skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah reads like something HR puts out as required reading when they know they've been running everyone too hard.
In California, power companies are trying hard to disincentivize solar. The worst time for the grid is when the sun starts going down but people are still running AC/laundry/dishwashers. Solar setups just generate power at the times when it's least needed, and utilities haven't built up enough battery capacity to take advantage of it for later.

Another thing we saw with some utilities is that they had to raise rates during the drought to cover their costs. People were so good at reducing their water consumption that the utilities were having trouble covering their large fixed costs. It'll be interesting to see how things go once California implements the income-based fixed electric billing in the next few years.
Sprawl is also a technology for balancing public order and civil rights.

I don’t think there’s any way to square the circle of cities being nice places for middle class families to live while also having a right to camp on the sidewalk and urinate on the train.
In my area of the woods, prices are increasing because the boomer retirement is causing lots of skilled labor to leave the workforce.
Huh, ok then, I guess inflation has nothing to do with the fact that they are printing currency nonstop. I guess things just randomly increase in price. Thank you IMF, very informative, I'll promise I'll even forget you have a printer.
Damn. My memory fails me again!
So let's treat this like the environmental emergency it is and put some real resources and effort behind it. Growing up I was told we were the best at building things when we really want to.

We can "force the timeline" on the machinery and infrastructure that we control, or nature will force the timeline on the environmental factors we can't control. All the extreme weather is showing the latter is already happening.
Databricks' core value proposition is Apache Spark in the cloud, optimized with their special sauce (eg Proton engine).

Running your own Spark, especially on prem, is a lot of work. Most companies would prefer to just provide their data and let someone else handle the query engine.

The parent is right however that Databricks has a feature store (tokenization) but it's not simple to set up and just getting content in and out of it is a major pain point right now.
> Companies can't arbitrarily raise prices

The article suggests this is false
But that number means nothing because it's not even close to the magnitude of energy we can begin to capture.
Remember what we're trying to explain here: two distinct step-ups in pedestrian fatalities occurring in just one country. Any proposed explanation needs to address both 1) why it happened when it did; and 2) why it happened in only that one country.

Cars are getting bigger everywhere and have been for decades, so that fails both tests. COVID only happened in 2020 and it happened everywhere, so that fails both tests. Smart phones were introduced in 2007 and they're available everywhere, so that fails both tests.

But "U.S. police departments drastically reduced both the number of traffic stops performed and the total number of citations issued starting just after the Ferguson Report in 2015" is practically slapping you in the face.

As I said, it's not dispositive, but I can't see any reason to reject it (that's not political in nature).
For my use case, Zigbee was vastly preferable to WiFi (or BLE). IP stacks are complex, buggy, and require a lot of configuration -- even moreso if you add encryption into the mix. Zigbee was the simplest tool for the job.

Some of the newer ESP32 boards do support Zigbee but I don't think they were available yet when I started my project. Might be worth looking into ESP32-C6 now.

As others have mentioned, power consumption is also a consideration. My battery powered devices consume about 25uA and should theoretically last 5+ years on two lithium AAA cells.
And the EU is an extremely heavily regulated market, with almost no real innovation, just check how many startup unicorns there are vs any other part of the world.
Why do you need to get pulled over for this? In Europe you will just get a letter with your fine.
Again, political realities don’t allow for nuclear in the US. The best that could get accomplished is that we start regulating how much pollution you spit out like in the above referenced “Good Neighbor” plan because all but the craziest libertarian types at least begrudgingly acknowledge that you shouldn’t be able to throw trash on someone else’s lawn
> 2. If work is your support system, your life exists on shaky ground

This is why I despise it when the likes of Jack Ma, Elon Musk, et al try to promote a culture in which staying at work till 9pm or later and coming in on weekends is normalized, and tell everyone in their 20s that that's the only right way to live. It's horrible advice and incredibly short-sighted.

Then you have the likes of TikTok who have meetings late into almost every evening and blame it on the time zone difference between USA and China, when they could have planned better, drawn lines, and have more reasonably-planned meeting times that fit both time zones. Employees in their 20s who don't know better just drink this Kool-aid and get burned out.

Those people will never have time to make real friends outside of work, date healthily, or otherwise find a real support system that can emotionally support them without a conflict of interest with the workplace.

The way you find that healthy support system is precisely by having evenings and weekends to yourself so you can go to venues where you can meet people outside of work.
A desert fungus that infects humans is spreading [video]
The UK government has done this various times in the last couple of years to argue against (high) pay rises for the National Health Service and other government institutions.

One of the more recent articles: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-annual-wage-growth-72-ex...
Or here: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/would-a-wag...
The incompetent morons in the Danish government does.
Sometimes I want partial application and other functional paradigms... to reduce LOC by 90%
I had once started a project to port over Chrome Devtools to iPad, here is a thread with some videos: https://twitter.com/DevToolsApp/status/1353226687681445892

I never got around finishing it. Too much work of translating each Chrome DevTools Protocol API to equivalent in wkwebview.
I think we peaked with music already, maybe in the early 2000s. Popular music was so simple before the 1970s. There were a few chord structures and you just had some generic verses and put it on a record. Take someone like leadbelly or bb king, they were just playing folk music that had been played for at least 100 years before either of them were born, reusing old verses or adding their own, adding a short guitar lick between verses if so inclined (bb admits this was even because he could not sing and play at the same time). A lot of their fame as a result was happenstance of being at the right place at the right time (leadbelly in particular) versus them being a head and shoulders better folk musician than the other musicians of their time. A lot of the Beatles and other such acts in the early 60s were like this too, just basic formulaic rock n roll songs with the artists marketed as heartthrobs more than musicians even. They all even had the same haircuts.

Fast forward to something like Radiohead's Kid A and you have orders of magnitude more complexity going on the track. So many different sounds layered in very complicated manners. Its almost like a classical composition how there are motifs, movements, different emotions being evoked, but with any sound imaginable compared to what few are possible from the orchestra ensemble. A song from Kid A is just a part of the greater album itself. Nothing was made to stand on its own between radio advertisements.

It seems these days we are reverting to how commercial music was always made. Very commercial studio focused with the artists removed from production. Generic lyrics written by low paid songwriting staff and same old tried and true chord progressions we've heard forever. The artist is a brand and a sexy person meant to sell products versus someone particularly talented with an instrument or with songwriting skills.
The term freeloading is stupid.

There are customers who genuinely don't need and don't want support.
And there are customers who do need support and should pay for it.

It's that simple. Don't bundle them together as all freeloaders.
Pretty shit way to do it. Cleaning human remains out of a jet engine seems fairly traumatizing.
I mean, they do love the TMBG cover, regardless of whether or not they wrote it.
Recently I read the book "The Stress of Life" by Hans Selye and had this obvious connection that work is such a primary source of stress that it makes you more than what this article talks about. That it can make you chronically ill without you knowing because you're too busy trying to...survive.

GAS or general adaptation syndrome explains burnout quite simply. There's an alarm reaction that happens in us. Next a resistance phase where our bodies try to fight it off. Finally, an exhaustion phase where we let the stressor take its course(aka burnout).

“It is not stress that kills us, It is our reaction to it” - Hans Selye
For what it's worth, I thought blade runner was cool in that respect. Parts of Blade Runner were dystopian, but not the idea of having a big city (the advertising was dystopian iirc). My feeling is that if we have a strong urban core, we can rescue the countryside and nature from over-development. It's also nice to walk around cities. I have to drive everywhere outside of urban areas which sucks.
I've done a lot of backpacking (from a car or shuttle), but never bikepacking or biking-to-backpack. Is the latter possible, like is there a good way to fit a backpacking pack, bear can, etc. inside panniers or otherwise tethered to a bike?
Bad take. If the market "functions" according to your definition, then what is the incentive to innovate? (besides shits and giggles, which is not sustainable).

No markets are efficient. While it's probably a bad idea to worship at the altar of profit: A profit of zero for most productive pursuits is not ideal.
Replying because I can no longer edit. A * got gobbled. The factor should be

factor(x) = ((x + lanczos_g - 0.5)/e)**(x - 0.5).
Ditto on spending more time on HN, which is great for [semi-]serious discussions but not so great for bass guitar tabs and zelda totk autobuild recipes and japan travel advice.

When I search Lemmy, I see depressingly meager results like communities with only 23 members. That's smaller than my BBS days in the 1980s! I must be doing something wrong?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230626141005/https://www.washi...
I find this an extremely odd and uninterpretable article for this reason. When people say that "x drives y" they usually mean that "x causes y". And inflation is by definition price hikes. So article seems to be saying that "corporate profits causes price hikes", which is meaningless since the causal direction should be in the reverse (price changes cause profit changes).

The fact that labor costs (which are part of a company's profit calculation) are considered a separate "driver" makes this even more confusing.
He's diagnosing runaway inflation. At no point is actually chastising workers directly.

Bailey's comments were squarely aimed at blaming Brexit and energy markets, people intentionally took his words out of context to bake up a "gaff".
A CentOS Stream release only gets updates as long as its equivalent RHEL release is in its "full support" period. In practice, this means that the support duration is cut from 10 years to 5 years.

Additionally, CentOS Stream updates often lag behind RHEL updates. This is because Red Hat won't commit an embargoed security update to CentOS Stream until after it ships in RHEL, so the developers responsible for the update will sometimes forget to commit it to CentOS Stream until a week or two after it's shipped. You end up in a weird position where you get most updates faster than RHEL users, but you often have to wait to get critical security updates. I would be wary about using a system like this in production.
Anyone have access to Pacer and can get us the filings since this article was written?

Virginia Eastern District Court Case # 1:23-cv-00043

I’m not familiar with any ways to get free access

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/47432813/Wilson_et_...
Steel and concrete buildings are way quieter than wood in practice.
> how does this work on mailing lists or quotes in messages

Technically, you would have to send a request to every party to delete all your PII.
I don't know if increased AC installs have changed this, but I heard in the late 90s that heat waves were the single biggest killer among natural disasters (i.e. edging out floods, hurricanes, earthquakes &c.)
Sam Altman on Productivity
Yes, and the point is that we don't need to be constraining our consumption as there's essentially no lack of energy. We need to be increasing our production/capture.
This is more or less industry standard for some decades. You may try ChatGPT to guide you.
You can try https://www.taptap.com/ I found many niche but amazing games on this website, and the community ratings are also highly reliable.
They changed the definition of m1 which is the cause of that spike. M2 is definitely the better metric.
You can use the excess power (during low loads at night) to generate hydrogen fuel, pump water uphill to use hydro during the day, etc.
Depending on where you live, yes.

Oregon is more than just Portland, but even Portland summers reach the 90s on a regular basis, and we've gone over 100 degrees several times in the summer. Winter usually hovers around 30-40 degrees, but sometimes dips to the 20s, and we've definitely had 10-20 degree cold snaps.

Go outside of Portland, and you'll easily find deserts that reach 100+ degrees on a regular basis, and highlands that go below zero.
You can get most products on prem at a certain price & size. A lot of companies will apply resistance though unless the contract size is right b/c on-prem contracts tend to be less unit-profitable, risky, + unique annoying terms or constraints.

If you * need * it, you find a human to talk to (sales or connect from your network).
Yes. But importantly its not the printing of money that was the problem either.
If you think about the path money takes especially the furlough:
government -> consumer -> big capital (Petro/chemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Food Conglomerates, Landlords, Tech...). And that's where it stays. How do you get it back? Well aimed taxes. Otherwise big capital buys all the assets as in investment with their new found pile.
The point where you don't go down the slope is when you recognize it and you don't know what is at the end of it's long tail. The guidance is built in.
It looks like an interesting book. Published in 1995, it is mostly focused on cognitivist / functional approaches in computational linguistics rather than the current ML paradigm, though there is a section on connectionism, a decentralized bottom up approach which favored the emergence of linguistic behaviour and reasoning from artificial neural networks over cognitivist ideas of implementing symbolic reasoning directly.

The authors agree with the connectionist critique of cognitivists like Fodor (correctly, and on good Wittgensteinian grounds, IMO) but then critique the positive views of the connectionists that "connectionist modelling will pave the way for a better understanding of brain-behaviour (or, more contentiously, brain-'mind') relationships" as "incoherent". I think that latter claim of incoherence is looking a bit tattered now in view of the undoubted practical linguistic interest of LMMs.

After locating the book at one of the popular public academic material utilities, my first instinct was to look for my my favorite anti-cognitivist anti-nativist quote from Philosophical Investigations about the operation of meaning (or intentionality, to use the technical term):

> "There must surely be a further, different connexion between my talk and N, for otherwise I should still not have meant HIM."

> Certainly such a connexion exists. Only not as you imagine it: namely by means of a mental mechanism.

(PI, §689)

This isn't directly quoted in the book, but they do say:

> one of the points that Wittgenstein is making with respect to rules and language is that there are no mechanisms of grammar, no calculus of determining rules, behind reasoning, behind language. Rules can be a guide to action, but they do not constrain it in the way in which the viewpoint nourished by computational linguists proposes.
A government is by definition a bureaucracy, but so is any private corporation. Any organization of sufficient size becomes one out of necessity. Any time you have a bunch of people together and you need to establish any kind of pattern for how things get done, you have a bureaucracy.

What is funny is the way people use the word derisively, as if bureaucracy is inherently evil in some way. Bureaucracy is like math, it is netiehr good nor bad, it simply is. Like math, it can be used to do good or bad things.
The IMF article, probably due to political reasons, does not touch the monetary policy, or "the money printer goes brr" as it is known in Internet memes. While energy prices and poor labour productivity contribute to the inflation, the past monetary policy decisions are a major factor.

The increase in money supply created for COVID-19 response, "stimulus", goes to the prices. Furthermore the ECB cannot tame the inflation, because if it hikes rates too much the EU member countries debt burden becomes unsustainable (if it is not already it). Between a rock and a hard place: keep massive inflation going on (tax on poor) to inflate away the debt, or bankcrupt the EU member states.

More on the topic in the link below: the EU did not start hiking rates soon enough and is very lax rising the rates to avoid the breakdown of Euro system, and the inflation is caused by too low interest rates

https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-europes-monetary-policy-shift-...
I wonder how much residential energy usage ends up being DC vs AC these days, with computers, USB devices, LEDs, etc. I remember reading something about converting homes to have DC outlets, wonder if that's not too far away.
I sometimes meet foreigners who have been to Poland and learned a few phrases from the locals. Usually "How are you" is among them only because they have specifically requested this to be translated, but I've never heard this being used as a greeting in my entire life.
What would be magical about 12 or 24 volts that leads to an efficiency gain?
Thanks for the candid answers -- sounds like this hit HN a bit earlier than you would've planned, which I realize can create a weird awkward tension between planned goals and current state and HNers' expectations.

I think it's cool that you're trying to tackle adding simplicity to managing a multi-user (if not actually multi-tenant, given the lack of row-level permissions management) SQL DB. My suggestion then would be to refine your pitch so that it matches your project a bit better -- that way you avoid the problem of people disappointed to find it doesn't do something they expected (but which it was never trying to do).
Domino's Used a Jetpack to Deliver a Pizza at Glastonbury Festival
>… when he suggested workers shouldn’t ask for big wage increases…

How is that not directly telling workers to not ask for wage increases? I’d also say adding the word “chastising” is changing the tone of what the original commentor and I were referencing when talking about governments asking workers to not ask for wage increases.
I refuse to do takehomes as any part of the interview. My principle is out of fairness and mutual respect of the value of time: For every hour I spend interviewing, someone from the company must spend 1 hour too.

EDIT: Take-home-styled coding exercise in a pair programming setup is fine --- I've taken a few of those and they were actually quite pleasant. The task is not the issue --- respect is.
"Not forced slavery"

"hoover dam"

Book Recommendation: The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814021-the-profiteers?...
> We now know that government assistance isn't the main villain in the brutal inflation spikes of the last few years, and we need voters to understand that too.

This is terribly wrong since government spending is directly associated to money printing, and you know what? That causes inflation.

You already know that since that’s basic economics, but simply your content is 100% politically biased therefore even more wrong than before.
These acquisitions end up paying for themselves. Just look at semiconductors, where some of the only "value creation" is in ever bigger companies buying each other. You have Analog Devices buying Linear Technology for $14B in 2017, then buying Maxim for $20B in 2021, both of them massive competitors and themselves the result of countless acquisitions over the years. And it repeats all over, Intel buying Altera, AMD buying Xilinx, NXP merging with Freescale..
He is not alive anymore, so he cannot tell you. And regarding about what he thought about those people, you can really find in any of his books.

But like other people already hinted at you: the book about Haile Selassi was mainly a attack on his corrupt system back at home. By examining the power mechanisms and corruption of King Selassis court(and publishing it step by step) he managed to publish a antiauthorian criticism on corrupted buerocracy in general, in such a corrupted system. But he could do so, because when critizized from above he said: "Do you want to imply, that this corrupt monarchist court is comparable to our democratic peoples republic elected comitees?"

Which they could not admit, even though they understood how it was meant, because yes, they were just as corrupt. Unchecked power works the same in a monarchy, than it does in socialism or anywhere else.

He simply hated corruption and opression and he lived voluntarily among the poorest of the planet, to write about their lives and their struggles.
Herman was even described as having "the mind of a child" in one of the episodes. The plots often revolved about some childish scheme that Lily tried to put a stop to.

MwC was definitely the oafish husband, again with the childish schemes, much like Ralph in the Honeymooners. It's just a raunchy version of the Honeymooners.

ILL is a rare exception - a reverse Honeymooners.

P.S. I still enjoy watching these shows. Especially the Munsters. Herman always makes me laugh.
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My favorites of this evergreen article:

1990 - A committee formed by Simon Peyton-Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, Ashton Kutcher, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals creates Haskell, a pure, non-strict, functional language.

1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.

This article should be updated to include TypeScript, Rust, Zig, Nim etc.