skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 4 page document prompted me for a $50 payment.

Good luck running 500 pages through this thing...
In the northeast at least there are separate lines for supply and distribution. If your supply goes negative, you still pay the distribution fee....and if you supplied more than the distribution cost....why wouldn't you receive money? Unless the energy company is for some reason not charging properly for distribution, seems everything is already baked in.
Ask HN: Meta allows hackers to post anything to our bloomineasy page
To the Hacker News Community – we need your help! Our @bloomineasy Facebook page got hacked back in April, and now the hackers are posting terrible and shameful videos that nobody would want to be associated with. We feel sick about what our gardening focussed page is being associated with, and we are desperate for help. We’ve spent countless hours trying to work through official Facebook/Meta channels, but it has not worked. So frustrating! They did stop the ad spending, but they have not restored our admin access or shut down the terrible postings from the hackers.

We are left wondering if this issue lingered because Meta support is automated and prefers the hacker content or is this a human choice to leave the clearly inappropriate content as is?

Here’s the summary:

* APRIL 2022: Hackers took over admin control of our business manager and started running fraudulent ads. Ad account was disabled. Once support refunded our fraudulent ad spend, they closed our case without removing the hackers and giving admin control back to us.

* NOVEMBER 2022: Disturbing and offensive videos began posting on our @bloomineasy Facebook page and a new claim was created since the old claim was closed without resolution.

* JANUARY 2023: Meta Support still won’t take down the page from public access and repeatedly tell us to be patient while they investigate the claim.

Action needed ASAP

* Take down @bloomineasy FB page while investigation is ongoing to prevent further damage to our brand image from the disturbing content being posted to our page by the hackers that control it.

* Our Meta Support case # 573044474585726.

Reference:

* http://facebook.com/bloomineasy

* https://bloomineasyplants.com

If anybody can help, we will be forever grateful!
The easiest approach I've found to this whole debate: start with a monolith, making notes about where you think a server is most likely to have bottlenecks.

Push the monolith to production, monitoring performance, and if and when performance spikes in an unpleasant way, "offload" the performance intensive work to a separate job server that's vertically scaled (or a series of vertically scaled job servers that reference a synced work queue).

It's simple, predictable, and insanely easy to maintain. Zero dependency on third party nightmare stacks, crazy configs, etc. Works well for 1 developer or several developers.

A quote I heard recently that I absolutely love (from a DIY construction guy, Jeff Thorman): "everybody wants to solve a $100 problem with a $1000 solution."
Did anyone try opening LibreOffice master in it?

LO has a reputation as an IDE-killer, as it’s so large and complex.
Similar question to one above, I don't follow why the (positive) ad hominem bolsters or detract from the arguments.
So you think it’s easier to keep in your head lambdas in a 10k line file vs methods split by functionality across a number of smaller files?
The issue is that you have to size the hardware for a multiple of the power draw you expect and the cost doesn't go down because people use less temporarily. You also have to do all the vegetation management and billing and it and billing regardless of the amount of kWh that are used even if a solar install is negative. They might draw today and it has to be available.
I've just installed solar & batteries (not 2 weeks ago we turned them on!). Be interesting to see how things will unfold and I love reading stories on how people have got on with theirs. It was roughly ~£12,900 installed (in the UK) and we pay 32.596p/kWh & 42.290p/day standing charge...

Will either pay off well or be an expensive lesson
we have all sorts of problems maxing out all the cores on a c6.24xl if youre memory or network conatrained. Even if CPU constrained it can be hard.
Just because the old way was deprecated doesn't mean that it wasn't possible to run old and new code next to each other.

Also, Perl 5 is a very different example. While I haven't followed Perl for quite a while, ISTR that Perl had a very similar transition from 4->5 (I personally remember spending a lot of time trying to get old code working on newer OSes). Also, AFAIK but I may be wrong, Perl 6 has not really taken off like Python 3 did.
There's no Ruby yet.
But a project is. Get rid of the sprints.
Well, it's certainly more embarrassing for them to lose land they've annexed rather than land they're just occupying without having annexed it. Certainly puts a whole damper on the question of what would make Crimea a red line, if/when it comes to that, although I suspect Russia will try to settle for status quo ante bellum by the time that becomes a real question.
Consumer rooftop solar is the most expensive way ever thought of to provide electrical power. Money is fungible. A dollar tied up in building a one-off consumer solar installation is exactly a dollar unavailable for building out utility grade solar which can be done at a fraction of the cost.

With net metering, wealthier home owners are essentially paid the retail rate for the electricity they sell to the grid which causes higher electricity bills for those who can't afford to put panels on their roof - sort of a reverse Robinhood scheme. I recall reading that with net-metering, non-solar households in CA pay an estimated extra $115 to $245 per year to cover the subsidies given to their wealthier neighbors.
Yeah, the Supercharger network is an under-appreciated and under-advertised feature of driving a Tesla.

If I want to drive south out of Portland to California, along I-5, there are 6 CCS charging locatinos with 4 chargers each that are at least 70 kW, totaling 24 chargers along the I-5 corridor in Oregon outside of Portland.

Meanwhile, there are 7 Tesla Supercharging locations with a total of 70 stalls.

Also, Superchargers tend to be a bit less expensive than 3rd party CCS chargers.

I'd be nervous driving a car that only charges via CCS.
*Wordpress.com

.org is the project page

.com is the hosting service
I'd say its an outlier. There are places like that in the U.S. of course but the vast majority of bars and clubs just play a playlist off of some workers phone who is on the clock that night.
Sure but I don't want a bunch of random space heaters around the house. Regardless of whether they are safe or not it's a waste of space if there is an existing central heating system.
We need something that will incent home solar + storage because:

1) it increases resilience in disaster scenarios and a lot of high usage scenarios. I especially think back to Puerto Rico getting hit by the Hurricane, or the Texas icestorms or things like that. Having a lot of homes semi-independent of the grid would help people mitigate impacts, because you can rely on neighbors for certain things while the grid is down.

2) BEVs are going to introduce a huge additional burden on the grid. But if we couple it with a lot of home solar installations, it will reduce the impact to the grid and the grid can focus on more industrial tasks like highway supercharging for semis and those big challenges.

3) aside from the solar panels, home solar means a distributed storage for the grid too.

Net metering is flawed, but there's the baby with the bathwater argument. Let's introduce better incentives before chucking the flawed ones that are working, and I don't see that happening.

And it's hard to price the incentives. Home solar panels are going to change a lot with forthcoming perovskites, and home storage is going to drastically change with production Sodium Ion, high density LFP/LFMP in the next few years, and Sulfur beyond that.

What I think is ridiculous is the pricing of home solar+storage versus what the grid buyers get. If home solar programs could have their panels bulk-purchased along with grid solar purchases and then the grid providers have to get them installed to homes, it would swap the grid providers from opposing home solar to being incented to finding people to allow the installation.
That's funny to see because for example for Java it's the contrary:

Java code JIT compiled is usually significantly faster than when AoT compiled.
I really like the examples: a screenshot of what the thing looks like, with a link to the corresponding source code right next to it! I think all UI component frameworks (or DSLs, I guess) should have something like that.

Some webdev libraries/frameworks have gone a step further and include code in the same page (though maybe it could/should be collapsed by default sometimes).
here is the twitter thread :)
https://twitter.com/romanger/status/1596794193849987072
Absolutely, the heat here is simply awful. Can't go outside without constantly sweating.
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Just tried it out-- it's a neat concept. I wish the "free" version was more giving... I'll have to try more to see if it's something I'd want to pay for. Overall, it seems fairly useful.
Jim Keller mentioned this problem in the hardware space. Basically when people breach the interface design and couple things and how that coupling limits your ability to grow the design.

When he helped set the tone for the Zen architecture he took AMDs existing people, set them on a more aggressive path and one of the cardinal tenants was you could not cheat on the interfaces. This is one of the nuggets you can pull from his interviews.

It's possible. It happens. And the end results can be industry changing.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00704

This time, they didn't explicitly say that they weren't going to release it publicly.
> I don't have any issues with people using code I put into the public domain which I why I use the unlicense.

Good for you. I use the GNU GPL, so I do have a problem with my code being used for proprietary software.

> they have superior collaboration and auditing features

What exactly makes GitHub/GitLab better in this aspect than other alternatives?

> If I use Jenkins am I any less locked in?

I don't know anything about Jenkins, but being able to change your Git host independently of your build service is definitely good.
The ability to think independently and outside of the box nurtured by psychedelics actually turned out well for capitalism. It was not good for military recruiting and war support though.

The rise in software and hardware innovations that came out of the SF counter culture included Steve Jobs and Apple. He did quite a bit of acid.
> you have to grind hours doing miserable things largely unrelated to survival to get enough money to _not die_.

Working to not die, isn't that the definition of survival? Or, as Rick Sanchez might say, grinding at your job is just surviving with extra steps.

> I really believe that most people will still want to be useful and make cool things people like

I really want to believe this, and it's true there are a lot of us that will do just that.

The issue is that there are a lot of traps and vices people can fall into. Alcoholism, drug use, even seemingly benign stuff like chasing digital approval are very ugly when taken to extremes. What snaps most people out of this stuff and keeps us in check is the fear of hitting rock bottom -- that is, you know that if you don't change you're likely going to lose everything / die / etc.

I've seen it in numerous lives, its only when they hit rock bottom that they decide something needs to change (that something being them). I know a former heroin user that destroyed every relationship in his life (including family) to get his hands on the stuff, and only changed when he decided that being homeless and waking up naked in a crack house was enough.

UBI takes away rock bottom. What's to stop a drug addict when there is no downside to staying high all the time?

As much as I would like to believe in UBI helping people, I would wager that there is a positive correlation between the people that UBI could help the most and people most susceptible to addiction. Maybe that's my pessimism leaking through, but I don't think UBI is a solution for them.

Again, I'm ALL for having better social safety nets etc. It's just hard to define what better is. You can meet a man's physical needs and still starve his soul.
Very nice library, hope that it can get more users in the future.
Who killed all the gamergaters?
The Indian judiciary is independent, much to the chagrin of the BJP whenever rulings go against them. A court-ordered block has little if anything to do with the BJP.
Yeah, but those aren't related to human space exploration. Not saying we should get rid of the space program 100% - just reduce it's cost by cancelling all the human spaceflight projects.
Most analysis of single payer versus the status quo suggest we'd all be saving money hand over fist. Sure the government is not the most efficient, but private companies are often even more inefficient unless you are a shareholder and your metrics for efficiency are profit versus the wellbeing of your customers.
I thought HN of all places would understand this: The Cloudflare captcha is not for DDoS. It's for the rest of the "security" issues Cloudflare markets itself as a solution to:

> The problem is Tor exit nodes often have very bad reputations due to all the malicious requests they send, and you can do a lot of harm just with GETs. Content scraping, ad click fraud, and vulnerability scanning are all threats our customers ask us to protect them from and all only take GET requests.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/
Dunno! It could be the case that there just needs to be a trillion parameters to be useful enough outside of highly-constrained scenarios. But I would certainly challenge those who work on LLMs to figure out how to require far less compute for the same outcome.
Out of curiosity can I ask which country it is?
When the company is a utility with a built in monopoly, with legal access to shared resources like land for transmission cables, and is the easiest path to executing policy as important as decarbonization?

Yes, if it helps the implementation of the policy.

Our entire power system lacks proper carbon taxation. So I won't cry over minor things like power companies making a bit less money when the effect is a major avenue to mitigating carbon emissions.

Arguably incenting the grid to switch over from coal/natural gas to wind/solar/storage is more important, but lets try multiple approaches and not stop what is working.
I would say most people can't afford 25k$ investment cost for something relying on governmental decision that can change on a whim
I don't find his methods particularly rigorous. He's just taking total generated kWh and multiplying it by current utility rates and then saying this represents savings.

Does it, though? We don't know how much of the generated power was actually used instead of sold back into the grid, or if this is even a grid tied installation, and what the return sales rate would be.

The only way to actually compare this is to look at the actual bills. What did you pay last year, what did you pay this year? That's _actual_ savings. This is calculated plausible savings. It's not at all clear they're the same thing in this scenario.

Finally.. if you're in a position to even say you're _saving_ $233/mo, then how inefficient is your home in the first place? How many people live there to generate this large of a bill? How much of a difference would it have made to make that house more thermally or electrically efficient instead?
"Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby" definitely needs to included in this conversation. Not only is the text strange, there is a crazy amount of comic book illustration and sidebars with it.
That is extremely interesting. I had no idea that the Big Five had been formulated based originally on linguistic analysis (specifically of English). It's a brilliant direction to research. But it also accounts for the pretty obvious bias in the terminology.
Continued erosion of reality.

The bulk of people are utterly gullible. You don't have to look past any of the creative writing exercises on r/tifu that make the front page of reddit.

The major application of AI/deepfakes/etc is going to be to continue to bombard the internet with fake information, driving a wedge between people and reality.

The result is going to be more conspiracy theories going mainstream, more people believing "counterintuitive" things about how human systems work, etc.

I don't see us generating an immune-system-like response to this anytime soon, and suspect it will require some kind of massive WWII-scale tragedy before policymakers stop treating it as a game and taking it seriously.

This won't be done by "terrorists", it will be done in bulk by nation-state actors and billionaires and their proxies.

Right now we can still identify the obvious bot accounts on twitter, reddit, etc. In the future, ChatGPT-like accounts will be running continuously building up accounts with months of history on random subjects (although consistent subjects per account) before they are employed to reinforce some narrative. They'll even get properly offended and flip you shit when you accuse them of being bots.

The only way out of it may be certifying identity through the government who is real and mandating that people use their real identities on social media and requiring social media to collect proof of who their users are. Which is its own dystopia.
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I'm in one of the suburbs slightly north of orlando. Rent last year went up $400, and I'm guessing it'll probably be similar with this next year.

I've been wanting to move out of this state for years now, but it feels like everywhere else that's comparable in the US is just as expensive if not more.

It's a huge pain for my SO and I
And what happens when this proxy gets hit with the inevitable torrent of fraud attempts? Either it pretends there is no fraud and gets wiped out. Or it attempts to detect fraud, and responds by freezing accounts etc. Sometimes there are false positives. Now we're back to square 1.
Lama2 probably will never have as many options/complexity as this extension. For the following purpose.

If I add an intern into my team, I want them to "get" what's going on with APIs without many reference docs. So it has to pass real "intern tests".

Second difference is: I want to keep the "language" and "extension" utterly separate. In fact, I want `l2` support in multiple editors; VSCode is just a start.

Third, I have a rudimentary Postman import, which preserves original hierarchy/organization. My focus is to get the basic features of Postman with similar ease of use, on top of a lightweight UI. (maybe 20% of Postman's features; not more)
I download every single book anyone recommends me. If I see its already downloaded then I usually buy it. I do also keep a running list of books to read. A bunch of post its on a page in my notebook. I will move any to the top if someone recommends a specific book for a specific reasons. The more specific, the higher it moves up.

I have had a few people emphatically recommend a book with no specificity and came up short in actually getting anything from the book. I keep a mental tally and will disregard their recommendations in the future.
Fundamentally, Putin wants to Make Russia Great Again--essentially, to reestablish Russia as a regional hegemon. He particularly seems incensed that even Russophile Ukrainians would rather be aligned to the West than to Russia were they forced to choose.

The countries Russia seeks to assert hegemony over don't particularly want to be a part of that hegemony (even in Belarus!), and Russia doesn't have much in the way of carrots to offer those countries. Offering a diplomatic status that even freezes the status quo as de facto recognition only serves to legitimize Russia's use of invasion to get what it wants--note that this is the third war this century where Russia is invading another country to do this (the prior two being the Russia-Georgia war in 2008, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014).
I think you know what a rare lightning strike of an even this would be and how without DNA evidence, conclusions would be even more dubious.
Something you know is often a pin to unlock your local stuff. Some hardware tokens (via webauthn) require a pin to work.
That would still have been appropriate for... I think the previous bubble was in 2017 ?

This time, as the FTX mess shows, the blame is on """regulators""" and """sophisticated""" investors completely failing to do their job.
Completely unrelated but that YouTube ID is (mildly) interesting in that it's almost pronounceable.
They are both walled gardens that you have to subscribe to.
Since none of the messages can be seen by the public, they both
are knowledge silos.
Discord has some wonderful instances with smart people, but by its structure
even Usenet threads or old SMTP mailing lists are better to search for answers. I'm sure it is against the Discord TOS for an aggregator to scrape and curate its contents. Unlike even HN, Discord messages have an unlimited time they can be deleted punching holes in timelines. Most of the Yahoo Groups that I follow ended up on groups.io
Every article I read about Tesla says that they are overpriced and shoddily made, appealing to people with more money than sense. Additionally, and I admit this might be unfair, I do not like Elon Musk in the least.
What is MS? Masters degree? Microsoft?
To add to this, I also want the ability to move "ecosystem" - passkeys are "platform-backed", meaning Chrome on iOS is "iOS" as far as passkeys are concerned, and you are stuck in the iOS keychain.

I want to see proper migration paths between iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD etc - so that there is no platform lock-in or inertia that prevents you leaving one platform for another, and quickly (in under 30 seconds) moving everything across.

At a time when competition authorities are clamping down hard on platform dominance, self-preferencing and lock-in, passkeys risks becoming a pain point if there isn't proper, genuine, portability.

I'm also not keen on the lack of self-sovereignty of passkeys as you suggest - this feels like a "by the back door" way to force everyone into using "Sign in with X" type federated login. When your cloud account is locked out by Google AI, you want to be able to sign in to your other services! People have already started to discover the risks of Oauth type login when their bigtech company locks them out.
If you're interested in learning a lot about doing home/campervan installations, I highly suggest watching/reading everything that Will Prowse has published.
Agreed; I was expecting to see some kind of incubator for producers of animated content.

Perhaps there's a lesson here about naming your organization when there's already something with a similar name in the zeitgeist. The Santa Cruz Operation is another one; my teenage brain automatically associated it with skateboards!
In a similar vein, I had good grades, but from a non-cs background (I studied engineering physics). A lot of recruiters were turned off immediately when they heard "physics" and not pure CS or ECE. Google was interested, though.
I think quantization (e.g. 4-bit, https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09720) and sparsity (e.g. SparseGPT, https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00774) will bring down inference cost.

Edit: This isn’t handwaving btw, this is to say some fairly decent solutions are available now.
You could do a poll for this if you wanted - http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll.