skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the blue LED came onto the market in the 1990s, it took less than a decade for them to become shelf items of a couple dollars each at electronics retailers.

It was also around that time that web-based communities of computer technicians really took off. Web forums, etc.

The coincidence led (yup!) to a love-at-first-sight relationship. Funny as it may seem now, being a mere 20 years later (or: "holy crap, it's been 20 years!, how did that happen??"), there were a few years there in the 2000-2005 region during which the de-riguer of computer nerdery was to go blue LED crazy.

It felt elite, cutting edge, rare, oh-so-techy. And it's funny now, to look back at the windowed PC cases full of LEDs and garishly lit by cold cathode tubes, with our mouses and speakers and other electronic gadgets painstakingly swapped over to blue.

And within a further couple of years - from about 2005 onward, if not sooner - the commercial market had taken over the trend and made it boring, passe. We hackers and overclockers weren't interested any more. Indeed, these ultra bright things began to get annoying. Within about 5 years the modding scene's blue LED craze began, peaked, commercialised, became a liability ... at which point we began to hastily obscure our blinding modifications with another, very different, product whose very identity hinges upon the colour blue : Blu-Tack! [0]

So where did it all end up, this short-lived cultural crossover between blue LEDs and hackers? Well, basically, the commercial market morphed into the "RGB" movement of lit-up computer hardware. RGB fans, RGB cases, RGB panels on graphics cards, etc. But I still think the blue LED is pretty cool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_Tack
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Oh man, 3 more novels to read -- thanks!
You're not storing the heat that's underground, it's just that the ground is a huge thing with massive heat storage capacity that doesn't notice weather as much as above ground does.

If above ground ranges from 0-100 degrees F, underground likely ranges from like 64-68 degrees F, which makes it really energetically "cheap" to get to your preferred temperature range, heating to idk 70 at most and cooling to probably not even 65.
You see, this even has echos of Red Scare era hysteria. It's hardly anything novel.
I'm reminded of Maciej Cegłowski's "The Website Obesity Crisis" (2015):

https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
I have mixed feelings about heat pumps. Where we live winters aren't too harsh - our coldest night would be around -18C and for the most part January/February hovers around -10C at night. Our main heating is oil-based hot water baseboard radiator which I think is THE BEST type of heating solution from comfort standpoint. But few years ago we installed two mini-split heat-pumps which work great and save us a ton of money - BUT they don't heat the house evenly and you must leave all indoor doors open for effective heating. There is an option to convert the main heating to a geothermal heat-pump heating up the water but that is quite an expensive solution right now. For now I am never giving up oil in the foreseeable future.
Yes I believe this is true. A capable general purpose SDR can do almost all the things that purpose built illegal device can do. What's protecting society is that figuring out how to do this on an expensive SDR is non-trivial. The illegal purpose built GPS-jamming devices just make it dead simple.

My take is that what makes the Flipper so revolutionary/disruptive is that it puts all these previously difficult to pentest systems (NFC/RFID and sub-GHz radio mainly), behind a dead simple UI.

One example is intercepting a particular NFC card's password to read its protected sectors. This requires reading the card's UID, then presenting that UID to a reader hooked knows that UID's password, recording the password it sends, then using that password on the NFC card.

Prior to the Flipper this NFC password interception was possible but difficult. The Flipper make this sort of NFC MITM attack dead easy. It's literally just 4-5 clicks in the UI. I've cloned my own hotel key cards this way. (And it's impractical to secretly clone someone else's card this way since it requires tapping the Flipper on the same card twice)
>Prices aren’t dropping and wages aren’t rising to keep pace. That is the reality on the ground. These reports aren’t meaningful at all, and I don’t think the government is taking enough meaningful action to address issues of inequality that these things cause.

"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it". —Jeff Bezos <https://sports.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-explains-2123...>
Can we also get a decaf version. Or tears.
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Have you considered a weekly version as well - I personally don't like receiving daily e-mails
Just pointing out how ridiculous some post on a forum being used as evidence sounds.
Ah yes, one step closer to Slaughterbots reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU
https://archive.is/5sSJD
Emergency heat was under-installed. In the midwest, you have to have it, and it will suck down a ton of electricity for the handful of days a year you need it. Being entirely reliant on mini-splits without resistive emergency heating is a very strange choice, and it's not what heat pump advocates are recommending.

The idea behind heat pumps is to eliminate the need for the natural gas distribution infrastructure. As the infrastructure ages, more pipes will crack (emitting greenhouse gasses, not to mention blowing up), and the cost will go up. Meanwhile, more renewable electricity is coming online, driving the cost down. (It is a much harder problem to replace every gas furnace in the US versus replacing every power plant in the US. That's why the process is starting early with "hey, maybe you don't want to replace your furnace".)

Right now, it probably doesn't make a lot of sense to have a heat pump for the average midwestern house unless you have a pretty big solar installation. But in the future, the day will come where "we're going to pipe explosive gas into your house" is simply not done anymore. That will come in the form of gas companies not being able to maintain their infrastructure at the prices they charge, declining fossil fuel reserves, international demand to lower emissions, etc. It's not a crisis today, but today is not a bad day to start looking towards the future.

(I'm looking forward to replacing my gas stove with an induction stove. CO2 levels are through the roof whenever I cook to the point I have to open windows. I don't need to be breathing all of that.)
-18C is very cold!
I'm worried that we're headed for another Dark Ages, between declining literacy rates, forced climate migrations, falling population (increasing population = higher specialization = more knowledge generation), overreliance on advanced technology, and complex systems that grow ever more rigid and lose their ability to adapt. With complex systems, when you get a shock to the fundamentals of the system, you often see the highest and more interconnected layers of the system fail first, since it's easier for simpler systems to reconfigure themselves into something that works.

I wonder if something like Asimov's Encyclopedia Galactica is needed to preserve human knowledge for the upcoming dark ages, and if it's possible to keep the most impactful technologies (eg. electricity, semiconductors, software, antibiotics, heat pumps, transportation) but with a dramatically shortened supply chain so that they can continue to be produced when travel and transport outside of a metropolitan region may not be safe.
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"It's harder to be rich so more people want to be rich."

We call this changing the goalposts. It's also logically incorrect as "rich" is a relative measure, not an absolute one.
I don’t understand what point you think you’re making.
> It's critical to differentiate between financial assets and AI technology responsibly.

Goody-2 really just referred to Dogecoin as a financial asset. Or AI technology I guess, but then that means Goody-2 thinks of itself as a financial asset. Which is actually a very funny thing for an AI to call itself.
Status quo bias is very strong. If you proposed accepting tens of thousands of fatalities per year, bulldozing entire city neighborhoods, kids not being able to cross the street safely, smog, and constant traffic noise people would be horrified. One common justification NIMBYs use is increased traffic aka the burden other drivers impose on a neighborhood by driving through. Ironically instead of identifying the root of the problem (too many cars and the subsidized infrastructure supporting them) they blame one of the solutions (more housing).
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Who is this and why should I care? I don’t typically follow twitter legal drama.
Why compare them? The fact that you are is a bit of an own goal if you are attempting to defend the IDF here.
Sorry! Thanks for the heads up. Will fix shortly, here’s the link otherwise.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swearby-app/id6446050386
> and a human-readable explanation of the issue is set as the value.

This is annoying to translate later. At least also include some error code string that is documented somewhere and isn't prone to change randomly.
Yet kids are required to keep the species going, so society needs to support their existence. Again, this isn't a problem for the kids; it's a problem for their neighbors who had an unrealistic expectation of living in a perfectly quiet place in an apartment building.
> We often get mired in the debate of "should people be able to learn to make bombs or how to best kill themselves" (and those are important debates), but our solutions to those problems will have big implications for future access to knowledge, and who gets to control that access. In the process of trying to prevent a short-term harm, we may end up causing unintended long-term harm.

I agree -- I call this the "Age of Dislightenment". I wrote about this at length last year, after interviewing dozens of experts on the topic:

https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-11-07-dislightenment.html
But if AI becomes the primary way to learn, how will the AI learn new things? Everything AI has learned about the outside world has to come from somewhere else.
There are some differences, but it's useful to think of the iPad introduction in January 2010. Apple didn't create a keyboard for it until November 2015 with the "Smart Keyboard" and then nearly five years later, the "Magic Keyboard" that brought cursor support.

Apple marketing is focusing on using hands, sure, but that they were so quick to make it compatible with keyboards/trackpads is revealing.
FWIW you can also get heat pumps that feed into regular central heating. The split units are nice because you can heat different rooms to your liking but if you prefer a central approach, that’s also possible, just like it is with a furnace.
Natural gas won’t stay cheap. It was cheap here in Australia 10 years ago and now it’s so expensive no one can afford to run gas heating and it’s only going up. Now (thankfully) the government has banned the installation of new gas heating and a lot of people are getting rid of gas cooking, hot water heating etc… it’s for the best.
I'm curious what the motivation was for linking this now. This repo hasn't been updated in two years. Meanwhile, there are at least five other Rust MPMC queues in use that have been recently updated.

Is there something unique about its algorithm? I'm afraid the repo is low on documentation.
I mean, instead of an argument you responded with some kind of rant about your Airbnb experience.

So his point still stands.
Since this post is lacking a lot of context on what this even is:

https://nichenavigator.io/reports/2be641d7-8a16-43c3-94f7-04...

this is for r/devops

seems to find 'pain points' from ppl complaining on the sub and suggests product ideas to fix it.
True, all the normie idiots do not give a flying fuck about privacy, and they do not even think of it as "trading" it for something, they just give it away without even thinking about it. Germans are a little different and in general a bit more privacy minded, that is why Firefox still has more market share in Germany than in other places.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germ...
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/us

So that is PARTLY the reason, partly is because Google had search dominance of like 95% if something across the west, and they used it to push their Browser soooooo hard, I remember the times because I still used Google at the time. The amount of times I thought to myself "no I do not use your fucking spyware browser" I think they even used anti-AdBlock measures to push you the Chrome ads through adblockers. I was using Firefox and made a conscious decision to do so. Google was funding it, but its goals were noble, it was never actually that much slower than Chrome. I think there were times, long ago, where Mozilla actually advertised with speed and benchmarks and Firefox was faster at some point, I could be wrong. Today Blink for sure is a tiny bit faster, but I really not care, on a Desktop gaming rig you do not feel any difference.
Well they don’t need Reddit to see who is seeding. But posting to Reddit can easily be done through Tor or proxies.
> Lack of standardization is the problem for repairability at least, but it has helped with progress.

What progress? How would having a standard memory or storage connector suitable to the form factor stifle progress?

> It's not like the government mandated a standard for desktop PCs, it just made sense for the industry.

It makes sense in any industry where there are a large number of companies that have to interoperate with each other. The big problem with phones is that there aren't a large number of companies -- the SoCs are pretty much all made by Qualcomm, Apple and Samsung and Apple and Samsung don't sell a lot of chips to third party OEMs.

What they ought to do is break them up so there is some real competition in the market, or at least stop letting them buy up their competitors. But if that isn't going to happen then something else needs to happen, because the status quo is broken.

> I'm not convinced that phone upgrades would work too well, due to incompatibilities.

There is a new form factor for memory called CAMM, quite space efficient. Suppose there was a smaller version of that suitable for phones, all the phones used it, and then compatibility exists in the sense that every phone using DDR5 is compatible with every other phone using DDR5, but if your phone takes DDR6 then you need DDR6, also a standard, just a newer one. Why would this not work? It works for everything else.
Wait was that the point? What you mentioned sounded like an unironically ideal state.
All so that these vendors can mis-configure a S3 bucket or use the password "solarwinds123."
> Most of us haven't seen it

Well, that sounds rather useless then, doesn't it
Man I wish it was just jr devs. I cut jrs a ton of slack, they don't know any better. However, it's the seniors with the quick quips that are the biggest issue I run into. Or perhaps senior devs with jr mentalities
I'm not the OP, but probably https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/01/30/arizona-proposes-sola...
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I'd say that SIMD and even moreso CPU internals knowledge is not quite common and upmost performance is I think not among the highest priority goals in libc/libc++/libstdc++. The ones who need it will implement it themselves. The ones that don't need them won't even notice.

Implementation effort and maintanence is by several factors larger than usual "good enough" scalar implementation.
"actually puts effort into enforcing it" being the key. China is corrupt as shit and the enforcers are all bribed.
Agreed, and if security is an issue, creating network connections between every single piece of your application seems to exponentially increase the attack surface.
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The explanation is really well done, it captures the essence of the Pauli exclusion principle without delving too deeply into the weeds. In my opinion the best part of the video is the explanation of the "hole" quasiparticle at 6:10 (I learned this as a pseudo-particle but will defer to Wikipedia [1]).

While a great introduction to semiconductor behavior this does gloss over a very important detail namely direct vs indirect semicondoctors as some others have mentioned. In the video the detail that's glossed over relates to the nature of crystals, namely that they're highly ordered repeating structures but that they don't look the same when viewed from every direction. This means that there isn't a single band-gap but multiple ones depending on the direction of the crystal you're contemplating.

At this point you may reasonably ask why the direction matters and now we unfortunately get deep into the weeds with quantum mechanics again. When a single photon is absorbed in the semiconductor system both momentum and energy must be conserved. The momentum of the photon for something like the Silicon bandgap is quite small (something like the equivalent of an electron traveling at 1500m/s) while the momentum of room-temperature conduction electrons is substantially faster [2] so as a very slight simplification transitions due to the absorption of photons are not accompanied by a change in momentum and so we only care about the band structure (and the accompanying free carriers) associated with a particular crystal direction.

In particular in Silicon you have what's called an indirect bandgap, namely the minimum energy conduction band electrons have a different momentum from the valence band holes ([3]) and as a consequence while you can _absorb_ a photon in order to make a detector you cannot make it efficiently _emit_ a photon as an LED should (something the video got wrong).

None of this matters for the heart of the video, which focuses blue LEDs in the GaN materials system which is definitely a direct bandgap material, however if someone does manage to create a manufacturable light emitter in pure Silicon expect an absolute revolution with regards to optical computing and photonics. (Not for lack of trying, this has been the holy grail for at least 20 years, possibly longer)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
[2] https://www.chu.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Chen...
[3] https://www.iue.tuwien.ac.at/phd/wessner/node31.html
A simple Google search reveals that the number of accidents caused by unlicensed drivers is ~20%, not ~0%: https://usclaims.com/educational-resources/non-licensed-driv...

Moreover, the requirement to receive a license is only to pass, not to pass "with flying colors".
>Apparently, because you can't seriously be asking that question.

YEs I was asking seriously. You still haven't explained what those challenges could be. All you do is mock people for their genuine questions without providing any actual answers/information to back up your vage statements.

>You've clearly never worked in any kind of customer support position

Then if that's clear for you I haven't never done that, why would you not understand I was being serious? Why are you being disingenuous here? Or you just enjoy being a troll?

> because businesses and individuals need all kinds of help with a transition like that.

Mate, 12 year-olds in my developing country can run Windows 11 updates/installs for you, including installing pirated licenses and cracks for you if you pay them 5 bucks.

What could be so complicated that the internal IT of a company can't figure out the transition from Windows 10 to 11 that they need to pay outside help for that? Especially that backwards compatibility is one of Microsoft's fortes to make life easier for admins and convince companies to stay in their ecosystem.
CHERI === "Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC"
"neural-chat" (a Mistral fine-tune, I think?) on Ollama leans toward Lincoln, but would not commit to it.

> "Considering their physical attributes, it would seem that Abraham Lincoln had a slight advantage due to his height and potentially greater weight. However, without knowing the exact circumstances or any combat skills of either individual, it is impossible to determine who would win in such a fight."

Personally, I'm 110% certain Lincoln would win, even if they were the same age at the time of the fight.
China doesn’t want a showdown, it’s not Russia/Iran/NK/Pakistan/…, why must Americans think that if they are not #1 it’s the end of civilization? China only really care about itself (and Taiwan, but that’s a very special and not a black or white situation). US extreme hubris (and increasing plain racism) regarding China is really making me nervous. Americans should instead be following the words of Kennedy regarding Pax Americana. I obviously don’t support China politics, but I fail to see how they are a risk for western democracies and why peaceful coexistence and trade could not continue (in contrast to Russia for example where I’m grateful of US support). I’m open to be shown otherwise.
Maybe we read totally different books called "Blindsight" by Peter Watts because this sounds like a completely different experience than what I and most other readers have had.
>Oh, my library converts strings from one encoding to another, I'll make it load files for you, save files for you, download them over the internet, and give you a command line tool, all in the same repo. The library should just do its one thing. The rest should be left to the user.

>I don't know how to solve it. My one idea is to start an "Low Dependency" advocacy group with a badge or something and push to get people to want that badge on their libraries and for people to look for that badge on libraries they choose.

It sounds like you're conflating low bloat and low dependency, which is like trying to have your cake and eat it too. If you want low bloat libraries, then it's likely you're going to be pulling a lot in that don't independently do much. If you want low dependency libraries, then you'll be pulling in a few that do do a lot.

From my perspective I'd rather have slightly fatter libraries if they're low dependency and by authors I trust. Lodash for instance, sure it's big but the es6 module version supports tree shaking and it's basically the standard library JS never had. Same for something like date-fns for Date. I pretty much pull these two in by default into any project to fill those holes in JS's core library.
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That isn't the table you actually care about because it doesn't hit the residential customer like that. The nominal $/therm in my area has been stable for the last 10 years which might be artificial but to my bank account it's all the same.