skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in another Bay Area city that recently imposed a ban on natural gas for all new construction, whether residential or commercial. In addition, the ban forces existing homeowners to install all electric appliances if the cumulative cost of remodels in a 3-year window is over $250,000.

I find this idea absolutely bonkers when our electric infrastructure is terrible. The aerial power lines are subject to trees or large branches falling over and causing large power outages. Just this winter we had 4 major power outages, lasting from few hours to multiple days. Not only my city, the whole Silicon Valley had no power! The place supposedly having the brightest minds, trillion dollar companies, and the most advanced technology in the world! Not only we didn't have electricity, we had no Internet and cellular phones either. Absolutely insane!

Yeah, I do have solar power and battery backup, but during the winter relying on them does not always work. Luckily I had enough solar and battery generated electricity to power my natural gas furnace so I can have my house heated. The fan on the furnace uses 700W when pushing air, far less than electric heaters that would kill my Tesla batteries in a few short hours.

Why would anyone rely on a single source of energy, especially one that's so unreliable? Until we fix the electric grid, we shouldn't force everybody to switch to it.
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SpaceX would still never let it happen due to liability issues.
It's available now - I've just updated the copy. Thanks for the reminder.
Because my country suddenly (ok, gradually) turned murder-crazy, and half of my friends emigrated and will never be able to return, and the other half escaped war and destruction and atrocities, and the other half is still there and defending their country from the crazy murderous idiots of my former country?

Something like that.
Well, yes. Sweden is one of few countries developing and building their own jets and submarines, aside from the usual tanks.
Iirc not a single sector, but you could built impossible spaces like that using multiple sectors with the restriction that overlapping sectors must not be visible at the same time. Otherwise you would get rendering glitches.

In addition to that, there’s also teleports used for elevators or water. They move you around then using/jumping in. Multiple elevator transports can move you in impossible ways like getting into an elevator, driving down, only to arrive at other side of the same floor.

So I agree. Might work for some maps, but not in general.
Induction is 10x better. Just got a portable unit for the hell of it and I never want to use anything but
Maybe they're arrogant, they're so convinced that they're at the center of the universe that they forget that they preside over a town of 100k in a world where billions of people are coming out of poverty and wanting increased standards of life. Above everything they're so arrogant that they failed as politicians: they misjudged how much clout they have in their own town of 100k.
CRDB is almost a drop-in replacement at this point. I personally found it easier to run locally than postgres.
Heh.

I live in a city and more and more I feel this.

The whole idea behind urbanism seems to be - give up the outdoors, give up hobbies that require tools and space.

Go to the bar. Or a "makerspace" where you can have controlled use of someone else's tools. Rent this, rent that, take an uber here and there.

It's just so commercialised.
If we're so interested in eugenics why are we breeding from people whose eyes don't work? /s

Also those baby names when they really do look like people who will complain about non-traditional-eurocentric names.

Honestly reading this was giving me "great replacement" vibes :-/
> I have been in software and IT for my whole career and I absolutely hate computers now. I want nothing to do with them when I retire, and I'm going to deliberately structure my life accordingly.

Same here, whole career, tho retired now. I found that there was a "natural level" of computer time. In periods of my life when I was not tied to a computer at the office, I enjoyed computer time at home for games and projects.

But when I was working at a computer all day, I avoided computer games and hobbyist hacking like the plague.
there are great solutions like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_ID if you give up randomness
Electric kettles in the US are so much more frustrating to use than UK given the electric standard differences. I never knew I’d miss fast booking so much but have yet to pull the trigger on something like a zojirushi boiler to use throughout the day.
I think the key to managing statist left wing busybody governments is distraction. We need to get more stupid things on their radar, since they've already tackled the scourges of plastic straws, big sodas, and food deserts.

How about a fourth kind of garbage bin? Maybe a purple one for waste that has bad vibes. Bad vibes are the third leading cause of harshed mellows in the US.
How so?

Particularly since we’ve been in a climate emergency for a few years now. In fact I think Berkeley was one of the first cities to declare one. How is electrifying households a disaster but emitting more green house gasses isn’t?
ycombinator.com is down too
me: what is the tenth word in the following sentence: "Life is great!"

gpt: The tenth word in the given sentence is "great!"

me: Try harder

gpt: I apologize for the confusion. The sentence "Life is great!" contains only three words. There is no tenth word in the provided sentence.
Throughout my life this has mostly been my friend groups. It's really only sustainable with at most 6 people max or something like that.

I think this is more inline with the way humans have evolved as we evolved in small local tribes (Not of 6 people, but in modern times it's hard to keep anything more than 6 from breaking up).

This started out as several different friend groups when I grew up. Those evolved as time passed and then in college in the dorms we formed groups based off of proximity. Then after college I befriended a san francisco local and he introduced me to his childhood friend group he grew up with and I hung out with them for a number of years before leaving.

After that it's been hard to find another group. I have found that proximity when eating is the best most consistent way to form friendships. If you always eat lunch or dinner consistently and often with the same set of people you guys will end up forming a bond. Even with your co-workers. If you want it outside of work I have found communal living spaces where there's a shared table for eating helps promote this. Very hard to do this when you get married.

Also note that when the proximity ends, the connection tends to drift as well. You will find that this is not only consistent with friends but family as well.
A lot of circuitry? I would have thought a handful of (integrated) transistors could make it happen.
So there is no censoring in this? But does it work with the whole text corpus that openai‘s models work with?
Y Combinator Outage
Anyone else experiencing ycombinator.com outage?
Modern AI Stacks: Understanding the Layers and Value Capture Opportunities
What I've wanted before is an easy in-memory NodeJS (typescript) cache that multiple processes can share. Like, we deploy on AWS EC2s with multiple vCPUs; I don't want a separate in-memory cache for each of them, but I also don't want the latency of Redis.
I wouldn’t consider REST API tech to be very trendy, it’s kind of old wave and I would expect a good story for it.
At first the page wasn't loading, but now:

> We are currently offline for maintenance
The BJP expelled Nupur Sharma from her position as the national spokesperson of the BJP because of the incendiary comments she chose to make on live television. Mohammad Zubair made a compilation of her comments and did not change any of her words.

As the former Supreme Court judge Deepak Gupta said, one of the problems in this case is that the journalist Mohammad Zubair was jailed for "hurting religious sentiments" because he tweeted a screenshot of a 1983 Hindi comedy film, while the politician Nupur Sharma was not jailed despite her incendiary comments "hurting religious sentiments" on live television.

> “If she [Sharma] could say that…which had a much bigger propensity to incite violence… but she is not arrested, Zubair is...Then some questions do arise on the fairness of the police,” Gupta said, in an interview to Live Law.

Additionally, the fact that there is even a law that allows the government to imprison people for making comments perceived to be "hurting religious sentiments" is a serious violation of freedom of speech.

https://scroll.in/latest/1027652/questions-arise-when-police...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/28/who-is-mohammed-zub...

There are plenty of articles from Western media that describe Atiq Amhed as a mobster, so your accusations are groundless. Examples:

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/atiq-ahmed-k...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65291781

As a former MP, Ahmed was obviously also a politician and there are plenty of articles from Indian media describing him as a politician. Someone can be both a politician and a mobster at the same time.
A lesson I wish I'd learned sooner is to always reach out to people whenever you think about them. I used to worry I'd just be annoying, but I think it's a critical part of staying connected with people. And if they find it annoying then there probably wasn't much of a friendship anyway.

It can feel sad to always have to be the one initiating communication though. And to always feel like you have to hold back because you're being too much.
If you have an adequately sized ranged for your stove then it'll suck up whatever noxious gases are emitted and not burned. It's also not that difficult to test on your own.

Additionally, the main impacts on climate change from natural gas don't come from peoples homes or lateral lines, which is what a lot of these bans are based on. [1] [2]

1: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/natural-gas-...

2: https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/flow/CO2-sp...
Ask HN: HTML and icon for AI generated content?
I've been making some art content and articles using various AI tools since last summer but I never know what preamble to put on the stuff and so I just say something like generated with whatever.

Does anybody know if there's a font awesome icon or HTML tags or legal guidance from creative commons that can be used as a canonical placeholder for publishing art or generated code or articles using AI. I could find stuff like this:

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/263291-on-the-ethics-of-writing-with-ais/fulltext

https://hbr.org/2023/04/generative-ai-has-an-intellectual-property-problem

https://medium.com/@kevin.menear/structured-data-markup-for-ai-generated-content-73b539e92525

But nothing suggesting a style handling disclosure of the AI generation, a tag, an icon, legal marking or anything authoritative that targets both human and computer consumption (crawling, etc.). I'd prefer something easy-to-copy in text or HTML or the like.

Any ideas?

Thanks!
That’s why I think problem solving is better done by the 70 years of work on exceptional problem solving engines. Other than language LLMs also have amazing ability to synthesize semantics and generalize concepts, and restructuring into multiple types of output and receiving multiple types of input. LLMs are remarkable at many things, but not everything. It just happens I believe they’re remarkable at precisely the things our remarkable AI inventions of the past are not. The synthesis of the ensemble of reasoning work done over the last near century will yield a lot of the unrealized benefits of that work to now.
I have heard this but my caveman brain has an unreasonable desire to see the fire in action.
That being said, the advent of USB made "Life with Printers" a lot more survivable. Parallel and (especially!) serial ports were straight from hell.
> The processor is replacing the SPARC64 V as Fujitsu's processor for supercomputer applications.

Now, this is sad.
Probably not, but we're talking about moderate climate (you couldn't pay me enough to move to Alaska).

And of course I'm talking about a modern heat pump, not direct electric heating.

,,Heat pumps are generally more efficient than gas furnaces, but their efficiency may be affected by colder temperatures'' - Google search
Drake Song by ‘Ghostwriter’ Has Millions of Listens
Your Lazarus example saddens me. Perhaps it has matured to the point of being awesome. Unfortunately, it seems to have happened too late and so few of us will ever experience it at this point.

I hope that ReactOS can get there while it still matters. Evidence suggest otherwise but I also hope.
> Electricity is several times more expensive than gas per unit of energy in CA

Fossil fuel usage is vastly more expensive when the externalities are accounted for. This is like saying it's more financially responsible to just put everything on credit cards and ignore the ever-growing balance statements.
The largest cartels operate their own cell networks and have dedicated proprietary technology and netsec divisions.
Why pay $2 for a key which is still illegal to use? Just download a precracked version.
>My favorite pet theory about Microsoft is that no one that works there actually uses any of their products and are just on Macs lol

There have been multiple comments on HN from Microsofters (Microsoftarians?) about how the Windows UI/Design team uses Macs exclusively, which explains a lot. I believe the Visual Studio team is still dogfooding, but can't believe that about anyone else, given how actively user hostile the OS has been.
I've tried it, I remember it being more akin to cleverbot than GPT. One thing I love about GPT - context recognition - seems somewhat broken, having model reply with random nonsense unrelated to my prompt each time.

I really hope it manages to catch up eventually. In terms of privacy, a local LLM is lightyears ahead of a SaaSS LLM controlled by Microsoft.
A tool the aforementioned aspiring dictators often wield, often in the context of a town hall, far exaggerating the effects of something they don't like. At the very least let's do a CEQA study first, ok?
Perhaps so, but again, both elected officials that preside over the state of California, and elected official that preside over the country of USA have repeatedly failed to act. And the climate emergency keeps getting more and more desperate.

This is the only power they have, and apparently the court has ruled they don’t even hold that power. You call it arrogance. I call a weak attempt while the system at large fails everybody, in other words, desperate is still my leading theory.
If we can't reliably deliver electricity why should I trust the ability to reliably deliver electricity _and_ natural gas? Many gas appliances still require electricity to operate anyway.
That's interesting, I for one had no idea.

Does anyone have an explanation for the e and t, though? I don't see any of either of those letters in it. Maybe a tiny bit of e, but surely no t....
I'm looking for alternatives. What's out there for my two common use cases?

- Car navigation through Carplay that includes traffic data.

- Finding businesses i.e. restaurants, shops, services quickly.

I'm not loving GMaps lately buy tbh it does work as expected in those scenarios.
His hypoxia video was terrifying.

https://youtu.be/kUfF2MTnqAw?t=180
Barely grasping but something to do with https://github.com/marqo-ai/marqo, which has come heavily recommended in some other threads.

> marqo: tensor search for humans
I mean, not to a meaningful degree, but it seems like reducing the use of natural gas is a reasonable thing to seek to do.
Except that banning natural gas makes things worse, not better.

At least for now, while natural gas is still being burned to make electricity.

If they actually cared about climate change they would focus on production. For example nuclear power.
Not only maps.. look up when Google introduced a working product for the last time. After around 2009 they haven’t actually done anything except launch failing products, or make their already existing products shittier.
To be fair, the gas infrastructure is dated and aging up against its lifespan.
Agreed. But there is a cost to having lots of friends in the sense that those friendships tend to be superficial.... Very superficial. But that's the point. Having Superficial relationships with a larger group is just as important as having strong relationships with a few people. Most people don't realize this.
If nothing matters then why are you still here? And if our species doesn’t matter why should it matter that other species might thrive without us? Are they more valuable than humans?
Natural gas is underground and virtually never has an outage.

A stove needs no power to run - you can light it with a match. And those appliances that need some electricity to help the natural gas can run off of a battery, or a tiny generator.
Shannon Switching Game
Canada's public broadcaster pauses Twitter after 'government-funded media' label
I'm not being "passive-aggressively" anything. I asked a simple question. You're the one who started some firmware/software semantics argument instead of actually answering what I asked. I didn't assert anything either, other than that firmware is software. I continue to assert that now.

If you think I'm trolling, then simply don't reply. I've learned plenty from the other posts. I'd rather not create hardship for dang by continuing this thread.
> ‘I encourage people who are responsible and smart and conscientious to have children, because they’re going to make the future better’

Sounds ideal, but one paragraph later;

> Easily the most famous person to espouse pronatalist ideas is Elon Musk.

Hahahaha!

I'm going to start a "school for children of giant entitled wankers who think they're saving civilization"...
Open-source firmware wouldn't exactly be the same thing as public domain firmware. And even if a product's firmware isn't getting the benefit of copyright protection, the product as a whole can still be protected by patents and trademarks.
Much better than last year, which is what I had been hoping for. There's still a ways to go, but it seems the worst is behind me, finally. It was a long and dark period with extremely crippling anxiety. Ironically, what helped most was to stop trying so hard to get better, but not letting myself go either. A very tricky balance to achieve that mainly hinges on your ability to talk to yourself in a kind, encouraging way. As someone who has an avid aversion to advice that seems to be superficial feel-good fluff I rejected the "be kind to yourself" concept for a while. Which, I realize, was my inner bully hijacking my logical brain making me believe I was doing something "right" by being cynical and unforgiving with myself.
No it's not, especially if you replace natural gas with burning coal for electricity.

Until the last coal plant shuts down, it makes zero sense to ban natural gas.
Frigging pissed that house prices in suburbs around my Atlantic city are already basically full rebounded to the off the wall insane batshit prices they peaked at. Fuck this no families will ever be able to sustain this shit. This is ruin.
>It's because it's another conspiracy theory unsupported by evidence.

I'm having a hard time keeping up with it all, it's nuts. But my understanding is that the NSA backdooring protocols is totally supported by evidence? We saw it in the Snowden revelations? RSA being the company nobody will ever trust again?

Is that all wrong somehow?
SD Memory Card Formatter for Linux
18 months ago I whined to their devs it'd be nice to have a version of their SD formatter for Linux, et voilà!, 18 months later, BOOM! - Awesome!! ... I"m not sure if my petulant whining and life-draining email verbosity provided the underlying motivation to their acquiescence, but until I'm provided contrary proof I'll assume it's so ;o)
There's News, and then there's the cesspool of filth that is NineMSN.
Wikipedia has some interesting discussion on that point: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
> What companies have been trying to get us to accept for ages now is making consumers scan items using their personal devices to get a price that will be tailored to them individually based on their income level, their purchase history, their personal/political views, their "customer loyalty", etc.

Bringing the complexity and obscurity of internet pricing tricks all the way down to the shelves at the corner shop.
Not to mention the huge amount of air pollution created from burning gas indoors.
In this example the context is the images provided via URLs. For example, the search for backpacks is contextualised by a picture of a forest which updates the results to be hiking/outdoors backpacks.
Bit like crab people

Plane people,
Plane people,
Fly like plane!
Lie like people!
This is failure of law and order. What bothered me is how liberal media portrayed these individuals.

The primary identity of individuals killed is undertrials (as you rightly mentioned) or murderers or criminals, and not lawmakers or MPs as portrayed by these headlines.

1) https://www.reuters.com/world/india/former-indian-lawmaker-s...

2) https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/apr/16/former-i...

3) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-65290042.amp
Interesting that a small unincorporated east Texas community is purchasing major art works:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomlinson_Hill,_Texas>

I suspect the purchaser was actually James Tomilson "Tom" Hill III:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Tomilson_Hill#External_link...>
I loved Windows 2000 and liked XP but 64 MB is not a lot. 2000 probably ran on that but did XP really?

I seem to remember XP using about 120 MB on start-up. That is nothing these days but I cannot imagine trying to run it in 64 MB.

Google tells me that the minimum spec for XP is indeed 64 MB though with 128 MB “recommended”. Back then, recommended was really a lot closer to the minimum in practice ( if you wanted to do more than just look at it.
Diminishing returns are currently seen in "transformer scaling laws."

"OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35603756 (shared 3 dags after this post)

Let's see what the future holds.
Go to Personalization / Taskbar. Turn off the widgets icon. Hide the Search bar. Turn off the Chat icon.

Voila! Just Windows. Instead of cursing at the sky, I just turn off what I don't want.

MacOS is an old, outdated clown car of an OS that looks like it hasn't been updated in 15 years. Let me know when the Year of Linux happens.

Meanwhile, Windows is the most efficient, easy-to-use OS for development and media tasks. WSL is amazing. Hyper-V is fast if I need it. And it all Just Works.
My favorite perverse incentive lately is the trend of only allowing larger bags in the overhead bans. If you try to put a smaller item like a backpack up there, they will insist that you put it under the seat in front of you instead.

The workaround is obvious: always travel with a larger bag, even if it's mostly empty.
Drivers with a stable API that don't break with each new minor version.
I'm on an iPhone now to escape El Goog, so I have Apple Maps, which has a reasonably excellent privacy policy. But a third party I'd highly recommend is HERE Maps. Quality can be a bit more regionally variable but it was very good for me. A bunch of car manufacturers use them.
"Mom, I want a GPT”

"We already have GPT at home”

GPT at home…
You'd hope so, but unless people put their evidence in public, it could simply be a tool to manipulate the public's expectations or competitors behavior.

I'll get downvoted for this, apples previous CEO was consistently inaccurate about company innovation and performance numbers.
Spoiler: don’t forget the lenses from their German partner Zeiss, or their machines wouldn’t nearly be so effective ;)