skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are still subject to the basic laws of physics. If you do a certain amount of work, but you take in less than what you have spent, the body has to use its stored energy to make up for the difference. How else would this work? The body cannot magically materialise energy out of nothing, and it cannot use more than what is available in the form of intake plus storage.
People value things differently. You'd have to pay me way more than the 8 cents/kwh it cost me to use my battery. I'd want to be heavily compensated for the inconvenience of replacing the battery or car prematurely.
The other day I was thinking about how you have certain generations that are exposed to a new technologies, and are "step function" different from previous generations. EG, most recently "digital natives" being kids for whom the internet was a defacto part of life.

I was wondering what is the thing that's going to come that will make me marvel at that generations ability to use a technology effortlessly. Maybe it's a 3rd thumb from birth!
This is excellent. Great work!
That was my exact personal diagnostic, until 2018. My weight very slowly drifted upward, but you start adding 0.5kg-1kg per year over a couple of decades, with a few dips here and there on dietary effort, and the result was a health disaster.

My solution, and mine alone after trying oh so many different diets and strategies, went through regular aerobic exercise, at a rate of 3-4 hours per week. In my case it was swimming, because I like it; cycling or running would have had the same effect, I believe.

It worked. I lost almost 30kg over about 2.5 years. Why did it work? I don't really know. I can tell you that basal expenditure certainly has gone up, as I had to get into shape to swim 4-5km a week. Of course, swimming a few km introduces some expenditure of its own. However, I had already tried gym and other sports, which should have the same effects, with far worse weight control outcomes.

So, for me, regular aerobic sessions of longer than 45min did the trick. I don't know why, so I can't promise it will work for anyone else, but you might as well try it for a few months. Don't expect huge, rapid, losses in weight, just a very consistent downward trend.
If you’re in California the CCPA should give you this right too.
It's worth noting that it's not just over minimum wage, your hourly can often be miles ahead of any other unskilled labor depending on how busy you are. Both of my sisters would frequently clear $400+ a night on weekends, amounting to over $50 an hour.

The state minimum wage is $10/hour, so they can make over a week's worth of minimum wage pay in a single Saturday.

Ultimately waiters and waitresses are hustling so they get paid like engineers, not Wal-Mart greeters.
There are a lot of places where manual labor is preferred to automation, not because automation is hard, but because automation is expensive, while labor can be found for dirt cheep.
Functions do the same thing, but are more reaadable due to explicit naming.

It can be great though as an intermediate step to extracting functions.
Or a Jedi master.
This boils down to "There are lots of EV batteries, we can use them as storage!". It seems to ignore practical issues:

People drive during the day, and charge at night. So you could use EVs as a buffer during the night, but they still need to be charged. So EVs are still going to be a net energy consumer during the night, when you need the storage the most (no solar production).

I think the best course of action is to load shift charging of EVs and use it as "storage" in that way. Its an easy load to shed when needed, and an easy load to ramp up when renewables are plenty.
Terrorist’s long game I guess … just become the damn pilot.
"We're cheaper than droids and easier to replace." - Line from Andor, Episode 9.
Yes, but again, for rather the opposite reason than CO2.
My guess is they've been serving their css file direct from disk with no content encoding header, but browsers rolled their eyes and decoded it anyway (do they do that?). But now it's changed to serve behind a reverse proxy which isn't so forgiving and recompresses it with brotli (does it even reduce the size?) and that's too much for the browser to infer implicitly. Fin.
That's talking about lack of oxygen in your blood, not in the air.

I have a lot of experience working long days in a high CO2 environment (did my PhD working in volcanic ice caves). IIRC OSHA rules say 5000ppm (0.5%) is the limit for a 40 hr work week (that's more than 10x atmospheric). There is no way CO2 on planes is getting over 1%--- that would cause a lot of health problems. DVT would not be one of them.
I also think people underestimate what a CEO does.

On HN coding is more respected than social skills. A software engineer is likely to crumble in 30 seconds when they are interviewed on CNBC.
You will probably have to recreate the VMs after the initial 30 days (the disk remains, you just have to attach it). Also it has a restrictive firewall and you have to manually allow connections.
I suppose you have evidence of bodies producing more energy than input? Do tell...
Counter point, getting the resources for those batteries and building them has no small environmental impact - including carbon impact: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/24/us-electric-...

> The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds.

> It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.

We definitely need to figure out grid scale storage. But I'm not convinced Lithium Ion batteries are the answer. And I strongly disagree with the idea that electric car batteries are the solution.

Arguing for car batteries to be a primary means of grid storage basically presupposes we fail to make the transition away from cars, which means we're committing to a much more difficult and expensive path to the carbon cuts we need to make.
What did you use to write the installer, and how do you determine if the targeted version of Excel is 32 or 64 bit?

I've built an Excel-DNA based Add-in (https://www.excelpricefeed.com/) and distribute it via an installer built using Advanced Installer. It works well, the only real pain point is the the user has to find out which version of Excel they have installed in order to choose the correct download (32 or 64 bit).
Good work, but this is depressing:

"VBA is a bit (a lot) behind the times and Microsoft isn’t planning on upgrading it. Instead, they’re offering a sandboxed JavaScript environment called Office Scripts."

Microsoft - Just swap VBA for Python ffs.
It is happening and Amazon are a big investors in this space afaik (https://amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-robotics).

I think the issue is that there are some tasks that might seem easy for a robot to do but they are not, either too expensive vs human capital or the failure rate is not tolerable. The human body is a pretty amazing machine.
Maybe you can "fake" render the canvas, but what happens to the actual plot graph? Do you see fp artifacts there?
Agreed. The quiet quitting pieces were the most obvious manufactured consent for layoffs that I've ever seen. They played right into the minds of a culture that thinks relaxation is a sin and your personal worth is measured by productivity.
What does a "totally original work" look like to you? And what does it produce if it's not original? Remixes? Plagiarism?
I can see your point but I'm not sure it's that straightforward. Let's say you simply took a hat with your kid's favorite characters from tv/movies/books/whatever on slips of paper, drew some, then did the same for plots, then made up a story to tell your kid.

At some level, sure, it's not the same as coming up with a story on your own - there's not going to be anything meaningful in why you selected those particular elements of the story - but that merely constrains those choices to free you up to be creative with other aspects of the story.

I think there's still room for someone who wants to be creative to use the tools to provide the same experience you're describing. It's not like one has to give the raw output to one's child. And I think such raw outputs will be generally bland, missing something relative to those with a human touch. However, giving bland and meaningless entertainment to children wouldn't really be something new, and I still see a fair concern in there. I suppose this is already part of what articles on "Kids' YouTube" are talking about.[0]

[0]https://www.avclub.com/take-a-trip-to-the-automated-hellscap...
Where did you see me complaining about the issue? I just stated my opinion that it should be in general task of the software to figure out the environment it is running under and adjust accordingly.
Most COPD sufferers are heavy smokers themselves :) This is how they got COPD in fact. In the Netherlands it's pretty standard in pensioner's housing.
These are intriguing ideas, but I can't guarantee that will happen. I'm a firmware engineer by trade, but I know enough Android stuff to do basic things.
> why do I need to pay a resort fee?

Two reasons, neither of which is acceptable in my mind:

1: to reduce the price shown in aggregator websites (as the original article talks about)

2: to enact a stealth reduction in the value of points, since you cannot stay simply by redeeming them.
I wonder if they'll find some legal stuff to fight to blue messages.

When teens are getting judgement and peer pressure for not having an expensive locked down phone, it's not exactly great.

Either that or someone might make a 3rd party chat app with a true killer feature.

I'm not too worried yet, but I'd hate to see Android become the minority, or turn into a clone of iOS.
Plus the reduced range between new and replacement.
This feels gimmicky and fragile. If distributed / decentralized storage is required (sounds like a good idea overall) it is surely better to have stationary installations, with larger batteries and connectivity optimized for that purpose, not using the EV batteries currently developed for moving these two-ton exosceletons to random places... In fact you want to have the option to significantly reduce EV usage as other, more sustainable overall, mobility modes become available and/or popular.
Google screws with political results they don’t like. A google search is going to show what the higher ups at google believe.
What was your language? I read two of his books when I was a kid in Russian. Also built the matchbox machine but I think it was playing hexapawn which was too simplistic compared to tic tac toe and a bit disappointing. I couldn't find enough beads and had to use cut matches and pieces of paper as well. And it was quite a story to convince adults to buy me so many matchboxes, I think it was 21. I think this machine and Conway's Life also explained in that book have transformed me.
Haley Nahman failed to talk about the ACTORS and how they act; the word "actor"/"actress" appears 0 times in this article.
Just compare those boring faces with the personalities of former decades!
btw their challenges are public on github

https://github.com/fly-hiring
Jan 2024 - Microsoft releases Excel with it's own built-in C# IDE, doesn't credit original developer.
First, this heavily depends on how exactly you exercised and on your actual diet. Bulking makes you hungry. Mild cardio or runs makes you less hungry and less likely to just eat crap.

Second, your body is rebuilding and healing itself from micro injuries, so eat proteins if you are hungry at that time. That does not mean your dinner then has to be exactly the same as before, you just have to shift when and what you eat.
In my experience its only the shit tier new hires that struggle - they are more likely to start getting ignored when they keep asking lazy/stupid questions.
Literally the whole reason my last org got into Azure.

Lots of MSSQL and PowerBI licenses, lots of other Windows env features. Great deals to bundle those in w/ Azure deployments.

Great pricing too -- for the first 3 years. But at 4 years...
That is going to be an expensive habit in the future once time-variable pricing is the standard, which I think is inevitable. Charging your car at 6PM is going to be super expensive compared to 3 AM or 1 PM.

Also note you'll still have fast-chargers, you don't always need to charge immediately at full capacity at home, just as you wouldn't always top up on gas after every drive.
Just paste it some excerpt from a previous essay of yours and ask it to write the new essay in that style. There, prompt engineered.
We are not talking about multiple 0-100% cycles daily. The places where pilot programs have been run always left the car with some amount of charge so it can be driven, and you don't normally charge NMC car batteries to 100%.

Vehicle batteries have 8 year 100k mile warranties today, and those manufacturers who have spoken on this topic have said that utilizing your battery as grid storage will not violate the warranty (Ford said this about the Lightning, which can do V2G today.)

Please stop spreading misinformation and go do some research before you spout FUD like this.
What do you mean "$150-$300", net, a day ? Yah. No.

You checked for France on the statistical bureau website ( INSEE )

Average Net salary is 1558 euros / month, calculated from 196k salaries. Figures are from 2021.

With that you get unemployment, retirement and healthcare. It can be considered "play money" if you are sorta careless.

Not great, but you can definitely lives on that and find lodging. ( In Paris that will be a flatshare )
Federated content is copied to every instance, so yes, follow a few people and you can see your instance's disk usage explode. I run an instance for some friends.

The usage can be contained with a few cron jobs to purge old cached content aggressively. Running

`tootctl statuses remove && tootctl media remove` once a week is enough to make it sane in my case.
Jira JQL Query Script: Easily Search and View Issues in Your Jira Instance
Taxes can varies from counties to counties? Ha, I never noticed that.

Kinda goes to show that it's not helping to display them like that.
It eliminates the need for spending time commuting, which becomes free time.

Expanding on this:

Not commuting means one is also not contributing to traffic congestion, not emitting CO2, reducing fuel consumption, extending the life of the vehicle, not being at risk of traffic collision.

That last bit seems to be a big one that insurance companies should favor. Reduction of time on the road is a reduction of risk of injury. In my opinion WFH should also be a reason to reduce automotive insurance costs.
I think this is true, but there are (likely) more children's books out there than you can read in a lifetime, so it seems like adding more middling AI ones to the mix would not be a value-add. At least (skilled) human authors adding to the pile have a better chance to make the story meaningful.

Maybe we need a critic AI that can identify the most touching, meaningful, instructive, and morally enlightening stories out there and help us sort through the already daunting number of options
These blocks have other advantages such as having access to the outer scope. Yes those could be passed in as arugments to a function, but I think there are many cases where that extra overhead feels unreasonable given you have already gathered all of the values here for this purpose anyway.
JavaScript AST manipulation with Babel: untangling scope confusion
I also created a kid's book for Christmas; but I still haven't written any blog post about it.

What I did:

- I asked each of my 5 nieces/nephews to give ideas (e.g. invent a character)

- I generated around 10 stories with ChatGPT, based on their input. I used ChatGPT in French, it worked almost as well as in English (except for poetry).

- I got a total of 4500 words. This took at lot of iteration with ChatGPT, because I gave guidance and I used lots of followup prompts to force ChatGPT to add more details to the stories.

- I generated 2/3 images per story, plus book cover.

- I paid for a professional print of the book - 24 pages, around 20 euros

- In total, I spent around 15-20 hours of work (content generation took a lot of iterations).

That was a nice Christmas gift.
I'll have to check it out!

In the past for commercial audio analysis, I've used ArtemiS Suite from Head Acoustics for similar requirements. It would trivially do all of those things, including the Perl (well, what the Perl did).

I think it's really fascinating from a UI perspective, the multi-column separation of the project, audio files, analyses (chained back to other analyses where appropriate), graphics, and report generation makes it really flexible. Rather than pointing and clicking through a wizard each time you want to accomplish something, or up-arrowing in the command line to a previous entry, you set up a pipeline to accomplish that thing and then iterate the pipeline intake over all your inputs and it spews the outputs you need. And all that from an intuitive GUI with lots of graphical feedback, rather than a command line with more difficult discovery of features.

It changes your activity from executing commands one after another to engineering a script to execute those commands automatically, you almost can't help but make something reusable.

Tragically, it's locked behind a 4- or 5-figure license cost. Not a big deal when you're using it for testing automotive products, but not exactly accessible for paintball hobbyists.
To answer your question from the flagged Czech thread.

>Why? Is it too political?

When I look at the "active" threads on HN. The majority are political. For example, NY Jails want to ban mail. It's entirely political for a tiny portion of the world, but clearly allowed.

Your problem is that you came up against communism.
Agreed, this looks really great! I second that being able to see the flag and the correct answer more prominently after an incorrect guess would help! Super well done.
Ah I hadn't heard of masto.host, ok that's another thing to look into. Thanks!
A fun experiment but LLM generated stories will never escape the uncanny valley, because they're not novel, they're remixes. I know the critique of that position is "but humans just remix the things they know from the world" but that is the same misunderstanding that those who thought truck driving jobs would be automated by 2018 made about that profession. i.e. The less you know about a field, the more likely you are to believe it will be easy to automate.

Art, in this case illustration and narrative, requires a coherent viewpoint. In literature this is often referred to as the authorial voice. Voice is special because of the uniqueness of the human life behind it, which I realize sounds a bit airy-fairy, but is very true once you start digging into what works and what doesn't. When you read something and wonder why it's so engaging when it's not _that_ much different than other very similar pieces, that's often what's at work.

It's also why some pieces really don't work for some people. The "a kid could draw that" critiques of various modernism styles come from this place.

I don't begrudge people experimenting with art through LLM generation, and perhaps it can be a great tool for scaffolding ideas, I grant that. However, I do worry about the deluge of poorly conceived LLM content that will make the good stuff harder to find. We had a glorious age where the gatekeepers had lost most of their power. With the flood of content about to be released, I'm afraid we'll find ourselves beholden to them once again.
When I answer incorrectly, it tells me I selected some totally other country incorrectly.
Generally, required separation is 5 (nautical) miles or 1000 feet in altitude. There are some exceptions like taking off or landing on parallel runways. ATC will ensure the separation, and on large airliners, the TCAS[1] system will alert pilots if something goes horribly wrong and aircraft get too close together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy...
Yes, they do. In most of the civilized world this practice is mandatory and everyone is better off for it.
See a real optometrist and/or ophthalmologist.

Good monitors, at the right distance for your eyes (& glasses).

If you're expecting your eyes to perform like they did way back when, when you were ~20, develop realistic expectations.
That might be fine for the HN crowd, but cloud password managers are still the best solution out there for the typical person.
perhaps the core idea of the story can still come from you but ChatGPT can help flesh out the details in write it in a compelling manner.
Neat!

It would be nice to have the option to focus on a single content. It's much easier to learn things if you can go back and repeat, but repetition is prohibitive if you have to do the whole world again.

As a small comment, I went to click on a flag on mobile to see if I could see it bigger, and the name of the file came up, with the country's two-letter code, giving away the answer. I'd make it so the flag doesn't respond to touch/mouse events.
But I would guess, that is couple orders of magnitude easier than self driving for example.

You would guess wrong then. Robots don't handle variability well at all. Making a robot that can pack anything like a human can is a huge challenge.
EE is my day job so I may be biased towards more formal resources.

Sparkfun, Adafruit, etc have some good stuff to get you off the ground and building projects almost right away. I think they're great "taster" in how circuits work and what some of the components are for.

Khan Academy has a course for EE, I haven't used it but I've used the site for other stuff like brushing up of my math.

Manufacturers actually make some really nice training materials, if you like analogue stuff, TI's Precision Labs series is a great resource for that. Analog Devices has an intro to electronics wiki series too. https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/text/...

For a deeper look, an undergraduate electronics textbook will hold your hand from the very basics through to more advanced concepts. You can ignore some of the more advanced stuff like AC analysis and non-linear components for the most part (Unless they interest you!)

I learned from this book (https://www.pearson.com/en-gb/subject-catalog/p/electronics-...) and found it quite approachable in how it laid out the basics before contextualising them as systems.

Theres also the famous Art of Electronics which is a good book but personally feels a bit dated (even with the new edition) and really analogue heavy. A good reference manual though.
Citation needed. Particularly from their operations teams and developers.

Notably a lot of corporations are built on a pile of shit with an immense staff turnover. I know that having worked for multiple Fortune 500 companies...
I would leave them in a room usually and remove all amenities. One crazy one was a friend who said his sim had a baby he didn't want to deal with, so he put walls around the baby, then when child services came to take the neglected baby, they kept walking around the walled structure.
Looks awesome. One fundamental issue I always faced with Excel calculations of any kind (formulas or vba) is the lack of ability to source control cleanly (binary format plus data and code are intermingled). This weakness is the other side of the spreadsheet’s greatest strength which is low friction experimentation with data. Does this product attempt to do anything here?
`var` has weird scoping rules, but you can get the "right" behaviour in modern javascript, using `let`.
this is pretty cool.
I think you have a big opportunity here to have an easter egg if you detect someone holding down a number key for over 10 seconds as I did.