Had a very strange experience with Gemini on android auto yesterday. Gave it simple instruction 'navigate to home depot' and the reply was 'ok, navigating to the home depot in x, it the nearest location'
The location was twice the distance to the nearest HD. Old assitent never made this mistake - not to mention the lie.
Readit News_jules commented on We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic... · Posted by u/lukaspetersson
Installed?!
Just the electrician's part would be a good chunk of the $5k, where we live (East coast US) before you even get into placing the panels themselves.
I keep seeing cheap panel costs with a "look, now you can afford it!" thing, but for those of us who may be handy but aren't quite willing to do high-power lines & boxes, or confident bolting steel to a roof without either killing ourselves or ruining the roof, the labor costs continue to be very high, and that part's not going down. From what I'm seeing for online "average costs for 10kw in your area" I'd hesitate to pull the trigger even if it were $5k lower than it is, which would probably be an even bigger discount than if the panels and other hardware were simply free.
As one who went diy in your region - keep calling electricians, you'll eventually find one who'll do the job at a fair price.
With micro-inverters, there's no power in the lines till you connect into the main panel & you can work that our with a licensed electrician.
_jules commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
No, it's not a lost battle. Unfortunately, their ESTA applications likely will be rejected outright because of their past B-1/B-2 visa application denials. But it's still possible that they could get B-1/B-2 visas. They should apply again but given their previous denials, they should consult an immigration attorney.
Just to make sure I understand the recommendation: US based immigration attorney for a tourist visa? (I don't want to sponsor them and they have no intention of moving here - they just want to visit and see us & the kids).
_jules commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
hi Peter, thanks for doing this. My parents were rejected twice for B1/B2 visa (under section 214b I think) - both times before I was a LPR (I had valid visa).
Recently the country of citizenship was announced to be joining VWP - as one of the question is "have you even been refused US visa", is it a lost battle for them?
_jules commented on The withering dream of a cheap American electric car wsj.com/business/autos/th... · Posted by u/voisin
There have been people who wanted much more protectionism from Japanese autos since the 1970s, esp. since they demonstrated they make great cars for less money and detroit wasn't really interested in trying too hard.
History looked like it was going to repeat with EVs from the US except for Tesla. Now GM has some decent cars across a variety of models, Ford has 2. But neither company has put out any really low priced cars yet (you know, like under 30). Tesla (lead by darth vader) is the only hope for the near future of low priced cars. I think ford and gm will get there eventually. But it could be too late if imports can just come in.
While not an EV, but a hybrid - I'm the lucky owner of an affordable Ford Maverick little truck. From what I can tell, Ford makes a lot of sweet $$$ selling the F series trucks and does not really care about low margins.
I tried to roughly replicate the trip booking estimate but the closest I could get was a 77h trip (a bit over 3 days), with one change in Chicago and one Emeryville, CA. Price was about $1430.
In contrast to that, you can get a 7hr direct flight for about $430 (delta, round trip, luggage not included).
Or a full size sedan for about $500 (one way, 3 days, does not include estimate of $400 on fuel).
I wish trains were more affordable because (I think) the experience is worth it.
There's a pass you can buy. ~$500 for any 10 segments.
_jules commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
That's surprising. They definitely should reapply. Where are they from and where do they live?
Romanian residents & citizens.
Even stranger is the fact that mom was rejected last year and the next person in the queue was a friend applying for the same visa and stating the same intention of visiting me - he was granted the visa.
_jules commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
Strange one: my parents tried to get visitors visa while I was on L visa and were denied (twice - in If it makes a difference), might they get better chances now that I have the green card?
P.S. it's strange for me because they are pretty well off but nothing got checked at the embassy. Reason stated was to see me & the family (2 nephews).
I can't recommend the "R for Data Science" (https://r4ds.had.co.nz) book enough, which is written by one of the creators of the tidyverse, Hadley Wickham. This opinion might get challenged here, but if you're going to use R primarily for data science/analysis and not for programming I think it's a better idea to start learning it with the tidyverse than with base R (beyond the basics, of course, which are also covered in the book).
I use R professionally for biostatistics and I can't remember the last time I had to use the base syntax because something couldn't be done with the tidyverse approach.
Would be interesting if you could expand.
I've used r (data.table) extensively in the last years for biostatistics in a research organization. I was able to get away with not learning tidyverse and stick to data.table.
Main reason for choosing data.table was speed - I'm working with tens of hundred of GB of data at once.