skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the local solar reseller estimate for installing on my flat roof house. I would like to think I am keen on going green, but after three visits, some hard sell and spreadsheets showing when and how I would break even, i really felt like I was just engaging in a long-term finance deal. I would pay the same as I currently do, but to the solar finance lender, not to my local electricity company. And some of the cost benefit was speculated based on my local electricity company buying from me. I also had concerns about roof maintenance when it was inaccessible due to the panels. I also worried that to sell my house I would have to find a buyer willing to take-on the debt, the reseller unrealistically insisted the opposite, that this would add value. I didn't sign up, having seen companies fold, be acquired, change terms and conditions and essentially screw consumers, it just wasn't appealing.
A large computer is radically CPU overprovisioned for most workloads.
That approach used to work well for the past ~20 years or so on Google, and effectively stopped working recent-ish.
To the owner class and their handmaidens, all workers are just expenses to be minimized in a spreadsheet. A tech worker is the same to them as the plumber who fixed their toilet last week. The plumber doesn't imagine himself to be the next Elon Musk (if not for a sufficiently lucky break), though.

Tech workers are prone to giving away free labor and the author's "advice" illustrates one example (things which are "part of the job" but really separate from the core of The Machine). Continuing the analogy: when you hire a plumber to fix your toilet, he doesn't repipe the rest of your house or do your laundry unless you pay him specifically to do those things. Your relationship is transactional and without loyalty on either side. Just like how most employers view their relationship with employees.

Many if not most tech workers suffer from misplaced loyalty towards their employers, whose owners will continue coordinating as a class, taking all they can, while workers remain distracted and divided.
Stormwater
I don't have anything against bootcamp but I see common pattern:

1. They are in it for money
2. They are in it for the lifestyle
3. They suffer big on by imposter syndrome

The programmers I've worked with over the years were just passionate about programming and thats why they entered the field. They spend years refining the craft. But, now it has drastically changed. The next generation what it "now". Everything "now". They want to buy a home "now". They want new shows "now".
So assuming that's what the university is optimizing for, I can see your point.

As noted in peer comments in these threads though, universities aren't solely in the business of pure research. They optimize for a wide band of goals, including teaching, grant acquisition and use, and publication. Those are human interaction skill-spaces, not particle-behavior-comprehension skill spaces.

And even in the realm of pure research: of the top ten big physics and astronomy institutions, four are in Europe (across three countries), one in China, one in Japan, two in Russia, and two in the United States. The ability to work cross-culturally with diverse people is extremely important for physics collaboration in the 21st century.
> I've also been in positions where my 'people managers' advised me against my interests.

Generally curious here - do you mind adding some examples/details? Looking back at my career I can't think of a time when any 'people manager' advised me against my own interests. I am no longer an IC and since I haven't experienced this, I worry it's a blind spot in how I'm interacting with others.
Should you join the SPC founder fellowship? The 400k question
It seems that the way iOS implements W^X protection would prevent a performant JS JIT from being created. It will be interesting to see if/how this is worked around.
They meant inferring I referred to the GOP.

That’s simply a single edge jump from “Utah GOP” to GOP.
Your "dream" there fuels some of my nightmares. You may discount the potentially devasting threat of a possible massive ecological collapse from relying on one single implementation of web rendering because you don't think open source projects can die because "someone has the resources to potentially fork it", but open source is no guarantee.

Beyond that, even discounting the threat of ecological collapse due to a single codebase, most of the web's best standards have come from lessons learned from multiple implementations. Without multiple implementations we lose a lot of guide rails away from bad single vendor "standards". Even if you think downstream players like Microsoft can act as a big enough check on Google's rubber stamp in standards boards like WHATWG, there's a huge difference between Microsoft developers evaluating potential standards because they have to build their own implementation of them versus just reading them in code review to accept an upstream PR they didn't need to write themselves.

Also, as close to a single implementation as WebKit and Blink still sometimes are, it's hard to argue that Apple isn't already still a contributor to the WebKit/Blink/Chromium Hegemony. It doesn't matter if iOS opens up to other browsers or not right now while WebKit and Blink are still so close to mostly not matter. Apple is sort of protecting everyone from a true V8 (JS Engine) monopoly, but the renderer has always been close enough to not matter to those terrible web developers only testing websites in Chrome and assuming they work "everywhere" and supporting a "Works Only in Chrome" agenda.
Siri is not why people are buying iPhones, in fact well over 50% of users say they never or rarely use it. So, your point doesn't really hold up. Siri still loses money, just like Google Assistant and Alexa. The apps you listed to compare with OS bundles have not even close to the same overhead as a digital assistant and can be handled with relatively small programming teams.
> Why? Employee is a perfectly suitable and applicable term.

Because a lot of communication in companies is on the same level. People eventually send emails to "hey demonym" rather than "hey coworkers". I think these sort of things develop pretty naturally and unforced.
My family has personally experienced this and it is terrifying to learn how little information and how few resources there are for young children with IBD.

Right out of the gate you hit the issue that there simply aren't many "very early onset IBD" (impacting children under 6 years old) specialists because historically there were so few cases. We've seen well regarded IBD specialists who reflexively try to order tests and procedures that their own hospital will then refuse to even perform because they can't be done safely on young children. The IBD specialists are in general simply unfamiliar with young children because of the historical rarity.

From the VEO IBD specialists we have worked with they all report that the numbers are exploding and no one has any real idea why.

On top of that most of the more modern and effective treatments for IBD and Crohns aren't approved for young children at all and even top tier insurance will fight tooth and nail against covering them because their use in children can be considered off-label.
They really need to drop the name "Bing". I asked ChatGPT and the best name it came up with IMO is "Odyssey"
I don’t understand the connection you’re making between minimum wage and food prices
> Or maybe people can have a second chance

Second chances for people are great. And the way to get a second chance is to to follow a simple three-step process:

1. Admit guilt.

2. Express remorse.

3. Make amends.

So far, he's not reached step 1, he's still in step 0, which is deny everything and threaten everyone around you with lawsuits. That's not quite asking for a second chance.
Exactly. The company (owners plus workers) getting a big pot of money is not adversarial, it's cooperative. Dividing the pot of money is where it gets adversarial. But spend all your time focusing on how to divide the pot always (at least in the long run) means the whole group loses out on the big pot of money.
From the abstract:

> This model's answers are preferred by humans 56% of the time to those of our human demonstrators, and 69% of the time to the highest-voted answer from Reddit.

These are very interesting metrics.
TBH I did not think much of this practice ever. I see that it's weird seeing that in layoff emails but I don't bat an eye normally.
This seems terrifyingly plausible
Installing and managing updates on the desktop sucks. It will always suck I think. There's no single ecosystem to target, and each will have it's own story. It's why Java almost took off in this space.

But hey, a webapp? You're already in your browser and don't have to install anything. User acquisition suddenly becomes so much easier. So those apps win, even if they wrap their web app in a shitty browser to get on the desktop.
I'd pay for HN thread summaries like this
It’s hard for me to imagine that Edge would become my main browser (big Firefox fan for many years), but I’d certainly give these new AI features a test drive.
Heh, that is very true, too. For me it was more Game Boy than the NES, but to the same effect. Only Zelda: Link's Awakening gripped me for so long that I would spend entire days playing, but then there were still the times where we talked about it amongst friends outside.
They don't - they call it a household and define it as people living in the same place. Doctorow is blurring the reality of the policy to score outrage points.
This is a kind of interesting change to see FB make to me (I had heard about this a couple of weeks ago from my brother, who was one of the ICs affected by the layoffs), as recently while I've been promoted into management at a different one of the FAANGs, I'm still doing a fairly heavy amount of coding out of necessity, maybe even moreso in some ways since my team isn't able to handle the amount of projects/work given to us without covering some of the most undesirable work.
You are correct. For a short distance it's a almost a constant 1 like an infinite wall with the same charge density. For a long distance is almost 1/r^2 like punctual source. For an intermediate distance, it's a mess and you hope nobody ask for an exact solution.

A rectangle is a mess. It's easier with a circle. The approximations at short and long distance are the same, but a circle has an "easy" formula in between. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elelin.h... 1-x/sqrt(x^2+R^2) where R is the radio of the circle. Let's use R=10 to keep it simple.

For a short distance 0<x<R/10, then it's almost a constant https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1-x%2Fsqr%28x%5E2%2B10%...

For a long distance, x>4R it's almost like R^2/(2*x^2) https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=1-x%2Fsqr%28x%5E2%2B10%...

There are some trick to add more term to the approximations to reduce the middle part where both approximations are bad, like using A+Bx or A+Bx+Cx^3 for short distance and D/x^2+E/x^4 or D/x^2+E/x^4+F/x^4 for long distance. It depends on how much you care about the precision and how many calculations you want to do.

In some particular cases like a circle or the shell of a sphere there are closed formulas for the intermediate distances. In other cases there is no nice formula.
Ah that all makes sense. Also a bit of a d'oh about the which python.

I definitely do think it'd be useful to just have a quick path to using this with a variety of different IDE types.
It would be strange to force Apple to allow its competitors to establish footholds on their own platform, against their will, only for a Chrome monopoly to emerge months later. A web monoculture will be harder to undo than enacting smarter antitrust legislation.
Disneyland in Anaheim, CA release 1 million in 1985:
http://www.fieldtripper.com/c/-_xr439URic/skyfest-honors-dis...
I am incredibly impressed with the demos being able to have excellent citations to more primary sources which effectively solves the biggest problem with using ChatGPT. If this works as well as they plan Bing will become the primary search engine for many.
New era of confidentially incorrect search results.
Speech inference has been done well enough locally for well over a decade. While an Alexa device probably couldn’t do it, any modern iPhone could.
People renovate older homes, which have historical value, but most homes built in the postwar period are rightly discarded because they are thin, flimsy junk.
Agreed, not only a rebranding of Bing, but they had the opportunity to change the category of search/chat. Instead it looks like they've just shoved chat into a tab as part of search.

There is a whole new world coming, and Microsoft missed a huge opportunity here. Now they are still comparing Bing to Google.
This is a local-only service for just a single nation.
Careful, It explains but both answer and explanation are sometimes completely hallucinated, it sometimes looks like a plausible answer, but actually it completely made up. And this happens way too often for me to take it seriously for now.
Mendable.ai – Chat Powered Docs Search, with Insights, Deploy in 1 Line of Code
Alright, let's say I know a friend who could be concerned. What is the proper term in Zocdoc to find the right kind of doctor to get this checked?
> The meds won't help you "show up" after the euphoria phase of the first week.

As some comments above mentioned everyone is affected differently. I have been on adderall for well over a decade, and constantly for the past 5-6 years in which I formed habits and routines that never stuck when I would go off and on due to hating the 'blunting' effect I felt it had on my creativity and personality.

So a couple months ago when I couldn't find them in stock anywhere I figured no big deal, I could keep doing what I was doing and maybe I was using the meds as a crutch anyhow. I was hoping I would get my old 'fun' personally back to go along with my new older-wiser-mature-self that had good work habits and routines. It's been such a complete disaster I had to ask my doctor to lower my dose because that was the only strength one pharmacy had left out of over 20 stores I called, and had them search other branches. Now I have to choose which days to take them because I have to take twice as many to get the workable dose. It sucks.
It'd be useful for teachers who are trying to remember the class' names! Geofenced, of course.
I believe the usual usage is:

capitalist (noun):
filthy rich monopoly man

capitalist (adj.): pro capitalism
On the contrary, you're vastly underestimating the availability of various "booting" and "IP stressing" services that sell a 30 minute 1Gbps+ DDoS attack to anyone for $5. Launching a DDoS attack is just as easy, if not easier than, signing up for Netflix. A simple search for "IP stresser" should yield dozens if not hundreds of results.

I've personally been on the receiving end of one of those for somehow pissing off a cheater in GTA 5. It definitely happens and it's not fun.
Something like searchQuery+=“ reddit” should do the trick.
Yeah, let’s ditch all those other pesky languages and just stick with English /s
Everyone keeps talking about Google being caught off guard, declaring a “code red” scenario and reeling the founders back in to avert an existential threat etc.

I don’t personally care about Google so much. They haven’t innovated on their core product in a long time.

What most of the journalistic coverage of the Bing+ChatGPT integration seems to be missing is that this is also the end of organic search traffic. Information-centric websites are the first to miss out on a lot of clicks. And as ChatGPT evolves into an assistant that performs actual jobs for you, websites that perform actual services (e.g., online shopping) may be next in line to suffer a decline in traffic.
You can get by without speaking Japanese as a normal tourist, but if you try to live in a van and get hassled by the police, lacking Japanese language skills will not go well for you.
This is a terraform module to deploy a Mastodon instance and it's dependencies on GKE Autopilot + Cloudsql + Memorystore Redis (optional) and Elasticsearch (it was hard to run it on Autopilot.

The costs are around 60$/monthly thanks also to the spot nodes instead of regular ones, anyway you can tweak it as you prefer.

Not yet finished, but ready to be published on the wild for comments.
> most UIs are hardware accelerated directly or indirectly.

To widely varying degrees. Some do a lot of work on the GPU, others use only the rasterization features, some only accelerate the compositing. This unfortunately means that using simple surface level terminology like GPU accelerated doesn't sufficiently describe what is actually happening so that we could make meaningful comparisons between toolkits.

Ultimately I think what's needed is proper benchmarking of performance and measuring of battery life. A toolkit that uses GPU acceleration for a simple step might actually be slower than a full CPU implementation, because there is a cost to syncing your data between CPU and GPU. Also if the whole UI is rather simple, then even a solution that is built completely on the GPU might be slower than CPU, again because of the associated costs. If it takes 2ms to get everything set up on the GPU for a frame, then it doesn't matter if the GPU renders it in only 1ms vs 2ms on the CPU, as total time is now 3ms with the GPU vs 2ms with CPU only. It's a contrived example, but one that could easily happen without a focus on measuring.
>The "believe the science" shills that just so happen to be the same people that write "study says" type articles?

Otherwise known as the people with critical thinking abilities that don't latch on to every conspiracy they hear and start looking for any and every possible thing to discredit something.

>>You wouldn't doubt that science, would you, shill?

I will much sooner believe things with actual evidence and data behind them, over random internet idiots using the word "shill" to attack things they don't understand.
Does anyone know if parental controls can hide shorts? Especially from the mobile toolbar.
Totalitarian refers to a single party controlling the government.

I didnt support censorship either. You created a strawman that i couldnt respond due to the sheer volume of downvotes.

I support people expressing their thoughts freely so that I know who is dangerous, and who is not. Who has a disdain for my mere existence, and who is willing to stand in support of minorities.

The reality is that bigots will only get emboldened, as they have, and it’s not due to censorship, it’s due to strawmans and falsehoods pushed by prominent bigots.

I merely pointed to bigots killing people, and to prominent politicians who embolden the bigots, and rally them under a false flag, under a supposedly “holy” cause, under the so-called protection of conservative values.

Shame on you, for jumping to conclusions and creating strawmans.
> and marketing.

If I recall correctly, Google was paying 1$ per install, so everyone was promoting Chrome and Chrome was actually better than Firefox.

Firefox then made a lot of missteps, tried to make a push open video and audio codecs for idealistic reasons and lost. They also failed to catch on Chrome's performance for quite a long time. They spent a lot of resources into experiments that went nowhere.
"It is a stinky bacteria infection in the armpits. "

If it is a infection, then something is very wrong.

Otherwise you can and should clean them with care, especially when you cannot shower.
Google has had a huge history of poor product execution. So long it was not strongly apparent in ads and also not so much in search but many other areas. Now they again show this poor product execution and lack of customer focus in AI. The reason that they struggle is not that they don't have smart brains in their org, but that they are not able to translate that power into customer value and imagine and iterate effectively towards user space. Let's see if they can get the curve...
Highly unlikely since Google has been playing around with their own chatGPT called LaMDA that they are now making into a product called Bard.

I think that Microsoft could have had a chance if they decided to do this before even introducing the world to chatGPT, everyone would have been talking about Bing, but now everyone knows chatGPT and everyone is gonna be talking about Google's Bard as an alternative to chatGPT and not as an alternative to Bing/chatGPT.
Show HN: Rfc2pdf
As a person with vision problems I sometimes struggle with certain documents that are difficult to read (my computer fonts are usually bold with sizes ~14). I needed to read some RFCs and discovered that the PDF versions use a font smaller and "thinner" (Courier 10?) than what I'm used to. I tried some options to modify the original plain text documents and discovered that modifying their fonts was not as easy as I thought. Finally I created a utility to convert RFCs to PDF allowing the user to change fonts and margins and I wanted to share it. There is also a utility to "bulk convert" a folder with RFCs in plain text.I have converted RFCs to PDFs with two free monospaced fonts: Liberation Mono and Ubuntu Mono, check the releases. Hope you find it useful!.
>This is a societal issue, more than a HW/SW issue. Google Glass explicitly bans this type of feature:

Seems like one of those things that can't be stopped. It can be slowed, as Google has done, but eventually OSS will allow for it. If it is massively outlawed then it can be reduced, but even then it'll still be on the level of hidden cameras.
While I, too, wish this were the most popular URL, the Verge one beat yours by 20 minutes and thus has gathered all the steam: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34696849
You browse the web without an adblocker? Courageous.
I started using Linux around ~2005 in the GNOME2/KDE3 era. I loved GNOME2 more, somehow KDE3 never clicked, it was just weird. Anyways time went by and I really didn't like GNOME3 and generally where the design of GNOME went so picked up MATE. And to this day that's my default desktop environment. But I had some offsite job and had to use KDE Plasma there and... I was blown away. It's so so good. Probably the most mature desktop environment right now? Love MATE but KDE Plasma is really taking my heart! Anyways, I just wonder what went "wrong" with GNOME after GNOME2 (or at least I see something went wrong) because the current GNOME is just miles away from KDE Plasma
I understand it's not best practice to ask, but could those who downvoted this comment reply with their reasons why?