skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a big difference in our incomes (over our marriage I've brought in at least 5x more than her, and her income presently is < 30% of mine). We just put it in a joint account and then pay an equal "allowance" to ourselves every two weeks (my paydays, for ease of scheduling). It's about the simplest it can be.

The vast majority of the spending is out of that joint account. The allowances are mostly a hold-over from when she had no job (moved to the US on a visa, had to wait for the work permit and then to find a job, almost a year) and felt the need to ask me for permission to spend money. I was getting annoyed, she was getting resentful, we made the allowances so there'd be no questions. We both got the same, we could spend it without asking, spending for ourselves out of the joint account was allowed but always with discussion (mostly, "Can I?" and then "Yes").
Consumers benefit when Apple builds an OS with insecure APIs, where developers can't built apps that guarantee data protection? That's an inverted way to look at it. Why would you trust Apple if you can't trust apps built on Apple's platform?
For comparison with Bitcoin:

00000000 000003da 5849ade5 e2112447 73478c46 5fcdc744 9e247df4 11e97b28 (#1 of leaderboard)

00000000 00000000 0002a2fa b0d010ce 270927e8 c9a698a3 4f5e3d6c 4dbcffd3 (latest mined block)

Doesn't seem that impressive but keep in mind that it gets exponentially harder to find additional leading 0s and that the Bitcoin network currently finds such hashes every ~10 minutes.
In countries using only intermittent renewable, we get news articles in the exceptional event that the grid did not need much fossil fuel generation for a day.

In France, we get those in the exceptional event that we need more than a little fossil generation for a day.

It's expensive, but seems to actually work at removing fossil generation from the grid almost completely.

Negative prices meant the grid is inefficient to me; that's not a good thing. When you build a factory you want it operating as much as possible, otherwise ROI falls. That's worth more than a few plants.
I feel the article does a poor job at explaining the researcher's base assumptions:

* What is the relationship between aluminum oxides and ozone depletion?
* How long is the useful life of a satellite (when will this be a problem)?
* What's the margin of error in the predictions (how confident are the scientist)?

This feels like sensationalism. On the other hand, the paper itself might be underestimating the number of launches as it relies on another paper expecting "triple the count of tracked objects in low-Earth orbit (LEO) over the next century". This feels low given how much the cost of launching has been decreasing.
Please would you post the code
Your computer is a miracle of equipment. The software it runs is garbage.
Amazon makes that money in mere minutes. This is not even a slap on the wrist.
Netflix House Will Let You Experience Your Favorite Shows, Movies in Real Life
That it is less bad doesn’t make it good considering 30 years of this has led to the current housing crisis.
Is this why Europe fines American companies based only on their global income? Like, hey you violated this privacy thing in the EU, and you made a lot of money outside of the EU, so give us a few billion.
While clean up missions might make sense for some of the largest and highest risk objects, for the much more numerous small stuff the most economical way to clean an orbit is likely ground based lasers. Whether you're ablating a bit of material on the object's surface with a quick pulse or just producing radiation pressure holding a beam on target, you can gradually lower an object's perigee until atmospheric drag is significant. It's not exactly cheap, but it's at least an order of magnitude less than in-space options.

There's even a potential business case auctioning off laser time to guard specific satellites. A typical satellite costs about $200 Million to build, plus many millions to launch, and a few million per year to operate. There are about 2000 active satellites in high orbits where debris could be an issue. If operators pay $100k per satellite per year, about a 5% increase in annual operating cost and a 0.3% increase in lifetime cost (assuming 10 year satellite lifetime), that's $200M per year revenue. Assuming 300 m/s delta V to lower an object's orbit to the point it will decay naturally, and a 0.01% ground based electric to orbital kinetic energy conversion efficiency, a bank of lasers consuming 2 MW of electric power (not beam power) would be able to deorbit 140 tons of material per year. There are about 9000 tons of material in orbit, about 2000 tons of which are in medium and high orbits, so that's about 1/14th of long lived space junk. Assuming a 5 cent per kilowatt hour average electricity price, that's under $900k per year to power the lasers. Assume that's around 5% of annual operating costs, call it $20M/yr for ops and maintenance.

For capex, assuming 10% laser efficiency, that's 800 kW of laser beam power, 1 kW of beam power is around $8k, though the optimal frequencies may be different, let's call it $30M. The optics and targeting system is likely to be the bulk of the cost. A university grade observatory, which is likely comparable in scale and complexity is around $500k, but this would be a custom build so it's likely substantially higher. The keck observatory cost $140M and is likely a good upper bound. Add another $30M for other technical components, and probably another $100M for non-technical aspects of the facility. Assuming capex is amortized over 5 years, we're looking at around $60M/yr for capex. For a $500M initial investment, in 10 years you're paid off and up an additional $1.5B, for an average annual return of about 15%. Not exactly the greatest investment as is, but within the realm of discussion. Further, these estimates are quite conservative and it's likely a decent portion of the initial cost could be covered by a government.
LOL, doubt it
It looks like their net income last year was about 30 billion.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266288/annual-et-income-...
> The origins of the earlier monoliths were never revealed, sparking conspiracy theories involving aliens or that the appearance of the structures is an elaborate, highly coordinated prank.

The source of the originals has been known for years, and would be trivial to find out with a basic search, but I guess that's too hard for people these days...

Answer: A couple of youtubers made them for a laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-pKKM6CXr0
the container ship that was used to deliver the dildo in your nightstand drawer all the way from China to the US had probably emitted more carbon dioxide than training GPT4 did.
Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, I remember seeing lots of hype around building distributed systems using message queues (e.g. Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, etc.) A lot of companies had blog posts highlighting their use of message queues for asynchronous communication between nodes, and IIRC the official AWS design recommendations at the time pushed SQS pretty heavily.

Now, I almost never see engineering blog posts or HN posts highlighting use of message queues. I see occasional content related to Kafka, but nothing like the hype that message queues used to have.

What changed? Possible theories I'm aware of:

* Redis tackled most of the use-case, plus caching, so it no longer made sense to pay the operational cost of running a separate message broker. Kafka picked up the really high-scale applications.

* Databases (broadly defined) got a lot better at handling high scale, so system designers moved more of the "transient" application state into the main data stores.

* We collectively realize that message queues-based architectures don't work as well as we hoped, so we build most things in other ways now.

* The technology just got mature enough that it's not exciting to write about, but it's still really widely used.

If people have experience designing or implementing greenfield systems based on message queues, I'd be curious to hear about it. I'd also be interested in understanding any war stories or pain points people have had from using message queues in production systems.
How about investing in a free and safe Mexico, instead of letting warlords control it?
> Very few workplaces have written quotas for employees

That's because they don't have quotas.

If they don't have a __written__ quota then they can't hold employees to a quota; it's as simple as that.
> "The environmental impacts from the reentry of satellites are currently poorly understood," the researchers note in their paper. "As reentry rates increase, it is crucial to further explore the concerns highlighted in this study."

In other words, they have no idea what effect, if any, some extra aluminium oxide is having on the ozone layer.

Fun to play follow-the-citation though:

> Dominant drivers in re-entry destruction are NO (nitrogen oxides) and chlorine emissions. Other re-entry elements play a negligible role.

https://indico.esa.int/event/321/contributions/6403/attachme...

> The results of the present study lead to the conclusion that deorbiting space debris has very little impact on stratospheric ozone

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA414310.pdf

A couple good pull quotes from the simulation study itself:

> The chlorine activation reaction is catalyzed on the surface of aluminum oxide particles, with a reaction probability of 2% that boosts ozone depletion

> Concerning the future mega-constellations scenario, the worst-case estimation of Organski et al. (2020) is taken

The upshot here is that aluminum oxide, where present, negligibly but measurably increases the breakdown of ozone by catalyzing chlorine, where present.

Keeping chlorine levels in the atmosphere low is an imperative, and one of the overall success stories of international environmental cooperation. A bit of alum is not going to move the needle, it's entirely inert to ozone chemistry on its own, and a poor catalyst of breakdown in the presence of chlorine.

If enough satellites broke up in the atmosphere to provide an atom of aluminium oxide for each chlorine atom, which won't happen, that would lead to a maximum of 102% ozone damage from a baseline of 100%, if every one of those atoms collided with a chlorine molecule, which is also very much not how gas phase chemistry works.

So yeah, great study. Seems the satellites are worth the nonexistent risk to ozone that they don't pose. Glad someone checked!
Lilygo T-Glass
https://archive.is/ZrnGW
The US actually has higher rates of fire fatalities than other, denser OECD countries. https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v12i8.pdf

If the current zoning regulations are an attempt to have people not die in fires, they’re not working that well.
If anyone knew the answer to that for certain they'd be mortgaging every belonging they own, loading up on options, then planning their Scrooge McDuck money bin instead of telling people on HN if a stock is going to go up or down :-)
Dont be disingenuous with strawmen.

It has everything to do with restrictive zoning and building codes. NYC is a prime example, there are tons of empty commercial office buildings. But they will never house people because building codes require every room to have natural light. Rules also restrict share and boarding houses which used to provide affordable housing to many people.

No one said affordable housing needed to have windows in every room or home very room to have a bathroom. They're affordable for a reason and this is the norm in every other part of the world.

It's time to start thinking like every other country and culture.
California: You're breaking the law. You must treat your employees better, or else!

Amazon: Oooohh, scary!!!
S+7 offers precisely this sort of serendipity surprisingly often!
Feature Generation for Tabular Data via LLMs with Decision Tree Reasoning
"If California were a sovereign nation (2024), it would rank in terms of nominal GDP as the world's fifth largest economy" (wikipedia)

Still surprising.
I read your commment and I feel like it is indistinguishable from a talking head on TV using a “whataboutism” to defend the actions of Amazon without seeming to defend the actions of Amazon. Which makes me feel mad if that’s your goal and somewhat curious if you knew that before you posted.

I would like to believe you’re an extremely passionate labor rights advocates and that you can hold all corporations to account. If that’s the case could you keep the original text and add an “Edit: my bad. We shouldn’t downplay their harms, but I’m passionate about this, where are more of these conversations happening?”
Posted 10 times already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721998
Intel 3 is an economically interesting node. Performance seems to be somewhere between TSMC N4P and N3B which is respectable but Intel 18A is due very soon after it debuts and incorporates GAA transistors and backside power delivery. It seems like Intel 3 is intended as an option for customers who need something very modern, but not absolutely cutting edge. I guess we'll see how much volume it actually gets over time.
I think software and ecosystem is a big part of it, much more than just hardware
26 years married here.
One account. We went all in.
Did you read the article?

> “Undisclosed quotas expose workers to increased pressure to work faster and can lead to higher injury rates and other violations by forcing workers to skip breaks,”

What you're saying about:

> make sure you are a bit better than the people other people applying for the job.

Is literally that. It just adds pressure which leads to accidents. When you don't know the playing field, you're going to assume the worst and then work yourself to death. It's sad to see HN defending this approach.
Did they have secret quotas that were not revealed to their employees? That's why.
That’s fine.

But GP didn’t care about industry lobbying, just wanted to cry about guns.
"When the Yogurt Took Over" Love, Death & Robots.
This is incredible:

>Lajitas, Texas, held an election that included candidates Tommy Steele (incumbent human mayor), a trading-post wooden Indian, a dog named Buster, and a goat named Clay Henry. The goat won "by a landslide", and goats have been mayors ever since.
we're talking about it being tied to __gross__ revenue, not net revenue (profit)
I think only if you ignore distribution and overall grid integration which would constrain where you can place solar plants and ignore that in the winter you’re not going to get much power production from the North East and PNW regions (and when you do it’s super spotty).

By that logic of ignoring constraints, nuclear takes 0 land area compared to solar and could generate more power than solar panels we’d ever produce.
OpenXR supports cameras, IR, LiDAR, and LED sensors - everything that the VisionPro has. Whether or not it supports the specific sensors Apple chose is entirely up to Apple.
"More broadly, if you dare to say that it's not a real job, you're likely to be drowned out by complaints and contradictions."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/social-media...

Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1orRCk
> fines need to be something like 5-10x of the benefit, not 1-2x

There is zero chance Amazon was saving more than $1mm at these two warehouses from hiding quotas since the law went into effect. We’re already at 5x+ (most likely 10x+) benefit before considering damages.
Where both shopping and golf are about getting a low score ;)
This is conflating splatting with more general pointcloud data.

Splatting is fundamentally about viewing pointcloud data. That's great. But it doesn't deal with all the other functions virtual twins need pointclouds for (e.g. design vs real world conformance).

Pointclouds themselves are proving hugely useful in a number of fields but vary considerably in form and application often based on how they are captured (e.g. LiDAR vs SfM photogrammetry)

Visualising pointclouds effectively has been a major problem which splatting really solves elegantly so it will be a major practical advance when splatting is added to cad software and javascript map visualisation libraries.
Ahhhh, thank you. It is a video that does not work with Safari on Mac or iOS. It works great on Firefox, and I presume Chrome based on the lack of complaints :)
what’s the incentive for them?
Yes you would only do this for hot loops that have short basic block branches (binary search being the canonical example). That’s why I said hand annotate vs having the CPU try to detect and distinguish these situations at runtime.
To me, having separate individual accounts, feels like you aren't committing fully to marriage and are keeping your money yours "just in case."

in china, the account that receives your salary must be at the same bank that the employer uses because payroll is usually done with a system provided by the banks (at least that was the case in my company) so a joint account would not have been possible.

we also had bank accounts by function. we created a separate bank account for our insurance where they could automatically withdraw the payments. i don't remember if there was a specific reason for that though.

and i created a separate account for online purchases that i deliberately kept at a low balance to reduce the risk of fraud when sharing banking information online.

and my wife has accumulated a few more bank accounts over time, i guess in part because of different employers, or i have no idea. i learned the pin for most of them.

so i don't think it matters. what matters is how you view the ownership of the money in the accounts. in our case we simply added up our combined account balances as the money we had available. and money was spent from any account as was convenient except the accounts for a specific purpose. we never argued over whose money it was, but only sometimes over the necessity of an expense.
All of these threads turn into how expensive Datadog is and discussions about open source alternatives.

My 2c - observability is the easiest thing to rent. There are zero reasons to build it out and have a team maintain it. I cannot imagine a management chain wanting to invest in a greenfield unpredictable and guaranteed unreliable 0lly service. Datadog's great super stickiness comes from their polish, their availability, and turn key instrumentation that is hard to build from scratch.

For any open source alternative to compete, they need to be at least similarly turnkey.

The only real threat to Datadog are other closed-source competitors who are

1. Willing to invest to be as reliable and turnkey

2. Willing to accept a lower price. Literally price it $1/host less than Datadog and a lot of companies will start the migration.
https://archive.today/HoERr
Still sounds too complicated to me.

I assume full trust to someone I marry without any artificial constraints in advance
They're adding topographic maps of hiking trails to Apple Maps.
Have you tried zoo cad (formerly kittycad)?. It may be still too early but worth keeping your eye on.

https://zoo.dev/
> models we’re releasing today were safety tuned

Cool, it only took about two years from wire spread public releases to SV lockdown of the powerful tool and then throw the scraps to the peasants.

The overloads of social ethics have already decided what you cannot have. Just like the elders of the internet intended…
NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – feeds from all bands
"The fine was likely calculated to offset any potential gains they may have made by failing to disclose quotas" sounds an awful lot like what I got out of the analogy made by GP. I.e. it wasn't about saying it was literal theft of goods but that the risk is no greater than the reward and so the worst case return on breaking the rule is you're back to where you would have been had it been followed.

Similarly people referencing Amazon's total earnings aren't necessarily trying to be misleading about how many locations this occurred at or ignorant of more than just the article's headline (some are though, this is always true in a large discussion). Typically said people are just frustrated with all the above and would like to see much higher fines in this kind of scenario so the overall business cares more.

I'm not saying you should necessarily agree with those stances or conclusions, I don't completely myself, but it should take a bit more than what you wrote to brush everyone off wholesale like that.
I used to distinguish investing from gambling, but I view them as the same thing now. Many are just chasing meme stocks at this point whether they’re labeled as such or not. Apple makes more profit in a year than NVIDIA’s forecasted top line revenue for FY2025 but their market cap is now eclipsed. It seems that concrete metrics like this are irrelevant relative to pure human emotion when it comes to estimating fair market valuation. So much so that a stock can be valued by trillions of dollars more than what you might calculate based on these business metrics.
My bad that I couldn't edit.
This is a tale of one million years ago. Life evolves slowly and our equipment was essentially the same as today. They must have been the original thinkers and the original lovers, with motivations and daydreams we would easily recognize. We are Nature's first experiment of an advanced thinking species writing its own rules, so why has our recent recorded history been a tale of human upheaval, driven by the actions of empires and regional powers?

I propose that for the longest march of human prehistory, small villages along a trade route that shared genes and language, goods and services, was a very stable unit of human society. And I mean civilized on every scale and over time, where the simple desire of young to start a family and live eventful fulfilling lives in peace is the norm and they had done so. This tale is in the subtle and expressive language of today and happens in fast-time with a single individual, but consider that the events and astronomical observations could have unfolded on any timescale. Over a lifetime, or even several. The end result being that even ancient people could glimpse their place in the universe, and essential truth about their world.

We had socialized and innovated but had no need for stone monuments to cheat time, and they would not have anyway. If there are, they are buried in the deep sediments of East Africa. You and I are their only legacy.

~Stargazer: A Novel of One Million Years Ago
I heard you could do something very similar but with installing the Russian Keyboard layout and having it available as an option. A lot of malware from Russia won't run on computers with a Russian keyboard layout, because they only get in trouble with the law if the malware impacts Russian users.
I guess the part about policy decisions that ChatGPT might not be so good at is all the politicking that goes into them...
> I don't think you know enough about how databases work to even try to be giving advice.

That's both incorrect and entirely unwarranted.
How about we don’t add hurdles to building housing in a housing crisis
Open Source Python ETL
I have another Erica Synths product, the Pico System III, that accepts "voice cards". With the synth, you receive some blank voice cards which are effectively prototyping boards that you can use to create your own sound path by soldering components onto them. An example can be seen from 2:55 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rw9dGsLlY0
Maybe it was just the wording, but your gp post makes it sound like you didn't have any affection for your wife. What was her reaction? I wouldn't call this Machiavellian because Mach. was advising princes to act in opposition to their nature as a necessity for survival in the all out warfare of Italian city states. You however make it seem like you decided to have a layoff to get your household financial metrics in line, despite having no real motivation to do so.