skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they'd done that when they should've, the price now would not be 20c per kWh today, but a lot more than that.

Why? If we build new plants now, they will be amortized over their lifetime, not the very minute they're out of the gate or using existing plants. For that reason, it would take quite some time before prices shift significantly, even if we had started building 10 years ago.

> the result is not only not criminal, it is amazing.

Well, that's your opinion. My issue with Germany's current plan is that for renewables to effectively become the bulk of a country's production, there are many things that need to be done. Investments in transport infrastructure, in electrification, in storage, in research about how to handle all of those, etc.
But to date, most of the effort goes to the easiest problem (adding renewable production) and the other ones are a bit neglected.

The hands-off stance of Germany's leadership is a direct source of this problem: some planification is required to succeed in this task. As an example, how often have you heard about south Germany's north-south grid issues [1], and why was this not tackled at the very beginning of Germany's renewables push? Why did germany not restructure its 4 (!) TSOs when it started greening its energy?

I get that German HNers would tell me "It's political, things don't work like that in Germany". But the logical consequence is that tons of money have been spent in the wrong place.

[1]: https://www.powerengineeringint.com/smart-grid-td/td-infrast...
As far as I know, non stick surfaces are mostly (always?) made out of PTFE (brand name Teflon), which is a little unusual in that it starts releasing toxic gases when it's heated way before it shows any signs of structural damage or deformation. This gets dangerous to humans from about 240C, but even at 220C PTFE will release trace amounts that can be toxic to birds.

With this in mind, I'm baffled about how many products with non-stick surfaces are marketed as safe up to 240C, considering that household ovens are often bad at controlling temperatures and can swing 20-30C above and below the set temperature.
Look, i know it's a very popular thing to do, but

A. it's a layer of burned, polymerized cooking oil. It is in fact a plastic. It is not particularly better for you. It's only non-stick in a weird sense that anything else that hasn't been cleaned is non-stick.

B. it does not really prevent rust - if it did, we would use this instead of rust protectants :)

C. Cast iron, unlike steel, generates mostly dust when it abrades. It is often machined dry with vacuum because it otherwise clogs up coolant systems (it makes a sort of mud).

The dust is very bad for you.
So everytime you scrape through that coating and abrade it, or microabrade it, you are probably getting cast iron dust in the air/lungs.

I'm sure this will end up studied post PFAS and will be discovered to have been a similarly bad idea.

Use steel - it "seasons" just fine (it turns out burned cooking oil will happily stick to lots of things), and doesn't have this issue.
It seems the US is even lower in physicians per 1000 people than the UK:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/physicians-per-1000-peopl...
This feels like a really backwards way of looking at valuations to me. I would assume Fidelity knows more about how to value a company the size of Reddit or Discord than either of those companies. Valuations are based on reality not the dreams of founders and early investors.
I have 2x big Homepods for my stereo system, Airpods Pros when I work out, Airpods Max for office, iPhone 13 Mini, iPad Pro for when I want to consume, Macbook Pro for work, Apple Watch for hiking, subscribe to iCloud+. All this within the last 2 years.

I'm about to buy Macbook Airs as gifts for my family.

Heck, I might even buy a Vision Pro when it comes out.

Apple is so good at its ecosystem thing. Luckily, I own AAPL.
Call me a hippie, but wouldn't it be great if Rocky got its way with free as in libre, while RedHat got its way with NOT free as in beer?

I for one am perfectly happy paying some. Appreciating that RedHat is not a charity, while also doing great work for the community I bought the distro and merchandise for years. Even when they changed course to target enterprises and I became less their target audience I kept supporting them for being a major contributor.

I feel bad that other distros try to profit from the free beer (and its implied enterprise quality), but restricting access to what is essentially a commons in order to force other through your front door takes away all of the goodwill.
In the South East of England I found that estate agents were very proactive, stereotypical Audi TT-driving widemen who wore suits and had good haircuts and would work hard to make a sale. When it came time to sell then I found them to be lazy and almost useless, taking bad pictures, writing incorrect descriptions and showing no urgency. I guess they figure that the house will sell one way or another and the difference between a good or bad listing might only be a few % of the sale price, which means their cut will only change by £100 or so.

Alternately in the North East then I had a much different experience (albeit only on the buying side) - estate agents were almost exclusively women who answered phones, and viewings were done by the sellers themselves.
Aluminum has its own problems. Paper really can't be used for anything with liquids unless it's lined with plastic or a plastic-equivalent, and that's probably a bad thing.

From what I know, glass has no drawbacks other than fragility.
Is there any real evidence that consuming these is a problem though?

Last I checked the evidence was shaky that this is even problematic for humans and read like a who's who of sketchy medical claims, up there with seed oils killing your testosterone.
> forestry mismanagement (which they’ve corrected but it takes time to make an impact)

no, this is trivializing badly. A more accurate statement is work, and there are varying opinions. The progress might be that some selection of smart, concerned and able public members now know about this topic, and discuss it at all without falling into fundemental disagreements.

At this time, one estimate shows fifteen percent of a total of thirteen million+ homes, are in extreme fire danger in 2023. But wait, that means that eighty five percent of homes are not.. and California is geographically diverse. So there are lots of real places with homes where this dire language does not apply. You cannot plaster over the reality of that with a parenthetic one-liner, however.
> imagine if my mom was raped repeatedly, my dad whipped and hung from a bough

Mom and dad is one thing, but no one alive today had that happen to their parents, so this is just emotional manipulation. For people alive today it was more like great great great grandparents. There are awful things that were done to blacks at scale in living memory, but nothing like what you're talking about.
To the contrary, the tools already make a material difference. I wrote 10k lines of code in the last 3 weeks--maybe 60% of that was generated by ChatGPT. Sure, I could have done it myself, but if it wasn't for AI my hands would have literally fallen off.

Instead of painstakingly reviewing the output of AI, just write a bunch of tests. It's something you would do regardless.
How fast it rusts is easily changed by the exact steel grade/etc.

It's possible they just have a slightly different steel grade.
Part of the open source social contract is downstreaming too. You can't just take, promise to give back, and then hoard what you've built.
This is a bit of a reach. To a very large many, the two most-recent Legend of Zelda games are the two best that have ever been made. Nintendo has not been afraid to change what the game even when it initially upsets people (Windwaker with the 3D cutesy feel) though the subsequent sentiment is almost always incredibly positive in retrospect. BOTW isn't like Majora's Mask anymore than Majora's Mask was like A Link to the Past.

It is OK for things to change, even if unfortunately your tastes don't change with them.
Everettian Quantum Mechanics
There are wooden houses that are centuries old.

Reinforced concrete doesn't really have a reputation for lasting long. See https://theconversation.com/the-problem-with-reinforced-conc...

There are multiple books about it: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/b15160/conc... and https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/97814822714...

Finally, here's a study doing the exact cost comparison:
https://meridian.allenpress.com/fpj/article/70/4/482/454349/...

"...However, because of its estimated much higher end-of-life salvage value compared with the concrete building, the TLCC calculated for a 60-year study period reversed the cost and showed about a 2.4 percent cost advantage for the mass timer building. ..."
Same here.

I'm especially confused given how Fox - not particularly known for its (left-leaning) political correctness - bought National Geographic in 2015, and partnered with Nat Geo back in 1997 to start the National Geographic Channel.
“The algorithms are fooling themselves…” I loved that comment haha! Great link.
I work in a “mostly email and documents” job, and have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard case.

Every 6 months or so I try to use my iPad as a MacBook replacement for work for a day. It just, doesn’t work.

Every time I’ve come up against a limitation.

The iOS version of a tool is missing some critical functionality. Moving things between apps is a hassle. Multi-tasking is a hassle. Etc. Etc.

I’ll probably keep occasionally trying, and the iPad Pro is a great tablet. But it’s a hassle even for an “email and documents” worker.
Might be longer term but I think the new macbook pros don't have the same quality feel as the old ones. I got new airpod pros and the new case feels cheap to me. Very small signal against and longer term. The vision pro could be a new iphone. I still think the valuation is crazy but thats a problem with most tech imo.
Why the great TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out
Do you have a reference to this law?

Do you know what happens when the parents are 2 men or 2 women or the mom has passed away?
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Good point. I was so frustrated at how bad the book Atomic Habits was, (in comparison to Power of Habit).

It felt like some 20 year old was explaining how to life a good life with all the experience 20 year olds have. Lots of idealistic ways to organize things. Lots of mental gymnastics to supposedly make you more productive. I did like the 'improve yourself 1% a day', but I did that with a spin bike and quickly got injured...

Meanwhile Power of Habit was more like a pop-science book with the goal of teaching you brain science and apply it. I'd pay 50k-100k for that book, it has been revolutionary. I'm off all drugs, I can quit social media whenever I want(I'm only back because of LLMs), I quit video games, I made my evenings productive instead of hedonistic.

Anyway, I wanted to see if anyone agreed with me because I wasted hours reading Atomic Habits. Thank you Good Reads. It was therapeutic.
but that's whataboutism /s
Meta wants to turn Facebook into an App Store replacement, at least in the EU
The problem for most businesses in the US outside the bubble of big industry, is internet fucking sucks in the US.

I'm at a manufacturer in the US in the NYC metro area, we pay $3k/month for 50 mbps guaranteed fiber internet (which we fully saturate). The upgrade to 100mbps was priced at $15k/month from the only provider in the area (used to be independent, then Optimum, and now all owned by the Altice monopoly)

It's a weird path Microsoft is on but I guess if only they want to knee cap their potential customer base long term, then :shrug:
He surely should have lost his job or worse.
A great opportunity to sell some AAPL stock with almost everyone screaming $3TN, AAPL at $200 a share, etc.

What is the point of buying at the all time high with stocks like this, when last year almost everyone was scared to buy in 2022 during the layoffs spree?

By the time it hits either $3TN market cap or $200 a share, Tim Cook probably would have sold some by then.
AAPL, not APPL.
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Don't take investment advice from strangers and all that, but...

I bought a single share of AAPL in 1/2008. Then another share in 10/2008. I slowly expanded my investment as it split. It's the second-highest performing stock or fund I've owned over that 15yr period ($TSLA is the highest).

$AAPL pays a dividend. Reinvest the dividends and go long.
Yes, they have much more skills than just wearing a suit and opening doors.

It's also a job which accomodates way more scum type people than you'd see in typical office jobs. As you note the incentives are very different, the pressure as well, and the recipes for success can involve screwing people over a lot of money.

The profession doesn't seem to have much interest in dealing with moral hazards.
There is already another breakthrough on top of RoPE that promises even better scaling to larger contexts (based on NTK-awareness) - see my submission here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36533816

The lmsys team is already looking into it, expect further progress soon.

It's really amazing to follow this progress in realtime, even if the pace can sometimes feel exhausting!
the WHO definition of "possible carcinogen" implies only minor evidence, despite enormous numberse of studies, the schedule of this class includes such things as "Aloe Vera", "carpentry and joinery", "low frequency magnetic fields", and lots of medicines.

It's barely newsworthy and yet here we are, frontpage.
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>An acquaintance I know is an FBI investigator and moonlights as a higher-grade Realtor.

I really, really, really tried my best, but the only appropriate i could think of was "Fucking hell!".

Are you sure they're not a realtor masquerading as a....well, at this point, who gives a shit?
Just wanted to point out that this is just a proposal, so if enough people voice their opinion, which many have already done, I am sure the core team will adjust their approach.
When I experience deja vu, I can never place the time or location that I actually had a previous similar experience. Nor can I predict in advance any occurrence, despite it seeming so inevitable when it does occur. It is simply a dreamlike quality of familiarity. Having done some reading about it, this seems to be the typical state of affairs.

Given this, the simplest and most compelling explanation is that the brain has somehow short-circuited itself into invoking a sense of familiarity. Otherwise I'd expect, at least some people, some of the time, to be able to either link the two experiences or make predictions. The claim that exactly the same experience has actually occurred twice is the more remarkable, both in terms of evidence and plausible mechanism.

Whilst I do appreciate that experiences are highly subjective beasts, it doesn't feel like this really challenges the linked article. Besides, if one is so wedded to the subjectivity of experience, they might as well just say that nothing can objectively explain consciousness because it's subjective, end of.
Fidelity is not a public company.
It doesn't quite work like that.
Surprisingly frequently, photos of NYC listings are taken at strange angles and are so blurry or small so as to be useless. I thought this site was going to talk about these sorts of listings.

I really don't understand 1) how people take such bad/blurry/small photos or 2) why they choose to use them in listings.
I like the slight whimsical style of the guy building this.

Aside from the obvious examples like reversed assignment, even tiny things like using the word blankspace instead of whitespace and text instead of string make it feel like scrapscript comes from an ever so slightly different but mostly identical parallel world.
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I once thought "bit shuffling" was a special-purpose use-case you'd only ever need to deinterleave RGBA channels or something. Later I wanted to implement a small look-up table (surely something more common) and realized that it's just a different name for the same operation. (I think "bit shuffling" instructions have evolved to be generic enough that they're just programmable LUTs now.)
I'm failing to see the political agenda in an article about Detroit that features pictures of people that may or may not have tattoos.

Edit: I'm assuming this is the article and I still don't see the agenda here. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/taking-back-detroit/see-d...
Let's ignore the mature US market for a second.

In developing countries, it's a prerequisite to have iPhones if you want to be viewed as high class. Period. But iPhone penetration is very low in these countries. This means there's only one way to go for Apple in these countries; up.

Apple's brand is incredible around the world.
Just this year the publisher of GEO (Gruner+Jahr) axed most of the special edition series of GEO like GEO Wissen and GEO Epoche.
Lot of people are quick to praise Steve Jobs.

Tim Cook became CEO when Apple had a $364.4 billion market cap. Soon that market cap will be 10x!

Greatest CEO of our generation.
Right. "opening doors" can euphemistically describe any capable salesperson. Gotta open doors to sell that $100m fighter jet. For that matter, it can describe a dealmaker in any tech company.
The GPL requires all source code be available including the scripts and glue code required to build the binary alongside the source. You can't pull a Stream and offer "most" of the source, but not the source required to rebuild the latest stable release. That's counter to the spirit and the letter of GPLv2.

Legally speaking, the contract vs copyright issue is the only ground Red Hat has to stand on here.
https://www.gammarf.io is (was?) a ground based version of this for local areas. Bought out by https://www.sensorscape.io but afaik nothing has been done with it
Gen Z are turning to delusional thinking to cope
I interned at the CMA in 2014 and had several friends working on merger control.

This [1] page has more details on the case, and has an invitation to comment at the bottom. In my experience, detailed comments from relevant industry participants, e.g. customers, competitors, are given serious weight and consideration, and very few are supplied. It's a useful mechanism for those concerned about a tech merger.

"Invitation to comment: closes on 18 May 2023
3 May 2023: The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is considering whether it is or may be the case that this transaction if carried into effect, will result in the creation of a relevant merger situation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 and, if so, whether the creation of that situation may be expected to result, in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services.

To assist it with this assessment, the CMA invites comments on the transaction from any interested party.

These comments should be provided by the deadline set out above.

Contact
Please send written representations about any competition issues to:

xxxx@cma.gov.uk"

Other cases can be found here [2].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/adobe-slash-figma-merger-inquir...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases?case_type%5B%5D=mergers&market_...
How does an Apple enthusiast site repeatedly refer to AAPL as APPL?
I stopped using Aeropress years ago because of this. Hot liquids and plastic do not go well together. Switched to pourover and using a ceramic pourover cone, less effort and takes about the same time.
> Groups do not have guilt, individuals do.

When we can treat corporations as legal individuals, then groups also have guilt.
Eeeh, kinda. A local DNS server is the only way I’ve found, and that causes problems on apps that block the “VPN” status and completely breaks cellular data.

It also doesn’t always work, particularly if the app isn’t covered in your blocklist (which it isn’t always possible to add them in any easy way, because “think different”)/the app hosts ad content directly.
That isnt being a real estate agent, that is buying/selling the market.
> The question is designed to guide us towards a realistic course of action.
If you can't define a target upon which reaching it would allow us to consider the problem solved, then suggesting that anyone will move beyond identitarianism after the problem has been solved is totally disingenuous.

the goal isn't to "move beyond identity" yet, it is to right past wrongs. Once we've done that, we can move onto another goal like the one you suggest there.

how will we know when we're at the finish line? It isn't actually necessary to figure that out upfront (that's what agile planning is about, for example). All that's necessary is to ask "are we there now?", and we aren't, so more effort is required before reassessing

when slavery was instituted, the people who supported it didn't ask "when will it be too much slavery?", so we don't now need to ask "when will we make up too much for it?"

> I don't agree that "0" is unworkable

I do, so maybe you can suggest another number, and we can compromise, try it out, and reassess afterwards: after all, it's not like giving 1 dollar would be worse than slavery!
Advertisers just aren't running away from Reddit. They were never there in the first place. Reddit's revenue is tiny considering it's userbase. And their data is categorized well, by default, for free by a volunteer force of moderators. And still they're not making money. How is that even possible?
Relies on GPT-4. Maybe there could be a multistage way to get similar automated API usage with smaller open source models?

I wonder if it would be possible to train a 7B or 13B model to generate code in just one specific programming language. Train it with example problem input/ program output pairs. Then train another small model to translate natural language in a specific domain into an input for the coder model. And maybe a third to translate that into a different real programming language.

The point of this being that you can use smaller GPU instances and dedicate all of the limited power of each model to narrower domain that may be more tractable for it.
IMO APPL has much more downside risk than upside benefit at this price. Yes, they have a locked-in consumer customer base, but they are very much resting on their laurels. That would be fine, but not at this kind of multiple, in my opinion.

Too much risk of them becoming "uncool", no longer the default choice, increasingly less frenetic phone upgrade cycles, etc. They have very strong competition on the hardware side as well IMO, especially with the rise of folding phones and the like offering something that you simply can't get with apple. Of course, they can always produce one, but..
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Why must every sport change itself to become a TV spectacle equal in magnitude to the Superbowl? Is a sport that its players love a failure?
Neutrinos offer a new view of the Milky Way
No to that as well. The galactic filaments are just aggregations of gravitationally-massive objects in space.
Curious to learn who the bad faith actor was. Oracle? Rocky Linux? Alma? VMware? All of the above?

And what avenues of negotiating a better outcome did they try before opting for the nuclear tactics?
I’m curious how do pixel phones and pixelbooks running ChromeOS compare with iPhone and MacBooks running macOS in terms of security?

I know in terms of privacy, Google is worse due to built in telemetry (and cloud based chromeos). If there is no security benefit either, then there doesn’t seem to be a major reason to prefer Google’s products over apple’s. Pixels aren’t much cheaper either (particularly considering the shorter support period).