skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one would be able to mine profitably while using a diesel generator, so this isn't going to happen

Let's consider a large-scale mining operation that would use 20% (or up to 20% for elastic miners) of the current energy usage of a region. This isn't a hypothetical, this is something that's happened many times.

One of 3 things (or a combination of them) will happen:

A) The energy companies are now incentivized to produce more energy, which has an impact on the environment. Greenhouse emissions, resource extraction, waste, etc.

B) The mining operation may only use surplus energy in some situations. Or at least they claim to, though I'm skeptical of these claims. Regardless, this disincentivizes the energy company from producing energy in an elastic manner; they can now keep their production methods running a bit longer, and they'll get paid for this energy. See (A) for the problems with this. They may also have been incentivized to store surplus energy or peer with other companies whose energy demands would be complementary. They no longer have this incentive

C) More demand for energy results in higher prices for the other customers of the energy company.

I'm really glad BC hydro didn't accept the bid.
Well, keep in mind almost nothing is deleted any longer. Only a deleted_at column is populated in the database, which prevents it from being listed by default. But data is not deleted, and those accusations might last forever as well.

This is where being an EU resident would be handy.
Isn't the point of a second factor that it's... Not the same as the first factor?

My TOTP app password is one of the few that don't go into the password manager. Might as well make 'em compromise each separately.
The feeling you get when you’ve gone into one of those aircraft hanger-size buildings and then you see some of the information they’ve gotten with ground tests ( radar, mercury, etc ) is wild. The site is huge.

One of the suppositions is that the main chamber contained a model of his entire kingdom, replete with rivers of mercury.

So yes. Archaeology is a bit destructive, and sometimes the destruction can go both ways. Proceed with caution.
"In good faith" or "with good intentions" mean the same.

Isn't every referendum system plagued with that problem. Want a second opinion? Ask any Oregonian!

The alternative is to have elected officials write and pass laws. But they're elected because of popularity, not legal prowess. "I could drink a beer with them" is almost never "they are clearly best qualified to write the rules by which we all live."

As Churchill never said (but not originally), "the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
I just don't understand the insisting on video interviews and video calls. I would never want to do a video call with a prospective employee. A normal phone call has always been more than enough for me to get a feel for a person when I'm hiring. And if a recruiter can't get to know somebody by phone, then they're simply incompetent at their job of interviewing and hiring, which most of them frankly are.

If the job is super important, then the recruiter should manage to arrange a face-to-face interview with the candidate. To me video calls are a huge sign of immaturity.
> Why is this a good thing? Shouldn't cops be able to lie and put pressure on suspects?

The problem is that--so far--we don't have a good way to allow the acceptable kinds while also prohibiting the terrible kinds.

Imagine the police give an overwhelming list of false/non-existent evidence and testimony, so that the average (innocent) person would assume they're being deliberately framed by some power they are unable to fight, and that the only way to protect themselves and their loved ones is to buckle under.

Another example would be where police lie/deliberately-mislead a suspect about the consequences of a confession.
> They have nothing that we want

Sure they do - a big border with the US's main geopolitical rival, China. The US anti-China strategy relies on making it difficult for China to secure resources in the event of a war - blocking sea routes, destabilising western paths that could be used, southern countries being a bit leery of China's military.

They're majorly screwing themselves over by encouraging cooperation through the northern border and giving Russia every incentive to establish what overland trade routes it can. The NATO response to Ukraine seems a bit panicked - they're acting like they suddenly realised they aren't as competitive and secure as they thought. Building up a Russia-China-Iran axis under those conditions is an unforced error that is not clever. If the US had been more reasonable about Ukraine, we could be talking about how China is hemmed in from all angles. Instead the north and west look like they might be opening up to them.

Combine that with the US getting literally nothing out of the Ukraine war except an opportunity to blow up resources that they really needed at home (and reopening old wounds with people who didn't need to be enemies I suppose), and the situation is a bit of a baffler. I can explain it with corruption, I can explain it with stupidity, but I'm struggling to find a "here is how the US comes out ahead" perspective.

I can only guess at what Iran and the Houthi are thinking, but it is interesting that after watching NATO's performance in Ukraine the Middle East immediately starts to flare up. Might be a coincidence but that isn't saying great things about NATO's reputation. I dunno, it might be fine. We'll see.
This made me interested as well. Why the exact cut-offs, right?

I found few resources like NOAA https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/sshws.pdf and wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale saying basically about the wind speed that the actual wind speed is "sustained winds as average winds over a period of one minute, measured at the same 33 ft (10.1 m) height" and then I thought ok if this scalar we're using is correlated to potential damage, that would mean force, right? They did remove air pressure and storm surges as components later on. I didn't bother with air pressure outside of standard since it would deviate a lot into researching exactly that.

Since it's not really my domain, I decided to wing it by googling around and looked for wind force formulas. One that I found out ( https://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2017/09/07/hurricane-wi.... ) can roughly be translated as F = v^2 but then when I charted it out with x being wind speed and y proportional force, only thing I found out was that it looked logarithmic (which I didn't need a chart for lol ).

The other I found was saying for wind load formula "The generic formula for wind load is F = A x P x Cd where F is the force or wind load, A is the projected area of the object, P is the wind pressure, and Cd is the drag coefficient." I had to hunt for variables here, but gist of it is that since scale is in mph I went USA with 1 square foot for A - area (and then to square meters from that, 0,093 m^2), wind speed to m/s, and went with these (more googling): Wind Pressure (P) is P = 0.5 x p x V^2 where p (rho actually) is air density (google: 1.225 kg/m^3 at sea level and 15C, I couldn't find one at 10m height), V is our wind speed, and Cd (drag coefficient) for a flat plate which is 1.28 according to https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/VirtualAero/BottleRocket/a....

tl;dr; I couldn't find clear cuts in Newtons. I tried minimum, maximum and average wind speeds for each categories, and then I kind of lost interest there. More googling says that it was based on established observations what wind force can do to structures, but no more than that and I couldn't source original work to see more details.

Outside of optics, this is as far as my physics will lead me tonight. I'd be highly interested to see if anyone more in the know can provide methodology behind it, be it from meteorology, construction, or fluid dynamics.
Also a favorite: "Your browser does not support Passkeys".

It sure does, which these horrible sites could easily verify by invoking the single line of JavaScript [1] to learn as much, instead of assuming "Firefox -> must be unsupported". Absolutely infuriating.

[1] https://gist.github.com/miguelmota/ad833d2e6f024a7189f803664...
Yes, and?

If you can't manage minor levels of coordination because your database is on fire, the problem is that your database is on fire.
Here on HN people occasionally point out that the NIF's primary job is nuclear weapons maintenance.

That's not actually the case. Or it is, because it receives money from the Congress for this reason, but it is, let's say, "complicated".

The NIF was actually created for the purpose of achieving controlled nuclear fusion for civilian production of energy, unrelated to any weapons. They ran into various technical problems. Several times they projected that if they can build an ensemble of lasers to deliver xxx kJ or MJ, then they could achieve fusion. Each time they fell well short of their projections. Each time they asked for more funding for a bigger machine because "this time it's going to be different". After the end of the Cold War, the money was scarce, so they pivoted to "weapons maintenance". What weapons maintenance, you ask? Glad you asked, lots of people asked, but nobody would answer because it's classified. You can find on wikipedia [1] quotes like

> Rick Spielman publicly stated that NIF had "virtually no internal peer review on the technical issues" and that "Livermore essentially picked the panel to review themselves". A retired Sandia manager, Bob Puerifoy, was even more blunt than Spielman: "NIF is worthless ... it can't be used to maintain the stockpile, period". Ray Kidder, one of the original developers of the ICF concept at LLNL, was also highly critical. He stated in 1997 that its primary purpose was to "recruit and maintain a staff of theorists and experimentalists" and that while some of the experimental data would prove useful for weapons design, differences in the experimental setup limit their relevance.

One could say this is good news: a bit of white lies to get money from the military and spend on a worthy science project that could one day save the world. Less money for killing, more money for peace, or some similarly uplifting message.

I would argue that it would be better to be honest with the people. Playing this type of games erodes people's trust in science. Conversely, the scientists that indulge in these games will end up thinking "people are too stupid to understand this stuff, we can't trust them to make the right decision. Only we are smart enough to make that decision".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility#NIF...
There were more wars and disasters before capitalism, not fewer. In recent times, both wars and fatal disasters have dropped drastically.
And TOTP predates “this new wave of SMS trash”, when every service actually started using it.
>Now i need to pull out my phone constantly and pay for international roaming

Weird, all the carriers I used either have free international roaming (at least for receiving text), or have wifi calling which allows me to use my phone as if I'm on the home network anywhere with an internet connection.
If somebody else on the cloud is holding your data, they own it. You don't.

If somebody else on the cloud is holding your data, they can take it away from you at any minute.

If somebody else on the cloud is holding your data, you need a backup of that data on your system.

If you have a copy of the data on your system, you can make a separate backup of that data, also under your control.

If you have both your own data, and a separate backup of that data, why are you giving your data to somebody else on the cloud?
Outrageous claims require outrageous evidence.
Cloud native container management platform Weaveworks shuts its doors
> LLMs are a way to make software take orders of magnitude more computational power, electricity, and human labor, while delivering a product whose extremely volatile quality is impossible to assure. The work will never be completed; it will only create the need for ever more labor. For investors, all this churn is attractive. It's disruptive. It's why we can't have nice software.

This quote is the foundation of the blog post and unfortunately misses the point entirely.

Yeah, I agree with all these arguments against using LLMs for software development. That's precisely why they aren't going to be used for that.

Nobody wants to increase the cost of real development. Everyone would rather skip having to write code at all to get a result. From a high level perspective there's no difference between an LLM producing junk results and a team of humans writing bugs.

Though when humans get it right they really get it right and the product is worth much more due to its maintainability built off a good release. This is the missing insight from the blog post. Many businesses will still have to pay for real software dev and those days are not numbered.

LLMs really do grow the market legitimately. Low quality software is like store brand canned goods. It's a high upfront cost for the factory, but the product can scale on other merits.

These products are not mutually exclusive. You can get rid of your call center with LLMs including all the software the agents needed to service an account, but you still want humans writing the critical infrastructure and all the high visibility frontend stuff because you care about the data integrity and good UI/UX. This is what most devs already do all day. There's no threat here.
I don’t believe this. Either the traders are too stupid to understand they need someone to maintain the system and iterate on it or they found and alternative in the time the original system was being developed.
Worked out well actually, it's not a more careful choice but plenty of people including myself avoided college because of the debt and then you most of the military enlisted population who are only there to avoid college debt. So people do respond to the threat of debt.

With cars it might result in less car ownership and better public transport (more people need to use it), which is also nice for the climate. But the law itself is filled with financial penalties to reduce bad behavior, how is this different?

The ultimate goal though is to kill the parasite which is the middle man mandatory insurance.
I liked this part of the article at the end:

“ The defence of Stalinism consists often in proclaiming that the ugly misdeeds and crimes of Stalinism are the fault of Stalin, Beriya, Mekhlis, Kolman, and the hord of their minor clones and replicas, while in fact Stalinism was created by millions. Stalinism in science was mainly raised by scientists themselves. It is indecent to pretend that Luzin's students safeguarded their teacher and science from Stalinism. Luzin was a victim of social ostracism and lived with the brand and stigma of an adversary with a Soviet mask during fourteen years up to his death. He became an exemplary outcast for Stalinism—an adversary at large. Luzin's colleagues and students lowered and neglected him, which culminated in slapping in his face and spitting on his tomb. Luzin has passed away but the false accusations in sabotage and obsequiousness are still effective.”

Very well said. People put the blame of Stalinism on Stalin and some other powerful figures. But it takes millions to create such movements
I actually opened that issue - I'm ukd1 on github too. I looked at fixing it at some point, but it tbh didn't seem that easy or like they had time to help, I should probably revisit. The script I couldn't get working right last time I tried, but I should give it a re-look!
I once worked in a building with terrible cell reception. I hated anything that required SMS for 2FA because I'd have to go outside to get the text message.

My in-laws lived in an area with poor cell reception too. Whenever I'd go there, I couldn't use SMS either.

Both of those places had good Internet service. Any time SMS was required, my UX was terrible. Hooray for anyone who supported TOTP, email, or any other form of 2FA.
What happens when they smash their phone and now you have to do account recovery? With SMS authentication you can presumably offload that to the carrier.
I can relate to the author's story about discovering his dad's charts as a kid and being fascinated by them. I'd forgotten how much I poured over those things, especially with how dense they are. I'm sort of prompted to visit an FBO and grab some expired charts for my kids. (Do FBOs even still have that stuff just lying around? It has been decades.)
As much as I hate the apps, I'm not prepared to refinance my house just to avoid installing them on my phone. Especially when the other banks probably have the same policies, or will soon.
I use my Google Voice number for everything because I can't trust I will have the same number if I change carriers (I have found the porting numbers between MVNOs can be hit and miss) and because I sometimes travel internationaly. Now, stupid companies are demanding a phone number, and blocking Google Voice from being used...
The EU will force companies to give you an extra 12-month guarantee for repairs
The problem is customer support load. Also what does the company do about those without a smartphone? No smartphone no service? This is why businesses peg account authentication to phone numbers. It offloads IAM overhead to phone companies.
I sometimes feel like the one weirdo using jsxstyle (originally by Pete Hunt of React 1.0), but it's been great for me. It's a really simple concept - exposing CSS keys as props:

<Block
backgroundColor = 'red'
hoverBackgroundColor = 'blue'
marginH = { 4 }
marginV = { 12 }
padding = { 16 }

Works in both React and Preact. It's designed to support generating styles at build time, but I've never bothered. For the sorts of things I work on, being able to quickly bang out a component is more important than golfing the bundle size or maintaining a design system.

jsxstyle feels like I can sculpt in code. It's really satisfying to hammer out some props and see a component come to life, especially when you've got hot module replacement working.

Based on a quick perusal of linked page, Panda seems like perhaps a more mature version of jsxstyle, but also more fidgety. As an army of one, I'm happy to optimize for iteration speed, but if I needed to maintain a system, maybe I'd consider switching to Panda.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsxstyle
I would guess the time to fix is O(days) and a cost of thousands to tens of thousands and the time to design a new plane is like a decade with a cost of 10+ Billion.
https://www.rivadata.com/

I have been hacking together a poor-man's crunchbase that's fueled by GPT.

React / Python / Supabase. The most interesting piece thus far has been the success of the self-correcting loops through GPT. At each turn basically feeding the results back to another 3.5 prompt that is only about reviewing quality. I found that with these loops you can get solid results without having to use the more expensive GPT4 API.

(Also loving all the projects in this thread)
My understanding is that the people who work at my local charity store are unhoused people who can only stay in the shelter if they work at the store.
ever heard of software bugs and gps jammers? Your second EFB idea is still having a common point of failure, the E.F.B. And being a software engineer, I really do not trust software. :)
The viz shows visible light, but you'll be basking in gamma and more energetic photons as they've all shifted up. It does note that infra red shifts into visible light. I wa swondering whether the perspective change is accurate as the length contraction should've brought everything much closer.
Never EVER respond to anyone calling you. If they claim to be from your bank, say you will call them back and dial the numbers on the back of your card.

Never respond to anyone calling you if you do not know them personally.
Wonder if the 0.5B model with int4 quant runs on my router...
Lynk forges ahead with public market debut (direct sat to unmodified phone)
> With the continued push to have the phone number as a global identifier (offline and online), we need our telco providers to require more to change phone numbers.

No, we need to push back on this user-hostile trend, not stick on yet more band-aids.

Phone numbers are country-specific, impossible to own in any meaningful way for private individuals (unlike e.g. domain names), and add an unnecessary point of failure.
Embark on a transformative journey into the world of blockchain and cultural renaissance as MYMetanomics collaborates with the Angkor Art Festival. This event promises to be a convergence of technological innovation and cultural expression, propelling local Cambodian artists into the forefront of the blockchain art scene.
I forget completely about Threads, until about every 3 months when an article about it pops up on HN.

I don’t know where these 30M users are, but none of them are anybody in my work/family/friends circle.

And very little chatter about it here on HN either.

I know literally zero people using it, or at the very least talking about using it or sharing stories from it.
I immediately think of the A Perfect Circle recording done at Red Rocks where the acoustics off the rock formations give an extra depth to the noise. Still one of my favorite live albums of all time.
I wrote Tamagui by forking the jsxstyle compiler because I really love that model.
Hey look, a bunch of disjointed, vendor-specific non-standards that become impossible to support. Imagine some hapless Filipino support agent trying to explain to an irate customer their YubiKey drivers are borked.

Why don't we just issue everyone PIV smart cards?
The Secret About Static Types
Did you know that the KiCad file format for schematics and PCB layouts is text? And it kind of reads like source code? You can even check it into Git.

What stops electronics from becoming like programming is the routing. It's NP hard and even the big car companies haven't solved it yet, let alone any tool accessible to hobbyists and startups.

So you spend an hour designing the schematics, a few minutes placing the components, and then hours doing the routing by hand. If your product only replaces the first step, that'll save me at most 10% of the work.

If you want to make a crater in this industry, add an autorouter to KiCad and make it sophisticated enough to handle an ESP32 2-layer board without manual assistance. Altium is like $15k per year and cannot do it yet.
> Also first gen iPad was basically slow as a crippled sloth. It was quickly abandoned by both consumers and Apple

And it had this bulging back so it wouldn't lie still on a table. It was like a bobblehead. It was a really weird design.

The iPad 2 and all further iPads fixed that. And they were all supported for much longer too, yes. It was really a weird 1st gen product.

The same with the iPhone now that I think of it, with its horribly slow 2G and annoyingly recessed headphone jack. Again fixed on the second model.

Oh and the first gen MacBook that had only 1 (deeply recessed) usb port and this huge clamshell case that looked like a ladies handbag if you carried it by its handle. Cool yes but practical no. And the round mouse so you couldn't feel which way was up. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if someone actually tried to use this stuff before it was shipped out the door XD

I had both the iPad 1 and iPhone 1 though and it was cool to be an early adopter. But for the vision pro lol no, out of my price range.
Somebody already pays for it. Once regulations ensure that it's the companies skimping on KYC themselves, most will happily outsource that task to the cheapest (compliant) provider.