skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar panel production is limited by demand not a lack of raw materials or something.

You don’t need to worry that installing solar in less than ideal conditions will prevent highly efficient grid scale installations.
There are no jobs right now because there is no free money. The big tech companies put bodies in seats based off of access to free money. Now that it has dried up, they are shrinking the market. Simple as.
Because I don't think it's a realistic solution to say, for example, that in the lifetime of anyone currently alive that we're going to get, say, Dallas, TX to have the built environment and food preferences of Japan.

I said directly in my comment "I wholeheartedly agree that the obesity epidemic is a consequence of modern society". And I'm all for making cities more walkable, for example, and making it easier for people to get healthier foods. But I don't think these are realistic options for making a dent in obesity in America any time soon.
I've always avoided C, but there was an implementation of the STOIC language in C[1], that pushed me over the edge and nerd-sniped me[2]. It took quite a while to finally figure out that I'd need use Debian 3 to get it to compile at all.[3]

It was only after a generous amount of time from HN that I was able to get a fork working with modern compilers (barely).[4]

Experience taught me that C changed radically in the past 2 decades, what was once the popular style of code just isn't acceptable any more. Throw in the change from 32 to 64 bit CPUs, and everything just broke. Not to mention changes to AutoConf, etc.

I still love the idea of the language, but every time I think of even touching it, I still find myself wishing I could just re-write it in Pascal or Assembler.

I've had similar issues with Python, thanks to WikidPad[5], which still runs as a decade old Windows binary, but fails because of breaking changes to WxPython.

[1] https://stoical.sourceforge.net/documentation.php

[2] https://xkcd.com/356/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30957273

[4] https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical

[5] https://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
And definitely don't register the vanity vehicle license plate "NULL".
CCP backdoors are 3x as memory efficient
LLMs Are Universal Translators
The way foster care works children will be placed with foster parents for a few years, then be returned to their parents, then be placed back in foster care with a different family, over and over again. The system is not setup to prioritize a stable environment. The reality is that to provide a healthy stable environment for these kids, we would have to effectively eliminate their parents from their lives. We'd basically have to say, "It's great you are off drugs and have a house and job now, but you don't get to have your kids back ever because they need stability". In general we prioritize getting kids back with their families over a healthy or stable environment.
Not only that, if you had enough cache to fit everything then there wouldn't be cache misses, and if you didn't, cache misses are pretty unavoidable.

It's like the existing APIs for pining things in memory so they can't get paged out. They have very specific uses and normal programs generally don't use them and shouldn't.
I support the use of Ozempic for helping diabetics and the obese get back into the overweight range of bmi; Obesity often leads to pre-diabetes which leads to diabetes, which increases demand of insulin -- a much harder/expensive/riskier regimen to administer. It's a better option than a gastro surgery, typically better than extreme dieting.

But, I'm also frustrated at the US food choices; Fast food, even sit down food is often devoid of fiber. Store brand cereals, grains are devoid of fiber unless you pay a premium. Ultra filtering milk doubles protein and halves sugar (by converting lactose to glucose) -- but it costs 8x as much. Why do we even sell "enriched" white bread when whole grain wheat bread has lower sugar, more protein, and more fiber? Margarine - with partially hydrogenated oils - but sold in stores and often at restaurants (waffle house).
If you have a program that takes 2 minutes to free allocations, that implies 100 million to 1 billion small allocations. An arena is not the answer, a normal data structure is (most likely a vector). I'm not sure an arena is ever really the answer, because it seems like a poor work around to multiple small allocations, which shouldn't happen in the first place.

Maybe that time is coming from something even more ridiculous like scanning an entire linked list to find each element, but if you can open up that library there are without a doubt terrible memory allocation techniques that should never happen going on.
"love" in the sense of someone loving their snaggletooth mutt. What's remarkable to me is despite the obviously terrible idea at the core of it, it seems to work pretty well for some practical use. (IIRC it was at the core of GNU Java as well, and I could have sworn the earliest Sun JVMs used it.)

I don't doubt it caused all sorts of problems too. It's just an interesting reminder that sometimes a really wacky hack can be pretty useful.
> No true scottsman would ever have perpetrated such a scam.

I'm not referring to the scam. I'm referring to not abiding by basic tenets of the Christian faith.
This fails with cash payments, e.g., at farmers' markets. If I were in the market, I'd prefer an app that analyzed pictures of my actual meals instead. Less work for me, and it represents my actual intake. Such an app may already exist.
And I would vote for him over the nonsense the Republicans and Democrats are offering any day.
How much do you think those API calls will cost you that require someone else to buy the GPU, maintain the server architecture, and also take a cut in the process? It only takes a 3-4 months to amortize if you want the instance to be up 24/7. And in the end you can still resell the GPU.
Dave Mills, inventor of NTP, dies at 85
> If this installation is 4kW

It's 2kW.
Amazing article, it hits a lot of nails in the head of ideas I’d never been able to verbalize
Personally I'm not doing too well on the whole diet thing. I'm well aware of the importance and make grand plans. Then I get really hungry and like eat a pound of noodles or something. I literally can't sleep if I'm hungry at bedtime, I will lay awake all night! Given that I have to go to work the next morning or won't be able to afford things like "shelter", I usually opt to try and get some sleep.

Having been on the other side of these brain problems, I understand your skepticism. I have many apparently-normal friends that, once a month or so, disappear off the face of the planet and eventually they come back and they're like "I thought everyone hated me so I stopped going to work and talking to my friends". My honest thought is "WTF" but I offer them reassurances that that's not true at all and everyone likes them. Then they're OK for another month. Meanwhile behind the scenes, they're seeing a psychiatrist and a therapist every couple weeks, and the fact that they're around at all, ever, is because of this work with their doctors. You have to accept that people's brains are wired differently, often in harmful ways, and that there are treatment options available. It's totally alien to me to be too unhappy to get out of bed. But it does happen to people, the data says it. So I believe the data and try to be supportive.

I really think not sticking to a diet is the same sort of problem.
A Practical TLS Handshake Walkthrough
Hey folks!

I wrote this based on an office discussion on TLS, and because resources I found on TLS were all pretty surface level.

This is the first time I've tried to write a technical blog post, so I'm looking for all the feedback I can get!
It’s possible for everyone to like beautiful things but not build them when given the chance.

The “problem” is, everyone has a different preference.

Let’s say I like mid-century modern, and spend $75,000 extra on building (tastefully) in that style.

Now it’s 10 years later and I want to sell the house. A potential buyer likes everything except the mid-century modern. Their favorite style is neoclassical.

To them, mid-century modern styling has a value of zero or even -$25,000. So if I didn’t build in that style, they might have been willing to pay 75k-100k more.

The paradox here is that a divergence in preferences, due to cultural atomization and the internet, has led to lower returns on investment in beauty (and atrophying of craftsmanship and the ability to build beautifully to begin with).

If you ask me, a tasteful aesthetic monoculture is a good thing, and can result in timeless beauty which will be appreciated long after that monoculture evolves/ends. Sameness is not inherently bad! See: Florence, Venice, Andalucia, 1800’s Paris, etc…
> It's inevitable that access to "defeating the dragon" would be available to only the most affluent in society, whom have also led the most comfortable lives.

I don't see that it's inevitable at all. (a) The solution may be very affordable. (b) Any government that does not get the treatment to all citizens is likely be voted out or overthrown.
What about the people who install your HVAC or hang drywall? Are they allowed to use their giant pickups without punitive taxes? Will it help inflation to tax them heavily? Will it help them lower their prices? Will it lower housing prices?
Surely that's not set in stone right? Like FreeBSD could contribute money & resources to hook up CI machines to make it a tier 1 target?
I'm hoping they modify the language to something to the effect of banning use related to enacting violence (and the other similar cases) as opposed to removing it entirely. My understanding was it was pretty blanket in terms of what wasn't allowed to the point that mundane use cases still weren't allowed. Maybe it's not a weaponizing contract. Maybe I'm too optimistic
The entire west coast is really bad about its strategy for tackling homelessness. The central issue there is the federal government needs to massively ramp up housing, it can’t be solved at a local level (there’s a role to play for cities but basically you need nationwide housing reform.)

Chicago and NYC have massively used transit systems despite their homeless populations. I lived in Chicago and I miss a real transit system here in TX badly.

That is to say, we don’t need to do A before B. We need to do A & B
My understanding of the tiers of support is based on the level of commitment from the community. That is, if the FreeBSD folks wanted to make it a Tier 1 target, they can, “If running the testsuite requires additional infrastructure (such as physical systems running the target), the target maintainers must arrange to provide such resources to the Rust project, to the satisfaction and approval of the Rust infrastructure team.” — https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/target-tier-policy.h...

This seems very much within the realm of the FreeBSD’s capabilities.
OpenGFW is a flexible, easy-to-use, open source implementation of GFW on Linux
The man who coined the word "robot" defends himself
Europe certainly doesn't trust the USDA or FDA, at all, in any way

regulatory capture of the others don't cause a significant problem outside the US

when the sides start poping out of FAA approved airliners maybe trust of that agency should be re-evaluated
I think you end up with no degrees of freedom in 2+1 and below
Bartini the aircraft designer? I'd like to read more about that, but most of the Bartini-related stuff is about airplanes.
> They already did it, and they get 20-75 miles per 5 hours of daylight.

They don't. They estimate that they might possibly get that in the best case scenarios:

> DartSolar's calculations and experiments suggest that, on a sunny day, he could gain anywhere from 20 to 75 miles

> It probably just still isn't practical for a manufacturer to try to scale it out to offering the more efficient non-diy version.

Manufacturers have already attempted that, go check out lightyear.
Immutable structures cannot be cyclical. Maybe I’m missing something?
Yeah and the league hates it, so they deadened the ball two years back. Just enough that close homers would go for fly outs but not enough to change the math so players would change their approach.

Also, if you’re Mookie Betts, you’re big on both
So far I was only familiar with the "separating plane theorem" algorithm, and GJK by name. Do you know any good sources for where to get started when coding up a minkowski difference algorithm?

Link is Access Denied btw, but sci-hub works.
I rent spot instances on GCP with big GPUs on demand. It works quite well and since I'm just playing around I pay a very small amount per hour and kill it after I'm done.
But they have, right? Wegovy works really well. Ozempic is off label for weight loss only in the sense that it is the semaglutide drug that is marketed for diabetes and that it therefore isn't sold at the same high dose as Wegovy.
> build cheap concrete housing for all who need it

We've tried that. It didn't go well.
I have been very interested in the Prius Prime recently as it seems the be the perfect plugin hybrid for me and had a solar roof option that can get you 4 miles of range during a sunny day. That would actually cover how much we drive on an average day which makes it tempting.

Of course the fact that me and my partner drive less than 4 miles a day makes car ownership questionable and we should probably just invest in bikes.
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> bulk stores like Costco is only possible because people have cars. You will have to pry my Costco membership card from my cold, dead hands.

Costco users in urban areas would disagree with your assessment that it's only possible with cars. I'm looking at this Costco in Soma right now and watching people walk out with enough bulk goods to carry in their granny carts or bags in hands.
You've got to be trolling
Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
I had a friend in the city who was doing pretty well with Zipcar, where one could somewhat spontaneously rent a car in one's urban neighborhood to use for errands or trips. This could be a good solution in dense environments for Costco runs, especially when the nearest Zipcar lot is just a couple of minutes' walk away.

I personally go shopping by bike, but I notice there are some things I can't readily buy that way, like furniture. (I did successfully buy a microwave by bike, but a larger appliance than that would be pretty daunting.)

I have family visiting me right now in the big city from the small town, and it's weird for us to notice how different things are.
The Go/Rust rivalry is just a peanut gallery meme. It’s never been a real thing IMO.
public demos:
- https://wri-datalab.earthengine.app/view/submeter-canopyheig...
- https://registry.opendata.aws/dataforgood-fb-forests/
Here’s a peer reviewed study that directly compared semaglutide to placebo with additional lifestyle change support. Semaglutide just worked way, way better.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183

I totally agree that our lifestyles need to change. Unfortunately, as you note, the factors influencing lifestyle are deeply baked into our society. Like sure, I would love to wholesale rearrange our transportation infrastructure towards walking and biking while also somehow (???) changing American food culture to value healthier meals.

That’s not going to happen in our lifetimes though. Sorry.

In the meantime, tens of millions of people will have hundreds of millions of years cut off their healthy lives by heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, strokes, etc etc etc. Semaglutide will alleviate that. It’s exceptionally distasteful that the only way we get this is by pharma companies extracting as much as possible from us. Nonetheless, I prefer that over having countless lives destroyed while I keep my principles.
You can have both. At my home in India I can just walk and get all essentials I need (food medicine etc.) If I need to buy a lot of things I take a car and go to the nearest supermarket.

There is an environmental cost to using only cars to get your essential things. We need to start considering them now
Mostly from a less-dev error standpoint but I think you gain in cybersecurity as well, as the language won't let you write code that accesses memory in places it's not supposed to.
Take a look at broot https://github.com/Canop/broot
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Plenty exists

LM Studio lets you load in models from a built in HuggingFace browser, and sets up a server that accepts OpenAi 3.0 API requests, so everyone that built an app around ChatGPT API plugs in exactly the same
There is a long history of involvement of women in these sort of roles, for various reasons. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing
I wonder if people really would ossify after hundreds of years or eventually learn to be hyper-adaptable.

Current centenarians are a bad example, because their brains and bodies are falling apart.

Some sci fi suggests that the fact of our living and dying in just one century means we die as immature children.

Maybe it takes a thousand years or ten thousand years to “know thyself” to any useful degree.
> You have to be bad in order to discover what kind of good you want to be (or are able to be).

Sounds like one of those pseudo-profound woo statements.

Many people manage being perfect good, well-adjusted humans without going through a bout of "being bad".
I would love more state level control of housing, or at least permitting of housing.

Cities have proven they can not responsibly decide how much housing is permitted. Its too corrupt and the incentives are off
> In “Fighting Traffic,” Norton argued that car culture was largely forced on an unwilling public by car dealers, manufacturers, automotive clubs, and others who banded together to promote automobile use, calling themselves “motordom.”

The problem of this analysis is that at the time of the protests, cars were a luxury good for the rich. However, as cars have become ubiquitous, the opposition to them goes away and people want more infrastructure in support of them.
Mickey Mouse and Elon Musk Boost Libraries in Viral Week
You may have been thinking of NetBSD. NetBSD prides itself on a very broad platform support.
Standard Stripe fees on $250k revenue:

- 2.9% + 30¢ per charge

- Assume net-30 invoices

- Total fees: 2.9% * $250k + 30¢ * 12 = $7,253.60

- Stripe can freeze your money arbitrarily and indefinitely

Standard USDC fees on Solana:

- Less than 1 cent per transaction

- Total fees: < 12¢

What's your argument?
How so? I pay the fair market rate for the resources I use, and the people producing them are happy with the transaction.

Oh and by the way, I drive an electric car, so I don't produce any emissions in the residential areas I drive in (although like all goods, some one-off emissions were produced during manufacture)
What browser are you using? What hardware? What OS?
Huawei is suspected of being a secret arm of the Chinese intelligence agencies. Of course they want the world to replace the Linux kernel with theirs.
I was specifically thinking of "creating" when I said writing, not maintaining or extending. And yes, while it can still be large enough to have multiple people working on it, then the "you" is actually a group, and of course you will coordinate on what you're doing and can very easily confirm you all understand the boundaries of how the components you are creating interact.

Extending something you did not originally write may be quite different, of course.
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We didn't really try it, we tried to kill it. It was segregated, not funded enough to maintain the housing, and policy was designed in a way to make it fail.

All other advanced nations besides the US do (or did) public housing quite effectively. Even very conservative places like Singapore have amazing public housing.
An areal photo during the winter isn't very fair to the city. Looking around on street view during the summer months it doesn't look nearly as bad. A bit run down, but that's common for nearly all ex-soviet cities.
Vi(m) has had a bad reputation for abstruseness for so long that it's become enshrined in meme culture, and nowadays it's unlikely that sites like this are created out of any legitimate frustration or difficulty.

What I don't get is why did this reputation arise in the first place? The mnemonic for quitting Vi* is actually quite straightforward, and makes a lot of sense if you put the five seconds into understanding the modal model being used, whereas the Other Editor has a complex and unintuitive chorded sequence that I can quite literally never remember, no matter how many times I look it up. Is it control+alt? One sequence or two? Was it 'x' for "exit", or 'q' for "quit", or something else entirely? Why is it so difficult to navigate the documentation? The mind boggles.
The salaries are increasing faster than inflation since January of last year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...
Couldn't be other than Max Tegmark
Nope! Like I said, I often just use Bluetooth to send files. That requires neither an app nor a visit to a website.

I am really miffed that this is your exact takeaway from what I said. I gave you a way that someone can do this:

* I have a file on a device I own.

* I wish to send it to another device.

* I send it.

Yes, it is in fact just as easy to do this via Wormhole.app as it is Airdrop, except it also works across the Internet when not in close proximity.

The problem here is mainly 1. Wormhole.app is just some website some entity runs, not a standard. We should have a good standard specifically for point-to-point sharing, and 2. It's not integrated into the OS. It's just as easy to pop open Safari and go to Wormhole.app as it is to go to the Share menu and select an Airdrop target, but one is vastly easier to discover than the other.

However, what you said was that you think it's "crazy" you can't just share a file between two devices. You in fact can, easily, without downloading random apps, in numerous ways, from Bluetooth to websites using WebRTC like this one. The Bluetooth one even has pretty good discoverability on Android as I would typically just use the share menu.

I will admit that it is unfortunate that there is no "obvious" solution but that's kind of how the ecosystem works outside of Apple. A lot of things will compete on solving a given problem before we actually get an answer that everyone agrees on. This has its pros and cons, and one of the definite cons is that not everyone is sure what to do. But it's weird to point at this and say "Look! You can't even send files between devices easily!" Yes I can. Lack of a single standard solution does not make it significantly harder, even when doing it between me and some random person that may use a different kind of device than I do.
There's a very authoritarian tone to your message. As if other people need to be "re-educated" to make choices that /you/ consider better.
She probably didn't know they were dead
That's still described as a kernel for the TEE (like OPTEE is), it doesn't look like a replacement for Linux, which runs in the REE.