skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite what you mean, but a city in Australia is trialing "Smart Appliance Response Automation". The gist is that some appliances can utilize excess green power during the day in order to not need that energy later at night when it would need to be provided by gas turbines.

The current trial is actually residential water heaters, by heating the water using excess green power during the day you effectively store that energy as heat and that water then gets used later that night or early morning for showers/baths/washing etc.

Another example is a more obvious one, which is electric cars and other large battery appliances. The ultimate goal is to get these appliances talking to the grid directly, so that they know when to draw power and when to idle.

https://www.energyrating.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-01/...
What's in them?

Edit: Thinking more about it... The only thing I can think I would want in a low level design document would be something like extended comments on how a module or function works -- but if you need too much of this you probably have bad architecture or are using the wrong frameworks.

We do use some of this kind of doc, both for ourselves and for the public, to help explain how our "Lego parts" fit together.

Do you have any examples of the kind of doc you're talking about? Here's one we recently made: https://nebula.mimix.io/en/nebula/dev-guide
Hey there, maybe we can help each other out :) shoot me an email: roumen at rpavlov dot com
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It's not a great standard if every program/library using it must explicitly state its limits for such basic things as number values.

It's very easy to do JSON wrong, to not even be aware of doing it wrong, and do it wrong in a way that limits its interoperability (see: the default behaviour of the json library in Python). This is not theoretical either, just google for 'json nan github' to see the hundreds of production programs accidentally emitting JSON that cannot be ingested by RFC-compliant parsers.
I can't comment on Ferriss specifically, but almost any marketable diet can work in the short term since it makes you pay attention to what you eat. That fact alone is enough for results.
True. But since most bitcoin mining is taking place in China, there isn't much other countries can do about it.
Ask HN: Is there a market for privacy-first apps?
Free apps are convenient, but they are most likely free because they collect and sell personal information. Are you willing to pay for a privacy focused version of an app that is otherwise free?
so many people use electric heaters, i dont see what s the problem if they are mining on the side
Despite the low effort though, being entirely reliant on online fame isn't exactly something with a lot of longevity built into it. Having 1MM followers this year is nowhere near a guarantee of growing or even keeping your follower base the next year.

$100K doesn't seem like a particularly amazing payoff for that. Most "real jobs" tend to become more stable and lucrative as you gain experience. I'd definitely prefer a job that paid $50K that I could at least somewhat rely on to exist next year over $100K that could disappear at any second.
This is not true.

Adams only co-wrote 2 adventure games (THHGTTG and Bureaucracy), and arguably a graphical adventure (Starship Titanic) much later. It is not really possible to generalise about "his games," there are so few of them.

He was primarily a scriptwriter and reluctant novelist.

I own an original boxed copy of this game, and it is the first program I ever ran on an IBM PC back in 1985. There are no significantly helpful clues in the packaging.

Source: I am the former president of his appreciation society.
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Also, Facebook created apis that other developers utilize for many AppStore apps. So it's really nothing you can control.
I did this for a while. It worked. Too well. We had to open the windows amidst a boston winter. In net it was barely profitable, especially with the recoverable cost of the computers. Fun and kind of a weird art installation in a way. Ultimately wasteful.
Sorry, is the question really "what is the difference between the US Government printing dollars and Tether printing dollars?"
Well, no, at a certain point (and indeed during normal market conditions, which right now isn't) there's an equilibrium. As global hashrate goes up, as you not, profitability goes down, which makes miners switch to other chains, or, eventually, power down their rigs.

I think your initial statement is correct, but from the wrong direction; if the ETH price is at 900$, the incentive to mine is less, some of current hashpower will already have left the mining of ETH, ergo OP is actually likely to still be profitable, although less so.
Do you have any sense about what happens in the limit, like what if literally every person is sitting on a bunch of Bitcoin they earned at their job, which now pays in Bitcoin.

Everything is denominated in Bitcoin, which is always going up in price. Everyone borrows some lame legacy asset X and collateralixes with Bitcoin.

Do weird things happen? for example of Bitcoin is ubiquitous then the price of Bitcoin essentially gets factored out of the equation, so this magical leverage goes away. There are other effects but this idea that this is the future (or rather that this is a superior future ) seems a bit naive to me. Gravity will catch up to you no matter what.
Where I live (Bavaria), in the last two years public lawns didn't get mowed any more and now grow a beautiful variety of wild flowers and are a great place for bees and other insects. Also, some part of the farmed ground around the village has been dedicated to growing flowers. Sometimes it is very easy to at least compensate a bit the damage done.
Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates/old versions
On one side, you want to recoup the miner investment and run it as much as possible, ideally 24/7.

But on the other side, you want the heater to regulate temperature (not overheat the room) by switching itself off as needed.

You can have both only if you either waste energy (vent it to outside) or have a thermal storage. It is already existing technology i.e. for electric heaters that accumulate heat using cheap night electricity and slowly release it during the day. Or water boilers. But they are bulky and can only store several hours worth of heat.
Nice try, but still a miss. Building assumptions into NN won’t work for anything complex like ladders and keys which according to this author are built in to human brains? Please. Yes, NN are still in their infancy but they are clearly foundational to general intelligence. They will probably require many additional discoveries about how they need to be connected and maybe even a few updates to the model of the neuron but they aren’t going away. Secondly, of course a language model is going to parrot back the data it is trained on, that’s a major goal ie given a giant dataset answer these questions. It’s also how a lot of casual human conversation works, we generally just parrot back things we’ve read or heard. The interesting parts are the new syntheses that human brains come up with but even those are standing on the shoulders of the dataset so to speak. You’ll never get a truly neutral view of the data, I don’t even know what such a thing would look like maybe just pure ignorance of the data could be considered neutral? Biases aka heuristics are a a core part of learned intelligence, they can of course be flawed or entirely incorrect for a given environment but they serve a purpose and you can’t do away with them or the ability to form them based on observed data. You can optimize them for specific goals but you can’t get by with just one.
I really wish there was an LTS release that was supported for at least 2 years (just bugfixes, no new features). I self host my own instance, and I really just want to set it and forget it.

I don't mind doing low risk patches every few months or weeks, but I don't want to do a major version upgrade every 4-6 months.

I did my last major version upgrade only 15 months ago, and I am now 4 major versions behind, which means:

1) I upgrade from 17->18->19->20->21 and hope nothing breaks!

2) I either start over with the latest version

I like that open source moves fast, but at some point, I just want to stop fiddling with it and let it run with minimal maintenance.
no they are forcing all websites to pay. There's just a delay between the 2 they've targeted currently and the millions yet to be targeted.
But then we are back at the original problem, which is that I have no ability to repossess a nontrivial amount of property to handle a default and this system is explicitly constructed to be outside of the bounds of things like credit scores.
Livestock has been raised in Europe for Millenia with no soy anywhere near them. Grass grazed cattle & chickens are completely sustainable and beneficial to the environment they're on. Sourced locally they're a fuckton healthier and less polluting than shipping soy and avocados across the planet.

Monocrops are terrible for the planet & wildlife, and are only even viable due to heavy use of pesticides & NPK fertliser.

Organic farming requires large amounts of animal manure to work, guess where it comes from?

Please go read about regenerative agriculture - that's the way forward.
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What Lockdown 3 has taught me? The internet needs to up its game
I'm honestly surprised EDN hasn't taken off as a JSON alternative. It keeps all the good things about JSON but then adds the features people want like comments and more clear specification. The ability to tag elements to extend for specific types while allowing intermediaries to not care about those types is incredibly powerful.
You must not have read the article, which isn't about Gebru's (and now Mitchell's) firing. There would be a lot to say about the ongoing credibility of any of Google's statements or research concerning ethical AI at this point, and lots of folks have said those things.

This article is an analysis of the extreme weaknesses in the current seemingly-productive approach to ML language model research. The intro anecdote about the failure of game-playing models to handle games with representational elements or indirect rewards is extremely important. But the failure of the Big AI community to recognize those same failures in its approach to building language models is the pending crisis that the article's title refers to. Gebru's firing is not the cause of the impending implosion of Google's AI research, but rather a leading indicator and warning sign.
I dont have a revelation what so ever. I think 80%+ of HN users easily know about this. But there are some that dont. It's not a bad idea to just throw out, every now and then, a simple explanation for people to start of a rabbit hole education on the topic who are unaware. Also, to me, it's interesting to think about in terms about how fragile and kind of weird weath perception is. We think Musk is the "richest", but it's not like he is rich enough to move that amount of money around at his whim. I bet there are lower tier rich people with more cash that in a practical aspect, we would think of richer when it comes to speed of use. Like, if you needed to borrow $1k from a friend to help for rent/mortgage next week. Who can help you faster, the one with $1k in hand or the one with $10k in assets and can get you the $1k in 2 weeks after unloading (a little hyperbolic, I know)? I'm not saying one is better than the other either. What is more useful, $100k in a safe or a $100k Haas CNC mill? I say the cnc. But you can say the 100k in cash has better opportunity potential, especially if the cnc doesn't work out, including the immediate 25% devaluing since it's now "used". Which is true too. Again, no revelation. Just interesting to remind yourself from time to time and if someone doesn't know about this already, it's nice to enlighten them. Plus the idea of money and value gets super weird when you realize how easy it is to manipulate.
It's unfortunate that people have stalkers. I don't see metahumans as likely to exacerbate that problem.
I walk around Australia alone and unassisted everyday......
I don't disagree that Tether is likely a big fraud, but my point is that even the regulated financial system is full of questionable accounting and long-running, undiscovered fraud. Remember Bernie Madoff? His fraud lasted 17 years before falling apart.

It would be nice if Tether eventually falls apart too, but the world will never run out of fraudsters and hucksters.
I can't get over how easy it is with the Omnibus distribution. They obviously take great care in making sure it works. I keep ours up to date, so upgrades tend to be easy, but even going to new major releases (11->12, 12->13, etc.) have been just a "yum update" away and it all just works.

They've done this for quite a while too. When I took over managing our Gitlab instance it was 3 major versions behind. I just went back and followed their directions to get to certain minimal levels, then could do a major version update. Then do another incremental to another specific level, then do it again. It took a little while, but it worked perfectly.

I really appreciate the time and effort they put into making sure that the upgrade process is smooth.
Even if we assume only Bitcoin, it's not currently expected to stop printing money until (assuming Ray Kurzweil wasn't right all along) long after we're all dead.

The Bitcoin inflation story is more political than simply economic. Right now, it's not really possible for it to be narrowly about whether printing money is OK. But one could easily mount an argument about whether humans should be able to twiddle with the money printing policy.
The title, which does not mention anyone's firing, has everything to do with the article...

Anyway, you stopped reading in the first sentence? That's essentially the same as not reading it.
I like btc but in a declaring that tether is fraud isn’t about building bridges, it is about being correct. Getting rid of tether is the best way to legitimize btc. The sooner the better.

It is confusing why you care about bridges with regards to fraud. When was fraud related to consensus building activities? Huh?
Evolution and selective breeding don’t arbitrarily modify DNA. The actual methods are small random changes, copying from some other location possibly backwards, or removing segments. GMO significantly expands what kinds of changes are possible.

In practice the difference is generally not that significant, but there is some increase in risks.

Personally, I would prefer a different label for new GMO foods. Presumably, the odds of finding an undiscovered issue drops over time. So using a different label for the first 20 years is reasonably appropriate. Plenty of people are going to take slightly higher risks, so they can benefit from and thus test new cultivars.
I think the problem is not the computation of the standard deviation (SD) but the use of the mean and the SD to estimate the probability of an observation several SD away from the mean, under the assumption of normality. If the data have high kurtosis, other distribution, such as the Student's t, should be considered.
That release page is a bit light on details. No release announcement blog post or similar?
No matter how much inventory you have on hand it can eventually run out so you haven't actually prevented any problems, just delayed them a little longer.

Don't forget that we still have the 3-4 month pipeline to do something. That means we have time to put effort into the Thailand recovery plans into place. We often encourage recovery efforts to focus on the parts that we can only get from Thailand, while other parts that can be gotten elsewhere get sourced elsewhere. Our supply management systems have a check for is this a single source component because those are riskier. It isn't hard to read the news and look into our database and figure out where we need to put pressure. (We are a fortunate 100 company so there is some weight to throw around, plus we have several peer companies that are doing the same thing and will put their pressure on the same bottlenecks)

We have our supply chain mapped 6 levels down (this is mostly because we want to ensure the mines our ores come from down use child/slave labor, but there are side benefits) so when a disaster happens anywhere in the world we know how we could be affected and have months to prepare.

Inventory isn't better. Did you miss my comment about avoiding rust? Parts in storage degrade, can be stolen, cost rent to store, go obsolete, and otherwise have issues. Also it is better for the whole world if they have consistent work for their employees instead of nothing some weeks and overtime others, and the inventory systems tend to make that worse. Some inventory is useful anyway (and we have some), but it comes with costs as well.
"A vegetable-heavy diet with little animal products on the other hand easily gives you everything, without any vitamin pills"

yeah that's because you are indirectly consuming those vitamins that have been given to the animals...
I can argue a multi-generational family is essentially its own community.

Historically most people didn't move all that much. So you can still see this in many non-western countries. Your cousins live in your community, your parents see their brothers and sisters very often, and this forms a support structure.

My theory is this accounts for why mental illness is so rampant in Western countries, but comes nowhere close in more community oriented cultures. Tribe, is an outstanding book on this topic. We aren't meant to be a bunch of autonomous units competing against each other.
One has a standing army and a history of successfully deploying it against countries that attempt to disrupt the geopolitical status quo by moving away from the dollar.

The other does not.
That's not a problem with JSON, that's a problem with people choosing JSON as a configuration file format.

I remember seeing some conversation from the JSON authors around comments and specifically not allowing comments into the spec because they did not want people to use them as extension mechanisms, so the whole no comments in JSON thing was very much intentional.
I find your perspective really funny. Personalized advertising sounds MUCH WORSE than niche custom porn to me.
Proof of waste.
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Here we are again, with a steady stream of nocoiner comments validating their long held positions while bitcoin slowly marches ahead year after year.
It appears from the link in the settlement agreement:

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

Tether wasn’t backed at all times. The argument was that this happened due to asset seizures in Poland and Portugal in 2017-2018.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/95207/bitfinex-tether-ne...

Seems to me they couldn’t prove malicious intent, so they suggested they stop trading. Frankly this seems a bit of a click-bait title with the whole “illegal activities”.

Sure, tether wasn’t backed at all times (probably is now), due to governments seizing their funds. Also banks do this all the time, every time they issue a loan for instance. The bank only keeps 10-30% collateral on your home.
It's the title of the linked press release, with a minor change to fit the maximum length required for HN submissions.
Do people here not realise that people give them bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies for that in exchange for tethers? If they were only a week late in converting it to USD they'd be up tens of billion in profit this year.

The lack of critical thinking and mindless mob mentality around tether is amusing and has been going on for years now. Proven wrong everytime.[1][2][3]

Even this announcement is dumb politiking that people seem to lap up. Bitfinex has banned US customers since 2017.[4]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14934874

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16252365

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182423

[4] https://www.coindesk.com/bitfinex-suspends-sale-select-ico-t...
This seems like a crypto milioner is throwing money around for showing of or appreciating the meme creator.

Who know maybe it means something to him, etc etc,

Good for him, at least he is spending the money on something.
Whiile I understand the downvotes, to clarify:

- None is saying this movement caused the drop. I'd be stupid to do so. Contributing factor ...

- This is clear: The number of "whale" wallets vs. smaller wallets has done nothing but increase.-

- Influx to exchanges have been outsized and abnormal large these past few days ...

... so, it would stand to reason that the market is more and more controlled and at the mercy of bigger players. Some speak of a massive "transfer of wealth" ...
‘It needs to change its culture’: is McKinsey losing its mystique?
Definitely crocs up that way. But there if bugger all on the northern tip even today. It would have been more than 1000km in tropical conditions and not sure if they even had tracks up there back in the day, let Lone shops to fill supplies, and no coastal road around the Cape even today. Have a look at Google maps of the towns up there. Its hardly a town, a lot of traditional owners and tourism support as it's popular to 4WD to the tip these days as an adventure experience.
There are a ton of products (not typically apps) that are super profitable. See some at https://microsaasidea.substack.com/p/micro-saas-products-pri...
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How much of a photo can be deleted before AI can't recognize it?
Imagine a world where Facebook didn’t buy WhatsApp and Instagram. So I think the better hypothetical is “imagine a world where Facebook didn’t leverage its existing dominance to preempt competitors”.
I did not see any data in that post that is new. The latest news this-year is that Tether paid-off the remaining balances of borrows/loans from other asset classes to make the USD holdings whole. The only way to tell is an independent 3rd-party audit, which would bring some finality to this discussion.
Another project is ShaderGen [0] which enables writing C# that can run on the GPU as well as on the CPU.

And there is a practical example implementing raytracing [1].

[0] https://github.com/mellinoe/shadergen

[1] https://github.com/mellinoe/veldrid-raytracer
District heating is used year round to get warm water.
For even more flexibility in JSON format there is SEN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26237048 talks about making JSON look good and introduces SEN at the end with optional commas and quotes. It also allows comments and converts back and forth with pure JSON with no loss of data. Comments are obvious lost though as JSON does not support comments.
> I'm convinced that actually bothering with that final merge step is just superstitious fluff.

Sure, but that's an easy thing to be convinced of when you know you're not a copy with an upcoming expiration date!
Interesting. Never ran across someone who worked for Yandex. Overall are you happy with your employer?
Full text: https://archive.is/rfIrF
> it's an axiom

An axiom which only applies to a certain percentage of cases?
Getting rid of the fraud (tether) at the core of btc will strengthen btc. This cryptocurrency proponents should be all for it.

I have honestly been surprised how long this obvious tether saga has gone on.
"Literally the first macroeconomic models you learn in grad school have savings. "

Go look it up in MankiW. You'll find those aren't financial savings.

Money plays no part in RBC models. It's a one-to-one match with stuff.