skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no, not really accurate.. more outrage than details.

fifty years+ ago, PG&E operated an engineering marvel, built and managed by engineers with a mission and expanding economy post-WWII. Decisions were made with reliability in mind, great feats of large scale building were accomplished and made stable.

Then, things changed inside PG&E regarding upper management and their goals. Engineers retired or elbowed out by business-oriented Cxx level. The lure of continuous income coupled with a de-facto alignment with ultra-conservative political forces, castling up against the tides of 1970s-80s politics. Supervision by regulators was compromised repeatedly. Insider politics entered at all levels but not "the politicians" it was multi-stakeholder command and control making alliances and payoffs over time.

All of this was moving along as a juggernaut when de-regulation entered. Instead of a democratic market for competing providers, in came Enron. As genuine panic spread due to the first ever blackouts, legal actions were taken that drew back the curtain from the insider deals. PG&E management had found loopholes to use company money to buy out of state assets for profit. Cost-cutting ruled over safety (tree trimming, long haul line insulators).

After emergency maneuvers to regain the grid and Enron was rendered harmless, then some of the rant above applies, yes. Recent events (death and destruction) are out of the control of any faction or individual. New rate increases are evidence of Big State politics tied with Homeland Security and budget creep and a thousand other factors. With all that said, yes this is a political problem by definition, agree.

source: attorney on the Enron case for California; book Scorched Worth by Joel Engel; public news
When the article describes people as "hearing a voice inside their head", do they mean something that could be mistaken for an actual voice (identifiable speaker, cadence, accent, etc) or do they just mean that in some way specific words are put together to form thoughts?

I'd describe myself as having an internal monologue, in that I think in words, but there's no "voice" involved. I don't "hear" anything, and it doesn't have any identifiable characteristics. For me, it's like silently reading: the words exist somehow, but aren't actualized. I'm a native English speaker, and it's definitely English, but there is no identifiable speaker.

I ask because I'm mostly aphantasic (don't see pictures in my mind) and I'd always assumed that when people described "visual thinking" they were just being metaphoric. When people described "hearing a voice in their head", I had presumed this was also just a metaphor. But seeing as I was wrong about images, maybe I'm wrong about voices too, and people really hear them as voices?
> California has not had power outages not because California is better than Texas in terms of technology ... rather California is blessed with a climate that doesn't really suffer state-wide extremes.

This is a consequence of California's grid being in the Western Interconnection, so there's a lot of capacity to import/export to other states. Texas's grid is mostly isolated in order to preempt federal regulations; they have very limited ability to import/export power.

The page on interties [1] is awfully hard to read, but I think it says socal can get ~ 4 GW from norcal via Path 26 (which can get 4.8 GW from oregon via Path 66), and socal can also get 11 GW from the east via path 46, and 3 GW from Washington via path 65.

Tres Amigas was cancelled, but was proposed to have 5 GW from each of the three grids (Western, Eastern, Texas), to the other two. I can't find a list of capacity for active ties between Texas and other grids.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WECC_Intertie_Paths
I've been pretty happy with Pop (downstream from Debian/Ubuntu) myself. Not sure why it doesn't get much love compared to say Mint.
Sounds like someone is securing the bag. Props to them.
Can you run the betting app in an Android emulator, and then control all aspects of the environment?
> Shortages of buildings are not the only reason that property prices can be high.

It pretty much is - everything else is window dressing. Pretty much every single city in China is 3-10x more dense than any area in the US, so lack of land is a reason I find continually uncompelling. Our lack of density, zoning practices, NIMBY attitudes and car dependency all contribute to this, with the result being a lack of construction.

Tokyo has been and continues to be affordable for anyone who wants to live there by building: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-...

Here's a grad student on tiktok who does good, well-sourced analysis on this front (he has an entire playlist on the issue of vacancy rates given how frequently it comes up): https://www.tiktok.com/@divasunglasses?lang=en

Article on zoning law changes in CA and how municipalities have put out estimates for how much they should build and then consistently, for decades, not even come close to meeting them: https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/ca-cities-to-lose-all-zo...

There's endless amounts of info on this front - look up strongtowns, YIMBY, parking minimums and associated issues (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8), japanese vs. american zoning policy (https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...)...
Good to start with the concept, I just had so many implementation questions. Working through the code know... which is way harder to digest.
I genuinely believe Chris Roberts does it to make the game he always dreamed of. That game happens to have an incredible amount of feature creep. He is not the person you want to hand an infinite amount of money to make a project without supervision or externally imposed deadlines.

For everyone else it's a passion or an unusually steady job. Many studios have layoffs as they finish games, but with Star Citizen never getting finished their jobs are pretty secure.
> Sorry for your loss.

Genuinely appreciated. I have lost many relatives and (human) friends in my life with causes ranging from murder to disease to suicide. The chickens are different, I think because I am completely responsible for their safety. They are true innocents and I screwed up.

> Every story I recall reading of a mountain lion getting into a chicken enclosure built well enough to defend against a determined racoon or fox has been a young cat strolling through an open door, not forcing their way in.

And same here. I didn't understand how strong the big cats are. Our Fort Knox is accessible only through a garage so that wasn't an issue.
Hey I am Nimish
I am a self-taught Fullstack web developer, started learning to code 4 years ago.

Feel free to share your feedback.
The article is not referring to an "alien conspiracy time travel portal" but to an entrance.
Star Citizen is a financial success as is, everyone making it is getting paid. Would they really make more money by releasing it?

There is a phenomenon in the start-up world where wildly pre-revenue fast growing startups are overvalued until they decide they want to make money and then they are judged on their profitability, which often kills their valuation.
So this is super cool but i am questioning its reliability after playing a song from Spotify on my Sonos and then letting the app listen: the result was 0.1% too slow? I guess that’s a very small difference, what’s the degree of error to expect here?
https://archive.ph/NdQPT
Laravel, Full-Stack JavaScript, and Productive Frameworks
They always try to introduce visual changes to the GUI before they introduce the underlying OS changes that support those visual changes.

Vista was essentially XP with the GUI for Windows 7, Windows 8 was essentially the Windows 10 GUI with the Windows 7 OS, etc.

11 is just 10 with broken GUI updates, 12 will be the finalized version of the 11 GUI with the actual underlying OS updated as well.
Assuming that Tesla's AI acumen is any better than its Full Self-Driving acumen (ie not full at all), this is a crucial bit:

> No Discussion of Musk’s Threats Regarding AI & Robotics

The proxy statement makes no mention of the first elephant in the room: Musk’s threat to stop developing robotics and AI technologies at Tesla (and, indeed, it never mentions that Musk has poached Tesla engineering talent for his own AI start-up, or that he just raised $6 billion for that start-up). Even worse, the proxy materials omit this information while at the same time boasting of “our progress in artificial intelligence via full self-driving and Optimus.” If the Board failed to discuss these issues with Musk, then that failure is a colossal breach of fiduciary duty. If the Board did discuss these issues with Musk, then the omission of the details of those discussions from the proxy statement makes the proxy materially misleading.

You really have to roll the dice with Musk.
This was over a decade ago, so happily not something I'm feeling too sharply nowadays. It all worked out better in the end.
As the article points out, the overwhelming majority of the largest sites on the Internet, with the best-resourced security teams in the world, disagree with this assessment and do not sign their zones.
On my bill (ISO-NE region/market) there is a separate generation and transmission fee.

Crediting generation, and zeroing/discounting the transmission fee would be "more fair" but it would wreck the incentives.
FWIW, I'm seeing ~318,000 toks/sec throughput on a 4x AMD 7900 XTX machine (less than $4k worth of GPU), using the same settings as in the post (0.5M batch size etc).
Nice try making Britain fail just like the USSR did.
Yes, legally responsible. There's no legal violation here, though. The article made a specific claim: that Altman was aware of something. It provided no evidence that he was.

If it accused him of some criminal misdeed, then it wouldn't matter if he was aware of it, as long as he signed the illegal order. That would be a different story, but clearly in this case it doesn't apply.
Amazes me how people pass judgement without having read the article or considered the meaning of "portal"...
US median household income increased after the 2017 corporate tax cuts.

https://fee.org/articles/us-household-incomes-increased-more...
I think most estimates place the budget of GTA 6 at well north of $1000M. That said, based on public data, it's #2 on wikipedia[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...
You mean, "accept our refugees or we all die together" doesn't work?
When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad sign.

Isn't this.. a good thing? Don't we want Facebook to die and go away?
Automata via Macros (2006)
An intruder might be not a sophisticated black hat hacker. It could be somebody who picked up an unlocked phone or keyboard.

When I had a chance to design a token-based authn/authz system, we had two types of tokens, general access (with hours of expiration, mostly read-only access) and privileged access, with expiration time set to a minute or so. All auto-refreshed on use, all separately revokable.
I had an ASUS laptop die to overheating, so fanless sounds terrible. Does that thing just shut down when it starts getting hot or something?
Is there a barrier to powering it with mechanical energy instead of electronic? Gas combustion and hydraulics instead of batteries, CPUs, and servomotors.
What Musk is trying to do seems borderline criminal. It seems to me that he is using his control of Tesla to extort the company for compensation.

It's one thing to say that he deserves to be compensated for the benefit he brings to the company. It's quite another to threaten to undermine the company if he doesn't get his way.
The article is just as wrong as articles that say you should use JWTs. They are both wrong because they lack context, at least in their opening. Interestingly, the article eventually does give context, but saying "it depends on what you need to do" apparently doesn't get as many clicks as starting by saying "no".

For the record, I use JWTs, I have hardly any scale at all. I have none of the requirements that would hit the database on each request. It works just fine and I didn't need to consult an article to tell me what to think because, and this is the crazy part I know, I'm able to break apart my business requirements and decide for myself what is needed (or not). JWTs work just fine in my case. YMMV.
I don't trust myself to get it right. This involved many bags of buried concrete for the main structure, special hardware cloth buried a foot down, expensive lumber during its peak prices during covid times, etc. I was running a faltering business at that time and was happy to delegate.
Yes, but not having capacity outages is a very low bar in the developed world, whereas the prices Californians pay for electricity is much higher than most places.
> people that can get by on 0-net electricity use pay nothing for the real, significant benefit of being connected to the grid

What's stopping them from changing their pricing structure to something that makes sense in a world with solar? Example: My gas bill is $30-40/mo in summer months when I'm only using maybe $1 worth of actual gas for cooking. They need to pay salaries and maintain the pipelines, etc, fine by me.

Why can't PG&E do the same and charge $x/mo + $y/kWh? (where $x is a flat rate and only $y could go to 0)
Simple policies are easy to understand, easy to comply with and have more predictable externalities and second order effects.

The PG&E poppycock is hard to understand. Even I do not fully understand their BS like net metering.

Just make solar panels cheaper so that a lot of people see benefit in buying them to meet their energy needs and lower the energy costs in a way it benefits PG&E too.

If I understand correctly, installing a better + solar panels might solve a lot of these problems for some homes.
https://archive.is/BZal2
I don't think you could use FFT or similar to reliably measure wow to anywhere near the accuracy necessary to produce a reliable amount of correction from just a few seconds of an arbitrary LP.

If you were using an LP with a known pure 440 hZ sine wave that you could lock onto exactly, then sure. That's kind of how frequency modulation -- FM radio -- works.

But I really don't see how you could do this with songs that are full of frequencies coming in and out and changing all over the place. If you analyzed the full side of the LP, you could probably get enough signal out of that.

But trying to measure the precise wavelength of wow when you're only getting a few wavelengths' worth, from a complex signal? I don't see how.
The paper itself is a PDF linked from that page, but the page also links to an earlier talk that may be of interest.

Direct link to the PDF: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-au...
I say this with a ton of experience in the domain name industry - this is a terrible domain choice. The hyphen and the TLD. Not the end of the world - but I would try to migrate off of the domain sooner than later. I would also consider a new name entirely. Plan B (in the US) is 'the pill' that women take after unprotected sex to prevent an accidental preganancy.
Yeah, I think if they were renaming these response codes today, they’d name them something more like “401 Not Authenticated” and “403 Not Authorized”, but it’s too late for that. And I personally think you can say that either an actor or an action is “not authenticated.”
Might be worth grabbing an RX 6600 to replace the GTX 1080 and sell it on FB marketplace or similar. Assuming you want to stick to similar or slightly better performance.
I personally know some of the people who were attacked by these orcas, and had to be towed to madeira as a result.

These "luxury yatches" are small, second and third hand vessels bought for less than your car is worth after a life of hard work.

It's a bit ridiculous to call people in the same socioeconomic strata as the average public school teacher as "the rich"
Putting all the cash drama aside, it's kinda wild seeing tech finally catch up to it. Even though it hasn't dropped release yet, it's already starting to look like old news.
That is right! Create a graph and export an image, could be used for any number of things like tweets, presentations, etc
Specular Polynomials
If you have a wind, solar, and storage setup on your house that supplies 110% of your household needs... who pays for the hookup and maintenance for your house to be connected to the grid?

With the current approach, that is paid for by everyone. If you are just paying for the net energy used from the grid, and that's 0 (or less) then someone else is paying for the grid infrastructure maintenance (that you are using to push your power out onto the grid).

That in turn means that the people who can least afford to offset their own power consumption by installing rooftop solar and whole house backup batteries are the ones that are paying proportionally more for those who can do rooftop solar and backup to be able to connect to the grid.

And that's where the problem with just net metering is.

If it was net metering + flat infrastructure fee, that would be a different thing.

The sustainability that PG&E is concerned about in this context is the sustainability of the infrastructure itself - not the power sources. California is concerned that the maintenance of the infrastructure (that everyone uses) is being placed disproportionally on people with less means to put up rooftop solar.
I'm glad to see we all take the same approach to these sorts of things ^_^

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Yes but talking about not solving the underlying problem, just putting it all behind a third-party that is known to have issues , which is not just malevolence because it's bound to happen at its size, is the point: you want to solve the issue of how to be efficient, how to make it hostable on consumer-grade machines and connection, you can't involve the magic billion-dollar intermediary. It just moves the problem to another place and it makes you depend on something you can never control. That's not really interesting for hosting your own website.
It's called Fennec because it is not from Mozilla and includes patches to removs propietary bits (which are not allowed on F-Droid).

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild

And fennec was the 'internal' name for firefox on android from mozilla.
> You can't have more demand in terms of kw-h, joules, amps, watts or whatever yet also not have more demand.

You can have a demand for more lumens of lighting power... but if you previously used incandescent bulbs and now go for LED, you can expend less electrical energy than you did with the old bulbs.
FV was our seed-round VC, and I snagged a set of photos if anyone wants more -- though they're not nearly as good as Steve's photos in the link above!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/uPBt1z3UnLxoSx9P7

But I really liked the spacex honeycomb lander leg that I didn't see in the flickr set.

It's a truly amazing collection.
> Is it AGI yet?

Yeah...it's AGI: Always Generating Investments
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> omnipresent surveillance to track when and where I drive

How about no
Ah I see. If you mean you’re using 401 for “couldn’t authenticate this request”, and 403 for “you lack permissions to be allowed to do this”, then yeah, that’s standard, spec compliant usage.
I want Meta to die for certain. I wouldn't mind Facebook sticking around if it can stop incentivizing the spread of misinformation, stop radicalizing my parents, and stop abusing the mental health of it's users in the name of promoting engagement.

None of these social networks are inherently wrong in that they shouldn't exist as technology, it's just they are all subject to the same perverse incentives that drive them to make their products socially corrosive is the issue.
In two years' time, this game will have taken longer to develop than Duke Nukem Forever.
Can you differentiate between implementation quality of a tool?

The “platonic wheel” is not a concern for someone trying to make money selling tires - but nor do those tires by being a function of successful commerce describe a “platonic wheel”

Perhaps the platonic wheel is in some intersectional saddle point between theory and practice but to say that only that which is commonly adopted has measure ignores the philosophical genesis that precedes and impregnates the production process.
I've never dated a settlement myself, but the conversation must be awful.
It really depends what the rent-to-mortgage ratio is, which apparently varies a lot by area.

Where I live, rents are often about equivalent to the mortgage + property taxes, plus a little more. In other words, in the house I live in right now, my mortgage + property tax is about $2,500/month. If I were to rent it out, I could likely get $2,600/month for it, possibly up to $3,000.

In this scenario, if you plan on living somewhere permanently, there's not a single way to do the math that it works out that renting ends up being the better choice. Not only do you pay more now, but rent nearly always goes up.

> but there doesn’t seem to be a clear financial advantage to home ownership

Just the simple fact that money paid to rent goes into a black hole whereas money paid towards a mortgage that builds equity should be a clear financial advantage to home ownership.

Opting to rent is insanely short-sighted. Like, even if I could rent the house I'm in right now for $2,000/month ($500 less than the monthly cost of buying), over the next 10+ years, rent will very likely go up over time. And again, that money is just being burnt. When you buy, eventually, you don't have a mortgage anymore.

I think the only way renting ends up working out better is if you live in some crazy place where a mortage+tax is double the monthly cost of renting.
This is amazing! Please never ever use it in production.
I'm not going to hold my breath but if it does turn out to work this would be huge for millions of people suffering from diabetes.
Approval by "California Public Utilities Commission"
Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your sharings. I'm glad that both of you manage to work on things you are interested in.

Did your wife get the PHD recently or when she was young? Reading through the lines I feel it was when she was young but I could definitely be wrong.

I also feel I don't have much to write down every day. Most of the time is spent on work chores or family chores. There are a few happy moments but that's it. May I ask what type of information do you retain?
Ironically with inflation these past few years and enormous AAA flops (halo infinite reportedly cost 500mil), this doesn't even seem like all that much, especially since there's loads of content currently released as we type.
New construction is also often tied to more generation and higher efficiency. Even a brand new McMansion uses less power than a 40 year old house that's half the size. There's also even odds that new McMansion was mandated to have solar.
They'd probably still have a big problem paying retail rates. They'd much rather buy from solar farms that have a much lower price of generation in that world.
We all know that the USSR fell because of... worker empowerment.
> or the other laptop manufacturers can get their act together

Microsoft is willing to sell you an ARM-based PC if you like. Qualcomm's efforts aren't quite up to Apple Silicon's par, but they aren't terrible either.

Of course, if you are looking to put Linux on a PC I can definitely understand why Microsoft wouldn't be your first thought for your hardware vendor. It's a weird time we live in, if you remember (or are unfortunately stuck in) 90s Slashdot mindsets.