skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it though? They deregulated the industry deliberately removing rules around weatherization and reliability so energy companies could increase profits at the cost of reliability. They disconnected their grid from the rest of the country specifically so they could make those changes. It’s not surprising to me at all. Everyone who is paying attention could see this coming for years.
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Also, require roundabout knowledge to pass the knowledge test to obtain a driver’s license, as well as practical experience when in a trainer’s permit. This ensures go forward expertise inherent in the population after a certain date.

People (education), process (implementation plan), technology (implementation).
Show HN: HowsThisGoing – an AI based standup bot for Slack
Hey guys, I left my PM job in December to learn how to code.

The plan,
- Build something that "I" could build with my background (I haven't studied CS)
- Something that already existed and I used so I didn't have to spend time finding PMF

Over the past 4 months I've been building howsthisgoing.com (a standup bot for slack with AI summaries). My ex-employed signed up in May & I got another customer through a university batchmate sometime in June (the company he's working at).

However, since then it's mostly been 0 new customers, I get roughly 6-10 views on my site daily.

The bot and my offering is simple,
- you can run standups & check-ins in Slack
- cheaper than other alternatives out there
- a few solid AI integrations (custom summary prompts etc.)

There's also a free tier you could get started with for getting a taste of the software.

----------

Looking for tips on how to better acquire new users. I don't have a sales strategy at the moment but a few things I've been thinking of,
- Launching on PH, Reddit, etc. (I feel I'm too early for this, my goal is to get to at least 10-15 paying customers before I do this so I have a simple testimonials section on my website)
- Cold outreach on LinkedIn, Email etc.
Texans basically should view grid independent home solar as a minimum requirement.

Between this and the ice storm s couple years ago Texas has shown itself incapable of utility grade service.

In general I think the disaster resilience afforded by home solar is simply not valued enough by subsidies and incentives policies.
No doubt it's rough and has been for a while. I left my cushy corporate software engineering gig last summer and had the intention of getting another job in the fall. That turned into getting hired in January, then laid off six weeks later along with 30% of the company.

After an intense and extremely hard job search for 5 months, I landed a job last month. In addition to the tough and time-intensive interview process, it was the first time in my 20+ career that the new job was at a lower compensation than the last.

It's easy to overlook that the job market as a whole is doing well but certain sectors, like tech, are down.
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I've heard many stories about Chinese food safety.

But is government oversight getting better?

Is this a story of local corruption, or of a larger corrupt system?

And if it has "millions of views" on Weibo, is this an indicator that the government takes it seriously, or just a means of entertaining the public with the latest scandal and establishing legitimacy of government intervention?
Isn't there a third option: redundant overhead power lines?

In the transmission (long haul) part of the grid, there's already a lot of redundancy. But not as much in the distribution (last mile) part.

If you increase redundancy, you should be more resilient to e.g. trees knocking out power lines because there are multiple paths in more parts of the network.

I doubt full redundancy (two lines to every customer) would be realistic, but an increase in redundancy seems like a more practical way forward than just starting over completely with underground lines.
I'd replace that with giving someone a link to Git Fix Um[1]

[1]: https://sukima.github.io/GitFixUm/
> people feeling they have the right to enter the roundabout regardless of existing motorists already being there.

This baffles me. It's not like T-boning someone is good for your car either.

Only thing I can imagine is they think it will operate like getting on a freeway, where you have some time in a dedicated lane before you have to merge?
No, it isn’t. Well, it’s a state by state thing so I can’t speak for all of them. But it’s not common.
Setting (formally or informally) corporate policies which destroy or even prevent the creation of a record of internal communications, regardless of how formal those communications may be - is very well illegal depending on a variety of factors.

The shining poster boy for this would be Google, who told staff to disable logging when discussing sensitive topics:

https://www.techspot.com/news/102874-doj-alleges-google-dest...

They also told employees to never use certain keywords, so that records of conversations would not be found by legal teams using search tools, but also they wouldn't be shown talking like monopolists:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-hid-evide...
Let's compromise and go with kibigrams
> The proof point is how spacex managed to drastically reduce the cost of a space shuttle launch vs what NASA was able to do.

NASA developed the tech with human cargo, the acceptable risks there are very different than losing 20 satellites from a 6,000 unit constellation.
For Rust users there's a significant difference:

* it's a Cargo package, which is trivial to add to a project. Pure-Rust projects are easier to build cross-platform.

* It exports a safe Rust interface. It has configurable levels of thread safety, which are protected from misuse at compile time.

The point isn't that C++ can match performance, but that you don't have to use C++, and still get the performance, plus other niceties.

This is "is there anything specific to C++ that assembly can't match in performance?" one step removed.
It would be tragic to lose this significant historical artifact from an important figure in the history of computing. While magnetic tape degrades over time, this is broadcast-grade tape with high-bandwidth analog video so it's probably still savable - but it won't be forever. Also, there are broadcast museums and preservationists who still maintain working 1-inch VTRs but they're only going get rarer.
I am trying to understand if the source data also provides the population weighted centroid. I guess it has to.no way to calculate that.

It would be interesting to know what tools were used for running the calculation.
When visitors were coming to the office in Swindon, I always gave them directions that took them thru the magic roundabout. Jolly good fun.
> They are a liability when traffic levels are high enough - say during peak times - when one inbound direction is blocked by another.

The rule should be that when traffic is bumper to bumper, the "zip" is made mandatory. That rule already supersedes the normal rule on, say, many (all?) european highways when the highway goes from, say, 3 lanes to 2 lanes and in case that creates a traffic jam: people in "their" lane doesn't have the right of way anymore. It's one car from one lane, one car from another lane: the "zip".

People in a roundabout should lose their right of way when traffic is bumper to bumper.

Where I live people are extremely polite on the road so I don't even know if the zip it's mandatory: people shall simply act that way.

In countries where road rage is common and people misbehave, like France, just make it mandatory by law.
Actually it is me who should apologise; I'm in an awful mood today and on other days would not have been so pompous, I hope :-)

And yes -- I think to some extent my determination to push myself not to accept guilt for things that aren't my fault comes from realising that guilt for imagined misdeeds is the most potent fuel for OCD, which has wrecked the pattern of my life; it is a thief of joy.

When I explained one of my OCD obsessions/compulsions to a friend, they said "I can understand why that affected you but you understand it is literally absurd to have guilt from that?", and it was one of the most empowering things I've ever heard.

Guilt is a burden that good people willingly shoulder and bad people willingly shirk (if they are capable of it at all).

Internalising that there are more productive negative emotions to feel than unearned, secondhand guilt is a life's work for me.
I agree. I don't care how technically correct they are if I sound like an idiot when I'm saying it.

The best I've seen is just to have the base as a subscript, like `kB_2` (2 is subscript) or `kB_10`. Though in practice I have yet to come across a situation where the difference a) matters and b) isn't clear from the context.
> It's almost as large as LA with slightly more than half the population.

Geez. I thought LA was quite bad already.
You say 100% disagree, but then everything you say seems to agree with my points. I would even go so far as to endorse your response as a longer form elaboration of exactly what I was trying to get across.
The thing is that a “yield” is not a “stop”, you have to match your pace to the circulating vehicles, similar as a highway “on-ramp” you don’t stop to let all the cars pass or slow down, that’s worst than speeding up and finding your space in traffic.
in some cases they do! a friend worked for a labour intensive job (X days on, Y days off) and they have a yearly use-it-or-lose-it allowance that he was allowed to claim expenses against for things like boots, jackets, safety gear, etc
There are extensions that talk to the Wayback Machine
We'd do so much better as a society if we debated things in costs-benefits, not winners-losers, but the former doesn't make great soundbites.
Anticlickbait:

> A former OpenAI worker says he quit the company after realizing that it was putting safety on the back burner to pursue profit
Musk Wins Twitter Lawsuit by ex-staff
I never understood why the British had such a hardon for split pea soup until I looked at the nutrition. "Split peas" have a lot more protein than regular peas. Like two or three times as much.

As for the fish, you could try making yourself miso soup. Properly made, it contains bonito flakes, and it's impossible to overdo bonito flakes.
That was, in fact, my point.

Most discussion systems are inferior to 1990 Usenet, 34 years later.

At this point it is traditional to shout about Usenet not having good moderation. In fact, it is possible for either individual news groups or specific news servers (that only carry a limited number of groups) to have good moderation. It is, of course, expensive: you need to get enough trustworthy people to run it to cover the time and volume.

Then someone will sniff about not wanting to use a TUI, which can be rebutted by pointing at all the GUI newsreaders -- having a standard protocol for talking to a server is quite valuable.

"Isn't Usenet a huge space and bandwidth hog?" Yes, Usenet was a huge space and bandwidth hog -- in 1990, and 2000. If you don't carry the warez groups, it can be adequately handled on a high-end server from 2000 -- which today is equivalent to a Raspberry Pi. (1994: 7 x 2 GB SCSI disks, 1.5Mb/s Internet connection)

HN approximates the activity level and content size of 1 very active Usenet newsgroup.
Agreed with this pretty much 100%. I'd add to the list:

- oh my zsh git shortcuts are great

- git-extras (especially git-brv for when you're an open source library maintainer)

- pushing to PR submitter's branches to clean up a PR ready for merge is a good skill to know
Yep, had that before. So i decided to cut away the Teflon around the 5 screw holes using a fresh (=really sharp) carpet knife. Nothing bent, no protruding corners, same gliding performance with just a different look from the now exposed holes at the underside...
> should not be written

IDK what l should and shouldn't be written in, but there are a very large # of proud "pure Python" libraries on GitHub and HN.

The ecosystem seems to even prefer them.
Microsoft comms share that that certain models are still down in regions like Central US and Sweden Central. Can't believe that the status pages says it is recovered which means Microsoft thinks that recovery means models are down.
Would it be so difficult to ping all links in a page being loaded, and clearly mark the dead ones ?

Sure it would eat some bandwidth, but so do prefetch schemes and other stuff intended to speed up page renders.
There was a big roundabout, but it couldn't handle the traffic volume.

https://youtu.be/DAFQZwR157E
As someone who literally used to own the digital version of the Disney vault I find this leak highly unlikely what it is claimed to be.

Disney doesn’t just use one Slack instance across the whole company and everyone knows to not put pre-release content on my public platforms.

Maybe they compromised an instance owned by DTSS (Disneys centralized IT entity), but this would have little to do with Disney Studios like they imply.

Its pretty standard in the industry to only store pre-release content on airgapped systems.
Americans still can't understand the passing lane. I'm skeptical that they're going to make effective use of roundabouts (although I do believe in their merits).
Oh man, the tired "Elon cannot sell his stock all at once without crashing the price, hence he does not actually have $200 billion" argument.

If he wanted he could sell his holdings to an investment bank, maybe at an agreed-upon discount, which would hedge-out the risk and give him close to $200 billion, all without the shares hitting the open market. This is like how a buyout works. It's not like when a founder sells his company does the shares hit the market, but rather it's like changing entries in a database of ownership.

Also ,markets are very liquid, especially for the largest of tech stocks, and can absorb tens of billions of dollars of selling. Bezos sold billions of Amazon and you cannot tell looking at the chart where he sold.

For practical matters, someone who has a billion dollars, unless that wealth is tired up in Rembrandts or something, has much more useable wealth than someone who has $100k.
Roundabout’s are only suitable for intersections where traffic on each route is roughly equal. In NZ I can’t recall seeing roundabouts built where the routes are not roughly equal in size and volume. In saying that, mistakes happen and things change and there are roundabouts that suffer this sometimes.
> wrong about the facts

Okay, what are the facts here? That crypto firms and VCs are lobbying politicians for favorable legislation? Um, okay. Everyone from farmers to auto-makers to tech companies do that. It's an absolute nothingburger.

Are the facts that there's over $200M injected in our political system by crypto firms? Um, okay. This doesn't even move the needle when compared to the billions injected by a class of ~30 ultra-rich individuals (both conservative and liberal) over the last 10 years.

At worst, this is misdirection, at best, it's gross ignorance of the ripple effects of the Citizens United SCOTUS ruling.
I live in the UK where roundabouts are ubiquitous and most people still don't understand them perfectly. The Highway Code[1] is too ambiguous.

- give priority to traffic approaching from your right, unless directed otherwise by signs, road markings or traffic lights

- watch out for all other road users already on the roundabout; be aware they may not be signalling correctly or at all

The second rule means if you have already entered the roundabout you have right of way over traffic yet to enter the roundabout to your right. What can happen in practice is that people to your right rock on and beep you out for the temerity of getting there first.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-...
Texas is a highly urbanized state and a significant number of families don't have the ability to install home solar, so it cannot be viewed as 'minimum requirement' and some other solution is neccesary.
The motto of the group that leaked it is "A hacktivist group protecting artists' rights and ensuring fair compensation for their work", so my guess is that they're trying to give the press and researchers a look at what goes into the sausage, because the industry abuses the hell out of creative talent.

One question is whether there is one massive slack, or multiple different ones. I'd certainly hope that sensitive stuff is limited to a separate slack, for extra insulation.

They mention a name, and a google search shows that person works in Disney IT, so maybe their credentials were leaked and they had admin access to the slack. In that case, relying on slack permissions to limit the scope of a breach isn't really going to work.
I have a nephew turning six this year and have been considering getting him some of the collections as well, wondering if it would have the same formative impact on him as on me. I remember reading the strip in the paper as a six-year-old blonde kid and coming away with the impression that there was nothing weird about daydreaming all the time, or being articulate, or having an aversion to team sports, etc. all of which traits I carry with me to this day, 30-ish years later. Of course, now I find myself identifying more with Calvin's dad - that's life, I guess!
Quick, how many blocks will 4096 bytes use on my storage device?

The argument is that the base10 interval makes no sense with computers, because they're physically base2.

You can't really have 10 without wasting 2, and that's why it made sense to use 1024 instead of 1000.

Personally I feel the pushback against gibi/mibi/kibi overblown. It's ultimately better to be coherent everywhere and always specify everything with decimals/rounded over random context dependent decisions.
But still, the original argument for 1024 made sense too.
> focus on accidents involving death or injury

The metrics show improvement for all kinds, it's just not as dramatic for lesser accidents. Typically it's something like (very roughly):

* ¼ less accidents total

* ½ less accidents with minor injury

* ¾ less accidents with major injury or death
I always wanted to use Knuth's proposal of prefixing the base 2 variety with "long", analogous to tons.

eg. Long Kilobytes, LKB or KKB
How i would do it:

1. Create a table with quad tiles of appropriate size/level as Parquet. Put it in s3 and map it as a table in AWS Athena (Trino)

2. Put the census data in s3/Athena.

3. Join using Trino geospatial functions. https://trino.io/docs/current/functions/geospatial.html

The result for all quad tiles will be there within a couple of minutes.
You don't have to do a full loop if you need an adjacent exit. Eases load on the rest of entrances.
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Last time I was in New York I had lunch not far from there. Noted for next time.
The data cited in the article is based on usage by American drivers. So you can drop your skepticism, they already work.

Anecdotally, they’re converting a number of intersections here in rural, Northern MN to roundabouts and they are _very_ effective at reducing fatalities and injuries.
I been doing the same from a year, dumping all my thoughts in obsidian notes especially on the Friday evening, this really helped me resuming when back to the work.
I know about 1 KB = 1024 bytes, sometimes. I'm a computer nerd, grew up playing on computers and hacking on them, and I'm a programmer now.

But, if someone asks me for a good explanation why 1 KB != 1000 bytes, I don't have a good answer. I know about powers of 2, but why are powers of 2 more important than "kilo" meaning 1000 like it does in every other context?

It's like if a kilometer wasn't 1000 meters, because of the way car odometers worked, or the shape of the tires or something. Why would technical details about a car change the meaning of "kilometer"?
I don’t doubt it at all. I’ve been to a couple of countries the US propagandizes heavily against (China and Russia) and what you hear about them in the US is almost entirely horseshit. My expectation is NK and Iran will be similar.
U.S. drivers are profoundly ignorant, and often belligerently so. They block the passing lane (this is the biggest problem in U.S. transportation, no exaggeration). They don't signal. They can barely park.

And most of all, they're texting ALL THE TIME. They kill pedestrians, kill other drivers, and steal thousands if not millions of hours from the rest of us every day. This is actively abetted by politicians, who refuse to impose any significant penalties for texting while driving. It should be a DUI-level offense, with the same penalties... ruthlessly enforced.

I have written to my state senators more than once about this issue... to no response at all. None.
The last part really resonates with me. Ironically, the small businesses always seem to start first in the cloud.

Always felt I was too stupid to see what everyone is so excited about.
> I would legitimately not be surprised if there were actually more accidents overall.

That's possible, but people causing frequent fender-benders pay dearly for the privilege, so there's at least non-lethal feedback forcing them to improve.
I would take a future bet that the moment we have something that can replace flash memory we will drop it like a hot rock and then tease each other about how dumb we were to entrust real data to being stored on it.
You’ve got to enter the thread with the expectation that there are idiots posting drivel that you can leap in to correct, obviously.

Seriously, though, reading 133 comments usually takes like two to three minutes total. You need to decide whether you want to spend that much on this site doing that or not. I expect for most people the answer is “no” and I commend them for their self-control.

For topics you actually really care about, you’ll find it a lot easier to read through the comments. You will learn which comments to skip (nobody wants to read a rehash of “does anyone else think all developers are lazy and software is so slow now”) and which ones are actually interesting to read.
Single lane yield controlled roundabouts work pretty well, much better than an uncontrolled intersection in suburbia or out in the country
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They are making these conversions at high fatality/injury intersections on rural highways here in Northern MN (our county is the size of the state of Delaware with a population of only 40k) and they are doing a great job at improving safety.
"or switching to a more privacy-conscious browser such as Google Chrome."

You got me there. Switch to Librewolf
And if you specify that they are numbers then you lose the ability of the function to generalize to vectors.

Indeed assuming it adds two things is correct, and knowing that concatenation is how Python defines adding strings is important for using the language in the intended way.
And the flood zone maps are out of date and were not really accurate to begin with and they are purposely not updated.
You could probably do some fun compression scheme where you provide just enough information for a fixed llm version to generate a page that satisfies its authors goals.

Your idea seems fun if people can one by one describe what the page use to look like and/or crawl the web for clues. We can have our under reconstruction banners back.
One of the great things about London is that almost all of the 63 1km squares they highlight here contain a decent size park or other green space
FlowGPT, an AI artist, used Bad Bunny's voice and shot to fame
In the UK, roads entering the roundabout are often curved sharply towards direction of the traffic on the roundabout, so that it's more like merging lanes than entering a junction, so collisions are more likely to be sides hitting sides than a t-bone.
I'm in France and we do Zip in my area (which is quite touristic and see huge traffic right now, so I do that quite often when I drive in summer). But it is true that around Paris and in southeast France, people usually misbehave and act like entitled pricks.