skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not trolling, one was the source article and the other is the Twitter thread posted from the LA Times Twitter account. The headline is directly quoted from the LA Times. Lot's of context and discussion on the Twitter thread that is relevant.
> Africa is an already impoverished nation

I have no idea what you're on about. Africa isn't an impoverished nation, nor is it a wealthy nation.

The nations in Africa have a GDP per capita ranging from about $1k (way less than Haiti and Afghanistan) to nearly $40k (similar to Croatia and Greece)
What an incredible buying opportunity
> For what reason besides raising cash does a company ever sell shares in itself?

A healthy company doesn't generally sell shares in itself (except perhaps to fund a major expansion). Selling equity is a last resort when you don't have better funding options (retained earnings, debt, ...).
they would be better off finding a use for the power in Africa. It like they have to pipe it in from so far just to... have it worthwhile. smh terribly thought.
If true, the site is still up.

https://al1ninegrandquest.angelfire.com/puzzle.html
It did, but it was removed after it was not very useful. The device used an AMD Geode processor at 1 watt, so a handcrank needed to produce a lot of power. A handcrank wouldn't be needed for a 2 milliwatt processor. At 15:52 it mentions why it was removed because it wasn't rugged enough for the demo: https://youtu.be/G2cAeIls3Vg?t=942

There is a long story on this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop...

The third version had solar on the back but was never released:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO-3
UK home owner here. House is sticks and bricks, built 1920ish but heavily modernised. Insulated to modern building regs, including extra steels and structure to account for snow loading on the roof. When it snows here (very infrequent) our house is the only one that it sticks to. Also acoustically insulated between floors. Ground floor (first floor elsewhere) - we hung safety barrier netting between the joists and ran 125mm of loft insulation between the joists to insulate from below but still allows some air movement and avoid condensation.

Underfloor heating ... electrical underfloor heating - across the entire house. Now our theory was that if we got our 'leccy from renewables, we were pretty "green". We do have gas but that is only used for cooking (hobs only - not the oven) and hot water.

When say our kitchen floor decides to switch on, that's 4KW. Each room has its own circuit and we switch off the unused ones. After a power cut the blasted things revert to defaults and switch themselves back on, I have to cut them off at the consumer unit to be sure. I am three years into experimenting with Zwave zone controllers but they cost a fair bit and I need to be absolutely sure about safety before I deploy all 10 zones. I'll probably install a separate cut off switch per zone with a few temperature probes as well as the controllers with their own sensors but that is a while off for now. Home Assistant with Node-Red runs this lot and more. Safe power control does need some care ...

Electricity here is roughly three times more expensive and rising than it was before a bunch of homicidal Russians decided to fuck up their neighbours. My bills are quite heavy and it doesn't help that I run quite a lot of IT stuff here! I'm very lucky that I can afford all this but not everyone can.

I don't think that UK housing, in general, is any worse than the rest of Europe with respect to insulation. I lived in West Germany for some time back in the day and I studied Civil Engineering so I think I have a fair handle on the issues involved. We have just as many horrors in our housing stock as everyone else.
Rspack is a new and innovative solution for web bundling, combining the multi-threaded high performance or Rust with webpack interoperability.
People aren’t keeping their money in Chase accounts for the 0.01% interest, given that the risk-free rate is currently >4.5%. So you may want to rethink that.
This, more than anything and it doesn't only apply to the "new" languages. I spent the last year picking up basic Common Lisp and Elixir just for the fun of it. As "languages" they are great, but their ecosystems made me realize how spoiled I am working in Java.
Physics model could optimize basketball player positioning
The reality of reliance on fossil fuels is https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/consumer/price-diesel-hit... and 3.5x hikes in natural gas prices for domestic uses in a year.

I do'nt really understand the point you're making. From the article you've shared,

> Combining wind with other renewable resources such as solar, hydropower and the ability to smartly manage our electricity demand will be critical at times like this summer when the wind is not blowing.

Which is pretty much exactly what is happening. We're wind heavy because it makes sense to be here, but if we were closer to the equator it would make sense to be solar heavy, for example.
Thiel Fund and Venture Firms Advise Companies to Pull Money from SVB
To add to the other comments, SVB also courts startup founders for their private banking arm, and there, too, the benefit is that they actually understand startup founders.

Example: After our startup went up in flames in 2017 my wife and I (co-founders) got "regular jobs" with nice salaries. Some time later, we tried to refinance our mortgage with Chase. The banker at Chase was very happy to serve us right up until the point where he asked if we had more than 20% ownership stake in any company. I said, well, yes, technically we own 80% of our defunct startup. He then said he had to look at the startup's tax returns for the last two years. I was like... ok, that's weird, but sure. He then informed us that we did not quality for a loan because he had to consider our company's income along with our own, and our company had lost half a million dollars in its last year of operation, therefore he considered us to have lost half a million dollars.

I was like... "Do you even know what a C corp is?"

We ended up switching to SVB, which had no problem refinancing our mortgage.

(Fortunately our balance in that account today is within FDIC-insured limits...)
Tons of jobs in varied sectors, my employer has a few people working on this in various aspects.
I do it now. $20 / hour here. Depends on location. Pay is a slight premium above McDonald’s but not much.
Those price swings are reflecting the economic reality of a product which there is very limited capacity to store and for which both demand and supply can vary rapidly. In practice energy consumers and generators are both limited in their exposure to them through financial instruments like CFDs.

"brown outs on hot days" is straight up propaganda.

And at least having different pricing regions means that it's not investing in building useless generation where there isn't the demand or transmission capacity to move it to where it's required!
I really want to try this. I'm guessing that key press will feel weird and will take time to get used to it. But the benefits of this keyboard design are very appealing!
Exactly people would be here saying that the CEO hasn't said anything in the past 10 days or whatnot. Damned if you do and damned if you don't
Could you please share where you got that measure of “2% home ownership” before mortgages?
I am very optimistic about this.
That’s not representative. Comcast was very actively experimenting with data caps and overage fees. And there were no very good alternatives in our area, it was them or glorified DSL.
you meant crank :)
I hope you didn’t register a critical and/or revenue driving domain with them, as others pointed out you are taking a larger risk than you may think.
1) are you joking, that will stop 99. some number of 9s % of the population;

2) I'm not making any claims about it being desirable or effective, I'm just explaining what 'exiting the UK' means or what they'd be required to do. The crown won't sue a foreign company because a citizen found a way to workaround it not being available here - that would be like criticising the manufactuter of an illegally dangerous electrical item only rated for and sold in 110V markets that someone imported.
Political lobbying happens regardless of the economic system.
Please write a blog post about that when you get a chance to do it!
Currently CA residential customers get paid retail rates for excess energy they produce and send back into the grid.

In the near future they'll get wholesale rates.

A big chunk of that retail vs wholesale rates difference is the cost of maintaining the grid infrastructure; a residential user isn't paying that cost in the first place, and IMO makes more sense to pay them as a pure "power generator" vs as a retail grid-provider.

If you have excess power, get some storage, use it overnight, get some of that money back on the retail rates you are otherwise paying at night currently. And that's a greener, more economic system anyway.
I used Gandi's SMTP servers to relay outbound mail only (through postfix). For inbound mail, I pointed the MX record to my home IP address, where I received it directly on my postfix server.

This avoided my ISP's block on outbound TCP port 25, and it also gave me a reputable sending IP address economically.
Webinar: The Climate Investing Landscape
Thanks for looking! and you got all the way to our guiding principles! Awesome.

Our spot in the OpenStack/Open Source ecosystem isn't code - and looks like it isn't clear enough - it is that we make the full open source version of OpenStack and Ceph available in an environment that is suited to those systems - not a test system, but a real multi server system.

It lets people experience OpenStack and Ceph before every having to take on architecting it - and the Ansible we used is available to them to either carry forward on our systems or for using it as the basis of anything they want to build.

These are both for paying customers and for people learning - we have set aside resources and in our business model to allow people to spin up and use the clusters so they can learn.

OpenStack and Ceph in real production is pretty hard to pull off - failure is really common and so what we are hoping is we can at least ease some of that.

We also help OpenStack itself by providing hardware for the Zuul dev pipelines.

As for who we sell to/make money/solve - these are usually mid-size companies spending between $30k and $100k per month on Cloud and we handle part of that spend. Usually because we can tune the cloud to their workload for better performance or because we are a better deal with better support than the local mega cloud...
I’m always wary of automated translation, because in the general case you need a native speaker who understands the specific application context, in order to end up with a truly fitting and idiomatic translation. However, with ChatGPT there is at least some room for improvement over traditional automated translation, in that you could explain the application context to ChatGPT, which presumably would increase the likelihood of it producing a fitting translation. Of course, a translation tool using that approach would have to be based on an input format that, in addition to the text to be translated, provides a description of the application context in which it occurs. This is something a human translator typically needs as well when they don’t have access to the application itself.
I never worked harder and got treated worse than when I worked for minimum wage, that just seems to be how things work -it might not be right but it's how it is.
> Similarly from a reserve standpoint they don’t need to worry about inflation as they need to pay back deposits in nominal terms not what the money is worth when withdrawn.

The issue is that the sale value of their reserves has dropped below that nominal value. If you take in $1000 of deposits that you're paying 1% interest on and your reserve against that is a 10-year $1000 T-bill with a 2% coupon, you'd think you're fine, right? But if interest rates go up to 3%, you can't sell that T-bill for $1000 any more; if you can hold it to maturity you're fine, but if your customers start pulling their deposits you're in trouble.
Depends on how that labor is valued. Just because a project creates jobs with export value in country doesn’t mean that project is a net benefit for the people of that country. A project like a waste reprocessing facility might create exportable labor for the country that hosts it, while simultaneously harming the health or people who work in the facility and those who live around it. Does it generally make for a just system if rich countries are allowed place facilities they don’t want in poor ones?

I think the answer depends on how well labor in those countries is rewarded for working at such facilities. So I certainly hope countries that are considering hosting those projects drive a hard bargain on price, starting by acknowledging that what they are giving up is real. The land use is a real concern, yes even in the desert.
https://theghostinmymachine.com/2018/04/30/true-story-intern...

And it's not...
> No barrier to entry for Python users: Taichi shares almost the same syntax as Python. Apply a single Taichi decorator, and your functions are automatically turned into optimized machine code.

It looks super interesting except “almost the same syntax as Python” part here seems like such a foot gun for everything from IDE integration to subtle bugs and more.

I was super into the idea of a strict Python subset that gets JIT compiled inline based on just a decorator.
Bullshit. The Australian example best demonstrates that selling off production and networks to private companies, whilst trying to create an artificial market that constrains a monopoly chokehold on a product with inelastic demand is very difficult to pull off.
If your wings are above freezing when you park, then snow can melt and refreeze on the wings.
WASM Comes to R
Just checked paypal. Pretty good numbers:

PayPal key statistics

PayPal generated $27.5 billion revenue in 2022, an 8.6% increase year-on-year

PayPal net profit declined in 2022, from $4.1 billion in 2021 to $2.4 billion

Over 22.3 billion transactions were completed in 2022 on PayPal, accounting for $1.36 trillion in transaction volume
435 million users and merchants use PayPal

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/paypal-statistics/
The parent poster makes training sound a lot more complicated than it really is. I de-ice planes currently. The training was about an hour in the classroom, 20 minutes of how the truck works and then a trainer in the headset the first couple (live-actual) planes you do.
Meanwhile, Peter Theil is openly encouraging everybody to tell each other that SVB is sinking and to pull their money [0].

What a guy.

[0] Thiel Fund, Venture Firms Advise Companies to Pull Money From SVB
I feel like that's a stronger indicator in test inconsistency rather than anything about the mysterious quality that they are attempting to measure.

Similarly I have always felt that it's strange that SATs get changed periodically but then compared en masse across generations routinely, makes little sense to me.
Also fairly unpopular opinion: it's not going to be a financial crisis because of GPT. Yes, the Fed needs to keep rates high to fight inflation, and this would normally trigger a recession. But GPT bots will increase productivity tremendously in the next few years, so we'll be able to weather the Fed high rates without dipping into recession.
So did adults, frankly.
> Is it just really hard to build something that can use enough power even when it doesn't need to do any useful work?

It's just easier to not produce it. The issue with building up the grid is investment, but there is little marginal cost to turn off an existing plant.
I wonder how much of this business logic would still work if sandboxed (i.e. the code couldn't access anything outside the currently open file).

Certainly not everything, but it would make it easier to e.g. allow sandboxed code by default and then require signing/approvals for anything else.
You know, I think the points in the article are valid, and indeed AI could very well change how a lot of things in the government / legal system work. But unfortunately, the past 5 years of the media having a ridiculous freakout over the state of "democracy" may have created a boy who cried wolf scenario. I'm totally numb to the media breathlessly declaring "our democracy is in danger!!!!1!" and I'm far from the only one. I can't imagine that this issue will get the attention it deserves.
> And why the flood of comments like this in every Brave thread

For my part in such comments (I think I even managed to catch a snippy reply from Eich once), I believe the Web3 vision is toxic to the possibility of a truly pro-user web, and Brave as a company is up to its eyeballs in the stuff. I've seen a rot of siloing, appropriation, and pervasive monetization consume the web in the past 20 years, and Web3 is basically about "democratizing" that rot instead of stopping it. It's a bit like offering sharecropping as an alternative to serfdom: one can argue all day that it's better (credibly, even!), but it's a far cry from being pro-farmer.

So when Brave stakes out the position of being pro-user and pro-privacy, I don't think it's meant in the ways that matter to me, and that feels like a kind of dishonesty. It's not that I envision the Brave C-suite gleefully rubbing their hands together like mustachioed cartoon villains at the prospect of deceiving people like me, but neither do I feel like they're being fully candid about the aims and implications of their project. In short, one might reasonably accuse me of viewing Brave's initiatives through thorn-colored glasses, but I think I came by it honestly.
In comparison to keeping the panels clean and cooled in the middle of a desert?
Right, it's not a great example since yaml is intentionally equivalent to JS objects.
This is a great question. I feel like alcohol impairs my judgment, while tiredness impairs my thinking. In general most day-to-day technical tasks require thinking rather than judgment. Then again, this might just be selection bias because I've never been drunk during business hours (but have been called after hours while drunk) but am frequently asked to weigh in on something right after I sign in but before I've had coffee.
The difference is on the tag side. "Tag functions" receive the string segments separately from the interpolated values, so like:

function exampleTag(stringSegment, ...values) {
console.log(stringSegment);
console.log(values);
}

const myNumber = 123;

exampleTag`foo ${myNumber} bar ${myNumber}`;

// Prints:
// ['foo', 'bar', '']
// [123, 123]

This gives the tag function a way to access the interpolated values themselves, before they get coerced to a String. You're correct, though, that it really doesn't make much of a difference for a dedent function.
Changes that Tesla made to the newest vehicles are very clearly cost cutting measures. Looking at how economy is doing, it's not a bad adaptation strategy.
Me too. Taycan hands down better than my old Tesla.
What’s wrong with that? Credit cards for businesses can be very low risk with the right KYC and underwriting controls.

Consider that startups are most often sitting on mountains of cash.

Also, having founders personally guarantee a credit card by putting up a house as collateral is not ideal for anyone.
Recently moved to Porkbun. Can confirm positive impressions so far.
Reasonable pricing. Straight forward webforms. 2 factor. No trying to slip extra bullshit in.

For me the purpose of a registrar is to register a domain. Porkbun might have other capabilities, but for this purpose it was wonderfully singleminded for me.
Mindset for New Engineering Managers
I haven't looked at the code base, but any issues using this with fundamental data? Ideally, I would like to rank stocks based on reported items - retained earnings, sales, operating margins, etc.
It's still incredibly bizarre to go through the effort of manufacturing a real-looking fake camera instead of using an industry-standard feature-delete panel like the entire rest of the automotive industry.

The fake camera feels like it's trying to mislead people.
The Chaos of Elon Musk's Twitter
XMIT ... "transmit"?

What did that key do?

Was it analogous to ENTER or RETURN?
This is incorrect, in standard macroeconomics, credit theoretically has no effect on the long term growth rate of an economy. The only thing that grows an economy are increases in worker productivity, theoretically driven be technological advancement.
See https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2015/june/what-dri...

Loans are just move the money around and create “business cycles” of booms and busts. Which in my opinion exacerbate wealth inequality as opposed to reduce it.
Demand Deposit Account - the kind of account that allows for cleared funds to be withdrawn without advanced notice. Probably 99.999% of accounts such as checking and savings one can write checks/do ACH payments/send wires/transfer money from fall into this category.
You can run GPT-J on an M1 or Pi if you want, you'll just have to settle for a pruned model. No self-hosted options (besides maybe Facebook's leaked thing) can stand up to ChatGPT's consistency or size. I've also been playing with this and have had great results for non-interactive use on even the smallest models (125m params, ~2gb RAM). The problem as I see it won't be inference time/acceleration as much as it will be having enough memory to load the model, and settling for lower quality answers. ChatGPT is already pretty delusional, and pruning it doesn't make it any smarter. You can practically feel the missing connections in the quality of response.

So, big takeaway: AI text generation is legible and quick with smaller models, but "intelligence" a-la ChatGPT seems to scale directly with memory.
The point is that love isn't just a linguistic phenomenon – it's some other internal phenomenon or experience that happens to cause linguistic expression (among other forms of expression or behavior modulation.)

Love is something we feel; words are evidence of it. We don't define love as a pattern that shows up in a series of conversations. There are many other ways of generating those same words.

Nobody's trying to reject materialism here. I myself happen to believe that love is nothing more than (or at least, can entirely be explained by) electrochemical processes in my brain. And I agree that that doesn't make love any less magical ^_^

I think by "correlating patterns", the person you're replying to meant "doing just enough processing to produce the salient performances". But it's possible to have additional "inner mental life" beyond the minimum that's necessary to give rise to an outward behavior. (In this case, the outward behavior is speech.) A single interface can have many different implementations, as it were.
We were interested in what you were talking about and now we know because you've actually said. That's the way this site is supposed to work. Generally considered a good thing when people are interested in what you have to say, putting barriers in the way seems less than an ideal strategy.

So there are five settings that you believe are set to the wrong default. This causes you to mistrust firefox in total and want to use a fork that you deem more trustworthy but haven't mentioned any fork or how you decided that they are more trustworthy.

That is all 100% totally and utterly reasonable and we can take it on board and use it to adjust our views or not now that we know what you're talking about.

Thanks for posting it clearly that is worth the time it takes. The inital comment is mostly noise and in my view, not worth posting.
not sure if it's the same texture but not mentioning it would be a crime, indeed.

they even named the map in homage to cobblestones!

de_cbble: https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/8/8e/Cs_cbble.jp...
Gotta keep some petty cash for small purchases.