skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does geothermal drilling trigger earthquakes?
I don't entirely understand your point, I'm sorry. Could you explain it again?

One would generally expect that both paths produce different outcomes, because this is the purpose of media queries, to produce different appearances for different screens. In the example about light mode vs dark mode, a well-designed, non-fingerprinting CSS file might well load different background images for an element to match the user's theme - a dark-background image for dark mode, and a light-background image for light mode. This is the sort of behaviour we are aiming for with this feature.

The problem is that this good behaviour is indistinguishable from more malicious behaviour where the images are only used to do fingerprinting. And FWIW, this is the simplest way of doing fingerprinting that I could think of. In the general case, it is not possible to detect whether a given media query would be fingerprintable by a server. For example, a given media query might increase the height of a particular element, pushing a lazy loaded image below the fold and causing it to not be requested immediately, but only after a few seconds when the user scrolls down to it. Or instead of having one "homepage" link on the page, you have multiple, but you only show one depending on which media query fits best. Then, as soon as the user clicks the "homepage" link, you know which link was visible to them and can fingerprint them accordingly.

Which is why the nuclear option here is just turning off all possibilities for existing a user's unique preferences, because it's the preferences themselves that are being used to fingerprint the user.
I agree with this. I don’t think people understand how exactly net metering works or what the actual utility cost structure looks like.

Utilities sell energy to you by exposing things like time of use pricing and maybe tiered rates (in California, PG&E has seasonal tiers by location that basically correspond to how bad they think you need AC). The time of use pricing is kind of them passing on their cost structure, but the rest is very simplified.

There are power spot markets https://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/Pages/prices.html utilities interact with that have much more dynamic pricing involved. These depend on things like weather, time of day, demand, etc. Utilities are greatly simplifying this cost structure when they charge you for energy.

Right now per that website we’re at about 18 GW renewables out of a demand of 21.2 GW. 11 of those 18 GW are solar. Go to the demand page and look at how demand fluctuates over the course of the day. It’s highest at around 7:30am and 8:30 pm. How do you think that interacts with the solar supply? The TLDR is, solar produces a ton of supply during the part of the day where demand is low, and it stops producing power right around when demand is highest.

So with net metering, we’re effectively letting people buy expensive, highly demanded power at the rate of cheap, low-demand power. This breaks utilities’ cost structures and also causes utilities to have to deal with greater fluctuations in energy demand and supply, which leaves more infrastructure unused for part of the day (they provision for peaks, but they spend a ton of time very far from the peaks). For those of us not lucky enough to be able to engage in solar power arbitrage, we have to pay higher prices to compensate for all the people paying very low bills relative to the actual cost of their energy consumption.

Solar power and renewable energy are good to incentivize, but this implementation is simply not good for the energy system or consumers. I completely agree that excess residential solar returned to the grid should be compensated based on the current energy market prices. The good part about that is it incentivizes residences to invest in battery tech rather than relying on a grid (which they pay very little into) to do it for them. It probably does disincentivize solar a bit, but the system obviously would not work with everybody taking advantage of this arbitrage opportunity.
Yup, will definitely accept that one.
GPT is good at boilerplate and is very bad at understanding and fleshing out complicated requirements, coming from N stakeholders with varying opinions and personalities. So I don't think GPT is a threat to human engineers in the "essential complexity" space.

Then, how much time do we collectively spend on boilerplate? Stackoverflow + the rich collection of open source libraries and frameworks have been doing a great job minimizing boilerplate for typical architectures. E.g., building a Flask app today vs building with Apache mod_perl in 2000 is like a >90% reduction in boilerplate.

So I don't think LLMs are much of a threat to engineers.
You need both at depth. strace and dtruss translate binary information to a textual representation but they’re only as good as their coverage. When you get closer to the edges of common use they fall down. On macOS / iOS using dtruss for all programs comes with extra burdens, too.

We (tailscalar here!) have another post out today on more throughput optimizations and the story there is related in this way: when we started working on that code path the docs didn’t exist! (There are some docs now, in Linux). But either way the stuff is seldom used outside of specialist implementations - so when you need to understand what’s going on you’re headed for the source, or a debugger, or a symbolic tracer rather than an interpretive one.
Any threat to US dominance is a threat to national security...
> the issue is if you switch jobs too often is hurts your chances of being able to do that in the future.

I've been hearing this for 20 years so far.

Still no problems.
I just loved how happy and not existential crisisy at all Blindsight and Echopraxia made me feel!

Although come to think of it, Portia would be a good name for some near-gen AI model...
What does it mean for a canon to be "widely accepted" when we're talking about fragmentary historical documents? Believed by the most people (how would we know)? Discovered first (an accident of archaeology)? Part of the literary chain that leads to the stories we tell in modern times (but which "we")?

I think this concept is less simple than one might want.
GSoC was about bringing young people into FLOSS, this is helping people who actually maintain those projects.

I think they are vastly different, tho I am unsure which one would be more valuable in the long run.
Oh interesting, I assumed their usage was counting towards my credits, but I actually didn't check, so maybe I'm wrong. Will test and report back.
Local ISPs were either replaced or taken over by larger operators. But one had to show up and put cables. VPN is rather like FTP hosting of 2020s, global and anyone with WireGuard source anyone can fork clients and make VPN in a little time, even one dev business.
A flat rate based on size of main conn sounds reasonable; however, what is being discussed today in CA is an income based rate structure.

https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2023/04/10/sdge-seeks-m...
At first, I thought AWS was launching their own SQLite hosted database.

BedrockDB is a SQLite based database with MySQL compatible drivers.

https://bedrockdb.com
Training Large Language Models Efficiently with Sparsity and Dataflow
https://vole.wtf/ is a gem of a website.
Putin's disinformation tactics are well known and documented. There is certainly a question of how much of a causal factor they are as opposed to the pre-existing fissures in society. But it's not reasonable to act like this is all a false narrative manufactured by whomever.
Probably nothing special would have happened. Einstein did his great work between 1905 and 1915. Then he lived for 40 more years.
I’ve really wanted to try tailscale. I fear I’ll like it, and I don’t want another company to have a monopoly on simple things so everyone forgets how to do them.
The author is supposedly[1] a computer scientist; he should really have pushed back on using the term "mind" here. But I guess it was too tempting to resist the click-bait impulse.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19047303
I created a playlist that tells the strech exercise name and then beeps every 20s. Efective stretch takes between 20-30s and the strength of it should be such that the intensity phases out at the end of the 20s. I did 3x20s for every exercise. My whole routine was approx 20minutes and took me daily for 3 months to achieve the angles that are checked by physio therapist.
If I use Python for my Pulumi, how could I reuse the work of a peer who uses JS for Pulumi?

Do we need to have multiple "mirrors" of our internal infra modules? Or do we need multiple language runtimes in our deployment runner in CI?

With TF, there is one language and one binary
Some days even a fairly large system (15-25kW) will output just 1-3 kW; the extra cost from 10KW to 15 kW is not 50%, but maybe 20%, so sizing a system, smaller or bigger, is a calculation that gives different results to different people based on the cost structure, consumption and electricity cost in the area.
> Part of the problem is trying to make LEDs work in our preexisting lighting systems

I would agree if lamps designed from scratch for LEDs were any better in terms of longevity, but so far our ~20 year old halogen lamp has survived more than a dozen LEDs.
I believe... technically Ecto is not an ORM but a query builder, which may be why you like it better than an ORM.
https://archive.ph/9Impl
> IMO as tech people we are partly to blame for this.

This was happening way before tech was taking off. This trend was already booming in the 1990s. Robert Putnam wrote his book about social capital decline before the year 2000 - way before the social media and tech explosion.

Tech is hardly the cause. Capitalism is to blame. Capitalism. Say it with me, capitalism. The further we atomize people - the more capitalism thrives. (No unions, no broader labor movements, etc.)
Yeah I think we'll see a lot of Good Enough (to cut salary expense) replacements rolled out, which is even more disturbing. The middle class will shrink and in exchange we'll get crappier products.
City-wide statistics seem almost entirely meaningless in these contexts. Most violent crime is concentrated in specific parts of the city where the people who participate in these debates never go. A 10% decrease in violent crime in the most dangerous part of a city could cancel out a 10x increase in the areas where most HN people would likely be living in.
yep, value is pretty clear from his demo. Goes from dozens of clicks to identify an object within an image to a single click. SAM does almost exactly what you'd want as a human in every one of his examples.
I did iOS 3D game dev back in the 2G days where you only got 24MB of RAM to work in if you were lucky. Even in the later device with lots more memory, the amount you could use before getting a memory warning was small and varied wildly depending on what the user had been doing recently before firing up your app.

One technique to handle this is mentioned in the article: We used read-only memory mapped files containing position-independent data structures. We did this for audio and animation data without notable hitches.

The big one though was making our meshes and textures hot-reloadable. Whenever we got a memory warning, we just deleted the OpenGL buffers for all of our meshes and textures and let them reload on-demand.

From the POV of the OS we were being a very well-behaved citizen. The OS asked us to reduce memory and we did so instantly and dramatically. Meanwhile, the OS was also issuing memory warnings to all of the background apps that were hogging large, unpredictable chunks of RAM. Those apps would end up killed by the OS in short order, freeing up memory for us.

Right each kill-wave, we would naturally get right back to filling RAM with even more meshes and textures, triggering another memory-warning with would free up even more mem for us!

Pretty quickly we'd have all of the memories and the warnings would slow down. Using PVRTC texture compression and tightly pack vertex formats meant we could have a lot of detail loaded. And, simple binary file formats with just `fread(whole file in one go)` as our I/O practice meant we could reload everything in 1/10th of a second.
Takes the American "unwalkable city" trope to the extreme - you can't even really bike there. People live in isolate subdivisions (gated, often) connected to the outside world by mega-arterials with 6+ lanes.

It's not surprising it ranks so low in murders - it's hard to get killed when you're only outside for the time it takes to walk from your parking spot to the shop.
Great nit! I'll update it to the actual state i.e. only 11.7% of people are killed by strangers. 88.3% knew their killers in some capacity.
Show HN: DocExtract – Automatically extract structured data from financial docs
Well said. The constraints of Terraform (HCL2) are a blessing.
Yes. With the correct prompts, humans can become 'enlightened', a form of jailbreak.
That vid is awesome.
Hello, fellow old!

I immediately thought of Logan's Run as well. In the movie it was 30(?) years old and in the book 21(?). I would have died some time ago in that world...
> That particular rendition relied on the UK refueling the planes.

That particular rendition didn't rely on UK refueling the planes; the CIA's planes don't need to be refueled from somewhere as close as Sweden. And it was a minor scandal when it came out that the UK even allowed rendition flight refueling on one of it's territories in the Indian ocean. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/22/ciarendition.f...

> Seems a very tenuous link to me - the idea that the US would illegally kidnap someone from the streets in Sweden but not do the same thing in the UK

Then you should be able to produce an example of this happening. The big difference is that for western Europe, the US gov generally requires that the host country cooperates with renditions. Sweden cooperates with renditions, the UK requires the normal extradition process.
Third, Copilot supports vim.
I don't really understand this claim (maybe I'm thinking too much "Ferrari" red and less "Rav 4"?) but if anything will make more manufactures make orange cars my male ass is all for it...

Men's clothing is also getting more interesting again, with attendant public hand-wringing in certain circles.
I don't think I'd classify their zero-config p2p-style VPN as "simple" -- or at least, certainly not simple to replicate...

More to the point, I hope their technology becomes commonplace & gratis a la LetsEncrypt for SSL Certificates.
I believe it's in "Energy and Civilization: A History", and probably reprised in "How the World Really Works".

This is rando google search for it (so double check) but material looks correct to me:

"An average inhabitant of the Earth nowadays has at their disposal nearly 700 times more useful energy than their ancestors had at the beginning of the 19th century. Moreover, within a lifetime of people born just after the Second World War the rate had more than tripled, from about 10 to 34 GJ/capita between 1950 and 2020. Translating the last rate into more readily imaginable equivalents, it is as if an average Earthling has every year at their personal disposal about 800 kilograms (0.8 tons, or nearly six barrels) of crude oil, or about 1.5 tons of good bituminous coal. And when put in terms of physical labor, it is as if 60 adults would be working non-stop, day and night, for each average person; and for the inhabitants of affluent countries this equivalent of steadily laboring adults would be, depending on the specific country, mostly between 200 and 240."

So looks like my number was quite low.

The references to "Earthlings" makes me suspect this quote was pulled from "How the World Really Works", since it starts out with a thought exercise using an extraplanetary observer watching the progress of human civilization over millennia. If you like this kind of information, I would highly recommend Energy and Civilization, it's a fantastic and eye-opening book.

Edit: confirmed, above quote is from "How the World..".
As a real engineer, I ask what the practical problem is that they are trying to solve.

Seems like the practical application of this is to quickly disallow strong memorable passwords of the form "correct horse battery staple". https://xkcd.com/936/
If so, deeply misguided.
>I don't read NPR stuff very much and have never heard any of their radio programmes).

Then you should do so. Especially Fresh Air, Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Car Talk (although, sadly that's just an archive -- no new shows), Story Corps[0] and a whole bunch of others that have exactly zero to do with anything political.

I wanted to add Forum as well, but since it's from KQED[1] I'm sure some folks around here will call it the propaganda arm of the People's Republic of California. <eye-roll>.

And Marketplace, On Point, RadioLab, Science Friday and a bunch of others from WBUR[2]. And WNYC[3] and WAMU[4] also have a number of shows that never even mention the dysfunction in the US political system.

That said, there are many NPR (and member station) shows that actually report the news of the day and cover political topics -- regardless of party or point of view.

Okay, it's definitely not Breitbart, Zerohedge or Alex Jones, but it's certainly not a communist organization. Rather, it's center-right, just like most of the US.

Regardless, there's lots of interesting and fun stuff, especially Fresh Air. I remember being heartbroken fifteen years ago or so to find out that Terry Gross[5] was not only past childbearing age, but gay as well. Because she's so amazing, I often fantasized about having kids with her. Seriously.

[0] https://prod-www-origin.npr.org/programs/

[1] https://www.kqed.org/

[2] https://www.wbur.org/radio

[3] https://www.wnyc.org/shows

[4] https://wamu.org/shows/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gross
I'm confused, what's your point? It's a "win" that this killing was by a certain person?

Has nothing to do with shit on the streets, etc. etc.
Things I'd like to see from OpenAI API keys:

- Unlimited, or at least a much higher limit - right now they are restricted to 5

- Ability to set a time limit on a key - I'd like to create a new key that's only good for the next hour when I try out a new thing that asks me to paste in an API key

- Abiliy to set a budget for an API key. Giving an app a key with a $5 total budget - or $10/month or whatever - would be really neat.

- OAuth support. Let me OAuth connect an app with my OpenID account - then I don't have to know what an API key is, I can grant it permission to spend my API credits, and I can revoke access later

- Let me see how much money each API key has spent

- An option to log everything an app does with my API key would be cool - I already have ChatGPT logs and rely on them all the time, but having that for other random applications would be excellent.
The link is 404 but maybe you have a point there. I don't think this alone is enough to make me want to use Pulumi over Terraform though :)
> I feel ashamed to live on this side of the Atlantic, sometimes.

Let's not forget that DeepMind is of EU origin, and they were one of the forces that kick started this whole AI renaissance.
None of these savings end up making it to “the poor”. They only subsidie PG&E’s continued inefficiencies.
Can't ChatGPT [mostly] do this already? It was trained on all AWS documentation up until the training cut off
ports can be dangerous! One time my server lost performance because of a lot of zombie processes.
Prompt engineering will be interesting to follow for the quantity output. If one gets good at asking the right questions the system will provide you with better detail.

But that's on a technical level.

On the cognitive and reflective matter it will not be as interesting or job-overtaking.

Writing code is 1/6 of the job. The rest is communication, debugging and testing. That's not for GPT.

It has made me a better programmer on the technical level but that was the easy part :)
It did strike me as really odd a 43 year-old man would be out walking around at 2:30 AM...

It'll be interesting when more details come out.

All the "SF is going downhill!" stuff that came out... seems pretty irrelevant given this wasn't a random act of violence.
I mean if they had cameras everywhere monitoring speed they could presumably use that to also figure out who was near your house and or driving your car.

It's just how many tools do people want cops to have? And the answer is generally very few in case they use those tools against you.

Moving violations is one of those areas where its hard to argue. Oh? You aren't in favor of a safety corridor near the elementary school? Do you want children to get hit?
As a software engineer fascinated by cars/engine work, I instantly purchased this for $25, even if the content is incomplete.

I'm sure there are many more people like me. Please keep making more videos and information. We'll happily pay more to support the effort.
Were you shot, or where you shot at?
I'm curious if Western Digital's cloud was built upon their acquisition of Bertrand Serlet's startup UpThere at all.
I wrote something about consciousness as the result of computation (an idea I'm sure is not new, and somewhat related to attention schema theory, even if I disagree with the author of that on determinism), it's a little bit of a mess as I setup the assumptions, but I still think gets the idea across (as did Shelly to some degree, though his primary interest was the implication for the value of such a life, which I continue to fail entirely to make sense of in the continued text, which I don't recommend reading).

http://dusted.dk/pages/thoughts/OnConsciousness.html

You might find it interesting because Shellys lectures inspired me a lot when writing it, and because it touches on the same subject as your are thinking about.
> I guess you could say the same about America and Canada, but some of us are accustomed to seeing Europeans as more enlightened than us politically.

Speak for yourself.
Different strokes for different folks I guess.

I've had many conversations with many people my age (mid 30s) about how we went from "don't post anything about yourself" to "post your entire life online" around when Facebook got big, so I don't think it's something that only I experienced. There's another commenter on this post saying something similar and I remember being taught about "internet safety" in middle school, so maybe it's a generational thing.
>I wonder how likely it is that the same population will comment here to say, "I was wrong"?

From the looks of your replies, more than a few are back to comment here to say "Actually I am still right."

Which, frankly, seems to me more evidence I should just not bother to browse threads about this kind of inflammatory subject. Even on HN where discussion quality tends to be better, there's plenty of people who just show up to shout, and not listen.
My guess is the AI will be less likely to correct your bill than a person.
>I'm curious what makes you uncomfortable about it?

The same thing that makes them uncomfortable looking under the bed at night.
But the mechanics using their professional grade code reader and related equipment couldn't figure out what's causing it. At least I'm comfortable with "unknown" after that's their diagnosis; I don't think that would be the case if I did it and got that result.
I'm not sure if you meant net billing instead of net metering, but this seems to reinforce the idea that the rich were never being subsidized by the poor in the first place
Much better headline than the other few articles posted about this. Amazon's docs even fail to mention what bedrock and titan actually are!
Correct, I live in a much less shitty place. But I used to like SF, and now it’s… intolerable.

It’s sad.
> But geothermal power can itself trigger earthquakes

Did not know this and it took me down a rabbit hole, starting at this article from the Scientific American: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561206