skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. You are bang on the money with these.
I am the author of this post and touch basis on the same caveats in the latter half of the post. You are percent right with what you have said.
Nice idea! Could you comment about your tech stack?
Not sure where you are getting your data. A 2 second google search finds https://www.dsoelectric.com/interruptible-residential-rate in Kansas.

Google "Interruptible Residential Rate" and you'll see it's quite common. Sometimes done with 2 meters: An interruptible one for heat pumps and a regular one to everything else.

I'm actually pretty sure it's available in basically all states - they often list it as "pay a cheaper rate, and let the utility control your thermostat in times of high demand". Go check - you might find it's available to you as well.

And BTW, Texas has a better track record than California on keeping the lights on. They've had a single major power outage caused by high demand. California on the other hand.....

The reason they have a reputation in your mind is the same reason people make fun of Florida: They are very open with their data, so you know more about it.
If we're going back to that time period... Alpha.

How I coveted my roommate's machine that had one in it.
If you think it's the trademark that's the issue then removing it is sufficient.
Are you happy to put yourself in a human-driven cab? Human drivers are not bug-free either.

It's plausible that this robot, albeit not bug-free, would drive safer than an average human driver.
humans in a nutshell
Family of 7 + 1 (sister living with us). We spend close to 2k a month on food. That's with buying bulk at Costco, buying cows and pigs from local farmers and living in a rural area. If I go to the store to buy dinner prep food without a plan I'll spend 60 on one meal. There will be leftovers for sure, maybe two meals worth. Maybe not.
Graph of Thoughts: Solving Elaborate Problems with Large Language Models
https://archive.is/iI17J
Would love to talk and pick your brain a bit, have an email or discord i can contact you at?
"But it's opt in! Just! don't use it!" --every Brave stan, ever
> Though there’s no driver, each ride is supported by staff at a Waymo site that can be summoned if a car runs into trouble.

Unless they have multiple rides looked after by a staff, what are they planning to save by not offering a driver? Also, is there any path to profitability given how many billions were poured into the technology? Not that I care so much though, Alphabet has enough profitable ventures to recoup otherwise.
Do you have an example of an addon this has happened to you for? I've had the opposite experience (stuff breaking on Chrome and well, never had an issue with it on Firefox).
The alternative to early aviation was taking 2-20 times longer to reaching your destination, with the vast majority of the risk borne by the passengers. The alternative to self-driving is paying a guy less than minimum wage to take you in the same amount of time. And the risks are mostly on pedestrians and first responders.
The placebo effect is (mostly) not real
https://archive.is/cRAsa
Can you elaborate on idempotency in the context os CS papers?

I’m familiar with the concept wrt mathematics(in particular in the context of ulter-a-filters as my favorite professor would say it), but I don’t see the necessity in most CS research.
We have had many long term storage options evaluated over the years, none more popularly known than Yucca mountain.

Every time the political parties exchange power, it either gets renewed or cancelled. According to the GAO, it is not for technical or other reasons, just purely political ones.
I think when most people say "web browsers do x" they mean when browsing the world wide web.

My (intended) claim is that in practise the statement is almost always untrue. There may be weird edge cases when loading from local disk where it is true sometimes, but not in a way that web developers will usually ever encounter since you don't put websites on local disk.

This part of the html5 spec isn't binding so who knows what different browsers do, but it is a reccomendation of the spec that browsers should handle charset of documents differently depending on if they are on local disk or from the internet.

To quote: "User agents are generally discouraged from attempting to autodetect encodings for resources obtained over the network, since doing so involves inherently non-interoperable heuristics. Attempting to detect encodings based on an HTML document's preamble is especially tricky since HTML markup typically uses only ASCII characters, and HTML documents tend to begin with a lot of markup rather than with text content." https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#determin...
It's a bit shocking to see such denial on HN of all places. I imagine that evidence will keep mounting in the coming years, but by then the damage will already be done. Widespread autoimmune diseases and allergies, poor social and problem-solving skills, and poor attention span are already common among millenials, let alone younger generations. We're already seeing IQ trending down. The idea that having children watch YouTube for hours a day instead of exploring the world should be laughable, yet here we are.
> People do stuff like obscuring the plate with a bike rack, a magnetic leaf, tinted license plate cover, etc

Just get a Tennessee plate -- they decided to use a background color with a text color that both show as the same under IR, so most ALPRs can't read them (at night at least). They refuse to change it, last I checked.

* https://www.newschannel5.com/news/capturing-new-tennessee-ta...
When evaluating inflation levels the Fed as a matter of policy uses a price level measure that doesn't directly account for food and energy costs.
Musk is one of the only individuals in the world that actively tries to solve real problems. And people hate him for it. Musk gives Ukraine Star Link terminals and access. The idea that he is league w Putin and his ideas is intellectually dishonest and betrays any kind of objective view.
i am not an expert in the field but i really hate the oversimplification of "screen time"

the conflation of "watching cocomelon" with "performing a task or even a simple game" seems too broad to be characterized as one metric.
This is not one incident but it happens to many times — when the hiring manager or sometimes other interviewers as well start explaining how:

- team/company works like a family

- we even party together on weekends

- then things like: we “love and own” our work we only leave once it’s done

Or a place that’s not clear and don’t want to be specific about availability/timing requirements i.e clarity about hours (which is by the way like 100% of job posts here on the HN!!!)
i think it's pretty common for a specialized reimplementation of a standard library type or function to outperform it by an order of magnitude or so in some particular case. chris wellons gave an excellent example of this with hashing in golang in https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/06/26/

commonly (as in wellons's post about the two-sum problem) there's a variation on the standard algorithm that can help significantly, but which the standard library function doesn't have an option for

also i think the cost of reimplementing simple 'algorithms from the book' like insertion sort or even quicksort is pretty low; as you saw in my comment above, insertion sort is six lines of code and only moderately bug-prone. we aren't talking about fibonacci heaps or red-black trees or fm-indexes or rader's algorithm or something. the cost is low enough that it's easy to justify in a lot of cases
Cannot recommend this podcast enough: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nuclear-power-isnt-perfect-...

It goes into detail about the argument you are proposing.
For what it's worth, the Oxford English Dictionary gives two citations for the phrase, one from January 1996 and one from May 2005. It's not obvious to me from the quoted text whether the 1996 citation actually has quite the same meaning as we're talking about here.

It's from something in PR Newswire, and it says: "As an industry consultant Bob has been a leader in developing business strategies and cooperative relationships in the area of digital rights management and content distribution."

And what's not clear to me is whether that's "digital (rights management)" -- i.e., using computer technology to enforce copyright etc., the usual present-day use of the term -- or "(digital rights) management" -- i.e., everything to do with handling copyright etc. in the specific context of digital data.
> Yeah, it feels like most of social media is now shit-flinging and calling the "outside group" stupid so one can feel "At least I'm not a stupid horrible person like that idiot!".

Like the folks here on HN in this very thread flinging shit and calling those horrible social media users idiots, you mean? The irony in your comment is just too much. Yikes.

Just stop. People are people. In-group/out-group abuse and hate has been a fact of life for as long as we've been a species. You treat that, as Nova did, with understanding and empathy, not with more hate.

As long as you (and you're hardly alone in this topic!) walk around with that chip on your shoulder you are guaranteeing never to escape your personal in-group prison, nor to ever make peace with the out-groups you're yelling about.
> For instance, blob storages such as S3 have enabled cloud database providers to offer flexible, unlimited storage (SingleStoreDB even coined the term “bottomless storage” for this).

Can someone please elaborate that? What does it mean in conjunction of S3 and DB. I know how traditional DBs work (PostgreSQL and MySQL). I know how S3 work (opensource implementation like minio). But S3 is not a random access file on block storage which is a prerequirement for PostgreSQL and MySQL. How is that solved for S3 based DBs? Can someone point out to the doc, or even better an opensource implementation.
I don't agree with your characterization of what's happening as "YOLO" and "half-baked". It's taken many many people many years to get to where we are now. It's pretty easy to do a miles driven and accidents caused comparison. Self driving cars appear to be wildly safer thus far.

What would make you happy with a self-driving safety record? Why not be excited about the future?

I understand when some folks think that the focus would be better spent on public transportation, but you just seem like a hater.
You can’t talk about the test of time and then use an analogy that hasn’t stood the test of time ;)
As scaling kicks in, it'll be the cheapest transit that can be added at margin within car-centric environments. Still centrally administered, professionally operated and maintained just like a bus fleet. The modality is something that can be tinkered with to take bigger or smaller loads and correspondingly save space and fuel per trip. The incentives are basically aligned to stay cost-competitive. These are things that were never the case with taxis and privately owned cars.
Anyone know how does it compares to podman desktop?
Jeff Bezos on AI (1998) [video]
Open source creates the largest possible market share for the project.
Those doing most of the code contributions will miss out on monetizing a lot of this market. But it's better to monetize 10% of a market that is 100x bigger than monetize 100% of a market that is 100x smaller. Even if someone else isn't contributing much and is monetizing another 1% of the market.
I'd forgotten about Hughes, Voyager and TWTs, but now that you mention it, it does ring a bell.

You're likely right about the proprietary nature of such manufacturing but perhaps I'm reading too much into this. As I mentioned in an earlier post the emission in the CRT of my 43-year-old Sharp TV is still OK—at least as far as the quality of the image is concerned.

The technology used in the Wehnelt cylinder in my TV's CRT is of a similar vintage to Voyager (I'm pretty sure the TV was manufactured around 1979), and given the millions of CRTs made to similar a quality around that time it's likely that manufacturering techniques and reliability figures were widely known throughout the industry by then.

Anecdotally, I've noticed that CRTs made from the early '70s onwards had much better longevities than their earlier '50s counterparts, whether this was because the formulation of cathode emitters had changed or manufacturing techniques had improved or both is an open question.

Of course, such comparisons are tenuous but that's all I've got to go on, for starters, the Wehnelt in the Voyager's TWT would have been deigned to carry more current. Perhaps NASA has some spare TWTs that one day someone will reverse engineer and we'll know for sure.

Nevertheless, it seems to me that knowledge about component reliability is critical to NASA, so it's likely the answer already exists somewhere in the depths of NASA's archives.
The people I follow, bless their hearts, are more than capable coming up with viral range and engagement bait even given this scheme.
It just balances out that fact that ai is trained on the output of people in the first place.
A five mile trip in a SF taxi is $24.30 before tip [1]. So for five miles, this is notably a bit cheaper.

And it's obvious that "affordable" here means relative to other car services. Not relative to public transit.

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-taxi-meter-rates-...
"Each cell is a monad" makes as much sense as "41 is a commutativity".
Why your new electric car won't have a spare tire and probably won't need one
W3C: Ethical Web Principles (2022)
If that's your opinion then obviously the entire discussion is null and void :)
Just don't use wifi or connect your TV to the internet. That works for me. My TV is online only during firmware updates which almost never happen cause its become old and those stopped long time ago.
Just an anecdote, my little brother also learned to read for and with video games. He got tired of having to ask his mum what was happening.
The double life of a Gen Z Google software engineer
Folklore I heard was that after a long day of use it was just faster to restart than let the full GC run.
> "reality distortion field"

Huh - I was about to post "I just listened to that podcast!" and bro out with you about Dan Carlin and Hardcore History, but it now occurs to me, and Googling confirms, that "reality distortion field" in that podcast was probably a reference to a known saying about Steve Jobs rather than an original thought.
This isn't really a good answer.

"Society" isn't really a unit. The decision to "tolerate" alcohol isn't unanimous, I mean.

> If we can tolerate the harms from alcohol, why can't we tolerate the (much lower) harms from cannabis?

Because you're just adding more harm. Those who don't drink but smoke weed are now harmed. Those who drink and add weed are now even worse off.

There is no way to make the logic work.

If someone steals $100, it doesn't make it better for them to say "Yeah, well, that guy stole $1,000". It doesn't make their actions okay.
I don't like the goal of giving less power to extensions. Extensions have traditionally generated independent innovation, when they're allowed to. They're an escape hatch.
If you don't fully understand the topic, the smart choice would be to re-examine your own assumptions.

Do you understand how VGA displays or graphics rendering work? Or how computers boot up?

A modern linux system, RHEL, Debian, etc..., isn't going to try to load 4K graphics on a single connected VGA display, especially if you use it without any third party video drivers or adaptors that support 4K video out.

Many motherboards, even in 2023, have a direct VGA out port that it defaults to, reliably. Which is what this typically refers to.

If your still worried, then there's always the option to manually verify the installed files and boot sequence to confirm that it isn't attempting to force it.
Incumbents are fighting back against disrupters
> Why not be excited about the future?

Gestures broadly at the world

I mean I guess you have a point. Go nuts with the driverless cars.

And yes, this money would be better spent on a huge number of things — public transit among them.
I'm sure you have other things on your mind based on the many helpful comments here, but I actually got an error when trying to click the "use my camera" button on your site:

Error checking camera permission: TypeError: 'camera' (value of 'name' member of PermissionDescriptor) is not a valid value for enumeration PermissionName.
e Camera2.js:16
Babel 7
e Camera2.js:14
im Camera2.js:24
React 7
Camera2.js:21:16
Error accessing camera: DOMException: The object can not be found here. Camera2.js:40:18

In the browser, the site rendered a white screen under the header.

I'm on Firefox 116.0 on Pop!_OS (a debian) 22.04.
Statements like this make me more nervous about the advocates of nuclear energy than of the mass adoption of nuclear energy itself.

In the simplest of terms: radioactive material emits energetic particles and photons. In itself, this is not much of a problem for naturally occurring radioactive materials since it is usually in low concentrations and captured by the crust of the Earth. The problem with radioactive materials used in reactors is that it has to be concentrated, otherwise the reaction rates would be too low to be useful.

Disposing of that nuclear waste isn't as simple as sticking it in a small box then burying the box in a hole. At the very least, you're going to want that hole to be geologically stable (to ensure nature doesn't interfere with how it is stored) and physically secure (to ensure humanity doesn't interfere with how it is stored). You're going to want to consider what is absorbing those emitted particles and photons, since you want to minimize how much is being absorbed by the nuclear waste stored alongside it.

So I hope you don't mind if I dismiss your claims that it is easily stored and put more faith in engineers and scientists who specialize in nuclear waste disposal. Sure, their systems may be over engineered and more expensive than they need to be. On the other hand, they have put a lot more thought into it.
I treat public industry estimates of death from nuclear power which the same integrity I treat the fossil fuel industry reports on climate change. They are both intrinsically motivated to systematically deny the ill effects. And if you dig into the deaths you’ll find that basically any plausibly deniable cancer death is discounted. And accounting for disasters like Fukushima will try to discount deaths due to evacuation afterwards to bad policy arguing that somehow we should have let everyone to stay in the area be irradiated.

The estimates also suffer from minimization from bad human intuition - as there will be years of future deaths from Chernobyl and Fukushima but because they are both difficult to peg and small at any single point in time they get discounted.

In general the strategy is very similar in deniability effectiveness to the chemical industry in cancers and other illnesses from exposures from everything like pesticides to PFAs.
0.02 seems absolutely insanely low.

Being awake for 17 hours (working late) is similar to having a BAC of 0.05%. [1]

Being awake for 24 hours (working a double shift) is similar to having a BAC of 0.10%

Simply talking on a phone while driving has been shown to be similar to a BAC of 0.08%.

Texting while driving is equivalent to a BAC of 0.19%! [2]

It seems like 0.02% BAC would be similar to listening to the radio.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-training-for-nurses/long...

https://facilities.uw.edu/blog/posts/2016/07/26/texting-and-....
I have podman desktop installed just to get podman machine auto started on boot, otherwise I'm using podman within WSL cli. Is there a better way?
Very cool. Will try it out. Thank you so much for your work.
I'm the first to call journalists out of touch, but in this case it's you.

There's a reason that cars and private-public transport like taxis and uber are so popular all around the world, even in cities with much better public transport than SF. A reason why quite poor people will often spend a lot of money to own cars.

Look at London or cities in the Netherlands or Japan. Car ownership rates around 50% per household, and use of taxi services from time to time would be far higher.

It's because even very good busses and trains don't offer the freedom and convenience of a car. And it doesn't require an outlandish value of a person's time for that $18 to $21 to look at lot more cost competitive with the public transport option.
OrbStack dev here — sorry, can't reveal too much, but some of it is documented here: https://docs.orbstack.dev/architecture

By "we" I assume you're referring to your company/employer, so I'm curious if there's any way the license could be more palatable short of being 100% free?
I think the title is actually Hillbilly Jazz, unless it's a deep, deep cut.
https://archive.is/mnTIL

-- Related --

Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.

https://archive.is/HZ90b

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Musk Told Pentagon He Spoke to Putin Directly, New Yorker Says : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-21/musk-told...

https://archive.is/wxeqp
> This undifferentiated trend of “screen time” as a catch-all can’t die soon enough.

Sigh, why does it always have to be about you? Why can't blanket statements exist for the greater good of the general public people. I can 100% agree that we should never create laws.

It's simple and easy to understand and if individuals choose to do educational things w/ their screens then awesome! But you're the exception and removing the messaging is way more harmful than letting the "blank statement" exist.
If a couple drives 10,000 miles each for 50 years, that’s 1 million miles. In a neighborhood with 75 houses, each inhabited by such a couple, 1 person will die from driving in those 50 years. And when they die, they usually had many more years to live otherwise. That’s to say nothing of injuries.
the vast majority of computers still aren't superscalar, much less ooo; for every i7 there are 100 cortex-m0+s, which don't even have caches. gpus aren't superscalar or ooo either, just heavily multithreaded, simt, and simd

even if insertion sort reliably beats bubble sort on your ssd ftl chip and your wristwatch, though, it seems like there are cases on modern high-performance hardware where insertion sort is worse than bubble sort (cf. https://blog.reverberate.org/2020/05/29/hoares-rebuttal-bubb...) which is very surprising to me
In the US most states have a BAC requirement above 0.00 to be drunk driving (so "a sip" of alcohol doesn't qualify). Also the idea that no one should buy liquor at 10 pm or that it is strange to get drinks for someone's party is odd. Why would the liquor stores be open if no one needed liquor then?

Your statement seems pretty judgmental.

But yes, we agree don't drink and drive.
x86-64 container support on Apple silicon comes to mind.
Post-US TikTok I am seeing an uptick in pro-military/recruitment videos, as well as right-wing/fascist propaganda. I'm also seeing educational content and leftist discourse flagged at increasing rates. Is this due to influence of the US Government? I think "yes." Propaganda channels prior to US takeover had a different flavor to it. This resurgence of "vanilla" propaganda is all too familiar, and fundamentally lacks creativity. Such a bummer.
S3 is a key-value store with random access and various pricing / limits. If you can make the disk IO part of your DB map to S3 API there is nothing stopping you other than network latency, and ensuring the way you use S3 is cost effective.