Same. I’m in favor of significantly increasing politicians’ salary in many places. If the salary isn’t reasonable, the wealthy and corrupt are more likely to take the position.
I don’t have any opinion on what the NYC salaries should be, since I don’t live there and don’t have a feel for salary bands there.
Sounds like a fair increase, though there probably should have been yearly COLA instead of one big one.
But also a smart PR move to refuse the increase.
Same. I saw the picture before reading the title and immediately thought, “Cool! Someone’s playing SimTower! I haven’t seen that game in ages!”
What about using a variable directly (without the @<(echo ...)? Does that still leak?
Yup, definitely no price manipulating happening here. Just good ole capitalist competition producing the best product for consumers.
Assigned Boobs At Birth?
Thanks for the AI tag
I recommend this too. I’m using kubernetes for other stuff, but HAOS for Home Assistant. Super easy to manage. And it works great on small, appliance machines (I’m using Home Assistant Green).
The easiest damages would be the cost of attending (conference tickets, travel, hotel). If there was reputational damage, that’s harder to prove but the conference could be liable for that. Seeing how many vocal supporters they have, reputational damage would be hard to prove
Not bullshit. Just another poorly written popsci article promoting real research.
From skimming, it sounds like they’re trying to use compressive sensing techniques, but push the “compute” to a physical, optical structure. That gives you a smaller device without the expensive compute (or the concern about losing data from random noise).
In general, it’s not hard to make a basic optical spectrometer. Most people have seen a prism splitting light into a rainbow. Imagine that plus an array of light sensing pixels. The light intensity on the array is your spectrum reading. The further away you put your pixel array, the more spread apart the colors in your rainbow, but the less light hits each individual pixel.
Optical spectrometers generally use diffraction gratings instead of prisms, but the trade-offs are the same. Longer optical path -> more spectral resolution -> more expensive light sensors.
Compressive sensing tries to break that trade-off by using math from information theory to get a usable data from fewer measurements. The single pixel camera is a great intro to the field. You use a single photodiode plus a series of known masks to take a series of measurements. From the masks + single pixel measurements, you can reconstruct the original image. There’s probably code out there to do it virtually if anyone’s interested. IIRC, to do a virtual measurement, you apply the mask to your image, then sum up the values. The reconstruction process is then identical to if you had real measurements.
For the $10 spectrometer, it sounds like they’re pushing some of that “compute” to a tunable optical system. In other words, the device “takes compressive sensing measurements,” but it does some of the reconstruction before it hits the light sensor.
This. People forget that “war crimes” have more to do with escalation of collateral damage than anything else.
I’m annoyed about the image the website used. It’s from an unrelated rally from 2023. And more importantly, it reinforces the “strongman” image that they cosplay.
A screenshot from the videos is more representative. Walking in a sad attempt at a parade line, we see a small group of what the manosphere would label betas.
Or a reformed on, if you can actually trust that they changed.
The writing in the linked article is a little weird, as others have pointed out. However the journal publication is very cool. If this is reproducible, it’ll likely have a noticeable impact over the next 10 years or so. We won’t see $10 spectrometers, but we might see handheld ones in a similar format to the cheap IR cameras.
Here’s the link for anyone interested.
I’ve worked with spectrometers and on spectrometry design before, and that quote from the article is intelligible. It’s also pretentious and poorly explained.
I’m mostly a lurker. I’ve also been selfhosting for at least a decade, and I’m a professional in the IT sphere.
I wholeheartedly support this rule change. Hardware is a big part of selfhosting/home labs. And for some people, it’s a hard leap to make.
If we end up seeing lots of redundant posts (e.g. “Can I use my old laptop to host stuff?”), we can always start an FAQ or something. But until and unless it becomes a problem, keeping the rule simple sounds perfect.
One small correction. You switched units. You started with Watt-hours (kWh, energy) and then switched to Watts (GW, power). With the right units, it’s even more dramatic.
There are an average of about 730 hours in a month. If a home consumes 1000 kWh per month, that’s an average of 1.3 kW. If we divide 9 GW by 1.3kW, we get 6.9 million.
So this data center will use the same amount of energy as over 6 million homes. For reference, Utah has a population of 3.5 million (total people, not total number of homes).
Here’s another way of comparing the numbers. If this new data center uses 9 GW of power 24/7, that’s an about 6,500 GWh per month, or a little under 79,000 GWh per year.
In 2025, Utah produced a new record of over 35,000 GWh.
So this data center would more than triple the amount of energy produced in 2025.
I’m not sure how Ansible made it on your list. Ansible lets you apply configuration and ensure applications are installed on groups of machines. It works across a variety of Linux distros.