skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot more unusable arid land in the mountain west than there are warehouse rooftops. Adding bulk commodity ground mount PV to some portions of eastern WA where there is neither ranchland/grazing or irrigrated crop would go pretty far, in addition to the already existing massive hydroelectric dams.

Look at the already government owned land around the Idaho National Lab in south/eastern Idaho for similar.

Massive scale ground mount PV on otherwise unusable already government-controlled land is less costly and faster to deploy than putting things on roofs.

People who live in the eastern or central US states and have never spent a lot of time driving around rural areas of the "Mountain west" may also not fully appreciate how much land is not owned by any one specific person or corporation, but is already owned/controlled by either the BLM or by an individual state such as the WA Department of Natural Resources. This is very alien to how rural land ownership exists in eastern US states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadla_Solar_Park
Related:

The World’s Greatest Freediver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652367 - Sept 2021 (39 comments)
> movies don't just come out of thin air. A movie studio can only make a few $250m+ movies a year, so we get the movies we get.

New ones, yes, but what about old ones? It's not like they are broken or incompatible or something. Movies don't just disappear the day after box office weekend!

> No one who goes to see the, Avengers: End Game is going to also want to watch, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie - even on a lark.

So what? Show something else, then. There are thousands of movies out there to choose from, but there are only 19 showing today! Hell, you could pick one at random from IMDB's top 250, and it would probably fill more seats than yet another 4 daily showings of Evil Dead Rise.

Hell, one of the 19 they are actually showing is Ponyo. That came out in 2008! I bet it outsells at least 3 of the 4 Super Mario Bros. Movie showtimes.

Just because Netflix exists doesn't mean theaters are worthless without new content. What else is there to do around town?

A couple weeks ago, my dad was in town for a few hours. We went out for lunch, and tried to think of something else to do together. Our first thought was to go see a movie, but we weren't interested in a single one of the ones that were showing that day. Imagine that: dozens of theater screens all around the city, and nothing to watch. It's absurd how normal that is.
Interesting. I've been waiting for hours.

Waiting lists are terrible. I loose interest by the time I get let in.
Hard Normal Daddy overshadows a lot of his other superior work
Using a Private 5G Network to Broadcast the Coronation
That article is from 2019. The OP is 2022. US spending has increased.
People actually use these? Like what's the point? Instead of being longer, it's wider...
Google has definitely indexed over a trillion pages.
If you mean asking it what it's running on, it just hallucinates. As others have noted in the comments here, you can get it to say that it runs on PaLM 3 quite easily.
Great website— its my favorite part!
It's still experimental. It works for some users [0], but not for others [1,2].

[0] https://forums.puri.sm/t/status-of-suspend-for-librem-5/1391...

[1] https://forums.puri.sm/t/status-of-suspend-for-librem-5/1391...

[2] https://forums.puri.sm/t/status-of-suspend-for-librem-5/1391...

Recent progress: https://social.librem.one/@dos/110180625035442292.
I think striking a balance between the two is quite difficult. Personally, I say I'd prefer the information being there in poor presentation over a shiny thing that doesn't work but....
A Supreme Court ruling the fossil-fuel industry doesn't like
Can anyone recommend a book or resource for an introduction to spy craft? I’m sure there are more approaches like ‘canary traps’ that would be useful mechanisms to understand.
The previous comment did not mention any numerical figure in the first paragraph, only that rate would be much higher due to the aforementioned reasons. I left it intentionally ambiguous by not specifying a number for a reason.

The rest of your comment is not worth a substantive reply considering almost any passing reader can see through the attempt to stop the conversation with a dismissal.
Here's my entirely non-scientific comparison:

https://imgur.com/a/HWLgu3c

If that is really the best that Google can do after working for several months on one-upping GPT-4, that's just sad, and doesn't bode well for them.
ChatGPT's Code Hides Blue Check Replies to Viral Tweets, Charging $8 to Unhide
I wonder if someone has taken Borgmann and related it to the latest research on social media addiction and dopamine driven feedback. I've personally felt the effects of instant gratification on social media making life harder in the long run. Challenging activities (e.g. exercise), get me out of the hole.
Whenever I hear people say some variant of "criminals aren't very smart", there's a part of my brain that says "how do we know? Surely the smart ones aren't getting caught so we never hear about them."
My god the increasing services push is awful; I used to be an Apple Music subscriber but left eventually because at launch it was a clusterfuck with personal libraries, just destroying metadata and deleting 'duplicates'. And I now have to use a 3rd party music app to listen to my local library on my phone because the system one likes to pop up a fullscreen ad for Apple Music what feels like every time I open it.

I like my Apple products but this services thing is truly destroying a lot of the good experiences they can provide.
I would contest that.
I think one advantage to putting the solar cells on warehouses is that the generation is much closer to where it gets used, reducing both infrastructure costs as well as transmission loss.
Indications of PFAS “Forever Chemicals” in Contact Lenses
How does the dedicated solar installation impact the wildlife in that area?

Edit: I also wonder if there are even though sunny days in the mountain west to recover the massive carbon cost from building the solar cells in the first place. Regardless of we put them on roofs or elsewhere.
Correct. When things are really stuck on stupid, there's usually two or three dynamics in play:

- lack of openness or fear of blowback from push back on the norms that squelches honesty.

- people in charge who are deluded

- people who use the norms to advance their own agenda usually without ever being explicit about it and purposely turn a blind eye to nonsense

Trump is an example. Nixon and the republican senate (ultimately) is a counter example.

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In college, I ordered a few dollars worth of chips from Digikey but I couldn't find datasheets. The Internet was not a thing yet. Without asking, they mailed me a 100 page photocopy. I'm still a customer. Never issues, which is more than I can say about lots of large companies. Digikey just works.
it seems easy to undervalue undeveloped land. I think the argument being made is that we have land that's already connected to the electrical grid, already has roads and routes for servicing, already has fire mitigation and contingency plans in place, already has disrupted whatever ecological processes would have been happening if it were left undeveloped, and is just missing the last piece of solar panels, which we may as well add since we've done the rest of the development process.
> Because this is a person that doesn't meet the notoriety requirements for Wikipedia

Very much does, just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't.
Musician and composer here. This might make for some interesting sounds but it's not music in any human sense.
You can be on a phone call with the phone in the background.
Which regions are these things cropping up in?
Search for hydraulic ram pump or just ram pump for lots of great home made pumps and vids on their operation e.g. https://youtube.com/results?search_query=ram+pump
It would be a lot more expensive to put them on warehouses than the millions of acres of unused land nearby. But the mountain west also has ice and hail and solar panels tend not to live up to their expected lifetimes out here.
> I'd imagine then that 11,000 years of traditional rice farming in the Yangtze River Valley must have really sucked the life from the soil and there's barely another millennium or two left there.

They have. Traditional farming is very taxing on micronutrients.

China (and Egypt) used a lifehack called "silt". Basically, they use it to periodically replace the topsoil.
>There is a lot more unusable arid land in the mountain west than there are warehouse rooftops.

What a very human-centric point of view
We know how much Netflix spends on content. In 2022, it was 52% of their revenue ($16.7B content budget, $32B revenue). We also know how much YouTube pays for the content, since their ad revenue split has been public for like a decade. It's 55% to the creators for the content, 45% to YouTube for the technical and social infrastructure.

Huh. Looks like YouTube pays more for their content than Netflix does! Given the only stated basis for your opinion turned out to be incorrect, are you changing your mind?
True, but it also introduces new relationship/contractual/long term problems like having a whole legal team engage with whoever owns the buildings of dozens or hundreds of Home Depots or Walmarts for a 3rd party warehouse-roof-size PV installation. And eventual need for periodic repair/replacement of the underlying roof.
OpenAI has a 40k token per minute rate limit on their GPT4 API too so I doubt it's artificial scarcity.
>Please also understand the appeal to authority in "is illegal in many places".

What exactly do you think "appeal to authority" means in this context?
> Not only do they not have the integration, scale and user base of Google,
Sure, but MSFT does. Well beyond the scale and user base google has.
>>The fact that you have a hard time believing that an insurance company might illegally deny a drug

No, I find it hard to believe, as you alluded to, Blue Cross were trying to get her on the equivalent of pepto for cancer. A Parkinson's drug likely has a correlation and is hardly pepto which is over the counter. Sounds like you acknowledge that even...

>>Voting, writing my senator/congressman, etc. Our government is broken in a lot of ways but are you really asserting we have zero influence? Because that's what I have with private companies.

You want to get an insurance company to respond quickly? Each State has an insurance commission with a phone line, email etc. I wish you the best of luck with Congress.
Inflation impacts big-ticket items as well... home prices, college tuition, VIP Disney tours, backyard pool builders, etc
>I used to be worried about AI alignment, until I realized something fundamental: We already have unaligned human-level artificial intelligences running around, we call them corporations

We also call them governments. They can get pretty powerful.

>"What will we do with all the people when we're optional?"

Judging by the COVID-19 pandemic response, having large aggregates of disempowered individuals from a highly irrational and political species that have become unhappy with the "new normal", it tends to garner some form of reaction. If they are reacting to things that observe and learn from those reactions, and then formulate new goals or sub-goals in response to what they learn, then what is it they might learn and how might they react?

The arguments go both ways. The only thing that's clear is that absolutely nobody on earth is going to be able to predict it with any degree of accuracy. You'd have to know too much.
Depends on the leak. Some leaks are for the good of mankind, others are just for some internet points. Seldom do they generate a profit unless the leaker is leveraged or in cahoots with someone who is.
Interesting that coffee isn’t on there.

I’d be interested in learning about drug use not during programming tasks too, especially for something like weed or psychedelics there’s going to be much more use not at work, compared to adderall and caffeine.
> To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your AI Test Kitchen conversations, interactions and demo outputs. Please do not include information that can be used to identify you or others in your AI Test Kitchen conversations or interactions. You will be able to delete your data while using a particular demo, *but once you close out of the demo, your data will be stored in a way where Google cannot tell who provided it and can no longer fulfill any deletion requests*. Your interactions are retained for up to four years.

Some fun facts from MusicLM privacy policy.

Also, Tailwind's "Join waitlist" link (https://thoughtful.sandbox.google.com/signup) leads me to a 404 page (maybe be region specific as I'm not based in N. America).
The interface on Librem 5 is quite smooth. Also, it can be smooth on Pinephone, if you use a light OS like SXMo.
Show HN: Thought Blast – Like Twitter in Solitude
Hey HN,

I built Thought Blast.
It is a bullet journal for iOS where you can quickly jot down your ideas or ramble and it transcribes the audio. You can also pin the important ones.

This is my first app ever and I'm super stoked to have made it beyond tutorials onto actual devices.

The motivation was to replace the single ever growing apple notes note i previously used.

I used React Native for the frontend and flask for the backend which calls a speech-to-text model on a serverless GPU.

I'm happy for any feedback!
Ask HN: Have the recent advances in AI (possible AGI?) caused
you to change your mind on some until now thought to be pie-in-sky technologies: nuclear fusion etc.
They could unfuck their search very easily.

Google Search's main problem is that it is annoying to use. The promoted results are annoying.

The quality of search results are very low in terms of user experience. Slow loads and full of dark patterns like popovers, sales bots, funnels, back button hijacking. This is 100% stuff that can be detected and penalized.

Finally their hybrid query understanding based on both semantic and keyword search is frustrating and misinterprets queries very often. This is a design problem.

AI search is not currently giving better answers, it's just less of a pain in the ass.
Great write-up! I feel those stories of open source developers are really lacking in the space given the importance of their work.
This is pretty good advice in general. The cost value curve of different things is different, and as you suggest, for the majority of things the functional value cut off is at quite a low cost point.

What I find particularly amusing is when the cost value relationship invert, often after a stupidly high price point, especially when they introduce complexity.
Building a hydroelectric dam and flooding some habitat or burning conventional fuels in a traditional power plant to drive a turbine coupled to a generator with atmospheric exhaust are also very human centric points of view, exactly what is your point?

In Google Earth satellite view, go find the entire plateau of dry land wheat farming (non irrigated) on the masive plateau surrounding Waterville, WA. We have already significantly modified the desert environment there for other purposes. Look at all the square areas of wheat farming.

Go find "Atomic City, ID" in a satellite view and look at the desert brush land surrounding it for an area that's so arid that humans haven't even tried to irrigate it or do something like dry land wheat farming.
I watched a magician's show where he made his assistant hover in mid-air. It is evident that the magician has mastered levitation.
This is the right question. Warehouse roofs are designed to counter snow load and wind uplift at "x" mph. Once those forces are exceeded, you can expect damage.
Apple tried to use the courts but failed. The California Appeal's court granted the publishers a protection order against revealing their sources: https://www.eff.org/cases/apple-v-does
Malcolm Hardee
All of the above (if necessary):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oM9pEezyCb4dCsuKq/pausing-ai...

Basically, the idea is that countries sign the agreement to stop the large training runs, and, if necessary, be willing to use conventional strikes on AI-training datacenters in the countries that refuse. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, hopefully it just becomes the fact of international politics that you can't build large AI-training datacenters anymore. If some country decides to start a war over this - the argument is that wars at least have some survivors, and an unaligned AI won't have any.
I've worked B2B with Arrow, and B2C. They're a big gorilla in the industry for B2B, but much less well known in the B2C world. (In this instance, for B2C I mean B2Hobbyists like Mouser and Digikey are). I wasn't terribly happy with them on B2B. They just weren't very attentive, and ended up costing our small business countless hours and money. In their defense they tended to always let us shoot up the chain and rectify things after the fact. But after the fact is quite painful for small businesses. On the plus side, they are a big gorilla, and there are advantages to that when you aren't well networked in the industry.

B2C they're okayish. I prefer Mouser/Digikey/etc. But I've never had a bad experience with them, and sometimes they're cheaper, so I keep them in my rotation. For awhile they were making a hard push into B2C and offered free overnight shipping. God, that was amazing.

tl;dr: They're okay, but not the best in any regard.
It depends on your threat model. They say China is also spying on everyone they can. Also, it's not just made in USA: it's made on Purism's own factory, so they can ensure that nobody else can tamper with it.
Ask HN: Does using a new editor/word processor occasionally enhance creativity?
Isn't it like changing your surroundings occasionally as a way to enhance your creativity?
Does the turbo API being 10 times cheaper than davinci imply anything? It implies more than just quantisation to me.
When Hay Was King: Energy History and Economic Nationalism in the 19th C. USA
Until someone builds a better blocker to the anti-ad blocker
Ask HN: Is Apple still developing Private Relay?
Does anyone know if Apple is still developing Private Relay?

My family switched to iCloud (and Safari, from Firefox) specifically for this feature on iOS and Mac, and while it's always been a bit glitchy for me, I assumed they were tweaking it as part of the ongoing beta.

Lately, as I continue to have to turn it off for many websites, I'm starting to think Apple has given up on consistently improving the product, or at least getting it stable enough. A brief search for recent news or updates from Apple has me suspecting this is true. Thanks for any thoughts.
What if it’s legal elsewhere ? Too bad?
The submission is about Librem 5 USA, which is shipped within 10 days.
Indeed, it's likely that they're running a fairly small model. But this is in and of itself a strange choice, given how ChatGPT became the gateway drug for OpenAI. Why would Google set Bard up for failure like that? Surely they can afford to run a more competent model as a promo, if OpenAI can?
This is probably the most absurd comment that I've read so far in 2023.

Apple is a 2.73 trillion dollar company, and single-handedly makes up 13.3% of the entire S&P 500 index. The iPod was launched 22 years ago. Apple hasn't been remotely an "underdog" for over a generation now.
What are the environment effects of that?
I like "Software Developer". What we do isn't anywhere close to engineering, but programmer feels a little constrained to just the coding aspect of the job.
I see mention in the article of content creation. But are search engines working on task-related personal assistants?

For one example, If I want to take a holiday, could an assistant work out the best dates (based upon preferences of availability, cost etc), and research the best airfares (excluding that particular airline I hate) and find a hotel room with the features I want, and throw in a few sightseeing activities which appeal to my personal tastes, then summarise it up into a travel itinerary for me to approve. Then, upon approval it proceeds to book (and pay for?) all the things.
> But the biggest problem was that the modem constantly dropped out meaning I would miss calls and messages makimg the phone useless.

Also fixed now. Fun fact: it turned out to be a deficiency of USB 2.0 spec (race condition between a suspending hub and a device signaling remote wakeup) and it's in no way specific to the phone - it may happen on any USB host with similar topology.
This is effectively what the “GDPR compliant” providers mentioned in the article are already doing, namely, a one-way hash of the IP+UA. One of the points of the article is that this is non compliant, since you need to transmit the IP+UA to do this calculation to begin with.
You might be right. What a dystopian future that will be. Make a few requests too many and the webserver might think you're scraping data so it gaslights you into reading bullshit.
Ask HN: Is it still worth learning Ruby in 2023?
The Nexus 7 was Google’s only great tablet, and it has never tried to replace it
https://archive.is/5VEZE
I think we should call it GEO - GPT Engine Optimization. :)

Furthermore, the article lack of how to tackle those shifts with depth analysis.
For example: How can one put their info to be presented by a GPT/GPT-plugins.
Bard seems to be able to access indexed pages, at least. For example, two hours ago, I asked for a recap of https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/13bw8ud/the_future_of_..., and Bard did a good job with it. And, from today, Bard supports my native language, Korean.
RIP. This sucks so hard. I was in my early 20s when I started reading blogs regularly and Dooce was just on the peripheral of bloggers I followed. Even tho I wasn’t into her subject matter, her style was hugely influential. (Edit for clarity)
EU decision clearing $69B Microsoft, Activision deal expected May 15
Nice of them to sell near the bottom and help me accumulate more.
Also this very submission https://crimew.gay/notice/AVWTkvCXna4Pca7OCm

(Unironically keep slaybossing, OP)
Ai has no point of view, we get into a particular story tellar for what makes them unique, with large language models there is the most boring, bland point of view possible.
Useless output? Try near zero output for some. I've worked at places with layers of professional meeting attenders. The pandemic made this worse.
Ruby is awesome. Focus less on particular language and instead think about what you want to do and then use whatever has the most libraries/utilities for the particular use case. I used to think in these terms but it isn't the right question.

If I'm just making something from scratch I might reach for Rails, which I love and am super comfortable developing in. If I am doing a lot of data work with something that also needs a web app/web API, I might reach for Django or FastAPI depending on project bandwidth. It just depends. What are you trying to build? Tell us more.

Just my $0.02
> Do you know what the anti-interdiction services are?

https://wp.puri.sm/posts/anti-interdiction-services/

> Does it have a something like Apple’s Secure Enclave to protect cryptographic keys? Are apps strongly isolated?

https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
Illogical to see a censorship map that misses all of the obvious media outlets.
Why do unaligned AI not have any survivors?
Corporations are WAY more aligned than an AI could be, and people still complain about them. A corporation might pollute the water, kill the dolphins, or give you cancer, but at least it fundamentally doesn't want all humans to be dead.

An AI can (and is likely to) have goals that are fundamentally incompatible with the existence of humanity.

And, an AI can be way more intelligent and powerful than corporations, so corporations are limited in what they can accomplish when pursuing their interests, but AI might not be.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230510215922/https://www.econom...