skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim that work is inherently coercive is crazy to me. In order to live, we need food, clothing, shelter, comforts. Those take labor to produce. We've abstracted labor using money, allowing for specialization, so you can perform some specialized labor to provide for all your needs.

The needs aren't forced upon you. They're inherent. Labor is required to meet the needs you must meet in order to live (and live in comfort). They'd be needed even if no board of directors had ever sat in a meeting room. So who's coercing you? It's like a farmer hating his field: you're mad that companies 'make' you work to survive; a farmer might hate his field for 'making' him plant seeds to produce food.

I don't get it. It seems delusional.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation
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Phoenix has been a concrete jungle for as long as I can remember. It’s consistently hotter than Tucson despite being 100 miles north and only 1000 feet lower in elevation.

I sometimes wonder how much the city could do to help itself by drastically changing its urban planning process.

Add trees (mesquite does well in Tucson) where possible. Cover any blacktop with solar. Use highly reflective/white paints or rock for exposed surfaces. Implement reasonable public transit… except it’s notoriously hard to design for such sprawl.

Another fun idea would be to dig deep and create large subsurface buildings to reduce AC usage.

There are so many buildings in the southwest that are built to withstand the temperature differences 100 years ago. Seems like a new standard needs to be adopted.
Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Isn't Australia basically a giant pile of bauxite? They could use solar to make aluminum locally and transport that.
When you use the word "everyone", curious if you really mean it considering that set contains individuals like Adolf Hitler, Shiro Ishii, Josef Fritzl, etc?
I always say that psychiatrists of today are the equivalent of doctors in the 1500s. They can give you basic advice, but because we don’t yet have a scientific understanding of consciousness, we can’t effectively treat problems therein.

Therefore wisdom indicates we should all have an open mind when discussing these matters. As we figured out germs and bacteria, I hope we will figure out these issues as well.
Batteries have a 50% efficiency cut on storage and recall... it is unlikely that cutting the spot price in half will make this profitable.

"Although battery storage has slightly higher round-trip efficiency than pumped storage, pumped-storage facilities typically operate at utilization factors that are currently twice as high as batteries." [1]

[1]https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756

Total efficiency of batteries is 80%/2 = 40%

Also very limited run times on the grid: "For example, in 2015, the weighted average battery duration was a little more than 46 minutes, but by 2019, weighted average battery durations had doubled to 1.5 hours."

[2] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756
The word "easily" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Major expansions to the US grid won't be cheap, done quickly or easy to protect against terrorism.
Getting agreement from all the stakeholders seems to sometimes be an issue - even the relatively small proposed Tres Amigas SuperStation has dragged on for many years and now looks like it won't happen.
When you visit a website or a YouTube video, there is an implied social contract that you will view the ads and allows trackers in exchange for consuming content. Otherwise, you are essentially freeloading off peoples' hard work. If you are not happy with the ads, simply go to another website that doesn't serve ads, host your own PeerTube instance or whatever. Just don't steal and then be entitled about it.
I just don’t trust my random chinese amazon brand dehumidifier’s internals to be totally food-safe. At the very least the water is condensing onto some unknown (to me) metal, touching some mystery plastics.

It was a peak ~700W device, and quite efficient for its price. It’d produce a few gallons overnight in summer in southern california when attached to a rather large battery.
There is risk to capital. The government does not bail out every business that fails. That's ludicrous. Investors like VCs can and do lose their investments all the time with no government intervention whatsoever. An owner is also risking in terms of opportunity cost - time lost to starting a business and failing is inherently riskier than working with similar talents and investing in safer assets like index funds for the potential upside of higher returns if the business succeeds.

Bootstrapped companies also come with risks to the founder's own capital and credit risk if loans are taken and the business fails to generate revenue to service them.
Nope. Fossil fuel interests have invested in solar. Why? Because the more energy you generate at home, the more oil you can export.
This is 100% a scam site, please flag

I put in test/test as the creds and it claimed to query and start collecting the data

> Please wait while your report is being generated...
> Parsing account information
> Querying for transaction information
> Parsing transaction information
> Loading charge batch

Then I gave up waiting as my tracking blocking went crazy.
Fun fact: You can now get a 99kwh ev with bidirectional charging (vehicle to home) for about $50-55K, new.

I can easily imagine buying one of these as an extra “beater” car in a few years, and making sure we’re always charging at least one car at home when it’s sunny.
Note this is an improvement to a theoretical bound and doesn’t present any immediate improvements for most practically solvable Integer Programming problems (which are generally solved with more efficient heuristics).
We would need to start by defining what spirituality is...

For me it's a vague, meaningless word that people like to use without ever defining it. And it's meaning ehen5rhere is one. Is completly diffeent9from person to person...

So for me utterly useless.
Fortnight doesn't run on Linux yet, so "every year" seems about right. ;)
having read the response now too, i have to agree
I hope that exVC guy in your network is considering getting adopted (or playing matchmaker), my personal anecdata tells me they are open to adopting gai(koku)jin as heirs, it is not even just a movie trope these days, surprise!
Useful! Keep up the good work!
Gm gm! This is a good tool. Tried it out to scrape for email from various professional sites. Thumbs up
"If solar installation companies had better incentives and less scammy behavior"

If wishes were horses....

You still need the mounting hardware, the wiring, the permits and interconnect with the grid if you're doing that it, the batteries and the permits for those if you're storing excess locally, etc. and none of that stuff is getting cheaper. Not to mention the labor to install it and connect it. Not saying there isn't scammy behavior happening, there is, just like there is in any other home improvement/remodel contracting market.

But the panels are an ever-shrinking part of the price of a project, and they are the only thing that's getting cheaper.
> I would actually find it more practical to determine the thresholds on both sides where I find it to become ambiguous.

Isn't that the point of this exercise?
Re: the grid connection backlog - much of the challenge of turning on new generation is simulating the increasingly complex ways the grid can fail due to all the interconnections. It’s a huge computational challenge and there’s really not much incentive to speed it up
Zoom also uses ultrasonic location to identify meeting rooms, but that's when you're already in the Zoom app which is expected to use your microphone or speaker.
Dang, I thought this could cover my use case. At my (small but slowly growing) company, we use a git repository with a bunch of org files as our wiki. It works OK, but I can't see that grow very much. Also not particularly excited about moving to another tool though, org-mode is neat.

If anyone figured out a better way to collaborate on a bunch of org files in a team, I'd love to hear about it!
> It's not the world that is not rational, it's humans' mind.

As humans we experience the world through our six sense doors e.g. eyes, ears, tongue, nose, touch and mind.

To try and separate the world from our minds is non trivial. It is our very mind that allows us to perceive the world.

> Doesn't require higher powers, just a glitch in our own matrices.

The matrices you describe are the sense doors.

I didn't imply that anything necessitates a higher power. If you are happier to exclude the notion I described from your world view that's okay. I'm not forcing you to be open minded!
Yes I've suspected for a long time that this is really what you have to do. Either you are so immersed and have such a good memory that you live in your own fantasy world every day... or reality sets in and you treat fantasy worlds just like the real world, I mean that's what you want after all: For it to feel as real and believable as possible. The real world is pretty complex and full of details, facts and history and lore. Doing this without a database or without treating it like a historical research project is futile. You'd never hope to archive the entire lore and history of e.g the aztek culture in the real world without writing it all down. Hoping against hope that you'd somehow manage to make a believable window into a whole fantasy culture without having a far bigger corpus available at all times so you can adjust that window is futile. After all you have to move that window around for the story to develop and if there is nothing behind it, you constantly have to invent new things adhoc for every millimeter that you moved it. It's too hard.
Is your website made with repaint? benshumaker.xyz seems could not be indexed by a search engine because everything is draw live. Am I missing something?
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For a single individual, all of the above is true, but for a large enough sample size, the answers may be more generally useful because you account for all of those rounding errors.
Line length is definitely configurable. All it takes is adding the following on pyproject.toml[1]:

[tool.black]
line-length = 100

Aside from matrix-like or column aligned data, the only truly awful thing I've encountered has been broken f-string handling[2].

[1]: Example from https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/blob/808e1dafcf1da30f...

[2]: https://github.com/psf/black/issues/4389
> Having worked for a company, doesn’t entitle anyone to remain on the paycheck until death, despite not working there anymore

This arrangement is called a pension, and is still quite popular in areas of the world with strong workers rights.
What different effects do stock buybacks have on corporate governance compared to dividends?

My understanding is both return $X/share of capital to shareholders, buybacks are just more tax efficient, flexible, and a little more difficult to see the direct effect of.
> the gravy was made from bones

Probably not very relevant to the point, but gravy is made from the meat juices and fat. Bones get made into bone broth.
Absolutely a scam; I've put in username 'a' and password 'b' and their page is continuously going through steps about pulling transactions from my account, checking them for fraud, etc. Maybe on step 6 now?

What's interesting here is that this is an actually pretty good idea for a startup that I'm sure many financial wellness apps or banks/credit unions might pay to hook into. I wonder if this is a legitimate site that's been hijacked?
>How not to find ideas worth solving

That's something I truly haven't got an idea how.

I've tried just tuning out and dozing off but then I just wake up with more ideas . . .
Automation makes jobs unnecessary. We should build social infrastructure that allows people to pursue their passions with basic necessities guaranteed. This has been possible for awhile now.
early 2019 fwiw.

CACM has a (large) 2020 blog post about it too: https://cacm.acm.org/research/keeping-calm/

I remember seeing a blip of this when it came out, but I haven't heard anything since. Anyone know if it's known / used / ??, or has it been subsumed by some other thing?
It becomes questionable if you’re halfway across the world from your safe.
Only OK if we get at least 4 usb/TB ports. Six would be fine and eight would be ideal.
Maybe so but I am not arguing with that. The original claim is much weaker: No "collective" produces innovation.
Is there a 30% improvement in Time-to-Degradation from bad voltage management?
Interface-heavy languages break IDEs. In .NET at least, "go to definition" jumps you to the interface definition which you probably aren't interested in (vs. the specific implementation you are trying to dig into). Also with .NET specifically XAML breaks IDE traceability as well.
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Because the failures of the USSR occurred entirely within the USSR's borders, under its jurisdiction, and were entirely within its power to resolve. Meanwhile, the 9 million deaths of starvation you cite are across multiple countries with multiple overlapping legal regimes and are multi-causal, from corruption to war and failed states like Haiti and Syria.
Although I did not speak openly of "TI" I did experience this phenomenon. Following obsessive dieting and exercising, then into a batch of seizures, I somewhat rapidly fell into the TI abyss. I consider myself today to remain a "voices hearer", although it's gotten much better over time and I am mindful to get more sleep than I need, as that's been the most curative for me.

That episode came on in 2012, and it has felt like it took > 10 years to fully recover.
It certainly wasn't helpful and to the contrary extremely reinforcing when the whole snowden story broke.

This is a dreadful pit to fall into.

Pretend with me for one moment:
You are single, you're looking for love in all the wrong places, mostly on OKCupid.
An employee working within the NSA has stumbled upon your information in realtime in a PRISM data slurp, and has taken a personal interest - maybe they think you are weird, and they are not above abuse of their powers - and that they want to exert their "godlike" powers to toy with you - surveil you, pwn your computer, screw with your mind, etc.
Keep pretending this is remotely close to reality!
What recourse would you have? Would a FOIA request ever validate your claims? Where do you even begin to try to reconcile with this, as a firmly held belief?

....
My voices are illusory, they require a prompt. It can be water running, it is horribly triggered in large crowds. I still have panic attacks in Ikea (but who doesn't?)

....
I got better.
It took 10 years of my life to get it back, mostly.
It takes a lot out of me to even begin to try to share any of this.

I hope this post helps someone. You too can get through it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_ancient_Egyptian_re...

> Where the pagan religion of the Graeco-Roman world accepted the influence and integration of native Egyptian deities and practices into its tradition, Christianity was not nearly as accepting. The strict monotheism of the latter was in stark opposition to the freeform syncretism of paganism. Local Christians engaged in campaigns of proselytism and iconoclasm that contributed even more to the erosion of traditional religion. In AD 333, the number of Egyptian bishops is estimated to be just under 100; the Christianisation of the Roman Empire itself, and edicts by Christian emperors in the third and fourth centuries AD compounded the decline, and the last known inscription[16] in hieroglyphics (regarded by some as a symbol of the decline of the religion itself due to their close ties) dates from AD 394, known as the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom. It is located at the temple of Isis on the island of Philae, in Upper Egypt believed to be one of the final remaining places of worship of native Egyptian religion.[17] By this time, Egyptian religion was largely confined to the south of the country and to the distant, isolated Siwa Oasis in the west.[18] This century also saw significant expansion of institutionalised Christianity into Egypt, but adherence to the old religion on a smaller, more local scale was still prevalent.[19] Philae is also the site of the final demotic inscription, dating to AD 452. The temple was closed in AD 553 by Byzantine emperor Justinian I,[20] who ruled from 527 to 565. As official temples fell into disrepair, and religious structures across Egypt declined, the religion gradually faded away.[21]
4/4 sentences in the first paragraph mentioning AI. No real specs. No benchmarks. Yikes.
If I'm having trouble getting started, I will sometimes reach for pen/paper to brainstorm and mock up a very rough outline.
> The implication here is that everyone has one best place, but in reality there are many local maximums.

This is even better than what the article argues and thus not an antithesis. The author tries to convince us that there exists atleast a place for everyone, not that there aren't many.

> The idea that we have one “best” fit is the self-help equivalent of “perfect is the enemy of good”.

Again, it's not that there is one "best". The idea is everyone can be valuable through atleast one means. I don't see how that is related to perfectionism.
Fun! Upgrades and persistence would keep me replaying.
Reminds me of the method used for sonifying periodic table elements here[0], but in reverse.

[0]: https://youtu.be/Z9dpHWrgzMw
People need medical care more than once in their life. A great many medical care providers won't continue to treat patients who don't pay their bills [ER visits are an exception--but that is very high priced care and patients should be encouraged to use cheaper alternatives].
Deepfakes will take the teeth out of that kind of extortion, probably within the next couple years. At this point, porn pictures of anyone can be dismissed as fake, and soon porn videos will be able to be.
I think you misunderstood. I said if someone has heard the term "anarcho-syndicalist", there is a very high chance it's from the Holy Grial. Not 99% of people in the world are familiar with the term.
That’s a different situation outside of most people’s reasonable threat model. The police don’t need to clone your Yubikey if they can use it as much as they want, and if they decide to go NYPD on you nothing else you do is going to end in a different outcome unless your MFA check is an in-person confirmation in a location outside of their control.
> the pseudo cryptolibertarianism they both espouse

Quibble: I wouldn't use that phrasing since the prefix "crypto" already has a definite and entrenched meaning in the context of political labels, one which is the opposite of the author's intended meaning.

For example, Churchill spoke against "crypto-communists", and that meant actual communists who were hiding their true ideology or disguising it as something else.

That means a "crypto-libertarian" would be someone who is actually libertarian, but hiding it. That's the opposite of Musk.

_____

P.S.: A quick pre-buttal: There's often some comment out of the woodwork pointing out that languages eventually change over time (technically true) and therefore somehow you can't ever oppose an attempt to redefine things (which is nonsense.) I invite readers to imagine their reaction to some teenager who insists that their .mp4 file is "a youtube".
Topics include: virtual reality, the metaverse, Epic vs Apple, Unreal Engine 6, etc.
To be honest, I don't understand the author's hatred of LaTeX. Maybe the experience is very different than 10 years ago? Today, if you use Overleaf, the experience is not so different from that of Google Docs / the online markdown editor. If you really want a styling other than the default one, there are a bunch of templates you can choose from. You get document history and almost real-time rendering, and you can sync to GitHub if you want. You can self-host the front end. Given Pandoc, you can easily convert it to Word; it is one of the most portable ways to write in an open format. You can collaborate on it. Honestly, it's the easiest way for me to open the browser and edit.
Maybe they shouldn't be using "Breakthrough Performance" in their ad copy...
The summary is also copyrighted by the author, but it is a different copyright than the book. Probably also a bit thinner copyright than the book. Mere collections (notably, an alphabetized ordering of name and corresponding telephone number) is effectively not copyrighted, since it requires no creativity. A summary, though, requires quite a bit of creativity: what to emphasize, how to compress the ideas and arguments into a concise statement, etc.
Ostensibly, everyone posting information on the open web want to share information -- either directly with people or indirectly via search engines _and_ the current crop of llms (which in my mind, serve the same purpose as search engines)

I suppose the thing that people maybe don't agree with is the lack of attribution when llms regurgitate information back at the user. That, and the fact that these services are also overly aggressive when it comes to spidering your site
The thing with rooftop/local solar is that it doesn't need to compete with wholesale electricity prices, it only need to compete with retail prices. It's already competitive there, to the point that most places are removing subsidies and retargeting them at storage (batteries), transmission, or EV charging infrastructure.
why would they want discord when they have emacs?
Wow what an awesome tool love the idea! So essentially it enables you to get something like Railway.app services hosted on your own cloud provider?

e.g. using Google Cloud GKS or AWS EKS etc...
Upside: you can have new cores, which are faster.

Downside: oh you thought performance, no we meant “even faster to burn out”.
I am founder of DronaHQ - low code platform. Interestingly Today we launched AI capability to build internal tools with AI in beta. The idea here is to marry the power of LLMs and underlying low code platform to get to the end state even faster.

But I do see the merit in this thinking that LLMs can eat LCNC platforms for breakfast. However I am excited to see how with time a near perfect applications can be churned out with about 80-90% work done and engineers can figure the last few miles and reach the finish line but 50x faster.
Your view is called Social Darwinism and it’s really dangerous/dystopian. Also collapses under scrutiny.
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On the east coast of Australia, you are taxed for feeding in solar power between 10am and 3pm. They're trying to get more people to install batteries. But the ROI is 5-7 years (at current rates).
LLMs.txt should let me specify the $$$ price that companies must send me to train models on my content.
That's a fair point. I kind of hate that the world has come to this. Everything needs to be justified through an economic lens. I wonder if life was easier in the past with regards to this.