skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - I’ve ended up installing 4 (inspected) ones over the years myself, and one I paid an electrician for (they also had to upgrade the main service feed).

IMO, what usually drives up the price is the ancillary stuff - opening up a wall (and re-finishing it) because there isn’t enough physical space, or adding extra main panel capacity/service capacity because the main feed is insufficient, or having to run heavier than expected wiring because the only available space gets really hot (poorly ventilated attic space), or having to run surface conduit due to a specific challenge with framing.

Then add in labor (where I was in a high cost of labor area), and it can get expensive quick.

An actual surface mount subpanel and appropriate wires/breakers is usually only a couple hundred bucks total like you note.
I didn't try it yet, but it seems you should be able to do that via their GitHub repo: https://github.com/nazdridoy/kokoro-tts
From the outside it looks like he's operating as a late-medieval King, theatrically issuing decrees whilst his courtiers are just going around picking fights.

I don't really understand what the point of the houses are now, a fig leaf I guess? I suppose that in 5 years time he'll just pass an executive order saying there's a clear and present danger to democracy by having elections and that will be that.
Small discussion (19 points, 3 hours ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43032722

(30 points, 8 hours ago, 2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030761
Wow this is a clever trick.
> We are wondering if this approach—requiring a direct tax prepayment—is standard practice.

Yes. source: I went through an IPO. 2 friends at different companies had similar experiences.

> If we underpay, we need to send more money within one business day. If we overpay, we have to apply for a tax refund later. We’re wondering how companies typically help employees navigate tax prepayment for RSUs.

(double check this), but I think as long as you pay 110% of your tax obligation of last year, thats all you need to do. source: https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/irs/tax-responsibilities/...

> We understand that current employees have access to a sell-to-cover option, while former employees are required to prepay in cash. We are curious if this type of distinction between current and former employees is typical for post-IPO RSU settlements.

Do the current employees have "withhold to cover" or "sell to cover"? My understanding is current employees would not be able to sell their stock during a blackout or lockup period, but the company can legally withhold them.
Going off on a tangent, but what's the point of washing an orange?
Because on Windows, it is the OEMs that provide the support, while on Linux (sadly) even after 30 years, it is mostly reverse engineered unless we are talking about OEM custom distros with their own blobs, like Android, ChromeOS and WebOS.
i'm not particularly fond of sweets in my adult life but in my child years it was something i loved. i don't know why anyone would think a child wouldn't like a sweet ball of treat
It would be nice to read the title and look at the thumbnail to get an impression before blasting "never gonna give you up" through my speakers.
> I think almost all of the objections are parochial, and wrong.

What is the objective of a military, and specifically of combat units? Is it to accurately reflect the sexual and racial makeup of society or is it to defeat the enemy?

Women can play a role in a military but a 55 kg woman will have a hard time moving her 95 kg wounded comrade in arms out of harm's way. She will struggle to march 30 km with a 12 kg SAW on her shoulder while carrying her personal equipment. Men are, on average, stronger and faster. It is highly likely that whatever opponents the military faces are male. These are not 'parochial, and wrong' objections but simple statements of fact. While a female sniper can be just as effective as a male sniper it is highly unlikely for a female marine or commando to be as effective as a male marine or commando since the former does not depend on physical strength or speed while the latter does.
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Marshmallow test is one of those things real psychologists (whether practical or science) just do not care all that much about, but pop culture is sure obsessed with it.
> Remember every song name?

I know it's crazy, but yes! Nothing drives me crazier than seeing an actor and trying to remember where I saw him/her in before, and hearing a song I know but don't know the name.

I use Shazam liberally but it's pretty bad at the non mainstream stuff. I end up finding it with searches and screenshotting it for my reference.

Not that you asked any of this, but I -have- to know the name of a song I like.
"CC0 has not been approved by the Open Source Initiative and does not license or otherwise affect any patent rights you may have. You may want to consider using an approved OSI license that does so instead of CC0, such as GPL 3.0 or Apache 2.0."

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ

CC0 is great but it does not go far enough for software. Patent and trademark rights are complex and it caused CC0 to be withdrawn from OSI consideration.

https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists....

I do not know why it has to be so legally complicated to say TAKE MY WORK IT IS FREE FOR ALL.

IMO ISC is the current best OSI approved option for ensuring technical work can be used as broadly as possible and is what I use for recent work.

https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/isc-license

Show me something OSI compatible less restrictive than ISC and I will use that.
You might be able to find them in your account's data dump. I have a friend who deleted their Facebook account, but their messages still show up in the dump as "Facebook User". Check <zip file>/your_facebook_activity/messages/inbox.
You compile them with C++/CLI, which is why I referred to it, no different than using emscripten.
Sure, but it is ball of sugar is worst possible form. You can make so many tasty things with sugar ... but someone somehow decided for this.
Python? Ruby with YJIT, JRuby or Truffle Ruby usually beats python code in benchmarks.

I haven’t seen a direct comparisons but I wouldn’t be surprised if Truffle Ruby was already faster than either elixir, erlang or php for single threaded CPU bound tasks too.

Of course that’s still way behind other languages but it’s still surprisingly good.
How this is going to unfold? I think the first step is to seize the media, using buyouts (Twitter) and law suits (Gawker), and at a later stage using made up felony charges against owners (everyone is guilty of something).

From there on, the road is clear. People are gullible, majority will believe anything media tells them.
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A useful comment on HN!

Great idea!
The article is from December 4th? Crazy that the ads are still running. I saw the same type of ad just a few days ago.

I get that it’s a cat and mouse game, and the advertisers are going to keep tweaking the ad and re-uploading it. But surely YouTube can detect literally any of the keywords. The ad I saw the other day still uses the same general script as what’s in the article.
I'm in the US and this sounds... shady but not abnormal.

The company is required by the IRS to do withholding on supplemental income (which RSUs qualify as). There are usually three ways to do this: 1) the employee puts up the cash before vesting day, 2) the company keeps some number of the vested shares and then sends a check to the IRS from their own bank account, or 3) the company sells some number of the vested shares on vesting day and sends the proceeds to the IRS.

I've seen #1 and #3 personally as options when I've had RSU grants. I always chose #3, but I could have also chosen #1 and kept enough cash in my linked brokerage account to cover the tax withholding.

> When the company IPOs, your vested shares would immediately vest into actual shares. At that point, you would be taxed [...] Your RSUs are now shares and when that conversion occurred on IPO date, you would have been taxed. You own no more tax until you sell your shares.

No, that's not how it necessarily works. Companies can hold off on delivering the (vested) RSUs until you are actually able to sell them. That's a good thing, because no one wants to have to pay tax on their vest date if their shares aren't liquid.
> People will believe fake photos and not believe real ones based on their own biases.

People, maybe. Judges, much less so. The "perfect technology" is badly needed if we don't want things to go south at scale.
honest question, do you have a mental disorder?
> ..dyed in the wool..

Is consistent with

> .. don’t think he could reconcile my point.

I mean why would expect someone like that to consider a counter argument?
Sometimes even an average is too much to ask. One of my pet peeves is articles about "number changed". Averages and significance never enter the discussion.

Worst are the ones where he number is the number of times some random event happened. In that case there's a decent chance the difference is less than twice the square root, so assuming a Poisson distribution you know the difference is insignificant.
My wife has had anxiety and depression her whole life. I have been carefree and happy all of mine. I've been bullied at school, broke to the point of hunger after college in the 90s, and lost my sister to ovarian cancer 5 years ago. And aside from dealing with "in the moment" problems, my brain is always in freewheeling happy mode. Whereas my wife, no matter how "right" her day went, tens to be negative and beat herself up. It's how we're wired. She did therapy and she thinks that 90% of it is bullshit.

However, in the last few years she said that her "negative voices" (not actually schizophrenia, but her own nagging, disrespectful, negative narration) have gotten under control through CBT. She says it's something she needs to work at daily, though, because her brain seems to be wired that way. And she's controlling it and staying healthy without any meds.

So while I think there's something in that anecdote I don't think it means that you can't have a good life.
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What makes it not a good method? Of course if a model's weights are publicly available, you can't compel anyone using it to add fingerprinting at the sampler stage or later. But I would be shocked if OpenAI was not doing something like this, since it would be so easy and couldn't hurt them, but could help them if they don't want to train on outputs they generated. (Although they could also record hashes of their outputs or something similar as well – I would be surprised if they don't.)
You can't ask someone today to see what they're not used to see.

I expect a future of screens that are natively subtly 3D and where you could see someone's nose hair without focusing. Only then they will notice "why do they look blurry and flat" when comparing it to an old TV.

Today if you get closer to a TV you will see blur. Tomorrow you will see the bird's individual strands of feathers.

"Good enough" is temporary.
My gut says that won't do much. Through (media) manipulation, this has buried itself into American culture. Trump is just the face of something that runs much, much deeper into all levels of US politics and society and can't be stopped by 'simple' acts of civil disobedience.

Since big companies like FAANG/OpenAI/Twitter etc. can control the information that 99% of people see (and seem to support the current leadership), it's almost impossible to get objective information if they don't want it out there.
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Yep, and I'm ready to watch said video as soon as I press the play button.

I haven't really used chrome much in years, as Firefox is my main browser. But even with Firefox, stopping autoplay seems to be an ongoing cat and mouse game.
Honestly, it might be because Trump has basically zero credibility, so the attempts at this kind of manipulation don't grate as much. I read things like "far-left Marxist communist CRT DEI traitors to the country" as basically meaning "our hated enemy" and I expect no real descriptive content. However, if some New York Times editorial misleadingly uses "far right" to tar someone, I'm annoyed because I expect better of them.

Also, attempts to "go down to their level" when attacking, for things like this, seem to have the practical effect of actually legitimizing "them," because it cedes more valuable high ground.
>If I have to pay $100 a year, I need to make that money back from my apps

Why do you feel you need to make it back? I can't think of many pastimes that cost that little.
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Right, the safe harbor rule isn't relevant here. The company is required to do withholding at the time the shares are delivered to you. They've chosen the most burdensome method for you as the only option. I'm not sure there's a way to legally force them to allow a sell-to-cover option, but I really hope so for y'all's sake. This feels really shady.
Apple TV comes to Android phones, tablets
Apple TV finally comes to Android phones, tablets, but only if you pay an extra $10/month for AppleTV+

The app is called Apple TV, but it's completely unusable without an Apple TV+ subscription.
And then write an article every month about how the year on year difference has(n't) gone up/down yet.
Maybe in order not to get the (particularly bad, as far as I know) pesticides on your hands? I wash my hands after having peeled an orange, but washing the orange itself seems like a waste to me.

I don't really know. I could understand if it was for zesting, but then you're supposed to use untreated oranges anyway because the pesticides don't wash out easily because of the oils on the orange's skin.
"Christians, get out and vote. Just this time! You won't have to do it anymore.
Four more years, you know what, it'll be fixed, it'll be fine, you won't
have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians!" July 27, 2024.
> neutrality and transparency from his own running of X, and while it may be better than it was before

Elon routinely (soft) bans people who say things he doesn't like and you think this is better than before? And that's just the obvious stuff that's happening.
Ask HN: Is IT hardware/firmware quality going down?
Is IT hardware/firmware quality going down? No way to contact any technical personnel. Only way is to go through RMA process even for software bugs.

A few unfortunate stories:

High end Dell P3424WEB monitor with integrated webcam. Webcam stopped working (still recognized, but USB device fails to start), newer firmware mentioned something about webcam stability improvements. Firmware update stops at half completion with "Error", only option to try again. Dell solution: replace monitor.

Lenovo N27p monitor with DCI-P3 or sRGB color profile and brightness set to 30%. Monitor defaults to full brightness after power off/sleep while menu does not reflect that and shows brightness at 30. Full brightness is much too bright for use not in full sunlight. When you change brightness in menu to 29 or 31 it drops to correct brightness until restart of the monitor. Other color profiles keep brightness after restart correctly but only DCI-P3 provides correct color saturation. No firmware update available.
Well except that 200 000+ who did not feel like sacrificing themselves for a media stunt like Kursk or Krynky and decided to desert.

Zelensky doesn't know where at least 100bn went, that's over half the amount they were given by the US, we didn't even ask about the EU funds.

You can also look at a map and see that we are giving them money and they are losing ground, it's not working.
That's irrelevant, also "accelerationism" is a vague concept.

Ideologically driven politics are dead when the basis of what made that ideology real rather than just sth inside people's heads is missing. The current centrist ideology that fueled past administration is based on something that existed up to the 90s at most, and disappearing since then. The reason Trump has so much power right now is because the main political opposition (meaning the majority of the democratic party) had/has no touch with reality.
There are no iPad kids in Taiwan. You go to a restaurant and all the toddlers are quietly eating. When the tantrums flare the parents gently put a lid on it. It’s truly remarkable, and I don’t have a good theory for it. But it makes going out for dinner a consistent pleasure.

I don’t know how to raise kids with an even keel but I am certain that putting a nonstop algorithm in their face and becoming outraged when they inevitably become overstimulated is not the way.
It is a lot easier to distinguish civil/military usage of uranium than it is to distinguish "good" vs "bad" usage of a model being trained.
This. The $100 fee is inconsequential for Apple. It's there as a filter.
Are we confident this is the best solution or are we still looking for alternatives?
Another problem with NP-hard is that it only covers deterministic algorithms.

Even if most instances of a problem are deterministically hard, they might still have a randomized algorithm which solves them feasibly.
This sounds like survivor bias, fostered by all the "written in Rust" in project titles (HN is a major contributor!). C++ is very well alive, e.g. in graphics, game development, embedded systems, just to name a few. It's a nuanced language for sure, likely not the most user-friendly, but it's not going to die anytime soon.
some people watch ads because of nostalgia.

I personally watch such ads like men will be men etc. because they have literally been part of my culture now.

Pyaar ki raha mein chalta rahe.
A marshmallow in the hand is worth two in the bush
Yeah, nah.

Those who default to corporate speak are those who have no power to speak plainly. Sometimes they have no power because they cannot be trusted. But more often it's because whoever they report to cannot be trusted, and maybe also they don't trust whoever they are speaking to.

And to drill down into this a little further, the process of building trust is one where you each show the other person that the longer term relationship (personal or professional) is more important than any short term gains you might get by using their plain speaking against them. It is harder to do with a power imbalance, because one person isn't risking as much as the other.
Sigmoid. That's the word you want.
That's easy to mess up - see https://screenrant.com/vintage-pokemon-card-fakes-millions/. Obviously nothing that would be a problem for an intelligent criminal, but I think that rules out a lot of people.
It is clear that in Europe we need to increase the military budget and establish a common army.
After that, it would also be fair to free ourselves from American bases on European soil.
It's not up to Europe, it's just a bunch of client states with dellusions of independence...
Feel free to buy it from Russia or the Chinese I guess.
Marshmallows in hand have diminishing returns as well. The difference between having 0 marshmallows and 1 marshmallow is much larger than the difference between having 1 and 2, or 2 and 3.
This article really resonated with me. A few years ago, I lost a friend, and their dormant social media accounts became these strange digital echoes... like finding an old voicemail you forgot existed.
> There are an endless source of impurities/randomness and most compilers haven't historically cared much about this.

The point is that Nix will catch a lot more of them than Bazel does, since Nix manages the toolchain used to build, whereas Bazel just runs the host system cc.
I made a free TikTok slideshow maker to drive traffic to your website
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I created a simple tool to make creating these images much easier and turned it into a simple product. You can start with AI or create them yourself, and then you can download the images and post them to TikTok.

Unfortunately, TikTok doesn't allow posting images on a desktop, so you must use the mobile app. If people like it and it gets some traction, I might add more features and try to build a TikTok integration so you can post directly from the app. For now, it's 100% free.

Hope it's useful for you and would love to hear feedback.
To think, they have advocated over the years to keep adding to the specs to the point that they’ve become so complex that even Microsoft, the king of this rube goldberg type shit, threw in the towel and said eff it, we’ll just use Chromium.

We should write an app browser with sensible layout and a qemu virtual machine backend. Pay the 5% hit to run actually performant native code that’s 100% sandboxed.

Couldn’t be any worse, that’s for sure.
Giving sugar to a kid is like giving meth to an adult.
And just another example of how systems aren't really designed with death in mind
Ask HN: How do you manage initiation of code reviews on pull requests on time
Do you share PR links on Slack? Or a dedicated channel? Or DM?

Is there a tool?

Currently, I am looking for a way to not keep PRs open for a long time without having to tag the reviewer in person. Please no AI tools.
>In that crash the brake lights did not come on at all. In fact the acccelerator was pressed down 100% for a full five seconds before the crash which was entirely the drivers fault.

According to Tesla's own telemetry!
Maybe it's all the new Intel CPUs that failed?
yea mate, my kid and his friends love to eat marshmallow. i, on the other hand, quite dislike sweet things.
There are ways that people are set up psychologically that can lead to "discipline problems". A common companion of ADHD is oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) for example.

I've seen people with an instinct to resist everything when under pressure or stressed. I also know people who don't seem to have the instinct for understanding authority and hierarchy that most people do ("if I have to listen to the teacher, why doesn't the teacher have to listen to me?").

I'm sure having people with these behaviours can be very adaptive and beneficial for the whole society in some situations (I bet they do better on the Milgram experiment for example), but in many cases in modern life it can make it feel like everything is an unnecessary fight. I think for people dealing with such individuals the key is to understand that it isn't directed at you personally. I'm not sure what the best advice is for those with those instincts, but I would imagine that it's a combination of learning to use those instincts appropriately and not being too hard on yourself when it goes wrong.
YouTube has been really cracking down on alt clients and YouTube downloaders lately I think.

I don’t even use one, and I see “you must log in to view this video” on videos shockingly frequently if I’m not logged in. Not even age restricted videos, they give that on any video at random now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if soon it will require an account to watch at all, and they will just get to ban any accounts that use Adblock or download anything.
If it would be without commitment when why not sign it?
If I say "no auto-playing videos" then I mean No Auto-Playing Videos.

I don't expect you or my browser to start second guessing that with "oh, but probably it's OK on this site...?"

I do recall a Firefox discussion about how they can't 100% block videoes because there will always be another way - eg do animated gifs count, or javascript that shows a rapid sequence of images - but just because it can't be perfect doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.