skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes we are limited by our genetics but what does that mean when you consider that we are starting to learn how to manipulate our genes?

Evolution doesn't seem to stop. Science is advancing at an increasing pace and the boundary is pushed forward each and every day. What might become of humans in a million years?
In a good way. I’ve certainly completely replaced Gimp with Krita for my uses.
SSD throughput was crippled for the entry level M2, beware. More real RAM always better to a point. 16GB is a bare minimum for a machine that can’t be upgraded imho, and has been for years.

Due to that insistence our 2013 MBP is still going strong, and saved several thousand dollars in the process.
I don’t subvocalize and haven’t for many years, but when I did (and more so now), the speed-limiting factor was never the time it took to read the word, but to comprehend what’s on the page in the sense of understanding it. You can probably get away with 200+ pages per hour if you’re not reading for comprehension, but it’s hard to imagine getting anything out of a difficult text at that speed.
It just isn’t though. Opportunity is not doled out equally. Yes, everyone has the chance to be educated. But some schools are better, some families more supportive etc. And certainly there are exceptions that defy their environment but they are exceptions.
https://archive.ph/5a9rj
Gahh thanks for the heads up
I've spent a whole day reading up on this company a while ago, it is super interesting as a possible alternative way of working. The fact that they have managed to scale it up as far as they did is what really impresses me.

I wonder how well it would work if you started something like this from scratch today in for instance SV.
> All software will be open source, and no one will make money with software.

This is simply a very utopian claim and just isn't going to happen. One example is Microsoft Office which has been replaced by Google Docs / Office Online, etc and little to no-one installs LibreOffice directly.

Unfortunately, closed-source software is here to stay and the only absolute here is: There isn't any.
This would be kinda cool, but also kinda the most terrible idea I can think of. MMORPGs rely so heavily on network effects to gain and keep players that any barrier to entry - and the requirement to have dedicated hardware is a pretty huge barrier - can be utterly fatal.

That said, I've really been enjoying Final Fantasy XIV on my Steam Deck - being able to pick it it up at lunch time and do a quick half hour of crafting or gathering really does present a different way to enjoy the game.
> However, since the currently proposed solution for renewables is to pair them with large battery banks to solve the reliability issue, the greenness issues with batteries still stand.

Incorrect. First of all, utility scale power storage can be done many ways, such as pumping water up a hill in the daytime and then letting it flow back down the hill at night.

These are called "kinetic battery towers" or more generically "gravity batteries" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery

As far as classical batteries go there's many chemistries coming online soon that are far less hazardous such as sodium ion batteries

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery

There's also saltwater chemistries, sugar based, paper nanotube, it's a long list.

When considering nuclear we're always told to look at the currently nonexistent small scale next gen advanced nuclear of the future. Then it gets compared to renewable energy technology from 15 years ago.

It's either intellectually sloppy or dishonest. Either way it's bad engineering. We can do better than nuclear - cheaper, safer, quicker to build, less management required, more scalable, etc. We don't have to worry about secret weapons programs or have international treaties to build them, no tsunami or earthquake risks, and best of all, the alternatives actually exists today
People will use anything instead of gimp to be honest. Haven't tried it in a while but everytime I did in the past I can't help but question if it's developers actually use their own software.
For everyone understanding german: Here is a DIY enthusiast (Andreas Schmitz) who build a heat pump heating system by himself and has power and heating costs of only 8 Euro a month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2mFhj9Uj6g

Very impressive channel though, non monetized.
Thank you very much for your kind, considerate, and cautionary response. I can totally understand that out of my depth, and I am asking the wrong questions based on my vantage point. One question that I would now add to my list of questions would be form of the 3rd question, but more like: “what are the right kind of questions I should be asking myself when approaching this broad topic?”.

I kind of want of something in between the first two potential interests. Imagine something that is like a cross between a solar panel and a night light that you plug in to an AC outlet, but that plays nice with the local power grid in every which way. Sure the amount of power it could produce would be negligible, but being able to create something that is able to feed the grid and meet all appropriate regulations for the electrical code would be an accomplishment in itself. I don’t know what the physics and capital costs behind creating something like that would be or if this idea absolutely infeasible because of the same physics and capital costs, but that is also what I am trying to learn. I am also not married to this idea at all: it is just an illustration of my level of knowledge on the subject matter as a whole, and the kinds of questions that first come to my mind.
There is no magic STEM sauce
The issue is that people are usually members of multiple organizations on Slack, most of them free but some paid. A change like this that retroactively impacts non-grandfathered chats (especially chats which are low usage and likely low infra cost) is going to alienate people who may at some point have decision-making power over an organization’s choice of paid chat service.
> To this day many denominations of Islam are still killing each other over the "correct" interpretation.

Yet, those denominations you speak of are minorities, and some are even supported by factions like the CIA to continue civil unrest, because it's in the interest of the West.

> also have a big overlap in having the most militant conflict

I'm who's surprised you went there. It's as if the last 100 years of history didn't mean much? The vast majority of those countries have been occupied and colonized by the West, and I'd argue that they continue to be to this day.

> Are Islamic countries generally free to criticize themselves so easily?

You can look up Islamic history to see to what high degree of responsibility those in charge were held. Read up on Omar ibn AlKhattab for example.
There are tiers of what it means to "get published".

If you want your book to get a decent editor and maybe get a print run in the three or four digits, you don't have to deal with all the faddish bukkake (social media presence, trendy subject matter, performative wokery designed to signal virtue without actually changing anything or challenging capitalism, dodging cancel mobs). You can just write, and you may be able to find an audience organically if you put time and money into it. You probably won't, however, make enough money to write full time.

If your focus is on getting set up to make enough money to write full time, then you do have to worry about all that garbage, because there just aren't many good book deals to go around.
It's how learned Rails.

Interviewed, was given a take home project to complete, and went straight to borders and bought the book. Went through the book in a couple days then completed the project and ended up getting the job.
Twitter. Just follow all the newspapers/media outlets you’re interested in.
Unicode denied the request for Klingon characters to appear in the standard.
That map and this one https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-coal-dep... seem to show a lot of centrally located deposits along with several near the coast. Most coal deposits in England are in the north so they did have to transport it. I realize England is much smaller but it looks to me like China has a lot more coal spread over a wider area. I imagine wood fuel would also need to be transported a long distance after forests near major population centres had been depleted so I don’t think the transportation cost argument holds up.
I'm sorry, but that seems like an absolutely miserable way to experience books.
Those of us who had post-infectious disability were screaming about this since early 2020, unfortunately we were ignored in favor of "experts" who suggested we should let a virus with unknown long-term side effects rip through the country.

I've seen estimates as high as 4 million Americans out of work due to being disabled with Long Covid. Add some more people who now can't work because they are taking care of disabled family members.

To me, the only news story that really matters is that we're crippling 2 million+ working age Americans a year, many of them concentrated in very high need areas such as nursing. At this rate, hospitals and schools will functionally (if not officially) collapse within the next few years at most.

A country where you cannot go to the ER when you're sick because there is nobody there to work the ER, and a country where there are no teachers and they've had to bring out the national guard to merely babysit students, is a failed state.
I think it's only not a thing in the US.

Even many third world countries offer that...
Governments make unjust laws sometimes. When they seek to remedy the negative effects of those laws, that should be applauded as a good thing.
Live Power Generation and Cost in Australian National Energy Market
Mu.

(The best answer to such a fundamentally flawed question is that it should be un-asked.)
Feels like an NFT tier shit post tbh
> As a result the market is very dysfunctional.

You're stating that without evidence, but the kind of auctions that the electricity market requires are similar to opening auctions for stocks. Would you claim they're very dysfunctional?
You had a choice and fortune favours the bold.

When the USSR dissolved some of those who took risks became uber rich.
Or they do understand Apple's pricing, but realize you can buy PC hardware with much larger RAM and disk space for much better price.
never considered it before! any good examples you can point me to?
I agree. As well as framework. Dell//HP and system76 all sell pcs with Linux pre installed. I like the system76 as I enjoy a Mat screen.
It's actually tin. But thanks for your concern.
Not exactly. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/904/aliens
Same here, although once I'd spent an absurd amount of money and then even more time, I finally, settled on a really good setup and haven't had the desire to change it. IRIS keyboard (https://keeb.io/products/iris-rev-4-keyboard-split-ergonomic...) with my own QMK keymap with 3 layers.
>There needs to be some kind of consequence, though.

No, there just need to be better laws - or at least, more fit to the "crime" response.

In fact, if he was indeed "5 mph above the speed limit" he shouldn't even have been fined in the first place.

Police can and should use discretion (and they often/mostly do, this was just a shitty move in a shitty district).

Not to mention that, even given the fine was ok, there should have been an online/bank transfer way to pay...
Estoy siendo acosado por una I.A, me ayudas?
I did this yesterday as well, Aegis seems really nice. I've got Syncthing up and running with my desktop as a middleman, so my old phone can be whipped out at any time if my current one gets stolen/lost/bricked.

But now I am wondering if I should be re-seeding across all my TOTP-enabled accounts in case we continue to be drip-fed new information about how much worse this breach is getting.

I've triggered the deletion process for my Authy account - the claim is that all my info will be deleted after 30 days.
I think that’s an important point, and not all texts are made equal. Reading and understanding 200 pages of Heidegger is very different than reading 200 pages of Harry Potter. Part of reading well is know what to spend the time on.
I am pretty sure I got that in full.

My point it is not an inevitability, if it happens it is at best regrettable and preventable, at worst the self-righteous side is in fact being the evil one by abusing the truth seeking mechanism.
Very good question. The answer doesn't exist today, unless somehow billions of dollars pours into ReactOS for it to be compatible with Windows 11, but another utopian and unrealistic chance of that happening.

We are looking for a full desktop open source to Windows so GNU/Linux doesn't count as an alternative, and neither does Wine. But the closest to answering that is ReactOS despite it not being a realistic alternative for the end user today.
1. Find someone who wants to buy electricity. Seriously what grid operator has open offers for proposals to connect new generation, on any scale? Start there.

2. Find land that works for building your plant. It should be near existing transmission or distribution infrastructure so you don’t have to build as much yourself, which is expensive, and it should have good road access already, so you don’t have to build as much yourself, which is expensive.

3. Get a connection study done by the utility which proves it is possible for them to accept the energy at the location you want to build your plant

4. Sign contract to sell your energy

4. Get environmental studies done to prove you won’t harm birds fish insects etc

5. Get financing and insurance

6. Contract out design and construction of your plant. Probably operation too.

The technical side is the easy part. Getting the contracts and permits in place is harder.
What made them unjust? They were made by elected officials at the time.
I sorta prefer having it in something separate from the passwords, though. If my 1PW gets compromised, so do the 2FA secrets stored alongside the passwords.
Perhaps unfair to inject a mini-AskHN, but here goes: I'm a Mac user these days, and I have seen that one can go down the rabbit hole with keyboards. I have zero interest in building one. I do have a WASD keyboard, but I've also wanted a bit more, like (better) layers : I have a few fond memories of VT420 life, when those numpad keys and the GOLD/BLUE layers were awesome.) I also don't use Windows...so use of at least some Windows-focused firmware seems less accessible. Reddit seems much more about builds - interesting for keyboard porn and inspiration, I suppose, but not actionable. It also seems many good things are purchased via drops so I suppose that way can work if you know where to go and how long to wait.

I've looked about for a good keyboard with programmable firmware, for a Mac...or even just a programmable numpad-looking macropad, but maybe there's more I've not seen.

What resources are out there to find ways to find off the shelf options, for Macs?

Edit: s/these/off the shelf options/
Business Insider is seriously just clickbait garbage articles.
Overall it looks pretty hacked together. For instance, instead of using an object model or tuples to represent ports, acorn uses a list of strings where each string holds multiple delimited values.

Ex.
ports: [
"80/http",
"8080/http",
]

While a stylistic choice, it also makes it a PITA for others to write parsers for their DSL, and generally isn’t as readable as say the vanilla Kubernetes port model.

Next let’s take a look at the level of abstraction provided. Typically with a PaaS you are at a higher level of abstraction than an IaaS platform.

args: { // defines arguments the consumer can provide }
profiles: { // defines a set of default arguments for different deployment types }
containers: { // defines the containers to run the application }
volumes: { // defines persistent storage volumes for the containers to consume }
jobs: { // defines tasks to run on changes or via cron }
acorns: { // other Acorn applications that need to be deployed with your app (databases, etc.) }
secrets: { // defines secret bits of data that are automatically generated or passed by the user }
localData: { // default data and configuration variables }

Looking at the list above of what we need (or can) provide for a deployment, it doesn’t seem we are at any higher a level of abstraction than we are when just using Kubernetes.

It’s incredibly easy to have the same artifact deployed in multiple environments using Kubernetes with no additional tooling.

So all this leaves me with the question, why?
>Placebo, or intrinsically more enjoyable sounds and tactile experiences?

Perhaps the enjoyment is knowing you're annoying people within earshot!
Yes. A jury trial can always be requested by either side. However, it’s up to the judge (or appeals courts) if the request is granted. The high stakes ones (that you hear about on the news) tend to have the request granted. My point was that they are only guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment for criminal trials. My wording wasn’t particularly clear about that.
Same boat.

Team is primarily M1 MBPs.

Backend APIs are .NET 6 Web API in C#. Deploy to AWS Graviton2 instances. Build in GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline (yuck!).

Frontend is a mix of React (Next.js, externally facing) and Vue (internal tooling)

> No friction points that I can think of...

Well...

I use both VS Code and Rider. I'd say that OmniSharp is a friction point because it's still just a bit janky in some edge cases.

As long as a team is willing to pay for Rider (100% worth it), dev experience is great. If not, just be prepared to get used to the quirks of C# on VS Code with OmniSharp and get comfortable with the CLI (which you should anyways). The modern CLI is so good compared to old msbuild.
> Charge at the supermarket, or the mall or the library or at the gas station, at your friends or at work or wherever works best for you.

Chicago doesn't have libraries that have EV chargers, my friends live in the city too, there are no garages here. My work doesn't provide parking (no one does downtown chicago), let alone parking with EV charging.

>It's entirely possible to own an EV and not have access to home charging

my Point is that this will unfairly punish ppl without a home/garage.
Its an unreasonable burden proven by the fact that people don't buy EVs without home chargers. Only thing that clearly works best is home charging.

hypothetically imagine govt banning home chargers. How do you think that would be received ?
I love Aegis. Note how insane the Authy export instructions are. "Paste in a bunch of code to an Electron app running Authy in debug mode to dump the tokens as QR codes". It works but :yikes:

Aegis has a nice clean encrypted import/export JSON format.
I think it is more a pitch thing. Playing the scale up from C, the F sounds off. Not sure why. My first guess was it was a sample just playing at different speeds and that was causing some issues.
Show HN: Directly query 100M+ raw records of cleaned, refreshed financial data
There are a lot of APIs that provide access to these types of data, but there were not any (as far as we're aware of) tools & services that provide access to query the raw data directly for analytical purposes.

We get the data across different sources and clean, schematize them in a PostgreSQL databases so folks can query/analyze the data directly. We have ~100 tables of data across stocks, ETFs, economic indicators, US/international census data and plan to keep adding more. More information on the tables are available at https://docs.wizdata.io

Access to all of the data is free, and we plan to (in the future) find ways to cover our costs by charging for folks who want to run their queries faster (e.g. by running their queries on separate compute clusters) or by providing custom integration to fit their data needs.

Please take a look, and would please share any feedback with us here!
>I don't think it's an intentional scam. I what actually happened is that the ~2 people who made Zas released the software then a) immediately burned out or b) had family/financial/health issues. So they stopped updating. Then once people started getting angry, they got even more overwhelmed and just dropped off the face of the Earth.

Never ascribe to burnout what looks like a cut and dry "grab the money and run" snakeoil scam...
Yeah. I've been hearing about Linux Desktop for the last 20 years. It's 31 year old.

I think either desktops will disappear (replaced by commodified computers like Androids/Chromebooks);
Or a large company will set some kind of standard what Linux OS is; Or some other OSS OS will not make same mistakes Linux did and guarantee a saner target for app development than current Linux.

I want (3) to happen (e.g. Serenity OS blows up and just devours Linux marketshare). I suspect (1) will happen - Microsoft/Google/Apple just make their locked down garden and Desktop computers go the way of the Dodo.
> If the foundation though is based upon an arbitrary claim of a god and unprovable claims that such god spoke to someone and gave us some rules then I cannot subscribe to that concept because any other concept with arbitrary rules is equaly valid and I wouldn't know which one to choose. And if I can't know which one to choose then that means there is no right or wrong choice, it is arbitrary.

Which is why you evaluate those claims and see what evidence they bring forth. We have a lot of proof and evidence in Islam. Some are listed on www.provingislam.com

> Life expectancy and quality of life has improved drastically in (not only) western countries over time while at the same time turning more secular.

Correlation vs causation.

> Thanks science

False dichotomy. No one is saying science isn't useful. As a matter of fact, many of today's foundational sciences and discoveries go back to the Islamic Golden Age. Great Muslim scholars like Al-Khararizmy (the word "algorithm" is a direct derivative of his name), Algebra (the science of Al-Jabr, an Arabic word), and many many more were because Islam pushed those people to seek knowledge and learn about the world around them. Many of those scholars saw studying and exploring the world around them as signs of God. This is something established in the Quran and Hadith.

> What's up with all the fighting between religious groups there?

Maybe the colonizing West that engaged in dirty divide and conquer tactics has something to do with it? Or maybe the fact that the US lied about WMD's to invade Iraq and they got away with it with no consequences, while leaving millions of Iraqis between dead and maimed and homeless. Same with Afghanistan. The amount of destruction caused to Muslim lands by the West is orders of magnitude more than any internal conflicts. And it's not like the West is some bastion of peace either, today Russia and Ukraine are fighting aren't they?

> The fact that some atheists said or did something that most people will agree is wrong does not mean all of atheists are wrong in the same way.

So tell me why are they wrong to say that rape is just a phenomenon or that incest is ok. On what basis, from a strictly atheistic materialistic world view are you going to make an opposite claim?
In the old days (2006 ) we used to connect a Nokia phone in the data center with a USB cable
What exactly is "software" though? Is it just the code, or does it include the whole tech infrastructure that runs it, or even all the business agreements that makes the service possible and makes it all available to the end user? For the average user, the perception of software is increasingly shifting towards the third definition.

I agree the first definition can be cloned fairly quickly, but the second is tougher, and the third requires cloning of practically the entire company operations. Imagine how hard it would be to, say, make an open source clone of something like Netflix, INCLUDING the vast majority of the video content provided -- all legally, of course!