skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP was too kind to you. Most furnace efficiency ratings come from calculating the input energy and the output energy. It is pretty obvious from the site that the calculation is a simple, energy in vs energy out calculation.

Maybe you should educate yourself some before writing posts you know nothing about.
> Is this instance liberal (accepting of change) or conservative (hesitant of change)?

I don’t think this framing is very useful. Modern conservatives don’t have problems with change, they just want that change to go their way. They are perfectly able to innovate and push new doctrines or legal theories when it suits them. And on the other hand they do not care about preserving anything besides an idealised vision of “traditional values”, which are not as old as they seem.

Looking at the actual policies and arguments, the spectrum is between oligarchy (or dictatorship for the most extremes) and democracy. It makes much more sense that way.

> On one hand it seems liberal, wanting to see a change that gives individuals who might be subject of deepfakes more autonomy.

It’s also a significant limitation of personal freedom in the case of a victimless crime, which is anything but liberal.
That's a horrible idea, no different than extracting your ssh private key.

You're asking for Apple to introduce a vulnerability for your convenience.
The picture - seriously?
An even more apt analogy, is that investing in individual stocks, is akin to sports betting in a lot of ways.

Investing in the stock market as a whole is just betting the game will be played.
Yeah this.

Also as an anecdote, my daily driver machine is a bottom end M2 Mac mini because I am a cheap ass. I paid less than it for the 4070 card in my desktop PC. The M2 Mac does a dehaze from RAW in lightroom in 18 seconds. My 4070 takes 9 seconds. So the GPU is twice as fast but the mac has a whole free computer stuck to it.
Think of the guidelines: they say that a discussion should get more substantial, not less, as time goes by. If we all do what you say exactly the opposite will happen. It'd be like a cold flamewar of platitudes and boredom.
Shrinkflation is one very clear example of this in action.

Is selling a candy bar that is half the size of the packaging yet the same cost as it was before they shrank the product fraud or is it just business?

It fits the definition of fraud more than anything...misrepresenting the outcome by hiding the facts. Seems pretty fraudulent to me...
Some suggest that war focuses the economy and drives it forward. How quickly would atomic power evolve without WWII?
“Your honor this God song proves that my client is innocent.”
In the article, there's no comparison to other countries though. Is it any different than the rest of the developed world?
The trump spam is probably because you read trump spam just enough to make it display more trump spam.

Avoiding that is easier said than done: I used to pay for Apple News+, but ended up clicking on just enough clickbait to only get clickbait in my feed.

If they had a way to only allow certain news sources then I’d probably re-subscribe.
I hate this timeline.

Every time we find a way to make it so that we don't need people to work, people fight against it because spending our entire lives laboring is suddenly good actually. We throw "I don't want to starve in a ditch" and "I love doing this" into a blender until they look like the same thing. But they're not.

> "writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI"

Please. No. Jesus. Fuck. People shouldn't starve in a ditch, but the solution isn't to persist doing work that machines can do instead. The solution is to distribute the value gained by the automation to the people. Strike against the government to advance societal welfare, not against the production studios to prevent eliminating the need for human labor.
> I can't work it out exactly without doing more research than is worth. As I said, the schedules are complex, maybe someone more versed in this can chime in.

The $0.26/kWh is for the CARE program, which heavily discounts energy (30-35%) for low income people and families. It's not a rate available to most people.

Whereas the rates paid by those who have a municipally-owned utility (MOU) in CA (i.e. LADWP, SMUD, SVP) are actually 60% lower than those paid to investor-owned utilities (IOU) [1].

The municipal utility rates are lower because:

a) being owned by their municipalities, their primary incentive structure is to lower costs of reliable electricity for ratepayers, not to return a profit to shareholders.

b) IOUs generate profits for shareholders, and this profit is only generated - per regulation - as a percentage of capital expenditures.

c) PG&E and other IOUs must reduce the wildfire risk of their huge transmission and distribution networks, which operate in much more wildfire-prone parts of California than the municipal utilities (which are mostly urban). To achieve this, they tend to choose very expensive solutions (i.e. under-grounding transmission lines) since (b).

This results in all ratepayers in IOU territories paying much higher electricity rates, regardless of whether they are in a high fire-risk zone. If electricity rates were set based on highly localized wildfire risk, the rates would be even more divergent, sometimes in areas just a few miles apart (due to California's micro-climates). There would probably be tremendous outcry and anger, as nobody wants to pay for the risks associated with where they have chosen (or can afford to) live.

1. https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees
>There are also many FOSS applications, including LibreOffice, that are perfectly fine as replacements for Microsoft Office.

From my own experience dealing with MS Office-based government organizations, this is absolutely false. Sure, LibreOffice can read and write DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files that are nominally interoperable with MS Office. But more often than not, MS Office mangles the formatting of LibreOffice-generated files. For example, text sizes, fonts, and element alignments in PPTX files get thrown off noticeably.

As another reply mentions, there's this nominal open-source standard. But the de facto standard is the MS Office implementation. I have to use MS Office instead of LibreOffice to eliminate the risk of document mangling when I send files over to the government people in charnge of my funding.
Could you integrate a heat pump or solar tank pre-heater to this system and calculate how much it saves on gas? especially if you have on-demand pricing for electricity. it would be interesting to see it dynamically optimize depending on the price per BTU or some other metric.
Hyper, is it worth it?
Old Masters, New Technology
MKBHDs for Everything
Then they can use the same content filters they demonetize channels for to filter out the gross, deceptive, and outright scam ads. But I haven’t seen any initiative for that to happen on googles end.
> I'm not sure how the concept of tracking virtual islands over the horizon really helps. The only thing I can think of is maybe the idea of it encourages the navigator to stay focused on estimating the passage of proxy points on the far horizon

You can practice navagating against physical islands over the horizon, and when you're good at that, you've mostly gotten good at dead reckoning against a real reference point; of course, with corrections from the islands influence. Having a community shared archipelego of virtual islands lets you focus your dead reckoning skills on a point while offering a vocabulary of distance and reducing travel times between waypoints.

Go 1000 miles in this direction seems a lot harder for me to follow over many days than go X miles to A, then Y miles to B, then Z miles to C. Even if A and B aren't real. If I treat them as very small islands that will be over the horizon, no big deal that they don't influence the environment, they're small; but I can't really use them to course correct, my reckoning needs to be good.
I feel you, we've been hard at work on Effect and the ecosystem these past months (years in fact). Which is why this release and the promise of API stability are such an important milestone. Less catch-up, more shipping from now on!
> However: you seem to target developers. Why do you force me to leave my IDE and use your "rules editor"? Can I not write all those things in my IDE, with all the support it brings, and integrate this into my CICD flow? (yes, there is the .polar file, but why force me to jump through hoops?)

Hey valenterry! Oso CTO here. You can absolutely write policies locally and integrate this with CI/CD. We have vscode extension for the former, and CI tools for running local dev environments and CI for running this locally or in CI or whatever.

The UI is mostly nice for getting started development experience, e.g. it integrates directly with Oso Cloud without needing to configure credentials.

> Then, why did you create a new DSL and not a merely a (de-)serializable datastructure (which will indeed look like a dsl)? One, that is powerful enough to represent the capabilities you need. Then, I could in fact use any language (library) of my choice and create the rules from this language, which just has to create the datastructure.

We have a post on this coming soon! The short version is that Polar is a logic language based on Prolog/Datalog/miniKanren. And logic languages are a particularly good fit for representing the branching conditional logic you often see in authorization configurations.

And it made it easier for us to do custom work like add inline policy tests.

> Apart from that, I really like the `yes, if` idea! Would be nice to hear a bit more about that (unfortunately, the article pretty much ends there). Such as: how to deal with actions that change things and can (or must) potentially be run before the authorization is completed and such.

We typically recommend authorizing in two places: at the start of a request, and then when fetching data.

e.g. in our demo app, authorizing "can a user create an issue" involves authorizing a "create_issue" action against the repository itself: https://github.com/osohq/gitcloud/blob/sam/list-filtering/se...

Whereas anything listing issues calls the `list_local` method and does the `yes, if` style approach.
I was formerly in a long term contract role with a large stock photo company and most of the revenue is generated from current event images. So I agree AI is useful for random stock photos but am under the impression that’s a minority of business in total.
If you look at the Wikipedia for Inconel, it does actually mention that it is used as the engraving medium for black boxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inconel
England and Wales allow unilateral divorce, and at least the husband wanted to divorce, so even without this mistake the result would be divorce. The mistake must be in the details of the settlement, so there's a good chance it's a material cost that the lawyer who made the mistake or their firm can compensate for monetarily
Was this comment generated by AI?
Estonia does, because well... policy wise the US is not functioning very well.
(Well various German goverments have their own inhouse tech, but kind of get the critic of German goverment lack of digitalisation)
I'm very curious about this too.

My understanding of it is that you have something of great value right now, which is that 2.7% loan.

I think the conventional wisdom on not selling the property has less to do with the cash flow and more to do with having that very cheap debt leveraged such that you "get" the return on the value of the entire property rather than just your portion of equity in it.

But I think individuals, for pretty good reasons, put a higher premium on cash flows in the shorter than on-paper wealth in the longer term.

But I wish I knew the specifics of how to quantify the value of that fixed loan relative to investment returns.

And even if there is a strong quantitative argument for holding onto the property and renting it, I think there is still a strong qualitative argument for "I'm a person with other things to do, I'm not a rental business proprietor".
At a smaller scale, for an independent writer publishing on Substack, I’m a fan of the model where most articles are free but some are for paid subscribers only. If you’re publishing something of widespread interest, maybe that one should be free.

Maybe that would work for larger websites too? They do often have gift links, which are another way to do it. Limited-time promotions seem like a reasonable way to get new subscribers, and an election is an excuse to do it. It would get traffic from people who do last-minute research on less-covered races.

I’m skeptical about how much effect it would have on the races where most people have already made up their minds. How would that work? Would it increase turnout?
As already mentioned, empathy.

You are referencing the age old argument of moral origins, you can simply google to find out many sides of the argument (example: https://www.quora.com/If-not-for-religion-where-do-morals-an...).

However, its quite simple to resolve. The gist of it is: if you need a deity holding judgement over you to distinguish right from wrong, you are probably a psychopath.
Lets hope the rest of the industry can follow your example. Lets make software boring again.
> There are such things as USB monitors which actually take pixel data over the USB protocol

DisplayLink. It caught on for a while at least, especially in the case of some dock products that would output to a more conventional display interface but were USB DisplayLink adapters themselves. You’ll see tons of forum and Reddit posts about suboptimal CPU load and performance related to it.

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

It more recently was resurrected to overcome M1 limitations.

https://danielcompton.net/apple-m1-displaylink-multiple-disp...
Quick addition: in practice everyone that I know uses Git + CI/CD for managing + deploying policy changes.
A public organization, funded by public money, should not be taking a political stance against more than half the population. It's one thing to just report some fact that goes against a narrative that half the population believes. That's not what is going on at NPR. If they want to take a team x position, fine, team y shouldn't be funding them under threat of imprisonment. They can get their funding the way all the other newsrooms having to make choices do.
>Unifying it again, like with AMD's APUs, means either compromises for the CPU or for the GPU. There's no free lunch.

I think the lunch here (it still ain't free) is that RAM speed means nothing if you don't have enough RAM in the first place, and this is a compromise solution to that practical problem.
AFAIK the idea of neanderthals as original bogeymen is closer to anthropological fanfic than a credible hypothesis, but would love to have an anthropologist/paleonthologist to chime in.
We also don't talk enough about the mental impact of living in one of the worst weather on the planet. Every other day is rainy, dark and foggy.
Your point is valid. But it does sound like a barrier to entry. In the sense of, increasing fixed costs for access to the legal system on a fair basis
> IPv6 has no subnet masks

It definitely does (although they're called prefix lengths). /64 just happens to work well with SLAAC.

> IPv6 has no NAT

Nor does IPv4 "have NAT". It's a technology that routers can implement, and of course that's possible in IPv6 as well.

Linux implements it, for example, and NAT on IPv6 can be essential if all you have is a single IPv6 address, e.g. when you get one assigned from your local network and you want to run a VM on your machine.

> IPv6 addresses are self-configured

Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. There's also DHCPv6 and static configuration.

> It’s impossible to memorize IPv6 addresses

So what? I have no interest in memorizing IPv4 addresses, phone numbers etc. either.

> IPv6 provides no benefit to end-users

I'm an end user, and they provide a ton of benefits to me:

- Firewall traversal (i.e. "hole punching") is so much more predictable and so much more likely to succeed than NAT traversal. Things like VoIP, Tailscale etc. all have a much higher chance of success with IPv6 than behind one or more layers of NATs.

- All of my home devices get public addresses that I can optionally expose for incoming connections via firewall rules on my router!

- More direct routing on mobile networks, leading to lower latency. (IPv4 often gets routed to a bank of expensive, stateful CG-NAT devices, which aren't present in every place my mobile ISP has IPv6 interchange.)
Yeah but that’s what OpenAI might’ve spent
OK, but I was responding to:

> It's user-friendly if you think having a package manager that's broken out of the box is user-friendly.

The package manager here is pacman, and it implies that pacman is broken out of the box.
Yeah I'm not going to do that. This is going to purely based on github history so don't expect exceptional accuracy.
Dengue can also be forecast with reasonable accuracy, particularly in countries like Brazil with good data systems

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.12.584724v1

(disclosure: I'm an author on this)
I genuinely have no idea how people can stand inverted Y in an FPS. It makes no sense! You're controlling the way you look, not nudging the nose of a spacecraft. I'm very thankful that it's not the default.
At this point, I download all videos (Downie.app on Mac; it's awesome) and play them locally. The day I no longer have a workaround I will stop watching. I have enough other content to keep me going. Too much, really.
> Do you feel like the market is going to cool massively in the next few years?
I don't - IMO the weight of held low interest rates is going to keep inventory low for a long time.

We've got to live somewhere, and the new house has a mortgage at 7.65%. The principle decrease + cashflow from holding the existing property barely offsets the interest cost on new property.

So I guess the way to look at it is a zero-cost, but potentially highly stressful, bet on the property market appreciating?
This has happened everywhere, not just the US
As someone with their heat set to a comfortable 18.5C you could also knock a few degrees off the 23C room temperature and save a few of the ice caps.
the current regime in Iran has not thought much of the "special" status of embassies historically.

I tend to agree the strikes on embassies/consulates is not a great precedent, but it's hard to think of a less sympathetic victim.
The content is pretty accurate
No, I think corporations are part of a corpo class that is most effective when there is a Congress that cannot legislate the needs of the working/middle class. They will never advocate for company break ups, increase in taxes, or investing in their workforce.

It's the same with elites, they "care" about social issues but the second you want to tax them suddenly it's too much and too far.

That has nothing to do with right/left politics and everything to do with class warfare.
If climate change is cataclysmic, no amount of savings/wealth will help you (outside of Elon/Zuck type wealth). If it's merely disruptive, then it's just another factor to consider in your investments.

Think of it like nuclear weapons. You can't really plan for nuclear war, but you can still take nuclear capability into account when making financial decisions (e.g. China is unlikely to annex Taiwan because of US nukes so investing in TSMC is not a terrible move).
I'm hooked. Who was that?
Ireland should be an international study about how a state destroyed itself by running a gigantic welfare state despite all of world's money pouring into it

Almost €300B national debt. Government is giving free houses, money to people who don't work. It's the only relatively wealthy European country with unlimited dole. And people make a lifestyle out of living on welfare forever.

This is despite huge corporation tax receipts and income tax receipts by largely foreign born workforce

One in five people are directly or indirectly employed by the government of a tiny country.. it's just a waste from bottom to top and all are complicit
Salman Rushdie Recounts Brutal Attack in New Memoir
Oh, I didn't realize that! I thought they were just updating the graphics. Thanks for the clarification.

I might just go back and play the original, then.
Clickhouse will eat this for breakfast. And has built-in compression even at the column level
The article makes a strong case otherwise. Proving a system built and maintained by a large, well heeled entity is unlikely to be possible for all except other large, well heeled entities.
For sure. No heated debates here!

Rollercoaster tycoon 1 and 2 were written in assembly. Great games can be made from anything.

Normally when I make Godot games, all of my classes are nodes anyway.
I really lean into the “everything is a node” idea.

Now if I’m writing some algorithm (A* or marching cubes or whatever) I wouldn’t start with gdscript, so I guess I never really made gdscript objects just off the base Object class before.
The linked document doesn't feel unreasonable to me. The concrete example given in the document is the Post Office Horizon Scandal where shortfalls in accounts were identified based on computer records. All the working presumption correctly would mean is that the defense can't be an idle "well, it's a computer it had bugs". If the computerized records are provided as evidence, the defense has to give a reason to believe that bugs account for those shortfalls.

The alternative would be to say that only a system that has been proven correct could be used as evidence which would force pretty much all accounting back to paper.
I think the problem comes when the correct solution is so obvious that it can be seen years in advance and it becomes a race to see who can patent the obvious solution first before the tech catches up and people start actually building it.

This is why people were mad at the "email, but on a cell phone!" patents and all of the "doing thing companies were already doing, but with internet!" patents from entities that don't make a product so they don't have to deal with real world limitations. Once the actual manufacturers start working on the problem they discover all of the obvious solutions locked behind patent walls.
I think the problem with that is it forces the data into a normal distribution when it's not actually the case, and instead it's a very large bump at one end with an incredibly long tail that drags the other tickets up?

It makes sense in statistics, but as a single person with a single ticket, it's much less relevant. The EV of a ticket is over 100% of the cost, but that doesn't matter for 99.9999% of the players and only matters for the very very few with the correct numbers.
Calling OCaml from C
I can understand how they got here: Most computer-provided evidence will be something like a printout of an email thread or a saved Excel sheet. Proving that the hard drive, printer, CPU, drivers, application software, etc. are all untampered and working properly is a huge amount of work that will very rarely end up finding a problem.

The original rule-makers probably never considered the idea of a giant, bespoke enterprise software system; it's just a particularly terrible edge case that got caught up in what looks like a reasonable efficiency measure.
There were things like the old Roman laws that defined the rights, privileges, and obligations of Roman citizens. Or the various constitutions of the old Greek poleis, which similarly guaranteed the freedom of the citizens. Or even the Hammurabi code, if you squint a bit.

“A decent job” is subject to interpretation, but I find very difficult to argue that the Magna Carta was the first, even if it was very significant.
This suggests that maybe there should exist citizen's review boards of medical malpraxis just as we are trying to create for police. Thanks for bringing this up.