skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course there is. As a parent (no matter your gender) you have the legal responsibility to take care of your children until adult age. On the double for young children, such as a baby. This is priority #1 in your life. I was just ill half of January (some seasonal cold/flu/whatever) and even then this is priority over resting. A baby needs attention, food, drink, clean diapers, sleep, hugs/massage (vs tummy cramps), safety (parent available). Furthermore, you and your significant other are a team of caregivers. You need to act like a team player ie. communicate and propose. Yes, you can have leisure time (tho not much with a newborn in my experience, it already gets better with a baby) but it is about giving and taking, balance between family, work, and fun. For example, he could use the device one hour a day. It would've just been a longer project, or less extensive.

Anyway, I just brush it off as tough boy talk. He did communicate and work it out with his significant other and she agreed. Not in the sense he said I am unavailable for a week good luck with your life see you in a week.
As I posted earlier this week:

Each bitcoin mined in the US directly results in more than 264 metric tonnes of CO2. This is based on the following rough calculation:

1.65 billion metric tonnes * 2% / (900 bitcoins per day * 38% * 365 days)

Based on 2022 CO2 emissions from https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 .
Apple and Microsoft are $3 trillion each, and they don't have fabs. If anyone has good reasons for getting into semiconductor manufacturing and has the pockets to do so, it's them, but they aren't. I'm pretty sure that it has something to do with risk, not money.
I think it was narcissism. Nakamura ignored direct orders to desist for years, and wound up proving that those orders were massive strategic blunders. So insubordination combined with making his superior look a fool. (On the other hand it's pretty clear we're only getting Nakamura's side of the story.)
Sounds like the issue was the environment, not the pens.
incorrect, most serious "PID controllers" for quadrotors are using geometric PID controllers that take nonlinearity into account, e.g. [1].

[1] Taeyoung Lee, Melvin Leok, N. Harris McClamroch. Geometric tracking control of a quadrotor UAV on SE(3). https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5717652
It also helps Netflix. Lower bitrate means less server load and lower internet bills.
The original AutoCAD was built around AutoLISP [1] (sort of like Emacs), keeping with John Walker's philosophy regarding programmability in software. [2]. MathCAD APIs were much later.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/e5/

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/atlast/
For those installation comparing costs, the subreddit has a Heat Pump Quote Comparison Survey:

https://www.reddit.com/r/heatpumps/comments/raocha/heat_pump...
> The markup cost of using RDS (or any managed database) is worth it.

Every so often I price out RDS to replace our colocated SQL Server cluster and it's so unrealistically expensive that I just have to laugh. It's absurdly far beyond what I'd be willing to pay. The markup is enough to pay for the colocation rack, the AWS Direct Connects, the servers, the SAN, the SQL Server licenses, the maintenance contracts, and a full-time in-house DBA.

https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=48b0bab00fe90c5e6de68d0...

Total 12 months cost: 547,441.85 USD

Once you get past the point where the markup can pay for one or more full-time employees, I think you should consider doing that instead of blindly paying more and more to scale RDS up. You're REALLY paying for it with RDS. At least re-evaluate the choices you made as a fledgling startup once you reach the scale where you're paying AWS "full time engineer" amounts of money.
We tried one in the south and it was a pretty horrible experience, because of our high humidity in the cold.

The outside unit constantly froze up, which even ideally requires a defrost cycle (wasting energy pumping heat back outside), or worse, uses heating element outside just to make operable.

While those cycles run, heat couldn't. Except that even emergency heat (heating element inside) would disable the outside defrost, supposedly to meet EPA set energy budget, not technology limits.

That's not the kind of BS you want to put up with on frozen nights, whether from a technology or policy standpoint.
> If the sort order isn't fully determined by a query, can the query plan influence the result order?

Yes. When running a query, PostgreSQL won't make any effort to provide a stable order of rows beyond what's specified in the ORDER BY.
> the current set of models are meant to learn from us... Every little "please" and "thanks" will push it one way, every swearword and shout the other.

I think most of what you're saying is completely pointless, and I disagree with your philosophizing (e.g. whether dog brains are any more or less complex than LLMs, and attempting to use BDSM as a reason to question the phrase "boot licking").

However, I agree with you on the one specific point that normalizing talking crassly to AIs might lead to AIs talking crassly being normalized in the future, and that would be a valid reason to avoid doing it.

Society in general has gotten way too hopped up on using curse words to get a point across. Language that used to be reserved for only close social circles is now the norm in public schools and mainstream news. It's a larger issue than just within AI, and it may be related to other societal issues (like the breakdown of socialization, increasing hypersexualization, etc). But as information gathering potentially moves more towards interactive AI tools, AI will definitely become a relevant place where that issue's exhibited.

If you want to argue that route, I think it would come across clearer if you focus more on the hard facts about whether and how AI chatbots' models are actually modified in response to queries. My naive assumption was that the bots are trained on preexisting sets of data and users' queries were essentially being run on a read-only tool (with persistent conversations just being an extension of the query, and not a modification of the tool). I can imagine how the big companies behind them might be recording queries and feeding them back in via future training sessions, though.

And/or make the argument that you shouldn't _have_ to talk rudely to get a good response from these tools, or that people should make an effort not to talk like that in general (for the good of their _own_ psyche). Engaging in comparing the bots to living creatures makes it easy for the argument to fall flat since the technology truly isn't there yet.
Haha I hadn’t heard of this! Thanks for the heads up.

I recently saw Marc Andreessen talk about “Annotations”, which he almost built for Mosaic.

https://youtu.be/tV6kDr1rwTs?si=enR5QZvtHqx2nmjK&t=2796

I think today - where influencers drive serious demand and online shopping is huge - this might have a better shot.. maybe not with the HN community though

I did think it would be kinda cool/funny to have comments on an NCBI paper, or like Fed minutes.. it lets everyone have a voice on every webpage!
I had found some things saying you were limited in how many hours per year you could run standby generators outside of emergencies [1] but possibly this only applies to larger systems? [2]

[1] https://www.ehs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/emergency_ge...

[2] https://www.mass.gov/doc/310-cmr-700-air-pollution-control-r...
> I can't help but wonder if this is really a trend people are interested in, OR is there some effort to sway public opinion into deregulating housing.

Is there a difference? I mean, if public opinion is swayed, then does that not mean they are now interested in it?
this is a bit weird.

if you have only 1 thread, you don't atomic, and thus not using atomic reference counts is fine

but if you have more than 1 thread, you can't use a non-atomic refcount, so you can't use Rc but must use Arc.

"but that's such a simple change, just change the decl with a 1 char addition! Pluse, Rust won't let you do bad stuff if you've forgotten to change the type".

I guess I'm just old. Old enough that I've already implemented all the data structures and methods I need in C++, including safely passing around shared_ptr<T>.
Always locked and loaded me
based on everything tim has written that shows extreme self-awareness about his working/productivity style, and the fact that he makes a lot of money for his family by doing occasional multi-day binges of work, i think it's fair to give him the benefit of the doubt that they have a system that allows him to show up for his family much of the time while also maintaining his output of work
> I don't think anyone has claimed this so far in the conversation.

They have claimed something that makes it necessary. It was claimed that LLMs will 'soon' be able to 'write high quality books for us about each field'. If you can't produce a single insight on the topic, any book you write is going to fundamentally be a (very high level, likely almost verbatim) rehash of others, and therefore wouldn't usually be considered high quality. Not to mention the fact that an inability to generate real insight is indicative of a lack of an underlying model that isn't overfitted to the language used to express the examples.

> No one is claiming they are intelligent

I'm glad not, because I wouldn't be sure what they mean by that.

> a subject matter expert doesn't need a model to tell them anything insightful

Indeed not. Having existing ideas be juxtaposed, recontextualised or even repeated can be valuable. But to claim that AI will be writing entire books that are worth reading seems laughable to me. There's no sign that we're close to that. Just play with the state of the art models for a while and try and push them.

I'm convinced that anyone who believes otherwise just doesn't have the technical expertise (and that's not a generic insult; it's true of most of us) to probe deeply enough to see the fragility of these models. They look at the output and (erroneously, due to the unknown unknowns involved) think themselves perfectly qualified to judge it high quality — and they do so, with great vigour.

If your only claim is simply 'LLMs can remix natural language in a way that sometimes proves useful', then fine. I absolutely agree.
i'm not sure if you're serious, but the california public utilities commision's public advocates office (what a mouthful) describes california's rates as generally higher than most of the nation[0], with southern california's rates being highest (with both increasing).

you can see, for instance san diego's rates [1] which are $0.38/kWh in the winter and $0.48/kWh in the summer. for context, this means if i pay 11 dollars in electricity generation (because i'm part of a municipal electric generation coop), i'm still paying $36 for distribution/transmission/etc, which is $47 for 106kWh used or ~$.44/kWh which is roughly what electrify america charges ($.48/kWh) when i go to 'fill up my car.' as far as i can tell from talking to people, this is is more than most people anywhere in the country (including hawaii) pay for their electricity.

[0]: https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-advocate...
[1]: https://www.sdge.com/sites/default/files/regulatory/1-1-24%2...
I’ve noticed salaries haven’t kept up with inflation from the last four years. Could that be playing a role?

Maybe companies realizing they can’t attract employees with their budgets so they don’t bother hiring?
I like the following quote from an old greek rock singer, from those old times that musicians produced music in the form of actual material work (vinyls, cds etc) and deleting content was not a thing as it is now:

> [...] a work, when it leaves the hands of its creator, acquires its own personality, its own identity, according to which its course is drawn and it is the irrevocable right of the work to follow an autonomous way which, in the name of any paternity, you have no right to stop, otherwise the state has the same right in the form of censorship.
That's not the place to bring your Apple Vision Pro.
Ask HN: Any service for verified SMS numbers?
I'd like to get carrier-verified numbers for SMS. The problem with Twilio and the like are that other services detect they are VOIP numbers and reject them. I've tried the "Burner" app and it provides verified numbers, but I need something I can provision via API.
In Rust, you may have multiple threads yet still use non-atomic reference counts for objects that are never shared between multiple threads.
Should be ado (admin do), since superuser is a Linux thing
"Scrolling to the bottom of the page" is easier said than done, since it's doing that annoying scrollbar hijack thing that's apparently still in vogue.
Which regulations? Is there much difference in labor cost and regulations between Sacramento, Santa Clara and the areas that PGE covers?
It's fair to label fruit juices for what they are - high sugar high calorie foods. But by the "processed" classification of food done by the UN, fruits juices are in GROUP 1 Unprocessed or minimally processed foods.

[1] https://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/CA5644EN.pdf
Which hosting do you use? I use fastcgi with python on Dreamhost and it works fine, but I’m sorta worried that they’ll turn it off because it seems kind of niche and under-documented
Because Western Europe is, generally, not as shitty as Eastern Europe or Latin America.

There is some tongue and cheek to that comment, but not much. You generally don't hear about waves of people wanting to emigrate from France or Austria to Poland or Latvia.
That's a huge instance with an enterprise license on top. Most large SaaS companies can run off of $5k / m or cheaper RDS deployments which isn't enough to pay someone. The amount of people running half a million a year RDS bills might not be that large. For most people RDS is worth it as soon as you have backup requirements and would have to implement them yourself.
If moving your neck and aligning your windows were major impediments to you, then you probably are better off with one monitor. But I think you are in the minority that doesn’t find at least a dual monitor setup beneficial.

I don’t have a Vision Pro, so I can only imagine how much nicer a virtual 27” 4K monitor would be compared to my tiny laptop monitor. I think the benefit should be obvious to anybody with an open mind about the idea, though.
If, in 2024, this fools a parent, then I'd rather be concerned about other aspects of their parenting, too...

During my long travels, where I meet (mostly wealthy-enough-to-travel) people I see this often: kids are sugar shocked in the early morning (fruit juice, jelly, breakfast-is-the-most-important-nonsense-cereals, snacks at 10AM, etc) and then by noon their parents are exhausted due to trying to handle the kids' hyperactivity. All I can think is that at least these kids' response is to burn those calories, and avoid being obese later (hopefully).

And not only kids. I don't know what exactly is going on in the US/Canada, but my observation is that they MUST chew every one or two hours; force feeding (comforting?) themselves. This behavior, the obsessive snacking, I never see from European / Asian travelers.
Exactly. A better thermal profile, vandal/theft resistant, and lower all-in installation costs.
I'm totally with you, but what's the other guys story going to be?

"This weird researcher wouldn't follow orders, and I didn't dig deeper to understand his level of commitment or anything. If I had, I would've at least seen his level of dedication and possibly rallied to support him."

That's the best possible version, and highly unlikely since, as you noted, narcissism.

Anytime I see someone intelligently committed to a cause the way Nakamura was, I respect it and will support them however I can. Even if it doesn't pan out, it's still a good story.
fwiw, San Francisco is at $0.51/kWh for peak usage.
If heat pumps get inefficient at low temps could we not program them to run full blast during the warmest parts of the day and preheat the home. Thus needing to run less at night.
> There's plenty of central split heat pumps that can function just fine below 30F.

They likely exist, but none of my local residential HVAC companies carried them.
Given that the USB-C charging adapter makes them look like those joke shop disguise glasses, I can only assume that this is deliberate. At least I respect someone who makes no effort to look cool over someone who tries really hard to look cool and fails.
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It's not their emails. It's all the ads you see on YouTube, display ads on random websites through Google/FB ads network, ads within xyz apps, and etc.. They spent a lot of $$$ on those ad networks.

Those are usually targeted through personal email addresses and device IDs. Impossible to opt out on users' end.
It’s an editorial decision. Choosing the type of social media platform you want to build and the types of posts and posting types you want to support is all an editorial decision.

Always has been.

I’m pretty happy about this. I started losing interest in Threads the moment the politics started showing up which didn’t take very damn long.
We hired some great talent from Argentina. Great tech and English skills, and the similar time zone was key.
> stop the attacks on solar installation

I don't know if the experience of a Brit with a roof covered in solar panels applies in California, but: during months when you want to run the heat pump, your solar won't be producing shit.
The two criticism at the end are... odd.

First, there is criticism that assigning to a shared_ptr is not synchronized so it would be bad to share a single shared_ptr object between threads. True, but that is no different than literally every other non-atomic object in C++. It's not surprising in any way.

Second, there is criticism that assigning to the object pointed at by the shared_ptr is not synchronized between threads. This is odd because that's not actually different than a single thread where there are two shared_ptrs pointing to the same object. That is, even with single threading you have a problem you must be careful about.
"Too dangerous" doesn't imply impossible.

It's too dangerous to parachute off the Eiffel tower. That doesn't mean it's impossible, periodically somebody does it.
It's a big problem for electric cars too... Here are the current prices per kwh for me in MA:

Electricity = $.26 / kwh

Propane (LPG) = .134 / kwh

Heating oil = .095 / kwh

Gasoline = .091 / kwh

Natural Gas = .082 / kwh
Yes, I think so too. There is some element of this idea in the current version of PostgreSQL. However, it does not go as far as deferring the decision until execution. It's for choosing the cheapest version of a subplan once the plan has been generated for the next query level up. See fix_alternative_subplan() in setrefs.c. Likely it would be possible to expand that and have the finish plan contain the alternative and switch between them accordingly to which one is cheaper for the number of rows that previous executions have seen. Maybe tagging on some additional details about how many rows is the crossover point where one becomes cheaper than the other so that the executor can choose without having to think too hard about it would be a good idea.
Calorie in, calorie out. If you have more calorie than the control group, no matter what substance that is - brownies, Cliff Bar, apples picked by Tim Cook, fruit juice, or Coca-Cola, and you expend as much energy as control, you’re going to end up heavier. Where are the calories gonna go? They’re going to stay in the body. You put them in there, they didn’t, and you didn’t do more stuff to take them out.

I think the hand wringing about natural vs processed is really about how appealing a given food is - anyone is more likely to overindulge in hyper palatable foods, so if natural foods are less palatable it’s good for that reason. Fruit (juice) is an example of a natural food that can be hyper palatable. So, beware just as you’d beware of Cheetos or Almond Roca.
And drinking water
I had that exact experience with the quest. I still feel weird about it.

Unbelievable technology and experience but I can’t be bothered to use it anymore.

Just something about it is missing for real immersion.
TL:DR is the researchers may be biased in their conclusion because they've:

a) Worked at/for a clinical research company, health NPOs and others.

b) Had their education funded by the government & NPO.

c) Received research funding from NPOs, advocacy groups, research institutes.
> Initialize your struct fields and you won't have to consider their zero state.

“Just do the right thing everywhere and you don’t have to worry!”

You can’t stop consumers of your libraries from creating zero-valued instances.
The paper plane has a lot less extending the wings and then flapping them to learn to avoid death.
Definitely--I recommend this after you've reached the point where you're writing huge checks to AWS. Maybe this is just assumed but I've never seen anyone else add that nuance to the "just use RDS" advice. It's always just "RDS is worth it" full stop, as in this article.
I wouldn't hold your breath, Pico reportedly shed half of its staff last year and cancelled various projects. They may be cutting their losses with VR still struggling to get a real foothold, not to mention the regulatory roadblocks to them selling their hardware in the US.
Fiction != reality
Are you asking how much money is transacted on the bitcoin network every day? Have you heard about the treaty of Versailles? You think it was a shortage of Reichsmark's?

Are you serious?
You say they are obvious but it seems to me that the source port and destination port of UDP are going to be fixed for QUIC, so I'm not too sure those are necessary. Especially since QUIC has connection IDs instead. I don't know QUIC on a deep enough level to figure out if the length and checksum are still needed.

I mean I get why you'd tunnel it through a UDP connection, since replacing every single router on the planet no longer seems feasible, but if you want to call it a transport level protocol that's kind of what you'd have to do.
You don't get the higher end machines on AWS unless you're a big guy. We have Epyc 9684X on-prem. Cannot match that at the price on AWS. That's just about making the choices. Most companies are not DB-primary.
Maybe, but unless your house is very well insulated, this would probably require making the home so warm as to be very uncomfortable.

I live in New England in a small house (<700 sqft), and it easily drops 5 degrees an hour when it's 65 inside and 15 outside.
This sounds like someone that has not been in a union.
I really enjoy Walkabout mini golf.
That's the recap I needed!
This is specifically about juice that is 100% juice. Reading the ingredients label isn't going to help which is kinda the point of the study.

Edit: It looks like you changed your comment to reference nutritional table instead of ingredients list. See other comment on why that still is problematic.
And Rc can still be useful for multithreaded programs. Not every value needs to be shared between threads.
I have a good Shaeffer fountain pen that I use for all of paper writing. But I usually use cheap notebooks for notes and random scribbling. What are people's recommendations for good notebooks?
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I couldn't find detailed info on what incentives apply to my county, Alameda.

From your site: "In the SF Bay area common incentives are the Federal 25C Tax Credit, Tech Clean CA and Peninsula Clean Energy."

I'm assuming Federal 25C and Tech Clean CA apply but Peninsula does not. But I don't know how much these are without further research. It would be nice if you had a tool on your site to determine my net cost with incentives included.
wow a site loading progress bar, that's a blast from the past.