skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At $83 though, it only takes 5 months for you to break even on the most basic Photoshop-only Creative Cloud plan ($20/month).

And when they actually release version 3 you can decide whether to upgrade or just stay on V2.
Are you planning to have kids? Do you and your fiancé make similar levels of income? Do you have similar spend patterns (i.e. thrifty, spendeasy, etc)?

The answers to those questions will change the advice. Having kids or having disparate levels of income point toward a joint account, whereas different spend patterns point toward separate. There's no easy formula though.
We prepare for unlikely events all the time. Impact is another metric that we respond to. I simply multiply the two together.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40707558
This article and blog series appears to primarily focus on fossil fuel plants failing in extreme weather events (which are growing more frequent). This is an important dimension to track, but isn't directly comparable to "normal" reliability - ie, how much storage do you need to keep your 100% wind+solar+hydro mix providing all your typical energy needs through a typical night (for example).

Also, I don't particularly think these articles make great arguments. For example, "Similarly, 56% of the generating capacity knocked offline came from gas plants during Winter Storm Uri". Texas' overall energy capacity mix is ~40% gas. So while yes, it is disproportionate, I don't think it's hugely so, especially without taking into account other factors - for example, typical solar capacity in winter.

The blog post that actually starts digging at some numbers (https://blog.ucsusa.org/mark-specht/how-reliable-are-gas-pow...) indicates that we might expect gas plants to have a reliability of ~70-80%.

From another blogpost from them, we can find a very rough estimate of solar/onland wind reliability of ~30-40% (measured in ELCC, same as the 70-80% figure above) https://blog.ucsusa.org/mark-specht/elcc-explained-the-criti...

So it's important to take into account the reliability derating of gas plants, but it doesn't really change the fact that solar/wind are in a significantly different class of reliability compared to gas plants.
Yeah but wasn't it though Barclays?
Why is it easier than getting rid of phones?
It's pretty rad to see! I think my next laptop is going to have to be a Framework, once I can afford it ahaha

This 2015 Macbook Pro is getting rather dated.
I think a lot of schools simply didn't have rules and as they became the method kids use to communicate and get home then those rules vanished.

Granted the rules are all coming back with gusto now.
> But it should be clear, getting access to these resources and ruthlessly exploiting them made Europe rich and enabled all the other colonialization which followed.

I'm not GP, but the connections you're making between this sentence and the sentences prior to it are the suspicious ones. What you need to do is argue against the claim that it those things that allowed for the accumulation of all this silver that allowed for the success of colonization.
A brief history of Stephen Hawking's greatest equation Essays
I am open to other perspectives, but that does not mean I must endorse all of them.

If it makes you feel any better I have given your perspective what I consider to be a fair consideration.

It just happens to violate my reward function.
We pay all of our salary in to a joint account. We then take back a small amount for our own spending that month. We put money for bills into one joint account, we leave money for our budgeted cash spending in the main joint account (groceries etc) we put money into some pots for mid length saving (car service, holiday/travel, annual insurances etc) and then the remainder goes into a mix of long term cash savings and long term investments. Takes me about 20 minutes on the last day of the month to make the relevant money movements.

The amount we keep back for ourselves is laughably small as we view our money as our joint money as we are building our life together. We don’t (and never have) earned the same amount, at times wildly different in fact.

We’ve done it like this for over 15 years and works for us.
Same here - optimizing for equal purchasing power definitely makes things simple. Do we want to order pizza for the third time in a week? Well, it will hurt our financials equally.
That is absolutely fascinating, how does it work that your wife has a bank account, but you don't... or do you just not have access? In Denmark you cannot avoid having a bank account, you must have at least one.

Also if you have final authority over financial matters, how does it work out if only your wife have a bank account?

I hope it doesn't sound judgemental, it is by no means meant that way, I am just incredibly curious.
The Metro Olografix Camp (MOCA) is Italy's longest-running hacker camp, taking place from September 13th to 15th this year.
MOCA brings together security researchers, ethical hackers, and technology enthusiasts for three days of talks, workshops, and competitions focused on hacking culture. Key events include:

Call for Papers (CFP) for presenting research/talks: [CFP Link]
Registration to attend the camp: [Registration Link]
Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking competition: [CTF Link]

Now in its 20 year, MOCA is a respected gathering for the Italian hacking community and international visitors. The camp offers opportunities to learn new techniques, network with peers, and put skills into practice.
Those interested in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, and hands-on technical challenges are encouraged to participate.

For those immersed in the hacker culture, MOCA represents a unique opportunity to embrace the ethos of creative exploration, knowledge sharing, and pushing technological boundaries. It's a celebration of the hacker spirit, where like-minded individuals can collaborate, challenge each other, and revel in the thrill of discovering. Whether you're a seasoned hacker or a newcomer to the scene, MOCA promises an unforgettable experience that captures the essence of this subculture.

More details can be found on the official MOCA website.
I've had some thoughts about this concept applied narrowly to web publishing [1].

It's nice to see a more general theory out there.

[1]: https://joeldueck.com/friction.html
Better known as the Elephant Repellant Fallacy — a claim that a preventative is working when, in fact, the thing it prevents rarely or never happens anyway.

"Hey you better buy my elephant repellant so you don't get attacked!"

'Okay.'

...

"So were you attacked?"

'No, I live in San Francisco and there are no wild elephants."

"Well, I guess the repellant is working!"
Ours really depends on your definition of simplicity.

We have independent checking accounts (normally at the same bank), and credit cards. And then we have 10 or so joint savings or roboadvisor investment accounts – each one for a single purpose, buying a new car, family vacations, new furniture, major house repairs: the roofs need repainting. It is trivial for each of us to see what our progress is on any particular upcoming expense and adjust our donations to that account.

Day-to-day small expenses were divided amongst us fairly, based on income out to the start. But our incomes have changed a fair bit and they’ve been re-jigged a few times. Additionally, it became obvious that my wife was not great at paying bills that required checks in the mail (I know it’s 2024) so now all of those get paid by me and she sends me monthly top up payments when she gets to it.

——

This structure allows for us to have very different spending patterns on personal stuff and have aligned goals for big stuff. Different amounts can go to different goals, based both on income and interest in the goals, and progress is clear.

It has also allowed for us to deal with income changes - We each have three jobs currently and one of mine only pays out one in five years, and none of mine pay a salary. Lumpy income can be hard to plan for, and the private accounts allow us to smooth some of this out.

Also for a while, she was a student and had negligible income, then we had similar incomes and now she makes more than I do, the joint accounts and small expense division help level this out over time.

Also, we can have either savings accounts or these days just ad hoc payments that allow for one person to do the chore (shopping, car repairs, writing checks) and another to pay for it.
And how would they tell anyone not right next to them what they thought? Word of mouth certainly isn't an answer, ever played telephone?
It's been a few years since my daughter was in school, but both of those scenarios were easily handled without needing my kid to have a phone at all.

If I needed to let my kid know something, I called the school office and told them. They gave the information to her.

If the school needed to let parents know something, they used an automated mass call/text system to notify us.
I agree that it would be fine to not have phones - we'd all cope.

But when my daughter hasn't got home on time if I can check her GPS and see that she's in the park then I can relax a little.

If she needs to say she's staying out late, using a group chat to let the whole family know is easier than trying to phone mum, then dad, then grandma.

Or she can include a photo showing how much fun she's having.

My life is richer because of communication on things like family group chats.
It would be a shame to throw the baby out with the bathwater and lose that
I was never satisfied with ddg's results and often fell back to google. With kagi's results i have only ever tried solving the questions with ai, never with google search.
Thanks for the blog post!

At first I thought it was just another solar shade analysis tool (which uses GIS to determine how much shading a site will get from nearby hills & buildings), but nope, this is actually doing the opposite: analyzing whether other people can see your solar plant. That's pretty cool, especially since (as far as I know) it's not a common criterion in the US.

Is it a common case in Europe (or France in particular?) where this is a big consideration, e.g. "I don't want your solar panels uglyfying my landscape"?

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On another note... I wish there were an open-source all-in-one solar analysis tool, something that combines this algorithm with stuff like Project Sunroof (rooftop shade analysis: https://sunroof.withgoogle.com/) and array siting/layout (https://www.opensolar.com/). I've thought about doing that for a long time now, but it's a lot of work, and I don't have all the skills necessary...

Such a tool could be useful to businesses, individuals, and governments all over, and would build on existing open-source tooling (like GDAL, mentioned in the article, but also frontend mapping libs and things like PostGIS).
> No bots

Good luck with that. Like, do you actually believe you'll block all bots? It's simply ridiculous to claim this. Everything you do to block bots will be circumvented. Hell, no social network wants bots: bots aren't a feature anywhere. You're not going to be more effective than Meta or Twitter.
The fact that many people now develop anxiety if unable to use a phone for even a very short time is a part of the problem.

The phone has become a pseudo-appendage for most people now. Even those who spent most of their lives blissfully phone-free quickly internalized the need for connectivity.

Raising children from a young age to expect and demand access to phone connectivity at all times is making this problem much worse.

No, you do not need to have a phone at all times "for emergencies" that almost never happen. The negative effects of perpetual connectivity are far, far worse.

Almost all humans (including those alive today) managed just fine to live life without a perpetual phone link. Teach children to do the same. The phone is a nice-to-have, not a necessity to merely venture out of the house on a routine trip to school and back.
Ask HN: Not a webdev, why are these sites so good?
I've noticed many new websites, belonging mostly to startups, have got exceedingly 'good': they are concise, simple, and super super fast.

So really a two part question:
1. (Style) Maybe a new shared design paradigm?
2. (Speed) These sites load so fast on my machine, as if Chrome is preloading them, or is it just that like Vercel / Netlify / whatever else has gotten really good?

Examples (that I can remember):
https://cleanlab.ai/
https://diracinc.com/
https://elevenlabs.io/
I think visibility is probably the primary goal which is not a bad thing.

As for actual use the potential lies in the modularity. You could work primarily from an x86 laptop but swap the RISK-V board in for testing. And whichever board isn't currently in the laptop can be even be loaded into the small desktop shell Framework makes. If the price is right an existing Framework user could possibly get a RISC-V machine for less money than one of the dedicated laptops from DeepCompute without needing to buy another screen, keyboard, battery, etc and end up with a better build quality to boot.
Thanks for your reply!

Yes we are planning to have a family at some point. We make similar levels of income and are both pretty thrifty. I would say we’re very aligned on our goals and habits in this regard but we’re figuring out the best way to structure things.
But it's ok for adults to be addicted and manipulated?
I wasn't exactly going for "DJI is great" - it's kind of funny that's how it came off.

My points were:

* DJI's use of Secneo on Android isn't hiding a "sendAllYourPhotosToTheCCPServerNow" function. This seems obvious but I've seen this take everywhere.

* However, DJI's apps are loaded with telemetry that's indistinguishable from malware. They ARE full of shady things.

* I wouldn't run a DJI app on my own phone.

* I would use a standalone DJI remote for most low to medium assurance applications, because while the shadiness remains in many ways, the threat model is easy to understand and boundaries are pretty easy to draw.
Originalism Ate the Law
This is a good opportunity to respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says
Smaller class sizes couldn’t hurt
I just want a GPD Micro PC with a cell modem...
H. s. sapiens is not universally accepted either. As a practical matter, it'd raise a lot more eyebrows in an actual conversation with anthropologists than the informal usage of humans = genus Homo I mention above.
But they do complement each other... Nuclear provides the base generation that's online 24/7 while renewables are unstable and able to provide the peak demand.
I had this experience with Adobe as well. Cancelled inside my account, but credit card charges continuned.

Adobe and others use services that provide them with your new credit card expiry dates so they keep billing.

Adobe can be messaged on twitter to document them not fixing things. Companies can actually reverse 18-24 months of charges.
This isn't really about university classes but elementary school and high school, and no one denied that phones can't be useful on occasion – just that the downsides outweigh the upsides.
That's basically the only interpretation of what you said. What other interpretation is there?
Married, 4 kids, she’s stay at home mom.

Joint checking, savings, investments, home ownership, cars, everything. I do most of the account management and planning because she hates doing it.

We have no concept of fairness in spending. If she wants something truly expensive we talk about it and how it fits in our budget. I do likewise, but in general we both kinda know what the boundaries are, and there’s zero score keeping. She probably spends 3x on herself compared to me, and I’m fine with it. I know she has the best interests of the family at heart.

Large purchases like cars are the result of weeks of research, discussion, planning, budgeting, etc.
I can't possibly be the only person who prefers self checkout. Is it perfect? No, but I vastly prefer it the usual check out procedure. It's almost always faster, I rarely have problems, and every place I've gone to still has a few queues of standard checkout available for those who really want them (and to preempt the obvious complaint: to my eyes the lines look similarly long to pre-self-checkout days. The fact that lines were so often long, and are still long in the few places that don't have self checkout, is most of the reason I prefer it in the first place).
Panerai Submersible Elux Lab-ID: Mechanically Powered LEDs
Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre
Do you mean killing passenger rail? Because despite some occasional derailments, freight rail is generally doing pretty well. There is certainly room for improvement and the system is a bit strained but volumes remain high.

https://www.aar.org/data-center/rail-traffic-data/
> Intelligence can be defined as the ability to accurately predict the future consequences of one's actions.

That's not what is most essential to intelligence. What is most characteristic of intelligence is intentionality. From there, we can talk about inference, analysis, and so on, which presuppose intentionality. Whereas most animals maintain only a concrete image of the world they encounter, human beings can abstract from the concrete into the general and the universal, so the paradigmatic example of intelligence, as opposed to what may be considered analogues, is human intelligence.

Predictability is effectively a question of practicality. Intelligence is not the ability to predict, but rather, intelligence entails that ability as a consequence of intentionality and reasoning (by sufficiently comprehending the nature of a thing, you can make predictions about how it will behave under certain conditions, something that goes beyond mere cargo cult statistics and enters the realm of reason, which is to say concern for causality).
Why? The parents are bad. They were ruined by the same technology. Misery loves company.
I've heard one thing that motivates malware to ignore your computer is having a Russian keyboard installed. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...
Such a recording can be used for parallel construction
I am not saying "speech shouldn't be afforded more protections than unsafe physical goods." You have to look at the context and case-by-case basis. Thus the insidious and deleterious effects of Social Media should not be disputed/argued but only the level of regulations should be debated/discussed.

Free Speech is always limited eg. I should be able to say whatever i want about the President but cannot call for his Assassination (except in very rare cases like bloodthirsty dictators/warlords/etc.) Same is the case with majority vote in a democracy, the President is given certain overarching powers like veto/presidential decree etc. which allows him to overrule the majority in exceptional cases.

The point here is the need to act now by imposing some basic level of regulations on Social Media and then work on fine-tuning it over time.
Absolutely beautiful - both the clear explanation and the idiomatic (tidyverse style) R packages and code walkthrough. The combination of the two allowed me to read through and understand in one go. And I have immediate uses for the packages. Thanks!
We have our share of NIMBYs in the Western USA too, though it's more often about wind farms (large and noisy). Our solar farms tend to be out in the sparsely-inhabited deserts anyway, where not a lot of people live. But then we have to evaluate for endangered species and tribal burial grounds and coordinate across several layers of government and different funding & tax rebate sources. It's not easy to actually build a facility...
Yes, you were fine. But you were also fine meeting up with friends, giving up when people are late, making plans, etc. Society has moved on -- plans are dynamic and people keep each other updated. If you're running late you let them know and they go to the museum without you and you know you can catch up. If you're in the area, you send a quick message to see if they're around.

With kids it's the same -- you want to change pickup or remind them of a dentist appointment, you have that ability now, and why not use it? This is just the way the world is now. When kids make plans with each other they don't have to make a ton of arrangements, they can just fly by the seat of their pants; they can meet up with friends, or ditch them because they're feeling tired without it being a big deal or requiring a game-of-telephone approach to communication.
When I was in school (graduated HS in 2007) phones were already not allowed. Teachers would confiscate them all the time. What happened? I guess when gen-z came around this policy fell apart and now we are going back to where we were 20 years ago.
Samsung Texas fab delayed for 2nm upgrade to face-off with TSMC and Intel
Once you are banned by the anti-cheat because of false positive, this is going to be an easy decision to make
All indicators are that suicide, depression and other mental illness among teens has been going up directly due to the emergence of social media.

Jonathan Haidt on Huberman Lab said it clearly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csubiPlvFWk

Social Media has a clear detrimental effect on young people.
> That was still frightening enough that the next time I just asked to bring inflatable mats and sleep at our friends living room before going home in the morning.

Excellent move for your family and yourself, congratulation.
Saying “everyone knows these products are backdoored” and then supporting your claim with “well, they’re closed source” is a ridiculous thing to do. Please stop.
Thank you!

I appreciate the advice. I am a firm believer in structuring things to encourage the desired mental load.
Q&A with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang – By Dr. Ian Cutress
Well, I wasn't saying those would justify a smart phone, just a relatively dumb phone that can text and call. A school-provided phone could also work, like you said.
"Surveillance parenting" -- which is "helicopter parenting" magnified through technological tools the Stasi could only dream of -- seems likely to foster long-term dependence and anxiety that far outweigh the positive effects.

Yes, it's OK to not know exactly where a responsible older child is down to centimeter-resolution lat/lon coordinates at all times. Most humans, including most alive today, lived like that for all of history.
Social media is far from the only distraction on phones, though. I spend next to zero time on social media, but my phone is nevertheless a powerful distraction for all the other things it can do.
practicing talks is great at highlighting two things:

- helping you come up with natural, smooth segues between slides/ideas

- making it clear if there’s any missing background/detail you need to add or reorder slides. One of the worst things to do as a presenter is to realize this mid-talk and then start jumping through slides out of order
The ability to do this is exposed via the kernel (writing MSRs). The userspace app here just makes that friendly.
That sounds like b**** to me. There's a parking lot right in the middle of Saint-Bonnet-le-Château.
> I don't understand why people assume that the purpose of any tool is to "replace humans".

Because of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070566
Astronomers detect sudden awakening of black hole 1M times mass of sun
> So, banning might be a good option but not a silver billet.

Definitely, and we should not wait for a silver bullet, but make progress where we can.
India's ASAT test was a very well executed one if I recall: they launched a satellite dedicated to the task, and put it in an orbit where it would re-enter anyway and then hit it with the interceptor. As a result the debris was headed back to Earth and I believe was targeted to a known region as well.

Basically a class act all round.
Exactly. All of that is reasonable and the behavior described are obviously present as anyone who's ever had a dog would tell. So I don't understand why "are animals conscious" is being debated at this point.