skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Would anyone like to subsidize my next restaurant visit by paying for my entree? No? But making someone unknown working class person pay for my $25,000 solar install through inflation is ok?

It's amazing how ignorant people can be to the world around them. Let's assume you live in the US, since the article is dealing with those subsidies.

The food you're eating - c. 20% of US farm income is subsidies [0]

The employees of the restaurant - probably, at least one of them is on a government support program to augment their wages [1]

The car you drove to the restaurant in - the US Federal government subsidized your gas (ever wonder why US gas is cheaper than Canada/EU?) [2]

So maybe instead of spending your time looking down your nose and 'not understanding why people don't understand economics,' why don't you do research on the world around you?

[0] https://perc.tamu.edu/PERC-Blog/PERC-Blog/U-S-Farm-Subsidies...

[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-45

[2] https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...
I went for Ioniq 5 instead.

• It has an outstanding design. Tesla's approach of making average-looking cars was a great move a decade ago to counter reputation of EVs being weird experiments, but now it's just bland.

• It has physical controls for most things. Model 3 is too minimal to the point of being gimmicky.

• It has Car Play. Tesla has better-quality software, but I don't like their monochrome map design in particular. In Tesla there's no other choice.

• Where I live there aren't many Superchargers.

• I prefer driving assists in Ioniq. It's hard to describe, but my overall feeling is that it wants to cooperate with the driver rather than take over and replace the human entirely. Both are nice when they work well, but when they fail, Tesla is more stressful and harder to correct.

• Ioniq has a HUD and a 360° camera.

• Not tainted by Musk's antics.
Just bake new panels into the cost of a new roof. It's probably time for both after 25 years.
So you suggest to keep hitting Russia as hard as possible? You know what the Russian policy for nuclear weapons usage says?

The Russian Federation retains the right to use nuclear weapons [...] when the very existence of the state is put under threat.

I would think twice if hitting Russia as hard as possible - whether militarily or economically - is really in the best interest of everyone. It is certainly in the best interest of the USA, the weaker Russia becomes, the better, more energy to spend on China, but I am very unsure that hitting Russia as hard as possible is in the best interest of Ukraine.
I agree about gwern.net, that's actually one of the first things that popped into my mind. A lot of personal sites from academia still follow this approach as well (see Don Knuth's page[1], for example). In the early days of the web, most personal sites were like that (and most were hosted on university sites). There wasn't this idea that you should be producing a constant stream of thoughts on the hot topic of the day.

[1] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/
Genuinely curious. Why does Cloudflare prevent that?
I suspect you're somewhat unique. I can't think of a single time in the past decade I have looked at my RPM and cared. I doubt a large majority of people care either.

In any case I don't think it needs to be a massive round dial the size of my fist. It could be a small bar next to a text only MPH/KPH display that goes up and turns red.
As a general rule of thumb, fully explore and exhaust your "monolith" options before you switch to Microservices. They quite often create more problems than they solve.
I don't remember how I heard it originally, but I wouldn't have recognized it as the same, either. To me, "N+1" implies you're already doing N queries and now you're running 1 more. That's a different class of problem than "you were running 1 query, and now you're running more than 1."
If a landlord's vacancy rate is lower than the "don't defect" rent increase, then he makes more money by not defecting.

Also - setting rent in a given market is a game that the same landlords play with each other, annually. Strategy is different in multi-round games.

And - back in the 1990's, I knew a few residential landlords in a mid-sized college town. They clearly said that they got together annually, and decided how much to increase their rents.
there are too many existential threats when looking on a long enough timeline to not justify making humanity interplanetary. It just has to happen at some point and i'd like to get moving before i giant asteroid comes hurtling at the planet, or the yellowstone volcano decides to erupt.
Presumably they know what things that the patient would benefit from external help with. That kind of advice is pretty standard in the medical world.
This is something that always concerns me when I start a new project. I often want to handle as much internally as possible to avoid situations like this one, but large services often make things much easier in comparison (until they pull something and you're stuck doing the work anyway). I really should start tracking how much time I actually lose to things like this so I can do a proper analysis.
Now that they have their own image solution they are using all the tricks they can to blow competition. Not giving notice is really bellow the belt on my opinion. That is not how you treat your customers.
This is a really good point. If I ‘have’ $1bn because I spent $100 on crypto that rose, held it, and then the price just crashed again, nothing has actually been lost. But if I sold that crypto at the inflated value, the buyers have lost big time.

Unfortunately I suspect much of the real money came from uninformed non-rich people who believed the hype - and not just the ‘massive gainz!’ hype (maybe they even saw that for what it was), but the general excitement in that media over crypto in general.
I agree that reparations make no sense for sex based oppression historically. The only/main type of reparations I might agree with is something like extra social security for women of an age where they were legally prevented from earning more. (You can't turn around and tell a 65+ year old woman she should have chosen a higher earning career if you didn't let her). Or providing state support to child brides (I'd also support this for minor males married to of age females).

Then again, I think reparations in general are a terrible idea.

It's just interesting because our society is moving so quickly that you have some people alive who genuinely were personally oppressed and some in the same group who weren't.
Smart TV companies are going to begin to move to tech like this to pick up the telemetry when a jogger comes by with an airtag type device in their wallet:

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?ie=UTF8&node=213281...

It could happen with one of the firmware updates you plug in for, and when you plug in it could also dump stored telemetry, in some cases (Samsung) including screenshots of your desktop if you use your TV as a monitor.
Commercial displays often omit consumer oriented features like "gaming" / low latency modes and modern display technologies like microled carry even larger premiums than the consumer alternatives.
The single greatest value for starting and maintaining my own blog is searchability. Because the older I get, the more stuff I've done that I forgot I did. It's helpful to have some details of how I knocked out some past project to reference when I do something similar in the future.
HOW IS IT WORSE, BUD???? Is this a revolutionary question?
Tell me one web site where images and video doesn’t count for most of the size. The time of 35k image on a 50k text page is long gone.
> women are much more looked down on for choosing family over career

I don't doubt this at all, at least in certain circles. I suspect it's not limited to small circles, either. My wife's office culture is somewhat accepting of women leaving to raise families, but many of the women in management have totally forgone that option or have/had their kids in daycare very, very early on. I'm certainly not judging as I have no idea why, or what would necessitate that, or if it's necessarily good or bad. It's too complicated to judge in any meaningful way.

It certainly generates expectations and pressures though, and they're very harmful to people like my wife. Many of the women my wife has talked to feel distinctly anxious about managing their family life with women like that in charge. Further, many of the men in management are quite old and tend to think of leaving to raise a family as a distinct lack of commitment to the work – something which gets you excluded from "serious" work like field deployments where high reliability and commitment is considered crucial to the role.

Many women are already excluded from much of field work because some older dudes think women aren't strong enough to make the work safe. For example, under-water installations of equipment are almost exclusively performed by men because the men running the deployments believe a woman would be incapable of supporting a man if his safety was compromised. As such, the women on the team who want to progress need to fully commit in all other possible ways in order to appear viable. Leaving to have kids is essentially 3 strikes at once against your reputation in field work.

It's tough to watch.
Based on his explanation, the company has at least some level of fault:

> my non-payment would not be a default because default is defined by a breach of contract and no such contract existed. Indeed, if anyone breached the contract, it was the solar company by not installing in the six-month period.
Warrantied by the installer, whom has been around for more than 30 years. Also warrantied by the OEM. Which is small names like "Panasonic".
Ask HN: Do you connect your TV to the internet directly?
Just curious if there is a compelling reason to do so that I'm unaware of.
Practice GPT a day, to keep the replacement away
Perhaps you know already, but for the record the Oregon law only allows psilocybin use under trained supervision.

In the case of alcohol, in my opinion we need a similar cultural attitude. Your state flips on your 21st birthday from absolute prohibition to...as much as you want. We need not so much a place for people to safely binge, as to guide them to considering for themselves why they would want to in the first place. Some people always will of course, just like there will always be people who drive like assholes.
Huge, if true. However, many such claims have surfaced before and turned out to be dudds.

For now, I am taking it with a spoon of salt but with an interest of any follow-ups and peer review.
You have to look at it from a certain perspective. It’s not just misogynist. It’s also misandrist. I don’t just blame women, I blame the men for failing to uphold society to a higher moral standard and letting petty things like envy, greed, and selfishness take over them, at which point a woman can easily further manipulate them to do their bidding. Our increasingly decadent society wouldn’t be so if men realized they hold the keys to building and maintaining prosperous societies, and can refuse the corrupt inclinations of women hellbent on ruining it all for materialistic, personal gain. And that of other men who desire power and money and materialistic things for the sad approval of women.

The reason why I don’t mind the flagging and the downvotes is because I don’t expect a single individual on HN to publicly agree with me. Anecdotally and privately, women and men have both echoed these things to me in a slightly more nuanced, forgiving tone. My take is more brazen, and unpalatable for this site and many others.

Personally, I don’t subscribe to the manosphere, MRAs, MGTOWs, the Andrew Tates or anyone inbetween. These are all symptoms of a societal illness.
> Department all-hands, business unit all-hands, product line all-hands... Every level of a large business feels like they need to do all-hands with some regularity. If you don't do them people complain that they feel "disconnected" and don't know what everyone else is working on.

The best setup I've seen required only managers to attend such meetings, and those managers could open up invites to team members if they wanted them, or if they had something worth presenting. The meetings were all recorded anyway, so if someone felt like they missed something after the fact or couldn't attend, they could watch it at a more appropriate time.

The only real "all-hands" meetings we had was off-site, in person, and bi-annual. The only department that had more frequent all-hands meetings was sales with their quarterly kick-offs.
They should just be upfront... "If your service uses a disproportionately large amount of any of our resources for the amount of revenue it generates, we will ask you to either pay extra or leave. We'll try to give you a notice period to leave, but in extreme cases the period will be very short or none at all".

Then the TOS should give examples of common things that trigger use of this policy, for example running an image/video host.

I'd like them to commit to always offering a monetary amount which would satisfy them. Often in business, a migration is a slow and painful process, so simply paying 10c/GB to serve video/images might be preferable.
That is a quote from the article - "Apartment vacancies are piling up." But no accompanying graphs or further discussion, other than that sentence itself.
DfAI: The missing piece of artificial intelligence engineering
Man, I hope some six-figure Bolsheviks read this comment and think about it. It's really not as simple as people like to think to try and pay you workers millions

Even Facebook has had to lay people off when the market demand for $500k genius coders cooled a little recently

FAANG salaries and RSUs are pretty much the perfect compromise between labor and capital IMO. The only way I'd change things would be to move toward fewer hours per week, possibly with widespread fixed-bid consulting and health benefits not tied to employment
> Browser based LLM

Very cool - any more info on that?
He said "image proxies" so I guess 100%?
1. Most roofs aren't flat.
2. For pitched roofs, you're only going to want to install on the south or west facing sides. So only some percentage of your roof area is ideal.
That's why all the results come with an "AINAL" disclaimer.
If they wrote that using a bunch of LabVIEW microservices you could replace the services one-by-one with C/Ada until the whole thing was no longer LabVIEW.

This is generally what I think the best part about microservices are; an easy way to improve upon the MVP in any dimension. Re-writing a whole monolith can take forever and probably will introduce a ton of bugs. But incrementally re-writing microservices won't stop feature development and is easy to A/B test for correctness.
The Muscat Readout Electronics Back End: Design and Pre-Deployment Performance
While I agree, I think they should set some more objective limits.
At the risk of getting lost in a swamp of not particularly good answers, it's most useful if you have scope control: If you have language keywords that allow you to designate a function as "The context/scope of this function never escapes this file," then multiple files suddenly become very useful, because as a reader you get strong guarantees enforced by a compiler, and
a much easier time understanding context. The same can be said of variables and even struct fields. In very large programs it can also be useful to say, "The scope of this function/variable/etc never escapes this directory".

If everything is effectively global to begin with, you're right, it might as well all be in one file. In very large programs the lack of scope control is going to be significant problem either way.

This is where object-oriented programming yields most of its actual value - scope control.
Having a good giggle at this. Joke, right?

> Working with disagreeable people doesn't suck

W00t! By definition it does.

> The disagreeable people just point it out

Ah, perhaps you mean disagree-ing people. That would make some sense at least.
It's valuable in the sense of giving some sort of feedback. The way many streaming services compensate people lacks any transparency and is basically making them compete to generate product blindly.
Living in a half occupied building is IMO a luxury compared to a full building (fewer neighbors, less people for noise pollution, less congestion in hallways and public areas etc), so it makes sense it would command a premium in rent.
Feels a little different today than it did 2015 though. The hipster hacker aesthetic doesn't quite have the charm it used to.
There is a number, in the upper-20-percent range, that can be relied on to support a certain political viewpoint regardless of the question asked.

I wish I could recall the details better, but this number (27%, I think) that got some notoriety for supporting George W. Bush at a time when nobody supported George W. Bush. This was in 2007 or so, and unfortunately Googling is not turning up any of the spate of think-pieces written at the time.

The implication is that you should not take a number like this as a face-value answer to the question. The respondents may or may not actually know a person who died from a COVID vaccine, but they know the answer that supports their political point of view. And it's more or less the same people who said they approved of George W. Bush even if they didn't actually approve of George W. Bush.

(I assume there's a similar number for Democrats, though I don't know if it's higher or lower. I don't mean this as a criticism of either party, but rather am singling out the way opinion polling is skewed by partisanship and therefore must be taken in that context.)
Nice is never overrated.
That can happen. I think it's often a symptom of other issues though, either with the org or with that engineers communication skills. An organisation needs to reach commitment on a course of action, and if you disagree at the right points it isn't seen as being disagreeable (either before stakeholders have become too invested, or after they have but when it has become clear that the living with the issues is too painful). The problem is that some orgs either don't seek feedback widely enough, or are not flexible enough to avoid committment until sufficient experts have had a say. Especially if that org is one that culturally doesn't value engineers.
> There is another universe where Python 3 only fixed the unicode strings, and the transition was a huge success and over in a couple of years.

Didn't the unicode changes go on until at least Python 3.6? The issue that most C APIs did not care about their byte strings having any encoding at all seemed to cause one headache after another, especially on Posix, where everything touching the operating system could return random bytes. Reducing the scope to unicode wouldn't have sped up the transition one iota.
Apple mixed reality headset might let you switch out of VR with a digital crown
My mom tells me she's practically been making money with hers in the last years.

She had them installed when my parents were still running a GP practice together in a small village. That was only a few years before they retired though, so now half of the building is basically storage space that's barely used and unheated (also no sterilizing equipment in autoclaves, fewer fridges needed, etc). She also has a solar water heater, she cooks with gas, and her house is very well insulated. As a result of all this she ended up producing more electricity than she uses.

However, she's also still on an "old" contract with her energy provider that is quite beneficial towards her because they didn't anticipate this scenario - this will likely change soon when she has to renew it.

This is in the Netherlands, can't speak for other countries.
There are stories of TVs just using open wifi, for one. Two, cheap 5g will probably let the TV manufacturers have a cheap way to get ads without wifi and send back screenshots of what you're watching like they do now over wifi. So the workarounds you mention are probably short term.
Have you ever tried pot or mushrooms? They both could help for depression like Ketamine does but any of the effects will be long done by the morning for you.
Agreed. I have put a hard stop on subscribing to any software. Even Jetbrain's products, I'll just purchase outright every few years to get updates.

All those subscriptions add up. And when I buy a product I expect to use it for a very long time (decade +). If I add up those subscription fees it feels incredibly expensive.

I have successfully weened myself off of all my software subscriptions. On a yearly basis it was costing me $1000+ for software. At this point it doesn't matter how good of software it is, I'm moving on if it doesn't have a purchase or lifetime option.
There are several such cases discussed in the Cloudflare forums. It usually turns out that the webmaster was serving very large amounts of media, which no one should expect to be free.
I feel like I am repeating myself, both those situations are irrelevant to your original point. I agree we can try to make things more efficient, and society can improve how it redistributes wealth.

You seem to be saying we should distribute any gains to artists. I am saying that we distribute those gains to working people, and let the artists do their thing in their free time.

If we start getting to the point where there is not enough “work” to go around, then we can follow the scandi practice of reducing everyone’s working hours. Although admittedly that doesn’t address the problem that there is an unlimited need for highly skilled people (the drive behind the power law of income distribution and why the more highly paid professionals have no spare time).

UBI is a lovely concept, but unfortunately in the very major examples I have already seen of UBI (retirement being the biggest example), I don’t see much return in scientific or creative output.

PS: this is a fantastic read about the US health system: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...
There are a lot of subsidies in agriculture as well.
Ask HN: What language/framework for simple web app in 2023?
I want to create a web app that we will use internally; it would allow people in a meeting to go to a web page, enter their name, and then have a button for “hand up” or “hand down” and an indicator of whether their hand is up or down presently; the chair of the meeting would have an admin view that simply shows a list in order of who raised their hand first, and the ability to lower someone’s hand.

(Yes just like in MS Teams or in Zoom)

Any suggestions for the simplest/least-friction language/framework to get started?

This is partly a toy problem to get me into web app coding but partly something we might actually use.

I’ve never coded a web app before but I know C/MATLAB/Python/R in the scientific computing context and I used to know Objective-C in the old Mac system.

Emphasis on simple, non-bloated, approaches. I come from the tradition of coding in C with little or no dependencies.

Non-snarky suggestions welcome! Thanks!
Hottest month for me was aug, I paid around 161

~$135 1190kWh (charged at ~$0.114 / kWh)
~$10.50 tax

~15.50 other fees/riders which can not be recouped with panels

OP is somehow paying ~25c/kWh, though I have to believe they are counting the connections fees etc in their estimate, based on natl averages they would be an outlier for most states. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/
> make VS do 'tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment'

Using an editorconfig file I never had an issue doing this. I get a tab if I hit tab and a space if I hit space.
IIRC, the author is part of the so-called "dirt-bag left" so that's just connecting theory and praxis.
x86 is Turing-complete with no instructions, too: https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc