skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience as a pedestrian - they're extremely cautious, which I appreciate.

For most human drivers, I'll wave them through intersections if I'm on the far side and crossing will slow them down substantially -- partially out of sympathy for driving through slow crosswalks, partially out of self-preservation as drivers are often impatient and chomping at the bit to get through.

With the self-driving cars, they really creep up to the intersection so I never really consider waving them through (and I have no idea how they'd react). They're very good about not entering intersections when I'm approaching and they wait until I'm all the way through as well, so in my experience, they're very cautious. It's nice too since where I am in the sunset has random blocks with 4-way stops adjacent to 2-way stops, which is fairly dangerous for human drivers but the robotaxis handle those without issue.
Excuse my ignorance, but am I, as a California residential user, going to pay these prices for the electricity I'm using in my home right now?
Should I shut everything down?
I signed up in app for they $1 a week or whatever offer during the election cycle and also had to go through this ordeal, although it wasn't as bad.

Initially it sounded like you had to call them or fax your cancellation, so I was already happy when I found the chat option.
hey EGreg,

When exactly is NYAG poised to make their announcement? On the 19th, over the weekend, or on next Monday?
If you don't mind me asking, what prompted the change in mindset from wanting to drop out to party to working hard and ambitiously?
> If the person wears a mask...the camera & lidar footage wont do much good.

Didn't Sony/Nikon/Fuji go through a scandal a decade or two ago where a camera's infrared-based, low-light enhancer was effectively taking nudes of fully-clothed subjects? All clothing is semi-transparent to IR, to varying levels. A mask may not be an effective way to hide your face from a sensitive IR receptor.

Edit: the camera model was a Sony[1] handycam, sold in 1998. It had a "NightShot" mode that removed the IR filter - activating this mode in daylight effectively enabled "X-Ray" vision.

1. http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ad99e1a3930185817a...
Michigan is about 3x for natural gas.

https://www.naturalgasintel.com/data-snapshot/daily-gpi/MCWM...

(I was curious and it provides a Midwest data point)
Perhaps you've heard of the "Butterfly Effect" but not a formal definition of the term.

For the issue of predicting weather, the model of weather is "sensitive". The observation metaphor of the "butterfly effect" is that relatively small perturbations to the system have the observed effect of being indistinguishable between relatively large perturbations. We may substitute "small" with "deterministic" and "large" with "non-deterministic".

A summary of this statement would be that initial or past conditions of the system poorly characterize the dynamic and chaotic behavior of nonlinear dynamic systems.

The phrase is drawn from the title of the paper by EN Lorenz:

https://static.gymportalen.dk/sites/lru.dk/files/lru/132_kap...

Somber note:
Weather is in fact, becoming predictable, precise and accurate: towards chaos, volatility and instability. Measurement and policy do not adequately address the ongoing issue of climate "change", which may more adequately be defined as climate chaos.
I clicked a dot by my house which is not in california and it shows $929
It's been almost a month arguing with my wife not to invest in Bitcoin. I'm just fed up with positive (microstrategy, tesla and other banks) news and negative news (mostly on here).

I believe institutional investors do their research before investing in Bitcoin. Why do they still invest if Tether & Bitfinex are fraud?
This is a very interesting point, and everybody should look at this! But I would also counter that everybody should read David Graeber's book "Debt: The First 5000 Years" as it covers this and much much much more. Probably one of the most interesting books on the concept of money and lending and how human societies have organized around it.
The problem with gambling on the complete collapse of a financial system is that you not only need to be right - you need to have a way to compel the guy on the other side of the trade to pay up.
Being a bureaucrat in the US doesn’t pay especially well, probably because US taxpayers are price conscious in a sort of penny-wise-pound-foolish way. (In most states the highest paid public official is the coach of the football team of the flagship public university.)
Unfortunately this gets (partially) offset by job security and a pension. So there’s a very strong incentive to not rock the boat. And to let your buddies’ misfeasance or malfeasance slide because they’re only a few years away from retirement.
Ideally we would trade of higher pay for more accountability and reward some degree of risk taking.
Instead what happens is some kind of inevitable high-profile failure happens, a bunch of rules are put in place, and funding is reduced. I don’t know that there are any easy ways to get from where we are now to a better-functioning system. It seems like at some point we have to penalize opportunity costs of not taking risks or learning from other organizations.
Here is a challenge for you, get some dog crap on your hand and spray it with a garden house then sniff your hand. Unless you are soaping and scrubbing your ass deep, it isn't going to be 100% sanitary regardless of using paper or a bidet. They are nice, but in the end it doesn't matter.
The state that brought us Enron now getting Enron'd itself. Turnabout is fair play!

Sucks for the regular folk, though...
> 900/Mwh is 90c per kwh, national average is about 14. Higher cost states are around 20c with Hawaii near 30c.

And IIRC, electricity in Hawaii is so expensive because they generate most of it with diesel.
Microsoft reveals new $99 Xbox Wireless Headset with great features
I created a Github Action to generate images for code, within github issues. The benefits:

- Easy to view and understand the image of the code v/s the code block text when using a mobile device. Why? Easier to scroll images v/s text.

- Members will no longer have to rely on the issue reporters and commenters to format their code blocks correctly. Using the in built formatter, the code is always structured properly

- Maintainers can style the code blocks to suit their project's language and guidelines and not put the onus of this on the issue reporter / commenter

This uses carbon (https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon)

The Github Action in question: https://github.com/callmekatootie/carbonate
There is value to them in having you as an active subscriber on a paid plan, even if they've given you a discount.
Not actual houses though, I think.
As long as we are throwing out anecdotes, I've been doing this for 3 years and have seen successfully done it on several teams, though they were all at the same company. It absolutely can be done with the right culture.
> This one is anemic

Would you care to share your analysis with us?
If they really need to rely on dark patterns just to survive - which I highly doubt is the case - then they simply don’t deserve to survive.

Yes, it sucks, but that’s how the free market works.
Here in CA we pay 24c / Kwh on a regular basis.

Why is it your power can be 0.8c/Kwh?, that seems really really low.
Woah, I had no clue that Privacy existed before but it looks really cool! What do you think of the service? Have you had any problems with it?
While we are at it, let's put everything you could possibly need into the browser...

Sure, a little snarky but I'm getting my point across. We have different tools because different situations require different tools. IM exists because it is used differently than email, and email is not well suited to real time back and forth short messages. Atom and RSS feeds exist because honestly someone doesn't need to know your email address for you to take an interest in what they publish.
Sure, but this punishes good actors to pay for the government's mismanagement. A republic grows weak when you keep whipping the horse pulling the hardest. When the horse dies. The republic dies.
They won't be keeping them on for long at this price.
> Do wholesale prices directly translate to consumer prices?

I don't think they do where I live, because the rates are regulated and the power company needs permission to raise them.
> Unfortunately the smartest and most component engineers I have known have nearly always come across as being arrogant.

Funny, in my experience these aren't competent engineers so much as dangerous. Engineers who worship at the altar of complexity and get enraged if you point out their mistakes.

The smartest and most competent engineers I have ever known have nearly always been furries.
Agreed.

I find it interesting that Apple has money, hardware, OS, many apps, web presence. And now ARM CPU knowhow.

Why aren't they forcibly pushing into Corporate?

Sure, they'd have to develop corporate fleet management stuff but at this stage they could buy a few companies and be 80% of the way there. Or build it right from the start for only a handful of their hundreds of billions.

How many iphone toting CTOs in your average non-silicon valley companies would jump for Apple "Just Works" in their business?

Either they see something they don't like or a Gates/Jobs handshake said no.
This isn't the first time I've seen NYT cancellation process in my social feeds. It has to be a negative feedback loop cycle. People that read HN are absolutely the type that would consider paying for NYT (or at least the two cohorts have great overlap).

This cancellation process never considered the impact of internet cancel culture and rage reactions. It's far easier to damage a brand than it is to build it up.
When most people see "cancel membership" they will think it is immediately. They will just wait to cancel until the last possible day and when they forget it's free money for Netflix. It's smart/shady. I'm sure it contributes to their decreasing churn.
I'm somewhat disappointed that VB.net won't receive as good support that C# already gets. This makes my job harder working with current VB.net projects that needs to be maintained on newer Windows platforms.
The electrical infrastructure isn’t 100% efficient or reliable.

https://www.calculator.net/voltage-drop-calculator.html

I’d call them semi -complementary from a consumer perspective and have different strengths and weaknesses, similar to phone and cable before.

My long term view is gas will go away first as electric costs go down and reliability goes up with local caches such as the PowerWall. Eventually usage will be light enough to cut the cable from long distance generation for close range neighborhood nukes.
> scientific consensus

Do you propose an experimental measurement? /s
Gasoline and fuel oil are different things.
We should be busily building nuclear plants. This isn't going to get better otherwise.
I'd agree with you but the scale and automation of cheap, targeted misinformation campaigns can be highly destabilizing, and can even be used to whip up animosity of the public against allies. No, I do not think a simple analysis will do in this case.
I'm surprised by this. I would have guessed lots of solar there and potentially wind.
Yep, me too. For things like the NYT, I buy through Apple's store, and cancellation is all in one place and easy, as are the terms of when the cancellation will take effect.

Completely straightforward, no hassle, no surprises.
I live in Brisbane, Australia, the third most populous city. I can confirm that there are areas in Brisbane (not even "Greater Brisbane") that barely have mobile phone reception, such as Burbank on the eastern side.
People who belive in government are equally bad. New York has shorted maintenance on the subway for years with Democrats in power. (Democrats for years have been the government belivers, at least when the Republicans are incomptent they are proving their point )
Hardly. Barely a single actual piece of supporting evidence was given. It is left as an unstated assumption that we already believe Nixon was a heinous individual, without pointing out a single actual flaw. Just a series of insults.
Ha! I had this experience years ago. I subscribed in college to practice my French, but ended up wanting to unsubscribe because I had more important uses for the money. Sure enough, I had to use my rudimentary language skills to write a letter to unsubscribe and mail it off to France.
This is nothing.

Try cancelling the "monthly" Adobe Creative Suite subscription without paying out the remaining 11 months!
Such a Cute Bunch
I see folks wondering about the use case - so here's one: I created a Github Action for use in Github Actions. The benefits:

- Easy to view and understand the image of the code v/s the code block text when using a mobile device. Why? Easier to scroll images v/s text.

- Members will no longer have to rely on the issue reporters and commenters to format their code blocks correctly. Using the in built formatter, the code is always structured properly

- Maintainers can style the code blocks to suit their project's language and guidelines and not put the onus of this on the issue reporter / commenter

Reference: https://github.com/callmekatootie/carbonate

I used Carbon to generate the images in this case - but you get the gist of what one can use images of code for
Fair warning: I haven't specifically used dapr, but I have had a look at their docs and used similar tools in the past.

Deploying apps easily to "modern clouds" and taking advantage of their feature set requires some design decisions in your app. Generally, the biggest goal here is to be able to easily scale just by spinning up more copies, so your app needs to be able to run multiple copies in parallel serving requests without exploding. We call these types of applications "cloud native".

Additionally, if you go with a microservices style architecture (I'm not going to go into the pros and cons here), there's extra concerns with communication across the different services and similar.

Often, you'll end up reinventing the wheel and writing a ton of boilerplate to cleanly solve these issues. Also, your developers have to learn quite a bit to manage this well. Tools like dapr reduce the amount of code you need to write, and also do the best paractices for you so your dev team doesn't need to be an expert on 'the cloud' as well.
we've cancelled our netflix subscription multiple times.

in fact, they've made it so easy that we've resubscribed plenty. if anything, the netflix model is one to emulate. that being said, we've never tried removing my credit card.
eh, I don't know. NYT sucks up a LOT of talent from across the country. What I'm saying is: this sort of thing is maybe excusable from small/independent journalism outlets trying to stay afloat, but you don't need to make excuses for NYT. They pay their own executives handsomely to do that.
Exactly. I was cringing so hard because he kept engaging with the rep on lines of questioning that were so obviously going to go down the path they did. I've cancelled my NYT account in the past and it was rather painless because I was consistent in my response and communicated clearly that I just wanted to unsubscribe. I've since renewed my subscription, but cancelling service with an ISP or even Amazon Prime at this point is way more annoying.
> "Then I would try to make sure not to target FAANG types of jobs or any markets where every job posting gets 300 bootcamp applicants."

The second job I landed in tech was a FAANG. I completely agree that you shouldn't target FAANG type jobs for your first job. Not because of the other applicants. I could care less about the other applicants.

Where I work and do tech interviews (AWS), it's not about the other applicants. We don't look for the best person out of a pool of applicants. There's one question and one question only: Is this person better than half of the people currently doing this job.

If you're better than half of the people currently doing the job, you're hired. If not, you're not. And the issue is that it's really hard to have the breadth of knowledge necessary to meet that bar without previous experience.

I work in premium support for security. To be better than half the people already here you have to know the following really well: Linux or Windows; Networking; DNS; Encryption; SSL/TLS; Network/OS Troubleshooting; Web App Vulnerabilities; DDoS attacks and mitigation; and more. It'd be very hard for anyone who hasn't done this professionally to be exposed to enough tech to have that sort of depth.
Substantial amounts of solar coming online in Hawaii, causing the utility to carefully manage additional distributed solar installs [1]. Still expensive because there is much diesel
and coal generation (~2GW) left to displace.

[1] https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/clean-energy-hawaii/integra... (red = saturated local electrical infra)
I would describe retroforth as a traditional forth (i.e. on the traditional chuck moore forth path), and gforth as a standard (ansi standard) forth
The NYT has been doing really, really well financially the last 4 years. Their stock price is up almost 300% since 2016--not the only metric, obviously, but it certainly gives some indications of how concerned investors are that it will stay in the black.

Other, smaller papers are not doing nearly as well.
What is their dubious place in history? Google created the first effective programmatically curated search engine. Facebook created en extremely popular social network. These companies were founded when the internet was still relatively nascent, and norms over privacy were yet to be established and that led to subsequent controversy. But to compare these to the Dutch and British East India Companies is laughable. Those companies literally had standing armies and conducted colonial wars. Some even go as far as to say that they perpetrated genocide. The British East India company starved 2-10 million Bengalis. Facebook chat was used to coordinate the killing of 25,000 to 100,000 Rohyngi, by virtue of ineffectual moderation and lack of tooling and personnel to police Burmese language content. The notion that this has any level of equivalency of a company that actually had soldiers shooting people is absurd.

And users do indeed have a choice. I don't use Facebook, and I use duck duck go for search (and Bing for video search). These are not utilities. Alternatives exist, and the use of these services aren't even necessary in the first place.

I'm really not seeing justification for your characterization of the situation. A website is being charged for links to news articles. They don't want to pay for this content, so they aren't going to host this content.
No, the cost to produce electricity is largely independent of the value people receive from it.

Differences in incentives are why hospitals for example have backup generators. They might be paying 100x as much to get power from a generator for a few hours a year, but losing power would cost them vastly more.

That said, individual consumers are going to have their own personal preferences. For some people saving 10c a month on their monthly electric bill might be worth a once in a decade power outage. Some might even agree to save 1c/month.
The argument some people have is that tether is printing fake money to prop up crypto market. I think it might have some effects like that if it was truly all fake money. I hope that NY investigation will shed more light on it.
Sure. But that's not inflation. That's an increase in housing prices. If housing prices rise but rents do not, it doesn't make a difference to consumption - your consumption is either the rent you pay or the imputed rent. If buyers want to bid up the price of housing past what renting it out will pay for, that's their problem.

And at the risk of just reposting this comment on HN all the time. Focusing on central banks as the driver of asset price increases is looking in entirely the wrong direction. There is a third component that pushes both asset prices and central bank policy - the global supply/demand of savings vs investment opportunities. Which is driven mostly by demographics. China's massive working class, and the unprecedented rate at which they are getting wealthier, and their savings rate which is like >10x the average US citizen means there is a huge increase in the global supply of savings. Which bids up asset prices and pushes down yields, as savers compete with each other to buy up the extant profitable and safe opportunities. Central banks are the on the receiving end of this too: over-saving pushes down the natural rate of interest, which means policy rates must be lower to respond (unless you want to condemn some working Americans to unemployment). So long-term interest rates fall, and central banks have less operating space to smooth out the business cycle by moving short-term rates.
> claiming they're basically puppets for Murdoch media

Well, this is actually the case.
Why the Fortune 500 Is (Just) Finally Dumping Hadoop
It may boggle the tech-savvy mind, but another way of reading the incredibly successful 10 year history of this horribly locked-down, oppressive OS is that the market has spoken. And it's happy.

Don't forget that the market was pushed that way by Apple's highly influential marketing. People didn't really choose to give up their freedom of their own free will --- they were persuaded to, and only found out about the downsides afterwards.
"The amount of time and effort spent on Legal, Policy, Privacy - on features that have not shipped to users yet, meant a significant waste of resources and focus."

...yet I imagine verifying a feature is not actually illegal is a fairly good use of time.
Have you heard of water table contamination? If these problems were so simple that someone approaching them for what is obviously the first time could solve them with the first facile idea that comes into their head, those solutions would already be implemented. As it turns out, though, storing things so they won't leak for 100K years or more is a hard problem. Rock is not the perfect barrier you think it is. We're just barely getting to the point where the most specialized kinds of glass, buried in rock, with other measures to prevent material degradation, might be sufficient. It hasn't actually been tried yet, not even to determine whether our measurements for the first 0.1% of that timescale are correct. Literal lifetimes have already been spent getting us that far. Do you seriously think you're smarter than all of those people put together?
Did any of them survive? Nope. Just because Facebook survived a decade doesn’t mean it will survive another.
They started this about a week ago.
No clue. Does anyone here know?
Bunker fuel for the most part I believe. Puerto Rico is very similar.
It will make you want the cancel process to be just as easy as the subscription. Instead you have to chat with a person who will try to retain you as a customer.
US residents only. Anyone aware if something similar that doesn’t discriminate?
Got my NYT online subscription via Apple, so I just cancel it via the App Store. Easy-peasy.