So, what am I giving up when I use these free models? Am a being an A/B test guinea pig? Or real world scale testing? Or they're using all my inputs for training? Or they're sneaking in backdoors in my vibe code?
Yeah, and not to mention the increase in likelihood click events the user intends for the application will make it through successfully, rather than being stolen by the window manager.
This looks like a decent alternative to faiss. Has anyone used zvec enough to compare with other options? The in-process model is really nice when you want to layer it in with your own filtering and ranking, where the vectors are just one component of an bigger, existing search system.
Say you hire a nanny for $6k/mo... What problem have you solved? You're still paying the six grand, and you had better hope the nanny is good, because that is your kids' whole world now for a chunk of their existence.
It depends on the area, but a nanny is typically nowhere near $6k/month. If desired you can also generally arrange something with other parents in your area to do a cost share with the side benefit of also getting a bit more socialization for your kids. There's endless differences with nanny vs daycare. A big one is that most studies show children do best when raised by a small handful of consistent figures. In daycares they're going to have rotating workers with relatively unfavorable ratios.
It's also done at your house so there is no transport, you can create play areas and the like to your own imagining, set the standards for what is expected, have easier access to the exact foods/etc you want your children consuming, and so on. You also have a lot more freedom for your children to experience things you want them to. For instance if you want your kids to go to the park on Wednesdays, you can set that up.
There's also small things like the fact that most kids are going to get endlessly and repeatedly sick in daycare due to close contact with a large number of other children and relatively premature immune systems - when anybody gets sick, most of everybody gets sick. Some of those will be one-time-only sicknesses that everybody will get, sooner or later, but a lot are just colds and other things that kids will catch endlessly. And so on. There's plenty I'm leaving out but basically you get better, more personalized, care over which you have much more control, and pay less.
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One thing I'd also add on. I'm not even entirely sure a "good" nanny is required. They obviously need to know how to care for a child and so having one who has had at least one child on her own is good, and bordering on a requirement, and they should know basic first aid and emergency treatment (like what to do if a baby is choking), but beyond that - I think the most important thing for a child is simply the personal connection. If somebody gets into nannying they presumably already love children and, at least for me, that's mostly what I'm looking for.
A good nanny for four kids is definitely more than $6k / month in lots of parts of America, you're ignoring the downsides of nannies (like when they get sick, or need time off, etc), you're ignoring a lot of the upsides of daycare (like socialization), and the research does not support your claim that kids do better being raised by a nanny than daycare.
It's totally fine that you've chosen a nanny over daycare. I did for my first, and I think we'll go with a nanny for my second, but you're presenting a wildly misleading perspective here.
> It depends on the area, but a nanny is typically nowhere near $6k/month.
Agreed that it depends on the area. In high cost-of-living areas, both nanny and childcare can be (significantly) higher than $6k/mo, and in lower cost-of-living areas they're typically a bit less. In my experience having lived in different areas the price ranges for infant/toddler daycares and (legal) nannies are closely correlated.
> I'm not even entirely sure a "good" nanny is required.
Having employed a couple of bad nannies, I strongly disagree with this statement.
Real median personal income in the US is $45k which is $3750 gross per month. [1] Nannies are obviously not making more than the vast majority of Americans. What was your experience with bad nannies?
> Nannies are obviously not making more than the vast majority of Americans.
Experienced nannies in high-cost-of-living areas do. Many charge $35 to $55 per hour [1][2][3] and at 45 hours a week, that is $82k to $129k a year or $6,825 to $10,725 a month.
> What was your experience with bad nannies?
Not wanting to pay the aforementioned prices and dealing with strong cigarette smoke smell on clothing, strong perfumes, buying them age-inappropriate toys, issues with timeliness, general messiness in our home, questionable unemployment claims, even a DUI. All the problems of an employee and roommate rolled into one.
All of them had prior experience, first aid training, and loved children so in retrospect I may have been overly harsh to refer to them as "bad nannies". But I still think it was absolutely worth the time and effort it took to find a good nanny.
You originally said: "In high cost-of-living areas, both nanny and childcare can be (significantly) higher than $6k/mo, and in lower cost-of-living areas they're typically a bit less."
You're now limiting your price to high cost of living areas with extremely experienced nannies (even that 'hire for your yacht here' page you dug up only gets into these $72k+ prices at 8+ years of experience and specialized skills), and working overtime every week. And in those conditions - sure, but that is quite atypical. A normal search for 'us average nanny salary' turns up about a million hits in the $19-$23 hourly range. I imagine off the books is rather lower yet still on average.
And yeah it sounds like you had some remarkably bad luck with nannies. I take most of those, like showing up on time, completely for granted, and would certainly never hire a nanny who smokes. And it's not just the stink. I mean I don't even understand how that's supposed to work - how do you even nanny while also taking smoke breaks? Yeah, just ridiculous.
What I really want is one of these powered by gps. The time already comes for free in the signal, and from your location you can derive the time zone. That way DST is accounted for automatically, but you don't have to set up and rely on wifi. This would be truly zero-config and always correct.
The receivers are inexpensive ($5-$10 for the kind of accuracy that's useful here) and it's not hard to parse the NMEA strings and PPS they output into a spooky-accurate internal clock. It only takes a few connections and an antenna to integrate GPS into an MCU like an ESP (or an SBC like a Raspberry Pi or a whatever).
Like, really: The hardware is ridiculously easy.
The only difficult part is the code. But as we can see from this posting, the clock-driving bits are already written and are available for use.
Just graft in the GPS parts instead of the NTP parts, add your DST/location rules if you really must (hint: that part is harder than it sounds), and send it.
(And if the code still seems arduous, then remember: This is the kind of work that a reasonably-focused person who is armed with a decent bot can put together over a cup of coffee or two, even if they don't speak C. It may be popular here to poo-poo the bot here, but it's completely OK to get some help. Don't let pride get in the way of having fun, learning things, and building neat stuff.
The tailor doesn't lament the invention of the cotton gin.)
The obvious answer is to use a Raspberry Pi as a GPS-disciplined NTP server, of course. Place it near the window or fully outside, depending on GPS signal strength.
That gives you another weekend project, and you can reuse your DIY NTP wall clock!
That never quite solves the auto-timezone/DST issue that OP wants to have work, though, does it?
If I am interpreting their request correctly, they want a wall clock that knows where it is -- and also knows what localtime is in that position on the globe.
GPS (plus some hairy lookup tables) can accomplish that.
My current house, with low-E windows, aluminum siding, and a metal roof? It passionately hates everything about GPS.
But in more-typical (stick-framed, asphalt shingled, vinyl-sided, US-ish) houses? I haven't had any trouble with my very inexpensive u-blox (or perhaps clone) GPS board, a presumed-decent GPS antenna that we were throwing away at work, and dainty little [IIRC] u.FL to SMA adapter to connect the antenna with. (I put this all together just to play with making a GPS-backed, low-stratum NTP server -- which was a much more-rewarding process than it had any right to be.)
It was bizarrely good, in fact: While it certainly saw more birds and presumably had better accuracy when sitting in a window, I had real trouble getting it to cease to operate. It seemed to lock on well-enough to provide time and PPS until I put the antenna into a windowless closet.
That said: The antenna that came with this cheap receiver was trash -- at best, 1/10. It was hard to make it work even outdoors on a clear day. I eventually got sick of looking at that part and binned it.
There's quite a few clocks available that get their time over the air from the NIST WWVB radio station[0]. They usually have a little switch on the back if your area does/doesn't observe daylight savings.
You would still need some kind of configuration because the start of DST can change year to year, and this is not accounted for in the time signal from GPS
Good point that DST dates can technically change -- but in practice it doesn't really change on a year-to-year basis. The current law establishing the start and end dates in the US has been in effect unchanged for the last ~20 years.
Nice work. I found the game to be enjoyable, and couldn't stop till I got that crust, even though it took a while. Nice polish on sounds and animations.
Not sure if the pizza theme is net positive or not. It's cute and catchy, but also kinda cheapens it in a way.
The correct default position with this admin is bad faith and/or malice.
If you were developing this site wouldn’t you just develop a formula to calculate the discount? Hate to that’s a typo unless you didn’t do any testing.
Can't tell if this is serious or a joke? This site he launched is literally like Groupon for drugs, for people who don't have health insurance. It's mostly nothing, but if anything it is a step toward normalizing not having health insurance.
Yes, we've used skeema for this for many years, and it is just plain lovely. Putting into source control your desired end state is so much more intuitive and understandable than accumulating migrations. In a way it's like the difference between jQuery and React -- you just say how you want it to look like in the end, and the computer does the work to figure out how to make it so.
Not sure what that means, but it's named partially as a nod to Skee-Ball. The town I grew up in was actually the home of the factory where all Skee-Ball machines were made.
I was using a location-related naming scheme in general at that time; similarly my automation library was called Go La Tengo because I was living in the town where the band Yo La Tengo was from.
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