skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Global energy use is ~20 TW. Say panels generate ~50 W/m2 average (about the value of my home solar in CA after all losses and time averages.) So, you need 20e12/50 m2 = 0.4e12 m2 ~ 400,000 km2. Area of Sahara = 9.2 M km2, so 4.3% of the Sahara to satisfy world-wide energy needs with just solar.

To give you an idea of the climate impact, according to the World Bank website, all urban areas on Earth total to ~2 M km2. So we have already built at least 5x the area of this imaginary solar array.
> Jack is all aware of

That's great, but he's not a director of bsky or involved in management, nor does he post.
TV remotes do still have buttons.

Also, there are still on/off buttons and volume buttons on phones. Video game controllers still use buttons. Car radios and car A/C and heaters still use physical buttons.
It depends. Check for event listeners on the button if you want to know the answer for a specific site.
I think you are greatly over-estimating how many people would be willing to pay the cost of a North American made toaster. This would require an absolute ton of capital to do it on anything above a craft scale. The challenges of design, testing, certification (very important for a device that could burn your house down), manufacturing, supply chain, and support that are all specialized careers in themselves.

I've got more than decade of experience in designing products that are built in North America. I wouldn't touch a project like this unless it had a team of people with the proven manufacturing experience heading it up and some very convincing numbers about the commercial viability of the product because I don't believe they exist. There is good reason why the market only has commercial kitchen grade devices available.
IIRC Sqlite stores all data types as text. It seems like a very weird decision to me.
That's a pretty cool product IMO. Even more interesting than throwing it into a fire is how it can be mounted above stoves, junction boxes, or inside a car's engine compartment to put out fires where they start.
>lawyers make it impossible to go to market without being sued,

This would be my biggest concern. The potential field full of landmines that is the patent process would give me pause. Not spending the money to properly research because of bootstrapping the process could ultimately be more expensive if some other company comes after you for patent infringement.

Whatever your idea is, I would definitely do some investigating before investing too much time and effort getting too far down the road to ultimately hit a patent caused dead end.
Wouldn't link-time-optimization take care of your 'general takeaway'?
thats entirely subjective, I love the flavor of celery
https://www.relajet.com/ - started by a friend with hearing loss
This happened with Pantelligent, except it just went dark because of a patent lawsuit. The app stopped working and the device became useless.
You might also hear it as nolo contendere (Latin for "I do not wish to contend") or an "Alford plea" (after the first person to use it).

I prefer the term "Alford plea" because it is indicative of the common use. Alford was charged with murder and plead guilty because the prosecution was going to seek the death penalty if he didn't.

Where an innocent or guilty plea addresses the facts of the case, an Alford plea solely addresses the case itself. Someone who makes an Alford plea is opting not to address factual evidence, but conceding that they believe the jury is likely enough to convict that there is no reason to oppose it.

To get on my soapbox for a moment, the existence and prevalence of Alford plea's is an indictment of the US judicial system. It's something people plea when they're innocent, but don't want to risk the enormous penalty the prosecution will seek at trial. Trial sentencing has become tantamount to punishing someone for exercising their constitutional rights to a trial. The prosecution is fine with a slap on the wrist until you want to exercise your right to a trial, and suddenly nothing but a lengthy jail term is appropriate.
This may be a difference in learning preference, but I've always found the easiest way for me to learn about new topics was to jump into them directly. Supplemental reading could certainly help of course, so I apologize that I have nothing to provide in that area, but if you're interested in it I'd recommend just jumping in with simple projects and learning on your own from there- with assistance from just searching around for fundamentals on google. I hate to be the quote person, but I think this one fits perfectly; "The best time to plant a tree was 100 years ago, but the second best time is now" or "A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step". Ignoring the cliche quotes, I'd just say the best thing you can do is dive in without any direct guidance and navigate the unknowns yourself. At the end of the day, starting off in the wrong direction is better than not starting at all. Good luck on your adventure!
I think the very people seeking relief are not the ones with a stable mindset.
There is either a fraudulent market or a regulated market. Or a fraudulently regulated one.

Actual free market is a myth.
It's not you, companies are squeezing candidates right now. Either through unreal requirements or really low offers.

I've been to a few final rounds where the hiring manager was already discussing specifics of what I'd be doing and then simply got ghosted by recruiters. Zero replies, not even the canned response saying they have chosen someone else.
> Than what?

It's slightly slower than starting an airline or just making a giant money bonfire.
This is underselling his lack of involvement - he completely deleted his account last year.
I've never heard of putting your salary expectations in your resume. It actually feels kinda inappropriate to me simply for the fact that when I get looped in on hiring I'm supposed to be assessing someones skills and not where they fit into the company budget.

And it would almost undoubtedly lead those not involved in the financial aspect of hiring to have inaccurate expectations around what their coworkers are getting paid. Potential jealousy in the hiring room?

It's totally fine for an employer to expect that info upfront but if you expect it then you should have a segment in your online application for it. Especialy because it feels like the kind of info that should be stripped out of a resume for deidentification/anonymization purposes before handing that resume around to the rest of the company.

Also because my resume is my resume. I'll tailor it for a job but it's more or less static. Just my 2 cents but I think a CV letter is probably a more appropriate place to put something that is so specific to a particular job opening.

Edit: I'm US based, if that makes a difference
In the UK context, there seem to still be at least on "local" company: https://www.dualit.com/collections/toasters

You can get NA versions, but they aren't cheap.

I'm not sure why that company survived and US variants didn't.
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Who is running the show?
I just think you arent cynical enough about how people are evaluated
People might _say_ they want something made locally, but when it comes to _spending_ money, they mostly care about price and quality, less about patriotism.

Compare the paper 'Prejudice is Free, but Discrimination has Costs' https://cdn.mises.org/14_2_3_0.pdf

In any case, if you are interested in fancy toasters, you might like to have a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
> Sorry, you must complete a critical system update before proceeding.

backup systems!

> Wi-Fi unavailable, please check the network.

Ethernet and satellite connectivity!

> Your AccuToast (TM) subscription has expired. Please update your details on the web.

bread delivery service! (like hp ink)

> Non-genuine bread detected, please ensure you purchase AccuToast (TM) certified bread.

Right, you cant just laser the images onto anything.

> Tampering detected, contact manufacturer.

A flying toaster that returns to the mother-ship when poorly treated.

edit:

The true American toaster:

It slices a whole loaf of bread, deep fries it then sugar coats the slices in randomized blue white and red patterns with stars. It should be gold with a picture of Trump on the side.
Maybe they go by rotten tomatoes or imdb scores or it's just whoever runs the site's opinion and that's ok too
By stubbing out all the calls to the OS?
If you change the version, URL, and the sha256 in conda-forge/sqlite-feedstock//recipe/meta.yaml and send a PR, it should build end then deploy the latest version so that you can just `mamba install -y sqlite libspatiallite sqlite-utils` without also mamba installing gcc or clang. https://github.com/conda-forge/sqlite-feedstock/blob/main/re...
https://github.com/conda-forge/sqlite-feedstock/blob/main/re...
The Strange Existence of Ram Charan
Once you start gluing various ported Linux applications onto these alternative OSes, they start to lose their distinctiveness and raison d'être. If you are using Qt/KDE apps, anyways, what does Haiku really bring to the table other than a smaller footprint?

I never programmed for BeOS back in the day, but my understanding was that half the advantage of it was its consistent clean ground-up API for building multimedia applications. I'm not sure how well that has aged, tho...
Musk posted on Twitter he would be uncomfortable running Tesla without at least a 25% voting control of the company. On a subsequent post, he added that he would be fine with a dual class voting structure to achieve his goal of getting 25% voting control, but was told it was impossible after the initial public offering in Delaware.

Musk currently owns around 13% of Tesla stock.

Think what you will of him, he sure keeps things interesting.
I've been getting video adverts in my feed of under age asian women looking for "dates"..and I have no idea i don't watch porn i don't talk about this type of stuff and it just started showing up more and more. I've even been reporting it
20% of the Sahara would be 331 terawatts of solar panels.

To put it in perspective that's an order of magnitude more than the entire global power consumption right now.

I mean sure, I guess one day we'll probably consume that much power. But it won't all come from one place. It will be diversified from solar panels spread all over the world as well as and countless other forms of energy generation.

Covering 20% of the Sahara in solar is a ridiculous scenario. And the impact would be, what, a slight weather variation in a few other places around the world? OK. Sounds pretty good actually.
I've certainly thought about testing LLMs on Connections and I'm glad someone has. It might be possible to increase their performance, but LLMs as-is are not suited for the task.

The problem is that Connections is ultimately a search problem that requires more than simply grouping similar words. There are lots of combinations to assess. I bet if you enumerate, score, then rank all possible groupings, an LLM would perform much better.
Hello, my name is Blue. I am also severely hearing loss.
We have developed hearing aids, but we are currently only sold in Taiwan. Other countries will start selling them this year(FDA approved). If you are interested, you can follow otoadd (https://otoadd.com/index-en.html)
Check out the Fastlane Forum to get info on the areas you are lacking. There are some people there can help you find info in the areas you lacking.
> They may require the FM radio signals to be music/audio, in that case, have you heard of noisecore?

Nope but I would loved that back in the days: we created a LAN between our house and the (attached) neighbors' house (so we could play Warcraft II against each other) but... We couldn't create a LAN with the neighbor across the street!
> [...] and consumers who say they want reliable, well-made goods will balk and buy cheap stuff en masse when it comes down to the wire.

And I've never really had much of a problem with cheap toasters being unreliable in the first place. But I guess there are people who do?
It is plausible that they'd put ads in the (open-source) official client, but the way the protocol works, it'd be hard for them to force out 3rd party clients (a la reddit).
Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky Social, PBC.
Congrats! Alas but just one anecdote in the sea of HN demographics.
I have very few programmer friends. I don't feel like I have much in common with them.

Discussing tools and frameworks with them isn't as interesting when their goals are so completely different. They seem to treat programming as an intellectual pursuit, where the functionality isn't the point, the point is developing new ways to talk about and think about algorithms and data.

They do not seem to really like modern tech, things like being able to get a notice on their phone if the area with pipes is below a certain temperature isn't what they're here for.

It almost seems like unless they have a lot of simplicity in their life, their minds are bogged down with ideas of ways things could be better or simpler, and have a huge mental backlog of stuff they use that they'd like to do their own version of.

They're never working on a project, they're always mentally a little bit distant exploring other layers, and they're never not working on a project just doing normal offline stuff... For the same reason.

They're smart and we couldn't have a modern world without them... But they can be so different its hard to relate... And often they actively dislike the stuff I do and the projects I'm nterested in....

And as you say, they always wanna talk about programming, so it's harder to actually get to know them if you're not into Vim and Arch and C.

Some even seem a little bit depressed and like code is an addiction more than hobby...
Around 2000 a fully functional BeOS Personal edition was included in a PC Magazine CD. It was fun to try other operating system (I didn't even had to create a partition, something hard to do considering our PC had just 8GB of DD).
It was much faster than Windows 98, although didn't have much applications.
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
It really has, I love that thing!
Then call the category ~200. IMO This is prime enshitification. You cant search for anything reliably any more. You dont get to see what youre actually searching for.. just whatever a company thinks they can make more profit off of.
On a small scale, it’s probably also quite straightforward to roll your own using Telegram’s built-in bot payments API (which acts as a gateway to a number of processors including Stripe). Not sure if one should, but it’s a possibility.
Tesla with deployable 2000 watt solar panel
isnt there a difference in glycemic index between the two?
I’ve never ordered alcohol from Drizly or Uber Eats but if I was 5 drinks deep, didn’t want to walk somewhere, and shouldn’t be driving then I can definitely see the appeal.
I see so much stuff like bespoke bicycles and clothes made by 'craftsmen' in the USA. Maybe something like that industry but for kitchen appliances would be cool.
Thank you clkao :)
Relajet is our company name, otoadd is our hearing aid brand.
You can have deadlock in Erlang, it's just a bit harder. It happens when two processes are both waiting on the other to send them a message which is analogous to two threads each waiting for a mutex the other holds. The same thing can happen in Go with its channels, another message passing based concurrency control mechanism.
That was my experience with Mastodon. Discussions tended to turn shrill and regularly be dominated by extremes.
What I mean by it is that some previous interaction with amzn has left behind some state that leads to a markedly different search result than for other people.

I can see (because I was there discussing it back in 95) what the appeal of personalized search results could be for both sellers and consumers. But a few decades of that BS have fairly convincingly made the case that it is a horrible idea.
atproto cannot have ads and Jack Dorsey hasn't been involved in months. he's off on nostr, it was never his platform
This has nothing to do with postgres though. It’s part of a generic JDBC connection pool:

> The problem is that this synchronized code might be deeply embedded within the libraries you use. In our case, it was within the c3p0 library. So, the fix is straightforward: we simply wrapped the connection with a java.util.concurrent.Semaphore.

I bet if you just checked out connections and slept a random amount of time you’d have the same problem.
I've dabbled with egui, and ran into this limitation almost immediately (har har).

I got around it by storing widget size between frames so that I could center it properly on the next frame. Not perfect, but it worked.
You could probably just cover the existing buildings on your cattle farm with solar panels and get more electricity than you can use.
The interesting thing is that they removed that option in the latest version
I've remarked many times but it's absolutely insane just how casually android users drop the "apple SHEEPLE" or "brainless blue bubbles" shit. It's so absolutely completely normalized that they don't even comprehend that it might be offensive to the people actually in the discussion with them.

statistically speaking about half this site probably has apple and most people have very specific reasons for picking them. And they've been hearing people exactly like GP casually dump on them for years - even if a particular person isn't being this direct and coarse about it, they know that's the thought process underneath.

After a while it's just another microaggression, and since they're micro you're not really supposed to call them out or act on them, but again, everyone knows what the score really is.
> A bit of yaml if needed but just a gentle “daily notes = meeting notes” (on my work obsidian) and “daily notes = journal” (on my personal one), a few tags but nothing too rigid or cumbersome.

Can you explain this one? I use it and the daily note thing bugs me since I would rather separate work and personal in the same value, but I did not know I could fix it.
This is an interesting design for an emulator. Are you planning to do some sort of symbolic execution with it? It seems set up to facilitate it so I’m curious where you’re going with it.
Some may presuppose that, others may suppose instead that physical diversity is a proxy indicator for other diversities of experience and culture. Sometimes proxies are good enough, other times they’re not.
Yes, you should do this. Will you add your contact info to your profile, or contact me from mine?

I've been thinking the exact same thing about toasters. Here was my recent comment in the "Generation Junk" thread a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796570
OneNote sync conflicts effectively destroyed a document for me, with changes splintered across both copies. All my Inking across the copies had unequal offsets making merging impossible. I had to transcribe everything to text manually and trash the document. This was back when the "new" OneNote was still "new".

The infinite document length paradigm also made it impossible to print and review notes; text would slice mid-height across pages.

I know people who swear by the desktop version of OneNote, though...
> I stopped giving them away to random people.
The "D" in R&D is development, i.e. software engineers writing day-to-day product code. So R&D budgets cover the majority of employee salaries and even stuff like cloud hosting. It's not earmarked for groundbreaking research as people seem to think.
I would use both my hands
There's an anecdote from Jim Keller that Zen is so modular that it'd be possible to swap out the x86 instruction decode block with an ARM one with relatively little effort. He's also been saying for a while now that ISA has little bearing on performance and efficiency anymore.

Apple's decision to switch to ARM had many reasons, licensing being just as important as performance, perhaps more so.

The low power variants of Zen are very efficient. You're still looking at Intel, but they've been leapfrogged by AMD on most fronts over the past half decade (still not market share, but Intel still has their fabrication advantage).
> regret it deeply

If it's over how law enforcement is using the data, the cat's out of the bag regardless of what you do. If it's future genetic discrimination, for once, regulators seem to be on top of things.
> I think you are greatly over-estimating how many people would be willing to pay the cost of a North American made toaster.

Who wants a $75+ toaster just because it was "Made In USA"? Is it going to make toast better than a $15 toaster "Hecho In Mexico" or whatever other country? Even making the infrastructure to make a toaster would not do much in the way of increasing the manufacturing abilities in the US. What could it do if the War Powers Act were invoked?

Or, am I just way too much of a simpleton to be able to see potential?
That feels really grumpy.

Compare something like rocketry or chemical engineering with running an on-prem DC. I don't see what the complaining is about. It's still a luxury compared to what other professions have to deal with.
Fake crypto CEO that front $1.3B rugpull was actor, paid $5000 and a suit
I did! The notes are stored in a local DB (SQLite, IIRC) that were not encrypted on disk while the app was running.
I don't eat a lot of foods containing fructose as I read labels of what I'm buying/eating. Like cereals (use almond milk) i eat do not contain any fructose ... few ingredients in them.
Welcome to the new era of global sea power
I live in a building connected to the False Creek system. Some details that may be interesting:

- Most of the apartment blocks currently served are located in a former industrial area that was redeveloped for the 2010 Winter Olympics and gradually built up since then.

- All new buildings in the utility's service area are required to be connected to the system for space heating and domestic hot water. The city charges a connection fee and the building must be designed with the requisite plumbing to integrate with the system, but some space is saved by not needing a large central heating plant.

- The metering and billing is done with https://www.wysemeter.com/ (at least in my building).

- The hot water is indeed very hot, and reliably so. I wouldn't be able to tell the heat source is sewage if the owner didn't mention it.

- In Winter, it's easy to identify which buildings which are connected to the utility, since they don't have have large steam clouds coming out the top.

City council info page: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/southeast-fal...
I’ve come to see a lot of ai generated images as a proxy for effort, or care, and whenever I see them, my first thought is mostly “the author doesn’t care enough to make an effort about the presentation of their post”.

Same reason I stopped using GitHub copilot to write PR bodies, I had a teammate say “I know you didn’t put any effort or thought into writing it,so why should I bother reading it?” Which I resonate with.
It sounds like you've been out of work for a year and you've fallen into a state of anger and despair. It's understandable and you're hardly the first person that has happened to, but I'd really encourage you to rethink how you're looking at life. Just in a practical sense, even if you can 90% hide your rage in a work setting, the other 10% is still going to be enough to discourage anyone from hiring you. People are just going to be scared to work with you and hiring managers won't want to take the chance. Just my two cents, friend.
Japan's coastline moved over 800 feet after the devastating Jan 1. earthquake