skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why people keep claiming that solar and wind are "cheap".

It's simple: they're looking at the incremental cost of adding one more solar panel string or one more wind turbine, compared to generating that same amount of power with the already existing power plant mix.

> The cost goes way up once you include enough storage and long-range transmission to maintain grid stability.

That cost exists only if you for some reason insist on 100% solar and wind. If you keep already existing power plants (including gas and hydro), the cost to maintain grid stability is much lower. This can easily be shown to be the case in practice: a large portion of the solar and wind power in the world was added to the grid without adding any extra storage or long-range transmission, reducing the fuel costs (or water usage) of existing power plants but not replacing them.

Having a 100% pure solar or 100% pure wind grid is an interesting thought experiment, to probe the limits of what's possible, but it's not very relevant in the real world except on remote areas where delivering fuel is expensive, connecting to a wider grid is not viable, and there's no hydraulic or geothermal alternative.
In term of AI research and development, that was a long time ago. Microsoft is also pivoting hard into AI. They treat it as a cornerstone technology and I am sure they are not skimping on the cost of implementing it into their main products. Yet the only thing they have is Bing. Mind you they have early access to this tech. Bing uses GPT4 before the paper for GPT4 even came out so it is not like they only had it for 4 months.
It’s quite outright torturous.

During the first year of COVID in San Francisco I had a date with a girl who I found completely annoying, she was rude to the waiting staff and insisted on finding “sugar daddy.” I couldn’t believe I was listening to the delusional beliefs this woman had, especially regarding she lied to me about her career after I sat down with her.

I told her exactly how I felt about her and that she really needs to fix her attitude towards people and men, and that I’m done with the date. I left, and never contacted her again.

Coincidentally the next day my tinder account got flagged and banned. I knew it was something to do with her and she was spiteful (though I couldn’t prove it), but the timing was impeccable. Someone had filed a report against me and the automation system at Tinder wouldn’t allow me to speak to anyone.

I couldn’t find a partner and every bar / club / restaurant / location in the city was closed for MONTHS! Tinder was literally exiling me to my room and closing off dating matches (I realize there are other apps but the pool is huge on tinder and I always found the most matches there and best outcomes for my lifestyle).

I think this should be against some policy or something. If folks just understood the isolation I felt those months, going from meeting women every week to 0 was very bad on my mental state.
I suspect part of this is that there are other parts of society (corporations) that are preying on their older intuition. It also means that as we get older, we should also question "obvious answers", because others will have learned to take advantage of them (and any accumulated wealth).
> In Massachusetts, it's $30/yr for active registration

… plus the excise tax. (A variable-rate tax rather loosely based on the value of the vehicle.)
Yeah though in practice it is more "write once, compile anywhere, debug everywhere" :-P as there are often minor (and sometimes major) inconsistencies between the underlying widget libraries (not Lazarus' fault though, if anything there is a lot of effort put into providing as much consistency as it can).
They can't see what they can't see. Being a pro makes no difference.

Reminds me of the 18 wheeler at the traffic light. He got red while waiting for his left turn and decided to back up instead of "going for it" once oncoming traffic had seized.

The minivan behind him got crushed like it was made of sticks. Luckily he heard the noise after a while and stopped backing up. Not a pretty sight. I had the side view so I was like "WTF is he doing?" when he started backing up. Well he couldn't the minivan who had snuck up behind him.

Lesson: when behind a truck make sure you can see the drivers face through his mirrors. Then you have a chance that he is going to see you. If you can't see his face, assume that he can't see you. Move away.
A human looking at someone’s artwork is “training a model”. It’s bullshit and anti progressive to say someone or something that is creating derivative works is stealing.
To be fair, "source available" could also mean a fully custom license, closer to a typical proprietary closed-source license, except with "btw here's some source code, but you're not really allowed to do anything with it".

Even in the above scenario, source-available is still better because you at least have the technical possibility of doing something with it, at the cost of potential litigation for breach of license.
I really wish Ubuntu would stop going their own way and work with everyone else.

And that's a more general comment than just this.
Actually, it was only instrumental musicians being prohibited to record. So singers weren't affected and that strike hugely contributed music shifting from primarily instrumental (earlier jazz, swing) to vocal-focused (jump blues, rock and roll and so on...)

It's interesting because it's something which is around us every day but most of us don't know about it.:)
Elon Musk Is Apparently Making the US Government Quite Nervous
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I like that this guy has been struggling with this for so long lol

Just some random guy that I'm connected to via his frustrations
AI knows what you did last summer
Does that really matter in the context of a license though? The terms are the terms, if folks don't agree with the terms they can negotiate different ones or not use it.
Yes. $ means regular user, # means root user. Usually.
True, but our IT only lets important/critical updates through, so its not really a big burden.
"Normal" cycle: change the business model to take out competition, then increase pricing.
Dependant on your criminal history.
I couldn't care less if Uber costs as much as taxis or even a bit more. Uber was selling a better UX and that has always been its main selling point. Not the price.
I like the asus proart studiobook. It has the option of a 3d display without glasses. Dial doesnt work though, but the specs are pretty decent and build quality is great. Battery life is shit unless you shutdown some cores and apply other scriptable settings. Keyboard feels better than any macbook i ever owned, better than the magic keyboard. Ram, hdds and wifi card are upgradeable and are of pretty good specs. Screen resolution is high, has a touchscreen, high refresh rate, usb, thunderbolt and hdmi ports, etc.

But you know taste is personal and there are plenty other options.
A party with several technical gems.
> In the morning, a friend called and sent them a picture from a helicopter flyover of Lahaina. Every structure had been destroyed in the area. But there, in the midst of the destruction, was the seemingly untouched red roof of Millikin’s home.

> Millikin said he and his wife were overcome with emotion.

> “We started crying,” he said. “I felt guilty. We still feel guilty.”

The survivor's guilt has got to be tough.
> So your point he is indeed always right?

No, their point is that this does not refute said hypothetical claim. That is, their point is that it is not, as you claimed:

> Another proof that Linus is not always right.

(I don't know if their point is correct, but it's of the form "your argument against X is invalid", not "X is correct".)
This is just how everyone with expertise about their industry (and a heart) feel when they see how it operates in this economic system. There's nothing inherently wrong with tech itself.
>These companies are still subject to laws on the ground and if they don’t want to comply, they will simply be refused regulatory approval to operate.

And how do these govt's prove non compliance, unless they hack these companies, kind of setting a bad example.
I agree that a 2 million $ guitar isn't better than a 2k$ guitar.

But a 2k$ guitar is certainly better than a 50$ guitar. Not only in how it sounds but in how easy it is to play it.

My 1st guitar was bad so I couldn't do barrè chords. I thought I was bad and pros could do it. Turned out pros just had better guitars.

Better guitars also have less noise, better cables are shielded.

Yes, more expensive is better (up to a point).
This is the march of progress. Digital brushes in Procreate lowered the bar for how talented an artist needs to be to create an oil ‘painting’. The camera lowered the bar for creating portraits.
The guidelines are here. It's unreasonable to expect people to search for them in a comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
To provoke thought. Hypnic jerk is fascinating. You want only tech blog spam?
> In all of human history, work has always increased.

Production has increased. It's not clear that work has increased.

Mills and factories used to employ people by the hundreds of thousands and maintain people in a blue-collar standard of living. Now, no manufacturer even exists in the top 25 employers in the US--it's all service industry.

The vast majority of the decendants of the people working those manufacturing jobs are not working in better jobs than those were.
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Very true. I regularly get it on $500k-$2m projects, that's probably considered small. Of course it's caveated to hell with talk of "projection", "risk", etc. But that's part of my job is asking questions so I can anticipate whether they can execute on this or if it's perhaps some ambitious low bidding techniques.

FWIW, I also don't work in tech. Finance/accounting/management consultants are my world. I could definitely see how software/tech is more ambiguous by it's very nature.
I want to say first off that this is super cool, and I really applaud you for shipping it. The tones sound pretty great on my machine, and the button pressing is good. I don't detect any jank or latency like I frequently do with web-audio.

That being said I have a few constructive critiques.

First is I wouldn't say it's intuitive. Having the harmonics ascending from right-to-left breaks my brain. Wait, on second look they are kind of scattered about in a somewhat random way? Why are 5 and 3 so far from each other? I might like it if this was laid out in a lattice or some kind of regular structure. I don't doubt that with practice and reading I could learn it but, IMO, if I have to read an instruction manual I'm already checked out..

Second, there needs to be some kind of indication at where I'm at in terms of the internal state of the multiplied ratios. So if I've stacked on 3 consecutive 2/3, the only feedback I get is when I hit a note.. and I might forget where I'm at in the "pitch space". You could just have a simple "stack" at the top that shows the last applied ratio, and maybe the final product or quotient next to it.
Proton might be great for the game itself. But something needs to be done about anti-cheat.

I only play multi-player games, and when I search ProtonDB none of the games I play say they are supported.

Call of Duty, Battlefield 2042, Rainbow 6 Seige, PUGB, Destiny 2
They might not be able to point exactly the problem, but they will most certainly enjoy better produced content.
The feds should offer huge payouts to employees of companies to come forward with the truth.
Yeah AI has multiple denotations, those things have never been considered "real" AI tho
Just startup. 1.5 seconds down to ~1 seconds. The actual improvement is that chunk can get security fixes directly rather than from the device manufactures. This is big for LG phone owners as LG exited the phone business and has stoped updates.
> We should all be thinking more creatively about what comes next and be vigilant in steering our politics toward the best possible ends, no matter their means.

I'm not sure if the author meant to sign off with that, or if they understand what they're saying. "Ends justify the means" aka consequentialism is a really terrifying way to run a government. Some countries in dangerous parts of the world effectively curb terrorism by racially profiling the hell out of the populace. They experience less death and suffering than otherwise, but at what cost?

The government in America could certainly use more outcome-oriented thinking, but I'm not sure if we should jump into an AI-run government solely because outcomes would be better. The Constitution talks about a government "of the people", which is why non-citizens can't be elected to power. What is AI then at that point? Should it be elevated to citizen status just because it's able to raise money and pass some sort of freak politician Turing Test?
I'd do it if they were gonna pay me the engineer salary while on the assembly line.

I doubt this was the case, though.
I'll become worried about the issue when my Mexican, Canadian, and Brazilian friends stop referring to people in the U. S. as "Americans".
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Just spitballing here, because this is very fun to think about.

If I reproduce the likeness of Mickey Mouse via an AI, then because an AI made it, is there no defensible claim from Disney to own the copyright? That doesn't make intuitive sense, as we 'sort of know' that Disney owns the likeness.

Meanwhile, if I produce one single image that I own via copyright, and feed it to the AI as a prompt and receive a derivative of that image back, per this ruling I would not own the proceeds. It makes some sense-- an AI made it, and further, I did not produce enough instances of this art and the branding behind it for its likeness to be sufficiently "mine". I don't quite own the "mindshare", so people would not recognize the brand as being anybody's, really. So this is different from the way that Mickey Mouse is recognized.

But what if a bunch of artists were to band together to create a license of sorts for the use of an AI they altogether build? Suppose they collectively own a portfolio of copyrighted materials, characters, etc, that they use to feed the AI. Wouldn't they own the proceeds of the likenesses produced by the AI, as would provide legal justification for their licensing of the AI, and to defend their collective works in the same way that Disney can?
Nothing crazy but I interviewed at a startup a few years ago — I use the term startup loosely as the company was around for 10 years already but still calling themselves a startup (eye roll). Anyway the VP said every morning the entire company attends stand up. Mind you that was almost 50 people in the meeting discussing their updates. Yup I bolted. They tried to follow up with me after for additional interviews but I ignored it and moved on with my life.
Indeed. Without Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (government sponsored enterprises) there would not be a 30 year mortgage. Mortgages would probably adjust the rate every five years.
I don't think that's asking a bit much.

If it were, then there'd be no reason to prohibit such questions... people wouldn't ask them, because they would never be answered. The only reason to prohibit them is because they would get attention/answers where none was desired.

The trouble with StackOverflow, is that what the users want and need does not match what the owners want. The owners want something monetizable, something that can look elegant and beautiful (hence the PR release a couple of years ago where they were positioning it as some "encyclopedia of computer science" or whatever). They figured out that the users could be denied what they want, while still (slowly) creating what the owners themselves wanted.

> and I can also understand why Stack Overflow, with a goal of becoming a repository of perpetually useful knowledge that is general enough to be useful for anyone into the indefinite future, does not want to host such project-specific discussions.

I'm not sure I'd characterize them as wanting that, but if they did... how would that be at all useful to anyone except CS undergrads trying to get someone to do their homework for them? Literally nothing of what people ask there day to day will be generally useful into the indefinite future. What do you want to ask, that will be useful 40 years from now? Neither anything language specific, nor anything domain specific will be relevant to anyone not a historian. Even the cutting edge stuff today will have long since been wrapped up into some blackbox library that everyone will use without unerstanding it.

If you were correct, SO could never be anything more than some useless little dumpster where the same 5 people whine n about the quickest sort algorithm.
AI generated art may be disposable but it certainly is very, very good. Midjourney makes plenty of impeccable art and photorealistic images that have no flaws. Also, even if there are flaws a week with some YouTube videos can teach anyone how to fix them, you don’t need someone with five years of deep experience.
"Hi autistic, I'm dad. "

I've had that answer before... That was a fun but volatile place to work for a summer internship.
Call me a skeptic, but I see this as political theater. If Google themselves wanted to peek-at-you, they would never have to look as deep as the firmware. If a _foreign_ government wanted to, and they could 'poison the well' this obviously helps.

I feel like this is part of Apple's cover story for excessive serialization 'we just want to make sure the parts in your phone are the parts we own'.
> The rebuttals to his design are basically just "every room needs a window", without any real justification. Do you think he didn't think of that? That he just forgot to put windows in?

I think Munger should build a dorm room for himself that doesn't have windows and live in it for a few years before deciding that other people don't need them.
That's why we hear all those complaints about "bias" in data sets right? AI safety critics are worried models trained on data that hasn't been curated will be too liberal?
See: Chicago, IL. High property tax bills keep housing purchase prices from zooming up.
Most people are not professional movie critics and enjoy more a hollywood film rather than me recording barbie dolls and making them talk.

Did your video game sell as much as outcast? A game with a proper music score.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(video_game)

Does your game have a wikipedia entry?

Could I assume that people enjoyed outcast more than your hobby game?
> This suggests that while money is perfectly inheritable, exceptional talent is not.

It's pretty funny that they assume these original generation returns being higher are due to "exceptional talent", no one even bothers to consider the possiblity that the original wealth accuulating generation were just more mercilessly exploitive assholes...
The more we discover about the past the more weird it all is and to me makes less sense overall. People have lived very similar to our societies today, for thousands and thousands of years. Some had plumbing. Some built pyramids. Some did complex math and science. Some made gunpowder and explosives and had rockets. Yet for thousands and thousands of years, nothing was really happening and then within the last 250ish years we went from electric becoming a thing, to super computers in our watches and robots in space. The part that doesn’t make sense is why that didn’t get kicked off thousands of years ago when there wasn’t much of a difference in terms of advancement. Why’d it explode one day almost like we got a helping hand? Shouldn’t we be 1000 years more advanced now than we currently are, because these things could have just as easily been kicked off then?

I am not at all able to say I know enough history to know if I’m way off base to ask that question. I must be glossing over some significant reasons that couldn’t have happened. It’s just weird to me.

A quote from Mad Men that helps demonstrate the sharp hockey stick of progress.

“She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut.”
“The Pedestrian” (1951) by Ray Bradbury [pdf]
> Net exporter since 2003. Increasing renewables since 2003. If we go by cherry-picking what kind of power plant creates whose power, Germany is busy reducing everybody else's CO2 emissions, too

Germany exports a lot of intermittent green power. It also imports a lot of dirty stable power. Neither of us is cherry picking, they're just different sides of the same coin.
Yes, in theory. But in practice, I haven't seen a popular "source-available" license that limits your ability to fork. So making a blanket statement like that is wrong in practice, but people still tout it. That's the problem with the term "source-available" and why a lot of companies using these licenses avoid the term altogether.
The glassdoor salaries were the red flag I ignored at least twice. They were about half of what I was asking. In both cases I gave my asking price, and they said something like 'well, it's not out of the question'.

Did all the coding tests and such for both, both claim I 'aced' them. One made me an offer about half of what I was asking, in line with the Glassdoor salaries. The other didn't provide an offer after basically trying to ask how little I'd take.
Relatedly, there has been a controversial dehumidifier recall recently due to how likely they are to catch fire. The recall impacts every dehumidifier made by Gree Electric Appliances between 2011 and 2014. That company sold the same basic dehumidifiers under the surface under at least 42 models under 5 different brands. Many of them look very different from each other, but functioned the same and exhibit the same fire safety issues of the recall.

At least twice investigators thought they found all of the models and brands in play and then discovered even more. Plus, an older/related recall also still exists covering even more brands and models between 2005 and 2014.

One supplier, hundreds of models across dozens of brands. "Competition" at its finest.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/15-million-dehumidifiers...
I strongly disagree.

First, I've come across plenty of documentation that has commands that you can't just copy paste into your terminal. As long as the parts a user needs to fill in are clearly marked and explained, I don't see an issue. Especially in a case like this where there isn't a clear "right" answer and what works for one user may not make sense for another.

Second, I feel like there should be some sibling of Hyrum's Law (https://www.hyrumslaw.com/) that says that users will eventually do everything you tell them not to do.

If you don't want users to do something, then you need to protect them from themselves and explicitly prevent it. Just saying "don't do this" and expecting users to listen isn't going to work.
Is there a cheap(ish) solar regulator like the one he is using that does have the ability to output data somewhere for logging purposes?
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This is an unoffical client to view multiple Threads at once. Think Tweetdeck, but for Threads.
Exactly.

Anyone familiar with pre-Uber taxicabs knows this.

Uber broke all sorts of laws but the existing system was so broken society collectively didn't even care.
Alternatively, the more sites use Cloudflare the less peering ISPs will have to non-Cloudflare destinations. Eventually it could be that you need to be behind Cloudflare if you want any chance for your website to be reachable with reasonable bandwidth.
Proton is a remarkable accomplishment; I never believed it would have worked as well as it does. It helps that newer games are increasingly based on a couple of engines (Unity in particular) but its support for older games is also impressive.

Proton is the basis of Chromebook's experimental Steam games support. It works pretty well, as well as Proton itself as far as I can tell.
I am glad it works for you. I suspect you’re in the minority.