skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ”No advantage to customers to optimize load to the grid unless customers pay less.”

Well, of course you pay less. There’s a lot of value to distribution networks in being able to flatten peak loads, so they will be paying/reimbursing you in some way for that capability.

> ”the backlash (in social media and mainstream media) against real-time electricity prices was fierce.”

Grid electricity by nature is scarce at times and abundant at others. So not offering real-time pricing is a market distortion and may not produce the best economic or environmental outcomes.

That said, unpredictable bills can be a hardship for consumers that can’t store electricity or shift their demand. The correct approach is to let customers choose if they want real-time billing or a fixed rate.
This is really similar to Quokka, which is a fantastic tool and worth every penny.

If you can build something portable, charge money for it IMO. I currently pay $50/year for this:

https://quokkajs.com/
The Vine Arm
Players are reporting their 3090s are bricking
I just had the copper wire stolen from a new house purchase this week so this hits hard. :(
Groundhog day: NPM package caught stealing browser passwords
I guess I do a lot of cargo cult programming by the metrics in the article: if someone approaches me and demands a detailed explanation of the design principles involved in some minor function I wrote months ago, plus a list of the programming books I consulted (printed books -- no online resources, please!), I will probably score poorly in "eloquence" since I'll just be standing there slack-jawed and bewildered.
> Are you dynamically creating a named tuple (a record?) by passing a space separated list of field names? Why?

Very little in python is bound statically. This is akin to a type definition. The type will behave as an ordered tuple that can be indexed but also alias these attribute names to those ordinals.

assert(a == Point(a, b).x)
assert(b == Point(a, b).y)
assert(a == Point(a, b)[0])
The Philosopher Entrepreneur
I assumed it was a real robot with onboard processing and was going to make a joke about it using FaaS
Ug...yes, meant 90s. Must proofread...
It works after disabling ad blockers. Turns out the page attempts to access an IP address profiling service to fingerprint or something – it gets a bunch of data like your ISP etc. If that request fails you can only see the marketing page (no error).
> Once you can cook well you learn that cheap is typically bad food.

Not really. I had a great tacos the other day from a food truck, and great Ethiopian dinner on the weekend. Both cheap and not something I could reproduce easily or at all.

On the other hand, what you say usually applies to the ragu at a fast-casual.

So it depends.
I smell outsourcing, or trying to save money by hiring really green programmers and designers and putting them on something too big for their experience level.
Yes, what's good for society and consumers might not be good for one particular company. It should still be mandated.
Indonesian Covid+ man disguises himself as wife on flight in order to fly
> The problem with infrastructure-as-code today (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Pulumi, etc) is that it is not reusable. That is because implementation, configuration and interface are mixed up together.

I find this statement from the documentation[0] unfair, given that the "target" concept this introduces seems to be mainly based on Terraform modules to _reuse code and expose an interface_. Terraform has its problems, but this doesn't seem to be right.

At best, this seems to be a curated set of Terraform modules and a managed CD pipeline execution SaaS. I get that it is supposed to simplify things, but it is lacking documentation for what it will do to an AWS account (you'll still pay for it, after all) and even provides documentation on how to drop "raw" Terraform into it. Why not go with Terraform directly then instead of sending your AWS credentials to a SaaS?

[0] https://learn.digger.dev/overview/how-it-works.html#technica...
Great insights.

Any hypothesis on why they could pull this off? Better sales? Better product? Both?
> * It's not only the plug size, it's also enabling me + my neighbors chargers to communicate so we can optimize load on the electric grid.*

It means you can use a 30-50% smaller amount of solar, wind, transmission, and batteries, roughly, enabling cheaper energy, lower embodied emissions, and a faster energy transition (meaning reduced overall emissions). (And this applies to things like nuclear, too.)
The icon is definitely updated in 14.
This is a much better system. In the UK we've gone from using pagers (I still use one) to proprietary systems which don't talk to one another (Medic Bleep, NerveCentre) in order to meet the ISO standard.
Epic Games has been on an acquisition tear -- just in last 12 months:

- SuperAwesome, child safe games

- Hyprsense, facial animation

- Cubic Motion, another facial animation tool

- Rad Game Tools

- Tonic Games, makers of Fall Guys

- Reality Capture

- ArtStation, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 2D renders)

- Sketchfab, artist portfolios + marketplace (usually 3D models)

On each acquisition, they usually lower the price of the tools to near nothing. It seems to be a clear consolidation play.
Oops, you are correct, I meant level 2 not type 2! It's still the J1772 connector in Europe, unless I'm mistaken. I have zero first hand EV experience on that continent.
Beta of Amazon's MMO came out yesterday and apparently it fries the EVGA FTW3 3090s for some reason
“the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

Interesting Nit: Recently learned that this wonderful quote is from the 80s, and not from Keynes:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
NP are the problems which we can verify an answer to 'quickly'.

P are the problems that we can create an answer to 'quickly'.

The question is, if we are able to verify an answer quickly, does that imply we can also always create an answer quickly? It feels like obvious not the case, but we can't prove it either way.
Very well written article about one of the little-known heroes of our time.
The idea that Slack is strictly worse than IRC in functionality is laughable. Maybe IRC does some things better, but Slack certainly offers improvements as well.
Drone photos reveal the shocking truth of California's parched landscape
The Law of Hash Horizons
This AI thing worries me not because of the application but because of how it will make society dumber. There is a lot of potential to help diagnose patients, picking up on patterns humans might not be able to parse.

Every human has a different perspective and approaches problems differently. The old adage "two heads are better than one" comes to mind. With AI there is the possibility that just "one head" will make millions of decisions using a single algorithm. Think about that. No team cooperation. No learning from experience. No brain storming.

Who's second guessing the AI? Where is the alternate perspective? Where can you go to get a second opinion when the computer has replaced humans? Imagine being misdiagnosed by a computer and the clueless human health care workers don't or won't question it because the computer said so. You'll be one the phone talking to an AI which is looking at records generated by AI full of data compiled by AI. Why pay costly humans when you can replace them with a computer.

All of this is going to dehumanize a very human industry (along with everything else.)
Congrats to the Sketchfab team, get the bag and whatnot, but fuck this consolidation under Epic.
what is this? only -2 points? surely with such corruption in our world you could downvote me further!!
This is why I made the distinction "open-source based". The project isn't simply rebranding though, it builds solutions for customers based on open source components (which is a step in the correct direction). I would like all the repositories to be public, too, but we're not there yet.
That becomes relevant precisely when the the battery mass is a significant fraction of total mass; for long distance flights, this would clearly be the case because even hydrocarbons are barely sufficient density on the longest flights; for point-to-point within a single city, which is how I expect Average Jo to use one if they were safe & available at affordable rates, I expect it isn’t an issue.
I have a better suggestion. Quit pumping out oil. Deal with the root causes of climate change.
Cargo culting is basically doing something you don't understand, hoping that it'll accomplish your goals.

Following this person's advice to not learn from blogs and articles, and instead only learn from books, sounds like cargo culting to me.

The source of the information doesn't matter. What matters is learning new concepts, knowing how to apply them, and understanding the reasons for applying them. You can learn that from anywhere: a book, a blog, a leprechaun, inspiration from above, something written on a cake, etc.

Edit: some of those may be better sources of information than the others, but I think you get my point.
Immutability is nice though.
Implicit assumption here is that these super hackers would also have super security.

I am not sure I buy that.

My guess is that NSO operational corpse is made up of young young Israelis straight out of the military plus maybe an engineering school. They are trained in systematic hacking and probably have access to a privileged set of exploits provided by the Israeli military and maybe the US. But not much beyond that in terms of engineering skills.

In short I wouldn’t be surprised if their exploit server and data collection server is maybe with php and mysql.

Also. How do you sell a service like this? Getting Orban and similar as customers. Requires quite a bit of a network.
At some point you tend to forget what idioms belong to which language and you can greatly confuse people. But Holla the wood fairy.
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I think there is a conflict of interest:

- Tesla obviously wants to have a exclusive network to boost their car sales. Vender lock in greatly helps them.

- The Government / The public want ONE charging network which can be used by anybody regardless of their car brand. In particular you don't want vendor lock in for something basic such as access to individual transportation. (Remember Tesla could easily decide that only "Tesla approved power sources" are allowed to charge your car)

I think it's inevitable that charging becomes a comodity such as fuel. Ad-hoc without registration / app download (or at most one on a national level).
The adapter is for slower charging, not CCS.
I have to admit I popped a monocle when I saw the estimate for what is described as a rudimentary ecommerce website without even basic features like authentication and payment come down to 43 team-weeks, or in other words 12,040 team-hours. Even at one person per team being billed as $20/hr this works out to almost a quarter million dollars.

I understand the numbers are given as an example but I think the problem is that the scale of the task hardly justifies the complexity of the planning and using "teams" and "weeks" as sizes instead of "developers" and "hours/days".
> It's tiresome. You can't use the image of a Native American as a symbol of strength and bravery as was done by sports teams and clubs -- despite the explicit intention of honor

The thing I keep thinking about, in regards to this subject, is there seems an implicit backhandedness even in the case of honor. It could be argued we do the same with animals, take the image of the powerful thing that could kill us, and totemize it. However, the two things implicit here are that we respect it because we fear it and, conversely, we honor it after we have beaten it (and perhaps especially because we have beaten it); we honor the spirit of the wolf by dancing around a fire with the hide of one turned into a headdress.
A shift to open source is sanctioned from the very top. For example, in the area of OZG (broad digital access to public services, coming soon) the explicit decision is (my translation):

> Open standards must be used in the implementation and operation of digital offerings. The source code from the realization of digital offerings by the administration (in-house development) is made available as open source, i.e., in reusable form, wherever possible.
https://www.it-planungsrat.de/fileadmin/beschluesse/2020/Bes...

They are also starting a project to host public, open source code which is backed by the federal CIO and many state and local governments: https://www.cio.bund.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/DE/2021/pm_...

This is not something sneaked in by some techies. Every decision maker is probably aware by now what "open source" means.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy
In what way is the object in your first premise perceptible to the subject in Mr. Watts’ quote? It would require a faculty “higher” than the brain, which is restricted in access to only a subset of the object, no?
Thanks for sharing these points! Very thoughtful and helpful.

We may well be wrong. But we believe that "learned the AWS stack" is not something most software engineers should do, ever. If you look at what DevOps originally was, it was about culture, not job specialty. But it became a specialty anyway - because it's so complex. Currently it's the only job in the spectrum that is "second-order" - in a sense that for developers to be productive, first the DevOps folks need to do some work. So it ends up as a permanent bottleneck – unless companies create in-house PaaS-like tools for developers to self-serve. And big well-funded companies end up doing it over and over again. We did it at Palantir and Fitbit; Uber did it, Shopify did it, and dozens more.

So you can think of Digger as such "PaaS builder" in a sense. AWS is still available for all kinds of troubleshooting - Digger doesn't make it any harder. But in 90% of scenarios people won't need it. This allows to reduce DevOps to software engineer ratio from current 1:10 to smth like 1:100.
> Now why would anyone want to peg phone number or account number to Matrix ID?

Say you're running Matrix for any kind of official or business purpose. You still want privacy, security, and ownership of your data. But you also actively DON'T want anonymity, instead you want publicly-verifiable user identities, linked to public information like company email addresses and company phone numbers.
It's compatible one way - the cars (MS/MX) use a Type2 connector for AC charging (conforming to the widely spread standard) and DC charging ("DC-Mid" "standard", what's used on old V1/V2 Superchargers). This allows the cars to use Type2 to charge on any AC charger. But the DC-Mid solution is not found on any other EV, so while the connector is mechanically standardized, no other car except Teslas can charge on non-CCS-retrofitted Superchargers. Thankfully, there are only very few of those left in all of Europe - exactly one in Germany (Wiesbaden), iirc 2-3 more elsewhere, all others are either CCS-retrofitted or CCS-only V3s.
You can only use your adapter at slow chargers.

You can not use your adapter at high speed CCS chargers.
Both Skype and FaceTime abandoned P2P at the expense of privacy and (usually) call quality because there used to be a patent troll called VirNetX going after large companies employing P2P networking. They had some ridiculous patent on "having two devices talk on a network, mediated by a third" and won in the Eastern District of Texas of course. That patent is now expired.
I saw on phoenix-werkstatt.de that there are actual contributions back upstream. Even if it appears to not be a Dataport employee, at least some of the funds of the government are going towards improving the projects for everyone. Good stuff.
The value proposition is very clear up front and I've personally struggled to find the right analytics solution. The best I've used is your competitor, posthog, which has been generally ok other than the hosting price being high and a somewhat clunky UX.

I'd like to see real user testimonial and real company logos on your landing page to inspire confidence. Or just remove their quotes. But showing semi-anonymous quotes doesn't seem very valuable.

I like how this is your first FAQ:

> What do I actually receive after I purchase userTrack?

The FAQs accordion shouldn't close when you click inside an individual panel. Trying to select text closes the panel.

I'm interested in how paid software distribution will work. Other folks like remix.run are doing something similar -- closed source, licensed software for developers. I think some of the hurdles are that there isn't a standard way to do things like versioning of your software, installing on various machines (production and dev), build time configuration, etc. You have users download a zip file which of course works, but is less ideal than going through a package manager for OSS stuff.

You should show the expected $5/mo hosting cost on DigitalOcean on your front page. That makes the setup very clear -- self hosted, cheap. I think posthogs plans were all significantly more expensive.

I think you've already left a comment on my top level comment (knotend), thanks!
Apparently you can plug in a Ford Mach-e at an Electrify America charger and it "just works". You cannot yet do that with a VW ID.4 (even thought VW built the network) but since the capability is clearly there, I'd expect to see it come in later software updates for the car.
Always nice to see people explaning/exploring technical concepts - but in this case I think the official documentation is both clear and useful:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/methods/
It seems to me any reasonable money launderer would strive not to bring attention to himself, by outbidding the market value by such an extreme. You’d rather just do multiple transactions, maybe 20% above real value (which would further avoid vetting, by being a standard player in that market)
Unlike oldschool surveillance methods these provide a high degree of automation. This allows for qualitatively different surveillance state than was possible with a bunch of Stasi guys in trenchcoats. It also isn't held back by borders or jurisdictions.

It's not much of cat and mouse game either: neither Apple or Google appear to be able countering the threat but worse it's not them who are the targets. It's the individuals/dissidents who are (short of ceasing electronic communication) utterly helpless here.
I was told that pratyekabuddhas are rather odd, and very rare.
I've wondered how feasible it is to add an automated detection system to a bike that makes a loud noise/light show when it detects a vehicle is driving towards you.

Is radar enough? Would it take too much power?
Exactly. There are all kinds of better social outlets if you don’t need money; book clubs, knitting groups, and game nights exist precisely to fill that need. The idea that you’d go work at McDonald’s for funsies rather than out of economic necessity just doesn’t pass the sniff test.
It's all about content. I've unsubscribed from most of the major streaming services due to lack of content that I want to watch. Have fallen back into torrenting and collecting physical media again.

The only streaming services I'm subscribed to come for "free" via my mobile phone plan.
True, I don't have a negative opinion of Epic and I think it is a good and sensible investment for them. Still sad to see smaller companies getting bought when I thought they would be quite successful.
I don't understand yet the pain being adressed. If today it can be solved with pen and paper or Word, it looks to me that realtime sync or data visualization were not a must (disasters seem to be avoided today just as well). Nice to have, without doubt, but not a must. So your software makes it a nice experience for everybody involved, right?
Idk as an "intermediate" graphics programmer, the explicitness and lack of abstraction in Vulkan is one of the killer features for me. "Wiggle room" in higher-level API's like OpenGL is one of the things that made them impossible to deliver consistent results with. With Vulkan there's more typing, but once you get something working it's going to work the same pretty much everywhere.

I kind of see it as a non-issue. It seems like Vulkan's target audience was specifically elite developers who wanted the most control possible, and based on the results which have been achieved in products like Doom 2016/Eternal it seems like it's working for them.

I suspect WebGPU will be the OpenGL successor for everyone working with graphics who isn't at an AAA game studio.
To be honest, I don't know either because I avoided them since the first time they got introduced.

Those folders is precisely Microsoft acknowledging there is something wrong about the files-first approach, but as usual, in trying to make it more approachable, they ended up with an even more confusing solution, virtual folders that try to abstract the actual filesystem hierarchy with some virtual collection folders based on file types.
which brand do you use?
There must be something they're doing right as there are so many people talking about how bad it is. (They all have it installed)
Java, Groovy had shade of same color on GH. Both wanted change: result identical
Its the antithesis to "design patterns", "best practices" and whatever other buzzword comes along.
Dalton (Unit)
Robert Lowell once said that if humans had access to a button that would kill us instantly and painlessly, we would all press it sooner or later.

I think this explains suicide better: For most, it’s an irrational act done in the spur of the moment.

What I think is more interesting is when suicide is done as a rational act with planning, and consideration for others.
Maybe, but what I see from Musk fans is a lot of statistics and reality bending.

so, on short example,you have dudes in big cities with more shit internet then me in a village in eastern Europe so they are pushing for 10000+ of satellites to pollute the entire planet because they and their elected people are incapable of running some cables.

Sure, put internet satellites up for the people in isolated places but use the right tool for the job and use cables for the rest, you will use less satellites in the end.

Also maybe we should demand this satellites to be placed in a stable geocentrically orbit so it only affects the country of origin.
I'm struggling to see why anyone would give even the smallest fuck about the size of the plug.
If the tax money is spent on education, healthcare, and infrastructure such as communication/fiber and water, then it will only take one generation to go from: poor - have to work in order to eat, to poor - but have free time to learn coding without starving, then after 3 generations you might have gone to an information society without going through the industrial age. Unless other countries suck out all the bright minds.
Black tea is also very high in l-theanine. Regular green tea is not, but matcha (which you consume) is as well.
I think it will cause more people to use the chargers. It will only be _worse_ if Tesla doesn't react and expand (hopefully with their new-found $$$ from other auto makers).
Who remembers their sources anyway? Once you learn a concept or a principle, the source of that knowledge fades away pretty fast while the concept remains.
Of course they are seen as the mark of a succesful person...because they are the mark of a successful person. Cars are expensive!

And yes, they are convenient, comfortable and can be time efficient, but with extraordinary negative externalities.

The issue isn't "cars are inconvenient"--the issue is "cars have enormous (and compounding) negative externalities that need to be regulated away, and investment needs to be made in alternative infrastructure because cars really suck for everyone else--and eventually, for car owners themselves."