skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Net metering is the grid paying retail for produced electricity.

Peak electricity prices are from 4pm to 9pm, so there would be some benefits of using the battery to discharge then versus pushing it back onto the grid earlier times of the day.

https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/california-net-metering-ne...
Arguably you need greater than human intelligence because humans mess this up and crash all the time
Depends how much data you have. Cloud storage can be incredibly expensive if you work with audio and video.
washroom is American but bathroom is Canadian
Speaking about an opposite thing: am I the only one who gets terribly distracted by any hint of human speech in the ambient sounds? In my case, it completely destroys concentration; my mind immediately switches to listening mode, trying to understand the speech and tune in to the conversation.

This is why I only listen to the instrumental music during work, and pain to hear an occasional phrase dropped into a perfectly good IDM / synthwave / electronica track. I wish a "speech-free" tag existed e.g. on Bandcamp; some artists helpfully put annotations on their albums, e.g. Master Boot Record's "100% dehumanized", but apparently most artists and likely listeners do not see the presence of words as a large differentiator.

I know 2-3 of my friends who exhibit a similar effect. I wonder if it's rare, or not so rare but not noticed much.
That’s why there are price gouging laws in place.
It is important to understand that while companies have board seats, so does the project, and the structure is set up such that the project members must agree with decisions.
This is the same Pythia and Llama based models right?

If so, they certainly aren't ChatGPT level in their quality. Impressive, potentially useful, but not ChatGPT.

Still an incredible effort, the RLHF data here might eventually make an Open Source ChatGPT possible, but these models are not that.
FWIW we are actively working on support for Neovim.
$6 soda? That was the price 15 years ago. Now they're at least $10. I've seen popcorn, soda, and candy combos go for over $20 now. You can count on spending $100 to go to the movies with a family of 3 (2 parents and a child), including tickets and one of those combos for each person.
$2M doesn't seem like all that much for a scam running over 12 years with 10 people involved.
https://longnow.org/ideas/warren-buffett-wins-million-dollar...

https://longbets.org/362/
But in a real landing, they wouldn't want to be accurate relative to some GPS goalpost, they need to be accurate to whatever physical reality turns out to be. Reconciling expectations about were the landing location was supposed to be and where sensor input says it is must be of major importance.

That link tells us that the signals are intended to be sent with an accuracy better than 200 cm 95% of the time. Using more frequencies only really helps avoiding errors from bad/misleading reception, so it's hardly relevant in "ideal situations".

Long term stationary receivers can resolve to millimeters, but dropping rockets from orbit isn't exactly a thing that would be considered "stationary" in this context.
TIL there's an annual pass!
This is clickbait. The title is not remotely supported by the content of the tweet.

I agree with Altman here - personally I think it's insulting to get sent a bunch of pointless extra words. Whether they come from chatgpt is irrelevant. Send me the prompt or the bullet points if you want to respect my time. Or write good sentences that convey your ideas clearly.
Yeah, fixed point is different from rational, and all those examples you gave sound to me like fixed point. And that can be implemented efficiently without dedicated hardware support: the denominator is fixed, and you store the numerator as an integer.

A 1/3 off discount on a $10 item is $6.67 (or $6.66 if rounding in the customer's favor), not $10/3.

(Except datetime, did you mean timestamp? A timestamp is an instant in time, and it often makes sense to store it in high precision because you're saying exactly when something happened. A datetime is for communicating between humans who are using some particular calendar; it rarely makes sense to have more than minute precision.)
And everyone's data losing bits on all those ssd's.
I definitely get where you are coming from. I've been known to listen to music in languages I don't know as a bit of a work around for that.
What do steroids feel like?
It's also a perverse incentive for the airport to not improve security times. The less predictable the security experience is, the earlier people have to show up, and the more time they spend getting hungry airside.
Moral, or other panic is apparently a German pastime.

Remember they still censor video games? Or are afraid of Google Street View?
Playing with Discrete Math
A review of existing studies investigating online romance fraud
While spinning rust was destined to lose the majority of the market to flash, I think the hard disk companies accelerated the move with the SMR fiasco. It got me moving more things to SSDs sooner than I had planned.
That definition seems pretty closely related to his.
Why is popcorn "an iconic part of the experience?"

Of course it isn't. You're not going to enjoy a movie more just because you're shovelling puffy sweetened carbs into your face - unless you've been Pavlov'd into it.

Airport food is different, because there's a good chance some of the people who buy it genuinely need to eat.
> passport control failure

What?

Border crossing was easy because britain was part of the EU. Once britain choose to leave the EU, that meant there would necessarily be a necessary full border control. That is a direct consequence of Brexit: crossing between Europe and britain is now no different from any other inter-country border crossing, and the list of presented issues is no different from any other. The only reason it's presented as weird is because all the people who voted for Brexit still persist in their weird belief that britain is special and that leaving the EU would only prevent travel from the EU to britain and not the other way around.
While I wholeheartedly agree, you don't have to sprinkle Lua everywhere, you can use both. As a matter of fact, I do[0]. And when I want to enable a setting on the fly in the editor, I still use the vimscript version. But Lua is way nicer to work with the moment you do something non trivial. For example, I've never been able to make sense out of vimscript string interpolation.

0: https://github.com/RMPR/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/nvim/in...
Who do you think slurped up the package names? It's not going to be random people.
No, this isn't malice. There's plenty of stuff you could legally bring. Fresh fruit is decided not permitted, though--while the odds of a pest coming along are low the consequences can be severe. We don't permit food to come in that might be carrying pests that are not endemic to the US. Australia is more isolated and thus even more strict because there are more things they want to keep out.
The Rust Foundation was created for a few reasons, but among them was to accept control of the trademarks from Mozilla. “The Rust Project” is not a legal entity, and that causes a lot of issues. The Foundation is, and can accept and use resources on behalf of the project.

Furthermore, the Project has significant representation on the Foundation board. The Foundation cannot just do whatever they want, against the project.

This policy was written by several Project members, in conjunction with the Foundation legal. So…
In Germany there is still no consent on where to put the nuclear waste. Without that and no other country willing to take our waste, this is a problem. The process e.g. in Switzerland worked much better. It may actually be the very critical thinking that made it impossible to run nuclear plants in Germany. Further the federal structure and the citizen engagement in many decision making processes makes it complicated. Btw, the same problem actually makes a lot of wind power plans stall..
The ability to levitate in dreams is very useful, because dreams typically are unable to make your legs actually move. Thus, the feeling of walking is not easily fantasized realistically, and immobility of the main character is not something that many the unpaid screenwriter will refuse to take lying down.
>> I feel like our positions are probably both buried in webs of mutually-difficult-to-communicate worldview assumptions, but for what it’s worth, I care more at this point about the models being useful than being meaningful.

The question is how useful they are. With LLMs it seems they can be useful as long as you ask them to do something that a human, or another machine (like a compiler) can verify, like your example of synthesising a program that satisfies your specification and compiles.

Where LLMs will be useless is in taks where we can't verify their output. For example, I don't hear anyone trying to get GPT-4 to decode Linear A. That would be a task of significant scientific value, and one that a human cannot perform -unlike generating text or code, which humans can already do pretty damn well on their own.
yes, poor headline writing is my fault. and it's not addressed in the article, so I think it's you that didn't read it. It's not even remotely addressed in the article
and in fact, the what I posted is an answer to this comment at the end about changing to 64 bits. if he addressed this he would know the answer, and he didn't appear to.

So you chose to just decide I was being "glib" and slander me before understanding the context? Have a weekend. I think you unironically need to touch grass.

I really hate this website sometimes.
They all are. I don’t think there’s been any more off the top of my head.
Not due to lack of intelligence.
That would be too simple. It's owned by Port Authority of NY and NJ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_of_New_York_and...
A 3.4-10B return seems well worth it, that can fund quite a bit of non tax-funded law enforcement.
Now I'm imagining a writing/journaling app that automatically chooses a playlist based on the emotions or concepts detected in the writing.
>FAANG culture is becoming so slow and ineffective that I'm not surprised they are cutting tens of thousands of employees.

In my experience it wasn't the excess employees (everyone seemed to be busy) but that processes in the org didn't match the size and leadership from the top down couldn't see the problem. So no efforts were made to make teams work better together and align their incentives.

A great example was API teams would ship incomplete and untested work as "done" because they were overworked and on an insane timeline. My front-end team tested the APIs for implementation and discovered all the missing parts, and then we had to document all of it and ask the team to fix it. The API team would then push back claiming we were wrong. My devs would have to spend hours on calls with them going over each missing piece and the API devs played dumb every time.

I would have to escalate to my manager and he felt pushing back on the other leads would burn political capital he didn't have. This wasn't just one API team, it was seven. Somehow the culture of the org caused them all to follow the same strategy to push their QA to other teams and delay completion. It was so crazy that they would get defensive saying "we have the best developers in the world, that is not possible."

A true organizational illness.
In a deadly mountain pass, a tiny hotel is a lifeline
I think that's just a typical big company bog that sorta forms at every company. It's a human thing, not a valley thing or anything like that.

I work in a small company, 3 or 4 devs, couple business ops guys, sales guy and head of company.

Even I decide sometimes "naw I'm just making the call on this so it is consistent and works" and don't bring anyone else in on things because it is time to just make a call.

At a big company, I can't imagine the scale of human involvement in every decision... just takes one idiot to gum up the works too.

We're working with one company now who is paying through the nose because we keep having meeting after meeting about the same things over and over and this company has a "meeting terrorist" (my term) who is absolutely determined to bring up the decisions from last meeting to start every meeting and re-debate everything for no reason at all. It's madness.
https://archive.ph/KpQDB
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Light-on-dark is difficult to read for some people with astigmatism.
> I think the measurements don't say anything about the size or how the electron is distributed in the probability distribution

I fully admit i dont understand most of what I hear about particle physics anymore
A lot seems non intuitive with the (dumb) model I have in my head.
(That doesn't say much about tis accuracy)

If you are to make such extremely detailed measurements of anything
you need to be able to observe it over time?
(Though how much time varies a lot)

Presumably, a constantly moving electron whose location cannot established
is a difficult thing measure?
Not in NYC. Central Park should by rights be a cart-and-truck culinary wonderland.
That’s a good reason to execute your unit tests in an ephemeral environment without network access.

All I am saying about the issues raised in the article is that some organizations start from the assumption that engineers will run arbitrary codes on their devices and the rest of their security story follows from that. It is not necessarily irrational. If you think that is crazy, it might be because you don’t understand the base assumptions.
I attribute it to the speed test I server which is picked up - it is not the ISP provided one, so I assume there will be some variation of the measured bandwidth. Manual tests against the ISP provided instance is much closer to 10gbit, but I haven't bothered to automate it yet to graph it.

On other hand, my understanding is that fiber is not immune from congestion problems - the only difference is at what point it happens.
Interestingly I've had the same experience with firefox, I keep it installed as a fallback if something isn't working in chrome but every time I (infrequently) use it I have to dismiss several popups about new features and how to switch to it as my primary browser/import history etc.
It's crazy to me how many people will buy a computer with 250 GB of total storage and then end up with a series of rube-goldberg'd in slow/fragile external hard drives just to get close to the performance of a "normal" computer.

SSD only pre-built commercial computer offerings have set back the average computer's ability to do useful work by 15 years. SSD are just too expensive for most people to use for useful amounts of storage (say, family photos+system backups). And even if it's a pre-built desktop the emergence of SSDs has made it somehow acceptable to sell a 1TB HDD in a modern computer. It's scammy.
How to fundraise for a research non-profit
I work at a small non-profit research organization that is funded mostly by research grants from federal funding agencies (NIH, NSF, etc.), with most of the remainder coming from endowment interest. The org has little experience with non-grant based fundraising. What are the most effective ways to fundraise? I'm familiar with different approaches, ranging from hiring a professional fundraiser and hoping that their efforts will more than repay their salary after a few years, to focusing on more informal/grassroots fundraising efforts. Looking for pointers on the most effective fundraising approaches and also on how much money might realistically be raised in the process.
It's interesting to consider the parallels between the electron's roundness and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation's uniformity. Both seem to defy our expectations of asymmetry, with the electron's shape ruling out new particles and the CMB's uniformity challenging our understanding of the early universe. As we explore these seemingly unrelated phenomena, perhaps there lies a deep, underlying connection that could unite our understanding of the microcosm and the macrocosm, offering a fresh perspective on the laws governing our universe.
The toilet is in the bathroom where I live. Only the local rustics say warshroom.
Yeah, back in the day people only sold intel to the enemy instead. The truly patriotic stance.
A little while ago someone had posted a link on HN which got a lot of comments - https://hacktech.pro/fcc-considering-banning-transfer-of-onl...

Following up on this topic - the FCC comment period for the proposed rules is now open. TLDR: the FCC is seeking public comments on a proposal submitted by the organization named Public Knowledge, which if accepted by the FCC would make consent for telephone solicitations and the use of automated technologies such as auto-dialing and pre-recorded voice messages valid only when the consumer provides such consent directly to the seller of the product or service, and valid only when provided to a single entity at a time.

Specifically, the relevant proposed rule that the FCC is seeking comment on would "ban the practice of obtaining a single consumer consent as grounds for delivering calls and text messages from multiple marketers on subjects beyond the scope of the original consent."

This would largely prevent the sale of consumer information by third-party lead generators, who generate leads through telemarketing and are responsible for the bulk of the robocalls and robotexts that consumers are bombarded with daily.

If you would like to submit a comment, follow these steps:

1. Go to https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express
2. In the "Proceeding(s)" box type 21-402, select the proceeding that appears; in the same box type 02-278, select the proceeding that appears.
3. Fill out the rest of the form
4. Review and submit

Comments are due on or before May 8, 2023 and reply comments are due on or before June 6, 2023.
> Nobody code without a type system.

A small number do. Assembly languages are generally untyped. The Forth language is also untyped.

> At build time you catch bugs that would appear later at runtime. Which is more costly to fix later.

Generally agree. Programmers proficient in Haskell or Ada tend to consider types to be integral to their development process. The real question is whether this is a good tradeoff against development velocity, for your given project. Neither language markets itself for rapid application development, instead they tend to emphasise that the language aids with correctness and the ability to reason about code's behaviour.
At a minimum, a photography contest should only allow photos - the output of a physical camera.

There is a big distance between filters which tweak an existing image and generating an image from nothing.
Easily accessing all your stuff with a zero-trust mesh VPN
Right? Nuclear power is some of the cleanest energy we have. With research developments, strong safety regulations, and a plan for storing the waste it produces, nuclear is a much better option than continuing to rely on fossil fuels.

What poor timing, too. With the war in Ukraine going on, now is not the time to be increasing your independence on fossil fuels, even if temporarily.
I had a Crucial SSD with a silicon bug in ~2013 and haven't chosen them for storage since then. Gave them a lot of money for RAM before that though.
OS needs less than 100GB, though, so mixed drives seems more cost effective.
The bill answers your question if you read it. The fine is on an entity providing TikTok. So that would be Apple, Google, ByteDance. It explicitly states no individuals will be fined.
HDDs are cheap and last a long time. Perfect for redundant configurations.
I find road trips pretty pleasant... don't plan on having to drive too far in one day, and when you aren't in a rush to get somewhere by a certain time, it's pretty relaxing just listening to music, and the general scenery for most of the driving. After a few days, most daily life stress tends to melt away.
Raising taxes on income doesn't work. Workers will just demand higher wages to compensate.

If this logic doesn't work, then there are some unstated assumptions.
You're talking about a specific measurement, not a derived measurement from statistical analysis, though, right? Is there an instrument? If not, we're not talking about precision or accuracy, we're talking about variance about the mean, and the mean is assumed to move towards true.

In that case, the assumption is zero mean error b/c systemic errors average out, so the accuracy is the mean minus true, and the precision is established by the Cramer rao lower bound, and estimated my the posterior variance about the mean. My point is that calling it anything but a statistical certainty (e.g. confidence interval) is just jargon.
To me, this just seems like a publicity stunt by the artist. Looking at the other images in the category [0], at least three of them are heavily edited. I see no reason why editing his image with AI-assisted tools should automatically disqualify the artist, unless the contest terms prohibit that, of which I see no mention in the article.

What's left is an artist who sets up the contest organizers by

• happily accepting the selection of his work on his website a month before the event (without a mention of intending to refuse the prize),

• then literally the night the before the event, publishing an "open letter" about refusing the prize on the website,

• and finally, showing up uninvited on stage to make his speech about refusing the prize.

This is a clever way of increasing his name awareness by riding the AI art controversy wave, for sure.

[0] https://archive.is/pH3Jb
The government bans many things that you aren’t forced to use. Whether or not that’s a good idea is a different question but in practice it’s quite common.
Which bits? I don't have my old notes on hand (I've since switched to less useful and more fun fields), but as I recall the particular structure characteristic of the cortex (really the telencephalon overall) isn't found anywhere else. The gut isn't just sensory stuff, but neither is the eye. There's nontrivial processing done pre-brain in a number of places, but there's no reason to think that cognition is happening elsewhere.

I'm not knocking the gut, and I totally get why some neuroscientists talk about its complexity. I actually did some in depth research on it a while back (my advisor had done some related work and I was considering writing a survey paper), and there's a lot of neat stuff going on. It reminded me a lot of early cybernetics peoples' dreams of future factories run by vats of bacteria or something. If you imagine all the various steps of the digestive process, and the production of various chemicals in carefully controlled amounts, you can see why you'd want some serious hardware. Not to mention that there are a large number of muscles which aren't consciously controlled and need to respond quickly to changing circumstances.
Microsoft is not, and never has been, a consumer company. They’re a business that does things for other businesses. They understand that really well.

MS has had one successful consumer product: the Xbox. That seems to have been given total autonomy. And they have still screwed up a few times (Xbox One launch) by falling into old patterns.

Apple was a user company under Jobs. Is still kind of is (they clearly don’t care about businesses), but not as much, and I’m getting a bit worried.
No… there’s a sign on the door saying you aren’t allowed to bring food or beverages in with you. So you have to pay $9 for a Diet Coke.
If you read the bill it answers all your questions.
I was walking between two planes in the US, one coming from a foreign country and the other leaving for one, without leaving the building. The only way I could have let the banana loose to destroy New York would have been to run outside and huck it over a fence.
Propoganda for childen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Wolke