skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time digging into this a while back. I think this is a really poorly thought-out policy, in part b/c it's conflating three separate issues:

1. Low and moderate income families should be able to afford their energy bill, and the "basic" energy use going forward may need to be higher esp as people need AC more of the year, etc.

2. There's a push to move people off natural gas appliances and onto electric appliances sooner rather than later, with the intention that eventually almost all of that electricity would be from green sources, and similarly to encourage people to switch to EVs. In order to do that, they partly want the marginal cost of electricity to be lower for everyone, even for people who end up paying more per month than they do currently. Everyone's supposed to feel an incentive to switch appliances.

3. There's a claim that the current pricing structure means that people with PV setups aren't paying their fair share for grid/infrastructure maintenance. Paying ~$0 for power b/c you use ~0 kwh shifts the 'burden' for maintaining the grid to people that don't have the ability to install solar.

You can be in support of point 1 ... but we already have subsidies for low-income residents. If we need to expand those, we should have those conversations!

But part 2, lowering the marginal cost of power by use has multiple downsides:

- it _does_ penalize people who conserve energy. My own PG&E bill may roughly triple, in a small, well-insulated urban condo without AC. And because the income brackets are _so wide_, someone who makes substantially more money and who uses substantially more energy (e.g. private pool, EV, large house) can see their bill _decrease_ due to this change!

- it's not clear that incentivizing people to replace appliances (or vehicles) before the end of their useful lives is a net carbon-saving move; the intrinsic carbon is real

- for the medium term, a substantial fraction of CA power does still does come from natural gas; increasing home electricity use which does not replace home natural gas use (e.g. just running your AC more days b/c it becomes cheaper) will in some cases mean _more_ emissions

- as an incentive structure, it's not even clearly effective; e.g. landlords won't be pushed meaningfully to update appliances which would lower their tenants energy bills

- if it worked really well, and everyone tried to move to all electric appliances and EVs next year, the grid may not be able to handle it anyway

Part 3 is a concern, but I don't think this is the way to address it. This says that people making over 180k would be paying up to $1536 just to be connected to the grid, before they draw their first kwh of power. People who are within reach of generating enough power to live off of will be nudged to consider disconnecting entirely. If they take that exit ramp, are the rest of us better off in any way?

Lastly, of course, a fee that basically everyone in the state will be obliged to pay, which is based on income ... seems a lot like an income tax, but it's going to a private company. In my case, that company is a felon with multiple convictions.
Meaningless question.
You can not replace gasoline cars with EVs using current technology.
And at-home plugs for some. I don’t miss the aromas and the fake-story panhandlers.
Have you tried to increase the allowance for your dog?
What happened to mass transit?
Humane Ingenuity 48: Reading and Writing
This is the cited Analytics India source, which is also incoherent garbage.

https://analyticsindiamag.com/openai-might-go-bankrupt-by-th...
Yeah, I remember a few people by their usernames. Mostly users who share the same interests as me.
> but from user perspective it's not a huge change on modern CPUs as most have specialized instructions to handle decoding of H264

There are no "instructions to decode H264", there is dedicated hardware acceleration like Intel QSV and AMD VCN, but these gets bypassed just like Nvidia's decoding acceleration from my previous example. All of this is trivially observable, playing back DRM-protected video wastes an obscene amount of resources, relatively speaking.

From user perspective you'll notice stuttering, unusually high CPU usage, dropped frames and more, especially once you try to play multiple videos at once.

> There are no "Techniques to bypass it", the only way currently to get L1 streams is to use legit hardware keys from some devices

That's exactly what I meant. Being pedantic over my choice of words isn't very productive.
It could probably be done using uBlock.
I buy the value of walkable neighborhoods, but it's hard to make this epidemiological claim hold up; Canada and the US have broadly similar infrastructure but sharply different rates of mental illness; similarly, mental illness rates don't appear to track walkability in Europe.
What aspect of the current problem is the lefts fault? I’m not fully sure what your argument is.
i see nothing indicating collection of data wont happen.

i see nothing indicating data wont be provided to third parties.

i see nothing indicating third parties will be prevented from using aquired data to train AI

i see nothing indicating zoom will not aquire trained models from third parties that use Zoom harvested data in training.
NIMBYs are the reason California doesn't build enough housing, not rent control.
The most-charitable interpretation I can think of is that some folks are reading the title, thinking "I agree, chatbots are overhyped", and voting before moving on.

So they don't see the incoherence of the article because they never click, or else they don't have the historical context to see how it's bizarre to present Kaku as a voice against "media sensationalism".
Used to see nickpsecurity a long time ago, I hope he's OK. The creator of the D language and John Nagle are also very active around here.
Doximity for physicians
Link to the original soundtrack https://archive.org/details/wipeout_psx_soundtrack
I'd love it if they stayed out of Veilid too, but if Veilid succeeds they will not. The needs of pro-democracy, pro-human rights protesters are very similar to the needs of hate groups, it sucks but it's true.
Stock market numbers going up appears to be unrelated with the cost of living crisis that we are in.
How is it not a left problem? Despite many issues in right leaning areas, red states basically rank way better on housing affordability. The article cites high housing costs as a causative factor in homelessness.
This 1000%. I live in Seattle and I was lucky enough to find a 30min walkable commute to work but holy hell it is unbelievably stressful. Crazy drivers not respecting pedestrians, super loud trucks everywhere, constant road rage with blaring horns, sketchy looking sidewalks.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I'm pretty sure I have hearing loss from walking next to trucks that make an unbelievable amount of noise. Garbage trucks are the worst offenders in my experience.

It's definitely gotten to the point where I have to find alternative routes from the main streets for my own safety.

And isn't Seattle supposed to be one of the most walkable cities in the US?
The RDP based ones are pretty straightforward to get going without a massive base infrastructure. Even with the intended way of running Windows Server as the host you can easily have 3-4 clients run on one meager server with no need for a managing VMs at all, unless you really want to do it that way.

On the Linux side I use persistent systemd-nspawn containers with bind mount access to the main storage. I suppose it's possible to do the same thing there, though I've never tried.
BTW, thanks for all the feedback! I am not some climate scientist or anything, I've just wondered about this question and started putting down notes and decided to make a little capsule about it. It has actually evolved a lot already, so certainly feedback from this post will definitely get incorporated.
And this is exactly why companies protect their trademarks. A site called discord.io which offered services on top of Discord but wasn't affiliated with it in any way (but tricked users into believing so by using its logo and screenshots) should have been nipped in the bud a long time ago.
> The old "i'm a philanthropist! (and totally not doing it for the tax breaks)" nonsense,

How does this work? Suppose that someone donates $1 million to charity. They don't pay income tax on that money -- but they no longer have the money. I suppose that they could try to get clever about it by making a "buy yachts for our donors" charity, but that's explicitly illegal under the 501(c)(3) requirements.
CO2 emissions definitely are a problem. Because carbon in the atmosphere causes climate impacts globally. Switching an ICE car to an EV car reduces carbon emissions significantly, perhaps by a factor of 2x to 5x.

Particulate emissions are a separate problem. A local one but also important. Poor air quality contributes to diseases and deaths and EVs don't solve this one completely, although they do 1. reduce tailpipe particulate emissions (especially conpared to diesels) and 2. Use regenerative "engine braking" meaning less particulates from brake pad wear. However they still have tyre wear and that may be rather worse than an ICE car partly due to weight and partly due to immediate delivery of high torque to the drivetrain.
It's definitely not just me but I only have a data point of one to use: Anytime I see something that isn't .com, .org, or .gov I immediately assume it's less than reputable at best and actively trying to scam/phish me at worst.
Mm-hmm, Mm-hmm... Oh! Oh, yeah... mm, mm. Mmm!

I know some of these words!*

More seriously - thanks for that description! It's always interesting to see just how many "principles" &/ "laws" etc. (our compartmentalized / simplified models) underlie certain kinds of physical behavior (and, sort of, emergent properties thereof). Even just sticking together enough of the simplest models can be kind of surprising and not so easy to reason about / handle with much "facility".

I've never learned much about anesthesia, and the little bits I have learned, here and there - and usually only in very specific contexts, makes it so most of this info doesn't really stick in my head. So, I appreciate getting a bit of refresher / learning every now and again. Particularly, in how it ties together with everything else involved.

Thanks!

* https://youtu.be/sl2W85KKzgc
Why do you presume the number of acceptable casualties is zero? We don’t apply that kind of logic to any other aspect of risk management, why would that be the bar here?

And no, privacy advocates claim privacy protects against the future, not the present. Their whole argument is, “what if stuff you like is made illegal in the future?!?!” with absolutely no tether to realit
> detailed how extreme weather has hurt her family’s ranch.

Animal agriculture is also a big contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, dead zones, and habitat loss. Her family's ranch my not align with her fight against climate change.
There are four pigs at the trough of US Healthcare:

- Doctors/providers (emphasis on specialists vs preventive family care)

- Drug/Device companies

- Insurance companies

- Trial lawyers / ambulance chasers (the boogeymen)

Each of these has an associated cartel/monopoly/trust/guild restricting supply and increasing prices.

Providers have the AMA and control over accreditation of schools producing doctors. It defends large swathes of medical care as requiring a doctor when it isn't necessary, and forbids expert systems and other things that would devalue doctors.

Drug/Device companies use patents/FDA and increasingly are doing outright monopoly behavior like buying up production to skyrocket insulin and epipens that should be commodity priced.

Insurance companies use regional monopolies, network lock-in pricing (in-network vs out-of-network), exclusive arrangements with large employers, and rent extraction thereof.

Trial lawyers have the bar association and the entire judicial branch protecting their interests and abilities to sue.

Anyway, this is interesting because it is a shadow cost between the insurance trust and providers trust, but of course it will bubble up to more cost inefficiency.
Hundreds of dollars a month for a 2 br condo.
Back when conservatism was synonymous with being conservative wrt the environment. Such a different place today's conservatives are at.
Are there any studies that show that walkability improves mental health?
>What you need doesn't come from a pill, it comes from living life.

Fuck off. Imagine telling someone with astigmatism that they don't need a physical modification and augmentation to their bodies, but rather "to live life", whatever that means.

Meanwhile, after decades of swearing I didn't need a pill, I didn't want a pill to "change" me, etc, I got on pills, and my life actually works. I rode a rollercoaster for the first time in decades the other day, zero butterflies in my stomach, zero panic or anxiety, zero inappropriate fear. I'm likely only alive today BECAUSE of medication.

The whole point behind how new medications are tested are that we often don't have a great understanding of HOW a medication works, but that doesn't matter, because it demonstrably works in some percentage of people, and for those that it doesn't work for, often another medication might.

So, with zero respect because you are actively harming people, Fuck right off.
Oh my.... yes. For me, that would have been Angular 1.x days. And while it was neat having a tool that could pull a deterministic flat list of dependencies, I wouldn't go back to those days. I do wholeheartedly agree that injecting core-js into every single build, in the rarest of cases that you'd need to support a browser that doesn't support generators, or some other featured added around 2015, is just plain silly. I cringe when I look at a dependency graph and see all those polyfills in my builds!!
Your mileage may vary, literally, but I walk 1-2 hours everyday and am 10/10 on self-assessed happiness and mental health.
That is neither here nor there; this article is about American cost of living
> The robot doesn't care if you have liaisons over webcam with your lover, or whatever else.

The concern isn't judgement from the AI, but that products from the model trained on your data could expose sensitive information.

Since it's never quite clear exactly how the data could be used in situations like this, there's a chance that very sensitive data could be parroted back to people who were not the intended audience.
"rsync.net does not support append-only mode, despite advertising it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32756653"

This is correct - we believed we had a working recipe that properly sandboxed the 'rclone mount' and 'rclone serve' directives but we couldn't make it work in a way that allowed us to sleep at night.

But now that is all changing...

It appears that we can run rclone serve restic --stdio in a way that doesn't actually serve anything or create sockets, etc., and as soon as we finish our tests we will have it in place and people can lock their accounts with something like this:

restrict,command="rclone serve restic --stdio --append-only backups/my-restic-repo" ssh-rsa ...

... in authorized_keys and achieve proper append-only mode at long last.

Stand by ...
Given that their parents and grandparents probably are the same folk that ensured a worse quality of life for them I'm going to side with the kids on this one.
Okay. You win. Thanks for a great discussion.
It's E2E, but one of the ends is on the middleman.

That's a new fun and exciting definition of E2E a lot of people are pushing.
>Why do you feel better when you go to Europe, or even to Disneyland?

Probably because you're on vacation?

Why is there nothing that walkable city enthusiasts will claim walkable cities won't fix?
Can you name what was so volatile under Trump? We had no new wars under Trump. No new military engagements. We were planning withdrawals. The economy was doing fine. People say things were volatile under Trump, but I have found that this is only true if you're addicted to the 24/7 news cycle. For most American's day to day, life under Trump was just as boring as life under Biden / Obama / Bush / etc.

I mean.. when Trump was in office, things were good. My local grocery store couldn't even find enough workers they were hiring disabled people (which is great... everyone deserves the ability to make a living). Now everything is expensive and people seem unhappy; not to mention new military engagements in Europe of all places.
On my phone it says "Cool Readm", with no opportunity to see the right hand side.
24mpg seems right. I drive a pretty medium sized car - Subaru Outback - and I pulled 25.5mpg on a big road trip. My right foot is a little heavy.

Trucks and the fat SUVs that are super popular here get astronomically bad fuel mileage. Think low 10s MPG. Even worse when towing stuff.

Small cars do alright but are decreasing in popularity. Looking around the parking lots I frequent, where everyone has new vehicles, it's insane. All SUVs. Even when it's dominated by "smaller" SUVs like Mazda CX-5, Honda CR-V, Toyota RAV4, Lexus RX370... Those are still big boys.
It is true that new construction accounts for a large fraction of the total cost. But the extra truck tax revenue is far, far below the proportional cost of damage trucks cause.

Everyone benefits from roads' existence and from the freight delivered by truck, with or without owning a car. So tying taxes artificially to any selective use factors is inherently flawed. Tying it to GPS logs is worse.
A well-made, but unfortunate video. It's a shame that things like this had to be said about LTT. I hope one day they do better. More (good) information to consumers is a great goal!
Personally I think absurd wealth inequality indicates at least two issues:

1) A lack of re-investment of positive economic activity into the “common good” (infrastructure, education, social services, etc) that were almost certainly instrumental in creating the environment for that wealth to grow in the first place.

2) An undemocratic concentration of political power in a small number of individuals
Your pdf does not support your assertion.

Quoting the conclusion:

EV’s are 4-5 dB less noisy than similar ICE at low speed when driving at steady speed. But
at about 30 km/h the difference in emitted noise is not significant. For speeds higher than 30
km/h the tire/road noise gets dominant and from there on the choice of tire is more essential
to noise reduction.
"Let's wait until Go has reached Java's maturity and see what happens when they change this package ;)"

They did a while back, actually. Compare https://pkg.go.dev/unsafe@go1.0.1#Pointer with https://pkg.go.dev/unsafe#Pointer , in particular the modern very precise description of exactly what you can do with an *unsafe.Pointer. I'm not sure what the cutoff for that was but it was a while ago, yes. Still, it didn't do much.
> illusion of possibilities

I wouldn't say it's an illusion.

> People who live on heavily trafficked streets, which cater mostly to motorists, count on average about one friend. People who live on walkable streets, however, count three—and twice as many acquaintances, to boot. If your neighbors are within walking distance, and it’s easy for you to walk, it’s much more likely that you’ll bump into them, strike up a conversation, get to know them a little.

https://qz.com/1421323/for-the-good-of-all-humankind-make-yo...
I think one of the cause is we don’t tax the landlords higher for the investment property. That’s why lot of upper middle class and HNIs have lot of investment properties around the country. It’s so easy to buy and rent out properties without even seeing them ever. One of my friend who works at Microsoft in Seattle, owns 4 properties around US(3 in WA and 1 in TX). It was so easy to get cheap mortgages between 2017-21 if you had 100-200k lying around.
Where by "better" you probably mean "worse", amirite?
I haven't found a clear explanation. Forum trolls simply pounce on those who ask, pretending that this is a crazy suggestion that can't be accomplished by a computer. Example of the FUD:

"dragging is the most dangerous way to move anything. If you have notes in the wrong place, simply re-enter them in the correct place and delete anything left over."

When asked why it was "dangerous," there was no reply. These people rabidly defend a mode of operation that requires you to continually delete your work and re-do it.

Apologists lash out at anyone who insinuates that MuseScore's functionality falls short of miraculous. I mean... you can see it in a comment above.
Vector databases seem to be a dime a dozen, now, as well as being built into Elasticsearch and available as Postgres extensions.

As far as I know they’re all relatively undifferentiated in performance and features.

Is there a viable long-term business here?
Not living in the suburbs improves mental health.
[rant start]

I have powerwalls because PG&E are fricking terrible at actually supplying power. Doing a quick check on the app shows me I have had 10 power outages this year so far, with the longest being >24 hours.

If PG&E want to charge me an extra $500/year (their estimate, so double that in reality) then they ought to get their service working better first. It's a rare day that the outage tracker on their website shows no outages...

Perhaps if they invested the money into infrastructure instead of executive bonuses, their service might work better.

[rant end]
If you don't pay attention to the quality of the software, eventually it becomes unmaintainable and you can no longer add features in a timely manner and you get crushed by your nimble competitors.

One company I worked for was once the market leader, but over the years they failed to maintain the quality of the software. They kept adding more and more resources to get stuff out. Eventually it took them three years to get out a new release only for it to be so bug ridden they had to pull it. They are no longer in existence because they had the mentality of all that matters is features.
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I don't think this adds much. The important thing is that your logic runs in the database--how the logic is ultimately exposed is up to you. We did a java app server calling SPs over JDBC with generated, typed bindings and this worked great. You'd have to write a similar tool to generate a gRPC server, but the logic would still be SPs in the database. That's the part that sucks for devs; the bindings are ultimately a detail.
You mean like “Apple”
It's a bigger factor for small cars than for large ones, naturally. A Peugeot e208 EV weighs ~50% more than an ICE Peugeot 208 (1560 kg Vs 1065 kg).
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Should have added other than Typescript :)
It's both. Residents will pay both a variable charge based on usage and a flat fee to PG&E.
Try to register a company called Apple that builds iPhone apps and you will find out pretty quick how well a sector-specific trademark can be enforced.
Define city speeds? Because this is pretty objectively false at the speeds cars usually drive in all the cities I've lived in. Even the pdf you linked has an EV being recorded louder than an ICE at only a single speed out of all the different speeds and cars they chose.
Analog video encryption and decryption, perhaps. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videocipher

Knuth used to have a section on "sorting with tapes" that he removed; but the problems there might still generalize to slower access methods even when they're not as strictly sequential as tapes. Maximizing bandwidth to GPU chores and searching through 10TB+ hdd's with only relatively tiny access speed both have similarities to some of those problems.