skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ammonia as a hydrogen store air+methane+temp and high high pressure. Pump liquid uphill as another option for potential energy minus evaporation losses and friction. Geothermal as year round steady state thermal process, I don’t know how those scale capacity.

My question about completely off grid housing and renewable sources and energy stores is that an isolated small scale unit will assuredly operate industrial processes at a lower efficiency than a centralized industrial facility, barring transmission loss. Economy of scale is real for thermodynamic costs and monetary cost. So any gas compression or thermal cycle or liquid pumps is self serving with higher personal capital cost and cost of run and maintenance reliability. And if enough of your neighbors do it it’s “renewable” but nowhere near sustainable.

How to turn sunlight into methane? Electrochemistry and membranes or catalysts? That seems like not a worthwhile question facing us if there is earnest need for energy transition for sustainability.

If you’re wealthy enough to have an off grid ranch or cabin and don’t want the baggage of society to replenish your winter energy needs then purchase in W texas and build a boutique diesel rig and refinery. Or purchase a bunch of land with fast growing pines and run a logging operation.
If you want to live off grid but can manage paying money for society goods and services run diesel generators with long term fuel oil contracts and rig up a decarbonization unit on the exhaust stack.

Localized next gen storage isn’t a pressing matter in my opinion. Especially that benefiting anti-social people with means to live off grid but comfortably. If you have millions of emissions points it’s harder to control than a centralized regulated plant.
The Retail -> Scalper -> Buyer flow this console generation is frankly ridiculous. In an informal friend survey, more friends bought PS5s through a non-retail market (eBay, scalper, w/ mild inflated prices) then retail direct.

TBH, MS and Sony should just have a direct sell console waitlist (if they don't?). Steam Deck distribution was slow during the initial ramp, but data currently seems to show that they'll bust through their backlog for holiday demand. Valve did it well.
Why not? Having a company with multiple billions of dollars doesn't in itself produce any returns without high quality labor to work it, especially in competition against other such multi-billion dollar companies. It might not fail this quarter or next, but inevitably they'll be chased out, if in fact the recruiting practices lead to lower productivity.
I didn't know shipping rates were falling, let alone falling this much. So this is news for me.
What do you need to know from your manager exactly?
Majority of my assigned work is coming from my project lead.
Please don't refer to people and their livelihoods as "fat." Cheering people losing their jobs is gross.
Management is a generic role with many of the same tasks no matter what jobs the people they manage are doing. Engineering manager means you have the software engineering domain of problems which are highly technical in nature but coaching, reviewing people's work, planning work, hiring/firing/perf reviews, etc. are all things that have to get done.

Maybe a better corollary is managing surgeons? Highly technical work, highly paid, sometimes the manager won't be better than the people they manage or even be able to perform their role.

The way humans organize work is hierarchical. I view my role as manager is more servant leader, doing busy work dev stuff when I have time like patches, bugs, etc. and leaving "fun" feature/product work to the team. Make sure they have what they need to do their work (planning, filtering out nonsense, attending planning meetings, etc.) and get out of their way.
I am a big believer in "nomen omen" -> latin for: destiny is in the name. It's obviously an exaggeration, but to your point, this is one of those cases where the name influenced how the tech was being used (and in what environments), regardless of its underlying potential.
"these games become an all-consuming pursuit, a way of shutting out the world and its problems for long, long stretches of time."

So like all other addictions.
That's the issue, the hydrogen push (especially in the media) is just oil/gas sneaking their continued fossil fuel use to the future. Has been since George Bush II was pushing hydrogen as a green alternative 10-15 years ago in his role as faithful smiling face of the fossil fuel industry.

It continues today. The research at is core is valuable because of course hydrogen and fuel cells have applications. But you are correct:

It's always positioned as "don't do BEVs, use hydrogen for this for EVERYTHING".

Which is really "the tell" that hydrogen continues to be a trojan horse for continued carbon emissions by the oil and gas companies. If it weren't your point is precisely right: it would simply be presented as "here is a use of hydrogen in this specific use case that is useful".

Granted some of this is the usual hype/lying/fraud done by some startup to garner investment, attention, and interest by any means possible. But who funds these hydrogen startups? Oh right...

It's very similar to the constant barrage of nuclear stories. Both petroleum and nuclear are existentially threatened by the current (and future) economics of BEVs, batteries, solar, and wind. They aren't competitive now, and the economies of scale and technological maturity of all of those technologies is still in active improvement in terms of year-on-year 5-15% improvements.

I certainly won't support any hydrogen "scheme" for a decade at least. Hydrogen is in the same boat as any nuclear startup or new project: MAYBE you have an economic case against solar/wind/battery ... based on today's prices.

But they all have ten year lead times, practically speaking. Hydrogen at any scale is a huge infrastructure buildout. And their value proposition, aside from the oil/gas trojan horse of hydrogen-from-methane, is based on CURRENT solar/wind/battery prices.

In the ten years between when some huge civilization push for nuclear or hydrogen comes, what will the effective price of solar/battery/wind be? NO ONE knows, but at 5-15% is probably a likely improvement curve for the next ten years, barring significant materials and approach breakthroughs like some dramatic perovskite solar cell or some phenomally good solid state battery cell hitting the market (all of which are theoretically possible).

And at a minimum, if any hydrogen or nuclear boondoggle steals investment and attention and policy focus and consumers from BEVs and wind/solar, it is a win for these existentially threatened industries, likely full of executives who are riding sinking ships to retirement and stock option bonuses rather than actually migrate the companies to long term sustainability.

They didn't care about the sustainability of the planet, so why would they care about their companies sustainability?
You're probably using O(n^2) idioms, like appending to the end of a growing list.
I hope it does, thanks for reminding me of it!

I'd come across it quite some time ago, but it was mentioned in the context of someone saying "I wish it was more actively developed", so I just assumed it was something of a stale project. Looking at the repo now, that doesn't seem to be the case at all. I've added an alias

alias jli="julia --project=@Interpret -e 'using JuliaInterpreter' -i"

and will give it a try over the next few days. (`@Interpret` is the environment I installed the package in.)
This is my sister's estimation - a lot of Google (and FAANG) isn't actually tech. She works in science and has an uncanny ability to reel of stats about where the scientific papers are coming from and what companies are doing research of value.

The upshot of this is a belief that 'we have tech' when we don't. It is a dangerous illusion.
> I highly suspect very few will ahve to tear it out. It'll cost more money to replace than it would to pay license fees for many companies. Developer time costs money.

That is the strategy companies are using to monetize these sort of projects. Give it away for free and then charge when a company has to make the choice of spending money to get rid of it and to replace it or to just pay for it. The lesson to take away is that any open source supported by a company will potentially become something that will have to be licensed commercially, so if anything will create an incentive to not use open source.
Here in Florida, large parcels were bought up by developers and then subdivided into .25/.33/.50 acre lots. These were then sold off to people who eventually wanted to retire here. The problem is the building codes here are probably the most stringent in the US. So there are a lot of these parcels for sale on the cheap ($10k-$25k) but it’s still not worth doing anything with them.
Interesting thought, that's something that could be buried deep in a EULA.
Embrace, extend, and extinguish [1]. This is the extend phase.

Microsoft has the resources and ability to make better language servers which could be closed source now, so people end up switching to those tools, owned by Microsoft, with better language servers, killing other editors if they are not able to catch up.

E.g.: Why would a C# programmer use Neovim if the language server is worse than the one that VSCode has? (Which is now proprietary and closed-source). The difference right now is insignificant, but the future tools and features that they are adding to the new proprietary C# language server will not be available for other editors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
Fair, but on the flip side, the easy thing to notice is the amount of BS that slips though. It is often much harder to quantify the amount of bullshit that the manager blocked, without more visibility of the dumb requests or whatever that the manager in receiving.

Even if a manager let nearly zero bullshit make it to you, from your perspective you can't always tell if that was your manager being good at that, or if your manager just received very little bullshit to deal with in the first place because their manager was good, (unless they happen to mention some of the non-sense they are blocking for you at some point or other).
But in fuzzy disciplines like management you're allowed not to do well. Engineers are fighting with the law of physics. You can't bullshit your way out of a formula or a bug in your code. Thus when bad managers demand that you do x by end of the day/week/month they put an insane amount of pressure on you because there's only one way out. You have to crack the code, you must figure the problem out.

Therefore technical people develop a special sort of humility, reminded everyday of their errors by the law of physics, that bad managers who fail forward never do.
> 15% of the companies have a woman founder and 9% of the founders are women

The trend continues. I still want to see an objective analysis for why so few female founders make it through the funnel. I haven't found any good stats to see if the overall % of startup founders (regardless of YC participation) is abysmal, if it's the software focus that acts as a filter, if it's the VC focus, or something else entirely.
It probably counts as one-party consent, but not two. California requires two.
Because people want nice plastered, painted and wallpapered walls?

Adding a socket is the easy bit. It's the putting everything back to how it was that's hard.

If you want plain panelled walls you could install that now. And have your $50 socket. Most people probably don't like that tradeoff.
That's a really good uni, no?
There were 3 options GWB had. Either

A) allow Israel to strike Iran directly using kinetic means.

B) prevent Israel from doing so and likely give Iran the capability to arm weapons with nuclear warheads.

C) an option C. Stuxnet.

Which option in your opinion is most proportionate and least damaging? Either A) or B) would upset power balances in the Middle East leading to war between nations.
Does this explain why they built them where they did?
Text is more respectful of a person's time than video. Both serve a purpose.
>No, or at least not unless there was a good reason...

There was a follow-up: Why? KiwiFarms clearly allows this doxxing to occur on a daily basis, and I know that you know this. While it's not illegal, if you don't feel that doxxing is generally OK, why do you feel that it's OK for KF users to continue to go to the extent that they do?

>More importantly, doxxing isn't illegal and is done by major media and orgs

Two wrongs do not make a right.

>Not to mention it seems like ~95% of what is being called doxxing here is posting publicly available (usually posted the the person themselves) info.

There is a significant difference there. A lot of the information that is publicly available is information that has to be compiled. Someone has to go to the effort to look through all of the nooks and crannies to obtain what they want. KiwiFarms saves time and compiles general publicly available data that might be "difficult" to obtain to some degree, often times alongside otherwise private photos and information that individuals might not want widely disseminated, even if they did share it. This compiled data can make it easier and more likely for bad actors to do harm than if they had to go to greater lengths to obtain that info.

The fact that massive, multi-page forums threads can exist with tons of users providing all of this data and talking about these people is enough to cause mental damage to the targets of these threads. Actions need not be direct nor illegal to be harmful, and you know just as well as I do that there have been plenty of examples of people claiming harm from the existence of such threads.

Even if the behavior is not allowed and banned, the environment is still rife to encourage it. The further you allow people to go, legal or not, the more comfortable they're going to get with the boundaries that they push. This is evidenced by the historical instances of swatting and direct harassment that have stemmed from KF despite it's own rules against it, even apparently as recently as a few weeks ago.

>My feelings are irrelevant to my arguing.

That might be the case, but arguing in support of KF here is essentially arguing in support of what I just described above.
They would own the IP rather than you and thus prevent a competitor from also getting access to it. they would also control where, how, and what you work on rather than you.
I think you grossly overestimate the percentage of candidates at lower tier schools who would be qualified to pass a Jane Street (or really any HFT firm) interview. Even at the top schools the pass rate is incredibly low. In expectation you would be getting probably <5% of your new graduate/intern class from the entire bottom 80% of schools.

The quality level drops off very sharply after you go below the top 20-30 CS schools. It's just a matter of limited resources for recruiting. The common path taken by people who go to "lesser" schools is to grind really hard to get into a good MS or PhD program and then go to these firms.
https://pragmaticengineer.com/ newsletter for me was a fun investment.
another thing that I do, which is not a subscription for products, is putting money into opensource projects that I use. E.g. the terminal emulator, cli tools and some such. If they have patron or something I try and sign up or send one time sums.
On statistical criteria of algorithmic fairness (2021)
Reading this, now I'm on the fence.

I was under the impression "kiwi farms" was a dark place. The byuu story and reaction of the webmaster made me no fan. But this really changes things. Suddenly it's presumably "not just only" a twitter mob with some internet skills and resources committing vigilante justice.

This is becoming a precedent and the webmaster a martyr for the cause of internet freedom, and against Cancel Culture.

Suddenly I'm rooting for the supposed bad guy. I'm confused.
According to the bank, the issue was being sure about his identity. Well, with a check, the check itself is identity enough. And with a check, the bank may be legally required to pay it with the funds in the account.
There's about four thousand four-year-degree-granting institutions in this country. How much recruiting should Jane Street do at all of them?
It's perfectly legal for one to opt not to host something, or provide DDoS protection for it, for any reason they choose.
When it comes to managers, it's hard not to say their role is BS for many of us. I've never had a truly good manager (19 in 10 years). Many of their perceptions don't match with mine or the other team members.
When I graduated I interviewed with Jane Street and I graduated from essentially a no-name state school (Suny Oswego). I think I got a fair shake out of it.
That's a reasonable concern. On the other hand, by not checking for cheating, one changes the culture in the classroom.

For example, in universities that aggressively go after cheaters, an adversarial relationship develops between the students and the faculty. The students collaborate on cheating, and get social credibility for cheating. Students will brag about successfully cheating to their peers.

On the other hand, at Caltech, we had an Honor System. Exams were not proctored, and students could take the exams whenever and wherever they wanted. The students were on their honor not to cheat. And an interesting thing happened. The students developed a collaborative relationship with the professors. Cheaters were despised and ostracized. If you were cheating, you'd better keep it to yourself - the other students would turn you in, and at that point you might as well leave the university.
Might be a dumb question, but would they be profitable?

I worked at a small company that had $1.5M in 'backorders'. But it was going to take more than $1.5M to fulfill the orders, which ... is not a place you want to be in (regardless of how many zeroes?). Half the company was laid off shortly after this 'milestone' was reached.

Now.. perhaps with more zeroes... there's seemingly enough wiggle room to move stuff around in the books to balance things out...?

Also, I realize it might be premature asking that type of question, but... having been burned once, it sticks to top of mind.
It occurs to me that it would be easy to fake this claim. Has anyone independently verified it?
I bet you read the title only, and not the article.

There is way-way more to it than the title. Nowhere did the author reduce the contribution of non-engineering roles.

An excellent read!
Estimations only has value if you're not going to be held to it, otherwise people start fudging numbers. As a rough guide it can be useful, but too often it's used for more than that.
I see so many SQLite posts these days, but which companies with a lot (>1M) concurrent users are using SQLite in a non embedded fashion?

It just seems so academic. I’d like to use a web service or app backed primarily by SQLite and see how it goes.
I find it bizarre that people talked to you about their perceived change in your status to you directly, much less simply due to a phone.
> And what has that got to do with our energy supplies? Did we thumb our noses at Saudi Arabia and stop buying their oil,when they started bombing the shit out of Yemen? Have we sanctioned the US --ever!-- for any of the 88 and counting countries they've attacked since the end of the second world war?

Well, I mean, first of all, we absolutely should. It's long past time to stop subsidizing their lifestyle and their violence to support our outdated dependence on fossil fuels.

We also need to stop treating Brown People Countries as being less important to protect than White People Countries.

> What's so special about Ukraine that we have to throw our own people under the bus because Ukraine hid behind the US's skirts poking the bear next door with a stick and are now suffering the consequences?

....But there actually is a significant difference here (beyond the racism angle). From what I understand, the Saud family just wants to have hegemony within their fairly-small region. Which, yeah, that's not great, but...

Putin wants to reassemble the USSR, and then exert influence over...basically all of Asia and Europe. I don't know if he actually wants to "rule the world", but he certainly wants to be in position to influence or pressure most of the world to do things His Way. He is objectively a much greater threat to world stability and to the US.
I do mark all unsolicited marketing emails as spam, and I do consider my email to be public. In fact I welcome unsolicited emails from people that want to network, ask me questions, or anything else. This isn’t that. This is a vaguely personalized marketing email sent through SendGrid. I expect he probably scraped me, and put me into some marketing automation tool and is running me through a program.
OSB is a really risky thing to use, especially in environments (like England) that are constantly damp. One leak and the panel is ruined. Plywood can dry out and retain its structural integrity. Plywood is generally considered the better material for home construction for all uses, walls, roofs, subfloors. I think the majority of homes are built with OSB today and I consider it the most glaring sign that the construction is cheap and to be avoided.
My favorite example, from Malcolm in the Middle -

https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0