skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is actually very well situated for green power.

As comparison, Germany installed one of the largest solar and wind systems in the world - however being not particularly sunny nor windy, it's only generating about 54% of its rated capacity: https://spectrum.ieee.org/germanys-energiewende-20-years-lat...

Germany, one of the largest national investors in green power in the world, is only keeping up with the US on decarbonization.
Who’s going to be brave enough to put anything on an online platform this man ever “builds” in the future?
Indeed, thank you for your attention to that detail. I would expect that cockpit recordings from Yanks would have plenty of sentences ending in "Huh?", as in "Ya remembered ta turn that switch off, huh?"
For everyone that grows stronger and wiser under adversity there is someone tha become weak and broken.

The approach of "you need to be prepared for the cruelty of the world so I will be cruel to you" feels like a parody of proper upbringing.
Well, I know I'm getting 5% back on Amazon purchases, so there's some there, there so to speak.
Yeah. If you have the opportunity to do the "Harvard Math 55" thing in your field, you need to take it.

But most people take community college courses for the first two years of university. At every non-elite university I've worked at or had a family member work at, the most-subscribed Mathematics courses are College Algebra and Calculus I -- ie, high school-level courses where the instruction is probably better in community colleges.

Also: Mathematics is an outlier in that the instructional staff is fucking amazing at community colleges because of the dismal job market. The situation is quite different in CS. But, again, it doesn't matter, because most people at most universities are taking high school and CC level material their first 1-2 years.
This quote from Wendell Berry often occurs to me in these contexts:

"One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have us believe that we can pursue our ideals of affluence, comfort, mobility, and leisure indefinitely.

This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on.

This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character.

We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for.

And we cannot restrain ourselves.

Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy."
In situations where there many diversions, sometimes secondary airports either get too busy to accept additional A/C or run out of space or crews to deal with them.
> I wonder why this long delays are still necessary. In the old days yes as there were so many parties to coordinate but nowadays, in theory, Intel could release hardware, the new ISA and compiler/OS patches and binaries on the same day.

Most new ISA support requires at least minimal support from the OS to use correctly (e.g., something like saving state on context switching, or reporting hardware support bits correctly). Releasing patches on the same day you release hardware means the new features are literally unusable for all of your customers, and it generally takes several months to go from a patch to a usable OS release. You could in theory release the patches on the same day as the new ISA documentation, but in practice, it's likely to take some time because the people writing the patches aren't the people writing the new ISA whitepapers and approving their publication and it takes time to go from "oh, I can talk about this now" to actually doing so.
> Those civilizations were built in spite of not based off those beliefs.

Islamic civilisation would have never existed without Islam the religion. Even if we suppose the Arabs might have expanded into an empire under someone other than Muhammad, the end result would have looked very different. Islam was the glue that held together an empire composed of many different ethnicities, cultures, languages, tribes; without Islam, they would not have had that glue.

> You cannot control people while also pushing the limits of humanity, they are mutually exclusive. To ignore this is to ignore religious systems were always about control and order, not progress.

The first few thousand years of human civilisations were all about power and control. They did a perfectly good job of pushing the then-existent limits of humanity despite lacking individualism. It is only as we get into the modern period that individualism began to produce real benefits (new ideas, science, technology); but without that earlier anti-individualism, it would never have had the economic foundation it needed to produce those benefits. Even in the modern period, the benefits of individualism have mainly been something pursued by the upper and middle classes, economically sustained by the exploitation of the working class and by colonialism.

We also really don't know what the future holds. The religious fundamentalism of the Puritans led to the founding of the English colony of Massachusetts; maybe decades or centuries from now, religious fundamentalists will end up playing a major role in colonising our solar system – they may have motivations to establish colonies that secular people lack.
Can't comment with a unicycle, but I regularly ride bikes, used several electric scooters and onewheels.

The onewheel is genuinely fun to ride and control. It does require a lot more attention than a bike. And I also never felt comfortable riding it faster than my ability to outrun it, which meant that it's never exactly ideal for long commutes (see my other comment above about the safety if interested).

For long distance and commuting, a bike is unbeatable IMHO. Comfortable, safer at speed. Electric or not.

I never saw the point on e-scooters, and don't own any for this reason. I feel more in control and have better ability to manouver and recover with a onewheel than an e-scooter, but the e-scooter requires almost zero brain to use, so there's that. The e-scooters have much bigger range too, and are less tiring to use.

I wish I could try an EUC. I suspect it has similar characteristic to the "flow" mechanics of the onewheel which would make it appealing, but I wonder how fast I would actually push it comfortably before wearing a full-face helmet.
I love getting pneumail!
This sounds like the final death blow to the web as a useful platform for anyone who isn't a corporation.
On my Zen2 / Renoir based system the PoC exploit continues to work albeit slowly even after updating the microcode (linked from TFA) that has the fix for this issue. The wrmsr stops it fully in its track.

Edit: just realized it must have been that the initramfs image is not updated with the manually updated firmware in /lib/firmware.

Edit2: Updated the initramfs and even if the benchmark.sh fails, ./zenbleed -v2 still picks out and prints strings which doesn't happen with the wrmsr solution.
It's funny that it's "always" mentioned, yet it's not familiar to me. Also curious the Wikipedia article for CPU design doesn't mention it, since it's "always" referenced.

Just because something is familiar to you, or even large swaths of a given population, doesn't mean everyone should be expected to know it.

I love learning new things. I love discovering topics I know nothing about, and I love picking the brains of those passionate about them. But the condescension from a certain type of tech nerd sucks all the fun out of learning. I've certainly been guilty of this in the past.
Reminds me, there was a nightclub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne way back in the 1980s which had a telephone on each table. If you fancied someone on another table you'd dial their table phone and strike up a chat. Can't remember the name of the club but it was on Market Street somewhere. Good times!
More efficient, sure, but paid more?
When I used to sometimes get suits etc. made, I went into a tailor on trips to Asia. Presumably, assuming your measurements didn't change much, you could reorder things and get them pretty close though I never did that.

Just sending your measurements will essentially give you something semi-custom. When a tailor takes your measurements, you usually go back and they do a little bit of nipping and tucking of a suit before you take it away. Other articles of clothing like coats require less precision.
I recently came to the realisation that I've been trying to rediscover h2g2 ever since I left it. It's the only social media site which has ever made good sense to me. I'm currently on Mastodon, and disliking it intensely.
I can't speak for all, but I came from a lower/lower-middle income family... when I was in my later teens, I generally didn't hold a lot of money to trust in debit purchases not overdrawing. Didn't even have a CC until I was nearly 30yo.
what mic do you use?
I 100% can. I also do not care, cause ability to pause matters more.
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No, operations at 512-bit register widths do not have significant power draw, as demonstrated by AMD Zen 4.

What has significant power draw is the use of double 512-bit floating-point multipliers, as implemented in the Intel server CPUs (though one core with such multipliers draws significantly less power than two cores having the same throughput).

AMD uses only double 256-bit floating-point multipliers and in general it uses exactly the same execution units for both 256-bit and 512-bit operations, so the AVX-512 operations do not increase the power draw even when they use 512-bit registers.

Also the AVX512 register file is not too big to physically fit in the E-core. Even if the AVX512 register file is 4 times greater than the AVX register file, the E-cores have much a much larger register file used to rename the architecturally visible registers.

Despite these facts, Intel still believes that implementing the full AVX-512 ISA in the E-cores is too expensive, so they have created this new specification of AVX10/256, which is just a subset of AVX-512 including the instructions with an operand size up to 256 bits, and which will be implemented in all future E-cores after some date, perhaps starting in 2025.
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There are better alternatives than rooftops. Covering canals and reservoirs works well because it also prevents evaporation. Farms and grazing land can also be covered with solar since a lot of plants and animals prefer not to be under direct sunlight all day.
Amon Amarth really isn't a good example, because many of their songs have perfectly comprehensible lyrics, even by people who perhaps aren't native English speakers (which the band themselves aren't)
from https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/784343 ("The Converged Vector ISA: Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 10" Technical Paper PDF)

"Intel AVX10 Version 1 will be introduced for early software enablement and supports the subset of all the Intel AVX-512 instruction set available as of future Intel Xeon processors with P-cores, codenamed Granite Rapids, that is
forward compatible to Intel AVX10. This version will not include the new 256-bit vector instructions supporting embedded rounding or any of the new instructions and will serve as the transition base version from Intel AVX-512 to Intel AVX10.

Intel AVX10 Version 2 will include the 256-bit instruction forms supporting embedded rounding as well as a suite of new Intel AVX10 instructions covering new AI data types and conversions, data movement optimizations, and standards support. All new instructions will be supported at 128-, 256-, and 512-bit vector lengths with limited variances. All Intel AVX10 versions will implement the new versioning enumeration scheme."

And who knows when AMD will have time to update Zen ? architecture with these new instructions.
It isn't apparent that anything you've just described is relevant. You've described how it works (in a highly simplified way), but that doesn't discredit the end result.

If there's truly a difference between "a capacity [and] an apparent capacity" then you should be able to point out what that difference actually is in practice. A child pressing play on a piano can only play one song. A LLM composing poems can compose billions upon billions of unique, never-before-seen poems about every conceivable topic. Whether under the hood it does that by "interpolating numbers in n-dimensional spaces" or "some incomprehensible arrangement of neurons linked together" or some other, yet to be invented process doesn't matter if the result is the same. The fact that you can explain how something works doesn't make it less real.
Twitter(now X) CEO Linda Yaccarino claims usage 'at all time high' in staff memo
yeah, especially if water ends up enriched in deuterium as well
> single layer

Bifacial panels have two layers of transistors on the silicon subtrate. One on the front and one on the back. Monofacial panels have just one layer. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifacial_solar_cells#/media/Fi...
> It might be too late when NYTimes podcasts are openly talking about how the reporters dislike using it anymore.

Nytimes is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. They pretend to be better than something like Fox News but they’re the same thing. Their css and layout plus their history would have fools believe they are a good source of unbiased news. But they’re just as fake as the other news and cater to the left instead, which is anti-Musk for reasons.

Also with twitter and AI threatening to displace journalists I can’t imagine they’d like it much.

Not necessarily disagreeing with any predictions about what becomes of twitter/X though..
See also previous discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 (the same link mentioned in the article)

It's honestly good for this to get a lot of attention though, I'm happy to see additional commentary on it getting shared.
Then people book meetings in the 10-3 window and not the end of the day! Way to blow the most productive hours.
This gives too much agency to the users. Instead, onlyfans will be buying rights on likeness from the IG models, creating virtual dolls powered by AI, and selling subscriptions to those dolls. They will be interactive. The real models will get some extra money to pay for college, and subscribers will get some extra dopamine. Sounds benign so far. But unlike the real OF models that are constrained by some morals, laws and physics, their AI clones will have no such constraints. The rapidly emerging technoporn industry will chase engagement metrics, as usual, and will let the AI models do, virtually, things that are unacceptable or even physically impossible. It won't matter that all this will be virtual: the public will get accustomed to those insanities and will bring this mindset to real life. By the year of 2100 the average moral level will be such that we would look saints to them. It's still a possible future, unless lawmakers starve the beast early.
I've always thought the "Set an arbitrary dollar amount to my time to do whatever I want" argument is kind of dumb. No value to glean from it. Regardless with good urban design, public transportation is faster than a car anyway.

And I say tens of thousands because car amortization/maintenance, road maintenance, oil subsidies, environmental cost (gigantic) probably clears 4 figures per year easily.
Because building from source is extremely time/CPU consuming and also unreliable. Time is valuable. In my last Gentoo attempt, I had to manually fix a few build recipes before I threw in the towel.

This also means "riskier" methods (like LTO) have to be omitted by default.

Gentoo is great for libre software, security, manual patches, embedded computing and such. But for pure desktop performance, the Clear Linux way is best: aggressive compilation flags/libraries, tested by the package maintainers, shipped in 3-4 tiers. And as the Clear Linux devs said, most of the native instructions dont even matter, as the compilers can't use them.
I also sent a note to another former Computer Corporation of America employee that I found on LinkedIn. I don't know them personally, but we live near each other and have some common connections, so maybe they will at least receive my unsolicited message with some favor.
> What is industry good at? Mass producing a lot of stuff. We can do that now with solar.

No, we can't. Because the U.S gets the majority of its goods from China [1]. So we have to get China to install all those panels.

[1] https://ustr.gov/countries-regions

We need to consume less. Please start consuming less, ok?
Merlin's pretty at good at identifying mockingbirds by sound alone but once in a while it outputs a bird that's not even expected in your area. It rarely makes the reverse error (identifying the call of a non-mockingbird as the call of a mockingbird) in my experience!
FlickType: https://www.inverse.com/input/tech/apple-blocked-the-flickty...
Gasp! Next “Managers” will be saying that Friday is now a work “relaxed zone”.
That’s a massive extension. 32 GPRs! And they’re finally reusing an encoding made reserved in long mode (D5 - AAM in legacy modes).

Guess Intel’s feeling the pressure from Zen 4 supporting AVX-512.
Tool try its best to filter out 'non-original contents'
It seems to me that it is part of the folklore. Note: not the folklore of math! The folklore of mathematical typesetting, which is a tiny community.

You can find many old and new math texts using either convention. Most often readers won't even notice. There are authors who are adamant against blackboard bold, most famously Donald Knuth and Jean-Pierre Serre. Others simply use regular boldface because of tradition, or because it's the default style of the journal. Most people don't care too much. But I have also heard people expressing strong opinions on each side, that's why I made the analogy with tabs-vs-spaces. Nothing too serious.

Elegance is entirely subjective. I have the opposite opinion: if we can do real boldface in print, which is the original usage, what's the point of using a black-board version? We have the real thing! But I also understand the opposite opinion, voiced elsewhere in this thread, that open bold lettering is a new case, like italics or fraktur, and we can use it freely in print.
The 'surely cannot' part is where one makes a deadly assumption.
In case anyone is reading the comments before the article, Y Combinator is referring to the Fixed Point Combinator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator), not the startup accelerator.
> We should be blanketing every inch of desert with solar. And pair it to use excess energy for carbon fuels synthesis.

Is there any EROEI analysis for this approach? Direct air capture of carbon is rather energy intensive, because CO2 concentration in the air is really rather low, whereas making solar panel is very energy expensive. If we can’t get enough useful energy from the panels during their expected lifetime, we shouldn’t be blanketing deserts with those.

Also, blanketing the deserts with panels is difficult due to environmental regulations, read eg. about desert tortoises at Ivanpah, and the cost of their relocation. If we want to use deserts to generate energy, first we need to solve the problem of environmental regulations blocking it.
I like Elon, I think he is smart.
I also think he has too much power and influence.
And along with that comes corruption, non sense and slew of other negative attributes.
Economics are what will drive renewables adoption.

People can try to convince others of the importance all they want, but once renewables are cost competitive with fossil fuels, the majority will switch of their own volition... no convincing needed. EVs are already on the cusp of this

Of course everything is a bit reflexive... less dependency on Oil will drive lower oil prices and vice versa.
Ivanpah (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility): $2.2 billion for 392 megawatts, including a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee. It'll be profitable (yay!)

..but that'd pay for 100,000 - 200,000 residential solar panel installs that would primarily benefit...residential homeowners. That'd be a ton of jobs, too. And there'd be no power-company profits.

We could crunch numbers on how much more efficient a utility-scale plant is, but look at the reality of who ends up with the money and the profits and who has to keep paying the same damn power bills.
That's what I asked them as well and apparently... no.
Google seems to be escalating the speed of its efforts to restrict its user base to the completely non-technical, but Apple and Facebook already own that market.

It also sounds like they're promoting yet another way to make "the internet" slower, more bloated, and have greater impediments to usage.
FreeFileSync 12.5 Has Been Released
Almost saved? So the vacation was still ruined?
Tesla does not offer a level 3 system. When using Tesla FSD, the driver is still responsible for supervising the operation of the system at all times and must intervene when and if the system makes an incorrect input. See the second row in the above-linked graphic.

Also see Tesla's site (buried in the support pages, rather than the marketing copy):

> FSD Beta is an SAE Level 2 driver support feature that can provide steering and braking/acceleration support to the driver under certain operating limitations. With FSD Beta, as with all SAE Level 2 driver support features, the driver is responsible for operation of the vehicle whenever the feature is engaged and must constantly supervise the feature and intervene (e.g., steer, brake or accelerate) as needed to maintain safe operation of the vehicle.

https://www.tesla.com/support/recall-fsd-beta-driving-operat...

> how could you leave out the pedals and steering wheel if the car can’t operate by itself under all conditions, meaning level 4 = level 5.

The graphic gives an example of how this can be offered: local driverless taxi. Waymo's Firefly is an example of this. It had no steering wheel or pedals. It would only operate when, where, and under the conditions where it was capable of doing so.
to save you a click: "Renewables met 97% of Scotland's electricity demand in 2020"

great job, Scotland!
I have no way of knowing whether or not the plane ran out of fuel. I'm assuming they kept some fuel, e.g. in case they didn't stick the landing on the first attempt.
>>But if the battery dies faster than expected or you reach a steep downhill while already at top speed...too bad, nothing the system can do to keep you from faceplanting at max speed.

riding at top speed EUC is very dangerous in itself, Inmotion I think can do 53 mph - thats fast even by car standards.

Riding top speed is surely recipe for certain death, any small pebble can faceplant you.

As long as you ride less than max speed (I never exceed 50% of max speed and never ride on <10% battery), there is enough of buffer for a wheel to behave just as you expect.

Pushing these limits is as dangerous as pushing speed limits on car.

you surely dont want to ride speed limit on your car, do you? (my car I think can do 190 mph, but I never reached even half of it)
I wonder how automatic satellite communication works since I was under the impression you had to manually aim the phone to connect to a satellite.