skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our technology is finally getting into the realm of things where something like this might be made possible, for small brains such as those of fruit flies or zebrafish. Already we can perform near-whole-brain recordings of these animals using 2-photon technology. And with EM reconstruction methods advancing at such a rapid pace, very soon we'll be able to acquire a picture of what an entire brain's structure (down to the synapse) and activity across all these structures looks like.
I read the homepage and I don't know what fibery does. Am I an idiot, because this seems to happen tho me a lot with modern saas?
Doesn't PBKDF2 fix that as long as you use a very large number of irritations?
"He trains parakeets, so you should not believe his position that the dog salivates because the bell rings" is.
Try one of the below

1. NewRelic.com

2. Datadoghq.com

3. Atatus.com
In the UK energy supplier Octopus has an "agile" tariff which is similar to griddy (we are increasingly getting negative prices here).

However, it has a 35p/kWh price cap (2-3x average rates).

I don't understand why Griddy didn't do something similar. Even a $1/kWh price cap would have really helped them.
ZeroNet is about storage and distribution, not computation or a ledger.
Former griddy customer, unaffected by recent events as I'm not in Texas anymore.

> what is your visibility into current prices for electricity?

Very good price visibility. Phone notifications are great. Not only will they notify when it's high and you need to reduce consumption, but also when it's low -- meaning you can consume cheaply, and often they'll send out forecast notifications a day in advance, saying that prices are projected to be high (or projected to be low) the following day. It allows you to plan consumption easily.

> Have you been bitten by unexpected high prices before, perhaps in the summer? Prior to this event, would you say you saved money overall with Griddy?

I definitely saved money with Griddy, and if I moved back to Texas I wouldn't hesitate to sign back up with Griddy again.
I would be skeptical of how seriously to take the interpretation in the article.

There are huge differences between English and Matses, such that naively talking what's encoded in the verb morphology is misleading at best. If you look at the section on verbs in the thesis on Matses, the author has this to say in the first paragraph:

>Epistemic modality (e.g., -chit 'Uncertainty') and evidentiality (e.g., -nëdac 'Distant Past: Inferential', -ash 'Recent Past: Conjecture' and -denne 'Remote Past: Experiential') are coded in Matses by derivational suffixes or as part of the meaning of inflectional suffixes, while English uses adverbs and modals like perhaps, evidently, really, must, etc.

Matses actually encodes the same information as English, it just does so through a series of particles attaches to the verb, which is not surprising in a highly synthetic language. Mind you, I haven't read all 1200+ pages, but I'd doubt the article's take on things.
Have fun in court on that one

It is extremely definitive you will lose because it is copy right infringement

Fair use doesnt apply to illegally downloading a vid torrent because your copy is in the mail. That is clear cut
Pbkdf2 itself is not the best for the same reasons why sha256 was listed. I do agree that argon2 is better.
Can anyone tell me: Why is there no automatic stop-limit the customers can opt into?

Once the $/KWh passes some threshold, power either gets turned off, or they get some short grace period to figure out whether they want to continue or stop.

Price runs like these are things consumers will experience probably a handful of times in their lifetimes. If they run wild, they can financially ruin someone. In the grand scheme of things, these are black-swan events. There should be safety guards in place.
Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program
Henrietta Lacks was the woman with the immortal cancer cell line, used for research for decades without her knowledge and consent or her family’s knowledge and consent (she died soon after the cells were harvested). She was also black, which complicates things significantly.
If I understood correctly, the points are:

- using longer passwords (or salts) is better than increasing the number of rounds

- having the same database on different devices (top-CPU x older cellphone) have impacts on the performance for the user but not for the attacker (as a powerful hardware will be used)

Seems fair, for the average user. And the top user will prefer a longer password anyway.
Right, specially because last thing I read Discord was using Elixir: https://blog.discord.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b
1. We're gonna need a bigger GIT server

2. Gradient Descent works on neural networks, it would work on Miguel. He wouldn't be aware of it, because he wouldn't save state.

3. I'm sure there are lots of things that could be used to reward him that cost little in the real world. He could live like a King, spend months on vacation, and work a week or two a year... in parallel millions of times.

4. With the right person/organization on the outside, it could be very close to heaven, and profitable for both sides of the deal.

5. If he wanted to be young again, he could. New hardware to interact with could give him superpowers.
Criminals shouldn't expect the same level of attention and care rest of the law abiding civilians expect. They can take their time addressing this software bug. Perhaps put out a public tender for bids until the end of the year for fair competition amongst local software shops who will then outsource it to a distant country over the next few years to keep as much of the capital as possible in the local community.

Expect delays, such is the nature of legacy software.
Coal power plants generate more value in the from of electricity than they lose value as waste heat. Otherwise they wouldn’t operate. But, clearly the creation of value is independent of something being wasted as you can have more or less efficient power plants that generate the same value using more or less fuel and thus more or less waste heat.

Similarly, as I just pointed out different algorithms would use more or less energy and therefore be more or less efficient. Thus the heat produced is a waste byproduct mining, and electricity is the fuel. A more efficient process simply uses less fuel though it may have higher capital costs.

The same is true of say cars, you’re burning gas because driving is useful. But, increasing efficiency means less fuel while creating identical value etc etc.
Don't worry, England and Wales will probably rejoin it in 10 or so years (in some capacity). NI never left and Scotland will be back in within 5.
It’s not like saying that, because nobody has claimed that crashing into another car at 5 mph is the same as crashing into it at 60. When you claim that only “hard lockdowns” (and note the circular reasoning inherent) can have the measurable effects claimed ahead of time, that’s what you’re saying.
Which is why Griddy exists in the first place. Those financial instruments aren't free and add a cost to the service.

I think the right regulatory approach this case would be to require the purchaser to manage their risk so that you can shop around like we do with other insurances. So if you go with a retail electric company you don't have to worry since you're not the purchaser.
Unfortunately, we don't accept insurance right now because of the complexities involved with insurance and telemedicine (the laws are literally being written right now).

If you have an HSA or FSA, you can put it towards treatment with us. Many of our patients have employer-funded HSAs that they put towards their treatment.
I agree with you on that but this still makes me question the problem they are trying to solve can't they solve in Go instead of switching to Rust.

Furthermore, A lot of companies to this date have there performance critical code written in C++ , C or Java

Such as you can take HFT for example they use C++ for most of their trading applications instead of newer languages

I'm definitely not saying C++,C or Java is better than Rust or Golang
each language has its own pros and cons
Game changing. I hope others follow as well.
> that there is no real justification for the vaccine

The only ways hospitals don't get overrun with COVID patients are lockdown measures or the vaccine. We only have so much capacity to treat COVID cases and every preventable COVID case takes away capacity from treating a less preventable illness.

> is everyone on HN of the opinion that the vaccines are perfectly safe when in fact

Yeah, we all get to hear that same immensely ignorant line from every antivaxxer ever but I have yet to hear about that vaccine that has killed (or greatly accelerated the death) of 2.5 million people in 1 year. The internet isn't perfectly safe either, someone could be infecting your computer with malware and lead to unimaginable damage to your life and livelihood as we speak but you still connected every moment of the day.
The same equipment would be required regardless of what end it's on. The pole transformer feeding your house and your neighbor's house is basically passive AFAIK; it's not remotely controllable.
And monopoly rents, being not impossible but still difficult to avoid are a lot like _____ ?

It seems more honest than dishonest to me.
I have a file - /home/test/go, which consisted of some script I'd knocked up a few months ago
I'm in Hungary and I wish I can get an AstraZeneca vaccine or Moderna or Pfizer. The fact that our government pushing the russian and chinese vaccines so hard is the really worrying thing but the general european news outlets yet to pick that up (on the other hand it's a small country)
I think the author means activities which have intrinsic reward and don't necessarily further some project ie the "being" state of mind. This is contrasted with "doing" activities motivated by a desire to be different, to change oneself, to get somewhere, to produce in some way. Work vs play essentially. One is carried out in the mood of time, the other is more aimless in the best possible way. An activity carried out in the mood of timelessness.
No, I suspect power companies cannot generally shut off your power from their end. There's not a separate cable from the power plant to each individual home. There are really big cables that go most of the way from the power plant, then at each neighbhorhood or block they split off into smaller cables for individual homes. That's where the meter for each home is installed, and that's where the power company can turn off your electricity.

Traditionally they sent a technician out to read each meter and turn off the electricity if necessary, but there are newer "smart meters" that communicate your usage to the power company (although I'm not sure if those can also be remotely triggered to turn off your power, I would suspect not).

Where I grew up in a small town in the Midwestern US in the 1990s, the meters were usually installed on an external wall at the back of the house. My part of town had underground power lines (good during thunderstorms, bad during road/building construction) and I suspect the meter was right where the buried cable came into the house. Every month a uniformed person from the power company would walk through everyone's backyards taking the reading from each meter.

Fun fact: most utilities and similar services have historically worked this way. I think the cable television company would just send someone to the cable box on the back of your house and flip switches to enable the channels you were paying for. There was always some kid who claimed to get HBO for free because his older cousin worked for the cable company.

Now that I think about it, I recently got a car that's new enough to have Sirius XM satellite radio built in, and I've been wondering how their access control works. Surely the satellite doesn't beam down everyone's subscription status and make their receiver hardware respect that, right? Is my car using the built-in cell phone to check whether I'm subscribed to the satellite radio? Either way, where are the bootlegged satellite radio receivers?
If they could do that, they could also install the meter on their end.
...except the latter will (likely) be covered by insurance, whereas you are on your own for the former.
Not ideal but a lot more pleasant to work with than JS
Being a language nerd I've tried very hard to find these in Vatican City, but unfortunately I'm pretty sure there aren't any available to regular tourists. (Side note: the gift shop at the Vatican also doesn't sell bibles, which I find even weirder.)
Copper is seeing massive inflation right now. Retail prices are not as yet, and perhaps they won't, but if they see too much interest rates will rise and the free money spigot will be turned off.
Salaries for good engineers have simply gone up. Competing with FAANG for good engineers is expensive. Need $5mil to get a small team for a couple years runway. That used to be an A. Having one or more cofounders as capable engineers to get MVP out is also beneficial.
1. The statement "it’s clear that those high prices weren’t doing their job" and subsequent disagreement with raising the price cap does not make sense to me. Any artificial price cap seems to limit the effectiveness of a market. From the producer's side, it limits the incentive to model and capture these tail events (e.g. winterize). From the consumer's side, it limits the incentive to reduce consumption. Is my perspective off here?

2. Is it possible to subscribe to two (or n) energy plans? Imagine subscribing to a wholesale plan (e.g. Griddy) and a fixed-rate plan and switching between them whenever wholesale prices rise above the fixed rate. Are there legal or practical reasons this can't happen?
Exactly.

In my experience, there are exactly two types of customers on the kinds of plans like Griddy offers: a) people who are heavily into cost-optimization and have spent the cash to automate their living quarters to take advantage of wholesale price swings; and b) people who are trying to stretch a dollar because a single dollar is all they have left.

For people in that second category, the dollar broke and smacked them in the face.

I am by no means calling people stupid for doing this; they believed the sales pitch and either did not understand (because the wholesale pricing model is actually complex) or were not told the massive potential downsides. And when the cost of keeping where you live at a livable temperature runs into the mid-three-digits per month during the summer, you're going to jump at the idea of slashing that by two-thirds.

This is consent in the same way that clicking "agree" on a 15,000-word EULA is consent. It isn't.
Vietnam closed their borders, kept kids home from school, had a month-long lockdown in April, and stopped COVID in its tracks. No magic immunity required, they just did the few things that were necessary to top the spread of an infectious airborne disease. They lived through SARS, everyone knows the consequences of failure to contain a new virus.

There's no need to look for explanations in exposure to bat coronaviruses when there's so much Vietnam did that the USA, UK and Europe didn't do. This isn't just about government actions, but the individual actions of the population too.
Yea things are always a lot faster when you have someone who can tell you exactly what you don't know.

The main difference with Call a Dev is the lack of friction for the devs who need help, and the devs who need work. You just post your question and if someone can help, you'll get a ping with a link to their S/O profile. If you like what you see, you accept the ping and the call starts.

A video is a good idea, I'm putting one together now.
What are you talking about? The EU did not "thrash AstraZeneca". The "closing" of the Irish border is a result of Brexit, you know the thing UK voters voted on.
> I would argue that every non-targeted activity still has some end, however unconscious or hard to measure.

What would count as evidence against this position? (Nothing, seems to me.) I mean, if someone believes the contrary, what could you or they conceivably do to decide the question?
I suppose I’d have to call a neighbor. But the vast majority of my energy costs happen when I’m home in the form of ac & appliance use.

The text is triggered if retail rates go above 14c per kWh for more than 30 minutes. That’s about 7x our normal peak rate.

Last week saw the highest prices I’ve seen going up to 40c at one point.

I’ll also note that I’m on budget billing which normalizes monthly fluctuations. No idea what the agreement is in the case of one of these tail events but I suspect it involves lots of publicity and regulators.
I'd argue that software like this has saved people from having to do millions of years worth of mundane work. This news is essentially like a traffic accident. Doesn't mean vehicles in general haven't benefitted the human experience. The fact that it is news worthy is evidence that it doesn't happen too often.
>> for example by sharing an infected file via floppy disk.

Or an "excel" file attached to an email or posted in a chat group that is execute by the host automatically and inserts itself somewhere. Viruses remain alive and well online.
I wonder a lot about the subjective experience of chance around copying. Say it's true that if you copy yourself 99 times, then you have a 99% chance of finding yourself as one of the copies. What if you copy yourself 99 times, you run all the copies deterministically so they don't diverge, then you pick 98 copies to merge back into yourself (assuming you're also a software agent or we just have enough control to integrate a software copy's memories back into your original meat brain): do you have a 1% chance of finding yourself as that last copy and a 99% chance of finding yourself as the merged original? Could you do this to make it arbitrarily unlikely that you'll experience being that last copy, and then make a million duplicates of that copy to do tasks with almost none of your original subjective measure? ... This has to be nonsense. I feel like I must be very confused about the concept of subjective experience for this elaborate copying charade to sound useful.

And then it gets worse: in certain variations of this logic, then you could buy a lottery ticket, and do certain copying setups based on the result to increase your subjective experience of winning the lottery. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/y7jZ9BLEeuNTzgAE5/the-anthro.... I wonder whether I should take that as an obvious contradiction or if maybe the universe works in an alien enough way for that to be valid.
Well he pressured oxford into not open-sourcing the vaccine. To him, that is probably a quarter on the ground.
Step 1 would likely be to use your smartphone app to set your Internet enabled thermostat down to its lowest setting, probably 55F. High enough that the pipes don't freeze, but low enough to save energy. Probably not cooking anything either unless you have a gas grill. Definitely not plugging in the electric car. If this happens during the middle of summer then you turn the A/C off and hope the house can coast for the rest of the day without melting anything. At least in the summer you can grill outside.

But honestly, it boggles my mind that anybody would opt for these sorts of power plans with effectively unlimited downside and fairly marginal upside. Who wants this kind of stress in their life? Doesn't Texas already have pretty cheap power thanks to all of the wind and deregulation? Isn't that why they are in this mess in the first plate?
MBA’s also completely failed to understand low-end disruption for many years. I’m not about to accept an argument for authority from ‘what MBAs are taught’, which is usually based on analysis of past business cases. Neither should anyone else.

However I agree with you about Windows phone. There is no room for a 3rd place closed ecosystem like iOS or Android, where the goal is to monetize the app distribution platform.

However, there is absolutely room for an open platform where the profit comes from competitive apps that are able to do things that are not allowed under iOS and Android and can be developed by more parties.

The fact that a truly open platform would get leverage the from community, only strengthens the case.

If you want some
MBA buzzwords as a lens, this would be called commoditizing your complement.

It is in the interests of people who don’t own closed stores, for the stores to be a commodity priced at as close to cost as possible.

That group has an interest in investing in such a platform. Not because of the direct ROI from platform fees, but because of the reduced costs to them, and frankly the reduction in power of companies like Apple.

It’s appears that it is cheaper for them to attempt to lobby for legislation to force other people’s App stores into being a commodity (or more likely force access for a limited group), than to actually build one, or at least it’s cheaper to try that first.

You can also look at low-end disruption theory.
In general, I think this all-or-nothing attitude paired with FUD language is detrimental to good engineering. Memory unsafety is generally bad, I get it. But it’s exaggerating to say that these things “spew” all over codebases, or that you’re entering some inescapable memory hell that has no way to be treated properly. The original proposal was to manage some memory yourself within Go to solve one very specific problem with a very specific module of code. That’s not a lot of surface area and has a clear API. It doesn’t seem unfathomable that qualified, highly paid engineers can’t do a good job solving that problem comprehensively without rewriting everything else.
"Consented" in the sense of "agreed to a legal contract that permitted that outcome" or in the sense of "anticipated at the time they signed up to the contract that this was an outcome they would experience"?
Because nobody thought they would need it until it was too late.

Note that everyone at risk of this even was told beforehand to switch providers now, so there was an "easy out" if you were paying attention (In theory easy, in practice, while it isn't never easy). Or you could have turned your own power off - When you get a time of use contract the point is you want to adjust your demand to fit the price, so anyone who got a large bill failed to do their end of the bargain.
> the world runs on off-brand duct tape

So very, very true.
>Cunningham and McGregor [1]

>A total of 100 participants engaged with the listening test and were recruited from the Merchiston campus at Edinburgh Napier University. With respect to background, 28% were students at the University, whilst 33% were academic or faculty staff and 39% were administrative and support staff. Participants were not offered any form of remuneration or any other form of inducement for their involvement.

This [1] Was the only test that had included Uncompressed WAV or PCM as anchor. And it was tested with sort of randomly selected participants, and randomly selected sample sound track.

>Purely marketing for the “more is better” pseudo audiophile.

All the other test listed were done during what I called the Audio Codec era on HydrogenAudio. Where professional encoder developers and enthusiast ABX the hell out of psychoacoustics tuning. Along with problematic samples testing.

For 90%+ of general public, MP3 128kbps with a decent encoder ( LAME ) has been good enough for well over a decade. Suggesting better codec doesn't matter and is purely for pseudo audiophile completely neglect the work people have been tuning and making these audio codec better for the past ~20 years.

And yes, 10 years later Musepack v8 still beats AAC or Opus in High Bitrate.

[1] https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdmb/2019/8265301/