skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relax. It's normal to sometimes have nothing to do at work. I recently started working for the first time ever in a Logistics Company doing something non-tech related. I receive on average 1-2 emails every 5 minutes, which I usually have to reply to, fast and without "fucking up".

However, sometimes in the middle of the month I have those very same moments of "nothing to do" and I have made the mistake of telling my manager, literally "nothing to do, give me work" while being anxious because THERE MUST BE SOMETHING TO DO. He's gotten mad at me several times.

Last time this happened, because I have made the mistake of telling him that several times, he called me on Teams to stop me from telling him that. He told me that I should never tell that to a boss, and also, consider that just like you said, those other people maybe are working very hard. He's told me that if I have nothing to do, to just enjoy myself, do some "janitorial" work, or talk to people, and that it's good to not be busy 24/7 with never ending deadlines.

I'm hybrid, so now when that has happens to me, I always just pop to a coworker's desk to chit chat or watch what they're doing and try to help.
Break the terms of service, get mad and write a blog post. It's not even hidden in some legalese; they tell you not to serve majority image/video content _everywhere_ in the UI.

All my tunnels are still running great, for free. I could not be happier.
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I have been reading tech folks lament the disappearance of dumb screens for years.

I finally bought my first new TV in 2020, a Sony with Android TV. I have never connected it to the Internet. Instead, it displays an AppleTV or a gaming machine.

It has been an amazing reliable display at a reasonable price, every bit as good as the imagined ideal dumb TV.

So why all the pearl clutching? Do other brands require Internet to turn on and display HDMI?
In late 2017 I got enough of a feel that NLP was moving fast to figure I had better get acquainted with it. I had a technical background, but nothing in NLP.
About two years later, I wrote an article with a practical roadmap to learning NLP [1].

A few months later I write a no-maths explainer to transformer models (BERT and GPT-2.) [2] GPT-3 is basically the same but bigger. ChatGPT is a little different).

Recently, I wondered what, if anything, I'd change about these, given where we are with NLP today. The only thing I'd say is getting acquainted with the HuggingFace ecosystem.

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/learn-nlp-the-practical-way-b...

[2] https://towardsdatascience.com/the-abba-explainer-to-bert-an...
I'm not sure that's the case. Meth and heroin was plenty cheap and plenty available in the deep south, and it's not like they're known for being soft on drug crimes down there.
Don't forget https://gluon-lang.org
Another way to say that is that you installed solar panels and they paid for your new roof
Better learn chatGPT
The python2 executable still functions correctly as does all other code you have that relies on python2. Make sure the code is in the right place and run the python executable just as you have done before.

However that's not what you're complaining about. You are complaining about is that you want others to support python2 forever, just as you may want browsers/sites to support `alert()`, the `<blink>` tag and IE 6.0 forever. However that's not how the world works.

If you wish to use something nobody else wants to support, then you need to support it yourself.

Otherwise, take a moment to understand the thing you are using and follow any instructions to upgrade. Don't put ignorance on a pedestal and then make the argument that the fruits of your ignorance are only the fault of others and not yourself.
Northern climates is relative. I live in the north of Sweden and the solar panels here will be completely covered from December to February or similar.

It's true though that the snow will melt or fall off quickly when it's not that cold anymore.
I feel like as a paying customer a warning and migration deadline would have gone a long way.
My installation has separate circuit breakers for the various components (grid, home, backup that is on even if grid is off, panels), plus some extra protection against overcurrent in the inverter and batteries.
There are no sensible storage methods that would allow you to store enough energy from summer to make any reasonable contribution towards winter.

Batteries a great for powering your house for a few days. Not really beyond that. Unless you buy a ridiculous amount of batteries.
Electricity from utility solar (large power plants) is about 2x cheaper than electricity from residential solar if you don't count subsidies.

So residential solar really doesn't make a lot of sense to me on a societal level, assuming blackouts are rare.
And anti fracking movements have been linked to Russian money and interests.
What do you perceive to be their bias / agenda re: remote work?

(Honest question).
Until storage gets cheap enough that the TV can simply cache it's information about you indefinitely, and upload as part of a firmware update.

Hell, that could be today, just rotating logs and discarding the oldest.
how much is your bill and what's the breakdown of electricity costs (how many kwhrs) vs mandatory grid fees? (regulatory and connection fees)
I would like to remind people, yet again, that things like "fuckedcompany.com" existed [0] and there was also a lot of hate for dot-com era startups during the late 1990s to 2000s.

From the article:

"""
$4.27 billion was stolen in various hacks and scams this year alone, although that is a very conservative estimate ...
"""

One source claims $5 trillion lost during the dot-com crash as of 2002 [1].

I believe being critical of new technology and holding scammers accountable is great but I want more critical analysis of what's going on, not just a snarky middle finger against cryptocurrency and it's surrounding technology.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company

[1] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/equities/dot...
The only thing I keep using from cloudflare is their DNS service.

I know this is not related to the post, but I tried to use workers for a few times, specifically the Cron workers. However it never worked as it should. My Cron was never triggered. And then, when I contacted their support throught the community, theirs mods seemed to basically don't care that Cron workers don't work. I tried and did everything the support mods said to me but nothing worked.

And then, they just stopped answering me.

And more, it wasn't just me. A bunch of people were having the same trouble with Cron workers.

So I don't use workers anymore.
You can forward fix instead of rolling back.
A quick introduction to basic debugging tools on Linux
What's the math if we see annual electricity price increases? we've seen 2 hikes of 10-20% in the last 18 months here in Florida. Making me consider solar sooner rather than later.
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I found this post to be refreshing, as the author was blatantly thumbing their nose at web2's centralized nature and having fun in the process.

Choosing to be your own platform is a form of empowering ones ideas. And if reach is a concern, post a damn link.
The "smarts" of a smart tv is just spyware(adware) by a different name that actively subsidizes and reduces the cost of low-end TVs.
At one point at a previous company of 300-400 we had UI demos that invited 100+, sprint demos that invited 50+, a weekly all-hands that invited everyone, a bi-weekly departmental all-hands that invited 150+, and a Friday social hangout that invited everyone in the same office. Add monthly departmental retros (100+) and group learnings/feature enablement (50+), quarterly trainings (150+) and off-sites (50+) and it was a bit much. And this was all pre-pandemic with most of the company in one office/location — we already saw a lot of each other even without these meetings.
> What I’d really like to see is more support for embedded domain-specific languages within general-purpose languages.

Seems to be a heavily debated topic.

Scala has very strong support for eDSL (and I personally think this is good) but many people who used or use Scala are constantly arguing against it.

Most likely the "With great power …" thingy applies here. You can indeed create a big mess with overused DSLs.
Have you experienced any grid power outages where your solar panels saved your day?
> Servers can only get so big. If your monolith needs more resources than a single server can provide, then you can chop it up into microservices

200 threads, 12TB of RAM, with a pipe upwards of 200GB/s. This isn't even as big as you can go, this is a reasonable off the shelf item. If your service doesn't need more than this, maybe don't break it up. :)

I believe that this level of service can no longer accurately be described as "micro".
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Yeah, they're inevitable in my estimation. The only question is "how soon". And I probably lean towards the idea that truly autonomous, "all conditions, all settings, all terrain" self-driving cars are a lot further out than people think. And there are two reasons for that:

1. I mean, shit, I write software for a living, I know how the sausage is made. And I know how shitty and brittle and error prone most software is. I won't be putting my life in the hands of your shitty non-tested, non-verified, low-bid code anytime soon!

2. Recognizing that there's a HUGE difference between doing self-driving in Arizona on a nice long, straight, smooth highway, in summer-time, in broad daylight, and doing it on a windy, twisty, narrow, back-country road in the mountains, in the middle of winter, with snow falling, a layer of ice on the road already, in the middle of the night. To be fair, humans don't do particularly well in that setting either, but still...

All of that said though, I lean towards what somebody (was it Eric Drexler?) said about how "if a technological advancement isn't literally impossible under the laws of physics, then it is going to happen. The only question is when."
>You don't ever get a few inches of snow on the top of the roof. The point of the aggressive pitch is so the weight of the snow pulls itself off the roof so your roof/home doesn't have to support 5 tons of water weight.

This is definitely not how snow on roofs work. Here is an example with a roof with lots of snow on it:

https://millworksconstructionservices.com/wp-content/uploads...

Roofs in cold climates are designed to hold the weight of snow on top of them.

ETA:

The no snow on top but some on the bottom is because their attic isn't insulated well enough. Ideally you lose no heat through the ceiling into the attic. But without enough insulation you will lose a significant amount and the hotter air will rise to the highest point and melt the peak first. You don't want this because the melted snow can run down your roof and freeze again on the colder parts.
The lack of physical buttons for common operation of the car is unnerving. It makes operation unnecessarily difficult.

Everything commonly done in the car should have a physical control associated with it that can be operated by touch alone.
Assuming you are grid-tied, the reduction of electric bills is predicated on net metering, where the utility company gives you (ideally) 1-for-1 credit for the electricity you produce. In California, this was called NEM 1.0 and NEM 2.0. Every few years the California utilities lobby the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to chip away at the NEM program. This year the PUC voted unanimously to cut net energy metering and any new solar owner will fall under the NEM 3.0 rules. Net energy metering is essentially dead in California. In addition there are additional fixed fees customers have to pay. This will disincentivize solar-only installation. If you want fair compensation of what you generate you’ll have to store it and pay yourself.

PG&E will find a way to keep their profit margin.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/15/1142927418/california-plans-t...
Well, that's the explanation, and yeah, most people here knew it already.

But every thing with that is wrong. That part in particular "workers typically have very little authority to escalate or fix more complex issues" is a plain and straight refusal to solve any problem the company may cause.
In the city of LA the eviction moratorium has been in place for three years, and will probably be extended out again.
I don't see anything in the NREL data that suggests panel degradation accelerates. Most of the panels in their data have higher initial degradation, then less in subsequent years. This LG panel seems to be getting stronger as it ages: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/81172.pdf#page=28
Also should be noted to get multiple estimates, even though that's kind of common sense. I had them vary wildly, where the most expensive one was literally twice as much as the cheapest one.
I'm not claiming GP is holding all that was ever lost, that is a bit much.
Related threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227327 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227438 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34227947 (2 comments)
You are incredibly ignorant about how the world works.
This is a great point. Avg cost for me last year was less than half, around 11c/kWh

Though, https://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/ makes me wonder how you are getting 25c/kWh prices, as author estimates. Maybe higher price tiers due to usage.
Larger than AWS?
Also, both prongs were given psychotherapy, also.
Apple's market value falls below $2 trillion for the first time since 2021
I read the terms before signing up with cloudflare for any of my sites, and it was quite clear it's not meant to be used as an image proxy

> 2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

> The Services are offered primarily as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless explicitly included as part of a Paid Service purchased by you, you agree to use the Services solely for the purpose of (i) serving web pages as viewed through a web browser or other functionally equivalent applications, including rendering Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or other functional equivalents, and (ii) serving web APIs subject to the restrictions set forth in this Section 2.8. Use of the Services for serving video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content is prohibited, unless purchased separately as part of a Paid Service or expressly allowed under our Supplemental Terms for a specific Service. If we determine you have breached this Section 2.8, we may immediately suspend or restrict your use of the Services, or limit End User access to certain of your resources through the Services.
Thanks! It's been running almost two years now haha

Apart from RDS, and a few ad-hoc serverless tasks, yep.
1. Write whatever, some accessible short techy thing

2. Insert "fuck"

3. Get a ton of votes+views
I had them when I lived in Pennsylvania. The panels self-clear in a literal avalanche that destroyed all the bushes where it landed. It sounds like a freight train in your attic when it happens.

Had someone been standing underneath when it happens they would have been seriously injured.
With a touch screen, there is no physical feedback until you touch the screen, and that feedback is "you've touched a screen."

With a button, even if you look once to confirm its location, there's physical feedback of "you're touching the button and not the edge between two buttons", "you've depressed the button" and "you've released the button".

The difference in physical feedback means the difference between looking and watching - and the time required to watch your finger interact with a virtual button and verifying that the interaction was registered.
Until someone can point out the difference between neuronal reasoning and silicon reasoning, I remain completely agnostic about the underlying mechanics of whatever model.

Gun to my head where I had to put money down, I would put it on "Brains are not nearly as special as we (they?) think they are." No fairy dust or supernatural beings required, brains are just another AI model (and likely not even a particularly great one).
San Francisco and Berkeley at least:

http://hrcsf.org/rights-relief-during-covid19/

http://ebclc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/2020.07.02-Berke...
That is extortion.

Your sister should contact the FBI, as it is unlikely that she is the scammers' only target, and this crime likely crosses state (or international) borders.
I'm surprised UAE isn't in on this. They have large reserves of natural gas
> FWIW, in Linux, this problem does not exist. Everything is UTF-8 and Python 2 would work just fine (and always did).

That's not true at all. I remember all kinds of encoding errors when dealing with the FS, the network or any user input when using Linux.

Unless you're talking specifically about IDLE?
If my math is right, 21 panels is 38.2 m^2 or 411 ft^2. That's not a huge amount of roof space. Depends on the roof pitch, but I think it could cover just the south facing sides of a roof of a 2000 ft^2 home.
This picture is a like a caricature of satire for poking fun at prohibitionists, complete with the think of the children meme in forefront with the falling toddler. I love it.
The government has never published a blocking order. RTI has failed, and there's no due process if your website has been blocked.

Here's the government defending their stance of keeping these secret: https://internetfreedom.in/meity-defends-blocking-of-satiric...
Isn’t the payload of most marketing websites majority image content size-wise?
Depends on which ones you go to. If you go to one where the crowd are people who have taken lessons, yes, you do see the stuff in the picture. If you take lessons, yes you can dance like that. There's always a shortage of men at these functions, so if you make the effort to learn it, you can dance with excellent partners, and your rear will never touch a chair.

The costumes in the pictures you'll only see at a competition event, but people still dress up for the club dances.

The community of these people is not large, and they know each other, and will network to find a venue to meet up at.

It's really too bad more people don't do it. The barrier of learning it is rather high, as there's a long awkward stage, and few are willing to put in the effort. But the payoff is lifelong, and as I wrote, it really dials up the pleasure from music.
Pretty much wrong in every respect. The property the "rich" rent to the "poor" is usually subject to a loan and loan covenants that require a certain spread (cap rate) so the loan can be serviced and the property maintained. That spread tightens when interest rates, labor and materials expenses increase. Think, inflation.

2 billion or so people were lifted from poverty the past 15 years, increasing consumption and driving global inflation. 15 years ago you were competing with less than 1/2 the number of people for, say, natural gas; and that was before Russia's gas exports were decimated by sanctions.

Many tried to warn of inflation when USGOV stimulus rained down on US citizens & small businesses. With the election looming, nobody listened.

Bottom-line... your elected leaders want to get reelected. They enact laws & policies that are inflationary because the body politic doesn't think long term, follow-on effects & is largely economically illiterate.

You get the economy you deserve, not the one you want.

Let the downvotes begin.
Preexposure cognitive performance associated with respiratory infection severity
This seems common in my experience.

I am not brave enough to name and shame, but I worked as a low-level manager at a US-based financial services firm and my boss asked us to discourage our reports from discussing pay or bonuses. He seemed genuinely surprised when I pointed out that us doing so would be a violation of labor law. Long-story short, we ran it up the flagpole and the company ended up including it in manager training.
Yikes. That is a an absolute nightmare for a landlord. Where I live, I can evict a tenant if they violate their rental agreement and they have 3 days to vacate.
Pointing to cloudflare dns circumvents the issue for now.

move away from ISP DNS to 1.1.1.1 to temporarily solve the issue.
The crpgaddict, for a start.
> Take some ownership of your problems, even if the ecosystem provides them -- they are chosen, and can be managed.

Not sure where you're going with this. I didn't whine to someone else to fix it. I did take ownership. Over and over. I fixed these problems, as unrelated to my main goal as they were. I then complained about it after the fact. Seems like a totally fair ordering of events to me.

Separately, I will state that Python is an environment that seems to go out of its way to make it hard to meticulously manage dependencies if you want to. There's all sorts of competing environments and package managers. I'm sure it's straightforward if that's your main environment, but it doesn't help if you're coming form the outside.

> Those should be routinely addressed as part of your auditing, along with the whole of the supply chain

This assumes that the only available option is "manage this dependency better". That's not the only option. There is also "consider using something different that is easier to manage." Most of these utilities exist in a competitive market. And if there are utilities that allow me to choose the cadence and separately make that auditing simpler, then I will choose that. That is the point of my statement. I am not choosing to go on a hunger strike or avoiding some no-other-choice tool. Quite the contrary, a lot of these tools were chosen by other members of the team at some point, either because it's what they were familiar with or some other unimportant reason, and now they have, to their own detriment, made themselves the squeaky wheel, and opened up the range of possibilities to everything from "put in the work to maintain this tool that has currently demonstrated itself to be brittle" to "maybe I should use something else". Generally speaking, it's a bad thing to only draw attention to yourself when you are doing something bad.

> can't really prescribe much... this is just generic advice.

And yet this is a specific problem.

> I understand the woes, it's just not as unique as this is painted

It very much is unique. I'm literally not experiencing this with any other language that I don't directly use. Do I experience this with the libraries I directly use in my language? Of course. I signed up for that. I know the risks I take using beta builds and have a keen sense of the current internal transitions, etc. But I absolutely do not become aware of the latest argument in the C++ language spec, or a contentious Swift proposal, or end up becoming vaguely aware of the string implementation choices of a language I don't use. That is a unique Python thing. The fact of the matter is, Python has (recently? momentarily perhaps?) proven itself to require more maintenance than other tools I use. The community can decide who's at fault for this (language devs, library devs, end users, whatever), and even whether or not it matters, but if the message to the people outside the community is to deny that this is unique or troubling, then don't be surprised if the way they choose to take ownership is to count Python as a point against a project they are considering to use.