skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a resource is practically unlimited (say air), then money doesn't play a role.

Money is a way to assign priority to the acquisition of a resource, similarly to the role of a queue. If a generation is wealthier or not compared to others, it only speaks about how we share resources in society, assuming the wealth is being consumed.

For a society to be richer overall, it doesn't need more money. It needs more resources.
Yeah, I mean obviously GenX followed a similar track to Boomers and now Millennials are next in the generation line. Except this time, Boomers are in their 80's and GenX are in their 50s so when the Boomer grandparents are dying they're probably leaving inheritance to their millennial grandchildren who need it more than their grown-up GenX children.
A Whopping 32k on an expansion card! Triple the memory expansion. This is like going from 32Gs to 96Gs, because 64Gbs was just not enough.

"a 48 K machine would have been a very unusually powerful one for 1978."
After 1978, it was almost the standard.
I love this. I believe I might have even interfaced with your team around that time. I was leading Facebook's (now Meta) Developer Products team and we were building against super similar areas internally.

We ran back then a similar project that I coined "Developer On-Demand" to tackle that same problem space. It's also what eventually lead me to find the magics of Nix and then build Flox.

I also agree with a lot of what was shared in other comments, while the problems we tackled at large orgs such as Facebook, Shopify, Uber, Google (to name a few teams I remember working with) and obviously also Stripe, certain areas of the pain are 100% universal regardless of team size.

On the Flox side, we're trying to help with a few of them today and many more hopefully in the soon future, very open for thoughts! Things like - simple to use Nix for each of your projects + keep deps and config up to date across everyones Macbooks and Linux boxes, etc -- even if you don't have a full AWS team and Language Server team ready to support.
I've made the comment before that all the schools really need is a classroom, desks and chairs, a chalkboard, and a teacher. Pen & notepaper helps.

The rest is just useless fluff.

Note that Caltech was exactly that. A prof, a chalkboard, a lecture hall. I learned more in 2 weeks with that than a year of high school. I've suggested to college students that they'll learn better if they leave their laptops in the dorm. And I say this as a computer professional.
This right here. It would be nice to have some perk like you can read the articles through Gopher.
"Just works" is fine... Until it does not, and you have a hard time finding the issue. I prefer more control over my editor.
> batteries or power-constrained environments

I would imagine that CPUs are much more efficient than a satellite transmitter, probably? I guess you'd have to balance the additional computational energy required vs. the savings in energy from less transmitting.
Faux-anonymity/lack of consequences.

The same reason that many on the internet are toxic.
Short answer: no, they are not (read footnotes 1 and 2)

CAISO, 1st column, 1st bar:
- blue is the cost of solar
- beige is the cost of firming intermittency using gas

CAISO, 2nd column, 1st bar:
- blue is the cost of solar+battery (max 4 hours)
- beige is the cost of firming intermittency using gas

Using batteries improves the ELCC (contribution to meet peak demand), but it is not enough, so it has to be compensated somehow. Want to get a higher ELCC? Get a larger battery (and install more solar panels). Be aware, this is not a linear relationship: getting from 10 % to 20 % of renewables is cheaper than getting from 70 % to 80 % (this is why the costs are lower when the penetration rate shown in the slide is low). You reach a point where you just waste energy or need to pay to use it, like in Germany, Netherlands or Denmark.

There is no best energy source. There are different networks, energy mixes, needs, etc. Under CAISO, it is just more convenient to go with nuclear. Under SPP, solar has a very high ELCC and a very low penetration, which makes it convenient just to install solar, but up to which percentage?

Overall, some mix of renewables and nuclear, depending on the network, seems a reasonable solution. Otherwise we would need to go with fossil power plants to meet the remaining demand (carbon capture seems wishful thinking) or to over provision renewables while building incredibly large storage systems (be aware that there are places where fluctuation are not on a daily or weekly basis, but on a seasonal basis - good luck storing the energy for ~3 months using lithium ion batteries because you live in a polar region).

The book "How to avoid a climate disaster" (Bill Gates) has a chapter just for that. I would recommend it.
Personal Math AI
I've been looking for a small, knobby, dark blue uranium glass toothpick holder for decades.

My grandparents had one, and my earliest memories are getting a toothpick for Grandpa after supper when he quit smoking when I moved in with them.

I would kill to find one of those just for the memories! It's the only reason I set auction alerts for uranium glass.
Does that means that kicking people out after an hour is unfair to people who want to have a long cup with someone? I don't really see it as a question of fairness.

Not every business has to cater to everyone's preference. I suspect that they started shooing people because they found (or at least suspected) that kicking out your customers made them more money. The laptop people will just find somewhere else to get their coffee.

The best coffee shops I been to have multiple spaces set aside for people with different needs, including busy main areas and out of the way quiet areas, a mix of small and long tables plus chairs and couches, books/board games/pool tables available, conference/gaming rooms, etc.

I've seen coffee shops like that get so popular that they required a cover charge on Friday nights and weekends. You're not likely to find those kinds of spaces on every other street corner like a Starbucks but the versatility is really nice.
Flip the script a little if you really want to understand this. Play the role of a developer and go do some rudimentary math on what you can afford to build at what risk. Use ChatGPT to help you with the parts you don't understand.

There's no moustache twirling. Location is the number one thing people want. If amenities made the cut and could be done, they'd be done. But after parking minimums, setbacks, and massing requirements you lose a lot of sq. ft., every bit of which you need to make the money work.

Try it with a well-known locality since the laws for those are public enough to be scraped.
Case in point: paying for the New York Times doesn’t block ads in their app.
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Great write up. I'm using PowerDNS for https://www.getlocalcert.net/, which also makes heavy use of PowerDNS's HTTP API. I've been really happy with it. I need to check my code, but I remember planning to use the comment field of the records to map between application IDs and records in PowerDNS zones.

You may be able to implement the logging by using a customization of the Sqlite backend, although I think PowerDNS caching may get in your way.

I'll recommend the pipe backend to anyone looking to hack on DNS stuff. It's almost like a DNS lookup via a function in any programming language you choose. It takes a while to figure out how incoming queries are translated though.

https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/backends/pipe.html
I'll gladly pay for journalist content, but not when a single article is going to be $15/mo and hard to cancel.

Is there some way to support journalism across publications?
My small team uses devenv for all our development environments and we really like it. Local DX is really important to me and to our team, which is a big part of why we've chosen Nix and devenv.

As we've started to use it more extensively, we've also found that we want to add some enhancements, work out some bugs, and experiment with our own customizations out-of-tree, etc. I'm happy to report here on HN that devenv is well-documented and easy to extend for Nix users who have some experience with Nix module systems, and that Domen is really responsive to PRs. :)
Four microphones will let you pinpoint the location of any sound in a 3D volume.

I'm sure they have more sensors than that.
The annoyance of being investigated is enough to make parents so no to biking.
Yes, I’d say “sucks” means “bad” more than uncool. Clearly using stuff that your friends think is bad is immediately uncool so I can see how these can seem to mean the same thing :)
I'm always ready with my microscope to take some die photos!
Yes and no. Depends on what you consider an arrest. Colloquially, yes, any law enforcement can arrest you for any level of offense. Technically, the arrest is made by the officer with jurisdiction that you end up being transferred into their custody and putting their name on the paperwork. The big bottleneck here is that the Feds decline to have many people held because they don't have enough people to take the transfer. They perfer to let the state level law do their work for them (as on many topics they're basically the same). In the case we're talking about, the Feds generally don't care about marijuana in a traffic stop since their policy is to basically ignore it in states where it's legal.
Ask chat gpt to explain how K-V caching works. What they are doing is essentially the same thing, with a few more engineering details.
> This study suggests that the sleeping brain, while disengaged from the external world, uses its internal model of the world to simulate interactions with it.

So we do live in a simulation, for a few hours each day.
Last I saw, the stat was 40ish per day. It's partially testable though. You presumably have a codebase at hand with a few contributors. Just git stat that code and average the lines changed by the top 5 contributors. Count deletions as "finished" lines of code too. Add in some auto-generated lockfiles and whatnot if you still haven't hit that 40 line-per-day mark. Report back if you're able to exceed it.
Success is its own trap. At a certain size, there's more to lose than to gain with any change.
The secondary sanctions are certainly having an effect. The Russians themselves are saying that 80+% of yuan denominated transfers are being rejected by Chinese banks.
If this works this is huge. It will improve everything from knowing the weather for your weekend hike to hurricane evacuation order lead time and area
Those boards are from the Minuteman I, the cylindrical computer. I wonder what happened to his boards?
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> Their latest feedback after appealing suggests I change from a .co.uk to .com to resolve the issue

I wonder if what they take issue with is that propertyengine.co.uk and propertyengine.com are different businesses.

I mean it doesn't make a lot of sense to take issue with that, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's what it ended up being.
Without an antenna, even at close range, initial handshakes will fail or be unreliable.
really bad.
communicates nothing.
At my workplace, Guix's lack of macOS support takes away some of the benefit of using something like Nix or Guix as opposed to HVM solutions like Docker Desktop or Vagrant. I imagine this situation is unfortunately common.

For teams where GNU/Linux is the primary development OS, Guix seems like a great choice.
This does not work for map applications.
This is the embodiment of the problem of macOS. A $29 app for something that Linux does for free. To be clear, this looks like a neat app, but I'll stick with Linux.
Jagora: Tap into the Power of Your Intuition
Hey HN,

We're often paralyzed by too many decisions, sometimes even small ones that don't matter much, yet we find ourselves stuck in endless loops of analysis paralysis.

At the same time, there are theories suggesting we don't really know where our decisions come from.

I built Jagora for myself to break free from small and mundane decisions.

In our current world of logic, this might seem like a crazy idea. The main goal I had was to give thought to questioning our decision-making process.

Solution:

Combine LLMs with ancient guidance tools like the I Ching and astrology. You can also chat with philosophers from older times if you prefer.

Jagora
https://jagora.ai

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Hmmm… this does not jive with personal experience. Almost everyone I know in my boomer parents generation bought large homes with land on a single income and no college degree, and still have them… which they sit in alone, with entire floors of empty bedrooms they never enter. Most of my millennial friends have dual graduate degree dual six figure incomes but pretty much have to rent because a mortgage on a small single family home would not leave enough money for childcare so they could keep working. They technically could buy but they’d be stretched so thin it would be really hard, so they don’t.

For example, take home pay from two 100k salaries is about $11,850/mo total. A mortgage, taxes, and insurance on a 1.1 M home (a small 2 bedroom that needs work here in the Bay Area) could be $8k/mo, not considering upkeep costs. Childcare for two children would be ~3k/mo, already bringing it even, without food, cars, etc.
Amazon S3 no longer charges for several HTTP error codes
The physical environment these weapons were designed for is extreme and only possible to simulate piecemeal.

Each stage needs to function in the presence of nearby nuclear detonations, resulting from both adversary and friendly weapons.

These detonations are expected to cause severe shock, thermal, radiation, and electromagnetic transients.

In the case of the most important targets, it is guaranteed that numerous detonations near the target, from ABM systems and friendly impacts, will occur, and these systems have been engineered and are expected to perform reliably under such conditions.
https://github.com/tktech/chancy is a very early-stage pet project to work around specific issues I keep running into with Celery that has all of this, including a simple plugin-extendable UI with DAG workflow visualization.
Haha, just like vitamin D. Everything is associated with going outside, but where is the causality? Almost any negative event, from financial to relational setbacks to a global pandemic make people spend more time indoors and will also have other negative effects, but you can't always cure it with vitamin D.
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Show HN: A Library of Funny Ads
Recently I participated in a soup-to-nuts (wherever THAT came from) build challenge hosted by Build the Keyword.

The goal was to identify an untapped keyword (high search volume, low KD), create a concept for a product, and build it...in two weeks!

I found the keyword "funny ads" actually didn't have great search results – most were just blog posts of some funny ads, but honestly, a terrible way to go through this sort of content.

So, I created Funny Ads Club!

It's a directory of ads that I've collected (so far), that have LOL to them.

I used Airtable and Webflow to make this:D

Anyway, I'd love to hear what you think of it, and btw, check out Durex's ads – they are *chef's kiss
I sincerely hope the antitrust suit ends this practice soon. This is so obviously anticompetitive.
Your certificate will however show up in public certificate transparency lists.

You could mitigate that with a wildcard cert, but still..
Maybe I should start insisting on the term "FOSS".

Pushover licenses ("truly open source") enable the exploitation of FOSS developers in the name of easy profit for the people building proprietary software around it, while Copyleft licenses ensure that this does not happen, granting each user the essential freedoms. The restrictions are not arbitrary, they exist precisely to ensure that these freedoms cannot be taken away from anyone. If this hinders widespread adoption by companies, it just means that those companies didn't plan on respecting the essential freedoms.
Set WiFi to expire after 60 minutes, maybe that helps?
It's crazy to talk about food pairings and not mention Niki Segnit's "Food Thesaurus" which is a quite comprehensive and entertaining book about food pairings

https://www.nikisegnit.com/the-flavour-thesaurus
I think the limitation is that the API can't write BIND files, so databases are preferred.

https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/backends/bind.html
The Chinese never intended all the companies to succeed. They intended that the market would force bad companies to die. The point is to replicate the bank system or the tech system and have a few extraordinarily large players the central govt can control.

The very last thing this was intended to do was be a corruption scheme. Why does everything have to be a conspiracy these days.
Collecting this is a fun hobby to get into! If you wanna learn more, feel free to join my Discord server! https://discord.gg/k2gewm3E
Amusingly, at Caltech the only phone in the dorm was a payphone down the hall. The only time I recall ever using it was to make flight reservations to visit my parents.

My first cellphone was in 1994 or so. It took many years before I was acclimated to using it, and didn't get an internet phone until 2015.

I was a very early adopter of computers, but pretty late with phones.
Blender (via https://github.com/ndee85/coa_tools) and Godot's Skeleton2D node are both open-source. I'd assume Spine's advanced features far outpace them, but I also suspect the need for such features is rare.
I always do DevTools -> Network Conditions to set UA, at least in Chrome.
There are also a few collections that are available only in Cardinal, and not VCV
I’ve always thought of it like the law of conservation of energy.

Money is “energy,” your physical and mental health/stamina are, your time is, your knowledge is a store of energy, your connections can be a store of energy, the risk you take can even been seen as an energy in a way.

Then it’s just an optimization problem, there are certainly more and less efficient mixes of these energies, but there is likely a minimum amount of energy you’ll have to expend to reach the goal.

Unlike in engineering, it’s often a lot harder to quantify the values here, so I suspect honing an eye for it is critical to success in life.
A beloved product, IPO'd or purchased by professional PE, invariably becomes worse as the new owners realize love can be exchanged for a worse experience and more profitable enterprise.

If you want to build something and have it stay good, never expose it to the harsh light of economic min/maxing.
I used the two cans and a string phone as a kid. Only one channel on TV!

I built an intercom from a kit when older, but it was useless as yelling worked better.
I have (legitimate) emails from google sat in my gmail spam ...
> Factors like these mean in prior decades the total damage costs may have been more similar to today's than they appear but a lot of the damage data we gather and report now wasn't counted or gathered then

This is definitely part of it. Another part is that people live in more at-risk regions now than in the past (Florida is a great example, population has more than 10x'd since 1950).

Ultimately, the way we think about it is no matter what the underlying cause, weather-related damages could be significantly reduced with better data/forecasts
IntelliJ is 20yo old app, with lots of resources invested, they likely have many non-trivial optimizations implemented and do not represent vanilla java experience.
It’s interesting the amount of research listed in the article and IMHO the recommendation engine/ algorithm used by Rdio in the late aughts and early 2010s eclipses anything I’ve encountered to date.

Seems like folks are reinventing the wheel, and trying to deduce what folks want to engage in with data and “AI”, rather than providing sufficient tools to allow the user to drive the narrative.
Moving and beautifully written.
Complete Visual Guide to Sony MiniDisc Blank Media (1992-2004)
Yes. Kanban is the closest methodology that I have found that maps to the spirit of the Agile Manifesto. Kanban and Agile are very harmonious.

Scrum is most definitely not "agile" by most definitions. The process of planning and retroactive review are important agile concepts. But scrum has been significantly distorted in most cases to become the antithesis of agile.

SAFe is even more a divergence from Manifesto Agile. Maybe it's justified because corporations haven't figure out how to do big corporate things using an agile approach. Toyota is probably the exception, since they basically invented the groundwork for Agile today.
Yeah but what happened when one is many miles away and both are checking in, so most recent location is flip flopping.
Looks neat! Awesome stuff, the keybindings are great to be included in the first releases too.
Attackers don't ask permission.

The hardware backdoor channel is present anyway because MPPT needs it.

The software can abuse the measurements to listen for optically transmitted commands.
It's all very nice but if they end up "altering" the results heavily to play you the music they want you to listen for X or Y reason then it's pointless.

I would like to be able to run this model myself and have a pristine and unbiased output of suggestions
>It's now dawned on me that they're storing this plain text so that they can do this...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing
Even more hexagonal : Wilson MicroZone U-648 Array Keyboard from Starr Labs : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffa-XiMMeVo
UK tech tycoon among six missing after yacht sinks
That's the goal. We're all from Florida, so the possibility of reducing the damage caused by hurricanes was a big reason we started the company in the first place.

Our balloons are actually cheap and steerable enough that we plan to fly them into TS/Hurricanes to get data way out in the Atlantic, farther than hurricane hunters can operate.
I used Robokiller to remove myself from data broker lists. I'm extremely impressed with it. I pay yearly. My only annoyance with Robokiller is that

A) It's necessary. When is the government going to start creating laws to help us and prosecute this?

B) It's expensive. Most people cannot afford this. I can barely afford it but my information has been leaked online.

C) It's inconvenient. A majority of calls are spam, but I'll often miss important calls from unknown numbers because Robokiller acts as a proxy and for some reason the call is routed through the Internet.

Anyhow, my wife and I are not on this list. I'm wondering if using Robokiller saved us from a lot of pain here.
Wrote my Computer Networking final last Friday. Some parts of TCP felt dry to study, but it's incredible to see how those same concepts are being used for optimization.
One suggestion: often people read others' problems and realize they can be distilled down to a more concrete problem. Maybe those kinds of comments can themselves be a new post, sort of like linked problems?

Agree this is refreshing!
Articles should come with license agreements, just like open source software nowadays. Free for personal entertainment, but if you try to make money from the information in the article or otherwise commercialize it, you can fuck right off.
It's pretty amazing imgur has lasted this long. Free image hosts usually have a limited lifespan.
My quality of life improvements to Arch Linux