skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a nice intro about how power shutoffs impact people with
different means.

It doesn't seem the startup is intent on addressing this at all.

I dont think leasing a cube to preserve luxury food is targeted
at that market.

Having a cube that requires USB-C charging is also a gamble when
your power is cut off.

Though the 5L storage container might
not be based on USB charging at all.

Hopefully whatever gives it energy will store enough of it
for 70h - 90h without requiring more energy.

"""
r. She had been researching how power shutoffs in California, which are intended to limit wildfire risk, had disproportionate effects on people of different means.

She noticed that utilities were spending more on generators and microgrids in wealthier communities, leaving smaller, poorer communities in the lurch. “I saw the impact of what happens during a 56-hour shutoff if you’re a small business and your refrigerator loses power and all of a sudden you have to buy more inventory,” she told TechCrunch. “That was kind of this ‘ah ha’ moment.”
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I agree. The times they are a-changing, but we have a particularly regressive government at the moment that is actively blocking renewable production. The unfortunate bit about having the most sun is that during winter we still don't get much of it. It seems to me we need as much storage as we do production.
A rental should be able to sharpen them if you address it. (And at least here in Europe all rentals sharpen their skis frequently enough).

A good tester is to see if the skis edge grips the surface of your finger nail, the same way you would test a knife or a sharp tool (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHEuV2CPE3w). If it slides across it with no friction, then it's a blunt ski.

Personally, I would advice against trying to tune skis manually, because you might just as easily blunt the edge as you might sharpen it if you don't have a good jig and tools.

Through my 12 years of teaching skiing, I will say that more often than not people who complain about icy conditions are held back by their technique; are you skid steering or carving, because when you are skid steering no level of ski tuning can make your edges stay on hard snow. (Tip: This guy has made an incredible amount of videos about the topic and has even himself progressed from being a skid steering freestyle skier to now being an excellent carver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwWFlltWQTU).
This is true, but I'm not sure how it's relevant.

The article and my comment are about southern Louisiana as a whole (aside from me mentioning "laissez les bons temps rouler").
I had multiple remote jobs until I was laid off from one a few months ago. Now I am contract at 1 and full time at the other.

J1 explicitly cited generative AI as the reason for cancelling new grad roles within North America. Whether they are telling the truth is anyone's guess.

J2 didn't cite it as a reason, but we no longer bother to run a new grad program or internship program.

The new J1 has a blanket rule that everyone needs at least 3 years of experience to work there.

Personally, in an era of ChatGPT, a new grad is a burden compared to just doing the work myself with AI. I don't want to work with a junior developer again as they know too little and need too much of my time.
You do have to convince the ones who don't have kids, not the ones who do.
Yeah, everything by John McPhee is amazing. One of my favorite nonfiction writers.
A private equity firm once asked the consulting firm I worked at to do a due diligence of a cold chain logistics company. It was ~5 years ago so perhaps things have changed, but some interesting tidbits:

+ Makes sense that this startup is starting with medical applications -- vaccines going bad because of poor refrigeration is a well-studied problem

+ I recall one cold-chain company being well known for its back-up battery because medical products are often stopped in customs, and the boxes cannot be plugged in. So you want boxes that have backup batteries that can remain unplugged for a few days while going through customs checks

+ High end seafood is another big application -- the company we were looking at started transporting lobster before moving upmarket

At the time there was a PE blitz to get into cold chain -- it had a lot of factors that they look for -- high margin, recession proof (at least the medical applications), etc.
If you incentivize ignorance, then that’s what you get more of. If all I have to do to avoid responsibility is to cover my eyes and plug my ears after I chuck the figurative grenade into the operation, then then expect me to develop an enthusiastic case of “la la la I can’t hear you!” even in reaction to normal decisions, just in case.

It feels like maybe the financial industry made some reforms along these lines, right? Where they established that somebody specific in an executive position was required to sign personally guaranteeing that various financial filings were not fraudulent?

Presumably that personal risk incentivized said executive staff to want to know more rather than less, and the residual risk (of having to stand by your word) became priced into the pay packages.
Show HN: Buckets – control your spending and build your wealth
Hey HN, this is my first side project launch that I've actually seen through to the finish line.

My wife and I have used "buckets" to track/budget our spending for a few years. This was the first method to really stick for us after trying multiple other budgeting apps that made the process too overwhelming. We just used a spreadsheet to track it for a while, but the mobile experience of spreadsheets isn't great.

So I decided to write up the method we use[1] and create a web app that makes it easy to use. I recommend reading the method page linked below to see if Buckets might be a good fit for you! It's a short read, just a few minutes.

I hope it helps out some other people as much as it helped us. We now feel more in control of our spending and spend our money guilt free, because we rarely make impulse purchases anymore so we know our money goes towards the things we really want.

You can try Buckets for free, no credit card required. I'll hang around this post for a bit to discuss with you all!

P.S. this is my first app with the concept of "Specific Software" in mind, which I wrote about here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40905398

[1] https://buckets.money/method

Sam
altman, and amodei are speaking their book, but in doing so seem like shady snake-oil salesmen.

they would be better off not bullshitting their investors.
"like PyPy" -> "like PyPI".
My first question would be, how exactly does the brain work? What inputs does it take, what outputs does it generate, what all is it capable of? My guess would be that the brain is too simple and kind of locked in or highly limited.

I think we need to start with modeling more basic things with as few built-in assumptions/structures as possible. It may take a long time before anything interesting develops in the simulation. Billions of years is impractical but I doubt we're gonna whittle that down to a span measured in days anytime soon. The ultimate challenge is how do you know that your system is capable of building/developing complexity, and how do you tell if it is making progress on that?
Didn't spot it in the article but shooting a gun into the air can get you reckless endangerment in NY, if they don't find you guilty of something worse.

Something that I think would be nice is an op out process for personal/commercial drone flights under a reasonable altitude over one's house. Even without the privacy concern getting buzzed by multiple delivery drones a day wouldn't be fun.
Its possible to design internet connected systems that are secure and reliable. But usually "internet connected" means "dependent on continuous connectivity to some external service that needs to be actively maintained by a third party otherwise it'll stop working", which makes the "reliable" part difficult, and the fact that its exposed to a network with other devices on it and you have no way of knowing how competent that same third party is when it comes to security makes the "secure" part difficult.

Offline systems have way fewer failure modes such that they're often "secure and reliable" by just default, at least in comparison to the alternative.
It looks like you just did compare coke to wine. :P Seriously though, isn’t this a straw man argument? Parent wasn’t saying there isn’t craft or tradition involved in wine, nor that coke compares on those axes. You didn’t actually answer the question at all: why not discuss the cultural impact of coke? There is cultural impact. It’s not the same impact wine has, it’s quite different, but it is in fact there, don’t you agree?
Hey Xena!

Funny things, I actually checked your blog before posting this question, to see how other people do it. I'm not a frequent reader of your blog, but I was under the impression that yours is mostly consistent in terms of content. It still feels to me that you are sticking to a broad term of software engineering, but I haven't read all the content, so can't tell for sure.

Thanks for your comment!
I fully agree with you, but that doesn't change anything about my statement. Even if you don't know what the law is you are still responsible for following it correctly.
“Bullshit jobs” is a terrible, curiosity-killing concept
for some reason, people see addictive substances as extra bad if there are positive benefits to be had. nobody whinges as hard about a night out drinking though.
They trained their models by programmatically reading almost every website in existence. And here they are, checking that you are human.
You are making so, so many assumptions, many of them false. For instance, there is all likelihood the OP doesn’t mind meritocratic systems, and just thinks ours aren’t nearly meritocratic enough. That’s what that “too much” could also mean.

For instance, Elon Musk is one of the richest people in the world. He inherited a ton of wealth, made some good decisions, and made a ton of bad decisions. In your version of the world, because he is the richest person in the world, he is also the most “competent” person in the world.

You’re completely ignoring the possibility that the poster is lamenting that there isn’t enough meritocracy, not that there’s too much of it, because you are for some reason assuming we all live in a 100% meritocratic world, or at least that’s the impression you give in this post.

Why do you assume that? It’s for a very similar reason that you attribute others not being able to accept the unfairness of meritocracy. You are presumably relatively successful, or think you will be, and don’t want to live in a world where that’s not 100% because you are more competent than others. You don’t want luck to have played a role.

It may be frustrating to hear someone who doesn’t know you make a ton of possibly false assumptions about you, your circumstances, and your motivations, but I’d say you invited that on yourself when you did the same.
Your summary is the reason people quit being developers at the earliest possible convenience.
Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
BC has Coal as it's number 1 export, and logging a close second.
It's 1.7% of Canada's GDP. Significant, but not wholly dependent.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319179/canada-oil-sands...

But it's 1/3 of Alberta's GDP.

The GHG impact is pretty huge though (2.2x regular oil extraction per barrel).
It's a high share on Alberta, but definitively not close to "the entire economy"

According to the most recent Statistics Canada's National Economic Accounts, the Mining and Oil and Gas Extraction industry accounted for approximately 26% of Alberta's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020, an increase from 23.3% in 2010.
I really need to play this game. I kept an eye on it while it was in development. It is so surreal to see a game named after the shithole town I grew up next to.
One of the things that I'll often do, is produce a variant of the UX that gives the designer/C-suiter exactly what they want, but I'll have a variant ready, that does what I think we'll need.

That way, they will hear it from the users.

I am often written off as "a whiner," but they have to pay attention to the end-users.
We barely even harvest heat waste from Nuclear reactors...

It's not going to be economically viable to harvest heat waste from a fridge.
Thanks to advances in technology a battery-powered portable refrigerator is more attractive today than it was 10 years ago.
How was someone able to raise $14 million by putting a Peltier chip, some batteries, and an ESP32 in a box?
> Anyone can shed some light on this?

You're looking for a coherent answer, I assume.
And worth saying that not all of the petroleum industry in Canada is oil sands, wikipedia (I'm lazy) gave a figure of 64% for the oil sands, so 36% is still the conventional pumpjack crude that's not as polluting (albeit still polluting) as oil sands, and not as dependent on gas prices being high to be viable.
We could talk for pages about wax. Your father is partly right, it does wear off quickly, especially if you apply it correctly.

I'd say wax is important in that it prevents the base from oxidizing. A dried out base is more difficult to turn and slower.

Structure (small grooves in the base) will make you a second faster)

Wearing a race suit vs a normal tight coat will make you two seconds faster.

Proper setup edges vs no tune rounded edges will make you 5-6 seconds faster and with much lower chances of dsq.

The type of wax is much less important. In a slalom race, choosing the best wax vs a less perfect type might only improve you by 0.02 seconds on a sixty second long race.
It is right on the incorporation forms prior to entity approval, and in my jurisdiction the Lawyer made this very clear as I make choices hiring ex-servicemen contractors/staff (numerous PTSD issues can limit roles... like "dealing" with aggressive/rude customers can be a bad idea etc.) Additionally, blindly using Lexis Nexis forms can cause issues too, as the same clauses have different legal definitions in different regions.

While a C firm does _often_ protect board member personal assets from civil cases, it also does not guarantee protection.

Also, international investors do not usually create a US LLC given it usually trips 2 tax codes. Talking with awesome AMCHAM reps about this area is probably in your best interest, but most international firms create a Type C corporation on US soil.

Ask your local corporate tax lawyer about liabilities to confirm whether your jurisdiction has harmonized corporate laws.

Being a president/CEO is not what most assume, and even a shareholder can get messy too. Despite pop-culture urban legends, it is not a role for clowns or cons. =3
> If EU fines exceed EU revenue

They won’t. Also you’re assuming that Apple’s management is irrational and petulant, because if not it should be “if the cost of compliance with EU regulations exceeds their EU revenue/net income” which isn’t going to be even remotely true.

> obtuse about it

Not at all. It’s just that this seems fairly obvious to me:

A very small fraction of people
buying iPhones in Europe now would buy them if they had to ship them from outside the EU, pay the VAT themselves and have no warranty/support.

So sure it won’t be 100%, just 80-90% which doesn’t change anything
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I'm in Vietnam right now and it is literally a whole country that was never taught to queue. Everywhere you go people just skip the line ahead of you, be it in a store or on a motorbike. Door opens on an elevator and people try to enter before letting people off. It just isn't in the culture to consider the people around you in that way.

Thing is though, another part of the culture is that if you get angry about it, it reflects poorly on you to lose your cool. So, nobody seems to get upset about these things either. Somehow it all just works.
Yeah the whole bit about the power shutoffs affecting people with different means was weird in this article. I feel like it was just shoved in there to make her look like she's trying to help when realistically she's just trying to find a way to make some money. Thanks to that weird bit I spent most of the article going "Well I'm sure being able to cool 3 vials of stuff will help those marginalized store owners..?"
If you're a spy and you think spycatchers know your address, there's a risk of them bugging your home and overhearing the numbers station, or breaking in and finding your one-time pads. So you should probably act with the utmost caution regardless of the details of radio receiver design.

Some radio receivers have existed that leak signal at the intermediate frequency, due to inadequate shielding. But it's not just a privacy problem, it also means that receivers operated near to one another can interfere with one another due to crosstalk at the intermediate frequency; it would be inconvenient if your car radio lost signal any time you were stuck in traffic and other drivers were using their radios. So usually designers add more shielding.

It's difficult to know the truth because there are some organisations that benefit from exaggerating the possibilities of things like this - for example, a cable company might hope to deter cable pirates by claiming they have roving detectors that can detect people pirating cable.
Great summary. Thank you for posting it here! Your comment, along with Fripplebuddy's response to it, deserve to be at the top of the page.

I have little to add, except for a question:

Isn't the number of distinct regions of interest a subset of (and in the extreme, equal to) the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension[a] of the data?

As I write this, there is no mention of VC-dimension in the OP.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapnik%E2%80%93Chervonenkis_di...

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EDITS: After a bit of thought, I shortened the comment and turned it into a question.
Don't use a $5 range outlet for EV charging
Red Teaming Isn't Enough
Sure but that's just a symptom not a cause. Even without making Mozilla turn into a regular non profit that just happens to have a browser project (as opposed to a browser project non profit), the strategy they had just couldn't work.

Every monetization attempt failed (even with stuff centered around "privacy", a niche where Firefox is well known). I've seen numbers that indicated that the Mozilla foundation donations are almost equal to what they profit from their commercial products.
How to Get Rich from Peeping Inside People's Fridges
I think it's different... I like high level languages, but this is not a programming language, this is a technique for writing tests in an existing language and leaving the implementation to the AI.

I like programming for problem solving, I don't really like writing tests, but that's personal taste, a lot of people like to just use PowerPoint and Jira and tell others what they need to implement, but these people are not software developers.
Is it possible that a criminal conviction would be harder/take much longer to accomplish and this will ensure some kind of positive outcome? Or is it just a slap on the wrist? I don't really know.
Crazy uncles were unable to find other crazy uncles and coagulate into the fatbergs of information flow before the internet. Now the algorithms push them together.
Archive copy: https://archive.is/v0PNn
They'd rather be whatever they want to be, including poor (or merely poorer-than-with-tourism), if they can avoid tourists.

Being offered more money isn't a "bend-over-and-take-it" proposition unless one allows it to be. People can choose any number of things over it.
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Actually, I'll do one better. For a rather large framework we are developing an engineer at DY introduced a somewhat similar problem. A binary was being installed, from a trusted source in this case but a binary was being compiled/installed none the less. It never made its way to an actual release and I personally took the time to change this approach so that we weren't installing binaries on people's machines without their permission. We now pre-compile and vendor. This approach likely isn't what Zed can do as in this case we can target just Intel/Apple Silicon machines but the point here is I recognized the problem and rather than just hand-wave dismiss it as a #wontfix I took responsibility for it and fixed it myself. It cost money, it cost time. I still fixed it because that's the right thing to do.

https://github.com/liveview-native/liveview-client-swiftui/p...

Compassion for those putting others in harms way is such a stupid take.
What has it helped you automate?
Copilot was cool to use for a bit but I ultimately stopped paying for it. ChatGPT was exciting to play around with but it never became a core part of my workflow. We are 2+ years from GPT 3.5 but AI still hasn't made its way into my daily toolkit, so would be cool to hear how others are using it effectively.
Huh, your comment made me reconsider. Variable names are very important to code quality, so how would those be preserved if not using text? I suppose they could be programmatically generated to be "good" but I foresee illegible edge cases being frequent in that case.
My best guess is it was designed to make it a bad idea to run anything but Red Hat with Gnome if you need anything resembling stability.

If it wasn’t designed for that on purpose, I’m pretty sure it’s at least why Red Hat ran so enthusiastically towards it.
Alberta isn't very cloudy in the wintertime, the reduced insolation is mostly due to lower angles and shorter days. AFAICT, winter sunshine is more than a third of summer sunshine in Alberta. In Europe the number is often 10%.

It's cheaper to size production for winter sunshine than to build a lot of storage. AKA it's cheaper to put down 3X as many panels than to build seasonal storage.

Alberta doesn't lack for hills, which is what's needed to build pumped storage which is what's cheapest for seasonal storage.
I like this idea of curiosity-killing concept. Signaling is another example. If someone likes/believes/does something you don't understand, they're just signaling.
Big Sugar's lawsuit for control over Lake Okeechobee water
> I dont think leasing a cube to preserve luxury food is targeted at that market.

As I understand the article this isn't about luxury food, but about medical samples.
SenseNova 5.5 claims SOTA LLM benchmark results
Same way someone is able to build a $1B social media network with a LAMP stack.

I'm bootstrapping a startup and while the big player are dumping billions into sexy, expensive AI there are fundamental needs that get overlooked everyday.
People spent considerable amount of effort developing systems that separate contents from styles (latex, html/css, etc). And with Python people think it’s a good idea to encode contents as styles…
To be fair that is how she started. However the current business has nothing to do with power failures.
Great list until

> 8. Ads can be good

No they absolutely cannot. Ads skew the incentives whether they are intrusive or not. Also the entire point of ads is to get the user to do something aside from his own goals so they are in direct opposition of point 1.
If I remember from my engineering classes, the efficiency is based on temperature differential and the differential between the hot part of the refrigeration cycle and the ambient temperature I don't think is that high.
He figured out that the orbit of Mars was oval, and tried to approximate it with an ellipse while continuing to look for its actual shape. It took him a while to realize 'maybe it really IS an ellipse'.
Related: list of web server one-liners https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255