skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The existing standard of living requires exponential growth and unbounded resource consumption. It isn't possible to maintain that while reducing energy consumption "almost completely." This isn't Star Trek where you can just outsmart the laws of thermodynamics and run everything on free energy and vibes.

A "raging environmentalist" should understand that, particularly given that climate change and the collapse of the ecosystem is already underway. The window for "Manhattan project" scale solutions passed decades ago, the only solutions available now are damage mitigation. The future is going to be about maintaining our survival and civilization, not a reasonable standard of comfort.
I had always thought of BTC in terms of an alternate currency but I watched a video yesterday with Saylor where he pitched it instead as a store of value. While the concept was not new to me, it was a really interesting video and he did a good job with it. BTC will not replace the dollar, but its probably going to eat gold.
> In order of safety

To prepend to that list for completeness: Using distilled water and boiling it.

Arguably overkill, though.
The Strong Towns "hypothesis" is at least partly falsified by objective economic data. Many suburbs/exurbs have been around for decades now. If the costs per resident were truly unsustainable then we would expect to see a surge in Chapter 9 bankruptcies, or at least a major spike in muni bond insurance premiums. So far that isn't happening. Most cities manage to muddle through and patch their infrastructure well enough to keep things working.
[Ignoring the basic premiss of this article, that AI will replace developers eventually... which is so old news]. This article starts with a fairly gloomy look at the current market, which I have found to be the opposite. IT Salaries are up 5 - 10% since before covid. We were the lucky ones that got to work remotely, all the way through the lockdowns. Everyone I know is working and agents are having to headhunt people to fill jobs. I have never been happier and more in demand... Am I deluding myself??
One way of thinking about Nix is like A Makefile on steroids. It will build what is needed for the right platform. It is also smart enough that you can add cache server and when it needs something that already is in the cache[1] it will download and use binary package seamlessly.

Those packages are built from the same sources with same (or almost the same) configuration options and for all intents and purposes should be nearly identical.

So while you use your devenv, it will download and use the right packages for your architecture, and if something is missing on the cache server it will build it locally.

Now as ARM Mac's are as popular as the intel ones, people are making sure that the packages build on both.

[1] nix generates a hash which is based on the package source code, compile options, architecture etc. and uses that for the lookup.
So I just spent the last hour while watching this attempting to get a python script with a menu to ask me size and shape for the tesselation then it spits out an SVG or PNG to print the patterns for folding the Miuri Ori lines (round, sq, rec, hex)

still fiddling with it.

I had GPT go learn tesselations from:

https://origami-resource-center.com/origami-tessellations/

to add them to the pattern maker...

Fun.
Cars don't know about school zones and the reported data lacks even the signal of "50 in a 25." It's just a boolean: speeding, true or false. I'm skeptical of the idea that 61 in a 60 zone should be considered as dangerous as 130 in a 25, for example.
I am not a Chinese speaker/reader but my impression is this assumes Mandarin pronunciation whereas written Chinese typically is mutually intelligible between regional Chinese languages even if they aren't auditorially mutual intelligible. Is that a fair take on this?
Legendary game for its time. Because computers weren’t common at home by us, the word of this game would get around and you’d be rather grateful when you had an opportunity to play it. It was novel for the time.
Could proving out this technology make SpaceX the most valuable company on Earth, for a while? They invested early in “cheap” tech for rockets, which seems to be paying dividends in spades. One company owns most of the active satellites in orbit.
Film reels were also a significant cost that's pretty much gone to zero these days.
What value does it provide?
This is completely wrong. I've desiged ICs from 350nm down to 3nm technology. I don't know what do you mean by transistors are biased. If you mean SOI body bissing, it's not a common technology.

Crowbar current is still a big problem. Leakage of Finfets are crazy, especially when you use ulvt devices, which you need for high performance.

The previous post is fully correct. Though the bulk of the power is switching capacitor.
all faith based stuff is like that

religion

politics

they work because people believe they work
some of that will pay out over 4 years so maybe it's not accurate, I'd say I got an extra 5% beyond my TC that I wasn't expecting that vests this year.
We aren't at war with China either.
it is even hard for a PM/PO to define functions/workflow of a project/app by writing the requirements.
I use tap water that I microwave. The problem with boiling is that you can't then use it immediately. You have to set it aside for 5-10 minutes while it cools down. I often leave it too long, and using water that is too cool is uncomfortable. If it gets close to the right temperature, I run cold water over the outside of the neti pot and then swirl it around to mix the water on the inside.

But I haven't found an efficient way to reliably boil and then cool water so that it's close to the right temperature at the end. I also haven't figured out a way to microwave water to a boil and then set an alarm for just the right amount of time.

If anyone has tips I'm all ears!
Most people move to the Bay to get a good job, which is only possible in a large, vibrant, globally connected city. Everyone -- every single person -- who buys or rents a house in the SF bay today does so because they either have or want have "a good job." Is there a single person alive who has bought a house on the peninsula recently because it's a quiet place where nothing much happens?

The Bay Area is extremely special. It's the only place to go to get a good job! There are probably 500,000 people who would move in next week if we had the apartments to house them. That is absolutely not true of Stockton.

Someone who commutes to SF from Stockton isn't a resident of Stockton. They're a resident of SF who is priced out!
can a civilian obtain a common access card?
I'd still want to see the entire response all at once. Having it stream in while I read it would be very distracting and make it difficult for me to read.
I thought this was about making the OpenAI app available as a digital assistant on Android, as a replacement to Google.

Oh well..
The usual stuff. Political and corporate bribery and extortion. Bitcoin is great for that. Made all the better by the fact that many bribe recipients cannot access their Bitcoins in the current system due to government surveillance of exchanges. This creates an incentive for insiders to take down the current socio-economic system. Just as a short seller has an incentive to see the company crash. They will have no issue accessing their Bitcoins once current governments have collapsed or become sufficiently corrupt.

I've witnessed crypto regulators behave in corrupt ways, but it's impossible to prove bribery until they move or sell their ill-gotten crypto. Because, with crypto, you can receive tokens without your own approval. Someone could send you the passphrase of a wallet containing millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin, it could end up in your email spam folder and you could memorize it and, if ever questioned about it, claim you don't remember seeing that email. There would be zero evidence.

Yet if you remember the passphrase, the Bitcoin is yours.
This is a topic thats hard to discuss without macro level data. We don’t know this person’s preferences, location, background, etc.
> This is only useful for a consumer if they cannot access cash or a credit line to pay for a sudden large expense.

Isn't that the main point of insurance?

Insurance can also socially redistribute bad things. Which fair enough it is in practice a result of insurance but I don't think that's what it was invented for. And indeed the better the insurer's crystal ball the smaller this effect is.

Although in practice I don't think there ever will be a crystal ball good enough to make insurance a bad deal for everyone like that. You always have to insure against another driver being bad or just plain bad luck.
> Haven't used MSW, but don't people use it for mocking APIs? Isn't that apples and oranges?

At first, I was confused by what OP meant, too, but I think the point is that if you can mock your data easily, then getting your app into the desired state is straightforward enough that Storybook becomes unnecessary. At least, that's how I interpreted it.
Not really? Someone could always get a fast but not very good developer for very cheap to 'replace' me. Like, I'm not paid well because of the 80% work I do. I'm paid because 2% of the time I do work that no one else can do very well.
Which is so cool because it's an evolutionary/language thing.

Why do we add junk words while we think? I think it's probably because we're social animals, we want to hold that person's attention as we think as periods of silence are likely to make them become disengaged. But who knows really.
There’s a gaping hole in my industry and I’ve been planning out an app with all the missing features. But I’ve never coded anything big/serious before, only little scripts and automations and stuff like that. If you want to pair up and see if we can put something together, let me know how I can DM you.
Probably priced in already.
It's more effective volume wise. I did the math, some time ago here are the rough numbers.

Sand has way less heat capacity then water per kg (about half).

Water can be heated to 95C with standard unpressurized vessel. Sand in this application is heated to 600C.

Sand is denser then water (kg/m3).

For the same heat energy stored this comes out to about 2.5x more volume of water(95C) compared to sand(600C).

Water and Sand are both dirt-cheap.

Hot water can be managed with standard plumbing equipment.

Sand needs some high temperature piping (hot air to water heat-exchanger, resistive heat tho heat up the sand).

How well both contain the heat is primarily dependent on the isolation. Which favors the smaller footprint of sand, but needs to isolate a higher temperature difference...
I can't say I agree with everything he's written, but boy, its hard to argue with the courage, patience and care it takes to craft such a meticulous argument for his choice. The highly thought-provoking monologue is a hugely generous gift from someone who's last act of agency could have easily been expressed as "Ah, fuck it". Definitely bookmarking for a re-read down the track.
If Tokyo is hell why did so many people choose to move there?
That helps. Thanks!

Giving the programmer control over the checkpoints make sense. Also, limiting it to “workflows” (not necessarily entire programs) and requiring that these be deterministic makes sense.

I did some working with Folding@Home in grad school. All of the simulations would save their state to disk every N iterations to allow restarts. The state was relatively small (lots of compute, not a lot of data).

The DBOS papers focused on implementing core OS kernel functionality on top of a distributed relational database. Trying to make a true distributed OS.

This product seems like a pretty different direction (reliable execution and enhanced observability). Do your future plans tie back to the original project goals or are you going to keep going in a different direction?
The Proxinator: an appliance that comes pre-installed with Linux and Proxmox
The trend here is unmistakeable:

https://hnhiring.com/trends

Only one source of course, but I think it's indicative of the state of the overall market.
Let’s grab beers next week.
I will admit that a few positions I've applied for have suddenly changed parameters to exclude me, but most of my recent job search difficulty is because all my network is also looking, so getting an anchor in a good place is much more challenging.

But the number of new businesses gobbling up these laid off folks is really crazy. There's been a huge diaspora and in a couple years I'm hoping everyone I know will have really good positions.
> because all of their food, entertainment, and social needs are not met by their community

An existing trend that was accelerated by years of lockdown.
Still blame the ones defining the spec rather than implementing it.
If any of the open source WYSIWYG Markdown editors can be brought into a VS Code extension, would be amazing. (I've tried the existing VS Code Marketplace extensions and they're pretty terrible.)
It's quite a bit slower than the peak in 2022-ish, just from my anecdata
Worth mentioning that a spelling reform like Twain's would mean that every accent would need to be spelled differently, or the sounds wouldn't match for most speakers. It's quite possible that some British dialects would be very hard to read for some Americans and vice versa, even if they were used to the system for their own dialect.

For instance, Twain spells "after" like "aafte", but in my accent I would probably spell it "afdr".

Twain has also run in to the problem that spoken English has far more vowels then written English does. He uses "ai" in both "minds"/"maindz" and "replace"/"riplais", but presumably they represent different sounds.

Presumably OP's system has the same problems with the dialects of Chinese, now that I think about it. Although I know very little about Chinese unfortunately (only what I know now from a few seconds of googling).
The situation you described in your post, concluding that it’s intentionally designed to cause fear, isn’t that way to cause fear, it’s that way for the reasons I mentioned. That was my point. It’s entirely relevant to all of the post that I responded to.
Proof of work needs to be outlawed. Externalities will be the death of us.
Inclusion to S&P500 is a committee decision, not based on purely market cap. It may not happen for MSTR.

MSTR is essentially a leveraged, debt laden commodity trust rn, with a highly volatile commodity making up most of its balance sheet.

Their premium to NAV is indeed very high, and makes you think why would anyone buy that vs a BTC ETF. Perhaps if you think BTC goes a lot higher (and stays there) their ongoing leverage and the premium you pay for it now makes sense? Their debt is pretty well structured - v. low interest and matures a long time from now, but remains to be seen how long he can keep issuing it.

He also keeps saying he's never going to sell BTC, but I don't see how he's going to service his debt eventually if he doesn't sell. Unless he starts market making with the treasury or somehow putting it to work
Probably because of the insane costs of securing the network. If it used trivial resources people probably wouldn't care
I've thought about it, but I'm not sure how that would work. Because for me, the value proposition of having a Nix flake for my project is that I can bind the exact dependencies to the state of the code in my repo. So if I want to update from Go 1.19 to Go 1.20, I just update a line or two in my flake.nix. If I have to go update a separate repo, build a Docker image from that repo, then update the tag in my real repo, it kills the convenience.

Is there an easier way to do it?

Also, wouldn't it be pretty similar performance-wise to caching the /nix path on a generic Nix image? I've tried that, but it has problems because the Nix path ends up being a few GB, so that ends up adding a long time to the build as well.
Some multi-family housing operates as co-ops where existing owners vote on who is allowed to buy a unit. That can help to an extent. But some boards abuse their authority to discriminate against protected classes. And a board can't necessarily prevent an existing owner from allowing a crazy relative to move in.

https://www.nar.realtor/magazine/real-estate-news/law-and-et...
I suspect what you are missing here is that both sides just "get it", they disagree what "it" is. I don't find the anti-crypto folks to be particularly more or less screamy than the pro-crypto folks, for what it's worth.
It wasn't clear from the article if there were only 10 cases during this time, or if they only looked at 10 cases, but there were more during this period. Kind of an important detail!
It was facinating to see a pub ran by a landlord at the bottom floor of an 11 floor student dwelling with 16 rooms, 4 toilets, 4 shower a shared area with giant kitchen per floor. Each had something like 3 bar shifts usually taken up by someone else, the thing was "open" all night and beer on the tap was much cheaper than the store. It paid no rent, needed no licenses and didn't have any tax obligations. As no one knew what to do with the pinball profit it was frequently not allowed to pay for beer.
because those programs directly generate high eight to 9 figures a year in revenue, and also drive alumni donations & new admissions.
What about setting line-height to 1.5em; is that different from base font size?
I dare say this thing will be many times faster than thrashing your 24T parameters to the cloud.
We are decentralizing things. That's what the housing crisis is: people being forced to accept less central locations than they would like. It turns that being the one who gets decentralized sucks, people it happens to generally resent it, and others are willing to make serious tradeoffs to their household budgets or else the dignity of their living conditions, in order to remain central.
Respectfully, I'd like to nominate "Heck, even if you want it more easy, you could write a tool in less than 100 lines that adds packages names to .json/.yaml/.toml, which allows you to parse it using the nix language and a simple cli written with bash functions to add/remove packages if you wanted." as the next "why would you need dropbox" comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ).
a lot of good answers. just couple points to add:
- Charging a capacitor from 0 to Vdd volts takes E=CVdd^2 amount of energy. To find the power (energy/second) you need to multiply this with how frequently you do this, i.e. clock frequency. So, P=FCVdd^2. So most digitak circuits power scales linearly with frequency, and quadratically with power supply voltage Vdd.

- Half of themis power is resistive loses. This is kinda a fundamental thing. Charging a capacitor with a resistor is "lossy".

- Some of the charge is reused within the circuits
Sophos Threat Cybercrime on Main Street
I was going through all the alternative HDLs the other day to see what’s out there. So many one off projects to appeal to this language or that language, but none solving real problems in the space.

The problem? Modeling large systems with modules with large I/O (DSPs or something else) and verifying those things is hard and not well suited for a complex verbose language.

Fight me, but I really think a mathworks simulink type visual modeling environment is a better way to approach this problem (and I hate mathworks with a passion, this isn’t a plug for matlab). That type of environment coupled with a way to generate high quality HDL is what I really want. I know mathworks has HDL coder and it’s ok, but still doesn’t quite do everything and you have the pay the enormous mathworks fee and can’t crowdsource platform updates as well as a well managed open source project might be able offer.

So when I see stuff like this I think “cool” but also “why???”
Why? It's just an (allegedly) faster and lighter weight applications runtime on Kubernetes. For many applications, this will be less convenient than proprietary serverless stuff.

Ae you saying this is bigger than AIs that are so smart that they can do software development?
Author here.
Fair point for using pinyin directly, but the TTY font requires the glyphs to be of the same size. Squashing the longest syllables like "chuang" into one cell doesn't look nice.
Partially, yes, but you have to mix in the whole idea of treating your house or houses as your retirement plan, which is a screwy, self-perpetuating economic system. It takes a lot of capital to construct an apartment building, and greed seems the only way capital is directed towards housing in the US.
Easier if you’re a South American
This article definitely brings to mind hobbyist embedded programming forums, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.
Very interesting, good to see such use-cases around google sheets, much needed. I'm building an open-source Reverse ETL tool to run SQL query from data warehouse and send results into Google Sheets and many more.
(https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven)

All the best :)
It also turns out that you can make machines that fly without having them flap their wings like flying animals. But it would be absurd to claim that airplanes don't fly for that reason.
Linus Torvalds Isn't Happy with Some of the Bcachefs Code for Linux 6.9
I agree and it's not only tech, but other areas as well. It's not easy. Whereas before in many cases hiring mgrs would settle for the top of middling candidates, right now because they have so many good quality candidates to choose from, they are being choosey. I know experienced people who previously would be getting recruited now have to search much longer and also settle for lesser jobs.
None. Its a scarce resource that has been mutually agreed upon to be desirable.
Much like gold or diamonds. Sure they have some limited use in non jewelry applications but nothing that justifies their prices vs the existing supply besides people just agreeing they are valuable.

As a store of value though vs gold it has more positives. Much easier to transport a billion dollars worth of btc than gold.

Much easier to self custody.

Truly limited supply, they pull more gold out of the ground every day.

The world literally just got together and decided BTC is what they want and the price reflects that. Its a fascinating case study just in that regard.

The video is here: Page is terrible, video is about 1/3 down

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/buying-bitcoin-buying-nyc-ap...
Boeing 777 do a emergency landing in 5th safety incident in a week
This is the old story. When industry can't solve its own problems...
I agree, I had also jailbroken my iPhone back in 2010 with Cydia. However I used that to unlock the springboard and change app icons etc, for me it was a bit of a gimmick with a fair amount of risk involved.

I would say if you looked at it percentage wise, it would be an incredibly small number of iPhone owners that jailbroke their devices to sideload apps. I think you can argue that there might always be some demand, but that doesn't mean it needs to happen.

My point is back when the app store was released developers went wild that there was this publishing place they could put their apps. The iPhone in 2010 was responsible for 99.4% of all mobile app downloads. And by 2010 there were around 30,000 apps & games in the app store.

Going back and reading articles about the app store between 2009 and 2012, there isn't negative discussion around the fees associated with the app store or anti-competitive behavior. There wasn't outrage over only being able to download apps through the iPhone store. There was discussion however about companies building their own Android based app stores, but those failed shortly after.
Seems Californians should repeal that useless and dangerous Prop (the exact reason you posted this [boy who cried wolf syndrome]),

instead of requiring distilled water on tap for Neti Pot users...
This new sand battery is expected to stand 13 m (42.7 ft) tall and 15 m (49.2 ft) wide, providing an output power of 1 MW and a capacity of 100 MWh.

That's impressive. It's close to the energy density of fuel oil. Or did I calculate that wrong?