skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really depends on your usages. The extreme examples are if you have an electric car that you can charge overnight instead of peak hours, or work any shift that's not 9-5 so that you avoid the 6-9pm peak hours.

And of course the whole point is to incentivize changing usages to using less power during peak hours, which it does better than the old plans. There's always going to be a slight inconvenience to get everyone to change habits.
Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” Android malware that exploited 5 0-days
I suspect that part of it is that some huge percentage of Americans are obese, and obesity-related health complications are a driving cost center.

If even 10% of those who get an annual checkup succeed in losing weight when the doctor recommends they do so, it's a win.
In addition, a lot of the lower-end CGA monitors at the time didn't have real great native resolution (i.e. the 'dot pitch'). They would generally be fine for playing games in low res mode, but not that great for doing business work in high res mode.

The better CGA monitors had finer dot pitch, but those were usually more expensive.
Looking around the internet after reading your comment, it looks like people have very different experiences coming off of Adderall. At one point I took a lot of speed for a long time; it took about a week to sleep it off (while eating huge meals) and I was fine. But I have never been able to quit caffeine, the lethargy and discomfort over multiple weeks is just too much for me.

Is the hard part for you overcoming the chemical dependency, or trying to adapt to living with untreated ADHD symptoms? My claim is that people who don't have incapacitating ADHD can get off amphetamines fairly easily (possibly with a taper); it's certainly nothing like trying to quit benzodiazepenes, SSRIs, booze, or cigarettes.
> It's been a surprise hit and now I've had 20,000 chats coming through in one day

> The problem is that I likely can't afford to keep hosting this. It's cost me $50/day for one day

If your traffic continues to increase at a rapid clip, you may want to look into investors for your project. You could still keep it mostly nonprofit if you think it is adding a lot of value for people.
Don't we already have a standard for programs to behave differently depending on whether the output is meant for human consumption or not? e.g ls will not output colors when piped into something. Looks like its the isatty() function?

Beyond that this is a feature that some people want i guess.. I could ask every website to give me a NO_COLOR mode as well, but they don't. Instead you can greyscale at the OS level or the terminal emulator level if you need it.
>That could have been done elsewhere, without the pure suffering caused.

This is certainly wrong because the first bomb wasn't enough for them to surrender. In fact, the general didn't want to surrender at all and commited suicide after the emperor forced them to stop. It isn't clear under what other conditions Japan would surrender. In my view Japan would probably still control Manchukuo today if not for the bomb.

We can debate after the fact whether using a nuclear bomb was correct but the brutal Japanese regime had to be stopped immediately. We don't have the privilege of knowing the future when making difficult decisions.
As a counter-example, I hate that piping to less will generally strip colour unless I tell both less and the command to really output color.
> …explore the potentially far-reaching thicket of social, ethical, moral, legal and regulatory ramifications of the emerging technology.

Oh, hi, dystopia! Nice to meet you.
I think that’s unrealistic. If you want to get rid of the fuel for fires, the best way is prescribed fires. If things get that bad, we’ll just see the regulations around prescribed burns loosened, the way they should be anyways.
How can a “mural” weigh 22 tons?
It's not just the regulatory situation, but the fact that there is not even a diagnostic standard for adult ADHD. Everybody right now is just winging it.
> As I recall, that $9000/MWh cost actually went primarily to power distribution companies,

There was a power company ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griddy ) that offered wholesale spot rates to retail customers. As this was often lower than other retail prices and the customers were intend to be savvy of the demands they were putting on the grid (and turning off things when prices went too high), this lead to some rather large bills.

His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752. - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/20/us/texas-storm-electric-b...

> Many of the people who have reported extremely high charges, including Mr. Willoughby, are customers of Griddy, a small company in Houston that provides electricity at wholesale prices, which can quickly change based on supply and demand.

> The company passes the wholesale price directly to customers, charging an additional $9.99 monthly fee. Much of the time, the rate is considered affordable. But the model can be risky: Last week, foreseeing a huge jump in wholesale prices, the company encouraged all of its customers — about 29,000 people — to switch to another provider when the storm arrived. But many were unable to do so.

> Katrina Tanner, a Griddy customer who lives in Nevada, Texas, said she had been charged $6,200 already this month, more than five times what she paid in all of 2020. She began using Griddy at a friend’s suggestion a couple of years ago and was pleased at the time with how simple it was to sign up.
Related, but are the pictures meant to be sideways/upside down?
Lol. You'll get better results if you stop smelling with your ears
The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
I'm curious. What sort of experience is it then?
Burning houses = affordable empty lot.

> Start by doing real politics not a junta

Because doing that has worked great so far right? You keep ignoring the problem and pretending that billionaires will allow any change to happen and people just need to go and get into politics.
Who is “we”? Intelligence is not defined by the knowledge you have or things your society can do, it’s a capacity for reason and logic and etc.

Maybe get started here and do more research:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence
Sure. I can do that now. The math works out so that I'll break even on the expense in 25 years even when I include government incentives... right about the end of life for the solar cells. If I lived closer to the equator, my break even point would be sooner, but right now for many people it's a huge up-front outlay for zero benefit.
> Octopus, as mollusks, are very far away on the evolutionary tree.

Yes, but for some fast, short, rough guesses, regard intelligence as thinking that yields advantages in surviving in the real world. Then guess that in general intelligence is a source of effective response to the real world. Then, whatever the size of the evolutionary and/or genetic tree, notice that we are all in the same real world. So, all of our examples of intelligence are effective responses to the same real world and, thus, the many examples might have a lot in common.
How do you know weed makes you not dream rather than not remembering you did?
It's a joke, considering the PornHub app just above Twitter...
Usually comes in the form of biographies of young tech workers with an aside about how they logiced their girlfriends into open relationships and then got depressed because they got broken up with. There's at least one of these in the New Yorker.
NYT: https://archive.is/gQjIn
It's not even a lie. It's just not democracy.

The whole point of democracy as it got invented was that the people can directly vote on any government issues. No direct voting on every day do day policy, no democracy. Simple as that.

"It would not be possible in practice" is the actual lie. We have since many years the tech to make it possible to vote on everything by everybody.

I'm not saying that everything would be perfect if people could decide about their fate in an actually democratic way. The majority is dumb on average. That's a sad truth. But I'm not sure it would be really worse than what living in our current lie is. Given some fundamental rules (like human rights), which couldn't be overruled easy by simple majority voting, such a system could work, imho.

The "only" question is how a society could arrive at a true democracy. Given for example into what the french revolution culminated I have no high hopes that creating a bigger democratic society is even possible.
Oh, I used this and the performance and deduplication surprised me greatly in ReFS. I was using it as a place to store backups of my systems. The on disk vs the file size was so great that I had to rethink my offsite storage solutions. There was a recent article on here from a researcher at Microsoft on file size and deduplication.
During SLAC’s construction, excavators uncovered a fossil of a very large 25 million year old hippo relative. I got to go on a tour of SLAC with my girl scout troop, and we saw the long corridor and lots of shiny metal things with tubes sticking out of them, but the one thing that really stuck with me was seeing that fossil skeleton.

https://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/paleo.shtml
It's just an example, not a production use case.
I get very attached to my home. If Banksy painted on mine, I suppose I would be initially elated, but:

- I wouldn't want to live there anymore with it up

- I wouldn't want to paint over it, because it would feel wrong to do so to me for reasons I can't explain

- I wouldn't want to cover it up also because I wouldn't want to deal with stress and controversy over such

- I wouldn't want to move, because of how attached I get to my home

Comments like "why don't they just move" seem to miss the point that it really is quite rude to swoop in overnight and do something to someone's house that will make them
want to move, even if the sale price goes up because of it.
Honestly, partly just for the challenge of it. But more importantly I don't like the approach we have taken to prioritize convenience above all else and centralisation rather than independence.

For example, I don't like how big a role oil plays in my life and I would like to be less dependant on it day to day. I'm also trying to grow and raise more of my own food so I'm less dependant on industrial farming and meat production.

Living in a tiny house is a tradeoff that makes it possible to even consider going of grid. I can't imagine trying to design a sustainable off grid power system to great and cool a 3,500 sq.ft. house, designing for 350 sq.ft. is already daunting enough.
What is the reason for the wait times, though? If it's availability of doctors, I don't see how paying for private insurance magically makes doctors less busy and able to see you. And if that does work, then it just means that the mostly-unavailable doctors are prioritizing people who can pay them more, which isn't exactly a great outcome either. Or am I missing something?
I've been wondering how to create a ChatGPT-powered app and not have to spend a fortune on operating it. Use a cheaper model? Limit the input/output length? Train a custom model?
I'm thousands of dollars into their ecosystem and am looking for the off ramp and will switch if there ever is a viable competitor. Their mobile apps were never great but seem particularly bad lately.

My initial setup in 2019 was awful and involved eventually moving my sound bar to a different room to plug into my router directly. Then I discovered that true play, one of their selling features, was an iOS only feature and Android users were just screwed. Luckily, I had an iPad, only to discover they had also disabled the ability on there too and my only course of action was to have a friend come over and use their phone. In 2022 when I was setting up my sub, I found this still to be the case.

Once it was all setup however it worked amazingly well. Speaker in the bedroom, in the bathroom, and the living room. All sounded amazing and moving sound around in sync was so good.

But it seems like the software just keeps further diving into crap. After changing routers (and going through the hell of setting them up again) and adding a couple more speakers it just seems like a fifty percent chance if the app will show my speakers with a little wrench next to them and not play from my phone. My sub currently has a long ugly Ethernet cable going to my router and it seemed to not have helped at all. The latest forced update this week, showed me no speakers for a day.

I currently have a Bluetooth speaker on top of my Sonos speaker in the bathroom because it's just a waste of time in the morning to want to listen to the news or music and the speaker not show up or constantly time out.

I'm also tired of having my app choice for podcasts, ebooks, and music completely dictated by whether they have the resources to do a specific integration into Sonos. There's a lot of good open source apps out there for Android, where the authors just don't want to do an implementation because they don't own the speakers and it's actually a pain in the ass to integrate.

I've read about esphome and home assistant custom speakers to recreate a Sonos experience, but I'd just like to switch to a competitor if there is a viable alternative.
They could just let it go. Is it that hard?
https://www.bostonsolar.us/solar-blog-resource-center/blog/h...

> Many of our customers in Massachusetts want to know exactly how changes in heat can affect solar panel performance. Solar panels are generally tested at about 77°F and are rated to perform at peak efficiency between 59°F and 95°F. However, solar panels may get as hot as 149°F during the summer. When the surface temperature of your solar panels gets this high, solar panel efficiency can decline somewhat.

> ...

> For example, the temperature coefficient of LG NeON® 2 solar panels is -0.38% per one degree Celsius. This means that for every one degree Celsius above 25°C, the maximum efficiency of an LG NeON® 2 solar panel will decrease by 0.38%. Conversely, for every one degree Celsius below 25°C, the maximum efficiency of that solar panel will increase by 0.38%. (Yes — cooler, sunny weather is best for your solar panels and can help offset any decreased efficiency in the summer.)

---

https://greentumble.com/effect-of-temperature-on-solar-panel...

> According to the manufacture standards, 25 °C or 77 °F temperature indicates the peak of the optimum temperature range of photovoltaic solar panels. It is when solar photovoltaic cells are able to absorb sunlight with maximum efficiency and when we can expect them to perform the best.

> ...

> For example, if your solar panels have a coefficient of minus 0.4 percent, their output on hot days will drop nearly twice that much compared to the output of a panel with a coefficient of only minus 0.2 percent per one degree Celsius.

> White or light-colored roofing also helps to lower the temperature around your panels, since these colors reflect sunlight more and do not get heated up like dark roofing.

> While above mentioned points involve passive cooling methods, some people opt even for active cooling systems.

---

Extreme heat days, while they tend to be sunny often have poorer performance for solar while the demand for power (AC) goes up.
It's painted on bricks
We're on Hacker News... find someone else to spend a fortune funding it for you.
You make a good point. IIRC, the USA has a far higher rate of unnecessary MRIs "just to be sure"/to minimise liability.
Sell it under the condition that the buyer pays for the removal costs.

If nobody wants it, let it go and paint it over.
You could charge for heavy use. At that many users and only $50/day you might be able to cover costs with premium users.

Alternatively you could try swapping out an open source model like llama on the back end (possible licensing issues here).

Another option would be to seek out ads for local companies directly since it is an explicitly local product. Cold calling would probably be the best place to start. You could also pay attention to who is paying for billboards in your area and try contacting them.
In the USA the law about unions have neutered them enough that what you say is true, but in Europe where they have sector level unions and sympathy strikes, unions give people material power over their conditions
Yet, given enough demand, and a explicit recommending nod from the spec, these will comply. It's not really as big as problem as everyone seems to think. And it's literally the same amount of work of adding a new verb.
Maybe they just intended to live in it and didn't want to be uprooted? This comes up with US eminent domain from time to time.
Water is infrared opaque for the most part!
I found the first part with all the meetings and philosophical debates on earth to be boring and hard to
follow too, but if you stop there you’re missing out on the payoff of all that exposition. It really picks up once he gets to the space station.

But I found the opening shot of the plants in the stream to be revelatory, a tiny bit of film making that changed the way I viewed life.
For comparing current results to historical to look for anomalous changes.
The SR-71 Blackbird: The Fastest Plane Ever to Fly
New features and fixes in Python 3.12
Realistically, that movie is not going to be on Netflix any time in the next decade
I would sell the house and move to place bereft of vandals.
"Everything had to be invented. Everything."
The conversation isn't about ChatGPT. It is about a possible future thing. Also, whether it is "alive" is irrelevant to p(doom).
The study https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26719/w267...
Clojure programmers – is it still relevant?
I've been meaning to improve my functional programming skills, and was looking at making some microservices using Pedestal. Is it still a relevant skill, that's valued across organisations?
Contact local businesses and sell ads injected into your prompt
They’re not wrong though, they just left out that it’s two way street and just because you feel something doesn’t mean you aren’t responsible for your actions.

The feeling is valid, but the action could be inappropriate or damaging and that’s not okay.

“I feel Z so you need to stop X or do Y for me” is not okay.
Having kids has shown me how much of medicine is about incentive alignment, rather than doing no harm. Every time one of my kids gets an ear infection, pinkeye, or a sore throat, my daycare requires a doctor’s note and antibiotics to be given before they are allowed back in daycare. The urgent care doctors always prescribe antibiotics, even though the most likely cause is viral and most bacterial infections resolve within 3-5 days with or without antibiotics. I had one case where the strep test was negative, and the doctor still prescribed antibiotics because it could be a false negative. And my kids are allowed back in daycare after 0-24 hours depending on the diagnosis, even though the medicine takes 3-5 days to work.

I was shocked to go through this the first time, after reading so much about the over-prescription of antibiotics. But doctors would rather write a prescription than explain the evidence to stressed parents and daycare providers. And daycares all copy each others’ policies, because nobody wants to admit that kids are just contagious snot-monsters and medicine can’t really help.

It’s pure theatre, at the expense of kids’ health (antibiotics do a number on the digestive system) and leads to antibiotic-resistant strains. But at least nobody ever had to stop and have a difficult conversation.
> There isn't a value proposition for databases, because a value proposition is a business statement. If there were a business statement for databases, it would be a management interface for data.

This is just bunch of vacuous statements. Are you suggesting this product exists not to serve a business prop or value ?

> Nobody cares if a database is fast

Businesses do. There’s a reason people don’t attempt to build their own database.

Every serious database meant for production use takes performance into consideration. People would just roll their own database otherwise, but we pile into Postgres, or even MongoDb, because they’re battletested and has had years of optimizations. More than half of the work in database implementations is in engine and query optimization.

> they care if they can get their data in and out easier.

Then just store and read flat files from disk.

Strange to use a throwaway to make this comment. It seems like you are the author justifying a product that does need to exist.
The only way what your saying is true is if we could create people with zero links to their parents DNA or create completely rewrite all DNA so it's novel (we can't).

This doesn't mean you own your children or anything like that, no one is suggesting their not independent, but you do go on living through your children in one way or another.
At some point in one's career you hit a point where you say what you want to say. Preferably it isn't bullshit, but if you believe in it, go for it.
To add to that, OP should really be tracking usage a bit to see if there are abusers taking up a large amount of queries
My favourite dumb about colour application is Terraform. So many logs from GH Actions have useless ANSI escape sequences in them.
Imagine how many brad pitt babies
Find the most popular queries, built content pages around it and add ads there

And you could try some alternatives to AdSense like:

Ezoic, MediaVine, or Adthrive
Are you asking if Clojure is relevant or use of micro services?
Packetisation of energy is an idea that's been bubbling away in my mind for a number of years, and I'm convinced that is the way of the future. It revolutionised data and in my opinion will (eventually) revolutionise energy, heralding a global "Internet for energy".

Imagine if sources could verify the link before sending each energy packet: no more electrocutions, electrical fires or damaged equipment. Imagine if in a domestic situation each energy packet was below the threshold that could damage a person? Electrical installations could become inherently safe, also meaning no need for specialist installers.

I get your point about universal time, EM waves and relativity. It doesn't stop data networks though, as packets include synchronisation, effectively establishing a local time for each link.

It's fascinating thinking about the analogies between data networks and power networks. What would synchronisation look like for an energy packet? What would a buffer look like, in case packets have to be multiplexed? What are the implications of being unable to copy energy packets? What is an energy packet? So many interesting questions.
> People could even potentially steal the DNA of celebrities from, for example, a clipping of their hair to make babies, he says. "One law we definitely need is to make sure people can't become genetic parents without their knowledge or consent," says Greely.

A new type of blackmail: (1) get some trace DNA from a rich person, (2) use it to create a baby, and (3) threaten to harm that baby if the rich person does not give you money.

Or skip step 2 and threaten to make the baby if they do not give you money.

Or skip step 1 & 2, merely pretend that a baby is related to the rich person, and go straight to step 3.
Request Bodies in GET Requests
Maybe sell the art as an NFT and then remove it, or even better, sell an NFT for the act of removal of the mural, like the shredding painting thing.
(Partly /s)
In the UK the direction is inverted - Northern accents tend to be discriminated against, some people opt to try to maintain southern counties or city accents.

https://www.theguardian.com/careers/accent-hinder-job-prospe...

(Was David Tennant's Doctor Who an example of this bias? ; )

I'd guess there's a lot more variation in British accents, despite being such a tiny landmass.

Here in Australia I struggle to pick regional accents - sure, there's a lot fewer of us, but the geographical spread is much larger, and I'd presumed that would be a stronger factor for dialect drift.