're talking about" a professional qualification, or are you thinking more like formal certs?
So, a Chinese company offshoring manufacturing to the United States. How the tables have turned.
This is very personal, lots of people go their entire lives without going to those venues and aren't bored. You can ride a dirt/mtb bike in the desert or hike in the mountains, surf in the ocean, etc.
I mean, I wouldn't bet my life or savings on it. But sometimes it is amazing to watch what some dedicated people can achieve at full throttle, even if/when they make mistakes.
Oh, so the busses are not safer in terms of collisions or pedestrian fatalities.

How do you account for dangers of battery production and disposal? Are injured EMTs and mechanics, due to high voltages, also considered? How do you account for pollution of installing upgraded transformers and lines to the bus depot for charging batteries?
What were you expecting? Did you think about why that warehouse in that location was being sold for so little?
RDS is one for me. I’ve set up a regionally replicated, point-in-time backuped DB cluster and have no desire to run one again.
There are a few AWS security services which are free/priced reasonably.

Some free services:

1. AWS Org (Disable services and enforce guardrails)

2. VPC (Create private networks)

3. IAM (User access and IAM policy analyzer to help with least priv)

4. IAM Access Analyzer (Alert on resources with cross account & public access)

5. SSM Inventory & Patch manager (Basic check if all VMs have security updates installed)

Reasonably priced IMO:

1. AWS WAF with free managed rules (when rightly configured you get lesser FP and high ROI)
> What companies want is team players who are often fun, light and friendly, actively work to build trust with a team through socialization, promote good practices and patterns and don't begrudge the fact that a portion of their day is to be spent in meetings, reviewing others' code and generally communicating.

It seems ok for a company to seek these from their engineers. I think, I want these too. I just don't like forced standups and sync up meetings. If someone did something cool and want to pull me aside to show? I'm all in. If someone wants help on something, I'll be there..

but it's just that the way things are managed is just dull.

let's do a standup meeting for 15mins where people explain
- what they did yesterday
- what they will do today
- what are impediments

I propose an idea and the TL arbitrarily pulls off a blog post reference to shut down by saying "there's no business value".

umm. effing nonsense.
+1. I currently live in a college town like you describe (land grant public university, surrounded by farmland). The “downtown” is vibrant. The university draws a lot of international students so cuisine and culture are diverse. Housing is cheap.
I'm not from India, but ... Think about how easy it is to identify race, or region, or social class in the USA. It's probably the same thing.
You can always organize with the other homeowners to curtail the college's operations! Seems to be a popular strategy.
You're right, I thought TTI bought DeWalt as well for some reason (which doesn't make sense in retrospect).
I lived for quite some time in india... spice wasn't the issue. Have you ever spent time around Iyengar Brahmans of the old school?
This feels like a bait, since Pine Bluff is almost 80% black.
The entire day on a call with a headset is one aspect. The waste of 3 or more resources trying to solve one problem is another. Changing a solo activity into a group activity means you can never go deep into abstract thought or take the time to pause and reflect. Too many cooks in the kitchen is the old saying goes.
Then Apple is more blind than I assumed possible. Yes, their phone business is probably saturated, but their computer business is not. Apple produces the only ultra-book worthy of the name.

There is no reason for them not to own the premium-business market with all day battery, but still powerful machines. Mac runs the office suite, Mac runs your browser and Teams, Zoom or whatever your organization uses. It runs figma, it runs your IDE, etc.

There are definitely areas where they don't work, and they don't really have a meaningful desktop, and some companies will have speciality software that isn't browser based.

But in general the boss-and-above market has very little reason to not use an Apple Air.
> There's also great weather

Until a hurricane hits
They've gotten really good at making them break down on time to ensure more business for the fridge-making company. Planned obsolescence isn't a conspiracy theory.
I didn’t say they opposed free college. I said the folks you would expect to support free college (those left of center) have been co-opted by a version of “anti-racism” that treats acknowledging civilizational competition with China as “racist.” There’s lots of people who support free college(or at least claim to)—but not as a means to rebuild the American industrial base and get jobs back from China. They support free college, but also oppose tariffs and other America first policies.
Would it be practical to prevent apps from writing to other apps’ persisted state?
Most if not all services, I feel are a good enough value...when I consider my "time" or hiring consultants time to do the same, etc.

A single example was GuardDuty above. I know how expensive similar to GuardDuty services are per month when you have to have a well planned strategy, implementation, execution, operations for threats... no matter if one does it "in house" or with "consultants" - the cost is very high to implement anything similar to GuardDuty. No matter if it is duct taped open source or enterprise offerings.

And then you have to do that same iterative business process loop across infrastructure (servers/database), data centers, code deployment, DevOps, security, etc etc.
This just happened to me too - 3 year old Frigidaire, failed compressor. Would be interesting if this really is a trend rather than just anecdotal, but I suppose we'll never know.

What's ridiculous is the lack of reasonably-priced replacement parts. I tried to get the fridge repaired, and the cost of a new compressor + the cost of having someone swap it was more than the cost of an entire new fridge.
Don't like to be a contractor.
If they are changing the information because of scientific knowledge the CDC should have no trouble whatsoever detailing

1) Why they had the information on their website in the first place
2) Why the information in the past was wrong (in light of new evidence)
3) Why the current information should be taken seriously in light of the aforementioned misinformation.
Can I just say-- I'm fascinated that there is a community of "experts, collectors and fans" of automatic washing machines. Despite it's somewhat dated appearance of the website, it's no simple operation-- it contains an in depth database of manuals, photos, adverts, information, audio/video, and brochures. This is a true passion project. The best part, of course, is the forum. A surprisingly active community of men and women nakedly unashamedly delighted by automatic washing machines.

I don't know why, but finding these little communities of people is amazing to me. That there are so many people who derive true enjoyment from this random thing I've never really bothered to think about much. To me it's just a means to an end, nothing more than another object in my life. It's amazing to think there are probably communities around all sorts of things I hardly notice nor think about. Like doors to worlds I've never seen, hidden all around me in plain sight.
> It's true that retirement funds and such can't wait forever to invest their customer's money so they have to buy no matter what the market is doing

Couldn’t they just hold it or buy some put options if they really believed that it was a bear market? (“We lost 0% while others lost 12%!”) Or is there some legal obligation I’m not aware of that they have to buy something?

> I'm betting that within the next 2 years we'll be hitting new highs again.

I don’t believe that would happen unless Feds started printing money again like last 5 years. But I don’t know much.
It's super pretty down there. No idea what it's like to live in the area, but I wouldn't mind finding out.
You need a low/moderate impact web app, you only need bread and butter infrastructure, django/ruby/node app, postgres, redis, basic autoscaling. You (your agency) does not have experience doing this (for example, you’ve never built something on remote-hosted infrastructure before, you’ve never built anything that wasn’t locked to windows before, you’ve never done anything that wasnt hardcore waterfall before, etc). You wouldn’t know where to start if someone asked you to build a web app that would be easy to find technical talent to support going forward (you just assume this means a building into a Microsoft product). You don’t know why open source software makes your life easier when maintaining a software system. More charitably, you want try this “agile development” thing that everyone is talking about, and you need air cover to keep your IT dept from demanding that you give a contractor 500k-1.5m to put up a “secure” boilerplate, ‘hello world’ modern web app deployment that will kick off your agile dev process, which ought to take one person a week to deploy and another person a week to lock down.

There are a surprising number of agencies and departments that meet the above description, but either they don’t know what cloud.gov is, or equally likely, their IT department would rather spend a lot more money on a contractor and feel like they have more control. There is zero incentive to take a chance, even if you can be reasonably sure you’ll get as good or better infrastructure for 1/5 or 1/10th the cost. No one will be impressed that you saved the money and you’ll live in fear for years that something will go wrong and you won’t get promoted because you chose a scary new thing and it backfired.

They’re (IT) also likely to understand a “web app” as something tightly coupled to their existing systems (meaning they cannot imagine their existing systems securely communicating with an external, independent API, even they themselves built it) which pretty much excludes all modern software practice and excludes using cloud.gov to build additional capability.

If a potential client already knows how to build, deploy, secure and get their IT dept to authorize an aws-hosted modern web server, they’re not (at least right now) a target audience for cloud.gov, but I don’t think that describes most agencies or departments
Wait... there are people who still think video games are a fad?!?