skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is genuinely a lot of padding going on to make videos around 12 min long when they could have easily been a couple of minutes. Certainly some topics have enough complexity to produce a longer video, but a lot of YouTube is artificially padded these days for ad revenue.
> Wind turns out to be pretty reliable.

> 5x means that couple days per year need storage.

But that's the problem. If you need the long-term storage at all because you have a period with ~0 output from renewables, you then need to maintain enough generating capacity to run the whole grid from something else during that period, even if you only use it once a decade. Which is enormously expensive.

> But night time usage is small, and things like charging cars can be delayed.

The night time usage is about half the peak daytime usage during the summer, and a significantly higher proportion in the winter. And it will get even higher if we switch to electric heating from fossil fuels.

You already want to be charging cars during the day anyway because solar is cheaper, but none of that is included in the existing numbers because the current number of electric cars isn't a major proportion of power consumption. We could perfectly well charge electric cars entirely from solar, but you still need to handle the existing nighttime load with something.
In Japan, many cities don’t even have sidewalks—pedestrians share the same space with cars/bikes/motorcycles. Because everybody understands that it's a shared space, people drive cautiously, resulting in safer streets. Sometimes separation is not the answer!
Screenshot of the UI:

“Tweet us your feedback” https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/188960#issue-1822...
That’s an odd methodology that would conclude React isn’t “used by” anyone.
Most Alan Furst novels are good. They are largely the same, but the despite being cookie cutter, the cookie is pretty tasty.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/49941.Alan_Furst
A tribute to the lost art of letter writing
GM is using Google’s AI chatbot to handle simple OnStar calls
It's probably right in this context, but I'd be careful with the last part in general contexts: assuming utility is linear makes for easy reasoning but also would say that a mild stomach ache for every single human (i.e. 7*10⁹ stomach aches) is worth more than the life of someone.
Fascinating - especially this quote about AdT:
"Especially in matters Kennan understood well, he thought the public should have no say. His diaries show that he was a keen reader of Alexis de Tocqueville, and while he never mentions this specific point, his insistence that foreign policy be conducted by the well born and well educated, without interference from the masses, echoes the French nobleman’s argument that aristocracies are better than democracies at diplomacy. ... Yet at least Kennan was honest about his preference for expert rule; our present elites, by contrast, insist that their expert rule actually is democracy."

If you view the early 20th century as peak-institutionalism, it's clear the pendulum has swung to populism... but how much further can it continue to swing? What was the most populist period of our history? William Jennings Bryan comes to mind but I don't have a sense for that era of populism compares to now
Agricultural machinery can be electrified. There are alternatives to fossil fuel fertilizers. Land use can be prioritized in such a way to significantly lower the need of chemical fertilizers while maintaining current yield. Lowering the production of meat and other animal products will yield much more consumed calories per grown calorie.

The transformation of agriculture is inevitable or we will all die.

Similarly homes can be insulated, roofs can be made of heat reflecting materials, trees can be grown to provide shade. We can build cooling centers in cities.
Maybe I've become too cynical, but with the movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter recently coming out, I can't help but think of Paul Graham's essay "Submarine".
I have mapped gk and gj for Up and Down keys. So I can use both.
Does anyone remember Beaucoup? It was a metasearch that aggregated the results of the top, largely manually indexed search engines at the time.

It's been years since I last thought to look, but here's a list of current search engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

Amazing to see Dogpile still around! Search feels like an oddly under-remarked-upon topic on HN because it's always within the context of a few big names (or else massively criticized by Googists - saw a lot of sneering responses to Neeva and Brave search...).
Well, there isn't much of invidual every day morality in LOTR basically. It's more of a morality for kings tale.

who is the most moral character? Gandalf. And he is a mouthpiece from the Valar to men.

Who are the most moral people? The elves. They're closest to the Valar and are always good, to the point you can debate whether they have free will or not.

What's the job of a moral ruler? To fight the beasts of Morgoth and men not from the north west, all the people that never got told morality from the Elves in ancient times.

what's the ultimate sin? to challenge God and the Valar, of course. God will sink your continent to the sea and reshape the planet if you dare.
As someone who did not follow this in great detail, I don’t anyone claiming it was not possible to diagnose, merely that the signals towards it were very poor and that training for things was bad, and that the crews that experienced crashes had fewer safety features than typical western crews or something like that.

Your position here seems zany to me. Clack clacking sounds are not sufficient. Assuming that pilots would just turn off the system is not sufficient.
OpenRCT2 Update 0.4.6 Released
First time I've seen that. It's good they updated the reddish-brown circle to a triangle. A colorblind person would have trouble distinguishing.
Four Days a Week: This Labor Day, Let’s Talk About Laboring Less
> Western audiences generally want Western actors and stories, Hollywood is where the money, connections and expertise is.

IMO, it feels like hubris to draw linear projections near technological and sociological event horizons.

I am amazed how "television" is rapidly becoming interactive. We now more or less have "ractors" from Stephenson's Diamond Age, and series are being refined by fan feedback as they are being produced.

I feel confident that any pre-covid forms of entertainment are going to become as esoteric as radio plays and news reels are today.
Would highly recommend Underunderstood and Darknet Diaries if you liked RA
"Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories which gain attention and make ‘impact’"

Asserted without evidence in an opinion piece arguing for the use of evidence. Not super compelling. Historian's have had incentives for dramatic narratives since the age of Homer.
Note that this page hijacks the back button, and is paywalled.
This is hardly a "new" thing. People in airports are crazy, I think it's something in the air. It's so crazy, A&E was able to make a pretty good reality T.V. show[1] out of it way back in 2004.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_(American_TV_series)
I think it was the website that name-dropped, not the author of the study. It seems poor form to criticize the study itself based on how it's reported in pop media.

Studies stand or fall on their own merits. The background of the author isn't actually relevant to that. If the study holds, it holds. If it doesn't, it doesn't.
>> In this situation if it was serious they’d just get medivac’d then. <<

there we go, good one.
Seems like a fairly intuitive claim though.
/shrug/

I've been using a 6000 series, and now a 7000 series GPU from them without a problem.
This isn't even a "trolley problem" it sounds like this is just "fake news":

> "Throughout the entire duration the AV is stopped, traffic remains unblocked and flowing to the right of the AV," a Cruise spokesperson said in a statement. "The ambulance behind the AV had a clear path to pass the AV as other vehicles, including another ambulance, proceeded to do."

> The video captured by Cruise showed that the ambulance parked behind the Cruise and did not attempt to pass the robotaxi in the rightmost unblocked lane. Instead, responders moved a firetruck to allow the ambulance to pass on the left. The video, which Cruise declined to share publicly, indicates that 90 seconds elapsed between the patient being put on the stretcher and the ambulance leaving the scene.

This is also the easiest "trolley problem" in the world since it was the vehicle driven by the human that struck the pedestrian and gave them a life threatening injury. I know humans have a metric fuckton of perceptual biases, but I have no idea why that isn't the intellectual equivalent of stabbing-you-in-the-face-obvious.

If the story was centered on the driver of the vehicle and if they were some rich narcissist we wouldn't have any difficulty understanding that blaming the vehicle that blocked the ambulance for 90 seconds was blame shifting.
I get the Bill Clinton reference, but to be fair, these were your terms.
> if you've got it humming along making decent money with just the right amount of work, there's zero pressure to change it

what works now in the economy now with your skillset now etc. is not guaranteed to continue. I just think it's risky to feel zero pressure to change.
Because asynchronous edits would never be applied with that system.

If I make local edits to a document and you make remote edits to a document, the hash for your "expected state" will never match my document's state in the future because I have already made local changes.

Yes, CRDTs require all clients receive all edits in order to guarantee convergence, but the updates not needing to be applied in a certain order (which is what you are proposing) is an important property for real-world distributed use-cases.
I honestly thought that this was going to be about actual liquid types -- from the regular ones that (macroscopically) differ largely in terms of viscosity, to non-Newtonian liquids which have non-linear viscosity characteristics, to long-chain (PEG-type) polymers that have slightly unusual flow characteristics, to superfluids that have extremely weird characteristics and zero viscosity.

...I'd read that article. Now I'm starting to think that I should write it.
You can't make a threaded hole in carbon fiber at all; it's impossible. This isn't the issue.

The issue (according to the YouTube experts) is that for mass-market bikes, the manufacturers have somewhat poor quality control and manufacturing tolerances (as far as drilling holes apparently). For a press-fit BB (bottom bracket), you need an extremely round hole, accurately sized for the BB to press into (hence the name).

For a threaded BB, this isn't an issue, because those aren't pressed in. Those have an aluminum threaded part that's bonded into the hole; the hole doesn't have to be super accurate, just good enough for the aluminum part to fit into properly and get glued in. The aluminum part has the threads and perfectly fits the BB, and since it's machined out of aluminum at some other factory, doesn't have the problems with tolerances that the CF parts have apparently.
agreed. until you're the boss, and probably even then, it never hurts (economically speaking) to dress the part.
I do wonder how many interviewers would end up asking if the candidate is hallucinating thanks to ChatGPT.
I'd also say that "cash" includes a lot of things like savings/sweep accounts, short term treasuries (5.3%), and even CDs. Those are usually losing (eg not the last 20 years!?!) only a couple of points to stocks much less inflation.
Personal Machines and Portable Worlds
Note that in the Jackson movies, Saruman and Wormtongue died at Isengard, and there was no need to scour the Shire.

Though I enjoy Jackson's movies as a whole, I have quibbles with some of his choices. But this one actually makes sense, from a cinematic point of view, and the screenwriting team did a good job of changing the story in such a way that changing one element removed the need for the other.
never forget the time Musk said because of Tesla Fleet, owning any other vehicle besides a tesla was "financially insane"
The Nix language is similarly nice: (assume the following is inside a let block)

add = x: y: x + y
addFive = add 5
result = addFive 3
I'm not sure on all the particulars, but metals are not the same: some require more energy to work with or to refine than others.

Steel (IIRC) needs a lot more energy to melt than aluminum, however I think aluminum requires more energy to extract from ore. Also, IIRC, aluminum needs more energy to weld just because it conducts electricity so much better, even though it has a lower melting point.
I just tried out Yandex Translate on a few words. My only criticism is I find the audio playback too fast. Google Translate plays the audio at a slower rate which I find easier for learning the pronunciation of foreign words.
Its ridiculously annoying.

The other thing that I would really like to see is at least an option for deterministic responses. I like the creativity of ChatGPT constantly giving different responses but it is hugely problematic when you are trying to iterate and it keeps completely changing the thing you are iterating on.
But that is a coordination / buy-in problem, not a problem of ability.
This is the guy that lost several hundred thousand dollars trying to time the market shorting crypto (as an enthusiast, I think you have to be crazy to use perpetual futures for anything except hedging strategies). Since then he has pivoted from being a journeyman actor to joining the anti-crypto speaking circuit. There are a lot of people in government that despise crypto, and these people get elevated at committee hearings, NYT articles, etc.
https://archive.md/TlTbU
In addition to that, traditionally the Ad Market has been willing to pay more than Consumers.

Ads generated more revenue.

Then Netflix came along, and their core value prop was that there were no Ads, it was subscription only. Like their DVD service. This obviously fundamentally changed online consumer viewing habits and revenue sources.

Until of course Netflix decided to look into Ads as a way to feed to the beast that is Revenue Growth.

Attempts at a Netflix for other types of media seem to have largely failed to capture and change the market in the same way.

Apple News is a ghost town. Maybe old Media and Magazines are just mostly dead anyway?
So the AI spat out code and a formal spec and a theorem prover spat out a proof that the code is consistent with the formal spec?

Great.

Does the formal spec represent a complete and accurate description of what the code is supposed to do?

shrugs
> Bitcoin and crypto is only marketing. It’s only a story

It's interesting when people make such blanket statements because then all you need is one counterexample to prove them wrong. When I was a teeneager in a third world country with a pegged and tightly controlled currency, Bitcoin was the only way I could pay for books and servers online. It was thanks to Bitcoin that I truly felt connected to the rest of the world. To me Bitcoin was a currency and nothing can take that away from me.

Whether or not that still holds today is arguable but to claim something is outright useless just because you haven't found a valid use for it is narrow-minded.
Well, that’s great for people in those cities in Japan, but it doesn’t do me much good in my own city where car and scooter drivers are not remotely so cautious.
For sure, I think I was a sucker, not that the company was acting outside of the law.

In this case, I’m learning that my perspective on dilution is different from the founding team, who evidently feel fine tripling the share pool - as they should! Their odds of a major exit go up with millions in the bank, and the market is willing to bear that dilution, so of course they dilute.

Meanwhile, I end up feeling like I would have been better off buying $450 worth of Dogecoin and a really big pack of oatmeal crème pies.
What's stopping them from showing these things in countries outside the US? Not all of us live in the US.
Luckily AI alignment isn't real and is just a modern millenarian religious movement, so there's no need to do anything.

("Aligning" meaning "making it work at all" is real, but then it's just a synonym for "engineering".)
Seems to be asking me for payment even though I pay for ChatGPT.
It would not matter if this title were changed to

"The biggest fraud of all time": why Ben Mckenzie became a crypto critic

yet HN commenters will often zero-in on the name "Ponzi". I always enjoy when HN commenters defend crypto by focusing on the definition of "Ponzi Scheme". It illustrates a commenter's moral and ethical blindspot.

Perhaps the victims and critics of cryptocurrency only care that fraud is being committed.
> At first I thought this was about a variant of the Romani people, due to having talked just a few days ago with an Italian guy who was half Jewish and half Romani.

In the history of Europe, there were several of these nomadic/itinerant groups on the margins of society. They had distinct languages/cultures/origins, but occupied similar societal niches. Due to that similarity, there was a certain degree of interchange/movement/intermarriage between these groups. Romani language and culture originally comes from northern India; the Yenish spoke a dialect of German. However, that dialect included Romani loanwords, suggesting a history of interaction/intermarriage with Romani and/or absorption of Romani into their community. Their language also includes some Yiddish loanwords, suggesting a similar history of interaction with some Jewish people
If you have enough assets not to simply invest in the general market. Then there is also an opportunity cost to not having the funds to buy into "unique" opportunities. Whether they be distressed assets, innovative ideas - or simply buying Nvidia when ChatGPT came out. While the optimal strategy for an uninformed investor is diversification and buying the market... There are different strategies for informed well to do investors.
I've gone back and forth on this. I'm involved in very early stage development of sensors and instrumentation systems. If anything I create threatens to end up in a real product, there's an entire department of coders who figure out the user-facing side of things.

What I find useful is real-time displays, when I'm still at the stage of manually adjusting and optimizing things, and sometimes a few controls so I don't need three hands in the lab. But on the other hand, dialog after dialog of settings can easily be managed instead with a human readable text file.

Tkinter and Matplotlib actually work well enough for my use. I don't need to make anything look as slick as a management dashboard, or completely user-proof. I've developed a great appreciation for the time and effort (i.e., cost) that go into creating fabulous GUIs. Most makers of sensors and controls who send out a "demo" or "setup" app never get to that level.
Nope, you're not the only one. I do the exact thing, including saying "Rewrite the following, don't make it too formal". I think the results are excellent.
Local calls were free, long distance calls were not. The likelihood of spammer being in your local area was really really small.

The result of being able to call millions of people from anywhere in the country for essentially free is why we have spam calling.
also its written in rust, not to be confused with https://rust.facepunch.com/
They spent 250k to outfit a biohacking dream house
Yea, I understand your point. Price is convenient shorthand for funny money.

You’re right that I probably lit my cash on fire.
https://archive.ph/iwUwl
You seem to have linked a translation—that is not useful here. Start here instead: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1...
For those curious, it's built on top of the fantastic slateJS. Happy to answer any technical questions if anyone wants to know more about the implementation!
Why is this flagged? How can this be unflagged?
yeah but even he was a dick to his wife while he was recovering, and even she was a shoplifter.

... ok shoplifting is not one of the worse things to go on in this show, but I ended up disliking them both.
I'm not totally familiar with the system/s in the US, but where I'm from (New Zealand) title records are publicly available to anyone for the payment of a USD $4 fee per property.
The first problem is no details like how much needs to be cut. You suggested it is impossible to build enough solar. Do we have to shrink to 10% (renewable electricity) or 20% (plus nuclear)?

A good example or problem with degrowth is proclamation that things like planes won’t be possible. Aviation is 2% of emissions. There are lots of little things that they add up. Like concrete being 3%, but nobody says that have to give up concrete. The big ones are things like heating and cooling and transportation that are hard to give up.

The other problem is that we mostly know how to solve aviation. Hydrogen or liquid fuels should work, both produced from green energy. New technology but no miracles. We know how to do green electricity.

I agree with you that we need to change the world a lot. But it won’t work if impose suffering on people. Or do things that don’t work or don’t help.
Or just let people import the export archive.
When reading that passage, it reminded me of Australia's "stolen generation". Terrible injustice.
But… no? I don’t think this is what people generally believe at all. The elves are certainly not the most moral faction.

The morally challenged characters in my opinion are Boromir, Sam, and Pippen.

Almost every main character is clear that they desire to do good. Their struggle is not navigating grey space, but trying to figure out how to overcome barriers to do so (personal, hierarchical, self sacrificial, etc.).
I've started drinking more NA beers to cut back on alcohol and I have to say they are getting better!

The question of their value as a probiotic just occurred to me the other day when I was drinking something with a particularly yeasty note coming from the can.
Another challenge would be to protect against lawful inhumanity.
The Disappointing Bet That Could Turn into the Biggest IPO of the Year
https://archive.is/NNdom
I know; that's one of the components of this endlessly looping cliché.
Accidentally based
It depends on what you're trying to communicate and why. Controlled languages [1] have been around for a while — the goal is to simplify the semantics and syntax, in order to improve consistency and ease of use/understanding.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
In USA many cannabis business settle deals with BTC (and others) so, I think it's still functioning as a currency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMeoeGGEimE Great video on the topic
Poor training, poor communication, & knowledge not being curated.

When then best method of getting advice on the internet is to post the wrong answer you know the system is broken.
Negative as in reducing global warming, yes. Phytoplankton are an enormous carbon sink.

I don't know why we'd "fear" a greener ocean. It's probably a return to the colour of 200 years ago.
Approximately all traditional European recipes are like this - Italians may have meltdowns if you try to change anything about their food (or have a cappuccino after 11am), but that food was still invented around 1960 by Italian-Americans and then brought back.

Which is why it all has New World plants in it.
It's funny that there isn't someone just maintaining a community google sheets doc that handles, that then the search can index.
Should be no significant difference: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/So...