skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The troops stationed there are not meant to hold off a mainland invasion by themselves.

The presence of US troops means that if China attacks, the USA is going to suffer military casualties, so there is almost certainly going to be war between the CCP and the US.

Without US troop presence, things are more ambiguous.
At this rate, the cost of electricity in SF is going to rival the cost of gasoline for an EV. That's already the case in some places in Europe.

In SF, gasoline is roughly at $5/gallon. If your ICE car gets 31 mpg but your electricity works out to be $0.70/kWh on an EV that gets 4.2 mi/kWh (eg Tesla Model 3), you're ever so slightly better off choosing an ICE vehicle vs an EV in a strictly financial sense in that case, according to chooseev's calculator*.

* https://chooseev.com/savings-calculator/
That's literally communism.
We should be building more reservoirs. Back to back wet winters are not the norm. Need a lot of buffer for the next time it doesn't rain as much for 5+ years.
Both ISPs and PG&E are monopolies/duopolies by government mandate. Those markets are incredibly far from the capitalist ideal of a free market.

What you're looking at is corruption, not capitalism.
It doesn't really make sense to me. Why can't you just move to a location where apartments are cheaper?
Everyone on Reddit keeps posting outrageous bills. Meanwhile we've never broken $200 in a 2000 sq ft San Francisco apartment. I just set the thermostat for 72 F and forget about it. Sometimes we then turn on the air conditioner to cool things down since the apartment is multilevel and we sleep on the top floor.

So, COULD_NOT_REPRODUCE
I'd say the maths wasn't that central compared to beliefs about the housing market or regulations focused on ratings.
The problem becomes when growth of profits is the only driving metric. At some point the company will look at ways to screw over any entity outside of the company to ensure profits and growth. Sure they erect barriers but this issue is prevalent among all big companies in the US.
Lawyers who successfully argued Musk pay was illegal seek $5.6B in Tesla stock
I think in part this is bc PG&E donates to a bunch of political organizations, office holders and candidates. They don't even spend all that much ... But since there's not a "nationalize the utilities" PAC making comparable donations, PG&E will stick around.
A few years ago there were stories about how PG&E had continued to make political contributions while their victims/victims families settlement fund was partly in stock bc supposedly PG&E didn't have enough cash.
> Certain political parties hate anything not making a profit

Since we're talking about the one party state of California, I assume you're talking about Democrats.
Also if you print from Firefox and get full pages missing (!!) or empty, it's not a mistake you made, it's a +15 years firefox bug
Urban ratepayers would still be subsidizing the infrastructure upgrades, utility undergrounding, and legal settlements involving wildfires in more rural/wildland areas. Profit notwithstanding, there's a reason why SMUD (Sacramento Municipal Utility District) rates are significantly lower than PG&E: https://www.smud.org/en/Rate-Information/Residential-rates.
The whole thing is confusing, where did they find it? In Ecuador or in the Orinoco basin? There no overlap between the two...
My landlord was the nicest person! I guess I was lucky…
72% is pretty impressive. I have only filed against Firefox, and my fix rate is less than 20%. Some of the rest are "won't fix" but many are still open, the oldest at 16 years.
>2x 8-bit stereo channels in 1985 was great

Amiga had 14 bit audio.

No matter the audio, or the graphics capabilities, the Amiga still had a vastly superior operating system. AREXX was far, far ahead of its time. The multitasking was ahead of its time. Those are the things that kept me on Amiga for so long. No other computing platform really compared in the ways that Amiga really shined.
Good point. As you move towards expensive urban centers the advantage will tend to decrease as space becomes more expensive and transit improves.

That said I've lived with 2 people in a shoe box of a studio and still enjoyed working from home from it although I did have customers from time to time commenting on what was on the news across the way or my cat. I understand that the equation is different for others but I'm definitely firmly committed to this lifestyle.
Not if you enjoy gardening.
They are provided for … with what? What can you pay them which is worth more than what they are guarding??

Under normal circumstances, you can pay a security guard less than what they are guarding is worth—because the security guard would go to jail for theft!

If you take that fear factor away, why should he guard your castle, when he could just turn his gun on you, kick you out, and guard his castle?
The use less energy comes from the fact that most energy production comes from fossil fuels and that messes up the environment/climate. If everythig is generated using solar you won't be hearing progressive saying use less energy
I don't think that to be the case testosterone fuelled raging is an effect of suppressed emotions. Imo sharing of feelings would lead to more soft, feminine personalities which is the direction we are slowly heading towards.
Yep, that's how China will interpret it. It won't become hot, but it's such an aggressive move, and "trainers" rarely only do training, that it will ratchet up tensions.
I'd phrase it differently.

Your signal contains all kinds of frequencies: Those you care about and those you don't want in your recording. You can't just sample at the Nyquist rate of the interesting frequency and expect all the other frequencies to vanish. They will mess with the frequencies you are actually interested in.
Ubuntu (server) is a lot closer. For example, see the limitations at the end of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RISC-V/StarFive%20VisionFive%202

I haven't tried it -- I installed the VF2 Debian fork in April 2023 or so, then switched to SID, and I'm still on that. I think Ubuntu 24.10 will have a lot better support; mainline support for the VF2/JH7110 is almost complete for 6.6: https://rvspace.org/en/project/JH7110_Upstream_Plan
This "problem" pretty much solves itself with the current trend.

Those who want to be in cities because of what you listed will pay the premium and stay and deal with the crowding constraints and workarounds such as open offices and high rent. People are sensitive to prices differently and crowding is not too big of a deal since they like people generally.

Those who want space and privacy will move out and work remotely and somewhat ease the crowding.

Personally I can only "enjoy" a city for a couple days before being drained, then it's back to life as a hermit.

But it doesn't look good for those who like in-office w/ private offices. I see no trend to bring that back.

Sad because that's the only way I would work in-office.
One of the many times they have killed: eight people in San Bruno in 2010 due to a gas pipeline explosion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion

> On January 13, 2012, an independent audit from the State of California issued a report stating that PG&E had illegally diverted over $100 million from a fund used for safety operations, and instead used it for executive compensation and bonuses.

This while charging unbelievably high rates for some of the worst reliability rates I have ever seen anywhere in the US.
"Middle-grade" is the age category before "young adult" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_grade_fiction pragmatically because younger children aren't as interested in the topics that captivate hormone-filled teenagers.
This has roughly been my experience in San Diego with SDG&E as well. We are renting with mostly older appliances, including an electric water heater that with an energy rating sticker suggesting a cost of nearly $100 month - the numbers look much better on it because they use 12c kWh lol.

We do nearly all vacuuming, washer, dryer and dishwasher on the weekends when it's cheapest. We don't use an AC or heater. But, we do cook nearly every night on an ancient electric stove and I do work from home with 1 or 2 32" monitors. It seems impossible to pay much less than $150 month.
They are there as a deadman’s switch, so if China invades Taiwan, America will have to get involved. They had the same play on the Korean border for a few decades. You are correct it isn’t just training, but to ensure the American people are committed because American troops would have been killed in the PLA’s initial missile volley.
> since it seems to me like the preference is achieving its desired effect in the end (said person getting paid).

The desired effect is stratify the populace into more and more tribes that can fight amongst themselves. You give special treatment to some, thereby weakening political opposition and obtaining plausible deniability to say that you helped.

If you want to help someone who hasn’t been paid well historically, then you pull up the database of tax filings, sort from lowest to highest and deposit some money, or give them access to education, or blah blah. “Historically not paid well” has nothing to do with skin tone, religion, gender, or anything other than history of income.
You've got the timeline wrong: the article makes it clear that the samples were sent before Smashmallow signed the deal.

> Hoj went to the Netherlands to see the Tanis facilities. The company even mailed samples of marshmallows it had produced to Smashmallow's specs. [...] Sebastiani agreed to buy a brand-new system from Tanis for $3 million.

Tanis was sued and lost for not upholding their end of the bargain: a marshmallow production line that actually worked.
>AmigaOS 2 (I think this was the first 32-bit amiga OS) was, and this is putting it kindly, primitive compared to System 7.

You CANT be serious. The multitasking on System 7 was a joke compared to Amiga. And Amiga had AREXX, which was absolutely ahead of its time. I had easily written scripts that connected all kinds of Amiga applications together, nothing like that existed on System 7 and I doubt it really exists today on OSX.

>People like to dismiss Apple but there were many years in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s when Macintoshes were the absolutely, irrefutably, and unquestionably fastest non-UNIX workstation personal computers you could buy at any price.

Lol, just no.
As an alternative one may consider setting up an office in a corner of the existing space or nook. Mine is about 5"x6" for instance.
Where I live, the population has grown since the 1970s, but the reservoir capacity has gone down (sedimentation). Doesn't seem politically feasible to build a reservoir anymore.
> watching someone demonstrate it and talking about it is the surest way to understand what it means

Do you happen to have links to any example videos demonstrating this or are you referring to in person examples
I've written a device and driver side USB stack, not even bare metal and it took several weeks of attempts and hundreds of pages of reading (mostly USB complete by Jan Axelson, this site is also good but just not as in-depth) to get right and there are still parts of it I don't fully understand.

Call it 15 hours to get a "ping" signal across, and another 15 to get data travelling at full speed with proper SOF handling.

Nowhere near as simple as something like I2C that you can get a complete understanding of in an afternoon.
There are way more length units than you'd expect!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length
I feel like it has become a degrowth cult, may be not on HN but your random Karen in Oakland wants to cut down on energy usage all-together, not realizing that China is polluting on a monumental scale without remorse. Climate cult makes no sense in America: They lobbied their tails off in 70's and 80's against nuclear power, robbed America's future from their kids. America could have been way cleaner if we stop listening to woke idiots from California about energy policy.
It seems to me that the demonstration is calculated in sRGB space, so with non-linear brightness values and I suspect that most of the unnaturalness of the smear is due to that. To simulate the physics this would need to be done with linear brightness values and only at the end converted to sRGB.

(unless some non-linear effects in human visual perception cancel all that out, but it should at least be mentioned if so)
US Republicans call for McKinsey to be banned from federal contracts
If you want to actually stick it to the PGE investors, consider opening a short position during wildfire season.
so for stuff which didn't properly use the dynamic range of the standard codecs?

Are human ears even capable of hearing 24 bits of dynamic range?
The code seems very opinionated, at least it is pretty focused on US needs.

I don’t want someone to tell me what paper I should use (size: Letter portrait). Frankly I don’t own letter-sized paper.

Also all sizes are in inches, which I don’t calculate in and wouldn’t know whether still sensible margins when printing on a different paper size.
English once did have a 2p distinction - 'you' was formerly the plural form, singular was marked by the now archaic 'thou.' Thou disappeared during the 17th and 18th centuries and "you" + context assumed the duties of both pronouns.
That's right, you have separate areas for dining (the restaurant) and drinking (the bar), and you choose one or the other, or at best sample both.

In a Japanese izakaya, they're inseparable, you eat while you drink.
I also recommend USB Made Simple [1], which has similar vibe to this site, but also includes USB 2.0 description and is a bit more detailed on electrical/low level aspects.

For an actual implementation, see V-USB [2] - surprisingly readable software library for bit-banging USB on AVR (Arduino/ATTiny/ATMega)

[1] https://www.usbmadesimple.co.uk/index.html

[2] https://github.com/obdev/v-usb
If so, then you have a full browser to generate your pdfs on. An approach I have used (more or less):

- have a print.html template page

- use iframe to render and load the page

- either on the print page, or from top frame, call window.print

You can use the aforementioned js libraries to generate footers and such, and use any print css. You can test the print layout in your dev tools, no need to wait for browser preview.

Note that browsers will try to render thead and tfooter elements on every page their parent table spans, that can be very useful.

At work we have a playwright container with express js waiting for incoming requests to load the print.html page and save it as pdf. We're also using volumes so that all data exchange happens in disk and not being passed around in http requests.

PDFs that took maybe 30 seconds with weasy print, now take 5 seconds.
I'm constantly amazed by the fact that in California, one of the world's most expensive places to live, with a GDP rivaling that of some countries, a company like PG&E is responsible for providing electricity and gas. Surely, we can expect a higher level of service?
The RoC releasing its claim on the rest of China would be a de-facto declaration of independence as well since it wound cease to be the rump state of the country founded in 1912 and become something else.
Either side can make it miserable for the other if they choose to. The market did seem to select for maximally cutthroat landlords though.
You don’t necessarily need extra rooms, just be smart about integrating a desk into an existing room. We added one desk in the living room and one desk in our bedroom and both work from home without issues while the kids are in school.
You're simply breaking HN's rules, as I tried to explain above. The rules have been the same for many years (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and have nothing specifically to do with this conflict. The topic itself isn't excluded from HN - there have been several massive threads about it, and nobody is being punished or censored here because they hold one view rather than another. We do, however, have to ban accounts that insist on using the site just to pursue a conflict about one thing, regardless of what the one thing happens to be. I don't want to ban you—that's why I posted my reply to you in the first place. But we do have to apply the rules even-handedly.
Every American utility company I have ever looked into has numerous crimes and controversies associated with it. It's kind of weird.

I actually suspect it's due to them being publicly traded. They literally are not allowed to do things that would jeopardize the share price, so they will hurt themselves and people in order to make a minor profit increase YOY. You shouldn't need to be a capitalist enterprise (with the whole "infinite revenue growth" thing) if your purpose is just to make sure your customers - who won't ever really grow much, because, you know, only so many babies born etc - have power, water, etc. But as publicly traded companies, their first purpose is just to increase shareholder revenue. If you end up (accidentally) burning down a forest, poisoning some communities, or compromising a state election with a fake candidate, that may just be an unfortunate side effect in the service of increasing the stock price.
Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor
I do have investment accounts with much much higher limits but I wonder for how long.
let's see if this guy becomes the first one
Practically? Yes, it’s an independent country and has been for many decades. They have their own government, military, currency, etc.

Diplomatically? No, most countries officially recognize it as part of the PRC.

Why the inconsistency? If you recognize Taiwan’s independence, the PRC won’t talk to you. If Taiwan declares independence, the PRC will invade (or at least has threatened to).

Pretending that Taiwan is part of China while also making it very clear that we will defend Taiwan from China bit silly, but being silly is better than having a great power war.
You are right, I forgot about that. I guess it is capitalism/greed induced corruption.
You might consider developing an interest in more sustainable hobbies, like running, the gym or an instrument. They offer less immediate gratification, but you can get out of living paycheck to paycheck as people with bar/restaurant habits do.

A good way to ease into it is moving somewhere where it’s a 5 minute bike ride instead of a 5 minute walk to bars and restaurants. You’ll save money, get more fit, and get a dopamine detox.
What Would Happen If Every American Got a Heat Pump
In context it made perfect sense. They compared 2 companies who had a product without the technology to enable it.
You don’t deal with hvac complexity. People are so blinded by the cloud they don’t even realize CoLos are a thing.

“What alternative is there to living in a hotel if you aren’t a carpenter!?!?!”
The answer is that being a private tutor, on average, pays even less than they make now.

You know how I know that? Because they aren’t already doing that.

How many families could afford the salary of even one teacher?
More Human Than Human: Measuring ChatGPT Political Bias
If you want cheap power you need a public provider. LADWP charges 16-21c/kwh depending on your usage.
That's doom mongering by definition. And you're only listing the current popular ones. What about electricity? Phones? Radio? GMO? Fluoride? etc. Yeah, there always were and always will be people saying the end is nigh.
We’re planning to allow changing the default options for blocks (either per-page in front matter or across an entire project using the project config); you could then make `js run=false` the default and `js run` to opt-in to live code as you wish. But we chose to make live code the default since that’s our primary use case.
I get the impression that somehow China had started fearing US and NATO a bit less in the last few years. While the war is going on Ukraine, I think this might be the golden opportunity for China to step up and try to take Taiwan. I think the US and Taiwan understand this perception as well, so that's why the permanent "training mission".

At the same time, there is a danger Putin will try to call NATO's bluff and start something with one of the East European members: attack one of the Baltic states or Poland and see how willing US and West European countries will to be take a step closer to WWIII. If NATO hesitates just a moment, it would be its effective end, the alliance won't be worth the paper it was signed on.
LED light bulbs suck for the most part.

After all these years, we still don't have the following:

- 3000K-1800K dimming characteristics like halogen

- 100 CRI

- Truly Flicker-free

LED lights have only 2 things going for it: Long life and low energy usage. We can render the latter irrelevant if we make energy abundant and cheap.

You can't even buy Halogen in California, hope someone sues the shit out of them.
There are two flaws in your logic:

1. Security is not a binary. One system can be more secure than another even if it's not totally secure.

2. It's impossible in practice for any nontrivial system to be completely free of all vulnerabilities. When people talk about systems being secure, they generally mean free of known vulnerabilities.
If our data source is Postgres, can edits/updates be sent directly back to Postgres?

If the import is one-way right now, are there any plans to make the above possible?
Alternatively, just add to the gigantic "reservoir" underground, i.e. the water table.
Where in Europe is gasoline only $5/gallon, or do you mean their local rate for gasoline?

I was surprised recently when BC’s gas prices were about the same as WA’s, it’s almost always been more expensive in my lifetime.
We do support it. (And use it!) Please see: https://observablehq.com/framework/lib/arrow#apache-parquet
Yeah diplomacy isn't a series of automatic actions based on flow-control or checklists. Just because you crossed some lines doesn't mean the other party will respond exactly how they will.

That being said, credibility is important when making threats. And letting your lines in the proverbial sand get crossed, moved, erased, redrawn, etc. endlessly can make for some ... interesting geopolitical situations.
PDF is here. [1] I posted this link because PDFs are very hard to read on mobile, and the summary on this page is quite useful.

1: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11127-023-010...
are they going toward real AI?
It would make sense to have public wires built the same way as roads, and private power companies that I pay to put power into the grid, that compensate for the power I draw out. If the natural monopoly is the wires, so be it, but there's no natural monopoly on solar farms.
I moved somewhat recently from Seattle to SF. The electricity in Seattle was 7c/kwh when I was there. I did the math, it would have been cost-effective to heat my home with bitcoin mining, because electricity was so cheap (but GPUs - not so much).

My partner likes to use a space heater to warm the bathroom during the morning. It costs almost $1/hr to do that in SF with a 1500w space heater. We also spend $200 a month on electricity now, and we don't have an EV, and we have a gas stove and clothing dryer.

I miss my $5 electricity bill from when I was single in Seattle.
Badwater Basin was also a fun map in TF2

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Badwater_Basin
Fast enough. You get enough tools to optimize the queries. Keep in mind that Django is still a web framework. You can go nuts with Django and it starts to feel like maybe raw SQL would have been easier but I've rarely encountered this.
Type-safely embed SQL directly into Java
See, you would not like that someone would force you to work from home. Same goes the other way around. So why not let people choose and refrain from carpet bombing policies mandating everyone be the same.
The presumed legal duty to break the law in the interest of shareholders is grossly exaggerated... Nobody can sue you for failing to commit a crime on their behalf.
This is it for me. The time saved is worth far, far more than $20.