skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lazard is generally regarded as pretty credible.

BloombergNEF says $145-167 per MWh.

> If you do that calculation at the global level, we evaluate the LCOE for recently financed projects is at US$150/MWh including charging costs. That’s our benchmark. We have a range around that benchmark which goes from US$115/MWh in China.

https://www.energy-storage.news/behind-the-numbers-the-rapid...
At 18 I was probably spending 9h+ a day on the computer, playing games and watching anime mixed with creative stuff. I wasn't depressed, and I don't look back and go "oh that was wasted time" or whatever. I can't believe every post here is so negative.

If he's _actually_ depressed, is unable to make progress on life goals, can't go to school, can't get a job, doesn't have friends etc, then absolutely. But nothing like that is mentioned in the original post.
So he was doing shady stuff, they caught him, and he lost the shady cash? Isn’t that kind of the point?

Is it that hard to prove where 80k of cash came from? Either you were paid in cash for a job, and you’ll have paperwork for that. Or you sold something expensive, and you’ll have proof of that too. Or you won it at a casino? I’m sure they can give you proof as wel
The unit is GWh, the physical quantity it describes is “energy storage capacity”. Those two are not the same.

Take this example:

Unit: second, physical quantity: could be things like “time”, “specific impulse”, “distance” (light-second), etc. Many physical quantities can be measured in seconds.
How many other cars do you know that turn their A/C on while stationary for ‘cabin overheat protection’? My 2021 model 3 did that this week while sitting in the sun in northern Ontario and was helpful enough to send a push notification to let me know.

This is not to helpfully make sure the driver gets into a nice cool car when they finish their errand. It’s because the non-automotive grade screen isn’t rated or tested above 40C and were failing in heat. Rather than upgrade the part and do a recall Tesla opted to just use battery to keep the cabin below 40-45C.

I love EVs, but that’s some pretty dodgy behaviour.
You just wrote the best defense for asset forfeiture.

Note that in most countries if you cannot prove where you got your money you will be in trouble, and it could be higher than just seizing your assets. The difference is that the money usually goes to the state, not the police department. But travel in most European countries with 50 000€ in cash without declaring it and you will have troubles
I'm sure there's a long list of "inspect" to go with that? At some point timing belt? Other belts? Spark plugs? One day the alternator will die, then the water pump, head gasket, exhaust pipe will rust, the battery, starter motor, brake pads, break disks? Oxygen sensor... man the list of stuff in ICE cars that's not in EVs that can and definitely will fail just goes on and on and on. Sure, most of it past the 10 year mark, but it's a lot of stuff.

Is this North America spec btw? (there's difference in maintenance intervals usually).

I've driven ICE for many many many years and I never want to go back. I don't want to smell gasoline in the gas station... The model 3's maintenance is basically cabin air filter and brake fluid which honestly you can just not touch for 5 years with no problem if you live somewhere with clean air ;) it's essentially zero maintenance.
That's an issue for a subset of SaaS products that deliver value without stickiness. Sticky products, though, should definitely not take a credit card upfront. For example, a project management product is sticky because I put my data into it and it's too much hassle to recreate that data every 14 days.

For non-sticky SaaS products, there may be a case for taking a credit card in order to prevent multiple free trials per credit card fingerprint, but there are alternatives, such as taking their phone number and sending a verification code. It's not foolproof, but it will stop the majority of free trial abuse.
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How long until they flag your encrypted files because encrypted files are suspicious?
They didn't catch him doing anything shady other than traveling through Oregon with cash. They wouldn't have found it either if they hadn't illegally searched him.
For a sentiment / emotion classification project, we (2 founders) just ended up doing most of the labeling ourselves. It was a big grind, but given how abysmal the performance of “crowd-sourced” solutions are (eg Amazon Mechanical Turk), and how incredibly important the quality of these labels are for training a model, it made the most sense.

I wonder how others do this kind of thing. Assuming I have 100k text blurbs I want to classify of sentiment and/or emotion and want at least 95% accuracy, what are the options?

I’m still shocked how low the quality of Mechanical Turk was for just sentiment (positive/negative/neutral/unsure), 99% of the classifications were just random. We narrowed our section for workers to higher-qualified ones, for that matter.

What a giant waste of money and time that was, because supposedly it’s the canonical use case for it.
> the people who fought the civil war believed that they were doing it to end slavery

For many Northerners, it had nothing to do with slavery and everything to do with states rights vs. federalism. And keeping the Union together. Revisionist history makes it 100% about slavery.
Sounds like an unjust law and/or an unfair enforcement of the law, rather than an argument that incarcerated people shouldn’t be forced to work.

Freed slaves also were unfairly scrutinized for eligibility to vote. Does that mean we should never work to guarantee the integrity of our voting systems?
Ah that’s a sharp eye!!
What do you mean by "stickiness"?
Guzey’s article has many “weak arguments and misleading claims” [0]. For bonus points, see Guzey’s appeal to logical fallacies in the comments.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sbcmACvB6DqYXYidL/counter-th...
My own introduction to this, and to understanding programming rather than writing a few scripts for calculations, was the book "C Programming: A Modern Approach." It covers reasonably up-to-date C, assumes no previous expertise and teaches not just the language itself but practices for structuring programs, how to optimize, etc. I picked it up in 2020 so it should still be useful.

I personally am dissapointed by people recommending "The C Programming Language." It's a terse book that doesn't go into the detail I found helpful when starting.
The Malta/Cyprus crisis is the most recent.

There's other tactics that was used in Greece and in the US before the FDIC.

First in, first out + daily cap. In this model, the institution states they have $X of liquidity say tomorrow, you can withdraw up to $Y. You do X/Y and you get the number of customers that can withdraw the maximum amount.

My grandparents lived in Chicago at the time and said there was a time when a separate family member would be in line 24 hours a day. One for tomorrow and one for the day after that, etc. But even then they got back like $0.20 on the dollar (my last grandparent died about 30 years ago so forgive me if some details are off)

But generally speaking a good faith effort is made to honor the depositors balances. The schemes to do so varies, but it's generally not 0. These people running these institutions might be gamblers but they generally aren't sociopathic soulless con-artists - there's more lucrative things to do for those with no moral compass
In typical business applications you often have two endpoints: One to fetch a single resource and one to fetch all resources of that type.

Why not merge them and work with lists, I think a lot people would intuitively understand the following:

GET /users?ids=1

{ "users": [] }

GET /users?ids=1,2,3,4

{ "users": [ { "id": 3 } ] }

Transport the ids in any way you like, that's not my point.
This is really cool, but it would be more useful (IMO) with the following changes:

- Have all comparisons start at 0
- Ditch the log scale
I think apple is leaving money on the table. They could expect the captive site to return a meta element redirect to apple.com as most wifi portals return you back to the site it intercepted.

I often see the “Success” message and didn’t know that was defined by apple
Really?

My parents did some pretty messed up things to try to get me to be a better behaved kid, the ‘70s and ‘80s were a different time, and I have no resentment against them because they tried their (probably misguided) best.

As kids go I was admittedly pretty difficult but the army straightened me out when I basically had the choice of joining at 17 or, who knows, didn’t see any other options at the time.
What’s so special about Tesla today? The promised self driving isn’t here. There are better cars on the market today to show how rich you are. Yes, Tesla cars are more efficient than competition. But heck, who cares about 2 kWh more when buying cars in that price range.
Why should we be thinking that?

Some people might argue that we should pursue even more extreme punishments, to dissuade people from committing crimes.
You can still divide GWh of capacity by a year and get GW of capacity, ie the instantaneous production rate of capacity.
It’s not theft because the bees are stealing from your neighbours for you!
Vincent Van Gogh: Hidden self-portrait discovered by X-ray
Thank you Trump, you idi..
Imposing what exactly?

They are providing free masks and free tests for those who feel they need them.

The real story is how they are making it illegal to buy gold with cash, and giving the police power to siege cash over $10,000.
I think that's usually the case, but it's not transparent. You'll have to connect to a specific SSID and enter some credentials which aren't always your usual credentials and / or use some app.

I've tried this once or twice a few years ago, but it was so slow that I went back to using my mobile plan.
Nowhere any time soon, I guess, as the author is Russian.
Prototyping a stationary bike “step” counter with Swift Charts
The listed price for the lowest tier is $132 per year, which is around $11 per month. What’s the $6.25 option?
Thanks for pointing out, it’s indeed our own edited photo from Lake Tahoe. Will swap the word with “watermark”. Appreciated!
There's plenty of capacity for grid connected batteries.

For one thing they can use a bunch of tech that doesn't work well in cars (flow batteries for example).

And the price goes down because the primary constraint is production capacity. More demand means more factories mean cheaper prices. See eg the growth in manufacturing capacity in batteries and their price decreasing:

If you look at 2008, there was 6GWh of battery manufacturing in the world and 97% of it was in China.
In 2019, there was around 365GWh worldwide, split into: China (75%), US (9%), South Korea (7%) Europe (5%)
By 2023 we estimate there will be 1,230GWh worldwide: China (65%), Europe (10%), US (10%) and rest of the world (15%).

https://www.energy-storage.news/behind-the-numbers-the-rapid...
Can you show any sources for "same price = double the capacity in <renewable> + CAES storage"?

That's a lofty claim and I have heard CAES storage at economic scales is still unsolved, else we'd see a rocketship company in the space. If you do know of a stealthy rocketship here, who is it?
Eh, fusion is two or three major construction projects away. We're very confident that ITER and DEMO will work. Of course funding has been abysmal, so they might be overtaken by projects that, for example, use better superconductors.

That being said, fusion will come too late to do something about climate change, so we should be building renewables as quickly as we can, and, if we have too much money, perhaps add a bit of nuclear.
Holly sh..

Exactly this happens every time in my company. Designers and PMs wants to « educate » the user and force a strict workflow for them. They never take into account that power users exists.

Sure, most of our users are happy this way because our product replaces shitty and complex excel sheets. But I always wonder about the 1% who took the time to learn and master excel and were fast with their tool. For those people, our product must be a PITA, because their is no other (faster) way to work than the path PMs and designers decided.
I really don't understand how someone wouldn't find this incredibly fascinating as well as intensely fun.
If the incompatibility is specifically with Intel's 12th gen platform, then it probably stems from the mix of P and E cores having different CPUID data, which has also been a problem for some video games with aggressive DRM/anti-cheat measures.

But it also wouldn't surprise me if the incompatibility has been misidentified and actually stems from 12th gen systems being the most common occurrences of machines that ship with Windows 11, with the core isolation and memory integrity features on by default. Those actually make use of hardware virtualization features: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-protectio...
There’s another article [0], which states Guzey’s article isn’t all that great.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sbcmACvB6DqYXYidL/counter-th...
In some places, criminals are killed much more quickly as punishment. Should we do that instead, because some countries do it?

Or maybe we should figure out what we want to do by argument and consensus, instead of blindly following the old colonialists and ex-fascists in Europe?
I don’t underdeveloped why you people are ignoring my second paragraph and repeating what I said. I guess trying to cover all bases in a message doesn’t work anymore, I gotta cover all bases in a single small paragraph, since posting a gotcha takes precedence over reading the whole message.
For today. But I presume when these reactors are completed, the question is will that surplus be enough for the energy needs of ~2030. And there the answer is "we need to build more generation". No?
Netflix and Microsoft team up for cheaper plan with adverts
Stop QE and do a debt brake. If you are adventurous introduce a land value tax to pay off debt.
Started my chain with Schiit in mind!

Ended up going with a Topping E30 instead and Neve RNHP. Price to performance of the E30 is almost too good to be true (if you can deal with the limited outputs).

RNHP, while pretty to look at, did not perform as well for the price (at least it’s appreciated $200 since purchase).

Upgraded to a Topping D90 DAC and A90 Pre-Amp when I added the Audeze LCD-2 to my stack.

The D90 has been nothing short of amazing since I plugged it in. SINAD is like 20 points over transparent - no color to your sound at all. Inputs are extensive and it outputs both XLR and RCA. Can utilize absurd sampling rates like 384k or 768k (even arcane formats like DSD).

The A90 hardware isn’t as pretty as the Neve, but the volume adjustment and proper “audiophile/fool” I/O beats it handily. What sold me was I finally had the ability to “peak” my LCD-2’s. First time in my life to experience 120db with no audible distortion (don’t worry these aren’t extended listening sessions :)). I also plugged in my Genelec 8030C, which can be easily directed output via switch to pre-amp mode.

My RNHP, while striking and built like a tank, probably topped out at 105db. This was even utilizing XLR and balanced cables.

All told I’m very happy with my audio chain and pretty much “end-game” until I can make a living that would justify something like a Benchmark Amp or the LCD-5’s, and some Genny One’s (Revel and KEF if I ever want to be a masochist and deal with a passive chain).

Crude diagram of my audio chain:

[PC]-USB-[D90]-XLR-[A90]:
-XLR-[LCD-2]
-XLR-[Genelec 7050]-XLR—[Genelec 8030C]
I love that phrase, "a better waste of money".
This isn't true!

Here are volume weight prices by time for Australia, which has been doing a transition:

https://www.aer.gov.au/wholesale-markets/wholesale-statistic...

They increase at less than the rate of inflation!
Completely agree on the need for serious commitment and attention!

Funnily enough, though, many ML engineers and data scientists I know (even those at Google, etc., who depend on human-annotated datasest) aren't familiar with these kinds of errors. At least in my experience, many people rarely inspect their datasets -- they run their black box ML pipelines and compute their confusion matrices, but rarely look at their false positive/negatives to understand more viscerally where and why their models might be failing.

Or when they do see labeling errors, many people chalk it up to "oh, it's just because emotions are subjective, overall I'm sure the labels are fine" without realizing the extent of the problem, or realizing that it's fixable and their data could actually be so much better.

One of my biggest frustrations actually is when great engineers do notice the errors and care, and try to fix them by improving guidelines -- but often the problem isn't the guidelines themselves (in this case, for example, it's not like people don't know what JOY and ANGER are! creating 30 pages of guidelines isn't going to help), but rather that the labeling infrastructure is broken or nonexistent from the beginning. Hence why Surge AI exists, and we're building what we're building :)
> LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

Could be either anger (let’s fight) or enthusiasm (let’s do it!). Hard problem.
> Rent seeking MBA fuckers.

T-shirt slogan.
BMW isn't the only company doing this, Tesla actually began all this by building one hardware platform for manufacturing simplicity and then locking the functionality behind software paywalls. Several other car companies have since done things like this with their entertainment units, remote start and the like.

It should be illegal. This is all just a new workaround to consumer protections by way of EULAs, if I buy the hardware there should be a lawful way for me to use it. If a product is pure software, fine, but if it's hardware I bought and it won't work without some specific software the manufacturer should enable me to use it with my own software.
Iron redox flow batteries are made from abundant materials and cost less than lithium batteries. Sodium batteries have many of the upsides of lithium and don't require it (they require some other scarce materials). There are enough empty salt mines and similar to build weeks' worth of storage in CAES for less than the cost of either.

But none of these solve the issue of months long weather fluctuations and disasters entirely in regions where pumped hydro isn't viable. For that, grid flexibility (such as variable rate Al production and electrified steel smelting), gas or hybrid heating/cooling, generator backup for essential uses (minimal heating and medical facilities), and methane produced from electricity and biomass is the answer and the only reason it hasn't happened on its own is we don't price in the (absolutely massive) externalities of fossil fuels so they're marginally cheaper. We also need to cut the low hanging fruit that are responsible for most of the emissions either directly or indirectly (poorly insulated, overly large detached homes, cars, and cows).
T³ scale ruler and T ruler-The Reformation of Measurement Tool
You are right, except to the extent that “people SAY the 13th amendment ended slavery but it really codified it man” recasts what happened in the civil war and what purpose people had in fighting and dying to get it passed.

Some people today want the glory of abolitionist revolution without having to pay with their own blood.

Yeah, maybe you can make an argument that the justice system can work differently in one way or another with diff tradeoffs, but if you set up the argument so that you’re in a morally superior position to the people who fought and died in the civil war to end slavery, you should expect and you definitely deserve very strong opposition.
Cars are needlessly complex electronics wise today.

If they had to throw out most of the fluff too be able to build cars I would see it as an improvement.

The computer systems are used for spying and DRM subscription buttheaters anyway.
Kids and teens now spend more time watching TikTok than YouTube, new data shows
JWST and Hubble have roughly similar angular resolution. Hubble marginally better. JWST needs larger mirror for the same angular resolution because it uses longer wavelengths.

Hubble: 0.04 arcsec at 500 nm
JWST: 0.068 arcsec at 2 μm

The difference is in wavelengths, image quality, and light collecting ability (size of the mirror). Hubble has to stare longer into a same spot to collect the same amount of light as JWST.

(If I remember correctly JWST took this image in less than 12 hours, Hubble stared at it for much longer. Correct me if I'm wrong).
It is usually accepted per year when not specified. For example when you talk about GDP, it is yearly. Salary? Yearly usually yearly unless specified. Factory production? Yearly.

And no, you cannot use watts, unless you invent a new unit, watts of capacity?

The units used are correct.
> Paying in cash, in addition to being a minor inconvenience that non-the-less outweighs most people's desire for privacy, does not work in online payments

In some countries it's fairly popular and super common with kids to check out, get a barcode/receipt and pay at, for example, a 7-11 with cash for in game purchase top ups.
Who is the intended use case? History PhDs for example?
I guess "over 50" falls into your first assumption. But you are right about the Yugoslav wars.
How quickly does RMQ ack the message? Obviously too long to delay an HTTP response, or you’d have skipped the DB part of this; but this seems kind of clunky. I know Kafka has (optional, tunable) acknowledgements for publication, for example, that you could use for this.
> let’s look at the labeling methodology described in the paper. To quote Section 3.3:

> “Reddit comments were presented [to labelers] with no additional metadata (such as the author or subreddit).”

> “All raters are native English speakers from India.”

This does not look good even on paper. No wonder the errors were abundant

Also a labeling system that has no entry for sarcasm is totally going to work guys!!1 /s
There's no room for that. DD and others just loss-lead off VC bankrolls.
Hope for depositors dwindles as crypto lender Celsius files for bankruptcy
Tesla discussed doing this last year: https://driveteslacanada.ca/model-3/tesla-unlock-model-3-hea...

They had paid range upgrade in 2016: https://electrek.co/2016/11/08/tesla-in-car-purchase-softwar...

Yet it seems the market gave Tesla a pass?
No, it wouldn't be great. I don't care much about carrying a unique, trackable subscriber module everywhere, tied to a centralized billing system. WiFi has the advantage of being decentralized, and anonymizable. Not to mention the option of being free of charge.
It fades pretty quickly. My hands cramped returning from each summer vacation as a child.
And for environmental protection you just need to know which flying species lives there and if the area is in an protected space for planes for minimum and maximum height.
Yes, I do think it is more or less unrevivable politically. The opinions will probably always be there though and any political ideology could express similar tendencies.

Fascism to me is primarily authoritarian nationalism with very clear hierarchies and believes around said hierarchies to have a natural source. It is directly opposed to liberal democracy and equality. Fascists also believe the state should be totalitarian, putting the lives of citizen under detailed reglementation. Its insecurity is often expressed with imperialism and militarization. The moral and ethical compromises it needs for itself need to be justified with victimhood, perceived or otherwise. This delivers a "just cause" for many marginalized people to believe in.
> A 300W-solar power farm would require 1.5 million solar panels and cost approximately $300 million, provided the 1,500- to-1,800 acres of land.

I assume 300W is actually 300MW. If that's correct, solar panels are still much more convenient, also considering that power plant will require many acres of land for the building, pipes, etc. Solar panels have zero waste too. What am I missing?