skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We aren’t currently grid tied (we may eventually put in a line to reduce sun-drought generator set use, but at about 100 hours a year it’s kinda a tough sell)

Our little solar plant operates a small coffee plantation, 4 houses, 8 cabins, and several outbuildings , parks, and community spaces.
When we do tie in we probably won’t sell power or do net metering. Instead we focus on robotic or mechanised industry where we can generate saleable goods using the excess power. (Computing power, 3d printing, dry ice manufacturing, foamed concrete block manufacturing, etc)

We also manage our utility loads like bullk water production and large scale refrigeration so that they occur during excess production periods and are normally suspended while we are operating on stored power. I’m thinking of implementing an anydrous ammonia plant and distribution system so that we can store more energy useful in air conditioning and refrigeration, which are some of our largest loads. It’s getting hard to find ways to store energy that work out cheaper than just buying more batteries though.

I’m really stoked about LiTo batteries coming down in price eventually (or similar tech not yet released) because they last 30 years + / 30,000 cycles…. And they can take a charge at a ridiculous rate, which solves other challenges.
I wouldn’t call overpopulation a myth. It’s just that we’re unevenly distributed.
All sorts of reasons, but it's got a lot to do with packaging and handling. Generally you want the weight distribution of the car to be 50:50 front:rear for optimal handling.

A car will handle great if you can put the engine and transmission somewhere towards the middle, but obviously that isn't great news for passengers. Mid-engined cars exist, of course, but they're usually two-seater sports cars where space and comfort are lower down the list of priorities.

So you're left with putting the engine somewhere towards the front, or somewhere towards the back. Some manufacturers, like BMW, achieve ideal weight distribution by mounting the engine relatively far back in the front of the car, and putting the transmission and some other heavy bits at the back. This is elegant, but too complex and expensive for your average runabout.

With a front-engined car, you can safely put some of the engine forward of the front axle. Doing so means more space in the passenger cabin, but hanging the weight out front makes the car nose-heavy. In an average front-wheel-drive family car, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, and might even be desirable, as it means good traction and a tendency towards boring, predictable understeer.

Sling the weight out back, like a Porsche 911, and you get the opposite problem: the car naturally tends to want to swap ends in corners. Some drivers find this fun, right up until it kills them. If a 911 is a safe car today, it's because Porsche has spent decades pigheadedly perfecting a layout everybody else abandoned long ago for its tendency to send you backwards through hedges.
> but there is no chance of running data over the same circuit

Maybe true for top of the line fiber connections, but I honestly wouldn't underestimate the resilience of ADSL https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...

Edit: Actually here's an exact case where the phone line no longer functioned due to a break, but ADSL soldiered on: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/9yzp5wr3
Yeah, I think a lot of the merino wool stuff--which I use as well--is to basically not wash it a lot and maybe do it on gentle or in a sink when traveling when you do.
I might give it a shot, but outside of how long opening a solution takes (which I therefore try to do as little as possible), Visual Studio + Visual Assist is a pretty strong combo that seems to offer all the benefits of 10x - except startup time.
Here's my email: Logan.underwood@ad-auris.com !
YouTube creators outraged as new profanity guidelines wreak havoc
This evidence adds weight to what I understand to be a common interaction between psychological stress and abdominal wellbeing.

Anecdote++, but in my long term experiences of living with chronic anxiety, social exclusion, depression and mild PTSD, I eventually found myself seeking medical help for various difficult-to-pin-down abdominal issues. It was actually somewhat of a relief to connect the two, and gave greater impetus to make positive changes.

Those quite scary physical experiences (which involved incorrectly, but quite seriously, suspecting cancer etc), and my subsequent reading about the gut biome - also touching on tangents like SSRIs and their effects upon such, and the complex gut endocannabinoid system - highlighted to me what vast unexplored areas and unfilled gaps we have yet to define within this complex area of full-system psychological involvement.
It's literally called "birth"dates, not existence days or personhood days.
That’s a good example of how neutral institutions reframe contentious policy proposals as if they are universal values that are beyond debate.

“Equity” and “diversity” sound like something “non-political” that everyone can get onboard with. But in practice those terms are used to champion expressly race conscious hiring and promotion. That’s not only political and debatable, it’s unpopular among the very minorities on whose behalf it is invoked: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/05/08/america...
I couldn't agree more, but my main use-case for wireless charging is my desktop cradle. I keep my phone sitting in it during the day and it maintains 100% charge until I leave for the day.

I wouldn't try to do a deep charge from like 50% of something wirelessly... I've got better things to do!
> My phone has 15 watt Qi charging, how novel.

Presumably an android phone (without magsafe)? My bedside charger is magsafe - it works very well and is one of those small things that works well and improves the experience.

There's a lot of stuff in the apple experience like this, that android users seem to scoff at - and then they try it and get hooked. I'm really glad Google is building their own phones and trying to push them as first class devices - iOS and iPhones desperately need strong competition.
Stripe knows this, when they were smaller the founder used to reply to threads like this or patio11 who they hired (but he just wrote that he is no longer there!).

Makes me wonder what's going on in there post-layoff, the business model is sound and they are market leader. No pressure too IPO quickly in the down market
It's expensive in terms of the external costs. That's the reason why it's banned.
In that world we used to handle all the state on the server side.
My license is currently expired so I don't think I could even complete the process if I were willing to make an account with AllPassTrust.

And I definitely don't desire or trust LAWallet.

So PornHub is dead to me unless I vpn/tunnel/tor (or discover a bypass which I assume is based on some cookie values from a brief look at the JS).
Good call on clarifying. To add, it's hormonal birth control for women that is also used to help with a number of other medical conditions, so it's also not solely used for contraception.
If you still have a working Acorn Electron or BBC Micro computer you can load software into it directly from a web page using only an audio cable with PlayUEF:

https://www.8bitkick.cc/playuef.html
Video from fire/rescue on scene: https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1610075687981023233

Local news: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-california-cliff-2-kids-2...

Reports suggest that the vehicle tumbled down the steep cliff
rather than free-falling. Occupants are very lucky that the incident was witnessed, reported, and responded to quickly, and that rescuers used binoculars to observe movement in the wrecked vehicle and quickly shift from recovery mode to rescue mode.
Why do these nations need to keep growing in population as opposed to shrinking to a more sustainable one?
There were still people working at twitter?
What about the Iraq war? A Power Point with made up stuff is seemingly enough reason for a nuclear super power to invade a non-nuclear state and kill its head of state without due process. Where were the sanctions against the USA? Where were the weapons shipments in support of Iraq? Where were the worries about nuclear proliferation to be protected from that kind of shit?

And yes, I said what about, so let me be clear before you write anything about Whataboutism. I can accept a world with shitty rules where accumulating enough weapons grants you an unlimited stack of get-out-of-jail-free cards, but much worse than shitty rules are different rules for different players, that is truly unfair. Let's just tell Putin that he did a bad thing and then move on as if nothing happened. Or would it not be better if we opposed the USA - and any other country doing stupid shit - as vigorously as we oppose Putin?
It's important to realize it's just writing out the next thing that seems most likely given the input.

I was pretty surprised playing around with github copilot that it could understand the context of a CSV file and filled in all the headers and stuff when I asked it to, then I realized it could probably just arbitrarily read anything on my computer and promptly uninstalled it.
What VS Code does better with the multiple cursors?

I am curious.

So far I only see that VSC uses Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys, vs ST using Shift+Alt+arrow keys to create the multiple cursors.
Sure depends on the architecture.
When the auth service is down, everything else should be down.
But when the "optional feature" service is down, a core component should be unaffected by that.

Split up services where it makes sense and don't over do it.
That's how I design my projects.
Critical issue with this technology it only really works well with helium.
> Self aware computers are commerically useless

I don't think we've shown that at all.

Bees could be self aware, and yet they work tirelessly for the hive.
This is very impressive! I tried it with a big Unreal project and it handled it without blinking. Much faster than any other editor I've seen.

It doesn't look like it supports memory breakpoints? I end up tied to Visual Studio because of how powerful its debugger is.
> Yeah it seems like there used to be a cultural value of putting people to work. Generally speaking you had to be a real fuck-up to not get a job. Maybe the jobs available weren't the best, but you could get something to pay for basic food/housing with little effort or credentialing. The attitude was, if you were a decent person and willing to work, "come by and we'll find something for you to do".

This might be a local thing, but here (central europe, balkans), there are currently enough jobs for basically anyone, even shitty jobs for really uneducated and slightly incompetent people and up to great jobs.

The problem I see most is housing... "society" expects you to get a job, get a wife, settle down, make 1, 2, 3 kids, have a dog etc. You've got a good enough job, average pay... want to move out? Still expect half (or even more) of the paycheck to go for rent. Want to buy a nice three bedroom apartment in the capital (nothing luxurious, just something normal, in a socialist apartment building, a few kilometers outside of city center)? That'll be 250-300 monthly paychecks. The boomers got their apartments or built their houses during socialist times, and now we have an extreme case of NIMBYism everywhere, even rural areas.

This means that a lot of young people stay at home... and if you're at home, you have a room, a bed and food... why bother working more than bare minimum (to cover entertainment costs, parties, drugs,...) if it's almost impossible to move out and still live normally.
It's more than just that. The skateboard design for dedicated EV platforms makes for a better-protected passenger cell. Whereas before you had to dedicate all this steel into keeping the car rigid while mounting this heavy 250kg engine all the way up front, usually in front of the wheels (and plus all the attendant powertrain stuff), now instead a lot of that steel is dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the passenger cell, concomitant to maintaining integrity of the battery skateboard.

As for why few companies put the ICE engine in the back, whereas front-engine layouts tend towards understeer, rear-engine layouts tend toward oversteer, which is a safety and usability issue for the 99th percentile of drivers (and that's after you put in the engineering to make it work). Porsche spent a lot of effort making rear-engine safe. The design also results in less room for storage.
The US gets more legal immigrants from Asia maybe. Total immigrants I seriously doubt that
No where do I see mentioned how much was actually saved in dollar figures. What are we talking here—thousands, hundreds? Similarly, I'd be interested in knowing engineering effort involved in the migration.

As a software consultant focusing on designing, building, and deploying software on AWS, more often than not, the infrastructure cost issues I've seen have less to do with the underlying infrastructure provider — AWS in this case — and more to do with the application itself that's being deployed. Most recently, we were able to shave off 50% of a client's bill that was using Lambda for compute. The issue? Several, including sleep timers (on a service where you pay by the millisecond!) as well as pathological code (i.e. consume message from queue, enqueue same message, rinse and repeat).

Yes. You can save money by transitioning to another provider. But I'd start with reviewing the underlying code and architecture first
Is it? Doesn't Hopkinson–Cranz scaling mean that it would decrease at the cube of distance?
You can build a device to do this yourself over a serial port.

https://maker.pro/pcb/projects/make-uart-cassette-tape-inter...
> In the US, we spend an average of over $12,500 per person each year on healthcare

> our healthcare outcomes are poorer than other countries, people still can’t afford their healthcare, and our healthcare providers are burnt out.

> How can this be, and how can we change it?

This is a great problem to tackle but has many different angles at play. I just wanted to share my sentiments.

I am a lay person, but have you considered lobbying Congress to fund more residency positions? These are paid by the government, and limits the number of residents that may exist in any given year. It seems hospitals do not want to fund salaries of residents themselves (why???). This trickles back to medical school acceptance rates: schools want to maintain high "placement rates" (no. of graduates who place at a residency). Growing numbers of potential young folks wanting to be doctors cannot make it because of an artificial limit on residencies, and schools thus examine increasingly arbitrary metrics of their applicants. Doubling or tripling the number of residencies would seem very useful.

Second, cost of medical schools is so high that students and residents increasingly pursue specialties. The majority of the population first interact with a generalist, of which there are fewer.

Third, due to the above shortages, our system has created very weird solutions such as Physician Assistants, and giving them and NPs more responsibilities like an MD or DO would have, but they have less rigorous training.

Fourth, we have a merging of residency paths between DO schools and MD schools, increasing the pressure of individuals on residency slots, too. New schools cannot be created nor grown without allowing for a greater number of residency slots to be funded.

We need to open the "flood gates" holding back all the would-be doctors in our country, and allow them to enter schools. I'd be curious to see a ratio between residency slots and overall US population as a graph over time. Are they diverging? etc.

Incentives is also a great angle to work on.

Thanks for reading.
The problem with this is you can't trust the actual data, if you care about data quality. I'm really not getting it's usefulness beyond a contextual lorem ipsum generator? It could probably work for a test environment but you still need to have a human review the lists that are generated.
Helium is nothing more than an Airbnb for "cell phone tower" real-estate. It has a viable business model because commercial vendors need pervasive low-data connections in populated areas without using the expensive cell phone network (and SIM management).

The "mining" or whathaveyou is a coolhunting gimmick that accomplished the goal of getting people excited about it.

I don't understand why they didn't have a closed platform and hand people their devices. Instead, there's a "waiting list" and a shortage of equipment. Coverage where I'm at is nearly 100%.

Attach the word "mining" to it, and the dotcom money flows like mana from heaven.
> Apple's standards have been less about creating convergent technology and more about reinforcing revenue streams

a) Apple's "standards" are not a proper standard by any definition.

b) Their proprietary connectors e.g. Lightning, MagSafe have always been developed when they have believed there was a better user experience available. When there wasn't they have adopted the industry standard e.g. HDMI, USB-C, SD.

c) Apple is a massive company that hinges on having a superior user experience to the competition. The idea that programs such as MFI would compromise this in order to create an insignificant revenue stream is illogical.
It might just be me but I've been experiencing problems here in Australia as well. Timeline not loading properly.

I think they reduced the number of servers a week or so ago as part of the cost-saving measures. It probably doesn't affect the place where Musk lives but it does affect remote regions (which for these purposes, Australia and NZ are).
Agreed. If this ever becomes a market, I think it will be very niche and stupid expensive like high end audio systems.
> You have no obligation to explain yourself to anyone, I have no earthly idea why you think you do.

> explaining things is often a great way to lose credibility

> I wouldn’t trust your citation selection anyway!

One popular earth reason is people like teaching and learning. We call it knowledge. I'm sure you're fun at parties.
Or even simpler: if you put barriers in the way of users cashing out their "earnings", you can keep a naked pyramid scheme running for quite a while. Some schemes have done this by making it difficult for users to cash out their earnings, e.g. by enforcing a lockup period, or requiring users to sell their tokens to another new investor, or even by simply declaring that withdrawals are a feature "under development".

One notable example of such a scheme was OneCoin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin), which wasn't even based on a blockchain.
Even if my meetings were entirely internal, I’d literally quit my job if this sort of techno-micromanagement was trust upon me because someone at the top of the pyramid had a brain fart. How utterly absurd, and a great way to ensure that your employee pool is stacked with cult followers.
There's a curious absence of Korean banking apps on this GrapheneOS compatibility list:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Does it mean none are usable on a modern clean Android? Or is there a total Samsung monoculture? Something else?
They don’t “open” shit, the linguistic turn came and largely went long before they existed.
Is America suffering a ‘social recession’?
That's unfortunate. I got my 8.25KW system + Powerwall installed through Tesla for ~$26K in 2021. Just got my 26% tax credit this year. Also added a Tesla Model 3 in 2021 to complete the Tesla Ecosystem. Truly a dream come true.

My loan payments are less than $140/mo and I plan to completely pay off the system in the next year or so. Living off the sun is great.
The average New Englander uses between 567 kWh/month and 711 kWh/month (different values for different states - areas farther south generally use more).

The answer is probably that you live 5-10 degrees north of him and don’t use as much air conditioning.
No, Perl 6 is a completely different language (now called Raku, because otherwise it sounds like a newer version of Perl 5, and never intended to be compatible with Perl 5). But because of the Perl 6 situation, even a change the size of the Python 2 to 3 change would be a "Perl 5" version update.

I think having Python 2 vs. 3 is a clearer demarcation, myself, but the Perl community cares a LOT about backwards compatibility.
> Now, founders will rationally devalue investments from a16z

No, they won't. Non-profits were gladly taking donations from Pablo Escobar, and you're telling me startups are going to say "no" to early funding rounds because a16z is too "unsavory."
I would be interested in hear the use cases for large scale validation of floating point data. I used to work with processors that occasionally corrupted operations due to hardware manufacturing defects and these kinds of problems are exceptionally hard to debug, so I'm curious what techniques are used.

In our case, we built programs that ran enormous numbers of semi-random programs on the accelerator and compared it to reliable results computed offline. About 1 in 1000 chips would - reproducibly - fail certain operations. Identifying this helped solve problems many of our researchers reported on specific accelerator clusters- they would get a Nan in their gradients which would kill training, and it was almost always explainable by a single processor (out of ~thousands) occasionally corrupting a float.
They have inherent noise that you can't escape nor can they faithfully reproduce low frequencies. Variation in all of the mechanical parts affects the sound reproduction and they are damaged on every playback.
I think if the CEO hadn’t been waging culture war, the respectable opinion would be that this is fine temporarily as they get the totally new workforce and infrastructure situation sorted. In context with what really smart people were saying about how Twitter would respond to Musk’s changes, though, I think it’s a spectacular success. (Which doesn’t really change how I feel about the culture war stuff.)
I have a house from 1909, with relatively poor insulation, by modern standards. We heat the house with a heat pump and a 100 m deep borehole. The heating of the house (180 m2 and a cellar) is the main energy consumption. The total was 22 000 kWh last year (including about 3 500 kWh for an electric car). An old house with electric heating and cooling could well be what he has.

When we moved in the electric consumption per year was way higher, 35 000 kWh. We have gone through and made the house more effective, better white goods, windows, better ventilation etc. We also sold about 2 000 kWh of excess production from our solar panels.
Example from Boulder: big houses near open space at the "end of the line" as far as the dendritic distribution grid is concerned install solar. On a cold sunny day those houses produce more than they need and more than the network leading to them was sized to deliver. Who pays to upgrade the transformers and switchgear upgrades? Should it be subsidized by all ratepayers?
But he hasn't designed it yet. And he's still trying to figure out how to manufacture the expensive ones he's already designed.

I think maybe 5-10 years from now there will be a good variety of EVs, new and used, on the market at "reasonable" price points. But it's not gonna happen this year, and it's not gonna happen next year or the year after.
At this point just get rid of regular Youtube and replace it with Youtube Kids. Though being honest, showing advertisement to kids is already very morally questionable. Not that youtube cares what is moral anyway since they constantly enable creators that scam their audiences.
Wouldn't it be cool though to use the same back doors to disable all the telemetry automakers are pouring into our cars though? Well I mean cool until somebody steals the car but all you'd have to do is have your own tracker on it.
And the compiler was emitting the two instructions in the wrong order?