skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But sunlight is wide spectrum, and a lot of the reasons why the efficiency of regular solar panels is low, is that they don’t absorb all of the spectrum equally well. That’s why there’s all this talk of tandem solar cells with perovskites these days. The two solar cells can be tuned to extract energy from different wavelengths of light.

Since the light they’re making is nearly monochromatic, it’s a lot easier to get higher efficiency. That’s kind of the whole point of the invention.
Yeah this is why I don't like the "tit for tat - they banned facebook, insta, etc." argument.

We're supposed to be better than them, but we stoop to their level.
Am I right in deducing that this language gets its power from self-modifying code? I.e. flipping bits within addresses of the opcodes of the running program?
I would prefer no bailouts.

If insurance wants firebreaks for insurance, that is their choice.

If the city wants buy RE for access, that is between tax payers and the land owners. Cash talks
If the comment hadn't started with "You didn't look it up very well" or ended with "My research consisted of clicking on, and reading, the link you yourself posted", both of which were needless swipes, I wouldn't have posted a moderation reply. Does that answer your question?
That's because it's only added recently. It's mainly used by overseas Chinese and mainland Chinese, also, until recently.
That might be true, and yet it's also true that enemies are not just a fictional concept, and letting them have undue influence that weakens your society probably isn't a good idea.
> Insurance needs to be not-for-profit or a government enterprise.

There are many examples of this in the insurer of last resort, which are non-profit or government insurance when the private insurance can no longer cover.

Insurers of last resort have the same issues with denying claims and not paying out like the private insurers. If you read the OP article, the only people asking for not-for-profit or government insurance are basically asking for infinite money, which is both a non-starter and impossible.

What really should be done is private insurers raising premiums to match risk. This may mean some consumers will be priced out of insurance policies.
FTC Staff Report on AI Partnerships and Investments [pdf]
RJ45 nazi here: these should be called 8P8C

I’ll show myself out
Nix would handle this trivially.
The power in question is the president's power over the executive branch of government, e.g. the department of Justice. If the president orders it, the department of Justice could choose to feign ignorance and simply not fine any offending parties under this law. Obviously this is an immense power that should be wielded with the utmost care but at this point I'm not sure anyone cares.
Do you mean watts or watt-hours?
> Still, many of these are more successful than Starship:

Your definition of success doesn't leave room for anomalies. Your mindset seems to be "if you try and it's doesn't turn out perfectly, it's a failure" -- which results in spending tons of time and money iterating behind closed doors (or even worse, trying to model/calculate the whole thing without many test runs), and only unveiling the result when it's "perfect". This approach costs more time and money, and more embarrassment if/when the product fails in public. It also doesn't build a culture of learning a lot from anomalies.

Meanwhile, SpaceX doesn't care about iterating, testing, and failing in public. So they skip all the costly effort of trying too hard not to fail, setting expectations that they get it right the first time, and not learning as much from anomalies.

Anomalies, properly understood, are opportunities to learn and improve -- and never something to be ashamed of. The only true "failures" are to give up because it's too hard, to stop learning from the data that anomalies provide, or to never try in the first place because you're too afraid of anomalies.
I'm really at loss at how bad Google is at algorithms considering how pioneering they have been in selecting engineers based on their algorithmic skills and their immense contributions to the whole ML sector.

I can let Spotify play on its own for hours and it will be just right...Even with songs I know nothing about, it's just very good.

I tried Tik Tok once and I could see how easily it could pick content.

But Youtube and Youtube Music are a disaster. Youtube Music is a decent service, but it's hard to get suggested anything really.

Youtube Shorts are a disaster. Sure I like the Sopranos, I find some Joe Rogan's interview interesting and sure I like the NBA, but that's virtually all it feeds me, even if I start scrolling away to other topics.
Anyone with significant financial interests in China should not be able to represent the US in confronting China.

And yet..
The question of your native language is answered long before any of what you’re talking about here. A 20 year old isn’t time traveling to have different parents when they take an exam.
Creating three branches of government that all have to agree that a law should exist (legislative) is constitutional (judicial) and should be enforced (executive) has proven to be an excellent method of keeping bad laws from negatively affecting us. Despite being seemingly simple on the surface, it's created a process a bit longer than what a single Schoolhouse Rock video can teach us, and it's too much for legacy media to handle.

Maybe they only learned from the aforementioned Schoolhouse Rock video, because they seem especially bad at understanding anything outside of the legislative branch. Not only does the legislative branch need to pass a bill into law for it to become a regulation, without objection by the judicial branch to its constitutionality, but the executive branch needs to write that law into a federal regulation, and the legislative branch can reject any new regulation they believe doesn't comply with the law, as can the judicial branch, who can also reject the regulation if it isn't constitutional as written, even if the original law that created it was.

It's no wonder that legacy media's wild misunderstandings of how laws and regulations work only get a small snippet of time, between their more entertaining and feel-good stories that drive viewership and revenue.

Fortunately we are no longer stuck with just legacy media, so I recommend finding a news source that actually knows what they are talking about. I've found the best bet is to get news from outlets and aggregators that specialize in a specific topic, shielding them from the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, and forcing them to publish news that is actually correct.

This is why I come to Hacker News for my tech news aggregation. For political news, my favorite so far has been The Hill, especially for videos like their Daily Brief and Rising videos published on YouTube. I'm open to more, so if anyone has any recommendations, let me know.
What I think is happening is that the place is specifically charging different tax rates for each part of the pizza. That does seem odd but the alternative would be to tax the whole of the pizza at a higher tax rate than the one presented. Example, most countries might put a whole pizza at, say, 10% VAT, while here part of it is at, say, 4% and the rest at 10%. Ideally that's cheaper.
It does allow LGBTQ+ content actually. There are tons of it on the platform. It's just it doesn't "explicitly" allow it, if that makes sense.
The thing I never got past with yjs was that the generalization of the todo app item-moving thing in this tutorial gets messy so quickly. If you have multiple objects that relate to each other, then you want them in the same Document, and keeping the relationships in sync has lots of gotchas (like needing the fractional indexing in the tutorial).

But then you accumulate a database worth of items and the simple toy model of putting everything into one document amounts to having to ship the whole DB (and it's history) to anything that wants to read any items. So you need to start breaking the items into separate objects and persisting them yourself, which has no documentation except for this tutorial [0] (spoiler alert: it's just an empty "Work in Progress - come back later" and has said that for years and years and years).

So you try to build a Provider to manage things, and the documentation story is the same [1].

Then you find out about Subdocuments and get happy that there's a solution to this common problem [2], but then learn that some Providers can't handle any relationships between subdocuments, and some Providers don't even support subdocuments, which goes back to issue of DIY providers not being documented.

So then you try to read some code to learn about it (after all, it's open source, we can't expect the dev to do all the work for us for free; let's do some work too!) and realize that what yjs really is at its core is a protocol. And that protocol -- the very essence of yjs -- is also totally undocumented and spread across a bunch of relatively idiosyncratic code. Unless you count a paper that documents how a yjs precursor worked a decade ago.

I didn't intend this to turn into a rant, but I've spent so much time trying to get it working over the years, and the gap between the toy 'Look it's magic!' demos and anything real is just so wide and the documentation for that part has been empty except "Work in Progress" for a decade.

I'm hopeful that some of the companies trying to monetize yjs, like the author of this post, are willing to step into that gap (which is who I'm writing this for, btw).

[0] https://docs.yjs.dev/tutorials/persisting-the-document-to-a-...

[1] https://docs.yjs.dev/tutorials/creating-a-custom-provider

[2] https://docs.yjs.dev/api/subdocuments

[3] I was really hoping that as I wrote this, the situation has changed, but it looks like all the documentation is just as WIP as five years ago and same for subdocument support.
AI resistance considered harmful (for programmers)
Thanks for the feedback!

> I would just take a centralized framework and stick it inside an oversized drone/vehicle capable of carrying the added weight

Makes sense. I think there are scenarios where such “base stations” are a priori available and “shielded,” so in this case, it might make more sense to just go with a centralized system. This could also be built on top of our system, though.

> But what’s the benefit of this?

I agree that, in many cases, the return on saving costs might be marginal. However, say you have a cluster of drones equipped with computing hardware capable enough to run all algorithms themselves—why spin up a cloud instance for running a centralized version of that algorithm? It is more of an engineering-ideological point, though ;)

> But I do find it funny that the solution to decentralization seems to be simply having the centralization move around easily / flexibly. It’s not a hive of peers, it’s a hive of temporary kings.

Most of our applications will not need this group leader. For example, the pubsub system does not work by aggregating and dispatching the messages at a central point (like MQTT) but employs a gossip mechanism (https://docs.libp2p.io/concepts/pubsub/overview/).

What I meant is that, in some situations, it might be more efficient (and it’s easier to reason about) to elect a leader. For example, say you have an algorithm that needs to do a matching between neighboring nodes —i.e., each node has some data point, and the algorithm wants to compute a pairwise similarity metric and share all computed metrics back to all nodes.
You could do some kind of “ring-structure” algorithm, where you have an ordering among the nodes, and each node receives data points from the predecessor, computes its own similarity against the incoming data point, and forwards the received data point to its successor.
If one node fails, the neighboring nodes in the ring will switch to the successor. This would be truly decentralized, and there is no single point of failure. However, in most cases, this approach will have a higher computation latency than just electing a temporary leader (by letting the leader compute the matchings and send them back to everyone).
So someone caring about efficiency (and not resiliency) will probably want such a leader mechanism.
1. Then why is that investor so aggressively against the forced divestment? (not a ban)

2. Bytedance will certainly lose value if its main product loses one of its main markets.
You say that... but a well built log cabin, with a Class A fire resistant roof, is rather likely to survive a wildfire unbothered if the ground a couple feet around it is kept cleared.

They're simple (not a lot of corners for burning things to wedge in), they tend very well sealed with smaller windows (so less chance of a window breaking and allowing embers in), and the amount of thermal energy it takes to light a full log on fire is quite high. Radiant heat from a forest fire isn't going to bother a log cabin. It might darken the wood somewhat, but it won't light smooth logs on fire. Even random firebrands and such lack the energy to bother wood.

The only concern would be a shake roof - that would catch fire easily and burn the place down. But a well built and "tight" roof (no massive eaves with vents into an attic, just minimal overhangs) of Class A fire resistance would work just fine.

Metal roofing is not inherently fire resistant, either - it depends on the materials, and what's below it. Some metal roofing can transfer enough heat to the wood below to light that on fire, even without direct flame spread. And, non-intuitively, a lot of asphalt shingles are Class A fire resistant when properly installed.

What doesn't work well, obviously, are the sort of expensive homes with "all the architectural features," lots of inside corners that trap debris, and an incredibly complex roofline.
I've seen that but I feel like it's slightly limited in the recording features because of the compact size
this was done by a company in Alberta,late 90's early 2000's, except burning diesel, same idea of tuned photovoltaics outside a quarts cylinder,where a flame was buring @ one specific coulor temperature, they were marketing an initial model for sailboats, and had working devices in service.
published efficiencies wrre also 40%+
lost track of them and could not find again
this effort uses excited sodium,though there will
be a number of other possibilities
seriously, there are some days where it feels like google shipped a new ai feature and it completely breaks firefox.
All I'm getting from these is TikTok has a better recommendation engine? Am I missing something?

Has anyone scrapped all three to show for a newly created account there is significant difference in topics or something like that?
It is the height of irony to me that a blog post complaining about clickjacking is presented on a website that is guilty of scrolljacking.
I do not dispute it (in fact if you have good sources on the latest goings-on about this issue I’d appreciate it). But to say that it’s cause enough to excommunicate the CCP and go to war… is hypocrisy of the highest order, when we ourselves clearly fund and condone massive atrocities as long as it’s someone else’s hands. Road to peace is not paved with blood, do not be confused. Peace comes from boring communication work: talking, arguing, hashing the problems out, day in and day out. Shutting the door is the first step to a tragedy, always.
Simple answer. A chinese owned company has no such rights or protections. Free speech does not apply. The law also does not censor content (so no free speech violation anyway). The law simply bans the distribution of the app on marketplaces stores for reasons stated (national security). Big difference.
TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA
Not the lifeline for us fatties.

> Medicare enrollees, however, still won’t be able to access the drugs for obesity under a federal law that prohibits the program from paying for weight loss treatments

Also, you have to be severely ill or elderly to get Medicare. This is for their diabetic treatment.
A context capsule of today's fandom climate
I don't think that's going to happen. The party official seems to be positive about the event overall based on their press release recently. IMO it's going to the opposite direction, where they try to get more foreign users on the platform and have them stay there. If I were a CCP official, I would love to have more soft power by having everyone on a Chinese platform.
I believe the equivalent term used in English (exhibited in the new translation) is "natural", short for "natural expansion", which refers to the obvious location where the player should build their first expansion. It sounds like the term used in Korean for this concept literally means "front yard" rather than matching the English term.
Linus isn't really a tech guy, at least not software.
I think your UI could use some work, funny enough. But I like the concept, it's just that the way the page and "game" works is not exactly clear.
I've been watching BW out of Korea since 2007. Previously also played but it's been many years. This is really cool, thanks for sharing!

There are two YouTube channels I wanted to take the opportunity to shout out, the first one does English translations of Korean BW content, and the second one provides commentary on recent tournaments like the ASL with a little bit more depth then Tasteless and Artosis (no hate but to me their commentary is too off topic and they miss basic things about build orders).

https://www.youtube.com/@jinjinBW

https://m.youtube.com/@StarCastTVENG
I thought the same. Glad to see it called out here. Maybe that's the post for next week...
I disagree strongly with any authoritarian rule, but it is probably correct that the masses don’t actually know the best way to run society. That doesn’t mean we need to impose rule, it means we need to understand manufacturing consent (which is a distinct concept from false consciousness and well supported by the facts), it means we need to combat manufactured consent and better educate people.
Sure, but as a corporate executive you also have a limited amount of time. If you invest all of your time on inefficient sales processes then you may only get to consider one or two or three providers. If instead you eliminate the ones that have bad signs (like heavy price obfuscation) you can instead focus on the vendors that don't do those things. In the end you might not get the best product and/or the best price, but the same is also true if you waste all your time jumping through sales hoops and aren't able to examine more players.

If jumping the hoops guaranteed the best price, then I would agree with you, but I would vehemently disagree that it does.
Meanwhile US channels this propaganda money through no profits.
Sshcont: SSH daemon that starts and enters a throwaway Docker container for tes
The argument from TikTok is:

>Petitioners argue that such a ban will burden various First Amendment activities, including content moderation, content generation, access to a distinct medium for expression, association with another speaker or preferred editor, and receipt of information and ideas.

Sotomayor expands on this in her concurrence:

>TikTok engages in expressive activity by “compiling and curating” material on its platform. Laws that “impose a disproportionate burden” upon those engaged in expressive activity are subject to heightened scrutiny under the First Amendment. The challenged Act plainly imposes such a burden: It bars any entity from distributing TikTok’s speech in the United States, unless TikTok undergoes a qualified divestiture. The Act, moreover, effectively prohibits TikTok from collaborating with certain entities regarding its “content recommendation algorithm” even following a qualified divestiture. And the Act implicates content creators’ “right to associate” with their preferred publisher “for the purpose of speaking.”
poison-the-wellms

I gotta give props for this project name.
Not to derail, but when I was in Switzerland, I found the German Swiss to be far more elitarian about NOT learning French, than the other way around. And French Swiss being a minority, they kinda got treated as other or less-than in the bulk of Switzerland. But all German Swiss are at least willing to try English, while the French Swiss tend to avoid English, so maybe that's where the vibe comes from?
That it was done via TikTok was widely reported by news outlets on all sides of the political spectrum where I live.

Why they've done it via TikTok - I simply don't know. :D

Maybe better discoverability via the For You page?
Yeah, from my other reply

> I don't think that's going to happen. The party official seems to be positive about the event overall based on their press release recently. IMO it's going to the opposite direction, where they try to get more foreign users on the platform and have them stay there. If I were a CCP official, I would love to have more soft power by having everyone on a Chinese platform.
> Will we see internationalized Chinese content dominating it?

This is a weird fantasy, but it brings up an interesting point. The complete lack of Chinese influence on global pop culture. Especially when compared to Japan or Korea, countries with a fraction of the population but many, many times the influence.

I wish the CCP didn't wall off their citizens from the rest of the world in the name of protecting their own power. Think of the creativity we are all losing out on.
I’m similar to you. I have the memory of a gnat. It might be related to many years of undiagnosed sleep apnea. Or maybe it’s a side effect of a handful of experiences with general anesthesia.

My mom is similar, though, so I suspect it’s just inherited. Like you, it doesn’t bother me.
Hey, I really wanted her to succeed. She didn't, and it sucks.
ok, that’s fair, I totally blanked on the anti-encryption stance.

I still think having something on the books for general data protection is a net good, as it forced all the biggest US-based companies to at least start implementing data privacy controls.
TLDR: it is not "evil"
*Starship has zero ROI and has sucked up a lot of federal funds.

Falcon 9 has had plenty of "ROI" but it wasn't really federally funded. Let's not get carried away though about "more than the entire US space industry combined," though.
"We have to seriously challenge the claim by Facebook that they are not selling user data," commented Damian Collins MP, chair of the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
"They may not be letting people take it away by the bucket load, but they do reward companies with access to data that others are denied, if they place a high value on the business they do together. This is just another form of selling."

Not defending what FB did in your example, but when you have to start redefining terms in order to make your argument, you're on shaky ground.
Warms my heart to see effort put into a beloved game. Just this week I watched a YT video of a sc custom game where the players were discussing whether its worth the effort to translate in-game korean-language content. Its an old game that is played by a niche community in north america. The majority of custom games are created in korean and never get to translated for the small number of north american players that would be interested.
I remember Links, the text-based browser that runs in your terminal, had a framebuffer mode that you could use to get rudimentary graphical web browsing on a system with no X11 installed.
How do you deal with something like this in a NAS? There is no way to enter password during boot.

If someone steals the NAS how easily can they get to the data? Assuming volumes are encrypted, but the are automatically mounted on boot?

How to ensure the data is safe in case of theft.
Generating particle physics Lagrangians with transformers