skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the organization managing the national French power grid (Enedis) has been in the process of replacing the legacy “dumb” electricity meters by “smart” meters, known under the brand name “Linky”

My jurisdiction, Ontario Canada, mass implemented these and found that people didn’t really shift their peak demand use much and it’s debatable if the amount spent was worth it. Costs just as much to implement for light users but they’re diminishing returns for any habit changes.

https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports...

Also went all-in on submetering small units like condominiums+apartments where there’s not much tenant/occupant ability to control their usage/equipment. If anything, just further encourages owners/builders to install the poorest efficiency stuff since they’re not paying the usage bill.

Not surprising that other tactics are more effective (dirt cheap LEDs, renovation programs, improving appliance efficiency… my TV and computers use a fraction of what they used to, wall warts are all SMPS now).

Still can’t find a “smart fridge” that runs in ultra-chill mode when rates are cheap and backs off when they’re high. Kinda antithetical to use more electricity to save but it’s true.

I really wish they could push the telecoms to focus on CPE efficiency since I’m forced to use their equipment.
It took me about a decade to be comfortable with it :)
Surfing has a specific meaning, where you ride the forward part of a wave and the movement of the wave behind your hull propels the boat forward.

Sailing in front of a weather system to get optimal wind for your sails is not surfing.

Imprecise language is sloppy and problematic for people with a functional vocabulary. Surfing is a technique used in sailing and this isn’t the same thing.
Always was ︻┳═一

(hey, I managed to sneak a rifle past HN's Unicode filter :-D)
I am curious how they handle motion sickness, aka "vection" which we are so familiar with now because of VR.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4403286/

The basic rule is... don't accelerate the camera, positionally or rotationally, basically ever. You can present constant velocity or rotation, but even then it's risky.

It takes a lot of discipline to not move the camera inappropriately in an environment like The Sphere. Hollywood people don't like to be told that the camera shouldn't pan, track, etc. But really, it shouldn't... unless you want a whole bunch of very uncomfortable, sad, sick people in the audience.
If he doesn't like it he can go back to jail and not use the supervised prison release program, and release all the music-glorifying-murder he wants.
The quantum physics behind fireworks displays
Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words' meaning
Not subscription-only, but „ Street-level detail is available only to registered Strava athletes“ on https://www.strava.com/heatmap so you need an account.
Most accurate atomic clock off by 1 second every 30B years
Fibreglass from boats found in marine food chain for first time
It is true when it applies to the majority (and nobody said something is only true when it applies to 100% of a group because then absolutely nothing would ever be true when it comes to people). If you think otherwise and are convinced of it then you are very privileged -- and I actually envy you. You have no idea what contractor programmers go through out there, apparently.
I’m not the one you replied to, but I generally type without using my pinky at all – including pressing Caps Lock (Ctrl) and Enter with my ring fingers. For me, I’ve had bad cases of RSI before, and find it more ergonomic to move my hands a bit more and avoid using the pinky most of the time.
I was struck by the number of oddly posed photos as well. The choice seems consistent across all their Q&A interviews. https://www.quantamagazine.org/tag/qa/

A clue about the styling can be found on their 'About' page: "Our work often resembles journalistic alchemy — we mash together the complexities of science with the malleable art of storytelling in an attempt to forge a precious new alloy. It can be a mind-bending enterprise, but we relish the challenge."
> you ideally want all the jobs to be good

That is… exactly the point I made, when I said:

> you don’t want jobs that are strictly better

Preference optionality is widely stated to be one of the features that gig workers like about the arrangement.

The options you suggest are also valid ways of homogenizing the jobs to reduce variance.

> Gamifying peoples livelihood is the problem

To be clear Game Theory applies to all economic interactions. Mechanism Design is the branch of Game Theory pertaining to market design to achieve desired outcomes, such as “avoid adverse selection in my gig work marketplace”.

Gamification is a specific application of video game design to economic interactions, it’s unrelated to what I’m discussing. (Examples of Gamification would be gaining experience points and levels for delivery, daily checking rewards, achievement badges, etc. - the general goal in Gamification is setting up a dopamine loop to encourage repeat use of the app. Hopefully it’s clear this is not what I was talking about.)
Forget "show, don't tell". Engage, don't show
An introduction to auto-vectorization with LLVM
Chechnya is/was very much a part of Russia and was not contested territory. Yes, it was acquired through conquest, a long time ago. If you are going to bring that up, then USA should give California back to Mexico.
> their value as *independent technologies* could be acknowledged, and they *could be developed into complete technologies* through further research.

So "independent technologies" or technologies so early in R&D that they can't be considered "complete"? Hmmm.

--

But, almost certainly, this will make researchers and institutions shy away from collaboration with hostile foreign powers; Which was probably the intent of the ruling.
How is this sustainable as the gap between self generated and stored energy and the grid price continues to diverge?

If present trends hold it won't be long before a few years worth of energy bills even in Europe finance a full off grid deployment. There doesn't seem to be much room to cut on the energy companies pricing which remains variable and pointlessly complicated vs "I bought this off grid system and now I never think about energy anymore".

Just people in high density housing, people in a lease, and those who can't afford the up front cost will constitute the majority of residential grid energy usage and purchasing?
>Why do companies that develop and sell software not take care of security flaws?

For starters, consider the fundamental difference between companies that develop and sell software, compared to companies that develop and keep software.
iiuc you are comparing matrix implementation with or without diodes. What would be the results between matrix against pin/key implementation? I am using QMK and I haven't looked under the hood what the "direct pin" actually does.
Thanks for the advice! I did run a somewhat similar app with essentially no API security on a cheap-ass Linode VPS around 2011. But we only had 10-20K users and those extremely sporadic. But, although users controlled their content, it was totally anonymous. I didn't require a single credential, not even an E-mail address.

One thing about Supabase is that it's supposed to offer user verification through E-mail out of the box, which saves me the time of hand-rolling that.

The reason I want containers is to spin up multiple instances if the thing blows up. Isn't it easier to do that with containerized services?
It means their credibility and reputation has been damaged due to their dishonesty being exposed.

The closest comparison would be like how a brand known for its high quality products might "cash-in" it's reputation for quick profits by reducing the quality and cost to produce said products (ex: Boeing, Craftsman). The key difference here is that rather than exchanging reputation for short term cash, Journalists burn their reputation for short term influence, usually to shepherd people into a common false narrative.

The irony in all this is that journalists obviously read the news too, so this shepherding has a kind of reinforcing snowball effect. Because of this, I suspect that individual journalists might underestimate how disconnected they are from reality compared to the average person, but this part is ultimately just speculation on my end.
> In some cases, ship vs not ship, profit vs not profit, is the difference between a company thriving and failing to thrive.

That's their problem, not mine. I get paid a fixed amount. If I get paid the same + a percentage of outcome then I'll change how I work.

Easy to understand, I believe.
There’s some regulation here to contend with that mandates these EV sounds have to include a 1khz-4khz tone which is probably what you’re noticing since it’s on the higher end of the usual urban audioscape. The Verge did an interesting piece on this recently – https://www.theverge.com/24182348/ev-sounds-low-speed-survey...
> An object that is able to sustain even 1 millimeter per year

and in case of black holes you need infinite energy to do that, in other cases the energy is finite
Same, that was also my lesson that RAID is an availability mechanism, not a data safety/backup one. (Of course, Ransomware would also hammer that point home for many later on)
The general rule of thumb I’d give is that a performance aware but not micro-optimized Haskell program will typically run in about 2x to 5x the time of a comparable C program, and will take somewhere between 2x and 10x as much memory. For a naive Haskell program the range is much bigger- maybe 2x to 10x as much time and 10x to 1000x as much memory (it’s easy to do a lot of allocations in Haskell).

For extremely optimized Haskell you can get close to the speed of C, but there’s still a garbage collector.

There are also certain classes of problem where a naive Haskell implementation can beat other languages by mile, including C, if you use the same implementation in both languages. Laziness can be really great sometimes. This didn’t happen much in practice though because the kind of code that’s really efficient with lazy evaluation is very obviously not in a strict language so people don’t usually write code that way.

In the end I’d say Haskell is a good choice for performance sensitive but not performance critical program. In a larger Haskell application if you have a performance critical bit you can usually write Haskell code that will be fast enough if you know what your doing. For something stand alone that needs to be as fast as possible, or the most critically performance sensitive parts of a bigger application, I’d consider using C or C++.
I can barely read the title of this article without feeling an almost irresistible urge to say something nasty about scrum. Yet I'm not entirely sure why.

I don't think it's due to any specific requirement of scrum. Actually planning work in small increments, catching up with your team regularly, looking back and reviewing how things went, etc etc are mostly obviously good things.

I think it's the mistaken idea that a project manager can learn how to manage a team of software developers by learning scrum which I really dislike. I think that a good manager would do all of the core things scrum recommends more or less instinctively and wouldn't need an explicit process or framework to tell them how. Whereas someone who has learnt the scrum process but doesn't know how to code ends up creating a kind of ritualistic performance of management which is incredibly ineffective.

Often it feels like people believe they following scrum methods will let you run a team well without an expensive experienced manager, but this is not the case.
Other than southern Spain, France, Italy and Greece, you're not going to run off-grid anywhere in Europe. Too little sun in the winter for heating needs. Unless you're considering small-scale wind power installations, but I cannot imagine what costs those could incur in installation alone.
> Sailing Millennial Falcon

On hiatus from sailing due to family reasons; most recent video:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdON6ld6Ks
> Still can’t find a “smart fridge” that runs in ultra-chill mode when rates are cheap and backs off when they’re high. Kinda antithetical to use more electricity to save but it’s true.

It makes sense if you think of the thermal mass as a battery. Technology connections says he does that with his air conditioner, runs it hard overnight so it stays cold longer with less effort during the day
Much of what you write is interesting, and I appreciate your reflection. I'd just like to qualify something about Licklider. At the time of the Man-Computer Symbiosis in 1960 computer science didn't exist as a discipline, so he wasn't writing as a computer scientist. In fact, Licklider was instrumental in the establishment of computer science as a discipline through directing funds to establish the first departments for it in the US later in the '60s. (I have 1963 in my head but could be wrong.)

A more apt descriptor for him would be cybernetician. He was an acolyte of Norbert Wiener and his man-computer symbiosis can and should be read as his attempt to resolve the conflict in Wiener's writings between humans and machines. Instead of being antagonists, they could mutually benefit from one another as partners in a symbiosis.
The consumer app also wants your phone number... It prompts you to "backup" your codes, so that they're not gone if you reinstall the app or switch devices

you probably gave them your phone number at some point if youve got authy on multiple devices.

/Edit: just checked on a clean install. It prompts for a phone number instantly and won't let you scan codes without creating an account. Not sure when that happened, as I haven't really used it in years.
The UK doesn't even have a single education system (e.g. exams for university entrance and the length of first degrees).
I slowly migrated away from Authy when they decided to shut down their desktop authenticator. You can painfully export codes, though I generated new 2FA codes at every vendor.
Sci-fi quotes that offer real-world wisdom
Interesting takeaway if this holds true - following the analogy, people will be excited about GPT-16 as much as they are excited about iPhone 16 today, compared to the excitement about first few generations of iPhone. That may mean that LLMs may become so ubiquitous that we won't even notice. Which means there will be no AGI.
> VBscript and Cygwin were the only options; both of them sucked.

I'd challenge the Cygwin aspect. With judicious use of cygpath & co., you can go VERY far with Cygwin. I've built an entire SaaS deployment system on top of it (and Python).
I use Dynadot for domain registrations and Cloudflare for DNS.
Pricing A/B tests I ran to get my job board to $6k MRR
Wouldn't it be cool if every wall and ceiling socket could report its electrical usage? I wonder if that's possible via powerline networks, or if it would work over something like Zigbee?
But one of the selling points for me was to allow multiple devices so that if one broke I'd still have access.
So you have to go to a third-party to get your data from a public service. Absurdity is the word that defined our era it seems.

> "Depuis le passage à l'OAuth2.0, il vous faut obligatoirement avoir une entité juridique afin de signer un contrat avec Enedis. Pour avoir une entité juridique, il faut obligatoirement être une société ou une association."

> "Since the transition to OAuth2.0, you must have a legal entity in order to sign a contract with Enedis. To have a legal entity, you must be a company or association"
using just the ABS gives you the LAD. least absolute deviation is not used for a couple of reasons. LAD doesn’t have a unique solution - you can code it up and your program will give you a set of solutions which will all minimize the LAD. this looks like a feature, but for various pedagogical reasons, statistians insist on BLUE. LAD can give you the LUE ie linear unbiased estimator, but not the B ie best. also, LAD doesn’t have a closed form. so you can’t write an equation and say this is the LAD, then differentiate it and derive interesting properties about the estimator. since there’s no closed form, you can use numerical methods to find something that’s good enough like error below 1e-6 and declare that to be the LAD. but that will happen at a bunch of points so no uniqueness.
See their glassdoor before applying. They send you take-away assignment and even if you do everything correctly they will ghost you.
Ask HN: Why Pay to Work?
Any free alternative to upwork?

I am in the street and working freelance gigs would help me, but this concept seems pervasive of charging a quote to be able to earn

Thanks!!
I agree 100% with this advice about not spraying them with fragrances. It's an issue for me because that stuff really lingers and is unpleasant. I am experiencing this issue with Amazon deliveries in Canada. When covid happened, they started using fragranced air fresheners in their warehouse. What this means is that all items now arrive reeking. For items that are shrink wrapped or boxed well it's not that bad because you can just quickly remove the covering to the trash and the interior is ok, but items that intentionally have a hole in the plastic bag to prevent humidity, etc. from building up, the inside fills up with the fragrance and your cables, etc. will reek. Some materials will absorb it more than others.. steel is not porous and you can wipe it with alcohol or soapy water but something like plastic, it will cling tenaciously. You shouldn't have to wash a new item though..

I did try to raise this as a complaint with Amazon. The rep agreed this is an issue, and then nothing ever came of it.

It's too bad too because if you look at the cannisters, they have warning labels with the toxic symbol on them warning that exposure to them can sensitize people and cause reactions so their employees are experiencing the brunt of that.
Their words, not mine. I probably should have put it in quotes
> Powershell was truly a product of Microsoft monopolistic confidence. To create a language that allows absolutely no syntactical carryover from any other langauge is wild. You couldn't guess or assume any command, parameter or flag. Even with Microsoft's ambition they should have realized that legions of admins and programmers had to learn and maintain scripts in both Powershell and bash for a few decades at least.

Um... no. Powershell was inspired by shell, Perl and a bunch of other languages, you see it in its design. The other part was just a desire for consistency, since *NIX knowledge is just brute forced. Yeah, -v is generally verbose and -h is generally help, but in practice you can't rely on anything.
Not sure I really agree with all these design choices. The color scale on the hour/day grid initially seemed backwards to me. The daily total takes up so much space that it would be better as a normal line or point graph with scaled axes, instead of trying to guess the correspondence with the color.

Aside from that I am curious about the discontinuity at 22h. How many and what kinds of loads automatically respond to these price signals? Just heaters and water heaters?
Changing the temperature of a fridge based on electricity rates just feels like a bad idea. A lot of food can have its texture ruined by slow freezing (a common occurrence at the back of many fridges already) and waiting to get food down to the target temperature will just lead to bacterial growth.
It's not technically paranoia if overwhelming forces actually are hell-bent on compromising your privacy from all possible directions in yet unrecognized ways.
That's a nice general question where you can show off. However, in the context of the so-called full-stack web development, I guess it means a key has been pressed on a website so I would pass over drivers and focused over the HTTP exchange including TLS, with multiple variants like what if gzip compression is enabled, what if the server and browser support HHTP/2 etc. or one doesn't, and then of course you have so much to talk about once you get to how the input can be handled by JavaScript. So a nice question overall.
makes me nostalgic for 2014, back when, while not being ok, it was still allowed to say "gaytarded" without fear of a full cancellation.
people with this use case would need to be comfortable taking on the extra risk.
Add shunit or similar and I
You can have a really nice experience (imho).
I think most test of bell inequality are made using photons. I'm not sure about this inequality. Neutrons are much bigger than photons [1], but somewhat similar experiments of interference have been made with helium atoms and even small molecules (with 10 atoms or so).

So if they say it's big in the quantum word, I expect at least a molecule. And the article saying macroscopic everywhere really sugest basketballs.

From the initial description, I was optimistic and I was expecting small dots of "dust", or a tiny thin membrane. There are some experimental results with extremly small object, but I guess they have a lot of thechnical problems and are difficult to use them in complex measurements.

[1] Ignoring a lot of technical details.
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> ball = ball.Ball()

i like the repetition here. it reminds me of Beetlejuice, so i guess to summon beetlejuice we would do:

beetlejuice = beetlejuice.beetlejuice()

very ergonomic! and movie-accurate, too
> Rather than head south from europe and left towards asia, you turn right towards the south pacific.

Yes, but people have gone the "backwards" way as well:

> The oldest person to sail around the world singlehandedly and non-stop is Bill Hatfield (Australia, b. 14 January 1939), who was aged 81 years 39 days when he sailed into The Spit on Australia's Gold Coast on 22 February 2020. He embarked on his eight-month (295-day) solo circumnavigation – on the more challenging westerly route, against the prevailing winds – on 8 June 2019 in his 11.5-m (38-ft) yacht L'Eau Commotion.

* https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/oldest-pe...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hatfield
I think these movies are attempting to put you in the position of a spy, where you need to pay attention and infer motives from actions, and actions from motives.

The IPCRESS File is probably my favorite in the genre of cold war spy thrillers. It's slightly more on the fantastical side of the spectrum, but still so good it makes grocery shopping interesting.

The camera work is just brilliant, with many shots taken from angles that emulate covert surveillance, yet still managing to beautifully frame the scenes. Since this is implied, but never spoken, some reviewers seem to have missed this aspect, and just though they were shooting scenes through building windows for the sake of it.

Even just the opening scene says so much about the main character on without him or anyone else speaking a single word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBCqP7R42K0
Have you looked into the settings? On android you can see a cellphone-number and e-mail there. If they are missing, I guess it's not known to them.
I’ve often wondered: what do vintage computer users actually do with their vintage computers?

The old ones won’t have internet capabilities and were mostly for business settings, so do you just fire up Lotus123 and click around in a spreadsheet?

Or do they just look cool on a shelf?
Hey HN,
I noticed that I have been wasting a lot of time in marketing for myself, so I made software that has the efficiency of 100x in marketing.
IDK, maybe I have been doing the wrong marketing but this is really good software.
Let me how is it....
The Dead Forever show includes a moment of rotation that got me a bit queasy. It was kept to a minimum, but would have been nice if they avoided the camera motion.
SkyCell nabs $59M more for its greener smart pharma transport containers
What's the license? Is there a repo?
What does back office mean in this context?