skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In countries where there is a natural gas network, in theory you could co-transport hydrogen with mixed the methane, and pay around 1% energy cost to extract pure hydrogen (assuming a 20% hyrogen mix). That seems to me to be the simplest way to deploy hydrogen infrastructure - you don't need to build much, and people are already looking at mixing the hydrogen into the natural gas anyway to reduce CO2 output. Eventually you switch over to pure hydrogen and drop the natural gas, saving the extraction cost.

But that 1% energy cost is assuming thermodynamically optimal extraction. I don't know how close we get in practice.

(I doubt it would be safe to actually have a hydrogen gas pump at everyone's house, either, even if there is a gas line going there, although it would be kind of cool)
Nonsense? Most people aren't software engineers.
Lots of crypto tech doesn’t use this much energy. Proof of work is pretty obsolete by now, so it’s just no longer a relevant argument.

Sure Bitcoin is expensive energy-wise, but criticize Bitcoin for that not crypto.
Alongside Brian Kernighan, the "K" in K&R C, and much more Unix lore.
How and where would you source it from? The tower is gone, there's likely no public domain images of it, no stock images of it, so where do you get a picture of it?
I got back into reading books after a long hiatus and was pleasantly surprised by how much I missed them. The depth of thought and nuance is just totally different than an article or youtube video. I still consume plenty of modern media but feel like I get more out of books on average.

For anyone who wants to get back into reading books my advice is to start with whatever sounds fun. A lot of people fall into a trap of feeling like they need to read something useful or serious and just get turned off to the idea. But reading lighter books are still great and provide a lot that you won't get from tv and similar mediums. Over time your interests will evolve naturally into new areas.
The great thing about any community is that you have free speech, but don't be surprised if your opinion is challenged.

I enjoy both HN and other community sites, both are great ways to communicate.

I don't get this us vs them mentality, but perhaps that is an American thing. Whatever it is, it is silly.
I don’t know your source. None of the ones I’ve seen support that ranking:

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tax-burden-by-state...

Ah, I see that was copied from the list of top tax rates rather than what most people actually pay:

https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/fun-facts/states-with-t...

So, yes, if you’re making millions per year in taxable income, California’s top rate is higher. That is not a concern for anyone outside of the 99.5th percentile, which is uncommon even in FAANG circles.

Tax burden is also the best metric to use because the money has to come from somewhere. If you’re trying to decide where to live, looking at state income tax only is as foolish as only looking at housing purchase prices without also considering your commute, utility, and maintenance expenses.
Your “non-essential” is someone else’s “essential”. Everyone has different needs and wants, and it’s just a useless flamewar. It’s the same as the discussion of whether the cities should stop subsidizing suburbs and other areas. Absolutely useless as everyone have their preferences and we have to find some sort of compromise.
Not all industries are as location agnostic as tech. Cities offer jobs, clients, and collaborators that may be thinly distributed elsewhere.
No safety in numbers: traffic analysis of sealed-sender groups in Signal
In Texas, although homes are valuable it is or was easy to lose your home to an HOA without a court proceeding. There is a famous incident in 2010 where a soldier lost his home and neither him or his wife knew anything about it. Supposedly the HOAs have been reined in but the whole concept of HOA in a state that prizes rugged individualism is beyond me.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/frisco-soldier-gets-home-b...
Or you could just put his code into production (source: I worked at a super successful gaming startup that had this code scattered all over their repo).

They had a bunch of other code problems too, but that was definitely the weirdest thing I saw in my (very short) stay there.
Margaret Mead's LSD Memo
I’m pretty sure (like 99%) that you can unlearn social media and phone bad habits if forced to with minimal fuss. Just go on a month long camping retreat (sans screens) and you’ll see how quickly we adapt.
Somehow i feel that Birdolingo would be a better name :)
In Case You Missed It: OpenAI Founder Sam Altman Is Seeking To Raise As Much As $7 TRILLION For A New AI Chip Project

That’s around ~10% of global GDP…

Or the combined market cap or BOTH Microsoft & Apple.

What’s he going to do with this money?

Put simply, he’s looking to completely reshape the global semiconductor industry.

To build the neccessary global infrastructure, energy and data centre’s required to increase the supply of AI capable chips.

Where’s all this money coming from?

Reports suggest he’s in discussions with the UAE government among others.

Crazy.
DNS Complexity (2007)
I've held on to my 2002 Wikipedia account, and have been SCREAMING "this is the way" since way back when Microsoft was still trying to sell an encyclopedia [on CD-ROM!]. I remember industry "experts" in my own academic village questioning "but how will you TRUST something that anybody can edit?"

----

January 2023, I finally had an LLM cite one of my own written contributions when I began asking about a nuanced technical database which I maintain the article on wikipedia (which was really cool/eerie). This was over a year ago, and every day I continue to be floored by genAI capabilities in discussing published dataset complexities.

I know several lowkey published authors (one whose autobiography I copyedited) that have been terrified by what LLMs know about their own lives, based on commonsense associations/deductions.
Using the same line of reasoning: drug dealers use the us dollar. I don't want to have anything to do with drugs and drug dealears therefore I want nothing to do with any environment that uses us dollars.
If you turn audio on, the audio is very slowed down. Watching sound off it seemed absurd, horrifying, but perhaps the lag is only mild.
both, the park regularly has kids playing in it from the neighborhood. Kids run up and down the streets not worrying about violence, etc.
What is the value of separation of concerns when it comes to UI? Because I find not colocating the logic and styling for a component to be very annoying when it comes to looking for the right files.
> her efforts to speak out against poor working conditions

Sounds like they did her a favor?

Or were the working conditions less than ideal but good enough she still wanted to work at Amazon?
Yeah, it's really not great. To be fair, though, in the dialup days, many of us learned to cope with that ping while still playing Quake 2 or whatever. You can adapt, it just takes a while, and you learn to lead your target. You can make similar adaptations to vehicle control (like playing a racing game on a really laggy old-school plasma TV), but it's not pleasant.

I really wouldn't want highway drivers in that monster truck to have any barriers to their reactions, especially with its nontraditional crumple zone :(
Speaking of school and academia, my daughter is taking the SAT test and me and her are both bamboozled by the passages. The texts are very dense and you don't know what detail to take note of of or discard so your short term memory is immediately overloaded with information. Are there any tips on how she can get better at seeing "through" the details so she can get the essence of the text to answer the questions? She is reading literature and reading The guardian, science articles etc. but none seem to help her.
Oh yeah. This and resource groups are the only two things that azure did well. Everything else is a disaster.
Penalize tech companies for damaging children and put the money towards rehabilitation.
Most hydrogen today is produced by steam reforming from natural gas. Which means hydrogen cars are more expensive natural gas cars.

There is green hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water. But it more expensive than other sources. It only makes sense when fossil fuel sources aren't allowed.

Hydrogen cars are a bad idea. Now, they aren't green and don't have infrastructure. In clean electricity future, battery cars will be better. Hydrogen will be important in the future for industrial processes that need heat. And maybe for long-distance transportation like planes and ships where electricity won't work. But those only make sense with green hydrogen.
Two words: spaced repetition
What "isn't adding up" in that paragraph is possibly a problem with the reading comprehension. Dariusz requested a change, but it wasn't granted and he had to work alone for another five hours.

Granted, the sentence could have been phrased in a way that didn't leave things open to your interpretation, but then we come to the second thing that "doesn't add up": your own bias, evident in your insistence on victim-blaming.

People like Dariusz continue working in adverse, unhealthy conditions because they don't have the luxury of just quitting.
Diravi
if you don't update the code in intermediate layers, some automated validation based on enum values will fail, which also drops the request
10 points, 1 comment, aaaand it's down

https://web.archive.org/web/20240210154636/https://culture.t... only says in chinese "Hello. Your IP address has been blocked"

Edit: original page loaded after several minutes. I do not understand what this is about, it seems to be a rundown of several fish in a museum with some random descriptions like "this one's skin is like sandpaper" and "these sharks ate its siblings in mommy's belly because they were hungry". As for the earthquake thing, the only mention in the whole article (after the title) are these couple words near the middle of the article:

> The first thing to catch your attention when you visit is the five meter long “giant oarfish”, also known as “earthquake fish” on display. Actually there is no solid evidence to prove that the appearance of the fish is connected to impending earthquakes.

No further descriptions of the lore or anything, this is all the info the article has to offer
Oh okay, that makes sense. If you go to preorder, and then FAQ->specifications, it does say ~20 deg for the frames too.
AMD Zen 5 Compiler Support Posted for GCC – Confirms New AVX Features
Primate 0.29: Angular and Marko, MySQL, WebSockets and Server-Sent Events
I agree, I'm not going to learn yet another DSL for describing basic programming constructs when I can just...use a programming language itself. The lack of TypeScript and LSP support for quite a few of these DSLs is also very annoying, you're basically reinventing new tooling for every new framework.
Occupancy rate for commercial property is mostly over 90% in London, and I believe the residential market is even more efficient. How would LTV help if occupancy is so high? Don't forget occupancy rate also highlights slack in the market allowing for the dynamism you need, if you punish that I suspect the unintended consequences would be less desirable than any tax proceeds, after all, all forms of rent control invariably disadvantage the renter the most - and I don't see this being any different - the market would absorb the risk and rental prices would likely increase.
People with different preferences than you are "antisocial"? (Isn't that a bit ironic?)

The GP has a different point of view; there's nothing special about yours or about NYC that makes yours better. The two of you deserve each other.
That is really impressive. The explainer video alone made me start thinking about several different ways I want to try to use this.
The Manlet Dorian
In the time spanning from WPF and UWP is when I lost all interest in developing for Windows as a platform.

In particular I was interested in developing for Windows Phone, only to discover that the UI SDKs for them were same in name only and largely incompatible, so devs had to use similar tools to recreate similar UIs independently for desktop and mobile. That discovery also dissuaded me to not develop for Windows Phone either.

Of all the rest in that time, Silverlight was actually the best for rich client apps. I did a performance/capabilities comparison of Silverlight, Adobe AIR, and JavaFX and found Silverlight to be highly capable and performant on common hardware. It then went into a state of becoming discontinued though still used/supported for a good number of years. Netflix used Silverlight for the browser and apparently only stopped supporting it on Sept 13, 2023 though MS says it was unsupported since Oct 2021.
I love how if you pay for your whole grocery order on Amazon with food stamps (because you are below the poverty line) Amazon still recommends you pay a minimum $10 tip from a debit card on your order.
Usually my reading rate of fiction increases dramatically when depressed.

Reading is, for me, a better form of pure escapism than gaming or movies.
“When you hire a plumber to fix your pipes, you don't become responsible for their condition.”

Have you never heard of premises liability?
That's why it's reported, followed up and punished. And not in the cracks of history. Also let's note that he company doing this is a US company which doesn't really consider itself as subject to EU law.
It also says Win32 was released in 1985, so the author probably just meant Windows API.
> So the signing[1] DXIL.dll does is just a modified MD5?

[1] https://github.com/hexops/DirectXShaderCompiler/blob/4190bb0...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39325654
You also have ipregistry.co (https://ipregistry.co/).
spaced repetition
> Over Zen 4, this confirms AMD Zen 5 as adding AVXVNNI, MOVDIRI, MOVDIR64B, AVX512VP2INTERSECT, and PREFETCHI.

AVX512-FP16 not listed, we'll have to wait for Zen 6.
I couldn't make the math work on home battery storage. The difference between peak and non-peak is 37 cents, so if I shift 5KW of usage from peak to non-peak, that's $675/year in power savings, but the cost to install a whole house system that could shift my home's peak usage would be in the $10,000 range.

If my next EV can act as a battery for the house, that may shift the economics since I'd have a "free" 80KWh+ battery (and inverter? Not sure if the car acts as an inverter too), so would only be paying for the wiring.

As far as I know, my utility won't buy back power at peak rates, the best I could get is a credit to offset my power usage, which only makes sense if I have solar (which is not simple since I live in a condo without a lot of roof area even if I could get permission for solar)
Go to jail. I read over 800 books that way. Still installed TikTok the day I got out, though.
Amazon are absolutely scumsters, and this is why I would never work for them. I had their recruiters trying to headhunt me for engineering roles in AWS, but they can go and sling one. This is also why I will never buy any goods from them. support local business instead.
> if forced to

That's definitely problematic and not where anyone wants this to go,
right?
> defending eventually consistent steering is comical

That's how things work though. Momentum and material strain mean that nothing reacts instantly, and that changes with your speed, steering angle, and rate of change in speed and steering angle. So yes, all drivers must account for the where and by what speed the wheel angle reaches the desired position.
Which specific liquid fuels do you mean?

I guess the most important factor is how much energy is lost in synthesizing/burning it. Do you have those numbers available?

I know methane can be synthesised, but it requires you to first make hydrogen, and then you'll lose an additional 50-60% energy in turning hydrogen into methane.

For any large scale operation I can't imagine that kind of energy loss is acceptable, hydrogen storage is difficult, but not THAT difficult
I think the department name is pretty telling: Human Resources.

They do the same thing as the IT department, but instead of dealing with printers they deal with people.

If your printer is having issues printing or wants to take some time off, you throw it away and get a new one.
Strangers out on the street are largely out doing something or going somewhere and are unlikely to want to strike up a conversation.

People who are friendless ought to get a job, volunteer, get a hobby, join a group, go to a social space instead of expecting strangers to entertain them.
Except that it is completely unreliable, where there's always 1 or 2 users who it doesn't work for and drops steams forcing all to switch to something else, and also codebase is a total mess of tightly coupled spaghetti code hacks. Dont recommend anyone waste their time on trying to use it.
If someone wants the world economy to be based on a commodity such as the metallic ore gold, then I wonder what they think would happen to the world economy, and more importantly all of the people in it, if all of a sudden, the world supply of the metallic ore gold went up by three orders of magnitude, all owned by literally one person.

Do they think people would continue to use the metallic ore gold as their currency, and they would just accept the insane inflation? And the fact that 99.9% of the world's wealth is now concentrated in the hands of one person?

Or do they think we would rapidly switch to a different commodity as our currency?

Also, why should anyone respond? Because they think the topic is interesting. I thought that would be clear. If you cannot imagine the nightmare scenario and you need "genuine writing effort" for you to imagine it, then it sounds like you don't think the topic is interesting. Maybe just let other people hash it out.
I gave it a quick test drive but almost immediately uninstalled it because it wouldn't let me dismiss the cluttering messages on top of the app list :/
Looks promising though. Thanks for sharing.
Why would it have to be stealthy? Even if they did it in broad daylight, announcing their presence with a loudspeaker, "We are taking this tower." Would I, a random bystander care? For all I know, they were contracted by the owner.

Definitively someone else's problem.
Disclaimer, I wrote a Bayesian Book with Osvaldo published by CRC. You can read it here for free!
https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html

While I'm mostly happy with this book. Yet there's also many improvements we can make. We're compiling suggestions for how to make a second edition better so if you have any please share! We also recently updated the code to the newest version of PyMC.

I also use(d) Bayesian stats extensively in practice at SpaceX, sweetgreen, now Google. It's powerful stuff, it was absolutely crucial in many analyses I did. It's my work at SpaceX that really made me appreciate Bayesian statistics.

To respond to some comments below.

* Osvaldo is a tenured professor, not an amateur.

* PyMC can compiles to Jax and rust backends now speeding things up. Stan, Numpyro and other PPLs are fantastic too pick what works for you

* There are many ways to learn Bayesian stats these days. Statistical Rethinking and BDA3 are great. We felt like there was a gap which is why we wrote another book. CRC agreed which is why they published it. Pick what works best for you.

I did not write this Packt book with Osvaldo but I do think the material itself is great and it fits a certain audience.

If you have questions about learning or using Bayesian stats, I'm happy to answer them!
I grew up in the suburbs. My town had pretty much no commercial base. The next town over had a huge mall. They had much better roads, a much better library, a sports complex, a swimming pool complex, the list goes on. It was obvious to a 10 year old how much of a difference the tax base made.

Of course, we just got a library card in their district and I enjoyed the use of the nicer library as well. But still.
After twenty years smoking and close to a decade quit I still can't smell it but want to light up one of my own. (I'd say 'bum one', but even so evanescent an unplanned interaction seems to take people the wrong way, these days...)

I'd still call it the same way you would, if anyone gave me the chance. Wouldn't even have to think it over.
I think reading fiction has merit on its own. It's an active process where you have to fill in all the gaps of an imaginary world. This makes you take a hypothetical situation seriously, even if it is unreasonable at face value (magic doesn't exist, astrophage aren't real). Taking hypothetical situations seriously expands your ability to reason over anything, including abstract things.

Overall I think this readers to become more reasonable people, because life is full of unreasonable things. Things we can't explain, things that seem silly, but we nevertheless have to grapple with them.

Other fiction can fulfill a similar role, but I suspect that books are better at it because they require the reader to put in more effort.
Sales and marketing are fairly different IMO. Marketing can lead to sales. For instance, creating marketing content of any kind can bring in a lead, which then turns into a sales opportunity.

Plenty of people are terrible at selling, either because they lack some skills or it's really just something they aren't interested in doing (which is why they aren't in sales).

I don't really have advice on the co-founder question but I would suggest when developing a startup that you portion out time for the not fun part of sales. There are many services that you can use to find leads in any kind of vertical you want and there are a lot of CRMs where you can email these people.

It's a combination of a lot of grunt work with perhaps disappointment, but that's how you find growth. Couple that with some of the obvious things like posting to HN, Product Hunt, etc. and having an online presence will make things happen if your product is something people want.

It's not easy and you're not alone in this dilemna.
This is also complicated by a few other factors, for example, what is counted as a law.

Are building codes laws? If we consider them as laws, you have to take those codes over 50 states, plus any differences in local municipalities in effect.
> The problem is that people who can't afford that think it is a hate crime if they can't afford to live in Brooklyn with the rest of the hipsters.

City planning is hard, but it's absolutely the case that cities just do it very stupidly and poorly and myopically and to preserve the wealth of the wealthy at the expense of the everyone else. There are not any good reasons for Cambridge, MA to have a 35 foot maximum height limit, only shitty ones. It's not a hate crime, but it is both hateful and a crime against society.
This is just naively and ignorantly ignoring supply and demand. If everyone moved to your LCOL area costs will rise. If ever leaves the city (HCOL), city living will decrease in cost.

Not sure how your proposed solution works while also defying basic economics.
Which regulations would you cut? Safety? Basic serivces like kitchen and bathroom? Light?
Once you do the test, you understand that "Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed" is actually the opposite: a proof that the vast majority of people manage to agree even on ambiguous or unspecified rules.

So the whole promise "this is a proof that moderation is impossible" is actually unproven.
As a long time Niagara user, it is probably the biggest thing that keeps me on Android over iOS.
Yeah, it takes two people to talk and if I'm on my phone and someone starts talking to me, I'm more than willing to put it down and talk.
Post manifesto
So our choice is to either legally discourage rent seeking behavior in certain necessary parts of our life (health, housing, education) OR “live in a van… don’t go to a doctor … go to community college” just so the overlords could keep making profits on their investments. I wonder why not more people are signing up for the latter.