skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Against the public interest" is the vaguest bar for investigation I can imagine, it's even vaguer than "probable cause" in policing! As long as you can find a person who disagrees (and presumably pays taxes), you're good to go on "against the public interest"?
Please reread the definition of “controlled by a foreign adversary“ in section g1.
Why load is higher at 3am than at midday?
I'd guess it maybe takes time and money to ramp up/down natural gas capacity, so it makes financial sense to maintain capacity at a loss for now to better/more rapidly profit when solar capacity drops and prices go positive again? If I'm reading the day ahead chart on that page correctly, prices should go positive again around 5PM.
2000 calories of protein def fends off hunger.

If I know I'm going to be traveling all day, I load up on eggs for breakfast. It beats getting ripped off for crappy snacks at travel waypoints.
The best predictors don’t scout all roads, they instead avoid decisions that cut them off.

We still have a legacy of bad design we were chasing in the 00’s and well into the 10’s of trying to future proof things when what we should have been doing was hedging by putting off decisions we cannot change as long as we possibly can: the Last Responsible Moment is too often conflated with YAGNI - things like building infrastructure “you don’t need yet” (need is open to interpretation and a clogged roadmap full of long runways often means that targets of opportunity should be pursued when the trail is hot, not when the “time is right”. There is never time, only opportunity). When instead I think it is more about jumping off ledges with no trail back. I cannot reverse this decision, so I should avoid it as long as I reasonably can.

Stall until there is more information, until your tools are better, until the requirements are clear, until workarounds and interim solutions do not suffice and you must commit.

Stall, study, scaffold.
I think this was the reasoning behind the adage "make it work, make it right, make it fast" (or something along those lines).

You'd do a fairly rough draft of the project first, just trying to make it do what you intend it to. Then you'd rewrite it so it works without glaring bugs or issues, then optimise it to make it better/more performant/more clearly organised after that.
Solver:

window.setInterval(() => { var g=currentFlag.commonName; checkGuess(g); document.getElementById('search-input').value = g;}, 600);
Overall the impression is good, but the whole interaction of submitting a URL and email for a "free report", going through the process to receive a redacted report with a request to pay for the full one feels a bit like switch and bait and leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

Also the validation on the URL was a bit strange: the example text was without the 'https://', but I needed that added to proceed.
The official California ISO page is awesome by itself, as are the mobile apps: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
The real world bank processes themselves are significantly more complicated than for any one person to hold it in their head. Simplification is important but only until the point it still completes 100% of the required functionality.

Code also functions as documentation for the actual process. In many cases “whatever the software do” is the process itself.
As well as its own plugins Vim/NeoVim can use VSCode's LSPs, DAPs and extensions either directly or via plugins like CoC[1] and Mason[2].

I would be surprised if emacs couldn't do the same.

1. https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

2. https://github.com/williamboman/mason.nvim
The surveillance state is bound to happen anyway. There’s just no path for one country to be an ideal democracy with a world full of autocracies. The citizens of US had a good run while it lasted. They did fight well and was worth a try.
> keeps certain people down on purpose.

That's what makes it so pernicious. No one is being targeted and being kept down "on purpose." It's a failure to correctly orient priorities and to see that the balance of tax money is spent on improving individual citizens lives and outcomes.

> It's great to see people being able to pivot their careers later in life.

It'd be even better if we just paid them what they were worth so they didn't have to put a bunch of effort into moving sideways across the labor market like this.
By 2030, they will have $6-12B a year in revenue from their charging network.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/29/tesla-to-earn-billions-from-...

They are hitting over $1B a quarter in solar battery revenue, a business growing faster than their EV division

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/tesla-s-b...

EVs sales is still the lion's share of revenue, but any of these divisions could be a stand-alone business. (maybe not the solar panels, which hasn't done well at all)
> like how cars are owned and used, generally falls into the general aviation bucket

You confusing typical humble car owner with certified plane owner.

Automobiles could for years don't see any care, even could be used without insurance, but still considered in statistics.

Planes of general aviation, are closer to city buses, which are under constant care and have very good support.

And yes, exist planes without rules, but this is difference, nobody care about non-certified automobile on private land, but you will lost pilot license if you'll get caught flying on non-certified plane, except very few special cases.

Also you should be careful, when compare statistics of US and EU, they have significant differences.
That's weird. Probably give people the posibility to renew the trial until payment is enabled. Be superclear that it will not be free forever, because people will get used to the free trial and complain when you try to charge them.
C# extension generally has acceptable performance (as long as you use Roslyn LSP and not the Omnisharp one, although it also was fast at the cost of higher memory usage and less stability). What could be slowing it down is other extensions, especially if they have heavy Roslyn analyzers.

For large project it doesn't scale as well, which is where Rider comes into play, I still daily drive VSC as the editor since it's just way snappier and more fluid than Rider.
It’s crazy how many people lift weights trying to lose weight when they desperately need cardio.
I've seen lots of creative ways to build an alternate interface for Hacker News. A couple that might meet your criteria...

The Hacker News second chance pool

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

And this is a fun way to browser Hacker News showing all the posts that got at least 3 upvotes...

https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3
https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/index.html has even older (back to ~1950s) media
Any insights into what makes this culturally acceptable?
Surely you can do this from the office? I do.
It's interesting how renewables have suddenly made time-of-day critical in energy consumption.

IMHO, not enough attention has been paid to how important better insulation + workplace EV charging are to the energy transition. If homes were insulated like they are in Northern Europe (where you can go a week without heat and your home will still be tolerable when you get home) rather than Northern California (where your furnace cycles on after an hour despite it being 55F out), you could run basically all residential HVAC during daylight hours, when solar is producing abundantly, and turn the housing stock into a giant thermal battery. And similarly, if everybody charged at work rather than at night, you power transportation on solar rather than on natural gas.
Your example is too vague to make much of, frankly, but in theory I'd believe perhaps it's possible for lobbyists' positions to align with or at least not contradict the public interest, though recent decades have shown precious few examples compared to the sheer volume of fuckery like this. A law could be written to not target all lobbying activity while still being able to draw useful distinctions between doing harm in the name of profit and providing some kind of useful industry insight (whatever that may be) to the process of government
me being almost 38 thinking it's not that old
Receiving an error:

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Console error:

e: the server responded with a status of 401 ()
TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 't.user.email')
Dragon NaturallySpeaking supports voice commands like "click OK" and responds accordingly. Its solution to the problem of Microsoft Office doing its own custom widget rendering was to OCR the text on widgets and buttons to determine their labels. You need something like this far, far more often than you think you do. Developers will flummox you, they will NOT use the provided APIs.
Seems to only celebrate a tiny little slice of those 60 years of music history to my ears.
pg applying the change and failing to persist it (in case of a write failure) is the acceptable behaviour probably? Write failures leading to alter failures would count as a surprise.

But after disabling alter system, you can use permissions to avoid local overrides, so this is probably worth adding in the docs.
A quick google says that 53% of Americans own publicly traded stock, but that means that 47% do not. There will be some fraction of that 47% who have their own businesses, but I’m guessing that these would be people at the bottom end of the business scale. Would it really be fair to call the guys driving a truck through the alleys collecting crap metal capital owners who would live in a utopia?

The same article that cites the 53% number also says that the top 10% of income earners own 70% of the stock market. That doesn’t really sound like a recipe for utopia.
Thank you!
I'm getting the transcript through an API and feeding it to the GPT. For now, the fallback function for no captions is just to make something out of the description of the video.
I really appreciate the suggestion, i'll experiment around using Whisper. Regarding open source or business. I don't really know about that yet. Maybe, i'll lean towards the business side to cover the costs and see where this goes.
And sorry for the downtime! API credits ran out. It should be fixed by now
Ok, we've depunctuated it now
De-Autoconfiscation (Eric Raymond)
Why is the developer doing this? Shouldn't someone skilled with infrastructure and an actual understanding of their environment do that work?
Visual Studio editing experience is just not nice compared to VS Code.

A lot of developers have moved on to Rider or VS Code + Rider combo nowadays.
whole eggs have substantial fat, as a confounding factor in your analysis
https://web.archive.org/web/20240421095115/https://www.theat...
Learning about programming through storytelling?

Well I'm not in the target audience, but I like the style and I feel it's a lot less intimidating (and more interesting) than a typical book on programming computers. Pretty neat!
Everyone thinks they have good taste in music… because they only like what is to their taste.
The imposter invasion has an even more insidious effect: the creation of software that sounds great (because making it sound great was its authors' forte) but actually sucks to work with (because making good software was not their forte). It has performance issues, security holes, no observability, doesn't scale well, has insane configuration or dependency issues, etc. FAANG companies in particular are full of this crap, written for the "brag post" so the author could get their promotion, then effectively abandoned as they went elsewhere before all the cheesy shortcuts became apparent. Slick talking has replaced sound design as the most valuable skill a software engineer can have, and it shows everywhere.
You don’t have to stop maximizing income in order to get fit and healthy. I schedule time to work out in my calendar. My wife and I prioritize workouts as necessary time. You can eat at a restaurant and order healthy options and drink water.

People who blame their work for being unhealthy are making excuses. I’ve worked 60 - 70 hours a week for 2 decades and I’m in excellent physical condition.
My understanding from last year is that they’re doing both prevention and cleanup. They have a good explanation on their website on microplastic sizes
Yet I am charged 40+ cents a kWh and have a bill of about 1k a month and still have a true up bill that adds about another 900 a month.

Yes I have solar, and it does not seem to help.

Meanwhile in Texas with the AC running 24/7 never had a bill over 300.
I'm definitely under the impression that that's the case for nuclear (which is famously bad at reacting to changing demand), but I would have thought that even slow gas plants could turn off for hours profitably. Could be wrong.
Thermal Energy Networks May Be About to Have Their Moment
Very reminiscent of parallel wavenet, which speed things up by generating multiple audio samples at a time.
At least here in Germany transmission is the bottleneck.
If it is true that frequent, brief, moderately intense exercise is that beneficial, I can see several ways that office workers can fit that into their workday.

If you work in a multi-floor office building: when going to the restroom, walk up stairs to a restroom on a floor above the one you work on; if you go out for lunch, walk to lunch, then walk up the stairs when you get back; if you are going to a meeting, leave you desk a couple of minutes early and walk up and down the stairs before going to the meeting room.

All of these ideas have something in common: walking up stairs is as close to HIIT that most people get during their day.
Their unwavering belief that Musk’s shitposting on Twitter will somehow affect anything IRL outside the increasingly insular US based neoliberal bubble.
They're still working on open oceans: https://theoceancleanup.com/oceans/
Except pension age is already going up around the world.

I had to stop myself from laughing when I heard an old lady in a restaurant complain about not getting enough money from her pension. Sure, I wish she had more money too but at this rate I'll be retiring 15 years older than she was when she retired.
Evanescent Field
Depends on what you store on iCloud. Dot files aren't synced, which I learned the hard way when I tried to use it as a place for my ~/code folder.
I agree. A better way to word it might just be that I prioritise it.

I find that a lot of people say "I can't do that because X". I see it more as, well, I have to do that, so I can't do X, then.

As you say, scheduling time.
Your comment doesn’t seem to be in good faith. What cloud company is pushing this through?
It's time we take on bigger and harder problems to solve. Living on another planet is a hard problem but only one company is working on that. We need multiple such companies tackling bigger problems. Solving climate change, dealing with plastic are other bigger problems.

I beleive there's no shortage of jobs. What if we start cleaning earth or reverse effects of human civilization on earth to make it more sustainable. The amount of people needed for that job are huge but we can't pay them at all because how our economies are structured. We need tectonic shift in how the world works today. Machines are taking human jobs, good. Now humans are free to do the work which machines can't do.
What kind of office/work culture do you have where you can't go for a walk at lunch?
Privacy policy says "According to our Terms of Use, individuals under the age of 18 are not permitted to use CouldBeBetter." Why if the counter-party isn't 18 years old either?
Imo Return to The Sea is a masterpiece, but also confess to live all subsequent Islands albums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_the_Sea
Capabilities are magic, if you don't have them. People confuse permission flags, such as those found in smartphones, etc.. or locking down permissions a-prior as in app-armor, with capabilities.

The ability, at run time, to pick a file, and give only that file, folder, or set of resources to a piece of software is essential to secure computing. As far as I know, NeXT/macOS/iOS et all don't have that ability.
Open source doesn’t mean freely available online for everyone
I'
m the opposite. I put myself under 2 week sprints at home. Imagine someone is working on the same idea and put pressure on myself to get done and release.

At work I hold things an extra day or more so I have something easy to say at the standup. Stands ups at work force this slow pace because it sounds better and is easier for others to follow.
Intel fab construction is exactly the kind of corruption we’re talking about here. Trying to manipulate markets via subsidies is horrifically inefficient and thus a vast waste of taxpayer dollars.
*four sides, two records. And "only" 80 minutes (not derogatory, it's my favorite album).
Could you go for a walk during lunch in-office?

My understanding is, unless the employer is paying you during lunch, they can’t mandate what you
do. The only problems are 1) it’s not good socially if everyone else is eating lunch and you’re doing something else, and 2) your employer may not give or allow a long break during work hours, but I don’t how common that is (or how it would be justified, considering you’re not working for less hours).
> it might be desirable in the future to have a repository of analyzed code.

We did a code verifier back end for a small app store. Were mostly MScs + some Phd consulting.

The world is indeed waiting for a CloudOptimizingCompiler (CoCo?!) - there are so many possibilities for shared compute, library caching, and machine learning.

I will PM you, just to keep the dream alive.
You’d have to be lucky to get the correct and complete CLI command from the transcript though, unless this is also doing OCR, which I don’t think it is.
A lot of people claim they have trouble losing weight because of a "slow metabolism". In most cases their metabolism is normal and they haven't even had a resting metabolic rate (RMR) test. Those tests are easy, inexpensive, and non-invasive. It's worth getting one just to understand your baseline energy expenditure.
I've been hearing about iOS exploits for eons, and exploits against Safari and iMessage specifically happen all the time. See: All the stuff the NSO group has done. Apple has also been getting hit by unpatchable hardware level vulnerabilities because quite simply their hardware is designed to be fast, not designed to be secure.

I'm also not saying this based on people reporting vulnerabilities, I'm pointing out the software we're using is fundamentally impossible to secure on merit of its complexity and the tradeoffs people make that neglect security.
That is discussed in the comments of the article.
People balk at it, but I've decided to avoid back feeding solar to the grid, and only consume/charge my property.
Improving Performance on the Internet (2009)
Years ago, there was a project for Linux (now defunct) that used Scheme to script the Linux kernel.

http://www.abstractnonsense.com/schemix/
I think I love the idea - solve the problem of "you zoomed out too far, now wait for the server to load tiles for the continent you just asked to be rendered" - but I'm not sure what the use cases are where I need to know where West Bloomfield Township is in relationship to Waterford Charter Township (both suburbs of Detroit) but not what state they're in or even that the Great Lakes exist.

I would like to see a lot more data put into coastlines and a lot less into subdividing major metropolitan areas.
Pretty sure it's meant to show "these robots can perform movements that are impossible for a human"

But the animal part of our brain that screams danger when we see this is just a byproduct of that. Anybody giving it real credence rather than just laughing it off should stop driving a car, travelling by air, talking to people on a phone, etc.
There's a tutorial explaining BQN's combinators not directly linked: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/tutorial/combinator.html

The symbols ⊸ and ⟜ are new in BQN and I think these are a good example of how APL's symbolic approach can make it easier to think about combinators. You have w F⊸G x meaning (F w) G x and w G⟜F x meaning w G (F x), that is, the function on the pointy side is a preprocessing step for the argument on that side. Once you get used to which side is which these become some of the most intuitive BQN combinators to work with.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240421090533/https://fortune.c...
If you want to reduce weight, then lower your caloric intake. You don’t even need to workout. Just measure your calories and keep decreasing them until the weight falls off.

If you want to add in exercise, that’s great too, and then you can eat more calories. But if you studiously count calories and reduce them, you will lose weight - it’s guaranteed.

If I put you on a desert island and starved you, you would lose weight. It’s the same principle. Trying to imagine that there is a mystery here to explain weight gain is a coping mechanism. There is no mystery.
Ask HN: Are Personal Finance Apps Falling Short for Anyone Else?
Hi! I hope this is the right forum for this.

Lately, I've been looking into personal finance apps, hoping to find something that could help me manage my finances and plan for the future. Despite there being so many apps designed to do this, I find myself continually reverting an Excel spreadsheet.

It seems like these apps should be making financial management easier, but in my experience—and from what I've gathered from doing a bit of research online (reddit and HN) others people find they often don't meet all our needs.

This has left me wondering, do they just not work?

Has anyone else here experienced similar frustrations? I'm curious to hear your experiences with finance apps (or do you just use a spreadsheet?) What specific features or issues have made you stick with or abandon these tools? Do you think these apps lack certain functionalities, or is it something else entirely?

I’d appreciate any insights or recommendations for alternatives that might be worth exploring.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!
The article was about social media rotting kids brains and devices being the path to that rotten apple…so remove the path. The other comment made the comparison that tobacco use doesn’t work in small bites either. You made the successful life skills connection, so it’s not a huge leap of assumption to see that you were connecting social media usage to those successful life skills.

I merely made the further connection that smoking had a social connection too and was yet another rotten thing we did to ourselves and kids once upon a time.

Frankly, I’d also suggest to your point that devices, computer, and coding skills are going to be less important in the future. I think coding and SW dev will become less and less a human endeavor and more a product of AI practically eliminating the vocation, but that’s not what this thread is about and I am sure not what folks on HN will want to hear. People will also manage to figure out how to utilize the tech of their time, they won’t need to be exposed to it as children. I know I wasn’t, and my nearly 90 year old mother manages to use a smartphone and tablet just fine and she didn’t even have indoor plumbing when she grew up.
Noted! I'll will look into that. Thank you.
Show HN: Rust Stream API visualized and exposed
Pretty sure people acclimatise.