skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, roofs are the optimal place for solar because roofs are almost entirely wasted square footage (with the exception of the occasional antenna or exhaust vent). It is unused space that won't ever be used for anything, so filling all roofs with solar is ideal. As a bonus, they shade the actual roof.

Open space ("dirt") is potentially useful for tons of other uses, no point in wasting it on panels that can go on the roof.
Ha! I did support there for Proviso— the product of a startup that Micromuse had acquired not too long before the IBM acquisition. I started in between the acquisitions.
> Just Stop Oil were essentially given free rein

And that was a mistake which was rectified, and now they aren't.

The last lot of them that sat in front of a bus learned that it was a whole new game.
I think if you keep it moving, you should be able to be ok.
Huh? With a family of 7, in a relatively upscale area, we usually hit around $300, and rarely get $400. What are you buying?
usa law does not have jurisdiction in hartlepool yet, so this is sort of irrelevant, but presumably the uk has something similar
They could, but, yes, it's too profitable to charge extra margin to unsophisticated customers.

Maybe one day.

Banks probably charge a lot less to those moving hundreds of millions around. But the people/businesses occasionally moving around $1000-$1m have been getting shafted for an eternity.
Check out LMStudio if you want to try. Open source and quite easy to use, doesn't need a beefy machine.
They dont import Camembert in China? In Japan we hardly ever find Brie
Sounds like a normal thing to do, if you ask me, to try a different kind of relationships if you have problems with your current relationship.
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 with Redstone circuit & noteblocks
It’s quite mesmerizing watching the variation in propagation speeds of the red stone impulses across different sections depending on the time division of the notes, very economical management of timing space not unlike data structure alignments.

Dynamics appears to be achieved via different depth placements to adjust the actual volume, so the video itself is very much a performance involving performer participation to a degree.

Also interesting is the choice of different noteblock timbre for not just octave selection but also note sustain.

(The linked video is that of the third movement/finale, here is a link to the first movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHG8HFPbaZw)
The RCMP in Canada has a long and well documented history of racism against indigenous people.
I’m not sure I’m following the end game here with freezing it. From what I recall ice is actually a pretty decent thermal insulator and since a given mass of ice is larger in volume than the same mass of water, you’d end up with a hole melting inside with… weird things happening as far as pressures go.

If the goal is to keep the processor nicely chilled, you’d probably be better off running liquid water over/through the block of ice and then keeping the coated board chilled in the ice water bath. If you’re trying to get below 0C, you should probably keep using a liquid with a lower freezing point instead of having the board frozen in a block.
I believe this is why my grade 2 class in Montreal was shown this famous Quebec movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_Who_Stopped_the_War where the movie ends with a child dying in the collapsed snow fort.
He hadn't read 1984
With rates like they are, it's worth it to hold money. Family member used them just a couple years ago and they got emails saying they'll have to charge them if they don't move their Euros held there out within 30 days.
SAT is a decent measure of IQ when corrected for the number of times you've taken the SAT. Rich folks can take it a lot, including prep courses.
I may not have been clear. I thought the proposal was specifically to apply taxes to drive up prices from the monopoly. Otherwise, I dont understand how it helps the competition at all.

If monopoly co. can make widgets for $0.80 and sell them for $1.00, but competition can only hope to make them for $1.10, then you would need to tax the monopoly $0.30, for the the competition to even have a shot.

this is all in the context of small companies that cant compete against monopolies due to economies of scale. Of course, the story is different if the small company can compete on manufacturing cost, but are prevented from doing so due to lawyers, legislation, and lucrative buyouts.
That’s pretty cool. I remember someone on that repo from while back and was surprised to see their name pop up again. Thanks for archiving this!

Corinna Cortes et al wrote the paper(s) on Hancock and also the Communities of Interest paper referenced in the Wired article I linked to. She’s apparently a pretty big deal and went on to work at Google after her prestigious work at AT&T.

Hancock: A Language for Extracting Signatures from Data

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

Hancock: A Language for Analyzing Transactional Data Streams

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

Communities of Interest

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
Two weeks ago, Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson stepped down as CEO. This story has more than the usual "investors forcing the founder to quit". There are lots of articles talking about that, however, I want to focus on my experience as ex-Twilion, my experience at Twilio, why I quit Twilio and started my own company, Reddio.
That is very disturbing. Does Amazon reimburse you when your house burns down?
Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
I have been part of exactly one successful non-school study group: going through the Sutton & Barto RL book.

I was highly motivated to get into ML at the time and also unemployed. Since being gainfully employed doing ML, my motivation to consistently find time for study groups of all sorts is much lower.

I liked the study group because I found the material somewhat challenging and appreciated having some folks who I could talk to about it.

The study group had ~6 people in it iirc and was offline. I did the exercises, but almost nobody else did.

Which is to say, I think study groups are hard to sustain because dedicated sustained effort is hard to sustain overall.
which jurisdiction do they suspect you're in?

I'm guessing they're forbidden from transacting in some places with currency controls.
Sort of related, we bought for our kids when they were young a set of Brik-a-Bloks. [1]

They’re basically plastic 2x2 tiles that can be assembled into almost any structure you can think of (limited by the number of tiles you have).

They (we!) loved making forts and tunnels with them.

Just last week, one of my sons and his friends broke them out when playing nerf guns. He’s 16.

It’s such a shame they stopped making them (maybe they were too expensive). They were even hard to find when I got them several years ago. Someone should really make something like these again.

[1] https://gofatherhood.com/2010/02/review_fun_huge_building_bl...
> What does ROV stand for?

My apologies for an acronym. It's Remote operated underwater vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remotely_operated_underwater_v... (a small submarine, usually, with a long thin tether)
> Usage based billing isn't that hard. It's just less profitable.

But, by that same logic, they should just be charging you by how much you watch. So it's no longer "don't charge them for the month they didn't view" but, instead, "charge them $X/minute watched". If you're going to go with usage based billing, go with usage based billing.
More lithium deposits will be found now that it is more desirable. The earth has plenty.
Apple offers rivals access to mobile payment tech in EU antitrust case
Only 2 left, probably for a while already. I'd guess that's old stock.
I was thinking the deposition rate would be high enough that the flow of tap water would suffice. The more important goal would seem to be getting the water to a steady colder temperature so that it freezes consistently soon after it comes out. It would be nice to be able to augment the feed with snow too. Maybe an open tank, a circulation loop to the printing head, variable valve for the tap water inlet, and then perhaps a waterfall-based heat sink and/or a boiler loop depending if the whole setup still needs to lose or gain heat.

I've also got to wonder if dribbling water would be the best type of print head, as opposed to say a pressurized nozzle that would make more of a fanned out spray.
Technology continues to overlap with magic. The demo video gives me seven-league boot vibes.
I don't know to what extent this is accurate, but the middle area of Georgia has become blanketed in solar panels. Apparently it's a very ideal area for production and mostly on former farm land, but huge swaths miles and miles have recently popped up thanks to incentives. That I know is accurate, what's below I've only seen from random sources and can't independently verify.

All the solar farms were presented as having a functional life of 25-30 years. Instead it's turning into more like 4-8, because the area gets monster thunderstorms that produce hail which wrecks the solar panels.

But that's not the full problem. The solar panels are then leaching a lot of heavy metals and chemicals. So much so that the recovered land from some of the destroyed solar panel farms is not currently suitable for farming and groundwater in the area is becoming contaminated.

They are now however building some enclosed retractable roof type buildings to house panels but protect them from hail.
The RCMP knew for years in advance that the shooter was building a near perfect replica of a police vehicle and did nothing about it.
friendly reminder Aramaic is not a dead language (at least not yet -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic)
Were you able to tie it to a credit card? Last time I tried it only let me do a debit card, which was a bummer, since I prefer using credit.
Don't use the linked archive.ph, the page contains copyright infringements
But that is lakes, not seas. Lakes are extremely small compared to the seas so doesn't hold that much lithium so you can't really scale that up. To get the amount you talked about we would need to start pumping water from the depths of the seas, since most of it is there.
Considering JPEG XL and Ultra HDR are both based on JPEG, couldn't they be combined into one standard? Wouldn't it be better for everyone if the whole industry could eventually agree on a single standard?

Apple's HEIC is very annoying since it's not really supported by anything non-Apple. Would certainly be nice to see that go away.
Isn't the rule "if you are being targeted directly, lose all hope"?
Don't use the linked archive.is, the page contains copyright infringements
I have taken to editing my work messages to remove all instances of the word just when I notice them for this exact reason. It adds no information and is needlessly dismissive.

HN comments are worth what you paid for them though, so can't you just get over it? :p
Beauty Contests and Iterated Expectations in Asset Markets [pdf]
That's how you start a paper. Keynes was also a good writer.
HHS-OIG Issues Notice of Exclusion to Founder and CEO of Theranos, Inc
Tab Management Tool for Mac
As an engineer but not a climate scientist, it is really difficult to make sense of these models. They come in at least three levels of complexity, where simpler ones are used to verify the output of the more complex ones.

If you want to try, Hector is a great one to start with: https://github.com/JGCRI/hector

I wrote a little blog post with an overview of some of the open source models: https://possibleplanets.com/2022/05/06/how-to-forecast-the-c...
The video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/22053820
New SvelteKit feature: `import { read } from '$app/server'` [video]
>As a user, why the hell do I want third party applications to be able to access my browser's history, bookmarked sites, and cookies?

>That's an obvious privacy leak!

No it's not. It's only a leak if they access that data without your permission. There's nothing wrong with them being able to request that data, with you-the-user being able to respond to that request "fuck no".
This is in fact a good strategization for the ZSF because Zig kinda needs all the work for `zig cc` anyway but `zig cc` can be sold without Zig itself. The next question is then, why something like `zig cc` didn't exist before? It's more complicated to answer...

Traditionally cross-compilation needed a separate copy of everything per target, which is really annoying but not really impossible. Any large enough company would therefore just build an infrastructure and put dedicated employees for cross-compilation. Tools like `zig cc` would benefit the rest---smaller companies and individuals---but you can't really expect those to kickstart the development of such tools from the beginning. Thankfully, `zig cc` was born as a byproduct so it had time to mature within the Zig project. And given we now have a working `zig cc`, larger companies can consider `zig cc` and possibly donate to the ZSF, even if that's only for `zig cc`.
There are generally three types of speedy trial rights in the USA, depending on where you live. Federal constitutional right, State constitutional right, and State/federal statutory right. The federal one is vague and hand-wavy and only defined in case law. Usually the same with State constitutional right. The statutory rights are usually more explicit and often define an exact number of days and how those days are calculated, e.g. Illinois it is 120 days.

Courts definitely do entertain them. I've seen dozens over the years and there are thousands of examples of successful challenges in case law. I can think of several weird examples off the top of my head:

1) Guy from Hawaii transferred to mainland prison, murder case reversed for new trial on appeal, State doesn't do the paperwork to fly him back from prison to Hawaii within 180 days, then tries to blame it on the prisoner for not getting himself to his own trial :D

2) Guy burgles building which is built on a county line. State charges him in the wrong county (he burgled the other side of the building); tries to change venue, judge says they blew out their speedy trial days holding him in the wrong county.

3) I personally lost a year. I was in jail before COVID broke out. I filed for my 120 day speedy. There's no exception in the Illinois statute for emergencies (unlike the federal statute). Illinois Supreme Court unilaterally modifies the statute without involving the legislature. I didn't go to court for over a year, just stuck in a flooded cell. Filed a motion to dismiss for speedy trial violation and violation of the Illinois constitution for having the court create a new law. Illinois Supreme Court rules that it can do whatever the fuck it wants because they are the ones who have the final say on a motion and they are not going to find against themselves lol

"Where, as here, a statute and a supreme court rule governing court procedure cannot be reconciled, the statute must give way to the rule." (a rule created without consultation over-rides a law created by lawmakers!)

https://law.justia.com/cases/illinois/supreme-court/2023/128...
> Lisp machines were facing performance and cost challenges from RISC workstations

Which were themselves hideously expensive and out of reach of the consumer, facing cost challenges from personal computers. Initially not performance challenges, but that came around in the early 90s.
Immutability frees the mind from so much baggage when developing that i'm always shocked it didn't become mainstream
Got it. Maybe your post should be more substantial then? Then people don’t have to guess what you’re trying to say.

You literally just echoed back something to someone that they already said. That’s more than a little confusing to a reader.
It was a "Captain Phillips" reference for me.
It’s really not though. Seeing all these comments concerned me a bit. So, I opened up my credit card apps and scrolled through the last six months of transactions to make sure there was nothing unexpected. It took 5 minutes while I was sitting on the toilet. And that 5 minutes normally would’ve been spent browsing instagram or hacker news, so it’s not like it’s 5 minutes that I lost.
The woman was presumably upset because she thought she was scammed and had caught the scammer red-handed, and probably didn’t fully understand how credit disputes happen, or had some extenuating circumstances (poor credit, no credit) that she was actively trying to fix by having a CC only to get defrauded (although I don’t think credit fixes actually affect your credit score). It’s safe to assume the average person doesn’t really understand credit.
> debilitating issues.

Could it be that you had severe depression, if the issues were debilitating? Irving Kirsch's studies have shown that anti-depressents are indeed effective for such cases. Or perhaps it just happened to work for you. RCTs only look at mean effects so they dilute exceptions and outliers.

Anyways, this is a more pro-anti-depressants/pro-psychiatry analysis of Irving Kirsch's research:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-y...
Also, if samples were really given out for testing, I find it incredulous nobody stole a small bit they could throw into a mass spectrometer.
Pretty much nothing about the website and repo indicated that this is an open source project. Why would anyone just assume that it is? Hell, one of the quick links at the top of the home page is "Support & Licensing".

Open source licensing is still licensing. I feel like people increasingly treat it as "yay freebies for me" and not as actual licenses that you still have to look for, read, and comply with.
His testimony is infuriating. Every question answered quickfire and monosyllabicly, trying to shut it down. Exactly the mindset that led to this giant fubar in the first place.
You have a wonderful blog!
I suspect more corpos have exposure like this than any of them would like to admit. E.g.: BigCo picks up a company SmallCo, and inherits their systems for some time. There's some cruddy ancient CRM, IT or travel system, and some random test tenant, that has hooks to email, and from there it's a short step to enumerate targets, send auto-generated emails from a trusted system and the hackers are off to the races.
I feel the same way personally, but recently discovered that most others don't. When we launched the autotempest app we had it use the user's default browser for all third party links, which are common for us, as we link directly to vehicle detail pages on various other sites. Turns out people hated that, and really wanted to load those pages inside the app instead. (So we made that the default, but left the option to use the default browser.)
> I’m not sure I’m following the end game here with freezing it.

My kids playing on the Mega VR headset and complaining about it getting hot is one example of my line of thought. Let’s say you have to absorb the heat generated by a given amount of electricity but want to do it in the most weight efficient way possible.

It turns out that regular old water has basically the highest latent heat of fusion at room temperature and pressure, which means a block of ice can absorb more heat by melting than pretty much anything else gram for gram.

What if the VR headset could just freeze itself overnight and then no fans or reliance on dissipating heat into the external environment but instead into the ice.

It’s probably stupid but I do know water is the best know molecule in terms of latent heat of fusion per gram at room temperature and pressure.
State Scoop: Are states using unethical AI software?
"The information we found suggested that [the tools] were using data and analytics that didn’t make sense for fraud detection -- things like social media profiles, how far you were traveling for groceries — all kinds of random assortments and information,” Fergusson says."

Hammers, nails, predictability, and black boxes.
Well over 10 years ago, I went through a phase when I was into ripening cheese. I'd get a round of brie and put it into the bookshelf in my cubicle at work, for weeks. Very tasty.

One time I had a mild fever that I'm sure was from eating the stuff, but recovered overnight.
Thanks for this. On the updated video[0] there is an absolutely fascinating comment from a former McDonnell Douglas employee who worked with Maurice Ward and had first hand experience testing Starlite. Among other things, he states that it was actually a family of compounds formulated for specific applications and that "all that stuff about being a hairdresser was a red herring that [Maurice Ward] used to distract people from the fact that he'd spent years in the plastic recycling business," with polypropylene being incorporated into at least some Starlite formulations. Sounds like quite a character.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IbWampaEcM comment by grampsinsl5232
Metal Support for MapLibre Native iOS Is Here
It seems that that use has been entirely supplanted, or more, but Marijuana use in the same period[1,2].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/health-effects/teens.html
[2] https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2022/08/marij...
I once had a stock alert product running on a backend I wrote. One person signed up for alerts for every single Nasdaq ticker there was. We didn’t expect that.
>I routinely go months in between using some of my various subscriptions - be it Netflix, Hulu, Audible, etc. I would be very upset if they cancelled on me... I maintain the subscriptions because I can afford to do so.

I also can afford to do that but if that isn’t throwing money away I don’t know what is. I only consistently pay subscriptions that I consistently use. I feel like resubscribing is pretty easy and painless also, so not sure why you’d pay for something you know you don’t use consistently?
That only says you don't have such a bad worst enemy.
VMware confirms critical vCenter flaw now exploited in attacks
Agriculture has low energy density. <2% of US energy consumption despite being more than half of the land in the continental US.
From a technical perspective, what are the differences between the two?
This changes surveillance from requiring the cooperation of a cell carrier to passive warrantless mass surveillance. This will be abused. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/what-we-learned-oaklan...
Address verification is optional. Depending on your merchant account, you can request address verification for a customer, and you may get a lower discount rate with correct address information. But you can also run charges without it.
Relisten.net is also free if Grateful Dead and other similar bands fit your taste
It's been a while since I've done some benchmarks, but it can definitely do 40MB/s sustained writes, which is very good given the single 1GbE links on each node, and 5TB SMR drives.

Latency is hilariously terrible though. It's funny to open a text file over the network in vi, paste a long blob of text and watch it sync that line by line over the network.

If by "rub" you mean scrub, then yes, although I increased the scrub intervals. There's no need to scrub everything every week.
It's actually quite conductive when you'd try to exploit it's breakdown strength as coolant and insulation for high voltage power electronics.