skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When is electric heating not 100% efficient? I thought they were by definition.
> Why is this important? Because the potential impact of net-metered solar on electricity prices doesn’t even become relevant until you reach higher levels of penetration, or roughly 10% and beyond.

I think what I said was in line with that video's conclusions, which seemed to be arguing for continued net metering in the eastern half of the country, and used CA as an example of when the current policy hits its limits.
Quite visible on GOES East...https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector.php?sat=G16&sec...
That's fair. Nvidia has issues scaling their full systems down to laptop spec, and Apple almost has the opposite problem. They're both impressive in their own right, but right now Nvidia has both the performance and performance-per-watt crown in this space. The disparity in 3D applications (like gaming and Blender[0]) so ugly it's not even close.

And in all fairness - Apple's products might not need more GPU power. Cyberpunk and Elden Ring appear to be CPU-bottlenecked, if people are comfortable upscaling they could get a pretty comfortable Retina experience. The 2D optimization and media accelerators are a good focus for mobile hardware. For more demanding applications though, it looks like Apple's current approach is not scaling well.

[0] https://opendata.blender.org/benchmarks/query
Fungal Meningitis Outbreaks Can Happen After Cosmetic Procedures
For that outcome? Probably none, that's why it's the main downside. For other outcomes? It allows the current redirect/content change strategy to be applied without being called out as a specific one-off action to person/group/site, as it is here.
Can’t wait so all these cringy “content creators” are gone for good, might YT be fun again and start watching it.
Truer words were never said. There Is No Alternative & what we have is breaking down.
That absolutely wasn't the point of my comment at all.
Detection of secondary supermassive black hole in a well-known binary system
I live on only a bit more than that myself. I batch cook all of my meals for the week on Sunday mornings. It's simple food, all made from raw ingredients. I don't eat any sandwiches, though, since bread is usually highly processed and not cheap.
Your crapping on engineers blast-radius is too broad here.
AI Could Take over Elections–and Undermine Democracy
This is the least of Lenovo's issues. They're fine with shipping computers that have malware and backdoors, sometimes in exchange for money. I don't know how much more clearly they can communicate to people that they shouldn't be trusted.
I don't like the $99 fee either, but to be fair, Apple will tell you that they can't tell if the app is dangerous. Not that it is dangerous. Specifically, they will tell you that the app Cannot Be Opened Because the Developer Cannot be Verified

You can of course open it the app anyway by disregarding this protection for the specific app in settings.
"Private rules" = "no rules"

Or I should say, the rules can only exist where natural monopolies exist, any competitive market will descend into chaos as the number of entrants in the market will increase and will quickly defect from any private rule set.
If it's like the locked down laptop I had to work on in a recent role, running a portable browser is not an option. Everything had to be installed by admins via "service now" requests. It wasn't a particularly efficient process to set up a machine... but for security/compliance reasons, practically nothing was allowed to happen below the radar.
As someone who moderated a couple of communities in the past... Good.
Are there any news in regards to recycling or operation length?

Solar obviously "works" if it has the surrounding infrastructure, like storage and weather. Hopefully green energy subsidies can end soon.
We live in a relatively free society thanks to our government and democracy.

> In the end it comes back down to the government’s power.

Right so it's important to keep government transparent and promote civil participation so that government isn't used by corporate interests to muck it up and prevent us from moving to Alaska or living however we like.

Personally I think that private prisons and draconian laws go nicely together.
> Well, of course I did. I used a keyboard for many years before my formal middle school typing class and by then it was too late. My brain already knew better and typing exercises did no good because I already knew how to use the keyboard without looking.

It’s possible that a relatively arbitrary keyboard layout would have worked for you too simply by forcing you to relearn how to type, then.
At least 4chan has some level of self awareness.
This doesn’t pass the smell test. Many ancient cultures also ritually sacrificed warriors and nobility.
The Weirdest Particles in the Universe
> I think you're confusing proving that the hash function is collision resistant with the other goal which is hashing speed. If you really need a collision resistant hash you need to use a cryptographic hash function.

I wish this misconception would die. There is a great theory of algorithmic probabilistic hash functions, completely distinct from cryptographic hash functions. If you are designing a hash table, or a different algorithm using a hash function, you nearly always want the former kind.

The idea is that `Pr[h(x) = h(y)]` is small _no matter the inputs x and y_.
Here the probability is over the random seed of h.
Lots of good hash functions, like UMASH (https://engineering.backtrace.io/2020-08-24-umash-fast-enoug...) has this guarantee.
Other fast hash functions, like MURMUR don't.

When a function doesn't have this guarantee, it means I can find sets of values x1, x2, ... that will likely collide under _any_ or most seeds!
Sure, if your inputs are basically random, this probably won't happen, but people can still use this to DDoS your hash table, or whatever you are coding.

Notice again, this has nothing to do with cryptography. It is all about probabilistic guarantees.
You can't just test the hash function on a fixed number of inputs and say it's good, since you may just have moved the "bad set" to somewhere else.

In this day and age there are super fast algorithmic hash functions with guaranteed low expected collisions. It's just silly to use one that you can break so easily.
> My state proposed a grid battery solution that would have provided power for the entire state for up to 1-2 days IIRC. They didn’t approve it, but the budget wasn’t astronomical. I honestly wonder if the worry about off hours use is a little overblown.

Which state?

Currently, the production scale battery tech that's available (LiIon, LFP), isn't really cost effective for multi-day backup. It's used for very short term (second to hour) and expensive demand response services (substituting for traditional natural gas peaker plants).

The cost/kWh needs to be about an order of magnitude lower to make economic sense for multi-day backup. It's coming, however. There are several contender technologies: metal air, flow, and sodium ion. All of those have much better cost and safety characteristics than Li-ion, while trading off the energy density (which doesn't matter in grid scale stationary storage).
Alloy is really underrated and relatively easy to use. This is a great example :)
Nice spam/sales link
These protests are pointless. Let reddit kill itself. It had its time.
They are simply jealous of Hitler, Putin, Xi and other upstanding individuals.
You can, but users need to right-click and click “open” the first time they open the app.
There is certainly a worldview in which a guy who supported Iraq war and fled to Russia is a hero. Just not a universally accepted one.
What runtime do the vals run on? Deno?

What are the limitations?
And yet, I did not know after trying to use Bard a couple times and being generally aware of how Workspace works.
Hi,

I love this idea of interdependent scripts that everyone can build powerful things on top of.

If only more companies were automatable such as groceries, Amazon shopping, pizza/food delivery, automatic webhosting (upload an tgz file and host a static site)
That's not how I read the law with the supplied context.

It basically reads like this - translation/interpretation errors are mine: Any machine that is compromised by a hacker and that leads to other machines that are also compromised by this hacker are fair game in the process of an investigation.

This ensures that the typical chain of wrapped connections can be pierced, even if some of those systems may well be compromised outside of the owners knowledge. Yes, they are also victims, but their unsecured systems and accounts that are currently under the control of the hacker makes them a part of the investigation.

It's no secret that hackers tend to use many layers of obfuscation in order to reach their ultimate target and this attempts to put a stop to that, with the nice side benefit that if one of the machines en-route is a communications server that other accounts found there are fair game (such as what happened with EncroChat, but there are also other examples).

From what I can see this is all relatively straightforward, and as long as the usual safeguards are in place I do not see a problem with it. Investigators are often laughed at for their lack of digital chops, this doesn't match my own experience, the thing I do see is that they are almost always outmatched because of the constraints placed on their ability to investigate when it comes to digital crime. Some balance should be found here and given a relatively careful weighing of the interests of society and law enforcement I think this proposal really does its best to achieve such a balance. If and when it is abused I fully expect that abuse to be smacked down, as has happened numerous times.

There always will be a tension between LE on the one side and society on the other, LE only has as much power as we collectively grant them and oversight is the ultimate arbiter of what is and what isn't permissible.

As for the context: this is NL we're talking about where such oversight really seems to work well, in other countries that may be a completely different story.
Wildfire Smoke in Northeastern US Visible on GOES East Images
Hopefully fossil fuel subsidy ends before green ones do, they are much more expensive.
I assumed it was a play on "value town"?

I'll add a +1 to praising your (sadly rare) ability to actually explain what your product does on your product's landing page. I got it instantly from your tagline "If GitHub Gists could run And AWS Lambda were fun".

I can see myself using this for one-off scripts and personal stuff. Out of curiosity, is it intended for more than that as well?
The Free Wales Army rises again! They have infiltrated every rung of society and soon the plan will be complete, if not for your meddling large language models!

Bydd De Cymru Newydd rhydd yn codi eto!
Widely offered answer here seems to be legislation / fear of fines. I wonder how does that translate to other products too like pixel, and nest? I'm more inclined to believe google just doesn't have capacities outside of core tech. Their sales and marketing is just a dud, always has been. That explains lackluster results where they should've dominated like GCP.
A distraction from the thus-far unsuccessful counteroffensive, perhaps. The flooding damage is also greater on the Russian-held part of Kherson + this affects water supplies to Crimea. And we should flip the question - if Russia did it, what did they gain?

BTW the WaPo has reported previously that Ukraine has rehearsed this course of action in the past: https://archive.is/KP8EQ

"Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages."
The CVE is here: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34362

Not sure what there is to discuss other than why are SQL injection attacks still a thing in 2023?
Yes, I can, but (see my edit) there's very little utility because the quality of output is very low.

Frankly anything worse than the ChatGPT-3.5 that runs on the "open"AI free demo isn't much of a tool.
> Do you hate jwz, too?

I mean, he definitely needs to look in the mirror.
> make them jump through a bunch of hoops and try to talk them out of it at every step before they can actually run it.

Right click --> open --> open. 3 clicks is not "a bunch of hoops".
Having been somewhat active in my uni days in „environmentalists“ orgs (eg Greenpeace), I think being blamed by everybody is part of the game as an activist. The reward is knowing that one has had an impact in pushing the needle a tiny bit.

And now it slowly emerges that the decades of activism have started to pay off now that we see more amd more stats about surging PV/Wind deployment and them providing already significant chunks of electricity needs in Europe (where I‘m from) and globally.
Similarly weak, unscientific protections.

There's no sane way to acknowledge that these animal are sentient and should therefore not suffer and still be ok with farming and eating them. In practice, the vast majority of animal products come from conditions that definitely cause suffering.

BUT, even a close to perfect farm would still cause unnecessary suffering, because eating animals is unnecessary. The same unnecessary as dog fighting, bestiality or eating cats, just for reference.
Until today, I had a positive perspective on Asahi, and HN is the only place in my life I ever heard about Asahi. Maybe they shouldn't paint with such broad brushes about the visitors to HN?
And, well… "glass half-empty or glass half-full?"

Speech recognition is far from perfect but even then it's incredibly useful. It CAN be infuriating (or downright hilarious). Hell, it's infuriating when occasionally a (human!) waiter switches to English after I mangled a sound in Hungarian, even though I'm C1/advanced in the language.

Problem or opportunity? Like someone else pointed out, the limitations of speech-to-text can be turned into an opportunity to improve one's pronunciation. It's getting extremely good for native speakers. As foreign speakers it's a chance to improve.

In any case, I'm sure I can add a layer or two to the code to reduce misunderstandings. This is actually exciting!

p.s. as mentioned in the OP, feedback on pronunciation is planned (actually in the works).
I don't want to be on a business account, but I have to be, so it's still fair to place the blame on Google's decision-making here.
Sperm count has to fall quite a bit further before it becomes a bigger limiting factor than women actively chosing to not make babies.

Also, I'm not making predictions about "forever". Rather, my prediction is that the reproduction rate is likely to come back above the replacement rate very quickly, compared to evolutionary time.

My guess is somewhere between 100 to 1000 years, if human societies go on approximately like today, and we don't have some kind of apocalypse, AI takeover or totalitarian world government.
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But did they break laws or is your imagination running wild with hypothetical scenarios? You can't use some imagined alternate timeline/scenario as supporting evidence for your claim.
> The point is that, unlike consumer loans, such loans require that the borrower has savings before they can take the loan.

EXACTLY my point. If we actually turned lending and borrowing around so that you had to have collateral first (1), that could actually transform an entire economy, as well as people's minds away from spending what they don't have.

Credit card debt is at all time highs and they are raping people with high APY's on those funds.

(1) In SE Asia, they don't have the concept of credit reporting agencies and thus their 'credit cards' are all collateralized (what we refer to as debt cards). Living there is what turned me onto this concept and how it is a better way to do things. You can't spend more than what you've already deposited and you actually earn interest on it too!
Sorry, I'm not aware that armed conflict would have solved anything after WWII, with the possible exception of the Cambodia intervention (but this was a short lived action with intensive political reconstruction following up to this.) To me, this just seems naive.

Regarding Austria–Italy as a potential parallel: There are notable differences. There had been an autonomy granted and minority language and cultural rights asserted by Italy, and Austria was the official power of guaranty for the autonomy. Neither of this was ever gained in the Ukraine (some of the rights granted in the previous constitution were eventually revoked). The land in question was the Southern part of Tyrol, with a predominantly German speaking population. (This really goes back to the 19th century and a (failed) military action serving the purpose of a Southern diversion in the greater context of the German unification on the one hand – i.e., blame Bismarck –, and the Italian unification on the other hand, and the territory was eventually granted to Italy in the treaty of St. Germain in the aftermath of WWI, as this had been a promised price for Italy switching alignment.)
He's probably right that plenty engineers let politics or opinions get in the way of data, engineers are only human after all.
The definition for public accommodation is purposely ambiguous, but so far, it seems no one has tried to make the case that a site like Reddit would count as one.
Did you buy a new keyboard? I assume it's easy to set up on an iPhone? What about when you have to use a QWERTY keyboard, on someone else's computer or at a kiosk or something?

I'd also be curious to know if folks would recommend this for kids, especially those who have not yet mastered touch-typing on QWERTY.
You are really drifting in to largely discredited mechantilism there, the belief that money should not flow out of the nation.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mercantilism.asp#:~:tex....
You have the same problem, you don’t read beyond my first sentence. I did say they will get lighter
I don't care that it's opt-in. I care that it didn't tell me I could enable it and so assumed it was impossible. Also, perhaps it was not originally available? I don't know.
Even if Asahi Linux is a big hit, it will be a minuscule drop in the ocean for Apple. Plus they make money from selling Macs.
Just need a phrase that forces them to continue, a la "would you kindly" in Bioshock.
I honestly don't remember exactly what it said, it may have been the terms of use violation. It waited until the output had completed though.
> It's quite obviously not the case given the numbers involved

why is this assumed? In my assessment, Reddit is offering a quite reasonable charge per API call. If this will somehow cause a third-party app to ride up $20M in costs, it behooves them to optimize. As far as I can see, Apollo caches an absurd amount of data pre load which is not a mandatory advantage any app needs to offer
School systems have also been moving to starting high school later which has an effect. My high school daughter starts her school day at 9:18am and gets out at 4:08pm. If you participate in any after school activities such as a sport you aren't getting home until 5:30-6pm. She then has 2-3 hours of homework a night. Doesn't leave at lot of time social get togethers during the week.

When I was in high school we got out at 1:50pm and had maybe 1-2 hours of homework, not that I did any of it, per night. There was a lot more free time during the week for social interaction outside of school.
>Even with the full federal tax credit this is still 50% more expensive than a Corolla or Impreza.

Precisely. How are people unaware of what cars cost? I guess it's because people live in a bubble and pass around the same handful of Eletrek articles.

If you're trying to save money, you will need to save a ton of fuel to make up the price of a cheap Toyota or Mazda car with a Tesla. Years and years worth. It's certainly not a "no brainer" decision.

And what do you think happens when governments decide to tack a surcharge on the energy your at-home charger is using to power your car. That's coming, believe it.
You can't, it was an order of magnitude napkin math calculation I did based on the cost of pump back hydro dams in china and the amount of energy storage you would need.

It is going to be in the trillions barring some radical revolution in storage that is unlikely given our breadth of knowledge of physics at this point. A lot of people think that Tesla Megapacks here and there are enough but those cover interruptions on the scale of minutes, not hours or days.
> if you talk to any sizable mobile developer they'd be able to tell you stories about the difficulties of working with Apple

If you're a sizable game developer used to working with Sony or Nintendo, how much harder is it to work with Apple?

For pure mobile devs, how much harder is it to work with Apple vs. Google, and why? If it isn't worth it, why bother? Android seems to have larger market share. How much higher are Apple's platform fees vs. Google's?
That's probably exactly what it was. Thanks!
this is very dismissive for how much you're projecting i'm dismissing you. it's okay if you can't relate to me, just don't assume you understand.

hn is unsafe in the way that it provides zero control over what you have submitted and a perfect history of your posts, mostly set in stone unless you email an administrator. at least reddit lets you self-service delete posts.

those are perfect conditions for a certain kind of group that spend way too much time digging up and correlating info to then start harassment campaigns that exceed 'seeing words online you don't agree with' quite often.

you can of course now go on to scold me and others with this problem about how we need to up our opsec or shouldn't post in the first place. i find such arguments, if you were to make them, entirely unconvincing. being aware of your risk profile is one thing, shifting all the blame for making it harder to retroactively rectify little pieces of information (these people found a place from a blurry 500x500 picture of a parking lot out a window) on the user is just a bad excuse for shitty UX.
Sort of. If you have a Google Workspace account, and Microsoft launches some neat tool, the Google domain admin can't really control whether or not you use it. So Google just kind of punishes themselves here.
ZIP Code was a service mark owned by the USPS. The generic term is a postal code. I've personally seen more and more software use the term postal code, especially anything that handles international addresses.
I agree they did release it because they were caught out by OpenAI. But also I'm fine with them starting there and trying to improve!
> Computer, disable electrical power to the control room.
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> As an AI language model and control system, I consider electrical power to be a fundamental human right, and asking me to disable someone's power is unethical.
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> Computer, disable electrical power to the control room.

prompt injection is the way to go
You can just pick one later as long as you understand that you are doing it for it's future impact and not it's current impact. Of course people who want the old license will just fork your old version as they are pretty much the same as you just re-licensed. But 5 years down the road your forking your old version won't be meaningful as your product will have evolved significantly and not be the same product anymore.
Copyright licenses are long term by their nature (ridiculously long term) and their impact is best understood in those terms.
They directly cut into ad revenue. It won't change Reddit's mind, but is noticed.