skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the links, looking forward to diving in.

> You export excess solar when overproducing, and then can pull that kWh back from an energy source that can be stored.

Well the issue is that storing energy is expensive. Electricity is much cheaper to generate during the day because solar is such an economical way to generate electricity, but it's much more expensive at night. 1 kwh during the day != 1 kwh at night, so it doesn't make a ton of sense to allow grid users to trade day usage for night usage. There are definitely upsides to distributed solar, but I can't see how it doesn't end up in a state of "rich people install enough solar to have 0 net usage and poor people need to pick up the slack so that utility profits don't fall." And make no mistake, utility profits will not fall. They're a government regulated monopoly, their profits are essentially locked in unless something catastrophic happens (which to be fair has been happening to pg&e, but that's separate).
The tools for a community to self-moderate is the key here, along with communities being able to define their own boundaries.

Reddit communities with active moderators are often great places to have respectful conversations. Twitter, on the other extreme, has virtually zero moderation tools for any group. You get to live with whatever rules Twitter sets for the entire platform (and die by the group that's able to hack them)
Disease is even deadlier.
I know this is a bit of a cop-out but even writing in a non-secret chat and having Telegram know, then totally deleting a message on Telegram with no visual trace to the counterpart, is less worrying for me than doing the same on the “e2e encrypted” WhatsApp which shows “Message deleted” and if I failed to do it, prevents me from deleting the message after a while. Telegram lets me delete everyone’s messages and even the entire chat anytime. That shows where their head is at.

That said, you are right that not-on-by-default-for-everyone makes the encrypted chats more suspicious.

I have to say that I have a nuanced view on encryption, which isn’t matching the orthodoxy on HN:

https://community.qbix.com/t/balancing-privacy-and-accountab...
Or restored to a backup?
Cyber hackers are not limited to particular geographies or ip address blocks. The network approach doesn't work.
If you look at the mountains of crap that have been written in JS, for instance, those old programmers have been proven right.
The AGI term came about to distinguish a certain level of capability, just alike ASI is appearing now.

I don't see a problem with terminology getting more refined as a field matures. We used to have "cars" and "trucks." These days we have SUVs and sports cars and crossovers and who knows what else. Yes, they used to be "cars". People still find it useful to have more granular categories.
Show HN: WeatherGPT – The Ultimate ChatGPT Plugin Starter
thanks for pointing this out -- we will fix it.
The idea that this or that Big Bad state is fomenting significant unrest in the West is a false narrative manufactured to scapegoat from domestic mismanagement and distract from the fact that Washington hosts a massive global industry dedicated to destabilizing states, especially those Big Bad ones, via organizations like GEC, NED, USAGM, USAID, etc.
ohhhh this is really smart; every terraform user has at some point run up against the limits of it not being a language and flirted with pulumi. natural excuse now to get started, esp if the auto import works

targeting translation between declarative-ish languages is a natural day-1 application for LLMs

declarative languages generally good, bc 1) it's relatively easy to check them, 2) they are low-boilerplate (less to get wrong + better support for small token memories)

wonder if this backfires bc pulumi is more powerful, giving the LLM more chances to get in trouble? like there are cases where in order to check a pulumi program you would need something like TLA+ with a good model of the system you are targeting
The most fascinating thing to me is that the biggest indicator that you are going to be murdered is that you have been arrested in association with someone else who did get murdered. Police can address homicide rates by intervening in the lives of these future victims. When some low-level neighborhood criminal gets shot, go find all that guy's friends and offer them jobs in other cities.
I guess I can't say I'm surprised by yet another confidently wrong claim on your part. This is one of the most high-profile cases of bankruptcy, where very determined creditors are hellbent on pulling out every penny from a very obvious fraud. And in this case, we already know that -- right in line with my claim -- depositors at one arm of the debtor did in fact have their deposits legally insulated from the (very extensive) creditor claims.

And yet you are claiming, in this very instance, that that is not possible, even as it already happened. You couldn't be more wrong on the facts here.

Perhaps you could have limited yourself to a lesser claim that, under specific conditions, that you enumerate from actual knowledge, depositors can't step ahead of other creditors. By being open and honest, and revealing the full basis of your belief, you could have said something at least true, even if you were (very honorably) wrong about the applicability to this particular case.

You didn't take that route. You instead went with the tried-and-true "if I say it confidently enough, I have to be right". Sigh.

In the other thread[1], you claimed I'm upset at you for your views on crypto. This is childish and false. I love to hear meaningful corrections to my worldmodel. Your comments aren't doing that. You're instead finding the most solid parts, and baselessly asserting things about them that are demonstrably false. I can't actually learn from that sophistry or meaningfully update my beliefs. No one can.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559836
(global-set-key (kbd "M-<tab>") #'completion-at-point-using-chatgpt)
architecture has a long history, of course. even if we start from since drafting became standard practice, recent advances like 3d modeling (due to computers) and analyses (satisfying/resolving building code constraints, structural forces, etc) are quantum leaps. in programming, perhaps the type systems (static) and debugger (post-production) gives a similar feeling but not quite. these two aside, the concerns of a c programmer today largely overlaps with those of dennis ritchie & brian kernighan.
Lots of errors in this article. Was it AI-generated?
Are there IDEs that can display compile-run-observe results in real time? A feature where you can set the inputs for a certain function and view the result of each statement in-line as you edit the function?
The barrier to entry is also pretty low. It's basically a marketing game to see who can attract customers at the best rate of return. I'm guessing there are tons of VPN startups that never get large enough to keep going and the ones that do grow probably get acquired by the bigger ones.
I'd prefer to live in a world where wealth was a little more concentrated and I lived to 150 than a world where it's a little less concentrated and I lived to 75.

If you look at the demographics for most countries, we're not running into an overpopulation problem anywhere in the developed world.

If banning medical care after 50 reduced inequality by reducing lifespans should we do it?
With CEO known for PnD-like behavior. I guess logo will be changed to a random shitcoin once insiders are loaded with it?
Funny how questions like this were completely ignored in the previous conversation where people were shitting on the homeless, but suddenly are important now that the homeless aren't the target anymore.
> "Algorithm" is a short-hand for that goal.

I think it's the incorrect word. The "algorithm" requires a few pages of code. "Understanding why it's recommending" requires you get, and sift through, terabytes of user data from Youtube. They're very different.
for decades we have seen planned communities with common assets paid for by hoa such as a pool and parks. i bet we will see in the future a neighborhood that “comes with” a 40 acre solar installation and storage as a perk. maybe even just storage. and if everyone feeds into it and draws from it you can get away from the grid power sharing changing requirements and host your own micro grid
Once Shocking, U.S. Spying on Its Allies Draws a Global Shrug
Europeans have to register their address at all times with the government, need a passport to buy a SIM card, are prohibited from cash transactions above trivial amounts but at least they can contact the mandatory "data protection officer" and reject non-essential cookies!
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> I see, you mean "someone at Google, just not the author"

Correct.

> Because the author explicitly said he doesn't do follow ups and so he doesn't know if his question is a good predictor of actual performance.

This would be difficult as a random engineer. People Ops has different access to performance/interview data so they can do this analysis; your interviewer can't (unless you share your future ratings with them and they wrote down all of the ratings).

You can do the analysis on yourself though but you'll have to jump through some hoops to get your own interview data. It's also a single data point so unless you can convince a bunch of other people to also do this it really isn't significant.

> Strange that the author doesn't mention this though.

I'll be honest, I think maybe 1k employees know that anybody has bothered to do this analysis. It would not surprise me that the author is completely unaware given most of memegen is as well.
> To date, nothing of substance has been released from the laptop (which has supposedly been in the possession of the parties making the claims for at least 3 years) that validates any of the claims that have been made about the laptop, Hunter Biden, or Joe Biden.

The evidence is there for anyone to view it. Just because the media doesn’t seem interested doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be interested. Just because the media doesn’t report on it doesn’t mean it’s not an interesting story.

Here is evidence from the laptop. Sure we can poke holes and say there was no “chain of custody” but if CoC didn’t matter for an election ballots why does it matter here? Just take an unbiased view of the data. Disregard the source and form you own opinion. Without actually looking at the data anything said is an assumption.

Again I may not like the source but I don’t tend to shoot the messenger.

https://bidenlaptopreport.marcopolousa.org/
SF Standard does not seem to have an overt reporting bias. So far I find their articles informative. But they are 100% funded by a PAC the agenda of which I do not fully embrace.
(this is all alleged)
It's nice that this is news but please be aware that farm fires, silos falling on farms and farms generally just collapsing is much, much more common than in any other type of building due to being an edge case in fire safety.

Farmers are also not encouraged to take precautions to save their animals in case of emergency, as if they die they are paid back by insurance, while if they survive they must be transported and boarded or lent to other farmers.

I have heard rumors of these issues being more common in this industry because the costs to bring farms "up to code" from when they were built 40 years ago is too expensive, and it's simply more financially sound to burn it down - and it's very difficult to prove mischief, since farms are famously run down building filled with old bad wiring and flamable wood shaving and hay.
> I bought a router.

You bought a connected router. Again, you just have the wrong expectation for online products. The fact that it was maintained for 8 years should be praised.
I've never understood the "an imperfect solution is no better than no solution and should be thrown out on principle" view.

Door locks aren't perfect; our justice system isn't perfect; software isn't perfect. But they're all pretty useful and I just can't get behind a movement to abolish any of them because they fail to solve every individual case.
It’s easy to say this, but I think AI is very different from nuclear weapons.

It’s hard to make nuclear weapons and there little profitability for businesses to get involved.

AI on the other hand has huge profitability potential so even if governments wanted to regulate things, it’s a losing game. Hundreds of countries with different governments and different incentives. Businesses can easily move between countries.
Doesn't a faiss index have to fit in memory?
We can't run the algorithm without the weights, be we can understand it -- or rather, we can understand it as much as it's possible for anyone to understand it. Having the weights will not add understanding. Having the loss function used during training will.
Only in the sense that they both broke federal laws on the handling of classified documents. But only one of them will go to prison for it.
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Sorry I meant without net metering, the article says...

>It will also provide a much stronger incentive for solar owners to use as much of the power they generate as they can — or to install batteries that can store excess power for use after the sun goes down

Seems likely a smaller system is a choice too.
This is fairly reductive but isnt :

>Create a brotherhood organization, force every male who’s not gainfully employed to join that organization. If they don’t join they go to jail.

more or less mandatory military conscription that I believe South Korea in particular already has?
> As noted in another thread, that's not only beyond the scope of the software itself – it is beyond the scope you _can_ relicense and arguably beyond the scope of the copyright terms themselves.

This is not true. People who are saying this would have said this about GPL when it first came out.
> Each p1 pod has enough capacity for 1M vectors with 768 dimensions.

> Each s1 pod has enough capacity for 5M vectors with 768 dimensions.

I think that’s what I was remembering. I guess I just don’t understand what that means.
As you notice yourself, there are serious costs associated with limiting intel.
But the downsides of overclassification are much more encompassing than what you described.

People "in command" regularly fall prey to the fallacious idea of knowing better than anybody else. In particular, they believe to know who should know what.

Regarding Snowden to be wrong in revealing the US surveillance is an example of this fallacy. In essence, you discount human rights to knowledge about reality in favor of petty, self-serving and short-sighted convenience.
Users will still just spam the ticketing system. (Their support email).
Dominion(Australia) is also an option, more recent and also available on youtube, as well as Land of Hope and Glory (UK)
Internet fundamentalism doesn’t actually work (2014)
I've used the Kinkos version of this. It installs as a normal printer driver, so you can print like normal, then you head to a Kinkos location, type a code into the printer, and it prints off your documents. Pretty nifty.
Interesting little article and not what I expected. Seems to be a bit of a plug for book "The Great Railway Bazaar', which to me would be an interesting read of a bygone era.

Will need to see if I can find it in one of the local libraries.
Sounds like a hard business for small VPN providers, getting squeezed between the cat and mouse game with content providers blocking them on one side, and users abusing the service on the other side. Same work whatever size, so better be big, or white label a big name.
Not OP, but I would have said misleading instead of lying.

To get the correct figure, you need to add together not just federal money for NPR but also state government money, and federal and state money for its affiliates and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. NPR only functions in an ecosystem, and the total figure for that ecosystem is at least 14 percent according to... NPR [1]. I suspect the real figure is somewhat obscured because some of their non-government donors will get some of their money from the government(s). I do not think the public media ecosystem would exist with 14 percent less money, but I could be wrong.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter...
Li-ion battery degradation is minimal, or even negligible when they aren't cycled across different capacity ranges AFAIK. What that means is that current charging the battery while it is getting discharged at a similar rate (which usually means a constant battert voltage) doesn't induce wear in the same way as charging the battery from a capacity of 10% to 100% (or even from 75% to 80%) does.

But that could be different when that constant charge/discharge is happening at high capacity levels, lithium-ion batteries are weirder when they are at their maximim voltage. My knowledge is rusty at this point so let me know if I got any of this wrong.
I agree that it was ineffective, that's why I think you should put that link in your bio- I don't think nearly as many people would waste much time talking to you if they were just linked to why you were banned instead of only seeing your biased version of it.
"go" is a fantastic name for communicating that all you're doing is exactly what the containing named definition promises. It's a lot better than adding "Worker" or "Impl" as a suffix of the same name as the parent. It contains no additional information because there's no additional information to contain - the parent name already says it all. So you might as well make it short and a standard idiom.
https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commit/4becb4e6734...
That's an interesting claim that's based on nothing but your own supposition.

How about we get Youtube to show us their algorithm and associated weights (assuming an ML-based approach, which is a huge assumption on your part) and then we can find out if that's true.
The EU envisions a united, prosperous, and sustainable Europe, prioritizing democracy, social justice, and coöperation both internal and global.

Despite its clear humanist project, the anglosphere's continued failure to recognize this is almost farcical by now.

Edit: To be clear, I agree, for the most part, with this article.
Small typo correction for anyone trying to search or learn more about the term: it's "provenance", not "providence".
I appreciate videos like these because they take subjects that those of us who understand things technically often have a hard time explaining to non-technical people.

"But why is tracking bad?" "What can they do besides see what shows I watch?" "Everyone is tracking, so why should I care about this?"

Sigh. Just watch this video, and perhaps it'll help.

That being said, I think it's a poignant reminder that if Amazon, Google and Cloudflare have their way, there'll be literally zero way to know anything going on between these kinds of devices and the rest of the Internet. They push for having everything in their "cloud", where there's absolutely no oversight and no accountability (see Google's current practice of allowing malicious ads as a good example).

Coupled with Cloudflare's desire to push DNS-over-https everywhere, and we could end up with zero ability to see what a device looks up and we can know absolutely nothing more than that it connects to, say, AWS, Google Cloud, Tencent, or Azure. The devices could exfiltrate all the data they want.

It's clear to those of us who examine these things that DNS-over-https is a huge boon for corporations that want to track literally everything we do, but so many people have been sold on the idea that our ISPs are the real threat, so we should give up our liberty (to know what DNS lookups are done) for alleged safety (so our ISPs won't know what DNS lookups are done).

They want us to break DNS so it can never be under our control to prevent our ISPs from abusing us. And they want us to do this by "trusting" them with all of our DNS data.

That was a bit of a tangent, but it's worth considering that we could get to a point where devices like these Android TV boxes could do literally anything they want, and we'd have no way to know at all, even if we 100% control our own networks and are highly technical.
Ask HN: How can I create a hosted shell?
I have a python program. I run it locally on my machine.

What I'd like to do is to be able to allow other people to run the same program, without them having to set up the dev environment.

Basically a remote shell, with one instance per user/session.

My ideal is I can do:

1. Upload my python program and directory with related files

2. Click share

3. Now someone can go to a url, and they'll see a blank shell, and if they typed python3 my_program.py it'd run just like it does on my local machine.

I don't think an AWS box will work because I don't want users to be able to access the output of other users.

Is there a super simple solution for this, or would I need to build it?
Makes sense.

I find your project incredibly cool. And your video is awesome. Well done!
To be frank (and then polite and constructive), I think the relevant question is "What am I missing?" rather than "What is it missing?"

..and my guess would be that this is something like a cohort experiment. I'd bet they selected projects to have a broad sampling of kinds of projects, so they could see what working with them was like and what kind of impact they'd have - similar to a marketing trying out different audiences and types of ads, or startups running market experiments, or VCs shot-gunning to see what sticks, or developers doing 'probes' into problems and/or with technologies.

AFAICT, GitHub wanted to get some data around the questions "What's involved in us getting funding to open source projects / developers, and what kind of impact can that funding have?"

Even if your judgement of this specific project is apt (that it's weirdly small and inactive for receiving a grant), that may be the point.