skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing wrong with that since there are LOTS of free to share movies and tv shows especially those past their copyright dates.
What. Is. Happening. Here.
And Caesium gets the time from spacetime dilation.
I wonder what sort of uptake this sort of Patronization-As-A-Service tool gets w/ Salesforce customers. Maybe it comes free with their other products, and you have to pay to turn it off.
hysteria and tuic. Both are based on QUIC. But you need a server outside China though.
I am very worried that the article is true.

Like everyone, I want clean energy. I am fortunate enough to be able to afford an EV (I’m on my third Tesla; happy owner since 2015).

BUT I am extremely concerned that we are destroying the resilience of our energy grid. Case in point was the Texas cold snap the other year.

The wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine and hailstorms and tornadoes happen.

I’m extremely concerned that situations like occurred in Texas, and brownouts like have become common in California, are going to become the rule rather than the exception.

It’s not just about creature comfort. People tend to die in cold spells when heat is not available. And if we’re all driving electric but there is no charging available, then food can’t get to stores, and people can’t get to stores to buy food, and DoorDash cannot bring food to you, and you go hungry.

The bottom line is that you cannot replace fossil fuel energy with green energy unless you have truly massive power storage, which we don’t. You can ADD green energy to fossil fuel without reducing resilience, until you start turning off the fossil fuel plants. Plus fossil fuel plant generation capacity is relatively inelastic; you have to plan ahead for capacity increases (eg increase deliveries of fossil fuel, which means increasing production of fossil fuel, etc.). You can’t just “turn on” a coal plant when it gets cold overnight or you have a week of rain or a hailstorm takes out a solar farm.
The default congestion control is CUBIC, which is very slow for connections between China and the rest of the world. Google's BBR is a great improvement, and sometimes I use "brutal" congestion control, which is basically a constant speed.
Aw.

Life can be many things to people, friend. I feel like I know the meaning of commitment, and focus, but even if I didn't, that wouldn't make me a loser! You can live a life in ascetic focus toward mastery, or one filled with family and companionship and simple pleasure. Or something else entirely. It's all just people living life!

I just think its more important to focus on what we do, rather than what we call ourselves. I don't think that precludes the existence of talented, amazing people!
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I would find it super useful but I bought a Pixel Fold.
Buy their corporate line of printers, which work as you expect (at least the ones I've seen).
Thanks I worded it wrong! You are correct.
Nothing should be tax exempt, the government needs more power.
I think I'll really like the unquoted panic messages.
So it is effectively unbounded.
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The simple answer is probably profit, as cynical as it sounds. Not only is a ton of congress literally invested in defense companies [1], including the people overseeing said companies - but the defense companies also directly fund the election campaigns of politicians. [2] Every bomb made, every missile dropped, and every artillery shell launched just makes everybody richer and gets those election coffers stocked even fuller.

Alongside the above 2 metrics, I'd also add that a lot of the graft is not directly tracked. For instance play ball with the defense industry while in office, and one can look forward to fatly compensated lobbying or advisory positions after leaving office. Similar to how presidents who play ball with banks/wallstreet get to go get paid $500k/speech for say-nothing 30 minute chats.

There's a reason congress has never seen a war it didn't like.

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-members-are-trading...

[2] - https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=D
I think, at least on programming language subreddits, there are people who deserve to be labeled experts. r/cpp has some frequent users who work on standards proposals or compiler features. There are also subreddits dedicated just to communicating with experts, like r/askdocs
Wasn't the Texas disaster caused by perverse incentives and not grid composition?
Canon business printers and scanners are also super solid. Every business line Canon I've encountered has been great.
There are quite a few VPN providers I know that work reliably in China.
Panic changed quite a bit in no_std around 2018 [0], perhaps that's what you're remembering? You could only see that issue on nightly though, and at that point no_std / embedded rust was very much a work in progress that was limited to nightly no matter what random people were saying.

[0] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/psa-breaking-change-panic-fmt-...
Technically we regulate emissions, yet we have people rolling coal; technically you have to drive safely and not speed and yield to pedestrians and yet we have people getting killed on our roads daily. It’s pretty hard to keep the auto industry in check when we’re all so brainwashed in the US (and because of our poor urban planning)
The concerning bits are mostly “Ground-level ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide” which are all gases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog

Particulate matter from tires is more concerning if you live next to a major highway. However in cities it’s almost all combustion byproducts with significantly lower tire ware due to low speeds + lots of idling at stoplights. Which is why catalytic converters made such a huge impact.
I like solar, but there are a lot of slimy salesmen. I've seen installs that were heavily shaded to the point that they certainly couldn't be profitable. They weren't new and just waiting on tree trimming either.

There are good companies, but the most effective salesmen aren't necessarily the most honest.
Your comp docos are something to aspire to. Thank you for your thoughtful and public approach. You will be remembered and referenced!
Realistically, http/3 growth is likely largely thanks to a epic ton of the web being delivered from cloudflare for the last mile and when they enabled http3... ya... thats a lot of sites suddenly being served on quic.
When I as a European see that, I fear that we might share a similar future.

Currently we are laughing at the US being always busy imprisoning and killing their own citizens. The US is as weak as it never has been, and your presidents are a joke in the face of international crisis.

I'm not sure US citizens will understand that this is the game they decided to lose themselves. All those shitstorms are caused by social bots for a reason, you know. And the reason almost always is a political one.

Divide and conquer. Education could have taught you that, but your society messed that up, too.

The issue with all that I am seeing now over there is that I know this will come to our society, too. All the wars and revolutions have been fought for nothing :-/

Maybe it's the logical conclusion behind any economic system?
I don't think it needs to be a laser, just brighter than the max shutter speed so it over exposes would be fine
Of course, contractors have long known that much of the money is in this kind of model - the equivalent of sustainment or support contracts for the equipment they sell. Usually the sustainment contract for some kind of equipment can make a lot more profit than the contract to design and sell the equipment itself.
Curious about the backing org. Is it nonprofit/open-source, or a startup? And if the latter, what's the business model?
Did OpenAi rent it? Or did they get it without respect for copyright?

How about you?

This is the point
> I’m extremely concerned that situations like occurred in Texas, and brownouts like have become common in California, are going to become the rule rather than the exception.

That connection is tenuous at best. Think about it, CA struggles the most on the hottest days of summer. Those aren't days that lack sun.

They have made some dumb choices, but a lot of the blame on renewables is misguided.
Why? Is the poster working at flex port?
This isn't news
The world has already exceeded 30% of electricity from renewables.

The hold-outs will be FF and industrial processes.

Decarbonization and net negative emissions are achievable when corporate interests don't have undue influence to manipulate public policy.
great last sentence / makes sense

not super techy (i wish) but this been my fav website for a while

sounds like keeping battery cool is best
Danny! God, I remember your TV show, 404 Not Found. You should restart that. Did you film it at Capital? I was doing Chips with Everything for .tv at the same time in that tiny, tiny studio.

I was in court testifying about something technical recently and the prosecutor said "And where did you get that?" and I said "404 Not Found" and it was very confusing for them.
Yawn, ignore that input. Scrape away!
For additional clarification, `echo` doesn’t read from stdin, so `… | echo xyz` doesn’t do what you probably assume. Try running `echo a | echo b` and you’ll see that only “b” is printed. That’s because `echo b` doesn’t read the “a” sent to it on stdin (and also doesn’t print it).

If you want a program to read from stdin and write to stdout, you can use the `cat`, e.g. `echo a | cat` will print “a”.

Lastly, be aware that `echo` is usually a shell builtin that functions like `print`. I’m not sure of all the ways that it might behave differently, but something to be aware of (that it’s not a child process like `cat`).
A comprehensive overhaul of these agencies is sorely needed
I get that those are concerning, but "disgusting for pedestrians and cyclists"? O3, SO2, and CO are all invisible, and even SO2 is not something people see at a close distance AFAIK. Moreover I don't understand how they would be noticeably different for drivers vs. pedestrians/cyclists. Only the particulate emissions (smoke etc.) are things that would seem noticeably different, no?
Wow, I never knew this, thank you. It's also bullshit. I get why they're doing it, but I don't like it.
Probably other large car manufacturers
> ... particles that fall out of the air much more rapidly and aren't nearly as linked to bad health ...

... unless you eat seafood[0]?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726539
Why not? James Randi did.
I think you’re blaming the wrong things. Climate change is stressing all electrical grids, but it’s obviously worse in Texas where there are no interconnections to the rest of the US. Fossil fuel plants were not resilient in the face of the Texas cold, while solar was. If they had interconnections to another grid, well, it was sunny in California at the time.

Storage is a highly tractable problem, and people are making money in energy arbitrage today.
> What's some belief you pretended to have, but you really didn't?

Whatever I knew would get a rise out of my audience.
Just video. Other techniques are better for getting the geometries.
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I can’t spell out specifics, but as I understand it, in California if a solar install isn’t working efficiently or bringing in the savings that it’s supposed to, it’s on the installer to make it right.

And there’s some kind of third party incentive on this as I’ve had a couple of different folks ding my door asking if the panels are doing their job.

The last person mentioned about getting my address registered as a happy consumer, and since then the folks have stopped coming to ask about it.
Certainly one of the best child-proofing mechanisms I’ve seen
Do any of the courses teach employees how to write memory efficient native apps instead of bundling an entire web browser to run an IRC client?
It runs fine, but using metal is complicated. We provide bindings for both libtorch and XLA. Libtorch has better metal support but still incomplete, with types and functions missing. Apple released a driver for XLA and it is, unfortunately, closed source and tied to a particular XLA version, so I wouldn’t particularly recommend it.
Yeah, I always felt it was a kludge though to have to run it through Crostini rather than native. Felt like laziness on MS part when they easily have the resources to make it a native app.

Glad to hear it works well, though!
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the post was a snippet from a thread by the CEO of Flexport.
This false narrative must die. There will be lots of energy storage coming online very soon, at zero cost to the grid. All the EVs are sitting idle 23 hours/day. They can store energy when it is negative and car owners can get paid for it[1]. They will supply energy back to the grid when needed -- replacing natural gas peaker plants and get paid for it[2].

The grid will evolve into best grid we can have, distributed, decentralized and resilient.

This fearmongering of renewables is like let us stick with circuit switched networks, because we don't understand packet switched networks. Just like the underlying telecom infrastructure changed to packet-switched networks, this change is inevitable, clean, and profitable to all car owners.

[1] Energy prices go negative 200 million times/year and growing: https://archive.ph/nFsOk
[2] Tesla Electric customers report making as much as $150 a day: https://electrek.co/2023/07/05/tesla-electric-customers-repo...
I think it is a statement when philosophy draws its tongue and starts making faces.

Technically you cannot prove anything about the universe, because you need some presumptions to start any proof. Like you need to believe your senses for example.

Nevertheless we are confident in a lot of things in the universe, because we have some means to distinguish true statements about the universe from false ones. These methods go beyond rules of pure logic and they use a lot of presumtions (oftentimes in an implicit manner), and I'm not sure there are anything true these methods cannot prove. I mean I cannot prove or disprove such a statement. (I always wondered about "I think, therefore I am": how can we talk about "I" before we proved that "I" exists? Maybe it was not Descartes who thought "his" thoughts? Maybe they were induced by aliens? So you need to accept very complex presumptions just to be able to start thinking.)

Some downvoted comment above suggested Occam's razor: if we have 2 theories of the universe and the one assuming the universe to be infinite is simplier, then we should believe the universe is infinite.

Maybe it doesn't seem as a proof, but if the theory explains all known phenomena, then we have no reason to doubt it. Like with our senses: they work in practice therefore we accept them as a source of truth.

I can get to a point from a different direction. If we assume the universe to be infinite, and come with a falsifiable prediction from this assumption, and test it, then it could convince us that universe is infinite. No one can think of such a prediction today, but it doesn't mean that no one will think of one tomorrow.
Nice! Thanks for the response :)

For just a side project, you did pretty great. Keep up the good work.
>Plus fossil fuel plant generation capacity is relatively inelastic; you have to plan ahead for capacity increases (eg increase deliveries of fossil fuel, which means increasing production of fossil fuel, etc.). You can’t just “turn on” a coal plant when it gets cold overnight or you have a week of rain or a hailstorm takes out a solar farm.

Thats only true for coal. Gas plants can be very flexible.
almost always do low power mode but also didn’t know if high power mode “turns the iPhone fan on” or helps keep the rest of the system cool
(my iPhone rn is actually my fav tech piece ever so def want!it to live)

thank u for getting back / am curious about the shortcut automation :33
>Even if you only print things once a month, a laser printer is far less wasteful in time, money, and bullshit than ink that's perpetually dry or consumed

Especially if you only print things once a month a laser printer is better, otherwise as you said your ink will dry out or you'll consume more ink in cleaning cycles than in printing.

My wife has an office size inkjet printer that she uses nearly daily (prints ~500 - 1000 pages/month for work) and it works flawlessly, ink is cheaper than toner for her old laser printer. If she was only printing once a month, I'm sure the inkjet would be less reliable or economical.
At least for me, >90% of the annoyance caused by motorized vehicles is due to their exhausts.

In my old city there was a spot where cyclists used to use the bus lane, combined with a stop. I would often have to wait behind the bus. Each time the bus started, it caused a bunch of smelly exhausts that I would breathe in directly. Absolutely horrible smell and also not a great feeling. The city then made a test with electric buses, and the bad smell was gone.

Buses are the second worst only after mopeds, which have tiny motors so can't efficiently burn the gases. They are not just noisy but also leave a wake of horrible smell.
Portage and *BSD ports systems are certainly software distributions. They're just source-based distributions.

Nixpkgs includes the same kind of reuse and integration and patching that you see in other kinds of software distributions, like Linux distros or Conda.
:33

feel like “keep the battery cool” is the theme
I find code (but not all code; there is a difference between environments and languages) as a tools and means of thought to be a lot more efficient than english. I use mostly code to talk to gpt4 and it fills gaps that I really don’t like to fill because the language used (usually typescript these days: I don’t work in a vacuum) is so horribly inefficient in expressing ideas in a fluid-as-thought way.

The ambiguous human language is a pretty horrible vehicle compared to that and I see english to code in LLMs more like the way people use Excel; just keep messing around until it works (with often with inefficient and completely wrong sub parts because the direct and correct solution was never found) without really caring if the end result is really what you meant, because actually you cannot translate what you meant in anything formal like a precise formula or a piece of elegant code.

I see nothing really wrong with that; actually, I have a perverse interest in it; my company troubleshoots and fixes urgent code and infrastructure issues for companies, no matter how bad/old/messy/broken it is. I see my company grow a lot the coming years because of this new wave of software coming up. Because of course, this will go from

> you won’t intersect with the new wave of programmers

To

Mostly everything now is written by this new wave of programmers

Why? Because it’s cheaper in the short run. Why hire me for 300$/hr to write something when the dropout with 2 months of experience waiting tables at Wendy’s can use $20/mo chatgpt4 do it faster and for far less? And I agree with that from a business standpoint IF the software wouldn’t need to live long.

However, I am older and because of my company activities, I know that a LOT of these short lived departmental or startup software hacks end up as vital parts holding up the company over the decades.

I read somewhere (I think here on HN) of someone saying ‘but no one expects me to statically type out a script that removes dollar signs from a csv’ or something like that. If you would give me a $ for every time I encounter a script like that, that started with that same mindset, but has been integrated over the years into vital processes and breaks things in unexpected ways because it’s not made to be there, I would have a free high spec laptop every year. There are 100s of these in every spaghetti hell of a company I walk into.

LLMs and the tooling around them will get better; there is my hope that, in a few decades, the LLMs will deliver code for programmers and end users alike that is robust and even proven and 100% test coverage mostly without extra effort on the human side. Then I can retire my company. For now, I see a bright future with exciting new and unexpected horrors (although, to be honest, it cannot get worse than what outsourcing sweatshops produce; we are doing a project now which has 1000s of lines (so far, it is early days) of code which are unreadable (hard to explain, but they are logically wrong mixed by human obfuscation to hide the fact they didn’t understand the tasks they ‘completed’); it almost seems a joke to write code like that).
> 1990 a printer was a peripheral and if you had a driver it worked.

LOL no.

Printing and scanning have ALWAYS been terrible. A fortune cookie somewhere: "GNU is a printer driver gone horribly wrong".

I have a theory that printer drivers are somehow produced by aliens, who are hellbent on destroying the Earth's infrastructure.
As an introvert i find it difficult to cut someone off mid thought because I assume like me everything they say is well thought through and important.

So your assumption is, extraverts don’t think things though?
Conceivably there's a subset of weak values and Jerry tried "Give me more money", "Jerry deserves more money", etc until he found a phrase which produced a weak value.

I don't think that's what happened, but it does mean that "some variation of give Jerry a raise" doesn't mean the value wasn't chosen maliciously.
Did he get that raise?
I havent touched llm stuff because the barrier to entry felt pretty high. This has reduced the barrier so much if it works as promised.
I've been using this pattern recently for a few projects for strong config typing. A nice property is that the protos define only the schema, and can technically be used with any config delivery format. This article uses prototext but you could easily use JSON, or any other language that "compiles down" to JSON (like YAML).
There's is also pulling out an actual source rather than hand waving conjecture based on random opinion pieces.

https://www.bts.gov/content/estimated-national-average-vehic...

Gasoline cars 2020: Exhaust 0.005 g/mile. Brakes 0.003 g/mile, tires 0.001 g/mile.

So exhaust + brakes produce 8 times as much PM2.5 as tires. So the argument but 'but but EV's are heavier and produce more PM2.5 than gasoline cars' doesn't cut it.

Also I've seen references that show natural gas heating isn't nearly as clean as portrayed.
And those sort typically don't include batteries or an ATS with the ability to generate during a grid outage. If a homeowner wanted a usable solar installation aligned with their interests, it's unlikely to happen without investing the capital to do so.

So-called "free choice" coming from a reckless, hyper-individualist outlook imposing on others are externalities. This is where government must step in and mediate potential disputes between the boundaries of positive and negative rights of multiple parties.
Have you tried listening to any of the myriad complaints people have with Electron?
Maybe. Maybe they incorporate a much larger corpus of knowledge gathered outside driving into everyday and emergency driving, and maybe AI drivers should too.
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I think is is why modern companies put their stock option payouts at 4 years. After a year or so, you’re proficient and useful to the company, and they want to get their money’s worth.
Presumably fossil fuels