skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would've thought the main wins would've been reduced heat generation.

Most of the heat in a data center is coming from power burned in the devices themselves not the power transmission to those devices.

Sort of like how a space heater is hot at the heater portion, not the power cable going into the heater.

You aren't losing more than a W or so to transmission for every kW of power delivered. (in fact, you are generating more heat from the AC->DC transformation)

Typically, power cords and wiring is 15 AWG, which has a 10 milli-ohm/meter resistance and runs as 120V AC (maximum of 15->20A). So, 1000m of power cord running at full load would result in 150->200W of heat from the power cable. Meanwhile the server is generating 1.6->2.2kW of heat. (Assuming a single very long 1kM route is servicing the server).

Cut the cabling distance to a couple of meters and you can see why nobody worries at power consumption at that point.
Well said.

Shame is making a comeback in a big way with restorative justice. Hopefully enough of us get there so we can see meaningful change.
awsome，man，这是我丁真的独享时刻
You should be measuring that population as a % of their total population. Not sure why you're comparing absolute numbers.

China has triple the young people we do, but quadruple the old people that depend on the young people.
I'm going to try this with my extra Mac mini and one of my switches that outputs POE++ at the full 60w. I should even be able to do this using a fairly bog-standard POE splitter from POE Texas that'll actually deliver a full 60W.

Edit: Here's the injector I'll probably use - https://shop.poetexas.com/collections/splitters/products/gbt...
"Does rebar rust?" (2019)
https://youtu.be/PLF18H9JGHs
Could you (or anyone else reading this) define "gut funding" in quantitative terms?

I'm asking because I've noticed newspapers have somehow acquired the ability to imply that spending on this or that program is being cut, when in fact it isn't. Often simply refusing to let a program grow at an exponential rate is supposed to be a "spending cut". And sometimes mere exponential growth is not enough.

To give an example, if one trusts the newspapers of the United Kingdom, the NHS is supposed to have been "underfunded" ever since Cameron became prime minister in 2010. The reality is that expenditures on that system have remained at around 9.7% of GDP until COVID when they rose to 12%, remaining at that level since then. And GDP is a quantity that's growing every year.

If "properly funding" hard drug legalization would require expenditures on rehab programs that steadily grow until they reach a third of all government revenues, that in and of itself makes legalization a horrible policy.
It's almost like congress holding the fucking debt limit hostage every few months isn't good for the rating or the country as a whole.
How this scam works:

- User sends crypto to some address, say 0x1234...abcd

- An attacker identifies a pattern of the user sending crypto to that address

- Attacker brute-forces a similar looking wallet address, say 0x1235...bbcd - this is the phishing address that the attacker controls

- Attacker sends a fake transaction of crypto from the user's address to the phishing address

- User, wanting to send another txn, sees that wallet in their recent history and uses the phishing address

This is a common scam in crypto and it has been relatively unsuccessful up until now. Someone sending $20M worth of USDT had extremely bad security practices. Typically you would avoid this by having a known, whitelisted addresses you send to and a complex process to add new addresses to the whitelist to ensure you don't fat-finger an address.
Ask HN: What was your favorite job?
Why was it your favorite?
How far into your career were you when you got that job?

I am 1 year away from my BS in CS and have been pondering what sort of company and role to seek as I approach graduation. My best method for learning about the software industry is talking to others, so I was curious if some of you would be willing to share. This is my second career and I am trying to make the most of it.
Frankly, using FLW as an example is a bit uncharitable to the opposing argument. Dude was one of the, if not the single, greatest architects in history. I don't think anybody would complain about living in a world of his design.

The problem is without a keen eye for aesthetics, it's really easy to use the post(-post?)-modern style in really, really lazy ways, to create absolutely hideous structures. Brutalism runs into the same problem: there are some Brutalist buildings, especially those that pioneered the style, that are absolutely breathtaking. The problem is that Brutalism was also pretty cheap to pull off, so you ended up with a bunch of hacky office buildings that pulled a couple pages out of the design, and built every college campus in North America.

Is there a solution to this? I dunno. Chicago's "it's illegal to build ugly buildings in downtown" seems to have worked alright. But there's always going to be a market pressure to build the cheapest building possible while tipping your hat to whatever architectural style you can get away with, for minimal extra cost.

Not really sure where I was going with all that, but bring back Art Deco.
I’ve been playing with TipTap for the last few weeks and really enjoying it!
Going Headless seems like a good approach however it’s made rolling out TipTap for a side project tedious as I need to start with styling basic components.

It’d be great to have an 80% use-case coverage for common components.

I’ll call out this wrapper for TipTap + MUI I stumbled on that’s been a nice addition. https://github.com/sjdemartini/mui-tiptap
They often are, and there is some (at least in some places in the US) cultural inertia to intervene and get someone to voluntarily surrender their driving privilege (either formally by giving up their license in favor of a State ID or informally by giving up their vehicles) before the state does it for you.

I've been around for those conversations with grandparents on a few occasions now, and many people I know have too.

I don't think its an anomaly, but it is anecdotal
They literally did this 7 years ago with the Motorola Z series and the insta share projector mod. You can get the phone and the projector real cheap used. Pair it with some SoundCore minis paired together and you have yourself a portable movie theater.
We've coevolved with sheep, pigs, cows, and chickens too. They don't normally produce that much wool/fat/milk/eggs. If you can't stomach eating dog, especially meat dogs bred to be butchered, that might be more of a personal thing than a morality thing. They don't look or act like your dog either. And your dog would probably eat it as well.
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Canon warns printer users to manually wipe Wi-Fi settings before discarding
In my experience Jenkins is like shell scripting- in the hands of hands of someone who understands its strengths and weaknesses and is very disciplined in how it is used and maintained, it's both performant and flexible. If you follow the path of least resistance it becomes a mess.
We are now in an era where the only browsers people think about are Chromium reskins and forks.
I can't believe it's already been 31 years since that came out.
You can thank W3C's ActivityPub charter for that, who, in their infinite wisdom, have decided it woukd make sense to use JSON for sending hypertext around, rather than, you know, HTML.
> That's not a good example of non-prohibition

Yep, which is why I used the term "more lenient policies," not necessarily non-prohibition. Opium dens were getting more and more problematic in San Francisco[1] until they were criminalized in the late 19th century.

> I mean, people haven't really stopped doing Cocaine or Meth

I don't think the end goal of prohibition is zero use of said substance, but rather its control as to prevent large-scale societal disruption.

[1] https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinatown%27s_Opium_...
Grid-scale batteries are basically nonexistent in the US, but also aren't particularly common elsewhere. In 2016 there was only 160mW [0] of battery storage available to the grid. Battery prices have come down since then, but not enough for energy storage to make sense for utilities in a lot of cases. If capacity has doubled in the past seven years, the person you're responding to would still be asking for like 3% of available battery capacity nationwide.

As far as other storage methods, they're really cool but water and trains require a lot of space, and flywheels typically aren't well suited for storing energy for long amounts of time. That being said, pumped water is still about 10x more common than batteries right now and flywheels are useful if you want to normalize a peaky supply of electricity.

I'd like to believe we'll see more innovative stuff like you're suggesting, but I think for the time being the regulatory environment is too complicated and the capex is probably too high for anyone outside of the MAMA companies to try something like that right now.

[0] - https://www.energy.gov/policy/articles/deployment-grid-scale...
warning: rabbit hole.

You should look up "anduril 2". Lots of things you didn't think about are great fun with open firmware.
Please don't take this as a personal attack, but this list looks like you used the very first option presented to you and then never explored any other options. (maybe this is a woosh)
For sure. Possibly the magnitude of our debt is an issue too.
>Just because a psychological trick works doesn’t mean you must use it.

Your hand is forced if the other guy uses it and blows past you.

Reality cares not for niceties, and good people finish dead fucking last. You need to balance being a good man and an evil man to win or even just survive.
The FAA prohibits pilots from drinking 8 hours before a flight. They further recommend 24 hours of abstention. It’s not okay, Zircom.

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media...
> collected tweets promoting hate from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers

They collected tweets from 100 blue subscribers that contain hate speech. I think you misread the report. Maybe there is other problems but I don't think you are right about what you are saying through.
Thank you for this, this is a helpful guide to looking into some of these things further.
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This has become so ridiculous that I sometimes scroll through reels just to witness this happening in real time. Is that a video with a joke about some problem in the country? There you go, 27 comments of people cursing and offending the creator because the real life isn’t exactly the way he/she portrayed it (which is, as a funny video should be, exaggerated) or creating drama for something else entirely that has nothing to do with the video. Then someone will eventually make an offensive comment and create an order of magnitude more hateful comments until shortly it becomes people insulting each other.

You see this in all social networks where people with no common ground eventually cross each other. It feels like everything (even mundane routine stuff) will eventually reach someone who’s offended by that action alone.

In fact I feel like this is what killed Facebook and people who check Twitter replies admit they always leave the app feeling angry. At least with TikTok and Reels the comments are hidden by default, so you have to make an explicit action to see the angry comments yelling at each other.

Reddit doesn’t seem to have that problem except in the popular subreddits because the smaller communities settle for an opinion and downvote dissidents.
Battery aside, POE also allows you to put it anywhere you have ethernet cable with sufficient power delivery. In this case you could have a workstation powered entirely off ethernet delivered to the location (some monitors will also work with a POE splitter as well).
Yes, I am familiar with this effect and can recreate it in my stainless steel pan. But I have yet to successfully retrieve a over-easy egg from it.

I suspect that equipment is a huge factor. My $20 stainless steel pan might not have the right surface characteristics.
Many of these additional costs to Uber and potentially other ride sharing platforms is that these gig economy jobs at least in Australia, have been due to additional worker regulations.

In Aus, there have been talks (or potentially action) on giving gig economy workers additional rights regarding sick leave and annual leave etc. All of these things increase the costs to doing business, akin to what Taxi's would provide their own workers.

I know for a fact that Deliveroo (meal delivery service) in Australia closed due to the costs associated from doing business in Australia. Funny when its based on a Kangaroo.

I'm not saying this is why in this case, but if your ride sharing prices start going up this might be part of the reason. There is a cynical part of me as well, but I'll push it to the side for the sake of the argument.
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White House unveils ‘whole of society’ push to expand cybersecurity workforce
Maybe if we reach a consensus that neither the war on drugs nor 110 worked properly, we can sit down and have a straightforward discussion about what would, now that both ideologies have failed.
There's no incentive to do anything except wait until the last moment.

From a game theoretic perspective, waiting until the last moment is the most optimal.

Therefore, it will continue to happen until the voters find it so unpopular they begin voting out politicians that behave like this.
They dropped the ball with funding treatment programs, which are essential for this to work in the first place. That should be in the headline. Decriminalization hasn't been debunked.

"state audit published this year found that the new law was “vague” about how state officials should oversee the awarding of money to new treatment programs, and set “unrealistic timelines” for evaluating and funding treatment proposals. As a result, the funding process was left largely to the grant-making panel, most of whose members “lacked experience in designing, evaluating and administrating a governmental-grant-application process,” according to the audit. Last year, supporters of Measure 110 accused state health officials, preoccupied with the coronavirus pandemic, of giving the panel insufficient direction and resources to handle a flood of grant applications. The state health authority acknowledged missteps in the grant-making process."
Wake up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA (that's US Government hitting 1 trillion USD in interest payments every year).
I love this response. I'm now thinking of investing in a nice fountain pen and a soft pencil.
First time finding out that there is a button that opens the door. I've always been using the handle to get out.
Had to look it up. That claim is truish. However it is only a risk while seasoning and if you are inhaling the fumes.

Needless to say, don't do that and cast iron presents no risks.

At the end of the day, a really silly reason to swear off cast iron.
I was afraid to venture there, but yeah..
I am joking, the ocean is too far away
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Sounds like a good definition to me. I just don’t think it increased 96% in four years. It’s much more likely that they were cooking the numbers the previous years and had to come clean eventually.
Headless servers where you want a modular or easily removable battery backup.

I really wish desktop PC power supplies would support such a thing. It seems stupid that we need to use a UPS with an inverter when the power supply should be rigged to accept DC input straight from a battery.
Choosing the $350K job isn't necessarily monomaniacally focussed on money, there's plenty of combinations of priorities that would favor that.

But when you don't assume all smart developers are monomaniacally focussed on money, there’s also plenty of combinations of priorities that might favor an $80K lab job over the $350K login screen job.
I've used this several times - it's really very good.
Thanks for the details.

"Attacker sends a fake transaction of crypto from the user's address to the phishing address"

Can you explain what you mean by this, how this works?
The problem is attacking sugar doesn't really fix the problem. Being fat is a problem with overeating as a whole, not necessarily with sugar.

That's part of the issue with policy - often it's not getting at the real heart of the problem.
Cloud company assisted 17 different government hacking groups, U.S.
With the rise of USB-C "everything" docks this should be more possible then ever too.
Heat from power transfer is not the problem with current battery tech. We are already capable of delivering 350kW worth of power into EV batteries. The limiting factor is not the power cable delivering that power.

Thick cable, high voltage (900V typically) and everything is fairly manageable. Assuming we could consistently charge at that 350kW we could fully (0->100%) charge an 80kWh ev battery in 13 minutes. That's not slow.

The limiting factor is the battery chemistry, not the wire chemistry.
> I've seen these anti-debugger techniques on NFL piracy websites when I tried to investigate why my CPU was pinned to 100% while I was streaming the game

Probably safe to assume they were mining cryptocurrency with your browser while you were watching the stream.
Definitely disagree. My own anecdotal evidence is that many many laptops left plugged in 24/7 will develop a spicy pillow after a year or two. That includes a set of Apple laptops and hundreds of Dell laptops.
UK spy agencies want to relax ‘burdensome’ laws on AI data use
No, the users definitely play a role here.

Remember how it became a meme to just pirate Adobe software because they were so bloody expensive? Well Adobe wants their earnings, regardless if their desire is justified, so Adobe and the rest of the industry changed gears to a model that greatly inhibits piracy and, at least in theory, reduces the upfront cost a customer has to pay in exchange for a higher cost over time.
The ex of someone I know is both a user and a dealer. He opted to be homeless over getting clean. Sadly here in the states there is little you can do if an adult chooses a self destructive path - calls to sheriff/police did nothing - “nothing we can do until he commits a crime”. Where “crime” is something other than the drug use/possession.

This individual has always been self absorbed and useless. His daughter asked him to change for her, he wouldn’t. His daughter’s counselor basically told her to decide how to remember him, it’s unlikely he will make it a year.

Personally, I feel the individual is a PoS and hope he suffers but it’s heart wrenching to see the affect it’s having on his daughter.

Addition: this is happening in one of the more permissive and “progressive” communities in CA.
Looks nice. However the issue with all 3d streaming I've ever tried is latency. It's great if you're near the server. Terrible if you're far away.

It's hard so say what the input latency is for the head demo you shared. I guess about 100ms, which is totally fine for a mostly static scene with simple orbit controls.

However I also tried out the Lebron James vs Father Time game. Input latency is over 1 second so it's not playable. Any time I touch the screen it freezes for a second then jumps to the new location.
I don't get what your quibble is.

> The idea that REST is confined to standard media types[...] is wrong

You sourced the response yourself:

> REST components communicate by transferring a representation of a resource in a format matching one of an evolving set of standard data types

... and given that you did just copy and paste that part, it leads me to believe that that's not what you've got an issue with. So what do you have an issue with?
Not really. However, as a long-time Mac and Apple fan, I can say the community has a lot of overly aggressive people who can't stand any criticism (valid or not) of Apple and will do various things in retaliation.
The alliance will develop written specifications detailing the features of OpenUSD

Since its an existing standard hasn't this already been done, at least to a decent extent?
Right, I'm being stupid, that's the fork I saw earlier today I didn't realize. Have you tried it? Iirc the documentation mentioned at 2-bit quantizatikn of the 40B model performing well. I've been using a 5-bit 7B llama2 which I'm generally happy with (because it can run in a pretty crappy machine) but interested to see the differences.
> The industry eats the cost, not the FDIC, which funds it through industry taxes.

So in other words the FDIC eats the cost but the FDIC is really the taxpayer, or the customers of "banking industry" which is to say basically everybody.

> If your gamble fails, not only do you lose everything related to your endeavor, but now banking as a whole is more expensive, more people centralize into the big banks, and whatever business you want to start up or run afterwards is going to be more expensive.

But if your gamble succeeds you make an enormous amount of money and if it fails someone else pays most of the cost, so it's more profitable to make the gamble because you have privatized gains and socialized losses.

> You can be a boring bank and most likely mint profit for yourself for eternity, while also being seen as a positive actor in your city!

Are banks known for their desire to leave money on the table?

Isn't "banks will be conservative and responsible" the argument for not having mandatory insurance?
Agreed. Without the requisite funding already secured, this policy basically amounts to a half-baked pipe dream. Declaring the policy a failure really isn't a joke. The policy was not implemented as it was proposed (perhaps "imagined" is a better word), and the end result is that it failed.

When we talk about "not giving the policy a real chance", what are we talking about exactly? Are we referring to an idealized version of the policy, in which everything goes exactly as it was imagined? Or are we referring to the actual implementation of the policy, in which "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" (Mike Tyson quote)?
TensoRF – NeRFs from Tensor Decomposition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30784957 - March 2023 (3 comments)

3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36285374 - June 2023 (2 comments)

This last one is due to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2023, which starts in a few days!
We don't need to speculate.

>Ratings Downgrade: The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance relative to 'AA' and 'AAA' rated peers over the last two decades that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs and last-minute resolutions.
I wish people went back accusing people of the real evil, being racist, instead of a term which scares anyone away from making legitimate criticisms...like accusing Israel of racist policies.
Proof he is a time traveler that reads HN. I enjoy his videos. Maybe he can play around with this concrete.