skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately this is article fails to talk about grid stability, frequency control, inertia, and other important operational factors that keep transmission grids running.

The grid the author is imagining would not survive more than an hour.
When all the people on the panel were introduced as nuclear experts, I thought this was going to be terrible, but it turned out that only one of them was a paid shill talking nonsense.
I'm not in the cloud computing business, rather, the utility business. But at a glance it seems quite similar: you invest in capital and make your money a few cents a minute over a relatively long period. Costs are relatively granular and so you get more for more usage.

With that said, don't you want steady, consistent usage selling a server? I'd guess for exactly the same reason as a power plant, nobody wants to own a server that cranks up 2 or 3 hours a day... unless they absolutely HAVE to, to provide their service.
Just because something is widespread doesn't mean it's not shady.
Heh. I make a comment about unclear/inexplicit communication... using a metaphor that itself has little specific concrete meaning. And you write this reply. "Oh no, I have been deconstructed!", I say, laughing, in the voice of the Wicked Witch of the West as she is melting....

Or maybe you were really asking. That's the thing about the Internet. Only the FBI knows you're a dog, and nobody knows what the dog really means.

But if it really was a question, gms7777's sibling reply is good.
See my comment how to progress... register for https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/microsoft-windows-x...
Today's candy is tomorrow's stomach ache.

Maybe I have a deep seeded conservative bent(my parents are...), but a different environment in my lifetime sounds scary AF.
But also to the contrary this is the exact line of thinking that causes the large majority of people to sleep walk through life, as the author says. It is a hard truth of life that the large majority of people (80+% I would say) do not take any real risks in their entire long life.

You can obviously over-do it, and yes it probably feels good to follow the herd and stay in the "okay" relationship and the "okay" job with the same old things because you feel like that's what everyone does. But... there is much more outside that world. The walls you think are there are in fact not there at all. There is room for risk within reason in life.
You can run it on RPi or any old hardware, only limited by the RAM and your patience. It is a lean code base easy to get up and running, and designed to be interfaced from any app without sacrificing performance.

They are also innovating (or at least implementing innovations from papers) different ways to fit bigger models in consumer HW, making them run faster and with better outputs.

Pytorch and other libs (bitsandbytes) can be horrible to setup with correct versions, and updating the repo is painful. PyTorch projects require a hefty GPU or enormous CPU+RAM resources, while llama.cpp is flexible enough to use GPU but doesn't require it and runs smaller models well on any laptop.

ONNX is a generalized ML platform for researchers to create new models with ease. Once your model is proven to work, there are many optimizations left on the table. At least for distributing an application that relies on LLM it would be easier to add llama.cpp than ONNX.
When I'm driving at night I cannot reliably determine the difference between a moose and an empty stretch of road because unlike deer moose do not have reflective eyes and stand tall enough that headlights will merely show a few easy to miss dark lines (the legs). One of these (empty road) I am perfectly fine to drive through. The other will result in bad day all around (assuming either side survives).

Ie, I find people like you just, like, mindbogglingly ridiculous. Sure, no single sensor is going to magically solve everything. But we have tens of thousands of deaths and millions of casualties a year with humans at the wheel, and a sizable number of them are due to the limits of human visual spectrum input. The goal here shouldn't be to match human limits but to greatly exceed them. FLIR, lidar, radar, ultrasonics, all around vision in general, all should be part of the final package. Crashes, injuries and deaths are expensive to put it mildly. The idea that cameras are or ever could be good enough is absurd, and that was if they were as good as human eyes, which they aren't. No amount of software or compute power is going to deal with lack of quality input data, and the visible spectrum alone just can't provide that consistently without costs we have long since determined are unacceptable (have ultra high output flood lights around all vehicles). More sensors beyond human senses can both cover scenarios we can't and help fill in for individual sensors not being as high quality as might be ideal yet.
It appears to have three 160mm fans in the front, behind the grille. Should be enough for the M2 Ultra
Use conda to set up new environments and switch between them, and use pip to install modules. It's really not as complicated as people make it seem. I haven't had any issues with this set up across Linux and MacOS, doing web / ML / data development for the last 3 years. It also avoids the pitfalls mentioned in the blog post.
The same day all evangelists are going to be nice. So, never. As long as businesses continue to exploit human weaknesses legally, they'll continue to do so, because it either brings in profit, and/or helps them stay competitive. And the users are going to be human: vulnerable, and also having priorities other than the latest shenanigan of a mega-corp.
6/6 avoided question.

Have a good one bud.

You tried too hard to avoid the question. Next time, be genuine. You knew what I meant.
Slightly different wish for a garden chair recommendation here:-)

Primary use case - relaxation/sunbathing.

- supports legs (from calfs), trunk, head

- supports sitting/laying body facing up/down

- easy to handle/unfold

- small size when folded

- the weight is not a primary factor
I guess it's possible if you're in the right social circles.

But as I said - this creates friction. Now you have to look for shady people or go to shady darknet markets, telegram groups, etc.

And in many jurisdictions even purchase/usage can get you a criminal record.

Or you can simply go to a grocery store and buy as much alcohol as you want.
Baseload only exists because we let it - partly we created it to soak up the outputs of previous generations of nuclear!

BTW, agreed on E- and W- facing PV widening generation and thus being more useful.
I see you are truly living in an orwellian nightmare, but what has that to do with the topic?
That is precisely how it works today!

There isn't one topic or person that doesn't
have a share of dirty laundry and with the media going full clickbait nowadays one can source it well by wp standards.

A serious discussion should judge if the laundry is worthy of inclusion but what you get is power users flexing their muscles. They are judge jury and executioner. Non of the edit guidelines apply but if they did get the slightest consideration, the same faceless usernames have authority over those too!

That you have a nobel prize for the subject doesn't mean you get to make perfectly valid citations without permission.

The really stupid part is that people love to pretend it isn't so in stead of seeing and indeed enjoying the facinating dynamics of human interaction with such huge transparency.

It has all agendas represented for everyone to see!
I say good. Let the giant corporations leave. Let the office space crash. Let the tax base erode. San Francisco will come back harder. We need creatives, artists and people who work with their hands . The tech people would be lucky to be a minority with such a backdrop
I'm 100% sure that a few months after launch, there will be other companies who will sell prescription magnetic lenses for cheap.
Alternative frontends can at least reduce a bit the control of the platform on what you see.
I think the difference is in the Monty Hall problem a 3rd party who knows one of the options to be a dud, reveals it to be so. In real life you're still just as likely to pick the dud. (One of many)
It's not about being stupid, it's about dependency and power. The offer alone is morally corrupted.

If they'd all get their equal share of money and could compete out of their own volition and quit anytime they'd want then this would be morally ok. But then nobody would watch it. And that there's exactly why this whole thing is morally wrong.
And we’ll call it Grubhub! And then it gets banned.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/It-s-now-illegal-fo...
You guys have convinced me that Democrats ignore scientists and Republicans listen to scientists.

Thank you for teaching me the party of Science and Data.
Can you elaborate what this system lacks or what are the key properties that make it „the worst“? I know its a mess, but I cant pinpoint the reason why.
Sure, it's convenient if there's already a system package; in which case, yes, the language is irrelevant.

However, if you want to run software which isn't available as a system package, then you'll need to know how to build/run the software.
Reader One Down Permanently?
Loved and used this site for years - great summary of various feeds including ProductHunt, SlashDot, etc. and as of yesterday totally down - anyone else know anything?
REI flexlite camp dreamer is pretty good, but its not adjustable.
What you are talking about is accepting stolen funds or goods. That means the source is illicit, but it doesn't say anything about motive. Motive and source of the funds are different things. I obviously don't support crime or people knowingly accepting stolen funds. You can have a bad motive with legal funds, a good motive with legal funds, a bad motive with illegal funds or a good motive with illegal funds. Your conflating of these concepts is bringing a different aspect I didn't comment on, but I can:

If Mr. Beast steals money to donate it I'd be against it regardless of motive.
on the contrary, I read this as "it is allowed, unless your local laws allow us to restrict you from doing it" ;-)
You can't do better than perfect. But if the default is sufficiently bad, you can seem to violate conservation by putting more effort in.

Similarly to when a machine has an efficiency of 1%, optimizing it to 10% does not violate thermodynamics.

There is a limit to what you can learn from limited knowledge. Every bit of information you learn can only divide the space of possible theories by half. However, current LLMs are ludicrously far from that limit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/147fcdf/whats...
What if there are clouds ? What if some space debris hits it ?
what's the outlook of this ?
Most programmers don't give a crap about the user. Python assumes that the user will be a Python programmer, and want to maintain a whole independent part of their system just to run a Python program.
I’m not convinced by the argument as it sounds like it’s tone implies that it’s written to people who aren’t aware of who their audience is.

Sure, not all of these tools are right for all audiences, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t good suggestions for wide swathes of the ecosystem.

I think it’s important instead to think about your largest user groups and provide workflow ideas for those groups. For example, with Python we may have (this is a simplified list):

* Web Development
* Data Science
* Embedded
* Compilation / Transpilation (e.g., PyO3)

Of these groups, I’d expect the tools mentioned to be reasonable for two or three of the groups, but less so in groups like data science where there is a higher concentration of non-development first specialties.

There are always outliers, but I think choosing your target audience is important. On a team, I wouldn’t necessarily want to teach a person a random workflow if the team all uses one of these types of tools.
The grid that the author describes already IS running from time to time, eg low demand days in sunny parts of Australia.

Renewables and storage can provide the aux services needed, and already are on many grids.
So what is actually the solution?

Let's say I want to run Stable Diffusion WEBUI (Python 3.10) and Whisper (Python 3.11).

Last I tried to run both at the same time it was hell - when I downgraded Python for Stable Diffusion as per the instructions, Whisper stopped working.
Typo indeed. I think I was using a diffuser ROM to illustrate something and then I decided to use a more simpler one but forgot to update the text… will fix soon :)
Funnily enough, I have it on my Linux Edge browser. Version 113.0.1774.42.
TOS is not a law
You just need to make the panel area much wider so that it can create shade ;-)

https://tailgating-challenge.com/solar-chair-review/
I like the sentiment but this could have been a tweet. If it was it wouldn't be preaching to the choir.

I am being glib above but in the spirit of useful feedback, the article needs editing for length. It's not that it's badly written, I just found that it took too circuitous a route to make its point.
he goes from building a ml rack out of ati graphics cards to coding some python to recommending reading the unabomber manifesto, from marx to saying he owns a rolls royce... lord, please have mercy!
He argues just as they do, with a surfeit of "And so too .." juxtaposition arguments.

North pole magnetic drift -> core is heating atmosphere (but why?)
Internal rotation speed changes -> core is heating atmosphere (but why?)
Selective time scales on graphs -> look at upticks! (but how are these connected?)

I looked, but clearly missed, his references for (deep under) ground up heating data for land and water over decades from exploration logs and ocean research.

But I did see an excess of the kind of persuasions used by both Nova and Watts.
Personally I'm most interested in the United Kingdom (since that is where I reside). But I would guess HN would be mostly interested in California (and I would be too since that is where Reddit is based).
What do you normally use? I'm curious what context you are comparing with.
Yes. See Mac Pro(2013), Mac Pro(2019), maybe Mac Pro(2009) and definitely Power Mac G5(2005).
Idle question, following on from your last para:

Why aren't sun-tracking solar panels in use at scale? Economically infeasible I assume, but is that because of increased hardware costs, increased maintentance costs, or just because they won't add much extra output?
The lack of a way to produce a self contained binary is why I switched away from Python for a personal project of mine.

However, to address the other part of your comment, pipx works quite well for installing command line applications.
pip installing one thing is usually not a problem.

You can do the binary thing with Python for sure. Does Lisp really work much better?

Part of the issue with Python is versions of the language. So you really shouldn't be installing packages locally in most cases, but you should use one of these tools so you're running your dev environment isolated from other environments.
That "except and solely" is what makes it very much not clear at all. They're basically saying "we make these demands iff applicable law allows us to do so".
Can you show us a picture of the setup? Sounds great but struggling to visualise.

Bonus points if you include a shot of it in the woods.
I thought Apple and Microsoft were already building this into their devices? Is it only available on phones and xboxes?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213323

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/01/11/xbox-carbon-aware-con...
Maybe LiDAR would realize the cardboard box is full of kittens.
try ruby.
This goes back to at LEAST 19th century socialist thought, if not beyond. Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin writes about the evils of inheritance in his works.
But these videos only get watched exactly _because_ they are demeaning. So the problem is the nature of the videos itself and this alone disqualifies any good this guy supposedly does.
Arguably, fusion energy has given us power "too cheap to meter". [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
There is no such thing as a camping chair for programming.
Nomadic ancestors traveled with their (extended) tribes.

Very different from people who are straining or destroying their relationships to go have some croissants in Paris or whatever.
No, it was definitely Papaver somniferum, opium poppy. Nobody was regulating markets in any way back when I was growing up behind iron curtain, heroin (same with all other modern drugs bar alcohol and nicotine) was literally unheard of. I had to explain to my parents what cannabis is (and grandpa thought I was growing hemp in my youth to make some clothing or backpack).

We had maybe 30kg bag of dried poppy seeds for the winter, same as my grandparents and other friends and family, you can imagine how big the fields were. We used some of the seeds to plant next season, and this continued for decades within families, nobody was buying seeds back then.

People were not so desperate to get high and escape reality, alcohol was enough. Probably the only advantage to life in communism, that and lack of organized crime.
Many things are possible, but I don't think this particular idea is very promising from an economic standpoint.

First, you reduce the need for extra power cables but in exchange you now need internet cables going to all the solar panels.

Second, for any capital good you need to take into account the utilization rate during its lifetime. Imagine you have a server costing 10k with an expected lifespan of 5 years. This means it needs to earn about 2k per year. Depending on how much power it uses, it may well be that 50% utilization with only cheap electricity is still less profitable than 100% utilization with cheap electricity 50% of the time and expensive electricity 50% of the time.

Third, physical servers need maintenance every once in a while. It will be mcuh cheaper to organize that if all the servers are in a few central locations than if they are spread out. (this was originally one of the main selling points of electricity in the first place! You could finally build your factory where the people and the resources were, rather than having to go where the power was)

Finally there are other options to consider which solve the same problem at potentially a lower cost, like building out the grid and introducing more demand response in the industrial base.
That's more of cultural problem in the Python community.

If I provide an end user software to my client written in Python (so not a backend, not a lib...), I will compile it with nuitka (https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka) and hide the stack trace (https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-and-how-to-hide-the-python-st...) to provide a stand alone executable.

This means the users don't have to know it's made with Python or install anything, and it just works.

However, Python is not like Go or Rust, and providing such an installer requires more work, so a huge part of the user base (which have a lot of non professional coders) don't have the skill, time or resources to do it.

And few people make the promotion of it.

I should write an article on that because really, nobody wants to setup python just to use a tool.

Do check out nuitka though, it's has great support for QT, numpy, advanced Python constructs and has a permissive learning curve. You may even get a up to a X4 perf boot.

Not cross compilation though.

There is a startup idea right there.
Isn't that true of many languages?
I prefer python package management to whatever is happening in the node.js world.
I would guess that Archive Team don't ask for permission before acting, and certainly don't wait. The sad truth is that copyright law is not on their side. They preserve cultural memory because they believe in it, and they get away with it only because they're a disorganised collective of volunteers, so there's little to gain from suing them.
Ouch, that… is a good point. I really needed one at some point because I had an infinite-loop on negativity, but I need to try to emancipate from that.
You can pay for school, but you can't buy class.
Hard Boiled Eggs
Is 11ty with this theme:

https://github.com/arpitbatra123/eleventy-blog-mnml

Choice of stack also kept me away so I decided to just keep it simple!

11ty is pretty close to html/css, but it has the niceties of being able to reuse html where you want.

I recommend to start without a theme,
Just make a html file named layout and add {{ content }}
And then an md file and put on the top matter layout: <name-of-your-layout>

It’s really all is needed and it’s good to understand how it works (as opposed to jekyll or hugo that I couldn’t figure out because they have a bunch of undocumented assumptions and requirements…)
To me it reads like the author just handwaves away the problems of solar, the exercise is left to the reader.
I also find it contradictory that if we find efficient ways to store/use surplus (solar)energy, why would that make baseload unnecessary instead of profitable? It makes no sense.
> When I see something that I'd like to install, and the docs say "written in Python", my heart sinks.

Why is this so relatable? I have almost only had bad experience with projects written in Python, it's so clunky to get started with.

The only proper "solution" to deal with this is shipping the project in a container so no user have to deal with it again.
Worse than Javascript's 5+ different types of mostly incompatible module formats, transpilers for different version targets, megalithic node_modules directories and the community's love of importing new packages for one-line functions that can disappear and take down the internet?
Its not that the underlying firm cannot support the debt load, if the proceeds from that debt were put in to productive uses (expand production, design new products, more marketing, etc). The problem is that the debt is taken on, then the firm pays huge special dividends or “management fees” to the PE firm. PE firm often recoups the initial investment within first year. Then the firm is forced to focus on short term gains to make the numbers look good so PE firm can find another sucker (either another PE firm or IPO).
sure, I find out about it a year later, since i am a small company, and now 3 black people were not hired because of it. Is this a big win? also, I do believe that the word abuse is being devalued, and that such simple insults do not really qualify as abuse in general, lets not forget that a great deal of black people love to use the same words when talking to eachother, black celebrities get famous singing the word, self describing as such.
Anyone who rarely uses python, or who uses it all the time, should take the time to read this article and its companions in the series. Good, solid, advice that will make life easier. Just read it and try out the suggestions made. I was amazed at how close it came to my own workflow developed over many years since migrating from perl to python.
But in some (not all!) cases it is a lawful contract, so it's worth consideration.
Why answer the question, if you can just spin some innuendo around it?
Crypto is an asset with no yield and a maintenance cost in keeping the network running. That doesn't sound like a very promising investment. If any asset counts an an investment then sure, it is that. But it isn't going to be a money maker.

Over time it is probably going to behave more like savings. The price looks like it might be stabilising with respect to gold which is an interesting thing [0].

[0] https://www.longtermtrends.net/bitcoin-vs-gold/
"chair umbrellas" work really well. They have a clip that attaches to your chair.
1) Zsync is a terrible name?
2) Hostility to crypto and blockchain is a good thing considering how many people worldwide got scammed out of their life savings.