skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tracking hardware is expensive both in terms of initial outlay and maintenance, relative to the increase in output (which is significant: ~30% or so), when compared with the cost of just adding more panel area. Tracking is useful if you are constrained by the area of panels you have or the area you have to put the panels, but if you are constrained by neither and just optimising for price they lose to just building more fixed panels (in fact, with the rate at which panels are getting cheaper there's even a bit of a push towards not even bothering with building the mounts to orient the panels in the best fixed orientation and just putting them flat on the ground).
Programmer's Notepad is amazing, its been my goto in Windows for well over a decade at this point. Has everything I need without any bloat, also work fine on large files (I often do regex-searches on huge log files with it).
Those are pretty high prices. Are they manufacturing those sweatshirts in the US or other Western country, or are they just positioning themselves as premium brand and selling with 400%+ markup?

Or has the clothing market in the US hollowed out in the middle completely? That's what I'm worried about where I live (Poland, EU) - I feel like the middle tier, of normally priced, regular quality clothes for regular people, is all but gone now, leaving us with the choice between a) second-hand stores and bazaars selling counterfeits imported from the East, and b) lifestyle brands selling rags at ridiculous prices.
Paul Thacker

https://unherd.com/2022/03/is-the-media-still-stifling-the-l...

Ian Birrell

https://unherd.com/2021/06/beijings-useful-idiots/

and Ashley Rindsberg have all done a good job on reporting on this

https://unherd.com/2021/08/did-the-new-york-times-stifle-lab...
> If CEX operations are restricted in the US due to excessive, antiquated, or ambiguous regulations, citizens would be left with fewer ways to acquire these assets including research and hobby usage

They can publish hypothetical blockchains in peer-reviewed journals and sell overseas. The point is to separate "acquir[ing] these assets," which has been a money pit, from the potential benefits of the data structure and technology.

The emerging system appears to be China outsourcing this work to Hong Kong and America to London. We don't want the mess at home. But nobody wants to write off the people and projects.
Really nice insights.

Though

"Even at lower Elo ranges like 1200-1400, you're 4-5% more likely to win if you have the only bishop pair. 1200 Elo players don't know how to take advantage of having the bishop pair, and yet it helps them win all the same [...] A 1000-1200 Elo player is only about 8% more likely to win when up two minors for a rook."
I don't even know where "fresh" hydrogen comes from for new stars in our current universe. Why would it be different for an older one?
Career Advice: Would you take a step back to advance forward?
Hi everyone,

I am currently a software engineer in the Netherlands with more than 7 years total experience. In my current role next to being hands on involved with coding and development work I am also the team lead for 5 developers. I have been recently offered a job in Switzerland as a software systems engineer. The company has 4 levels (high-low), Principal, Senior, Engineer II, Engineer I. Even though the interview process went perfect, they have placed me at the top of Engineer II. I am now in doubt what to do. It feels a step backward, considering I am already a team lead and have quite some experience as well as ownership.

A scenario I am thinking is accept it, start and then apply myself and grow to senior and eventually principle, but I could be looking at 1-3 years to reach the senior level and some more time to reach the Principal. I like to seek some advice and opinion. Have you been in a similar situation? What were your thoughts and what did you do?

Thanks!
> The book tells the story of a psychiatrist who makes daily decisions based on the casting of a diсe.

Ahah, that sounds crazy/extreme, thanks for mentioning
Designing Captions: experiments with typography, color, icons, and effects
The solution is not punishing others, it is about education. I never said anything about it being right that Amazon cut the ability of someone to use the products already bought.
It was 4chan. You can read my comment history on Hacker News if you want to learn more.
Let me use this opportunity to recommend a book about organic geochemistry: Echoes of Life (2008), by Gaines, Eglinton and Rullkotter. This area turns out to be unexpectedly fascinating, and I found that book to be a great introduction to the field!
No idea who that is.
He knows nothing about them, has not named names of anyone that's lived in this century, and has absolutely no evidence. It is impossible to begin an investigation. Hitler's secret moonbase sex parties are just as plausible.
> I guess personally I never really felt any real sense of community from any subreddits

Honestly that staggers me. Maybe you’re spending too much time on giant subreddits rather than in smaller communities? Your experience with Reddit appears to have omitted the parts that make Reddit great.
I understand what you're trying to achieve here, but I think the content isn't very well organized. The people that have the chops to understand most of what you wrote won't need to read it, and those that don't won't come away with any clearer understanding.

If you can trim the content to about 30% length, I think it would be better.
"You see, officer, the reason I was paying children to play outside my house is because I didn't want them there! It's very clever actually! I got the idea from the internet! It's certainly not what it looks like!"
Couldn't you just scrape HTML from YouTube's site? That's not the most efficient route, but a public API call returning enough info to generate the site's viewer URL gives which info to go scrape the page for the video itself
> Now nuclear isn't the cheapest thing around anymore. Which means that while solar is available the economically rational decision is to buy solar.

You are emphasizing one factor/capability: (economic) efficiency. That may not be the only factor worth considering. One such other factor could be reliability, and it may be worth paying more to gain that factor/capability.

Or would you also say: "Well, the load can be handled by a single server (or router), so a second (active-active or active-passive) system isn't worth paying for to get HA."?
That’s true, and if you had simply expressed your lack of understanding that would be perfectly reasonable, but “probably not very [productive]” is a judgement, is what you wrote, and what I pointed out was a bad take.
Edit: The edited and expanded comment (initially, it was just the single first sentence) directly contradicts the first sentence: subjective opinions on form factors don’t lend to definitive statements about productivity.
Many pawn-up endgames are still technically a draw (king and pawn vs. king [1] in the most extreme example)

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_and_pawn_versus_king_endg...
COVID proved that. Who would try to use COVID as a weapon? I guess if you're at war, maybe there'll be less back and forth travel.
I mean it’s not called debate historians
Thank you!

Really happy to see all the activity at the new repo. For a while there I thought the project was dying...
The difference is that nobody has to actually accept updates that the core team make - and this has happened a few times, resulting in forks, although those cases were for things the core team refused to do - how can you “fork” a security? What is the common enterprise when forking a PoW chain?
What does this have to do with autonomous driving systems? Does a car just start driving itself once you've added enough sensory inputs?
There are certain use cases which kind of have to be always-on. Big freezers. Aluminium smelters.

Venezuela's terribly administered grid shut down power to its aluminium industry. This cannot survive without power to keep the smelters warm; two hours was enough to destroy the industry. https://www.alcircle.com/news/blackout-in-venezuela-brings-d...
I love the idea of using ChatGPT to auto network. But as a story premise and hopefully it leads to 90s stoner movie shenanigans.
Sorry that happened to you as a child. I’m glad you’ve been able to find some stability in your life and are prioritizing what you value.
Exactly. A hotel-like 1-bedroom unit that might rent for $270/night is almost certainly going to rent by the month for far below (270*30.5)=$8235. Even assuming 30% vacancy, $270/night is $5764, vs. maybe $$2500/mo for a long term lease.

The other option, something like AirBnB, will result in lower overall fees but almost certainly higher vacancy than having the hotel manage everything and allow people to book it on e.g. Hilton.com or Expedia just like nay other hotel room.
It's a next step that AMD has been trying to make happen for like 10 years, but not managing to make it commercially successful in anything but consoles, ending up permanently stuck in the lowest low end of the market. In both the PC and datacenter market spaces it has ended up with basically the opposite of product market fit. Nobody actually wants the generic CPU compute tied to the GPU compute.

The PC gamers really want the GPU component to be separately upgradable from the CPU. Non-gamer PC users don't care about the GPU performance, just cost. The datacenter folks want to be able to use a single $1k CPU to host $100k worth of GPUs.

It's plausible that AI accelerators follow a different path for the consumers. It's harder to see it happening for the datacenter market.
The author both says that we will find a solution to excess energy (eg. Hydrogen generation), and at the same time says we don't have space for baseload. It feels a bit of cognitive dissonance.

I still feel that these articles massively underestimate the amount of energy required in the future, when all fossils (eg. air travel, transportation, industry) will migrate to fully electric. Unless we want to pave every surface with solar, baseload will still be needed...
You got me :)

Accredited investors make an exception.
If anyone has implemented this successfully/satisfactorily please post your folder hierarchy so everyone can compare notes and improve their organization.
Take measurements across multiple transits and average them. Periodic signals are quite easy to identify even amongst noise.
I once worked at a company where I was responsible for exclusively doing this: building internal tools.

It was one of the most satisifying jobs I ever had. It was for a mobile games company with between 100 and 200 employees. Most developers worked on the mobile games and since these were very hit & miss, developers got disenchanted working for months on a game that got canned because the numbers weren't hit or management changed the focus. Few got to work on successful games - the envy of all developers in the company.

Instead I built these tools - mostly stuff that moved data between various third party products. But also built tools for company motivational purposes. All sorts of stuff including a weather aggregated to measure air quality within the office which sent slack alerts if conditions got unacceptable.

Part of the enjoyment was the immediate feedback from stakeholders and since these were "only" internal tools, there weren't deadlines or hassle about hitting numbers or deadlines. Testing wasn't that important, as long as the tool worked it was fine - a real hack-away until it works type of job!

I also began to see how people worked and whether there might be tooling to make their lives easier - most projects were initiated by a conversationn over a coffee (or other culinary delights)!

I can only recommend this to any company to have a team that exclusively works for the employees to make their lives easier. Simple scripts can sometimes help a long way to making non-tech people more efficient.
Your calculation is way off. Getting 8kWh a day from a single 400Wp panel would already require 20 hours of operation at theoretical peak power, so under real-life conditions you can only expect a fraction of that per day.

This doesn't invalidate your point though - even if you're one order of magnitude off, your £200 solar panel will buy you about ten times its price worth of electricity.
Nice article!!

But this is not what you're testing. You're not determining the effect of imbalance alone, but imbalance + particular position of pieces. To determine the effect of imbalance you should study how does not having a certain piece since the beginning affect the result of the game.

Also, being a pawn up in the opening is much more different than being a pawn up in the end game. It would be interesting to redo this analysis but splitting by opening, middle game, and end game.
I find it hard to believe somebody would know what exactly is AU, yet at the same time struggle with fractions (or whatever is the proper name for it), while being OK with percentages representation of same numbers.
In a capitalist system of electricity markets, things which are valuable have to be turned into prices to make them happen.

(France's big nuclear build out was extremely socialist planned economy, only later privatized as EDF)
I tend to agree with OP on this. LLMs are, in the most over simplistic take ever, statistical models. You have to train it on every outlier, get it to comprehend every line in context, etc... to produce something remotely similar to human intelligence. Heck, we can throw as many compute engines at it and this will not matter in the end because LLMs will use the same pattern since it's predicting the most sound answer.

Now, if I were to bet on which learning method could "get close" to "AI" (I don't think we'll see that in our lifetime), it'd be RL.
Should have been defined (along with more information about the data set), but I assume it means that the opponent has no tactic that wins them material. For instance if I just take their protected bishop with my bishop then I'm briefly up a bishop. So it would not include that situation or where the trade is more complicated.
"There is a solution to all of this...When we scroll through our various feeds, we need to remain consciously aware of what we’re doing and what messages we’re silently sending.'

That's not likely to help. The author is asking for people to devote more attention to something trivial.
TLDR: Umbrella man came forward and said he was protesting.
Half the problems in this long article can be avoided by not using Windows. I wouldn't try developing a .NET Forms application with Sublime Text on Gentoo, would I?

Open Source is done by people solving their own problems and by their own volition, sharing their solutions with the community. Some of those projects are useful enough for people to become commercial or semi-commercial endeavors.

But yet, resources are limited, and compatibility with Windows will only be there if more people care about it than they care for other features.

Most Linux distributions have no licensing costs, are highly compatible with most basically the same hardware Windows runs on, and even more, in very inexpensive hardware like raspberries pi where Windows doesn't even run. So, given that resources for development are not infinite, I think that we should be glad that Linux and other Unix-like environments are the baseline target for compatibility for python packages instead of Windows.

Also, most Python software that is of interest to non-programmers like Jupyter Notebooks, PyTorch and Keras is still of a technical nature. It is not like people are installing mail clients or Word Processors written in Python with pip install. Even if those projects are being used by non-professional programmers themselves, the user must learn some programming to use them. It is reasonable that someone wanting to use such sophisticated packages will have to devote some time to learn how to properly install them. Again, someone could argue this is unacceptable, but this comes from the reality that making this easier requires resources, programmer time, testing and access to environments for said testing. Most open source project don't have the luxury of access to vast farms of devices with hundreds of different combinations of hardware, devices and software as a company like Microsoft does. But on the other hand, they are not asking you thousands of dollars for a Microsoft Subscription, neither they receive a tax the moment you bought your machine with their operating system installed.
> Conversely, if you pointed your clock's hour hand at the sun, you would know your "12:00" would be due north/south (depending on hemisphere).

Not quite. In the southern hemisphere the sun moves 'backwards', so you have to flip the clock backwards, or instead point the 12:00 mark at the sun and then the hour hand shows north/south.
Emily Kopp has a well researched article on the coverup of lab leak discussion by Fauci and instigation by him to publish the Proximal Origin paper.

https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/timeline-the-proximal-ori...
I use a low folding beach chair that I think my wife got at a CVS or Walgreens store (US). Sorry I don't have a model number or better photo of the whole chair. One "c" clamp is enough to hold a board in place for the laptop. I'm about 61.5 kilos / 177 cm. In a shady spot I can work comfortably for a few hours with short breaks. The low height means I can put my legs out in front of me. The board fits inside the chair when its folded so I can carry them with one hand.

Pics: https://imgur.com/a/1HjaE2W
Envoy or apisix
lichess uses glicko 2
What I'm pointing out is that this is not merely an issue of sensors and that focusing on sensory input is not the way to solve the problems of embodied decision making. The focus should be on creating a system that can make these kinds of embodied decisions. Read my other comment in this thread related to androids.
So basically if someone gets raped in a dark alley, there is no recourse for action ever?

Do you even know how ring doorbells work? The owners inside can talk through them, avoiding confrontation, and saying whatever they want.
> "There are usually two kinds of coders giving advice. A fresh one that has no idea how complex things really are yet. Or an experienced one, that has forgotten it."

This line is gold.
What would be the price to have it retrofitted onto the home solar I had installed last year? Unless my inverter firmware can be updated remotely that doesn't seem like a reasonable expense at all.
That might work for a subset of projects, but try that with anything that does for instance numerical analysis stuff, like machine learning. There is a reason why Conda is a requirement for so many Python projects.
short-term grid stability (on the order of seconds to hours) is essentially a non-issue with a renewable grid that has even the fraction of the storage needed to make up for longer term variability in supply (days/weeks). Inverter systems connected to batteries are already the best and most cost effective means of providing frequency control to a grid (they can simulate an incredible amount of rotor inertia): this is one of the ways in which Tesla's grid-scale battery in Australia is making lots of money (and eating the lunch of gas turbine operators who previously provided this). You can also add this capability to wind and solar generation, it's just not generally worth the extra effort (it's easier to coordinate a few larger providers somewhat specialised to the task than distribute it to everything on the grid).
My family raised cattle on significantly more acreage. I would characterize it as supplementary income, less income than from my dad's menial day job. Also very inconsistent with prices of cattle and crops fluctuating wildly and rain and pest fluctuations greatly affecting their production. Where I'm from we'd periodically have farmers committing suicide when their crops didn't keep up with expenses for long periods of time.
Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
> And scrollbars are completely different in different browsers - they have different sizes, different behavior, different look-and-feels. So either you create versions of your app which match each browser individually, or you re-style the scrollbars to look the same as the rest of the app.

Find me a user that sez "This experience sucks...that's the native scrollbar" and I'll give you $100. If you give me $1 for every user who is fine with the native experience they are most comfortable with. If you give me $1000 for every time a custom scrollbar isn't accessible.

Fwiw, I've never visited a site with a custom scrollbar that didn't have other UI / UX issues. The fancy scrollbar didn't makeup for those.

p.s. Gaming is a different aesthetic, a different audience, etc. It's not what should be the user-centric internet.
You're not entirely wrong but pretty much everything you use from python is written in C++ anyway, so what's your point?
I was curious and visited their website: https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

> BBEdit 14
>
> It doesn’t suck.®

Dang, I love it. The feature list looks good enough to back the claim. It almost sounds like an editor for Linux. And I'm also curious if there are any Linux alternatives?
> the article needs editing for length

That's 30 to 45 seconds of reading time. Admittedly it could be shorter, but still, it's not excessive.
Anecdotal counterpoint, since the beginning of the pandemic response my wife and I moved onto a farm with a few dozen acres and are slowly building it up to a homestead.

A catw majority of people stayed in cities, or are moving back, but some did vote with their feet and left for the country.

It's important to not that it might be easy to#if hear from those that started in cities, anyone that moved more rural may be out of your field of view and seemingly not exist.
> Is Reddit a village? [...] it’s still mostly just a bunch of strangers talking with each other for a while

"Online community" and social media are in some way social, to the extent that there is communication, something that defines humanity and that humans enjoy doing.

It just isn't high-value communication in most instances. Much of it is short affirmations and expressions of good will.

Our species survived through social grouping. A real village (or even larger community in meatspace) is an anchor for social trust.

A real village differs significantly from online community in the simple fact that in reality, people are in a group for the survival benefits that the group offers. People will avoid talking nonsense or uttering threats because there are reputational and/or legal consequences that could deprive these people of group benefits. People will nuture their absurd opinions and resentments, but they tend to suppress expressing these because membership in the group is more valuable than their opinions and resentments.

People do unleash their resentments and talk garbage on the Internet. In a real village, talking garbage will have consequences. In most cases, people in a real village understand to be careful in how they express themselves. In the days of the "old Web", people extended their "real village" values in the interactions on the Internet.

In a real village, the way for people to feel confident about their resentments is to try to find a group where they can feel impunity. This is harder to do in a real village than it is on the Internet.

One or two generations later on the Internet, with full penetration by marketing, ranking, and malicious participants (sometimes even at the scale of state-sponsored propaganda), the strong foundation of social trust is gone. All that remains is "enshitification" and Harlow monkeys[1].

Now, in an ironic twist, real communities are shaken by the artifical world of the Internet, and some people aspire to make the Internet be community in a way that it can never be.

It has however been successfully monetised.

[1] _ https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/o...