skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people love video the medium.

I tried doing a video of myself talking off the cuff on a topic. Watching myself, it was painful. I obviously needed to write myself a script, do editing, etc. I would rather just write the text, and skip the video bit. :)
How north do you mean? Solar panels are at a high angle, slippery and black. Snow generally does not stick for long. They'll self clear.

My brother's panels in Saskatchewan don't self-clear. But that's for an average temperature of -20C.
> Take some ownership of your problems, even if the ecosystem provides them -- they are chosen, and can be managed.

Huh? This has a strong "No, it's the children who are wrong" vibe.

But to be more fair to your point, I think this is a dismissal of the OP concern's. A troubled ecosystem should be concerning to the Python community as a whole because it threatens future adoption if not addressed.

User's don't want a troubled ecosystem and will find languages that avoid these problems...and Go, Nim, and to smaller extent Zig, Rust, D are strong alternatives for the different workloads currently provided by Python tooling.

Python has a good moat with both ML and mind-share of developers...but at one time Perl had a similar moat...
Not every company can afford to run crappy code in production. PayPal and banks, for example. Being able to quickly roll back changes while still keeping developer velocity and moving forward is important, and it is very difficult when thousands of changes are going out every day in the same monolith.
I think it's both -- I do think he's against remote work (remember his remarks at Tesla "pretend to work somewhere else": https://www.forbes.com/sites/annakaplan/2022/06/01/musk-says...) but also it's a great way to cheaply get rid of a lot of employees who were told they could WFH forever.
https://archive.ph/q4SyZ

Question: Could this be a path to a visa for someone who wants to immigrate?
Yup every company has a supply chain. In software the supply chain is new designs, new code, new customers, new support tickets. Arrange them on a board and optimize the flows. If you do not have flow on a certain track, focus on building that track up but make sure that it fits into the big picture and zoom out like in factorio.

e.g. If you have raw materials, i.e. designers, they should always be creating design assets of some sort. No raw materials should be sitting around on building huge deliverables. They need to be bite sized, and then it is up to you where you direct that flow.

When starting out you need a constant flow of customers. Right now tiktok is the best faucet by far. Even 3 videos can get you 100s of visitors to your landing page. Now the game begins. Do they just go away. That means your offer on the landing page is not good enough. Now increase the offer. Outrageous example: "We pay you $100 for signing up and trying our software". Now you have customer flow. And then it is back to optimization.

Hope that makes sense. I struggled so long because I didn't understand supply chains, faucets, flow etc.
Is it just me or does it feel like a robot wrote that for other robots?
> Men's rights are human rights. They are father's rights. They are worker rights. It means equal protection under the law, protection from rape and violence, protection from discrimination and threats. These are basic human rights that should be afforded to everyone. This should not be a zero-sum game: to give one group rights you should not take them away from another group! There are plenty of rights to go around and they won't run out.

Fully agreed here, I'm just doubting that the resistance against that really comes from the left - my impression is that it more comes from the right (or maybe press outlets who have rebranded to look "woke" on the surface but still promote mostly traditional views).

E.g., I haven't yet seen a feminist sub on reddit excuse a female rapist or deny that a male rape victim is a victim. Though I have read articles that have done exactly that.

Some examples of feminist discussion of men's issues from Reddit:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/z083j5/the_gu...
While the OP is dismissive, the discussion itself is far more nuanced.

- https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/zz535i...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/z7rsv1/mens_...

Also, I like subreddits like r/menslib which try to provide "non-tate/peterson" communities for men's issues - often arguing exactly like you did.
This is called "accelerationism". It does not work. It is a maladaptive thought-pattern, nursed by people on the political fringe.

The theory is that as things get worse and worse, there will come a moment when everyone suddenly "wakes up", and acts in unity to overthrow their oppressors and build a better system (under the command of the enlightened few, of course). This happens approximately never (see: Qanon), and when it does, the chances of a good result are even more remote (see: Bolshevism).

It serves a useful emotional purpose for the adherents: you don't have to do anything, make friends with anyone, understand the world around you. Just wait for the apocalypse, for the day when the Elect will seize power and shoot their enemies etc etc.

Back in the real world, here is how you build a large effective political coalition: by solving people's problems in the here and now. This is how the Fabians built the welfare state.
My system generated 14.36 MWh in 2022, which comes out to roughly $4,308 USD. The ROI is about 5-6 years for the system itself. But a new roof was also in order.... so more like 10-12 years. Still a great deal if you can afford to invest for the long term. Especially with a 30 year warranty on most of the equipment.
In the author's defense, the site follows the general formula of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/. It is, by this point, a tradition.
All it takes is a little snow to melt or blow off and the exposed panel will heat and cause the rest of the snow to melt and slide off. The panels are relatively slippery so a little melt at a pitch will clear them in no time.
> Why can't the teams work on the same codebase and the same database?

The same database is tricky because one team might want to change the schema, breaking another team's work. You then need to have meetings to discuss the changes that will work for all parties and you've broken "communicate only by contract", and therefore no longer doing microservices. If you can ensure that there is no way for teams to trample over each other then you could use the same database.

The same codebase is more feasible as long as the team boundary separation is clear. You are likely already doing microservices with other teams when you import third-party libraries. In practice, though, much like the database problem maintaining boundary separation is difficult if you can easily reach into other team's code, so often each team's work will be parted into distinct codebases using IPC between them to ensure that the separation is unbreakable. This certainly isn't a requirement, though, just one way to keep people in line.

> Testing is certainly a way to provide a self-verifying application. TDD is a toxic, hype-driven, mess

Testing is a development tool to help test the functionality of a feature. If you are faced with a dynamic language you very well might write tests to ensure that types are handled correctly. Static types can, indeed, relieve the need for some tests.

TDD, on the other hand, is a documentation tool to relay to other developers what functionality is intended to provide and how it is meant to be used. It is strange to think that documentation is toxic. Before TDD we wrote "Word documents" containing the same information, but often found that the code didn't do what the documentation said it did. What TDD realized is if the documentation is also executable then you can have the machine prove that the application behaves according to spec. It's not exactly magic.
My favorite gymkhana is this one, in San Francisco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuDN2bCIyus
"per-kWh price of electricity was around 25 cents"

This sounds like the total price of electricity, including distribution. However my understanding of net-metering means that you have to pay distribution fees to put your power on the grid, so you don't get back the full 25 cents, only around half that (the generation portion).

If the author of this post is on here, could you please clarify?
Interesting! Thank you for maintaining the benchmark all these years.
https://www.spellbook.legal is another one I have seen that is doing the opposite (helping with the writing of contracts)
"In addition to Bankman-Fried and his parents, the judge asked that the bond be signed by two other people of “considerable means,” one of whom can’t be a relative. The two people haven’t signed on yet but intend to do so by the Jan. 5 deadline, his lawyers said in the letter."

A bail with money with no actual money down, with guarantors who actually did not sign yet...
With these prices they could have a lot of people in some cheap country summarizing the documents.
Exact same thing happened here. Only went back because I saw your comment.
if you generate excess energy, can you store it for a later time when you need more energy (presumably summer time)?
Could definitely be a useful tool to improve something like ToSDR
In a former business I had several 'customer advocates' who were tasked with representing customers to internal teams. Difficult/complex/delayed issues could be escalated to the advocates by customer support.

I view customer support as a marketing opportunity via goodwill and word of mouth.

Accounting for customer support as a debit against the marketing budget is an incentive to prevent incidents.

In another comment I asked the OP if it could have helped if they were able to notify ahead of time of expected spikes in turnover (due to marketing initiatives, etc.) that could be factored into the risk management equation.
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Of course it is decidable, the programming language has very strict rules to determine it. That's why you need language support in the editor, not just finding matching open/close delimiters.
> FTX, on the other hand, was just plain old fraud, not really related to crypto itself

A huge part of the FTX/Alameda fraud involved minting their own utility token (FTT), artificially inflating the price, and then using it as collateral for further loans.

How is that not a crypto failure? Unless you only define "crypto failure" as "smart contract got hacked", in which case we'll have to agree to disagree.

Frankly, I think folks in the crypto community trying to spin FTX as "not crypto" are simply engaged in goalpost shifting.
They don't have a managed DB like a hosted Postgres?
> You're already dismissing concerns about the welfare of the merely average

This writer individually: no, not literally «dismissing», it is just that I could not grasp precisely your point in this specific area. And I would say, as I wrote just earlier, «Inability to recognize intelligence is and will be devastating»: it already happens that an inability to discriminate ("It takes it to see it") will hide from the sight to some manager the critical risks that the underdeveloped sense of some workers will pose, and such risk will increase when they will have to compete with even riskier and less endowed entities that may be confused for acceptable - since this is what has been showing even here in the past times.

This issue comes from a devaluation of actual intelligence.

> If we're setting the bar of personhood or dignity to being exceptional researchers and engineers

Not really. Look, a few weeks ago this HN member had some heavy exchange with others to which it was said "there is no intelligence if there is no critical thinking", and some arrived to call that position "delirious". Now a rebuttal would have been, "Ask your grandmother". Because there is a "high culture", that of the Professor and the Professional, and "low culture", that of the Teacher and of the Relative, it does not take the former to have good judgement - the latter suffices plentifully, when not polluted.

So, you do not need to have the bar set to «exceptional researchers and engineers» - just a good grandmother. Who could have been an «exceptional researchers and engineer», in case, if life so determined - because "the requirements were there", available.
How far guy, hw you dey?
Very cool! A while ago I wrote a B+ tree in Python[0] to learn how databases work under the hood. I left it there but it seems that this project could allow me to quickly add full SQL support for it.

[0] https://github.com/NicolasLM/bplustree
That's awesome.

Is it a nasal spray?

Have you ever K-holed yourself?
It sounds like they have a good net energy metering plan that is crediting them for their solar being put back to the grid. (So they don't have to pay for charging the electric car in the evening when solar stops working) I wonder if Texas is working to walk that back like California is right now.
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Blue collar opportunities abound in the trades, where skills can be acquired on the job. Welding, wiring, plumbing, and construction.

However, these jobs are viewed as harder and less attractive than white collar work and some people balk at them.
Surely, there are better ways to convey a strong point other than to use extreme vulgarity?

I thought the first paragraph was kinda funny, but it was hard to read past that.

I do agree with the sentiment though. It's been my new years resolution for about 5 years now to actually write something on my blog. I find there is an interest mix of intimacy and privacy on a blog. If I post some off the cuff thought to Facebook or Twitter it's almost out of place. There's a sort of social adequate to what you can and can't post to social media. Facebook is a place for family and friend stuff, Twitter is kinda a place for short updates and thoughts for people who care enough about you to read it. But there are no rules on my blog. And no one close to me really cares about what I'm writing on my blog so it feels more private while also being more open and personal because I feel I can write pretty much anything.
Don't do this: creating useless indexes
> "in what jurisdiction would you file that police report?"

If I had to guess? File it in your state and it'll get routed from there. Or how about you literally ask the police this exact question?

> "at least get your LEA correct when making non-sense posts like this"

I think you're over complicating this, but you sound like you might know better so...

The police is a sensible starting point, from which you as a citizen should get better guidance on next steps. There may be other mechanisms in the US government that are more appropriate here (ie. FBI, or FinCEN, IRS, etc).
It wouldn't be a bad idea either
That is technically true, but why is no one asking how and why his electricity bill is $223 at minimum, plied higher since the bill was only reduced by that amount.

Also, “subsidies” are really just a quaint term for “made the working and lower middle class that can’t pay for such exorbitant luxuries pay for it through taxes and inflation”.

I’m always a bit confused if seemingly otherwise smart people simply don’t understand something so basic, or if they simply just ignore and don’t want to acknowledge it as if that changes the fact.

Guess who else gets subsidies; someone who buys goods out of the truck of a car … wow, such a great deal.

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?

How about we all just pay for the things we want I stead of making others pay for it? It’s immoral and evil, whether you call it subsidies or something else.
anyone else worried about how tools like this will make us dumber?
So what? Let normal people suffer, rich people already have the land, and the rights, and the property. Who cares? What are they going to do, sleep in the streets? Some might, but most won't. Nobody cares.
I have a large 20kw system for an old leaky farmhouse and it provides me about $6k in energy and credits a year.

I like thinking about it as a near guaranteed, medium return long term investment that's good for the environment. Each year is roughly 13% returns and I should get that for at least 20 years or so.
In fact, the author even says this argument is "true but uninspiring / irrelevant". He's just deciding not to focus on that aspect in this article.
> I think web3/crypto will have mass adoption, but when it does, it will be much more boring and seamless with what we have today, with large companies managing blockchains and governments issuing their own coins.

What point is there in the blockchain here? Why would a company or government need or want the indirection and overhead of blockchain/cryptocurrency instead of a normal database and traditional currency?
New England is generally not that hot and humid especially outside cities--except for fairly brief spells. That said, some people do regularly run the AC to keep houses cooler in the summer. His savings are probably more than I pay in electricity in a given year (with oil heat and a small window unit AC in my office if I bother to put it in.)
Isn't it only profitable to do that in areas with rent control?
Only 7%? At the height of the bubble, there were a number of major crypto schemes offering interest rates of 20% or more. Sometimes even much more; some of the shadier "investments" offered >100% APY.

Unsurprisingly, most of those schemes have since collapsed.
I think it’s ‘dam’ in this, as opposed to ‘damn’ where something is condemned.
It somehow does - dark asphalt melts snow faster than grass even when not shoveled.

But once it’s deep enough it stops.
> Sometimes I read text like this and really enjoy the deep insights and arguments once I filter out the emotion, attitude, or tone.

Curiously enough, I imagine that sort of filtering/translation is the sort of thing a Large Language Model would be pretty good at.
Does HN really allow posting just a purchase link? Not even a discussion of why anyone would use this over vim/VS code + LSP? I have to scroll below the fold to even see what it claims the features are. Sorry to be that guy, but this one should have been caught in the spam filter.
Is that the subsidized (ie, including tax rebates) price, or the raw cost?
Great focus on the core model itself! I think a complimentary aspect of making LLM's "useful" from a productionization perspective is all of the engineering around the model itself. This blog post did a pretty good job highlighting those complementary points: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/what-building-copilot-for-x-really
My brother-in-law's panels produce just as much electricity at noon in the winter time as they do in the summer time. Winter sun in the Canadian prairies is quite intense, and the panels are more efficient at -20C than they are at +20C.
I'd wager the idea behind this isn't to avoid fees but to avoid being swept up in automated systems where they don't care to resolve because even at $400k, you're still "small fish" and you have to reach out to the admin of a industry forum just to get your issue resolved.
I wonder how many in the crowd are reacting to being labelled antitrans and transphobic unfairly. It's definitely what I see the comedians reacting to.
Especially considering most modern panels are expected to still have a good amount of life left in them after 25 years. (80% or more}
It is completely normal, acceptable, even desirable for a team of people working on a project to meet regularly to coordinate their efforts. That is how groups of people have worked together since time immemorial. It is unreasonable and dogmatic to expect that every team will naturally reach peak efficiency by working fully asynchronously.
It's surprising that it's possible to produce electricity at home for a lower cost than the wholesale price.

I can't think of any other commodity for which this is possible. You couldn't make your own steel, bread or printer paper at home and beat manufacturing at scale.

Why is electricity different?
Having 21 panels requires a rectangle 17ft by 24ft (each panel is 5.4ft by 3.25ft). That's far from an estate: if it's a two story home with a flat roof you're talking 816sqft compared to a US median of 2,300sqft.
You would need batteries which are quite expensive at this time.
> only really true for species that we figured out how to farm

Most oysters we eat are farmed. And you need the old shells as a substrate to grow a new oyster bed.
Ask HN: Potential cofounder is good match business-wise but not personality-wise
I met a potential cofounder. He is the same age as me and we are both interested in building a startup in the same field. Our skillset also complement each other's. On the work-side of things, we are a solid match.

However our personalities are quite different. In other words, I wouldn't want to be friends with him or hang out with him as a friend. Actually come to think of it, he's not someone I want to sit next to for too long.

I figured that if I am to build a startup with someone, I could be sitting next to them 12 hours a day, every day, for many years to come. I have to enjoy or at least tolerate their company. At the same time, it's a rare opportunity to meet someone whose interests are very similar to mine with complementing skillsets.

I could keep looking for other cofounders, or I could try to see if I can learn to tolerate this potential cofounder. What would you do in this situation?
I know, which is why I wrote, "It was funny the first couple of times."

At this point it's overused.
What happened is that crypto is very cool. There's a not unwarranted perception amongst people in the United States at least that banking regulators are conspiring (or prospiring) to create the financial meltdowns we see, and give people with the right connections privileged seats at the table when it comes to markers.

This is, to some degree, true - Quant traders in finance work with data that is literally unavailable to regular traders or amateurs but when it comes to crypto sophisticated quants and Joe Bogsly are operating on a level playing field when it comes to access.

Additionally, countries that are not the United States have chronic bank instability problems that make the current crypto collapse look like a joke. Large percentages of bitcoin transactions are conducted in Vietnam.

When a new cool thing is happening, the next step to maturity and adoption is gift.

How many rent a bike startups have you seen in your city?

Same deal, not a terrible idea, pretty cool, people flock in but there will very likely only be one to three of those companies left standing.
It's a fair criticism, I know it's a bit harsh! I appreciate it and both the more fair take.

> User's don't want a troubled ecosystem and will find languages that avoid these problems

It's true, I'm very late to Python myself -- for the exact same reason. The distribution part of the ecosystem is a nightmare.

People want utilities, but they learn more than they ever cared to because of dependencies.

I'm only learning how to manage it now because work demands it.

Prior, all of my needs had fortunately been met by my Linux distribution of choice -- the Python part was abstracted away, for the most part.

Developers of these utilities could save some (shared) effort by offering package specs/finding a maintainer, but I understand why it's not common.

(I may even build/maintain it for you, to sweeten the pot)

I guess the fuel of this thing is, 'misery loves company' -- I'm dealing with it, and I can't just whine about it.

The "I don't use it and it still affects me part" was the bait -- they do use it