skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neat idea, but would have benefitted from a couple screenshots or a demo site.
The canonical "5 over 1" has a very solid concrete base. Hence the name.

From the article: "5-over-1 construction—so called because it frequently combines up to five floors of inexpensive wood-framed construction over a concrete podium—is popular primarily because it is a cost-effective means to build, especially here in timber-rich Oregon."

It's a mostly new style.
Scientists witness a dormant supermassive black hole roar to life
I'm confused. The way you've phrased this certainly doesn't sound like it couldn't be the future.
If ever there was something akin to demonstrating the Mendella Effect, the health impact of coffee is right up there with the best of them.

I remember coffee is hard on your heart and causes colon cancer, but somehow colas were not. Now we hear coffee is good for you, and you'll live longer if you drink 4 cups a day. And avoid the colas. They're now the ones that will hasten your death.
I don’t think people like us register in the grand scheme of things.
Okay, so if the 5 over 1s weren't being built, where would all of these "kids" live? Wherever they live, by your same argument, they would be willing to pay more than the existing locals and the existing locals would still be priced out.
x86 Opcode and Instruction Reference (2017)
Twitter was a hellscape long before gpt. I haven’t paid it any attention in years now.
From what I've seen, it's usually skimping on the heatsink over the rectifier.
> humans are 100% conscious

If using humans as a comparative baseline, then sure, that's trivially true. I don't see any reason to believe there could never be anything 'more conscious' than a human, i.e. >100% conscious when compared to a human.
transmission charges still apply
Okay, I can answer this. Papers are never retracted for theory proven wrong and they are always retracted when wrong-doing is found. This is why the high level research stuff always has researchers recording their data and notes. Before computers, my exp early 1990s, We had to record everything in a notebook and sign it.
I didn't see anybody mention this, but one important thing is if you are / will be living in a community property state.

If you live in a community property state, and you want to keep things legally separate, that takes a lot of specific effort. I've always lived in community property states, my spouse and I took relatively zero assets into the marriage, and we're on the same page with spending and frugality, so I was 100% on board with joint accounts and delegated authority on the primary checking account. Keeping one checking account for two people is a labor savings. We ended up with separately managed credit cards, so if we make a big purchase on the other's card, we communicate. And I manage the primary checking account, but she has custody of the checkbook; so if she one of her credit cards has a large payment or writes a big check, we communicate. If there's any big changes in our investments, we communicate.

If you're living close to your means, communication will be necessarily more frequent. If you're living well below your means, you don't need to talk frequently about money because a payment that needs pre-authorization isn't as big.

For cars, it would probably be most flexible to have ownership as X or Y, but all of our cars are under my name at the moment because it was less effort. The house is in both of our names.
I see them over Trader Joe's, restaurants, small Targets, coffee shops, etc, all the time. All pretty generally relevant.
The Tech Insurgent's Battle for the Future
AstraZeneca's breast cancer drug combination fails in late-stage trial
Sounds like their competitors need to advertise better
Yes, I think it's very possible that human brains unconsciously generate-and-test surprisingly large numbers of small candidate programs when solving a problem.

This approach is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel, which is a good fit for biological neural architectures, which have very many computing nodes but each node is very slow (compared to electronic computer CPUs/GPUs).
This is like seeing an old high school friend you've lost touch with become president. I calculated my profits had I invested in Nvidia instead of buying my first Nvidia GPU (8800GTX+ in Fall 2008) and my $200 GPU would be $108k invested, Lol! Hell of an expensive Crisis game.
“During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.” -Mark Twain
from the submission;

1- "The errors the authors corrected “do not alter the conclusions of the Article,” they wrote in the notice."

2- "the Blood paper contained falsified images, but Verfaillie was not responsible for the manipulations. Blood retracted the article in 2009 at the request of the authors. "

3- "The university found “no breach of research integrity in the publications investigated.” "

4- "The notice mentions two image duplications Bik wrote about on PubPeer. Because the authors could not retrieve the original images, it states:

the Editors no longer have confidence that the conclusion that multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) engraft in the bone marrow is supported.

Given the concerns above the Editors no longer have confidence in the reliability of the data reported in this article."
Pricing people out is primarily an income/wealth disparity problem that arises when in-demand areas move suddenly.

Building less in those areas certainly would not help. But it's also unlikely that enough can be built to preserve space for all existing residents in any realistic time-frame without subsidies and active efforts (which some cities do better than others).
The primary reason that deep analysis is close to non-existent is that fertility is coded as a right-wing issue, and discussing the decline is unacceptable in today's academic social sciences.

"You want to force women to be baby-making machines", and more vitriolic rhetoric, and loss of tenure, is what happens when someone raises the issue.

I think of this as one of Iain Banks's "Outside Context Problems", something that our society cannot (allow itself to) understand or even see, so it cannot begin to solve it.
Thank you, Mate, I had to look up my Slack history with one of our clients to find your test, I think you showed the best result we've seen on our AWS test :)
Strange how aesthetics consistently get the highest priority for architectural decisions. My understanding is the biggest real criticism of five over one designs is that as built most of the wood is not wood as most understand it, but various engineered wood products. These engineered wood products have many positive qualities, but are also highly vulnerable to fire and produce a great deal of toxic smoke when they burn. To me increased risk of unusually damaging fires is a far more serious problem than poor aesthetics. If taken seriously then it should be possible to address or even eliminate both the increased fire risk and aesthetic objections.
Show HN: I made a WhatsApp bot that transcribes voice notes
My wife loves to send me really long voice notes, and most of the ways of transcribing them either take you out of WhatsApp or require a monthly subscription. So I made one myself.
EDIT: they deleted it

https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/06/the-noam-chomsky-...

New Statesman saying he's died too
I was working flooring making 12/hour, left it to work 25k/year salary in software with plenty unpaid overtime. Very good move long term
Building new coal plants is bad, but it could be worse in that they seem to be running those plants less often and using them as peakers rather than baseload: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants
I've certainly seen papers retracted over copyright/IP issues with images or other details. Funnily enough, this doesn't mean the article goes away, just that it gets covered with a "Retracted" watermark.

Retractions are primarily associated with wrongdoing, but are sometimes also issued for "honest mistakes". If so it's typically with a very clear explanation, like in the link below.

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/an...
Building a decent auth system is not that complicated that you need to rely on a 3rd party company to do it, they just hired cheap devs to maximize those profits.
When I started my career I worked in an intense role for two years. So intense that I quickly realized such intensity was not sustainable, and I immediately pivoted into a role that I knew I could do with my eyes closed.

It's felt like I don't have a job for the past decade. In those ten years I've barely felt any stress, have read hundreds of books, mastered several hobbies, and started a family. Would I trade that for more money? I'll let you guess.
using the same process that was used to make a single transistor (and package and attach connecting leads to it)...

...to make an entire circuit (and package and attach connecting leads to it)...

is the invention of the integrated circuit

and photolithography made that possible. It subsequently had a large number of important follow on innovations, but which were conceptually proper subsets of it.

had some other process made integrated circuits possible, that other process would have subsequently had many important innovations.

what flowed from photolithographic chip making is still flowing today.
Academic research rarely (if ever) cares about "intentions" of the authors. I'd say papers are exclusively retracted for being "egregiously wrong" (or at least not trustworthy), and never for any "wrongdoing". The wrongdoing just happens to be a pretty good indicator that the conclusions probably aren't trustworthy.
High level planning is important for efficiency. It'd be great to have some resources which either store power in bulk cheaply (even if not efficiently) and/or inexpensive to idle operations that can achieve public benefit for spare power.
The determinant factor in this article is the renewable electricity sudden flow.

Nuclear fission reactors have problems in other domains like being a huge liability during a military conflict, and dependance on uranium supply from the Sahel.
Has anyone seen that work well in action

Yes. I live in a 4-over-2 and will go to stores that are relevant.
Indeed. The op ex of nuclear is surprisingly high (esp when compared to wind solar), then on top of that is the cost of financing the very long build.

Also, nuclear plants in France are starting to suffer from water shortages; since an overheating plant is a problem it means that they take water at the expense of other uses, which is an externality they currently don't pay for because the economics of these plants is so terrible already.

I really want to like niclear but I have never been able to see the math work (and I've been paying intermittent attention for 40 years).
AFAIK this happens fairly regularly in some northern european countries (NL and DE come to mind) due to wind over-production. The sooner we get cheap grid storage, the better.
I’m surprised electronic breadboards have not changed for over 50 years.

Nothing worse than spending an hour debugging a circuit only to find the breadboard connection is bad. Lots of students in digital logic class can attest to this.
Could you add accelerometer as input method for phones?
Yeah, the key is to just build enough. Almost everywhere in the US that's booming just doesn't build all that much -- you may see a lot of cranes around, but the % increase year over year in housing is usually pretty modest.

As for why booming areas don't build enough: exclusionary zoning, burdensome processes, NIMBYism in local meetings, and learned government helplessness.
Not enough interconnect
High loses in transmission
No one needs the energy in the times it goes negative, unless you’re a 1/4 planet away
Unfortunately electric cars only make the peaks and valleys more pronounced. What we need is electric cars to be required to charge the grid during high demand and only charge during very low demand. The chargers need to be smart and integrated with the grid operator
It's not strange at all, Ableton sucks. Anyway the different MPCs are laid out slightly differently but so were Roger's. He will completely destroy the competition if he teams back up with Akai. This especially includes Ableton. Which sucks.
The weakest link of any platform is always this: where is the cash on-ramp?

Do you have mechanisms to play legal/jurisdiction arbitrage?

What happens if a bunch of government/special interest groups declare your garden illegal?

We are only as good as what is allowed.
There's a cost associated with construction and maintenance - labor and materials aren't free.

Then, there's everything else - you'd have to look at their budget to see if the proceeds from electricity are funding other programs.
Why is the bicycle self stable?

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1201959

We can't say, in any satisfying way. The mathematics is uncontroversial, but all of the simple natural-language explanations fail under scrutiny.

Where is the electron in the double slit experiment? Is it a particle or a wave?

Similarly, we can't say. We don't have a good way of talking about this by analogy, or using natural language. As with the bicycle, the mathematics is bulletproof and boring.

This is not to say that quantum mechanics is unmysterious - I think it is very mysterious. However, the bicycle example shows how this characteristic, frustrating elusiveness of good natural-language descriptions is not limited to exotic quantum systems.
This explains a lot, as this happened to me recently too. First, I thought that someone had managed to hack into my account. Booking support was not very helpful. In the end, I just changed my password and canceled the booking, hoping for the best.

It is baffling that a major travel website is allowed to operate like this.
Oh yeah. Check the Mission Bay in San Francisco. Everything is walkable and very relevant to my life. I never drive to a grocery store, day care, coffee (3 - 4 places with excellent espresso), kid activities (there a bunch of places - music, soccer field, etc). In fact the first 4-5 years, until we had 2 kids we even didn't own a car - there was no need in SF ... and we enjoyed it a lot.

Now, with my second kid going to school (public) I have to drive (it's literally 1 mile). It has changed the whole schedule. That single drive! Annoys me as hell. It's hard to imagine how convenient it is when you don't have to drive anywhere, even school, day care, etc. This makes a huge difference.
Unfortunately you've got a massive term mismatch. You have negative prices today, but a lot of reason to believe that by the time you could bring your storage online the problem will already have resolved itself.

Oil briefly went negative a few years ago. If you decided to build a storage business dependent on negative oil prices for profit, you might just be coming online around now, and very much poorer than you were before. (Of course you would in fact have stopped a long time ago.)
I mean.. They literally just became too cheap to meter by application of 33% more generation?

Functionally they could get there by just building a few more reactors.
Why? If you make a sufficient amount of money in the 5-8pm peak period it can make you strongly profitable despite losing money at noon.
I've heard for years that if we just had "tons" of Nuclear plants, our energy costs would essentially be too cheap to meter. Yet France is not experiencing this even at 75% Nuclear.
> Sure, I'm not saying it's impossible, what I'm taking potential issue how accurate the numbers you provided are since it's possible that the reason that Texas has such a successful economy is because they're not directly paying for everything.

It's not clear to me what you're saying here. What aren't we paying for?

> That's true of literally every state, so it's really not a Texas-specific problem.

It's not only true of every state, it's generally true of every breakaway region ever, in all of history! This commonality isn't an argument against Texas secession, it's an argument for local governance.

> Which specific federal laws do you think are hindering Texas, outside of some vague notion that people in New York and DC "have little in common with you"?

Things that are hindering Texas:
> The sheer size of the federal union. It waters down our representation, reduces the feasibility of grassroots movements, and increases the power of mass media at the expense of the people.
> All laws that infringe on the 2nd amendment.
> All laws (or lack thereof) which permit government to infringe on the 1st amendment, or encourage private institutions to do the same.
> All laws that empower the Feds to infringe on the 4th amendment (Patriot Act, etc), or to circumvent it (by buying data to spy on citizens without a warrant).
> Federal control of our border, which they refuse to protect and which is irrevocably changing Texas demographics and politics, against the will of Texans.
> The federal tax code, which is as much a progressive welfare program (see "refundable tax credits") as a revenue stream.
> The federal bureaucracy in general, which is designed to provide jobs rather than serve the citizenry.
> All laws which the Feds use to force state action, on threat of withholding state money (see Medicaid expansion, drinking age laws, etc). By withholding our own tax dollars as leverage, the Feds are, by definition, acting against state interests.
> The high level of funding of the US military, which provides negligible benefit (beyond policing the seas), constantly gets us dragged into conflicts around the world and heightens the risk of WWIII.
> The huge, ungainly, esoteric body of petty laws, which drive up the cost of business while adding negligible value, if any.

The biggest issue of of all is that Texans no longer have faith in the ability of the Constitution to constrain the power of the Federal government. We no longer see the federal government as the guarantor of our natural human rights. We see it as the single greatest threat to them.
Linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky dies at age 95
I apologize for the assumption, that was quite rude of me.

That said, you’ve just described my neighborhood. We’re about 2 blocks from my son’s school. One major road, with a crossing guard at school time. The 2nd-to-last day of walking him home from school I come up to the guard who’s calling in a driver who blew past her.

As an aside, I’ve begun to notice cars leaving huge gaps between them and the car in front of them. In every case I see the driver looking down, oblivious to the 20+ feet between them and the next car.
Battlefield 2 (from 2005) and some of the later Battlefield games have a dedicated "Commander" role like that. [0] The friction would be in the fidelity of how your squad spots enemies (allowing the Commander to see them on their map) and whether they actually follow orders (which on public servers was always a question). It was actually a ton of fun if you took it somewhat seriously.

[0] https://battlefield.fandom.com/wiki/Commander_(Feature)
Thread between Rich Hickey and Alan Kay about 'Data'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722

I'm on my phone, hopefully that's the correct link.
There's a difference between "theory proven wrong" and "proof being wrong". A finding that Theory A is wrong is still a valid finding. A wrong finding about Theory A is just a lie, it carries no value, and should thus be retracted.
I could see this then pushing more consumers to have their own batteries to store energy when it's inexpensive. Interesting market playing out with energy storage :-)
And turn the volume up a lot
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I'm pretty impressed that it's possible to build that high on a wood frame. I was guessing there was a steel frame inside.
>>Is friction important to individuals? Do I benefit from thinking about friction on a project, even if nobody else on my team does?

>Even if you were to eliminate a lot of friction, the profit would go to the business anyway.

At the intersection of software development, the military, and whether or not friction is important to individuals... I'm reminded of the USDS, and IIRC some of their work to improve workflows and discoverability around (specific) VA benefits.

If you've ever listened to vets talking about the VA, they're rarely complimentary about it, frequently complaining about how hard it is to find the entry point to get the needed benefits, and how hard navigating process is after the entry point is found.

Reducing that friction means more benefits are exercised, at a higher cost to the government. OTOH, maybe the overall cost is lower, if fewer phonecalls are answered explaining how to do a thing, and fewer forms are filled out justifying a thing.
Generally I think this would be a better test if the phrase were “dropped off” Sue at university. As phrased, it’s plausible to assume that Joe stayed at university with Sue, and drove her back and had tea after.

Though a truly smart model should seek to disambiguate situations like this.
> Nuclear reactors are already very cost ineffective when used as baseload.

Ontario, Canada would disagree with you: nuclear is 10.1¢/kWh, hydro is 6.2¢, (methane/natural) gas is 11.4¢; see Table 2:

* https://www.oeb.ca/sites/default/files/rpp-price-report-2023...

Of course hydro-electric dams typically flood many hectares of land for the reservoir. The current ones are getting refurbished:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/niagara-ontario-power...

Ontario's nuclear fleet are also in the middle of a bunch of refurbs:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-nuclear-power...

Some of which are finished:

* https://www.opg.com/releases/opg-celebrates-the-early-comple...

Live data on Ontario's grid:

* https://ieso.ca/power-data § "Supply" tab
They absolutely sold long lasting lightbulbs. There were horrible and no one bought them except for specialty scenarios.

The standards were set around what could be sold as a standard lightbulb.
Something being ubiquitous in the marketplace does not automatically translate into it being objectively or materially "better" for consumers.

Fast food is everywhere because it's cheap and fast. And diabetes and heart disease rates are skyrocketing worldwide. Is that "winning" in your eyes?
Trivia: I learned that these are called muffintop buildings here in the Pacific Northwest by contractors. Once moisture penetrates the building envelope on the wooden upper stories, they swell over the fixed concrete base.
I wonder how many people need to do that in order for it to become not negative.
Econ 101: with a marginal cost equal to zero, a competitive electricity market (with a price driven to marginal cost because of competition) cannot be sustainable because electricity price it cannot pay for the fixed costs.

Solution: we must stop electricity pricing based on energy produced (which made sense when using fossil fuel) and switch to a pricing mechanism where you pay for available power because that's where the marginal cost is increasing.
Surprise, it's good for many things but bad for cars... intesting observation in times when many of us realize our environment is more friendly to cars than to people.
People with Costco memberships view shopping as a sport. Instead of golfing, they go buy shit and eat hot dogs.
This sort of construction is quite common for new builds in Poland. Usually there's convenience stores, small restaurants/cafes, private medicine practices on the ground floor.
It's bogus to peek at A/B tests and stop them when results become significant
It’s only been negative for a few hours in the past year though.

https://data.nordpoolgroup.com/auction/day-ahead/prices?deli...
I wish the zoning permitted them to do more than five stories.
Was this with the goal of making more in the long term, and was it a drop in annual income at the time?