skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Systems that are 'good enough' and infrequently fail are a human factors conundrum. This is happening with commercial aircraft now where pilots don't have the systems knowledge to understand how the complex automation fails. Most pilots don't self train for near impossible conditions like Dennis Fitch in the Sioux City crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232#Cre...
So we agree that natural selection is not necessarily trying to increase lifespans, for the reason given or any other?
It seems like you've never been in a place that had very humid hot summers. I can tell you that it does not require constant sun to be miserable in summer.

And without sun you can not power that solar and in humid hot weather something like a passive "swamp cooler" won't work either.
It's really bizarre that whenever solar is mentioned, someone chimes in with some claim about toxic materials in the panels, yet rarely do you hear these complaints about other ubiquitous products with hazardous materials, like televisions, laptops, fluorescent light bulbs, microwaves, or anything else.

The recovery rate for solar panels in developed countries is already close to 100%. Very few people are going to simply dispose of them in the trash, because they don't fit in the trash, and the contractors they work with are not going to dump them in the woods.
For quick ideas or organization later, Things 3
For daily work scratch buffer in emacs

For longer projects where I'll be reducing daily notes to a report, I'll use an org-mode file partitioned by day
Amazon compensates for backloaded equity via large sign-on bonuses which "vest" monthly and don't need to be paid back if you leave. Annualized compensation is roughly stable over the first four years, assuming you believe their stock growth estimates (which are silly, but that actually gives you higher compensation for the first two years than years 3 and 4, not lower).
hey Jonny,

thank you for the info. It was an error at my end. Now it's fixed.

You can check it out. Let me know your feedback. :)

Thanks.
I heard that nuclear plants are automated, but specifically designed to force the human operator to pay attention.
https://archive.is/2JD1B
How much should we value the past, the present, and the future?
Didn’t downvote, but I also share the weird malaise when every remarkable event is expected to become a movie.

In this case a the diver (co-?)wrote a book, so a movie is just another step in that direction and he seems cool with it. It would be shitty though to have a movie in any other circumstance.
> trade off that we as a society..
>Regulators have the tough job of balancing the risks, benefits, and science when making the call on whether to accept one.

I am curious. How much of the society was involved in making this decision. We can all agree that there is enormous financial pressure from the industry to make such decisions go in its favour, and virtually none to go in favor of the public.

So isn't there a chance that eventually such trade offs will go in a direction that is harmful to the public?

>Maybe you disagree with it, but someone with a terrible disease waiting on a new life saving treatment might see the issue differently.

Sure, but we don't do things this way. You can always find someone who benefits from a community wide applied bad idea. Does not justify the bad idea sadly.

This kind of short term, localised thinking might allow the regulatory process to bend heavily under the aforementioned financial pressures, in favour of the industry, and result in great public harm that might go unnoticed for a very long time..
I'm saying customers (but perhaps not the average HN poster) may actually want cortana/onedrive/win11/etc. shrug
It’s not really specific to coal mining - everything has so much red tape in India. Part of it is colonial heritage and the other part of it is socialist roots of the founders.

India has never had an economic right party in power at all. It has been various flavors of populism and socialism. The recent agriculture bill is an interesting case in point.
Blaming obese people's food choices is like blaming spoons for making you fat. If you can afford to become obese, you most definitely can afford to purchase fresh vegetables and healthier options all around.

It's not the same thing as malnutrition because you're starving. One is death because your arteries are clogged. The other is death because you're body can't sustain itself.
My list of positive considerations isn't well researched - so I would amend it to not include Citadel, as I agree after taking a look further.
b./SpaceX?
I thought panels had a 20 or 25 year life span with reduced wattage each year. Is that true? How old are the panels you bought?
I have trained Instagram (and Facebook) over the years to give me only the most pointless and unappealing ads as possible. I have no qualms about ignoring and forgetting each and every one. I despise ads and do my best to block and avoid.
I think LangTrans[1](a transpiler) can be used.

It helps to create new syntax(like in this post) more easily.

It converts new syntax into real code and works with any language.

[1]: https://langtrans.github.io
Interesting. Also a problem with RDS: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52148675/aws-rds-with-po...
Bitcoin does not and never did work that way. https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/13/11/263
I think this is the same debate as surrounds the death of Aaron Swartz, yes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

I don't know much about it other than...support free medical research.
Nice, makes sense!
Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Engineer
Visualize it.

You are integrating a function P(X) along a thin surface defined by z<f(X)<z+dz.

What is volume dV for a given dz? It is a surface dS times dX: the amount that X changes for a given dz. Since z=f(x), then dx=dz/|∇f(x)|. So dV=dS*dz/|∇f(x)|
> And there are so many ads now. It feels like 25-33% of my feed, which is absurd. Every set of stories has an ad between them.

I believe it's published somewhere that both Facebook and Instagram insert an ad for every 3 news feed items or so.
You are missing that people are different. It seems extremely easy and intuitive to compartmentalize aspects of your life.

More power to you. Not everyone is like that. Personally, I find compartmentalization unnatural.

Even the “work hard play hard” aspect of weekday/weekend. Unnatural to me. I do think everything has seasons. I don’t view those seasons as literally on an hourly granularity though, that’s what is unnatural to me.
If you’re in search of a Skymall alternative, check out Hammacher Schlemmer (https://www.hammacher.com/).

The brand has existed for over a hundred years, they have a physical store in NYC, a website, and a catalog (still being sent out).

I just looked at a few products for sale on their homepage: make sure not to miss the transparent canoe or the kickball dart board.
I am running about 2100kw/month (about 70/day) and we are not cooling all rooms. I wish I was not renting as I would insulate the hell out of an owned home. (I would also install solar but that's a different issue.)
I’d love an alternative history where von Neumann, whose early programs began modern weather forecasting, lived a little longer to meet Edward Lorenz.
It is - a demolition yard near me had a particular pole that weren’t for sale. The yard owner kept the best for himself.

Ones made by prisoners. One with a nice glaze etc.
I don’t understand. How is paying $10,000 or more cheaper than using the electricity provided by my local electric company? The break even point is probably 5 years if you really can install everything but $10,000.

The opportunity cost of that $10,000 is, let’s say 5% per year on avg, or $2500 over 5 years (without compounding which would skew this even further against panels)
AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready to hire
Intel offers to spread $20bn chip factory investment across EU
> I came to the baffling conclusion that ownership is not worth it.

I came to that conclusion about 20 years ago. So I decided, rationally, to stick with renting and saving, and I'd wait until prices dropped a bit.

Well prices didn't drop in that 20 years, and my savings ended up covering some costs. I didn't end up better off.

In retrospect, despite the (small) price differential in favour of renting and saving at that tim, I think not buying when I could have was a strategic mistake.

I would say this: If something turns up in your life that needs you to pay unless you can get means-tested support, it's less likely to force you to sell the house than it is to force you to spend your savings, even if they are in a fund.

Also, investments can go down as well as up. This is true for investment funds and housing (in theory). But if there's a market crash, you still have a house when that happens. If it's in a fund, you lost it. In other words, there's greater exposure to risk via the fund because long term volatility affects the fund value to you, but you are relatively insulated to changes in the value of housing, especially if everyone else is affected the same way.
Been coding for over a decade and written thousands of simple and complex queries and I have always thought SQL sucked but was too afraid to ever express that opinion since everyone else believes it is the best thing since sliced bread. Quite relieved that some experts feel the same way.
It seems you’ve never been in a sunny climate without aircon. People survive. It’s not crazy hard. Growing up in Australia, with temps regularly over 40, and the only aircon in the supermarket frozen section.
Is all of this really just schoolyard ego stuff?

Yes, near as I can figure.

I mean, it looks like the group that took it over just set it on fire?

This is all orchestrated by a guy who thinks buying fake Korean royalty status is something meaningful (as opposed to what it is: something to laugh at). I'd speculate he bought it thinking he'd be seen as King of Freenode and everyone would bend the knee. It was when the proles didn't go along with the program that he and his minions launched into the scorched earth temper tantrum.
You will see it after it's gone due to persistence of vision, even at <10ms (no idea what the actual number is). Mind 20FPS is longer than a frame on even a 60Hz monitor.
Any guides on how to go about doing what you mentioned?
The zero obligations is the gotcha here: you’re still responsible for making decisions based on the boring meetings that take up your entire day.

And since people think they can fill up your calendar with meetings they do and then you’re only left with time outside of work think about mundane issues — which probably have some major consequences but who cares as you’ve sat through dozens of hours of meetings about it.
Are you aware of studies showing that B3 boosts NAD+? This summary (from last year) seems to suggest there is little to no such evidence: https://www.endocrinology.org/endocrinologist/135-spring20/f...

Edit: found at least one study since then, written about here. https://www.lifespan.io/news/niacin-increases-nad-significan...
It presents how every F defined on random variables maps to a F' defined on the probability distribution of such random variables, an isomorphism.
Modern panels lose less than ½% per year. If you bought 20-year-old panels today you should expect to get 90% of their nameplate capacity still.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/51664.pdf
Excellent charts and animations at the SCMP.

https://multimedia.scmp.com/news/world/article/2154457/thai-...
All meaningful progress requires labor. You're specifically talking about labor paid for by a corporation, but that isn't mutually exclusive with that labor also being a goal or passion that you're interested in.

Meaning is subjective, and many do find it in their work. For example, many software devs like the work of learning about and creating software. To be paid for it is a bonus, not something detracting.
Maybe a while I have 300w to run a fridge and laptop, and do fine.
> Though maybe I'm missing something 'cos it seems to me you can run gradient descend on non-differentiable functions

Isn't that exactly the point though? If you don't have an analytical solution for the gradient of the loss (reward) wrt the parameters - yes - you could brute force a numerical solution but as the number of parameters grows that quickly becomes infeasible. Approaches such as RL and GA provide a more intelligent way to search the parameter space.
I don't know. Why do you like chocolate ice cream? At least for me, despite all my efforts in every direction, the things I like or dislike fail to alter themselves that much at my request.

I have mechanisms to deal with them and to ensure that I do certain things, but the inner will always directs in a certain direction. I can summon the motivation to do other things, but I have so far failed to modify that inner desire.

If you're different, then do share what interventions let you modify.

Given that, your question is more like "Why would you like chocolate ice cream?". And the answer is simple: There is no 'why'; there only is.
“Give me my luggage” works well in Dublin.
Ask HN: Leaving CA
I am considering leaving CA and looking at relocating to a different state. While I like/align with the liberal values, the execution by government here is horrible. For example, a simple bathroom remodel permit is stuck in city paperwork hell. I mean I believe in climate change and will remodel in an energy efficient manner. But, I dont need a city employee to sit on my paperwork for 1 month. I see this everywhere in CA (woke & incompetent).

At the same time, I cannot align with gun nuts, anti-abortion/gay rights.

Is America the land of extremes or there is some state that accepts liberal views, but doesn't have the problem of big government?

Is big government the only path to execute on liberal values.
>Credibility is easy to be lost and hard to be gained again.

I disagree. If you have media in your team, this is easy, given some time. Particularly in current times when you have a treasure trove of possible distractions that you can make the media throw at a gullible public.

If one looks closely, then I think CDC/FDA etc have lost credibility a long time back. The real events portrayed in documentaries like "What lies upstream" and movies like "Dark Waters" should be enough to reject these agencies outright.

What is enormously surprising to me is that, not only we consider them very credible, but are also willing to consider their word as unfailable and final in many cases.

Even more sad thing is that the power of CDC/FDA extends even to many developing countries, so this affects much more than their home country.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5165878/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9071322/
Aimbots were already using "smoothing" methods in the original CS. Snapping to headshot is more to piss people off.
I think it was also filled with mud , or is it what you cover with the “no tether points” part ?

My take away from the article is that there could have been many more solutions, some more clever, some involving more gear etc., but they were completely short of time and verified information to come up with other viable plans.

Basically any other plan would have needed more checks, preparation, waiting for the gear to be ready, rehearsal, etc. And as said in the beginning of the interview, they feared the kids would be dead any day. As I get it, that’s also why civilians where chosen instead of the pro rescue team, because they were the only one with appropriate gear and experience at that moment in that place.
This is a common astroturfing technique.

"We might be replacing one problem with another. We need to move on from toxic solar to some unknown fuel of the future."

Notice the classic FUD sowing, ambiguity, and of course an oblique reference to some as-yet-developed economic synthetic fuel.
Good lord that is an annoying website. I had to stop reading.
AlphaZero only works on video games. If you remove its ability to judge progress by game score, which is a reward function (though not the one used, due to delayed reward issues), then it's not capable of finding its feedback. It only works in constructed environments where the environment provides the reward function implicitly. Maybe we can video-game-ify laundry folding sufficiently? I'm doubtful.
> To the point where you don't really have a choice but to recognize that there's some mathematic/scientific explanation of consciousness and the way psychedelics interact with it that relate to how neural networks function.

I don't get any of these types of visuals (or any visuals whatsoever other than wobbling/throbbing edges/borders) on most of the common psychedelics on which most normal people get visuals, even at 2-10x standard doses. I'm aware of the stereotypical wooshy GAN-style trailer visuals people report; I've never seen them.

Either I'm an alien or your hypothesis has a hole.
Currently my system is "grid tied" which, if you're not familiar with the lingo, means that when the house is producing more energy than it uses, it pushes it into the grid, when it needs more energy than it can produce it pulls what it needs from the grid.

In terms of maintenance this is a really simple setup since there are no batteries to maintain. The inverters do not require periodic maintenance and the panels only need to be washed off periodically to keep them operating at their peak. In the time we've been operating like this we lost one inverter and one panel which was damaged from a falling rock. So easy to maintain, and trouble free.

The question then was "how much does the power company pay for power that you produce?" The terms and conditions of what you pay, and what the power company pays, is nominally the "rate plan."

When we started, this was new to PG&E and we were on a plan where we stopped getting monthly bills, instead the mechanical meter would run forward when we were drawing power and backward when we were generating power. Each month we'd have a 'net power' which could be positive (used more than produced) or negative (produced more than used)and every 12 months that was summed up. If the number was negative they would just zero it out and roll over to the next year (free power for them), if it was positive they would charge a stepped rate based on total power used for the year. Once they got "smart" meters installed they got creative with the plans, we ended up on a plan where they pay us a wholesale rate, bill us at a retail rate, and total $ up instead of actual power used. This works out better for them and extended the time it took for the system to pay for itself.

Powerwalls can (and in our case will) completely disconnect you from the electric grid. They don't buy any of your power and you don't buy any of their power, hence no rate plan. If you size the system you can be pretty sure you won't ever be without power (even with a series of cloudy days) and you can add a natural gas fueled electric generator[1] (we would still have gas service) which could charge the powerwalls in a pinch.

I've got all the feeds instrumented so I can tell exactly how much power the house is using and the panels have generated (fed into an influxDB time series database) and using that data have been planning for the retrofit based on our usage over the last 15 years.

The Powerwalls double the initial installation cost but since I'm not paying margin (selling wholesale and buying retail)to PG&E the actual value delivered is higher and so it has a better rate of return. Of course I can only speculate on the lifetime ownership costs of Powerwalls (much like I had to do with the inverters which I had in my spreadsheet being replaced every 10 years since that was the warranty on them).

[1] What I really wanted was some Bloom Energy fuel cells for that but they don't really have a 15 - 20kW rated one, it is too small.
Have you tried stilltasty.com? I believe they have signs to look for to determine its bad. I’ve found their guidelines quite valuable!
Oh well, history showed that it is impossible to avoid huge nuclear accidents regardless of the wealth/culture/technological maturity/form of government.

Until proof is provided that something changed fundamentally, I don't want it (or its waste [1]) in my neighborhood. You can have it in yours.

[1]
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article251....
> Her watching TV on her phone was a voluntary action.

This is technically true, but completely useless when it comes to actually reducing the chance of it happening again in the future, Failures of human focus and attention are, in the aggregate, inevitable, and systems like this must be designed to accommodate that.
> Work time is labor time for me, and any amount of it is actively detracting from me being able to pursue the things that I do think have meaning.

Exactly, that's the problem. The article is not about not having enough work to do, it's about the work not having enough meaning to want to do it in the first place.
Its not very clear if rust is supported. Please please support rust bindings :)
Turbine speed is controlled by a device called a governor. When the power in exceeds the power out and the speed (frequency) increases the governor lays off the throttle to stop then speed from increasing further. Throttle could be water, steam, gas, etc. Then the grid operator will have some units that operate in “AGC” automatic generation control which would reduce their output until the frequency is back at 60Hz.

Units start to trip below 58 and above 62 Hz ish, and turbines should respond to 0.01 Hz change in frequency within 200 ms according to the IEEE 125 guideline, so even a 0.5 Hz deviation is huge.

A 1 Hz deviation is a major event that would result from a mismatch on the order of gigawatts
Can you elaborate? What's your experience working in the construction industry, and what did you learn about that industry's workforce culture?
I hate this. It's a _red cross_. What do you expect from people? Even a 2 year old can draw a red cross. Now we have to know not to use certain colored symbols because, they might upset someone. While at it, might as well ban bad math teachers who use red markers.
I don't believe this to be the case.

In any case, it is insane and negligent to watch TV whilst on the job as a safety supervisor, no matter how inhumane or boring your job may be.
Ask HN: If you could do it all again would you do it all the same?
I'm all for copilot if microsoft gets treated the same way libgen/scihub are for creating it. or if we abolish copyright, but the fact that they can just decide to do this and it's fine, but scihub gets DNS-blocked reveals the asymmetry at hand here.
Broadcom MediaxChange Vulnerability Affecting Cisco Products: July 2021
It is not bizarre if everyone keeps bring up the same issue.

In your area they will be picked up and shipped to another country with lower environmental standards for disassembling.

These are some of the chemicals of concern:
cadmium telluride, copper indium selenide, cadmium gallium (di)selenide, copper indium gallium (di)selenide, hexafluoroethane, lead, and polyvinyl fluoride. Additionally, silicon tetrachloride, a byproduct of producing crystalline silicon, is highly toxic
> Even we cannot see your decision contents.

How? I read through few other pages and don't see this described.

On "How It Works"[0], everything after the first "step 3" seems mostly worthless for every team I've ever worked on and feels like it's more like something that isn't for me? Like who gets something out of those when it's a product (that heavily pushes their slack integration) for "teams" to record decisions?

[0] https://loqbooq.app/how-it-works
> the contractors they work with are not going to dump them in the woods

They will if that's the cheapest option to get rid of them. Westinghouse dumped PCB-laden oil and transformers in the woods and that is still being cleaned up decades later.