skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech for sodium ion batteries have been around since the 1970's or 80's. The problem is capacity fade- the most stable anodes require titanium or molybdenum, and even then they're not a great deal better than lead acid batteries.

The cheapest low-end estimate for sodium-ion batteries is $40 per kw/h of capacity. The Texas grid at any point had about 85 gigawatts of available generation capacity in 2021 (100% would be around 115, but solar and wind aren't always producing, plants are sometimes offline for maintenance, etc).

So, with no nuclear or fossil fuel production, you're looking at $27 billion just to buy the batteries (not counting installation or maintenance costs) to keep the lights on for 8 hours in Texas on a windless night.

That's at the cheapest option, so you can figure that you'll need to pay roughly 1/4 of that a year making up for batteries that have lost capacity. If you double it, that drops to 1/5 to 1/6 the total cost, unless a miracle occurs in anode tech or the weather is wonderful and they don't cycle as frequently.

Of course, three days of mild, cloudy weather means brownouts or blackouts, because 8 hours of storage is not very much at all. If it were connected to other grids, they could import excess energy from across the continent, but that means those places won't be recharging their own batteries, and you now need to factor in more HVDC lines, and over-provisioning to cover transmission losses into your base price.
Not OP, but I've been using the Asus ZenScreen and been happy with it.

Right now I'm at a co-working space and I have:
- My MacBook on a stand to the left
- My Asus ZenScreen to the right
- The monitor the coworking space provides at some desks (If you get there in time before it's taken, lol) in the middle

Pretty great setup to know I'll have 3 screens and barely need to pack anything when I come in.
If you ever have trouble accessing adderall, be sure to know that modafinil specifically treats narcolepsy and is easier to get both with and without a prescription.
I've been thinking of buying a wireless gaming headset too. How good is the Linux support on the dongles?
Of course they are, because the people live there.
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It's definitely not technical debt. The worst that can happen is that you have to go back and do it the "proper" per-arch way at some point. It's just a neat hack.
As an example, this bi-directional HDMI switch allows you to either connect 2 devices to 1 monitor, or 1 device to 2 monitors and switch with a button on top.
https://cdn.nedis.com/images/products_high_res/VSWI3482AT_P6...
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I'm bullish on AI, but 50% of Google revenue in a year in completely hyperbolic. 10 years perhaps.
Ah, interesting. I haven't heard of these yet.
ssize_t isn't in the C standard. The closest substitute is ptrdiff_t.
>It is obviously not true.

Different people tend to have differing levels of internal monologue. Mine is so constant that nearly all conscious thought filters through it, to the point that it would be very easy to mistake the monologue for the totality of consciousness.

It's a theory that rings true with people who think like I do, but still assume that everyone else thinks the same way too.
Having been to Hawai'i a few times, and having seen how the native population, versus the settlers are doing, I must say, if being a settler in Hawai'i is what life under Jim Crow was, it must have all been rainbows and unicorns and sunshine.

It obviously wasn't, but it's always good to see someone point to the stipulations of an indigenous treaty, while closing both eyes to the context in which it was drafted[1]... Or to the broader context of systemic discrimination that is very actively pissing on people, to this very day.

[1] Reparations for specific, not theoretical damages inflicted on indigenous Hawai'ian people by the government of the United States. But good on you for finding a theoretical[2] loophole! Look, everyone, feast your eyes - Europeans were actually the real victims of discrimination in Hawai'i, circa 1920!

[2] Presumably, there's some European person, somewhere [3], that can prove that half of their family tree[4] traces back to direct decadency from a non-settler European who lived on Hawai'i prior to 1778, and would like to be a beneficiary of the treaty, but isn't actually protected by it!

[3] Somewhere next to a spherical cow, and other pedantic, but utterly theoretical oddities.

[4] Unless you mean to tell us that there was some self-sustaining, secret isolated enclave of Europeans that have lived on Hawai'i prior to 1788, that only intermarried between eachother, I would expect that after a century and a half of intermarriage with native Hawai'ians, nobody either in 1920, or today would ever be able to tell the difference between that 'European' and a native.
Fair enough. Your point is valid and I hate to be that person, but..

> It does matter, because the flat earther isn't to likely make something up about everything they talk about.

I am less optimistic about this. It seems to me you are vastly overestimating the average person's rationality. Rational types are overwhelming minority. It always amazes me how even my own thin layer of rationality breaks down so very fast. I used to think we live on top of vast mountains of rationality, but now I feel more like we, deep down, are vast ancient Lovecraftian monsters with a thin layer of human veneer.

I'm not arguing that LLMs today are comparable to how humans can maintain a perspective and contain their own "hallucinations", but I am arguing that it is a matter of quantity, not quality. It's a matter of time (IMO).
I have USB footpedals.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/01/review-usb-foot-pedals-fs3_...

I joke that I have them programmed for select all, copy, and paste. But, really, it is for microphone mute, camera toggle, and boss key.

Takes up a small amount of under desk space, but worth it.
> If you record a future PST date as UTC and PST changes, your recorded date is now wrong.

Damn. That's a very good point. From now on, I'll be always recording also timezone, especially when it comes to future dates!
No, this is running LLMs on your laptop, although it can also connect to remote ones.

Eg: "Automatically detects local models in your HuggingFace cache, and lets you install new ones."

Llamma.cpp and HuggingFace models are all local.
Most document cameras come with their own stand. I have an IPEVO VZ-R [1], which you can route through your capture card with an HDMI switch if you already have that kind of setup. Being able to draw on a piece of paper to explain a concept feels amazing compared to whatever drawing tools one otherwise would have in software.

[1]: https://www.ipevo.com/products/vz-r
yeah the second half gets interesting. Making it accessible is not enough, LLMs can intepret it in different ways.
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One way to reduce switching cost is by not making use of much of the value provided by $CURRENT_VENDOR. For example you can treat AWS as merely a virtual machine and object storage provider, and not making use of their managed databases, AI services, message queues, etc. When you need those latter things, you build them yourself on top of virtual machines and object storage.

But of course, most people take one look at this calculation and decide that it's not worth it to build so much things yourself just so that you can easily switch to another cloud provider. They rightly view it as a waste of time. I've seen many companies who had the aspiration to be "multi-cloud" from the beginning and being able to switch to another provider with ease, and every time this aspiration fails due to business pressures. There's always something more important to do than building your own cloud-agnostic database orchestration system, or your own cloud-agnostic message queue.

You're complaining that Github provides features. Yes making use of those features lock you in in the sense that it makes switching to another provider harder. But the world is not better when Github doesn't provide those features at all.
This is largely my feeling as well.
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What are one of the professional use cases where you would just feel comfortable YOLOing some ChatGPT generated code into prod? Publishing a journal without verification etc?

You should also take note of the warnings in the GPT-4 manual, it's a much more convincing liar than GPT-3. Quite explicitly says that.

My fear is that I just get lazy and trust it all the time.

I think one of the reasons AI art has absolutely exploded is because there's no consequences for a generation that fails and it can be verified instantly.

What are you talking about exactly?
Tarn Adams has this base covered: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xyjam3/what-will-happen-to-g...
So... Just because they are able to see more about what is in my bag I am able to carry more liquid? Can't I just show it to them and just bring it there now?
What pray tell does the "boss key" do?
I couldn't agree more.

I bought a used ebike in January to test. And it's fantastic !

I can easily get my PC, locks, food for the day, and whatever I want over the hills to go to work (I once went to the hardware shop at noon from the office, and cycled back home with my new electric tools)

I also take over cars when there is traffic, so I take about the same time to go to work everyday.

I like that the motor of the ebike stops gradually around 25km/h. So I can just provide the power I want, and the motor will then do its share to reach about 25.
Which means I can still either train or not do anything.

I no longer bear to drive my car in traffic to go to work.

When I tried to do that with a manual bike, I couldn't do it everyday, I had to watch the weight, and I could hardly go to training in the evening.
But the ebike can be a daily ride without any problem.
I'm no fan of Google, and while I agree that Google is going to shit, things always change more slowly (and then more fully) than we expect.

GPT is far better than search for most of my use cases, but Google has enormous momentum, and a lot of technology. A change in CEO could see them turn the ship around well before revenue takes a significant beating.
I don't have it connected at the moment, but I built this rotary dial accessory for my Mac [0] so I could make FaceTime calls in an old-school fashion. The signification impact it had on my workflow? It forced me to take it slow, I guess. :)

Petmoj is Swedish slang for a rotary dial.

[0]: https://dahlstrand.net/2016/01/24/petmoj.html
I have an audiophile speaker setup that has a bit of a complicated setup - it either takes an SPDIF or 3.5mm jack, however the SPDIF way was recommended to me to achieve quality and get rid of DC POP.

For this reason I bought a 4k HDMI splitter that extracts from a HDMI signal the different video and audio channels if needed. So I connect my MacBook pro to this splitter through hdmi and run another hdmi between this and the monitor. The spdif goes to the receiver that drives my speakers.

What's cool is that the video still is at 4k@60hz and I could still get audio through my monitor if I turned on its internal speakers. It has been working flawlessly for me for years and I've only spent about 30 bucks to buy it.

Here is a link to the product if anyone wants to take a look
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07BHYXVTY?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_...
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People are actually worth what they are able to get paid, and are willing to accept. Period. End of story.
What helps me doing something I don’t like on a daily basis (pull up for example) is thinking : I don’t have the choice. That way I consume much less willpower
NCC has been doing escrow for a very long time before the Iron Mountain acquisition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channar_revolt

In Kerala, Southern India, which had the wierdest system of caste and associated rules of segregation, women had start with the struggle to clothe their upper body.
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Lately I tested if waist bag is much more convenient than pants pockets.

It really is. When sitting in car or walking having my phone in it is much more comfortable. Especially with larger phones.

Unfortunately for me it is connected to shady people so I have mental block with just wearing it.

Other downside is that it would be easier to steal it from me with all stuff in it or from it. Though I usually move in areas where there ar no or not that many pickpockets.
This is a great illustration why C is, on one hand, terrible, and, on the other hand, staunchly practical.

Here the trivial, unthinking preprocessor allows to do a pretty crazy (though very understandable and predictable) thing, which allows to acceptably solve a problem which would take years and a ton of effort to be solved "properly" (with standardization and compiler support).
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GPT2 is ancient news. There are now local running models which, allegedly, can reach the same performance as GPT-4. Look up llama.cpp[1] and all the various community generated models.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
Sometimes I'm wondering where you draw the line between influencer, "youtube personality", and "person with quite a few followers" though. I mean, on a basic level the third category seems to not even live (or just supplement their income) from YT money, the middle category is not obviously selling something, just producing stuff people seem to like to watch...
This reflects my recent experience with ChatGPT, I've am writing a TypeScript plugin been and use ChatGPT to learn about the API surface. For my particular task, the documentation basically doesn't exist and Stack Overflow answers are way scarce, the next best thing to ChatGPT was GitHub searching method names across repos to serve as examples.
Ebikes outselll electric cars, motorbikes, vans, busses and trucks combined.

I got one recently and it has been a real eye opener.

My 'normal' cycling pace is 10 miles an hour, this is usually not enough to keep up with traffic. Slowest speed limit is 20, everyone is overtaking you dangerously. I can only reach that speed briefly, before I start sweating and panting. If you are going uphill, wel...

So unless you are really fit, driving in traffic is a challenge

In UK legal limit for ebikes is 16 miles per hour, I wish it was 20, but on most roads that works and much fewer cars are overtaking you. This makes much safe experience, and gives confidence.

It is so efficient, charging it is basically free. It is so effortless, that using it in a big city is better than a car or public transport - you can go anywhere and dont need to think about parking.

All they need is some space and sensible laws.

We could literally solve 1/3 of the problem 'for free'.

Also most people dont know how to kit out a bike to carry stuff - you dont need a trailer or a cargo bike. I can fit 125 liters of good on my bike. 40 in the rear basket, 50 in rear panniers, 35 in the front panniers. The smaller supermarket trolly is usually 70 liters, the big one is 150.

You can also get a few straps and put really big items into the basket. It have transported large post boxes, chairs, vacuum cleaners, desktop computers, etc.

And there is a youtube video of a guy carrying a full-sized fridge on a bike, but that's a bit extreme.
I do not. What I say is that I perceive them. Their realness is a non-issue (to me). "Factual", you mean by "authorities"? I do get your point, but I think you overthink the issue. If you see something, it is there. It can be illusory, sure, but think about why that matters.
Sourcegraph's handbooks are amazing!
> I’d like to imagine the non technical folks using something like the dashboard example in the article would be ok with some extra work formatting their query to ensure what they think they want, is precisely what they’re asking for.

The UX in this area is very much work in progress, but from what I have seen I agree that users likely prefer to be sure that the query is correct.

What I would try to do -- and let's be clear, this is just a random opinion and my guess is as good as anybody's -- is to answer with two results, "this is my interpretation of what you asked" and "this is the answer according to the interpretation above".

It's a bit too technical for the average user, but Wolfram Alpha nails it in my opinion, and I'm convinced that with some refinement it could be usable for business folk. Example of what I mean: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=population+of+india+%2F...

This is consistent with the state of the art in NL to SQL literature (example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08205.pdf), which tends to put an intermediate representation between pure English and pure SQL. It is especially useful for production systems because it gives additional control to the backend in addition to its benefits for the pure NLP task.
Every even item is the corresponding digit, every odd item is a word that rhymes with the corresponding digit.

A continuation could be "6, heaven, 8"
Alone the possibility that I could suddenly have an empty battery while being productive make wireless devices a obvious bad choice for a home desktop. IMO
My view is that ChatGPT isn’t a singular “it”. Its output is a random sampling from a range of possible “its”, the only (soft) constraint being the contents of the current conversation.

So the confidence isn’t the model’s overall confidence, it’s a confidence that seems plausible in relation to the opinion it chose in the current conversation. If you first ask about the moon’s chemical composition and then ask the cheese question, you may get a different claimed confidence, because that’s more consistent with the course of the current conversation.

Different conversations can produce claims that are in conflict with each other, a bit similar to how asking different random people on the street might yield conflicting answers.
The oobabooga setup feels a lot more mature and has a larger community. Skimming OP's repo, there seems like a lot of fiddling and faffing with JSON to get things running.

Nice stuff all the same.
> “the bug goes away as soon as the mouse is moved, so it's usually not a big deal”

This reminds me of:

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Hidden-Tax-Moves

"Wait, let me try," Bruce said, grabbing the mouse.

"Whoa, what just happened?" a teammate exclaimed. "What did you do? A ton of traffic just came through!"
While watching Kubo and the Two Strings I thought it was a bit odd how persistently they tried to make this 3d movie look like stop motion. I was blown away when most of it turned out to be actual stop motion. There is some 3d though.

Personally I don't much care for the purist stance. Making things in the most challenging way possible does not automatically make them better.
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> costly wired earphone studio monitor

You're talking about IEMs (in-ear monitors)
Closes HN and opens up tabs for work I reckon.
In 2 comments we are showing gpts are not worse than human
> It's a word prediction algorithm. Literally any collection of words (sometimes also known as a fact) it was trained on, regardless of how esoteric or domain specific, should generally be able to be regurgitated and, to a lesser degree, associated with similar collections of words.

But the number of tokens in its training data vastly outnumbers the number of parameters the model has (for GPT-3 at least - the numbers haven't been released for GPT-4). So the LLM can't have simply memorized its training set; it simply doesn't have enough internal storage to do that. So it is not just regurgitating portions of its training set.
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It's a philosophy thing. There are plenty of languages that just solve for flat Von Neumann memory models. In the past, that did not describe all machines -- e.g. the pre-standard Borland C/C++ compilers for x86 real mode that used 32-bit ptrdiff_t and 16-bit size_t (which doesn't count as an answer because they were pre-standard in so many ways). In the future, it may or may not describe all machines -- it's possible that RISC wins forever and we continue to push all complexity into the software, or it's possible that something capabilities based comes forward instead. Similarly in primitive types, perhaps some day with have unums.

If the future is still flat, then... we've paid the cost of an extra few paragraphs in the standard? Folks interested in writing non-portable code can ignore this and use implementation-defined behaviors; those who want to be fully portable to future machines can be more careful (although ptrdiff_t is basically a cursed type anyway, so I don't see this particular overhead mattering). Yes, getting rid of ones complement makes sense these days -- but if you were worried about the compatibility issues around supporting it properly and avoiding undefined behavior, you're probably spending exactly as much effort today dealing with the fact that INT_MIN and friends are cursed mathematically on twos complement machines.

Meanwhile, suppose that we actually break out of this local minima. That's an interesting world, and an even more interesting one if we can carry most of our software forward with us.

We're not even a century into designing computers yet. I can't even begin to predict what architectures will look like in another five or ten centuries -- even assuming that transistor budgets continue to taper off. But I'll say that of the languages I use daily, C is one of the few that I'd still expect to be around and functional in that future, even if only as an archeological curiosity; it allows a decently high fidelity description of how an algorithm should be implemented across more than half a century of hardware.