skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
0. pihole, firewall, filter non-marketing shit you don't want to read about.
1. ubo is ok, uMatrix is better. takes time though
2. Get rid of all the big players' software, Firefox is one of them
3. You need your own proxies. Tor is a must for a lot of things
4. when it comes to hardware, nothing established, best not to have bluetooth
devices when you are in cities or commuting on trains, buses and so on
5. the dumber the phone the better, always unbloat, be in control of automation and init systems, control what happens after restarts and updates.
6. don't use saas. never use saas. if you can, check out the data sets they collect.
7. have an air tight system for a diverse range of use cases, like re-installing stuff
8. obfuscation, not just your fingerprint but your entire life. have two or three. get some bots, let them run weird shit on your networks.
9. if your place and time and social circle allow it, build your own physical networks.
10. the byte streams relevant data can be packed into are really tiny,
your bluteooth, the connection to your cell tower, your m1 or snapdragon going brrr for a tiny fraction of time can tell whole stories

but that's waaaay too much to just keep the ads away. just don't look
I find it interesting that this is on strongtowns, in that this kind of mixed use is in the exact realm of what they promote.

I suspect Costco, being a "big box/warehouse", is squarely in their crosshairs; combine with any purported anti-union activity and they're quite willing to run an article that deliberately distorts what the housing is going to look like.
Good to see some more uses of linear types! Very few languages can use linear types, and their potential is huge IMO.

OP shows the benefits of a linear RC that tracks references dynamically, and one can even imagine a version where the compiler tracks the references instead.

For example (for those who are more familiar with Rust) imagine that it had linear types and that we used them for matthieum's static-RC [0] (like suggested by frank-king at [1] to prevent leaks) and you'd have a pretty good idea of linear static RC.

I also talked about a possible alternative linear static RC at [2] and [3] (I didn't explain it well at all, happy to elaborate), though lately I suspect that one would need to add a GhostToken-ish [4] substance to allow safely reading/writing the shared value, or perhaps a RefCell.

I suspect that something like GhostToken could also solve OP's restriction that types be opaque, if Haskell has something like GhostToken... I could be wrong on that though.

[0] https://github.com/matthieu-m/static-rc

[1] https://github.com/matthieu-m/static-rc/issues/7

[2] "Linear reference counting" in https://verdagon.dev/grimoire/grimoire#the-list

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1d06gjo/comment/l61qm...

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/p5f78s/ghostcell_sepa...
For years many mocked Musk for believing pure vision self-driving was possible
The NASA research really does support a 4.1V absolute maximum, with every reduction in charge voltage a dramatic increase in battery lifetime.
Robust and energy efficient.

From: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/12/one-home-builder-grows-...

Clayton, a leading single-family home builder, recently made big environmental news by deciding to convert nearly all of the 42,000 modern manufactured homes it builds annually to be certified ENERGY STAR and Zero Energy Ready Homes (ZEHR). These certifications mean that its manufactured homes will be much more efficient, save homeowners money on their utility bills (up to 50%) and provide premium energy-efficient appliances that are often considered unaffordable to the average family.

Clayton’s switch to ZERH also means nearly all of its homes now come with a heat pump water heater (HPWH), which likely represents the single largest procurement of HPWHs in the history of the technology. To put it in context, the entire HPWH market in 2022 shipped 141,000 units, and Clayton alone will increase this total by 30%!
Google Cloud credential not governable or discoverable
[dupe]

Actual article: https://www.urbanproxima.com/p/the-costco-of-housing-iscostc...

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686048
Farmers went from 70% to less than 20% of the population in a single lifetime.

How frequently do you lament their disappearance?
yea - but that won't satisfy me. Upvote is sort of one metric on how much novel your work is? something like that.
> Most current solar power sources rely on grid-following inverters

There are now inverters that simulate the rotational inertia. They simlpy shift the phase of the generated waveform just a bit if the frequency starts dropping.

And it doesn't require any expensive additional hardware.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ItHadToBeBrazil/comments/ejv9u9/he_...
You have rather succinctly noted that sodding huge walled off communities come and go, with time. ::FAC3:B00C: is already very old school and largely irrelevant. They just haven't noticed yet.

Whither Geocities and Compuserve?
> is probably going to be able to replace humans in whatever new industries are created in the process

That's an assumption.

https://xkcd.com/605/
What types of jobs do you think humans will remain superior at forever? Or are you only commenting on the short-term improbability of humans becoming generally outcompeted?
A website where you write a message to the next visitor
I never heard anyone say it was "impossible", but I did hear many people suggest that a vision-only solution is statistically less-safe than a rangefinding-assisted solution.

Technically you can make an autopilot work with nothing but inertial navigation. The Swedes did it in the 70s. The hard part is making it accurate and reliable, and catching the edge-cases.
For others like me who hadn't heard of IoB.

> IoB (Internet of Behavior) as an extension of the IoT, which focuses on capturing, processing, and analyzing the “digital dust” in people’s daily lives. The term ”digital dust” is a good metaphor for the traces that users leave behind in their Internet activities. As the collection of digital dust from everyday life increases, including data that spans both the digital and physical worlds, information can in turn influence users’ behaviors.
There were some early benefits to grid stability, but not to the extent we've done it, no.

At this point, there are a lot of residential neighborhoods that need more distribution and even transmission capacity (because their peak power movement is now exporting power at mid-day rather than the previous smaller peak loads used). And operating the grid has become a much more complicated task.
Got it. 'Finding Fun' is one good metric.

I have actually a lot of free time and I want to build things that people love.
The Concurrent Clean programming language is based on uniqueness typing, related to linear typing. This may have some inspiration for other concurrent languages.

https://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Clean
What are the hypotheses on which primordial black holes are thought to be smaller?

If the primordial distribution of matter is really inhomogeneous, for example with a gradient of density from the center of the "blob" to the rim, with the center being very "bloated", would that give birth to supermassive black holes (or maybe one) at the center and smaller ones among the rest of the soup?
Inequality is an innate force.

Obviously.
i think - when the grid goes down, your rooftop solar will go down too. Without grid generation there is nothing that can keep your inverters synchronized…
As much as I'd love to see nuclear powered cargo ships, they do still have to give consideration to the possibility of getting damaged.

Even putting aside exceptional situations like with the Houthis, we tend to get one or two highly public ship accidents per year. It would not be nice to have an incident like that involving a nuke ship every few years.

I feel like the solution for decarbonizing shipping would be carbon capture. Have the ships store the combustion products rather than exhaust them out, then reprocess them back into fuel on land using some other energy source (say, nuclear).
Here's a nice chart for the US [1]. You are correct that because of colder climates European power demand tends to peak more in winter. I can't find a similar chart to this (ideally broken down by country) but I did find this [2]

> Even though it may seem counterintuitive due to their climate, Nordic countries are remarkably well-suited for PV installations. Solar irradiation levels during the long summer days, when the sun barely sets, make these regions perfectly viable for solar power generation. In fact, it’s a burgeoning industry that’s increasingly turning heads towards the north.

> Solar PV cells operate more optimally at lower temperatures. Cold environments help maintain the cells’ operational temperature, allowing them to work at peak efficiency. The Nordic regions often enjoy strong sunshine, and when this is coupled with the reflective properties of snow, solar irradiance is significantly increased. A good example of this was during the first COVID lockdown when Western Europe saw record irradiance levels.

[1]: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915

[2]: https://ratedpower.com/blog/nordic-solar-success-story/
>The CSR contains the digital signature of the public key that is requesting the certificate. So you absolutely need the private key to create a CSR. How would you create a CSR with just a public key?

Do you really not know what you're talking about or are you trolling at this point?
I am just getting butt hurt about how universities are wasting so much on administrators of all types while making services worse. Looking at you University of Washington! This is a systemic problem in our civilization right now.

IT departments outsource their core competency to a vendor, spending more to deliver less while trumpeting new operational synergies only to have vendor fuck them over again, so instead of paying 2x for less, they are now paying 3.14x for 1.44x more less.
What's IoB?
ChoRus: A library that enables Choreographic Programming in Rust
Am no physicist, but was wondering about that. Thought this was all done before by different fusion companies?
Buses are much slower to accelerate, and unlike most cars, you can't see what is ahead of the car in front of you.

When you get a chance, follow behind one during a non-congestion period and count the cars that pass you in the other lane (meaning, your lane is slower) and estimate how many additional cars it would take to have the same speed of traffic (how many cars would need to be in your lane, instead of 1 bus, for the lane to be as slow?).
Nuclear power by itself? It's useless. It can only produce low-grade industrial heat.

If you have spare electricity (from any source), it's easy. Just capture some CO2 and react it with hydrogen with specific catalysts and at a high pressure. You can get methanol directly this way.

It's more expensive than fossil fuels at the current prices, so nobody cares.
OpenEMR: Open-source medical record software
>You're quibbling. If you aren't doing without it, then it has value.

I never said there is no value, I'm saying art has low value (and thus no value I couldn't do without) compared to actually tangible, important things and that it has been overvalued to an extreme until recent decades when more supply (more artists) and better efficiency (digital technologies, "AI") finally started to slash perceived value.

>Neither is the conversation we're having now, nor the medium in which we are having it. Yet I don't think anyone would say the Internet, or even this website, has no value.

Plenty of people think the internet as it exists today is actually a net negative for humanity, let alone low value. While I don't agree to that extent, I do agree with a general notion that the internet is overvalued. Though not quite to what art has been, since the internet is still a communication tool with practical purposes.
A TP Link or Belkin smart plug could be controlled locally via REST, removing multiple cloud dependencies.
Yea they can track my shadow profile all they want and I don’t care. I don’t visit them so they aren’t showing me ads.
It’s almost like renewable energy was suppressed for years and now that we have it somehow it actually works?!? What?
I ranted about this in another comment in this thread, but what do you mean by rebase here? Reworking commits? Squashing commits?
Let's make games open source, so future generations can enjoy them
It's the Voight-Kampff test for LLMs :)
If you work on a branch also worked on by others, then yes, rebase is "only" possible on private commits.

But if you work on a feature branch, you can publish that branch as long as everybody else understands that it is yours and nobody should push to it. Then you can safely git push --force to the feature branch so that others can (a) see what you're up to (b) test the results. When you're done, you can do a final (or only) rebase against the target branch then merge to that branch.
Sure, but with a couple inches of snow on them, mine still generate power. And in areas which regularly receive snow, roof pitches are generally steep enough to encourage it to slide off else the building would suffer overloading. Worst case a push broom or squeegee with a very long handle works wonders.

Also fairly trivial to rig up a resistive heating system for melting the snow in cases where the above isn't possible. Even possible to automate it based on time of day and expected power input.
e^x = sum_n x^n/n!

= 1 + x + (x^2)/2 + (x/3)/6...

= 1 + x(1 + (x/2)(1 + (x/3)(1 +...

exp(x,n) = 1 + (x/n)*exp(x,n+1)

this gives you the exponential function as a recursion formula. Just set some condition for when to truncate. From there, a recursive function that does the exact opposite is easy enough.

I'm sure there are optimizations you can do on top in the case that you don't get convergence within the first few terms.
This is clearly a joke in the paper, they mention Delving is on of the words with the biggest frequency increase.
How to think in writing
Why would they host their own data it Google said they would do it for free? If you’re in IT, how do you even get support for on prem storage if Google has used its monopoly position to provide that service for free?
If people say "preserve history" as in "literally don't delete anything", then yeah I see where you're coming from.

I'm not against rebase, and even use it myself. But having a repo where every 3rd commit is a dice roll for git bisect just because straight line pretty, is just as annoying as people shipping their reflog.

A rebase of one commit is harmless. A squash is harmless. A rebase of multiple commits where every commit is deliberate (verifying all rebased commits, etc) is harmless.

A rebase that ignores the fact that any commit whose hash changed can now fail, is irresponsible. Shipping `wip` commit messages is irresponsible. A merge commit with the default message is irresponsible (it's no different from a `wip`-style commit). Having a branch with merge commits that could have been cherry-picks[3].

Also, to me the lie is not some aesthetic thing like commit order or some easily forgeable timestamp; the lie is having a commit that (for example) assumes the `p4tcc` driver is being used[1], and you read the diff and indeed it has assumptions that imply that driver is being used[2], but when you actually checkout that commit and see if that driver exists it turns out no it fucking doesn't, and hours were wasted chasing ghosts. Only because when that commit was created, the p4tcc driver was being used, but when you checked out weeks later now that commit magically uses the `est` driver instead.

If you're going to keep straight line, then test every change; if you don't do it, don't complain about broken middle commits.

If you're going to do merge commits, then keep each commit clean[4], even the merge commit[5]; if you don't don't complain about a history that is polluted with weird commits and looks like the timeline of a time-travelling show.

[1]: Because it did when that commit was created.

[2]: Because, again, it did when that commit was created.

[3]: This assumes the branch will later be integrated into main with a merge commit.

[4]: Squash is harmless. It's just omission. If anyone complains about purity, then just keep them happy with `git reset $COMMIT ; git add --all ; git commit -m "This is a new commit from scratch"`

[5]: Write something that helps those who use `git log --first-parent`. If you're on GitHub, at least use PR title and description as default (can be overriden on a case-by-case basis). If not, then even just "${JIRA_ID}: ${JIRA_TITLE}" is more useful than the default merge commit message while still letting you be lazy.
Gotta use the inspector and find the too-wide element. That or a CSS rule for overflow is causing it.
> We also have similar things, don't we?

Yes. Commonwealth Fusion and MIT are building a superconducting fusion reactor at Devens, Massachusetts right now. It's called SPARC and the site has been under construction since 2021. The plan expects to achieve first plasma sometime in 2026.
> It’s almost like renewable energy was suppressed for years

Who suppressed it?
Depopulation only works on average.

I presume land ownership is according to a power law (~money). Perhaps just need to "depopulate" extremely large land owners?
LOL a lifetime ban from Facebook?! Whatever will we do with all that better mental health and free time from not doomscrolling all day! Don’t threaten me with a good time!
Never underestimate the stupidity of someone that wants a bigger piece of a smaller pie.
It is an assumption, but hypothetically, can you give examples of something that such an AI won't be able to do, assuming that it's already far superior to you at every job that exists today?
Yes and no. A battery's capacity isn't the only variable. You also have internal resistance. If you have a worn out to hell battery where there's dendrites on the anode and you've basically electroplated the cathode the internal resistance is going to be much higher. So if you draw the same current on a worn battery and a new battery the voltage drop is going to be way higher on that worn battery. If you're already at a low state of charge and you vdroop your way below 3.2V under the current load that battery is going to cut the current. Most people notice it as an Android phone that randomly reboots at low battery.
This is absolutely unreal progress. Twenty years ago people argued that this was impossible or at least could never be done economically.
>There are zero downsides to this approach.

Squash merge.. zero downsides.. hard to take you seriously.
There is a comment at the end of the HTML doc worth viewing.
> But IKEA doesn’t provide a Public API for their gadgets!

But it's using ZigBee; you just need a USB/ZigBee bridge to run it locally.
I wonder what it would be with a constexpr.
If it works, it would be good to add this to intrinsic functions
> Please don't assume that everyone who is pro-nuclear is anti-solar

It's more that there is a rabid pro-nuclear segment who will try and silence anything less than unfettered praise for nuclear. Anecdotally, I can simply mention the bojective fact that the clean up for Fukushima will likely approach or even exceed $1 trillion [1] and I know what reaction I'll get.

The same goes for pointing out the very real problem of neutron energy loss from fusion (let alone the resulting destruction of the containment vessel) to the point where I'm not convinced fusion will ever be commercially viable and you get the same reaction.

So I can't speak to you personally but as a whole the nuclear fanboys, even on HN, absolutely do not tolerate even mild factual criticism or objective facts that paint nuclear in anything less than a glowing light (pun intended).

[1]:https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Fukushima-Anniversary/Fuku...
>None of this stuff matters anymore, like it did when I started my career.

Explain?
One of my bosses in the late 80s had one of these in his living room.

It was, indeed, a big TV- Somewhat impressive at the time.
But the cost of housing has inflated more than the cost of potatoes.
One confounding factor here is the proliferation of autocorrect and grammar “advisors” in popular apps like gmail etc. One algorithm tweak could change a lot of writing at that scale.

While the word frequency stats are damning, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence presented that directly ties the changes to LLMs specifically.
Can't tell how much exactly I'm actually using across my private groups+channels on Telegram (decent number of TBs), but their free and unlimited storage has been going well for me for the past 5+ years. Although arguably a significant chunk is actually shared (forwarded files).
Postal Service Hacks
LLMs used in writing of 1/3 of scientific papers. On the one hand scary, on the other it seems people find them useful. Maybe this AI thing is not like crypto after all...
So everyone is just going to get along? Like that drunk neighbor that started fighting everyone and you had to call the police on them?

The thing is if as few as 1 in 1000 have ill intentions we'll quickly find ourselves back in a system with a MIC.
Liquid hydrogen is impossible to work with at large scales, it causes embrittlement, leaks like crazy, has poor volumetric energy density, requires storage in vacuum-insulated tanks, etc.
- Adding new vendors without regard for ongoing maintenance and compliance work.

- Ill defined requirements.

- Setting something as the highest priority without cutting something else.

- Anything from a biz person who’s burned the engineering team publicly.
I think this is bit misleading. Costco contracted with a builder for this particular store. If it works out, maybe they'll go with them for a second store, and then who knows?

But it doesn't mean Costco has become a builder, and the conditions resulting in the store being built in this particular way are local to some parts of California.
Yes, but the tiddlywiki file is the entire wiki. You've perhaps tried the dataview plugin for obsidian? Tiddlywiki is built on a similar idea, but much more flexible and powerful. However, tiddlywiki doesn't support in-text definition of fields (as far as I know)
Apart from her work for Apollo, she also coined the term “software engineer”…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_en...
Isn't the mocking more about the stupid predictions he keep on giving surrounding fsd (and everything else).. heck if we wait long enough most everything is possible.
You do realize US territories have fought each other before, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_War
Haha great wink wink title.
It's specific to ECDSA recovery, where instead of using a pubkey and message to validate a signature you use a signature and message to recover the pubkey, so the age of ECDSA isn't particularly relevant in and of itself.
Yeah that makes sense when you explain it like that.
You need to do two things to keep a battery healthy: Keep it low current to stop the ions crashing into shit and not stuffing more ions than the anode and cathode matrixes can hold.

If you charge your phone to 100% using a ~4C 60W fast charger you're going to utterly fucking destroy your battery compared to someone who charges to 80% using a 0.5C wireless charger.
It is probably cheaper or at least equivalent to utility scale, if we consider the cost of transmission and distribution, neither of which are needed with rooftop. Of course, it is grid tied, but it uses existing power lines to the home without requiring any new lines to be installed.

And the indestructible resiliency of distributed power production from tens of millions of rooftops is unparalleled.
My family had one about the same size as well, and it was setup in the basement. When my parents sold the house the contract stated that the TV in the basement would not be removed and it was the buyers problem now.
It favors people who just want a clear thing to work on for a year or two.
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles class action lawsuit