skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A Bitcoin miner is more expensive to produce and maintain, yes, but over its lifetime shouldn't it pay for itself?

IIUC based on other news on HN, Bitcoin mining is already at the point where you need specialised hardware for it to pay for itself at all. 10 years ago, yes, it would've paid for itself, but it would've been a gamble.
So Americans hate the iMessage experience, but for some reason they refuse to use any of the numerous free alternatives? And that is Apple’s fault.
I would be thrilled if there were repercussions for this kind of scammer in the US.

I keep getting "SECOND NOTICE" physical mail from scammers who have 1. never sent a first notice and 2. never had any business relationship with me (they have been trying to reach me about my car's warranty). Those make me so furious that I always report them as mail fraud.
Adobe and Figma: The What Would Taylor Swift Say Edition
What would be the cause of action in this hypothetical antitrust case you speak of?
If past experience serves me right, usually it would rther be: Some people are willing to pay for it indirectly by ads and some are willing to pay and still get ads later.
The most efficient heater is a heat pump, and its not even close to heat generators.
Women (and men) who stay at home and don't study, probably don't have the education needed to be a teacher.
>Limit access to the database to a single role, used by a single application, and you absolve so many issues.

This kinda sounds like "Get rid of 90% of the usefulness of having a database"

Of course, maybe you mean make the same data the DB has available via API, or make other users of the data read only.
Some amount of energy may be lost to the environment without heating up the intended space/object, although it is usually a relatively small amount.
Oh ya same I love the smell of evergreen wreaths and trees and enjoy partaking in festive activities. A 4K cracklin’ Yule log goes a long way too.
The problem of DEI is that it creates an environment of what psychologists refer to as 'Secondary Gain'

Secondary Gain

In psychoanalytic theory, the advantage derived from a neurosis in addition to the primary gain of relief from anxiety or internal conflict. Advantages may include extra attention, sympathy, avoidance of work, and domination of others. Such gains are secondary in that they are derived from others’ reactions to the neurosis instead of from causal factors. They often prolong the neurosis and create resistance to therapy. Also called advantage by illness.

https://dictionary.apa.org/secondary-gain

Once a hindrance becomes a benefit all sorts of incentive problems begin to arise.
Or because of asshole manufacturers of illegal and dangerous drugs?

Porque no los dos?
"Home Alone" Enjoys Seasonal Piracy Spike as Christmas Draws Near
It seems like it would always be small scale, just replicated. I don’t think they’re trying to long distance delivery through this. Like if wanted a pizza from 100 miles away, I’d not expect that to be supported.

I’m seeing it like a LAN. Which is how most of America is built. Clusters of businesses supported by surrounding area of residential. Any interconnection would likely benefit from batched movement into the node (cargo truck) then items go into this as a last mile solution.
I'm aware it's not the same as Chrome profiles but multi-account containers, where individual tabs can have their own sessions, is a killer feature of Firefox.

The ability to have multiple AWS accounts logged into at the same time in tabs side by side is a real time saver.
>In fact, my children are now legally allowed to become sterilized in the state of California during school time and that's allowed to be kept secret for me. That is legalized abuse.

Citation needed. I can find no evidence that this claim is true. In all likelihood, I'm assuming you're talking about SB 107[0] (if not, please link to what you are referencing). This bill is is meant to protect transgender youth and their families who seek refuge in California from other states that discriminate against them for seeking gender affirming care. Which is not sterilization.

[0]: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/oct/31/instagram-...

[1]: Not the forced sterilization program that ran until 1979, which has since ended and there are reparations available for. Sad, tragic, ultimately not what I think this is about though.
I agree some of the stations are somewhat repetitive, especially those stuck intentionally in an older genre like Lithium or one of the decades channels. I think the mix tends to still be less than surface level in those. They also have DJ-hosted segments; I think Tom Morello has a lot more flexibility in what he's playing, for example. It's still their superpower compared to the algorithmic track selections.
> A single digit percentage of that is going towards grid storage, it's mostly used for EVs and electronics.

That's fine, it makes sense to put it in EVs because EVs are de facto grid storage. You charge them during the part of the day with the most surplus generation and they even out the curves.

> Even if we completely halted EV production, and dedicated 100% of global battery production to grid storage it'd take over a decade to just satisfy the United States' grid storage requirements.

That's assuming production doesn't increase at all, and that you want a 100% renewable US grid instead of e.g. 60%.

> And that's just for diurnal storage, not seasonal storage.

Batteries aren't suitable for seasonal storage. Their contribution is to smooth out the load.

Suppose during a cloudy week you would have a 50GW shortfall from 6PM to 10PM and a 10GW shortfall from 12PM to 6PM, but a 20GW surplus from 8AM to 12PM. Well then what you really have is 7.5GW average shortfall and by smoothing out the load with batteries can get by with 7.5GW of peaker plants that week, instead of needing 50GW at 8PM which then sits idle from 10PM to noon.

> While battery production is increasing, so is electricity use.

The main driver of this is electrifying transportation. But because cars have built-in storage, you can charge your car during daylight and substantially all of the new generation capacity can be renewables without encountering short-term intermittency issues.

> Nope, in fact it's the opposite. Load typically peaks after sundown, at around 8pm.

You can take a look at your own graph. The load during peak solar generation (~3PM) is >25GW, compared to ~20GW after midnight, and that's during the autumn rather than the summer. Air conditioning load aligns extremely well with solar generation.

The peak load is around 8PM, but the peak load and the minimum load are both after dark, and the daytime average is higher than the nighttime average.
Darktable 4.6.0 Released
When you encounter a non-Apple user and you have to interact with them with your iDevice (video calls, messaging, file transfer, etc.) do you do everything in your power to make it a good experience? Otherwise you're peer pressuring other people to enter the ecosystem.
Antitrust laws are a thing, you know. Buying out your competition in order to get rid of them is indeed illegal, once you get big enough.
That is simply objectively false. They can’t make the experience any better than it is. In a mixed group, they have to resort to the greatest common denominator which is SMS/MSM. They literally can’t do anything else.
> This is solvable by using a more stable email provider, ideally with your own domain.

Sure, but requiring ordinary people to do this is essentially a nonstarter. The whole point of SSO is to minimize user friction. Requiring a user to also set up a special email account with another service is a dramatic increase in friction, and I expect that a large percentage of users simply won't do it. Why would they?
> Done properly, most people wont notice.

I guess that's the problem. When it's not done properly, you can't criticize it, because you'll get fired.

And when it's not done properly, it's catastrophic (ie lowering hiring bars, hiring no-hire candidates, etc.)
> However the other side of the equation, if there some aspect of the workplace ( such as say every important meeting are at 8 AM) are needlessly preventing certain people of expressing their talent... we should also look into it.

This is a disingeuous point of comparison, because this is a behavior that can easily be corrected. Just set an alarm clock like everyone else. On the other hand, I cannot correct the fact that I am from a non-minority background. How is it in any way fair for me to be disadvantaged in the hiring process for something I cannot control?

> Maybe look into the statistics to see if usually those type of candidate would have been rejected.

This sounds like a question asked in bad faith. Rather than analyzing hiring outcomes by background, does it not make a lot more sense to analyze hiring decisions based on interview performance, totally independent of race/language/gender/etc.

If this data is then correlated against race, and hiring decisions are provably equitable across races, then great! But anecdotal evidence suggests this is not the case.
People build weird behavioral dependencies around nasal sprays in rare circumstances, but its not a real risk. If you take enough corticosteroids long enough you can have mild withdrawals after stopping but again its not really a thing to worry about.

Your doctor is right, corticosteroid nasal sprays need to be taken before the onset of symptoms to be most effective. They basally dampen the allergic response and if you already have a bunch of immune signaling molecules bouncing around its too late.
Um, this is how software was built in the olden days.
C++ literally began as "we could write a preprocessor to automate the tricks everyone uses to implement polymorphism in C" (CFront).
And prior to that, the same tricks were used in assembly language programming.
So this article has recreated the history of OOP, which was to create tooling to better support programming techniques already widely used. It wasn't some religion invented by the priests and sent forth on tablets, although due to humans loving them some cult, it became that eventually.
No because the would be competency based. If we need a senior Go programmer and the candidate is only experienced in Python it makes sense to pass.

Interviewing someone who is male and getting told that we can't hire them because they are male is gender-based discrimination.
Ads are creeping in to paud-for Hulu. That's the nature of ads (or maybe advertisers): they corrupt the medium they support.
It's my computer, or rockstar's computer, or whatever. You have no right to access any of it. Whether it's a stupid game or something serious doesn't matter; that's for me to decide, not you.

The only exception here is good-faith intrusion testing and the like, but fundamentally: my property, none of your business, misusing my property is a crime.
Risking downvotes but pretty sick nocontext
FWIW, Sears houses were also discussed in the article:

> (Some companies reduce transportation costs by shipping homes in smaller pieces, an approach pioneered by Sears and other retailers of “build your own home” kits in the early 20th century, but that just shifts the cost from transportation to assembly.)
See also https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nyc-bathhouse-mining-bitcoin-...
You are a lot more ahead than most companies.

I’ve worked for too many places where the Christmas break was because of a lack of tooling. I’m glad you are two steps ahead.
I take exception to the usage of the word "spinoff". Intel is selling a portion of Altera. If this was a true spinoff, Intel shareholders would get shares in the new entity.

Intel needs the cash, so this is understandable.
Freedom to abuse minors! Truly a freedom we needed! /s
99% of people buy hardware unaware of the how the software locks them into a walled garden.

The vast majority of people aren't thinking "Wow, I love how Apple takes away my freedom and forces me to use apps even if I might want to use something else", they're buying an iPhone because it's shiny and is what they're familiar with.

Those people deserve to be afforded user freedom and to own the devices they purchased.
Plain Tor says "Hi there! I'm connecting to a Tor node" because all relay IPs are public. You can't hide that fact with ECH or by not sending the SNI. Every second invested in that is just wasted.
Bearing and windage losses scale down drastically with lower speeds, so only slightly worse than other flywheel systems. They are best for daily cycles or multiple-daily cycles. Things like load shifting, peak shaving, frequency regulation, etc. They are not well suited for storage beyond a few days.
No one's dismissing his life as worthless, they're just being clear-eyed about his behavior. It's one thing to be young and creep someone out because you're maladjusted and sexually frustrated. It's another to actually stalk and harass people and announce your intention to commit crimes. Your theory of learning is also opposite my experience; people only learn things when they decide to. Can you find any examples of someone really internalizing a lesson they didn't want to learn?

From what I've read about this kid and his activities, this isn't some youthful prank that got blown out of proportion, the group he was part of was gleefully mocking and extorting their victims.
There are lots of resistive heaters out there. In areas where it gets cold only one day a year, it's the preferred option. They are also used as "emergency heat" for heat pump systems, again for the 1 day a year it's below -17F or whatever. These are absolutely no more efficient than cranking out some renders on your GPU. If you plug a computer into electricity and it draws 1000W, the room gets 1000W of heat. If you plug a space heater into electricity and it draws 1000W, the room gets 1000W of heat. Computers cost thousands of dollars, a 1000W space heater costs $9.99.

To answer the OP's original question, the reason that resistive heating is used for space heating is because the heater itself is cheap. A GPU burning power to heat and do computational work is 100x more expensive for the heat output. If you have $1000 to spend on heating, you just get a heat pump or a real furnace.

The reason that people choose inefficient heaters is for the lower capital cost. Let's say that 1 day a year, you need heat. Getting 2kW of heat for 24 hours will cost $20 once to buy the heater, and $15 in electricity each time you use it for the 30 times over the 30 year life of your house, so you're spending $470. Meanwhile, if you wanted to be 3x more efficient and go with a heat pump in that room, you're paying at least $1000 for the heat pump and installation, but only $150 for the electricity. You come out behind even though you saved a ton of energy. Meanwhile if you're heating every day for 3 months in the winter, you wouldn't want to be anywhere near resistive heating, because the higher energy costs add up almost instantly.

TL;DR: the economics of resistive heating don't favor initial capital outlay that would be required to make them do useful computations while heating. People use resistive heating for "an emergency" and don't want to pay a lot of money for something they never use.
I'm glad it's happening. RCS finally got widespread carrier adoption (minus encryption) and it's a big improvement over SMS!
Countries such as Portugal, South Korea, Iceland, and Latvia have more affordable childcare, more subsidies, and more parental leave than the US, yet even fewer cousins.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/07/01/which-co...
[2] https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/06/childcare-puzzle-wh...
I play a lot of games and sold some in the past, but I’ve never heard the term. What is an IO game?
A Foundation Model for Every Culture
Happy Holidays.
Paper might outlast most modern storage systems.
That's my controversial opinion.

Or like a stone tablet,
Altera switched to Intel fabs from TSMC in 2013, so yeah it makes sense for Intel to pick up the folks you don't have to do much to integrate into your manufacturing process. But AMD and Xilinx both already being fabless meant it was a wash...no process integration to be done.
Yes, that's what the court ruled:

> While user freedom means that users are able to use the tools that they wish to when browsing the World Wide Web, the court nevertheless preserved Axel Springer’s right to exclude users with an activated adblocker from accessing its content. This can be understood as an approval on the use of adblock detection tools by companies like Axel Springer.

This sounds fine to me. If you want to put your content on the internet for all to see, great, but I'm not going to let my browser render the ads that you suggest that it render. If you want to put the content behind a paywall or otherwise block ad blockers, fine, I'll pay if it's worth my money or I won't if it's not. But I'm not going to turn my ad blocker off just because content publishers whine about it.
Figma called employees from holiday PTO to town hall to say Adobe deal was dead
>>copyright doesn’t really ensure any of those things.

Indeed, it does not guarantee profit or earning a living (indeed, there are many works with great labor that earn a loss). But it does give OP a grounds to pursue remedies to recover and prevent further infringement were I to copy his/her stuff, and out-sell it under my label.

The mention of "years of work" was not to imply that profit is somehow to be communist-style equating of profit-to-effort. It was to contrast a massive effort often required to create a serious work of literature, art, or software, vs. the trivial effort required to pump out new copies and slap your name on it.

Any sense of ethics would find it unfair for Alan to put in years of work to create a truly unique and valuable work, and Bob to claim it as his and make all the profits. And that is the moral case for copyright.

I also notice that OP said he's against Capitalism, but did not say he was OK with Bob taking Alan's work and profits as his own.

That said, the implementation, constraints (fair use), and terms are vastly arguable.
Disclaimer: I consider this a scam

There is a company I saw (and I found it again by googling but I think it's the same) that sells you a heater that pays you some portion of the cryptocurrency it mines:

https://heatbit.com/
Is there a way for everyday citizens to walk around and collect ambient plastics?
> unless we’re talking about Beeper being the defendant

Yes that's the point, Beeper are probably hoping Apple sues them for the reasons you describe.

> criminal liability by violating the CFAA and committing computer trespass

This is pretty tenuous. They do have proper authorization because the keys in question are valid iMessage keys and they are being used by the same individuals those iMessage keys are allocated to. They're not trying to commit any further crime post-access.

> violating the the OS license agreement and ToS [...] (yes that supersedes DMCA exception)

Does it? This seems like a pretty textbook case of reverse engineering for interoperability.

> reselling Apple’s IP for $2/mo

Probably the case they're hoping for a lawsuit on - the degree to which Apple has legitimate claim to control use of the iMessage protocol given their market presence. In the process of the lawsuit, if Apple is found to be leveraging this protocol anti-competitively, they're in trouble.

And beyond that, Apple is a highly litigious company with great lawyers and extremely deep pockets and large incentives to defend their ownership of the messaging market.

That they've been this slow to sue Beeper probably signals enough on its own that there's probably no field day to be had.
Resistive heaters literally turn 100% of energy into heat—same as a computer. Unless it's a heat pump, it's impossible to get more efficient than that: the heat has to come from somewhere.
> You are not allowed to use it without an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac and you never have been allowed to use it otherwise

What about for those who do own an Apple device and thus paid the "tax" to use iMessage, but want/need to use it on unapproved devices out of convenience? The argument would be very different if Apple merely restricted the service to Apple IDs associated to a valid Apple device purchase, but that's not what they're doing. They're clearly not making the cost/resource usage argument otherwise it would be trivial for them to implement such a restriction.

> There is no reason at all to think you're entitled to access that service without using the aforementioned devices

Would you also apply that argument to Microsoft Office files? Microsoft would sure love it if it would be forbidden to create/edit such files in anything but Microsoft software. Would you also want LibreOffice/OpenOffice/Apple's very own Pages/Numbers/Keynote to not be able to read such files?
Exactly! Easy to access, won't lose charge, doesn't need a password.
It's is a 1 - 1 interface
Cool! :D I miss Eve, I might have to have another stint.
Kiš (who was of Jewish descent) was piled on by people in the Communist intelligentsia who were ostensibly criticizing him and his literature for being exactly that term and stirring up "fake accusations of nationalism", but when the masks came off in 1988-91 turned out to be exactly the sort of nationalists they called him (and ended up praising people like Milorad Pavić who really were what they seemed on the tin). Kiš's essay has to be situated in that context. When he talks about the "national key" he is calling out the Communist party policy of ethnic parity via rotation as being an eyewash because the apparatchiks are closet people "who see themselves only in others"
How you choose to render bits that are served to you is as fundamentally your right as whether you choose to leave your eyes open, or read text that has been put in front of you.

Moreover, your right to not be spied on for you browser configuration is the same as your right to not have your irises tracked. This isn't even close.
Ugh. Several years ago I spent an entire Christmas vacation, including all day Christmas Day, putting out fires because a team couldn't be bothered to do five minutes of cursory load testing. As a consequence, multiple production systems went down under load.

Later, after we regrouped after a month of this brutality, they wandered around the office bragging like they'd hung the fucking moon after they fixed the crippling, obvious design issue they'd released. I confronted the dev lead with the fact that they would have seen this after 30s of load testing and he just laughed, I think he literally said "LOL". A giant middle finger, that's what Ops got from Dev for Christmas that year.

Here's to the people who KTLO. My people.
Firefox has Mozilla Corporation as its #1 priority best interest.
I explained more here (it was a reply to a flagged dead comment so this relink helps visibility) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727745
> The 8 billion is for a specific portion in a high CoL area with the majority being land acquisition costs.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was suspecting was by misleading by the original number. "America can't build affordable high-speed rail" suggests that that their is same lacking capability in engineering. "Land costs make building in dense areas unprofitable" is a completely different story.
As someone with a very small family I sometimes lament the fact that friendships, no matter how significant or long-lasting, are not held in the same regard as technical familial relationships. Maybe this will change as the demographics continue to change, but I feel like we lacking the language to acknowledge it. I have several friends who have kids that refer to me as "uncle", which I love, but it still feels like the wrong label because we traditionally restrict special nouns like that to blood or legal relations.
I suspect a lot of game/film artists would be very happy to go back to sculpting physical objects and taking a few photographs as opposed to building the models from scratch in the computer.