skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my original reaction to Twitch, too. Who in their right mind would pay to watch someone else play a video game? It was ludicrous to me (and to some extent, it still is).

I'd make a terrible VC.
I've been working on something similar. It's currently in electron but I'm working on porting it to tauri since I agree that ideally you'd want a music player to be lighter on system resources than electron apps are. So far the tauri version uses a small fraction of the ram and disk space.

https://github.com/milesegan/minimoon
Did it have an electric hydraulic pump for these? Surely the steering and brakes still worked, just required 10x the force or something?
That's really cool. By the time I have a chance to hack my own, I suspect there'll be commercially-available Raspberry Pis in frames.... :).
Also it probably pays for itself not having your staff have to wait in line at local restaurants and taking longer for lunch, but I imagine his fanbase loving the stories of the efficient business savvy hero coming in and cleaning out SV of the lazy fat cats.

Also, if his solution is to charge for meals… the meals costing $400 a person and people not paying for their meals are two different problems. One is an efficiency problem and one is an expense problem. Charging people for their meals doesn’t solve the efficiency problem(if it exists)
We don't want everyone to work together effectively. Excessive cooperation at large scale leads to stagnation. In order to drive innovation we need competition (and even a little backstabbing).
The e-Ink monopoly needs to be smashed.
You're ignoring what it takes to bring the coal to the powerplant too.

OP was making the point that boiler to wheels efficiency of electrics is higher than ices. It isn't when you factor in all the conversion losses.

It's a really simple point that battery zealots fail to grasp.
Shutting it down will also take something like 1-2 years (gotta give any creditors time to file claims, is the official reason, I think), in which you again have to file the tax paperwork, paying a tax advisor to do it for you if you don't also want to become an expert on tax law aside from whatever your actual expertise is that you wanted to run a company for.

The Transparenzregister was new to me, but at least it only seems to consume an hour or so of your time and no additional money.

Basically, you can't afford to start a company if you just want to try something out, because the bureaucracy costs will outstrip your actual operating costs in the first year (which, for many IT people, are a domain and a laptop) and be a significant burden. Unless you go into it with "here's my capital, and here is my plan to turn this into the next unicorn", you're more likely to just give up before you even seriously think about the idea.
Same for me regarding the fear of heights - I won't go near the edge of anything unless there is a barrier at chest height or higher. To be honest, I think choosing to do the jump despite my fear was part of what made the experience so amazing.

If you really don't fancy it or want to build up to it, rollercoasters offer something of the same thrill in a more controlled way - any good parks nearby? Alternatively, have you ever tried SCUBA diving and/or are you near to somewhere you could do it? You'll find a great community of friendly people from all walks of life, and a similarly meditative experience, but totally tranquil instead of being totally exhilarating. On a similar note, I personally get a lot of fulfilment out of any kind of experience in the wild - you could turn your analytical mind to the study of plants or animals, and being out among the natural world generally brings a lot of cognitive and physical benefits.
> edit: And calling film grain "organic" is a bit of a stretch, it's silver halide crystals.

I thought it was super obvious they didn’t mean organic in the chemical sense.
Ha. This is simultaneously lame and super great! Thanks.
My post tech dream job is working the returns desk at Costco.

Oh you ran this suit case through a wood chipper? Cool. Here is your money back.

Low stress and hopefully good benefits.
I had to learn the hard way about circuits like the superbuffer here, and even more so the H-bridge: real components are not ideal, switching times are not zero, and until you learn that lesson you'll be releasing a lot of smoke.

Great write-up as always, Ken.
If you need x kw of power for daily use and your panels dip below that production figure you need to add more or replace the panels.

A market system for the lifecycle of panels to move the from new high value installation to lower cost ones with lower efficiency.

No need to recycle until they’ve been completely used.

Probably move them from the North to rural southern areas of America, or perhaps to the developing world who hopefully can use the last few watts before a local recycling facility.
I've always worried about phosphoric acid in colas and other soft drinks.
>So you think various health organizations, like the NHS, Harvard Health, USDA, WHO etc are wrong?

Yep. though a broken clock is also correct twice a day, not sure what proportion of advise they give is wrong.
University of Michigan ACM Hall of Fame Cybersecurity researcher Dr. Peter Chen has been prosecuted with repressed memory.
One of the Apple v Samsung (?) cases had court docs released with some App Store numbers redacted but it was just black squares over the actual numbers, just selecting the sentence and copy/pasting it gave it to you.
At 10k a square meter, you get 25m^2. Not huge, but for a single person, I've seen people living in less than half that, and it's still better than an airport
Biden’s Chip Curbs Outdo Trump in Forcing World to Align on China
Two really insightful learnings, especially that second one. A lot of meetings are pageantry, with decisions made through backchannels and off-the-record pre-meetings. Moving from a meeting to an online system doesn't remove that need.

I worked on an HR system recently, and "continual feedback" is all the rage. Folks have realized that those annual reviews and PIPs are completely divorced from reality - if we gave people continuous, incremental feedback they could course correct much more regularly. That ought to reduce the emotional shock of a PIP or a bad review, and also the time lost before the employee improves.

So performance review systems have started adding the ability to officially record weekly 1:1 meeting notes, and then getting confused that no one is using this oft-requested feature. Of course any honest feedback is purely verbal, or stored in shared documents kept as far away from HR as possible. The very fact that it's an Official HR Record makes it completely useless for purposes of getting truly honest feedback in there.
Thanks for sharing! Lots of cool stuff on your website.
I've seen couples sitting together on a data at a restaurant, each glued to their own phones, not even saying a word to each other. I know I'm being judgmental here, but that's ridiculous and these people actually need help. The world has a mental health crisis going on, and smartphone addiction is only a tiny tip of the iceberg.
No. The iPad is a consumer device designed for passive consumption. A laptop has a keyboard and you can do pretty much whatever you like with it.

And it's so closed, tightly shut. I have a hand-me-down-ipad. I had to buy -- BUY -- a program to be able to load PDFs onto a reader application. My laptop, my android phone, put in a stick or cable it up and you can do anything.

iPads are iPadded Cells.
You can't copy-paste controlled precursors.

Making knowledge illegal (a la nuclear "born secret") is a dead end. I'm pretty sure these guys would email their stuff to anyone who asked still.
The Solaris port was literally for a single point release of Solaris (2.5.1), and was dropped the next update. Extremely bizarre, but it is widely mentioned within that single version, in the installer and everything. Apparently the code was later referenced to help port OpenSolaris 10 to PowerPC, the result of which is here: https://github.com/andreiw/polaris

Very mysterious, and since it's little endian, it only runs on these PReP/CHRP machines with LE-supporting firmware, like Windows used. I assume it'd work, if Solaris has the device drivers...
He takes legal responsibility so he has to verify it. He has to verify your identity, claims, documents, do checks in various registers, transcribe and transmit information to various offices, etc, depends on what you are doing.

I am not saying I love this system, but to say notaries are useless (especially in countries like germany or italy) means not understanding their service.
Or, we could have done a comparison with large strings and see the opposite result. Silly benchmark is silly (or should I say, specific)
Ask HN: What is your Dev OS in 2022?
I have been some bad times this year on my dev machines. First was ubuntu 21.04 which was out of date that I have no idea. I tried to update it later manually and it went bad. And another was my centos which use py3.6 as system python and I can not update it because I need new version for some work. These are bad feelings that I got this year. I just want a long live dev OS.

what is your opotion?
Will hopefully write a bunch of articles while I have time and schedule them for weekly release. Subscribe if you like cyber :)
Spanish speakers: more than half a billion.

Chinese speakers: more than a billion.

Polish speakers: 50 million.

Not comparable.
Smartphone's outer camera quality is what every manufacturer invest much now. It looks impossible to compete with, unless the sensor and lens are big.
The same folks who are saying it's all a conspiracy theory were making the same accusations in 2004. I wouldn't be surprised if they're all rigged. Dems win, we lose, 'publicans win, we still lose. The lobbyists and their masters win either way.

Take your pick...

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=diebold%20election%20cons...
Why?

If something happens X happens 90% of the time and Y happens 10% of the time, I think it's safe to assume X, especially where there's little downside to a false positive.
Elon about to make one of the classic blunders, next to starting a land war in asia.
From Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) :

..the cheap, and therefore indecorous, articles of daily consumption in modern industrial communities are commonly machine products; and the generic feature of the physiognomy of machine-made goods as compared with the hand-wrought article is their greater perfection in workmanship and greater accuracy in the detail execution of the design. Hence it comes about that the visible imperfections of the hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and on this ground their propaganda of crudity and wasted effort has been taken up and carried forward since their time. And hence also the propaganda for a return to handicraft and household industry. So much of the work and speculations of this group of men as fairly comes under the characterisation here given would have been impossible at a time when the visibly more perfect goods were not the cheaper.
>Remember Romeo and Juliet? The Mont. and the Cap. boys were not lower class yobs. Fighting in the street with freaking swords was their golf.

I mean, they were also fictional characters in a dramatic play about murder and suicide. I'm not sure it's safe to extrapolate broad cultural trends from that.
Every time I sit down to do anything non-trivial in OpenSCAD, I wonder if there isn't some better way of representing things --- I'd like for there to to be something better, but usually the solution to any problem put forth on the OpenSCAD mailing list is: "learn this bit of math and apply it thusly".

That said, I gave up on all this and have switched over to just modeling toolpaths:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

that way, I'm certain that whatever is modeled can actually be made, and I'm also certain that the modeling is not limited by arbitrary things. I've got an idea for a woodworking joint which I haven't been able to model so as to cut out in any other program, and I'm hoping this will let me finally manage it.

I've been using OpenSCAD Graph Editor (OSGE) as a front-end:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

which has been working well, though I'm trying not to be distracted by:

https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9

having recently been announced.
Important to note that this regex uses Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE), which supports recursion: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/pcre/#subroutine-reference-and-rec...
Playgroundai.com
I worry that I phat fingered a calc but estimating the mass of a solar panel vs the fuel needed to produce a similar amount of energy. Postulate is the energy inputs and price of commodities is strongly correlated with mass.

Rough guess is over 30 years a 300W solar panel puts out 20,000 kwh. And weighs about 40lbs. 20,000kwh would require burning about 4000lbs of natural gas. So the weight ratio of the panel/nat gas is 1/100.

That's an aggressive ratio.

Another weight vs fuel calc. An F150 consumes it's weight in fuel every 20,000 miles.
That would depend on how are used.

There are international laws regulating war, and the fact is that Russia toke great pleasure into violating each single one of them. Systematically. Deliberately. All while telling lies and jokes to inflict the greatest pain possible to the population. It is an spectacle absolutely hideous.

And now they wonder why aren't attracting any international sympathy lately
I'm happy to subsidize food and shelter for people who can't work, or who are in school, or who can't find any job despite legitimately looking. But as for adults who are physically capable of working but choose not to, forget it. They can starve to death as far as I'm concerned.
This is one of those things that seems too bizarre to be legitimate. However I don't know anything about this guy, nor do I know enough about this kind of field to really adequately form an opinion on it.
> I though my argument was clear - that you need back-up for nuclear power also?

Right, but who said otherwise? Your arguing against a straw man that doesn't exist, no one said: you never have to do maintenance on Nuclear.

Clearly Nuclear is 100x more reliable than Solar/Wind, easily.

> you'd still need back-up.

who said otherwise......... who are you arguing against? not making sense... this isn't relevant to what I'm saying..

> But anyway, I find your tone overly aggressive. So it's unlikely that any discussion will be productive.

fair enough! would appreciate you admitting you grossly misinterpreted the stats on the nuclear data you gave. seems bad faith. have a good one
>Works out to about $65 per lunch. How did Elon calculate >$400 per lunch?

Probably the olive tapenade [1].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiravetter/2015/06/04/the-4000...
> Making and installing solar panels doesn't cost anywhere that much CO2.

...source?

Solar is unreliable, you _need_ another system, so you have to install 2 systems now. It _will_ be cheaper/less co2/etc.etc. to just install and use 1 system.

The real solution to reducing overall CO2 is clearly Nuclear. Do you disagree with this?
I live in NJ. Legalized sports betting here and in neighboring PA went "mainstream" just at the pandemic started. Commercials / ads galore. What better way to literally spend your lockdown, eh?

But who is surprised the NFL is at the center of this? Collateral damage is something it's terribly comfortable with.
I had a similar experience. I 100% gave up all caffeine for an entire calendar year. I resumed drinking coffee on January 1st of the next year, felt super great and focused, and haven't stopped again except for an occasional weekend off as a reset.
I’m genuinely interested in example of that since I haven’t heard of a government bearing a cost of translation for somebody incorporating in their country.

I am aware this is provided in criminal cases, in court. Offering such service for free in civil cases, where you’re freely entering agreements seems surprising.

It makes sense or somebody incorporating - planning to conduct business - in your country to bear all the costs of doing so. Businesses from their definition are for generating profit. Although I might see that a country might want to attract new business by tax breaks or such of course.
iPhone users can still subscribe via the website, if they want to save a few $ a month afaik
Not so sure about that amazon basics ranking. Pretty sure they are the same thing as a normal Duracell
Phossy jaw, unfortunately.

And of course they're stuck working 10 hour days for meager pay (even less for child workers) for cruel and (literally) poisonous match companies.
I thought "yum"
> Wealth inequality can only get worse from here - it's mostly just separated in terms of who still rents versus who owns and collects rent.

This has been the case for all of modern history. It's not something new.
The aluminum tube is plastic-lined, else it’d dissolve.
"With a plan to decarbonize heating systems with hydrogen, Modern Electron raises $30M" (2022) https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/03/with-a-plan-to-decarbonize... :

> The second, which is still under development but about to make its debut, is what they’re calling the Modern Electron Reserve, which rather than burning natural gas — which is mostly CH4, or methane — reduces it to solid carbon (in the form of graphite) and hydrogen gas. The gas is passed on to the furnace to be burned, and converted to both heat and energy, while the graphite is collected for disposal or reuse.

And there's a picture of what's left after they extract just the Hydrogen from PNG/LNG for one day of home heat.

Letting the grass grow longer is one way to absorb carbon locally; longer grass is more efficient at absorbing carbon (e.g. carbon emitted by comparatively inefficiently burning natural gas for heat (an exothermic critical reaction))
I never understood the need for names for movabsq. The top comment on this HN discussion is about how this is all a historical quirk, people wanting to get a job done quick and dirty. But movabsq is a new instruction introduced only with x86-64 (then known as AMD64). With the 64-bit transition why didn't they take the opportunity to clean up and reorganize this mess?
> It's also not viable for implementing saves in your game.

Client-side storage is part of the web platform. Any website can store data locally.
Correct - appreciate you adding the context about the PReP/CHRP reference systems. You can’t take the Solaris install and just run it on any PowerPC build, even if it is a 60x family machine.
All I ask of a music player is to give it a directory with all the music files in it, and then say "play shuffle". That's it.

Sadly, the only player which will do that is Microsoft Media Player. All the others suffer from one fault or another which causes it to fail:

1. requires installing some third party "server" because sharing the directory isn't enough. The "server" then proceeds to consume all the resources of your computer, regardless of whether it is serving or not. I presumed it was trying to copy all my files to the NSA. What else would it be doing with disk drive light on all the time? for days?

2. does not look at subdirectories. Your music all has to be in one top-level folder.

3. randomly hangs and scrambles its music database (better keep a backup!)

4. hangs if you have more than some undisclosed number of music files

5. if you have more than some undisclosed number of music files, it only plays the first N files

6. displays the bit rate of the file being played. Does not display the name, artist, or album.

7. hangs if the USB stick is a large capacity one

I've tried PC software, Linux software, two different Roku media players (including the default one), 4 different internet radios that promised to play media files from a USB device

So what do I use? Microsoft Media Player.
When I was a before-driving-age suburban teenager, I rode my bike into the city to horse around all day, or if they were feeling generous, my parents could drive me to the mall and drop me off, relying on me to get a ride home before dark. These days, 1. there's no mall or fun places for teens to horse around, and 2. helicopter parents won't let their kids out of their sight for more than five minutes at a time, let alone the entire day.
Same. Just signed up for the newsletter and it reminded me I’d already signed up. But come to think of it, that was years ago :(
Is prompt engineering engineering? [video]
The non-vacuous point is that different people live fully on opposite sides of the spectrum, so do whatever you want to do and find the balance that makes you happy.
I'm not sure there are any Polish-speaking places outside of the historical borders of Poland (which have certainly fluctuated a lot).

For Spanish: all of Mexico, Central and South America except Brazil, which speaks Portuguese; Cuba, the Dominican Republican and quite a few of the other Carribbean islands; and all of the southwestern United States and to a lesser extent all the rest of it.

For Chinese: true story: many years ago, my neighbors three houses up the street were two Chinese immigrants and their three kids. Very nice people. The parents each spoke their own Chinese-family language and could only communicate with each other in English. When they had kids they decided to all learn Mandarin together. So... China, Mongolia, Taiwan, Singapore, and probably parts of Malaysia?
I was hoping someone made it possible to pre-load one instance of Chrome, then fork at the OS level before each render.

I guess doing too much in a shared context is a security issue.
> I thought it was fairly well known that this is intentional obfuscation on Red Hat's part in order to make it harder for Oracle to use their work.

Yes, I know, but that's immaterial to the question of whether it's a GPL violation, or whether it's a moral way to develop software. Free Software means everyone gets the freedoms, even Oracle.
Couldn’t it have been an early mining client that was custom built? Why satoshi?
Yes.

Just because he is my son doesn't give me the right to tell him what he can do with his body. I would support him any way I could, but I would not force him to do anything. Criminalising drugs is using force to solve a mental health issue.

I've known people addicted to drugs, btw, mostly legal. I wouldn't ban their drugs either.
Ask HN: Paying Startup Employees with Debt?
In addition to a salary it is common to pay employees in a startup with equity (or call options on equity).

As an employee I never trust those offers, and treat them like lottery tickets at best. Partially because of the financial shenanigans insiders can play to dilute those shares, and also because I find it hard to value the company. And as a founder, I might not want to hand out equity to avoid dilution.

I have sometimes suggested to get paid in something closer to debt instead of equity:

For example, a note that pays eg 1 dollar a month and can 'called' by the company in exchange for a one-time payment of, say, 150 dollar (or an equivalent amount of equity, if both parties agree).

Or perhaps something closer to a safenote? Or something completely different?
what does that even mean? how does this scale? is it the same cost at 1000x the demand to support things? ugh... this is so disingenuous. a nuclear install might support millions of people but the same solar would be insanely huge AND require multiple backups/batteries..

it is so clear solar/wind is worse than nuclear.

it is increasingly clear that our co2 output isn't that scary. we are "greening" the Earth. Sea level rise is well within normal bounds. Everything is _great.._
The only one that actually worked was the Turtle Beach Audiotron, until they went out of business which bricked it, because naturally the device was designed to phone home to Turtle Beach and crash if nobody picked up, even to play local music files.