skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most help I ever got from SO for questions not already there, was because of their (perceived) strictness. The process of writing a high-quality question, with a minimally viable example, clearly lined out thought-processes, and other things tried, solved the question for me in most cases without me ever having to post it.
The article and OP were talking about available generating capacity as measured in Watts not Watt-hours. The capacity factor is absolutely necessary if you want to extrapolate that over time.

Please double check the reported solar capacity (the article) vs the reported power generation (your links).

The report shows 84GW of current solar capacity which, multiplied by the hours in a year gets you 735,840 GWhr if running at peak all year.

Your links shows a total of 204,110 GWhrs solar generated in the year of 2022. So the very information you shared confirms a solar capacity factor of roughly 28%. The sun doesn't always shine and solar panels don't always run at peak. This is common sense, but the article makes no reference to it.
I dunno about banking sites, currently they seem to be some of the worst out there in terms of caring about modern security techniques. eg SMS 2FA at best, terrible password handling etc. They don't move very fast at all.

It feels weird that I'm now grateful for how crap they are.
We'd hope it's that, but the data collection isn't a good sign that it's private either.
Unfortunately, any of the protective actions one could take would be legitimately abusive and controlling against someone who ISN'T one of those messed up people. So if someone feels like they need it, either they really shouldn't be getting married to that person (but are in denial), OR they're probably a legit abusive spouse. And really shouldn't be marrying anyone.

And in most places, if you're married, legally you can't stop the partner from entering the 'community' into debt like that, or encumbering community property. So to your point, yeah it couldn't be stopped even with bank tracking. But it is harder to do that way.

The most you could do is make the responsible party take on the debt entirely on their own later when the divorce settles, but anyone likely to do this kind of BS will make that a multi-year living hell. It's rarely worth the attempt, as legal fees will often far outweigh any money recovered.

There is a reason that 99% of family law attorneys will tell men to just not get married. For guys, 99% of them will also tell them to just not let women live with them (due to various ways THAT is often used against men), etc. Pre-nups are important and can reduce the damage, but are not bullet proof.

For women, the system does generally favor them - but they can and will be drug through hell if they end up with a problem spouse too. And can end up with life altering debt (problem gamblers being a common pattern), abusive partners they can't get rid of, etc. They're more likely to be murdered in a bad situation too, by a long shot.

If someone has an actual reasonable spouse (and is actually reasonable) but want to get divorced, then it's actually not that big a deal and it can be resolved relatively quickly. And that does happen. But for the most part, most of those people don't end up needing the system anyway - as both people are actually reasonable.

And people who aren't from backgrounds that result in them being blind to signs of real problem behaviors usually see and avoid the really dangerous people anyway before they can get their hooks in.

The best prevention frankly is having two loving, stable parents who raised someone well, to have not been abused as a child, and to be nurtured, etc.. So that someone knows what 'good' feels like, has reasonable role models that cover the common gender setups and models healthy behaviors, etc. It's far from foolproof though, and those situations are actually quite rare. What is common is setups that LOOK like that, but are actually deeply screwed up when you're inside - but in ways the participants can't or won't see.

Folks with NPD, ASPD, and other Cluster B personalities in particular are powerfully manipulative and destructive, and can pretend to be really amazing and wonderful until you're already 'stuck'. Co-dependent behavior is rampant. Etc.
What has the CEO done?

Microsoft and Apple dont have a good history so assuming there is something big here?
Thanks for reminding me, turned that shit off.
Hmm which OP do you mean? I was referring to karaterobot's original/top-level comment, where afaik they didn't specify.

From context though, it sounds to me like maybe they meant to look at the trial for Premium (i.e. personal use) but accidentally started checkout for the Pro version. I wonder if just hopping into the free sandbox might have been a better fit for what they wanted to do.

Anyway, if others find Paddle's free trial / checkout copy problematic, or have other changes to recommend, just let me know.
You can do this in America. It’s called a credit freeze. A problem is credit freezes can also be fraudulently lifted, but serve as a decent barrier for most run of the mill mass frauds. They’re virtually unknown and require you to independent contact each individual credit bureaus to both freeze then unfreeze.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-credit-fre...
FWIW, I now analyze the Stack Overflow dumps on Snowflake

https://medium.com/snowflake/how-to-load-the-stack-overflow-...
That looks interesting. Are you still actively maintaining it?
To contrast, I've not once used it where I would have previously used SO (professional developer).
The crucial underpinning of this ideology is that We The People have given explicit permission to a specific group of individuals to have this power in exchange for freedoms we could not otherwise attain; rarely can something in life be so pure, a balance usually must be struck when considering such a complex system. In the US, we employed a three-party checks and balances system to try to solve this problem in a more distributed manner.

Obviously there might be unsolved issues around a) preventing such a system from decaying over time and b) providing some sort of mechanism for people born into a governing society they do not agree with to travel to another society without unachievable economic hurdles. This of course too has limits.

I do differ with you in that I do not believe another entity has the right to compel anyone to do anything. The judge can take my phone, but if it's locked, I cannot be compelled to produce a password. This is established by the fifth amendment, but would probably be better formalized today in a new constitution.
They have also violated an important Code of Conduct [1], to the point of even aggressively closing valid complaints [2]. The Googlers RupertBenWiser [3] and yoavweiss [4] are really just toeing the Google line. What's super gross is even yoavweiss tried to play pretend that the original issue they forced closed, without comments or reading, was "spam" [5]. I believe both of these users are acting in very-bad-faith, and not correctly observing any ethical codes of conduct in Engineering.

It's super telling they know by how they are acting, by locking down the GitHub repo.

It's very depressing how far both Google and Googlers have fallen. What was once a home to innovation, growth, and technical creation is now just ads, abusing their market position to give Chrome an insane advantage during the later years of the browser wars, and more of the same.

It's probably time to bring anti-trust action against Google. Also if you're not already, please move to Firefox and stop using Chrome. Mozilla stands against this and these engineers pushing it [6].

[1] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

[2] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

[3] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser

[4] https://github.com/yoavweiss

[5] https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

[6] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...
That Wi-Fi router shouldn’t have dressed like that if it didn’t want to get Googled.
MMX didn't add new registers. It uses the same FP registers as those present all the way back to the Intel 8087 in 1980. You could say the MMX registers are older than the 32-bit x86 architecture, and therefore older than EAX, EBX, ESP etc.
Nope firefox still runs gecko.

It's a small difference, perhaps, but its "my" browser in a way chrome will never be. Blink sucks.

Also, not a clue what you are on about - I don't have an issue with firefox. Chrome is basically for dealing with google stuff, and for the rest of the web I don't care about them.
It's better than Britannica and other encyclopedias and has been for over a decade.

Just because it doesn't support your _preferred_ narrative doesn't undermine the fact that it's effectively the most trustworthy source on damn near any topic including that one.
Indeed. For instance, is Corian or Granite safer and more environmentally friendly? How about plastic laminate (given it has be replaced more often than a stone countertop?)

Given the lack of clarity of the criteria discussed, this could just be a lobbying effort designed to only allow for their product to be feasible. I wonder what it could be.
Tri-MipRF: Tri-Mip for Efficient Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields
I'm curious what the shape of the distribution actually is in terms of attention span, and if there is skew.

I used to spend hours and hours pouring over math problem sets. There isn't a 'tiktok'ed way to be good at solving linear signal problems by hand, as far as I can tell. It is simply a matter of focusing and practicing, being able to recognize patterns and take the appropriate steps. I'm not saying it was a useful skill to learn, but it was a difficult one to pick up, at least for me.

While I do feel that my attention is often "pulled" by multiple things, when I am truly able to focus is when I have sole responsibility, rather than many conflicting things. In that sense, my attention is often drawn by multiple things.
Touch is fine when done right with responsive hardware. I'm not making a blanket statement about if touch is good or bad. This was just a poorly designed UI and software. Additionally, the light pens could be prone to error due to dirt and grime.
as someone only familiar recently with Sam Altman and OpenAI, it completely changes my perspective of his motives. literally a product no one is asking for and is sharply dystopian.
6) Dr Rob (@PapaBear) reminded me that you can use Live Listen (sometimes jokingly referred to as Espionage Mode), which is where, say, you put your iPhone in the middle of a desk during a meeting, or right in front of the TV.

This has many uses, works great as a baby monitor.
I mean, I just disagree with that interpretation of 2018 events. The embargo deadline was extended, OpenBSD violated that. They refused to play ball with the coordinated extension. The researcher is orthogonal to that. Their actions in 2018 are certainly not universally celebrated as a good way to participate in an embargo.
Android has F-Droid, including Fennec F-Droid (Firefox for Android), which is the only tolerable mobile browser, imo.
You and me both!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36558581

At this point, this seems intentional on his part.
> that's what an atheist is

Generally atheists claim to be skeptical of all religion and mysticism regardless of whether it claims a "creator god". If you want to be pedantic and say someone who believes in ghosts, but not God is still be an atheist, well ok.

My point is that almost all people hold unexamined beliefs as non-material and unscientific as any religion. Hence they are not inherently more rational.

> be excellent to each other

I think the rule you are describing is not well defined at all. Are you treating them well because it's right, or because it's a benefit to you? If it's just comfort, then it only makes sense when it's convenient for you, or likely to be reciprocated.

Should you do what makes other people feel good? Or what is actually good for them? After all, it "sucks" when people try to make you do things. How would you know when to violate your rule of being "excellent"?
Sure, but isn’t the purpose of college to educate the most qualified students? If they are actually better academically, why does it matter how they got to be that way? It is corrupt if they aren’t actually good academically and yet still get in to whatever school above more qualified students.
I tried asking a legitimate question before on SO about physics education and it got shut down because it wasn't a question with a definitive answer.

What non-trivial question has straightforward answers? It's just a homework help site. No serious discussion is allowed.
Mutable default arguments is widely regarded to be a footgun. I agree.
this is done on purpose...with time youll find yourself fighting with these service providers on who can be faster: they changing their apis or you adapting to the changes
Nikola says damaged truck reignites at its headquarters
Also no assistive devices and archive.org(s).
The reason why Google hasn't been and won't be is that everything they make is "obstensibly" open-source. (Minus the advertising network)

Google Chrome is "open source".

Android is "open source".

ChromeOS is "open source".

Nevermind the truth being more "open source" with proprietary bits (the bits that matter).

So the opening argument often is; well, someone else can enter the market and do what they do. But that's missing the trees for the forest (and the devil's in the details).
Ask HN: What AI tools do you use to boost productivity?
I’m mulling over an idea to make an all-in-one reading and writing tool, which empower thinking in this information overload era.
It's from before expiration dates were invented so for sure it's not expired. /s
I don't know that much about AI, but my experience in other areas has shown me that 'more grown up' literature that feels harder to parse when your starting out later becomes the precise technical information you need as you get deeper into a subject. Like W3Schools when you start out in web dev vs MDN when you're skills are more mature.
Banking apps seem to be the main users of root detection on android. One prominent bank in Australia doesn’t have a web UI at all and only allows access via app. And I suspect it’s partially for security reasons.

The average person is very likely to have malware on their computer, but not on their phone.
those \ are super ugly though
usually the damage is done out in the field when they bring it to the consumer and it does not fit, so the dry angle grinder is pulled out lack of protective equipment is available. Most consumers are not around to push them to take it back or the employee balks at carrying the 200kg stone top back down the stairs etc and gets the job done.

You can also give similar issues if you don't wear a mask or not clean up after sanding walls, current cement, cutting gyprock etc etc.
Stories about software bugs are the best :D
>"OpenBSD does not use the AVX instructions to the same extent that Linux
and Microsoft do"

While I love OpenBSD and what they do ... I have to admit, I get frustrated because many times OpenBSD is immune to security vulnerability simply because they don't implement modern tech advancements like AVX.

Not being as vulnerable doesn't make OpenBSD more "secure", it just makes them behind the times - like riding a horse & buggy in a world that's quickly evolving to electric vehicles.
"Retentive Network: A Successor to Transformer for Large Language Models" (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08621 https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2307.08621/ https://huggingface.co/papers/2307.08621 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Ret...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36831956 2 days ago
You still have to argue your way out of notice.
This is also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236

Fuel ran out due to a leak, and the plane glided for over 120 kilometers before landing at an airport.
Microsoft is way too busy shooting themselves in the foot with Bing and OpenAI along with telemetry and all the tracking/dark pattern crap they do on Windows or any of their offerings.

They're quite happy scrambling for the crumbs as it is.
This is correct. I'm not a trademark lawyer, though I have filed some.

There are two main types: a "standard character mark" (which is text) and the rest, which are visual logo designs.

This one is the latter. That is, they're not trademarking the text "X", just that particular visual representation — the colors involved, etc.

You can tell in the TEAS system by looking in the "Mark Information" section, and the "Standard Character Claim: No" line.
The problems I’ve noticed with Stack Overflow are a few and hard for me to narrow down but basically:

- google used to return really relevant results for SO, and it stopped doing so at some point a while ago

- moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. can’t tell you how many times I found the exact, bizarre question I was asking only to see one comment trying to answer it and then a mod aggressively shutting it down for not being “on topic” enough or whatever.

- because of the previous bullet, oftentimes the best answer is buried in comments and has very negative feedback despite answering the exact question

Due to a combination of these things, filtering against the noise for what I wanted became increasingly more difficult and often the solution to my problem was easier found searching github comments or random blogs.
.... which is why if this web integrity thing gets out, you know the next move they make will be to embrace it.
I think it’s a great change
The article is pretty scant on details, but it would appear that there may have been problems with Nikola’s battery welding process which could have caused punctures in cells.

https://electrek.co/2023/06/27/nikola-major-battery-defect-t...
I can't easily find good documentation on the instructions you mentioned; but are you sure those save and load the whole register file, and not just the visible registers? There are some registers that are not typically explicitly visible, that I'd expect to also be saved or at least manipulable in a hypervisor, but just like the cache state isn't saved, I wouldn't expect the register file to be saved.

If we assume the register file isn't saved, just the visible registers, what's happening is the visible registers are restored, but the speculative dance causes one of the other values in the register file to become visible. If that's one of the restored registers, no big deal, but if it was someone else's value, there's the exploit.

If you look at the exploit example, the trick is that when the register rename happens, you are re-using a register file entry, but the upper bits aren't cleared, they're just using a flag to indicate the bits are cleared; then when rolling back the mispredicted vzeroupper unsets the flag, the upper bits of the register file entry are revealed.
if you commit those changes back to your repo, and pull them to your local machine, yes
"Destroy any lingering ownership and autonomy of the raw materia--er, customers--with more DRM."
Did you mean Dogey product?
The "death knoll" was dev tools for chrome - they hired the firefox guy who was doing better work, then you couldn't lift an arm without hitting some web dev thinking they were cool for using chrome.

Firefox got better dev tools and mozilla did random crap for a bit, meanwhile brain-dead devs insisted on continuing to use chrome. When the devs supported it, they started favoring the googlified things.

Honestly it's a terrible browser - we are back to the bad old IE days (almost).
DirectX. That gave me a laugh. I realized their branding was poor but didn't think about all the practical implications.
>I can't help but think it may be a time to return to self-hosted systems like the BBSes of the 80's and early 90's

I couldn't agree more. We need to stop using other people's computers to host our stuff. (Or, at least we need to rent the machines ourselves). These days, the BitTorrent protocol is popular enough that you could likely host the equivalent of a YouTube channel for very little actual bandwidth cost.

Text, forums, etc... without media, are almost free until you scale into millions of users.
It's still early days for the cloud. I'm pretty sure such a thing will happen sooner or later.
> only the truth of the moment is published

What other truths are you struggling to publish? What contradictions do you have that you're unable to display anywhere?

> Federal embeds counselling companies on content

What's this? I haven't heard about it.
I like it!

I gave it a try and it does exactly what I would expect from a link archiver.
As others have mentioned, being able to store offline versions of pages would be nice, but for me personally it's not a deal-breaker.
Browser detection. "Environment" detection.

How to design a website that is not accesible with Chrome. As a means of protest by certain website operators.

Would be fun to watch Google circumvent that. Especially if it was only popular amongst small, noncommercial websites.
I wouldn't call them fake recipes, but here is a youtube channel that is highlighting Tik Tok cooking videos, some of which seem to be just for the video... that is, I don't believe even the people showing those "recipes" are eating that.

https://www.youtube.com/@tanaradoublechocolate/videos
Per your own source:

"According to a Facebook post from Errol, the Zambian emerald mine he held a stake in "collapsed in 1989.""

Which by definition means he owned an emerald mine during the apartheid Era.

Regardless of his political beliefs or leanings, there is no means or manner in which such a mine could have operated _at_all_ without being advantaged by said apartheid norms and thereby being dependent on whar in effect slave labor.

How about You try harder.
- Preserve and improve a common-square for all

- Maximize user-minute happiness

- Make Twitter a source of timely truth
+1

(as an antidote to the sadly expected downvoting you're getting)
As long as OpenAI and others in the LLM space are for profit companies should start charging them heavy fees for their data. Surely there will be more novel knowledge in the world produced after 2023, and these companies will need that
The ABCD of why Musk is rebranding Twitter to X
Thanks for your perspective.

Yeah it's a decent piece of software once you get used to the idiosyncrasies, just like Gimp.
Your opinion is noted and moves no needle.
Have you tried to use it?