skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most meters are non-directional, which means if you hook a solar panel up to it and then produce extra power, the power company will read it as if you consumed that power from the grid.

Smart meters can be configured either way, though the one I'm familiar with from talking to the various inspectors and such (our type) has two different registers, one that counts "net energy" and one that counts "total energy passed through" - counting up in both directions.

I imagine if you're not on a net metering agreement and those two begin to differ, you'll have a visit from a power company truck at some point. They're quite clear in the various rate schedules that if you've got non-permitted solar installed, they'll come turn it off, and if they can't easily do so, they'll simply take their meter (disconnecting you entirely from the grid).

(mountain west United States)
> As for fatalism about a virus- I grew up during HIV/AIDS. It's still here (I went into biology and got a PhD and almost became a professor to work on anti-HIV drugs). Is it fatalistic for us to assume HIV will be with us even though we know how to completely abolish transmission, but people still do things that lead to transmission?

I don't know anything about the specifics of HIV so I cannot speak to it, but we have eradicated one virus completely (barring some frozen samples in labs): smallpox.

Obviously it's an apples to orange comparison since smallpox isn't nearly as transmissible as COVID, but my point is that I'm sure that there were people in 1900 that said "we will never get rid of smallpox".
> Abstract thinking pretty much makes it so that you can reason about your emotions, so you're not subject to that of others.

That's interesting. I wouldn't suspect that to be the case, but perhaps I'd need to think about that more. I would guess that while abstract thinking may not have much of a relationship with empathy directly, it may be a pattern of thinking that benefits highly emotional individuals in that if they are capable of empathy then being able to make connections between disparate concepts can help them intuit where someone else's emotions are coming from, hence helping them be better empathizers. Of course that doesn't mean abstract thinking creates empathy, but perhaps it helps existing empathy.
This is word-for-word, event-for-event what I just went through. I also have the same decaf intolerance, now, as well as sensitivity to any caffeine. This after years without issues.

Uncanny. I still miss coffee, and the ‘life feeling duller’ thing is real. On the other hand, quieter mind, better sleep.
> Covid does not spread in any meaningful way via surfaces. All of the cleaning and disinfecting nonsense that is still going on is pure theatre.

You may be correct about covid, but cleaning surfaces helps to prevent other illnesses from spreading anyway. In a situation where hospitals are impacted there's a strong argument that such behavior and precautions leads to better healthcare outcomes.
> But once vaxxed+boosted, what more realistically can we do?

ffs, wear a mask.
> Turns out it's donations

Are they still doing the crypto scheme? I stopped donating when that started, but would be more than happy to pick it back up if they reversed course.
The Bolshevik revolution was carried out under the assumption that world revolution would follow, particularly in Germany. This assumption did not hold, and Russia did not have the needed technological developments to sustain themselves.

Cuba is the best example of a successful communist-ish state. Most if its struggles are due to sanctions imposed by the US and enforced via its allies across the world.
I may be mistaken, but for this 9x9 they may mean five 9 hour days, the weekend, four 9 hour days, three day weekend.
I just buy caffeine pills. Easier! :)
Given that this has an animal reservoir, and has now infected multiple mammals, I think we can put it in the "Never Going Away" category, in that even if we stopped human-to-human transmission entirely, it would still pop up like rabies.

The best case scenario is that it begins to look like the flu, unless someone comes up with a vaccine which makes you immune to all variants forever.

One of the bigger mistakes around this focused on a compliance percentage that was unrealistic. We can't even get people to stop killing one another, the idea that everyone was going to upend their lives in a sudden bout of cooperation was not a reasonable expectation. The resistance we are to expect is beyond the four percent "lizardman constant" and probably closer to twenty or thirty percent. And the moment it became politicized, the compliance percentage would drop even further.

Then you have to ask yourself, how long will people put up with it? How long will people stick to a diet? How long will they keep to their budgets? Generally, long-term discipline does not happen as much as we would like.

Most pandemic responses were formulated with overly optimistic opinions about compliance rates and how long people would do whatever you told them. Meanwhile, various authorities are fumbling around and eroding confidence. At one school in a city where Omicron rates were booming, school administrators made attendance mandatory for some gathering to talk about the hat situation. Apparently, dealing with the hat situation was more important than avoiding creating a possible superspreader event. The more of this senselessness that becomes evident, the less people are apt to do what they are told.

Frankly, we've done about as well as I could have expected.
You would prefer a capped note if you think you'll raise at lower caps. If you think you'll raise at a $10m post-money cap then a SAFE with a $20m cap is better than an MFN SAFE
Even then, I've found setting boundaries can actually help with promotions. Making it clear that your time is valuable to you can help force others to value your time. As long as you're spending the rest of your time on the right stuff (80/20 rule totally applies), you can have stellar performance AND a 40 (or effectively less) hour work week.
Zojirushi keeps the drink too scalding unless you pour it out into a different vessel. Try an Ember mug. A little annoying to keep it on the charging coaster but keeps it at a drinkable temp indefinitely.
"Vaxxed and done" is the marshmallow!

The article's description of the "vaxxed and done" mindset is not very different from what you have described -- we accept that the disease will be endemic, and we treat Covid like we treat the flu, including keeping up with annual shots.
Interesting stuff. One small correction that I noticed:

$ sudo locate cfg | grep \.cfg$

should contain quotes, like this:

$ sudo locate cfg | grep '\.cfg$'

because the shell swallows the backslash.

But locate(1) supports globs, so I think this could be simplified to just:

$ sudo locate '*.cfg'

But on my Ubuntu, /etc/updatedb.conf has PRUNE_BIND_MOUNTS="yes", so my /home, on a separate partition, does not get updated. So I often resort to:

$ find -name '*.cfg'

somewhere in my $HOME directory.
Note though that if I don't provide the WiFi access option the person using my goofy photo service does not have to be given access to the code.

The document you cite on the four freedoms says "A program is free software if it gives users adequately all of these freedoms. Otherwise, it is nonfree". Does that mean GPLv2 is not a free software license, because it only gives users all of those freedoms when someone is distributing the program?

The issue is how to define "user". GPL (and pretty much everything else before AGPL) keyed everything off of distribution. The user was someone who had a copy of the program. Mere interaction with a running copy of a program did not make the interacting person a user.

With user defined thusly, GPLv2 is a free software license. If I do something to make you a user (i.e., I distribute the code to you) GPLv2 ensures that you get all four freedoms.

If we expand user to include people who are interacting with someone else's running copy, which it seems we have to do to make AGPL fall under freedom 0, then (1) it becomes hard to argue that licenses that trigger only on distribution can satisfy the four freedoms, and (2) it doesn't even do a good job with AGPL because AGPL only ensures the four freedoms to those who are users by interaction when that interaction is remote and through a computer network. It completely drops the ball for users by interaction who aren't interacting in that specific way.
It's upside if you need the money right away.

It's a bad deal if you have other willing investors. Let's say you exit YC and have a helpful angel (or many) who want to invest. Without the YC note, you may choose to let them invest $20-50k checks at a good deal, say (just example numbers) $12-15M post, before you raise a proper seed at $20M+ post. In that scenario, the YC note converts with the helpful angels.

In another scenario, let's say you get a term sheet for your seed at demo day, $3M @ $20M post from a firm that wants 15%. Then you add in another $1M from angels (5%) and the mandatory $375k from YC (1.8%) and you're at 21.8% dilution. Or you take $375k less and cut out angels you wanted on the cap table.
The foundation of science is skepticism, not belief. Nullius in verba.
Why so? Moxie helped design MobileCoin. Besides, his recent post on web3 lays it bare what he thinks of it.

MobileCoin, in time, I hope grows up to be a credible alternative to Facebook's USDP (Diem), like how Signal is to WhatsApp. I don't think its inclusion a head-scratcher at all. If anything, I hope it serves its purpose well, and isn't unfairly regulated to oblivion.
No. It's a change he wanted to make to his code. Code is and has always been art. People have been consuming his code, and not keeping an eye on it to make sure it continues to mesh with their own work.
I think the better statistic that is often ignored are how many end up in the ICU.
You'll drive yourself crazy focusing on every minor risk for children. COVID risk for unvaxed kids is the same as fully vaxed 40 years and much lower than fully vaxed seniors.

If you want to do some productive worrying, figure out how to reduce your child's risk of dying in a car crash. That's much more of a risk.

>Moderna was supposed to close out a trial in late November but instead expanded it to hundreds of new participants. Why? Unclear.

If I had to guess it is probably because you need a large group to prove its effective since so few children get seriously ill. Child mortality is under 0.0002%. You need a huge control group to get any sense of whether the vaccine works at preventing deaths.
There are currently two subdomains associated with Private Relay. Apple's documentation implies that all connections are initiated through one or the other.

mask.icloud.com
mask-h2.icloud.com
Thank you for the link, that annoys me to no end, as well.

I mentally downgrade the reliability of any publication that does not do this, because legal reporting is so uniformly terrible that I hardly trust anyone to summarize things correctly.
I'm in a pretty similar boat, young guy, had COVID didn't even notice. But got a positive test because the rest of the family was sick.

There doesn't seem to be a solid reason to take the vaccine, for me specifically. Could easily make me sick for a day(s), with a very small chance of even worse side effects.

Some of it I'm sure is a personality trait, I just generally need a good reason to do things.

If vaccines passports or other such measures get introduced (UK) I'll get it reluctantly, because that's a bastardized reason & a benefit.
The hivemind has the memory of a goldfish.
I am confident permanent paralysis is up there if not worse than long COVID. My argument is that you cannot just put a blanket statement of which one is worse by looking at a single metric. Also, people are still performing a calculated risk, wether the risk is greater or smaller.
The real cherry on top is that you can put "written in Rust. Modern. Fast" on your project description.
> Shouldn’t we try very hard to avoid the possibility of screwing up a growing child’s body?

That's why we have the vaccine trials.

They're the very last step in testing a vaccine. And there really is no other option: if the end result is going to a vaccine given to small children at some point you're going to have to give it to some small children and see what happens. The only way around it is to not vaccinate children at all... which doesn't seem great from an ethical standpoint given the number of lives that have been saved by vaccines.
Batteries are getting cheaper every day (well, not so much lately), but if your grid is reasonably stable and your power company does net metering they just don't buy you very much.

If you live in an area where the power is regularly going out (or are off grid entirely) then they give you a whole home UPS which is nice, but it doesn't save you money. The only other major use case is when your local power company is run by unrepentant assholes and they screw you over on excess production so it makes sense to try to save that excess production instead of feeding it back to the grid. But this is a penalty reduction instead of an actual savings.
> I always find it amusing that [...]

Egg zachary. You are amused by something, you explained where you think you see an error.

You can choose a different verb to avoid "debug", but you just provided a suitable illustration of humour as an application[1] of reason.

[1] tech pun not intended, but fitting
I have one in my yard from previous owners, maybe this is the kick I need to cut it down. Maybe replace it with a native mulberry or pawpaw. Still have a few Trees of Heaven that were covered in spotted lantern flies the last two summers (2021 moreso). Those jerks destroyed my first grape harvest.
We are talking about winning the lottery kind of tiny risks. Your 19yo could also be vaccinated. That’s also a plausible scenario. But both those scenarios are extremely unlikely.
Disillusioned by Tech in 2022
Anyone else feeling utterly lost and disillusioned by the tech industry in 2022?

Speaking as a developer with over a decade of experience..

Web3 /cryptocurrency / NFTs make me feel like I’m taking crazy pills, turning even successful, veteran startup founders and respected VCs into shills.

Google search is worse, by nearly all accounts, than in was a few years ago.

Social media, more divisive than ever, is pressure testing the fabric of society.

Shopping on Amazon is like navigating a minefield of low quality garbage products flooded with fake reviews.

Streaming content is more abundant than ever, while the average content quality is, subjectively, rapidly diminishing.

On the job hunt within the past year, rarely I interviewed with a company that was working on anything even remotely interesting or groundbreaking.

As a consumer, I’m struggling to remember the last time I felt elated by a new app, website, or piece of tech.

Yet, despite all this, despite what feels like a downward trajectory, market caps are unfathomably high, and tech salaries are sitting at all time highs.

What’s going on?

How’s everyone else feeling?
Do you sleep better now, is that the explanation? I quit coffee for a few years, to fix my sleep, and it really did (now I'm back on caffeine and managing ok-ish).

I would suggest to anyone curious to try. And if you quit coffee make it two weeks or so to really see the difference.
If you are using In-App Purchase then yes, for almost whatever it is (I think they might have at least a couple special deals with major publishing companies... not Signal ;P) you are "donating" 30% of your money to Apple.
Amazon Smile also has signal foundation as a non profit.
The problem is that if you communicate to the public at the level of normal scientific certainty -- with all the methodological and statistical caveats -- it's very hard to generate the moral authority needed to push sweeping mandates on a population.

Political and scientific leaders knew this, and they made a decision to exaggerate the level of confidence they had or should have had in several of these matters. No one seriously expected leadership to have complete knowledge from day 1, but that's not the criticism. Nor is the criticism that facts change on the ground in fast-moving situations. Of course they do.

The criticism is that they knowingly overstated their factual case at the time so that they could implement their chosen strategies, even to the point of suppressing legitimate scientific dissent, and are now unconvincingly trying to use "facts on the ground change", "science learns over time", and "of course we couldn't have been expected to know everything" as excuses for those decisions.

If you're making very confident policy-guiding assertions to the public on behalf of Science (TM), and when you're right, it's evidence of how great Science is, and when you're wrong, it's because Science is a process of continual revision and uncertain information, that creates a bit of moral hazard. It works internally in science, where there are no consequences for being wrong other than wasted time, but not in the real world where there are real consequences for being wrong.
> Everything I read supported that natural immunity is at least as protective as the vaccine

That is the exact opposite of what i have read. One random example:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm
Protip: fondly remember your dial-up modem days for a few moments while your browser downloads and computes it:

https://philosopher.life/#:[tag[Link%20Log]!tag[Log%20Audit]]

This is about half of my links to the web in the ℍ𝕪𝕡𝕖𝕣𝔱𝔢𝔵𝔱. Sometimes a different context is better for linking. I can't say I know how to do it well enough.
What does any of this have to do with any kind of political spectrum?

It is laughable to try to turn everything into left-right politics.

Is eating pineapple pizza leftwing or rightwing extremism?
How to make $13M on the App Store
I know of this org pretty well; they just did a massive round compared to their size and any rational business metric. They've convinced a big group of investors that they can basically disintermediate almost all ecommerce transactions, but this is a very frothy/competitive space, with really big players like Apple and Amazon, plus your paypals and a bunch of other unified checkout players. I'm skeptical but have my popcorn & I'm ready to watch.
I don't want to discourage you but it appears to me like with this variant (and probably even more with further variants), it will be impossible to avoid infection whatever you do (and I mean, mitigation strategies will have probably no effect). Look at the numbers we're suddenly getting without anything changing in the landscape (actually, despite a very high number of vaccinations). It looks like the virus has become so contagious that it has rendered our mitigation measures moot.
If you start with an argument 'non trusted server admin can do things to my xmpp', it's strange that you don't apply same logic to Signal admins, who control the server and ship an app to you which you can't really verify.
I've seen this on HN before, but wanted to resurface it. Now that I have been working remotely for quite some time, I am noticing these differing communication styles now more than ever. Especially with phone meetings that remove any body language or visual cues, I find that I am increasingly frustrated with mismatched communication styles involving myself or my team members. Has anyone else experienced this switching to remote work? Any ideas on how to address it or at least make it less frustrating?

I used to be a somewhat cautious interrupter in person, but now have moved toward strong civility over the phone. This has been a frustrating change since at least in the phone meetings I am on, there is almost no lull in the conversation.
Not bad at all. I'm a data scientist and my not knowing React doesn't affect me one bit.
>Thanks for that work! Maybe you could start by writing about your burnout on the README to encourage other people to contribute/maintain, or at least be less demanding of you?

you're welcome! :D that sounds like a good idea, at least so people know i am not planning to abandon it even if i'm slow. i don't think people are demanding, i just feel bad that despite my best efforts it just doesn't work for some.

>Do you think this is specific to your plugin? To OMEMO? Or to pidgin plugins in general? Personally, i find it very challenging to write correct code in C, and i can only imagine the pains pidgin developers have to come through to make so many networks/protocols inteoperate.

in fact it's mostly related to your last point. there's just so many moving parts to this decentralized system: the os, installed libaries, exact version of the plugin, exact version of pidgin (or rather the underlying libpurple), the version of the used xmpp server, the version of the module implementing the XEP on the server, the version of the client on the other end, and how exactly that client implemented OMEMO and other XEPs in combination (e.g. the order of elements or their attributes in the received or sent xml).

right now there is a persistent bug that some omemo xml element cannot be parsed, and based on the input taken from the debug log i cannot reproduce it in unit tests, and i don't even know where to begin, and why it doesn't seem to affect other clients. also, persistent discovery issues that from my end don't look like a problem, and yet this plugin is the only one having these problems. i believe other clients must spam those discovery messages just in case, i didn't verify that yet though :)

>If you have some reading about your experiences, what lessons we can learn, and maybe some project (whether internal to pidgin or not) to implement them, i'd be interested to read.

i don't, but maybe i should write it down! venting in this reply already helped a lot, thank you :D

>I don't think anyone feels really let down. Some people are not aware of just how experimental certain things are and so they get disappointed but life goes on. You however should take care of your mental health and not let maintenance burden and heartless cyber-ranters like me affect your mood and taste for computing <3
aww, thank you! well, it's not like i don't get it, what i do can barely be called maintenance and libpurple's XMPP implementation isn't exactly modular, so you need to install 5+ plugins to get a "modern" messaging experience alone. i don't think i let some ranting get to me, don't worry about that! what i do feel bad for, aside from the people who are disappointed that it doesn't work, are the people who have actually contributed already, or were trying to contribute but i didn't look at the PRs in time and now the codebase just moved along too far.

i got some helpful lessons out of it either way, so i definitely don't regret it. a big part of it is what i already tried to say in my last post: i'm mostly not sure where to go with that project.
A more dangerous overtaking than someone trying to 'squeeze' through without even going into other lane?
My hope is that maybe with new leadership Signal can finally get export/migration features. There seems to have been a deliberate resistance to adding them.
I have a hard time believing that. The old meters I know will just stop when you generate more power than you use or even run backwards.

(Europe with 3-phase power)
CSVCHAIN - NFTs backed by CSV technology
You can extract a whole lot of value by mapping which sites someone is visiting even if you don't know what they're doing there, and you can get that information just from IPs.
How do you propose to get to the point that a vaccine has been used for many years? They were new at some point.
Elimination stopped being an option the moment the first infected carrier left Wuhan on an international flight.
> "when you're on the other side of the planet." Don't take that work.

I have a suspicion that you live on a highly compensated side of the planet.