skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has too few details. It looks like very preliminate research. Clicking here and there, I got this patent https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20... that appears to be a molecule that disrput https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proline#Cis%E2%80%93trans_isom...
This can't be it, much of the housing stock is from pre 1950s and adding those finishes or code improvements does not make a house 5x as valuable.

My theory is that we simply don't allow building anywhere near the rate of increasing demand, which is reflected by the anemic supply growth compared to population increases.
I would also be inclined to believe that my project to solve the proprietary 4Chan text CAPTCHA cannot solve an unrelated image CAPTCHA. I'd bet a lot of money on it, in fact!
Which is still small. For all the hype, miners, hedge funds, early adopters can easily overwhelm any buying by MSTR. If MSTR were smart it would deposit the $ on exchanges and then sop up any selling to keep the price stable, whilst selling CME put options to raise $.
How China Became the World's Largest Car Exporter
I think this is likely a distortion caused by zoning regulations, resulting in "missing middle" housing.

Basically, if you are only allowed to build single family housing on a plot of land, it doesn't make sense to build anything other than a large luxury home.
Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US
Starship itself will not be a great deep space delivery vehicle, in the same way current disposable second stages are used. Too big and too... reusable.

However, it'll make a great delivery system for some serious high-energy escape velocity "third" stages, rather like the Shuttle "Inertial Upper Stage" that delivered Magellan and Galileo and Ulysses.
Because everyone need to search each existing technology that's they are going to use to see if they are dyeing because of that, and don't forget that don't exist replacement for tires because the incentive don't exist
Article from February.

Have they said anything more on this since? Times have changed for them with scrutiny.

Been finding it hard to keep up with what they're saying about various items because it's all over the place from github to their media channel(s), AMAs, lead devs saying this and that randomly. A symptom of them developing in the open, building this piece by piece, day by day.
> The current market cap of the company is $89bn while its reserve of 386,700 bitcoins is worth $37bn

Matt Levine also wrote about MicroStrategy's market funded bitcoin purchases:

"Sometimes, though, you find a stock-price-management strategy that is so good that the only reasonable reaction is to chuck out your operating business and spend all your time issuing stock. MicroStrategy is having a great time".

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-18/palant...

https://archive.is/3BpKO
This is very nitpicky, but “Nazi” always seems out of place to me in historical discussions. It’s a derisive nickname mainly used by their opponents. It’s convenient, sure, and more recognizable than “national socialist” in popular culture. I use it as well, but it always feels a little goofy, like talking about “commies” in an otherwise serious discussion.
An interesting idea! Sending signals to all processes sounds expensive as hell though. All that work just to make a system call again to flush a buffer. Maybe a mechanism can be added to make the kernel aware of the user space buffer so it can directly fetch stuff from there when it's idle? Is it kind of like io_uring https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/io_uring_register_buff...
It's questionable advice for readers too. For example, if the cover of a book indicates it is a cheap romance novel, that is a pretty good indication that I won't have any interest in reading it.
That’s your retort? Do you have numbers of them being anything more than a rounding error? More and more cars need something reset when the battery is disconnected. I can only assume that this will become even more prevalent as a “security feature”. I had after market head unit that used that as an anti-theft deterrent.
The Castro Theater in SF also screens it in 70mm from time to time, though I'm not sure if it's their own print or if it's been transported around.
> I agree that good engineers focus more on the actual structure and problems instead of nitpicky things like formatting

I don't think you understand that formatting is of critical importance.

Sure, your code won't break if you add a space at the right or at the left of a symbol.

But your code will be reformatted the next time someone like you works on that file and takes the same naive approach to that code that you took.

That leads to PRs having a larger code footprint for no reason other than fixing the previous PR's failure to comply with a style guide.

This means tools like Git blame start to flag parts of the code as having changed recently just because you failed to pay attention to the style guide.

Now that regression that was introduced by an unrelated commit becomes slightly harder to track because it's buried between commits that add and remove white spaces around the problem, and the last change is just nitpicking around something you should have gotten right in the very moment you posted your PR if only you ran a linter or paid attention to the comments posted in your PR.
It also might be a sign that the content of the book is itself AI generated.
I’m not the author but which SEA are you referring to? Southeast Asia? Southeast Africa? I assume you’re not talking about Seattle.

It’s important to be specific when you’re trying to localize things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_(disambiguation)
If Zuck's obsession with VR isn't curiosity driven research than nothing is.

10 billion yearly losses for something that by all accounts isn't close to magically becoming profitable. It honestly just seems like something he thinks is cool and therefore dumps money in.
> This reactor indeed has lower power density than a PWR, but not by a factor of 12.

It's more.

> while NuScale has a volume of 101 m3 and yields 77 MWe

VVER1200 has the inner vessel _diameter_ of 4.2m, height of 11m for the internal volume of 153m^3, and 1200MWe capacity (so around 3GWt).

_THIS_ is what you're comparing it with.

> Quite the opposite happens: fuel elements in the current generation PWRs tend to swell, crack and burst

Nope. A swollen or a ruptured fuel rod in a regular reactor is a reason for SCRAM. The water inside the reactor vessel is constantly monitored for fission products. The individual fuel tablets swell, but they are contained inside zirconium rods.
Single pilot is fine as long as nothing goes wrong. When a problem occurs then workload can get really severe really fast. You need one pilot flying and the other running checklists and troubleshooting. Even if there is a relief pilot onboard they might be sleeping and unable to make it to the cockpit fast enough to help. The higher risk level might be judged acceptable for cargo flights but I think it will be a long time until automation makes it viable for scheduled passenger flights.
Yes, I could indeed see that being the more effective approach to stir reflection in those who would reflexively & categorically reject any such association with the label. Cheers.
I disagree, each marginal square foot is not equivalent. (Access to owning the first few hundred over zero are in particular market is very important!) I think overall housing supply vs overall demand is still a useful way to look at it, because it captures how we're under building cheap housing.
What? Afaik they are unmetered. And real unmetered - there are people who are saturating their connections 24/7 while using them.
Exactly, the single home will only be more profitable because the townhomes will never be allowed to break ground in many neighborhoods in the US.
> successful businessmen, while the former names are successful scientists

We’ve seen this before with Thomas Edison.
I'm not quite sure I understand the distinction you're making. In construction terminology, at least, pretty much everything you can see or use is considered a "finishing material".

All of the things that I pointed out, as well as all of the things you point out, would be considered a "finishing material". Some are generally more high quality (e.g. counter, toilet) some are lower (e.g. vinyl flooring), some are no longer really bothered with at all (e.g. crown moulding).
Coupon codes, exclusive pricing (business, prime, etc), different product listings - all not reflected in the history AFAICT. Never mind that for many products, Amazon has consistently high prices. CCC is handy, but it's just one data point.
> Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, even YouTube (Google property but not Google the search engine) are all paths to discovery.

Add blogs, News sites, and forums - to that as well.
Rather, the backbone providers dont do peering agreements and the traffic is very expensive, especially in the post-zirp inflation period. Europe is different - everybody peers with everybody so traffic is dirt cheap.
Sorry, you're right. Pebble bed reactors can provide helium at around 600C (reasonably up to 700C, but that's at the limits of material science).
> CI should reject the feature branch if the linter fails.

Your CI pipeline is broken if it refuses to run because of style issues. Linting is either applied as a pre commit hook or manually by the developer. Anything else is a mistake you are making without any concrete tradeoff.

The same goes for other mistakes such as handling warnings as errors.

Imagine going into a meeting with a senior manager and explain that you cannot release a hot fix because your pipeline is broken due to the last commit having 5 spaces instead of 4.
https://archive.ph/GYBXe
But it is not. It's quite real! It makes a lot of sense... it's exactly the type of stuff that frustrates people [because it slows down the organization] but happens a lot [because it's not easily detectable/fireable].
I’m hoping this is sarcasm deserving my heart-felt belly laugh. FANG (or whatever the backcronym is these days) “selective hiring” is just puzzle driven mediocrity with a ridiculous amount of elect self-praise at their own good fortune. And “performance metrics”, give me a break - product innovation is in the toilet and product quality even further down the drain. Unless you’re talking about advanced PR and market manipulation techniques to capture and retain ad revenue…definitely genius there.
>I honestly though Google would be that - but apparently it's easier to fund R&D on "selling copying machines" than "selling ads". Maybe "selling ads" earn _too much_ money ? I don't know.

Google has put quite a bit of resources into quantum computing research. It's not just for selling ads, though I have no doubt that it will be used for that among other things. But right now there's still no guarantee it's going to pay off at all.
There was a proposal to do income based utility bills in California. It was unpopular for a lot of reasons, one of which was that it would make ICE cars cheaper to fuel than EVs for most people
> Exxon was concerned that oil supply might peak in the next few decades, and was funding research on a wide variety of alternative energy technologies that might replace it.

But later in the 21st century, transnational petroleum interests simply decided to change the leadership of any government that attempted to pass radical legislation that might reduce pollution and dependence on petroleum.
I don’t hear about the Oppenheimers and von Neumanns of today’s world

Sadder still is the underlying situaiton behind this: the fact that there's nothing of even remotely comparable significance happening in the public sphere for such minds to devote themselves to, as those man did. Even though the current civilization risk if anything significantly greater than in their time.
I think a lot of people want high corporate profit taxes
Show HN: API for 24/7 desktop context capture for AI agents
hey folks!

creator here. built this because i was tired of dumb context-unaware AI.

i used to build RAG with gpt-1 back in the day, it was so hard to tame it!

screenpipe records everything happening on your desktop (screens, voice, keyboard, mouse) 24/7, processes it through OCR/STT, and serves it through a clean API. think of it as a memory bank for AI agents.

tech stack:
- rust + (tauri app or pure CLI based) for the core (fast af)
- typescript + bun for TS plugins
- works on macos/win/linux
- fully local & open source

brew install screenpipe to try it out. would love your feedback!
Why on earth do people think this is a joke? How else would you recommend people working in adversarial organizations slow them down?
I don’t think they could do that in a way that would prevent a fork from undoing it.
We're past that and to the point of neighborhoods voting against any development and supply increase.
I may be wrong, but I don’t think op is responsible for scaling their suggestion up to serve everybody on the internet.
> When a problem occurs then workload can get really severe really fast. You need one pilot flying and the other running checklists and troubleshooting

This argument was made for each of those now-obsolete roles. I'd want to see data before concluding there is a benefit to a second person on checklists. In reality, that advantage would only manifest if the captain is inexperienced, self-check systems have failed and the radio/remote ops have failed.

> Even if there is a relief pilot onboard they might be sleeping and unable to make it to the cockpit fast enough to help

Can you name a crash which occured because the FO was in the bathroom?
Same - I use a folded playing card but since the machine's docked it works in the unlikely event that I need to use it.
The vision I have for NASA missions is to avoid these tiny one off probes and use starship to lift multiple boosters to orbit, assemble a server rack and multiple imagers, a radio thermal power source, and boost it to orbit around each outer planet (except perhaps Jupiter, too much radiation).

It's just not the right business model to build "small" probes like this that trickle back imagery when we can be downloading the same imagery AND querying data that's sitting in situ to run analysis on a planet -local server of TB of real time signals.

Imagine you see something interesting in one image, and just ask the server to find local similar things all over the planet from the imagery in storage. Instant frequency and geospatial analysis product without begging for observation time or (worse) a new mission.

Oh and a kilometer scale telescope in orbit.
Pedantically, it would be considered an "antique firearm". Still a firearm, but basically unregulated
Wasabi (S3 Storage) is down
> And no country has been able to figure out a solution for that problem.

Minor nit, the "solution" is well known, it's to increase supply of housing by removing zoning regulations and letting the increase in demand pull more supply out of the market. It's just not politically popular, everyone is for it in the abstract but campaign against multifamily homes being constructed in their backyard. Basically, we know how to build homes but do not know how to convince people that neighbors who can't afford McMansions are still desirable neighbors.
It looks like the transformation is going to be that all marked work will be done on paper in class. Anything else is pointless since students just have all their work generated for them.
I don't like that my kids can no longer cross the street we live on because people have stopped obeying traffic lights and cops no longer enforce the law. The honor system isn't working and people are dying because of it.

Now what are your specific fears about speed limiters on cars?
Media was never all that responsible.
> Which legal and financial instruments have defended the City of London itself from being auctioned for parts?

Currently, the Magna Carta. Clause 9, dating from 1297:

THE City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been used to have. Moreover We will and grant, that all other Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and the Barons of the Five Ports, and all other Ports, shall have all their Liberties and free Customs.

This clause has never been repealed.

But there were other forms of royal charter at least as far back as the Norman conquest, and probably before.
This is already happening in many neighborhoods in California. I imagine elsewhere in the US too. People who keep it running have to commute long distances.
What downside?

You're not supposed to run red lights or exceed the speed limit. This should be enforced electronically. The machines are unbiased and more accurate than cops. Cheaper too.
If that ticked you off, Hetzner support would tick you off even more. Within ~45 minutes of opening a ticket, you get an actual engineer to look into your case, and they are constantly blunt and semi-irate both because of the German work culture and the nature of network/hardware engineering I guess. They fix your stuff fast, and they keep being short, blunt and concise while doing it. No "I'm sorry to hear..." or "Thank you for contacting us with..." blahblah like in the US. All business, no fluff.

Aside from knowing their sh*t and being available at short notice, you'll get along very well after you learn how to communicate with them. By being concise, precise, and blunt of course...
A very conventional definition of gender is as a synonym for sex, for example in Merriam Webster's dictionary, where it's given as one of its definitions:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender

Even if one didn't accept gender being defined as a synonym of sex, one could very reasonably claim that there are only two genders. It's completely subjective and there's no biological or otherwise physical grounding in judging these things, and no single authority in the English language on whether any genders, beyond male and female, exist.

So you claiming that gender is definitively not synonymous with sex, and that the idea that there are only two genders is "definitionally wrong", is an intellectually dishonest characterization of the situation, and shows why censorship on the basis of the claims self-annointed judges of truth, like you, is so dangerous.

"These people have no motive or contribution beyond attempting to tear down community and start fights, and therefore should be removed from places that want to have communities and not fights."

You think the way to stop fights is to censor everyone who disagrees with you, by falsely claiming that they are "definitionally wrong".

These are just attempts to rationalize creating a censored echo chamber where ideological dogmas that don't conform to reality can propagate. Truth doesn't fear debate.
It means, "were fucked." Toast. Were done for. Stick a fork in us.
If it’s not air gapped the company could be compelled to activate it remotely.
compare dlr "train captain" pay with that of tube drivers
> Shouldn't it be alarming to everyone that Jack Dorsey distanced himself from Bluesky?

Well, I mean, depends how you feel about Dorsey, surely?
Meanwhile, the younger generation barely uses web search

I might be a little out of touch, but what do they do instead?
Ask HN: Have you created a 'fake' (pseudo anonymous) social account; if so, why?
Australia will soon have laws to prevent people under 16 accessing social media. An 'internet licence' of sorts (sites will have to verify users' identities)

The Australian PM was asked how young minorities might find social groups without social media [1]. His reply was floundering but amounted to "in a face to face way".

When I think of anonymous or 'fake' (/burner) accounts, bad things (illegal or ~immoral) come to mind. But thinking more deeply, I ask myself "have I ever created a fake account?", and the answer is - "yeah, several times!" - for example:

- Burner reddit accounts, to comment or share info when (e.g. when doing so from my primary account would have been awkward for one reason or another)

- Ditto for HN

- Gmail accounts, usually for (software) testing purposes

- Before facebook had a feature to view your own profile, created a dummy account to see how it appeared to other users

- Probably more I've forgotten about

In these cases a 'dummy' account was/is very useful - it let me access and share information I or others needed. Curious to learn what others use (pseudo-anonymous | burner | 'fake' | 'dummy') social media accounts for?

The example given in a question to the Australian PM is a hypothetical about a young lgbtq person who may not be able to find anyone to speak to face to face (esp if their parents are not supportive), so social media is absolutely essential to finding like communities and learning about that aspect of themselves.

That's just one tiny (yet compelling) example.

What are your experiences; have you ever needed to create a 'fake' social media account, and if so, what for, what value did you get from it, and what were the alternatives (if any)?

[1] https://x.com/TalaatSYehia/status/1862389652126069231
Hetzner values its old customers a LOT for some reason...
Yes, it was basic research( guided to the field of machine learning), but between a search monopoly and their autonomous car project, they definitely have a great economic engine to use that basic research and the talent it pulled into Google, even if a lot of it escaped.
I can sympathize with the Gen Z here. Thanks to the internet/social media they're seeing far more than what we were privvy to when we were their age.

Namely, they're seeing the trust fund babies, but they don't know it yet. It will dawn on them soon enough.
Yeah I read that thread, it sounds like great progress! Really makes me think about the hardware I put out into the world professionally, and if I could realistically have reversed engineered it with no prior knowledge.

Cryptography is probably the real game changer here, secure boot, attestation, message authentication. Can’t exactly blame automakers for wanting those features, given the stakes, but that would make reverse engineering fairly impossible.
So you're saying ordering any food from a fast food restaurant is an eating disorder?

The average combo meal clocks in at nearly a thousand calories at a minimum at essentially every fast food restaurant in America even if you just drink water with it.

I get where you're coming from, but it is entirely too easy to not see the bigger picture and to blame the victims of the system. The system is fucked, it is fucked on purpose because that is profitable, most people are too stupid too ignorant or at least two uninformed to know about it and even more so do anything about it.

Blaming overweight Americans for their overweightness just lets you personally feel better about yourself while doing nothing to actually identify or solve the problem.
You had never tried gevent in production then.
As soon as workload and concurrency increases python programs with gevent or gevent based drivers, especially monkey patches causes unexpected crashes out of the blue, no way to debug, no error message,Memory leaks and whole slew of nightmares
> I thought they mention in one place they can put discs on these.

Yeah, they can do it, but they'll be a little heavier than those relatively light rim brake steel bikes linked earlier. (The rotors/calipers, hydraulic, fluid, stronger fork leg required all just add mass.)

I'm also in Seattle! Disc brakes all day.
The wikipedia article you linked showed only a decline of 1% home ownership as defined, but mentions a massive decline in "home equity" down to around 34% owning the home outright - this means that people are struggling to own homes in the classical sense of the word "ownership" to me, and the ownership rates are being papered over by long periods of access to cheap loans.
So many production problems that we never seen in development comes in and no way to debug