skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I live in Berkeley. PG&E’s peak EV-A rate for generation plus distribution was $.92 this summer

I live in the same service area. The peak EV2A rate (including both generation and distribution) is currently $0.55/kWh, and the off-peak is $0.24/kWh.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/rate-plans/rate-plan-o...

Not sure where you are getting $0.92/kWh, but would be curious to learn.

> It’s news to me that load shifting (if you’ve got batteries and solar) isn’t allowed by the CPUC, that does take the wind out of my sails a bit. But the peak rates are so high that just zeroing out my peak consumption is still probably worth it.

Load shifting in the sense of shifting your load to different times to consume cleaner/cheaper electricity from the grid, is fine and even encouraged by the CPUC. There are all kinds of programs to encourage this. You can achieve this by simple behavioral changes, timed appliance runs, or by using battery storage.

What you can't do as an individual homeowner, AFAIK, is arbitrage power by buying low from the grid and selling back high to the grid later.

> Does the system come with a “disconnect from the grid during emergencies” shunt?

> I’ve heard conflicting reports about the availability and legality of those systems.

The only "emergency" that causes a disconnect is a power outage. That's no different than what solar inverters already do. The difference with the batteries is that when that happens, they form an isolated microgrid on your premises, thereby providing backup for that scenario.

What other sort of emergencies were you imagining? If you mean minimizing grid load during peak grid load events, then that's what the virtual peaker programs do, and those are completely legal, and active participants in the CAISO energy markets.
> Today, latest image formats also do this competition of ticking every checkbox to even worse degree by adding animation that is worse than any video format in the last 20 years,

yet just seeking in any random vpX / h26x / ... format is A PITA compared to trusty old gifs. it's simple, if you cannot display any random frame N in any random order in constant (and very close to zero) time it's not a good animation format
I've seen that theory here too. A counterargument is that we've also brought a lot of valuable resources to the surface. Industrialization may simply be 'differently hard'.
Your reply doesn't make sense to me. I'm not sure what you mean by "aligning external world." I am talking about aligning the goals of your consciousness with the goals of your unconsciousness, e.g. internal alignment so you aren't self sabotaging without even realizing it.

Importantly, the ability to do this is not something one can automatically do, but requires lots of training and practice, and is also a key goal of most systems of psychological therapy and religious practice. My assertion is that "The Secret" is one such system, and can be viewed as a type of meditation technique.

There are a huge number of psychological methods that aim to work on this goal, whereas the 'swapping colors' thing you mention is not something I have ever seen as a claimed possibility of any method. I'm not sure why you would expect to be able to do that, or why not being able to do that would mean you wouldn't be able to do anything else.
But again, even in the case where a painter uses assistants, the limit remains human capability, and a human with the requisite skills did the work. Norms about fair use were established with scenarios like that as context. That still doesn't resemble the paradigm shift that is introduced by generative AI.

It's not about "it should be hard", but rather "artists established norms about fair used based on the fact that it was hard".

Now that this technology exists, those assumptions no longer hold up.
Only if you never use the web interface.
...and transportation
Is this a reference to that one movie?
What is the difference between a startup and a business nowadays?

I can start a business without an investment round, but not a startup? Is it a startup if it involves tech, a business if not? What if they use SOME tech, but not necessarily innovative tech? Or is this one of those 'you know it when you see it' kind of things? Has the term startup become a buzzword like "optimize" or "synergy"?

Seriously asking, not being snarky.

edit: thank you, for the responses that clarifiesthe distinction
Which GPU(s) to get for deep learning
PyCANON: A Python library to check the level of anonymity of a dataset
An associated paper in Scientific Data: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01894-2
Then people should be free to use cash, but there's no need to lock out people who prefer card payment (I also prefer cash, but mainly because I'm old-fashioned).

But if a restaurant has a sign in the door "no card payment due to technical problems" for years, it's probably neither a technical nor a cultural/ideological issue ;)
There have been great FLOSS dev tools for decades—it's one of the few areas with "an embarrassment of riches." Other areas so-so, but dev tools are top notch and ubiquitous.

Definitely one area we don't have to compromise principles.

It's also important how its distributed, if in a main distribution at least a pair of eyes or two have looked at the source.
Ok, so OpenAI says that ChatGPT is GPT-3.5, but with extensive fine-tuning applied, based on a complex multi-stage feedback process with human evaluators.

But at the same time, you can apparently just take the "raw" GPT-3.5, give it a prompt to behave like an assistant and get comparable results?

So was the whole RLHF process just cargo cult?
Yes, that's the point. Signed ints are a potential footgun, which can be partially mitigated by limiting the range to 0 - 2^31-1.

Good specs pre-emptively mitigate implementation bugs.
Shouldn't both exist? I.e. PDF for the human and data for the machine?
rspec uses monkey patching for stubbing methods. Even rails libraries avoid modifying global state, but its still very much a thing.
There exists such a thing as a laser turntable. They're probably not as popular because they came out on the tail end of vinyl being popular, they didn't deal well with dust, and could only play opaque records.
That's fairly common, most banks have "overdraft protection" that works exactly how you described.
Sorry I misread your comment. I thought you implied that there was a 5% tax difference between the US and Austria
Are their opinions more valid than that of the Kenyans that took these jobs?

The government can mandate a "fair" wage, but the government never employs everyone at that rate. These "exploiters" are actually giving Africans money for their labor - I think I'm more on the side of those who pay money for an African's labor vs. those that stand on the sidelines and try to determine what is fair.
> all that VB knowledge and experience was worth exactly zero

Except that didn't happen at all. Visual Basic still exists.

From Microsoft (2020):

> One of the major benefits of using Visual Basic is that the language has been stable for a very long time.

(Source: Microsoft, on Visual Basic support in .NET 5: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vbteam/visual-basic-support-p...)

As of January 2023, the latest version of Visual Studio (2022) still offers to scaffold me a new Visual Basic project!

And VB exists in other forms, too. The other day, I was coding VBA macros for an Excel spreadsheet for my business. Worked great and saved me a bunch of time.
Beating the bounds
Is it any better than Prometheus ?
At least many smaller businesses will probably continue to prefer cash as it is easier to commit tax evasion when there is no record of the transaction stored...
The irony of criticizing the F-35 while complaining about armchair generals.
If they had to relearn their craft because they changed tools, they weren't very skilled to start with. You've drawn the wrong conclusion here.

And yes, I hopped off the .net train after 15 years of using c# and took a job writing python, and some JavaScript. I had done JavaScript before, using jQuery. Now I had to learn react. And they used MongiDB as the primary data platform. I had spent the last decade working with SQL.

And it was fine, because my skill isn't tied to a single tool.
Seems like avoiding credit card fees is a perfectly reasonable explanation, at least in the US where fees exceed 3%. It’s trivial for governments to catch businesses that hold a lot of inventory and are cheating on taxes by more than small amounts.
Anyone else notice that the article in question is from more than two years ago? Sept. 2020.
"From your question, it sounds like you may have an assumption we should set the servers on fire, I can see where you got there, but I think not setting them on fire is the way to go, I think this doc has some info about that" it feels crazy at first, try it. (I hate it it and do it. People have very fragile egos these days. You're being extremely accommodating but it will protect your reputation)
The most important part:

> Last week it was exactly 2000 days (5.5 years) since I have taken over MPC-HC development, so a good time to finally make the bump to version 2.0.0.0.
Donations are appreciated. In the past years just 2 people have donated, so I am completely out of coffee to stay awake while coding :(
That's where I ran across it when I recently got some Picos. The tutorials I found use it and it seems to be the expected way to up them, at least if you're using micropython.

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/pico/raspberry-pi-pico-py... Page 27, (PDF)
Maybe a mapping/representation for a "medium embedding" could be learned that strikes a balance between shallow and deep. I have no idea what a good objective-function would be, though.
Awesome to see workspaces get some love, but kinda odd they shipped it without support for globs. Guess I'll keep waiting to try it out on my projects.
Number of pull requests can be gamed and hard to measure - easy vs complex tasks. I'm surprised you did not mention anything about Velocity points.
Thanks for responding. I'm curious why PDF doesn't have any metadata attached to it that can easily be parsed out by machines. Sigh
They burn at 600C (1100F) so I don't think you'd want to view the reaction directly; usually they have to be deliberately contained to contain the heat to sustain the reaction.

https://youtu.be/g3Ud6mHdhlQ?t=738 (linked to correct timestamp) shows the remains of a burned one and loading fresh ones on a submarine.
This is a terribly bad faith response: Jewish people today are faced with real threats, buildings being defaced, shootings and bombings, etc. but communism is dead as a political movement. Rich people are afraid of having to pay as much in taxes as the average person does, not real threats to their lives or property.
The card-only stuff is also making it hard for honest, hard-working money launderers.
There was a time when YT showed me some random trending regional shorts video for the first time I clicked a shorts video & the only shorts video I clicked were of SciShow; So I stopped clicking on even those.
Also fun when paying by card: the cheese seller on the market will only take credit cards (and using a Girocard/EC-Karte fails the transaction). And the restaurant around the corner only takes Girocards. They tell you with multiple signs and point it out again when you get your card, because if you try to pay with a credit card, their terminal will hang and have to be rebooted, which is a multi-minute ordeal.
Yes KeepassXC is great. Nextcloud passwords is actively developed and looking good except for the Linux app failing on Arch.
> TLS doesn't prevent blocking by ISPs

They can block it or they can let it through unmodified. They can't keyword-filter it and add advertisements to it.

> it is limited in term of spying prevention (metadata are still available)

Granted. However, "Your customer connected to this IP address" is much less marketable than "Your customer is reading information about stew recipes" and much less actionable than "Your customer is reading information about encryption and is therefore a traitor" and so on.

> it does prevent tampering by ISPs, but I think that part would be more effectively achieved with digital signatures (ex: PGP blocks) that not only prevents tampering by ISPs, but also by someone who controls the server or by forgers.

Digital signatures only guarantee that the data is from who it says it's from (which Gemini doesn't enforce because it specifies TOFU) and that hasn't been modified. They don't protect against spying, for advertising or any other reason. They also still rely on a cryptographic library, which undermines your point about how Gemini shouldn't be burdened with the complexity of TLS or SSL.

> As for information you share that will become sensitive, yes sure, but if you think that, don't publish anything at all on public networks.

Here, I'm not talking about what I post but what I access and read. It seems like you want to give everyone the ability to snoop on who uses the library and for what, and I have a hard time not attributing nasty motives to something like that.
Ask HN: Ways to Overcome Doubt and Procrastination?
Hello folks, basically same thing as title, does anybody have any actionable insights into how to avoid thinking "this is doomed to fail" when thinking of new ideas, and how to not procrastinate and actually build stuff instead? Asking because I quit my day job months ago to "start my own company" but have been beaten by my worst enemy - myself.
We Need to Know Cybernetics
It depends on what you mean by stand-alone. It works for me as a stand-alone device for days at a time, but you still need a phone to set up the watch and my phone plan is like an addon to the phone so you need that to set up the account. I don't think you can set up a line for these watches in the US without the "host" phone.
TIL: If-by-whiskey
In case you try to confirm these figures via Google, the exchange rates for the amounts I stated are based on the true (i.e., black) market rates (740 Naira/$1) instead of whatever Google shows.
Muji only ships pens during warm months
They choose to only ship Spring->Fall to avoid the ink cartridge exploding in cold weather. A praiseworthy commitment to their product or odd limiting choice?
Just to jump in on this - I got canned in the last big recession and while not a new grad, I took the next (contract) job that came up, at much lower pay, and over the next year doubled my take home from the original job.

Two lessons

1. Spend your lunchtimes job hunting. Treat it like a job

2. Move around as a new grad. Think of it like dating, you have to kiss a few frogs just to get an idea of what is out there.

(Most people who stay in one job really mean lots of different jobs inside one giant conglomerate)

So don't be afraid to move around. And focus on the code. Ignore the management bullshit, the meetings the agile talk. Focus on code.
The military has traditionally been kind enough to give stimulants to servicemen for free. Cocaine until between the World Wars, amphetamines got phased out in the past few decades, and now mostly modafinil.
> with routing
Don't you need some 3rd party lib for that (if you don't want to implement your own router)?
Every 10 years or there has recently been a major economic event that impacts the 'programmer classes'. Welcome to the early 2020s one, hopefully it will be over soon. I remember in the dot com crash tons of people left microsoft, did a startup, then came back after it burned. Same in 2008. Now we have the pandemic leading to inflation, then the Ukraine war started, then this likely recession.
Underrated response. Not only a subtle fart joke but also pedantic about words.
Yeah, my SO has said the same thing. Sometimes I assume everyone is dumb which is not my intent, but it comes across that way.

Another reply said something similar, I should stop trying to anticipate questions and answer them. Instead explain and then respond to questions if they come up.
Scale and speed of scale. Planning for fast growth.

Most small businesses do not plan to grow very quickly.
Each report costs money. People don't want to pay extra for the same data.
Every where in "west". 1975 is the critical year.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34426421
This is literally the plot of Mr. Robot.
I'm not too much of an IDE guy these days, but I appreciate that Thonny allows one to specify which interpreter to use, including one running on an attached MCU.
To slightly elaborate on yccs27's good answer, at the moment, you can use ? for both Option<T> and Result<T, E>, but you can only use them in functions that return the same type, that is

fn can_use_question_mark_on_option() -> Option<i32> {

fn can_use_question_mark_on_result() -> Result<i32, ()> {

if you have them mixed in the body, they won't work directly. What you should/can do there depends on specifics. For example, if you have a function that returns Option and you have a Result inside, and you want any E to turn into None, you can add .ok() before the ? and then it still looks nice. (The compiler will even suggest this one!)
"now ain't that some shit"
How many different ruby projects did you code in? Once you have memorized the global state on a project, you can rely on your intuition and rely less on irb.

But anytime someone introduced a new gem (namely act_as_paranoid) or writes a new concern that modifies defaults, then you're back to need to do live code.
I think they should gamble at the local casino (because there aren’t a lot of those locally forcing service members to have intermittent gambling habits rather than continuous exposure). The ready availability of having it on base at the NEX or whatever creates an easily accessible temptation. For destructive isolating behaviors like gambling I believe there should be no accessibility to it on base and definitely not DoD sponsored.
What’s there to say? It works the same way as `zip` does for an iterator over a `Vec`. So if you understand `zip` as applied to an iterator over `Vec`, then you might understand `zip` applied to `Option`.

In other words:

Y is clear if you already understand X. Like how returning early is simple to understand if you understand if-blocks.

That’s the problem with replying to these kinds of questions: the response is so short and context-dependent that it can look curt.

EDIT: the first code is also inelegant in that it effectively checks if both values are `None` twice in the `Some` case: once in the if-condition and once in `unwrap()` (the check that panics if you try to unwrap a `None`).
I asked a friend who just left med school. He laughed and said yes there's lots of evidence supporting this in his profession alone. He suggested you pick up a copy of "Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery" ISBN 1138857009 which was a required for one of his courses. It has hundreds of references by MDs,PHDs and the like on the medical side alone.

He did agree that quantity is not quality and recommended to use "Directory of Open Access Journals" to access a large amount of peer reviewed research that does establish the science.

You should contact everyone referenced in the book/research papers and let them know they're incorrect.

Having an open mind to learn more information is not a weakness.I work in data science adjacent and it's fascinating to see new information being uncovered all the time that does fill in missing information about everything we know - or don't know.
According to PG, a startup is a company designed to grow fast. [1] Again, this is a bit at odds with the advice to be frugal. It's not that you can't do both, it's that you have to strike a balance because they are in many ways at the opposite ends of a spectrum.

1: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Bitcoin has a transaction throughput of 1 KB/s (less than a 28.8 modem) for the entire world.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-btc.html#1y
You can transfer your assets to your kids or to whoever you want to. However, you can't transfer your high paying job to your kids or to whoever you want. That's why every middle class person is into owning many rental properties in order to secure one's future income flows.
> Question: Would you rather than service members gamble on military facilities or at the local casino/bar?

1. The argument that soldiers are going to do drugs anyways isn't a good reason to provide a weekly cocaine ration.

2. I don't think all of these bases have a nearby casino.

3. Lowering the activation energy for going to the slots will increase use of the slots. If I had a magic tap that soda and beer came out of at my house, I'd be drinking more soda and beer. Despite having a corner store on the other side of the street.

The military should be lowering the activation energy for less destructive past-times, instead.
I think it is quite similar to EVs. No established player in the auto industry had any interest in developing them because it was seen as a risk to established business and partnerships. The EV1 was a great early start from 1996 that was literally crushed (see the documentary, Who Killed The Electric Car). Dealerships fight against EVs to this day. Wyoming just called for EV sales to be banned by 2035. Without Tesla sending the whole industry into a panic I just don’t think there would be any practical cars on the market today.
What is your definition of exploitation?

>Agents, the most junior data labelers who made up the majority of the three teams, were paid a basic salary of 21,000 Kenyan shillings ($170) per month

Based on my quick and dirty googling, it looks like this is an above average salary for Nairobi.

>Are all the sweatshop and slave labor[1] jobs created by Zara good for those children and slaves? You get cheap clothes out of it after all. But is it really helping anyone other than Zara, and their CEO who is worth ..checks notes... 50+ billion dollars?

You haven't established a connection between OpenAI and slave labour. So this is irrelevant and detracts from your point by costing you credibility.

> If this signals to other businesses that Kenya is a great place for cheap labor and little regulation, it could very easily be turn bad for many Kenyans.

That's for Kenyans to decide.
Keepass has Key Files as a part of the spec https://keepass.info/help/base/keys.html

On my devices, keyfiles and a KP client are stored locally. The DB rests in the cloud.
commonplace??
I'm not surprised to see your criticism that is missing an alternative way to measure. The answer is not "measuring developer productivity is impossible".

Otherwise, I'd challenge you to provide a metric that cannot be gamed. Humans respond to incentives and thus there will always be people that could/will intentionally try to rise above the rest based purely on the measurement.
Maybe there could be a market for AR glasses that draw sweaters over topless people. Combined with smart internet filters who do the same for pictures and videos it would allow people to decide for themselves what they want or don't want to see without having to bother others. ...but then it may be used to hide advertisements and that would be bad for certain interests.
This reminds me of the quote: "If I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter" (attributed to various people, e.g. Twain and Churchill).

In my domain (developing research software for small-scale scientific projects) more lines of code rarely correlates with more functional/readable/trustworthy software. Instead I frequently find myself thinking: If I had more time I would have written less code!
Reminds me of a probably-apocryphal story I read somewhere years ago.

"I was in a casino, and saw a doddering old man sitting not at a slot machine but at the change machine. He fed in dollar after dollar, and would cheer and call out 'I won again!' every time it dispensed his quarters. It was harmless, and better he 'play' that than lose at a real slot machine, so I left him alone with his fantasy.

I saw him again the next day. I pointed at the change machine and asked why he wasn't playing that one since it was his favorite yesterday. His reply: 'It was dispensing six quarters for every dollar until they fixed it.' "