skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently, a new VW ID.4 gives you 3 years free charging with their network (Electrify America). Some limitations on how much charging you can do, but with fast charge, 30 minutes is a lot.

Even though I own one, I probably won't use it a lot as I don't do a lot of long haul trips, and charging is free at work (and easy at home). Also the closest network charger is 20 miles away.
Nothing on the NY Times front page as 11:09 EST 02-13-2023
Anyone living in the Bay Area ought to pop over to little, hidden, Niles. A fun little day trip my family and I enjoyed when I still lived in the area. They had their brush with fame and Chaplin 100 years ago when little Niles might just have become Hollywood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles_Canyon
The 'pro nuclear' crowd that say idiotic shit like this are the pro coal crowd.
>to me your personal situation should have ZERO bearing on your job

I can't see for humans ever being the case. People have life events that change their productivity: depression, marriage, death, children, personal interests.

I completely agree that you having/not having kids should not dictate workload.

Working without any context of peoples life wouldn't be a place I'd want to work at, basically your personal situation has a fuck tonne of bearing on your job.
Is the United States still tapping their strategic fuel reserves? Perhaps they are keeping gas costs low while other energy prices aren’t seeing any relief
There's a lot of references to calculations made but no actual data in this article. The Prius Prime gets just over 4 miles per kwh on battery alone. The same car averages 54 mpg when in hybrid mode. The article references $3.40/gallon for gas. Average price of electricity in MA is 23.66c/kwh. So for the price of a gallon of gas, you can get 14.37kwh, or 57.48 miles, so still beating out gas (54 miles) even on an extremely efficient vehicle.
On my mainstream media outlet of choice, I’m pretty sure there has been a front page headline about the derailment at least half of the days since it occurred. This “quietly” “they don’t want you to know” meme is just bullshit superiority cynicism and/or clickbait.
I Paid a Professional to Edit a ChatGPT-Written Article
I understand your concern and I share your frustration. I have send emails a few times where I'm clear about my budget and sales people tend to share the minimum commitment they expect, there isn't much lost by trying.

Being on the other side of the table (running a SaaS requiring a call scheduled), I have do this because my SaaS its in an early stage, the call allows me to understand the customer needs and make a proposal when we are a good fit. In this particular case, it is hard to get a quote when I don't know the necessary customization that could be required.

The call is a friction point that I'm trying to avoid by communicating example integrations and its prices in the landing page, still, making everything clear hasn't been simple.

In short, asking by email could be a good idea.
There is no reason to keep Windows installed on a new computer. Wipe everything, install Linux, any distro. WSL will always be worse than a native setup.

The only thing I see that Microsoft could do is use their weight with AMD and NVidia to somehow sabotage Linux hardware driver support for GPUs, artificially making WSL the superior solution, but that's a long shot; I'm not sure what hardware mfg would gain from that.
There’s a couple just a few miles down the road from this derailment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Valley_Nuclear_Power_...

And fun fact, this is also where the worlds first civilian nuclear power plant was built.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shippingport_Atomic_Power_St...
It’s very interesting topic. With the same model setup, random seeds, etc. anyone could generate identical outputs.

One could run the full sweep and copyright all possible outputs of stablediffusion… and then own all art?
The Blind Men, the Elephant, and the 3 Data Mistakes
What a fantastic personal website for such a late talent.
I am unaware of the official stance. Would add to the pile I guess.
You can do some interesting inline styling with this, like using the hover state:

<div>

<template shadowroot="open">
<style>
:host {
border: 3px solid blue;
}

:host(:hover) {
border-color: pink;
}
</style>

Hello World
</template>

</div>
I have been to Arkansas as a tourist and loved it. But ngl, your answer and all the others set me straight.
I suppose it could be seen as NIH, but there are legitimate engineering benefits for Microsoft with its own API. It's important to remember that Direct3D used to be a completely separable component from Windows, and wasn't installed by default. Around the same time D3D12 and Vulkan were happening Windows also pulled D3D in as a core system component that will be universally available.

If you're an engineer trying to pick "the" GPU API for Windows the only real argument that can be made for picking Vulkan, the open API, over the internal API Microsoft already had for ~15 years by that point is that it's the 'open source friendly' choice. How do you justify using someone else's API as a core Windows API over your own solution that you already had. There's no engineering or business justification really.

It's similarly easy to construe Vulkan and Mantle as an attempt by AMD to take control of the GPU API space and specify an API particularly friendly to their hardware as the standard. They largely even succeeded considering what Vulkan became. Even D3D12's binding model is basically an exercise in how close we can get to directly exposing AMD's "anything goes" binding model while still allowing NVidia to function. It's very nice as a GPU vendor when your driver can be made closer to a no-op than your competitors.

Too many people pile on D3D12 simply because of Microsoft, rather than fairly considering the context of what created it. Apple made the same decision too with Metal, but I rarely hear any complaints there.
First of all, love the username. Second, generally are these costs subsidized through manufacturer or state rebates maybe? I'm curious how it's sustainable at an individual office level to have free charging for all, given that the energy ultimately comes from somewhere and has to be accounted for somehow.
When you wrote this comment, did you expect to get downvoted and just not care?

Like, you have good information, but you crammed it in between so much hyperbole, exaggeration.
What should people who design AI know?
> Vulkan was released nearly a year after DX12.

True, but Vulkan is largely a continuation of Mantle which released two years before DX12.
They don't. They don't believe the nuclear reactors will be built (especially when there's 20 years to sabotage them), just that diverting the money that is going into renewables is better for their coal shares.
Looking for people "who can code" is a pretty low bar for senior candidates.

24h for a take home is equally limiting for people with actual lives, and other than speeding up your process, it won't say anything more than a 3- or 7-day take home that's supposed to take 3h.
What's to stop somebody who knows the cleartext (because they submitted the job) from cheating?
A brief history of User Defined Field patterns for CRMs – Part 3, Hybrid
Read the EPA reports that have been posted... it contains the data from the static and roaming air quality testing. It shows that there are pm2.5 particulates around in slightly elevated amounts, but none of the chemicals from the train.

I have yet to see any hard evidence of things like chemicals from the train being detected in ground water or streams, and I have seen no evidence of anyone dying from the big, scary cloud, nor of any chemicals from the train being present in that, either.

There's a huge amount of conspiracy BS being pushed on this, so be sure to think critically about anything someone tells you about the event.
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. – Martin Fowler
> Is the United States still tapping their strategic fuel reserves?

No, in fact in December it started doing the opposite, buying oil to restock the SPR.
Pretty great comment, thanks. TIL.
Check at city-data, they pull air quality stats.
In theory, yes. In practice, no. At my previous job, I wrote a short Python script that took /usr/dict/words and gzipped it and also converted to UTF-16LE (inserting a null byte before every character) and gzipping that. The information content is the same, but the compressed UTF-16LE ends up a bit bigger. IIRC, the difference was more than 1%, but less than 20%.

My use case was to show the flaw in the logic a colleague was using to assert that gzipped JSON should be the same size as gzipped MessagePack for the same data, because the information content was the same. It was a quick 5-minute script without having to deal with coming up with a suitable JSON corpus to convert to MessagePack.

Among other things, the zlib compression window only holds half as many characters if your characters are twice as big.
This feels naive. Their bad behavior back when was a strategy. Not a single source control choice.
Applied Science recently pointed his X-ray video hardware at the Mexican jumping bean:

https://youtu.be/xdpDd7dyU00?t=33
Of course other times are doable, it's just a matter of how much blowback the school board is willing to take from parents.
Which is why pretty much every Postgres k8s operators includes a backup solution that is fully integrated.

I much prefer to be able to treat the database instances like cattle, while the conceptual "cluster" and its associated backups should be treated as a pet, as you said.
>> I wonder how long the training takes.

> Hang out in the shower and with eyes closed move your head around and try to figure out how far you are from the walls. This is very easy.

not really taking sides here, but given that it takes about 18 years of play and training for boys to fine tune their sensory-neuro-motor eye-hand-everything else coordination (and based on women's gymnastics, maybe slightly less time for girls? probably has more to do with adolescent growth spurts), along the way we pick up echo location like you speak of in the shower. It's subtle, but I imagine it takes a good amount of time/repeated trials to develop, maybe one of those 10,000 hours things. (I realize that book has been debunked, but still)
Pragmata Pro is a huge influence on Iosevka, the author has admitted it. What makes Pragmata Pro work, afaict (since I've yet to actually buy the damned thing), is it is insanely well hinted... this is the one thing Iosevka will never have (it depends on ttfautohint, which although acceptable, will never be good as a talented font hinter producing his art).

Having tried, and evaluated, basically every mono font in existence worth using here, I may end up just buying Pragmata Pro.

My current daily driver is Input, and not set as a compressed or condensed style. Input is only hinted for the weights Light, Regular, Medium, and Bold, for normal width; the other three more narrow widths are not hinted at any weight. At the sizes I prefer text, Input requires the hinting supplied by the author.
Since it encrypts one bit at a time, does capitalizing even have to touch the 224 bits that don't change?

> wouldn't add.cc take 64 wires?

Plus another hundred intermediate wires. And it's doing more complicated operations, however much that matters.
Both of those things are good, useful versions of the "holistic" school of thought that engineers/westerners/males are supposed to be bad at, if you believe dumb pop psychology books. It's also a good first step to intersectionality, if you really want to get everyone to try to jump on your head.

/s
> Because companies generally refuse to use GPL code at all

You mean, they refuse to use Linux?
... where electricity is provided by methane-burning plants that are hit hardest by the war in Ukraine.
"The Cochrane review, for all of its controversy, is a reminder that more research on masking is needed, if only to address whether pro-mask policies warrant the rage they incite. You would think that the policy makers who encouraged masking would have made finding that support a priority."

Well, it depends on what the intent of the masking policy is. Unlike, say, a vaccine or an antiviral, where there are several possibilities and you have good reason to believe that if you test enough of them, at least one will work, and you want to know which one, masking was to a certain extent a placebo whose main purpose was to provide psychological support. I mean, if even in controlled studies N95 masks block "57 to 90 percent of particles", it's a bit tricky to see how that will block a self-replicating virus that doesn't need to hit you with enough particles to take you down, it just needs to get a small number (in theory, one) particle snuck past your immune system.

But what masks, and masking policy, did do was keep 50+% of the population from running screaming into the wilderness and hiding until they starved. They probably were the only mental health precaution that did any mitigation of the many other mental-health-damaging policies. If you did a well-controlled study that showed that you needed full SCBA to actually block a respiratory virus, it would have removed the only emotional prop that a lot of people had.
>April 2022 a locomotive engineer wrote an open letter to the STB about the dangers of Precision Scheduled Railroad trains that are so long radio communication doesn’t even reach both ends.

It's not just purely length. A long train can easily have mountains in between the ends.
Wow, that’s a beautiful typeface. Thanks!
Almost everything can kill you. Nuclear armageddon is still a risk, but since almost everyone has one, we're mostly safe from it. Unless there's an illogical agent in control, there is no logical move that involves using nukes. It serves no one to destroy humanity.
A lot of people won’t need to charge away from home or work, though. I’m looking to lease a car in the coming year, and one of the reasons it’s almost certainly going to be electric is because with my usage, I’ll never need to stop by a charging station.

It can be set up to charge at off-peak times which where I live is about $0.04/kWh, far cheaper than gas.
Getting into one of the major app stores (or, I suppose, something like the official Debian repos?) is a great feeling, akin to the first time one puts up a web page and anyone in the world can see it (is this still thrilling, in the age of Instagram and such? It sure was before all that). Congrats!

> I had no idea about Objective-C before this, but actually I find quite enjoyable now and the syntax no longer seems so crazy wrong and it’s actually kind of cool.

Yeah, I think that's literally everyone's first experience with Obj-C. "WTF is this shit?" [some time passes] "Oh, huh, this isn't so bad, I may actually like it...."

> So then I had to dive into the whole codesigning thing and understand how things need to be signed with the different certificates, and what provisioning profiles were, and what kind of entitlements might be needed--and then having to debug how different hardened runtime and sandbox entitlements and effects, interacted with assumptions and capabilities of the underlying binary file, including file access and instructions and so on.

Don't feel bad if this keeps feeling rough, I've been doing iOS development off-and-on since like 2011 and still feel like I'm having to figure this crap out from scratch nearly every time it comes up. Or, IDK, maybe you'll be lucky and it'll just click for you, permanently (I've yet to know a person for whom that's true, but perhaps they exist). It's certainly a lot less painful now (simple cases are now nearly automatic—until they break for seemingly no reason, and you're back to doing a rain-dance and hoping it fixes everything)

> There’s something about this idea that you can create something and put it on to a store that’s available 24/7 and also that that thing that you create has gone through all these like gauntlets and jumped through the hoops so you know it’s in some sort of precise pristine state.

Validation. Like getting your fiction published by a traditional publisher, or in a paying periodical/journal market. Sure, they're bullshit and everything, ha ha, as if they still matter, LOL, who needs them, right? But damn does it feel good. You made the cut.
i personally want whoopi goldberg to go over the shipping manifest <https://epaosc.org/sites/15933/files/TRAIN%2032N%20-%20EAST%...> during her day time show, and eli5 to her listeners what those various substances are, what their short and long term effect on the environment are, and specifically the effects on the various ohio river tributaries where EPA has already detected some of the contaminants. i know that's too much to ask, so a passing mention would be good enough. i /suspect/ people who think it should be covered more find the situation to be horrendous enough to warrant that kind of media reaction.
That rate limiter doesn’t solve anything for your users.
Yes, if your client is genuinely looking for an improvement.

There are bad examples also, especially in cash-rich companies, who tend to be infested by parasite managers. Those are not interested in org optimizations.
Until such build out happens, disincentivizing landlord squatting is where the rubber meets the road from the policy tools available.
2 hours is fine for VR, you can’t play much longer than that anyways. For AR it’s probably not that great, however.
> what the hell is wrong with your computer?

Nothing, because Zoom works completely fine while Teams is always struggling to make a connection, keep a connection, have good quality video and audio, and well even OPEN. There is a persistent problem on Macs where Teams refuses to open unless you delete an obscure file.
What part of your thinking did David Chapman influence? Hard to imagine enjoying his tech criticisms while still throwing caution to the wind with AI. I remember enjoying his breakdown of Technological Determinism back when I was looking into it.
So, your defense against it being accused of being like IE is to say its exactly like IE, but in the period of Netscape dominance, not the period of IE dominance?
> It also appears that the common goal for many leaders in the space is to then deploy and spin up these “beings” dynamically for use in a broad range of conditions, with the vast majority of cases being repetitive labour.

Isn’t AGI considered overkill for repetitive labour? Maybe this is a different point, but for anything repetitive, something deterministic is ideal isn’t it? Why would I want to pay for automated labour with a conscience when I could get cheaper purpose built machinery?

I guess we could suppose a future where everyone gets the same AGI so all you have to do is describe what you want it to accomplish… but I want to attach a combine to it since that would be the easiest way to harvest this field. So am I now trying to explain to an AGI how to interface with a combine? Do I have to track down modules to install that people already trained on my specific combine? None of this saved any time vs just buying an automated combine. The fact that it can come off the field and toast a slice of bread or write a poem about its feelings is kind of irrelevant.

AGI fits nicely into fiction because it gives the machines a voice and soul, but I don’t think those are desirable qualities in an automation solution.
Yeah I’ve always wondered if FHE would benefit from asic level acceleration, or at least FPGA
Is it possible to use one of these as a big screen for developing software?

It would be better and more portable than my multi monitor setup. Maybe I'd be able to focus and concentrate more.

Which would be the downsides?
It'd be funny to see English's status as the modern lingua franca get overthrown simply due to our government's refusal to embrace FLOSS
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Dogfooding is a thing. And its known to work.
...Sounds like a great opportunity for everyone to resign simultaneously.

Sure be a pity if you couldn't find enough people to hire to do all that train work needing to be done. Not a strike if everyone just says "Fuck it" and leaves.
The rail industry is regulated. In certain ways over and in certain ways under. Eg, there's very little sense to the requirements a passenger train needs to reach to run on the same rails as freight, and Europe does it safely all the time.
Interesting (and congratulations to boot). I’m glad you had fun with Objective C; I would have personally gone with Swift.

Which is deeply ironic, because I spent 20 years becoming quite adept at Smalltalk (an inspiration to Brad Cox and company when designing ObjectiveC). And while happy writing C code when needed, I really loathe the look-I-climbed-a-hill-ma complexity that is C++.

ObjectiveC was really comforting to me when I jumped out of the Smalltalk baloon, but it soured quickly. It was sooo verbose, and discordant. Imagine two of the most dissimilar spoken languages with different vocabularies and grammars. Now speak both, but you have to flip back and forth, usually mid sentence. It just made bit paradigms less than half of what they were originally.

I was more excited about Swift in the earlier days. It seemed like an “if I have to do C++, this would be a nice simplification.” Over time, it has packed on complexity and edge cases. So it has soured slowly. When you keep using sugar to sweeten your syntax it’s usually a smell that your hiding something less tasteful below.

But given the fact that it currently has the mantle of “The Way”, for me the choice tips to Swift.

Again, congratulation on your achievement.
>the goal is to ... drive some improvement.

One aspect that I like to emphasise is the systemic or second order aspect. Yes, doing a retro/rca/post mortem/coe to prevent reoccurance of the same problem is good. Better is to prevent similar problems, or even classes of the problem, across the system in the future. A quick litmus test is "Do the lessons learned and action items apply to the observed problem, or do they apply to similar problems."