skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are schemes in the UK which will allow you to add these costs to your energy bill (repaid over time with interest). This seems to me like the "best" solution - it puts the costs and benefits together, stays with the house and the bad debt risk is significantly mitigated without needing to worry about enforcing security over a physical asset. Not sure why it's not better known or widespread.
There is a big difference between not understanding something and believing that there might be some kind of power that we don't yet understand and deciding that because we don't understand something that a bunch of unrelated made up shit must be true.
Using the word miracle suggests the fundamental axioms we have to hold are not likely
Let me put it that way: it can challenge us only the ways we program it to do it and most people don't want to challenge themselves. Socialising is the process of meeting people with other live experiences than ours and reconsiliating our viewpoint to derive a new understanding about the existence of the other. Programing your AI girlfriend to say "no" is something different, I think.
Yeah, that’s a good point. We’re currently training a new version that reduces this bias. It’s really important to us that we make this better.
Fair point, yet you pay a premium for Apple hardware and get ads for Apple services constantly. ICloud red dot until you sign up/in, media play/pause always defaults to opening Apple Music, nags to use Safari, etc
The fact we, and many people, are having these conversations wouldn’t happen if they curated societies biases out of their product.

Saying their product perpetuates stereotypes but ignoring its reflecting the entirety of medias bias is ignoring that all media perpetuates these stereotypes, and their models are no more or less perpetuating of these stereotypes than literally the entirety of all media. The fact they hold it up for careful examination in an irrefutable way is a feature in my mind, not a flaw.

I would note that SD produces a base model, which can and is routinely fine tuned. I would rather see a fine tuning that eliminates the bias in the media than see a base model that is fundamentally divergent from the state of the media today. That’s the proper abstraction - a base model that’s the basic output from mass training on available media, and models that specialize for some curation. But I also object to the base models being censored. The reason why is it cuts off a base truth from the semantic models underlying such that it’s outputs are at odds with observable reality. Specialized models shouldn’t be doing things like un censoring, but adjusting base truth to curated views. “Unbiased model” should be a fine tuning of reality. “Safe for work model” should be a fine tuning of reality. The challenge is the model producers don’t trust the model users to be adults making adult decisions and thinking adult thoughts - including about biases, stereotypes, etc.

But regardless, I think base models should never be thought of as final products but as a basis to produce a final product.
"For batteries, the constraint is mineral availability; though mining the minerals for batteries is far less environmentally destructive than mining fossil fuels, limited availability of lithium and we will probably have to switch to types of batteries that don’t use lithium in order to get enough storage for the whole world. [...]
These are real challenges, but I doubt they’ll be prohibitive. [...] Meanwhile, there’s no reason to think that iron-air batteries or other types of batteries that rely on common minerals aren’t subject to the same scaling effects as lithium-ion batteries were. So I think we’ll get grid storage reasonably cheap and scalable as well."

This is just handwaving away an incredibly difficult problem that is going to be a massive choke point for batteries. Yes there is lots of ongoing research in the material science of batteries to route around the lithium bottleneck, but there is a large lead time from finding success in research to generating end products at scale. 5-15 years of being blocked here will be extremely painful/crucial.

He also purely focuses on the economics of getting solar based energy to market, eg the cost for consumers per kwh of electricity and the cost of batteries for things like EVs. But what about the added weight of these batteries? The damage done to roadways is exponentially related to the weight of the vehicles on the road, so making all cars 2x heavier means way more than 2x the road maintenance, which leads to increases in concrete and steel production. Both of which have environmental/carbon impacts of their own, and steel production especially uses an INTENSE amount of energy. And you also have the rocket problem where the bigger the battery you have to increase your range, the more of your range is being wasted by the energy required to lug the battery around.

Any serious work here has to at least look at the benefits of increased train, tram, and trolley bus networks with overhead electrification as that gives all the benefits of electrified transportation but without the downsides of batteries.
> For someone who grew up in a different country, it appears to me that Americans do not hate working hard, they just hate working hard on academics, which is really strange.

I doubt this generalization rings true. Americans just enjoy sport more than many other nations…you can leave it at that without adding some idea of them hating academics. It’s not an either/or situation.
Bias, bias, bias. Either on the part of NBC or the companies and marketers themselves
Right, and video games cause violence.
It will absolutely be popular with women eventually. Erotica is just so incredibly popular. It's just that men make these AI tools so the first products will serve their needs.
GLP-1 receptor agonists are game-changing for weight loss, but there is even broader applicability emerging for _addictions of all kinds_. [1] This is super hopeful both because of the applicability to alcoholism, etc, but also because of how this demonstrates the function of food addiction as a driving factor for weight issues.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...
I agree. I gave him the name of a good employment law attorney.
"I've learned to live without objects, but the trait system is somewhat convoluted. There's one area of asset processing that really wants to be object oriented, and I have more duplicate code there than I like. I could probably rewrite it to use traits more, but it would take some bashing to make it fit the trait paradigm."

Can you expand on this? I come from the C# world and the Rust trait system feels expressive enough to implement the good parts of OOP.
You're overthinking it
I was just a mediocre high school player, but I'm pretty sure you're on to something there. I was a DT; the other DT and I alternated 4-on-4-off at right OT. Playing 1.5 ways is tough. The worst was to go in on second down, have to punt, and immediately resume playing defense, and know that you had to play their entire possession and one last play on offense before you got a rest.

OTOH, I don't think anyone could realistically play both ways at D1 level. Even if we just assumed the necessary position skills into existence.
> lonliness is a "pandemic" of sorts

It sure is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2017/10...
> Discord's accessibility has improved quite a bit. Even a screenreader user in the article's source section agrees:

Yes, but this ignores the others issues the post brings up: Users who cannot afford new enough hardware to make the resource-intensive client pleasant to use are also left by the wayside.

Or: Discord also declines service to users in countries under US sanctions, such as Iran.

> Discord is honestly a great place for FOSS to house their communications ... Discord does not take value away from FOSS communication platforms.

The blog's author, and others such as myself disagree. Discord chats are not indexible by search engines, so solutions are harder to find. You need a Discord account, and you need to join the channel to even see chat and use the search feature. Discord is proprietary and non-extensible because of it. Lastly, Discord is also profit-motivated, so they can shut things down or add limitations because they need to maintain a profit, and there would be nothing we can do about it. "Enshittification" as HN users love to say, is practically inevitable.

> It isn't IRC which is very inaccessible to lots of people new to computers and software in general.

Which client are you speaking of? :) The beauty of IRC, Matrix, XMPP, etc is that you have the choice and freedom (without being legally threatened by Discord Inc.) to build your own client.
Dubious statistic, I assume you're implicitly limiting the time period of consideration and/or you're excluding weaponized rockets aka missiles. Even if you exclude solid fuel missiles as being too far removed from SpaceX's technology, the liquid fueled V2 missiles killed somewhere between 5000 and 9000 people on the receiving end and it is obvious that liquid fueled rockets can and are weaponized by countries like North Korea. North Korean missiles have not [yet] killed more people than terrorist truck attacks, but if you mean this to suggest that ITAR restrictions on rocket technology are superfluous you're being silly.
Yeah I’ve also noticed an unintended bias that we’re not proud of.

We’re on it – we’re reviewing the model and fixing the issue ASAP. Thanks for pointing it out and for your patience!
I might be misunderstanding you, but if athletes fail at sports, they do not loose the education. Once a scholarship is given to a player, it is not allowed to be taken away for performance. If a player is kicked off the team (barring something like discipline issues), they still get the scholarship.
Why does it feel more exploitative in my brain to create an AI boyfriend to manipulate women than to drown men in pornography and sexual advertising.
Did you try more than once? Happened on my first try too, next few were great
Honest question, why not just go see an escort service? They exist in every major city. They will not break the bank on a single experience (though it can be very easy to get hooked). Or why not go to something like only fans and pay for an hour of time and just role play with an actual girl over webcam? They have heard and seen it all there is nothing you can say that will embarrass or gross them out as long as you pay your bill. I am just struggling to see the draw to an AI chat bot knowing it is just fake.
I suspects it’s hardware costs not personnel (or RedBull :) ) costs.
A recent episode[0] of the catalyst podcast makes a pretty convincing argument that in aggregate, car behavior is so predictable that V2X could be a valuable asset.

0: https://pca.st/episode/77c6a8a5-4967-4a71-9da0-f1ab7d56c703
You can store the full disk encryption key in the TPM and rate-limit PIN attempts using its secure non-volatile storage, as far as I know. That's very useful in case of loss/theft, given that users don't like typing long passwords or PINs for every login.

I'm not sure if this is what Windows actually does, though, or if the TPM just hands over the disk encryption key after Windows passes system attestation and then verifies the screen unlock PIN/password in software – that would be significantly less secure.
It is human psychology 101 that the default option is chosen in order of magnitudes more cases -- people are lazy. Should they really just let all that usability statistics be lost, even though their owner would more than likely be fine with its usage in most cases?

Are countries with opt-out organ donation also evil? Doesn't the litany of saved lives worth more than a post-death "inconvenience"?
The launch was scheduled for 4/17, 4/20 was a backup window. If anything they delayed the launch to hit 4/20, not rushed it.
I’m not going to shill too hard for a tax prep company, but I’ve used FreeTaxUSA for years and am satisfied. Cheap, simple, no hidden fees I’ve noticed.
This is an AOL-level understanding of how digital ads work.
What's the air in zinc-air really? I'm guessing it's some solid material but porous enough to be called 'air' ?
Please don't force Twitter to delete more of my favorite inactive accounts.
I love it! and so glad you guys made it open source. nice work!
You can also 3D print the TSA master keys - here's the link https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys
Lol, getting away. That train pulled out decades ago
People profiling your interests, mental state, politics, religion, sexysl orientation, .....

You can deduce a lot with enough data.
Thanks.

As an aside, I think this is the source of his confusion about password-less accounts. From Google's help page:

> When you create a passkey, you opt in to a passkey-first, password-less sign-in experience

That comma right there reads; "you opt in to a passkey-first _and_ password-less sign-in experience". I understand what they mean, but that kind of marketing speak is often misunderstood by more technically focussed people.
I'm really fed up with all these articles that wave their hands at seasonal storage. Oh, we'll sort it out.

It's kinda a big problem, especially in places like, well, most of Europe, where most of your energy needs are in winter (remember the hoo-ha about Russian gas imports over winter of 2022-23?) and also where most of the sunless, and also often windless times are.

I'll be glad when solar+storage will provide cheap energy on tap, but until then waving away seasonal storage problems basically means: let's burn some stuff.
I don't think so, actually. Dealing with real men (through a dating app) means dealing with flawed humans beings in a way that simply doesn't happen in a romance book, same as dealing with real women vs OnlyFans. Men sleep, disagree, forget anniversaries and birthdays, negotiate compromises, and can fall out of love in a way an AI boyfriend wouldn't. Just like real women vs AI girlfriend. So I just don't know why only AI girlfriend ads are flooding social media apps, which we know (at least on Instagram) actually primarily target women/women's body issues.

Edited to add: not to mention a/s/l and dick pics! AI boyfriend would NEVER do that, while in a dating app your average woman would probably get that fairly regularly.
I'm sure it is written in some license agreement you implicitly accept by downloading/installing the software.
Exception Handling in Python
Love it! No tutorial needed, works on mobile, relaxing
Depends, I suppose. If you are just numbing your pain with substitutes, it is a more humane version of a suicide where you just leave the world though in a calm and non obtrusive way where you might be still walking and talking. Perfect for the individual, endgame for the species if popular enough. Just natural selection, if it works on only a small part of the population.
it returns json!
And then you point the camera app at the QR code, and then click the link that appears over the QR code. Neither Apple nor Android require a QR code reader app.
> We're past the peak of inflated expectations and headed for the trough of disillusionment.

Many techies here are still in denial and are forced to not trust it as they know it hallucinates for no reason given that it has no capability of transparent reasoning - fundamental to anything that is in deep learning.

This is why many are now realizing that the hype was just a grift to get as much VC capital as possible from investors over this ‘AGI’ narrative.

The ones upset over ChatGPT hype are just worried about their over-leveraged investments into ChatGPT-wrapper companies and are confused as to why this AI snake oil is wearing off.
Yes, and even if the grandparents or extended family live elsewhere but nearby, there can be a sharing of the workload: not just meals and childcare, but also a family member who works on everyone's cars, one who does a lot of the yard work, one who does house repairs, etc.

Multi-generational and extended family houses work for some folks, but more broadly we have the problem that adult children move away from their families and start a new family somewhere else, without a replacement for that support structure.
You nailed it. The article says:

> Are said she believes that reflects a gender-based slant — social media platforms freely allow sex-related ads only if the intended audience is men.

So when you've got a huge hungry audience, willing to pay money, the platforms are incentivized to enforce their rules about ads unequally. Content and apps geared towards women, or gay men, are such a small piece of the pie by comparison that there's less incentive to look the other way.

The companies being accused of this unequal enforcement, of course, have a long history of doing things for no other reason than they can make a little extra money on it by not respecting their users. It's entirely believable.
And once people are addicted, and using it on a large scale, the side effects will turn out to be unpleasant.
It's really just a matter of practicality. Developing within docker or a VM is kind of a pain.
I wasn’t in horrible shape, but my BMI was juuuuuust high enough to get my insurer to cover Ozempic. I’ve dropped 20+ pounds since June, and am now at my ideal weight, or at least quite close to it. Pretty incredible. I hope that everyone soon gets the same access to these drugs that I’ve been able to enjoy. Seems like it would be a real public health revolution.
Do you have any concerns that this is having a negative impact on your development?

For whatever its worth I dont think you’re alone on this. Im just asking because you are owning it.
I was diagnosed in the 90s. I’ve taken medication on and off ever since, with the vast majority of the time being off. On the surface I’m very successful, probably the same as you, but struggle inside just completing daily tasks.

I suppose you’re struggling with something which is why you got a diagnosis. So try the medications if you want, start low dose and only increase if necessary. If coffee really helps, then a stimulant is probably a good starting point. You may find some doctors who are really hesitant to prescribe them. If that’s the case, find a new one who is willing to help without making you do a little dance for them. I’ve heard horror stories like requiring the patient to submit to drug tests, in person visit to get a refill, unwilling to prescribe more then 30 days at a time, etc. There’s no legal requirement for this in my state and probably none in yours.

Being diagnosed just means you have a more informed world view of who you are and things to watch out for. Have fun and stay weird!
> choosing Discord does not take value away from FOSS communication platforms.

it does though. it's the same vicious cycle that allowed microsoft to gain control of the OS market: developers write programs for windows (because that's where the users are) and users run windows (because that's where the programs run). the more people agree to use discord, the more it becomes "the place where the <x> community is", the harder it becomes for any community to not use it.

9/10 discord users don't understand or care about this at all. which is why it's of utmost importance that developers - especially open source developers, presumably developing open source software for a reason - encourage discussion on other platforms.
Won't they have the same launch problem on Mars with their engines blasting debris everywhere? I guess a smaller gravity well means less thrust, but it still is a lot of thrust.
That is true: You are certainly allow to (exclusively) licence your works to others. Actually, I only meant it to be an example of how giving guarantees can become difficult if authorship is not clear.
Thanks! Also:

Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13794989 - March 2017 (1 comment)

Aardvark'd (Fog Creek documentary) is now up on YouTube for free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539337 - May 2011 (4 comments)

Ask YC: Anyone seen the Aardvark'd movie with Paul Graham? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=518580 - March 2009 (1 comment)
Yeah. So have the state unify it all into a single transit authority. That doesn’t convince me about unifying all facets of government.

For example, one thing called out is policing. But the claimed problem of interop between departments feels superficial. It’s not like communication is prohibited and you’d still have jurisdictional precinct issues. The problems with policing are intrinsic with how it’s set up structurally in terms of unions, insurance, enforcement of rules within police etc. that doesn’t get better when you amalgamate. Indeed, Toronto’s police famously turned out to have an agreement after amalgamation (iirc) that they struck with gangs to avoid enforcement / prosecution as long as violence was kept in check. When that kind of stuff happens, it’s impact is much narrower when you have independently run departments.
https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-un...

so, what the hell happened in the 80s and 90s that caused such a large jump? what changed? Diet sodas? super size me? what caused this?

Can we undo this so that we don't need a magic pill?
"Just eat less and exercise"

My primary doctor's advice 4 years ago.

"You lost the genetic lottery and I'm putting you on Ozempic to address your metabolic disorder"

My endocrinologist's response 2 years and 50lbs of weight loss ago. Since then every health marker has improved substantially, and with it clarity of thought and energy. Broad insurance coverage for these medications should be a slam dunk for insurers.
It's different in the sense that the idea of dark matter allows you to make predictions. If it makes the model work, it gives you new directions to go and new things to discover. If the predictions don't work out, the model gets tossed.

A good example of this is the aether hypothesis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether
I don't think that "miracle" is the correct word to use with science as by design, the experiments should be reproducible, whereas a miracle is surely an unique event. The use of statistical methods to eliminate chance events would surely eliminate miracles too.

However, certainly there's elements of belief involved with the underlying explanations of scientific phenomena, but there's also a push to try to reduce the number of things that scientist are required to take on faith. There's also more reliance on equations rather than the interpretation of why experiments agree with the equations - the "shut up and calculate" approach.

It's interesting when people try to figure out experiments that can rule out certain beliefs, such as the Bell inequality. An important point though is that failing experiments can rule out certain options too, whereas a failed religious experience may be explained away by any number of reasons ("God moves in mysterious ways").
Which is what ended up being implemented. That was a PR disaster on apple's part, but their motivation was genuinely good. They could have just let the phones power off randomly, like they were 5-6 years old -- android wouldn't even know about them anymore.
At the time of writing this their stock is only down .41% or 2.41$.

I’m sure they’ll get a fine of 1% of their earnings.
That one looks like an actual blog post though, not just a blind link to a website that's trying to sell some random product which is completely unrelated to news or hacking.

The link here is literally just a video advertising the pre-sale of some tablet app that isn't even coming out for a two and a half months. It's not open source, nor even available on open platforms. It has nothing to do with code, or security, or anything even mildly development related. It also isn't "news" in any sense of the word. Not even a press release saying what the app is, just a flashy ad trying to get you to pre-order some app.

Futhermore, it was the #1 link on the site when I made my post, which feels a lot like someone paid to have their advertisement pinned to the top of the site.