skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the future of social media will be more private

The terms 'Social' & 'Private' are not compatible. Even if the service markets itself as privacy-centric or privacy-aware, users will expose details about themselves in some way. The platform might reduce the amount of PII but the users themselves will reveal stuff they wish they hadn't.
I used both zip and split.
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Sure, but multi-currency systems juice anything. Control, for example, has tons of different materials used for upgrades and crafting. In order to get the right mix of upgrades, you have to travel to all different parts of the game world. Nier has something similar.

By comparison, there are plenty of games (especially older ones) with only one or two currencies. Maybe you just find the one place in the game world that lets you grind out those currencies the fastest, and you do that over and over until you’re sick of it.
Generally, yes. They tend to have a lot of corners (for their "architectural features" checklist), and those are really hard to insulate well.

They also tend to be purchased by people who don't care in the slightest about energy efficiency, because if you can buy a $10M home, the difference between $500/mo or $1500/mo in energy costs doesn't matter to you.
Ehhmm, thank you very much for the link!! Wow!
I mean, I'd definitely pick the water sweetened with saccharin given those options; maybe these rats grew up in arcades and know that Winners Don't Use Drugs[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners_Don%27t_Use_Drugs
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Oh yeah, for some reason my brain reversed the logic, thanks! :D

Though certain EU courts can “make you give up” your password, as far as I know. Nonetheless, security is only good when it is used — widely-used biometrics with a potentially stronger password (due to not having to enter it all the times) is statistically safer for the population over everyone having “password1” as a secret. Especially with a good fallback like emergency mode on iphone/apple watch. Afterwards only the password can unlock the device, and it is a single long press of two hardware buttons.
When I go to that LA Times article, I get a pop up saying "Disabling your ad blocker will help support the mission of the L.A. Times. With a simple click, you can help fund our journalism." and then an ad at the bottom to subscribe for $4 a week.
Any thoughts on how DAGWorks compared to something like Domino Datalab[1]?

1: https://docs.dominodatalab.com/en/latest/user_guide/bc1c6d/s...
Sleeping but plugged into a monitor, while closed, would be one. For other cases, I suspect it's more about making sure the device(s) can be used almost instantly after waking.

Does seem like it'd be nice if the behavior were something you could toggle, though.
Only because the debt is denominated in USD, so the government can always print it to pay it back. It’s not like it’s the most fiscally responsible government around
that one time?

I feel like you could set your watch to how often eggs being bad flip flops
Recursive Macros with C++20 __VA_OPT__
To be fair - technology is lacking for people living in the city to be able to go off grid in a meaningful way.

Disconnecting from the grid - that sounds like there's some kind of clause in the area that you live that essentially ties you to the utility. You must live in on the pacific coast or SW.

EDIT: To all the responses - I'm talking off grid as in all functionality. Sure you can add solar / solar thermal etc though in many places it isn't cost effective and doesn't make a lot of sense in a city where the alternative is that those costs are defrayed across a large base that provides reliability and service. I don't have much love for utilities but they do provide a valuable service.
I believe the PC revolution gave a few generations of programmers the mistaken belief that imperative languages with familiar features (Basic, Pascal, C, Perl, Python, Java, etc.) are the only or the best way to interact with computers. Forms of interaction developed earlier (Forth, Prolog, SQL, etc.) were learned later, grudgingly, if at all. SQL was viewed with disdain, a necessary evil to be held at arm's length. That stalled evolution of SQL, the success of other query languages, or really anything that didn't fit the Algol-style "general purpose programming language" blinders.

Mercifully, finally, the cold war against SQL in particular and against relational databases in general seems to be thawing. Articles like this one exemplify that trend
Why not IDE suggestions: not auto-completions(already use gh copilot, latency is so high) but more of advanced linter suggestions?

Would love to this evolve into sourcery.ai-like product. Or sourcery.ai could benefit from ChatGPT/Codex.
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OP links to https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/zero-energy-ready-home... , which explains that its definition of a Zero Energy Ready Home is "a high-performance home that is so energy efficient that a renewable energy system could offset most or all the home's annual energy use".
I played an ultra exploitative game for "fun" for a bit, these things are WILD.
It should be illegal, it competes not with other games, but with beer/tobacco/casino aka predatory to those with addictive disorders.

it's called cookie run kingdoms and it triggers me on two points, not only it's exploitative model it's at the same pushing sugar, I called myself diabetical or something to raise however slim hope of awareness.

crazy times.
Always felt weird putting on a mask when entering my bank.
Ah sorry, My brain completely fumbled your sentence.
Jarvis is our civilations Jarvis:
https://github.com/aruhier/jarvis-speech-recognition

I do understand what you mean, and I wouldn't be surprised of components of ChatGPT are implemented for a voice command A.I. Artificial intelligence is generally divided into two types – narrow (or weak) AI and general A.I., also known as AGI or strong A.I.[1] ChatGPT is what's known as a narrow A.I., it can only predict what text is should say based on the data it has. The Jarvis you're talking about is a general or strong A.I.

[https://certes.co.uk/types-of-artificial-intelligence-a-deta...]
Or the cost of renewables + energy storage + smarter flexible loads will just become lower than nuclear all-in-all.

Seems to me that, now that both transportation and grid management is pouring bucketloads of money into energy storage technology, they'll just continue to improve and come down.

I mean, just as some countries are hitting 50%+ of renewables, and the variability is becoming a significant challenge, we're also starting to see a lot of EVs entering the market. I've got a car charging in my garage right now that my electricity provider can start and stop charging based on electricity prices. I can easily delay charging for 2-3 days if need be.

Seems to me that everything is coming together for a fully renewable solution. And this is probably what smaller island nations and such will want to standardize on anyway. It'll be the default for most areas.

Not that I mind nuclear.. just not sure where it'll fit in in the future. Just used in some key industrial areas maybe?
To get really high R value on insulation, often that means a 2x6 or 2x8 framed outer wall to allow for the additional thickness needed by the insulation. Double pane windows are well-surpassed by those with many panes and carefully designed frames with low thermal bridging. Aside from more insulation you need great air sealing, across every joint and in every window and door frame. Older construction had no explicit ventilation, just a lot of leaking such that the house "breathed". On modern, efficient homes, the air seal is very tight for efficiency reasons, so you need an ERV/HRV system to exhange air for you to keep the air healthy, while minimizing energy loss for that airflow.
Insulating materials used inside the roof and sheathing are typically closed cell foam or rockwool, or in Europe they sometimes use a wood fiber based insulation. There are lots of caulks and adhesive tapes for getting a good air seal, and there's also a technique where one pumps the house frame full of a vapor that reacts across pressure drops and plugs any holes it flows through.

Last, well insulated homes can get cheap heating and cooling from modestly sized heat pumps which are very efficient. One zero energy home I saw has heat exchangers on the roof to capture energy from the sun for warm water as well, supplemented by heat pumps powered by photovoltaics.
Yeah I'm laughing at this too. With land prices being what they are, this just means builders will make only luxury multi-million dollar homes with these codes in mind.
It's year 0 of this being useful. I would imagine sooner rather than later we'll start seeing it licensed and run internally/easily spun up in your organization's AWS or Azure or what have you.
I was terrified of faxes when I got my first job, and actually managed to avoid faxing something for a couple of years.
Musk flamewars have been around for years (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26528522) and have gotten more common and nastier of late. HN is for thoughtful, curious conversation. Curiosity withers under repetition and fries under indignation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), so it's easy to understand why users flagged this post.

Online rage, celebrity gossip, cults and anti-cults, ideological battle, internet tropes, and personality drama are all destructive to the intent of HN. This topic is rich in all of those and then some. There's no curiosity here, no interesting new things, no respectful or playful exchange—just people hammering on what they already feel, going after their objects of hatred and each other. That's not what HN is for, and destroys what it is for.

If anyone assumed otherwise, now would be a good moment to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and recalibrate one's image of what HN is supposed to be!

Edit: I just inserted "or celebrities" into the guidelines. It was already implied, but it won't hurt to make it explicit.
https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/DOE%20ZER...
EVs are far cleaner than gas-powered cars even if batteries require more mining
> Not always, my monitor goes to sleep and turns off. At this point, macOS should turn Bluetooth off? How would I wake the computer then? I would have to open it.

So I’m not sure about turning off bluetooth entirely, but waking via bluetooth should be turned off when the laptop is closed without a display attached. There is no use case for waking via bluetooth without a display.
This seems like an easy fix if they're not actually being driven, just don't make these supercars street legal. Have the exemption be "if you're driving the car on a racetrack then it can be ICE."
Convert any web app to a desktop app with zero code
This is not correct. Here's a really good video that goes into the differences: https://youtu.be/DG-VLezRkYQ
These are all practical, common-sense arguments for yea or nay on a particular species. They seem like exactly the kinds of factors to consider - not whether this exact plant existed in this exact microclimate, at one pre-European moment in botanical time.

I've got no opinion on eucalyptus one way or the other. But if I was developing one, these are the points I'd take into account.
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Silicon-based, not to be confused with those nice vintage germanium-based Apple products from the '60s.
I deleted my FB account ages ago and two years later a friend pinged me that I should look at my FB account. I was like what account? I never looked there afterwards anyway so not sure what was going on.
Building a system without sufficient controls is a classic (human) error in system design.
Pardon my language but where the f** is all this money going? Is it even humanly possible for a group of regular joes to audit where all the money is going? I think thats the first thing that HAS to happen, a clear transparent audit down to the penny. As a coder, this kind of complexity just drives me up the wall.

Also on a side note, I love how sneaky that NY Times article leaves out the option to cut defense. After all we can NEVER reduce our military industrial complex, only cut everything else to the bone.
Title was updated, but for context, prior to editing by HN mods, HN’s title for the post read, “Closing your MacBook hardware disconnects microphone, safety/privacy feature” — was confusing edit made by OP; current title now mirrors title on Apple.
Why would states take fringe far-right conspiracy nuts for their word?

Because they are a large part of the voting base, and they're very influential with the rest of it.

What's the issue with ERIC?

ERIC undermines their claims about widespread election fraud. It ensures that voters can't vote in different states or allow impersonation of dead people.

What's the claim based on that it's impossible to replicate it?

It's an agreement between states to share data, and there is no other source of similar data.
1. Weaviate does all these things as well, please see - https://weaviate.io/blog/pulling-back-the-curtains-on-text2v.... Although there are interesting optimizations around fitting a tokenizer, these are all relatively simple things whereas the inverted index is more so the interesting thing where the optimizations of specialized systems come into play e.g. WAND scoring.

2. Following on #1 what optimizations does BM25 require that justify an entirely separate tool that requires maintenance of two separate search systems? Also helps that merge overhead to have both searches in the same system.

3. Any company's report of benchmarking itself against its competitors should be taken with a grain of salt.. this is obviously bad practice. The purpose of these benchmarks are to compare in this case hyperparameters of HNSW and in future works around the BEIR numbers I provided earlier, Hybrid Search performance.

4. Again, no company can seriously benchmark itself against its competitors due to obvious conflicts of interest. Maybe this competition could be hosted here - https://big-ann-benchmarks.com/index.html#organizers.
> Most startups fail because they run out of money.

This is one of those pointlessly technical truisms. Well, yeah, of course - it's not just startups; most companies of any kind fail because they run out of money. For businesses, that's really what failure is. You might have some regulatory or personal circumstance that causes a business to shut down before it runs out of money, but usually it's because your business was bringing in less than it was spending and you ran out of reserves before reversing that trend.

It's like saying that most sports teams lose games because they score fewer points than their opponents; sure, you might have the rare case where too many of your players foul out and you can't field a big enough team, but usually it's the points thing.
Wat? I get the sense this is some AI engineer’s bid for data input or labeling of game play, but I see no human issue at play to cue on.
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Lazy Caterer make Grug angry. Grug smash stupid caterer in stupid face.
the 250ml one does this, the 220ml one perhaps due to it's smaller size feels even more indestructible! At least I've yet to broken one... needless to say it's always better to serve 220ml of sugary content than 250ml to the little ones too!
Yes: the implication was that the original object was `const`. If you both add and remove const, that's well-defined.

(I've yet to see a C or C++ codebase where object provenance actually guarantees this; I've see a lot of C and C++ codebases with const-stripping induced UB.)
Yeah! A DX2 66Mhz, with a real mechanical hard drive, in a real beige case with a turbo button :D Some modern "amenities" I have are the gotek, and a CF Card to IDE adapter, so I can more easily copy files to it.

I use it mostly for Borland C++, but also Solitaire in Windows 3.1.

I also have an 8088, a 286 and a 386...
That said, startups can be full of toxic hierarchies, exploitation, unequal distribution of benefits, and similar qualities, but that's been true for centuries of capitalism.

None of that is unique to capitalism. What system involving n human beings (where n > 1) does that not apply to?
List your preferred retailers for the various product categories that meet the requirements in the comment you quoted.

No need to cover Canada, the EU, and other regions that Amazon supports. US only is fine.
> when it no longer is (as is the case in much of Europe) it becomes problematic.

Not necessarily. What matters here is whether production matches demand. If the proportion of people in the workforce declines, but their productivity increases by the same amount (which isn't far from being the case in Europe) you don't have a problem.

And even that is too simple. As the population ages, demand changes. It increases im certain domains (health) so productivity increase might not suffice.

...but then of course the productivity of older people declines too, together with their health (higher unemployment, more sick leaves), so there is a lower and lower ROI as you put these people in the workforce. And then making people work longer accelerates the health decline, and so increases the demand. Except those people die younger on average, lowering the demand.

So it's a supply and demand issue, but not quite a supply and demand of workers. It's a complicated economic problem. All of this is talked about in the French debate, which is a lot more subtle than the loud vociferations reported in the news make it out to be.
Very well, so what is wrong about mentioning Al Biruni or Ulugh Beg or Zij-i-Sultani as well?
> I have never seen anyone buy that stuff, though.

Must be why there's a whole aisle dedicated to that kind of bread, in most stores. Nobody buys it.
I live on campus at Cornell Tech. The student residence hall[0] there is built following Passive House standards and it is actually surprising how good it works. My one complaint is the heating and cooling systems in every apartment unit are very heavily regulated, so at times the inside feel and temperature aren't ideal. It's a minor thing though.

[0] https://thehouseatcornelltech.com/sustainability/
It likely wasn't viable when the decision to choose to start building the plant was made.

Enough to put a nice roof over lots of carparks and roads perhaps.
I wish this was the first such case. But, what I see happen way too often is this:

Some dude comes up with another data definition language (DDL) that uses ML-style types. Everyone jumps from their seats in standing ovation. And in the end we get another useless configuration language that cannot come anywhere close to the needs of application developers, and so they pedal away on their squared-wheel bicycles of hand-rolled very custom data validation procedures.

This is even more disheartening because we already have created tools that made some very good progress into systematic input validation. And they were with us since the down of programming (well, almost, we had SQL since early 70's, then we also had Prolog, then we had various XML schema languages, and finally TLA+). It's amazing how people keep ignoring solutions that achieved so much compared to ensuring that a list isn't empty... and yet present it as the way forward...
When you've confused "per kWh cost" with "energy to the house delivery costs," this sort of stuff sounds good on paper, but it doesn't fundamentally solve the problem that in the winter, homes use a lot more energy than they can generate, and in the spring/fall, they will generate a lot more energy than they need.

I've got a large ground mount solar install I put in a few years ago (15.9kW nameplate, though mostly east-west facing panels so a bit less annual production than you'd expect, just more "sunup to sundown" production), and it's been a chilly winter, so with an air source heat pump and keeping the house fairly cool, I'm still net +4MWh from the grid in the last 4 months.

Meanwhile, when it warms up a bit more, I'm generating 10x what the house uses during spring/fall mornings (10+ kW production on a sub-1kW house draw for long periods of the day). It's not a big deal with only a few people on the grid, but if every house were doing this, it would be a very big problem for grid stability.

I've also got experience with the off-grid lifestyle, as my office is 100% off-grid/standalone, and I don't pretend that system is cheap. Just neat. And even with 5kW of solar hung for a ~100 sq ft shed, I still need propane or a generator in the winter every now and then to keep things sane in here.
wouldn't it be better to do this locally before the PR, if the bot's suggestions are valid then the user would have to make another commit.

maybe this would work if a reviewer wanted to highlight code for a question/comment and then the bot could add their two cents
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Location: EU-based, 5 hours overlap with PST
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I'm pursuing a role in the high-scalability distributed systems space. I'm a well-rounded Scala data engineer with deep knowledge of the internals of distributed datastores.

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Dropping field names from definitions like Go would make the syntax inconsistent with destructuring and pattern matching. It's always possible to define a constructor function that takes unnamed values if you care about code verbosity in test cases. Or use `type M = MyStruct` to have an abbreviated type name within the test function.

Rust is more on the verbose/explicit side and I agree that can sometimes be annoying, but as autocompletion exists I can live with it.
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How would you get enough panels and all the support equipment for $10K if there were no regulations? I'm looking into it right now and I don't see a path to that.
Nick Offerman has a great quote about this, it boils down to the guy deserves money for something he created and others could have, but were too cheap to make and require. It's not the patent holders fault that they can make money from caring about people's safety.
Competing element though is they probably have more land to put solar on, so if they don't find it to be aesthetically incompatible, they could probably push through those energy losses.
I strongly agree on the last point about early validation, albeit with two exceptions: when you're marketing a product you want to sell and want to generate hype, or your product requires early feedback. I've kept things hidden to keep myself motivated only to find I was left with the horribly unmotivating task of shudders marketing. Also, my friends who I thought would love it had fundamental changes they'd want to find it useful.
Diet Coke vs really really OG classic Coke.
> for people living in the city to be able to go off grid in a meaningful way.

Everyone has a use for hot water. You can always have off-grid solar heating an auxiliary tank to take the load off the primary water heater.
Scotch tape gets gross after a year. But then I don’t recall how long the toy lasted so maybe I was showing off my pocket knife.