skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You look at other states or other countries where the regulations have been configured to work, and model on that.

The most important part is the network infrastructure (power lines, transformers, substations) is a natural monopoly so it needs to be owned by the state. Regulation and incentives keep failing when corporate ownership of the network infrastructure is tried. In New Zealand the national grid https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpower_New_Zealand is a “state owned enterprise”, while local low voltage networks and power metering is owned by each local government.

The idea is to use corporate (profit motivated) ownership for generators and retail metered billing to end consumers, but design the market to be competitive for multiple generation companies (don’t allow one generator to have a monopoly in any area) and for consumer choice of who bills them.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_electricity_market has a good high-level overview of how everything is configured, and also refers to some of the failures of the regulations. It refers to a disputed study that consumers are overpaying by ~33%, so in theory bills could be reduced with nationalisation. . . although I personally would expect a government department to be more than 33% inefficient, so I don’t think electricity consumers win either way.
congrats. That's a brave admission, and it took some hard work.

Thanks for sharing :-)
Over one million also is infinity, we currently only know its more than 96000 so not very useful when we don’t know how close to it it is.
Mandalorian's pretty consistent about it, but it really stood out to me in the shootout when Breaking Bad's chicken man had besieged Our Heroes in the saloon. There's a crack to the impacts, and a speed to the bolts, that really makes you go "oh shit, those might hurt!" in a way that no Star Wars media I can think of (and I've seen/played/read just... way too much of it) had before.

And it was mediocre in the way that basically all the Mandalorian episodes were, but I really enjoyed the use of the AT-ST as a Robert E. Howard, Summoned from the Darkest Jungle by the Forest Savages and their Witch Doctors, primeval monster-beast, in that one episode. Really made the thing seem scary, at least at times. Absolutely perfect example of how to rip off genre media then paint it Star Wars to turn out an above-average Star Wars thing (not that that's a high bar) with minimal effort.
Reminds me of the old days of running this tool - kitchen sink, https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/kitchen-android-kitchen-v... those days of cyanogenmod/rolling your own rom based off Gingerbread 2.3.7 and hacking... happy memories :)
Here is how Swedish unions work :)

Maybe urs are just shit :)

https://www.unionen.se/in-english/this-is-unionen
Getting downvoted for suggesting a company might be solvent.
I'm surprised that ultrasonic transducers cannot be used to search for cracks or developing imperfections. Can one launch surface-localized waves at one place, pick them up relatively far away on the surface?
Ability to repair for me is a nice to have, but like 5th or 6th on my list and not a must have.

I can think of one or two times in the last decade I was disappointed I didn’t have it.
What annoys me is that there is more lag in the app. When opening the app just to get in some reading when I have some free time, there is a 1-2 second lag just to open a book that I have been reading. I am on an iPhone 11 Pro. Opening a book should be instantaneous. But it gets slower with each update.
The first batch had a bug in the USB serial. Supposedly it's already fixed in boards you can buy now.
Suggested reading material:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validity_(statistics)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics
Fresh Air: The Chaos at Twitter [audio]
What if you can afford it but it's 0%?
Conceptually that's kind of true, if you only consider the end result for a given binary, (since it would load only shared libs as if they were statically linked).

But multiple derivations can share dependencies, which does save space and also makes it easy to identify dependencies of a given derivation, where statically linking would make that opaque.

Also, the story goes way beyond binaries, as dependencies often carry additional resources not bundled into the binary.
Making left turns...stopping at red lights...these are success/failure criteria.

In contrast, having a favorite food, or an opinion on politics, or a preference on what should be considered the best movie from the 1990's, or what kind of music you want to blast on your stereo to listen to on your drive as you make your left turn...these are not success/failure criteria.

Huge difference.
Article summary:

> Tech journalist Casey Newton says Elon Musk did not inherit a company in crisis — but after massive layoffs and upheaval the social media giant is losing money and Musk is warning of bankruptcy.

Transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1141568738
https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...

They had $365mm in revenue from transactions. They has $1.1b in expenses. $550mm is employee/r&d.
An excellent bug report for a compiler would

* have reduced source code for the example, preferably a single source file, in a form which can be compiled

* have the exact command line used to build it

* have the exact compiler version being used

* apply to a supported version of the compiler (GCC 5 is from 2015...)

* include an accurate explanation of what is wrong with the generated code

Maybe the last one is covered by this blog post, but things like

> I can maybe understand the subtraction of constant 0, if there’s another code path that jumps to 7ba6

suggests that the author hasn't fully analysed the generated code.

The analysis is OK though and with source code it would be a pretty good bug report.
I see how you read it that way, but I meant non members in a wider sense, as in the employer, and the general public.
Could you expound?
I think I must be missing something. Seems like a snake game, but no food shows up to eat... wander around the screen until I die. See my ghost there, but running over it does nothing.
I was surprised to see how many people are using the paged view too! Scrolling with dark mode is the only way I read ebooks. Works well in any indoor lighting, and it’s great for reading in bed too.
I'm not suggesting you're wrong, but would you care to clarify how exactly binance being "in dire straits" (in the sense of not being able to honor withdrawals, I presume you mean) would affect the value of BNB?
Companies in Delaware still have to pay the 21% federal corporate tax rate. Well above the EU rate this article is lauding.

Delaware is popular to incorporate in for legal reasons. It is not a tax shelter.
Na, they exist because they made checkout convenient. I never have to register anywhere anymore. Just type my email address and my info is filled in automatically. I don't have to get my card out and type in the numbers, Klarna will just bill me. And as long as I pay the bill on time (which I always do) this won't cost me anything extra.

I mean, I don't really like Klarna on principle and they seem to have a pretty whacky corp culture, but one has to admit it's convenient.
Based on the pictures of the robots, it looks like they were intended for indoor use, I guess no one planned for an indoor space outside of 50-90 degrees - which is a pretty reasonable supposition, better than 80% of indoor environments are within that range.
Why does every cryptobro sound like a mystic?
Ok, with that addition, here is another analogy: I have one battery that I use to charge a capacitor. Then I have another battery in my voltmeter, which I use to measure the voltage over the capacitor. How does this make it possible to build logic gates with capacitors?

Instead of trying to generalize the principle, why don't you explain how you can make logic gates using the technology of the article? And how can you tie these logic gates together without the signal becoming weaker between input and output?
It is very easy to see the benefits that metrics provide (typically you start at no metrics at all), but incredibly hard to measure the costs.

This bias is ubiquitous: metrics, unit testing, abstractions, startup funding, documentation, security, etc. All of those typically start at zero. All of those are perceived as "good", therefore more is always better. You rarely find people with the balls to say "we need less documentation" or "we invested too much effort in security". Kudos to author for recognizing the same issue with metrics.

And he's right: the solution is to recognize our bias and for things where cost is hard to measure just assign some cost to it. Though instead of million dollar value suggested by author you should just treat cost as exponential.

Having 3 metrics is better than 0.

But having 50 metrics is way worse than 3.

In fact, having 50 metrics is likely way worse than 0.
Orders of magnitude bigger markets.
Ask HN: A Lightweight Data Warehouse?
I'll admit I'm unfamiliar with the warehousing landscape, but the existing solutions are quite hard to evaluate as they are all quite enterprise-y and offer too many features.

I am looking for a solution that will

- slurp data from my PostgreSQL instance into a columnar store of some kind
- includes a sql-pad that my team can write and share queries on
- maybe include some lightweight graphing

Thanks!
> - (e.g look at the fact that the new EV subsidies will be going to everyone except Tesla, it's a perversion).

If you mean the federal tax credit, it was the OLD one that stopped going to Tesla (due to the per-model caps in place; caps that any competitor could also reach after enough sales, mind you). The new credit that was signed into law this year does not exclude Tesla (instead, it excludes cars manufactured overseas).
Given that "the electrorate" and "consumers" are two huge groups with huge overlap, one could argue that political action is, in this case and in the ideal case of any representative democracy, an expression of consumers' will.

We have a bunch of problems (pollution, climate change, privacy...) where the incentives "in the moment of action" (buying, subscribing, choosing a mode of transport) are not great, and so individual responsibility as the sole recipe for change has failed miserably. It's okay for people to say "hey let's collectively through out the oreos."
>It was a moment in history that will not repeated in any of our lifetimes.

Unless of course we have another world war, which isn't really unlikely given the shortages and events climate change will bring in the future.
Didn't the person who thought that was a good idea have something better to do? Is it time for a good old fashion layoff in Apple's design team?
This isn't going to make me friends. John Carmack hasn't be relevant for years, and this doesn't move me one way or another. There was a time when game engines were simpler and the work of incredible engineers who could make something happen five years sooner, but we're past that, and I'm not sure Carmack is.

> it is the more personal pain of seeing a 5% GPU utilization number in production. I am offended by it.

For a high-level badge post, I'm not sure why he's calling out a low-level metric like this. It's also a complicated metric. Keeping GPU utilization low improves battery life. Delivering jaw-dropping graphics might have been the goal in 1993, but we're past that, and for all its flaws, I doubt Wii-level graphics are the reason no one uses Horizon Worlds.

Which brings me to why he left now. The company doesn't want Quest to be just a gaming headset any more, but Carmack does. It's a fair disagreement to have, and investors are even with Carmack on this, but a mature leader would disagree and commit or quietly step aside. Carmack isn't a mature leader, he's a talented, high-level IC you hire as a mascot.
Isn’t this a case where the stock answer (RED / Golden 4 metrics) plus a link to the appropriate chapter of the SRE book is all you need?

If you wire up a simple Datadog / Honeycomb dashboard with those, plus log exploring, you have added lots of value that will definitely be used, for a team that clearly has no idea why they need o11y.
Just wanted to say the translation is correct. I can't say whether it's unusual or not. I follow labor news closely (Arbetaren, Arbetet, etc.), but I can't remember any case similar to this in recent history. It's pretty rare Unionen does anything though, as they're half-way to a company union compared to the others, so maybe it is indeed unusually large for them.
I get your point -- people also produce bullishit -- but people are significantly different in that they are not only capable of finding the truth but mostly do so with some regularity. I expect that even the most "confident but wrong" software engineer has areas of their life where are perfectly able to recognize the truth and correct their statements for it. Indeed, observing children, I think the feedback loop of "confidently say wrong thing and self-correct over time" is how a lot of actual learning happens. Transformer models concern me because they are entirely missing that loop.
Mazars is supposed to be quite reputable. How they would agree to this, and endanger their entire firm, is beyond me. But then again, plenty of VCs also agreed to lend their reputation (and capital) to crypto firms with opaque finances and governance… I hope this turns into a lasting scarlet letter.
> If independent repair was widely available, products would have a longer lifespan, making them more valuable. Manufacturers would be incentivized to raise new product prices, which hurts consumers.

Even if this does lead to a higher price, “could this be cheaper at the cost of being more disposable” doesn’t seem like a good standard for consumer harm. If we’re paying more because we get longer-lasting more repairable products, we’ll still probably end up ahead.

> Easier repair could also lead more consumers to use old, energy-inefficient products, resulting in a higher environmental impact, especially with cars, trucks, refrigerators, or other major appliances.

Just impose carbon taxes to make sure that the ecological damage doesn’t get externalized and then let the market sort it out.

Anyway, every time we talk about replacing gas cars with electric cars, there’s a lot of worry about the embodied carbon of a new electric car. So I guess by that argument, we should prefer to keep old devices running rather than replacing them, or at least people who want to replace the old devices need to prove that the benefit of cleaner running is higher than the cost of replacing the device.
I replaced Books with Yomu to keep my annotations and highlights.
MonitUp keeps track of when you turn on and off the computer, which application you use for how long, which website you visit. It takes an automatic screenshot every 5 minutes.

You can categorize applications as vermili, vermilitic and neutral. Thus, you can measure how productively your employee works at which hours.

You also have a lot of data about your company and your employees created by their computers.

For example:
We need to identify our employees who need training.
If there is a problem about the system and end users, we should know about it beforehand.
We find it difficult to measure the productivity of full-time, remote, hybrid and freelancers.
We must control the use of unnecessary applications that use a lot of bandwidth, such as Netflix, Twitch and YouTube, by your office workers.
We need to identify our employees with low productivity or job satisfaction because inefficient employees cause an average of $500 Billion lost annually in the United States.
We should know to what extent your employees use your technology investments. A total of $34 billion annually is invested in unused software in the US and UK.
We must ensure that your employees do not store and use your sensitive data, such as customer data, in a different location.

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Yes, I'd say it's switching losses driving power dissipation, mostly, but also the amplification factor (often written as 60mV/decade). Bipolar transistors are still better at that.

I haven't read the article yet, but I can imagine a chip with watercooling microfluidic channels, possibly also used to transmit informations (kind of like hormones in the bloodstream). If it is useful as a computing medium why not?

Would it make a good waveguide too?
Overtraining is a concern, but I’ve previously done 7x per week heavy weightlifting and it’s fine so long as you cycle through different body parts and listen to your body. In the Marine Corps I’d usually work out 3x a day 5 days a week and 1x per day on the weekends. Granted I was in my 20s then, but I think what matters more than “preemptively not overtraining” is just listening to your body. Most people go way too heavy for their goals. I’ve found that’s really unnecessary and counterproductive, but exercising often is fine.
Gumroad Increases Fee to 10%
> Why should people optimize for computer nerd prestige?

The thing I'd like to focus on isn't nerd prestige, but good jobs, as the article was about inequality as nothing fixes social alienation and inequality more than lots of people having a good income and being part of society. These big tech companies, whatever major negatives they provide to the culture in many ways, at least employ a lot of people and give them a path to being part of that comfy middle class.

If the concern is inequality, then is a pile of great paying jobs with worse labor standards better than a few ok paying jobs with great labor standards? See where I'm going with that?

These are complex issues...I don't think I have all of the answers, but I just want to point out that there might be some tradeoffs to the good sounding things like unions and much better labor protections.
Don’t you get the same things from PayPal / Apple Pay / web browser remembering details or whatever?
The cheap ARM boards you see typically have some economic reason that involve a deal for millions of SoCs falling through at the last minute and the SoC manufacturer selling them off at below cost just to get anything back from the run.

The BCM2835 was destined for a cheap set top box but for reasons not known publicly the manufacturer of that box didn't take those chips.
I have a similar background. Used Androids from 2010-2018 and switched to iOS.

Some arguments were: Android's capabilities became less over time. I had cool apps until 4.4 Kitkat which automated toggling on/off WLAN/GPS/mobile network among others, but these APIs were restricted more and more over time so the benefits became less.

Another fact was that I calculated that iPhones were cheaper than all Android I owned when taking resale value into the calculation. That Apple gives OS updates for 5+ years helped a lot here, I had experienced <1 year on flagship models before. (buying 2 year old iPhone and selling it at 4 year old was cheapest/year)

But one of the biggest reasons was that I never trusted Google much. For example I never used the feature to use WiFi networks to get coarse location. Which meant worse UX (had to click NO on a dialogue each time I activated GPS) but also a "feature" the iPhone had (better location).

This is obviously a very personal point of view and it might be very different today, as I used Android in its earlier years.
My blind guess: The code for the page flip animation was old/complicated, and the engineer who wrote the code left the team. No one else felt comfortable maintaining the code, and Design saw this as an opportunity to simplify the UI.
That's not creepy at all.
This is a good change but it doesn’t go far enough. Infinite scroll is obviously the best way to read long form content. Unfortunately, most book sales are by people who like the idea of reading books more than actually reading
No, homophones are not a rhyme per se, but it illustrates how GPT does not understand word sounds. Example below:

Me: Does "knot" rhyme with "thought?"

GPT: No, "knot" does not rhyme with "thought." A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, and the sounds at the end of "knot" and "thought" do not match. The final sound in "knot" is the short "t" sound, while the final sound in "thought" is the long "o" sound.
> Apollo Server absolutely can be beat by … https://hasura.io/

> Have I tried to persuade people to use Hasura? No.

> Have I tried to persuade people that it's good or better than the competition? No.
In Paypal, for example, this is the screen I reach every time I try to log in.

https://i.imgur.com/V2WbK6C.png

There is no skip button. Even worse, every method I've tried to access customer support requires I be logged into an account.

I do have an Android device at home that may support TOPT, but a lot of websites still recklessly assume you have a mobile number available.
But yaml + comments (+ commented out optional settings) is basically the best semi self documenting config format in existence.

Jason doesn't allow comments, Xml is too verbose and lacks a zero-depth later (aka a properties file), properties files can't do arrays or hierarchies or complex inline stuff, and aren't well standardized, and TOML is ugly.

I'm not some yaml zealot, it's not a perfect format, but ... I've seen nothing better.
They publicly disclose this info ;)

They have >4k employees. Assuming they make US minimum wage, they would cost almost 240,000,000/yr. It’s almost certainly MUCH higher.

They spend $550b a quarter on R/D. That’s likely mostly salary.

https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q3...
Great video.

One fun basis for 3rd degree parametric polynomials that Freya skipped is a basis of values through which a polynomial can be interpolated. You can pick any 4 nodes in the interval, but I recommend [0, 0.25, 0.75, 1] for the least erratic behavior.

Example: https://observablehq.com/@jrus/bez-cheb – try dragging the blue dots.

Or for a higher degree polynomial, choose "Chebyshev nodes": equally spaced points on a semicircle projected down onto the diameter. This is one of the most "intuitive" control methods for manipulating a single parametric polynomial segment; the downside of this basis is that it doesn't facilitate matching boundary slope (etc.) between adjacent segments.

The "Hermite" basis (which is equivalent to the Bernstein basis up to some constant scale factors in the 3rd degree case) is in a certain sense what you get when you instead pick the nodes [0, 0, 1, 1] to interpolate; that gives you a double root at each end so you can also pick the slope there.

* * *

Freya: if you are looking for a next project, animating Raph’s excellent PhD thesis would be a great public service. :-) https://levien.com/phd/thesis.pdf

For something a bit easier, chord-length parametrized splines are surprisingly effective, definitely worth playing around with. e.g. the natural cubic spline using chord length for parameter spacing. Implementation (but no demo) here: https://observablehq.com/@jrus/cubic-spline#parametric_NCS
As a big user of Gumroad for eBooks and subscriptions this will really hurt our business. The timing couldn’t have been worse in this economy.

I don’t mind paying more, but this is 3x. It incentivises customers to move SaaS subscriptions off the platform.

The fact that Sahil thinks this is fair game makes me worry he’ll get overconfident and increase it further to 20% at a moment’s notice. What can he do to restore credibility after this move?
That's not entirely true. AVX from the beginning (introduced with Sandy Bridge), not AVX2 (introduced with Haswell), contains 128-bit instructions as well, and these are what's being used in the article (e.g. vpermilps).
Does this writer work for Apple or Samsung or who? Feels like propaganda