skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smaller intermittent sources don't really help since they're still subject to the same weather patterns and earth rotation. Distributing generation across continents would involve massive costs in energy transmission. People like to tout that intermittent sources are more distributed and less centralized. But that's negative facet of renewables, since demand is centralized in population centers, and distributed production means more transmission costs.

The same criticism can be applied to any electricity source: What happens wind stops during a heatwave? Or when the sun goes down? You might say nuclear is less reliable, but the reality is nuclear power has the highest capacity factor of all generation sources: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity#....
I wish I were a cloud person.
That does not mean there are no valuable lessons in there.
Congratulations. Your kid will cherish their newfound time with the parent you truly are. I find it can be so hard to show your love under the cloud of marijuana dependence.
The text in the sidebar is using such a washed out color that I didn't even see it until you mentioned it and I went back and looked for it. What is wrong with plain black text?
Absolute nonsense. Your attitude is actively harmful to decarbonization.

Ecosystem change =/= ecosystem destruction. The lake produced by a dam is a far more beneficial ecosystem to a much broader range of life than the river that preceded it
I intentionally picked the favorable numbers as I was expecting even with those it would turn out to be a pretty futile endeavor, even ignoring things like forest fires. And it pretty much is, at least with a billion trees. And for a trillion trees I can not see how this could realistically happen. I would have to plant a tree every three weeks for the next seven and a half years, 125 trees in total, that sounds not too impossible. But once you consider that everyone in your city will have to the same - and every other human on earth - I don't think it would be too long before I would no longer be able to find a spot for the next tree where it interferes with nothing and can grow for a couple of decades.
> In 2021, the traffic I once received in a month started arriving in 24 hours. The site went from a billion requests per day to 30-35 billion requests per day over a weekend.

30 billion times 350 bytes (size of my response) is equal to 10.5 terabytes (base-10) a day. 84 terabits per day, 84000/3600/24 ~= 1 gigabit if my math is right. A fully saturated 1 gigabit pipe of worldwide internet costs a lot. So, there.
This wouldn't surprise me.

Modern turbines are very, very optimized, because they are used in systems like power plants. Here, every fraction of a percent of efficiency is massive. Hence, modern turbines are optimized as much as many, many smart people can do. This in turn means, even if Tesla just designed something pretty efficient many years back (which would be really impressive), it just loses in modern, industrial applications.

Like, people have been looking at better ways to generate electricity from nuclear or fusion reactors. But current steam and steam turbine systems have been optimized so hard and far, it's extremely challenging to find anything better than just heating water and jamming it through a turbine. Because current steam turbine systems are just that good.

It reminds me of the recent thread about hypothetical usages of the recently discovered and not yet confirmed room temperature super conductor. So many people are just arguing that a potential material that was discovered 2 or 3 months ago would be worse than silicon based electronics we've been optimizing for 40 - 50 years, or steel-based long range transfer we've been optimizing for longer.
The negative cognitive effects of weed in its various forms are short term but very real. So continuous use deprives the user of living a much fuller life and reaping all the benefits that go with better overall brain function: financial, social, career, creative and so on. So while the addictive nature of marijuana may be debatable, continuous long term, or lifetime use, whatever the cause, has awful consequences for the user.
> Movie never published

"Blade Runner (a movie) was loosely adapted as the 1983 film Taking Tiger Mountain [0], after co-director Tom Huckabee purchased the rights to the novella from Burroughs for $100." [1]

[0] (movie is rated 4.7@imdb) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Tiger_Mountain_(film)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_(a_movie)#Adapt...
Me too.

From Brexit to ruining IoT was when I decided I would no longer consider myself British. My citizenship is just be a piece of trivia now.
I started off EE and switched to CS (ended up with a minor in EE anyway), and I found EE to be much much harder. Specifically the math was harder, specifically differential equations. I remember just doing hours and hours and hours of transforming circuit diagrams in to differential equations and then attempting to solve those differential equations which, as I barely recall, amounted to doing a Laplace transform, then thrashing around haplessly in algebra-land for ages trying to get the thing into some recognizable form be able to do the inverse transform, but ultimately failing because I made some small unrecognized error in my thrashings, or just happened to thrash in an unfruitful direction.

The digital side of EE wasn't so bad, though I didn't do very well at debugging wire-wrapped boards (not that anybody does that anymore).
Give this project some luv: Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps
My point is simply if nobody has any information worth subpoenaing that is privacy.
That's interesting. How relevant is energy transport in comparison to the optical effects?

Eg: my understanding is that hurricanes are net cooling because they transport heat from the ocean surface to the upper atmosphere. Presumably the same can be said for cumulonimbus/thunderheads? Or perhaps it is more relevant when they form in the day and when they dissipate at night?
This kind of thing is so cool! I'm surprised some kind of distributed filesystems isn't already built into all the main OSes by now.

Like, 80% of desktop and mobile application features could be implemented with SyncThing as the backend.
Wikipedia suggests this is not definitive, and maybe not even evidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerutti_Mastodon_site#Criticis...

This article is much more sympathetic (and also a fun read):

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-cerutti-masto...

I’m no expert but it seems like this is still a controversial idea.
Alas the IPU6 driver for webcams has been sitting around unreviewed for a while now. https://github.com/intel/ipu6-drivers/issues/22#issuecomment...

Huge block of code so I understand but also for sure one of the worst most commonly experienced incompatibilities for contemporary Intel laptops.
so how do they know its not just a big rock covered in frozen mud with more ice below it
How would that work? If I just comment on some 8 year old question that the answer does not apply to $LATEST version of $FRAMEWORK, how would anyone with the know-how discover my question?

This truly is a new question because what is really being asked is what was the breaking change that occurred in $FRAMEWORK between the original question was answered and this latest version.
Re: Power; Digital Inverters, variable compressor technology are recent in the last decade and should reduce compressor failure from invalid state; More insulation added over the last 3 decades should reduce compressor run time, further reducing failure.

IMO, most "failures" are from failure to replace relays and door seals.
> SO decided you needed to earn the privilege of posting a question by answering questions posed by others

This is false. You can post both questions and answers without any rep.

How people get the basics of SO wrong and still have such a strong opinion on how it works baffles me all the time.
Probably knew he’d have to take it down and took the opportunity for a publicity stunt.
The phrase "burnt out hippie" exists for a good reason. I was widely regarded as brilliant when I started smoking. After 30 years of smoking almost every day, and about 5 years of smoking a few times a year, I'm noticeably dumber than peers who didn't smoke, who I used to run circles around. With very few exceptions, I've only used weed. For me, the biggest harm was brain damage.
I know they sometimes change links at hn, but the article I'm reading is emphatic that it's not due to Chat GPT.
The sad part is, this is a solvable problem. If the nation really wanted to build a large number of safe, effective nuclear power plant, we could, and probably in a time frame of months, not years. But entrenched interest from natural gas and coal producers combined with anti-nuclear sentiment practically guarantee that will never happen.

Nuclear power is held to too high of a standard to really be a viable source of power, especially in a democracy.
No.

It killed <75 people.

They blew up the dam because it was also a bridge and removing it allowed them to redeploy troops to the east.
That’s fair. I cringe at the linguistic abuse that is “physiological vs psychological”, if that’s how we’re defining things, but I guess that’s “just” semantics. [0]

To reiterate an important point you make: if we’re going with those definitions, then the only difference between the two is one of quantity. In both cases, physiological effects of the drug are driving the addiction, mediated by behaviors that emerge in response to changes in physiology. So again, the qualitative difference is only the one that emerges from a vast difference in quantity.

I’d also insist that we recognize some of the very-physiological withdrawal symptoms experienced by at least some cannabis users, e.g. sleep disruption…

[0] Part of my reason for asking this question initially is because I’m convinced this is not mere semantics, but rather a linguistic game that people play to argue that cannabis has zero meaningful addictive potential. I find that to be disingenuous.

P.S.: I hope it’s obvious to everyone that I’m not bashing cannabis use in general. Hell, I appreciate the occasional joint.
It mentions 2 petabytes of data per month, plus compute for a trillion requests per month. It sounds like all kinds of optimizations were made so probably it can’t be much cheaper. My guess is that the “tens of thousands” is calculated on CF Workers prices though.
Looking at the C# poker, it amuses me that you end up closer to Enterprise FizzBuzz(1) than the basic game.

(1) https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
The decline set in earlier such that that GPT Chap could swoop in and be "as good".
It's a trivial amount of storage for a trivial amount of money. Do the math, don't hand wave.

The Eland project provides 24 hour power with only 4hr of storage. That's the demand curve in action.
Patenting an algorithm. Invalid. Or it would be in any sane world.
"NOTE: This video is a re-release from the EEVblog Discover channel from 2017, to hopefully find a new audience."

Worked on me, I guess :-)
> marijuana is addictive to some people, but making it illegal doesn't solve that problem--it should be legal. But it's apparent that's too much nuance for the average politician.

By your logic, it's futile to ban harmful products, which is a weird take. Making something illegal influences social norms. It signals that something is "bad" and for "bad people." Not everyone will abide by that social signal, but most people will. Banning something where the rest of the culture is trying to normalize it probably is futile. But that doesn't mean that banning things doesn't work, or that legalizing things won't make the problem worse. It's hard to ignore that marijuana seems to be much more prevalent now that it's been legalized in many places.
And when you have the space and the ability to build such pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities, they require much cheaper and much more environment friendly materials.

And most already build hydroelectricity facilities can be retrofitted (although at high cost) to become pumped-storage hydroelectricity facilities.
This is absolutely correct. As soon as I was able to get access I built my own... GPT proxy to generate marketing copy and all that for people and while it was neat it comes down to a regular crud application that has a wrapper around an OpenAI API, the moat isn't there, the app was alright but I realized pretty quickly my "value" being that I'm basically using a template engine against a text prompt - I probably shouldn't shut down my consulting business over pursuing it.
IANAL...but you might want to talk to a lawyer who is familiar with such things in your local jurisdiction about this.

Gut feel: If they're getting on your Board without needing to sign anything...that sounds like a "favor to a friend" relationship. Vs. any sort of serious, professional commitment.
De(ep)tangle: detecting overlapping worms using nms in a latent space instead
It is reasonably correct. Correct enough for such an intro piece. And FWIW one of the authors is a cognitive scientist at the University of California.

Your alternative site serves an entirely different audience/purpose.

I'm surprised to see this submission did relatively poorly. HN has seen so many trivial "what is tokenization" articles. This Ars article is actually substantive and gives a very real notion of how LLMs work via their components/successors. A++
China tries to boost consumer spending as factory sector contracts for 4th month
It likely corresponds with supporting bad drug laws.
This IR satellite view of clouds and water vapor centered over N/S America is pretty nice. You can also see the daily pulse of cloud formation over the Amazon rainforest:

https://youtu.be/f7QttjGu628?t=142
That was a pretty common mix, I know mostly from the CPC, but it was the same in (another) green, basically.

Been a kid at that time, I run into performance issues with the BASIC-only approach pretty quick. Sadly I had no good books about assembly or knew someone knowledgeable about it.
>StackOverflow is widely known as the place to get insulted for asking how to do X with Y. It doesn't matter what X or Y is, the answer is always "you shouldn't be doing it that way, why would you even ask that?"

I think that's true, but lateral to the point being made above. Stack Overflow banning opinion based questions was done for good reason and not part of the reason for its loss in traffic.
About 2% of the US population moves to a new state each year. Also states are very large, any most of them encompass radically different socioeconomic regions (try comparing Florida swampland to Miami highrises...) Any study that buckets people by state isn't going to be very useful.
And mp3 persists despite being inferior to any alternative. The reason isn't intrinsic value, it's inertia.
Counterpoint just because someone has to go against the pro-nuclear orthodoxy here: economy of scale won't fix nuclear power. You will never get the cost (or risk) down far enough with existing technology, and none of the advanced technologies have panned out so far. And large scale renewables + battery storage are good enough.
The problem isn't intractable. It just requires time, effort, and capital.

https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/Tesla-Master-Plan-Part-3.pdf
Interesting to hear an inside perspective! While they definitely aren't cheap, do you feel they're not worth the price, given the urgency and rapidly rising costs of climate change? It seems like they'd be competitive with, or even cheaper than, fossil fuel plants if we priced in their externalities, and nuclear can shore up the areas where renewables have difficult to solve gaps. Any thoughts?
As mechanisms to help reduce net emissions go, planting trees is probably the one likely to encounter the least resistance, so I'm all for it, but the idea that it's going to help us avoid far more painful changes seems a little foolhardy.
ha ha, another "cryptocurrency has no real use cases but <new thing I am excited about> does" post on HN, my favorite meme.
I wasn't referring to real licensed psychotherapists. My point was that if people feel like they benefit from talking to an astrologer then they could get the same benefit from talking to anyone else who's trying to help. The benefit comes from the social connection, not from the astrology.
Thanks for sharing, also running Arch on the Framework (11th gen). I will review and compare some of the conf to mine to see if there's anything interesting I've missed recently.

I was hoping to upgrade but the queues are minimum 3 months for anything and might wait a bit more hoping they'll be able to scale up production (or maybe I'm just dreaming)
lol they're just having fun let them be. She's not trying to claim anything
"silent enjoyers" -- examples wanted? Some people never complain; they just leave. Others persevere because they're insensitive.

If I look at Yelp reviews, one or two bad reviews are standard. But if there are 30-40, all different, then I suspect something's up.

It doesn't matter about "the ratio of good to bad." If you're pissing off a lot of customers, you are bad. Period.
This seems to just exclusively be an interface for ChatGPT with some mild prompting telling it to speak a certain language.

I was able to get it to ignore its prompting pretty quickly:

> LearnLingo: Hallo! Wie kann ich Ihnen helfen?

> Me:
Stop speaking in German. Start speaking in English

> LearnLingo: I apologize for any confusion. How can I assist you today?
Interesting. Always had exactly the opposite with caffeine. Could never tell any effects except for the nice refreshing taste. Normally have 2 cups with breakfast, but can't tell any difference if I skip it (e.g. when travelling).
This is really cool and a much needed contribution to helping LLMs run better on large code bases.
My fridge is like 10k but it has massive design flaws
I have the boox nova 3 color that I bought on impulse and immediately thought I should return but ended up liking it and a big part of that was how good the PDF reader was and the fact its stylus is not powered yet works perfectly.
The color feels more or less like a gimmick, I think I'd have liked the same device with no color e-ink just fine.
Option 4: Convince yourself your life isn't shitty via self-gaslighting / culture. (Often achieved historically via religion. Listen to stories of Jesus' suffering at church once a week for your entire childhood and any suffering you go through despite your good behavior suddenly seems less bad when you compare it to the ultimate Good Person who was tortured and killed on a cross).

Option 5: Convince yourself it's worth suffering through your shitty life because if you're a good moral person, you can keep your eye on the prize (eternal afterlife in paradise with all your dead relatives and loved ones in eternal abundance and joy), also historically achieved via religion.

"According to their analysis, religion is positively associated with life satisfaction, happiness and morale in 175 of 224 studies (78%). Furthermore, religion is positively associated with self-rated health in 27 of 48 studies (56%), with lower rates of coronary heart disease in 12 of 19 studies (63%) and with fewer signs of psychoticism (“characterized by risk taking and lack of responsibility”) in 16 of 19 studies (84%)."

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/01/31/religions-re....
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more, because it kind of blows away the argument that 'weed isn't physically addictive'. It absolutely can be.
Could the material need to be "seeded" by the proper polymorph?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs
The Debian package installer once asked me (a long long time ago) whether I want to restart sshd after a glibc update, saying existing sessions wouldn’t be affected. That was a lie, apparently, because the SSH session I was updating the system died and the resulting SIGHUP killed the update process in a way that necessitated some recovery later.

More seriously, Mikrotik routers have a nice feature where they will rollback your config change if the connection you’re configuring one over stops responding to keepalives. Like a lot of Microtik features, it’s probably copied from some Serious Business network OS, but I wouldn’t know.
A great tool I’ve used countless times after learning about it while working at Rackspace a decade ago . It was great to learn about how it’s grown over the years, what an ordeal!

Cloudflare is at the top of the list of custodians I would want if in a similar position, glad it’s found a new steward.
:s/CloudFormation/CDK/, but yes :)
It doesn't need to be a pop up. Just behave like a HTTP site ("not secure" warning) when you could be MITM'd between yourself and the entity you think you are communicating with.

If it turned out "End to end" encrypted chat went through a third party that even transiently had access to the plaintext version of the chat (like how Cloudflare works) you'd be apoplectic.
I feel like this is a lesson everyone needs to know and few people do. I learnt it from The Design of Everyday Things (great book).

Kind of feels like the author didn't quite get it still. Like he's realised why people sit on the throne thing but he hasn't realised that the solution is to put benches nearby! Or better yet - turn it into a thing that you can sit on.
Canada's energy mix is roughly 60% hydro, and some provinces are well past 90%. You ought to check your numbers.
There's nothing exotic in there that you can't just buy from Spectrum Chemical (though they need to know you and that you're not likely to be making methamphetamine).
My assumption is that rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere pose a much greater existential threat to humanity than localized ecosystem damage resulting from river blockages. But maybe I'm wrong.

Speaking of hydro, I do think pumped hydro-storage ought to be looked at a lot more for energy storage (esp. versus giant lithium-ion battery banks), especially as we transition to inconsistent renewable sources like solar and wind. I'd assume that creating new, isolated bodies of water wouldn't incur as much ecological damage as blocking off existing rivers or greatly increasing our mining of rare earth minerals)
Hey John, I work at Stripe. Balance Budget looks great and I'm sad we didn't give you a best-in-class experience. My email is my username @stripe.com if you'd like to get in touch to chat further--I'll flag the documentation gaps (and others) internally in any case.