skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fully open-source. I think the default use-case is to have the voice commands processed locally
The graph shows the price for 3100 kWh. I'm not sure if that is a very low annual amount or a very very high monthly amount.

The average US household uses 10,000 kWh annually ~833 kWh per month. So I'm guessing most Americans reading the article and looking at the interactive graph are thinking either: this is very cheap or very expensive, depending on whether they are assuming it's monthly or annual.

In the US the average price for 3100 kWh in California would be $1062 which is among the highest in the continental US. So right in line with GB.

In New York it would be $710. Florida it would be $454.

So it's high, but not as eye-watering as it seemed to me initially.
Oh that's my cup of tea, love this stuff!

I've created a 3d guitar fretboard here, where the height of the blocks corresponds to the height of the pitches:
https://www.fachords.com/guitar-fretboard-3d/

And here are the shapes of the different chord qualities in the Circle Of Fifths:
https://www.fachords.com/circle-of-fifths-chord-shape/
And then you get some big energy dry spell and rates go to 1,000x their normal price and it starts costing you $20 to run the kettle for a few minutes.

Hopefully you noticed that spike in prices ahead of time!
That's kinda wild if the NGOs haven't been able to find a single innocently convicted. El Salvador has jailed 8% of young men, many of which based on nothing more than anonymous tips.
I think we are dealing with survivorship bias more so than anything else. We can look back and speculate about society, how it functioned and all that, but every time we do we are limited in knowledge and by our own biases.

I chose to reply as I did because of the whole “I doubt it’s a coincidence”.
Concurrency should always be studied from higher-level logical program/algorithm execution properties with a focus on both shared-memory and message-passing architectures. Only after the above should one even look at lower-level hardware memory consistency model, cache coherence model, atomic instructions, memory barriers etc. For example, learning to use a logical shared-memory "Mutex" is far easier than the fact that it is internally implemented using atomic instructions, memory barriers etc.

Some relevant details in a previous comment of mine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42422867

See also this book - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42472334
Wait, what? Paris streets are a mess, even after Haussmann. That does not prevent outstanding transit. Even before the latest obsessive aggressive agenda-driven nonsense. The two things that Paris has are (1) inhabitant and workplace density and (2) the will to pursue public transit decade after decade.

After that, there are lots of streets with a single lane of traffic - and buses go through them just fine. And there are lots of too narrow streets but they are isolated here and there - in between streets that are okay for buses. Equally there are lots of very wide avenues for several lanes of traffic and that's fine for pedestrians and transit even though it makes subway stations sometimes very wide. And there are lots of randomly angled streets. There are steep hills. There are rivers and canals and giant mining voids which make building subway tunnels interesting. There are lots of train track rights of way which sometimes block pedestrian traffic but are covered and crossed reasonably often (sometimes still not optimally so). There is snow, ice, floods, hot weather. You name it it's there.

Both of these are essential. "Decade after decade" is essential. Both density and building that infrastructure are impossible to build at the stroke of a pen. So an advantage of Paris compared to San Francisco is that it had decent inhabitant and workplace density from the infancy of public transit when it was private animal pulled carriages.

So what's missing in US cities: decade after decade of density followed by decade after decade of public intent. SF could do it - but for sure you wouldn't see the result tomorrow - but NIMBY so no, SF can't do it. Not before getting rid of NIMBY. LA is much more willing to build anything anywhere so it would have much more of a chance. But it's huge and people often live far from their place of work. Smaller areas with LA would have a better chance. Perhaps Glendale plus the entertainment industry north-south corridor? That might be manageable.

Yet still more "even then", ride Paris transit at rush hours in summer and you won't feel that it's all that good: it's sweaty, packed, and there are lots of timetable incidents. You will regret having chosen rush hour. You car would have been nicely air conditionned and comfortable (but depending on your trajectory would have been stuck in traffic for a while.)
> Well.. first start by defining "beautiful", we're waiting.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/No...

https://wmf.imgix.net/images/70_hero_image.jpg?auto=format,c...

Hundreds of years later, most people from completely disparate cultures find these buildings beautiful.
Believe it or not, but the matter going into solar panels and batteries also has to be dug out of the ground. The difference is that you need a great deal more of that matter to deliver comparable amounts of power compared to fission.
Damp is worse than cold
And MacOS had Spaces 6 years before Windows had anything similar and Exposé for 3 years before they came out with a crappy not-as-good equivalent, and the current task view still sucks by comparison.

But touch input drivers on both platforms still suck, so I don't really care what their Window management is like when I can't interact with them without a hand cramp.
And the photos of said C-hooks are pretty damning:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/new-images-of-pge-...
Crazy how most countries manage a lower crime rate without behaving like savages. Not us, though! The entire point seems to be the cruelty.
TIL about Web Audio, an API that allows any web page to find out about the user's sound setup (e.g. channel count and some kind of transfer function of the audio subsystem?) despite there being no legitimate purpose for that.
That reminds me of my favorite algorithm, which can find the majority element in a list with any number of distinct entries while using O(N) time and O(1) space (provided a majority element exists). I sometimes pose deriving this algorithm as a puzzle for people, no one has ever solved it (nor could I).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_majority...
>that's three meals a day, somewhere warm to sleep

I don't know why people always parrot this like a fact. Plenty of prisons serve only two woefully inadequate meals a day (like, Fyre festival sandwich levels of inadequate) and prisons generally have atrocious climate control. In the southern states, they don't have air conditioning and it gets genuinely dangerous for the prisoners.

Some jurisdictions give the Warden a budget for feeding the prisoners, and any dollar they don't spend, they get to KEEP. This predictably results in malnourished prisoners, but Americans do not have the empathy to care most of the time.
Then it should be obvious to you the parallels with Paradise, CA, where average home sales prices were at $700k just prior to the wildfire, growing faster than San Francisco’s prices: the reason we are doing this bailout is due to the politically powerful interests of a lot of wealthy savers. The people in this thread saying “it’s PG&E’s fault” are incredibly naive.
Is anyone aware of an effort to repurpose Echo hardware to do HA voice?
This smells like an advert. Over the last year I've spent less money on energy by being on Octopus Tracker (which requires a smart meter) over any fixed tariff.
So, here is your daily conspiracy theory: Snap was actually made by Google (and Github/MS) as an effort to tout the performance of Electron apps: "It's twice as fast as snap!"
Ironically, Windows is not user-friendly at all these days. It was supposed to be. How could this happen?
Between this and the artist showcasing the surveillance state via traffic cam selfies, I kinda love the idea of "artists to the rescue".
What a bizarre thing to say.

I guess there are some examples of self sabotage, such as Brexit, but no, on the whole people in the UK do not choose to be poor. Like any nation we are at the mercy of the outcomes of the decisions of our politicians and larger global effects that are out of our control.

Also, there are plenty of wealthy people in the UK. You do know that right? The UK is still around 6th in the nominal GDP rankings, so not quite an economic basket case (yet).
I use VS Code Server for this very purpose

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server
Sam Altman calls Elon Musk a 'bully'
There are certainly more things I could have done to get more $/hour. I ultimately find these things enjoyable and help keep my skills sharp.
The author does start talking about model checking in the third paragraph and go on using "SPIN", so there's a significant part that is interested in model checking, anyway.

I can see where the parent is coming from.

I think you can both be right - it can be valuable in any case.
I'm not a frontend person. Can anyone explain why this is better than using CSS directly or a CSS framework/library? Seems like added complexity when there are already hundreds of CSS frameworks available that seem like they do the same thing.
My take-away is that the phrase didn't mean decadence but rather a return to normal life and the end of the civil wars.
I never said they are guaranteed to be this or that?

Clearly some fraction do have critically bad social skills which do materially affect their prospects to a significant degree.

But the majority of them do exceed that very low bar, so it’s simply not that critical of a hinderance most of the time.

You appear to be reading absolute implications into my comments, and/or inserting your own conjectures which aren’t there on a plain reading.
I think part of the problem is how companies fail to define boundaries for their roles, and it's probably on purpose to get the most productivity from an individual. There is no ceiling or max number of responsibilities, it is always more and more and never enough. Roles are ultimately defined to "add business value", but this is like writing a blank check.

For engineering, I want to exchange code for money... as a full time position. But this does not exist as far as I know. Full time salaried basically means you own a slice of the business, and your responsibilities have more to do with business profit then exercising expertise in your technical field. As a result the expectations range from managing people to making presentations and coordinating meetings, all in the name of "engineering" except it's just running the business under the disguise of an engineering role. To me this is what has led to burnouts and dissatisfaction in my career, at times doubting it, but ultimately I concluded that I still like programming, I just don't like how the industry treats programmers.
The cost wasn’t assigned to PG&E. Brother, the CPUC is approving the rate increases to pay back the settlement. You are getting the same electricity today as you did in 2019. The entire cost was assigned to YOU.

There are so many smart people on this forum. How hard is it to understand the spelled-out-in-the-law relationship between your compulsory payment for electricity rising and the cost of the settlements?
That particular urban renewal didn't create a lot of new housing. On the other hand, that whole general area of Boston was pretty crappy back in the day. (Not just what's now Government Center but all along Washington Street.) It mostly didn't result in more housing; I'm guessing less. But burying the central artery was almost certainly a lot more positive overall.
Not sure about MIT, but it’s not true for anything else: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompati...
I agree about the 24/7 part, but the safe zone and weather biases are too big to ignore
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 [video]
> What do you mean by "something completely different"?

I mean compute the exact thing you need to compute, optimizing for performance.

I’m pretty sure your current code is spending vast majority of time doing malloc / memcpy while moving input elements from the input array into per-bucket collections.

To aggregate the data the way you want, you do not have to do any of that. You only need a single number per bucket to compute the minimum. Updating that accumulator is very cheap as there’s no memory allocations involved: just load, compare, and store the updated number.

Moreover, that algorithm is easily to parallelize. Compute an array with these per-bucket minimums on different threads, wait for completion of all tasks, then aggregate multiple arrays computed by each thread into a single array with global minimums for each bucket. Then compute the final sum.
It's only expensive because we build so few, so have to start the design from scratch each time.

If you look at China they design one nuke station and just copy and paste it to reduce costs, since parts can be mass produced.
I work in the Watergate, and it's in terrible condition after just 60 years. The 1950s post-war mass produced house I grew up in is in better condition. Meanwhile, the Farley Post Office in Manhattan is so gorgeous 110 years later that they built the new Penn Station in it.
Wow! :-)
It's the complete opposite for me here in Germany based on recent experience ordering from Amazon and other online retailers. It almost always arrives when Amazon says it will. I literally just received a package from an Amazon courier in an Amazon truck, something that I ordered late yesterday.
https://archive.ph/Czgir
It eliminates the need for staff to manually read them and guarantees they are read correctly every month.
Didn't expect the blog post to go to a Google Gemini page: https://ai.google.dev/showcase/tldraw
Reminds me of the time I applied this technique to basically a webcam stream of the northern night sky. You could immediately see if there were northern lights that night (and when) without having to scrub through the footage. I bet there are other use cases that haven't been explored yet.
> Anything more complex than the C ABI is what makes people say there is a runtime.

But Rust (or Zig, or C++ for that matter) don't use the C ABI, either, except for specifically annotated functions.

> In that case, the runtime has already been started, and is being reused.

True, but I'm trying to say that the notion of "starting" the runtime (or the GC for that matter) is not really well-defined. HotSpot does need to be "started", but, say, Graal Native Image, which is sort of an AOT-compiled, statically linked JVM, isn't really "started".

> Java calling C may add a management layer on Java's side, but C/C++/Rust/Zig/etc need very little (hence, minimal runtime).

In some implementations of Java this may be the case in some situations, yes. I would go further and say that that's the typical case, i.e. if you want to embed the stock HotSpot, you will need to call some initialisation functions.

If that's what's meant by "runtime", then it's mostly correct, but it's more an implementation detail of HotSpot. Even without it there will remain more important differences between C++/Zig/Rust/C and Java, and this matter of "runtime" is not the most interesting aspect. For example, that Java is usually compiled JIT and Rust is usually compiled AOT is a bigger and more interesting difference.
1 Timothy 6:10.

Kinds. All Kinds.
It's a good first draft. I do find it a shame that the HTML output is only div elements. I think a little accessibility would go a long way. I also can't select text in many places before some re-render de-selects before I can hit control-c.
LLMs dont have the same usecase as encoder only models. Lets assume you have around million keywords and you want to find the most similar to a keyword that the user input.

In pre-processing you would have calculated the vector encoding of all the million keywords before hand and now with the keyword the user input, you calculate the vector and then find the most similar vectors

LLM is used by end user, encoders are used by devs in app to search/retrieve text.
> "Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever."

A maxim I wish more game studios and publishers would adopt. Yes, I understand the immense financial pressures that make it effectively impossible but it's really a tragedy to see so much man-hours and artistic creativity wasted on games that could have been good or great given more time to bake.
Naturally tossed coins tend to land on the same side they started with 0.51 of the time, see

https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/diaconis_co...
It does kind of make sense to have a market for the "generation" side with all the different types of power source that exist now. But the infrastructure is privately owned? That's crazy. Like privatising the motorway network!

They did try with the railway network (Railtrack) which was subsequently renationalised and only the train operating companies being private (and even they, like electricity generating companies, are often state-owned by other countries...).

Handing an entire national network monopoly to a single company is foolish.
10 months ago, there was also Boardzilla (https://www.boardzilla.io/) posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39180953 . Curious to see how these two compare
This is a deeply flawed but empathetic point of view. Sure, maybe the big bad smart meters are secretly conspiring against you. If things were so simple, why doesn’t someone in the government just negotiate a simple price for everyone? Why have middlemen like you at all?
The fixed rates that companies charge just smooth out these variances since they all pay a variable rate behind the scenes. The fixed rate providers will do rolling brownouts if the grid gets to this state to save themselves from ruin. If you're on a variable rate you can choose to cut yourself off in these periods.

Essentially the downside you mention is worse on the fixed rate: On fixed rate you'll have no power at all - the fixed rate providers will cut power completely to protect themselves financially if the grid is in a prolonged period of extreme price (they did this in Texas). On a variable rate you can choose to cut yourself off or not.
what matters is satisfaction with the election outcome, not the five minutes you spent filling out a ballot.

https://rpubs.com/Jameson-Quinn/vse6
There was a discussion of this retraction last week which received many more comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400008
Or someone who has no idea how legislation works. The idea that all the "more important issues" take the same amount of time and effort to tackle is invalid; this is an achievable goal and one relatively easy to gather consensus.

The flipside complaint would have been "why are we waiting so long to fix this simple thing." Government can't win.
Oh, I thought this was monthly. The article doesn't specify, and all other bills I've seen are monthly. Do Brits pay annually?
> I want to put something on in the background that doesn't call attention to itself

An aside—I firmly believe that there's a genetic component to this or something. I can sleep to structurally complicated metal music or jazz or symphonic stuff—in fact these genres are fantastic for entering productive flows—but if you throw on pop music with lyrics I can't focus at all.
I'm not any kind of historian. Reading the works of those who are, is mind boggling. There is just so much history out there. 60 years of civil war, with heavy conscription...hard to imagine. Although future historians might look at our recent era as 80 some years of war, counting wwi-ussr dissolution.
"controlled areas" is relative - for example it includes mayhem zone SOMA and the hills. Also they just got started, relatively speaking, and have been expanding. Give it a minute.

Really, computers seem more naturally suited to driving in SF than humans - from the point of view of paying attention to enough things, not having to pay attention to map navigation and having more modes of sensory input than humans.
I have a script which runs a random browser in incognito mode with a random user agent and a random search website every time I click a shortcut. Then another script changes the DOH dns setting for my connection every hour. Next up I will set a socks proxy setting on each browser via command line params to a ssh connection located in Europe. Oh and I also change my computer name on every logon and have random hw address enabled.
Start by looking at the crazy over-regulation that happens to farmers in the UK.
Always wondered why nobody did more tracing for latency in unneeded/excessive read syscalls. The amount of directories linux binaries search for files is amazing.

Its not just snap, most binaries are excessive in reads, ballpark, 20-30% of legacy paths, missing binaries, symlinks, etc.

Everytime something breaks and you start peeking at whats going on, its a WTF and WHY, and just assume its legacy built on legacy, for some purpose that no longer exists, maybe except in the extremely rare edge cases.
I made a horror game that's IMPOSSIBLE to SCREENSHOT! [video]
For sure. I think what sticks out about now is how brazen those who grab power are now. For whatever reason there's a shamelessness/entitlement about the whole thing that is palpable.
Ask HN: React Native on iOS long-term findings?
For those who have used React Native specifically for iOS long term, how are you finding it?

From managing multiple iOS versions and APIs to real-world code-reuse across platforms as well.

Lastly, would you still recommend given the React Native team have just announced a new architecture?
My apologies for the clickbait title - it is what the author named it. But it's very much worth watching, and it's under five minutes long.
There can still be laws, code of conduct etc, eveil jaim time for ethics violators. Just dont restrict supply by only giving licences to people with medical degrees.
The extent and fate of fossil carbon accumulation in our technosphere
No, they didn't. At least look at the data before making such a bigoted statement.
Show HN: Flights Directly Above Me
Hi HN,
aviation enthusiast often use Flightradar24 and other systems to find out what flights are directly above their location at any time. Inspired by a few other projects, I built a basic HTML + Javascript dashboard, that does the same, simulating an old school LED display.

Enjoy the Github repo!

How it works:

Standard HTML page that loads the flightradar data in a specific location box that you specify. Because the free flightradar24 data is browser only, I used a corsproxy to get around loading issues. Everything works with the free versions, but if you hit limits, you can also specify a key to a paid CORS Proxy service.

Once the data is loaded, JS refreshes it every 30 seconds. The HTML itself is refreshed once an hour, so even a dashboard you don't have access to would be updated from new changes.
Those playlists become popular because of the music on them. If they decline in quality won't people will just listen to better playlists?

My Discover Weekly from Spotify used to be awesome. I found a bunch of new artists that I really liked and tons of great new songs. Recently it's been a bunch of old stuff that I've definitely heard of before. So I've mostly stopped listening to it.
When A.I. Bridged a Language Gap, They Fell in Love
The preamble of the GPLV2 begins with:
"The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. "

I don't think Matt should ever be required to provide the live services of wordpress.org, but as for WP Engine, the license is supposed to be free for them and that's pretty clear.
The regulations are because it’s inhaled. That it can be eaten is secondary