<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cpitman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cpitman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:43:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cpitman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cpitman in "Data centers contribute to high prices as energy bills electrify local politics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I was thinking of the same study. Looking at just the conversation on HN, lots of people are installing solar. Solar reduces the amount of energy used by that customer, but does not lower the cost of infrastructure to distribute power to that customer at all. And the cost of electricity is dominated by distribution and transmission, not generation. With an increased share of costs going to overhead infrastructure, the cost per watt goes up. Higher consumption increases the share of costs due to generation, and cost per watt goes down.<p>"Contrary to these concerns, our analysis finds that state-level load growth in recent years (through 2024) has tended to reduce average retail electricity prices. Fig. 5 depicts this relationship for 2019–2024: states with the highest load growth experienced reductions in real prices, whereas states with contracting loads generally saw prices rise."</p>
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<p>Or just pay for Youtube.... $8/ month gets rid of most of the ads in videos, $15/month to remove ads from music, shorts, and search results.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:13:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333676</link><dc:creator>cpitman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44333676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cpitman in "The vocal effects of Daft Punk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They were the official music videos for the album, looks like Daft Punk released all of them on YouTube.<p>This Playlist has them all in order: <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdoVPM5WnndLX6Ngmb8wktMF61dJirKl&si=A0I2YgiAZ1bNtZLR" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSdoVPM5WnndLX6Ngmb8wktMF...</a></p>
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<p>Interstella 5555 is still one of my favorite movies. It's an anime movie where the entire soundtrack is the album Discovery. There are no vocals, the entire story is told by only the animation and music, and it works incredibly well.</p>
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<p>Yes, the First Amendment is about the government.<p>Freedom of speech, in the other hand, is part of a moral code that believes in inalienable rights, that humans implicitly have the right to express themselves. The government does not grant the right to freedom of speech, because we already have it. The first amendment says that the government must respect that right, but creating the right.</p>
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<p>I was looking for a more direct measure of this, how often a model "leaked" private state into public state. In a game like this you probably want to <i>sometimes</i> share secrets, but if it happens constantly I would suspect the model struggles to differentiate.<p>I occasionally try to ask a model to tell a story and give it a hidden motivation of a character, and so far the results are almost always the model just straight out saying the secret.</p>
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<p>Considering these courses included assigned reading, and that total would include multiple novels, yes, that is cheap.</p>
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<p>A replicator still cannot give everyone a beachfront villa.</p>
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<p>Every time you say rocket chat, I have to appear.<p>FWIW, the change at Red Hat has always been hard to separate between the forces of IBM and the reality of changing leadership. In a lot of ways those are intertwined because some of the new leadership came from IBM. Whatever change there was happened relatively gradually over many years.</p>
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<p>Very. Election officials, across states and across parties, have been faithfully discharging their duties, often under pressure to not do so. This is a responsibility of the states, and not the federal government. If you're concerned, then work as a poll officer on election day.<p>In Virginia, I get to participate an incredibly professional and structured process that makes it easy for everyone who can vote to vote <i>and</i> makes sure there are many checks that the process is being followed correctly.</p>
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<p>Surrendering work to the public domain is actually more complicated. It's easy to make the claim that a work is public domain, but the law may not allow you to actually relinquish all copyright claims. This also depends on which country you are in.<p>This is why the CC0 license exists, to attempt to provide a more legally sound equivalent to plain public domain (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/" rel="nofollow">https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/</a>).</p>
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<p>How would decentralization make a difference here? Fact checking only makes sense when a platform has people with multiple different beliefs about what is true. If people can self-select into their own bubble, then it doesn't do anything, does it?</p>
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<p>FWIW, this doesn't only happen with promotions to "management". Senior IC roles often come with new responsibilities, like influencing influencing technical direction, often without any "hard" power to do so. I've seen plenty of people struggle with the change in scope of their job. Some rise to it.<p>Or you could do what I did. Quit your job, found a startup, and be definitely incompetent at most of what you need to do.</p>
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<p>This is great. I think there is a tendency to apply the Peter Principle to others (ie the boss), but it applies just as well to ourselves. How long until we are all promoted into incompetence, and how sure are we that it hasn't already happened?</p>
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<p>I've also been looking at the export, but I don't see any way to filter down to "Shooting incidents". Just sampling the first 10, 10% of 2000 is looking like way less.<p>Were you able to find a way to validate the 900 number?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:07:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551170</link><dc:creator>cpitman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cpitman in "FTC orders 'gun detection' tech maker Evolv to stop overstating effectiveness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking at this database, they have a really loose definition of a "school shooting".<p>I'm just going in order here, no picking and choosing. Here's the link if anyone wants to follow along: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/school-shootings" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/school-shootings</a><p>1. A teacher had a gun in their possession, there was no shooting: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3099438" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3099438</a><p>2. An adult robbery suspect was found by police on a high school campus, fled the police, and was then shot somewhere else: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098506" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098506</a><p>3. Parent showed a gun during an argument with the school (this one is closer to bad, but still, no shooting): <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098581" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098581</a><p>4. Teenager brought gun to a baseball game: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098572" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098572</a><p>5. Adult found trespassing on campus with cocaine and a modified flare gun: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098062" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098062</a><p>6. Students fought and showed a gun: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098023" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3098023</a><p>7. Student in possession of a gun: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3097870" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3097870</a><p>8. Student in possession of a gun: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3097949" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3097949</a><p>9. Adult bicyclist dropped a handgun in parking lot of campus while student basketball game was underway inside: <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3095500" rel="nofollow">https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/incident/3095500</a><p>10. Abundant Life Christian School<p>1 out of the first 10 being what most people would call a "school shooting" brings that 971 cases number into question.</p>
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<p>That driving and time is amortized across 1000s of deliveries.</p>
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<p>That went away years ago</p>
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<p>Sure, but there's a lot of speculation that it was a wronged customer. It could have been someone he works with. It could have been someone from his personal life. People who are not Healthcare CEO's also are murdered, there are lots of possible motives.<p>We don't even know that the killer got the right person.</p>
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<p>Just want to caution everyone to not jump to conclusions. Remember when Bob Lee was shot in San Francisco and everyone assumed it was because of how unsafe San Francisco is? And then it turned out to be another tech exec?<p>Beyond the one motive we can think of, this person (like any person) had other things going on in their life. We have no idea what the motive was until the killer is found.</p>
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