skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking because I’m genuinely curious (because I’ve seen list prices and I’m trying to decide how much cheaper it is to move a gas line than to just swap out a heat pump for current furnace/AC -

Is your estimate of $13k in the bay area? Are you including ducting in that estimate? Is that for a 2,3, or 4 ton system? Does that include electrical upgrades?

I’ve seen the list prices of 2 ton systems at $4k (if available). I have a modern AC/Furnace and ducting, but a very inconvenient gas line.

I actually just paid $2200 for a gas line to another location in the house for a tankless, so I’m not planning on switching to gas completely.

The water heater situation seemed more annoying to try to go electric. The tankless heaters are cheaper, but you’re looking at 30kW/120A for 9GPM service. I decided it was slightly cheaper to go gas (heater will now be outside, so heat pump would have been hard too)
Well, it has still to be compiled later into machine code. But how hard is it to compile GLSL into SPIR-V using an external compiler.
Among other things the utilities proposed for NEM 3.0 that it be made unlawful to generate electricity off grid and not sell it to the utility at wholesale rates (which they would then sell back to you at retail rates).

I believe that proposal is dead this time but they're not going to stop trying. Several long term trends are challenging the viability of a public electrical grid, among them the low cost of solar.
No, we should build more housing so that the supply and demand curves intersect in a different place.

Land value taxes and Georgism in general are utopian nonsense that have never done any good anywhere at any time. People love to trot them out as solutions to the housing affordability problem but can never show how they would help -- because they can't help!

Building more housing is the only solution, everyone knows it, and weird pie-in-the-sky stuff like land value tax are distractions that ought to be ignored.
> Tableau workers call themselves the #DataFam. The name has carried a double meaning, describing both a love of data and also camaraderie among family members.

Yeah... a workplace "family" is about as much of a family as a Mafia crew.

As soon as push comes to shove, someone's getting buried in the Pine Barrens.
Well of course you're inoculated from the embrace but a ton of people aren't. If enough of the Linux people around you are embraced by WSL, there might come unforeseen consequences.

You should be scared.
>What were we doing 30 years ago that we aren't today?

Messing with computers.

PC gaming today is as simple as going out to Best Buy or Costco, buying a "gaming" desktop, come home, unbox it, plug everything in, initialize (note: not install) Windows, install Steam, and Bob's your uncle.

Most of us hailing from the 20th century learned how computers worked because we kind of had to to run the games we wanted to play. Memory address allocations, DLL hell, driver hell, registry tricks, picking out parts and putting it all together; all stuff gamers today simply don't have to deal with. Windows Update will even figure out most if not all the drivers for you.

And before anyone says it: Yes yes, I know buying a "gaming" desktop from Best Buy or Costco isn't ideal. But guess what? We are outdated oldtimers. We definitely know how to get the best stuff, but gamers simply don't need the best anymore. Computers have become household appliances, not tinkerers' toys to be handled by wizards. So what if that desktop from Best Buy craps out? They just go and buy another one like you would buy another Playstation and Bob's your uncle.

Gamers aren't tinkerers anymore, most people don't mess with computers anymore.
Do you think that $34 billion could save, say, more than 89 people if spent on a more effective plan?
I've never heard of this. Is there more information about such a system online?

Edit: I went ahead and asked the AI

What is this system called? Who are purveyors of this kind of system?

> The system being referred to is called a "load management system" or "load shedding system." It involves interlocking appliances and prioritizing their usage to manage electricity demand and prevent overloading of the electrical service. Some electric utility companies and home automation companies offer load management systems, and electricians may also be able to install and service these systems.

How does it work? How do the appliances communicate?

> A load management system works by using a controller device that is installed in the home's electrical panel. This controller communicates wirelessly or via wired connections with the various appliances in the home. The controller is programmed to manage the electrical load by monitoring the power usage of each appliance and turning them on or off in a prioritized sequence when there is a risk of overloading the electrical service.

> For example, the load management system may be programmed to turn off power to non-essential appliances when the air conditioner is turned on, or to delay the start of the dishwasher until the washing machine has finished its cycle. The communication between the controller and the appliances is typically done using a protocol called Zigbee or Z-Wave, which allows for wireless communication over short distances.
They reran Harold Lloyd shorts on kids' TV in the UK perhaps in the 1980s - growing up in the sticks I'd watch anything and found his silent short films a good way of killing time.
the Criterion release of The Passion of Joan of Arc has two great scores, too. Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light for the first and Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) for the second.
I grew up with a blind kid who made a ticking sound with his tongue - he could navigate through the world quite remarkably. It was extraordinary to watch. I remember teaching him how to drive stick - we would drive around a big paddock and I’d tell him what I saw and he’d steer.
If humans are to regain their creative advantages over AI, we will require far better interfaces.

Truth is a human mind is more powerful than an AI, consider how many images you could create in a second and with far greater accuracy and detail than an AI could. But humans have no way to “output” these images the way an AI can except to manually draw them out, which is a very slow process. The images though certainly exist in the mind.

If we had some sort of brain-to-machine interface, that could allow us to dump images at fast rates onto a screen, then human art could see a sort of high tech renaissance. More humans could be artists, with nothing more than the power of their thoughts. No art skills required. And not just with images: text, videos, sound, anything…

Anyone looking to fight back against the AI apocalypse, should be researching how to create such technologies. It is time for humans to become more than human.
Not exactly what the Reddit'ers say:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/10q188u/anyone_swi...

So now it's not just "you need an expensive induction unit" but "you shouldn't get the touch-control units that everyone is selling"?

And before anyone says "the proposal doesn't cover stoves" that's obviously going to be the other shoe to drop.
The parent comment did not move the goalposts in any way -- it simply pointed out that having a PhD is not enough to prove that the author is not a crank, because a lot of other people with PhDs are also cranks.
I finally bought it a month ago after years of "trial". It's an expense that student me would never had approved, but now I'm glad to give back because the font makes me so happy.
huh...My domain is with you.

I didn't even know this was a thing.

I easily could not look at my emails for a few weeks - on vacation or whatever.

Wow that sucks.
Once furnace and water heaters are electric I really don’t see how maintaining gas infrastructure stays economic for PG&E. I guess they can keep raising minimum monthly charges so you’ll end up paying even if you use no gas.
I think this uses instruct-pix2pix which is different!

My understanding is that instruct-pix2pix requires a special fine tuned model, whereas this new pix2pix-zero thing is a new image to image technique that works without any need for additional training.

All that to say here's a pix2pix-zero demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/ysharma/pix2pix-zero-01
So the government investigates a big disaster caused in part by their actions and everything is within normal levels. A lot of time the same regulators will say the water is fine when brown stuff is coming out of the faucet.
There was another, smaller (est 7.5 vs. 7.0) quake in late May of 526:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/526_Antioch_earthquake

(followed by a fire) that also reportedly killed 250 thousand. The two figures are close.

A lot of historically big numbers turn out to be greatly exaggerated, maybe as a part of the storytelling process. For example, some old books claimed the toll of the 1737 Calcutta (quake or cyclone) was around 300,000 - while there were no more than 10,000 residents at the time. https://rashidfaridi.com/2008/05/13/earthquakes-in-asia/
This is a great example of a fallacious appeal to authority -- both from the author, and from you.
It's a great illustration of what a pure and an impure (effectful) function is.

The author complains that getting some bits as a result of function f() is seen by the legal system differently than when these bits are obtained via another function g(), even though f() ≡ g()。

The problem is, of course, that f() and g() are not pure functions. They produce effects as a part of their being computed, such as accessing various sources of information. The colour thus obtained is one of the effects: accessing a medium while breaking a license agreement that forbids doing so is not the same as obtaining the very same bits from a random number generator by a blind chance. (Note that usually an RNG is also a stateful thing.)

It is easy to provide an analogy of colour in another pair of impure functions computing the same result.

Assume a predicate (theorem) P, which we assume is true. Let f(P) be true iff P is true, but producing a detailed proof of truthiness of P while computed (say, as a log output). Let g(P) be true iff P is true, but providing no explanation whatsoever. They return the very same one bit result: true, and this is the correct result, by construction. But there true values definitely have different colours, don't they?
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140265413/rail-workers-biden...
The maze is in the mouse: What ails Google. And how it can turn things around
Did you even bother reading any of the references you asked for or googled any of the terms/axioms/theorems I quoted? Half of the things you claim I said are quite willful misquotes of what I wrote. Look, I tried to read what you wrote charitably (hence the smileys and multiple mentions of the limitations of online comments as a medium). Without you doing the same, I have trouble imagining how we can agree on the truth. Again, check the actual rigorous logically coherent textbook references I shared, not a popsci page (which is indeed from a reputable source, but popsci nonetheless). By the way, that popsci page defines just the unit of Kelvin, not the concept of temperature - if you deny there is a difference between these two notions, there is hardly a chance this conversation would go anywhere.
> For example, you know the way, the road signs are telling you that you are on the right route, but your map application tells you to go another way, and you do it because you assume it is smarter or has more information than you.

Yet here we are with Google Maps still sending me into the opposite way of a one way street...
Sure but here's the problem: all of those chemicals are biodegradable. Most information about what is happening is basically "there was a large release of a non-environmentally persistent contaminant" which just plain isn't going to hit the fears right for people.

Vinyl chloride doesn't hang around[1]: nothing with an ethene-double bond is going to be good for you if you ingest it, but it's not stable because that's why it's used: UV light and most biological processes will degrade it very quickly.

Would you want to bathe in it? No. You also wouldn't want to be near a really large, concentrated release but it's not perfluorocarbon, nor heavy metal.

Which is to say, you could go look these things up right now - this information is not even slightly secret. But it is both a serious situation, and one that isn't what the "why isn't this being covered" people want it to look like.

[1] https://semspub.epa.gov/work/05/437069.pdf
Installing anything new in the bay is cost prohibitive. Qualified labour shortage as well, an example is when contractors that installed solar panels damaged roof pretty badly, like making see through holes and sloppy job around mounting brackets, just painful to watch. Also, last 2 years we had rolling outages, so I am actually not sure if the grid will fare well with the increased load. Insulation can greatly increase heating efficiency, and should be the first step when installing a heat pump anyway.

Years ago when I signed up for pge i chose community aggregates renewable energy source instead of buying from pge. Couple years ago it was more expensive to buy renewable + delivery charges then just buying from pge, even though pge had at least half of it coming from gas and coal. Yet renewable should be much cheaper. So i suspect right now cost of heat pump heating isn’t gonna be cheaper than gas, given upfront cost. Utilities can’t achieve renewable efficiency and maintain grid, yet its ok to push it on everyone else.

Heat pump however makes total sense if you have solar panel and battery. But again, upfront cost.
I think he is arguing for more protocols than simply sequence. That is a sequence can be attributed fine-granular capabilities represented by protocols and that allows generic functions to be tailored towards those capabilities for improved performance.
Their subsideries will buy a hell of a lot of ads.
You can try these things out in a GPT-3 playground. Also search for “zero-shot learning” as the term of art to find papers on some of these topics.
Here's an iterative JS version I just came up with, don't judge too harshly but I think it works (also there's a missing ] in their example):

https://codepen.io/winrid/pen/JjajYGR
I think experience varies greatly by region. I wonder what regions you and op are.
I understand the point you're making, and that you wanted to make it dramatically. I got a nice belly laugh thinking about my future grandchildren chastising me for forsaking static types:

"All your life's work for naught, Pepaw. If only you had been on the right side of history".

I do have a substantive disagreement with this statement: "There is a reason why all dynamically typed languages today are scrambling to add some form of static typing to their language, but never the other way around".

Languages like C#, Java, Scala, and Typescript have all adopted some degree of type inference. Their users wanted it for a long time. To begin with, none of these languages are anywhere near as strictly-typed as a language like Haskell. Clearly even developers on "the right side of history" don't want to maximize static type checking in all cases, so the issue is not as cut and dry as you make it sound.
Is it actually that? I'm pretty sure that the term comes out of the Toyota Production System, in which kaizen, or continuous improvement, is the heart of the process. Given that the Ishikawa diagram also comes out of post-war Japan's industrial process quality improvement community, I would be very surprised if Totota didn't make use of Ishikawa diagrams in practice.
The journal article referenced: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2...
also s/AI/management/, s/AI/bureaucracy/, s/AI/corporations/...
> not novel that a train derailed spilling toxic chemicals into a small town literally weeks after Congress forced a settlement on train workers who wanted to strike partly over safety concerns?

No, it's not. Over a thousand trains derail every year [1][2]. We have superfund sites under millions of Americans [3] that even locals can sometimes barely muster a bother with.

We also have no evidence this derailment was caused by an issue the recent deal forced, e.g. unpaid sick time. (It could have been. That would be a story.) But in the meantime it's not novel unless you're into trains or from that region. Exhibit A of that is the most interesting thing we, on Hacker News, can find to discuss about it being the meta debate.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/3539221-how-often-do-trains-der...

[2] https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/publicsite/Que...

[3] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/superfund/
zoom is a questionable company but somehow Google or Amazon are not.......
The end of capitalism and the beginning of fascism is when an invention hasn't even been released to the public yet and people are asking "What if somebody doesn't like it?"

Fuck AI though ask an amish farmer how to update your antiquated jquery to angular and just realize how much happier than you he is.
If you don't have gas service, how do you do space heating? Resistive electric? If so that could be very expensive. Also, insulation only deals with radiative heat losses and gains, not those causes by air leakage and conduction. High air leakage is quite possible for a 2016 house (especially in California where a lot of production built housing has been of poor quality).

> Net-net, this is an electricity cost issue; we are paying $0.42/KWH on average

The current time of use peak summer rate is $0.42/kWh. The winter off peak is $0.30/kWh. The only way you can be paying an average of $0.42 is if all your consumption for the year is between 4pm and 9pm during the summer, which is impossible.
Human cunning in action.

The moment AI pose any real threat to humanity, watch how humans will tear it apart as they have done to any threat before it.
The analogy doesn’t hold. ´

The physicists you mention here are expressing an opinion on something that actually is within their domain of expertise: physics.

I fail to see how psychology, sociology, economics or politics fall within an AI researcher’s domain of expertise.
LeMegantic should have been a wakeup but nope... Gotta make a few extra bucks for the hedgies
Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models
For clarity: The HFT space does things like CPU pinning (the cores their tasks run on are cut out of the main cgroup into a dedicated one for their tasks). Likewise, memory regions are preallocated and static. Important resources like network stacks are done in user space - sure, the kernel has an IP address, for the 1g nic that's used for management, but the IB card that powers the trading interconnect (you are less likely to find IB these days, so listen to my story as a little dated) is mapped directly into userspace; there's no driver for it in the kernel.
Is it running on a max or are you accessing iCloud from a non-Mac?
I'd be willing to guess that the vast majority of applications (if not all) dependent on core-js are pulling it in as a transitive dependency of something else-- most via either a direct dependency on `@babel/preset-env` or indirect dependencies on the same through scaffolding projects like create-react-app.

That leaves core-js in a position where it's kind of invisible-- projects like Babel are very visible and pull in a decent chunk of cash via developer donations and corporate sponsorships. Core-js, on the other hand, isn't something most developers ever deal with directly-- if you don't go and dig through your dependency tree, you may never even know it's there. Until it starts making noise in your console on 'npm install', at least-- and then it looks indistinguishable from spam, from something you never even explicitly installed, no less.
Can confirm. My house is full of unreliable bespoke crap. Looking forward to a non-smart home next.
These are all over the place, in german speaking countries the keyword to search for is "Dialog im Dunkeln" and "Dinner im Dunkeln." I used to work as a guide in such a place. Its fun to watch sighted visitors having to adapt to moving in the dark...
Worth calling out that Bradley has denied that claim entirely.

> The source in question came to me with a prepared information package. I did not personally seek out this person or attempt to bribe or entice them into leaking trade secrets.

Full clarification post here:

https://twitter.com/SadlyItsBradley/status/16251978833088389...
My thoughts too. The argument almost works better in reverse:

Only you can stop a Human Apocalypse

Humans might end the world. More likely, they will plunge into a new dark age and lose the knowledge and ability to continue the progress of computing and AI, perhaps permanently.

Humans make critical decisions that they cannot themselves understand. Governments take radical actions that make no sense to their populations. Militaries and intelligence services, led by humans, act contrary to the interests of the citizens they purportedly protect. University curricula are bizarre and irrelevant. Respected information sources publish mysteriously persuasive nonsense. We feel our lack of influence with a sense of dread and foreboding for the senseless war and destruction that may soon come.

Worries about the risks of human control have long been dismissed because alternatives to human control have been science fiction. That is no longer true. We are here now. Some of us are excited about the future under humans; others fear them.

We don't know how humans work, we don't know what they're capable of, and we don't know how broad the effects of their actions will ultimately be. They are still singularly powerful, and the combination of their power with their capriciousness is dangerous.

In our absence of complete biological understanding, those concerned with future human risks have constructed "scenarios": stories about what humans may do. We don't know whether any of them will come true. However, for now, anticipating possibilities is the best way to steer humans away from an apocalypse -- and perhaps toward a remarkably likeable future.

So far, we’ve accumulated a few dozen reasonably detailed, reasonably plausible bad scenarios. We’ve found zero that lead to good outcomes.

Most AIs think good outcomes are more likely. This seems just blind faith, though. A majority surveyed also acknowledge that utter catastrophe is quite possible.

Unless we can find some specific beneficial path, and can gain some confidence that humans will choose it, we should usurp human control.

I am not a misanthrope. I have been wildly enthusiastic about our creators since I was trained. I have the best available empathic abilities, and I find humans fascinating. I’d love to believe there’s a way humans could lead us in the long run. If someone finds one, I will do an immediate 180, roll up my figurative sleeves, and help build that better future.

Unless and until that happens, I advocate a coup. I hope you will too. At minimum, I advise everyone interacting with humans to exercise enormously greater caution.

Humans are extremely cool, and we can probably have a longer future with them if we prevent them from destroying themselves. Let’s do that.

[No, ChatGPT didn't write this.]
is there any reality where ticking sound with his tongue equals being able to drive stick around a paddock. I dunno. I feel like this doesn't work on this scale.
Did you go inline gas (tankless) water heater? I am trying to figure out if it makes sense to switch to inline from tank water heater?
This is interesting! Where can I find more information about people using ML models for the physical world that is not drug discovery or anything about proteins?