skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few comments:

Your comment assumes that the utility needs to be using up lots of land to power customers. Rooftop solar is far more efficient and there is no extra transmission required. Utilities don't need to consume vast tracts of land just to provide power to customers.

> retail price

Utilities in California (by law) already deduct fees out of this, so it's not reimbursed at full retail rate anyway under old NEM rules. There's also an absolutely massive gap between retail and wholesale rates that could be explored.
ah out of memory, I'll try with a shorter track.
Surely you understand the underlying message about perverse or mis-aligned incentive?

Are you familiar with the fallacy fallacy?
I'll write a dissenting opinion, feel free to disagree: It's not only about Smart Devices, it's a direct shot at the Garmin ANT+ Ecosystem and capturing the fitness market.

Take Cycling: ANT+ Radio is the defacto standard for cyclists sensors. Everything from power meters to heart rate monitors use ANT+ because of its incredible battery life, ease of connectivity, and low latency. Yes there are BLE versions of everything, but they absolutely suck batteries. I change the batteries in my speed/cadence sensors maybe once every 18 months. Apple proved it can already reach these battery lifetimes with AirTags.

Apple typically enters a market and destroys competitor markets by introducing a new protocol and only supporting the new standard, fragmenting the market, then holding out until competitors run out of cash, at which point they can do whatever they way.

They're often quite successful with this, although they recently had to admit defeat with USB-C.
> I didn’t even ever meet a Harvard grad when I was at Amazon - it’s hard to not meet one at Google or Jane Street (more so the later of course).

I met two at Microsoft and none at Google. It mattered exactly zero to anyone. Do you, like, just ask everyone at work which college they went to? Because I don't know that info for most of my coworkers, and neither do I care. Pretty certain that most people I work with don't know where I went to school either. The only times I even remember it being brought up front and forward was when we hosted interns, because duh, they go to school somewhere and they mention it.

> one without having Olympic medals (apparently Google publishes a list of Googler-olympians)

I personally don't know a single googler-olympian or know of one. I am sure they exist, as well as that list you are talking about, but this is literally something that no one cares about. 99.99% (probably even more) of googlers are not olympians and probably dont even know what that actually means.

> famous friends or ski trips

Famous friends - you assume they made those "famous friends" from working at a tech company as a regular engineer? And what even counts as "famous"? As for ski trips, my friends working across a bunch of companies (including amazon and noname companies) do it all the time. They just don't see the need to expose it all to everyone who isn't their actual irl friend.

> I go on Twitter for 5 minutes and see a Yale grad with 15 mutual with Vivek

Bro. Having twitter mutuals is not the same as being friends with someone. Also, I am pretty sure that bragging about being friends with Vivek (if you were one) is how one gets ostracised in a lot of circles. For a lot of people in tech, admitting to supporting him would be a social semi-suicide.

> Ive been “lifting” for years with zero improvement [...]. I’ve been leetcoding for years with zero improvement.

Get a personal trainer for at least a little bit, so that they can pinpoint what you might be doing wrong and teach you proper form and advise on nutrition. Something is going wrong somewhere, unless you suffer from one of the extremely rare diseases (e.g., some thyroid ones) or you figured out how to break the laws of physics or defy all that is currently known about human body.

Get a tutor or someone to study with using leetcode. Just throwing time at "practicing" things is a waste of time. Practice has to be mindful, and focused on improving specific aspects. If you practice a piano piece, you don't just go from start to finish over and over. You break it into chunks, focus on the problematic ones, figure out why they are problematic, train yourself in those areas, get better, then glue it all together. Just running a piece from start to finish over and over is a waste of time. Having a teacher, at least at first, would net you massive benefits. It is a night and day in terms of trying to get all the basics right on your own vs. with someone who can save you the time and anquish by pinpointing how and where you can improve.

> What’s even the point of working hard if I’ve never gotten anything for it?

Working hard isn't enough, working smart is.
He has a history of these kinds of garbage views/comments. He’s sorry for the backlash, not sorry for his comments.
If changing the parameters upsets the constraint solver, you can sometimes work around it by changing them in smaller increments (e.g. so that a "length" doesn't flip to the other side of a line).
Oh my god. That just fired a neuron in my brain that hasn't been active in almost 30 years I think. I literally forgot I programmed with that at one point!
Google's per-user software subscription model works to their benefit here, as it lets schools and businesses trade the money saved from a less frequent hardware upgrade schedule for additional years of Google product usage.
Make Member Function Const and Global Function Static in Visual Studio
Hmmm....I think they have a PR problem. Had no idea it existed. Author is definitely interesting.
This does nothing to stop meth.
I don't think they disclose that, but if they did it's probably somewhere in this document

https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Annotated-B...
Well, yes. How else will they mail the <useless junk> you ordered to you?

It does annoy me that paypay doesn't let me enter custom email addresses to give the merchant. I've had to change my paypal email address several times now due to stores selling it to spammers.
> I think dev tools should be provided for free or cheap to people experimenting or starting out, but there is a point where people are taking the piss if they sell 200k copies and they still think they should be able to use the tools for free(or nearly free).

You have completely misunderstood the discussions if you think the issue is indie devs wanting to use the engine for free. If it were just a percentage of revenue, few people would complain. Instead the pricing structure is explicitly made in a way that puts small developers at risk if their cheap small game happens to go viral.
This is not sad at all. The sense of childlike wonder and intellectual humility were essential to the great minds of history. If you feel like you’re getting a handle on things remember this quote and who said it. It is as true today as it was then and we could all benefit by remembering it.
He meant a 40% increase in the current unemployment rate. Still a moronic thing to say.
> However I've noticed a lot of newer music from bands that are on Bandcamp isn't on Bandcamp.

At least in terms of metal, the primary genre that I browse in Bandcamp, I've found the trend of record labels having a core Bandcamp page that acts as a hub and collects all of their releases is becoming more common.

Examples:

https://listen.20buckspin.com/

https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/

A lot of these bands might have older Bandcamp pages exclusively for them, but a lot of their newer releases are released and can be purchased only from that hub label page. I don't find it too annoying; it actually makes discoverability better for a lot of bands I might never find. A downside is there can be these older band pages that have no updates.
The cut is 500% of revenue, as stated in this and several articles. Read before posting.
Unfortunately now you can pay to have your tweets be huge-article sized.
I would simply _____.
I don't think it's even covering just the last few years but goes back further than that:

> For Chromebooks released before 2021 and already in use, users and IT admins will have the option to extend automatic updates to 10 years from the platform’s release (after they receive their last automatic update).

I don't entirely understand why the 2021 cutoff for it being opt-in vs. opt-out is there. Maybe it's about the "already in use" bit somehow, and making sure that pre-2021 models don't continue being manufactured and sold as as new.
I have no idea why you think it's difficult at all. On windows Microsoft provides you directly with functionality to query the device ID, that's good enough but in reality if you pair it with some kind of online login system it's pretty much all you need.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47603786/where-do-window...
Yeah, this is like the holy grail of transplantation research
http://web.archive.org/web/20100821041938/http://blog.okcupi...
The science of computing is a real science.
Honestly I am so excited about this, it could litteraly be a way to eliminate deadly allergies, like foods and insects of course, but also medication and seasonal allergies
I'm not saying that this is proof that it can reason, but rather that the fact that it can't isn't proof that it can't on its own
Slow release may not be a bad thing. Modern dating seems so dehumanizing...if the NPC you're matched with doesn't check all of your preference boxes, reroll them.

But if OKCupid drags this process out so you only get n matches per month, they maximize revenue while maybe encouraging people to appreciate each other's differences.

Like getting a "crappy" CD from Columbia House...might as well listen to it. Maybe it'll grow on you!
No, I flat out don't believe this. Maybe you got a good source. I've never seen it for less than $10 for the small box.
I have found another way in the documentation for `concurrent.futures`. You can use `Executor.map` (https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#co...). It eliminates the need to wait on the futures explicitly.

def main():
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=len(URLs)) as executor:
for url, title in zip(URLs, executor.map(fetch_url, URLs)):
print(f"URL: {url}\nTitle: {title}")

The default value of `max_workers` since
Python 3.8 has been

min(32, os.cpu_count() + 4)

You should probably avoid

max_workers=len(items_to_process)

It will not save memory or CPU time when you have few items (workers are created as necessary)
and may waste memory when you have many.
No, it applies to all games. Say you publish an iOS game for 1$, and a user installs it on two devices which he replaces after a couple of years - you'll owe Unity more money than you took in from the sale.
Not quite true. Regular VACUUM marks dead tuples as available for re-use, so the system can overwrite the dead tuples with fresh ones after a VACUUM. VACUUM FULL completely rewrites and repacks the table.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-vacuum.html
> Whereas once you have a free ISA which is actually in widespread use, you could get some designs out of universities or major corporations which intend to use them rather than sell them as their primary business and then release the design for the same reason they do for Linux code, potentially under a copyleft-style license.

We've had open ISAs for decades. The problem isn't with ISA licensing, the problem is cost-of-entry.

Most people have a computer...it costs nothing to install Linux and GCC/rustc/Python/etc and start contributing to open source software. For open hardware, you need (at minimum) a decent FPGA for testing/development; but access to fabrication resources to be in anyway competitive.

Don't get me wrong, I'm generally pro on RISC-V; I just don't think it's the revolution everyone is making it out to be.
What's a non human source of CO2 emissions that we can reasonably prevent?
Neither can a human. Unless the human subconsciously re-evaluates their output and refines it before speaking, much like running the LLM output through the model again. Or if they've learnt it through past experience reinforcing that pathway much like LLM learning and adjusting weights to factor that in so it would impact its output in future.
What is the antigen that is responsible for Crohn's disease? Is it always the same one? Also the original article doesn't mention Crohn's at all, just celiac.

It seems interesting that one galactose molecule (alphagal [1, 2]) is immunogenic in xenotransplantation and tick allergy, but two galactose molecules (pGal) are tolerogenic in this case

1- Identification of carbohydrate structures that bind human antiporcine antibodies: implications for discordant xenografting in humans https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1566430/

2- Identification of alpha-galactosyl and other carbohydrate epitopes that are bound by human anti-pig antibodies: relevance to discordant xenografting in man
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7521740/
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The python code sample starts off with C/C++ style comments.
I've only been on medium-small teams, but I'll give it a shot:

Merging is essentially as banned as we can make it; we use Perforce, and set all .uasset files (Blueprints and other UE assets) as Exclusive Checkout so only one person can edit them at a time. This is recommended by Epic. When we do need to merge things, it's mostly a manual process of opening the Editor on two branches and duplicating all of the changes.

All of the refactoring-related questions, again, mostly manual effort. There are some constructs that can help keep things DRY which reduces the problem, like BP function and macro libraries. You also get inheritance and interfaces. UE also lets you redirect property, class, and function names to new names using "Core Redirects"; you can do that and then resave all packages to effect a bulk change.

Finding all references: Search All in UE will find a string anywhere; that means in property details, BP function calls, variable names, comments, anything. There's not exactly a "find references" as you might expect from a normal IDE though.

Really, the ultimate solution to dealing with these and the general "visual scripting spaghetti" problem if they're on the verge of becoming acute is to stop using Blueprint. We try not to use Blueprint for any complicated systems. It's nice for simple presentation-related things (e.g. "play x sound when y happens"), or places where we want designers to have some control for tuning or prototyping, but even for something that seems "straight-forward" like GUI code it can very easily end up spiraling out of control.

Blueprint also has a performance cost and it's hard to profile. UE5 dropped UE4's main attempt to fix this with "nativized" Blueprints, i.e. Blueprints that got compiled into C++. There are ways to improve Blueprint performance, but you really shouldn't even get yourself into a place where you're leaning on it so heavily that you can even worry about that.
Twitter will not even allow you to unsubscribe from their emails anymore unless you log into their platform. I'm not sure of the details, but isn't that a violation of the CAN-SPAM act?
Seems like Facebook is more in maintenance mode vs Instagram. Lets not also forget they made a massive push into Metaverse so I'm sure engineering was stretched thin on their other platforms.

Wasn't Graph API going away because of that whole Cambridge Analyitica scandal?
Some good examples:

- Related to the post at hand and some of its comments: https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/pe...

- Meta 1: https://programmerhumor.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/progra...

- Meta 2: https://assets.website-files.com/611cc49abc685aa7e3817103/64...

- The one I hope most people would follow in Data Science/Engineering: https://i.redd.it/s7olw2f01ra81.jpg
The point is, even if it works, if you need 4 months for it to work instead of 1 month, that is 4 times the revenue for them.

So yes, it have to work, at least for their reputation, but it also have to not work that much.
I think there is a third definition of "science":

3. What is actually happening in academia

I think most people exposed to science#3 from the inside can agree that science#2 works – and indeed works surprisingly well – despite science#3, not because of it.
Looking again I think if I push with the middle of my finger then it goes redder but if I push at at angle with the edge it goes whiter
Short term cash flow but with a potential future of 0 new projects ever being greenlight using Unity...

I guess it is still better than going even deeper into debt short term but the thing is that there is so many more ways they could have done that, yet they seems to have picked the one that ensure them in practice no future at all.
That entire sentence means nothing, and is entirely irrelevant to my comment and the discussion at hand.
It's usually (70% of the time, or more) caused by the host immune system destroying the beta cells in the pancreas.
Some people just want to live in a world of sound-bites and hot-takes.

They're also the sorts of people who believe most books should be replaced by a paragraph-long summary.
No it bloody well does not. The "maximize shareholder value" thing has never been read that strictly by a court of law (otherwise, Apple would have been ripe for a suit when they told off an activist investor rep who was upset they were pursuing environmental goals at the expense of better ROI [1]).

Companies hollow out (or enshittify) their products because it is easy and because it guarantees results at least in the short term. There are other ways to grow, and they tend to require imagination and long-term planning. Don't blame the stock market for entirely voluntary choices of taking the easy way out.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/03/at-apple-shareholder...
> People are all stressed out about not watering their lawns

Salt Lake City requested that residents reduce usage to keep enough drinking water in the reservoirs. This is pretty separate from the lake and upstream farming issues, no? I think the canyon runoff goes to Utah lake and not GSL? Some places legitimately went very very low on drinking water last year due to low runoff and high usage. I think it’s important to care about both watering lawns and the salt lake.
I as an coder would ____
Mounting is pretty normal behavior for a dog. I wouldn't call that "having sex"
More technical overview at https://www.whonix.org/wiki/About
> even bicycle

Yep there have been a few of these [1].

The first trip to the south pole by cycling however was actually by tricycle by a researcher[2] who was riding alongside the South Pole Traverse[3] which is a tractor + sled motorcade for hauling cargo and supplies to and from the south pole station.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Antarctic_cycling_expe...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Leijerstam
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Traverse
You’ve made my Python projects more enjoyable this year more than any other change I can think of
And C++ outperforms C#, so native modules are always an option where you really need performance. Yes, you have to build for every platform but most projects really won't need it - but its there so you know you have options when you do. GDNative is also an option to avoid building the core engine, and its still at least as fast as C#.
Any idea what the efficiency loss might be?

I’m sure the loss is very high, but maybe could be overcome with ample solar inputs?
I think its more about ChatGPT's style of dry, technical, gramatically eloquent summarization without any "hot takes" or questions like one would expect from human commenters on a forum.

Also the intro feels like an out-of-the blue textbook entry, not a start to a comment.

> Think of LLMs as massive libraries of information. Accessing and using this library efficiently, without wasting space or time, is crucial.

Of course, plenty of human users do this, and I don't think OP is actually an LLM, but some suspicion is reasonable these days.
No, I don't, because I never said that, because there was never scientific consensus around that. Anyway, I hope you live long enough to see the world burn.
By my own little comparison in which I've given the same song to both, Demucs appears much better (while requiring an app and consuming far more CPU).

Thanks for sharing! I had no idea this was a thing.
The word "lore" is used because the "history" of something can refer to things beyond the fictional story of a story. It's used precisely so that people know the subject matter is about fiction and not real life. Your documentation is not a work of fiction, I hope?
Indeed we know it was deliberate, the producers have talked about it before.
How do they/you remove the confound of becoming more conservative vs less confident, or do they assume that overconfidence and being conservative are opposites?

I might be motivated to be more conservative because I have a reputation to protect, but not actually be less confident. This may have an effect just as much as because I am more experienced.

I may also have just learned not to express my overconfidence interpersonally, while still exhibiting it in practice. Expressing appropriate levels of confidence is a skill, not just the absence of overconfidence.

I can’t access the paper currently.
They're repurposing an existing telemetry system that already counts installs and cannot distinguish between a new install and a reinstall. They've been using it for at least five years.

I only know this because they specifically pointed it out when announcing the new pricing plan.
Oh yeah, and they had Inbox, which I LOVED, and sadly, they killed off
Indeed. Intelligence is just I/O and gradient descent. The Universe is code. etc.

Coupled with an asocial, greed-driven and essentially anti-humanist agenda its just the worst possible moment (severe environmental stresses across the planet) to hijack whatever potential digital tech offers...

Sigh.
All these apps constantly redesigning themselves makes me long for the days when everything was disconnected and you had to make a conscious choice to upgrade or not by installing from a bunch of floppies. Imagine a world where the automakers could break into your garage any time, without warning, and replace your steering wheel with a little joystick, new buttons in the ceiling instead of footpedals. No-one would tolerate that shit. Would they????

There was a brief, glorious period when SaaS and mobile apps made our lives better. Now it's just a rollercoaster of stress caused by corporate ADHD and non-stop enshittification.
I want you to have some amount of self respect, and appreciation for your craft.
No I don't think I have misunderstood at all.

>> puts small developers at risk if their cheap small game happens to go viral.

Please explain how exactly, because I'm really not grokking it.

If your small free game goes viral = you pay nothing.
If your small paid game goes viral = you pay a small fee per install, but since you are making money on these sales this is functionality identical to perfentage of revenue(please convince me otherwise) and I don't see the problem.

From my perspective it seems like a lot of complaining is being done by people on Unity Personal licences who are now upset they will have to pay to use the engine if they actually make money - I don't support those people. I'm yet to see a legitimate example of a business that would be put in any kind of danger because of these rules.