skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found what could be called the SPUR agenda to be useful: Status; Plans; Uncertainties; Risks.†

† As I understand it, in economics, "uncertainties" are things that simply can't be known; "risks" are things that have known outcome possibilities but it's not (yet) known which will happen, e.g., which sides of a pair of dice will come up. This is from a book I'm reading, Fluke, by Brian Klass.
That’s so interesting ans goes against everything I’ve been taught during high school and uni!
> the VC industry

VC is a broad term.

Most of the time the Chinese and Indian operations of VC funds are separated from the American fund, and have a different set of partners and a different pot of money.

It was because of this that international funds like Sequoia divested their American fund from their Chinese and Indian funds.

This was a reason behind why YC ended up shutting down YC India and YC China around 2018-19 (but also because they couldn't compete with Sequoia India-now-Peak XV Surge or Antler in Asia)
I also find this fascinating. I just listened to ATP's latest episode (not sure if it's out to non-paying members yet, I listen to the "bootleg" feed) and Marco agreed the MVD was too blurry but Casey said it was great to work on. Granted Casey was using it in a hotel room and on a train which, as I've said in my blog posts on this [1] and my HN comments, I can see being better than just the MBP monitor (in size and ergonomics, not quality) but if you have external displays available they beat the pants off the AVP. My 2K displays are leaps and bounds better than the AVP's MVD.

Maybe Casey's opinion will change with time and/or once he is at home more but I know he likes to go to the library/coffee shops to work so maybe the AVP is a step up for him in those cases. I don't do that, I work at home or at my parents house (where I built a second office, with the same external monitors) so I don't have a good use case for the AVP other than media consumption where it does amazing, but not $4K amazing.

[0] https://atp.fm

[1] https://joshstrange.com
I tried out Amazon Bedrock, and used Tonic Validate to do a head to head comparison of very simple RAG system's built using embedding and text models available in Amazon Bedrock. I compared Amazon Titan's embedding and text models to Cohere's embedding and text models in RAG systems that employ Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases as the vector db and retrieval components of the system.

The code for the comparison is in this jupyter notebook https://github.com/TonicAI/tonic_validate/blob/main/examples...

Let me know what you think, And your experiences building RAG with Amazon Bedrock!
So, a lot of the recent attention is on bifacial east-west arrays because they produce a complementary duck curve throughout the day. In that case, pure vertical makes sense, and production just takes a dip at local solar noon and recovers soon after.

But for traditional south-facing panels, I'd argue that straight vertical is still optimal, at least for higher latitudes. Vertical panels are extremely good at shedding snow. They produce more in winter when you need every watt you can get, and less in summer when the sun is high in the sky and you don't need all that extra power anyway. As soon as you tilt the panels to minimize cosine loss, you open yourself up to snow buildup which can dwarf any cosine gains.
The restriction was that that 4K needed to be on 7th Gen Intel or newer and Windows only. This was due to the requirements that the DRM used Intel SGX security so if the underlying CPU did not have this tech then it cannot decrypt the disc. So no AMD, Apple or other ARM etc.

The SGX security was recently cracked so I suspect this requirement is going away. The other platforms can easily play the underlying video format, its just the DRM that was preventing it.

[1]:https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12296-full_aacsess_exposing_and_...
As a matter of fact he did. He sued the other Michael in Canada.
F-35 Struggled with Reliability, Maintainability, Availability in 2023
This is why I advocate separation of work space and personal space, especially when working from home. It allows my mind to reset after physically leaving a space designated for work. If I don't, my mind will linger on work way more than I need to. At a minimum, I'd like to have separate PC for work, and even a separate desk for work. Ideally, I'd like a separate room for work but I don't have the luxury of having another empty room.
My company makes a big point in work-life balance. We can meet up in a bar to throw darts at most 2 times per year - anything more and we are impacting family time. Lunch is a good social time, but that is personal time and often better spent meeting with people not on the team (some always go home, some meet with old team members...) Your team should meet during your normal 40 hour work week (or whatever hours you work) for team social time.
The toothbrush DDoS attack: How misinformation spreads
I don't even care about the body, that title is awful and screams "how do u do fellow kids?"
I don't know anything about Martian geology but wouldn't you need a large amount of travel around the planet to acquire everything an industrial civilization needs like resources for solar or nuclear power because it's lacking the easily accessible fossil fuels Earth had. And is it cost effective to mine on Mars and export? I thought using asteroids for that was easier.

And honestly, I don't think Musk is planning to do it, my opinion it's 60% marketing strategy 20% wishing for government funding for a small science mission 20% wishing the Mars colony happens somehow.
> Managers around the world blindly adopt the same standup meeting format, without critical thought to its usefulness. It is the meeting agenda version of “you won’t get fired for buying IBM”.

The business term for this is "best practice".
I think that Blindsight was extremely on depressing/grimderp/evil side.

I really like hard SF and will never again read by this author.

> Standard internet Watts warning that the Rift novels have random sexual torture just in case you prefer to avoid that

in thread next to this one is not really surprising me

Also, not really sure is Blindsight actually hard SF. It seems to be soft one at most with a lot getting close to magic with SF styling.
Toolbx, Distrobix, Nix are supposed to fill that usecase.
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/layout/columns/#reordering

Bootstrap grid system is super complete, and probably better coded that anything I can make. Its also available as a standalone module, so the size is pretty small. I just wanted it integrated to PicoCSS because I'm lazy.
I like and recommend this one, but I also think he pulls a lot of sleight-of-hand... a lot of it is based on the premise that the client is willing to share (or can even get, in big enough companies...) numbers that inform the value created. For a tech consultant bopping between companies and industries, it's really challenging to come up with these numbers. Likewise, I found that even if you can prove a number, getting a big company to bite on it (unless you are truly talking to a Cx0) is nearly impossible... case in point... a major west-coast health care company had a crisis. I found the problem and laid out a path for a few million dollars to solve the problem. It was somehow way easier to pay IBM $50MM to "solve" the problem rather than the $10MM or less by actually fixing the problem. You run into a lot of that at the Fortune 500, which makes it clear it isn't about "value". Weiss seems to gloss over a lot of this.
Such a good book, though ultimately not that much about surveillance?
Well, yes, exactly.

> Back in the good old days [...] What have we sold ourselves lately?
He is absolutely a scientist and he has done a lot of work in understanding trends in damage from natural disasters (which is super important in understanding the effects of climate change.)

If anything, the post above is "spreading disinformation" about Pielke Jr.
Fly everyone to one place so they can do this. Twice a year is good - enough that it is a good vacation/team building exercise, not so much that people feel like they are married to their job not their spouse.
Item 1 is key in my mind. As someone in a role that procures a lot of services the worst thing someone trying to get a foot in the door can do is “everything”. Especially if you can’t explain how you work.

It leaves all the burden of figuring out how I could potentially use your services on me, and I’ll try my best to avoid having to deal with that uncertainty on top of what I’m already trying to achieve.

If you want to be successful offering services be very clear about how you work.
It doesn't hurt the soil nor the crops and there are already people actively managing the soil composition of farmland. Logistically it's much easier to ship stuff to farms than the middle of nowhere because there are existing supply lines.
> Gemini sounds like the space program

LOL, maybe I'm a bit jaded but Gemini sounds like some kind of cryptocurrency scam.
Renting your music means accepting that it will disappear
This is funny but what isn't is that basically all of the big and useful models are only available after the lobotomization process. Even most of the open source ones.
Ive enjoyed the classical sales books like SPIN selling, Challenger sale, Fanatical prospecting, The Psychology of Selling.
My optimist is that it when it gets real bad governments will do something before it gets catastrophic. Who knows, not a climate scientist, maybe it will be too late.
Less of a problem than not having sales
There's a subtle difference there - the first is asking "past the close" but also is asking a pertinent question about it - people who want it will have a color they want, or need to pick one.

Nobody wants to discuss pricing. It's orthogonal to getting the desired end. You have to discuss pricing, but it is not on the list of things people want to do (if you give it to them free, they won't protest). The second is way too easy to say no to.
Apple is lobbying against right to repair 6 months after supporting it
My wife had her phone stolen recently, in Highbury and Islington tube station. Nothing to be done, by the time she noticed it gone, it was too late. However since then, she's been getting messages from the perps that appears like a message from Apple, with a link that takes you to a surprisingly convincing site, that then asks you to enter your pin. It's clear that not everyone falls for this sort of ploy, but enough do to make it worth the thief's time to steal it, and sell it for parts otherwise.

There are a lot of moving parts to this sort of crime- Apple don't make it easy for you to profit from a locked iPhone, and Android probably don't either. Someone able to write and maintain a convincing-looking website and forward recorded data, someone to take the phone, someone to manage the operation etc etc. Finding out who is stealing the phones would be very helpful in stopping this sort of thing from happening, by cracking the organisations involved.

I get the privacy arguments, but if this does actually help stop thieves, on balance I'm in favour.
Check out the "In the Wild" section on that page, here's the first link https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlime
I hear echoes of astrology, personally, and not good ones.
CGNAT will become common for residential IPv4, because math.

It's more reasonable to expect ISPs to provide native IPv6 alongside CGNAT, than avoid CGNAT entirely.
Rust's safety features and assurances get in the way of absolutely minimal latency requirements. It'd end up as a heaping layer of `unsafe{}` blocks, which would defeat the point, and I'm not even sure that would be sufficient. C++ lets you make a lot of unsafe assumptions about aliasing and such, which an optimizing compiler turns into extremely fast code but is in general unsafe. I'm not sure the Rust compiler would be able to output such code as it currently stands.

Rust's approach is to produce code that is as fast as possible, but with the assumption that safety is paramount over breaking speed records. That's opposite the tradeoff that cutting edge games want to make.

Keep in mind a game engine might make updates to 100,000 objects, 144 times per second. In that context, every nanosecond really does matter.

Investment banks / high frequency traders care a little bit more about safety guarantees. But not as much as you might think. A segfault can cost you a trade, but being 0.5ns slower than the competition will cost you your business.
Thank you for answering!

Yeah there are lots of reasons to not get a heat pump, floor heating is one of them.

And your gp post was not unreasonable, and food for discussion.

But what part for your setup would you replace with GPU heating?
Hows it going is too vague for many. Every ask a kid what they learned at school today? The answer is always "nothing", or silence. You need to ask a different question to get a good answer.

Which is one reason look for and ask different questions - if may break someone out of a rut.
So in the limit, buying POW coins is using that money to consume energy. Selling the coins is taking that money away from energy consumption.
JPMorgan to open more than 500 new bank branches
>But his wife Julie said: 'I am absolutely sick to death at the sight of a matchstick but I think there is still more to come unfortunately.

>'But at least I know where he is and what he's doing, so I'd rather have him there than down the pub.'
Nice! If only I knew this existed last month.

But they also needed a “company seal stamp” which I had to draw
You want politicians to restrict the freedom of speech of US citizens?
The entire history of fiat currency is a combination of warfare and currency collapse.

Why was the Bank of England created? To wage war.

Perhaps “wasting” 2% of the world’s electricity supply will look a lot better when civilization scale money laundering and currency collapse is a thing of history, not to mention the curb on national budgets being allocated to war machines!
Utility companies very reasonably and correctly do both. People, and organizations, can do two things. Maybe even more than two.

On the short term, using less energy is important because it helps smooth over demand curves. If everyone suddenly plugged in an EV tonight, the grid would crash, because demand grew too fast for the utility providers to keep up. That is bad.

On the long term: every metric that measures quality of life correlates with energy usage. On the long term: this is the path of kardashev type 1 for our great-great grand children. Blanket the earth in solar panels, turbines, and nuclear (and sure, some fossil fuels are good to). Solar panels aren't free to build. The market needs a reason to build them. I don't really care what the reason is. "Crypto" feels better to me than "turning on your heater and opening the window during the winter" as someone else in this thread suggested. Trying to quantify "how much better" feels like a waste of time that could be spent building more power plants.

My statement "crypto financed a 2.3% expansion of US power generating capacity" is obviously dramatic; the mechanism isn't precisely A causes B. Its dramatic toward the aim of communicating the message that Demand creates Capacity, and if you believe Capacity is Good (which is not something up for belief or debate, unless you're Ted Kaczynski) then it logically follows that Demand is Generally Good.

That does not mean nor force the conclusion that All Demand Is Equally Good. I never said that. But, generally, it is good.
PG shares data between process not code as far as I know and definetly not any plans. Sharing jitted code is not straight forward as pointers will be different per process.
I think it might seem pushy to people that are highly skeptical of the product, but in most cases, a sale is implied. When you go to Starbucks, they ask what they can make for you. They don't say "Let me know if you want to talk price."

Car sales is another obvious example. They don't talk price until you're committed (at least in principal) to purchasing the car.
There's many reasons I have my team do our standup in a designated chat room rather than in person.

One reason is because it eliminates facilitation on my part. I don't have to cut people off and make them stay on topic.
His last comment on HN was like, five days ago. I'm sure he's okay.
Merchant Princes series is about my favorite cstross!
It's still valuable to share information about progress and impediments with the whole team. Alice and Bob may have some blocker that they've been communicating about, but Chris wasn't a part of those one-on-one conversations, so the standup gives him some valuable context about what's going on with the rest of the team. Maybe his work depends on something Bob was supposed to complete today that's going to take a few more days, or maybe he's encountered a similar problem before and has some advice, or maybe he'll remember the issue when something similar pops up later on. Alice and Bob would have resolved the blocker themselves, but this helps make sure the information is shared across the team in a way that simply moving cards on a kanban board wouldn't communicate.
With my workplace, this one is always kicked around at the end of standup and is usually taken as a joke. Even the boss is in it. It basically means "we're done, now back to work."

That said, about once per week someone will sincerely speak up with a blocker and get help.
i hear it's extremely cold out there
Changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think Essays
Medical ethics really should preclude what these insurance company physicians are doing, which is sometimes rubber-stamping 5000 denials a day. Maybe an organized campaign of board complaints is in order.

Propublica has done an excellent slate of investigatory articles recently about how insurance denials actually work.
Address what? The lack of privacy laws for American citizens across all social media?
All OpenWRT based routers have supported it for a very long time now.

Also note the proposal is for 240/4 to be added to the RFC1918 list, not to be globally routable.

I’ve been using 240/4 successfully in internal networks for over a decade now. The only devices I’ve had problems with are Windows. So for a quick win, Windows just needs to drop special checks they do for 240/4.

I recall the 240/4 idea being floated at least 5-10 years ago. If Windows was changed to allow it at that point, today hardly anyone would be complaining that Ciscos or Junipers or other core routers don’t support it.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
https://archive.is/D7pTZ
I think they also changed the societal and cultural aspects quite a bit. In the book, everything was accepted and there were weren’t any “downtrodden.” The show changed all this with the meths being super billionaires and then there being lots of poor people. And the whole thing with the rebellion.

Book takashi was an envoy super spy person with immense training that stuck with him through sleeves. Tv takashi is like a rebel/terrorist who just got some training and has personality.

In the book, it was fruitless to fight against the government because what’s the point? The tv show seems to want to make a more simple rebels vs big brother.

Still cool, but I think changed the flavor quite a bit.

Second season, of course, is rubbish and I wouldn’t recommend watching it to anyone. It’s suspiciously horrible given how good the first was.
For hobbyists:

The old Edmund Scientific books if you can find them. They didn’t bother with isbn numbers so now that they no longer sell them it’s not easy. Wildly out of date in some ways but good basic explanations of geometric optics and its applications.

Gordon McComb’s Laser Cookbook or the ray gun book. They are basically the same book, one just looks more embarrassing. Also now out of date, but not terribly.

There are a few good hobbyist-level books on holography but I don’t have names at hand.
Stalkerware apps PhoneSpector and Highster appear to shut down
Often blockers can persist for several days or even weeks if they come from external factors. If your manager/team lead spots that you've reported the same blockage from infrastructure twice in a row they can chase that up for you. The idea that any given blocker could/should be resolved within the same working day is just a fantasy.
> Easily detected and killed. Just check their power bill.

except that bitcoin doesn't inherently require any fixed amount of energy and that's why there's a difficulty adjustment, of course this fact seems to go over most people's heads and suggests to me they don't actually understand it
You probably also hate it when someone interrupts your flow to ask for help with their blocker.
I disagree. Especially with remote teams, standups are how I find out that other people on the opposite end of my team are blocked on something I can easily help them with, or that they're doing something that has implications on my own work. I communicate with some people continually. There are others I'd hardly see if it weren't for standups.
A better version I recently came across is “is there anything you need from anybody?”

This includes the classic “blocker” but besides that opens up for interesting conversations, encourages cooperation and isn’t overly management focused.

For the manager it helps uncover potentially hidden dependencies or team animosities.
DataCentral: Uber's Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform
Sounds like a good way to come face-to-face with an SCP, or maybe to become an instance of SCP-xxxx-2.

Come to think of it, I wonder if some of the fascination with SCPs, liminal spaces, "The Backrooms", etc. comes from the fact that there are so many abandoned business and retail spaces. Places that were bustling with activity in the 80s and 90s but, by the time they were discovered by millennials and younger, were already abandoned and devoid of their context.
It is now fully Agile(tm).
Dieter and Shawn are makers at Hack Club. they decided to document the process of building a human-sized microwave to keep them warm during the winter. Will they succeed? Lets find out!
I'll respect your wishes and not try to draw you into a debate here. I strongly disagree with all these points.
Meeting up over lunch doesn't work for remote teams. Nothing worse than eating while on camera. No thank you, I've tried and it's really not great. Especially if you have a hybrid team where some people are in the office eating together in a conference room and some are remote solos, the dynamics get really weird.

One of the biggest benefits to a synchronous standup is you know everyone has showed up and is available to discuss work stuff. With remote teams and flexible schedules, having a hard sync point helps people communicate better, even if it's just "hey, let's stay on the call (or start a new one) for an extra 10 minutes to sort this out" instead of spending hours or days in async communication.
> The five firms used as case studies in the investigation are GGV Capital, GSR Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Sequoia Capital China, and Walden International

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/letters/lett...
> Accept the fact that while IPv6 may seem scary to some, it's the way we _must_ move.

IPv6 availability is far from universal. I have 8 fiber ISPs to choose from. Zero of them offer IPv6.
Some of this may also be cultural. Something that works fine in the US, might be seen as pushy in the UK, for example.
> Deploy change on Friday

I will never understand why any organization even allows Friday or pre-holiday deployments. It's just so obviously a terrible idea on its face.
Can someone explain the meaning of this to me?

Is the encounter with the vampire similar to forgetting why one came into a room because when encountering a vampire in a newly entered room you forget everything before that and focus on the vampire?