skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Belgium we're at €0,50/kwh
We're ordering 36 panels and 10kw battery tomorrow.

The only sad thing is that we can't utlize the battery when we lose netpower. Huawei has an addition, but it only gives an outlet on the battery. I wanted inline, like my ups.
I dunno if I would call cheaper ones terrible. My 99 dollar Ender 3 Pro with a couple mods does extremely well considering the price. The detail you can get out of it is more than enough for what I've needed it for. I'd highly suggest trying the cheaper ones out first, especially if you live near a microcenter.
I've written a few APIs in Rust and I'm kinda baffled on what the author is trying to convey. On the one hand he mentions that it's a simple CRUD application, on the other hand he mentions complexity that arose from using Rust. I wish he gave some concrete examples of problems that they have. From my experience, when writing web APIs, most of the problems with Rust are not really that visible. Most of the time you get a request, process some data or interact with a database (or both) and return the response. In this scenario you don't often have to deal with lifetimes or any of the advanced stuff.
Nope. Mishandling customer funds yourself against your own stated use of said funds to customers when you gathered those funds is one of those crimes above, depending on specifics.

Bad financial controls is if someone else whoopsie accidentally steals or mishandles the funds. Which at least per a cite provided earlier, he admitted to doing it himself.

To be able to claim a lack of culpability for this requires a degree of plausible ignorance about what the left and right hands were doing. He seems to be working hard to chip away at any sort of plausibility there.
Methane is not as fungible though, there's a significant cost to move it, especially via liquefaction.

Also, as the price of oil goes down because Dilbert (et al.) refuse to buy it, the marginal oil producer (probably US tight oil, ironically, since about 2006) gets priced out of the market, resulting in a decrease of production.
Was it Salvador Allende or the CIA and the IMF?
Musk isn't doing anything very radical here. It's a leveraged buyout, and he's doing the things private equity firms often do after LBOs, like restructuring and layoffs. Loading up the target company with (apparently) unsustainable levels of debt. The main difference is that he's doing it in days rather than months. His stated goals (create giant global super-service) seems to be at odds with short term changes (turning it into $8chan and driving away users and advertisers).
Energy, by definition, cannot be "wasted" like this.
I mean, sure, but reterminating with a new, not broken patch cable only takes 30 seconds, and they cost peanuts.

But sarcasm aside, you don't want to reterminate a pre-made patch cable. Under a very strange Universe fluctuations where you don't have a spare patch cord, spare 8p8c jack with a crimper but you do have a 3D printer with a plastic loaded and ready to print....
> what is daily commute in GTA used to be a yearly vacation pilgrimage in my childhood :)

This is something Europeans also overlook.

I use to commute to Toronto every day. 100KM return trip daily, 500KM a week...

I think Most Europeans would be surprised to know we have a train system which basically travels back and forth from Hamilton to Oshawa all day long.. 127KM one way. Basically the Width of England at the more narrow part and yet we consider this a "greater Toronto area" train system.

People in Toronto dont think about how there are countries which would fit in this distance, Europeans dont think about how a daily passenger train service would cross the country dozens and dozens of times each day.
This is the strategy of someone who is aware of an internal cultural problem at Twitter.

You can blame pointy haired PMs, activist community managers, leetcode and Foosball engineers, or whoever you want for the situation.

To Musk its all the same, over 50% of the workforce was actively hostile to Musk for being Musk, and at least 25% was actively engaged in sacrificing the business to pursue personal or political agendas.

This would be fine if Twitter were a cash cow posting record profits, but it wasn't.

The strategy Musk is performing is to create as much chaos as possible to shake out as many of those groups as possible, and hire back anyone caught in the crossfire.

I've never seen a CEO attempt this at this scale, but at my last company there was an employee like above in a top position - and in order to get rid of the people under his influence the only solution was to can the whole division.
Because that is not anti-western establishment.
Because CEOs are 399x smarter and work 399x harder! Plus they take all the risk!

/s
Explain how that makes him an "underperformer"
Interestingly, the same is true for Lisp -- it was not initially a GPL. Perhaps the same is true for every GPL? (We may just be playing semantic games here because, for example, Fortran being a "math-oriented GPL" is the same as it being a "DSL for math."...hmmm)
Personally, I’d say it seems like neither standard whipped cream or this artificial substitute are going to be particularly good for a person to eat a lot of.
Your linked article discusses how telephone methodology has numerous significant flaws.

> The finding that a low response rate leads to substantial bias on some topics (e.g., volunteering) but not others (e.g., partisanship or religious affiliation) underscores the importance of having high response rate in-person surveys, which make such knowledge possible.

The above quote is saying “we can’t get accurate detailed demographics via phone” but using positively-oriented PR speak to do it. This is another way of admitting “in detail our demographics do not match the underlying population.” This could mean that their blue skews young, their red skews old, or their blue skews uneducated or vice versa, etc.

The article is from 5.5 years ago when they were just transitioning from landline polling to cell phone polling. Call spam has increased significantly since then.

Pew was founded in 1990 to do telephone research so of course they were going to defend it, but 2017 is when questions were just starting to be asked about it (in the context of a shift to mobile).
Never underestimate HN's pettiness and spite!

Now it's mainstream to work on a a cool technology that's been around for awhile!

Oh and everyone can act like they weren't bad mouthing the tech and saying it wasn't going to work before.

Visit any Mastodon thread here before Elon's Twitter and it's nothing but negativity.
There was another amazing exposé of Tether a few months ago all about this. I can’t remember if it was on Bloomberg, but that Inspector Gadget bit stuck out to me too.
SBF's name is the reputational equivalent of Bernie Madoff.

You think people are going to help him make a comeback or convince people to give him more money?

His only counsel now is going to be criminal lawyers. No PR firm or conference interview could save this dude's reputation.
Often true, but since many a corporation now prioritizes wifi or stops deploying ethernet to avoid the cost, AND wifi keeps getting better, the lines have crossed for me. Oh and I need a USB-C to ethernet dongle. Oh, and a cable. TL;DR for me, wifi now beats ethernet at work.
The worst part is hiring will be impossible for him. I think he feels strongly that throwing money at people will get him engineers. The question is are there enough talented engineers in the cult of Elon in the domain he needs
I learned recently that most high school students around here (fairly affluent Boston suburb) write papers - even long 10+ page ones - on their phones.
You say that, but the nice thing about an app is that they don't go to sleep.
Oxford scientists crack case of why ketchup splatters from near-empty bottle
Not sure where you’re seeing this coordinated effort to frame him positively. Im sure there are some takes like that, but there is also:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-sit-in-th...

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/16/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-incom...

I’m seeing plenty of critical coverage. Are you really not seeing that?
Neural Nets Optimized for Kolmogorov Complexity / Minimum Description Length
If he still believes he can turn it around, that would be quite a bargain indeed. Should Twitter not make it, it'd be throwing good after bad money, however (unless he can pay it out of Twitter's funds, I don't know what their balance sheet looks like).
More FUD from attention seeking, for-profit organizations. Even a tiny bit of digging shows this is virtually a non-issue. Look at the gh repo, the pypi stats
I found a job for Darl McBride that would finally make him useful for the society at large. He should found a company whose sole aim would be suing Google for refusing to deal with DMCA requests filed by Videolan (and possibly other open source projects facing the same problem) on time. Easy money.
Looks like around 300 people who worked at Twitter were on H1B visas [1]. Let’s assume they were let go at the same rate as all employees and say there are 150 left. That’s a minority of the work force. People are choosing to stay for reasons beyond being trapped by visa requirements.

[1] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/18/politics/twitter-layoffs-...
The scale linking cost to quality of a good is not linear. People often pay twice as much for something that is only 10 percent better. Prices are a matter of allocation, not value.
One of the biggest weaknesses in highly centralized authoritarian regimes is that it creates enormous incentives for the largest assholes to lie, cheat, steal, and kill to get into power, because one they're in power they will be free of any consequences. This also means they have to be exceptionally regressive towards the population because they know the next huge asshole will be itching to do the same to them. With decentralized power you can have checks and balances to punish people like that.
Yes, I think your way of phrasing it is more correct. Lives are on the line with psychology, but the feedback loop is usually broken.
sure, if they have papers, can navigate application, and can absorb the various stigma associated with it.

but hey, you're only a debilitating illness away from SNAP benefits!
Who has the NYT deplatformed? What platform do they even comtrol?
A better question is why people gave / put so much money on an exchange run by kids through a net of shell companies in banana republics?

Presumably some of the customers of these exchanges are also criminals and they prefer to keep their money out of the eyes of authorities. Also, the really good gambling is only available offshore.
Around 2010-2015 there were a whole bunch of these distributed git bugtrackers and none of them took off. Most are completely dead. IIRC one of the biggest problems was its feature: issue state being distributed as it is, it was very easy for developers to end up with issues having different states/comments, and depending on the implementation even differed across local branches. But also in a work environment there was no place for project managers to view/create/update issues.

I remember listing out 4-5 of these in the past when the topic has come up, but the only old one I can remember/find right now is https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

Edit - Found some more using duckduckgo instead of google:

* https://github.com/jashmenn/ditz (last update 12 years ago)

* https://bugseverywhere.org/ (I think this was the most popular at one point)

* https://github.com/marekjm/issue (this is separate from git-issue above)

* A blog post from 2012 that lists these and a few others (half the links are dead): http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner/blog/posts/git-issue-trackers/

From the blog post, the additional ones where the links still work:

* https://github.com/chilts/cil (last updated 11 years ago)

* http://syncwith.us/sd/ (last updated 6 years ago)
I see a lot of revolution and socialism vs capitalism comments here, but isn't this a not surprising finding given corporate consolidation and increase in CEO:total worker ratio?

Sure, there's debate about pro's and con's of corporate consolidation and market failures surrounding monopolies and oligopolies. But, with the increase in connectivity between regions via telecom, internet, mobile, etc; wouldn't there be an expectation of increased economies of scale from more frictionless communication?

If we note increased economies from scale for companies, it would naturally follow a CEO's wage would rise given the weight CEO's decisions when compared to results of company and number of workers affected. The CEO of walmart vs the CEO of 5 general stores would obviously change.

All I'm noting is that perhaps this is downstream of consolidation and that's the pertinent discussion, not deciding on socialism/revolution.
I can't imagine taking a drug for weightloss would be more beneficial / effective than simply counting your calories and eating in a slight caloric deficit.
> [snip] when the bot says any messages, at the time, they are generated from moves the bot truthfully intends to play.

> On the other hand, the bot has no concept whatsoever of keeping its words. After saying words, it is free to change its mind [snip]

Reminds of that one Asimov story about the robot who had a different interpretation of the first law of robotics. If my very hazy memory is right, the idea was that the robot could put a person in danger if it knew that it had the ability to prevent any damage from happening, but once it caused the danger, it could choose not to act and allow the person to come to harm.

I might be remembering this incorrectly, it's been a very long time since I read the story, but that was the first thought that came to mind when reading your comment :).
I'll just state for all us dummies, I suppose, that your casual use of DSL as an initialism without writing what it stands for, is not cool.
Golang Contexts and Blocking Functions
Thank you for sharing this! I am the author, happy to get feedback and hang in the comments (at my own risk)
You seem to have missed that the thrust of the article could more be about overpaid CEO's than it is about underpaid workers.
To be fair, the are already whipped cream substitutes that don't rely on milk proteins (which this product does).

Aside from the reduced calorie angle, the new product is inferior to plenty of existing products for the rest of your criteria.

Edit: not to mention they only replicated the texture, not the taste. Getting a whipped cream flavor with the same or similar sweetness (not something lactic bacteria are good at) is probably going to undermine whatever health benefit you would get.
yes, we support markdown, so latex would just be another language tag. you can follow here and be notified when it's ready: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/135
That’s why I use uBlock origin: It hides all of those Amazon ads. Also hides Twitter ads, even YouTube video ads, pretty much everything except Facebook ads (Facebook plays cat and mouse games with ad blockers).

While I don’t mind YouTube ads -- I have disabled ad blockers on that domain because I’m an electronic musician myself so strongly feel it’s important to support artists and musicians -- these Amazon ads are in my book unethical, since they look like legitimate results with only a light grey “sponsored” in small text underneath them.

Don’t get me started with how Amazon pesters me to join Prime every time I order with them.
I think he's saying threading issues are more likely to be found and fixed these days given the context in which most ruby libraries are running.
> I've bought and seen crap with good reviews. On Amazon.

Have you heard of https://reviewmeta.com/ ?, If not, give it a try, I use it regularly and it does as advertised.
What's a tablet grandpa? I code in Roblox /s
I think the amount of modding/tuning required to achieve good results with a low-end printer is a turn-off for most people. Imagine if you had to spend 40-100 hours modding your microwave before you could start cooking quick weeknight meals - that amount of effort isn't worth the trade-off unless you're a modding enthusiast.

I second the recommendations for Prusa and Bambu Labs. My Prusas are especially reliable for daily tasks, and started my obsession with 3D printing a few years back. If you have an open weekend coming up, the self-assembly Prusa kit is a delightful example of excellent technical documentation.
Let's hear what Ken Griffin has to say about the GOP receiving FTX money.
>The timeline is populated chronologically, not by an algorithm, so users see the posts they want and not what the app thinks you will want.

I'm surprised seeing an established engineer say this. The switch to algorithms beyond chronological ordering was a data driven decision in the industry. We have the data proving that people get to see what they want less if it's sorted chronologically.
Media isn’t the law and can be expected to grind a little faster. What were you responding to there?
> A local hairdressing salon owner/director doesn't earn a lot more

That is linear thinking, however income is very non-linear. In New Zealand minimum wage is ~$800 for 40 hours and you might have $100 disposable income after living expenses. Let’s say the owner gets $1200 at the end of the week. Their disposable income has increased by wayyy more than a 1:1 ratio. That is why you really care about a $0.50 pay rise if you are working near minimum wage, because it makes a huge difference to your marginal disposable income.

If you are “normal” minimum-wage then you compete for rental properties against all other normal people, so costs rise to soak up disposable income. A similar dynamic occurs for most people in middle/professional income levels - people compete against each other to pay as much as possible of their income on their mortgage and so they also don’t end up with as much disposable income as you might think. You probably know people in the 1% income bracket that are struggling to make ends meet due to that reason (they are way better off, and have far more disposable income and savings, but not as much as one might naively assume).
I doubt any organized crime was using FTX. And if they were, he seems mart enough to pay them back first. But if there was some smallish organization of contraband dealers using FTX and he didn't know? White collar prison isn't his worst case outcome.

As said earlier he has bribed the right big fish. But ignoring angry medium fish can be a problem. Also those might not be bribes. It might be a way to launder money into campaign contributions. Not that you really need that in the US now.
Over the last few years Amazon has been overwhelmed by Chinese goods and over time the search results has become similar to aliexpress. I would have never heard the manufacturer’s name and will never remember them either. All of them have close to 5 star rating and there is no way to even judge if they are any good. You buy if you accept that. Feels like it’s time for this to be disrupted.
Are you suggesting that if any words can harm people, all words must be considered harmful?
Or, of course, show "Hey, you're quitting with unsaved changes. They are kept for you for a month. You can view them in such and such recovery menu. Don't show this again [ ] [OK]".
But PE has pretty obvious gains from doing such a thing. Musk has... spite? And actual investors who I imagine would not be happy.
It's a stifling regulatory environment that's landed us here. Zoning is restrictive, planning commissions are slow and restrictive, councils are slow and restrictive. All of the agencies involved want to capture value from construction projects.

The net result is that very few projects pencil out, and the ones that do are expensive. We need to fix the root cause, which is lack of property rights.
> I have never been able to afford any VR and so what I think is the bubble of wealthy people who work on VR like FB are just completely disconnected with the general populations reality of not being able to afford the equipment.

Facebook is one of the main companies that is working on making the equipment affordable. It’s too bad that it’s out of your price range buy it looks like Facebook is working on making this a computer replacement. Their tech is cutting edge technology so imo the $350 they charge seems reasonable.
An AI writing tool so powerful that you won't even need to use Google anymore
Div, grad, curl and all that - H.M. Schey
Excellent intuitive and visual introduction to vector calculus.
I think GP's point was that 1 billion is also completely unfeasible.

'there should be no billionaires' is just a dumb idea put out for impact more than any hope of achieving it. When I try to steelman the idea I come up with the fact that smaller amounts of capital can be allocated more efficiently, and that society should therefore try to ensure capital naturally flows to individuals with less rather than more assets. Not a bad point, Warren Buffet definitely made higher returns early in his career and he credits that in large part to being able to pick targets better when investing millions than when investing billions.

But going from 'billionaires are a sign of capital inefficiency' to 'lets ban billionaires' rhetoric posits using violence to seize or suppress billionaires capital, which requires a larger concentration of capital than the billionaires have now. It's a statement at war with its own ideals, I shouldn't even be giving it the oxygen necessary to refute it.
Yeah, that part confused me too; the latency goes up, but the throughput stays the same. It looks like it's just a bad example, because the later example under "Forming a Lock Convoy" shows better understanding of the problem's dynamics. A better initial example would be fast food or retail workers serving a single queue of customers.
An FPGA and a few components can make a radio (2020)
Companies fight tooth and nail to keep the market from encroaching on their decisions about worker pay. Why do you think there's a taboo or outright ban on talking about compensation at many companies?

I wonder how many companies have "friendly" no-poaching agreements with each other like what Apple, Google, and co had[1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...
I too seldom go to the article 1st. The comments are usually far better.
I also noticed the same issue with quotation marks. But other than that this is a really nice application
> such a move would typically result in being cut off from world bank + WTO, if not invasion

The dollar depends to almost no extent on foreign oil sales. Global oil demand is 100 million barrels per month [1]. At $80/barrel that’s about $100 billion a year. We import over $300 billion a month [2]. That’s $3.6 trillion in foreign wallets a year looking for a way to be spent or invested. That’s why the dollar is dominant. Not how Ghana buys oil.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/oil-and-gas/our-insights...

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports
I'm a heavy user of rsync and sftp between personal devices, but have never used rclone. Is it only used with cloud storage from the big companies? I have never used any of those so far.
No monetization. As I said, not making money, just being honest about what it's going to be. In terms of email harvesting, I just don't want to be overloaded on my personal email account. Personal email is for my personal stuff, this is just for helping out.
SpaceX and Tesla are in much better hands right now, since Musk's attention is on Twitter.
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