skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIU, Buy-All Sell-All contracts have a "termination of agreement to provide service clause" if the residential renewables are not directly attached to the grid; it's against their TOS to use your own renewable energy and sell the rest, which is probably monopolistic and anti-competitive.

Is it legal to have a cutover so that it's possible to use one's own renewable energy when the power's out, given an exclusive Buy-All Sell-All agreement?
Is there anyway to use the NPU (blai-100) on this thing? That seems like bsp territory.
They are doing a really good job at employer branding. They make the requirements/constraints of the finance industry sound interesting.
A field that cares about correctness, ordering and accurate clocks.
If Carmack suggested changes to my code I'd implement them in a heartbeat. If he suggested changes to my business I'd be a bit more cautious.
A government whose representatives frequently rail against big tech companies, call for regulation, and drag executives in for hearings, "politely requests" something to be removed. It's pretty easy to see that Twitter might think that saying no has consequences.

Furthermore, the FBI is a police force. They have no business searching Twitter for content to remove unless that particular content is involved directly in the investigation of and filing of criminal charges.
Is it ok to say "Irish Twin" ?
Yeah the humour is everywhere.

In the sheet music for The Vatican Rag the expression is to play "Ecumenically"...

https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/the-va...
"Hi man, yeah, it's the FBI. Yeah, we see here you fished a small lobster. Yeah, that's a felony, but don't worry about it. So hey, that thing you said on your blog, we don't like that. Yeah. Yeah, good. Talk to you later, take care man."
I think he calls himself an anarchist because his core beliefs are anarchist?
I think a big misunderstanding that people on other platforms have when discussing tiktok is that they only discuss the content from a consumption perspective. This makes sense. Somebody who isn't on tiktok isn't creating content on tiktok. All analysis is focused on the consumption angle. So you get people wondering what makes it different than youtube shorts or instagram or even vine.

But this is folly. Tiktok has meaningfully different content creation tools. Ignoring this misses a huge part of the story. Entire new genres of content exist because they are nicely facilitated by the stitch and duet tools.
From Wikipedia:
Other artists who cite Lehrer as an influence include "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose work generally addresses more popular and less technical or political subjects... Yankovic saw Daniel Radcliffe (who called Lehrer his "hero")perform "The Elements" on The Graham Norton Show, which led to Radcliffe starring in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.
Sounds interesting: they use crypto currency to pay creators for posts.
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021208 (not your fault, OP cross-posted between twitter and mastodon)
Maybe a silly question, but from those of us that aren't electrical engineers.

Am I correct in assuming that excess generated power can't leave my local distribution network? So there are X houses in my circuit served by a dist transformer, and if we can produce more than those X houses need at that point in time, then the excess simply doesn't get "pulled" from the panels?
Carp – a statically typed, non-GC Lisp language
I also like the parody-of-a-parody, The Drugs Song by Amateur Transplants (medical students from my university, some years ago).

There's Aspirin, Adrenaline & also Aminophylline,
Amphetamine, Adenosine, Augmentin & Rifampicin,
Amoxicillin, Penicillin, Heparin & Warfarin
& Oestrogen, Progestagen & Canesten & Chloroquine
...

"Best" quality video I can find: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2ohing

Lyrics: https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/elucjw/the...

And the obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1052/
How I'd do it:

1. Define reasoning (hard)

2. Inspect the system to see if this is what it's doing (hard)

Conclusion: too hard, so until I get better I don't know if any given thing is reasoning.

What "very smart people have proposed":

1. Look at something I've only seen people-I-assume-to-be reasoning do

2. Run the system and see if it can do this

3. If satisfied or in the dictionary business, redefine reasoning

4. goto 1
Funnily enough according to Taibbi, Twitter was being unusually obsequious when other companies, such as T-Mobile, weren't.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603890210252668928
He was alone on his side of the table for the All In One integrated hardware approach that was the Go and became the Quest and, after years, proved to be the right long term direction. Of course that is out of his mouth according to him but, if true, it is the kind of high level strategy setting that separates market leaders from the also ran's. Very different from task level involvement but friction there should be separate from effectiveness at the CTO's desk level (& I have to guess Boz is the one who's quality of life got improved more than specific engineering teams)
I took the opportunity of seasonal proximity to family and tried this question on a small selection of 6--8 year olds, and I received one correct response (accompanied by proudly showing the correct application of long multiplication on a big piece of paper) along with two "I don't know, what is it?"

None invented their own algorithm and confidently claimed it to be the way.
Well said. You think clearly. Who are you?
You seem to have some incredibly strong opinions on how you think national security is supposed to work while not seeming to understand even the basic functionality of the role and remit of the FBI.

It’s ok to just say you don’t know sometimes.
> I strangle with English [...]

You mean "struggle". You might want to check grammarly: https://www.grammarly.com/ - no affiliation.
I like that. Something similar that I am thinking is that I don't really listen to genres. I listen to artists. I listen to a song and the start to explore the artist's world.
You could optimize this further if you're combining multiple lookups
They’re called “spill” after the phrase “spill the tea,” and Terrell (one of the founders) said, that they’re leaning into the teacup motif. Even their website sports a Kermit sipping tea meme.
Forgive my going off-topic, but what you wrote is basically my conclusion after reading the short story Lena [1] (mentioned some time ago on HN; strongly recommended). TL;DR: when mind uploading becomes possible, don't be an early adopter.

[1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
I was skimming this years Siggraph papers a bit ago and all the work on neural representations really made an impression. I think we'll see big jumps from integrating these into path tracers.
They all have links to OF pages in their bios as well (sometimes via hosted link pages).
If you sideload pirated copies of commercial games that are on the Quest store, that's forbidden. But sideloading 3rd-party apps is fine.

The "grey area" is modding games(notably Beat Saber), since it involves replacing the APK with an altered one without the consent of the developer. And if the developer sells DLC, that cuts into their profit and maybe they'll threaten to sue Facebook for damages since they created the development tools and authorized development accounts that allow people to do it.
Playing with a Raspberry Pi IR Camera
It's straightforwardly a broad term and you have no basis for your nonsense gatekeeping.
I'm not sure what you mean. with the 1.4 checkpoint i can make a scene "a sky full of blimps" and then img2img that into a space battle where all the blimps in the sky are either fires or spacecraft afterburners. at 2k pixels, and then use the built in "GAN" stuff to bring it to 4k, 5k, or 8k.

It isn't perfect and it takes a lot of fiddling and sysadmin stuff, but it is way better than nextchar = CHR$(RAND64); color = (rand65535); of yore.
Design Takes Time
It turns out the cheapest thermostat at the store fulfills your exact requirement :)
About the single letter name for variables, I guess it's bias because they are using as the second part of the training set the code from a few online programing competitions.

Many of them have the time to write the program as a tiebreaker, so using short names is an advantage.

Also, for short throwaway programs, using the single letter names avoids many silly tipos, like

print(important_list_1, important_list_1, important_list_3)

instead of

print(important_list_1, important_list_2, important_list_3)
Ask HN: What do you use your own email server for?
The answer might be obvious, but I'm curious.

I think hosting your own email server it's perfect for personal communication, but what about work-related messages? What if there is the server goes down? I wouldn't want that to happen if I needed to receive a confirmation email for, let's say, password recovery for a website.

I think in some cases services like Gmail might still be the best option, what do you think?
It allows you to use Linux, which is a sellable bullet point. Might also be useful sometimes, and allow knowledge sharing, increase portability and so on.
But in that case I would have wanted to see it present a number that's at least of the right order of magnitude, even if all individual digits were incorrect. A human can adapt to their known weaknesses.
I think it's really fun. And I get from your website that you're a
"what-if, can-do" kind of hacker who loves to play. Goodonya. It's
very addictive - I think I clicked through 20 or more!

What was going on my mind, I think, was a sense of amusement at how
wrong it all is - but also how "uncanny valley" right. This is
important stuff, what you've done, because it showcases applications
of emerging tech - and how they don't quite hit home.

Part of me would like it to work. Part of me is horrified that it
might. And another part knows deep down it never really can.

But yeah, the feedback you gather on why it isn't working may be the
most important outcome here - for everyone. Enjoy the moment.
Would this allow a VMware Workstation Linux VM use the GPU from a Windows Host with an Nvidia Video Card for ML usage?
The market disagrees with you. Solar booms in Europe. including the haunted frosty lands of Spain.
My Run in with a California Cult (2016)
"The Government" in these revelations is the Donald J. Trump Administration.
Sony produces new sensors at a relatively faster pace compared to the camera development cycle. For years, I've been looking for ways of testing these sensors before developments boards would come to market. This project is super interesting and great inspiration for testing new sensors.
My VisionFive2 just arrived last weekend and I've got the simple buildroot image running.

That was about 10x as expensive but probably more bang per buck.
I am afraid your comment does not encourage discussion. You can try justifying your assertions. Otherwise we just talking about feelings. I find the open source world gives me hope on humanity, in opposition to the sensation i get from Mucrosoft or Apple. I find learning the command line rewarding, that is the strenght of Linux IMO
Matchbox and the EcoPark (neé Edmonton Incinerator) wee both in Edmonton, London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonton_EcoPark

As a child I had a Matchbox incinerator toy set, inspired their nearby infrastructure.
Seriously, is this necessary in an article about Jack Ma? "The growing wealth gap gave rise to populism in forms such as Britain's exit from the European Union"? It so oversimplified it hurts my brain.

Same about the rest of the article. It is so typical for the international "business magazines" to characterise Jiang Zemin's rule through the lens of "neo liberalism", "opening up" etc. This is all bull**. Liberalism (neo or otherwise) requires liberty, while Jiang has built one of China's biggest oppressive aparatus in a form of his "office 610". Its idea was to persecute Falun Hong practitioners, but horrible as it is, it was only a cover story for his personal gestapo. It killed and jailed extrajudicially millions. Let's not forget his rise in the previous leader's eyes was thanks to his "hard line stance" towards the Tiananmen massacre.

Jiang Zemin didn't open up China. He just allowed selected foreigners to get rich too. Just look at all those "billionaires" that appeared during "his era". They are all tied to him or his faction (there was no other way to succeed at a time). This is precisely why they are all distrusted by the current ruling faction. There has been antagonism between the Jiang and the Xi factions for a long time.

The only thing Jiang was objectively better at was in projecting China's image abroad.
> Elon is proposing “freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach”

While proposing that Shadowbanning is a tool of the Woke Mind Virus destroying humanity ...
It’s good at writing but not at subtext.

“My Lovely Horse” is pretty spot on.
https://www.songtell.com/father-ted/my-lovely-horse

“You’re Gorgeous” less so
https://www.songtell.com/babybird/you-re-gorgeous

Still. What a time to be alive.
The theory of international trade is based on the principle of comparative advantages. So theoretically if Taiwan can produces chips the cheapest, including transport and other costs, they shall do just that.

The decline of globalisation is due to, IMO, risk aversion of having too much of your supply chain, especially for essential and/or not easily replaceable merchandise, tied to an antagonistic or potentially antagonistic partner.

In other words, some of these "other" costs have become too high to just buy certain things somewhere else and call it day.
> Big corps usually prohibit their employees from expressing their personal opinions.

Yes, but does that make it any better though? We understand why they have to do it anonymously, but it's still someone with nothing at stake, who we can't evaluate the claims of.
I would recommend The Crying of Lot 49 over Inherent Vice, if you're looking for a shorter novel.

I'm not saying his more recent novels are bad, per se, but I would only read them if you exhaust the earlier works and still want more.
Around 1970 or so when I was 5 one of my older sisters worked for the summer at the Matchbox factory in London and gave me a Matchbox Lamborghini Muira - which I loved and, of course, proceeded to totally wreck.
> If you give a crawling baby a small cliff but make a bridge out of glass, the baby will refuse to cross it, because it's limited understanding prevents it from knowing that the glass is safe to crawl on and it won't fall.

Not just that -- it's enough to paint a grid on a flat floor using perspective manipulation to make it look like a steep drop.

...on the other hand, I once went onto an open-wall elevator in a VR game, which then started going up. Although I know I had just moved sideways on solid floor and there was still solid floor next to me, it was quite frightening to stand at the edge of it. I had to force myself really hard to tap my foot on the floor outside the elevator that didn't look like it existed.
Pop a few custodians worth of emails into Brainspace or any of the other tools to parse the information and you'll find that 300~ emails over 3 years is next to nothing (i'll double the number listed by Taibbi to be charitable). I'd expect that volume of contact in less than 2 days if there was a $100M construction project going on. And that's emails, not slack messages or other records. Just emails.

Additionally an email isn't an individual issue; an email thread almost always has multiple replies, forwards, etc. On the low end, if we assume only 4 emails per topic between the parties, that means the FBI only approached twitter 75ish times in three years, or 25 issues per year.

I can tell you from my time doing social media threat monitoring that I'd monitor and alert organizations of maybe 10-15 people per month for things like threatening to blow up buildings followed with active attempts to recruit people to support those efforts. And that's for relatively niche, unpoliticized, institutions.

If the FBI is only identifying and acting on 25 instances of active recruitment for crime on twitter per year, it doesn't indicate that they're strong-arming twitter. It means they're asleep at the wheel.

If the worst Taibbi can find is the FBI trying to take down a tweet trying to get republicans to vote on the wrong day, he's found fuck all.
There isn't any exponential backoff built-in, just the 500ms timeout in between fails. You can, however, set the number of retries to something you want your app to tolerate and then if it still fails, handle the error accordingly to pager duty or your own custom logic, etc.

Example w/ retries config: https://github.com/durkes/wubsub/blob/main/examples/client.j...

Regarding the backpressure for messages that the client is trying to publish while not connected, they will each be held in a setTimeout recursively until successful trying every 500ms also. If you build in your own custom receipt logic, this could be avoided. I considered building this in but wanted to keep it simple. Open to suggestions.
The form factor is similar to the old Onion SBC, but more expensive and less capable.

The Onion was $5, and included a proper serial interface, an SD card slot and wifi. It might have also had Bluetooth, but I'm not sure as this was seven years ago.

It was a great little machine. Very promising to have an entire Linux machine the size and shape of a 6502.

Alas, the company that made it put out a firmware update that made them act unpredictably, then another that ended up bricking machines. And at a cost of $5, there was no margin for customer support. The last time I looked into it, several years ago, the company appeared to be in pivot mode.

There was a vibrant emerging market of tiny SBCs in the years before COVID. Now everything is Raspberry Pi and Arduino. If you can get one.
Mine is an i5-6500, which was a hot new thing in 2016 when I built the PC, and still works excellently. Typical utilization with tons of windows open and running is 20% or less (usually much less). It never breaks a sweat playing games or doing anything that normal people would do. It's maybe 7 years old at most, not archaic tech at all.

I know back in the 90s, when we were going from 8088s to 486s to pentiums, things were rapidly changing with noticeable improvements every year. But that era is long past. Even a rinky-dink CPU by today's standards is way more than enough for normal use and will never get close to stressed unless you're doing experiments with CPU-heavy algorithms or something. And they've been that way for a long time now.

They can fill their purpose perfectly well for a decade or more. In fact, my previous PC had a 2006 CPU which still handled everything just fine in 2016, the upgrade was only needed due to RAM (which required a new motherboard and thus a new CPU). To consider a CPU 'not good enough' just because it's a few years old makes no sense now. I would understand if they didn't support that 2006 Core-2 Duo any more. But to not support a 2016 i5-6500 in 2022? That does not make sense.
They really are a mess, if you dig a bit deeper. Many of the OS issues are actually even bigger hardware issues, which the OS failed to amend.

My gripe with Windows is usually not related to the operating system itself, but rather the direction it's headed as a product. And I also don't like that when people say that Linux is so tinker-y, compared to Windows, which "just works". A system that "just works", in my experience, is a system that the user is used to. Familiarity makes the issues seem trivial, and the unfamiliar issues seem insurmountable, which hardly results in a fair comparison.
You scored on the domain name. Songtell.com is a good one. Did you buy it on the aftermarket?
The strike price is the guaranteed price that British ratepayers and the government have guaranteed Hinckley. (The government will make up the difference if retail prices are lower.)

It’s entirely possible its builders will go belly up and need even more bailing out, but that’s some years away.
Power companies in DFW (Texas) area are highly competitive: just got a contract for 14.59 cents kilowatt per hour.

After visiting PG&E rate page, I cannot believe that Sacramento, CA is already pushing 50 cents kilowatt per hour.

I pity the fools who live there (as I once did).

https://www.pge.com/pge_global/common/pdfs/rate-plans/how-ra...
I'm certainly not going to defend the people insulting you, but suggesting that you sold for moral, and not financial, reasons comes off as very sanctimonious and invites that type of reply in a cesspit like Twitter.
HN is all about that cult of personality, we want to believe in heroic programmers (or founders) who singlehandedly change the world with their geinus clarity.

Paul Graham said this, John Carmack said that and we lap it all up.

It's been this way since the ancient times, and the stories of Hercules and Theseus. We mythologize these personalities, and in our mind they become demigods.

But there's a reason the folk wisdom tells you to never meet your heroes. When you do, you painfully realize that the stories didn't focus on their humanity but instead were spinning the myths of their divinity.

The person in your head is a source of inspiration. The person in the world, on which the former is based, is a source of disappointment.
This will be unpopular. For simple PoC stuff that require a GUI and SQL I'll reach for MS Access. It's so quick at getting something up and running pretty much immediately.

Obviously you move on from it, but Im unaware of anything with pretty much everything in one place like it.

Recently I've been using Dart and Flutter. I can't complain at all.
This article is straight up bad.

So, basic Whitted style ray tracer is, for each pixel, project a ray into the scene and see what the closest intersection is. Now shoot secondary rays at each light source to see if the intersection is in shadow for that light, sum the lighting accordingly. Also if the material hit is shiny, shoot a ray out using snells law and recurse to see what it sees.

Now, with path tracing instead we approach the rendering problem more generally, and think of it as a 6D integral that describes all possible ways light can bounce in the scene. Then we sample this integral using monte carlo techniques. The most naive version of this would be to emit virtual photons from lights, trace where they go probabilistically using scattering equations at each surface interaction (so not just snells law) and then seeing if it ever blunders into the virtual camera.

Obviously that's very inefficient, so practical path tracers work backwards tracing paths from the camera, or bidirectionally doing both and seeing if they can connect. Then there's a huge pile of techniques like importance sampling that help make all this more efficient.

That said, at the end of the day, path tracing is much more computationally intensive than the classic ray tracer. However it's worth this because it can truly render all lighting in a physically correct way. Classic ray tracing bakes in assumptions about shadow rays and simple reflections, which is why images made with it have a very stark unrealistic appearance (think sphere and pyramid floating over a checkerboard style images).
Speaking about this taking her a year to produce, there was a new Unity release last week that effectively preempted her own work on a Spline tool for the asset store where her previous work is quite popular.
Also rcmd https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd/
Ye you get an apartheid atmosphere when the amount of contractors go so high that they can't be experts anymore.

Oh so now there is a Xmas lunch, but a third of the group is not invited. Or "No ice cream" for you.

It is funny how it was the small things that pissed me off. Who in their right mind even has a Xmas lunch without everyone ...

It was always one manager layer disconnected from the actual contractors that pulled off the BS meany things. The direct management knew that had to give ice cream to contractors too.