skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty easy to cheer when it's crypto. But if we are onto the slippery slope of canceling utility customers who don't use their power judiciously, let's go ahead and cut off a few more customers while we are at it:

1) Anybody using resistive heating instead of heat pumps.

2) Anybody that uses a non-induction electric stove.

3) Anybody heating an outdoor pool or hot tub.

4) Anybody still using an incandescent bulb.

5) Anybody who leaves the lights on after they leave the room.

6) Anybody who use their TV to watch a reality show.

Actually come to think of it, residential consumption in its entirety is a total joke when examined from an efficiency standpoint. Really, if you play this nonsense to the endgame, it's best for utility companies to cut their losses and simply end residential service altogether.
Foxconn in Wisconsin is the one people love to mention.

AFAIK - they got $3B in FUTURE benefits - of which none came to fruition.

Foxconn delivered nothing and also got almost nothing (~1% of that $3B).

Yeah - it was a dumb political stunt - and it unfortunately worked for the time. But it wasn't the massive financial disaster people think it was.
I mean the smart/dumb lazy/hardworking axes, not the underlying concept
Can anyone explain what is happening as you get a few nines in your velocity?

Yes, that's the microwave background being blueshifted, but why is it growing across the screen? Shouldn't the angle that's blueshifted be less and less as you go faster? At lower speeds we do see the starbow effect, passing stars going down the spectrum as the angle increases.

And what becomes of the stars as you're going fast enough? Yes, most of the energy is shifted out of view but don't stars emit some at such low energies?
The significant part of this, for me, is not the image model. It's that Apple rarely publishes in the vision field. Back in Neurips (2016 I want to say?) Apple had a workshop where they said "we're going to engage more with the academic community, we're going to publish more," but since then only a small number of CV projects have seen the academic light of day. I remember one on detection of flashing lights, a whitepaper/tech report on Hey Siri wakeword detection, some interesting synthetic image generation for iris recognition, now this.

If I had to guess, I think Apple Research may have some institutional obstacles to getting research work out there. Perhaps this could indicate those walls are continuing to dissolve bit by bit?
I think you misconceive how open source projects need to work. Some projects (especially those in the web-dev niche) might view their relationship with upstream the way you do. But others do not.

For Ardour, we feel entirely free to just bring an upstream library into our source tree if we need to. And we also have our dependency stack builder that configures and occasionally patches upstream libraries to be just the way we need them. We do not wait for upstream adoption of our patches.

Most recently, for example, we became aware of impending moves by various Linux distros to remove GTK2, which we rely on. Even though we don't support distro builds, we want Linux maintainers to still be able to build the software, so we just merged GTK2 into our source tree.

This idea that using a 3rd party library becomes some sort of constraint is very, very far from reflecting universal truth. If we need to hack a 3rd party lib to make it do what we need, we just do it. Meanwhile, we get all the benefits of that lib. Ardour depends on about 86 libraries - we would be insane to rewrite all that functionality from scratch.
Hmmm, a parent can perhaps sign an NDA on behalf of their child, so could they sign an NDA with themselves?

To the lawyers!
Please make your substantive points without swipes, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

This is particularly important when the topic is divisive. That's in the guidelines too btw.
Crypto is so inherently wasteful it's completely unethical. At least they're trying to use hydro here but by and large, this is an unreasonable resource grab.

To add to this, the article states it's the equivalent of 570,000 apartments worth of energy.

To what end? There is still no real use case for bitcoin, it can't compete with any modern financial transaction system in performance, it's difficult to secure, it's just a bad deal and I can't understand how we've allowed it to grow as much as it has.
Judging by the comments here the article in question was intended to elicit a strong emotional response out of readers. A reflex that predominantly swings towards controversial.

It succeeded in its supposed mission.
Many leaders have discovered that war against an external enemy is a powerful unifier, at least in the short to medium term. I would never assume that Xi won’t eventually take advantage of that.
I think the situation here is something that's good for a specific user but bad for the wider community.

It seems like the perfect case for an authority to step in.

Think about what the rationale for having a common utility even is: a group pools its resources so everyone can have a better power system (more reliable, cheaper) than each could have running their own. Obviously, for that to work though, there has to be a way to prevent individuals from abusing the system.

I agree it shouldn't matter what anyone's opinion of the use is, but that doesn't appear to be what's happening here.
I have always found SQL to be one of the easiest languages to read, despite not being the easiest to write. Though I have never had to read 3k of SQL, maybe a page or two
Somewhat tangential - is there any good OSS podcatchers out there?
I've worked a bit on browser engines, although it was quite some time ago.

I don't think it'd help much.

- There's been a Cambrian Explosion in the web API surface era. The modern stuff dwarfs the old stuff. Dropping support for older/less frequently used mechanisms does not shed as much code and complexity as you might think.

- Beyond mere surface area, the level of engineering required to implement a sort of "Restricted Core Profile" to a competitive degree (e.g. performance) is quite high, if you're talking true blank-canvas development.

- There's a long tail effect in full force, where even mostly-modern websites will use and rely on some cruft here and there, making very few pages work in your supposed browser.

That is to say, it's still a very large, tough project. But the FOSS community has achieved quite a few large, tough projects; it's not the same as saying that it's not possible, of course.
I have a 7500W dual-fuel generator but haven't gotten around to installing a transfer switch yet. I have a well pump and a gas boiler that I really miss when the power is out :)

Radiant in-floor heat is pretty efficient (and it's nice not to have an ice-cold floor first thing in the morning), just need power for the circulation pumps and the boiler. My back up heat is a wood-burning stove - and we have lost power for several hours when the temps are -20F or so...
Good points. My perspective is skewed towards high-end phones, and I haven't used Android in a couple years.
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Probably true! Looked up the totals to see how many cars this would likely cover. Looks like total EV sales for Ford since 2021 are 135k. Tesla has sold 3.1mil in that same time period.
> If you live right on the ocean shore you might get a mild enough climate to not need backup, but most of Canada is not that. (though the population may tend that way)

There are high-efficiency heat pumps that you can use most of the time, and to my knowledge at least in Ontario, most of the heat pump setups I've seen use a heat pump with a back-up heater for days it gets too cold. And that's fine, it saves a ton of money over the course of the year vs. running resistive. 90% of people in Canada live within 100 miles (160km) of the US border and most people live in pretty moderate climates.

The low-temperature heat pumps I've seen work down to -20F (-30C). It's not -30C anywhere in Canada people live for much of the year. Even Winnipeg you'll only get into the danger zone a few weeks of the year.

If you live in Alert, feel free to stick to resistive.
It’s also got nearly the entire library of iPad apps available to it to tide users over until native alternatives appear, plus for many apps providing a native version is little more than ticking a box in Xcode on existing iOS projects.

This might sound trivial but it determines how long the user is able to use the device exclusively without relying on their phone, computer, etc which is a major factor in it being used at all.
I recently found out about llama-cpp's official "Server" function: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/...

Works like a charm for my (simple) use case. I'm running it on an Always Free Oracle Ampere A1 instance with 4 cores and ~20gb of memory. (Obligatory "fuck Larry Ellison" here)
I'm not commenting on whether it should be permitted or not.
However, they presumably pay tax on revenue and employ engineers, electricians etc. So I'm not sure of your latter 2 points are totally valid. I'd contend that they're fairly similar to a data center in that they have massive power draw, do not produce physical goods and employ few people compared to the space and resource usage. Obviously data centers are much more pragmatic and are much less contentious, though.
> You're looking at far too small a window. The population in New Orleans peaked decades ago.

The point about New Orleans was to refute your argument about Hurricanes. The population is now higher than it was before Katrina, and it's still growing.

If you arbitrarily choose the peak population year, then it's currently 5% lower than the peak year, but again, the population is now growing not shrinking, and it's as high now as it was back in 1975, an even wider window than you selected.

In any case, you've conveniently avoided my request for a citation that the world population is moving away from the coasts.

> I presume you consider your method

More baseless nonsense. I'm done here. I've already wasted too much time on your junk comments.
Is it possible that the scammer works for paypal or has someone on the inside with access to open and close tickets?
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Meanwhile all the grads are on teamblind and grinding out leetcode. They know Amazon is easier to get a job at but will work you hard. They already know the system and are playing it.
> People's intuitions around hiring aren't Bayesian enough.

People's intuitions around hiring are extremely Bayesian, which is why we have all sorts of laws and regulations and HR departments that try to counteract various prejudicial priors.
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> (They asked early on for my phone number “for the tracking information,” which in retrospect doesn’t make a lot of sense.)

When I have shipped parcels (legitimately to people I know personally), the courier services have a place on the form for phone numbers. And I do generally try to make sure I fill in an accurate phone number.
>> You would need a linux phone app ecosystem, and developers building popular apps for it, for linux phones to take off.

I believe this is the same thing that sank the Windows Mobile platform and their phones. They had everything BUT the ecosystem which made a lot of users hesitant to switch because a lot of their apps weren't available in the MS app store.

Thanks for the clarification, it helped iron out a lot of my questions.
> I paid $1,030 using PayPal

Stopped reading right there. I don't know why anyone thinks this kind of transaction will ever work out in their favor. FB Marketplace/Craigslist etc. are fine, but the golden rule is to use them for local, in-person, cash-only exchanges and nothing else.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of which nation. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I think there are modern frameworks which render everything in webgl/webgpu with the canvas
Vastly different scenario. My AI being super power efficient doesn't harm yours; there's a shared incentive to make it as cheap and low-power usage as possible. We're not scrabbling to take a share of a limited pie as we would over a block reward.

Proof-of-work cryptocurrency power usage/efficiency is a zero-sum game in a way AI is not.
It's not complaining about having a different opinion, it's that the way you present it is vitriolic. It doesn't matter (at least to me) if you don't like the project or don't see the point. There's just no reason to insult and demean the project and its creators.
I don't know enough to really say anything with confidence, apart from that if Apple's track record is anything to go by, if any company can get VR-for-work right, I suspect it's them. Not my 10 but I suspect it will be a lot of people's.
Yep, same story with solar rebates, most of it goes to the installer.

Home construction work is really interesting, because the transaction costs are so high around locating and comparing the service providers.

It is easy to say there isnt enough competition, but im not sure that is actually true. I think more likely is that most consumers dont collect 10+ quotes and compare, so the price signal is weak.
This is the effort from the 90s to which I am referring:

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/04/tsmcs-morr...

“We still have about a thousand workers in that factory, and that factory, they cost us about 50% more than Taiwan costs,” Chang said.
I'm trying to decide if that's a cut on the husband (who can't really do much after he dies) or a cut on the wife because that's actually an actionable ad for him if she dies.
I never liked the Windows confirmation messages "Are you sure you ...". If I answered affirmative, it completed the operation.If I replied negative, it never ever offered help deciding.
I was expecting Rick Roll, really disappointed.
(in Rust) :)
> 1. So it's not so much "not providing power" for some political or philosophical reason but "not providing all the power they want."

this is a pretty incoherent sentence. Not providing all the power they wish to purchase is, as per their argument, "not providing power", and the reasons given, "(a) they plan to use power and (b) not create jobs" are political and philosophical reasons.

The economic argument is "making money creates jobs when you spend the money, or invest it which in turn causes it to be spent".

The "global warming is a negative externality" argument wasn't made, if it were made would need inspection. Is there a current surplus of (hydro, net) power in Canada, perhaps not sustainable into the future but for the lifetime of the mining rigs contemplated?

>2. The miner wants the equivalent of ~500,000 apartments worth of power...which is substantial.

if it's currently in surplus, it's surplus, i.e. there aren't a half million apartments whose lights would go out

>3. The reason the miner wants this particular power from this particular provider is that it's cheap.

it's cheap indicates it's surplus

>4. If the miner got all the power they wanted it would be enough to drive up local utility rates.

price changes are how all economies allocate resources. consumption driving prices higher indicates more economic activity; it's a good thing. Wanting to stop other people from doing things is authoritarian and negative.

>5. The local utility + government aren't keen on this as it's a pretty blatent resource extraction with no local jobs being created.

We can look at the environmental impact of hydro power, and regulate it out of existence if we want, but given that there are existing dams with surplus power, I don't see an argument being made that this "extraction" has any negative impact. "Extraction" is what every human being has lived on since the stone age.
> I believe on Teslas you can outright remove the SIM that provides internet, and the car would function mostly fine. Used model 3s are in the sub $20k range now.

A friend of mine had his Tesla's radio/modem/whatever chip die, so his internet connectivity stuff didn't work. He told me that most things continued to work just fine and he continued to drive it for a few days while waiting for his repair appointment.

So... add a "friend of a friend" confirmation to that.
Didn't Mac OS have a sad face way before?
Is there a Chinese equivalent of HN (niche tech forum, not the Y combinator front)? How do we get access?
Well, but that's due to a lot of problems specific to the media landscape. Netflix started as an afterthought, the big media companies viewed it as a sideshow or as a stopgap measure while they made other plans, so there was a honeymoon phase where it was cheap and had a ton of media.

Most new entrants to the market are themselves media companies, so with each one the media landscape gets fractured. They're able to leverage popular content (over which they have a monopoly) to lure customers and raise prices. There's not many of them, and the barrier of entry is almost impossibly high (step 1: develop a 50-year back catalog of beloved films & franchises...), so the market is insular.

Compare with music, where there's a ton of smaller labels, and the barrier of entry is much lower. Streaming companies compete mostly on price, interface & experience.

I think the problem is kinda inherent in the market, and Netflix was just an anomaly because it caught the media companies flat-footed. You would need openness and competition on a much more fundamental level to solve streaming video media.

In the meantime, simple and open web payments could solve for music, podcasts, prose, reporting, art, etc. And hey, maybe somewhere in the process you could see the birth of micro-studios.
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The verb "discriminate" has been (perhaps rightfully) saddled with negative connotations, but discrimination is exactly what any hiring manager is doing. You're discriminating between candidates on the basis of non-protected attributes. Obviously we don't want to discriminate on the basis of protected attributes, and it gets messy when there are areas of strong (often causal) overlap between protected classes of people and the non-protected characteristics that employers are looking for in candidates. But that doesn't obviate the need for discrimination along some axis or other. (Hard technical skills being the example that is probably most salient for the HN crowd.)

In an ideal world, anyone could do anything they wanted without impediment. But to quote Mr Lightyear, we're not on that planet. In this world, if I'm hiring you for a role where you're responsible for safeguarding the wellbeing of others (teacher, manager, doctor, whatever), then of course it's going to put downward pressure on my ability to hire you if you have a super fucked up background that makes you snap at people, attack them without provocation, jump at shadows, have traumatic flashbacks mid-sentence, whatever. I'm sorry, but that's just how it is. There are other jobs that are better suited for people in those situations.

Regarding "culture fit":

While we should try very hard to avoid promoting monocultures when hiring (for a whole lot of different reasons, particularly because diversity is crucial for organizational resilience and adaptability), the truth is that it remains a very subjective determination. It depends on your criteria for what constitutes a monoculture. You could say that we live in a monoculture with regard to our expectations for treating everyone in the workplace with a baseline amount of respect. But not everyone agrees where that baseline should be drawn. If you come into an interview and it's immediately clear to me that you're the kind of employee who's going to be disrespectful of your coworkers, and I reject your application accordingly -- well, I'm promoting a sort of company monoculture in that sense.

Then you can walk back from that into varying shades of grey regarding different individual's varying ways of signaling respect, or deemphasis of candor in certain situations, unwillingness to openly address issues, etc, and it gets very messy very quickly. Where is the line between avoiding hiring rude people and discriminating against people from backgrounds or cultures that have patterns of communication that others may perceive as rude? And so on. It requires great care.

This is the sort of ambiguity I'm talking about. To think that this ambiguity doesn't exist, or believe that we can simply wish it out of existence -- that's why I reached for the word "naive" in my original post. I think a lot of engineers are fortunate to work in positions where they don't need to wrestle with this sort of ambiguity in their day-to-day.
Not really, from my experience visual quality degradation is quote noticable, too much to compensate for more fps
In reality it’s certainly over 90% (probably closer to 99%)
Most people underestimate the importance of timing.

For example, you'll hear people say things like "Easy Apply" button is a waste of time and you should go apply directly on the company website.

In my opinion, in a crowded job market you want to apply ASAP.

Also contrary to most popular advice, opt for quality over quantity. Find an area that aligns well with what you can do and double down on that.

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How is this guy still relevant?

He's a scammer who created a real estate company enshrined by a strange cult of personality. That real estate company IPO'd and then failed.

Anyone that gives him money to go do something else will see that money taken and used for irrelevant if not frivolous personal projects Adam is interested in, no matter how unrelated they are to the business he purports to be running.

Can't he just fuck off with his ill-gotten billions and leave the rest of us alone?
Having a facility that’s not on the ring of fire and avoiding any earthquakes or similar natural disasters are also big benefits. Apple also invested with TSMC by buying out all 3nm production.
I used to work in R&D for leading edge node development and we had a couple night shift technicians to unblock long running high priority tests. However, we could have iterated much faster if we had dozens of engineers running additional tests at night. Some tests require you to be there at the tool to change temp and so on. And there are ton of possible tests you can do. If you get a result back in the middle of the night and have engineers to review the results and configure a new test then and there, that’s a much faster learning cycle time.

Another advantage of TSMC is how they have enough fab space dedicated to R&D that they can run prototypes through quicker because they aren’t competing with manufacturing to get processed.
Only because they reached to a real person who listened to the details. Arguably that was also the source of the scam in the first place, so I'm not sure whether to rejoice or be angry.
I'm certain they use heat exchangers and don't just pipe computer exhaust in.

I hope they do, at least.
Your article doesn't contradict their argument. Their link is for worldwide sales, yours is US only.

Further, that top spot is not for a specific Ford truck, but for all F-series trucks put together. That's an apples to oranges comparison.
Basically how I felt in my ADHD assessments.
‘You won’t get me. I know what you are testing for. Hold the line. Hold.
Oh, that’s why a sort is an expensive database function!
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Given how the Python community has failed to converge on a good set of packaging and bundling tools that I highly doubt this will happen.

Perhaps this kind of thing needs to be baked into a language offering from the start?
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