skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like option 3 (ChatGPT is hallucinating the quote) is by far the most likely thing here. Voltaire is probably one of the top 5 targets of "fake quotes" out there, and ChatGPT is really really good at hallucinating highly likely answers (regardless of their actual truth.)
What surprises me greatly is that Fred Wilson was an initial investor in Twitter and was on their board for years. Yet he didn't know anyone still working there that he could reach out to on his behalf? What chance does the average person have in this case?
Did you just actually take me giving you a joke game as a "reference"
seriously? I'm not sure what worries me the most now.
That is not what the video stated. His love of the ocean inspired blue being his favorite color.
It depends on what you are cloning for. If you are just trying to just convince some other interactive voice response (IVR) system that you can answer the phone as human "Hello" may be enough to get to the next menu. Don't underestimate the power of a few taped lines, especially in the world of increasing automation on every side of a phone call (and plenty of systems talking to systems with fewer and fewer humans in the loop).
Jira sucks, sure, but going from no-bug-tracker to any-bug-tracker (and by “bug” I mean tasks of any kind) is a huge boost.
My sister just got a heat pump installed in her new house in Poland, where temperatures occasionally drop to 0 Fahrenheit. I wouldn't say they only work in "mildly cold weather" - as per new EU policy heat pumps will be one of the few legal heat sources, even in countries such as Sweden.
I agree it's a little scary. Would it have been protected speech if they had prefaced the offending remarks with "in my opinion " or "in this author's opinion "?
I think you are back to where you started. If it was cheaper to use gas to run a heat pump then everybody would just run generators in their houses off of gas instead of using electrical lines.
There are some specifics about which parts of the paper had problems, but I can’t find the original paper to see how those parts look (failed to find at libgen, doesn’t seem to be open-access from what I can tell)
Sentient 6 – Nevermore
FYI, a monthly bill is essentially useless information. How big is your house? What are you using it for? How efficient is your fridge? Your A/C? How much is the fixed cost part of the bill? Etc.

I'm assuming, since you mention Sacramento and peak hours, these[0] are your rates? Next time, share those so folks in other places can compare. That page has these:

Summer:

* Off-peak: $0.1425 kWh

* Mid-peak: $0.1967 kWh

* Peak: $0.3462 kWh

Non-Summer

* Off-peak: $0.1151 kWh

* Peak: $0.1590 kWh

That's pretty high, but I think middling to low for California. For comparison, in my town outside Chicago, we have a year-round all-day rate of $0.12 kWh.

[0] https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Residential-rates
What are the ethics around asking an employee not to talk about her raise?
I've recently been playing with ogen:
https://github.com/ogen-go/ogen

Write openapi definition, it'll do routing, definition of structs, validation of JSON schemas, etc.

All I need to do is implement the service.

Validating an integer range for a querystring parameter is just too boring. And too easy to mistype when writing it manually.

Anyways, so far only been playing, so haven't found the bad parts yet.
No, TCP is not in hardware and Linux (the most popular server OS) has a policy to never allow full TCP offload.
This is the second time, you've misconstrued my statements and inserted your own dialog.

I didn't say it can't be transmitted elsewhere.

I said that it was expensive to do so and I've seen with my own two eyes the proof of that expense. The proof of that expense is that it hasn't been done yet, despite years of opportunities and the fact that it can be done (which I agree with you on).

For the record, my salary does not depend on this at all.
Several red states (the TVA) have had heat pumps as normal for decades. Now heat pumps work better and so they should extend to the other states.
And if you're buying a used iPhone, how do you know what's in it?
The Full-Disk images don't have the baked-in borders:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=...
I’m a security engineer, so my work is a bit different than SWE - data wrangling and analysis, tying systems together and correlating events across them, building defense in depth, cool and effective under stress.

That said, LLMs are showing up a lot in my job. Being a good sec eng is having a 70% base in most systems, solid comp sci and programming chops (I call it I can build and run a mediocre app), and solid security expertise.

GPT is really good at radically speeding up how to get past the 70% starting point I usually operate from. I run (sanitized) terminal output through it so the 60% of the output I table to RTFM later to understand, I can understand immediately via GPT. Sec eng benefits a lot from leaning into pandas/notebooks vs log csvs, and GPT does that really well too.

The big marker for me is incident response - standardized tech data requiring analysis and correlating in a pinch. I’m going to have an incident response LLM partner soon enough. Analyzing open source codebases for how they do input sanitizing with a new to me language? LLM partner walking me through.

All this together - goodbye entry level cybersecurity jobs in a few years I think. Many of the things you’d need a security analyst for or the more busy work sec eng 1 jobs I truly think are turning into LLM jobs. My lived experience this past year reflects it.

I think layoffs, and productivity gains from LLMs are under the hood of tech layoff tight now. Curious if other engineering tracks are seeing this though? A SWE buddy at Google thinks so.
Keeping Docker afloat – Best practices for patching and deprecating images
> Continuations capture the stack.

Yes, but if you take 'stack' too literally here then you'll think that `call/cc` copies the stack, when maybe it really doesn't.

> Closures capture variables.

Variables, yes, including the return address of the frame in which those variables are if that return address is make explicit (e.g., because of CPS conversion).

And now you can see that closures can be continuations if they implicitly capture the stack.
Does anyone know of an affordable COTS drone one could try this out with? I’m very interested in the intersection of machine learning and control theory.
> func NewServer(... config *Config ...) http.Handler

one of my biggest pet peeves is when people take a Config object, which represents the configuration of an entire system, and pass it around mutably. When you do that, you're coupling everything together through the config object. I've worked on systems where you had to configure the parts in a specific order in order for things to work, because someone decided to write back to the config object when it was passed to them. Or another case was where I've seen it such that you couldn't disable a portion of the system because it wrote data into the config object that was read by some other subsystem later. The pattern of "your configuration is one big value, which is mutable" is one of the more annoying patterns that I've seen before, both in Go and in other languages.
Ya, same in Beijing. The bathroom was also wet room, which is probably just an economy. The laundry machine was in the bathroom, my wife had to buy an external oven because she liked baking.

But these were considered luxury by Chinese standards, older housing built before the 90s could get weird, like no hot water and instead you have a tank that needs to activated a half hour before your shower.
Chesterton's fence. A simple rule of thumb that suggests that you should never destroy a fence, change a rule, or do away with a tradition until you understand why it's there in the first place.
> Heat pumps do work into freezing New England temperatures, but they're a bit less efficient as it gets to zero fahrenheit.

What's the temperature in the ground? Did you look at a ground source heat pump (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_source_heat_pump)
Ho boy. I wish you luck with your future adventures, because you're going to need it.

Ciao!
>The Valid method takes a context (which is optional but has been useful for me in the past) and returns a map. If there is a problem with a field, its name is used as the key, and a human-readable explanation of the issue is set as the value.

I used to do this, but ever since reading Lexi Lambda's "Parse, Don't Validate," [0] I've found validators to be much more error-prone than leveraging Go's built-in type checker.

For example, imagine you wanted to defend against the user picking an illegal username. Like you want to make sure the user can't ever specify a username with angle brackets in it.

With the Validator approach, you have to remember to call the validator on 100% of code paths where the username value comes from an untrusted source.

Instead of using a validator, you can do this:

type Username struct {
value string
}

func NewUsername(username string) (Username, error) {
// Validate the username adheres to our schema.
...

return Username{username}
}

That guarantees that you can never forget to validate the username through any codepath. If you have a Username object, you know that it was validated because there was no other way to create the object.

[0] https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
Polyamory Is a Luxury of the Affluent, Just Like Everything Else We Have and Do
I don't generally view the removal of subsidies as being "attacks". I view that as the end of the free money.
From my understanding, instantaneous reversability property is problematic because we haven't actually solved the underlying problem.

Now we've just got a "sail maintenance" problem: we put the sail up, continue to burn ff now unimpeded by the worst side effects. 1-2 decades later, if the sail were to fail / lose funding / get neglected by temporary geopolitical conflict, earth rapidly accumulates all of carbon debt we accrued.
I use solar, but using heat pumps and an electric car uses maybe 3x more electricity than my roof can produce.
Where in "Europe" was this? Certainly not in France where a bistro scratches this itch. At any point in the morning or evening you can find some place to sit to serve you food or snacks/coffee/tea/beer. And pâtisseries are made for 'breakfast'.

Europe's a big place. The UK has strict open and closing times for restaurants (don't ask me what they are, only that 12 noon is 12 noon and I couldn't step inside at 11:55a for lunch). And the culture thinks beans and white toast are breakfast. But people definitely eat out for breakfast and even brunch.

But even those examples contradict your friend. I'll give you one generalizations to take home: Europeans like to mess with Americans.
Don't dismiss Ardupilot so easily. Yes, it grew out of Arduino Megas running the code with some stapled-on sensors, but that was many years ago - it's an extremely powerful and arguably more "hobbyist"-friendly platform that's very comparable to PX4. In my experience PX4 lends itself very well to more scientific or industrial use, especially when integrating with other on-board compute units that are part of the payload, whereas Ardupilot is much easier to get working and capable off-the-shelf. Both software stacks run on essentially the same hardware nowadays.
The problem is simply that their downsampling is not gamma-corrected, so overall brightness is not preserved.

http://www.ericbrasseur.org/gamma.html
Depends how you see it. If you assume a neutral state of no incentives, adding benefits to stimulate growth and later removing this benefits once growth is achieved can be seen as "attacking this positive state" or simply "bringing back to neutral".

I moved to SoCal recently and didn't realize things like net metering even existed, so when people started to rant about these new measures I was very surprised to learn about them, and especially about people presuming these things to be "normal".
I agree.
A tire manufacturing plant closed in my home city back in the early 2000s. I guy we knew from high school wanted the copper that came to the plant under ground in a vault. He figured for some reason it was disco … and blam fried his legs and hands completely cooked all his nerves in them and apparently one of his teeth exploded.. I mean , why would they turn service off to a manufacturing plant when they can just pull the meter ?
Whites deserve violent retribution for slavery discourse. Cultural appropriation. Denial of bad things done under socialist governments or those useful for the left. Race traitor discourse (if you're a racial minority but don't subscribe to radicalism). Discourse of whites being genetically inferior. Apology and support for racially motivated terrorism against white people. Virulent antisemitism.
Oh, I'd expect the person whose baby this is would be over-optimistic. But I'll still maintain that a restored downtown concert space with some historical significance isn't a bad thing.
This seems like a smart move. OpenAI needs to run models more cheaply for profitability. He wants to start a hardware venture in parallel with the goal of selling better hardware to OpenAI. If it fails, it's not his money that was lost. If it succeeds, he has two successful ventures on his hands.

Anybody know what happened to George Hotz' hardware company? Or did he give up on it after 2 weeks like his Twitter frontend job?
I think that's a valid criticism. What do you think would be a more ergonomic pattern?
I mean it works all the way down. Eliminate the taxes I have to pay for military and extraneous healthcare costs, and I could and would afford to buy a little backhoe. With that I can improve the public road easement on my property, help my neighbors run utilities, make my property more hospitable to producing goods.

Just opening up that cash, even if super PAC blocks it's reuse as tax, works wonders at an individual level at improving infrastructure.
For context of how crazy that is... here in OH we pay ~$0.12/kwh
Corporate firewalls tend to be much more restrictive than consumer.
That is true, but the modern leftist is against liberal values like free speech and egalitarianism. The leftists have taken up a divisive stance that puts people in a contest to be the most victimized, to get points. They literally argue that math and science are racist/sexist/whatever, want to bring back segregation, and be actively racist against people who look like a handful of bad actors in the past. They're ruining many different aspects of society, and if people don't put them in check we will be going off the rails soon.
Honestly, many business could learn how to beat-off the competition by emulating the adult industry.

They're often first to come to market, aren't intimidated to try new things, resist being bound by incumbents or gagged by censors and are generally wide open to grasping the full thro ... that's enough now.
I’m picking up a sentiment from the downvotes so let me defend: I’m not lying lol.

SMUD time of day. Ran the AC super cold during the night (so it would run the entire off-peak period). Ran it somewhat cool during mid-peak. Didn’t use it at all during peak.

Other appliances I only ran at night.

Installed lots of insulation at move-in.

Like I said in OP, Sacramento. YMMV.

But in any case I’d argue $360 is still not expensive per se given the value you’re getting. How many square feet were you cooling? What else was operating?

It’s just about perspective. I was responding to the claim that electricity is expensive.
If you think the French love paperwork, try Japan!
Yup...the infamous 10-minute youtube video or podcast, in which the first 5 minutes is rambling and ad placement, plus another 3 minutes of ads , product placement, and digressions for something that could have been condensed into 2 minutes .
Gas fired heat pumps do exist, they're called absorption heat pumps.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/absorption-heat-pumps
Is net metering a subsidy?
> The left wing is also very pro-... globalization.

That conflates the centrists, including left and right (when there was a center-right) with the left. The progressive left was always dubious at best about globalization, iirc.

The migration thing is, to a great extent, people inflaming ethnic hatred. People like open borders when they want to migrate themselves, or hire migrants; it also brings trade and tourism; it brings peace and eliminates pointless political distinctions.

I agree that globalization needs to address the relatively easy mobility of capital relative to labor. But that problem is arguably extreme capitalism - where the capitalists get whatever they want - not globalization. Globalization writ by labor would have looked a lot different.
Thanks for writing it in a clearer way than I could write it.

I sometimes long for a set of different drugs that people could take that would impair their brain/body for a short time in a similar way to how people experience the world as someone with autism or adhd or whatever else. I am sure that would be a somewhat "bad" idea, but I think it could also be a help in some cases. I'm autistic myself and it took me years of learning about autism and watching my autistic child before I really grokked how much of an impairment it has been for me in my life. That I am an old man with a relatively decent life and financial position for an American is a miracle, honestly, based on what I know now. I definitely had my Swiss cheese holes line up (in a good way this time) for me to be able to sail through the cheese of life this easily so far! I am not sure I can maintain that luck now, though.
> I think we may need to go through a new Enlightenment period where we discover that we shouldn't be afraid of knowledge and unorthodox (and even heretical) opinions and theories. Hopefully it won't take 1,500 years next time.

We do, and it probably will. We are extremely bad at learning from history. Which is, ironically, proven by history.
That's not quite the implication of the article though. If you need good cause to surveil a community and individuals then the fact that its a community is irrelevant.
Other than cheaper rates/salaries, doesn hiring overseas helps with taxes in some way (vs hiring domestically)
Almost certainly that tower was of galvanized steel, so if the mystery adbuctors had knowledge of welding or metallurgy (no idea if that was the case) they'd know that plasma cutters would be toxic overkill unless they knew how to paint/paste where they cut. Portable chop saws would do just fine. I witnessed pros take down a radio tower by remote-controlled chop saws cutting the guy wires sequentially.
There is something oddly humbling and inspiring about this story. The scientist thanklessly slaved away for a year and half before even producing the first breakthrough. It must require an immense amount of perseverance to do so. It also reminds me to the craft mentality and patience of Jiro dreams of sushi.

Very refreshing when contrasted with western mentality, where people can't wait to get promoted fast enough.
That's kind of what I've done. I looked around some last year, didn't see much out there, had a few interviews here and there that usually ended in ghosting. After the unemployment ran out stopped looking for a while. Then started looking again recently because I'm not sure I'm ready to be retired yet.
And eating popcorn breaks the pinch detection.
Because nil panics on member accessors...
It's the opposite of what you claim to be the standard in go.

Thanks for demonstrating that you forget how to write software around erros.
I have - the cost of installing such a system makes it questionable if it will ever be worth it. I've seen a few places that have it and they work great year round and are cheap to operate. However the payoff from the install if 50+ years despite the cheap costs. Everyone hopes the install lasts that long, but a lot can go wrong in 50 years. (the equipment probably won't last 50 years, but that will be cheap enough to replaces, it is the pipes in the ground that better last 50 years)
On killer feature or art commissions?
Yes. Step 1 of remote is “are you really better than someone in Indiana with an $800 mortgage payment?” Step 2 is “And are you really better than the European Phd at half that cost?”
> Is the only difference with a layoff is firing employees one-at-a-time vs en masse?

Theoretically, layoffs are not performance-related, although sometimes they are. Getting laid off doesn’t necessarily reflect poorly on the person who was laid off.

Firing is performance-related, and it’s usually a bad look.

The former may get severance and will probably be eligible for unemployment, while the latter will likely get neither.
I looked into doing my own heat pump install. At least here in Vermont, you can't buy one without a refrigeration license[0] because of the ozone depletion issues with refrigerants. You also have to buy one from an in-state supply house to qualify for some of the incentives. Not all supply houses will sell to muggles.

My experience was that it was simpler and quicker to pay someone despite having basically the simplest possible installation: inside and outside units on opposite sides of the same exterior wall. The guy was great, and recommended a unit with an easily removable blower wheel for the dusty wood shop application[1]. I wouldn't have gotten there on my own, for sure. And he made sure that it qualified for the incentives. The list is long, and the models that are actually in production/available change pretty regularly.

Technically, it can be a pretty simple job. Practically, local regulations and circumstances might sway things towards hiring it out.

I say all this as someone who is a fairly competent shade-tree mechanic. I've done an engine swap and replaced a couple of clutches (transmission seal failure and previous owner's poor work; I know how to drive stick)

[0] I'm playing fast and loose with the exact words; it's been a few months since I looked into it.

[1] Cooper-Hunter, which is a Midea brand
It's interesting to see the performance numbers for JSON parsing in the context of parsing performance specifically. I guess this is largely a domain specific detail, as my experience was in the context of JS engines.

For JSC at least the costs of allocating and constructing the JS object graph rapidly dwarf the cost of the parsing itself for any non-trivial JSON structure (though parsing JSON is still sufficiently fast relative to actual JS that there's still a significant win for all JS execution in JSC to start with an attempt to parse the input as a slightly extended JSON syntax, due to the wonders of JSONP and people still using eval for json parsing).
yeah, there's absolutely no "maybe" about it, you are definitely out of touch :). I don't know in what way exactly, but something is off. What is your per kwh rate exactly? You might be getting some kind of subsidies that you are not aware of, perhaps? I used to live in a 1200 sqft house in LA without any AC or anything consuming too much electricity, and 10 years ago before all the rate hikes I was still paying more than $100/month in west LA.
> (if that income-based minimum monthly bill thing happens, this maybe changes a bit)

FYI, some legislators (including very left-leaning ones) are moving to repeal this pending change: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-progressive-california-epipha...
Yeah, it convinced me of the opposite. The appendix is probably not useless.
A Progressive California Epiphany over Soaring Electricity Rates