skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with him, and people like him on YouTube, is that about 90% of what they say is fine, and 10% ranges from "iffy" to "This is a good way to burn your house down - at some unknown point in the future." The average viewer of that sort of material can't tell the difference, and by the time you can, you're not in need of handwaving entry level information, because you can read the design documents, spec sheets, NEC, and do things yourself.

YouTube is simply the wrong medium to try to teach detailed, "can kill you" things like electricity. It's especially wrong when you try to make it about personality, humor, etc moreso than hard technical truths.
I recently set up my own off grid solar system in a tiny cabin that I designed and had built.

I used the Solar Controller+Inverter Combos recommended on this site (Growatt) but ultimately switched to ones by Renogy. The Growatt one I purchased has a wifi adapter and app - wifi requirement was a deal breaker when remote. The renogy one has a Bluetooth adapter and app, plus feels better designed (though actually I think the internals are all pretty similar).

There are a couple surprise gotchas I didn’t know:

1) These Controller+Inverter combo units require a battery to turn on. This means: if your battery runs completely out of charge, you have to get electricity from somewhere to charge your battery a bit before the Controller+Inverter will turn on and charge your battery again. I was pretty annoyed at how not “off grid” this felt.

2) Temperatures below freezing are bad for batteries. I purchased a Renogy 48v smart battery with self heating. Unfortunately less sun in winter means less energy, and heat production is energy intensive. I’m not at the cabin 100% of the time so I have to take the battery with me when I leave to avoid spoiling/freezing it. Still not sure how I’ll ultimately get around this.
Note I advocated to use F# but not Fable. You're assuming in your answer that you need to interoperate with JS, why?
Yeah, unfortunately it hasn't been updated in a few years. Real bummer.
Right.

Static, high-resolution photography (or other imaging) is about the least-invasive, lowest-risk options available.
> You're talking about an order of magnitude (or even two) increase in electricity usage.

You're way off on this estimate. No way would the energy usage of NYC go up 10-100X! Those are absurd numbers!
My point was not comparing Fable vs plain JavaScript, but F# vs Fable.
This is not a wealthy SF landlord story, this is an house cleaner. It’s an impressive story of someone slowly building up a real estate portfolio in the Bay Area. Most of it through creative means and living lean.

It’s actually an impressive story.
Lasers are what get large amounts of information from A to B
Congratulations on learning something about yourself and taking steps towards managing your condition.
You can't charge luxury prices if your apartment has a shitty stovetop. This is something the market will fix.
Read the rest about solar, I actually just grabbed it from my bookmarks and didn't realize he'd posted anything new since 2011. Ignore the first few posts and carry on reading his rants about solar, batteries, wire gauge, charge controller location, charging voltage, panel placement, shading, etc.
One of my weekly group runs is 4 miles followed by beers with the runners on an early week day evening. Monday nights another group offers options of 3 and 5 miles and we always wait for everyone at the half way point and finish point. Another one is Friday mornings at 6 am a 6 mile loop around the lake followed by coffee. Saturday mornings at 7 am one of my groups does long runs - those are especially cool because they provide many distance options (I usually go 13-18 miles) and people then group up based on pace. For the long runs I always run much slower than I would do otherwise - this is where it is really nice to have people to chat with.

I would never get up so early if it weren't for these groups.

Other than these running groups I actually don't have a friend group where I live. It's nice to consistently see a mix of regular and new people and do something healthy (except for your knees perhaps) together.

By the way I really like wearing Hoka One One shoes for their extra cushioning. Definitely helps with pavement.

If you are bored of pavement, at least where I live there are many trail running groups too. I just don't like having to drive far to start running.
Very well handled, kudos
As a StackOverflow consumer who only lands their from search engines, I am tired of seeing what seems like legitimate questions closed for being opinions/already asked in prehistoric times/etc. If Amazon owns a platform, they can enforce their own standards which might allow for more relevant posts.
A few hypothesis, in order of preference:

- Most of the infections come from "superspreader" events such as large gatherings where vaccination is mandatory

- Children, who make most of the unvaccinated, are less affected

- Vaccinated cases are detected earlier, possibly because they get symptoms earlier

- Delta outcompetes omicron among people with no immunity
I'm not sure it's always whataboutism, it's many times just comparison.

People in the west don't tend to have an objective view of who they are and how their bevaior is seen by other people on this planet. Some of the western criticism of emerging powers is hilarious/ironic/rife with hypocrisy when viewed through a non-western lens.
Fictional characters, sure. Real people? That's crossing a line. I believe I own myself, and manipulating my face and voice to say what I did not and never would say is a misuse of my property. I can't fully justify that belief, but I would certainly be enraged beyond reason to see a representation of my principled father speaking against his values.
And then the top response to the top response is usually pedantic strawmanning
Games and metaverse need this? Have you seen Unreal 5? I cannot see how distributed rendering could support realtime applications. Latencies and costs make this unattainable.

This is like other "alt" coins like helium. Hammer in search of nail being shilled by people who don't deeply understand technology.
Very interesting. Is it safe to assume Orthodox?
Megatron AI argues AI ethics
You can’t downvote a comment that is older than 24 hours.
“Cash for Clunkers” was a massive subsidy to the car industry.

Seems you motto is 'Communism for me, but not for thee'?
> it's not every Electron app that chews up RAM like crazy

Let's see, Discord uses 450mb of memory after being open for 3 hours, and Spotify has gone through 1.6gb after 8. If these people with infinite resources at their disposal can't do good resource management, I'm not sure who out there is "debunking" the fact that running a web browser as a wrapper for your application is (surprise surprise!) resource heavy.
>...and a simple Google search confirms that NZ has been experiencing a construction boom.

The kind of houses which locals are priced out of due to low wage economy. Certainly good for wealthy immigrants and cashed up Kiwis returning from overseas though.
320mm armor for Bismark vs 305mm (thickest) to 160mm armor for the HMS Hood.

Bismark was nearly 20 years newer with a far more efficient design.

Even then, the extra 3000 tons of armor makes a difference.
I've suggested my solution on HN before:

1. Buy 2 iPads. Don't use laptops or any other tablets: it's not worth the hassle.

2. Buy a cheap/light-weight glass side table (the kind that goes next to your sofa to hold drinks/snacks, for example).

3. Pick up and place the glass side table on top of the kitchen table.

4. Put one iPad, camera side down, on the glass table. Put the second iPad on the kitchen table, underneath the glass table.

5. Initiate a FaceTime video call on the upper iPad and help parents use the lower iPad.

This set-up has saved me a hundred hours of frustration.
Mining experts estimates 15 to 20% of Bitcoin mining is still from Chinese black market

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/18/chinas-underground-bitcoin-m...
I have a sudden urge to want to deep fake Steven Hawking's voice. I wonder both how the deep fake tech would handle Stephen Hawking as an input, and I'm just realizing that he just missed the survival threshold for being able to use this tech.
That's ITER. The article is mostly about CFS, which uses REBCO high-temperature superconductors that can be cooled with liquid nitrogen. And due to the stronger magnetic field they can support, the reactor can be made much smaller for the same output.
ERPs are a commonplace to have this ability. NetSuite is another example.
I agree. Now, who's going to be the one to step up to the plate and stop these rascals from running open-source code on their GPUs that allows for this kind of nonsense?
Why pay for today when tomorrow’s shareholders will pay for it instead? See also: PG&E
In the US, at least, 45e MSRP is 3700 more than 40i xdrive and 45e comes standard with air suspension, which is a 2K+ option on 40i (can't look it up now because it's not even available at this time). I would not call a ~2000 a substantial cost increase on a 60K+ vehicle. But there is more - you get 7500 tax credit from the feds and in some states you get the state credit too so it's actually cheaper than even rear-drive sdrive 40i with the fed credit alone.
I had to move because of the motorcycles. I literally couldn’t take it anymore. Too many nights being woken up at 2am. Those people don’t care about anyone but themselves.
Sf did a similar ban because gas infrastructure is leaky over time. Expensive to maintain, bad for your health, bad for the environment.

I'm not sure who these people are that sit around and scheme about how to craft laws who fuck over people they'll never meet.
I have many comments about Telegram and how not-so-secure it is. Again, it does not have E2EE on desktop.[1] This secret chat is only for 1 on 1 conversations (IIRC), and it is not the default. I cannot comment on their E2EE because they may have changed it by now.

Telegram is fancy, it is a great replacement for WhatsApp, but it cannot replace Element, Conversations/Gajim (XMPP), Briar, Ricochet, or Wire. Please avoid Telegram for actually "secure chats".

I recommend checking out https://secushare.org/comparison. I disagree with "Telegram can be among the least worse [for smartphones]" though. It is Briar. I have also used Briar on desktop, I wonder where that will go.

[1] https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple#2-why-are-there...
Electricity usage, not energy. Electric heat, even a heat pump, uses orders of magnitude more electricity. Of course then we save on the efficiency of moving gas, but that wouldn’t necessarily be NYC
I think Levine fails to note one benefit of invalidating non-debtor releases.

Yes, the current victims suffer from having less money available to a settlement.

But future victims may be better protected, as non-debtors now can't exploit a bankruptcy case to settle their liability. They are more vulnerable to expensive litigation, and draining of their assets unless they shield them offshore and probably stay out of the country. This could be a potential deterrent to future malfeasance.
I'm a happy owner of an all electric house. But it really bit me during the rolling black outs in the Texas winter of 2021. I survived, but had debates within myself on whether or not to go cut down a tree for firewood for my never used fireplace. My neighbors with gas, they just turned on their stove and never worried about whether the power would come back on or not. That experience has left me somewhat paranoid. I'd be quite concerned if I was farther north and forced to rely only on the power company for my heating needs. Certainly I'm not the only one?
15.ai was the original, in a lot of regards. I used to chat with the dude on 4chan, he was a genuinely intelligent (albeit rather socially awkward) guy, and a bit of a perfectionist at that. The downside was that there was always downtime and a few hidden servers floating around. The upside was... almost perfect voice synthesis, even a year ago.
High-Rise
I worked on a SNMP Go package many years ago [0] and it was really fun learning about ASN.1 and figuring out how to write encoders and decoders for various types.

[0] https://github.com/Cistern/snmp
I've been dealing with an off grid solar office for 5+ years now. Year round power, heating (propane at times, candles/kerosene at others, electricity most of the time if I have the light), and have spent the bulk of this time in some esoteric backwaters communities on IRC with other people who do the same sort of thing.

It's really, really hard to find people who have written accurately about solar on the internet. What he said about solar, RV installs, battery charging, etc, is all 100% accurate. He deals with the broken installs by the places that advertise that they know what they're doing.

If you're willing to toss all that out based on more recent writings, it's your choice, but I try to judge writings based on their accuracy, not what I think about the person. You're entitled to judge writings however you want, but if you're considering off grid solar and write the guy's writings off, your loss.
Here is my reference point for that "Behaviorial Sink" these days

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Rise_(novel)
It does matter because my comment was talking about breakers in a typical house electrical panel.

The breaker needs to be able to handle the peak, not the average. Just go Google Mitsubishi hyper heat - it clearly states 50 amps per condenser.

I’m not sure what’s difficult to understand about this.
It's still about cost.

(1) opportunity cost: doing your own systems administration instead of growing your business (features, marketing, etc).

(2) switching cost: once you have a working system that outgrows the free / cheap AWS tiers, and might be cheaper to run outside cloud, switching away from the cloud becomes expensive, and does not look like a good investment to many, see (1).
You can cook all your meals using a microwave too. But no one would seriously recommend that to anyone.
"I get that you don't like profits (even though investment to do automation requires profits)"

That's literally opposite of how accounting works, if you reinvest everything, your profit is 0%. Profits are what's lefts after Cost of good sold, reinvesting, etc. which you then may distribute to shareholders.
Being overweight myself I can attest of health issues even that can cause. High blood pressure > some protein in blood that might indicate kidney damage which in turn meant months of health checks.

Same with a friend who had some lung abnormalities since birth - very stringent checks.
Earlier this year and late last year I had a dilemma(?) about security vs privacy (overlap but in the end they're kind of separate, right?). I am interested in security and even figured out where I can get some certifications (need a bit of money for that though).

I guess my ideal course of action right now is get a slightly more mundane job with things I like in it while I try to build things and learn. (Sounds like that's what you all have went through aswell).
Oh, you absolutely can.

A lot of "luxury" buildings are superficial branding with low-end appliances. Sometimes they're fine. Sometimes you wind up with an oven that takes two hours to pre-heat, and when you tell maintenance it's broken you discover they're all like that.

Granted, most of those places didn't have gas to begin with.
It's impressive in the way a trainwreck is impressive. There's no reason why housing appreciates year after year. It should be a depreciating asset, like a car or at most value-neutral. But misguided government policies have caused housing to be out of reach for the greater part of the population.

Have you seen the housing price index for Pittsfield, MA: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ATNHPIUS38340Q

Pittsfield. In Western MA. Not a desirable area. But it's going up, up, up. Asset inflation at its finest. This needs to stop, but it's unclear how. Can people invest in tulips instead, you can do without pretty flowers, but a roof over your head is a necessity for life!
On first thought cooking on gas range is one of my favorite thing. Quick to increase and decrease heating, easier to clean that electric coils and in general felt more heavy duty for some who deluded himself to be better cook in friend and family circle.

But on second thought this seems like thing whose time has come. So like other thing which I preferred as native desktop software, coding without over-engineered, over-abstracted frameworks, high wall cubicles in office etc, gas cooking needs to go away.
This is incredibly cool. Thanks HN for bringing things like this to the front page, which I would have never otherwise heard about.
LaTeX starts being a massive pain once you write tables—to remediate that I use Org mode’s table editor[0]. Combined with the ability to run code blocks and parse data, it makes LaTeX a very flexible document format. For instance I had a data table that would be rendered via gnuplot and the resulting PNG inserted into the document.

[0] https://orgmode.org/manual/Built_002din-Table-Editor.html
Yaglm: A Python package for regularized linear models
I did misread it, my bad.
i listed above my preferences; as to why i applaud anything rewritten that meet those requirements

but i am not closed minded, i understand pros/cons of each features

in that particular case, a GC is helpful even though i'm personally against it

i'm being objective rather than subjective whenever i have to make a choice or a suggestion
Yeah I think my best course for now is to get a mediocre job, build and learn on the background to get more chances at something else.
> In particular, traditional legacy IT infrastructures are ridiculously overpriced. (If you're using commercial virtualization platforms and/or SAN storage, then you're overpaying by as much as a factor of 10, and getting an inferior product into the bargain

Could someone elaborate? Is this saying something free like OpenStack would be better than something paid like VMware? Is that really common knowledge?
I will say I’ve read this book all the way through one and a half times, at which point I decided it wasn’t a good book. I’m an experienced programmer new to JavaScript, so the target market for this book. It is terrible for reading from start to end, and has lot of details and obsolete language features I just didn’t care about.

I looked around a bit and found the perfect book for me: Modern JavaScript for the Impatient by Cay S Horstmann. A terrific way to learn JavaScript.
Use well known technology and practices, don't be fancy or reinvent the wheel.

The hardest part will be acquiring users who pay for the product. Don't make other parts harder.
I love how if you reject their ToS they Rick Roll you. Fair play.
I believe both Azure and AWS (probably GCP too) have built in DDOS mitigations for free.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/ddos-s...

You might be on the hook for bandwidth costs from a more sophisticated attack though.
Oh, I hadn't even realised the article was posted two days ago! Thanks.
On a private torrent tracker you have to keep "ratio", which means you have to upload as much data as you download. This is impossible for most people so trackers often allow you to donate to the running costs of the site in exchange for bypassing the economy and having your upload increased based on the amount of your donation.

Of course, the donations vastly outweighed the actual hosting costs and the excess goes into the pockets of the site owners.
AOS of NASAWebb nice signal in S-band
How far back in time could a Modern English speaker go and converse
The official spec sheet says ZVW30 Prius has a 73kW(99PS) engine and a 60kW(82PS) motor, so combined it's a 130kW(180PS) system if it was possible to do so. 130kW is about as much as a Caterham Seven and slightly less than fast motorcycles. Take a Porsche 918 and it does 0-60 in 3.2 and goes around the ring in 7 minutes... with a 450kW(600hp) + 210kW(280hp) hybrid drivetrain.

There is nothing in hybrid configuration that makes a car slow, if not faster, not just Tesla quickening but actually overall faster. It's definitely Prius product design problem that is creating an impression that hybrids are slow ugly cars.
Very cool! What region are you in and how do your electric bills compare to previous gas+electric?
Love this dude, he’s got good youtube videos too
Websites that all web developers should follow
Insulated Root celler equivalent location for the battery.
Best React.js Examples Project that you can build as a Beginner
I agree. But over the years I've come to understand there are two kinds of learners;

a) "I learn what I need to accomplish this task". This is observed as question/answer and only the simplest version of the answer is needed. So something like "how do I create a variable x and assign 10 into it. All he's looking for is
x = 10

b) The second kind wants to understand the nuance of what's happening, so they can apply that nuance to future code. They are looking for an answer, but the are interested in the working that leads to the answer. So in the above example they want
x = 10
var x = 10
let x = 10
options{x:10}

and so on. They digest when to use one and when to use another, and they delight in using the correct form in the correct place.

In my experience (a) programmers will get through tasks quickly, but with shallow understanding. They will eventually have all the tools, but lack the ability to see the big picture. They struggle to read other people's code.

On the other hand (b) programmers learn much more slowly, they take a lot of time to accomplish tasks because they are being distracted by their curiosity. But after that investment they easily outstrip their peers in productivity, and more importantly can do things that an (a) type programmer can never do.

What I've come to accept though is that giving a (b) answer to an (a) questioner just leaves them confused. They asked about assignment, and a discussion of scope just leaves them befuddled (since they don't know what scope is anyway). Which can be frustrating to the answerer who is a type (b).

Type (a) should not be doing a Masters program in the first place, so I feel your pain in that regard. Google is great when you're out in the world, but it's a terrible way to "big picture" learn.
Oh you've provided much more than that lol
What is the point of anything if its not making money? /S
How intelligent can the guy be when he's flagrantly demonstrating such flawed thinking? It calls into question everything he writes, full stop. Better things to do with my time and why give him more audience.