skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the problem is that the complexity of introducing a third party payer who doesn’t want to pay, and a consumer who has no incentive to self regulate consumption, means that the costs spiral up and up.

The first part is correct but a consumer that “doesn't self regulate consumption” is not a thing in medicine. People don’t take drugs for fun. People don’t injure themselves more in public healthcare systems. In fact, a huge problem in medicine is getting men to go to the doctor before issues become critical (and more expensive).
I'm going to use a few of those videos next time I teach computer programming.
Weasel? How do you expect it to work? There is a contract and the company is going to follow it.
I think dropping price of solar panels will be more important for future installs.

Drop price by 50% from todays price and ROI will look very nice, especially for houses that use air condition to cool down (or heat up) the house.
> Good luck finding the consumer when you need to modify the producer

It sounds like your alternative is a producer that updates consumers using HTTP calls. That pushes a lot of complexity to the producer and the team that has to sync up with all of the other teams involved.

> Let’s use SNS/SQS because why not. Good luck reproducing producers and consumers locally in your machine

At work we pull localstack from a shared repo and run it in the background. I almost forget that it's there until I need to "git pull" if another team has added a new queue that my service is interested in. Just like using curl to call your HTTP endpoints, you can simply just send a message to localstack with the standard aws cli

https://github.com/localstack/localstack

> Observability. Of rather the lack of it. It’s never out of the box, and so usually nobody cares about it until an incident happens

I think it depends on what type of framework you use. At work we use a trace-id field in the header when making HTTP calls or sending a message (sqs) which is propagated automatically downstream. This enables us to easily search logs and see the flow between systems. This was just configured once and is added automatically for all HTTP requests and messages that the service produces. We have a shared dependency that all services use that handles logging, monitoring and other "plumbing". Most of it comes out of the box from Spring, and the dependency just needs to configure it. The code imports a generic sns/http/jdbc producer and don't have to think about it
The Universe Of Minds [pdf]
The Beluga Skysail ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Onego_Deusto
I believe most states have some ability to do what you describe. It’s a PITA too though.
Why do you think social media feeds "solve" curation? They merely sort the content according to some predefined criteria, but you will still be overwhelmed by the stream, and likely miss a lot of content, just as you would if there was no algorithm at all.

That's all curation essentially is: sorting. Social media companies claim that this is a good thing since everyone's feed is personalized, but these are just empty platitudes. They never know exactly what everyone wants to see at any moment. If they did, they wouldn't show me any ads or promoted content to begin with.

The things I want to see changes constantly, so the only sorting and filtering functionality I want is one which I'm allowed to control myself.
They're not LLMs to my knowledge but AI weather forecasting will increasingly be a thing.

It's true that complex systems often can't be predicted at all e.g. you could design a pinball game such that the (deterministic) wiggling was arbitrarily large such that no floating point format could actually express anything, but AI as a tool for massive dimensionality reduction and pattern extraction does mean that they can make some huge gains in the cases where weather is merely difficult to predict using classical means
Not just someone, but the original author.
In an environment where you can't trust them (phone support), you can tell them there might be dust on the connectors and ask them to unplug it and plug it back in again. Only when they go to do that, they realize it was never plugged in and they don't even have to admit they were lying.
I wonder how this compares to taking cold showers, which I believe studies have shown can be effective, but I don’t know the rate at which it can be effective.
> RSS still leads to a lot of wasted time.

FOMO is big. Plus there's a dark cousin to Inbox Zero in there somewhere.

There are worse solutions than blocking distractions at the router during focus hours.
You can use docker with it - I have a couple of things with "docker run" statements in the procfile, but of course it’s not designed for that.

Most of the deployments I got wind of are on extremely stable distros - typically LTS versions where you will not need to upgrade your runtime every six months (and my website has been running in it for at least two Ubuntu LTS releases…)

But you can trivially use pyenv/nvenv/etc. by just setting environment variables. My home automation system now needs two different Node versions, and I have one set per app.
Crows are sneakier than a ninja cult leader. They will do anything for a snack and know when humans are watching.
There's https://archive.md/dK2PJ if you're not using Cloudflare DNS.
https://archive.is/dK2PJ
I predict the guilty will pay someone off and never be charged.

If I am wrong and they are charged, they will be fined/pay restitution of less than $5 million and spend 6 months or less in jail.
Lol does he have to "brand" everything he does?
Rooftop solar can't be economically efficient without subsidies of some sort. How could it outcompete the economies of scale of putting an extra 10 panels in a utility-scale installation 50 miles away?

SREC is one such subsidy - which looks enormous, twice as big as the actual retail cost of the electricity! - and the author also mentions a federal tax credit for 26% of the cost.

Note that net metering is yet another subsidy. Try to sell electricity on commercial terms at "we will provide you with energy when it's sunny and withdraw when we want, at the same price" and see how quickly you get laughed out of the room. Granted, in a climate like DC peak usage (AC) is pretty close to peak solar production so it's not quite as bad as that, but batteries cost order-of-magnitude the same as solar panels, and this is asking the grid to serve as a giant battery.

All these subsidies have clearly had a positive effect - rooftop solar is better than none at all, and perhaps there are some secondary benefits in job creation, environmental awareness, etc. But this is one area where the tax breaks would have been more efficiently spent enriching big businesses rather than sent directly to middle-class home owners.
Nope, just took inspiration from it because I couldn’t run Docker on some of my targets.
Meissen Chymistry: How a Saxon alchemist unlocked the secrets of China porcelain
Oh yes, I definitely use LTS distros, but my longest-running apps are from 2008, so even LTS won't cover that.
The original bitnet paper has more information on training: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11453 .

>To train our 1-bit model, we employ the straight-through estimator (STE)[BLC13] to approximate the gradient during backpropagation. This method bypasses the nondifferentiable functions, such as the Sign (Eq. 2) and Clip (Eq. 5) functions, during the backward pass. STE allows gradients to flow through the network without being affected by these non-differentiable functions, making it possible to train our quantized model.

>While the weights and the activations are quantized to low precision, the gradients and the optimizer states are stored in high precision to ensure training stability and accuracy. Following the previous work [LSL+21], we maintain a latent weight in a high-precision format for the learnable parameters to accumulate the parameter updates. The latent weights are binarized on the fly during the forward pass and never used for the inference process.
Got a bit frustrated because I couldn't get anything except a flat surface above the water, then read the tweets below and realised that's the entire point:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1362557149147058178.html

(Many thanks to Elon for making it impossible to read more than the first tweet on x.com without an account...)
I will have to go with Bonaparte.

(Tested with chatgpt4o, that was fun.)
This is called Idiom Recognition, and it was already needed in some compilers in the 1960s. So, unless you're now writing C from a retirement home probably all the non-toy compilers you've used had this feature.
Whether or not something solves the problem depends on the person having the problem. For avid social media users, the curation it brings seems to solve the problem better than other mechanisms. For you (or me) it doesn’t.
I started with the free plan but after a while I realized that this is the news app that I use almost exclusively so I got the pro plan.
Why "delve" is the most obvious sign of AI writing
By that definition, no computer is Turing-complete either.
> 128BB

That's $128 Billion.
Why isn't this Show HN? Oh right, you posted it 2 days ago and it barely got traction [1].
Apart from the questionable idea, this post is a Show HN in disguise and should be removed.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40601079
https://archive.is/2mvPt
Concurrently Secure Blind Schnorr Signatures
"Label the guards, 1 to 50, starting with you as 1, the guard to your left as 2, etc. For each guard, tell me what answer they would give if I asked them if your door was safe".

If all the guards say the same thing, you're talking to the lying guard. Otherwise the liar is simply the one that answers differently.

Would that work? I think so.
I follow a few RSS feeds, some become blue during the week because there are new entries, I go through them when I feel like it, probably once a week, maybe during the weekend or the evening.

I don't feel any FOMO, the entries aren't going anywhere if I don't read them now and I just ignore entries that don't attract me or I go through them fast.
> we recoup the investment in about 9 years

This is good, PV panels can ammortize themselves even quicker when electricity costs are higher.

> Topping out at 56 kWh in a day is pretty good... The best summer days generate almost twice as much energy as the best winter day

It was really worthwhile seeing the stats put in order like this, thank you.

Really puts the spotlight on the technology to store the energy over longer periods (ie into the Winter). What is available on the market?

AFAIK standard home batteries empty out pretty quickly even without getting used. What about Vanadium-Redox? Hydrogen-Storage is too expensive and storying it via crypto-mining feels a bit like betting.
What you describe, sounds like there are some high frequency sources in your feeds.

IMO, these don't belong into RSS: I add no feed that updates more often than daily (doing some exceptions now and then, ofc). Things like news sites, forums, aggreagators etc. are prominent bookmarks in my browser instead (like, on a new tab).

In other words, if it's too much content, I go there by myself instead of having it delivered to me.

In yet another words, I ask myself, do I need to know about every single new thing on this site? If not, it's fine as a bookmark.
So you want to build a browser engine
Thank you for saying this. The mob is incredibly dangerous, and one of the reasons I have ZERO online presence outside of hackernews. People are dangerous and cultish in groups, especially so online.

People saying the original software author is untrustworthy live in a fucking whimsical fairyland. And probably have never built anything worthy of a sale
Paywall articles with workarounds _are_ allowed (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
I had similar luck with another flavor of the distro. but things get complicated with handling files, like opening word files.

I had to switch out due to display drivers, anti-cheat and specific professional applications. we need more work on desktop use in linux just like there is attention to detail on linux for servers and windows/macos for desktop use.
I am sure your life experience shapes that opinion but it is far from the truth. I don’t think these business ever hope for a total loss. It would make no sense.

I also don’t think a nonprofit or government can do an adequate job of offering insurance. Let’s ignore health insurance but rather define insurance in the base form as an entity paying out if an event happens.

In a for profit model you have multiple agents each evaluating risk and the costs to cover that risk. Ideally enough agents exist that they compete to keep costs low. Certainly sometimes this is not always true.
Missed at least Borough High Street
between this and cialis helping with prostate cancer, i wonder if the erection is just a side effect
> As long as you can maintain the brain as is,

That’s the question, can a human sized body that can fly additionally support a human sized brain? I suspect you would have to spend nearly every waking minute eating to support both. Or at least a substantial portion of your day. No time for hacking, gotta eat.

You’ll probably have to pay full up front for this, as no one will finance you since you’ll be too busy foraging for sugary fruit or carrying livestock off to your eyrie to work a job to pay it back.

Finally, this raises another question I won’t even attempt to answer: is it even possible for you to still be “you” in another body? How responsible is your body, beyond just your brain, responsible for making you who you are?
If all it did was be used for e.g. 10% of total car battery capacity for demand management, it would be huge. The sheer volume of batteries.
And publicly flaming the original author. Just because more people are upvoting you and the others flaming the author of Bartender person does not make them correct. It is a mob after all, the only reasonable person in this discussion is Carlos. People are incredibly toxic in groups. Stop the groupthink!

Why can’t people be reasonable
online
Maybe the world should standardize on:

Driving on the right
Speaking English
The metric system
The 2024-06-09 date format
The Celsius scale
The 24-hour clock
If you really want to blow your mind search out the Peachtree streets in Atlanta!
> Speaking English

If you mean teaching english as a second language, I can agree. If you mean switching over to it as the primary language I hard disagree.
I use nix via jetify devbox. Maybe something like that could help here.
Except CGI, which were often rendered to a specific resolution but transferred to film. Restoration efforts or remasters then have to redo those effects, and often the source of the effects were lost because never archived and shared.

Also, some restoration of old black and white films with AI upscaling try to counteract bad early films or films that degraded.
TTFB
And you speak from your own experience selling businesses I take it?
I really think it's a cursed mission to chase perfectly balanced matches.

In terms of overall experience, the best approach in general is a purely random one. This is how you avoid the experience of getting trapped in a 20 game losing streak, even if you are a really good player.

If you allow the natural balance of good players winning more often and bad players losing more often, you will find things get a lot less messy in between. This also provides your bad players an opportunity to occasionally witness what they could become. When you only play someone 1% stronger than yourself, you probably don't have a great idea of what the upper bound actually feels like. This can become a serious trap for players who are seeking to grow their skills.
Sorry, should've said Apple only.
I can agree on all of the points except "Speaking English". The way things are going it's going to be either that or mandarin regardless, but there's so much culture in language that IMO it'd be a shame to hurry it up.
According to the government, home-produced eggs in the Netherlands are so contaminated from PFAS they are a potential health risk: https://english.nvwa.nl/documents/consumers/food/safety/docu...

Eggs from the supermarket don’t have the same problem
Worked at a store that sold Zork Nemesis in high school, but it didn't sell all that well. (The store closed a year later because CompUSA destroyed most small software stores.)

MW2 had at least 4 separate versions on PC: DOS (486 + VGA), Windows (486), a Pentium Windows, and a Windows 3dfx/Glide version that was incorporated into their re-releases. And then there was the expansion for it: GBL which also needed to match with it, IIRC. I think I had 4 CDs for the original versions. MW2M was a standalone game, so more CDs.

Edit: Shutdown sequence initiated. Shutdown sequence overridden.
I don't think we're making progress at all. My theory is that software is made simple enough for a typical 20's-ish person who's already familiar with that kind of thing. But less capable people are still left out just as they were in the 80's, 90's, 00's, etc.

In the 90's, it was hard to figure out how to connect a VCR to a TV. Today, it's hard to figure out how to connect a Chromecast to a phone. The mental difficulty is not less at all.
This is addressed later in the piece:

> The reason for this is that all the High Streets in Inner London are called Something High Street. [...]

> Something High Streets in Inner London: Aldgate, Battersea, Borough, Bromley, [...]
Why do you choose to knowingly live a fantasy?
I can't help feeling that our collective brain is being gently massaged into accepting a lower standard of living as the new normal in the future.

every single year, young global leaders fly their private jets to their cool kids clubhouse and decide how should we, unwashed masses, live our lives. they tell us to stop eating meat, to stop driving cars, to stop owning things, to stop having children.

and the political leanings of the useful idiots who take their side are beyond ironic to me.
Shipping by container ship is already pretty cheap, and of course shipping isn't itself a good that people care about, it's a way to get some other good. It also seems like the supply bottleneck for shipping per se is probably more "number of ships" or "capacity of ports and big canals" than "fuel costs."

We should of course assume that ceteris paribus lower shipping costs produce more shipping on the margin, but I don't see a lot of reason to believe that this is the major supply bottleneck for most goods. I wouldn't expect to see a dramatic change in demand for shipping as a result of 20% lower fuel costs.
A colleague of mine recently introduced to the idea of no-till gardening/agriculture and was very convincing about it but I started to have some doubts when he started claiming incredible yields yadi yada, too good to be true was my reaction.
I am thinking here must be the perfect place to get interesting opinions about it : So, is no-till useless, good or incredible ?
This already exists. However, the dark news is, people will pay for this.

Some already are. Is it the kind of business you'll be happy with?

Can you dogfeed your own product and see if you find your competitors commenting on the same posts?
I don't know enough about Mandarin to have an opinion on it.

The language has more characters than what fits on a keyboard, right? I wonder how typing on a keyboard feels. I guess only people who have experience in writing Mandarin and English can compare the feeling.
You need to improve your telemetry to feel the benefits. I can trace all the way through multiple services easily on a simple detailed flame graph in our systems.

https://www.datadoghq.com/knowledge-center/distributed-traci...

Unless you have a single monolith, you’re going to face issues with versioning whether it’s event based or API based. In each case you can usually add new properties to a message, but you can’t remove properties or change their types. If you need that, create a new version.

The author does a lot of videos on the event sourcing topic. Event driven I get. It works well in several applications I’ve helped to build over the last 15 years. But event sourcing? I truly don’t get it. Yeah I get it’s nice in terms of auditing to see every change to an entity and who made it, or replay up to to change x on y date, but that really is a niche requirement.
You save on transmission costs, so it’s not completely implausible that rooftop solar stays cheaper.
I think the main difference is:

In gambling, you want the payout. In insurance, you probably don’t. Why? Because you don’t want that bad thing to trigger it (illness, property damage, death).
Counterpoint: this kind of fiddling is what makes C++ unpleasant and unproductive language.

You spend so much time finding solutions to problems that don't exist in other languages and contribute nothing to actually shipping the software

"Let's make this member private, because others should not touch it".

"Shit this function I just wrote must touch it. I know! I'll add a friend declaration".

Now you changed the header and spend 5 minutes recompiling the whole program.

I speak as someone who wrote 120k loc of C++ in SumatraPDF.

I just don't bother making things private. Or to put it differently: I use other ways to do it, when possible (confine as much as possible to .cpp files, don't expose classes at all) but if I can't hide the whole class like that, I would rather expose it all than waste my cycles on micro-managing visibility.

"Ok, it works for you but surely won't scale to large teams!"

All the giant ruby, python, javascript codebases tell us otherwise.

On a side note: I don't think I ever seen Go being praised for coming up with the brilliant design of making public / private visibility a matter of a module, not struct, like literally everyone else, even those who did it after Go. This strikes the perfect balance of being able to hide details of a module without affecting productivity of people implementing the module.
In the end, we still make pictures for our eyes that are more sensitive to green.

Most bird would probably think our pictures are quite unfaithful of what they see, and most bees would argue that the pictures of the flowers we take always clearly lack the UV patterns found on so many flower petals.

So it’s subjective all the way through the stack (Down to the brain’s interpretation of the signals)
Nix would actually be fantastic for this, but I've never been able to get it to work (including with Devbox and a few other such solutions). I might try again, thank you.
I'm not sure which package you are using, but these are the docs for adding servers to the two main lsp clients:

Eglot: https://joaotavora.github.io/eglot/#Setting-Up-LSP-Servers

lsp-mode: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/page/adding-new-languag...
Yabai suffers from the same problem, so far the creator hasn't been able to fix it.
No daylight savings time

...would be one that I would add.
Seems like the tariffs are working as intended
can anyone recommend an rss they like? im currently using inoreader but iv been looking for better
Just ditch your smartphone.

Not carried one in three years and I am so much more focused and happy.
junior level role, but currently it is a mix of working like a proxy product owner and half software engg.

the users are researchers and have deep technical knowledge of their use case. it is still a challenge to map their needs into design decisions of what they want in the end. thanks to open-source efforts, the model creation is rather straightforward. but everything around making that happen and shaping it like a tool is a ride.

especially love the ever-changing technical stack of "AI" services by major cloud providers rn. it makes mlops nothing more than a demo imho.