skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not as bad as this.

In climates where you will have a bed of snow during the winter months, your optimum tilt angle for a fixed solar panel is something like 30° off of vertical or steeper. I find that on mine the snow falls off since it is a south facing, steep, dark surface.

You engineer to make sure you have enough energy captured each month to meet that months needs. That might lead you to a tilting mount, or just a fixed angle and having surplus energy most months.

In my case, panels were much more expensive when I designed my system, I initially roof mounted them, but when replacing the roof under them I moved them to a pole and went with a tilting mount and manually move the panels twice a year. My load is much higher in the summer, but I still need some power in the winter. And northern winters can be cloudy a lot and have limited sun even on a clear day. At my location there is about a factor of 5 difference in solar energy per square meter per month. So you design for each month and then pick a solution that is best. In my case the summer load is so high that even though I get 5 times the energy, it is still the driving force on sizing the system.
Really? Was fairly sure Splinter Cell really didn't invent this, but it was what came to mind. Didn't know it went back that far. I'll have to look that up, I only know Max Headroom from clips.
Shibboleet. Now fetch him please.
I don't have an answer to this question because I've never experienced the issue, but I have a related comment.

I find it interesting that whenever Anglos speak of "drinking" (alcohol), what they really mean is "consuming alcohol in excess as a means of getting high". To an Anglo, beer and wine are not food, they are drugs intended for pleasure. To an Anglo, there seems to be no healthy middle. It's either "a twelve pack in two days" or "I'm completely sober these days". It's never "I had a mug of ale as a part of my dinner because that's what ale is - a traditional foodstuff". That's what beer and wine are to me - food. Nothing more.

I say this as an American, and I realize my cultural values toward "drinking" are very unusual to other Americans, and Anglos in general.
who is pushing for antiwork to hit the frontpage constantly?
Wonderful to see you here as well! :)
Nice move open-sourcing it. At the company I work for, we considered InboxSDK when making an Gmail-integrating extension.

But at the time it was closed-source so we went with the open-source Gmail.js[1] instead.

Now that InboxSDK is open-source too, how do you guys feel they compare? Do they have their different strengths or niches?

[1] https://github.com/KartikTalwar/gmail.js
"Perhaps it's a matter of finding the exercise you can tolerate."

This.

I was a bit of a free-weight gym rat in my 20s and never liked it (still don't), but have over the years find things I have/do enjoy, and that makes it easier to get stuff done. Some are very low friction to accomplish regularly (Kettlebells, ergs, trail-running/hiking...note, I hate running on treadmills or in urban environments, but will alternate running and hiking in an afternoon in the forest like a 5 year old kid exploring. It's actually a joyful event for me. YMMV). Other things happen perennially due to logistics or weather (e.g. swimming, rowing, Bikram yoga).

I've tried lots of other things in between, so there is some measure of "i need to figure out what works and what doesn't" and that in and of itself can be an unpleasant set of experiments, but...
I think there is a significant fraction of people for whom their system of reasoning about the world fundamentally follows the same design patterns as religion and the best we can hope for is that they "convert to the church of trusting the experts". Covid really exposed the thought process.

Basically, as I surmise was happening in their mind, the distancing / mask guidelines became the sins, anyone who forgot or followed it imperfectly even once was a bad person, anyone who did get it must have sinned (or someone near to them did), and so long as you never sin it won't happen to you. Implicitly anyone who got it did something to deserve it, as there's no such thing as bad things happening to good people randomly.
The only problems I have ever had with "capitalist robber barons" is minor customer service issues, and I can say whatever I want about them without fear of consequences.
> Why are Asians doing so well? Why can't we replicate this for other groups?

What _are_ the groups?

"Asian" can mean anything. From India, China, Japan, many countries in Oceania, etc.

I think the classification is fundamentally flawed.
Developers can ask. They probably won't get useful answers. But they can ask!
I chuckled at the segue from LSD to the Newton.
Apple already has developer forums where employees reply
Everyone I know lists having a large home backup power source as the #1 thing they like about electric cars besides lower cost per mile.

If you leave your bubble a little you'll learn a lot. And Im only 50 miles east of your bubble.
No, Apple isn't achieving that bandwidth with DDR4:
"M2 uses LPDDR5-6400"

Don't get me wrong, it's stunning performance, and having it on the same package as the CPU and GPU has other benefits.
Not every employee at a company gets the most powerful computer, nor does everyone get the expensive software. This is targeted at companies and employees who can benefit from the tech such as architects.

Even Facebook / Microsoft don't give out VR headsets to all employees.

This is also a first gen product, so this is not the version most companies may be adopting.
That is hands down the coolest thing I’ve seen today.
Is it scalable and how do you deal with the noise and cooling/power requirements?
You could swap the entire headset. $3k/seat for professional gear for enterprise use is cheap.
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
> if this kind of reporting sparks the interest of a young physicist out there, I guess its mostly harmless

I'm not sure I agree. If reporting like this funnels more young physicists into doing this kind of research, which has been going on for decades without making any successful experimental predictions, then I don't think it's harmless.

Not only that, but this kind of reporting has a subtext: Science is the Authority. Even when Science tells you what seems like obvious nonsense. And that pernicious effect goes far beyond a few young physicists.

That is not to say that there aren't scientific claims that seem highly counterintuitive to the lay person, but which are nevertheless true. There are. But those claims are nailed down by massive quantities of experimental evidence that matches the predictions of the models to many decimal places. The speculative claims discussed in this article have no evidence to support them. Big difference. But you'll never find that out by reading these kinds of articles.
> create your own sub or join subs where people won't ban you for whatever you have to say

Not exactly true. the_donald, all the numerous *InAction, some morbid, etc subs were all banned. Most of them because they didn't like what people were saying, regardless of what lies Reddit comes up with for the reason.
That's a shame, it wasn't entirely clear from the article but I assumed it must be multiple numbers since it didn't seem to me like it would be all that useful otherwise.
I was wondering if they mean 4x the screen resolution or the camera resolution since its in the mixed reality section. Also without even knowing the resolution/refresh rate/vertical/horizontal fov it would be hard to justify a pre order.
I eat dumb people, myself.

Seriously though, I think it's folly to evaluate something's value based on its intelligence. I think ethical judgements about what to eat should be based on its subjective experience, with a goal of harm reduction and minimization of suffering. Of course, the only way to cause no harm by eating is to be dead, so it will never be perfect.
SEC Investigating Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs over Unregistered Offerings
Do you need a Strong Leader?
I never noticed such a correlation before, but catfish, salmon, tuna, herring, halibut and flounder all seem to conform.
Posts like this seem reactionary and equally anti-intellectual. Sure I know that a lot of the DE&I stuff is frustrating for people. But it seems like if you really want to dig into this you need to take broader approach. Can you actually prove that people are in any way capable of measuring merit, especially for leadership decisions, which is pretty squishy to begin with? It seems to me like throwing some extra diversity into an already squishy process is the least of your worries.

They mention an increase of from 3% to 5% of membership of senior black leaders. Do I think those senior black leaders earned it? Probably. For certain levels of leadership probably 50% of leaders qualified for the position are ready, 20% are exceptional and 5% will be promoted. Better this than promoting the CEO's nephew.
Off topic:

Uh, does anyone else just see a blank white page? (Firefox, uBlock Origin, Javascript enabled)
In college we'd run a Plex/backups/Minecraft server in an old HP box on the floor. It survived a very hostile environment and was very educational to work with.
Not a lawyer, but married to a divorcee.

This scenario doesn't work as you expect if you get your first high-paying job and are served with divorce papers a week later. You have to be making that much money for something like 1-2 years for it to be considered any sort of baseline.

IMO, salespeople are hit hardest by this due to economic boom/bust cycles. You live an extravagant life when times are good, then get divorced during a recession and end up absolutely ruined because your earning potential (and imputed income) are tied to factors beyond your immediate control.

Bankruptcy does not relieve you of child support obligations. Unsure about alimony, but I doubt it.

If you have to get a lower-paying job after maintaining a higher-paying one, you can file for a modification, but you can only do this once every 3 years or so. It works both ways too-- your ex can file for a modification of child/spousal support (every 3 years) if they anticipate raises or promotions on your part.
This is not an unfair criticism and deserves discussion. Yet we have no particular evidence (I am aware of) indicating that all strategies for caloric restriction for H. Sapiens shoud be considered equal.

I am surprised why people who levy this critique (including yourself and Dr. Brad Stanfield on YouTube) don't simultaneously acknowledge the possibility that -- even if caloric restriciton is the main mechanism explaining the results -- time-restricted feeding may be a more effective/sustainable caloric restriction strategy than all-day calorie counting either alone or with other interventions lacking the time-restricted element (such as social support, AKA Weight Watchers).

In my own n=1 anecdote, I have lost 20 excess kg over the past 12 months (and continuing to gradually reduce) with time-restricted feeding as the primary intervention. Eliminating my continuous grazing during waking hours due to a time-based "cut off" for all eating was much more effective (in my case) vs previous strategies over decades where I simply "tried" not to snack between meals throughout the day.
Not sure where you saw this, the Quest Pro has built in speakers.

Straps are detachable, comes in-box.
Was it Logan Ury? If so I think that’s part of a much more complicated and nuanced discussion on self worth, self reflection, knowing what you want etc more than anything specific to “apps”
Do you mean the specs are too low? Or too high?
By the time Meta figures out that headsets are not the way, they will be bankrupt. No one wants these things. People buy them, use them once or twice and then forget about them.
I agree with neither of your false dichotomy points. The purpose of prison, first and foremost, is to protect society from people who are dangerous.

Rehabilitation is secondary to that.

Additionally it is important to call out that humane does not mean nice or pleasant. Prison does not need to be cruel. But it should absolutely not be something that people enjoy, because then you create perverse incentives.
I remember at some party I was talking to some guy who moderated something. He took it super serious and took everything a bit more serious than everyone else. I got the feeling from him that he held quite a low job. So it made sense to me that he would decide the desire to do something and have power somewhere so seriously. He talked about how hard it was to place clean.

I kind of felt bad for him, but the thing is, without people like this we don't have Reddit. It just doesn't exist. Community forums and discords don't exist. Honestly, I find them annoying at times but at the same time I understand the need for them.
> Meetings in VR are a gimmick

I expect you're wrong - spatial audio, body language, face tracking, eye contact are all super valuable and possibly in VR
The upstream on my cable modem is about 1/6th what my college dorm-room[1] upstream was, and I'm not sharing it with 1000s of other people.

1: It was two T3 lines, but only half of the second line was provisioned, so ~67MBps vs today's 12MBps.
You can input financial formulas to Excel more collaboratively.
It doesn't seem like fastmail is free, just a free trial.
They're achieving that bandwidth by putting ridiculous bus widths on the SoCs. The M1 Pro has a 256-bit bus to memory, the M1 Max has a 512-bit bus to memory, and the M1 Ultra has a 1024-bit bus to memory.
There is no Facebook integration. That was removed 2 months ago.
How the largest open source companies got their first 1k community members
My experience with the regular Quest was so bad that you'd have to pay me $1500 to try this.
But a black hole is not a cavity but instead the extreme opposite of a cavity.
How could you read that as their most-likely (not even most-charitable) intended meaning when they start with "Of course overfishing is bad"? Surely, fishing to the point of extinction would be an example of over-fishing, right?
Whenever I find myself even mildly excited about VR hardware I ask myself what it looks like if Facebook truly succeeds in this? Like what if they got massive adoption and are able to tie in all their revenue engines within a walled-garden VR setup? What if they succeed and get tons of enterprise customers?

It would be absolutely awful right? Like the worst parts of dystopian fiction with microtransactions and popups and all kinds of other cruft in a 360 field of vision some how mandated for gaming and work. World-wide, probably tying into education and basic information access.
Google glass wasn't/isn't a failure as a whole. It very much exists today, as an enterprise product for niche use cases.

As a personal wearable, the energy density of the battery and/or compute power is not there.
Sure. This is what I did first. https://github.com/alvarlagerlof/next-banner. Its using one puppeteer process at build, for static sites. Made for Next.js.

However I was working on another version, which just reads html files for metadata instead. Not really shareable and working, built it's using vite to build a few different frameworks. https://github.com/alvarlagerlof/ogimage
Interesting! When you drink does it also feel like it clears the cobwebs out of your brain? I honestly generally feel better the next day.

I don't think that it's something that would work on a regular basis, but maybe once a month or two.
Sad to see the "Hand guard" rings disappear on this controller. They saved my hands so many times when I ended up punching a wall/table/chair etc.
> Facebook integration

They did make good on this. You can make Meta accounts with arbitrary emails and there's no connection to Facebook or real name stuff.
Yeah, this would be a game changer to me.
no way the actual expected use case is to have two headsets per person that get switched out every two hours.
The U.S. has tried to build a gas centrifuge plant but so far (unlike Pakistan and Iran) it has failed to do so.

This is incorrect. The United States successfully built a centrifuge enrichment plant in the 1980s, but it closed due to a global glut of enrichment capacity and corresponding low prices [1]. The UUSA centrifuge enrichment plant currently operates in Eunice, New Mexico. It has been operating since 2010:

https://www.urenco.com/global-operations/uusa

[1] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/912770
I worked a bit on TPUv4 in my last role at Google a couple years ago. I have to say I really like the interconnect design. It's the closest to a real supercomputer that I've seen Google make, but with some nice capabilities to dynamically reconfigure the fiber paths using MEMS. Combined with the 3D torus and a few other TPUv4 features, this is a large-scale machine learning monster.
https://xkcd.com/870/

Up to 15% - OR MORE!
US property sector braced for job cuts as rate rises crush home sales
Rails don’t last hundreds of years. They just do the regular disassembly and replacement tasks at night in a rolling fashion that they look permanent to users.
They also have satori, which will run anywhere it seems.
A World-Class Code Playground with Sandpack
"Make it so I don't contemplate self-harm and/or abandoning my life to live in the woods every time I need to update XCode" would indeed be a big improvement. IDK WTF they're doing wrong with that but god damn.
Classic help desk tactics so you don’t have to do any work lol

Ah well, this JIRA field was empty can’t do anything about it. WONTFIX
Sure you could 3d print some bumpers to snap on, haha.
From The Verge:

> Its screens offer a respectable 1800 x 1920 pixels per eye with a maximum 90Hz refresh rate, plus new display tech that Meta says offers 75 percent more contrast than the Quest 2’s.
I hate articles like these and their appeals to "meritocracy".

Before my current team, my whole career, every single team I worked in was pretty much exclusively young, white, nerdy men. Maybe each person on those teams was objectively the "best" candidate for their respective hiring round! (though I doubt it) But they make horrible teams. If your team looks like that, your team is horrible too, no matter how much you tell yourself it's not.

My current team is a diverse group of well-rounded people. Some women, some men, some younger, some older, from many ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Guess which is the higher performing? Guess which has a safe atmosphere with zero dick measuring? Guess which is the most pleasant to be a part of? Guess which has zero tolerance for any toxic behavior? etc etc

Sure, there's lots of room for improvement in how tech businesses actually implement diversity vs just paying lip service to it and slicing numbers. But don't pretend like diversity isn't sorely needed in the industry.
I didn't say it is the bastion of free speech but it's much better than whatever Facebook is.

2 reasons:

1. Reddit does not usually participate in censorship itself. It's extremely rare for reddit accounts to be banned on the whole or for users to be banned from creating communities for like minded people.

2. Reddit allows you to create your custom feed. You could sort by new, you could create your own community, you could post opinions only on your account and reddit would not care.

This is very different from how Facebook acts. The facebook algorithm is very biased, has checks for several trigger words and gradually profiles your political side and starts getting stricter as time passes.

In my last 1-3 years on Facebook, I was been banned for at least 6 times and no I'm not a political person. I was banned for either posting an image that facebook algorithm didn't approve of, opinion on tech that somebody else attacked me for or in general, not being the person facebook ideologically asked me to be.
It’d look the same as Apple’s iPhone ecosystem most likely.
I may be an anomaly, but most of the Ask Apple topics wouldn't be terribly useful for me. In general, I haven't had much difficulty figuring out how to use the various frameworks and features as they are released. I don't want to discount the experience of anyone who has had difficulty however. Getting direct technical help may be the key to their sucess.

I am a former Apple employee but this has given me no special privileges or advantages at all. Perhaps it has given me some particular skill at diving into header files to figure out a solution to a technical problem.

The issue(s) I need the most help with revolve around generating revenues that don't involve advertising, subscriptions, dark patterns or racing to the bottom on pricing. The AppStore model makes it very difficult to use some of the techniques that worked in the old days of shrink wrap and direct online distribution; trial periods, version upgrades and other concepts that don't fit into the AppStore buy it once and get upgraded for life.

It was my decision to make an application that incurred expensive development costs and it was also a risk to depend upon Apple and the AppStore. They sure do make it hard for small developers to try and make a living selling "professional" level applications.
The South Asia Subcontinent has about 2 billion people. A different part of Asia has more than 2 billion people. Identifying as Asian is utterly meaningless, except to perhaps generalize as (non-white & non-black). Madness.
> The association with Meta is also a huge downside for me personally.

Agreed. Whether you agree with how Meta does things or not (I don't), they have made it very clear that they see the Quest as a locked down, Meta-controlled ecosystem.

I happen to use an iPhone, which arguably pioneered this sort of thing, but I feel like Meta are taking it to the next level. They have much higher rev-shares, (I think it's 40-60%), they have tighter control, require a Facebook account to use it (quite different to an Apple account to access cloud features), and while an iPhone is quite functional without the AppStore and iCloud with the web and built-in functionality, I think the Quest is basically useless without a Facebook account setup.

All that lock-in worries me.
No. I understand that very well.

I am also forced into labor. I suppose I technically COULD just not work. But then I'd have no place to live and no food to eat.

That isn't really very much of a choice, is it?

I feel like you're missing the "needs" part that the rest of society has.
firetech has been heavy on the 'suppression' here in California. Its step-children include aggressive surveillance, controlling the movement of people whether they own property or not, increase in fines and legal entanglements for those in fire-prone areas, and I would argue a fertile breeding ground for secretive behind-closed-doors deals regarding public information and public budgets.

ref: https://www.amazon.com/Scorched-Worth-Destruction-Government...

so what to do? Please support and develop public information within the spirit of the Law. California and the US has 'default to public' government data for hundreds of relevant layers. Please do not support "my keys, my data" portal gatekeeping by spatial information handlers for public data. Be explicit about the difference between 'public by default' layers and commercial value added layers. Please do not encourage "onboard AI for drones" without checks and balances for the content and filtering. Please build clear bounds between civilian matters and uniformed services matters -- "we are the Army Corps and we have this handled; please move along" is not an acceptable stance in 2022.

The tragic and catastrophic fires in the Western USA and elsewhere in the past five years are a very large challenge. Let's combine forces and synergize, defeat gatekeeping that is so common in government contracting, and 'secret by default' information handling (e.g. 30x30) so common in the armed forces.

Together we are stronger.
US immigration policy selects for high earners, the highly educated, the highly skilled and experienced, and the already wealthy.

My guess is that there are a lot of immigrants from Asia that fall into any of those camps.