skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in my company, not a startup any longer. There is just no vision outside of "more" datacenter, users, engineers.

It's like they think if they hire a bunch of smart people, the product will appear automatically.

Which is true but it also sets the tone for sociopaths in the company to thrive
This belongs in ShowHN:
The sub was a bad plan from the beginning, one of the main issues with the rescue was the narrow twisty path through the cave. This wasn't unknown when Musk was touting his sub. Also even if someone was talking shit about his sub and it wasn't a bad idea, that doesn't justify insinuating they're a pedophile...
I have a Raspberry Pi 400 and it does a pretty good job as a desktop. I also have a HP x360 laptop from 2017 with Windows 10 and it's HORRIBLY SLOW and constantly kicks on the fan. I'm convinced that cahoots with the hardware manufacturers.
> The thing is, SkyMall was a blast. It was so consistently unhinged — night-glow toilet seat!

night-glow toilet seat actually turned out to be quite a popular product on Shark Tank. Kevin O'Leary put $100K for a 25 percent stake in it.

https://mashable.com/deals/oct-11-shark-tank-bathroom-produc...

There's been many copy cats all of which have tons of sales:

https://www.amazon.com/illumibowl/s?k=illumibowl
It's hypocrisy. People will defend entire books and research papers being shared on libgen/scihub, which is unarguably actual copyright infringement on a massive scale, but training an AI on open source code is somehow the worst thing ever even if there's no case law to say that this constitutes infringement at all.
20 KW sounds way above average for a single home. $1 / Watt sounds about right, though.
Ask HN: Have these digital wellbeing ideas been done?
Sharing some ideas I had around digital wellbeing in the hope there are already things out there that could do the job.

Idea #1

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A browser extension that hides comments on YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram and Hacker News.

The toggle needs to be convenient so users can 'reveal' comments on demand.

An implementation for apps could be nice but I assume it can't be done.

There is a chrome extension that does something like this but it's not easily toggled and is just limited to YouTube: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-comments/kehdmnjmaakacofbgmjgjapbbibhafoh?hl=en

Idea #2

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A browser extension watching user activity (keeping all data local). Can identify 'autopilot patterns' and lets users set up indicators to let them know when they fall into a pattern.

It could also provide digests / live metrics with an estimate of time spent in autopilot.

It's really important things are presented in a super non-judgemental way and are easily toggled; it shouldn't be like the anti-distraction apps that can feel imposing rather than a tool the user is free to use however they like.

Rationale

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I noticed that over lockdown I would spend a lot of time browsing YouTube on autopilot so, as an experiment, I started using an extension that hides comments.

This set-up gave me an instant "you're on autopilot" signal because most of the times I switch off, I will scroll down to the comments at some point.

Since starting to use the extension, I spend way less time on YouTube but still feel like I'm getting so much more out of it.

I'm also noticing that a lot of the time autopilot is triggered by some ego resistance, things like "this isn't my kind of thing" or "I don't like this person".

When I catch this in the moment, which is happening more often, there's an opportunity for me to understand that resistance, let it go and re-engage.

It's definitely brought some mindfulness to my day and made me more open to things.

I'd be really interested to see how a 'toggleable' comments / autopilot detection set up impacts other people and changes the way they use different sites.
"It also says on their website that the AI may generate api keys that look real but it’s actually just a “fake” key that the AI generated as placeholder."

Maybe this is what you meant, but that's already been shown to be untrue. https://fossbytes.com/github-copilot-generating-functional-a...
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This shouldn't be voted down into oblivion.

Some truths are uncomfortable to hear, but that doesn't make them less true.

When I was in Egypt, everywhere I looked I saw signs of overpopulation and an idle, largely uneducated workforce standing around half the day in bread lines kilometres long.
This reminds me of the Moniac and hydraulic keynesianism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_macroeconomics
Is there anyone else out there who refuses to buy something if they first learned about it from an ad?
The general perception of IceWM as a minimalist Windows 95 clone hides the fact that it is indeed a very powerful fully fledged tool for window management. Just icewm-winoptions file and the icesh program enable so much opportunities for automation, it makes the average tiling window manager look tame and primitive.
That would be an awesome price even if it's after the federal tax credit. Here's a link to average prices by system size, that's way under even for the smaller size.

https://news.energysage.com/how-much-does-the-average-solar-...

Also rooftop solar is 2-3x the cost of utility scale solar.
No, I don’t follow these people. Once I view all the new content from the people I follow, Instagram starts showing me posts from people I’ve never seen before.
> The benefit is related to growth

Right... so pure speculation then with no underlying utility.
Utility scale generation of renewables in Australia creates tradable certificates. These are required by law to be purchased by energy retailers to meet the Renewable Energy Target. If that certificate trades at $50, I can sell my power for -$40 and still make $10 profit.

Putting further downwards pressure on prices, small scale solar generators (eg homes) generally have a fixed price for solar exports. The spot price could be -$1000 but they will still be getting paid $100 under their retail contract. So they have no incentive to stop generating, even when the price is negative. The market regulator is attempting to change this, but consumers are resistant to having to pay to generate power or allow their system to be remotely switched off.

Coal generators won't switch off either as they take a while to ramp up and down, and are sometimes are directed (and paid) to remain running to provide system stability.
Ice storage air conditioning is already a thing in some places to take advantage of cheap electricity at night, though it doesn't make as much sense in the context of solar. Maybe it would fit well with wind.

I think it will be very difficult to convince industrial operations that currently run as close to 24/7 as possible that they should just leave all of their expensive equipment idling half the time, unless the electricity price difference is made extremely large.
There's also the example of it spitting out valid sendgrid api keys, which wouldn't be a case of the code appearing in many places. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736460
I hate when I paste code in and it turns into emojis.
Absolutely. If I see an ad for something I make a mental note to search for competitors before buying that brand, assuming I need the product.

If a company is spending money on ads, that’s money they’re not spending on R&D or cutting prices, and it also means their product is too weak to get traction organically.
i don't see any ads. the desktop version is better
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In this case, would an airgap not suffice?
I don't think the people having diabetes and obesity are sticking to the guidelines.
Data points:

• This interim analysis covers only 250 deaths, out of 1644 in the set. The majority were reported by healthcare professionals.

• In 5% (13/250 cases), vaccine was most likely cause of death.

• In 14%, vaccine was ruled out.

• In the remainder, the vaccine remains plausible.

• However, "the sample is heavily biased because these were all people vaccinated very early in the programme when only the elderly, those with significant or chronic health conditions and frontline health service staff were being vaccinated."
Yeah imagine a real magazine that would do...hey wait a minute
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The Islamic world knows they can get a supply of unlimited human organs from China.

Even better, the organs are halal, since they're from Uighur (Muslim) prisoners, and they come with a guaranteed replacement warranty if they fail!

(The national hospital system in China is funded from forced human organ transplants. It started with Falun Gong prisoners, but has expanded to more religions.)
Some of the brightest minds and smartest people go to work for companies which spend every minute of their existence to figure out how to place an ad in front of our eyes for 1 more second.
I turned off my adblocker for Facebook as the ads started being far more relevant to me.

Lots of interesting games or hackathons or nifty tools.
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Very different, in fact. Yes, language is socially and culturally determined, but it is incredibly organic and expressive. A small counsel of people deciding which emotions can be expressed, and how, is entirely different.

1984 taught us the dangers of a limited and/or artificially created vocabulary. Are the lessons not the same today?
Shouldn’t that be the rule of five now? No wait, I mean the rule of zero.
>You can't get away with shipping buggy hardware, people would ask for their money back.

Why not? Intel shipped buggy hardware to everyone for years, it was called "Meltdown".
I think it would be unfair to limit it to technical work. I think people who excel in any "think heavy" work would prefer not to be interrupted while they think. Not all "think heavy" work is technical.
> I've seen a lot of people ragging on Copilot for "copy+pasting" code - does anyone have links to cases where it has done this without the user intentionally trying to generate a specific (extremely famous) code snippet?

It's not important that the examples are really specific, the issue is that it does happens. This tool has the potential to infringe copyright (sure it does seems legal at some place, doesn't make it more right though).

Look at how EA reversed engineered the Genesis in the past [1]. They had 2 teams, one that did the reversing, and another that did the implementation. That made it safe to say that no infringing code was going through. Plenty of emulators developers try to avoid source code leaks for similar reason. Co-Pilot can't do that.

The fact that the copyright status of the code is hard to determine, doesn't means it's not copyrighted code nonetheless.

Personally I got nothing against this kind of technology, but I do have a pretty big issue with how it learn. Once people published their code on Github, they didn't know it could have been used to do machine learning and it's bad that it is. If Github asked for the copyright over the code to do Co-Pilot, I wouldn't mind.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0qe1FNqtCo&t=280s
All of this reminds me of the scene in Fight Club where they animate the magazine ad as the apartment.
> If a company is spending money on ads, that’s money they’re not spending on R&D or cutting prices, and it also means their product is too weak to get traction organically.

Or they just want to make even more money than they could make organically, which they can then put into R&D or into cutting pricces (through economies of scale).
Well, she is widely criticized as being transphobic. So there’s that.
You're deluded. As someone with experience of more than a few Muslim countries, I can categorically say that nothing you're trying to paint has any semblence to reality.

You're pretending that a woman who divorces and remarries is considered to be guilty of adultery.

The Quran, in black and white, disagrees with you. Legal code in every Muslim country I am aware of does not agree with you. And no Muslim society I have any experience of would tolerate what you're trying to push.

In short, you're lying.

> but you are painting this backward religion as way nicer than it actually is.

And this quote shows your agenda and incentive. This is nothing more than bigoted online trolling. You're adding 2 and 2, getting 35, and screaming out loud about it.

You're just rehashing stuff you consume from other equally-excited anti-Muslim bigots, who swap all sorts of fake superstitious nonsense of what Islam actually is (none of which has any connection to reality).

Its sad. Pathetic, sad, and yet oh so predictable.

Whatever your affliction, deal with it on your own time, and in your own space. Hacker News is not the place for flat-earthers and other such-like fakery peddlers.
Once she came off it her wound healed?
"<..> every human being has a need for socializing, but it takes effort and is exhausting. The amount of effort it takes and the degree to which it is exhausting differs from person to person, but it is not fixed. Socializing is like a muscle or a skill that can atrophy with neglect or develop with training."

That's ever so true and socializing does take considerable effort and it's exhausting. I should have made that point in my earlier post. If you read it then you'd know that I wasn't the slightest bit concerned about the isolation the pandemic has brought into my life. These points you make also account for the answers I gave to the article's poll—in that at times I'm very sociable and at others not so much.

As socializing takes effort and that it's tiring, I've cherry-picked the easy bits and largely ignored stuff that requires serious work and effort. I know that if I want or need to socialize then I can pretty much do so in any environment or situation as I've done so successfully in the past and on quite many occasions. The issue for me (and I reckon also for many others of a technical/scientific bent) is that I rarely see need for me to commit the effort to do so—given that there are so many other activates that I'd prefer to be doing.

Cognitively, I know, and I think I've always known, that I should spend more time socializing and networking than I do, as they can and do take one to high places along with a concomitant increase in one's status and income. Simply, I'd be better off in many ways if I just took the necessary time and effort, however the motivation is just not there for me to do so, as I'd have to stop doing other things that I deem more important and or more valuable.

There's nothing new in this understanding and the notion has likely been around forever. Recently, this old 2003 article by Paul Graham about Why Nerds are Unpopular made its reappearance on the web here on HN but also there have been other similar accounts around for decades. Of course, what's relevant to this story and these comments are the reasons behind the motivation for why some people are introverted and or why they act this way—as critically it determines whether a person considers said trait to be either distressing and unwanted or desirable and necessary—or perhaps even essential:

http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01433-3

https://www.healtheuropa.eu/research-shows-long-covid-is-lin...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01283-z

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-research-shows-2-mill...

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-publishes-second-themed-rev...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/06/20/study-do...

What exactly are you not convinced about?
This reads like a subliminal message from John Carpenter’s “They Live”. I hope it’s sarcasm :)
According to Wikipedia it seems the car was effectively killed by the 1992 (introduced in '89) European Emissions Standards.

Emissions tech has come a long way; just looking at the legal max emissions, the 2CV failed to 2.72g/km CO emissions while the legal max since 2006 has been 1g/km CO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV#1980%E2%80%93...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emission_standards#Em...
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I feel like this is confusing for a number of reasons.

- They count future SS benefits as part of your net-worth. I'm having trouble figuring out how much they factored this in as. That is considered to be hundreds of thousands of dollars of wealth, even discounting for time. However, that's not how we benchmark wealth. If you are in debt 100k but have future social security payments 15 years away to the tune of 300k over the course of decades, you are still in debt.

- The 1M figure they use is in artifact of accountingWhen people say someone is a "millionaire" they are talking about people with 1M in liquid investments or at least able to easily take out a loan against 1M in investments. The stat above doesn't capture that in a meaningful way. It seems equivalent to saying that a teacher who makes 60k a year is a millionaire since the career expected earnings are 2.0M spread out over decades.
I think the problem is when renters buy up all the property that is designed for owners. They can afford to pay far more than owners who want to live there, look up the stories of investment funds buying up huge swathes of residential land. No one who just wants a house can compete with that. It maybe wouldn't be an issue if widespread nimbyism and red tape in large meant barely any new ousting is coming online in many places,either.
haha, that rocketship is forever associated with r/wallstreetbets and "To the moon" meme for me.
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I have not seen any right-to-repair legislation that would do that. They typically require companies to share repair parts/tools/documents.

I would be against a right-to-repair bill that amounted to creative handcuffs for engineers. Engineering is an exercise in prioritization and there are sometimes very legitimate reasons to deprioritize serviceability. For example, the tires on my car are designed to prioritize safety and efficiency, rather than being able to be retreaded.
Yes! Now you're getting it. The first brain surgery was preposterous and audacious. The first pacemaker was crazy (You want to add batteries to my heart?).

Crazy ideas require crazy amounts of careful design, careful planning, careful execution. That's what makes them crazy. Along with the high probability of failure even with the greatest care. How many open heart surgery patients died before the first success? None? That's crazy!

You want to host the summer olympics in Yuma, AZ? That's crazy!

You want to build a giant reusable spaceship on the border of Mexico? That's crazy!

You want to drill a hole through somebody's skull to drain the swelling and relieve the pressure? That's crazy!

You want to cut a hole in somebody's throat so they can breath? That's crazy!

You want to plant 10 trillion trees to change the Earth's atmosphere? You're crazy!

You want to teach every child in the world how to read? Crazy!

Not all of those things are the best of many risky plans.

And quit pretending that somebody shouted over better informed people. I'm sure there were critics of all the plans. Some people might have shouted. Some might have quit in protest. Some pondered quietly. Some people were terrified but did it anyway. They planned and organized the best they could. And despite mistakes, and even spur-of-the-moment adlibs they pulled it off. Crazy!
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To provide the HN audience with a single data-point from Ethiopia.

* More than half of Ethiopia's 110 million people have no electric power.

* Almost all of Ethiopia is under some level of food stress.

* The Nile basin contains some 11 countries

* More than 80% of the Nile waters come out of Ethiopia

* Some 70% of the rivers in Ethiopia are parts of the Nile basin

* Out of these countries, only Egypt and Sudan use the Nile river for irrigation and power generation.

* This happened due to Colonial era agreements in which great Britain (Then ruling Egypt) brokered agreements which "gave" Egypt usage and veto rights. Most of the Nile basin countries were colonies of GB and they had no say in the matter (that I can find recorded in history). Ethiopia was an exception as it was not colonized, but it was not consulted by the British and is not signatory to the agreements. And It was fighting to maintain its independence against Europe so it had little power to spare for water politics at the time.

* In 1959, The Sudanese and Egyptians governments met and awarded each other 18.5 billion cubic meter of water and 55 billion cubic meters of water respectively. Again ignoring the other Nile basin countries, including Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia....

* Egypt is unfortunately threatening us with war if there is a drop in their water share. I can basically paraphrase their UNSC statement as saying "Peace and security will be impacted in the horn of Africa because we will start war on Ethiopia".

* I am an Ethiopian, and I realize that Egypt relies on the Nile. As far as I can see, public opinion here (to the extent I see it) is not about depriving Egypt of water and life, it's about living a life of dignity. It's about a fair and equitable use of the water.

Again, unfortunately, Egypt is signing military deals with Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda in what is perceived here as an intimidation campaign. My two cents, there is 0 chance these countries will ever stand against Ethiopia regarding the Nile water usage.
=I am perplexed that they are making an enemy out of Ethiopia when 80% of the Nile comes from here. That's no way to secure your future.

As a lover of ancient history, I am fascinated by Egypt and their reach history. I think the way to secure Egypt's future is by cooperation with all Nile basin countries to protect and further develop the Nile river basin such that the we raise the total water contained in the basin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_politics_in_the_Nile_Bas...
Attribution, mostly.
Your link shows 4100€ per 3.3 kW.

That's $1462 per kW. Which is pretty much what I see in the US.
> the variants are actually getting better at spreading but not killing

I've heard that this is not unexpected, that it's to a viruses advantage to not kill people. That would jive with the fact that the several already endemic coronaviruses are much less likely that sars-cov-2 to cause severe problems.
So what specific limit is each company working against right now?
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Don't you also need to run whatever you are programming? So a compiler/interpreter, REPL, maybe a database, docker, k8s, etc? I assume most devs still want to be able to compile and test locally?
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15-20kW? How big is your home/electricity consumption? I paid $7.5K USD ($10K AUD) for 5.9kW panels (5kW inverter) only 2.5 years ago, which I still think is pretty good.

In summer I generate 40kWh a day, winter down to ~23kWh (AU is lucky though in this regard), which nearly always exceeds my home usage. 20kW of panels is huge, at least 60+ panels + I'm guessing multiple large inverters or lots of micro inverters.

$1/watt installed is really cheap IMO at this scale residential.
OK, the colored acrylic cube looks like a fun desk toy. But not at $23.
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Well not to say that it was not smart what Musk did. The guy did shitpost first and Musk responded. It's not like Musk just out of nowhere started hammering the guy.
Ah, thanks for clarifying! A further question: which words did you ‘fix’?