skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't matter, this stuff wants/needs to be deployed yesterday, not in 2-3 years. I'm starting with raw power, but even that isn't the limiting factor... it goes deeper... try to buy a bunch of large transformers, those are year long waitlists.

Texas has a lot of wind. At this scale, it is mostly grid power anyway. Grid is a mixture of everything. Oh and solar has this pesky issue of not working in the evening, so then you have another problem... storage. ;-)

I should add... you want backup generators for your UPS systems? Those are a 4.5 years backlog.
According to several sources, GPT-4 is already doing this (It's called "Mixture of experts"). I agree though, it's still useful on an application level. You can build out even higher on that and have the LLM decide which is the most appropriate "hats" to wear for a given task.
FOGBANK, the classified styrofoam-like material used as a filler in US thermonuclear warheads, had a similar issue. They needed to restart production, but the new samples didn't work! It turns out an impurity present in the original batch was critical. Once they reproduced that impurity, the material acted correctly.
I personally did not know about classes prépa before the last year of high school. I will forever be thankful for my maths teacher who told me about it that year, since I would have probably slacked off at university.
I feel it's the same with the whole kerberos / "cattle not pets" cloud mindset.

Usually when a service conks out, operations will just kill it and roll out another instance. Nice, but you have no way of finding out what actually happened then.

Sometimes this is caused by someone looking for exploits (and actually finding one), or other stuff you'd really rather know about.
Terraform is also declarative but I don't see how that negates the issues. I learned first-hand that the Terraform plugin and CDK being riddled with more than 3.7k and 1.7k bugs/tasks respectively was highly relevant. That's a mountain of work to be done for what are both essentially API wrappers! A lot of operations also don't fit nicely into the declarative model, so Terraform in particular doesn't even support a lot of operations. boto3 being procedural does mean an added step for checking existing state when updating resources, but that's a minor tradeoff for stability in mission-critical code. I would love to see CDK become less buggy though!
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> 1. more innovation

How do we quantify it? And how do we know that it is not the result of metric-hacking, as the GP commented, and is actually true "innovation"?

> 2. high economic growth

Same as above.

> 3. better salaries

Only for a small slice of the population. Income inequality is growing across the country, and it is not an obviously good thing if a small fraction of the country is getting boundlessly richer while the rest of the country/world suffers.
Adventures in null handling: Null money, null problems
For what it's worth, the prediction markets are going wild right now:

https://manifold.markets/QuantumObserver/will-the-lk99-room-...

https://polymarket.com/event/is-the-room-temp-superconductor...

https://www.metaculus.com/questions/18177/room-temp-supercon...

Nothing is certain yet, but that's a pretty big surge of optimism given that prior to now estimates were hovering around 10%-20%.
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It seems like basic arithmetic that the "replacement" car is being "shared" by multiple people.
Why does this matter? Are you saying that does create legitimate uses? If so, what are they?
Not virtually every commenter on every Uber-related thread on HN for the past few years?

It was kind of repeated ad-nauseum that VC cash was just being burned to prop up this infeasible business model.
Morocco rolls out a phosphorous-fueled plan to heal soils across Africa
> Someone needs to design a programming language and an IDE (and possibly a new OS too) with great debugging as the primary goal. Debugger and IDE support is always just thrown on later in every new language these days.

Already designed. Called AnimationCPU platform and a new ACPU OS with ACPUL programming language and real-time time travel debugger. But there is not much marketing here, so you can only watch some demos:

DBG https://vimeo.com/363434798

OS https://vimeo.com/833395245
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual progression went like:

Senior engineers end up with a moderately complex API for various bureaucratic reasons and don't have time to document it well -> Some junior engineer trying to be helpful writes up instructions as he figures out how to use it -> Junior engineer, still trying to be helpful, can't find anywhere good to put these instructions he wrote, so he gets a book published of it -> Rakes in extra money from said book -> Senior engineers see this and think, whoa, that's a nice scheme, but why should this newbie get all the $$$, let's do it more on purpose! -> Next thing you know, all the APIs are actually more complex and everyone's got a book
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TS80p and maybe even the ts1c should be outperforming fx888d.

If you're looking for hakko, I'd check the fx950 if you're in region, or the 951 for NA.
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The problem with autovectorization is that there's no good tooling for it. icc at least has

#pragma simd

to force vectorization, but gcc and clang don't. And there's no way to annotate a loop to say "throw a compile error if this loop fails to autovectorize". You either pray that someone else doesn't cause a silent 4x regression by adding a loop-carried dependency, or you perform some brittle hackery trying to read the output of -fopt-info-vec-missed flag and killing the build when you see a file name + line number that corresponds to a hot loop.

At that point, it just becomes easier to use SIMD intrinsics. You're still deferring to the compiler for the instruction scheduling and register allocation, but you no longer have to worry about whether the SIMD is being emitted at all.
Exactly. You need a small-to-medium sized faction that runs around with drills, making more holes in the ship, either for the lulz or to irritate the side that believes we're taking on water.

Funny how, when I originally read OP's game, I thought he was talking about COVID response, but then realized he was probably talking about climate change. It's spooky how no matter what the crisis is, we seem to collectively respond to it in the same futile, guaranteed-to-fail way.
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I thought Uber drivers had to accept each trip manually? If the trip is bad why would they accept it in the first place?
Why Kundera never went home
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> As a long time and heavy Uber user, I don't find this surprising.

I suppose they succeeded then. You keep on using it despite the problems. There must be a huge audience of people like this.
Not 1Ohm, in my case the array had an internal resistance of 15 milliOhms, which is way more fun. Though I imagine the BMS and fuse were relatively effective resistors in that situation too.

Agreed about taped tools, I figured that one out right after replacing the fuse :)
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I'm not him but I share his confusion. Honestly I can't figure out what sort of point you're trying to make here. What's the point of all the island and pink cats stuff if not to make the point that the researchers didn't have adequate video cameras available to them at the time?

jiggawatts's gripe is that the researchers seem generally incapable of effectively using the cameras they already possess (including iphones), where do pink cats and islands come into this?
On the other hand, if you're paying by the hour...

But honestly, as a more experienced developer I don't NEED to be as interested as I did when I was a newbie. Back then I used to have to work much harder, because every task involved learning a lot of new stuff. You need the excitement to keep you motivated. Not to mention you are making less money.

I build web UIs and honestly, no matter what the finer points of the design, most companies want a lot of the same things out of their UIs. Forms, tables, modals. You build these things 10 or 100 times, and it just becomes a thing you can do with or without motivation. The janitor doesn't need to be have a deep internal motivation to make sure the trashes are empty, and neither do I to implement a responsive table. The paycheck is enough to get me to come in and make sure that all the pixels show what they're supposed to show and the button clicks do what they're supposed to do.
You mean kubernetes and not kerberos?
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The name `junio-gpg-key` is a lightweight tag in the git git repo. It's not that hard to update, though it requires both force push and force pull (to an existing clone, new ones get the latest value no matter what).

It is something of a security risk because there is no audit log for force pushes and anyone with force push access to that repo could update that tag at any time.

Also, because it is a lightweight tag, it is not itself signed so could potentially be man-in-the-middled.

That said, yes it is a public key and public keys are meant to be public. In many threat models this isn't a "huge deal". The issue, as often the case, with public keys is that you still need a chain of trust somehow defining if you should trust that public key. A public key that you get from the repo itself that anyone could force push an update to is possibly not one you should trust without additional verification channels involved.
Is it western European or anglo? My Portuguese family will call me uncle sometimes but perhaps that is just because first cousin or whatever is too difficult of a concept
Yes CMTC has said that this preprint changes nothing. The author's mic drop gif is a bit... premature.
If you have four magnets all stuck together, the magnetic field is the same as if you have one large magnet.
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The poster is making this up, Uber doesn't let me tip 100%. Even if I try to enter the amount manually.
Constantly reminded of this every time I see any Win32 API code. Horrid names kept me away from native windows development as a kid. They didn't make any sense to me, which I found very aggravating. Having 30yrs under my belt has only convinced me more of how horrible that shit is.
Not sure this is true for all of Europe. The UK has remarkably little bureaucracy for companies. Costs about $15 to incorporate a company, which takes ~minutes, and then you just need to file corporation taxes + a balance sheet once a year, which is all possible to do via APIs and a (inexpensive) accounting package in a few clicks.

VAT needs to be done over around $100k/year turnover 4 times a year, but again that is possible to do in a couple of clicks via APIs and accounting packages.

And finally payroll taxes are pretty simple too, again can be done via accounting packages.

From what I know this is much less hassle than most/all US states. But some EU countries (germany especially) are horrendous, so it's not a clear picture.
And the unsanctioned paper is titled: The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. And the response paper is titled: Superconductor Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O showing levitation at room temperature and atmospheric pressure and mechanism.

Notably not “We’re fucking changing history”. What are you griping about? That the paper admits that this would be a significant finding with wide-ranging applications? Because that’s true…
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Every time I view so-called ethnic stats in Europe, it's just nation of origin or something else that's not the same as race in the US. I don't see stats like number of people of X descent (which is not the same as being born there).
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10MW of wind is a serious installation with dozens of wind turbines, if I recall correctly.
I got into an Ivy League just by getting a high GPA and SAT. I was also in a bunch of clubs but after school activities were pretty popular at my school so that didn't stand out.
I'm sort of assuming this is like most other booms and will last several years. Sure the best time to be ready to jump in was yesterday, the the second best time is to get the ball rolling now even if your lead time is years.

And yes obviously renewables won't cover 24/7 but if I have a choice between no data center and a 60% time data center.. give me the 60%.
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I wonder that about many of the corporate web frameworks out there too. The guides and evangelist say it's so easy but they have the most dog shit docs out there but hey, plenty of training you can pay for to get certified.

It made me think I was an idiot until I talked to a couple other folks (who didn't have a financial reason to say it was easy) and they agreed it was horrible documentation.

One reason I love open source: you won't have folks clamoring to use or improve your system if it's too shitty. To reach great levels of incomprehensibility you really need corporate backing.
Their ideal game seems to be flappy bird with links to the Library of Congress website on completing some kind of level.