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by jaltekruse | 2025-11-27 18:32:03+00:00
Unfortunately the connection fee does not cover all fixed cost. For a long time the model has been fairly "progressive" in this regard. Some of the fixed costs of the grid have been paid for by amortization over the per Kw cost, which had the effect of charging people who used more a larger chunk of these fixed costs. Now with the option to provide your own power if you have upfront capital for solar can build as big of a system as they want. As other comments in the thread have mentioned, net-metering is largely functioned as a subsidy to give money to people who are already doing fine financially. I want green energy, and I think that decentralization has definite benefits, but it's pretty hard to argue against maintaining the grid to allow re-balancing and covering supply shortfalls in specific areas. Here is a video discussing this problem - https://youtu.be/C4cNnVK412U?si=ZzZhoApFW3khqrdq&t=720
by scraper02 | 2025-11-27 18:32:12+00:00
I built a Python tool called Patterns. It's a 3-stage pipeline that turns natural language into executable PPO/GRPO agent code. It esentially turns your natural language or a piece of reasoning into a description of the the mathematical processes at play. This could be the key to make more sophisticated versions of GRPO. Instead of training algorithms with just data, extracting harmonics from the data and plugging them into a policy optimization procedure could help trascend current scaling laws (which are all data-centric). Please show support so more people are aware that we dont have to conform to the fixed and limited pattern current reasoning is endowed with, by GRPO (just using the mathematical mean)

Cheers
by kingstnap | 2025-11-27 18:33:03+00:00
It's not super conductivity but instead quantum mechanics.

High capacity hard drives nowadays use heat and strong magnetic fields to write patterns into the platter. It's pretty stable just sitting around doing nothing.

High density multi level NAND involves quantum tunneling a few electrons using a strong electric field into an electrically insulated bit of semiconductor. Over some time the electrons tunnel their way out, but usually this only ends up actually happening if too much writing damaged the insulation.
by kieranmaine | 2025-11-27 18:33:06+00:00
My understanding is there is less of a need for massive grid upgrades in this model due to the use of storage. Rather than having to be able to distribute peak loads from solar, requiring a larger connection, you can smooth out the supply and distribute an even amount throughout the day, using a smaller connection.

The section "1.1.3 Bringing large savings on grid expansions" [1] has a good explanation.

1. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-electricity-e...
by wat10000 | 2025-11-27 18:33:53+00:00
Sort of. Many people state a direct experience with a higher power as the source of their belief in one, so it is similar. But not quite the same, because consciousness is the thing doing the experiencing. It’s more fundamental in that way. The experience of a higher power could be false, in that it’s not really a higher power. But it is some experience. Consciousness can’t be false in that way.

These debates always leave me wondering if some people aren’t actually conscious. Some of these arguments wouldn’t make any sense to someone who actually experiences qualia. I liken it to the old debate over the existence of mental imagery, which was finally settled as being something that some people have and some don’t. But until that was figured out, the two sides just didn’t comprehend each other.
by Uehreka | 2025-11-27 18:34:35+00:00
OK sure, if you want to be technically correct, “the algorithm shows you what you engage with” in some sense, but not any useful sense. There’s no proportionality.

As I said above, if you engage heavily with content you like that is outside of the mainstream categories the algorithm has been trained to prefer, it will not show you more of those things.

If you engage one single time, in even the slightest way, with one of those mainstream categories, you will be seeing nothing but that, nonstop, forever.

The “mainstream categories” are not publicly listed anywhere, so it’s not always easy to know that you’ve just stepped in one until it’s too late.

You can’t engage with things you like in proportion to how much you care about them. If something is in a mainstream category and you care about it only little bit, you have to abstain from interacting with it at all, ever, and don’t slip up. Having to maintain constant vigilance about this all the time sucks, that’s what pisses me off.
by lambda | 2025-11-27 18:35:06+00:00
All of this sounds like something you could just do yourself after putting a piece down for a day or two and coming back to it with fresh eyes. What benefit is there of cooking the oceans with a bullshit generator?

Like, sure, it's possible to do this with an LLM, but it's also possible to do it without, at roughly similar levels of effort, without contributing to all of the negative externalities of the LLM/genAI ecosystem.
by rsynnott | 2025-11-27 18:35:42+00:00
Really depends on how expensive your electricity is; a modern heat pump dryer consumes about 1kWh to dry an 8kg load, vs 2-3kWh for either vented or conventional condenser. Though, also depends on what's available to you and at what cost; my impression is that decent heat pump dryers are still very expensive in the US. My fairly high end Bosch one cost about 550eur this year; looking at Bosch's US website the roughly equivalent US model seems to cost $1500, somehow. That's around what they cost here 10-15 years ago.

The other advantage of heat pump dryers is that they operate at lower temperatures than the other types (so damage clothes less); on the negative side, they're slower.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-11-27 18:36:48+00:00
I couldn't agree more. I don't care how much prompt or model finetuning you did, if something is shat out by an LLM I'm not interested even remotely.

I wish more people held the same opinion actually. Unfortunately, my sense is that most people don't care, they are fine with LLM generated crap

It honestly makes me want to blow my brains out
by vacuity | 2025-11-27 18:37:36+00:00
I assume you're talking about the "would you rather encounter a man or a bear?" thought experiment. I do think some people (presumably men) respond in disturbing ways to the women's responses that choose the bear. But I think choosing the bear is questionable at best, and involves ignorance and bad faith. I think, even if I'm wrong and the better answer is "the bear", there was more room for discussion and reflection so that the future answer is "the man". I guess such a simplistic hypothetical is not the best way to get mutually distrusting parties to come to an understanding.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-27 18:37:46+00:00
I heard that they are trying to restructure the billing in this way for next fiscal year (July 2026- ), but its really difficult to find a non-regressive scheme. Electricity per-unit prices in Pakistan are set by the government, they vary depending on how much you consume [1], and they play a pretty significant role in government popularity.

[1] There is a price for the first 50 units you consume, then a higher price for the next 150 units, etc. Similar system to income taxes.
by namibj | 2025-11-27 18:37:57+00:00
Note that it's typically far easier to just teach the grid behavior aspects to anyways-existing battery interfaced AC/DC converters than to buy separate high power AC/AC converters, along with a flywheel and high power motor for said flywheel.

It's rare that you actually have good reason not just through easily avoidable architectural choices to have dedicated 1~100 second range energy storage. Below that you can just use aluminium wet electrolytic capacitors, and above that you can just use [very] high power lithium ion batteries.

Inherently mechanical systems are different, of course.
by coolThingsFirst | 2025-11-27 18:38:20+00:00
I think this is a very solid take. Moreoever, tech will be optimized for LLMs and not humans. Shitty languages will remain shitty because there's no need to optimise them or make them more elegant. Web dev will remain ultra fragmented and will get even worse as the years go by.

Not going to lie, it looks like a bleak future.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-11-27 18:38:22+00:00
When i started using LLMs for code writing the code it wrote was messy and mostly wrong. Recently my experience with relative small apps has been very positive. The code has been very readable and compact. But I can see where the code can get very messy if you don't have a structured plan for code development. It's very easy to create a messy code base that's hard to maintain.But the reality is that human developers do the same thing regularly.

I think that keeping the code that the LLMs write relative small and highly focus will lead to a code base that's easy to maintain over the long term.

I plan to create an app that relies heavily on LLM written code. I'm hoping that if I architect it as if am working with a team of programmers I'll be able to create a code based that I can update over the long term. I'll assign it assingments that I can then merge into the master codebase. You're in the same path. That's 2 of us. I think it will work out. We'll get what we want while saving a ton of time.
by stuxnet79 | 2025-11-27 18:38:26+00:00
My understanding based on my readings of the previous post is there are no hardware level checks. SSDs need to be power cycled every so often and the integrity of the filesystem needs to be checked via something akin to zfs scrub. This should bs done on a monthly basis at minimum.

If you are paranoid about your data and not relying on filesystem level checks from ZFS or Btrfs you should ptobably avoid SSDs for long term storage.
by PrairieFire | 2025-11-27 18:38:27+00:00
sadly apple silicon and Tahoe may have delivered a knockout punch to the future of oclp. the dortania team has said apple silicon support is more or less out of the question at this point. with Tahoe ushering in the first large batch of deprecated intel machines with the t2 chip, it’s tbd if dortania will be able to ship something to get them to Tahoe. sad days and may soon mean we’re having the same convo about older Mac’s as we are about old iPhones and iPads.
by randcraw | 2025-11-27 18:38:28+00:00
I think the curation of all media content using your own LLM that has been tuned using your own custom criteria _must_ become the future of media.

We've long done this personally at the level of a TV news network, magazine, newspaper, or website -- choosing info sources that were curated and shaped by gatekeeper editors. But with the demise of curated news, it's becoming necessary for each of us to somehow filter the myriad individual info sources ourselves. Ideally this will be done using a method smart enough to take our instructions and route only approved content to us, while explaining what was approved/denied and being capable of being corrected and updated. Ergo, the LLM-based custom configured personal news gateway is born.

Of course the criteria driving your 'smart' info filter could be much more clever than allowing all content from specific writers. It could review each piece for myriad strengths/weaknesses (originality, creativity, novel info, surprise factor, counter intuitiveness, trustworthiness, how well referenced, etc) so that this LLM News Curator could reliably deliver a mix of INTERESTING content rather than the repetitively predictable pablum that editor-curated media prefers to serve up.
by LoganDark | 2025-11-27 18:38:39+00:00
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by neebz | 2025-11-27 18:39:48+00:00
We switched to solar in 2021 expecting a 3.5-year payback. Electricity prices rose so fast that we recovered the investment in under two years.

Also the national grid is notorious for it's frequent blackouts (load-shedding) since the early ’90s. Solar allowed us to have uninterrupted supply in the mornings and longer backups during night.
by lowbloodsugar | 2025-11-27 18:39:54+00:00
Gatekeeping basically. Neurotypical only please! Could Andrew have yielded his voice to someone who is good at PR? Sure. And that’s how people give up and burnout.

I’m ok if sometimes a nerd displays some emotion online.

I’m corporate, so I have to manage my shit. I use LLMs to manage that. I’m glad Andrew has a space where he doesn’t have to.
by carlosjobim | 2025-11-27 18:41:02+00:00
Is hate, fear, or envy by themselves wrong, or only wrong when misdirected?

What if social media and the internet at large is now exposing people to things which before ha been kept hidden from them, or distorted? Are people wrong to feel hate?

I know the time before the internet, when a very select few decided what the public should know and not know, what they should feel, what they should do and how they should behave. The internet is not the first mass communications, neither are social media or LLMs. The public has been manipulated and mind primed by mass media for over a century now.

The largest bloodshed events World War I and II were orchestrated by lunatics screaming in the radio or screaming behind a pulpit, and the public eagerly being herded by them to the bloodshed.

This comment isn't in opposition to yours, it's just riffing on what you said.
by mlugg | 2025-11-27 18:41:02+00:00
I think this thread caused a bit of a hug of death; I too was seeing pretty bad page loads earlier today, but that seems to have sorted itself out. Understandable imo, because Codeberg simply haven't had to deal with this level of traffic so far. I'm optimistic that they'll be able to scale as (thanks to projects like Zig making the switch) their needs grow.
by ZeroConcerns | 2025-11-27 18:41:15+00:00
Previously, pretty much everyone (not just 'rich people', although, well, 'rich' is relative here, of course...) had diesel generators, which were not connected to the grid, since that would be seriously expensive, plus syncing would be pretty much impossible anyway.

With solar, you can feed back into the grid much more easily, to the point that this is the default. This sort-of doubles the load on the grid (not exactly, but you get the idea), since both 'consumption' and 'production' need to cross the same wires.

This is a problem even in, like, Germany, where the grid operator can send a "kill signal" to local solar inverters to shut down. In Pakistan, I can't even imagine...
by mmphosis | 2025-11-27 18:41:23+00:00
Garbage in, garbage out. Beautiful code in, beautiful code out.

Code "quality" is a judgement call. Just like some LLMs, I'll repeat your question: What do you consider quality code?

I treat all code from LLM, search, stackoverflow, etc, as "sample code" that requires review and most likely modification, or writing the code from scratch. Your abilities and laziness may vary.

Also, there are reasons other than code quality not to trust LLMs.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-11-27 18:41:31+00:00
Native Linux games work just fine under Wayland (KDE). Windows games now work too (under Wine/Proton) but isn't ready for prime time yet (although GloriousEggroll's Proton is in a much better shape though thanks to additional Wayland compatibility patches, but it's still technically beta). In saying that, games running in Wayland using XWayland run. mostly okay, but most performance-conscious folks might want to run them using Valve's gamescope microcompositor which usually delivers better performance and as a bonus, packs some nifty features like better HDR support, resolution spoofing and FSR scaling, which means you can upscale games on low-end PCs, or supersample older low-res games on modern PCs.
by Marsymars | 2025-11-27 18:43:38+00:00
Oh I'm saying the reverse, I think. Future timestamp for "time at location" is impossible because you don't know within which time zone a location will be in the future. But for the right time zone database structure you can have indeterminate time zones - so you can know future timestamps for a time zone, but you don't know if any particular location (or any location at all) is using that time zone in the future.
by embedding-shape | 2025-11-27 18:43:46+00:00
> I do not mean separate as in separate matchmaking [...] for the weaker Linux anticheat that runs through Proton

This is exactly the problem. Users connecting via Linux are more likely to be cheaters, since the anti-cheat is weaker on Linux, so in order to protect the user-base at large (Windows users), they don't allow Linux clients at all. Allow the less protected Linux clients to connect goes against the very change they did.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-11-27 18:44:17+00:00
Electricity is cheap here, 12 cents/KwH. I more liked the not ruining clothes aspect and not using the vent means I can get the unit closer to the wall. But I was worried about the smell complaints, my wife is really strict on that, also we have a combo so we can’t pipeline loads anymore. The drawback is that only Samsung makes a vented combo, an Samsung doesn’t have the best reputation. Heat pump was cheaper than vented in a combo at least, but only by 1-2 hundred bucks.
by actualwitch | 2025-11-27 18:44:40+00:00
Even with addition of tomhow, they are clearly stretched too thin to make any meaningful impact. Their official answer to this issue by the way is to point out that you can message them on email to elicit this manual action, which if you ask me is a fucking joke and clearly shows the mammoth age stack in which this site is written and lack of resources allocated to its support is having a massive impact on their ability to keep up with massive traffic. But then again, this site only exists to funnel attention to yc's startups, and it is something that you need to keep in mind while trying to answer any questions about its current state.
by n4r9 | 2025-11-27 18:44:43+00:00
Personal training sessions with experienced staff at my David Lloyds in London are around £50-60 for 45 minutes. That's entry-level cost for therapy, which can easily go north of £100 per hour around here.

I reckon the reason people use therapy is not because it's cheaper, but because they're less confident about how to do "mental exercise" than they are physical exercise.
by PrairieFire | 2025-11-27 18:45:04+00:00
Absolutely, me as well. I think the key here is that Apple is selling a platform that is used for a multitude of purposes, often including running software from third party developers. If you’re selling a platform device in large numbers you should have the choice codified by law of either continuing software support to some degree or releasing an unlock kit for it. You should not have the option of effectively abandoning and bricking it, if that’s the route you must go the buyer should get the option of a full purchase price refund at that point in time.
by dahart | 2025-11-27 18:45:30+00:00
I’ve seen a paper about this, I’ll see if I can dig up a link. I believe you’re right and the answer is yes it can help, but it can be complicated to prove what’s safe or not. The gradient tells you about the orientation of the nearest surface, but doesn’t tell you how fast the orientation is changing, so for nonlinear shapes you need to look at higher order derivatives too. Super interesting stuff, but somewhat gets in the way of the pure elegant simplicity of basic ray marching.

edit: here’s one. I’m not sure this is the one I was thinking of, but I think it does validate your hypothesis that you can reduce the number of steps needed by looking at gradients. https://hal.science/hal-02507361/file/lipschitz-author-versi...
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-27 18:45:56+00:00
This is correct.

But there is a bit more. Almost all power plants in Pakistan are built with state-backed dollar-denominated loans (reason govt incompetence+corruption). This means if grid demand goes down, power plants don't go out of business like they would in a market based system. Instead, they keep collecting dollar-denominated interest paid by the state, even if they produce zero power.

The state mitigates this by increasing electricity prices (in rupees). I have forgotten how this helps.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-27 18:46:30+00:00
So can you also do 10Gbps data transfers wirelessly like the iPhone Pros do? Can I just plug up my phone to any old monitor with a USB C port or use a standard video cord?

Apple prototypes a lot of stuff including a smart car. Despite what people think, Apple doesn’t do everything at the whim of the EU.
by namibj | 2025-11-27 18:46:44+00:00
Grids in Germany if you're not a "typical household/office" with therefore atypical grid usage bill for peak power and energy separately; the billing related peak power is measured by averaging power over 15 minute chunks, and taking the worst one of a year.

Alternatively it's also practical for such solar situations to bill for market rate price of the energy in each 15 minute chunk separately; this doesn't correctly attribute transformer and other transmission equipment expenses between solar houses and non-solar houses, but it's still handling the grid tie solar load on the grid's power plants during periods of very little sun.
by hofrogs | 2025-11-27 18:47:50+00:00
>"Hate" is not illegal

It is under anti-hate laws. That's the point of the laws.

>Do you also support Chat Control because "it's a good law in spirit"?

I don't support chat control because I don't think the ability of the state to monitor private conversations is good in spirit. However, prosecuting people who spread hatred in public spaces and media is beneficial - this has nothing to do with chat control.
by noman-land | 2025-11-27 18:48:21+00:00
This is a fine line. If you get a white screen of death you know something is wrong. If the first name is missing it may mean other things are missing and the app is in a bad state. That means the user could lose any work they try to do, which is a cardinal sin for an app to commit.

Context matters a lot. If it's Spotify and my music won't play is a lot different than I filled a form to send my rent check and it silently failed.
by kragen | 2025-11-27 18:48:22+00:00
I only skimmed this paper, but it doesn't mention floating point (it's only modeling the FNN as a function on reals), and I don't think you can extract a working FNN implementation from an SMT-LIB or Z3 problem statement, so I think you have to take on faith the correspondence between the implementation you're running and the thing you proved correct.

But that's the actual problem we're trying to solve; nobody really doubts Kalman's proof of his filter's optimality.

So this paper is not a relevant answer to the question, "how would you prove an implementation of a Kalman filter is correct?"
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-11-27 18:48:33+00:00
> Is this a real thing? Any examples of being implemented anywhere? Cause it sounds like a oxymoron to me.

Let me catch you up on 150 years of capitalist alternative, theory, critique, and analysis, that answers every single snarky little "gotcha" remark you have: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...

I'm not going to spoon-feed you anymore because you're clearly not interested in a conversation, and are quite happy with the status quo. I hope for your sake you don't end up on the wrong side of capitalism.