skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best study was mixed at best. For some cases remote work was more productive, for some cases it was the same. But in no cases was in office more efficient, except for the entry level jobs.

However, there haven't been any long term studies on "innovation", if you can even define that, and how it fares with remote work. There is also no long term data on how new people to the industry will do starting their career remotely. I know personally I would not be where I am if I weren't in the office near senior people at the start of my career. But I also know that there are ways to replicate that ad-hoc learning with remote work.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aUUT_gTCkyA
Stalkers figuring out where the women live and then doing housecalls, blackmail, etc. Too many assholes on this planet for a service like that to work in a way that potentially allows for people to be identified.
The problem is that is non-tropical regions, in winter you get less sun and long periods (3 weeks is routine in European winter) with no winds so you need to be able to supply enough power for a very big amount of time.
You can't get decent performance from a respirator type device without a proper seal. The negative pressure created by inhaling is too large a volume and a tiny little fan won't be enough to push that much air fast enough, especially through any kind of filter. If you look at forced air respirators their external units have to be pretty bulky and that's with a full face mask.

If you want clean air I'm afraid you'll forever have to walk around like an extra on Contagion.
I thought Hawaii largely ran on diesel?

https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=HI#tabs-4

Coal was maybe 12% of their energy consumption in 2021. This is a good change but it's a long way from eliminating all very dirty and expensive electricity sources in HI.
I used to think “if there really was a God, why would he create cancer and cause fetal growth anomalies?”, and as I learn of all the things we created (plastic nanoparticles in drinking tap water in Sweden, for example), I can’t help but wonder if it wasn’t God who is to blame for cancer, but ourselves.
That's true. At the time we had about 110K visitors / day which made us a top 20 website, today that probably wouldn't even put you in the top 1000.
Guide to Recommendation System: Types, Selection Criteria, How to Build One
From what I learned about SU, it mainly died because at some time they got more and more spam websites, I would call this the early days of SEO spam. Users slowly vanished. SU increased the the amount of ads on the site, which led to even more users vanishing. A circle of death.
Right, which is why we have renewables to generate power. The coal plant was there to cover any potential power shortfall on overcast days or unexpected late night power needs.

This is a mostly solved problem, it’s just a matter of building out the infrastructure.
In this context, almost all of them? The whole concept of a "secure network" is very enterprisey
People in HN are in a massive bubble; you see it with other topics too. It's nice to look here for some tech sentiment and interesting article sometimes, but for most cutting edge stuff this forum is always full of naysayers.
> Well, $1m may sound like a lot of money for Netflix to pay for something that wasn’t really used

The title to me sounds analogous to 'I didn't use that piece of code I wrote on the weekend (but I probably learned something from it)'.

If it were 10m, maybe relevant? But hardly to their bottom line.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/netflix/reven... ...

Most companies that size (in evolving industries at least) should have 10-100 of those moonshot/R&D/marketing projects on the go. And I'm speaking to the choir here - exactly: surely most readers of thenextweb would be thinking the same here.
After reading this article when it was posted in 2022 and the author's other post on particulates[0] I bought the sqair[1], which we are very happy with. Allergies and morning congestion are nearly 0 after using it. We live on a very busy road so I run it all the time and with the carbon filter as well. I would like to get a second one eventually -- it only cleans 430 sqft of air and our condo is 730.

[0]: https://dynomight.net/air/#things-that-create-particles-indo...

[1]: https://smartairfilters.com/en/product/sqair-air-purifier/
> and what would happen during a fork?

Now, that is a very interesting question.

If said ETF did their homework properly, their handling of a fork should be described in detail in their prospectus.

Not that I would ever buy a BTC ETF since it precisely negates what I believe Bitcoin to be useful for, but if I had to, I'd pick the one that would convert the forked coins back to BTC immediately after the fork.

If enough ETFs actually promise to apply this policy in their statutes, that would make it quite a hump to get over for a would-be forker, knowing the immediate price hit the forked coin would take because of the ETF immediately dumping it.
> I have no idea what kind of destruction it does

This is really all you had to say, but since it doesn’t really add to the discussion, my recommendation would have been to avoid replying at all, especially considering the rest of the content…

> genocide

IME, the people that throw out buzzwords like this about every issue they come across are some of the most likely to perpetrate it, given the opportunity.
I don't get the obsession of some companies to recommend things. I'm happy not only for not paying Netflix but also for not wasting time watching crap. I have my own manual recommender: browse IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes of past directors, cast, etc that I've enjoyed. Also from a good old friend that from time to time recommends me films as we have very similar preferences. Randomly browsing genres worked very well too. That has become a near perfect movie recommender over many years.
depends on which country you live in, and what you've already watched so far.

I'm not one of the people complaining, but I've definitely seen my self scrolling a lot with Netflix recommending I re-watch a lot of the stuff I liked before only to end up giving up and switching to something else.
This has actually been done for genetic circuits in E coli (bacteria) by Chris Voight's lab at MIT. Their platform is called Cello [1], and it enables interoperation between Verilog/HDL and genetic code. This kind of thing has not yet reached practical utility in human cell engineering, but companies like Asimov [2] are pushing hard in that direction

[1] https://www.cidarlab.org/cello

[2] https://www.asimov.com/
That's close to my guesstimates of about $0.10/kwr. So I tend to believe it.

The important thing is battery storage is competitive with peaking plants over a period of hours. And lowest cost when it comes to short term supplies on the order of seconds to an hour.

Also the logistics of containerized batteries is great. You need a place to put them and a grid connection. And nothing more than that.
Storage is useful at all sorts of scales, from microseconds to years. Interseasonal or even a dunkleflaute's worth is hard at the moment, though we manage it with heat and with (eg) methane already in places. It's happening. Plus we are getting better at moving demand to when energy is available.
If you burned the oil in a wind turbine you would get enough electric to make up for not having that wind turbine for about 10 hours. Similar for the blades, if you burned the inputs you have days of power. The turbine is expected to last for 20 years and so while it isn't zero environmental cost compared to alternatives it is so much better we may as well call it zero.
The original source, the discord article [0], gives the same information, but with imo better explanations and no AI stuff at the top

[0] https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-...
I've been doing this for over 30 years. I've iterated to this. The first iteration was not managing my money at all.

The watershed was when I had my first real success with my own business, combined with having my first child (both happened at about the same time). That forced me to face the reality that some sort of money management was essential, and through a couple of years of experimentation, I settled on this as a balance that worked well for me.

"Pay yourself first" is something I stole from the classic book "The Incredible Secret Money Machine" by Don Lancaster. That, by the way, is the only business book I've read that I found real value in.
based -> biased ?

[EDIT]: looks like no, saying "a based judge" actually has meaning in English.
It's for UK only, they apparently has a law that says you cannot get fined if you overstayed by less than 10 minutes.
For PM10/PM2.5, it's very good. Most filters and box fans are oversize for even a large house - you can typically get away with a CPU fan and much smaller filter and still have it clear the air to pretty much zzero PM2.5 in a few hours.

Probably minimal impact on other pollutants (VOC's, NOX, CO, etc)... Many professional air purifiers don't make any claims about those either tho.
CICO doesn’t work across individuals for reason you outline (just because I lose weight with a certain level of calories, doesn’t mean you will, etc.)

But for a single individual, working to establish your base metabolic rate by counting every calorie and weighing yourself regularly, you can always find a way to be successful with the CICO model. If you establish a baseline that your metabolic rate is (say) 2000 calories a day, then eating 1600 calories a day will cause you to lose roughly a half-pound to a pound per week. It does not mean that every individual’s baseline metabolic rate is the same.

As you also outline, your base metabolic rate also changes as your weight does, so re-baselining by continually measuring caloric intake and your weight to recalibrate is always going to be necessary.

Given the above CICO almost seems tautological: Measure the weight loss you actually observe at a given calorie level, and that tells you… how much weight you will lose at that given calorie level. So it is almost useless as you describe.

BUT, the main reason I’m still a proponent of CICO is that it simplifies dieting away from thinking about what you eat, and instead focuses on how much you eat. If I establish that I need to eat 1800 calories a day, I can still have a Big Mac meal and drink some beers. But I may not be able to eat much else that day. That alone makes it useful for me. What isn’t useful to me, are diets that essentially limit the type of food you eat and tell you to just go nuts and eat however much you want: I will often find myself hating the foods I’m restricted to, and the quantity I eat may end up being such that I gain weight anyway.

To me, CICO is simply a technique that says “actually measure how much you’re eating”, no more and no less. That is what makes it a useful tool.
I know this may come as a shock, so you may want to sit down for this one: those indigenous tribes and cultures were genociding each other for millennia before Adam Smith ever wrote The Wealth of Nations.
I second this. I also experience this with Youtube. If Youtube monetized the part where you're scrolling looking for a video they would 10x their ad revenue.
Rabbit sells out 10k units of its R1 pocket AI companion in one day
San Francisco needs more housing
There are over 21,000 people working there, so I assume the overwhelming majority of the work must be pretty boring.
Hang on a sec, it looks like BelKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble had the exact same Best Test Score and % Improvement. Did BelKor win because they submitted their solution 20 minutes earlier than The Ensemble? Or is that Best Submit Time something else?
These routers are crap. Anyone who cares a tiny bit about their wireless connectivity won't buy this. And I don't think OpenWRT wants to associate their name with "low-quality" routers.
Why would it be in passive funds or do mean it will become part of the asset allocation of pension funds and the like?
I think in the long run it will be really good. These companies have been killing competition with those truck fulls of cash. All of these engineers being hungry will lead to a ton of innovation over time
If you run all your spend through BoA credit cards for the Platinum Honors cash back, BoA does it too.

https://www.bankofamerica.com/online-banking/mobile-and-onli...
I've learnt not to talk about crypto or computer graphics (?!) here, so much vitriol.
You have some interesting points but a lot of them which makes them a bit hard to address as a whole but;

My impression of failings of parenthood is quite a lot about (resignation in face of) partial cluelessness and the complexity of guiding your children. Every parent has aspects of personality where they find themselves clueless about how to guide the child. That can probably tie in to a lot of what you write. Focusing on the negative as you describe regarding psychology seems to be one important common theme.

P(aren't):
Don't do this, don't do that.

C(hild): But why?

P thinking: I don't really understand why. I have learned this by trial and error over a very long time. You will have to do the same. There is probably better ways to do this but I wouldn't know. And you wouldn't really understand or be able to do anything with this information anyways because you're a child so I won't even say it.

P: Because I say so. Now tie your shoes. We're going to school (for some reason).

(Disclaimer: I'm 37 and not a parent but I observe friends and family who are parents of young children. I kind of expect I wouldn't have the energy left for any observations if I was a parent myself.)
Hertz, and most rental car companies were caught flat footed by the pandemic, holding lots of cars and not doing a lot of business. However, the industry seems to have recovered to levels higher than pre-pandemic, which is surprising to me. (https://www.autorentalnews.com/10212500/annual-u-s-car-renta...)

I personally used to use Hertz for rentals on business trips, as we have a good corp. discount with them. However, over the last few years, I've found that I almost never rent a car on a work trip. Immediately post pandemic, rentals were super expensive and it was usually just easier and cheaper to use Uber/Lyft, especially since I don't have to do any expense report paperwork for Uber.
Yarrr, it be fine.
You can see this happen out in the open when Paul Graham (or anyone else) posts statistics about who's been killed, raw footage... he's immediately swarmed by people, some major players in the industry, accusing him of "antisemitism", which it most definitely is not.
I suspect their algorithm has other success metrics than "did user enjoy movie". For example if the movie is a Netfix Original or exclusive movie then it is more valuable to Netflix because they may discuss or recommend it, which leads to more signups. Similarly they may prefer newer shows that are more likely to be discussed and raise hype than older movies that even if the user loves them may be less likely to advertise to others.
FYI: Anyone that decides to throw down just to see when the hardware comes out, the return policy is 14 days after money changes hands
Haven't heard this take before. What are your thoughts on high frequency trading shops and the regular stock market?
The storm didn’t damage the batteries, the storm just caused a needfor the energy larger then what the batteries could do
Netflix just needs decent movies in it’s library :)
2019 numbers: https://www.nrel.gov/news/video/lcoss-text.html

California has contracts with 8 Minute Energy to buy energy from their solar+storage plants for 4 cents per kWh.
crazy . never a dull moment in crypto
> many small items that need battery replacement,

environmental sensors maybe?
Why fire then rehire so soon then?
I was going to make a similar comment to this:

How does their licensing structure work? Do they pay a flat fee for unlimited license to some/all shows? Or do they pay a base + a micropayment for each view? If the latter, then of course they dont want to optimize for you, they want to find the optimization point between maximizing subscriptions vs cheapest content. Similar to the recurring conversations about the economics of buffets: you want a lot of people to come in, but not the ones who just eat all the expensive things.
If I were living on an island with a volcano, I'd put "moving at a geological pace" under the "good news" category.
I use it to set my personal and my work email to different projects
Not sure the implementation details but this

$ git clone https://josh-project.dev/josh.git:/docs.git

Seems really neat to me
it's fine for example purposes IMHO.
The same is true of other types of energy production... like when France lost 50% of it's nuclear simultaneously...

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220902-france-to-restar...

Ultimately every technology has some unplanned downtime, and there will always be a risk of too much not generating simultaneously.
When Random Isn't
It may be a contributing factor in some cases. The study published in Obesity you link says the adenovirus affects insulin, leptin, and corticosterone. An important note about the third item: "In many species, including amphibians, reptiles, rodents and birds, corticosterone is a main glucocorticoid, involved in regulation of energy, immune reactions, and stress responses. However, in humans, cortisol is the primary glucocorticoid..." [1]. Note that the adenovirus itself wasn't definitively causing obesity, but obesity is caused by the adenovirus' effects on certain hormones.

I highlight this because obesity is increasingly being reestablished as a hormonal problem. See my post and replies for more information about this change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942521

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticosterone
it really isn't. He declined buying a drink for someone who was asking them to buy them a drink, something I always do even though I can definitely afford it.
Is that your reasoned conclusion after reading what this team actually built, and considering the deficiencies in today's repos + monorepos which led them to invent this new approach?

Or did you just read the headline?
From the article it seems to have only advantages. Is there any downside? Why shouldn't it be used in every portable electronics?
Yes - from what I remember the team that came second lost out due to something like 6 decimal places and the time diff in submission. It was pretty close!
For me it would be less about spooky and more that I don't want to swim anywhere near whatever they are pumping out.
Yeah, crypto people want to recreate the current system but with themselves in charge. It's not about decentralization. They want to carbon copy the current economy but putting a small number of holders to lord over the "nocominers"
While I agree with the sentiment, please remember that actually buying BTC directly and doing self-custody is still an option.
And it is only getting easier.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/19/1219984002/artificial-intelli...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38813150
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Reading life science textbooks and substacks is a great way to get started (see [1], [2]).

Also, there is a major deficit of software engineering talent in biology research (probably because pro SWEs are too expensive for academic labs, and those labs are where much of the foundational research is done). If you have the bandwidth, part time / volunteer work with an academic lab in your area could be a great way in the door.

[1] https://centuryofbio.com/

[2] https://substack.com/profile/11154869-niko-mccarty
Good point, and maybe that should scrutinized in the same way
So "winning" for Bitcoin has now come to mean becoming a boring traditional security that doesn't do much of anything else? That's awfully different from what 99.9% of Bitcoin optimists have spent years claiming the future would be.

Authorizing Bitcoin ETFs does absolutely nothing to revolutionize payments or finance, and is the only positive crypto story I have seen in many months.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in November on the constitutionality of the SEC.
I finally watched this whole video. There are a bunch of misstatements in your post:

> linear programming sucks and people don't like it

Pretty wild & unsupported statement. "Linear programming" could also be called "curation" which is something usually boasted about, not apologized for. What is a long Spotify playlist except linear programming?

> There wasn't meaningful competition even before consolidation. In most markets, a single AOR station and a single Alternative station was all you had before Clear Channel came around.

In the Bay Area, you had KFOG, which was more or less "alternative" and one or two other rock-ish stations whose callsigns escape me now. That was more than we have now. Those DJ's had personalities. In LA you had KMET.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMET_(FM)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNBR-FM

> Beato has a very Albini-esque take on the points and cuts taken from recording budgets and contracts.

I guess this is meant as an insult?

The rental fees for equipment, drums, and tuning the drums are a smoking gun for corruption. You haven't even touched that, except to smear it as Beato-esque.

> you made your money touring and on merch, if at all.

Wrong; you made your money on songwriting royalties. You can watch any of the biopics on 60's and 70's musicians (I've written on most of them on Substack), and it's always the musicians who did NOT write the songs who are bitter that the guys who did are rich. Now the songwriters say "change a word, get a third" about the singers who've wised up on that deak,
Two years and six months.

If you do not get any promotion, perks or increase of benefits during that time, your not going to get any ever.

Waiting with the mindset of "maybe I will this year" will only cause you mental anguish, to the point you'll become disgruntled and end up shooting yourself in the foot.

Why two years six months? It's takes three months of constant effort just to score an interview/new job and three to properly resign on pleasant terms or negotiate an upgrade.

Two years, is an substantial amount sum of time to work for a company and the bare minimum you should work in any company in my honest opinion.

Jumping ship will always bring more money. The truth is that businesses don't care much about you as much as they like you to believe. In that your forgotten in seconds flat and were only hired for your talent.

So why give it to them if they're not going to return the favour?
Not exactly the same. Fiat currency like the USD redistribute a lot of wealth from users into the pockets of the central bank/government through unlimited base inflation, which they control. Bitcoin does not have that, its inflation rate is fixed by the protocol and only ever falling. In April this year it will fall to 0.875%.
To be fair, forwarding mail to yourself at the South Pole, which doesn't receive deliveries of any kind for half the year, isn't necessarily an improvement. See also the blog author's previous post on the topic (https://brr.fyi/posts/mcmurdo-postal-mail).
One way to measure this is energy stored on energy invested (ESOEI). It answers how much energy is stored over the lifetime of the device compared to the energy required to build it. Lithium batteries come in at around 32.

This isn't bad, but pumped hydro is way better (704). And both options are way better than the ongoing drilling and mining and combusting required for fossil fuels.
Honestly no. If my doc came to me and said, only option is a pace maker. I would probably just become a hermit and literally die.