skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have specific numbers, but that's definitely how a certain type of really successful mobile game works: they're nominally very cheap (typically free) but offer lots of ways for the diehards to pay: skipping past grinds, bonuses/enhancements, more pulls or better odds on random chance elements, piles of expensive optional cosmetic items, and so on.
> That part's pretty nice.

The part where it takes people's money and prevents them from bettering the life of themselves and their families in favor of feeding that money into older people, most of whom are wealthier than the working person you're taking money from in real terms (e.g. most are homeowners)?

I wouldn't classify that part as "pretty nice", but you do you.
As someone who lives in a city, I see it being no different for neighbors who share the same front door.
Not at all because it’s a fallacy. EU is not some 3rd party, it’s made up of its members and having your laws aligned to EU laws mean your laws are aligned to the laws laws created by you.

EU is not some Belgian club you subscribe to, Brussels is just a location for meeting with your partners. People who make the EU laws were British, among others.

EU is useful when you want to have interoperability and resolve conflicts before they happen.

So essentially, if you like to have flying cars that can travel across all the Europe, your people posted in Brussels come to agreement with the others on the flux capacitor fuel types and pass an EU law. Then your people at home pass a domestic law that follows the EU law and you end up with standardized flux capacitor fuels.

As a result being in EU gives you the say on what suits you so the EU law be designed that way. When out of the EU, EU does it’s own thing and if you like to sell flying cars to EU, you need to comply to their flux capacitor requirements anyway(AKA Brussels effect). That’s why Brexit made trade with EU so bureaucratic.
> have a solar panel installation on your property and have your EV charging port running from that.

anecdotally, in Australia, every EV user (that I know of) have exactly that.

Solar panels are often considered the first step in getting an EV
In 2023 stationary storage batteries don't use cobalt.

Stationary storage batteries are expected to last 25 years. Given that we've only been doing stationary storage batteries for about 5 years, it's not really surprising that they aren't being recycled.
A subsidy means you pay less for something than you would on the open market. Cities not only pay the market price for all those products the majority of their taxes go out to the hinterlands on top of that.
As someone with a smaller scale version of the "problem" you describe (3x overproduction from our ground-mount 6.7kW array in summer, 1/3x production in winter given air source heat pumps), I'd say this is where, even with this amazing contemporary technology, we need to get back to ... insulation.

As others have noted, passivhaus standards would help fix the "in the winter, homes use a lot more energy than they can generate" part of this. I've read of homes in Scandanavia that are heated by their inhabitants plus the output equivalent of a few candles. Not totally convinced by these stories, but they point the way: once you've got the carbon-reduced/free energy supply in place, work on massively (if possible) reducing how much of it you need.

We have an old adobe in the high desert, and it is so far from passivhaus as to be a joke. I'm fairly sure that if this was built to passivhaus standards, even our currently undersized array could handle the heating needs.
your made in china tv or your fruits or even cars made in morroco will be greatly impacted by a raise in french salaries. butter in france rised 50% thanks to energy war. one can argue raising salaries will never reach that level of crazy.
Why is being USB-C being open conflated with “now every idiot and his mother will start making USB-C cables”? Couldn’t a consumer buy a cable from a reputed brand like Anker, Apple or Samsung and be done with it?

I can never understand the weird stockholder syndrome of Apple users justifying its anti-consumer business practices in the name of convenience and standardisation.
Really excellent context - thank you for sharing all this detail and citation!
yes and we get to pick other temporary dictators who want to give knighthoods to their dads!!

amongst other abuses of their powers
"Think you need to separate between Russia and the Putin regime."

Once the Russian people can do that, the rest of us can too.
Show HN: A CLI tool to summarize audio files using ChatGPT and Whisper
If you have to cross a 40ft+ road with vehicles traveling at 50mph (i.e. 40mph speed limit), I consider that not walkable.

And 5 lane 40mph arterial roads (two each way and 1 turn lane), seems to be a standard feature of all suburbs all around the country, on which most grocery stores and shopping are located.
Are the hinterlands selling food to cities below cost? Probably not. It's not a subsidy.
I'm a fan of strongtowns too. To the degree that that analysis is true, it will sort itself out. We don't need to do anything to save our neighbor from themself. We can make a lifetime of difference solving our own problems.
That makes a lot of sense to me. I'm pretty sure there has been some cutoff like that for as long as there have been utilities.

I don't know exactly how many yards the breakeven point is. However, from what I've seen it is almost always monetarily cheaper to create your own services when possible - unless a neighbor has paid for services to get really close. It might make sense for neighbors to pool money for pulling services out. It all depends on the specifics, right?
Yep, I get that.. it's like, don't start the Manhattan project if you can't create a runaway nuclear reaction in the lab.

I suspect the author has given the truss system a fair amount of thought given the rest. But ok, your spider sense is ringing :)
LiFePO4 batteries don't use nickel either.
An aboriginal man in Australia is suing on exactly that basis - he has a lower life expectancy and so wants access to the pension earlier.

https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/uncle-dennis-is-taking-t...
As populations age into a higher percentage of retirees, the system is forced to cope with a more people who are purely consumers, but contribute nothing to the system.

Also interesting that the inflationary effect of this phenomenon is starting to be recognized. A large fraction of the population has nothing to do but sit around spending money. I'd never considered this point before now, but hopefully the Fed takes it into account when they decide how much to hose the rest of us with high interest rates (which the Boomers also DGAF about.)
"Clamshell mode" is more than just not going to sleep when lid is closed: it still goes into sleep when you close the lid and have no monitor attached, which also means it goes to sleep if you unplug the monitor and lid is already closed, and out of sleep when lid is closed and you plug a monitor. (TBH I don't know if Windows does that or not)

There may be conditions around having input devices as well, can't recall exactly.

There also used to be a setting to disable wake up from bluetooth devices but it seems to have disappeared. (I was using that setting to prevent a DualShock 4 gamepad - which powers on all too easily - connected via bluetooth to wake the computer)
Good for them, but the cynic in me is telling me that tuition will continue to significantly outpace inflation, in part bc of this. $100K/year to attend a prestigious college isn’t far off imo.
Oh, stop. If you couldn't break up Microsoft in 2001, you've got no case against anyone else. In fact, MSFT still has much more monopoly power in an economic sense than any other company. If you going to break up "Big Tech", you need to start with MSFT.
That level of space-hungriness isn't universal amongst American suburbs. In the neighborhood I live for example, houses have only around 6'-8' between them and their "yards" are a small patch of dirt in the front and back.
Thank you for providing a real pro Brexit perspective in these field of strawmen.
> I'm not sure what consent means if it doesn't mean "user clicked on a result after asking Google for results."

First, I'm talking about ads, not search results. Although Google conflates the two as much as they can get away with, and people often get confused as to which is which.

I can't imagine how clicking on an ad can be interpreted as consent to being exposed to malware. In order to be considered "consent", the person has to be fully and accurately informed of what they're being asked to consent to.

> The backstop here is the user doesn't come back because they got screwed by Google

I truly wish we lived in a world where that could be expected.
> The EU turned NI into a political football

That’s a pretty bizarre interpretation of events given that it was the UK that threatened to unilaterally abandon the Northern Ireland protocol as a negotiating tactic
Section 230 requires them to act in good faith to moderate the content. It isn’t unreasonable to expect better from Google. The problem is they get paid by the malware distributors to help distribute malware but can’t afford to police it adequately?
Such “normalization” would then also, presumably, apply to the rich. Unless one thinks that a billionaire who makes ten million USD a day is ten thousand times more productive than even a very high-earning wage worker.
You realize food rots right?
> unfortunately many governments have proven incapable of responsibly handling the money

The system that GP described forces people to put their money into superannuation funds (not government) that invest on their behalf, which I'd say is pretty competent government policy. For the most part it works well, but it does distort the market (e.g., super funds buy housing stock, old people have more money available to them), and not everyone can contribute enough before retirement age. The counterfactual would be a whole lot of people that have spent all their savings by retirement age.
The data is way more valuable than the codebase. Being able to display a bunch of image tiles is cool, but not a mysterious unsolved problem.
> but "rails and up" has to either be the homeowner or a licensed electrician, because the rails are typically considered part of the grounding system and therefore electrical work.

Here in NM, you can (fairly easily) get licensed as the homeowner to do your own install of such a system. That's what did. My total cost (with those expensive metal clamps and nice aluminum panel rails etc) was around $1.80/W
Probably that the UK was in it. He cited fundamental facts about the EU.
I don't want to throw mud, but something I've thought of is that there has never been a viable liberal talk radio show that came anywhere close to competing with Rush Limbaugh, and there is no liberal analogue to Fox News with anywhere near the success.
>Trade with the EU is above pre-Brexit levels.

please give details?

please explain the costs and screw up to our military of pulling out of Galileo??
> faster than C

> simpler than Python

> safer than rust

Meet Nim: https://nim-lang.org/
> I won't feel bad taking a sabbatical

It's not that easy unfortunately ;)

If you have less than 43 years, the amount of your pension will be decreased according to some formula. At 67, you'll get the full pension no matter what. But this amount is also determined by the number of years you worked. So if you take a sabbatical, or go work abroad for a few years, you won't get the full amount.

I recommend that you do a simulation of what your retirement will be. I think it's something like 50% of your 25 best years, if you worked 43 years. Then it depends what you invested outside of the system.
I think people join startups for a chance at getting fuck you money, and offering "a seat at the table" but no equity is a non-starter.
I don't follow how Social Security in the U.S. is tied to how responsible or otherwise the government is. It is paid into by the current workers and is a mandatory spending item in the U.S. budget.

Maybe you were referring to another country though.
The drama was really the 4 years talking to some kind of patient in convalescence, and for what? Now the Cheddar is Irish, oh my.
28ms isn't small trade-off if you're pulling it in for a one off utility function. Not calculating these types of trade-offs is exactly how you run into mammoth bundle sizes when you're a year or more into development.
"concrete hive" is the term
Scaling anything with filesystem-like semantics to GCPs size is … pretty hard.
> The root of it is the Transform function which takes an input signal, performs any kind of transformation, and returns an output. All input and output values should remain in the range [-1, 1] otherwise you'll produce some really gnarly popping and cracking.

So you have to make all your own effects in code? It would be cool if it connected to something like Guitarix (open source) so you could use existing guitar effects. (Disclaimer: I've never used Guitarix, so it might sound shit)

Btw, for anyone who doesn't play guitar, but is interested... Gone are the days of those huge pedal boards and having to buy 30 different pedals. Emulation is getting really really good. You can either buy a multi-effects pedal and use that onstage. Or if you're in the studio, NeuralDSP is software which can emulate basically any sound you're after. It's expensive though, but it sounds better than free alternatives like Amplitube.
> However, restricted stock isn’t to be confused with RSUs (restricted stock units). RSUs don’t have the option to elect 83b.

https://www.kinetixfp.com/post/should-you-make-an-83b-electi...
Skip the clown and go to the employee.

https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082707835080705
Ask Cypriots about bank account haircuts :-)
Sure, when we subsidize all expensive bits of suburban living it artificially decreases the cost to the home owner of all the negative externalities.
Oh, I use Signal and still push my friends and family to use it. I'm not arguing against it. You're right that it is still a great app that does things others don't.

As to anonymity, I'm more frustrated with the community being hostile against other community members asking and pushing for it. I do understand that the community isn't the signal team, but it is their official community so it does set the tone. Especially since they specifically note that that's the only community they pay attention to. (e.g. GitHub bug reports should be on community)

As for non-anonymity stuff, there are quite a lot of extremely low hanging fruit that is weirdly not available but highly asked for. Like having to go to https://signalstickers.com/ to get stickers? This should clearly be accessible through the app (or they should be hosting their own). Delayed messages are thankfully here but took forever. For some reason forwarding messages on phone vs computer has different behavior (I can edit from the computer; the preferred method). Still can't find messages associated with media. Can't star/favorite messages. These are very important features that each could be done in less than a weekend so it just seems odd.

I do want to see Signal be more used and I want to see it grow. I love it and advocate for it, but that also doesn't mean I'm not going to be critical of it when it is having issues.
I’ll be interested to see if Hollywood gets replaced. People actually do enjoy actors, celebrities etc. I’m not sure it will be replaced it will just change.

Also if you think about it, as I said long term, the cost of entertainment will come down so much, because now you just click buttons to generate art, not sure it actually will be worth billions ?

People will still use these things as tools to create more incredible stuff, while the generic kind of boring stuff with a terrible story line will be just absolutely everywhere.

Lastly, I would say that it’s never been easier to make movies and cartoons as it is today but it’s been a pretty long time since I’ve seen a good movie. Movies seem to be about special effects now days.
He clearly is a fan of curious george
Logically speaking, most jobs are web-dev not desktop/mobile. For web-dev learn HTML, CSS, JS, Typescript. Know the basics of SSL, HTTP, DNS, CDNs etc. Know some basics of cloud computing - get some servers spun up in AWS and something deployed for example.

React is a safe bet to learn.

Add a back end lang of your choice to that. You can determine the one for your city/location by looking at job posts. Could be Ruby, C#, Java, Python, NodeJS, Go or something else.

All said, I wouldn't optimize only for getting a job. You only need one job, so you can afford to pick a less mainstream stack if it makes you happier, or those jobs pay more but are rarer.
If a single action by one person can bring down a system, it is wrong to say "a single person brought down the system". People are fallible. Systems should be designed such that a single person's actions do not bring them down. This is a poorly-designed system.
> DNS has a class field which has 5 possible values (“internet”, “chaos”, “hesiod”, “none”, and “any”).

I haven't thought about the possible values for that "class" field in a long time. It does seem interesting and extremely weird from today's perspective.
Check out levels.fyi or candor.
Bitcoin is hard money? If it is, so is silly putty :-)))
The graphics and style kind of reminds me of Chips Challenge.
Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire
I think there is some huge missing gap for an offering that's something between:

- Youtube sponsorship where an advertiser/brand actually reaches out directly to each publisher/influencer

- Google ads where there is zero relationship between the two parties and most of the times ads that show up on your blog targeting a specific niche has no relation to your content
Yeah, I don't care much for the term either. It kinda assumes that history naturally moves in one direction, and that the everything moves naturally towards whatever the author considers progress.

But who's to say which political 'side' will win? Who's to say it'll become 'better' from our point of view, rather than slide into authoritarianism and dictatorships? Feels like there's no guarantee either way...
What’s your annual income?
Perhaps since the US is something like 26 times larger than Japan while only having less than 3 times the population, we can avoid making comparisons that don't make sense.
The physical structure. Replace the wood in my designs with welded hunks of old steel pipe and you have his design.
No one is questioning that people want to live in suburbs. People object to the government power preventing any additional development in these low density areas. These areas are desirable, but economically uncompetitive.
A bit hyperbolic. As anecdata: Every interview I have every done has not been in Python. 20 yoe. 20 lines of python written :-)
At some point we have to rethink what "contributing to the system" means. What are web developers designing ads for online casinos contributing?
Complete nonsense. Power lines last 100+ years with little maintenance. Roads may need to be repaved after 30 years, but it's only fraction of the cost of building them from scratch. Stop promoting StrongTowns nonsense, his analysis were shown to be completely off base.
Amusingly simple, practical solution. What's the wake time difference from power off vs sleep for a modern Mac Book? I don't have one. Oh, I suppose the power off time would be longer than simply shutting the lid, too.

Can you configure it to power off when the lid shuts?
The "name positive things" argument is so abysmally weak.

It almost always comes from people who didn't care about economics until Brexit, and now won't shut up about it...whilst being completely unaware of the lack of substance of their argument...they just read something on the BBC website written by a 21-year old politics grad (btw, this is the real issue with the UK, the Cabinet is one of the only places in British society where you actually have people who are up to the job...and I am not a Tory or Leave voter).

The positive things are the things you see happening: financial deregulation, enterprise zones/freeports, greater political agency over economic decisions (this sounds soft, but the difference in spirit is huge...dirigiste corporatism is popular with the civil servant elite as in Brussels...voters here just don't like it), reorienting trade towards growing economies, can choose not to move closer to China/Russia, the list goes on and on.

I will say this another way: if the UK didn't leave, would GDP have been higher? No. It wouldn't have been lower either. Brexit offers more opportunities in the future, it is up to govt to take them but by itself it has very little economic significance.
> sales of super sports cars (ferrari, mclaren, lamborghini) combined are less than 20k units per year

Ferrari shipped 13221 units in 2022 (https://www.drive.com.au/news/ferrari-record-deliveries-prof...).

Porsche shipped 7419 units of 911 in 2022 (https://carfigures.com/us-market-brand/porsche/911).

Chevrolet shipped 9130 Corvette units just in the US (https://gmauthority.com/blog/2023/01/chevrolet-corvette-sale...).

Lamborghini delivered 9233 vehicles worldwide in 2022 (https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/lamborghini-sales-record-...).

McLaren figures are pretty difficult to get. Seems to be in the range of 1500 units per year total.
it is in fact "good for them" .. that is the entire point of it. The context is partially understood and scant.
> This is great! Moving away from the proprietary nature of GPUs and complex math gatekeeping should help democratize AI.

I understand the sentiment but you can run ML on plain CPUs, in fact it is easier to do so, you just don't get the massive speed benefits of GPUs. Hugging face's public models are all run on CPUs to save costs.

> Right now AI algorithms kind of look imperative and stateful to me, like state machines.

The maths is not stateful or imperative, only our implementation. Much like how functional languages are executed on a stateful CPU.

Research in parallelization is ongoing.
Not the GP, but in my experience Kagi replaced Google well. I used Duck for quite some time, and I found Kagi to be noticeable better.
That's how it was presented to the British public though. "Oh, the EU wants us to do this, our hands are tied, we can't do anything". No system with a smidgeon of accountability to the British public would ever have kept disgraced former disgraced former MP Peter Mandelson in a position of power.
It didn't corrupt UK politics so much as clearly demonstrate the levels to which it had sunk.
Sources would be helpful, as your comment strongly goes against the common consensus against Brexit.
Ok. Compilation + automated tests then.
Can you say exactly why the EU is unnaccountable? Genuinely curious, because my understanding is that MEPs have the final say and EU citizens get to vote for them; the fact that they tended not to engage in that in the UK pre-Brexit wasn't the fault of the EU. If that's not a mistaken understanding then by the same logic national governments are equally unaccountable, no?
Sure, let me say that again. Online search, online advertising, and merchandising are not "critical institutions". Nor have you provided any evidence that the companies Google and Amazon displaced deserved their role as incumbents.

In fact. 2 of the 3 were literally non-existant before the internet was created, so the internet is obviously not causing their dissolution.

Let me spell it out further: no matter how much people moan about it, Google does not have a monopoly on search in the way that the word "monopoly" is being used. There are several alternative (hello Kagi) and people are free and able to switch in less 30 seconds, they just don't want to and just don't care.
Have you investigated a combination of additional vapor permeable exterior insulation and impermeable primer for the interior walls? You may be able to minimize the amount of moisture staying in the walls and still hit your thermal goals.