skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was curious how much power that actually put out, since it seems enormous to me. According to this: https://www.power-technology.com/projects/desert-sunlight-so... the 3600 acres produces 550MW.

My next question naturally was how does that compare to a nuclear power plant? According to https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=104&t=3 : "The Prairie Island nuclear plant in Minnesota has two reactors, each with about 520 MW net summer generating capacity (the smallest reactors operating in the United States)"

Is solar going to be able to meet the demands placed on it with these various "x% by 2050" type goals? With electric vehicles consumption is only going up. Do we have enough land near the areas that demand the most power?
Shouldn't unchared territory come with a risk multiplier of some kind?
Currently it's an estimation at best. Maybe 1-in-20 maybe 1-in-million in the next 2 years.
The OPs point of this thread still stands, scientists shouldn't be so confident.
I'm not sold on putting solar out in the untouched or minimally disturbed middle of nowhere.

It seems that we can get a win-win by having PV solar do double duty as shade - putting solar up as shade above parking lots, on roofs where it shades the roof, or in places where the agriculture is compatible and shade has benefits (grazing land, some plants that already need shade), as that agriculture already disturbs the local flora and fauna.
I considered addressing this point in my initial post, but decided not to open the can of worms. You're right, if I have an FPGA I can do anything I want. But what I want to do is take existing RP2040 PIO programs, and write RP2040 SDK C code to run them and interact with them, but I want to drive more pins and manage more state than the RP2040 offers. If I have a design that takes two RP2040s today and some very careful communication between them, I'd love to try and run it on FPGA but not throw out all the work.
You could try different combinations of beds, pillows, blankets, white noise, blackout curtains-- there are lots of different ways to adjust your sleep environment to do a bit of trial-and-error to find out what helps.

I found that I sleep best with blackout, loud white noise, a very soft pillow under my head, and a firm pillow beside my legs so I can sleep on my back with one leg bent and resting on the leg pillow. The bent leg thing is not something I've ever heard of anyone else doing. I just had to figure it out by trying a ton of different ways of arranging my limbs in bed-- previously I had really struggled with hip pain during the night no matter how I slept.
Yeah a lot of people say take the TV out of the bedroom. But I'll be damned if putting a show on doesn't put me out. I know people say the light is bad, screens are bad blah blah blah. But TBH I think it's the content that is keeping people up, doomscrolling on phones, reading news, etc. I think as long as you turn off the lights when you pass out, that's all you need to do. Don't sit there and binge watch until 2am, either.

And then I look back at my dad. He'd watch TV and fall asleep in his chair every night. The man slept like a log every night. He never used an alarm, he just woke up when he needed to, but wasn't late for work or anything like that. Never seen anybody with better sleep hygiene. But he also had a very physical job.
The package manager has been open source, cross platform and available since pretty much from the start.

The standard library is becoming cross-platform as we discuss it here.
Startups Bring Silicon Valley Ethos to a Slow Military-Industrial Complex
I really enjoyed reading other posts from your blogs as well - https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/interview/interview.ht...

I have bookmarked many tech blogs, but find it hard to get the time to read or catch up with them. There are so many interesting stories out there. I hope to collect as many cool stories throughout my life and career.
With freeform keys, you can nest all day. But you'll likely just reinvent the wheel when you want certain features.

aaa.bbb.enabled = true

aaa.ccc.enabled = true
Is that the rs4410790 marker ?
> It's one of the most locked down, censored websites I've ever seen

If you say so. Plenty of forums are going to stop you from yelling at people you disagree with.
> OK but providing value isn't the same as having power.

Providing value is absolutely a way of having power. You change the world, that's power.

Having power isn't the same as yielding benefit (for yourself).
So do you not think trojans count at all?
The general store for gas and the blacksmith for parts/repair, obviously. Just like the early 1900s, where OPs rose-tinted glasses are trained.
For me, at least, programming is simply the most profitable articulation of an underlying personality trait that involves productivity, play, mischief, sardonicism and critique all together. This is what people mean when they point out that "hacking" isn't about software. The tantalizing just-out-of-reach articulation of a compelling concept. Satiating.
https://youtu.be/g7_I6kj9fTc
The thing about software in development is that it isn't complete, practically by definition. I don't litter my code with unused imports and variables, I just have some stuff hanging out below while fixing it above. This is what linters are for, and unused variables and imports weren't the thing making software unmaintainable. Could even have a compiler flag that errors on unused for prod builds. There are a bunch of ways to skin a cat.
My experience with many of these services renting mostly A100s:

LambdaLabs: For on-demand instances, they are the cheapest available option. Their offering is straightforward, and I've never had a problem. The downside is that their instance availability is spotty. It seems like things have gotten a little better in the last month, and 8x machines are available more often than not, but single A100s were rarely available for most of this year. Another downside is lack of persistent storage, meaning you have to transfer your data every time you start a new instance. They have some persistent storage in beta, but it's effectively useless since it's only in one region and there's no instances in that region that I've seen.

Jarvis: Didn't work for me when I tried them a couple months ago. The instances would never finish booting. It's also a pre-paid system, so you have to fill up your "balance" before renting machines. But their customer service was friendly and gave me a full refund so shrug.

GCP: This is my go-to so far. A100s are $1.1/hr interruptible, and of course you get all the other Google offerings like persistent disks, S3, managed SQL, container registry, etc. Availability of interruptible instances has been consistently quite good, if a bit confusing. I've had some machines up for a week solid without interruption, while other times I can tear down a stack of machines and immediately request a new one only to be told they are out of availability. The downsides are the usual GCP downsides: poor documentation, sometimes weird glitches, and perhaps the worst billing system I've seen outside of the healthcare industry.

Vast.ai: They can be a good chunk cheaper, but at the cost of privacy, security, support, and reliability. Pre-load only. For certain workloads and if you're highly cost sensitive this is a good option to consider.

RunPod: Terrible performance issues. Pre-load only. Non-responsive customer support. I ended up having to get my credit card company involved.

Self-hosted: As a sibling comment points out, self hosting is a great option to consider. In particular "Having the dedicated hardware also meant that researchers were willing to experiment more". I've got a couple cards in my lab that I use for experimentation, and then throw to the cloud for big runs.
Do commercial e-ink shelf labels typically have batteries that need to be replaced every N years? I guess it's not that big a deal until you have thousands of them in your store running low.
I can totally relate. I started programming at around 18, writing games and utilities for DOS and other OSs at the time. I am 56 now and still actively writing code for my own SaaS.

I expect that when I eventually retire, I will end up writing code for Arduino devices and other things because it is what I truly love to do, and I never want to stop learning something new.
I mean, you may think rightly that there’s no business value but it is the customer’s estimate of business value you care about, not yours, because you want to gauge what it is in order to estimate how big a fraction of that number you can extract as your share. You’ll get paid long, long before they fail, sell, or IPO!
Yes, CBD has been proven to be safe in multiple studies. It's non addictive and does not change normal sleep patterns.
Deleting Discriminators to End Discrimination
It’s not a RENDERME & using badges and many other images makes it harder to actually read content. If you really want them, badges could be added with the specific settings in GitLab for them, and SourceHut you could attach them in the build phase and push the README via REST/GraphQL API, or you could host a separate site for your project, but badges aren’t adding value to the plaintext of a README.
I think you get a lot of deep sleep with weed. Rem sleep not so much.
In my experience with internal data, sometimes it will say that it doesn't know when it should know.
I know a lawyer that accomplished this with a trust

I’m not sure the details but somehow it was possible to effectively transfer the shares low key and receive payment
Go doesn't have async/sync distinction, no keywords so the metaphor doesn't hold.
FYI, it supports decoding ultrasound wav files. I use a Dodotronic UM250K mic to capture ultrasound up to 125 kHz. LCD monitor and other electronics emits some interesting sounds. For some reason, getUserMedia doesn't allow high sample rates, but ffmpeg works:

ffmpeg -f alsa -channels 1 -sample_rate 250000 -i hw:CARD=r4,DEV=0 -t 5 mic.wav
Flagged. While I'm certain solar and other 'green' technologies all have downstream consequences, The Guardian left out a ton of context, selected the absolute worst, tightly-cropped photos, and cherry-picked a few anecdotes to support what amounts to a clickbait/moral panic headline.
Burner account making claims with no data, then being disproven immediately by other commenters providing data? Seems super legit.
I'm luckily grandfathered in, but I know a fair number of my searches are just coming from me having a background tab open with search results to come back to later.
So there is a tax difference, we both agree.

If I bought a stock yesterday and they issued a dividend today, there is no way for me to avoid the higher tax rate.

If I bought it yesterday and they decide to do a buyback today, I can hold it until the lower capital gains rate kicks in, thereby avoiding the higher tax rate.

See how I can avoid paying the higher tax rate?

Play some more games with tax loss harvesting, and the buyback option gives you a lot more ability to pay lower taxes. With the dividend there is a limit to the amount of loss you can offSet with short term losses.

Simply put, in any given situation capital gains is likely to give you a better option to pay lower taxes.
One of the aims of renewables is to reduce the need to use mineral carbon reserves still buried in the ground - the movement has a number of terms which are often poorly understood though sometimes thumped as being the solution like carbon neutral or net zero. [1]

However unlike the past with coal where the aim was to do it better as less cost, (and frankly the cheaper path that opened would certainly open a market and shift adopting that technology,) the path ahead will have to consider overall climate effects.

In the next couple of decades I think it will be pretty obvious that to maintain a climate we were once familiar with, there will have to be steps towards pushing the global temp downwards, along with regional projects to address issues like the loss of animal and plant diversity, water use, prolonged heat bubbles and better commuter travel / options.

[1]https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/carbon...
that's what i thought too (i had a decent exit and planned a career change) but it only lasted about a year.
"don't be evil" was killed by "evil"
That's a good guess, but tbh this was in the days of modems, bbses, and shareware. Piracy and anti-piracy campaigns weren't really common outside of the software world back then.
I wonder what does that mean for those of us whose circadian clocks insist that the day consists of more than 24 hours.
A slightly longer google search would have saved me this most profound humiliation.
Sure, but nobody would. The value of having that data is far too great.
And fuckin hell. You see the doses they use in these studies? 300mg is a huge dose. Weed shops only tend to sell 10mg doses. And even the stuff you find at drug stores... it's like 25-50mg per capsule.
The model city for transforming downtowns? It’s in Canada
And be strong enough to not get lost in the experience.
Just to be clear, a password protected zip file should be an enormous blinking red light. 99% of the time, password protected zips are used to prevent virus scanners from scanning the content of the zip. Typically email providers like google will provide you with a warning that they have been unable to scan the file.

As for emails about contract jobs, even 15+ years ago these could be very targeted, specifying your company/resume etc. Now it will be getting even worse with chatGPT to write these emails in far less time and far more convincingly from non-native speakers.

Also note, unzipping files to look into them isn't automatically safe either... there are plenty of older CVEs where zip software had vulnerabilities allowing code execution, and a zero day is always possible. That's on top of the fact that zips can conceal file types of other software that might also have current CVEs.

Short story, and this should be followed by everyone in the tech community, never ever open attachments from anyone you don't know, and treat all attachments from people you do know as requiring scanning first. Not doing so puts your coworkers and your customers at risk. If you're accepting proposals for contract work, your process should always require one-on-one communication prior to accepting any attachments.
Note: my clue emoji above seems to have been stripped by HN. Just to be clear my prompt was more creative than “black square black square”!
The high consumer rates in Texas were only with a few specific electricity providers that passed on spot prices (combined with Texas's lack of a capacity market (an implicit subsidy for wind) that caused spot prices to spike so much). I've no doubt that many people signed up for those plans not fully knowing what they were getting into. But I can also look at such a pricing structure and see how I could embrace it, assuming a reasonable time quantum and automatable ahead of time price notifications.
Amethyst (nostr client) is not FOSS
I missed this the last time it came up. Glad it was posted again. Interesting read.

Thanks for posting the link to the previous discussion. Also, interesting things there.
This was great to read. This is always how I imagined my career would go, but I don’t hear about it enough. I enjoy my job, and also look forward to having more free time to contribute to various OSS and hobby projects i’ve done over the years.
Why is it not better for Apple to make Swift truly cross-platform?

Is it just that the maintenance cost is not worth it? Or would it threaten its ecosystem in a way that I don't understand?

It would seem that making Swift cross-platform would make Apple's ecosystem more accessible to developers. The barrier to entry would be lower if developers only needed to learn the APIs and not a whole new language and its tooling too. This would help the ecosystem stay healthy for a longer time.
> This is one reasons I got disillusioned with FIRE and the concept of early retirement.

I think it's totally reasonable to be disillusioned with the "retire early" part of FIRE, but the "financial independence"? That part is golden for everyone.

Being financially independent means you're not scared of being laid off. It means you can walk away from bad bosses or bad companies. It means you can try out a startup if your heart tells you it's the one, but the money they're offering is too far below market.

Of course, getting there through austerity isn't for everyone. I get that. But quite a lot of people think the juice is worth the squeeze.
Also cutting back on weed helps big time. Sure it helps you pass out, but it interferes with your REM sleep. You don't dream until the weed wears off. Which is what I believe affects your memory the most with weed.
This is just nimbyism from a group of folks who typically don't have much going on in their back yard. The complaints are, "There are one time construction noises and dust", "This disrupts tortoises temporarily", "One guy thought it was a lake", "The utility companies are big bullies".

All of these are like, either 100% mitigable or temporary.

Of slightly greater concern are impacts to local bird populations, who apparently fling themselves at the mirrors. This should be studied and we should figure out how to prevent it.

And the only major concern here seems to be the destruction of indigenous sites. Which shouldn't happen. Like, fuck any company that wants to roll into an indigenous site and pave over it. We can find other spots.

This just seems like a hit piece.
> But only one process can be making changes to the database at any moment in time
Honestly the tech has stagnated for the last few years, with VR headsets actually getting crappier, (Meta Quest Pro is slightly better than 1080p?) I hope Apple lights a fire under them, it's 2023 the technology could be a LOT better. VR is one of those things where it either works perfectly or it's a failure, you need super high refresh rates, high resolution, and software to get a certain level of immersion that tricks your brain into believing it's real.
> a small team with a good product vision and a strong shipping culture

I suspect one issue is that this kind of thing is more common in smaller organizations that haven’t evolved a bureaucracy.

The catch is that they also aren’t paying high salaries and just finding their way…
,, Mojave fringe-toed lizards and bighorn sheep have also been afflicted’’

I never understood this complaint: if these projects are not done, orders of magintudes more of animal species disappear.
I feel the exact same way, but from the perspective of a researcher. During my high school and undergraduate years I was inspired by stories of researchers at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC who invented so many fundamental technologies and had a profound impact on computing. I was also inspired by the great computers of the past (especially NeXT) and was excited about each and every release of Mac OS X.

Now that I’m more than a decade removed from my undergraduate years, I find myself disillusioned with the state of computing and research these days. Neither Apple nor Microsoft seem to care about pushing personal computing further anymore; it’s about maintaining and strengthening their cash cows. Google, Meta, and Amazon don’t impress me like they did a decade ago, when I used to joyfully study the research papers describing the interesting infrastructure they built. The days of places like Bell Labs and Xerox PARC where researchers generally had free reign to pursue their ideas are long gone; industrial research today is very business-focused, where researchers are required to put the interests of the company ahead of their personal research interests. Academia is no better; the competition is high (especially at research universities), the pay is low (especially at teaching universities), and there are pressures not only to publish regularly, but to raise grant money, which naturally curbs research freedom. This is the world I find myself navigating; I found myself training and striving for a career that no longer exists.

I’m still thinking about long-term plans for me to pursue the type of career that I want despite today’s environment. America’s high cost of living makes FIRE difficult for me unless I decide to “grind Leetcode” and join a FAANG to optimize my compensation, and even that strategy may be obsolete in 2023 due to layoffs and hiring freezes. Alternatively, I’m thinking about one day starting a bootstrapped business, one that is profitable enough to be able to fund my living expenses and to provide healthy wages and benefits for my staff. One day I’ll make enough money to where I can enough savings to be able to pursue my own research projects without having to worry about publish-or-perish pressures or about business matters. I’d like to also teach on the side, though due to low adjunct wages I don’t want to pursue that as my main job.
Why is there a market rate for water? Shouldn't there be a cost for water without a market?

We shouldn't be selling water at whatever the market will bear, but whatever the cost is to produce clean water (or less). Whatever amount prevents waste but allows everyone access to clean, potable water should be the what is charged.
This app is great for easily jumping to a section by reciting a part of a verse. The mistake detection is also decent. Would be interesting to see if tajweed training and mistake detection could be integrated.
One thing that's nice is that if you have this, you can use an FPGA as a devkit, figure out all the bits and pieces that you need, then use the RP2040 in a "final" product.

FPGAs are obviously cool and powerful, but there's a pretty big cost differential.

On top of that, an FPGA is not a replacement for a CPU in itself. Soft cores are costly in gates. Of course "FPGA + CPU" is a thing, but in that case... if you can get away with a CPU by itself your tooling gets a lot simpler.
This was so predictable. I remember those articles, and thought "Gee, IBM doesn't know what they're doing, they're just jumping on random bandwagons"
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I made Free-to-use android (https://www.bit.ly/healome-one) and ios (https://www.bit.ly/healome-ios ) apps that can read (through OCR) the blood test results and plot the graphs. You can also enter the data manually if you can't access your pdfs. The app also connects with werables and plots correlations of the markers with the werable metrics. These apps are still under construction and have several bugs, but still usable. (More details at https://www.new.healome.one )
Lately, these archive links have been broken for me. DNS is not resolving for them. Is anyone else seeing this issue? I've seen it in the past few days with both archive.is and archive.ph
I used to be cynical about doing business this way, but the more I have dealt with it. It's fun for everyone except the customers.

Investors get a nice presentation. Executives get to be part of the trend for marketing. Employees learn about the latest technology
That’s exactly what my company, https://functionhealth.com does.

We haven’t built historic import yet, but our members get to see all labs over time in a slick web interface.

What do you all think about the pricing and product from our homepage?
Yes… but in Fastmail’s case when I encountered an issue I had a “We appreciate your feedback on your use case. We'll take it into consideration for future product planning.” (which is all I was really asking for) from Neil Jenkins, of JMAP fame, within three messages of mine, starting at the standard support form.
I don't know much about that, but according to your hypothetical, people who have to put up several or more million dollars of their own money to raise a fund will move to Austin to save ~$500k on housing? to be close to other investors who are eager to save a buck or two in Austin?
Most people are. Even stuff you might not like, such as pressure, can be addictive.

I know I’ve felt “withdraw” symptoms on extended holidays after intense work sprints. And I consider myself a lazy bastard.