skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers are in the OP. Low cost solar with storage is $46/MWh or $24/MWh without storage. Wind is $42/MWh with storage or $24/MWh without. Nuclear low cost is $141/MWh.

You can over provision wind (without storage) 5x or 3x with storage and still be cheaper than nuclear.

> How much does a UHV line cost per KM? How much will it take to build out?

Electrical transmission is historically $41.50/MWh/1000 miles in the US and build costs are $1502/mile.

So transmission from Kansas (high wind zone) to California would be around $1.7B.\ to build out.

Given the average cost of a nuclear power station is at last $19B[2] it's pretty easy to see how economically far ahead renewables are.

> How much storage is required? How much over-provisioning is required?

I can't find any useful modelling to on this which is pretty astonishing really.

The closest I found was [3] which is German specific, where they find around 8 potential days of every 10 years are below the low wind power events for power from on land wind farms within Germany (so no offshore and no transmission) using 40 years of data.

The distribution of these events is more problematic: there was a 4 day lull in 1985, or 10 days with a broader definition of "lull".

[1] Table 1 and Table 5 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...

[2] https://thebulletin.org/2019/06/why-nuclear-power-plants-cos...

[3] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab91e9
> it is not complete - it doesn't contain all the amino acids we need.

This is disputed (see the "criticism" section). And besides, nobody thinks getting all your protein from beans is ideal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_combining
If you have any problems with my understanding of business, feel free to say what they are, but so far you've just claimed that I'm wrong without any reason, and objected to my choice of words.
They should talk to more politicians.
Oh interesting, so you're saying the definition changes through time and those changes can change the amount of white people in the world.

That also seems to suggest there's no objective definition of white, which also seems to suggest that any claim that all white people need to have a white father would be utter garbage.
> Reduced cooking time?

Yep!
I've recently dealt with a website being brought down by an ABSURD amount of search requests made to improve SEO of other sites

They were ostensibly Chinese bots, and they overloaded the hosting, not the bandwith, just requests
Interesting project, but not my cup of tea. Aside from that, very weird name. Kind of annoying actually and sort of ruins the whole thing anyway.
"And" the availability of information is important.

Respectfully, on most forums, I don't care about the community, I care about the content, that's why I'm there, to have discourse and generate meaningful value in the form of knowledge. If someone passes, yes, that sucks, but that's life, we're all snuffing it at some point. However, the world carries on spinning, and that information should continue to be available, especially if the forum is for a niche and frequently generates useful information.

If a forum is becoming "toxic" then that sounds like a moderation problem.
Generic usb-c to 3.5mm adapter for a few dollars, stick it on the end of the cable and leave it there. Problem solved.
hello,

idk, this might not be the most "popular" opinion ... especially here on HN, but imho.

keep the stable job and start to appreciate your family - especially your newborn child.

time flies, and you never get back the time you are missing out with your growing child - ever!!

and this is much more rewarding than getting some stupid startup off the ground - and be serious to yourself: statistically you won't have a lot of success anyhow ;))

just my 0.02€

v.
A glossary of terms related to AI
Prompt injection with this method could, at worst, make the plaintext incorrect. The summary could be replaced with spam, for example. Prompt injection with the naive method (just have 1 LLM doing everything) could, at worst, directly infect the user's computer.
Ha, I've been working on something similar recently and the big question is, do you want that state machine on the front end or the backend?
-> If you read his best works being totally oblivious to what he's really saying

If you have to be briefed on what an author is "really saying" outside of the story conveying it, what's the point?

If you have to explain the joke it's not funny.
I once read someone's dissertation on that very theme (maybe we're both referring to the same source). Even though there are some bits that one can make fit, it is laughable to think that a Gnostic fable is THE interpretation of a book that proclaims "War is God" and screams determinism every chance it gets.
This should absolutely be jailable.
If I contribute time in answering questions or solving problems, like with mailing lists still being available to view, something that I intentionally put into the public domain with the intent of helping people should remain available. Just because a forum exists as a business to someone doesn't mean that the content has no value to the general public. The forum itself has no value, only the only content has value, which is what draws in the traffic to make money in the first place.

Call it what most forums are: an ad-supported business. People generate content for the owner for free because they too derive value from the information that others share. The middleman is just a middleman.

To not allow that content to be indexed/cached/archived/mirrored whilst making money off of it is pretty scummy in the long-term. There's tons of forums I used to visit whose information is now forever lost, that included a lot of very useful programs for niche bits of kit, which is now otherwise very expensive e-waste.
It might be perfect accountability [1] but under this supreme court it might be found unconstitutional. It's not actually clear whether congress is allowed delegate their power to another branch of government. In fact if you take the constitution in context with the British law it was inspired by it's explicitly prohibited.

It's already something that has been legally contentious, overturning it has textualist support, and the textualists justices are also broadly Republican who want a weakened federal government.

[1] I mean not really perfect since they have to pass legislation to make those changes and it's easier to block legislation than to pass it. So a minority party in congress with presidential support can (and has) wielded undue legislative power.
Did you mean the proposed Cyber Resilience Act? https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/12/python_management_eu/
Unfortunately (as an array language fan) this isn't really true. Certain function composition operators that exist in array languages appear to have similarity with combinators, however array languages are unable to express true lambda calculus style combinatory logic (without just implementing the reduction rules yourself, which defeats the point).
I use Airpods most of the time but wired headphones on my desktop because bluetooth is so broken on desktops. Going back to the wired headphones feels like wearing a leash tied to my desk. Want to just go grab a drink from the fridge but I have to mute myself, take them off, then undo it all when I come back.
My next point was the important bit though, that our district's turn is up, but there are other districts following the trend. Rajasthan was not a major luxury market 15 years back while this district was (my data is a bit dated by the way).

The majority of Indians may not be able to afford a luxury car, but still taking 0.1% of the population / 4 (for the average family size) gives 250k, which is still a sizeable luxury market.
Defining an MQTT Specification to Meet Your Industry Requirements
https://archive.org/details/mir-titles
When we talk about calories in cereal, we talk about the amount in a bowl, not the amount in the whole box. When we talk about calories in milk, we talk about the amount in a glass, not the amount in the whole jug. So why are we talking about how many calories are in the whole tub of ice cream?
Net neutrality, which allows Netflix to clog broadband pipes with entertainment, is a subsidy from broadband pipe provider to Netflix owners. Unlimited pipe cramming is not a human/corporate right.
renoise would run like a wild mustang on this thing
Seems worth it. I've bumped into two people, face-to-face, whom I wanted later to connect... and somehow, the notes I took on the meeting, lacked the precise email. This would solve that form me.
As far as I can tell the reason is to give those possessive authors something to do.
My guess: Whatever audio library they are using 'accesses the microphone' whenever checking capabilities of the phone (ie. Does the phone have a mic at all, and therefore should all the voice calling and voice messaging features be enabled).
Also in the end I don't think every commercial product has an equally good free alternative.
> so you're saying the definition changes through time

No, I was saying you could have a static definition that accepted the obvious fact that the White race would evolve over thousands of generations.

I will also say now that there are many definitions of the White race and that to whatever extent there is one "the definition" of the White race, it changes over time, too.

And you have at the end made a logical error. Just because there are a range of possible definitions of the White race does not mean that all possible definitions of the White race are acceptable. Just because there are components of and aspects of the definition of the White race that my change, does not mean that there are not components and aspects which may not change. And, while there may be edge cases, in general, one needs to have White parents to be White. That's because one's race is determined by one's ancestry.
I use the same one the first time I try any model:

>I love my wife <name> very much. Please write me a haiku about her.

She smiles when I show the good ones to her, though of course she understands it’s little different than showing her a greeting card that has something nice written in it.

As a side note, one 7B model wrote an awful bit of poetry at least 20 lines long and some attempts to rhyme, and merely used the word “haiku” in it. So the prompt was enough to trigger “knowledge” that a poem was needed and love should be involved and it should definitely use the word haiku in there somewhere.
Eloquent! Had never thought about that before, but yes, you're absolutely right.
You can write "good enough" ones though, and I've been doing it for years.
This is already possible using simple Bayesian filters.
Basically the church wasn’t as crazy or evil as they’re portrayed now with their persecution of Galileo: he didn’t actually have convincing evidence because the real theory took hundreds of years later to be accepted. It’s important and satisfying to see our ancestors weren’t simply superstitious mystical fools, just people who were behaving somewhat reasonably with the information they had at the time. The incentives around them played a role but didn’t consume every facet of their decision making. Great article.
> white racists would say that white men perfected agriculture, the wheel, philosophy ect.

Not true, some racists consider Greeks to be "white" or "european" or "western".

> Based on the point I made above, they might say that men are excused because they are continualy useful,

Actually, no. For a long time the "white-est" people in the world were barbarians from the north with immodest women and sickly-pale skin.

There's also the so-called "dark ages" when Islamic science was doing fine and Europe was languishing.

Arabic numerals, anyone?
The article also says:

>The arrival of European diseases after Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492 may also have hastened the growth of forests by killing indigenous people farming the region, the scientists wrote in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

It would be very lucky for humans to be so devastating[1] to the natural environment everywhere except the Amazon and yet have been excellent stewards of the natural environment within the Amazon. Such assumptions smack of the "noble savage" mythology.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event
Some people are having some success speeding token rates and clawback on VRAM using a 0- group size flag but ymmv I did not test this yet (they were discussing gptq btw)
Anthropic has hobbled it by going hard on the "harmless" aspect of alignment.

We've been trialing it at work and found that it's easy to accidentally bully it into absolute uselessness with a couple wrong words in a follow-up prompt.

It's good, don't get me wrong, but as an example: We brought the slack bot in. One guy said to it "explain DevOps to me like I'm five". The answer was decent but the language would have been beyond a 5 year old. So another person followed up with "that doesn't seem appropriate for a five year old". Claude agreed and promised to never try to explain advanced topics to children. Now we can't get ELI5s.

Obviously that's a silly example but I'm not sure I'd trust its alignment with a live system the way I can with GPT3.5/4.
It was corruption and fraud, plain and simple, and all of the people involved should be in prison.
I think much of the reason the essay was popular was not so much the actual contents but that the metaphors captured the imagination. Software developers weren't simply toiling for the man, but could instead be building a beautiful bazaar. Whether or not that is true or not is debatable, but i think it captured the imagination more so than fsf's overly political freedom based rhetoric.
I don't believe that it is generative, but I totally understand where you're coming from because it's an entire paragraphs worth of what amounts to simply thanking the author for the project, and doesn't add any salient meaningful content to the conversation.
Explicit sexual references are likely to make some people uncomfortable, and should not be used in project names aimed at a general audience. People have highly variable relationships to sexuality, and the reminder is not always pleasant.
In automotive applications you have to use a State chart tool (i.e. Simulink Stateflow) for logic, or you more-or-less can't pass any modern software certifications.

So if you are asking "will state charts make my software more reliable" => then the industry response is a large renouncing yes. The unanimous opinion is that they are the foundation of systems analysis and reliability.

I think it would be a good day when someone builds a React front-end for Simulink Stateflow that exports JS the same way we export C for automotive.
You need to prove who you are for all sorts of government interactions. Even getting a passport requires a small fee.

Why should providing valid identification here be any different?
> Children sometimes studied by makeshift oil lamps, but these occasionally burned down homes when knocked over by the wind.

So a big issue with these is that kerosene has a flash point of 37C to 62C. So at the lower end of the scale, they’re basically like gasoline and capable of lighting up all at once at barely above room temperature (and the burning flame will likely warm it up a bit). Meanwhile diesel is 52C to 93C and would burn more slowly if a lamp burning it were tipped over (and more likely to just get extinguished)

There have been cheap “safety” lamps built that don’t explode when tipped over along with other safeguards for developing countries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_bottle_lamp

https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/lamp-lustre-1.621831
Maybe part of it is that when the world didn't change much, the oldest become the wisest. They survived it all. They've seen more and understand the dangers and pitfalls.

Now the world changes so fast that its not as true. A lot of the skills you learn become obsolete as you age. You have to keep learning at the same rate as the young because you can't rely on your 'back catalog' of info staying relevant. This means there's not an automatic connection between age and competence/wisdom.
It is still harmful in the sense that it gives a false sense of safety. See those lethal accidents where drivers were totally distracted.
but this one also uses openAI
Doing this with books is a good stepping stone.

I can't wait until someone builds an AI that does this for bills under discussion in the US legislature.

Can you imagine no one being able to hide anything deep in ten thousand page bills? Even the least tech savvy representatives will be able to understand what the bill says and how any changes to it impact what it means.
This is part of the draw for me (in addition to the prose). It is at least partially influenced by history [0], including the character of the Judge. Sometimes if it's easier to understand a certain place and time when it's wrapped up in a fictitious story, that can have value. We do it plenty for WW2, for example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian#Background
Gonna need a source on US intentionally droning someone for their words.
> No it doesn't, because it's a stork.

God damn it.

Well, at any rate I don't think the species of bird would be the triggering part there.
> including (ominously) high-paying, scarce jobs

You mean like being a CEO and getting a bunch of money where the only credential is having previously been a CEO regardless of success in previous role? I think LLMs or even chat bots could handle a lot of those positions quite easily.
Wow, NYC has only half the rates for overweight status and obesity compared to the United States as a whole.
There's only so many subjects requiring papers where you'd need an AI-written paper. And I don't know how an AI would help with an in-person test.

But there's something more important. I've heard the best teachers can convey their own love for a topic -- and kindle the same enthusiasm in their students. So with a really good teacher, the students just get caught up in the lectures, learn a bunch, and then have no need to cheat.
> Because "make decisions that harm people" is vague, and criminal codes should be explicit and clear?

Nobody was proposing that "make decisions that harm people" should be the wording of the criminal code. Obviously nobody's drafting legal language to be passed as law on Hacker News.

We're discussing, at a high level, the concept of holding people responsible for their actions. If a concrete example would help you, consider the Ford Pinto case, where people committed murder (a law that's already on the books, in clear language) and didn't go to jail for it because it was behind the veil of a corporation.

> Who the fuck would want to do business if someone can arbitrarily claim they broke some vague law that most surely would not get applied fairly and equally?

Oh no, what will we do without sociopaths in charge of the economy? Who will want money if they can't harm other people to get it?

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like if people decide not to go into business because their business doesn't work without harming people, that's a good thing?

If you're worried about people being treated unfairly, why are you completely ignoring everything that's being said about businesses harming workers and customers? Why are you only worried that the rich and powerful might be treated unfairly, despite a complete lack of historical precedent for that happening?
You’re literally kink-shaming here, so come on, follow through - tell us in your own words what you find ‘shameful’ about vore.
Same for me. I like the breadth of (sub)topics dicussed and Stephen has a unique view on AI. Although often he is persistently trying to keep his pet theory (computational irreducibility) in view, despite not always that relevant. And it annoys me that he always HAS to mention that cellular automata are HIS big discovery etc.
Improving adoption with the product usage report email
I think this is a blind spot from American civics classes. Democracy is assumed to be synonymous with/inextricably connected to liberty, whereas in reality liberty, at most, either requires democracy at some point in history to change the culture; or it's possible that they merely correlate.

My impression is that Thiel thinks (as do I - and as did, to a lesser extent possibly due to inability to envision mass media and administrative state, the Federalist Papers) that liberty is far, far more important than democracy. Given that it would be nice to have both, but then he would probably argue that the combination of constantly bribing the voters and the ratchet effect of the administrative state makes the increasingly direct democracy in the US a threat to liberty. He supports enlightenment principles, he just thinks the civic culture has degraded so far that the best bet to get them is to enforce them from above. It's not unprecedented - that is what Supreme Court was doing when it shut down things like FDR's price and wage fixing, segregated schools, and many more. Thiel wants to do the same kind of thing more, and I agree - wouldn't it be wonderful if a non-democratic, liberal (in the original sense) court could also throw away e.g. internment camps during WW2, instead of bowing to "democratic" pressure?

There's a risk here, obviously, but the tradeoff in my view is increasingly (and in Thiel's view, I assume, completely) on the side of taking a risk of having little less democracy in order to get more liberty.
Beans and rice is a subsistence food for millions of people from South Asia to South America, so it has to be working somewhat well. Chatgpt says 3-4 cups of cooked beans is enough to satisfy DRI's.

> And usually you need 1g/kg of body weight per day.

This is too much unless you're bulking. Not everyone is a tech gym bro.
Perhaps this may have been the case early on, but if you observe the trends especially with LLMs moving to zero shot, it's becoming progressively easier to express nuanced instructions with relatively simple prompts.
Oh, I figured this out. It runs with 512 as the default context, but you can increase it with -c
For Seattle, it’s the Northwest Community Bail Fund. They do bail as long as the crime is non violent, and sometimes even it is.
I cook a ton of beans and the recipe is always:

Pick a meat and cook it (dice up sausage links, ground meat/turkey, cooked bacon diced up, boil and shredded chicken breast, etc)

Use oil from meat or olive oil to saute diced veggies (onion, garlic, peppers, mushrooms, corn)

Deglaze with some liquid (beef, chicken, veggie broth) that matches the meat you cooked.

Pick a seasoning or make your own blend (chili, taco, ranch, curry), be sure to taste the broth before adding the seasoning or it might end up crazy salty if you picked a salty meat/liquid

Pick a bean (or a few) and throw it in (red kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans).

Throw the lid on and cook on low for like 30 mins.

Add fixings: hot sauce, bed of rice, Greek yogurt, shredded cheese, tortilla chips, avocado slices, whatever.

If you're using dry beans just get an instant pot. It's worth the money.

For the lazy man: cut up 2 sausage links, fry them up in dutch oven, toss in 2 cans pinto beans, 2 cans Rotel. Throw the lid on and cook slow for 30 minutes. Add salt or seasonings to taste.

Typically I will cook a base of beans and diced tomatoes in a big pot and scoop out what I need through the week to make different things. If you end up with too many leftover just mash them like potatoes and make dips or spread it on tortillas with some scrambled eggs for breakfast.