skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Bay Area in 2020 we had rolling blackouts in the summer because the electricity used by air conditioners put more stress on the grid than normal. It was not a particularly hot summer, we just had everyone working at home.

Most of our housing stock is not particularly energy efficient. Whole-house AC and heat instead of systems with multiple zones, big tank water heaters, ok but not great insulation.

I'd buy the idea that working from home lowers emissions and gasoline consumption but also increases the consumption of electricity and natural gas.
> It does.

Having never used a burner, been on here a little over a decade, been on the unpopular side of many arguments here, having never had a ban, and being #17 on the leaderboard, I’m pretty confident that HN does not, in fact, require burners.

> Much easier to make burners, say what’s on one’s mind, and move on.

Yes, its a lot easier to use burners than think about how you are engaging and presenting your views.
I'm surprised this book wasn't mentioned here first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute...

The first part of the book describes MIT's Project MAC and AI Lab, from the TX-0 to the PDP-10.
No, much cheaper and easier solutions to that already exist, in the form of "Every postal tracking app"
Dang I was super excited to try it but I can't use Google. Are there plans to add any other means of signin soon?
We have been busy doing other things more interesting (subjective) and useful toward improving human quality of life than walking on the moon again.

The moon is a bit of a luxury. We're going back because it has gotten a lot cheaper to do so (and China is going for it soon, which spurred the US to go back before China gets there). The sole reason the US is more recently in such a hurry to go back is because of China's progress.

There is very little value in merely going back and walking around again. The only good reason to go back is to begin building a long-term settlement/base of some manner, and we couldn't afford to hope to attempt it until recently. Starship is the only thing that can make that economically viable this decade.
I keep arguing this.

Also with distracted driving becoming so much more of a problem, and accidents increasing even though we've got driving assist technologies, the workers are running personal risk of debilitating injuries.
Does it work in the same way as adderall?
1. ctrl+p and ctrl+shift+p = everything you need

2. Github Copilot

For me it's the successor of Sublime Text and Atom
How FB and Google make money isn't secret either. They have a lot of people looking at their web pages and apps, they record a lot of prior interactions with the ads these people see, they train giant models in near-realtime to predict ad quality, serve the ads that maximize expected profits in an ad auction, and record the subsequent clicks, views, and attributed conversions to convince advertisers to keep spending.
This looks like a fantastically useful technology and I am reminded of the fact that when FDM 3D printers were under patent, they cost $25,000, and ten years after the patents expired they cost $250. I believe some key metal 3D printing patents recently expired, but I suspect much of this process is still patented, making it unnecessarily expensive. I would love to see this kind of tech become ubiquitous and affordable to everyone, and this will not happen until the patents are fully expired and we see genuine competition in the space.

I guess I should preempt a couple of the most common responses I get to this view:

First, markets provide first mover advantage even without intellectual property restrictions. The idea that governments should provide monopoly protections on ideas is anti-competetive and anti free market. Libertarians at places like the Mises institute recognize this and have some good talks on the subject.

Also, we would not see investment dry up without IP restrictions. We would see the nature of investment change from fewer larger investments to more smaller investments as competitors race to get the latest incremental improvement to market first by seeking investment to upgrade production lines, etc.

Workers absolutely deserve to be compensated for their work, but we see that in most IP restriction regimes, businesses take all the winnings and pay only wages to the workers doing the inventing. Individual inventors can still have first mover advantage, and I would argue that most new invention is not motivated by profit but curiosity. Removing IP restrictions would vastly increase invention by curiosity, as there would be far more places where a curious engineer could tinker and improve something. Imagine that one person invents something and gets a patent. This will prevent 100 other people from tinkering and improving upon it. This is why I say that the sole function of a patent is to reduce innovation - because that is the one literal function of them. The supposed follow on effects are more of a cultural meme that are often disproved by things like the open source movement, which clearly demonstrates that a lot of the assumptions around IP restrictions are not strictly true.

Finally, people in foreign countries who cannot afford expensive machines like medical scanners etc still deserve to build copies of those machines for their own use, but patent harmonization laws like TRIPS prevent these sorts of things. The same goes with medicine.
With an 85" TV, you have to be within 11 feet to notice the difference with 1080p. With a 55" TV, that drops down to about 7 feet.

A great setup will show a difference, but those people probably think nothing of shelling out tons of money for 4k and 8k media. They'd hardly be the target market here.
This. If there's no one left to pass on the tribal knowledge, the contractors have to reverse engineer how that stuff works. It'll take months to rebuild that tribal knowledge.

The underlying tech is probably standard (e.g. they probably haven't invented their own routing protocol), but the control plane is likely custom. The impact of making manual changes or changing the control plane is probably unknown, ranging from being fine to borking the system in some way that even reverting the changes won't fix.

The best option would be to try to rehire the former employees, probably at dramatically increased pay. I don't even know if that would work, though. Bridges have been burned.
So, Tumblr has no algorithms? How do they present the webpage to the user? How do their webservers, load balancers, databases, etc. work? Cranks?
> constituted by duration

This explanation doesn't do any work. Every phenomenon is temporal.

> if you suspend the movement of molecules in a brain

if you perform an unphysical action then blobs of matter dont have physical properties, ok.
He'd be hard pressed to beat bloomberg news. Used to be my favorite news channel to flip on but past year or so I couldn't stand all the crypto news that seemed to dominate every time I turned it on.
Here's my explanation of BSP trees, written as much for my own benefit as anybody else's (maybe it will help you):

To start off with, we have a basic geometric fact: if you have a surface that divides space into separate regions (this can be a closed surface like a sphere, or an infinite surface like a plane), a line of sight can't cross between the two partitions of space without passing through the surface. If the surface is convex, a line of sight can only cross it once. (That's one definition of convexity.)

Now, suppose that you have a lot of objects, and none of them are on both sides of the boundary. You can ensure that condition by splitting any object that crosses the boundary in two. No matter where the line of sight begins, and no matter what direction it moves in, the boundary then offers a definite, albeit partial ordering of events: objects on the same side of the boundary may intersect, then the line will intersect the boundary, then the objects on the other side may intersect.

If you find an intersection with an opaque object on the same side of the boundary, you never need to check any objects on the other side, because the order of events above. That is a big benefit when about half of the objects in front of you are on your side of the boundary: if you are right in front of the boundary, or if there's nothing on the other side of it, it doesn't help a lot.

Checking all of the objects on one side of the boundary is the same kind of problem as checking all the objects, and that means you can speed those up too by having sub-boundaries for the sub-problems. That gives you the recursion and makes it a tree. If the reasoning based on boundaries continues until there is only one object in a sub-problem, you don't need to sort lists based on distance - meaning that the whole ordering problem can be solved just with partition trees.

Choosing a good tree is a difficult problem because, unlike the fact that the ordering problem can always be solved, the amount that an individual boundary division helps depends on where you and the objects are in relation to it. Planes are generally used instead of other things like spheres because splitting a polygon along the edge of a sphere doesn't result in another polygon, while splitting it along a plane does.
Coinbase, MicroStrategy Bonds Tank as FTX Collapse Dents Confidence in Crypto
They could always ask USB guys about proper naming. "DVD2 Gen 1.2 (240 Mbit/s)" is my vote.
D-VHS would be great!
We definitely will be adding other signup options, no ETA on it yet though!
H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs
I start with FoxPro so eventually get on the board of making a version of it (https://tablam.org), and now I'm regular at

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/

and because this working on a RDBMs, so:

https://www.reddit.com/r/databasedevelopment/
Stunts was one my favourite games around 93-95, I played it a lot. Another guy from Hungary.
I have a particular distaste for rogue one, because it took a story that didn't need to be officially told, and gave it an official movie that was stupidly boring, uninteresting characters, no real value in the grand scheme of things, and generic as all hell.

"A bunch of bothans died to bring us this intel" is literally a more compelling story than rogue one.
What's a good tool/language to write scrapers in these days? A decade ago I was using ruby with mechanize and hpricot. I hope tools have improved since then, especially for scraping sites that use javascript.
You are getting a lot of downvotes, but I agree with you. It's true that the rocket equation is unforgiving, and it's not surprising that our early ventures into space all involved a lot of disposable hardware. But SpaceX has definitively demonstrated that reusable first stage boosters are viable from both a physics and economics point of view, and there is little that they will soon succeed in demonstrating the same for a fully-reusable orbital launch system.

In contrast, SLS is predicated on taking actual engines (and boosters) from the Space Shuttle program—ones which were once at the very forefront of reusable spacecraft technology—and trashing them. Sure: reusing the Shuttle and its boosters turned out to be much (much) less economically advantageous than hoped, and it is great that NASA eventually retired it. But the remaining Shuttle hardware is a monument to the engineering talent and production effort that produced the most sophisticated spacecraft ever flown, and to take the surviving engines, each of which has flown on multiple shuttle flights and _intentionally_ send them to a watery grave in the Pacific (Atlantic, for the booster segments) is a total travesty, and a shameful destruction of historic artefacts.

Indeed, the whole program is a boondoggle. SLS is based on the Shuttle hardware not for compelling engineering reasons so much as because it keeps the contractors that built the shuttle in business, and that keeps money flowing into the campaign funds of the politicians in Washington. Its exploration goals are laudable, but the approach taken has been fundamentally an exercise in job creation and military R&D subsidy before all else.
They are smart instead because they analyze VCs peculiar political preferences/bias and build a company which is guranteed to raise money.

It’s kinda like applying for govt grants or bidding for govt contracts. You read the document and then create a tailor made company to fit all the requirements
“Published 11 May 22” — since then, is there any news of fire tests?

I’m sure its cool they’ve been able to design and 3D print a complex structure - however, the company blog appears to only link to additive manufacturing companies: I couldn’t find a subsequent link where this engine has been (even) ground tested, demonstrating basic validation of the design in test / fire conditions: till that happens, this is just (imo) a cool looking untested, unvalidated design and therefore, untested, unvalidated algorithmic design..

None of the reports covering this even mention any testing, or any anticipated testing. Is it an art piece?
> I rarely ever see good discussion into the details around why the GFC even happened

There are many, many discussions, spanning nearly a decade now, about why the GFC happened, ranging in all levels of quality.

There are very few good reasons to believe that fiat money had anything to do with it.

The people who predicted it and made money off it based it on their observation that debt was being issued to people who most likely could not pay it off, which is fine. These were marked as low quality debt. But then that debt was bundled with other similarly low quality debt and after bundling and rebuilding the bundles enough times, they were rated at a level which did not mathematically add up.

But what converted this from a financial crisis to the GFC was the issuance of CDS’s worth several orders of magnitude greater than the underlying CDOs which also collapsed at a much greater rate than expected because the underlying assets were much shittier than expected.

Add to this the fact that Paulson, ex-Goldman Sachs President who did not allow it to be bought at cents on the dollar (I don’t remember if this was because he personally hated Lehman or if he personally hated the purchasing bank getting a good deal, but it was entirely because of his personal feelings, which led him to override nearly everyone else) leading to a massive run on all banks, in a middle of an already complicated situation where they still needed to unwind all the different CDS’s and other exotic instruments.

There’s a reason both TARP and Warren Buffett were able to make massive profits by simply promising to backup the Banks’s assets because their biggest issues was a classic bank run, as opposed to them lacking the actual assets (there were some companies that simply lacked assets, such as AIG, but most didn’t).

None of this had anything to do with fiat currency. One reason we know that is that crypto currency based organizations have been speed running a version of this same process many times over the past 6-9 months.
So then their next move would be to mandate that you live within a certain commute range. I don't think we want that.
I also try to be part of the algorithmic/generative art community. It seems really scattered but the variety of techniques and ideas flowing around is really inspiring :)

After stable diffusion/midjourney, the community is a little leery of deep learning I've noticed. But I'm trying to carve out a space using neural networks in a different way) anyway.
I'll be honest, you had me sold when you mentioned "single-tasking".
> The difference is that if your money comes from sources or is used for purposes that the traditional banking system does not want on their books, you cannot use the traditional banking system.

What % of humanity needs that?
That belongs to the 30% of exploits that we are left with, after removing the 70% others from C.
YC are funding gambling companies now? On brand these days I suppose. How the mighty have fallen.
might be too long ago, but did you check the response codes out of your system? I had a similarish issue that turned out that we were sending out 429s from a different system
I wouldn't be surprised if regardless of the methods users it can't truly be anonymous since that defeats the purpose. Even just compliance would result in resolvable data since you need to be able to request a copy of the data.
ah, sorry. My "wallet" is one of those folio type things that doubles as a phone case. I don't keep it in my back pocket like a traditional Costanza-style wallet.
We had driving simulators in the mid 1980s when I took driver's ed and they were original to my high school which was built in the late 1960s.

Our school also had a driving track behind it where we would practice driving before being allowed on the road. The radios in the cars were tuned to a particular station and our instructor could broadcast instructions through the radio. The quality of that system was so poor that no one could understand which car he was giving directions to or what the directions were. This ultimately led to him beating on the hood of the car with a hard piece of rubber while screaming because you didn't follow some direction that was impossible to understand. Good times.

My daughter is currently taking drivers ed at her high school and they only teach what is required to pass the written test. All on the road instruction has to be done through private driving schools.
For starters, the security issue won't go away by moving to a new place and living a middle class lifestyle under a new name, so they still would need to maintain that security staff which would make them obviously not middle class.
Haha amazing!
black Friday/cyber Monday is the one coming up!
Amazon Ads is going to be a really interesting corporate case study in ~10 years. A combination of factors are coming together that will eventually result in the death of Amazon's retail division.

Amazon has been doubling down on ads in retail search results over the last ~4 years. Ad load (e.g. "Sponsored Products") has been steadily increasing. One of the main reasons is that Ads as a group has incredible margins (the marginal cost of displaying an advert is ~$0). As a result, Ads has been crushing all KPIs, leading to more resources dedicated to the Ads org. The growing teams and increased headcount in the org have had to justify their existence through revenue growth. What's the easiest way to grow an advertising org? Show more ads!

The above is simplifying things, but the bottom line is that Amazon.com today shows a lot more ads than four years ago. Concurrently, Amazon has aggressively shifted away from directly selling goods itself towards third party sellers. Amazon.com is now predominately a marketplace of third party sellers all competing against each other to appear at the top of the search results. The only way to consistently appear at the top of retail search results is to be the highest bidder for marketplace ads.

All of this has really distorted incentives for third party sellers. They no longer need to have the best product to get sales. They're incentivized to spend more on ads and less on the product itself. Product quality is noticeably worse than in the past and it's still getting worse. To battle that, sellers leave fake reviews. Customers lose trust in Amazon and become more wary of what they buy.

These factors are self-reinforcing -- hence why I think Amazon will be an interesting case study. Once you lose customer trust, it's hard to get it back. They can try to combat this with a great return policy and customer service, but the incentives are still misaligned.

Context: used to work for Amazon Ads org
For example, in star wars, instead of doing something interesting or different

While I agree with everything you said as such, the Andor TV show (and Rogue One to lesser extent) indicates that they are at least capable of doing interesting things in the Star Wars universe, beyond Good space wizard vs Evil space wizard. I fear however that most fans don't actually want that and that Andor will be an aberration.
What is the distinction between the purple text and the black text in the Terms of Service?
Within an ecosystem, yes. You can trade Ethereum currency for Ethereum-based tokens.

As for "billions of dollars in volume every single day", I find that hard to believe.
I first started using it because it has good support for both Python, Cython and C/C++, with intellisense, in the same application, and without constraints on the build system. And on top of that it's free. And it has nice git integration (with gitlens).
We can finally resurrect WebSQL after 12 years! :-)
You might be thinking about the distinction between statically typed and dynamically typed languages. There are plenty of strongly typed scripting languages. Python is strongly typed; JavaScript is weakly typed.
I agree. Modifying timestamps for features like in this case "second chance" is a very bad practice IMHO.
And incredibly far, much further than I used to think - you can fit all planets in the solar system in the average distance between the earth and the moon!

https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-p...
> Miners can hard fork but if the economical agents (exchanges, users) don't follow that won't get them anywhere. Their fork will just become an alternative coin and they won't be able to sell their mined coins, or at a lower price.

How would users and exchanges find out about the alternate chain? Because from what I know the longest chain in existence is the valid chain, unless you are suggesting we trust centralized third parties like Vitalik and the Ethereum foundation to tell us which chain to mine on.
It absolutely is not, it's a parasitic relationship. Enough suburbs are aware of this dynamic that their local leadership tries really hard to annex their suburb into the city so that suburbanites can vote to change policies in the urban area. Suburbs strong arming cities into annexation is a common theme in the US and Canada.
Did you follow the latest changes where they slapped casino and gambling ads everywhere? https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/26/app-store-gambling-ads-...
Godbolt Runs CUDA
This means you will see more of Tailscale.

Vulnerabilities are inevitable, the actions taken in the hours (ideally) and days following the discovery is what matters most.
Oh whoops, that's a bug. We're having someone fix it now!
A subscription model fire hazard:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/18/electric-porsche-taycan-catc...

In this case no one was hurt but there was another owner in China who wasn't so lucky.
Just to note, it's the finals games that attract so much attention. The early games don't drive quite so much attention. The first hand was yesterday but the one to watch out for us the final one, which is Dec 18th at 1500 UTC
NBA champion Golden State Warriors are sued over FTX collapse
I can only hope that WAL2 and BEGIN CONCURRENT support is coming soon.
They all have biases.

If they aren’t explicit about them they’ll act on them without warning. You might wake up one day and find that your business is not welcome any more. This happens regularly in the porn industry, banks simply refuse to work with them.

If I am woke, it’s good to know that a bank is anti-woke. Avoids surprises.
Thanks looking forward to that and some clarity on pricing.
Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning
> How many things need to worry the latency of signal travelling ~300mm?

Arguably every program? The slowest part of modern programs is memory access. L1 cache memory access is ~1 nanosecond and RAM is ~50 nanoseconds.

Is 49 nanoseconds a lot? No, if you do it once. Yes, if every line of code pays the price.
In addition, it's basically required if you're using a reverse proxy service, eg. Cloudflare or Akamai. CF websites have been found via Shodan or Censys because site info is left open via https ://[ip]:443.