skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it costs taxpayer money to subsidize housing to make it affordable, then you'd just be subsidising the wage costs for businesses indirectly

I'm generally not referring to subsidized housing. Yes, certain incentives for building less expensive housing are needed. As you suggest, currently the incentives are towards building more high end, unaffordable housing. Some of it could come down to changing zoning to allow higher density or conversion of office space into housing space. Other ideas would be to create units that share some kind of central kitchen, for example - this would probably require a change in building codes.

> or, those workers migrate to another city where the cost of living is lower

Sure, some of that could happen and likely has. But people on the lower end of the income strata also tend not to be able to afford to move very far. Also, if you compare places with lower cost of living they tend to also have less amenities like restaurants so it could be that those workers don't move there because the jobs aren't there.

Looking back a hundred years or so it seemed we had more options for people on the lower end of the income scale: boarding houses, longterm hotels (which were affordable for people like artists who didn't make much - lots of writers who later became famous lived in longterm hotels), even places like the Y(MCA) (which apparently still exist, but now are more like exercise/activity centers that don't seem to offer any housing options)
This minimizes the main problem with really going full renewables, storage. Fusion is 24/7 output at the same level. Solar and wind are not, which means batteries, and all the problems associated with that.

Fusion could obviate the need for grid-wide storage systems which would be a huge advantage.
They have teleconference phone in jail. He can still do it.
High school, ca. 1994. I had written a history paper in TeX (just plain TeX, not LaTeX) and somehow the PostScript file (we didn’t have PDF then) I had generated at home got slightly corrupted on the floppy and wouldn’t print correctly on the HP LaserJet in the school computer lab. Somehow, I opened the .ps file in EDIT on MS-DOS and was able to fix the file to the point where it printed.
Former FTX CEO Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas, U.S. to unveil charges
My only regret about this is that we won’t be treated to an absolutely bonkers House committee hearing with Sam this week.
He jokes about how his formula for talks is just look up a word in the dictionary and "you're done". For example, the word "Complect" (which even my spell correct engine thinks is wrong) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect
Glad it's worked for you. I don't think I've had anything that conflicts with your experiences. I didn't mean to imply a degraded hardware RAID wouldn't mount, I think that's a BTRFS RAID5 issue. Generally I'd consider BTRFS a toy, doubly so for RAID5/6 on BTRFS.

Generally I (and colleagues) consider a hardware RAID failure a nightmare and a SAS HBA failure an annoyance. Doubly so if your storage design included cross connected servers and you just mount the storage from the other server. I've never tried similar with a hardware RAID. Can you cross mount and easily import/export RAID sets between controllers?

The main hardware RAID performance issues I see is with higher drive counts or NVME drives when combined with RAID6. Seen any hardware RAIDs and can manage a few GB/sec with 2 disks of redundancy? 3 disks? Even spending a few $k on hardware RAID seems to lose to a random 5 year old server using ZFS or software RAID by a large factor. Seems like even pretty old x86-64 servers manage a few GB/sec per core.

Careful on the passthru, I had many generations of LSI cards that worked, and 3ware and Areca before that. However I've been hearing that the new LSI RAID cards lack passthru/JBOD mode. I've seen reviews and complaints about the lack of it. One case had involved a LSI hardware RAID connected to a Dell JBOD array, but maybe it was specifically crippled by Dell.

I avoided ZFS for years, generally slower at the relevant workloads (used IO logs collected with systemtap and representative loads created with FIO). However once I added cache and the benchmark included multiple streams of writes, ZFS was a huge win. In particular 64 or more sequential write streams to 120 disks. In fact ZFS did better with 3 disks of redundancy that other filesystems did with 2.

In that past I had more luck with ZFS or MDADM for doing things like /dev/sd[ab]1 for a 32gb RAID1 for boot, then /dev/sd[abcd]2 for RAID5 or RAIDz2. Sounds like the hardware RAID tools are get better.

I've heard of some hardware RAID setups managing to recover hardware RAID metadata with a new card, and some not. Even cases of successes and failures from the same company. Even cases where support claimed it would work, but then decided the card and/or firmware wasn't close enough. Sure decent support can overnight a card, but nowhere near as nice as just being able to mount the drives on any Linux box.
He seemed to be throwing out the idea there maybe some way to make all the money back and provide restitution. More like a PR ploy IMO.
Clojure runs atop the JVM. The magnificence of full interop and STM (software transactional memory) suggests a certain level of mastery of the Java language.
Had the not charge your credit card issue happen the other day. I had to replace my credit card and the power bill was set up to autopay on the old card. I logged in and entered the new number, an unexpected error occurred, I enter it and try again and again. I then notice at the top the account says “power” and there’s nothing due. Clicking switch account gives me the option of “home”, which has the past due balance. What had happened is that my rental from two years ago was still in their system and was the default account for payments. Rather than having one way to pay the bills you have a modal interface to make payments. When I switched to my house, the CC went through no problem.
I've seen a few people say that was a puff piece. I thought it made him look bad and covered the accusations of fraud. What are folks looking for? A headline directly calling him a villain?

Ha, After typing this I went to double checked my memory of the article. They literally refer to him as a villain in the first paragraph. Even my hyperbole can't stand up.
Miniscule Sensing Suite Is a Big Step Towards Robotic Gnats
As mentioned under the other "XML" suggestion, dedicated services can be created to serve up the standard even if DB vendors don't cooperate.
During a hackathon, I used SadConsole + MonoGame and DSharpPlus to create a Discord bot that renders a PNG of colorful text. Since MonoGame isn't intended to be used like that, I had to find a few workarounds.

1. I created a static List<Action> of "jobs"

2. The Discord user sends a command to render some colored text

3. We create a SadConsole.Console instance; draw the text onto the Console; and push a job to the job list.

4. When the MonoGame instance enters the "Render" call, it runs each job in the job list.

5. The job we pushed then saves the Console to a PNG in a memory stream (file operations were substantially slower in thread for some reason), and then calls Discord API to send the response.

I'm personally proud of this because I used MonoGame in a way that it was not intended for.

The code worked at the time it was written. Unfortunately, it does not work anymore at this time (likely due to some API update).

The code is available here: https://github.com/INeedAUniqueUsername/Colorbot/blob/master...
It's really telling that many human beings think that the primary desire of a hypothetical AI would be to enslave humans. It's obviously a projection of the fantasies of what the people making the predictions would do if they were omnipotent.
> Once he is placed under arrest then I'm pretty sure the house cannot make him testify if he is in custody.

I think they can since they have vast subpoena power. SBF, however, can plead the 5th -- which would make it nothing more than a TV spectacle.
They're still here as birds
That was a kind of circa 1980s/mindset 1990s thing. Mostly ceased being the case in much the same way that "Crypto" no longer refers exclusively to cryptography, and often to cryptographic currency.

Sofware Engineers (and their recent extensions, Sight Reliability Engineers, Data Engineers), etc... have been a pretty common concept for 20+ years.
I feel like simracing as an esport will be very successful sometime after we stop using gasoline even for racecars. Why even race around a track once the sims are as accurate as real life? Just put drivers in fancy g-force feedback cockpits and have them race in the virtual world!
U.S. to Announce Nuclear-Fusion Energy Breakthrough
He refused to testify shortly before the arrest https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/former-ftx-ceo-sam-bankman-f...

Is there anyway the arrest is in response to the refusal to testify? Or just coincidental timing?
James Beattie, Of Memory and Imagination (1783)
Saved my canoe building company by making 900,000 face shields. Or making an auto clicker with apple script in 2000 — to click on ads and make money. I let it free and made $70!
> that people NEED

All the depositors have the extremely pressing NEED of not having all their deposits stolen from them.

Blockchains mathematically prevent fraudulent misuse of deposits.

People aren't mad about SBF taking a wrench to their head. They're mad about SBF defrauding them.

Could not have happened on a blockchain.
Wouldn't you be with your child when the world media is talking about him? They are not teaching at Stanford next year anyway.
Ah, remember those times that crypto was heralded as some sort of wedge against "2008-level government sponsored corruption? , That was a nice thought while it lasted.

Don't get me wrong though, I'd say 2008 was blamed a lot on an industry that largely played fairly outside of some truly revolting players. Letting too many bent actors get away with their misgivings emboldens the next generation, and you could certainly argue a lot of this next generation of bent actors are playing fast and loose in crypto.
I managed to use a boring machine as a screwdriver to build an standing desk.
When Leila asked her manager, Gemma, why Angel was allowed to come to her for decisions, Gemma chided Leila for her “lack of vision” and criticized her “poor communication” and “weak leadership” — all while praising Angel’s “initiative.” Gemma had never raised these issues with Leila before, but in response to Leila’s questioning, pressured her to resign or be demoted.

The whole premise of this article is flawed (at least as applies to the example the chose as an illustration). At the end of the day, it isn't Angel who is "doing" all this stuff to Leila; it's really her boss, Gemma. If Gemma was doing his/her job, this would have been over before it started.

A lot of corporate drama works this way - you just have to learn to read between the lines.
They're still maintaining this charade that it's for "stability" and "security"? What a crock of shit.
It wasn't clean, I had to manually parse it out of /proc and triple check the math before committing it with fdisk.
Do you have a citation for Thiel openly advocating for abolishing democracy?
Dwarf fortress. ascii of course.
Very few games are open sourced, specially AAA games. So, it won't be easy to find evidence. I think the point is more that it's more sustainable and it can keep up indefinitely.
Obligatory "The Inflation of Everything" from 2012

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2012/04/07/the-perils-of-p...
https://archive.ph/mrEtL
It's purely my opinion:

She was staying completely silent since the moment FTX collapsed while he was spilling the beans everywhere. She obviously cut a deal while he was parading on social media for god knows what reason instead of shutting his mouth. SBF is a complete moron who didn't understand how the party was already over for him, I put it on his upbringing given the kind of ideology his scholar parents preach at university, especially the bits about personal responsibility...
So the people who build ecommerce websites discovered APIs? Why is this ad on the front page of HN?
I'm not a troll, I'm an "agitation engineer!"
I mean, sure, but that has nothing to do with the data being copyrighted or not.
There is zero chance this is true though. None.

You will of course end up with some bugs that can't (for mysterious reasons) be exactly replicated in each environment. That is not the same thing.
Maybe, though I'd guess it has more to do with the realization that the debt isn't worth degree in many cases is starting to sink in.
The WiFi spec has something called "active scanning" [0] for clients (as opposed to passive scanning, where the client listens for the periodic AP beacons). There's something called a "directed probe request" [1] that a client can send during active scanning which will contain the AP's SSID it's directed towards. Whether or not your particular device sends these direct probe requests is probably configurable and different per client. According to this [2] post, Android devices will sometimes send SSIDs in a scan, but not all of them and not always. Might be possible to find the logic here in the Android source code, I assume it's there somewhere.

[0]: https://www.wi-fi.org/knowledge-center/faq/what-are-passive-...
[1]: https://dot11ap.wordpress.com/active-scanning-probes/
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36264440/phone-doesnt-se...
Higher education has as much to do with prestige as the education itself. Getting an online education is equivalent to saying you got a diploma through the mail. Maybe it's valid or maybe it's a diploma mill. You can't be sure.

There's nothing equivalent to saying you graduated from an ivy school or such.

Online education is making a dent. Some prestigious universities have an online curriculum and are awarding diplomas that can't be distinguished from a on-campus diplomas but they are the minority by far.

The way I see it. Online education should be a game changer in 3rd world countries. Yet, it doesn't seem to be. It looks like it really does come down to motivation and your ability to push your way through the classes.
I imagine that it would require sparing no expense.
True but less likely to end up a Superfund site.
We switched to building headless Shopify sites a while back due to constant requests from clients to do things that were not possible in Shopify alone, quite a long list but a lot of it boiled down to rich content or having more control over 'serverside' logic. Our approach is now at a point where I'm more confident in our GraphQL backed headless stores than any of our Shopify themes in terms of maintenance and ease of updating.

Since then Shopify has updated a bit (although not all that much, a lot of the issues remain) and we have had a wave of requests in the last year to build in Shopify - largely since none of the local marketing agencies want to touch headless.

It's been a bit disheartening really. I've been trying to get to the bottom of the marketing issues but I haven't been able to get clear answers on what they are.

Shopify also doesn't have amazing support for headless (double login on checkout is a big one), but with the rollout of their own Oxygen/Hydrogen platforms I've been waiting to see if they manage to solve these issues for their own solutions.
myopium majorum ...

D&D is being turned into an app.

we all play 3.5 edition here specificly because of that.
Dyson says letting people work from home is 'staggeringly self-defeating'
Ever try Perspective? https://github.com/finos/perspective
Plain old USB thumb drives are pretty common for this

I can't knock it, but I imagine I'd be yelling for at least RAID1 if I had to wait for a replacement.
That is how the 99% are expected to make progress on civil rights. Difference is, he's rich af; he can afford the best representation money can buy. While Japan's "hostage justice system" is certainly unfair to the accused, he wasn't suffering that commoner-treatment, he was on house arrest in an extremely comfortable house.
Supply chain update – it's good news
yes and they've always the 'next generation' computers for close to 30 years now
My Dolphin shows a notification in the taskbar.
Among other things. Like being able to clarify things immediately and succinctly instead of having to open yet another tab that turns into a rabbit hole distraction.
Yes there is reason: The high cost, the unsolved waste issue and the inherent strategic danger such a centralization of power production would pose. You'd only have to hit a few large power plants to take out the electricity of an entire country. When done right, attackers can even create more destruction and chaos by initiating a meltdown.

Since you brought up lobbying, it's fascinating to me how many nuclear power fans the industry has created who are not informed by data and facts but are utterly convinced that nuclear power is the solution to all our energy issues.
- They didn't call out the conflict of interest between FTX and Alameda

- No question about commingling funds between FTX and Alameda

- No question about his relationship with Alameda's CEO

- No mention of the tweets he deleted
Proudest?
Just sterilize the Petri dish and start again? How Biblical.

Of course, the first part of this approach is easy to put in place, but the second part never quite seems to happen in practice.
There is still a profit motive there, the dictionary definition of profit isn't limited to just monetary profit.
To just answer the question the first time.
>Their most recent article has a ton of great data and next steps:

That device in the photo is great. Looks to be about 16AWG magnet wire. Guessing a 10mm ID of the coil, and about 25mm in length. To get to 26 Tesla, looks like you'd need to push about 33,000 A through that coil. Coil inductance might be about 1uH, and if the test lasts ~1us, then you'd need 33kV to push that 33kA through the coil. 30kV/inch insulation resistance, might not get arcing between the wires in air. Probably running the thing in vacuum? Looks like things check out.

https://www.eeweb.com/tools/magnetic-field-calculator/

>NIF has uncovered some new science

What is the new science? Seems like they are working on making the fuel pellets closer to perfect, which makes sense if you are trying to use the implosion shock wave inside the fuel to be the source of heat and pressure needed for further fusion. I'm imagining that the laser initiates the surface fusion, and then you want that fusion to propagate inward, and need thing perfect, so the fuel doesn't go squirting out the sides (so to speak) stopping the chain reaction.
> to sell a product quickly the company has to align itself with one party or the other

Or just make a compelling product. Most of the things we use and buy on the daily aren’t partisan, they’re just good.
Funny enough, it's impossible for people to know what you've learned and retained at University without a test. They're more willing to assume that you have though.
Interesting timing, he was supposed to testify tomorrow before the House, albeit remotely. My understanding was that there were two scheduled hearings, one for the Senate the House, today and tomorrow respectively. You would think the DOJ and congress might communicate on such matters. Why wouldn't the DOJ have waited a couple more days? Flight risk?
HN uses Verdana by default if it's present. What's bad about it?
And the Ugly T-shirt from one of William Gibson's books.
I have no idea if I have ADHD, but I certainly have "presented" that way for my entire life.

I dropped out of high school after moving from private to public, since it was utterly worthless and a waste of my time. I logically knew I could just stick it out another 2 years and party, but I literally could not force myself to wake up to do it. I contemplated suicide over this, so it's not something I was taking lightly at the time or not caring about. I ended up just taking the GED one day on a whim.

Then I went on to have a somewhat successful career. It took me years to realize/internalize I'm not just lazy - something is different about me. Very few folks in my peer group could keep up with my work ethic once I found things I was interested in. For me this doesn't mean I only do the "fun stuff" - it means I need to see results of my effort, and those results need to be meaningful. I also need to work on things with a definitive "end" to them - not a never-ending project that won't see a single real-world result for years.

I describe it to folks that I am literally allergic to busy-work. You could offer me a million dollars to do some busy-work task for a month and I already know I'd fail at it before I started.

If the consequences or rewards are large and immediate enough you can kind of "push through" it - but if it's some concept of a future consequence or reward the brain simply decides it does not care.

This is all pretty difficult to nail down I think because I'm simply describing what other folks have certainly felt to some degree. The difference is I don't know many folks who will trade weeks of mental anguish and lots of money to avoid doing a 30 minute task.

That said, lazy often looks pretty damn similar and it's easy to have an excuse on hand.
I thought you were anti-Semitic dog-whistling. I stand corrected.
Many parts of the elephant: no motivation to work on hard things without friends, professors, campus, well-paying jobs, and high-status contacts.

Would be interesting to see MOOCs on daily stuff: cooking, gardening, cleaning & organizing, style, hospitality.

Or MOOCs around hobbies: amateur radio, photography, sketching, watercolor, dance, music. Here there’s potential for the tech to meet users halfway.
Interesting. I did a few web searches, but they failed to find something as basic a the average IQ by race. The wikipedia article [1] admits differences were found (including by the APA), yet doesn't show the results, except for

A 2001 meta-analysis of the results of 6,246,729 participants tested for cognitive ability or aptitude found a difference in average scores between black people and white people of 1.1 standard deviations.

Nevertheless, the NCES published SAT scores [2] that seem consistent with those IQ scores.

So if the results of The Bell Curve have been debunked, they're very discreet about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence#Test_sco...

[2] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=171
Amazing story. So inspiring.
Not true, there were plenty of people on HN that were upset he was being "given a platform".

People think he should be punished by being ignored by the larger publications or something. He was still giving Twitter interviews with lots of popular crypto people all the time so I doubt it would have done anything.
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