skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect those weren't included in the studies because they aren't grid scale yet.

Consider that "one of the biggest batteries in the world" stores 129 MWh, enough to sustain the US grid for one second.[1] (Of course, it can't discharge that quickly, so we really need four thousand of them to sustain the grid for one hour).

For comparison, the current capacity of pumped-storage hydroelectricity in the US is about 550GWh[2], the equivalent of about four thousand of those facilities. And we still don't have enough storage to replace nonrenewables with solar.

Batteries like that one won't reduce the actual price of energy storage here until Tesla builds thousands of installations in the US alone. And it would take hundreds of thousands worldwide (along with solar generation) to replace nonrenewable generation.

But it is a promising technology. If many are built quickly, and the reported financials prove accurate and scalable, we might have cheap grid-scale storage in ten or twenty years.

1: According to the US Energy Information administration, the US grid generates about 4 billion MWh per year.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...

That's about 127 MWh per second.

2: "[In the United States] forty-three PSH plants with a total power capacity of 21.9 GW and estimated energy storage capacity of 553 GWh
accounted for 93% of utility-scale storage power capacity (GW) and more than 99% of electrical energy storage (GWh) in 2019."

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2021/01/f82/us-hydro...
Been having the same issue on my old email. a LOT of spam going past the filter.
AFAIK H2 is way more difficult to contain than natural gas, as the molecules are so tiny. Very hard to build a container that doesn't continuously leak the gas.
Can you expand on what you mean by western chauvinism? My time in eastern Asia has taught me that many of them see members of others Asian (and non-Asian) races/countries as inherently inferior.
Shame too. I was hosting my personal site on .tk when I was broke out of college, but often a link too it was automatically flagged as spam.
You certainly can pass all blocked traffic through VPN.
But this is a cheaper (and because of that is more scalable) way to pass through.
I really think the "Inflection Point" of the singularity/acceleration was very mundane: "Recently, we had the first generation in history where the wisdom of our elders was more harm than boon" for basically the first time in our history as a species.
> Source?

Assuming an economic lifetime of 70 to 100 years for new buildings is industry practice based on standards like DIN 276. You can find those numbers (with some variation) on pretty much every web page dealing with economics of building, for example here: https://www.bauprofessor.de/wirtschaftliche-nutzungsdauer-ge...

You can also approximately extrapolate that number from the source I have given you. (Which is based on a survey by the federal government of Germany) If approximately 50-60% of houses are older than 50 years, then assuming a approximately linear to progressive attrition curve you will get a number around 100 for the average lifetime.

Of course a long tail exists, but 1. I was talking about economic costs, people might just like their houses and renovate even though it is financially not worth it, and 2. after 100 years the historical protection (Denkmalschutz) gets more and more relevant and is a whole different set of regulations.
> I also checked your account and it's nothing but right wing propaganda. Damn, dude

That’s odd, as I generally vote Democrat and the only post here I’ve submitted is to a math blog post I enjoy.

At any rate, let’s try to avoid having this website turn into yet another Reddit or Twitter in terms of quality of comments and obsession about anything seen as not left leaning enough.

I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree about the merits of Saddam Hussein, here. Have a good weekend.
Spin the unit and create a small gravitational force to separate the two mediums.
Encapsulating TCP in TCP results in exponential backoff and retransmissions in the event of loss.
It's not really "extremely cheap" and probably only refers to covering old buildings with external insulation.

Most of the Soviet-era panel apartment blocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel_building) have extremely shitty internal insulation, too. So you end up heating your neighbors, the street, the elevator shafts, stairwells etc.

You can't really fix that without extremely costly renovations.

Khrusschchyovkas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchyovka) are marginally better due to materials used, but they are 50 years past their demolition date by now, and will be also very expensive to retrofit.

There is also an insane number of new construction in the past 30 years. Perhaps for the in-EU Eastern European countries regulations and standards work. Everywhere else it's "whatever we build, as cheaply as possible"
Default user just want to access blocked resources. Free VPN... Can we trust them? Paid VPN are paid.
religiously route all my traffic through a VPN that I own and control

Can you please share an easy way to do that?

I’m usually not afraid of wading through configuration swamps, but when it comes to openvpn, I curl up in a corner crying.
Trial by combat may have had its place in the leadership transition process
Funnily enough, I am doing something similar to myself. I setup timers for things, so instead of arguing and bargaining with myself or even anticipating the event, I just obey the timer and do as I must.
That's the usual ritual.
Assange committed statutory rape, broke bail conditions, and made his life miserable by being a whiny asshole about it.
On the other hand over last few months majority of post from sma few of private Google Groups, I'm member of, keep getting wrongly clsssified as spam.

I don't know if it's related either.
There are good and bad people on each side of every war.

This "fact" doesn't justify those wars.
This is an uncharitable view of philosophy without much evidence to show for it, especially when it comes to the philosophy of consciousness and philosophy of computing. Not to mention, falsifiability being taken as the criterion for knowledge was itself (mathematics and logical axioms are not 'falsifiable') a claim produced by a philosopher, and one which some commentators name as circular in itself. You're using a particular philosophy to discount philosophy of science on the whole, which is ironic.
Hard to heat something transparent with light radiation, whereas I guess the powder can absorb it
N.B. not cold brewed coffee
But NOT to the person who was vaccinated
So yes still heating? Ah no I see the alternate explanation now
Addition of large numbers is a bar that most sentient animals don't pass.
Bias checker for news articles, available in Python
> Assange committed statutory rape

and that's why the investigation was suddenly dropped after he got thrown out of the Ecuadorian embassy
> Where are these said comments? They've either been deleted or you're trying to stir things up for no reason. At time of posting there are no comments critical of the report.

You need to have show-dead enabled to be able to view them.
> Note: the vulnerable module’s path has been modified for security reasons

Hilarious. Just making things harder for us to identify not the attackers.
Loved the long persistence displays. So easy on the eyes.
Quantum chemistry isn't magic, it's been around since the sixties, we understand pretty well the resources required for calculations. I happen to have a PhD in it too. AFAIK on quantum computers there are only two algorithms that are currently considered near-term feasible for this problem (VQE, QPE) and they both require a number of qubits = 2 x number of orbitals N and a number of operations between N^2 and N^4.

It's true that there could be neat quantum computing shortcuts that maintain calculation accuracy and that aren't doable on classical computers... but then we could also imagine that some neat Quantum Chemistry trick might make classical computers much better too. (We actually have a bunch of these already but they are approximative: DFT, machine learning, pseudo potentials etc.)
I use Alt+<number> to switch to n-th tab. It works in Files, Terminal, Sublime Text, Firefox, GIMP.
That actually sounds a lot like Dota, to be fair.
I'm not sure I understand your perspective. How is an open relationship "marriage as a service"?
You might enjoy Japanese iced coffee.

I find that cold brew tastes the same no matter the quality of coffee (therefore great for lower quality coffees) where as Japanese iced coffee retains the original notes of the coffee.
Just add a subscription based model for those services and we're set.
The US is perfectly fine with Kurdish genocide as long as it's Turkey doing it.
Why? .tk was popular because it was free, so it was really useful for teens and young adults in an era when you still had to host things somewhere if you wanted them online. On the other hand .it is the tld of Italy and used legit by all businesses of EU's third largest economy.
I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

Thin clients with a new veneer to it? Everything old is new again. Everything is in cycles.
> GNOME is the perfect desktop for productivity

GNOME is quite decent in its current form and the most user-friendly desktop out there at the moment. People who hate on it just have some historical gripe with it, I feel like.

Ideally I'd be using something like Sway, but I can't be bothered to spend time on making things work the way they need to. GNOME gives me everything out of the box and doesn't get in my way. KDE is much more customizable, but less friendly on the eyes. Windows is probably OK if you're used to Windows (I'm clearly not). I have to use macOS at work and it's just a worse version of GNOME - bad defaults, weird design choices, less features, minimal customizability.
I've been gettng these spam .it domains for years and years, this is nothing at all new.
In retrospect, taking part in this kind of conversation on HN makes me feel like an idiot and so I retract my earlier comment (by overwriting it with the current one, since I can't delete it anymore) just because I don't want to contribute. I was wrong to make an attempt to make a serious contribution. There is no seriousness in conversations on such matters, as "sentience", "intelligence", "understanding" etc etc. on HN.

Everytime that such a subject comes up, and most times "AI" comes up also, a majority of users see it as an invitation to say whatever comes in their mind, whether it makes any sense at all or not. I'm not talking about the comments replying below in particular, but about the majority of this conversation. It's like hearing five-year old kids debating whether cheerios are better than coco pops (but without the cute kids making it sound funny, it's just cringey). The conversation makes no sense at all, it is not based on any concrete knowledge of the technologies under discussion, the opinions have not been met with five seconds of sensible thinking and the tone is pompous and self-important.

It's the worst kind of HN discussion and I'm really sorry to have commented at all.
This is what scares me about all the talk if "civil war" lately. How many Thompson's are out there to stop massacares and speak up. It isn't easy. I hope we never have to witness a massacare again but unfortunately it is human nature that makes it inevitable, be it at home or at a far away land.
there is also the spam of name.ru.com domains as well

Warning, do not click on those links as you will get your PC infected.
.it is currently being offered for free / €1
I agree with this. It irritates me hugely when we estimate tasks by complexity and then use our estimations to determine which tasks we can accomplish in a sprint.
Writing my PhD using groff
500 million people.

So, around 200 million or so households. Each household (even if it's an apartment) needs both external and internal insulation improved.

Same goes for things like stores, factories, schools, government buildings, and all other non-residential buildings.

Most buildings are built before new energy standards (https://ec.europa.eu/energy/eu-buildings-factsheets_en). In some countries (esp. the Eadtern block) you probably need to teardown old buildings because you can't just simply insulate them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202169)

I'd say "100 years" is a conservative estimation
This will simplify a lot of build pipelines for sure.

One thing that isn't clear from skimming the article, how do you refer to the embedded data again?
The course uses PyTorch, which despite being a big played still has many issues running g on any of the latest AMD cards.

Windows not supported on AMD cards
Navi series cards not supported in general.
Heavily biased towards CUDA, despite AMD cards drivers being open sourced far more than Nvidia cards.

Remote machines and kaggle notebooks go some way to improving these limits for the course. I'm complaining a bit more in general here, I think.
Not only it's not optional, it's a requirement.
Anyone who does creative work knows ROUTINE is the beginning of all.

Of course the exception to this are old-school rock-stars (and the new-school rock-stars: DJ's & Producers). Not jealous of their life expectancy though.
It wasn't just the resource usage but the "attack surface" and the comfort of knowing what is running and being able to turn things off because you don't want them. Linux was always all about that control but the philosophy seems to have been lost in favor of mimmicking Macos and Windows
Congratulations to the author. Things like this are why I hope Carbon exists. Evolving c++ seems like a dumpster fire, despite whatever compelling arguments about comparability you are going to drop on me.
>Critics see xenophobic overreach

huh, that's why security is hard.

Everything is fine until it isn't, the war starts and reality checks comes in.
I'm sure there are plenty of non-spam html pages based in Italy too
sure, however my child is

1. nonverbal, which makes dealing with issues difficult and time consuming.

2. and has a number of problematic behaviors that might actually be more worth focusing on than their wasting water, since it is often difficult to fix multiple behavioral problems at once when dealing with autism.

at any rate, if it takes him half a year to get off of wasting water I would like to have a temporary fix in that half a year as well. Sometimes it's better to ship a quick solution than to wait for the perfect one, losing money the whole time.
Is it any different from espresso fredo? In South Korea they drink iced americano, which is espresso dilluted with water and then dilluted with ice. In Greece I always drink espresso fredo as most shops will make a good cup and frappe is just not my cup of coffee.
Hundreds of thousands of years of human history would probably disagree. Just because Christianity has been dominant for a while doesn't automatically make it the best or even good. It just is
Personally I use dsvpn (https://github.com/jedisct1/dsvpn) which is super simple to setup and use, and it's made by the guy who created libsodium.
The tweet says "in a container". It _is_ real Linux in a container. I think the part you quoted is supposed to mean "not WSL".
I don't follow the logic. Where did someone argue it did justify those wars?
I had trouble understanding the method - were there 2 lasers? "Nd-YAG-laser centered at 532 nm" and "A ps-laser (Edgewave) with a pulse duration of 10 ps, a repetition rate of 80 kHz, and pulse energy of 125 µJ"? Perhaps they are one and the same?

Where can I find cheap lasers to try something like this?
I don’t see what’s difficult about opening a code editor / IDE and cloning the source, and with containers, it’s easier to setup a local dev environment than it used to be.
That was all bullshit, and everyone who actually looked into it has said so:

https://medium.com/@njmelzer/demasking-the-torture-of-julian...
It is an interesting question to which I do not have a good answer. I personally expected him to take a couple months off to "reflect", ban the troublemakers, and come back refreshed.

To quote:
> the_mittani: and just like last time, i will simply put heads on spikes over and over again until order is restored, with the occasional oops sorry about that one overly enthusiastic apology thrown in

I believe the real issue was his name being dragged through the mud on Reddit and SomethingAwful etc. I think his monetisation was also being attacked - sponsors of shows and so on simply do not like being associated with this sort of stuff. I still simply do not know what was going through his head. But stepping down for "the greater good" and playing the victim may simply be a tactic to let things die down
Any job that requires me to even interview in anything other than jeans and a tshirt or polo isn’t somewhere I want to work. If someone doesn’t take me seriously it’s their loss. Life’s too short to be uncomfortable.
I had no idea ammonia had such properties, any recommended readings/video?
C++ keeps kicking ass!

Feel sorry for crab people.
You can't be a politician without the ability to cover up your own past - it's a prerequisite.
LTT has certainly helped to force devs to "think" about the usability of the software with regards to "unwashed masses" to put it bluntly. the workflow that an expert is "expected" to know and easily get used to won't cut it for "normies" and that needs improvement.

stuff like flatpak has helped greatly to achieve that. Remember, earlier one used to have OS specific binaries, many would only offer token .deb and call it a day. otherwise you had to compile stuff...

the steam deck has exposed new people to linux who expect their systems to not break as much...

me personally have been running kde neon since 5.12 i think. once had to reinstall it. otherwise its smooth sailing on my dell latitude E7440 laptop.

minor quirks, like having to "open in konsole" an appimage instead of just double clicking it and expecting it to work has to be improved. or missing package in krdc in wayland session which i found out a few weeks ago. stuff like HP printer does detect on one machine but printer fails to print. "rendering completed" which on scouring the internet tells me to install HPLIP and even then i got nothing.

i think i can get the printer working, maybe. but it would take "time to research and look for fixes", exactly the kind of stuff that could be fixed by usability tests for example.

i dont think the "normies" should have to go and scour the internet for drivers and then spend hours learning HOW TO INSTALL drivers without breaking the system, why can't we have nice things?

take a look at this. Okular supports various document formats. suppose by default, OXPS isnt supported that one has to download its plugin. Instead of auto downloading the package after asking me "you are trying to open this .oxps in okular which needs a plugin, should i download and install it?" it says "no plugin found" or something to that end. correct information but not helpful. what am i supposed to do next?

i am not dissing on any work done by these great people, on the contrary i actively look for bugs and report on all major FOSS software that i daily drive but i have "experience" now, the next person does not.

drivers is a pain point. I installed neon last month on a PC that needed to use those cheap wifi dongles. they do provide a linux installer but apparently that broke the system so i am forced to install windows 7 on that machine because it isn't going to be under my supervision
Thanks for the feedback! LocalStack CTO here. Very timely - we're right now in the process of upgrading all dependencies (JAR files, etc) in our Docker images to reduce the exposure for potential vulnerabilities.

The scan results of the security scanning tool we're using look promising - they're almost green already.. :) Please let us know if there's anything particular that's blocking you from bringing it into your company! Appreciated
Should USA have gone to war against Vietnam?
The hard problem is "how conscious can be explained purely mechanistically?". "hard problem" is just a label from this question. So I don't get how say there's no hard problem. It seems to be a legitimate question which nobody can answer.

The philosophical zombie is just a thought experiment to help understanding the distinction between conscience and IO.

Another thought experiment that I like is the macroscopic brain. Imagine a huge mechanical device composed of mechanical entities simulating neurons. Would this whole thing be conscious? and how would we know?
If D is in the top 30 of languages according to these rankings that just shows how flawed they are.
Finance or tech firms? I think you might have a limited view of the field of PhD candidates
I love using Gnome but I hate the Gnome developer mindset. Everybody but them is an incompetent fool because they dare use their precious code in a different way. Every time one of these issues come up I consider just switching to KDE because although the UI doesn't sit as right with me, the developers and culture around the KDE project just seem so much better.
Do you happen to know what this is called in game theory? I’d like to read about it.
Look at the bright side: children can play in the sand.
In the UK, we just had a scorching heatwave this past week. I was well prepared, I had blackout blinds, cooling towels, fans, gel pads, chilled water, ice packs, closed windows, stayed at home, didn't exert myself. All the advice that you can find. I still collapsed due to heat exhaustion. Similar, but with reduced effects, has happened to me in each previous year's heatwave.

But this time's was extreme, and made me consider air conditioning for the first time. I've been against it in the past as I am vaguely aware of its environmental effects. I also realize now that I'm in danger[1]. So I can either stick to principles, or[2].

[1] https://i.imgur.com/97jEZtz.mp4

[2] https://i.imgur.com/rwCotHK.jpeg
There's online game, which runs since 97 and has profits around 20 milions of EUR

and they turn off their game everyday for 10mins :P
Excellent write-up about the possibilities and (current) limitations of writing fiction with the help of AI. (The layout of the page is weird and annoying but can easily be bypassed with 'Reader Mode').

I'm currently toying with Fabrice Bellard's Textsynth [0] with great satisfaction. It's pay-as-you-go, which is much less painful than subscription, and it has a very acceptable French model (Boris).

[0] https://textsynth.com/playground.html
I've always used xxd -i for embedding, doesn't have the mentioned problems and works everywhere, as it simply outputs a header file with byte array.
AFAIK I've only heard of extra duties in the humanities rather than the sciences.
Yep. And this also implies that once machines are above zero on the sentience scale they will continue up and will move past human-level sentience just like they moved past human-level chess playing. It's actually worrying ethically because a super-sentient being could experience extreme feelings compared to us, including extreme happiness and sadness, extreme psychological pain, etc.
And product dimensions, e.g. for aircraft, cars, military equipment,... Being able to ship in standard containers makes a lot of things so much easier
Not sure if it's mentioned in the article, but this documentary is worth watching if you haven't seen it. It pre-dates some of the newer techniques people are using.

http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/
In what way are they worthless?
Absolutely. Just at a different cost.