skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are alluding to low "capacity factor", what we call duty cycle elsewhere: something called for in only part of a day or month, where you only get to charge for it during the time it is used, so has its fixed costs amortized over just that limited usage time.

Batteries can fare badly, here, because their cost scales with total storage capacity, though storing or delivering the power is free and round trip efficiency is high. They do well at leveling peaks, where they can respond faster than other media, and the total energy they must deliver is small. (Cf. Australia's Tesla system.)

Others, like pumped hydro, synthetic chemicals, liquified air, and compressed air, can fare better because tankage is cheap, and the pumps, catalyzers, and furnaces cost according to the rate that energy is to be banked or drawn down, not the total stored energy. Storage as an independent business would rely on transmission lines to be able to deliver power to utilities in the whole region and stay busy, and draw on the grid's excess to refill.

Pumped hydro and compressed air have good round-trip efficiency. Chemical systems, much less; that matters surprisingly little.

Transmission lines cost according to maximum power and distance, but are called for only when energy must be moved. Actually moving the energy is free; all the costs are independent of usage.

But a public utility that manages its own storage is not constrained by a storage business model: it builds as much generating capacity and storage as it needs to meet its needs almost all the time, and fills periods that exceed the sum of its momentary generating capacity and storage drawdown rate (until it is empty) buying power from the regional grid at spot price, refilling its storage when it can or price is low.

Capacity needs to be built out, and hasn't been, yet, because it takes time to do, hasn't been needed yet in most places, and its costs are still in free fall. Building out later gets you more for your money, and generating capacity is more immediately useful.

Synthetic chemical storage has the advantage that tankage is both cheap and portable, so you can work the catalyzers at all times except when storage is actually being drawn down, either filling local tankage or filling shippable tanks for sale. The market for it will never saturate.

A wrinkle for many storage media is that the equipment to bank and to draw down energy is not the same, is sized and costs by the power capacity in one direction, and one costs more than the other. For example, the catalyzer to produce hydrogen or ammonia is completely separate from the furnace or fuel cells needed to deliver power. Another wrinkle is that startup time and fixed cost to start up, in either direction, may be very different.

Running a grid with completely independent generation, storage, transmission, and delivery makes bad incentives, so needs regulation. But a public utility district can manage all of this internally, and mostly just sell power to end users and excess to the grid.

Everything works much better when there is plenty extra of intermittent generating capacity, so it is good that is very cheap.
Talking about `unsafe` in this context seems like changing the discussion completely.

All of the concerning things done in the JS supply-chain attacks can be done perfectly well in safe Rust. You don't need `unsafe` to exfiltrate secrets or to encrypt or delete files.

Auditing the use of unsafe in dependencies is worthwhile for mostly unrelated reasons; it's not the same thing as sandboxing them, auditing them for malicious code, or assessing how much you trust them.
Bitcoin cannot be banned.

:)
I would love software it is wasn't for mutable state!

I would also love to run a business if it wasn't for all those pesky customers!
Here’s their output from a different, recent sprint: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/integrate/conc...

Looks like most of their sprints are adding things or fixing things, not removing things.
Investing in crypto for the long-term isn't necessarily bad, people just need to limit it to no more than 2-3% of their funds, as it is very much a speculative investment.
My theory is since no one reads literature anymore, timeless, interesting and unique names from history and other cultures are lost to a deluge of soon to be forgotten gag, pop-culture and meme names. Perhaps this is why we have Chinchilla and not Oberon.
Simply because blast radius for Java is limited to a set of very high quality libraries -- in terms of code not functionality. These libraries come from Apache Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Google, Facebook, Spring, etc. Literally every single Java application depends on something from Apache [ok I understand stuff like Log4Shell can still happen].

The same is not true for JS. The most mature libraries depend on absurdly vague libraries that no one has ever reviewed.
there are a few operating in the Chinese market

https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/267079-06
The teenager's ability to drive safely isn't just a mechanical ability of driving a car or of just being aware of the laws/rules. Safe driving comes from years of experience on being able to decide how long it will take to stop at certain speeds in certain conditions. Being able to recognize their car's brakes are a little soft and might not stop on a dime any more. Being able to recognize that the driver in front of them is potentially impaired, so best give them some space.

There are plenty of things that come with experience vs book learning that makes a safer driver. A freshly licensed teen comes with none of that. They also have the natural tendency of having high risk tolerance which makes decision making different than an older/exeprienced driver that is more risk averse.
> The problem is I would guess less than 1% of Excel users actually understand this functionality

Do you have any recommendations for getting started with this?
One potentially contributing factor is that npm makes it very easy to avoid conflicts with duplicate dependencies, i.e. if one dependency has a transitive version on some other package, and another dependency also has a transitive dependency on that package, but on an incompatible version, that's not a problem in npm: it'll just store both on your disk. That might remove some pressure to minimise the number of dependencies on library authors.

And of course, there are just far more people working on it, I believe.
> Again: you can't get white activist gun owners to defend a licensed gun owner who was surprised and shot in his own home by police executing a no-knock warrant that wasn't for him.

That's patently false at the very least. Everyone I've talked to said it was a horrible act and those officers deserve legal charges.
A NSFW flag would have been nice :P
Great summary! This should have been in the FAQ
Legal right or not, showing up to a protest with weapons is a show of force, intimidation, and in my view enough threat to life to justify self-defense in basically any case where the armed person does basically anything other than stand like a statue.

Like we're not 6 years old, surely we're not so naive to believe "I'm not shoooting youuu. I'm not shooooting youuuu" is somehow peaceful.
That's because people were talking about a different thing back then.

Back then we were talking about trustless digital cash. That was what people were excited about. It had the potential to fix a lot of the problems with the current banking system. It was exciting and seemed like it could change the world.

Nowadays Bitcoin and crpyto in general is synonymous with investment. When you see it in that light it looks completely different. Opinions haven't necessarily changed, we just stopped talking about the original thing.

To think Bitcoin was created as a scam seems very cynical to me. I believe Bitcoin was created for good reasons but standard human behaviour ruined it. It wouldn't be the first time that's happened.
No, I strongly disagree that this saved lives and everyone keeps getting this wrong about the pandemic.

Look at Japan and Russia. Japan was highly compliant with lockdowns, masks, and vaccine inoculation. Russia was the exact opposite. The difference being trust in institutions. You could argue lives were lost in Russia because of the inherent distrust.

In parallel, the USA was caught telling blatant lies. This is exactly what spooked and outraged so many people ultimately fueling the anti-vax movement. "If they're lying about this, what else are they lying about?"

No truth, no trust. The USA lost trust, and lost lives as a result.
Its not so bad. If they were radio astronomers they'd call it Very Big Neuronal Language Model. IBM would call it Watson Advanced AI. If they were a gamer accessory company they'd call it DeepTek Ultra Pro VDH-Max AI A320M. Chinchilla is nice and fluffy.
Reading this was almost as unnecessarily complex as using Puppet for DevOps.
Puppet was a pretty important company in the configuration management and DevOps (the two things being only somewhat related) space at one point. But configuration management moved on to a large degree from mutable server instances/VMs so automation tools have either shifted their focus or they've become less relevant.
Null MX is for positive signalling: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7505.txt

For domains previously sending mail but no longer (transitioning to a new domain name), DKIM selector revocation is basically a cleaning-up (hinted at "Revoke all existing DKIM selectors in both TXT and CNAME records."). This prevents abuse at servers who don't understand DMARC but might be fooled by an errant DKIM-signed message (especially old 512-bit keys, I know key rotation but considering this is intended for government consumption there will be old systems still using a 512-bit RSA DKIM keys). This is just brownie points however if the domain never sent a valid mail at all.
The core language has dramatically improved in the last decade. It’s not exactly a joy to use, but it feels a lot more pleasant than the XML-ridden, 200-char-line-length monstrosity we used to have in the 00s.
The article explains well how the knowledge, once learned, is carried on. It's also a reasonable explanation for things that have an immediate feedback loop. Like fire - you start it and boom, you're not cold any more. Great, let's do that again!

But it doesn't explain cassava, or some other foods (lots of mushrooms for example and some nuts) where you have to take n steps, during all of which it's still poisonous and that are completely non-obvious and after that there is a distinct change in the "is poisonous" property.

It especially doesn't explain the "if improperly prepared, will maim you over a long period of time" types of things (cassava!)

Of course there really isn't another option - someone somehow figured it out after all - but the search space is so large it feels like there should be something more to it.
Statistically, there is not much wealthy people.
I would have said it was a cult, before mainstream companies bought in on the idea. What the product will look like in the long-term is anyone's guess, but I do have a hunch it will remain in some form.
This is a great point.

I was working with a DevOps team a couple of years ago and they had written some projects to deploy internal web apps to AWS. It came time to remove one of the apps, but the removal date kept slipping. After much hand wringing and meetings, it was discovered that they had no mechanism to uninstall one of their apps. They simply hadn't considered that an app might not be used anymore.

Nor did they ever consider needing multiple instances of an app, so all their stuff was using hard coded names.

It wasn't a fun project.
In the beginning of node.js life, NPM the company had a guerilla marketing that says: The smaller the package, the better for reusability.

That stained the node.js ecosystem forever, until now.

This is why I am excited about Deno, Ryan wants to break away from this culture.
Really? Feels like this has been the prevailing perspective since at least late 2018 - I guess the 2017 crash had something to do with that
How does that differ at all from the possession of any sparse, shelf-stable commodity that is in demand? For example, gold or palladium. An individual possessing palladium in the past 10 years would have seen a 400% increase in value. The people holding the metal aren't doing anything, it's just demand for it has increased and the value of fiat has decreased over time, so it is worth more. The same could be said for video games or pokemon cards.

I guess maybe the argument is you can do something with metals or video games or pokemon cards. But it's hard to believe that a special Charizard has a utility permitting million dollar valuations.
> we reach a situation where some unknown person

We reach an unnecessary situation. The vast majority of these dependencies don't even add any real value - not enough to justify the danger of having your app just stop working inexplicably.
Maybe I'm really weird but I don't even bother raking leaves, I just run over them with the lawn mower and let em decompose on the ground. I do sometimes have to remove some of them from the driveway but I do that with my hands and takes like 5 minutes.
Funnily enough, I think one the original IBM PC killer apps was exactly that - dBase III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase

MS Access was the usurper of dBase's crown. And then Excel took over ...
>Check out searches of mainstream news sites...

Simply for what it is worth, if I Google "duncan lemp", I see articles about the shooting from The Washington Post, USA Today, the AP, ABC and The Guardian.
how do you limit bad actors? How do you do rate limit per user?
I’ve mostly worked with JS in the browser and my understanding of node lacks nuance, but it seems like all of this would be mitigated drastically by building out the standard library. For comparison, here’s pythons list of standard modules:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/

They don’t make third party libraries obsolete— for example, I tried using the built-in IMAP library the other day and it’s definitely too low-level to make sense for most quick projects that check email, so I used a third party Library— but all of those modules are vetted, stable, and require no external dependencies.

I believe the node maintainers have staunchly opposed such measures. I don’t know what their reasoning is so I don’t have an opinion on whether or not it’s worth it.
> Because markets are always intended to be exponentially growing

That's because population grows exponentially.

If we have a massive contraction in population I suspect a lot of common wisdom about economics won't hold true.
What chart should I look at to not feel like investment is a bad idea right now? Because looking at Google and the 5Y for BTC it seems stalled between 30 - 40 and has not gotten back to its peak of 60.
OpenSSF Protecting Open Source Security as Cold War Turns Hot
Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism
AIUI, rustc now has ad-hoc parallelization of compile within a single crate. The defined compilation unit is still the crate though, as opposed to the single file in C/C++.
Video: Ukraine Soldier Disassembles Russian Drone, Reveals DIY Work
> No one is stopping anyone from using their chair.

Throwing out the chair does indeed stop people from using it.
Lazard is the one widely cited by renewables advocates attempting to make their case. You're the first person I've seen claim that it overestimates renewable costs.

Can you point out where in the Lazard report it describes its methodology in a way that makes clear it doesn't reflect the cost of new renewable projects today? And reference a thorough study that shows lower-than-Lazard average costs for solar+storage today, not in some estimated future, and not with cherry-picked projects in ideal locations?

And if that cost includes sufficient collection and storage to get through a windless night, like nuclear can do, that would be nice too.
From the paper, they are using bfloat16, so I guess two bytes. But distributing and "packaging into an app" are not at all of practical interest for these kinds of models. You (a consumer) would interact via some API service, with the model running on a hardware-accelerated compute cloud.

In any case, during training (where the model is run in possibly large batches), and even during inference, the size of the parameters is completely dwarfed by the intermediate tensor representations.
Part of it is that JS's standard library is terrible (eg. no built-in union/intersection when working with sets, bizarre default sorting behavior see (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...), groupBy (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) is new and not well-supported, etc). You almost have to reach for some utility library or build your own ad-hoc one just to use the language.
It is. We’re paying the price right now, and justifiably so.
Cap-and-trade is just carbon tax + corporate welfare (existing polluters get to sell their right to pollute) + trading vigs for Wall Street

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/08/fundamental-theorem-o...
I work in the US and get unlimited PTO that I’ve never been shamed for taking (and I use it a lot). Just depends on the company.
I'm going to assume good intent here and say you've been sucked into some white supremacist propaganda. This falls under the umbrella of "1350" [1]:

> The number 13 used in conjunction with either the number 52 or the number 90 is a shorthand reference to racist propaganda claims by white supremacists against African-Americans to depict them as savage and criminal in nature.

If anything, it's evidence of overpolicing.

But this continues a centuries-old narrative that black people are violent and white people are a civilizing force. Both of these provided moral cover for slavery. This include religious figures justifying slavery as the slaves were being converted to Christianity and it would save their immortal souls.

I hope, for your sake, you can deconstruct this propaganda you've been exposed to.

[1]: https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/1352-1...
> With a lot of art just stored tax efficiently, not sure how relevant "enjoyment" currently really is at the upper end of the market (maybe enjoyment of possession?).

On the flip side, are millions of people who pay money to simply view art every day in cities around the world. That seems like pretty strong evidence that people get "enjoyment" from it.

> Arguably, being part of the crypto community does seem to bring some people joy.

I'd guess it's the part about the rapidly rising prices that gives them joy.
What I think is happening: the JS ecosystem has been flooded by developers with minimal experience and/or education.

They learn engineering principles like "don't repeat yourself" and take that to mean installing an entire dependency to implement left pad is a good idea.

You are probably on to something with JavaScript being bug-prone as a factor in that.

JS as an ecosystem has a really big problem with developers not knowing the value of simplicity.
Isn't this solved by putting a single quote, or something of the sort, in front of the data?
> Strawman
Differences between Moon’s near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact
I'm genuinely interested in what the infrastructure was that couldn't support orchestration of Puppet clients. I hear this from people sometimes and it usually ends up being related to poorly architected Puppet infrastructure for their environment.

A properly architected Puppet environment should have no problems dealing with thousands of clients.
> Yes, companies are tracking you, manipulating you subconsciously, and making money off you. But you don't have to take it as a threat.

This is the best summary of why more people should disconnect.

It is not a fearful response to technology - none of this is about technology - it's about large corporations making money from things that they never had the right to take.
AIDS could have been stopped with quarantines like in Cuba.
I think the reason is JS doesn't have much of a standard library. Java, C#, Ruby, Python, Rust, Go, and many others come with a large library you can use to write non-trivial applications without ever needing to fetch an external dependency. JS, particularly outside of Node, doesn't have that. To get functionality most other languages/runtimes include out of the box, you need to write a bunch of code yourself or pull in a dependency to use someone else's implementation.
The US does not have laws requiring moderation except for illegal content (like child porn) and DMCA takedowns.

Most platforms fail miserably at removing the former and just automate the latter. Twitter could spend a small fraction of their current moderation budget and still be in compliance with US law.
Wow, I have never heard this before:

“Few people remember it, but Gorbachev was negotiating with Saddam and had successfully convinced him to pull out of Kuwait. The agreement they came up with would give the Iraqis three weeks to pull out. At this point, it had become a major goal to eliminate the Republican Guard and we didn’t want them to pull their head out of the noose, so President Bush turned down the compromise and ordered the ground forces in.”

Is that true?
Rebates for people in certain provinces. Others have implemented a cap-and-trade shell game where the residents receive nothing but they still experience rising prices because of costs to nation-wide businesses being passed on either way.
Is he just unhappy with tech, or just unhappy?

If you’re unhappy, tech probably won’t make you happy, if unhappy with tech, it’s just do something you’d be happier with or just use it for the money.
Ha! I live in Kiev, Ukraine, and just 46 days ago I thought absolutely same about possible Russian invasion to Ukraine.
Now I few days per week spend on finding products to eat, because we have real war and we have some problems with supply (I will not ask you to talk here about military needs, but they are also exists and they are very significant).

Now I thank to Gods, for my friends decisions, who where not agree with me and evacuated their families, before I change my mind.
Yes, people born in the 1400s couldn't have founded it..good point? I think it's pretty obvious that I didn't mean literally everyone (the unborn, dead, sick, disabled etc). In your post you even said it's "technically true" that anybody could have founded Amazon, so I'm not sure why you're trying to get me on an obvious technicality here.
You first sentence says one thing, your second sentence says essentially the opposite: your expectations seem fully formed. I just hope they're not so crystallized as to prevent you from taking something away from the film.
Sorry, what? The long-term benefits of EVs is that they can be powered by clean, renewable and nuclear energy (though even without that they are more energy-efficient than ICE cars)

Are you proposing that replacing ICE vehicles with EVs is not an essential part of a long-term, low-carbon future?
Sometimes, all I wish is to have the life of a rich white guy. How your mind could be free to go to such lengths !
I think that’s the fifth Futamura projection — compiling a compiler with itself cancels out bugs.