skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Industry demand is massively overblown (although still a very real problem), because AIUI ~75% of the demand is for heat.

Heat can be stored directly, without need for batteries - get a giant (like, 20ish metre diameter) tank of sand (or other thermal mass, but any crappy asbestos-riddled sand will work just fine), wrap it in a metre or two of insulation, and the cube-square law will ensure it stays heated for months when heated.

This has drawbacks such as not working well with heat pumps (if you need 1000C temps then heat pumps flat-out don't work, and if you cap your heat at lower then your construction costs go way up, not to mention giant heat pumps are expensive compared to resistive heating, so electricity prices had better be high enough to justify the investment), but they let you turn surplus intermittent renewables into on-demand heating for literally dirt-cheap.

If there's any sort of battery crunch, then direct heat storage will win by virtue of being available and trivially deployed wherever there's a construction industry. It's very boring 20th-century (or 19th-century?) tech, and that's an absolute blessing, logistically.
Ahem. That's what yours is. Mine is straight-up time defiance. I stopped caring about clocks and deadlines. You speak for yourself: attentional difference is a cluster, not a fixed set of symptoms and behaviours.

Another example, I'm not short of motivation. It's just there are so many interesting things to work on.
> For many people out there open source is a way to legally pirate stuff.

Huh?

In order to pirate open source products, assuming we are talking about copyright infringement, you have to release derivative products in a way that is not consistent with the licensing requirements.

Unless you are conflating open source code that is intentionally built for interoperable alternatives to commercial or closed products. In which case, that's not piracy, it's competition.

> They would be pirating those tools and libraries if they were commercial.

I think you are deeply confused about the role of open source tools and libraries. There is no shortage of cases where commercial tools have infringed on open source projects. There are also many cases where open source tools have infringed on patents or in some cases infringed on copyright, for example, where open source software is built based on reverse engineered or unlicensed access to source code. The preferred pattern is to have two teams, one responsible for reverse engineering a product and generating a specification, and another, separate team that implements the specification.

That is not piracy, and is a legitimate use of reverse engineering that has been litigated fairly extensively (at least, AFAIK, and IANAL, but I have worked with so, so many of them over the last two decades of my career).

> And on top of that they feel entitled to have their critical bugs fixed right away, again for free.

Well yeah. That's not unique to open source. There is a reason that "karen" as a description of certain behaviors has entered the pop culture lexicon. Hell hath no fury like an inconvenienced user of a free product.
> I saw Google maps (perhaps recently) added a feature where you tell it the time you need to be somewhere and it will notify you when it's time to leave.

Has been doing this for me since 2009, a lifesaver in unexpected traffic or construction.
"I have yet to come across a single popular Open Source project that thrives while being funded by private individuals, small and medium size companies."

The only oss project that is funded by private individuals that comes up in my head is GrapheneOS, it has over 500 sponsors on Github.
> In short, one should reserve a degree of skepticism for skepticism.

What does that mean?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction sounds like what you might want, though I don't know anything about books.
Ah, that example is demonstrating an internal mechanism used to ensure the high-level asynchronous API calls take at least one tick of the event loop to complete.

There is no `result` variable - I was just attempting to convey that "some async stuff happens, then it waits if we can't verify that it's not the same tick as when the call started". The "async stuff", in the actual implementation, is sending or receiving.
Also Blender. Best user-facing example out there IMO.
Awesome! Glad you got it:)

So for the cronjob part, that only applies to devices assigned to guests, as they can be used without creating an account on wirehub.

- Create your invite, Guest Role.

- Assign the Device to that Guest.

- Add an Interface on that Device.

- Preview the network as that Guest (click the eye icon next to their username). Open the URL in a new private window, because you need to:

- Accept the Invite.

- As that Guest, you'll just see the device(s) assigned to you. Click on the config button for any device and right click, copy the Download URL. That should contain the invite_code as well, which is basically the authorization token for that Guest.

Now, on your device, just curl the URL, like so:

```
curl 'https://wirehub.org/wirehub/n/hub-network/device/1/download?...'
```
There's still a risk of the game cratering completely like Imperator, although it's not a sequel to an established title. Sometimes I'm still worried how Victoria 3 's fate would be.
> yubikey's modhex alphabet

For the curious, to avoid "most" QWERTZ/AZERTY differences among Latin layouts:

cbdefghijklnrtuv
I bet an exactly similar kind of oversimplified, nitpicking rant must have been made for the punk culture of your time by your elders, and the same for them, ad infinitum.

There seems to be a psycho-social aspect to these generational agitations, whatever new thing the young ones bring will always be seen in the worst possible way by their elders in every generation.
I don't know about Autumn Glory specifically, but Bi-Rite often has cool, tasty, and slightly unusual apple varietals for sale.
Kusama has outlined preliminary measures, including influencers verifying their ownership.
The developer hopes that the community would take heart from his optimistic outlook.
Shiba Inu’s lead developer Shytoshi Kusama, has urged SHIB followers and content producers to work together. Kusama’s call to action acknowledges the decentralized character of the platform while working to coordinate the marketing efforts of a wide range of individual operators across different forms of media.
Many years ago at Lake Shasta, a couple a few spots down the campground from us had the canopy on their truck destroyed when a bear tried to get the cooler they had stored in there.

Unfortunately for them, they were also sleeping back there. They weren't hurt, just badly shaken, and from listening to the woman, I have a feeling she never camped again.
> That's what yours is.

No, it's not just what mine is. It agrees with the clinical definition of ADHD, with the experiences of all who I have spoken to about it, including many friends, with multiple[0] articles[1] describing[2] the disorder[3], and so on.

Your time defiance is a symptom of a deeper problem. While I can't guarantee it's the exact same problem that I have, your disorder is certainly not just "time defiance", and if it truly is ADHD, the root of it will be executive dysfunction, as that is what defines the disorder.

[0]: https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html

[1]: https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/862603-when-writing-a...

[2]: https://invisibleup.com/articles/27/

[3]: https://www.autostraddle.com/you-need-help-your-adhd-is-fcki...

> For example, I'm not short of motivation. It's just there are so many interesting things to work on.

I could say the same thing. But I can't choose which thing I work on. I want to draw. I want to code. I have hundreds of unfinished projects I could have finished. I have hundreds of abandoned hobbies I could have stayed with. Sure I have "motivation", but it's motivation to do whatever catches my interest at the moment, not motivation to do any of the things that I actually want to do.
Wait hold up, lawyers can help you avoid the law as well?

I suspect the bar would not allow that.
Yet another reason we need more trains. Trains don't need batteries, and are far more efficient than cars anyway.
One generally applicable reason is that you can make a few cups and it will be fine in the rice cooker for days. Pretty convenient.

A more personal reason is that I don't want to cook anything an instapot can cook except rice, so it doesn't add any value compared to a rice cooker.
Article calls out FAANG completely missing one of the largest OSS players - Microsoft.

OSS always made sense in the commoditize your infrastructure/complements scenarios - everything else is going to be unreliable.

Donations - unreliable, open-core is even worse (the incentive is always to pull a bait and switch eventually). Academia and enthusiasts achieved a lot as well - but doubt they captured any value they created.
Ugh, clickbait title from the author:

Sorry to clickbait with that title...

If you're sorry, then how about just not doing it?
I'm just saying that when you incentivize people to do X, be aware that X is what you're going to get, every time.

I remember when the unit at the company I worked for decided to put a big graph of the bug count on the wall, and announced incentives for retiring bug reports. Within a week, the entire unit had devolved into knock-down drag out fights over who had solved a bug, if a bug was really a bug, if a bug was actually 3 bugs and the person should get 3 credits for solving it, people filing fake bug reports and then "fixing" them, etc. A couple more weeks of that and the graph was taken down and the incentive program terminated. These were intelligent, well-educated people, going berserk.

There was another case where the company got a big contract from IBM, and hired some mercenary contractors to fulfill it. Part of the deal was each mercenary got a $10,000 bonus (worth about $30,000 today) for getting it done on time. I'm sure you know what happened. It shipped the day before the deadline.

I asked one of them, "did the bonus get you to finish on time?" The response, "absolutely not, it had nothing to do with it. We're professionals!"
>In short, one should reserve a degree of skepticism for skepticism.

Why though? In what way does it benefit me or society to give everyone with a theory attention? Yes, some percentage of the time these theories are true, but I feel they are lost in the noise of every other false claim.

If your belief is true, prove it, but if you can't, why should I care? In my opinion, skepticism should be the default.
That’s because people frequently use DIE as a pretense for socially unacceptable behaviors:

- political discrimination

- racism and sexism

That’s why institutions which are outspoken about DIE such as Harvard lose civil rights suits over their institutional racism. And why the party which has made DIE a central tenet supports antisemitism.

Believing that DIE advocates are about diversity, inclusion, or equality is like believing that DPRK is a democratic republic for the benefit of its people.
Did NYT not reach out to you for comment? Curious why your reply is here instead of within the article itself.
Hehe sorry not yet! :)
Wasnt blender funded by government grants (although very small IIRC) and Epic ?
This is actually extremely useful when hooked up to a laptop for traveling, because of the embedded traffic information and maps in the sideband data.
You don’t seem to have taken the time to understand my comment. I acknowledged subjective realities earlier in my statement. You are arguing a strawman.

The solipsism is the second half of parent’s comment where they state that everything exists only within their reality. Subjectivities are subsets of our existence. Arguing that an entire universe exists for one human awareness is solipsism.
This is confusing. According to that article twenty miles will be built because present administration is unable to stop it.

"... building up to 20 miles of border wall because he has to. The administration said that it was bound to build this section of new wall because Congress already appropriated the funding to do so in 2019. It had been unsuccessful in convincing Congress to rescind the funding, Mr. Mayorkas said."

Seems other parts will not be built, and materials were sold off already.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-border-wall-material-auct...

It's like USA personality changes every few months, and there are unlimited funds for these games.
yep, work machine, with a nvidia card...

Do one emerge -avuDN world, and everything is upgraded... Now i have a browser with 50 tabs, a few processes running, chat windows, some hand-run services, a bunch of stuff, and suddenly, everything video related slows down to a crawl... API mismatch, nvidia kernel modules is one version and the 'frontend' libraries are a new version.

Swap kernel module? Nope, not without (at minimum) restarting X. Want to downgrade the frontend libs? Nope, the ebuild has been removed. Then either reboot, waste 20 minutes to set up everything, then 2 more phonecalls, since some service to test something "just for two hours, until the meeting" was running in screen for months now, and isn't running now, and after a --sync, a new version of nvidia drivers appear.... or find the old ebuild, put it in a personal overlay, and waste 20 minutes on that.

It's a pain. Just keep the old versions, an ebuild is a few kilobytes!
Since you bring up Einstein, it's worth noting that he felt like he had disproved Kant, yet he claimed to be hugely influenced by Hume, an alleged empiricist (whom Kant even explicitly called out), though Hume's "empiricism" is largely misunderstood. He overtly understood that we don't directly perceive the real world, for instance, as have many philosophers since and including Plato.
Blip: Cases of fetuses with flipped organs quadrupled in China
> The near outage this summer was more accurately described as wind being low enough that it almost wasn't able to fill the gap caused by the gas, coal, and nuclear plants going offline.

I can’t find any good source about your claim of thermal plants going offline in the September incident. ERCOT’s statements consistently blame the combination of high demand and low wind. The federal Department of Energy even issued an order authorizing Texas power plants to exceed normal emissions limits in such an emergency, which is inconsistent with your claim that they “go offline” in these conditions: https://www.ercot.com/about/legal/doe202c

> And, yes, renewables are becoming a big industry but it’s nowhere near as big as the fossil fuel industry and orders of magnitude less lavishly subsidized.

I thought we were done accusing each other of being shills. I’ll just point out that there’s significantly more propaganda in favor of renewable energy than in favor of natural gas or nuclear. But this is Hacker News and I am assuming good faith of you rather than accusing you of parroting talking points that were fed to you by Chinese photovoltaic manufacturers or annoying Swedish teenagers. And I am simply asking the same courtesy from you.

> Texas Republicans tried to ban wind and solar expansion because that party has been owned by the oil industry for decades

I think there is a good faith reason for such a policy. And while I do live in Texas and usually vote for Republicans, I am asking you to engage with me in good faith instead of calling me a shill. Are you capable of that or is the idea that someone can disagree with you about energy policy in good faith beyond your comprehension? Because you seem to be using this idea as a thought-terminating cliche.
> with a population smaller than NYC

Australia has a population bigger than NYC and "Australia is set to be a cheque-less society by the end of the decade, if the federal government has its way."

Zealand has a population and land area similar to Oregon. Might as well say NZ has a much bigger population than Wyoming - NYC is irrelevant.

Cheques have slowly disappeared because of economic reasons: the transaction costs/risks involved, and because electronic transfers have benefits. The economic forces are likely similar in the states. I believe the change has little to do with the NZ government nor the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
> Did you miss the World War that's currently on...?

Yes. What World War? I don’t think the number of shooting conflicts going on right now significantly exceeds the number of shooting conflicts that have been going on since 1950. Here is some information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_confli... and please stop spreading misinformation.
I think GIMP, Inkscape, Audacity, ffmpeg all fall into this category too.

Quite possibly a majority of GPL does.
I really just have to second another comment in saying: Huh?

> For many people out there open source is a way to legally pirate stuff.

Could one of these many people please chime in here?
If I find the remains of another person who has been killed and eaten by an animal, should I assume that this can never happen to me because this world was created for me and this person was only a simulation? Because if all that exists is what I know then that would be pretty logical. I’ve never been eaten by an animal and I am the only one in here.
It's a choice to not fight it, likely because they realize that this is a losing issue for them (the administration, and the Dems more generally).
> Does a car with 4 wheels exceed requirements of minimal?

I mean, yes? 3 should be enough without too many design changes. 2 with a kick stand. Even 1 with tech that absolutely cannot fail or else catastrophic failure.
It hasn’t been disproven. That doesn’t mean it can’t.
I'm not right-wing, and never read Rand. Self-righteous, probably!
I can’t be bothered with fiction but in english, but I’ve been learning German and I find it easier to stay focused while reading fiction in German so that’s how I have made the switch - but I literally have had to switch language to be able to enjoy fiction. Not helpful if you’re trying to expand your English vocab!
Their daily active user base was down 11% post acquisition as of September:

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-daily-active-users-dr...

I think that was before it was revealed that Musk sabotaged a major US-backed military strike in Russia.
Last time I tried to replace my `rsync` backups, `btrfs send` had grave limitations - something like "you can't actually use the destination filesystem for anything other than the one computers backups" I think?
There is even a story plus a term for it.

The story is about what if we all go out off this room and come back like a new guy. What would we do?

"strategic inflection point" ...

They decide to move from a memory company to a CPU company.

No access to Nikon but being just a Leica len maker for Canon (and famously found by DDD and used in Korea War), then move to nikon rangefinder (but strangely follow Zeiss approach more). Then jump ship to SLR by inventing Nikon F (and used in Vietnam War). It is just crazy move, but at least it is related. And "survive" and move on.

Or just like Fujifilm move to cosmetic in one stage as making film has some knowledge that can be re-used there. And survive and move on.
Ah, it may explain how faketoshi got hold of the Satoshi username again.
Con il suo più recente aggiornamento, Windows 11 dimostra una crescita costante, posizionandosi ora circa il 10% più grande rispetto a Windows 10. L'ultima versione ISO del sistema operativo di Microsoft, la 23H2, ha raggiunto il peso di 6,24GB, delineando un trend di incremento che non sembra rallentare.

Facciamo un passo indietro: Windows 10, nella sua versione 1703 (Creators Update), si attestava sotto i 4GB. Da allora, con ogni nuovo aggiornamento, abbiamo visto una costante salita nelle dimensioni del sistema operativo. L'ultima release di Windows 10, la 22H2 di novembre 2022, aveva già segnato un notevole incremento, portando il file ISO a 5,8GB.

Osservando il cammino di Windows 11, possiamo notare che la crescita non si è fermata. Dalle prime release fino all'attuale 23H2, è evidente un'escalation nelle dimensioni. Alcuni utenti potrebbero essersi sorpresi nel vedere il file ISO di Windows 11 toccare i 6,22GB, ma questa è solo la conferma di una tendenza già in atto.

Il più recente aumento delle dimensioni può essere attribuito all'implementazione di nuove funzionalità e miglioramenti, come un Esplora File rinnovato che beneficia dell'integrazione di API moderne e controlli XAML. Tali innovazioni non solo migliorano l'esperienza utente ma richiedono anche più spazio su disco.

Tuttavia, la crescita non è stata solo in termini di capacità. Con ogni aggiornamento, Windows si è arricchito di funzionalità, ma questo ha anche portato alla cosiddetta problematica del "bloatware", ovvero la presenza di software preinstallato non sempre necessario o desiderato dagli utenti. Microsoft si è mossa in direzione di un certo "snellimento", rimuovendo app preinstallate come Film & TV e Mappe, ma il dibattito rimane acceso. C'è chi ritiene che gli sforzi dell'azienda non siano ancora sufficienti per contrastare il fenomeno del bloatware.

Questo ci porta a riflettere sul futuro di Windows 11 e sul suo sviluppo. Mentre gli utenti apprezzano le nuove funzionalità e l'affidabilità migliorata, c'è anche una crescente richiesta per sistemi operativi ottimizzati che non compromettano le prestazioni con software aggiuntivo non essenziale.

E voi, cosa ne pensate? Le dimensioni crescenti di Windows 11 e il bloatware rappresentano un problema serio, o sono un piccolo prezzo da pagare per un sistema operativo sempre più avanzato? Condividete la vostra opinione nei commenti.
Canada has a funny approach: banks can pretty much close an account willy-nilly but they're also required to open up a basic bank account to anyone that can properly prove their identity. Not sure how far anyone has pushed that envelope.
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I am master's student in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. My main focus has been on machine learning, but I do enjoy working on software engineering projects as well. In particular, projects that work with AI or have an impact on education/productivity.

My most recent internship is at Cisco. As a part of Cisco Research Group, I researched and implemented federated learning algorithms into a platform for AI/ML engineers to run federated learning. I enjoyed reading over new research, creating a deck of slides on the key points, receiving feedback on my design choices, and coding!

I have enjoyed taking machine learning courses, including computer vision and natural language processing. I tested machine learning models on human genetic interaction profiles from the Dependency Map Project. While in Seattle, attending meetups to discuss new technologies (such as LLMs) became one of my hobbies.

I am looking for full time opportunities starting in May 2024.
Let's see how much of these still hold up.

1. Optimization do not bring profit.

2. Bad code make developers' life easier.

3. Hardware nowadays is fast enough that we no need to concern about efficiency.
This would be a more “old fashioned” monetary system. Problem is people getting ripped off or rugpulled. Especially as there is no gold standard so you would presumably back these by some asset for example this note is worth 1% of our fleet cars or something.
> NYC's finest have many creative examples to offer.

Am I understanding you correctly that the police staff themselves use illegal or obscured plates on their private vehicles which they park at the police employees parking lot, with no consequences whatsoever? If so this is insane.
https://archive.ph/lt8AW.

Also, 2015
Asahi Linux is another good example