skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the SDK allow executing Python code generated in some sort of sandbox? If not are there any open source library which does this for us?
I would ideally like the state of the code executed, including return values, available for the entire chat session, like IPython, so that subsequent LLM generated code can use them.
For what it’s worth, Biolite is trying to do something similar https://www.bioliteenergy.com/pages/backup. I personally love the idea, not needing a permit is already a great feature.
Are the grid isolation and backfeed capabilities mutually exclusive? Isolation would have to happen at the panel if you are backfeeding into an outlet, right?
I wouldn't call it tracing, but the usual mitigation is block IPs.

Depending on the nature of the DDoS, you may block it at other parts of the stack.
I agree with you based on my following QC that we're still pretty far away from QC attacks on current crypto.

The problem is, this sort of question suffers from a lot of unknown unknowns. How confident are you that we don't see crypto broken by QC in the next 10 years? The next 20? Whatever your confidence, the answer is probably "not confident enough" because the costs of that prediction being wrong are incalculable for a lot of applications.

I'd say I'm 99% confident we will not see QC break any crypto considered secure now in the next 20 years. But I'll also say that the remaining 1% is more than enough risk that I think governments and industry should be taking major steps to address that risk.
Back in the day when I was on the receiving end of a 1:1, I had an agenda, and I would send it to my manager prior.

I asked for feedback, and when I would hear a basic response like "keep doing what you're doing" I would shoot back and ask if that means I will receive a 5 on my annual performance review.

Bring up things like performance reviews, comp adjustments, promotions, etc.

But, caveat, there are a lot of really mediocre managers. If you put in work to make your 1:1's more effective, and they're not having the intended effect, it's a them-problem, and it's time to find a better team to join.

As a manager, I hate using 1:1's for status reports.
I hear raw milk is good for you.
But in 2015 and 2017 VW's budget was excellent, now they have probably made more money selling sausages :)
I used to do every other week with my previous manager and I feel like that was an appropriate pace. Unfortunately my new manager wants to do it every week and that's definitely way too frequent.
Ag land is not expensive, and will likely be cheaper as more farms go under. Average farmer is ~60 years old. If the land was expensive, the economics wouldn’t work for solar, but they do.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-de...

https://www.terrainag.com/insights/examining-the-economic-cr...
Not sure if it's "pre-crime" when these users are upvoting comments calling for the assassination of our sitting president.

That's likely just straight-up "crime," or at the very least warrants a domestic terrorism and/or radicalized individual investigation.
> Economics is inherently political.

Yes? The political policies will have an impact on the economy.
Not to mention the increased productivity of everyone not wasting their time in factorio (myself included) because the optimal solution is known.
Thanks. I see how redo works.

For larger datasets, real scripts are a better idea. I expect my stuff to work with datasets up to about 1Gb, caching is easy to layer on and would speed up work for larger datsets, but my code assumes the data fits in memory. It would be easier to add caching, the make sure I don't load an entire dataset into memory. (I don't serialize the entire dataframe to the browser though).
But 'when the grid is up' isn't the time you'd want to feed power from one outlet into the others. It's when the grid is down you'd want to do this, no?

I guess you could flip the trip switch to isolate the circuit?
Only looking at home prices compared to salary is very misleading because it doesn't account for changes in interest rates. Mortgages were almost 20% interest in the 80s. Cheaper doesn't mean much if you still can't afford the monthly payment.

Also looking at average price doesn't account for the rising quality of housing. In the 1980s the average home was around 1,700 square feet. Today, it is nearly 2,700.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

https://www.newser.com/story/225645/average-size-of-us-homes...
That is nowhere near the same thing.
Let's consider a positive-sum economy. Over time, the total amount of value in the economy grows. That additional value comes from innovation, but whose innovation?

I grew up in Australia, in the state of New South Wales. In the end-of-secondary-school exams, the most popular subject in NSW is English, because it's compulsory. The second most popular subject is Business Studies. There's an awful lot of entrepreneurial spirit there.

But the reality of the Australian economy is that its complexity is declining: the economic activity is ever more concentrated into fewer and fewer industries. Sure, there are some industries, like hospitality, where you can start your own business, but the bulk of the economy is dominated by a small number of large companies: a handful of mining companies, two supermarkets, and so on. Every now and then, there's a new government initiative, like the National Disability Insurance Scheme or the opening up of vocational training to private providers, and a few years later, there's a big scandal, because most of the companies providing these services turn out to be fraudulent. So much of Australia's economic activity is tied up in pre-existing businesses that it seems that the only way to do anything novel is to rip off the government.

There was a time when Australians started innovative businesses: Victa lawn mowers, the Hills Hoist clothes line, and so on. Ford Australia and Holden (owned by General Motors) competed to build the best cars for the Australian market. This was a time of optimism and increasing living standards, when impoverished workers were enticed to emigrate to Australia by the Great Australian Dream: a detached house and a car of your very own!

But now that airfares a cheap, talented Australians emigrate to the UK, the US, or the EU, and do their innovative work there. Thanks to tax breaks, the best possible investment you can make in Australia is to own someone else's home. The population is increasing faster than ever, but housebuilding is slowing down. The housing crisis has been building for twenty years now; anger turns to ennui. A belief that Australia has no future is slowly starting to coalesce. Australia has entered a zero sum death spiral.

The solution is to create an economy where the old bootstraps analogy actually holds: where simple, honest hard work actually improves one's lot in life. An economy where anyone can innovate, not just university graduates with millions in venture capital funding: the economy that the Baby Boomers grew up in.

If only we knew how to create those conditions without having to fight a world war first.
What I mean by "living in a bubble" is you believing something that is not true, because everyone in the bubble is telling you its true.

Hence you believing that only including M/F as gender options is something that would greatly affect the success of an app.

That is flat out not true. I promise you the vast majority of the world, or even the vast majority of the anglosphere do not care. People like the OP from other cultures do not even understand what you are talking about. Only your bubble believes it to be relevant.
It's on your manager to make them good, not you. I don't think you will be able to change your manager.

On what's a good 1on1 I wrote this https://www.paceflow.io/guides/topics/one-on-ones

Though it will be probably different from what you are going to see in big tech and their smaller copycats where they make 1on1 a glorified status update.
You ever invested in an Aluminum stock? How about lumber? You'll have no idea what exactly makes those stocks move up and down unless you know the financing of that industry. The idea that these things are going to move equities in random sectors is not real. The market wanted to take profits, and this was a perfect reason to do so.

The only trade war that could possibly exist is between the US and China, and that will always be saber rattling because neither authoritarians can truly control 350M/1BN people. It's a fuck around and find out situation and they wouldn't do it.

Trump has pals in these particular industries and he's squeezing out profits for them, that's all. It's not going to affect Snapchat meaningfully other than a sentiment trade. If anything, the argument can be made that Trump is playing into the market downturn to force the hand of Jerome Powell to drop rates faster. These people desperately all need to raise debt right now at lower rates, especially Elon.
Two questions:

1. Have you considered building a “microgrid interconnection device” to go with this to allow the batteries to backfeed a house in the event of an outage? (This would require native 240V split-phase capability and/or an auto-transformer.)

2. Have you considered removing the fade-in-when-scrolling abomination on your website?
It's the scope. Executive orders only apply to the execution/actions of the federal government. Laws apply to the general public. The creation of laws is a legislative power, and reserved to the legislative branch of the government.
"Doctor, I need you to declare me disabled or else I'll lose my job when I turn 21. I need this job, and I don't know if I can find another one at the 21yo minimum wage."

I really want to like what you're saying, but I see too many problems. I don't have answers.
Yep, it can blackstart without AC power from the grid
You have to be a homeowner to get one of those, right? Pila seems like a far more modular approach that is relevant for people who don't own a home or have $10k ++ to spend on a backup solution
I feel like the definition of "stupid" here is important.

There are a lot of incredibly clever programmers out there who will construct intricate webs of abstracted hell because they are clever. These guys are mostly not "stupid". One of my colleagues working on one of these code bases with me described it as "very smart people doing very stupid things".

And yes, they all have long and annoying careers.

Contrast this with the swathes of what I would characterise as "rat cunning" programmers who were everywhere during the Y2K crisis. They knew just enough to be dangerous, did some truly stupid things and disappeared from the programming world afterwards. The unkind might say they all turned into systems architects and project managers.
[I guess the tweet refers to YC the incubator, not the web site of news, but I want to focus on the latter]: I registered on HN a few days after it was created. The HN community was incredibly instrumental to my career, my ability to keep up with the development community, with like-minded people, and to have a voice, the times my posts and projects reached this home page. Thank you, for for all of that. Now, I see that, inevitably, as this place becomes bigger and bigger, there is no longer that strange, odd and wonderful "90s News Groups" alike quality. Despite the decline, I still find quite some value visiting this place every day.
What a noble mission to make energy independence more accessible like this, even to renters!

I read your site, watched the video, but I still don't understand why you implemented a mesh network? Why multiple batteries need it to synchronize? Aren't they completely independent? Why would the fridge battery need to communicate with the other battery powering your lights?

Also, as an angel investor, I'm curious to know how much capital you have raised or invested so far?

Thanks.
Offsetting power usage to the cheaper time is also the only possible utility I see here. Unfortunately, last time I ran the numbers (against a $10k battery) it would be incredibly difficult to recoup your investment over a reasonable timeframe. Having to limit this to a single room (fridge, AC, whatever) makes it seem even more difficult as the consumption you can push is limited.
I'm colorblind and have my pilots license. You can absolutely fly (with special limitations)
There are actually enough that you can type your DOB in the format YYYYMMDD and find a submission for it!

This has been true since https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=20190615 was posted on June 15, 2019.
It doesn't need to be hardwired. Devices like the Generlink provide an outlet to plugin in a fossil-fuel based generator or a battery backup unit, and take care of islanding. They sit somewhere between the utility company meter and the main service panel. Power goes out ... plug into the Generlink and if your generator/backup can handle it, your entire system is running again. Not cheap though - around $1k without installation (which can vary from insanely easy to complex, depending on your situation).
Classic McEliece https://classic.mceliece.org/
but it seems to be a harbinger of corporate dysfunction

It's a signal for sure, but not decisive.
I have watched recordings of your recent representation and decided to finally give it a try last week. My goal is to create some interactive network visualizations - like letting you click/box select nodes and edges to highlight subgraphs which sounds possible with the callbacks and selectors.

Haven't had the time to get very far yet, but will gladly contribute an example once I figure something out. Some of the ideas I want to eventually get to is to render shadertoys(interactively?) into a fpl subplot (haven't looked at the code at all, but might be doable), eventually run those interactively in the browser and do the network layout on the GPU with compute shaders (out of scope for fpl).
> never talks back

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
USA needs to move out and stop trying to start a war with China. Taiwan is China. Historically, legally, even according to the US's own policy. The KMT lost. This fantasy the US has of toppling or splitting up the PRC in a proxy war is extremely deranged.

China has exercised incredible restraint over the actions of a belligerent warmonger US.
sure: https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114270/documents/...
Yeah, I'm going to have to spend some time trying to understand the math too. I was mostly waiting for things to calm down standardization wise. This newly selected algorithm is based on error correction codes (the same ones used in communications protocols), which look interesting.
https://archive.ph/oSMb7
I don't think it is more cruel for the victim. But I think it is more cruel for humanity, in lack of better word. I think the effect on the soldier that controls the weapon is different.
Its not a new plant. I drove by it several months ago on I-74. Its been there awhile.
(Public) High school is for the politician's benefit. Public education was first and foremost a way to assimilate immigrant groups so that they would adopt a uniform culture; second a way to provide day care so the parents could work at the factories; third a way to get students used to factory work like following directions and showing up on a schedule; and only last a way to provide valuable skills and education to the student.

You can see that by observing the conditions under which a state is willing to not have students go to school. If the schools are not teaching the ideology that the state wants, their funding gets axed entirely; you can see that with current MAGA efforts to defund the DoE and various public schools, with the DEI efforts in California, and with the anti-DEI efforts in Texas and much of the South. Likewise, if the students are being subversive and talking about getting rid of the capitalist system entirely, you shut down their schools and arrest them. If the adults no longer need to go to work, you see states entertain the possibility of students no longer going to school; you saw that in COVID. But if the students aren't actually learning anything, as is the case in much of the U.S, it's not a big deal.

Education that is actually for the student's benefit rather than the teacher's usually tends to be private schools or tutors, or occasionally charter/magnet schools. In rare cases, you'll have a public school where the surrounding community really values education. But notably, attendance is not mandatory in most of these scenarios.
Hmm, I was thinking about that while writing the post but I'm not sure that a data structure is the same as a cache, at least not in the standard meaning of the word where you save a pre-rendered version of something like a website (like what Wordpress needs), or store data closer to where you need it (like a CDN). Some databases, I think SQLite is one of them, don't even have a plain format but store all data in the b-tree.

I guess that, to me, a cache must always be redundant: you can delete its contents and lose no data, i.e., start again 'cold' and get back to the warm state algorithmically. That would make the sqlite thing (if I remember it correctly) definitely not a cache to me because the tree == the data. If I add a secondary btree in a database (also in sqlite), however, then that could be emptied with no loss of the original data, and I guess I can see the argument that it prepares the data for quicker consumption (if I'm wording that right) and so it's kind of a cache? Not sure about it though :D but I see what you mean!
Designing an Electric Bike with AI (2023)
yes, and if you think the _number_ of bad actors on each side are even CLOSE to similar in magnitudes then you are in a bubble that is feeding you bad information
Seems pretty obvious no?

1. Pretend to be someone else and enter a backdoored algorithm. Or pressure someone to enter a backdoored algorithm for you. Or just give them the algorithm for the reward of being the winner.

2. Be NIST, and choose that algorithm.
1. I'm actually hopeful we see a generic MID standard emerge with folks like ConnectDER well positioned to support that, so more homes can benefit and households can gain the ability to flexibly try different batteries without ripping out their panels every time. If not, we could definitely build our own (helped build 2 generations of Tesla's MID as well as 3 generations of SPAN Panels with MID functionality). Happy to nerd out on the topic anytime :)

2. Feedback taken hah
> what is wrong with these people

Brain worms, eating road kill, the usual.
Has anyone considered something like UBI but instead of income make it UBG--Universal Basic Goods.

The idea would be that when automation advances to the point that something can be made with very little labor the government would build automated factories to produce that thing and make the output available for free.

There would still be room for private companies to make those things too. They could make fancier or higher end models for those people who want something more than the free models from the government.
The mission of the Internet Archive should not be "copyright reform" but maintaining the continued availability of data it is legally allowed to host.
https://archive.is/NsjJK

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All Tuberculosis programs funded by the U.S. Gov were officially terminated (106 points, 12 days ago, 51 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203248

USAid cuts could create untreatable TB bug 'resistant to everything we have' (16 points, 1 day ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321993
HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.
Rendering frames and saving them to disk can be done with rendercanvas but we haven't exposed this in fastplotlib yet: https://github.com/pygfx/rendercanvas/issues/49
I hear that too. But I also hear of the occasional death when the unpasteurized milk has a pathogen in it. It's rolling the dice.
Just to clarify, "competent" is a long stretch. It's more like "how are you" -- once you can just _read_ that phrase you're passed. There are couple more questions, but civics are much harder than English (e.g. how many voting representatives are there in Congress?).
I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. The power goes out every couple of days.

These products are a lifesaver in places where the electric grid is unreliable. Most Puerto Ricans rely on generators and battery backup devices to power their day-to-day life.

1) At the price point, lower-income countries with unreliable grids are not the target audience. If not that, then who? Off-grid wealthy individuals?

2) This app-controlled system MUST work offline. In wide-scale power outages, diesel generators in cell towers die out or get looted fairly quickly. Cable coax repeaters for home internet stop working almost immediately.

This latter scenario must be first in mind. Telecommunications will be gone in give or take 5 days after a large disaster or outage.

As for positive notes: loving the industrial design and battery mesh idea.
Murray Bowen's Insights into Family Dynamics (1990) [pdf]
> If they agree, then hopefully this gives Ukraine just a bit of respite and starts a change of trajectory of this war.

Looks like Russia is at an advantage in the war right now, so why would it be reasonable for Russia to agree to the ceasefire if this is the case.
700 murders and 10,000 armed robberies per year.
Politics and propaganda tend to dominate national "learning", and those forces tend to escalate to prevent awareness. So not a lot of learning happens, historically ("history tends to repeat itself"; "history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes", etc)
I give my reports the option of canceling 1:1s if they want to, or have other priorities. Sometimes they just have a pressing deadline and would rather be coding so they can go home. Sometimes their kid is sick and their boss is the last person they would rather be talking to.

I try to avoid canceling 1:1s myself if possible, since it really sends the message that your boss doesn't care about you or your work, and if the boss doesn't care, why do the work?
At many places there's also some nasty politics around siloing where a database is an IT System so it has to be owned by the centralized IT organization, operated by a DBA team, have a budget, be audited by security, etc. and half of those groups look down on Access and want to architect for job security by picking some Oracle/SAP product where even if you have an unlimited budget you are looking at years of guaranteed delay before you can use it with a significant risk of failure.

In a fair number of places that I've worked the finance and IT departments have a fairly substantial level of enmity which also discourages use of anything which involves them. Meanwhile, everyone still needs to do their jobs and there's a business analyst with decent Excel chops who will have something you can use “temporarily”. A few years pass, then a few more, and now everything lives in Excel as the calcified scar tissue of broken official processes…
How to build your own replica of TARS from Interstellar
Triune Ethics Theory
Agree, it's a great idea! I think this is quite a lot more affordable than biolite, and also has smart features that biolite lacks. Will be interesting when both products are in market and we can see some reviews.