skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The square-root scaling law means quadrupling the water storage only doubles the length of the perimeter dike. It is a good thing.

Only if there is a project of reasonable size that has a manageable cost. Otherwise the corolloray that smaller dikes cost more implies that only a small handful of perfectly placed megaprojects will work. Responding with vague rhetoric for something you claim will work when there are hard numbers for finished projects using other technologies makes you look no better than the fission shills.

Snowy 2 blows fission out of the water, even being over budget by the usual fission ratio. But it had a watershed and it wasn't greenfield.

Are there any actually existing off river PHEL projects (or adequately sized reservoirs) with real budgets that actually got finished to compare?
Before you go setting up new criteria, consider starting with the existing criteria.

It’s a terrible argument to point out some things that are different and use it as an excuse to ignore all the previous protections that were put in place.

E.g. Uber shouldn’t be allowed to hide the details of a job before the drivers accept them if they’re not employees
> If I have a fair coin (parameter value) then the probability that it will come up heads is 0.5. If I flip a coin 100 times and it comes up heads 52 times then it has a high likelihood of being fair (the numeric value of likelihood potentially taking a number of forms).

Most of the top posts gave some math but to really any intuition, and ignored the poster's request for an example of where probability and likelihood differ. The above was the first I saw that was clear.
A simulation is not the real thing. We can simulate forces and interactions between simulated particles, but neither would have the actual properties of the real thing, only simulated properties. Simulated magnetism is not magnetic. It is just an appearance, an illusion. Consciousness only arises from actual, genuine healthy brain, not simulated brain. A simulated brain can no more be conscious than a video game.
There are obvious downsides to many of these CSS hacks. Pay close attention to the usage notes.

An example not on the page are menus powered by the CSS :hover pseudo-class. It seems smart, until you realise the diagonal problem exists, and it is quite hard to select an item in your menu without accidentally opening one of the sibling menus.

Unfortunately, software development seems extremely poor at passing knowledge on to the next generation so you see these problems being “rediscovered” over and over again.
Doh - my friend keeps telling me to watch it - i got bored it the first half, and he told me to stick with it....there's a massive twist...pls edit that post :/
The question isn't whether Putin knows what it means, but rather whether he cares. Between his religiosity, the kinds of people he takes on as advisors, and his mystery illness, it is possible that "we will go to heaven" was more than just a bad joke.
Tried them both.

Navidrome is okay. But it's not so much better than Mythtv. So why bother?

As for the decade, do you work at being a jerk, or does it come naturally?

I'd point out that jellyfin is a fork of Emby, which is a rebrand of MediaBrowser -- first released in 2000. Mythtv's initial release was in 2004.

And so I should probably ask you the same question, eh?

I use emacs too. Does that make me an asshole as well?

How about Linux? Been using that since 1991.

Mythtv is still under active development. Do you even know how it works? Have you ever even tried it?
I suspect it's possible to find the download URLs by other means, or perhaps the site maintainer would be willing to update it if asked.
It's pretty crazy to me that meta can dump a billion a month into vr without even trying that, frankly
I think it's the same problem as 3D TV. There's a novelty, but actually using the tech is straining. With 3D TV your eyes hurt a lot. With VR... your eyes hurt a lot, and you have this cumbersome device on your head.

A problem with VR I see for myself is that it encompasses your entire focus. With traditional viewing devices I'm not locked in to one activity, I can multitask. The headsets are claustrophobic and limiting. And all that's after they fix the problem of high prescription lenses, which I think is insurmountable.
I think I've owned more iPads than iPhones, but it's a close race. 8:7 if I'm calculating correctly.

Buying into the Apple ecosystem is a great way to stop spending countless hours researching your buying options.
The robot says: "You should have seen the other guy!"
> Now he's trying to innovate

What do you think is the innovation he's trying to do? So far it looks to me like "let's do SecondLife, but with walled gardens, and we'll sell expensive hardware for it". We could argue whether this is useful in some context and whether maybe some specific kind of meetings would actually benefit from VR, but... VRChat exists - if they bought that and did "VRChat for business", they'd be already better off.

But actual innovation? I just don't see it.
It would be interesting to see a benchmarking test suit for the algorithms supported in the context of their domain space.

Not only good computer vision being made easy but also data-driven a synopsis allowing the developer to narrow in based on their applications needs.
Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones
I don’t recall a Sony, but Samsung def had one at one point. And today there’s a Chinese company named Yongnuo that produces them.
This is when the needle deflections go off the scale and the electroencephalograph catches fire like in the movies.
I ended up with an m2 macbook air for work - but I was hoping for a amd laptop with an oled screen like:

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/56563-asus-zenbook-s13-revie...

But despite reviews by spring/summer they never seemed to materialize as actual products available for purchase (note 5xx series, not previous generation 3xx) :/
On the Internet Archive [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221028014422/https://www.econo...
Normally I’d agree with you, but here’s where I think perpetual voting control by Zuck fatally undermines that investment thesis.

If he were content to manage a stable (or declining) company and throw off cash to his shareholders for the next several decades, that’d be one thing. But instead he has ultimate decision to continue writing ten-digit company checks every month to pursue the metaverse.
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Disc Is Basically Empty
The videos are interesting. It’s a really cool interface. But the commentary seems from left field:

> It’s a fakery to help the police feel OK about themselves, and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place

I don’t like cops. But to say their existence isn’t needed is not sane.
this would be a big hit with NFTs in a couple ways:

easiest: the team's own website can display the NFT images in their own gallery, similar to OP. Anywhere else displaying the NFT will not have these effects, like the marketplaces

medium: major NFT marketplaces and displayers allow 3mf file format, which is a 3D file format which can also accept mouse over movement and other UI interactivity on top of the main image (or 3D object). so one would do this in 3D software first and then render out distinct files

hard but efficient: you can embed an HTML/SVG viewer into the NFT code itself, which could theoretically include all of this CSS and mouseover/tap events. This would make it more portable to be rendered with these features in more places and wouldn't require as much cumbersome processing and file portability to do everything needed for the .3mf format. The additional benefit is that all of this code could be directly onchain (while the raster image still is on IPFS/elsewhere)
> FB could practically purchase the entire games industry at these investment levels

Games are a metaverse that people actually want to use.

FB's metaverse? Who knows.
My current Macbook cost the same as the Thinkpad before it, yet has 2.5x the real-world performance, four times the battery life, better screen and touchpad, and runs completely silent.

But if calling me a lemming for that makes you feel better then go for it.
I’ve become a huge fan of tmuxinator. Incredible tool for defining templates for tmux.

https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
Thanks for the good wishes! I hate to miss Fall in New Hampshire.
Don’t forget the texts that triggered his offer to buy Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1575598387335901190?s=...
What "heavy-duty" software did Musk write for a 20 year period? I can't square it with the career section in his Wikipedia bio.
Thank you for articulating this so well. A lot of the comments in this thread are absolutely horrifying.
I like to get new phones every year or two. I enjoy it because I like gadgets, new phones always seem a bit more futuristic and beautiful than my old phone, and I like feeling I have a top of the line phone. On the other hand I drive my cars until they won't pass inspection and the repair cost exceeds the value of the vehicle. I don't care about cars. I know some people replace their cars every 2 or 3 years. People care about different things.
So many HNers thought the deal wouldn't go through.
As we learned with Trump, there aren't enough limits on the president's power. Especially if the majority in congress just want to keep the bs power coming from their majority - they won't vote against them. The us constitution is vulnerable to the charismatic dictator trope. I wouldn't have believed it before Trump, but a lot of people went along with him because they thought they could stop him later, they thought he wouldn't go that far, they thought other people would stop him. But in our country, we need much greater limits on the president in law and the constitution.
> Why not? He's spouting a bunch of ridiculous bullshit about licensing without bothering to ask or cite the opinion of people who are experts in licensing and ethical questions and business questions, eg: the FSF, the OSI licensing list, the FSFE Legal Network, and all so he can make money. Looks pretty nefarious to me.

This is quite the spicy comment -- I'm not a licensing expert (note that there was a licensing specialist involved) so I can't speak to OCV's interpretation of licenses, but which idea is the ridiculous bullshit? The PBC charter? The idea that preventing changing license being good? Do you think OCV is making deals that exploit maintainers?

This isn't a particularly new business model, so I figure it's not there -- people like/dislike open core, but I don't think people go as far as to call it nefarious.

Is the primary concern that the other organizations weren't contacted?

> and all so he can make money. Looks pretty nefarious to me.

Is the idea here that he'll make money somehow from people choosing to start public benefit corporations? Or from a lot of maintainers choosing to take his investment?

This does not seem like a "nefarious" (generally defined as "extremely wicked") thing -- what should it look like to be not nefarious?
I bought a book from them, one I've been meaning to listen to for a long time.

for $25 it wasn't a bad deal for hours of really good content, read by the author. Best version i've seen.

I appreciate not having a subscription model attached to a few books I might listen to
Sandboxing of the browser is much more important than that. Apple and Google built their own sandboxes for mobile, I think personally we should take the best open sandbox env and expand. Wasm is a great start, does multiple languages and easy to port to new platforms. Human friendly higher level capability wrappers / ACL could be built around it.
Offsetting the fiscal year from the calendar year is, I believe, fairly common. If nothing else surely it makes for a less miserable holiday season: don't have to spend as much time dealing with end-of-fiscal-year accounting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two as Western elites scrambled to prevent the inevitable crumbling of the global dominance of the United States and its allies...The historical period of the West's undivided dominance over world affairs is coming to an end

Says who? There is nothing inevitable about it. The evidence is in that a more free and a open society allows people to express their creativity and inventiveness, then share their discoveries with each other, compounding the invention.

China is a closed society by comparison to the West. The CCP is friction and drag that will mean China will keep lagging as the West capitalizes on new technologies like artificial intelligence. Who knows what force multiplier that will turn out to be?
"Your app was rejected because our crawlers refused to read it" is more accurate but makes Google look incompetent - even if there's legitimate reasons for crawlers to not follow redirects or execute JavaScript.
People don’t really hold on to grudges for so long. I believe the hatred is manufactured by the media- nytimes, foxnews, bbc, cnn pretty much all media hate him. Why wouldn’t they? He took a big piece out of their pie.
Then what I need is tuple on bash
Remote Job Postings Are Declining
It depends on your targets, IME. Huge companies? Yep, you'll get a "thanks for telling us" from a bigger bug bounty program and then not hear anything for weeks to months.

For small- and mid-sized companies that do bug bounties (of which there seem to be fewer and fewer these days as a percentage) you can definitely wind up submitting directly to the right people and get really quick response times.
How much would it cost to buy second life itself? Though I imagine they might not want to sell to FB.
The contract Musk signed relinquished any right to diligence.

>It added another degree of uncertainty to whether Mr. Musk would complete the deal, even though he had waived his rights to do due diligence on Twitter when he bought it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/06/technology/elon-musk-twit...
Rocket flight control? I'm not sure that was 20 years in a row or how much he really does of it, but that's my guess.
> if the majority of parents do not care to educate their children.

I don't agree that this is true. I might agree that a majority of parents now don't understand how to educate their children or have the excess capacity to do so.

Reading to your child means that you have literacy above your child as well as having time. Doing well in school presupposes that your parents know how to do well in school. Navigating bureaucracy is a skill learned by the upper-middle class and above.

Working the system is difficult when you spend most of your time simply trying to avoid having that system grind you apart.

Providing a public education to everyone is how society can help ameliorate some of those issues. It also is the most cost effective by a long, long margin.
Well, unlike some dubious investments (e.g. crypto companies), FB is backed by something: a reasonably successful advertising business and social network; and VR headsets, while unsuccessful to date, are an actual product that you can use for gaming, telepresence, etc..
For employees of the game industry, aren't standardized engines a net positive?

I can't think of many things worse in software development than "I'm an expert on my employer's obscure, only-used-here system."

Your employer knows you can't work anywhere else, and assuming they don't shoot themselves in the foot by allowing one person to become mission critical, they've definitely got the power in negotiations.
That's the same feeling I have when I step outside my Tesla and into just any other car.

It isn't that it is superior in every single way, but it is the balance of features that hits a sweet spot, making other cars feel like they have noticeable bugs.
The pedigree of Deno does speak for at least something as well. Who better to address the flaws of a lasting project someone created than the creator themselves? Just from incentive alignment it’s a powerful motivator.
I agree. It takes guts to buck the trends set by your peers and to forge a new path. Especially as a billionaire, the well traversed paths are already laid out and everyone is an echo chamber of the same message. Zuckerberg is taking a huge risk and gamble by pushing forth with what he believes to be the next stage in how users interface with computational devices. I have no idea if it will be a success but I respect the effort. Meta’s business proposition is vast and rather unclear at the moment as the technology remains in its nascent state. There are a lot of naysayers that like to parrot what they’ve heard but few people seem to be trying to figure out what it’s all about. Without considering it too deeply, I see Meta having an opportunity to reduce the physical costs associated with getting a team and equipment together, things that are normally required to create. It’s possible you won’t need to rent a studio to make music, or have all the professionals flown in to storyboard.

I don’t use Facebook, Instagram, etc. Nor do I hold stock in any of these company’s (or Meta). But I think it takes a lot of strength to move in this direction, so kudos to Zuckerberg. I hope something good comes out of it for all.
And so many thought it would.

Predicting the future is an imperfect science, as it turns out.
Elon did try very hard to stop it.
Because his 44billion dollar investment is worth 12 billion when the ink dries
We don't use any specific process, but like the people who use scrum our goal are still to make our development more smooth and efficient, the leader assign tasks through Trello, after we get our tasks we will evaluate it by ourselves, it we have any problems with this task then we will have to discuss with the PO or our leader, if there is none then we start to work on it. after we finished it we will move it to Done status the QA will test it if they got time, after QA finished the testing the PO will check it aging, if noting wrong then it will go production. I have used scrum once, I don't know if it is the scrum's problem or it's the one who use it, just don't give me a good impression.
> "I wrote heavy duty software"

> "I interface way better with engineer who are able to do hardcore programming"

In 20+ years of developing, I've only heard non-technical (or well past their prime technical) folks use the terms "heavy duty" or "hardcore" to describe programming.
This is what happens when shareholders have no say on how the company is run. Zuckerberg doesn't have to listen to Meta shareholders because their shares are non-voting. Zuck can't be fired.
Why are you lumping uber in there? It’s not a social media company, and millions of people depend on it.
This looks interesting! But it keeps loading forever saying "Your server is being created" (hit VM limit again?)
Elon don’t care. I don’t say that in a good way.

As Matt Levine said, “Musk did not become the world’s richest person by always honoring the letter and spirit of his commitments.”
Oh look, another exploited proletariat seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
NEOM is the architectural equivalent of cryptocurrency
> competitive/cost benefits would they have gained by switching?

It would make the rest of their customers happy -- the ones that do want one standard cable. I mean, it's their only computing device that they haven't switched to USB-C yet.
If you don't mind, I'd love if you could share a bit about how it helped your marriage.

Serendipitous solutions enthrall me, and broadens my thinking for when I'm faced with a condondrum.
The greater point, I think, is that everywhere else in American where I deal with the government I am required to present some form of ID. They even give you a list of a dozen or more valid IDs you can use.

However, arguably the most important interface with the government, voting is a place where I don't even have to validate I am who I say I am.

Seems strange to me.
I actually didn't know the current breakdown, which is why I wrote 'did/does'. I believe the rest of my comment is correct.
I'm honestly not sure I'm more shocked it went through or more shocked he thought he could get out of that contract.
It can't work unless Apple is allowed to sell phones without a warranty, which is illegal in most countries.
We do have a ton of salt caverns actually, many centrally located (Hutchison, Ks if you’re interested. Great air and space museum there too oddly enough)
4D chess on how to lose $30B…
According to those messages found in discovery Musk wasn’t disinvited, he made that decision himself.
"I recommend that people do a stint at Amazon.... the idea of really seeing and really feeling what it feels like to be the average American worker is hugely helpful."

I -suspect- that the (utter submission or else) A-experience is about as far from 'average' as Americans can get, based on the labor I've done (factory, construction) and seen being done. Extreme, rapid robo-work sort of peaked when the railroads were built (back when strikers were shot or dumped off trains hundreds of miles away).
Jack and Elon discussing future protocol:

https://www.twitter.com/TechEmails/status/157558827770002636...
Inflation is a lagging metric. Not a forward looking metric. Hypothetically, todays inflation could be 10%, and if within the next year broad market prices drop 30% YOY, next year inflation numbers would report negative. Meaning you would have been better off holding cash when the inflation numbers were previously stated to be 10%.
He made x.com, which was a financial service company that got bought by paypal. THen I think he worked at paypal for a while. Then he did spacex. Then he did tesla. All of those are very engineering heavy and he has been known to get into nitty gritty on all of them.
If you thought Elon was a genius, you figured he was just trolling the world and would weasel his way out of what seemed like a stupid deal.

If you thought he was a troll first and genius second, and paid attention to the analysts who read the fine print on the offer, you probably expected he was going to be hoisted by his own petard.
It is absolutely amazing to me that I can go vegan for an entire year and heavyset_go can also try being vegan and you and the rest of the vegan brigade want to now lecture us with vegan subreddits and recipe blogs. I am absolutely aware of what the vegan protein sources are as I am sure, given their username, heavyset_go is. It is this kind of militant mentality which is why so many people roll their eyes whenever the term vegan gets mentioned.

Neither of us are disputing that it is possible to be a vegan bodybuilder. But it is significantly more difficult and extra work compared to being either a meat eater or a vegetarian and to try and claim otherwise does not chime with our experiences or those of others I have encountered. The protein sources are inferior in density, amino acid profile and bioavailability, prep time is longer, more cooking is involved, meals can easily get monotonous and your social life is strained. It is hard work on top of already gruelling work in the gym. I will not be going back.

I can also say without a shadow of a doubt that several of the bodybuilders on that PETA page are using steroids which completely changes the game. Studies have shown that a steroid user doing no training puts on more muscle than a natural bodybuilder training as hard as they can.