skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels, why do poor countries keep building coal and gas fired power stations?

If it is truly cheaper, surely the regions least able to afford development would choose renewables every time?

I know there’s lots of measures that show renewables are cheaper, but I suspect a lot of these estimates ignore the huge cost of storage in most places. Most countries don’t have things like fjords to make energy storage cheap.
The latest round of STM32G0 is about $1 in quoted price before you start haggling. TI is launching a $0.40 (!) ARM micro soon. A modern toolchain, an ALU that doesn't suck, and a ton of ecosystem support are genuine improvements over z80. It's just the new default in the same way that z80 was a default (though less so, I grant).

And I say this as someone who still knows z80 opcodes from high school programming TI calculators. I love the thing but man is 32-bit nice.
> almost always comes either from an outsider (...) or an insider (...)

Are there examples of people who are neither or both?
Actually that's pretty sketchy speaking off the cuff as a US tax payer.

It's distasteful that Walmart likely has many employees on SNAP but at least they make up for it by paying corporate income taxes (although perhaps this is debatable as to what degree).

But Harvard is a non-profit and therefore is not even paying its share into the system but benefitting fairly directly from the SNAP program.
The use of 'miles' here is just silly. We should be discussing the 4C charge rate and in what conditions, not how many miles in some specific car.
Last I heard they'd stopped it. The site still seems to exist though, maybe it came back.

The last problem on mine was really interesting, took me days. I wonder if there's a list of the problems somewhere, I thought I remember hearing that they weren't all the same.

I never did continue with the recruiting part of it, just had some fun.
Standups are the worst part of Agile. I never understand why anybody likes them. As you said, they torpedo productivity. I went from a company with standups to no standups, and oh my it was glorious. I could actually get things done! Then two years later, they started adding them. They were so worthless. They added nothing to ICs and as a manager they added nothing to me either. I left shortly after, partly because of that.
Same here. iPhone 12 doesn't show texts properly
This is awesome! I have been working on a similar tool. My focus has been keeping as much as possible in a single binary (benefits of using go) so that local development and deployment to production is super easy. It can orchestrate different grpc methods together which is pretty neat. I have been digging using the Protobuf type system to express the data transfer between nodes.
I do not think that Harvard PhDs are paid exclusively through grants, TA and RA money + stipend make up a substantial proportion of their pay and the grants usually cover tuition. I could be wrong however
Have you tried using any LLM for this task? LLMs are text-in text-out systems and excel at transformations of text.
they can be close and reachable, but there is no way to make them as close and reachable as a single alpha key
material world by ed conway, fantastic book on basic minerals like sand, salt, oil and their supply chain and miracle process of converting ore to materials that we use everyday.
There is some enum or #define in a header I found recently that suggested there was once QAT acceleration of something XML related! I can’t find any documentation about it though.

edit: CPA_ACC_SVC_TYPE_XML https://github.com/ravynsoft/ravynos/blob/ee81203faa28ab3e6a...
Cheers, thank you - certainly more than a shred
Just finished Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street (1873). Bagehot was the editor of The Economist in the 1860s and 1870s. This book sketches out London's banking and finance system and, particularly, how liquidity crises are handled.

https://archive.org/details/lombardstreetad00bagegoog/page/n...
My dad loves his. I bought a new one for him after 15 years of use. Both watches were the correct time. He swims a lot in it, and the old one is much smoother than the new one. I love that guy.
What's the legal status of this?

I'm fairly confidently betting "illegal" since the Princeton University Press's own page about the book offers an ebook version for sale at a nontrivial price, which I doubt they would be doing if they were also offering a free PDF download.

(My saying this is not intended to imply anything about the ethics of reading this copy online, or downloading it, or printing it out, or of Doron Zeilberger's decision to make it available. Or for that matter about the ethics of selling it commercially and not making it officially available for free. Whatever the rights and wrongs, some people will care whether it's legal or not, and I'm pretty sure it's not.)
My project. Built during Covid Time and still building
https://emwavetech.com/get-koottali
Just finished my third reading of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It really ruined most other history books for me by setting the bar so high.
I don't see anything about how many grad students might qualify for SNAP. Based on the requirements for SNAP I'd guess that it is a very low fraction.

According to the Massachusetts SNAP eligibility site, a grad student earning the minimum Harvard grad student salary would have to be in a household of 3 people with neither of the other 2 working to qualify for SNAP.

If your household has you and one other person working, and that other person is working half time earning Massachusetts minimum wage, you'd need to have 4 people in your household. The the other person who works is working full time you'd need to have 5 people in your household.

If both people working are Harvard grad students they would need 6 people in their household to qualify.
Reminds me of that story someone (Forstall?) told about Steve at the apple cafeteria. He would go there every day for lunch and they had some program where they’d take your lunch out of your paycheck. Steve started laughing about it one day and when asked what was so funny, he said that his salary was only $1 a year so he had no idea who was paying for his lunch.
LLM Data Bounty
Heh, okay. Now I don't believe I've ever heard them called "Parking Lights" which may be the crux of the problem. The most common name I encountered is "Fog Lamps" or "Running Lights". Therefore I thought they were supposed to be used in fog, but frankly I heard they were never to be used, as the article says, you don't use them when operating the vehicle.

All I knew about fog is that you definitely don't light your high beams. Because the higher beams will bounce off the fog, reflecting back in your face, and reducing your effective attention and not benefiting other motorists at all.

When I saw "Parking Lights" my first thought was "Hazard Blinkers" because universally in these United States, everyone who parks, especially dangerously or illegally, turns on the hazards, not merely the parking lights. Those blinking hazards surely indicate a car that is not in trouble but merely waiting for its operator to return.

Hazards are not mentioned in the article; I wonder what they'd say about this usage.
I use kiwisdr when I want to test propagation as a receiver, and I tend to transmit carrier only or Morse, which is extremely narrow and I can get a lot of power in a narrow bandwidth. If I see a line or dashes on the receiver, I know my signal makes it through, and I can switch to a protocol that can "be heard below the noise floor" and see how good the "channel" I've made is.

If I was in charge of letting the galaxy know we existed, it would just be a carrier or a solid tone as loud as I could make it. To get fancier I'd have the transmitter tap out the Fibonacci sequence as CW, as close to 1 second on pulses as I could conceivably make it - and I can get close with the kit I have now.
Most hallucinations make sense. In fact, that is precisely the problem. They make so much sense it's often difficult to distinguish. Most people refer to hallucinations as wrong and often confidently wrong details in a generated reply.

Humans are certainly better but we don't have an absolute sense of what we do or don't know either.
The Water Knife.
ISBN 978-0-385-35287-1

Dystopian-future novel with a backdrop of water scarcity in the western United States. A "water knife" is a name for a security contractor who enforces water rights...
Dreaming: A Very Short Introduction by J. Allan Hobson. Hard science neurophysiological overview of dreaming.
Interesting! Earlier this year my spouse fell mildly ill and was diagnosed with strep (throat). She was given a high-strength anti-biotic that had two or, maybe three initial large doses followed by about 20 smaller doses. She felt better for a couple weeks but soon fell ill again. She was diagnosed a second time with strep. She was prescribed a wider spectrum antibiotic with a longer course of 28 days which seemed to do the trick.
Three quarters of your photos should be of… whatever you want them to be of.

For me, the value in photos is the process itself. Finding the composition, getting the shot, then editing it when I get home. Whether or not I ever look at the photos ever again after that, I got enjoyment out of creating them. Other people might want to take snapshots of everything they see. /shrug.
I am new to all this but I suspect it is good to at least know why cross entropy loss is a good measure.
You're saying that brevity for typing on 110 baud teletypes was the primary reason for the density of APL operators, but that's not historically true. For one thing Iverson and pretty much everyone else high profile in the APL community has said that the conciseness was itself a major part of the power of APL.

Further proof of that: APL began as a mathematical notation on chalkboards, and only later was it decided to implement as a programming language.

As an aside, Unix also began in the era of 110 baud teletypes, which motivated brevity of many of its common commands (ls, cat, etc), and those brief names have been criticized a lot -- but people still use Unix/Linux; the brevity is a side issue, not a deciding point. As usual with most things.
Hired goons are a thing and probably well worth the price to keep squatters away from your property.
Currently reading Accelerando[0] as a result of recommendations from prior HN book reading threads. Still in the first, Manfred Macx, section, but I look forward to settling down on the couch with it when I have the opportunity.

[0]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
I also commented this on their previous thread looking for input on licenses. I have no problem with monetising a managed service and preventing others from doing that on software you build, but disallowing ‘third parties’ is too broad. I wouldn’t be comfortable using this under that language.
I've read one of those already and it was good - look forward to your take!
You (or others) may like Struik’s A Concise History of Mathematics [1]. It’s also quite easy to read cover-to-cover. My other favorite, Stillwell’s Mathematics and Its History, is excellent as well.

In my opinion, Stillwell’s book is better to read as a way to motivate a particular topic, whereas Struik’s book really tries to illustrate the arc of mathematics through history—of course, Struik’s approach has its limits.

History can motivate otherwise inscrutable or dry mathematics in a way that would probably interest many students. Why isn’t the history of math a serious part of secondary school? I don’t think US students remember that much of whatever we do teach there anyway.

[1]: https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Concise_History_of_Ma... or https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof0000dirk
It's really not that interesting and I don't remember exactly. It's just a penalty that means the post has to get moderately more upvotes (maybe 30%? I'm not sure because that code is a bit rube-goldbergery) to rise to the same level vis-a-vis an unpenalized site.

For sites in this category (i.e. not banned, but downweighted) we don't distinguish between political sites, major media sites, sensational bloggy sites and so on. They're all in the same bucket.
A webapp that lets you quickly record over existing YT videos (or TikTok), putting your face over the video in a little overlay circle, so you can make commentaries about any existing video, it will support multiple YT videos so you can mix them for whatever reason (e.g. your video of top 5 doom mods that you clipped together 5 different videos), the main focus would be to make it easy, no dragging bars like most video editing software; you record, you click "undo" if you didn't like the record, by default they are saved in the order you recorded
I only care about primary residence, any problems that landlords have can be solved by selling all the extra properties they own.
I do think it's time to have a conversation about the maximum assets a non-profit can have under the control of a single group of individuals. I think a reasonable maximum is $1B, beyond which entities would be taxed.
i've tried a couple and probably prefer Marqo to the rest. definitely the most user-friendly pick of the bunch.
But don’t we have interest in directly subsidizing research? This is just another avenue.
I'm willing to admit it. I went from a job that was "Agile" to non-Agile, and it was glorious. Then they added it, and it was not, and it was visible how much less productive we were.
Oh for sure, but since most screenplays are standardized to a point, the idea is to just use Regex to get there, then use a local version of llama 2 to finish up the classifications.

Where the fun with LLMs come in, is after all the screenplays have been parsed and turned into a dataset that is trained on not just the story but also the cinematography aspects, as well since we’ve broken it down to a granular detail of each element of each scene.
Yes, and I though the claim was that LK-99 was a type-I superconductor.
Maybe they shouldn't arrest people then if they don't have the information required to make that determination. It takes a two minute phone call to the town offices to determine who owns a property.
Why? Also what do you mean by single group of individuals.
You don't need to though: directed radio can be switched to point at different targets. In fact this would be preferable: i.e. blinking prime numbers out into the universe could be by switching radio targets to create the message.
Offhand, there are several problems with this:

1) This is only looking at PhD recipients, not all grad students. (PhD completion rates can be low.)

2) It's questionable to proxy socioeconomic background from educational attainment of the parents, especially when we're talking about the humanities. I haven't read the document fully yet; does it even say whether or not humanities PhDs tend to come from humanities parents? I have a Masters in philosophy, which wouldn't even get me a job in a coffee shop. At best, a humanities PhD gets you a professorship, and humanities professors are not particularly affluent compared to people in say, business or tech. You're probably better off with a BS in CompSci than with any humanities degree.

Not to mention that in general, STEM grad students tend to be vastly better funded in school than humanities grad students.
I partially agree with some of your points, but what if you actually want to communicate with both other instances, and be able to comment about other people's comments about the movie or whatever else it is that you are discussing? I specifically do want people from both opposite sides to be able to send messages, even if they are hidden by default.
park your army away from the black hole and build up your weapons and drones before the battle. you could build up resources at speeds orders of magnitude greater than the black hole civ
Thank you. I remain unconvinced.
> Every single delay in the transition is wasted money

About ten years ago I realized that solar, wind, and batteries were going to beat fossil fuels on pure balance sheet accounting. Bonus: better long term risk. Were now in a rentier capitalist stages of grief situation where they're having to deal with all their fossil fuel based assets being suddenly worthless. But there is nothing they can do to stop what's coming.
Out of curiosity, what are some use cases? The only one I'm even remotely familiar with is https encryption offloading.
It’s likely, but they would have of be idiots to think that buying up massive tracts of land saddled up to an active Air Force base would not raise alarms.
A South Korean working for an American media organization, specifically called out as western, is a western journalist as I see it. The term "Western" is imprecise and should usually be avoided for this reason, but South Korea itself is often ranked among the Western nations in the economic and geopolitical alignment senses of the term. And it's fair to say that any journalist working for an American media organization is a western journalist, in any sense of the term. Mentioning that somebody is from South Korea does not constitute a refutation of that person being a western journalist, nor do I believe that was the intention.

In any case, the rest of palefaces's comment plainly criticizes Sarah Jeong for doing the thing quoted: "since her sexuality was outed by a Western journalist" by sarcastically suggesting that Sarah Jeong should feel satisfied. Sarcasm is problematic, particularly in text, but I think in this case the sarcasm is clear. paleface's comment provides details which substantiate the claims, they aren't refuting it.

Incidentally, I think your comment employs sarcasm too. But just to be safe, "This makes sense" is you being sarcastic, right? You think this actually doesn't make sense?

> I’m sure “anti white racist” isn’t any sort of culture war word salad.

I am virtually certain that claim refers to this [quoted from wikipedia]:

> "In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology.[18][19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014.[20][21][22] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong released an apology,[23][24] saying that the tweets were meant to satirize online harassment toward her as a woman of color.[20][25]"

Whether or not you find the satire excuse credible, this incident is plainly the basis for the accusation of Sarah Jeong being racist. It may not be a perspective you agree with, I haven't bothered to look up the tweets and their context so I don't have an opinion one way or the other concerning Sarah Jeong actually being a racist or merely satirizing racism. But regardless of whether you agree with the claim it's not 'word salad' e.g. the incoherent speech of a schizophrenic. She would not have said her statements were satire of racism unless her statements could be reasonably construed as resembling racism. Satire of a thing will inherently resemble the thing, so teasing out the difference will be an exercise in subjective judgement. Tacitly accusing somebody of mental illness because you disagree with their subjective interpretation of ostensible satire is inappropriate.
I see where you're going with this. Elemental (motif-based) editing instead of timeline and frame based editing?
Coral ruined so many good sports blogs on SBNation.
Unpopular opinion that special ed is draining districts dry...
can you epxlain this to the <100 iq
I'm pretty sure the police could just call the town office, at least in my town, and easily verify who owns a home. I would be surprised if the police do not already have direct access to this information.
> C = 6 * 1.4T * 7B = 58.8T FLOP-seconds.

Sounds off by a few orders of magnitude since a RTX3090 can smash through about 78TFLOP/s.

I trained nanoGPT on a rented RTX3090 which is a much tinier model and takes about 12 hours on 100k steps (I need to check the params again but maybe 10M tokens tops)

And the reason is it is not a single flop per parameter per token. You have a deep architecture, compute intensive attention heads and back propagations to do as well.
N-Rays

Neo-Lamarckian Midwife Toads

Polywater

Cold Fusion

Schön's Single Molecule Organic Transistors

Cloned human stem cells

Faster-than-light Neutrinos
It's a Vive Pro. I'm not sure why they're not using disposable or machine washable interface covers. I always used them when I had a Vive and I didn't even share it with anyone...
The kobold offers you a job for his son's bat mitzvah in the coming months.
Sorry about the late reply.

> Do you expose Netmaker bastion to the public Internet for all your VPC

Yes

> , where the bastion lives outside the VPC?

No, but I imagine you're talking about Subnets? which in that case Yes.

We run multiple Subnets. Only bastion machines live in public subnets while pretty much everything else is in private ones that routes via NATs.
Economies of Scale Working Backwards at Google
https://persumi.com/

I spent 3-4 months working on it whilst having a day job. It's a writing/reading/listening platform, kinda like a mix of Medium/Substack/Wordpress/Twitter/Reddit...

I wrote about the tech stack and how I built it here: https://persumi.com/c/persumi/u/fredwu/p/how-i-built-a-mostl...

Still got a long way to go, especially to tweak the user onboarding side of things to explain much better on the concepts.

Would love some feedback!
> Without getting lost in the weeds, there is little protection on deidentified data once it exists.

That's what I said I think.. the law is about making it exist and the standard for being allowed to make it is dictated by the REB - so that's a moving target, you can't say specifically what would be allowed today will be allowed 5 years from now.
This thread must have at least one A Fire Upon the Deep reference, so I'll do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep

Edit: tldr; Vernor Vinge, the guy who originally coined the phrase "the singularity", wrote a really excellent SciFi novel about information archaeology, artificial intelligence, galaxy-spanning civilizations, black holes, and all sorts of other dope ish.
I’d prefer more people understood the tax code because the government offers many options to never boost its revenue and is literally telling people where to put their energy, spelled out in its tax literature
Isn’t the record of who owns the home on your county assessor’s website. I can pull this info up in 1 minute.
I'm reading Rhodes' "Energy". Now I know why Great Britain got so deforested: from heating all those drafty old castles.
Do Cartels Exist? A revisionist view of the drug wars
https://github.com/intel/qatlib/blob/main/quickassist/includ...

It also seems to suggest that it could accelerate hyperscan, but considering the hardware and software are both from Intel and they don't integrate them, maybe it doesn't work or is theoretical.
Scammers are cashing in on Worldcoin’s chaotic Kenya launch
Very illegal. Copyright 2008.
> According to the Massachusetts SNAP eligibility site, a grad student earning the minimum Harvard grad student salary would have to be in a household of 3 people with neither of the other 2 working to qualify for SNAP.

So a grad student with two kids? Or a spouse on mat leave + a newborn? Or two elderly parents? Pretty much any Harvard grad student that isn't single or cohabitating with a fully-employed person would fit under this criterion.
Good catch. I'll delete that sentence.

No, I say that when the account appears to have been created for that purpose, or if there's reason to believe that the same user is creating multiple accounts to abuse HN. I might have just gotten this wrong in this case. Thanks!
I read through most of PG Wodehouse this year.

'Ukridge' is perhaps the funniest collection of stories ever written, it's magic. I love all the books set in Blandings. While the Jeeves books were not my favorite when I was younger, I really really enjoy them now.