skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the report:

> "DOE uses a broad definition of VPPs (virtual power plants) that
includes a variety of mechanisms for aggregating and orchestrating DERs (distributed energy resources)"

> "Just as different types of traditional power plants contribute to the grid in different ways (e.g., nuclear plants provide baseload generation, and wind farms provide variable generation), so too do different configurations of VPPs."

Historically grid structure in the USA was broken down into baseload, load-following and peaker plants, a choice made based on the technological limitations of the power sources (coal and nuclear power could not be rapidly ramped up and down. so they were assigned baseload status, while hydro and natural gas could).

That all fails when you put large amounts of solar and wind on the grid, e.g. a large solar PV system might generate 200% of demand at noon, (so you divert half or more to storage for use at night). Fundamentally this means scrapping the whole concept of baseload generation, and instead focusing on storage and distribution of energy from highly variable renewable sources - which is why nuclear is difficult to integrate smoothly with renewables, it's not very flexible. However, DOE is a very pro-nuclear agency, hence their reluctance to abandon the baseload concept.

I suppose VPPs are a useful abstraction for managing a wide variety of resources in one geographical area, but the reality is that replacing fossil fuels with electricity across the board will require truly massive grid infrastructure investments. This will require either steep increases in energy bills for consumers, or large tax-financed government subsidies of grid infrastructure, and possibly even nationalization of the grid.
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These statistics regularly make it sound like everyone was dying off around 30.

In reality, it is due to infant mortality rates. Once you make it past a certain age (10-15 years) your life expectancy shoots up into the 40-60's easily. However, when you average the population out, those infant deaths tank the average life expectancy.

I'm not surprised they glossed over this, most researchers do, because they don't want to go into infantile deaths, disease spread during child birth, still births, etc.

Not only is it a complex topic, but it's fraught with political and religious ideology. When my history and anthropology professors started talking about it, certain folks of a particular religious bent almost immediately started trying to correct them about it.
I feel their differentiator is quality employees(at least in my area). Having that unique quality could help attract better employees.
No problem. Just stagger home or take a cab.
Are you suggesting this as a fix? The wheel never turns on its own, powered on or not. I've put thousands of miles on my pint. I am assuming the onewheel engineers have good reasons for making that choice.
Great! Hadn’t seen that initially.

That’s what I adore about truly open source projects such as Python, but also Linux or Rust, for example. They’re not polished products of faceless corporations. They have rough edges, as everything does, and that’s okay.

And time and again some human spirit shines through, like it does here. A welcome reminder we’re all in this together, and that next quarter’s shareholder revenue is genuinely meaningless in the bigger picture.
I’m not sure; an unbalanced opinion is obviously unbalanced, and it’s easier to see it as not being the whole picture. But a seemingly reasonable opinion combined with a straw man of an opposing view, is harder to unlearn.
> English (USA), English (UK)

> This deserves a separate discussion. I doubt many English speakers (let alone those who don't live in a particular anglophone country) care to distinguish between English dialects.

While that is generally (though not always) true, I would assume it's really a stand in for the much more relevant zh locales.

It is also rather relevant to es locales (america spanish has diverged quite a bit from europe spanish hence the creation of es-419), definitely french (canadian french, to a lesser extend belgian and swiss), and german (because swiss german). And it might be relevant for ko if north korea ever stops being what it is.
I'm not sure that the photographer present will need to be especially skilled, though. One can imagine an "Uber for Photography" service to get raw material, and you get the final "shots" out of a guided generative ML model of some sort, possibly including some moments that participants remember but weren't actually captured.
Locking up a drunk driver is worth the hassle.
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What a horrible naming convention. Is it plantless power plant?
People have been doing this since NFTs first launched. Its trivial to have an inside circle "selling up" NFTs until some sucker comes along and grabs the bag.
Not sure what you mean. Can you provide some sample code so I can undesrstand the issue / use-case?
I'm probably the minority with this request but: A Sublime Text clone, with many of the same features and at least some level of compatibility with existing packages. That'd be great.

And it's not that I don't want to pay for Sublime, I just want it to work on OpenBSD.
MicroPython.
On any hardware it runs. RaPi ist not the worst choice.
I'm not sure about that. Being in a state of constant fear of failure doesn't enable one to do great stuff.
If you find this discussion enlightening then I would also recommend the book, a PhD is not enough. It takes a common sense, no nonsense approach to explaining to you that your PhD was only a step in your career and there's many things you lack if you hope to succeed to your full potential. I strongly recommend this book having used it basically as a template for decision making successfully.

Also if you are a postdoc on the fence of academia or industry. Go to industry. You will probably like it. Or you will hate it and can do another postdoc. There's always postdocs around.
And OP would really like to know how
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Yeah, it was a random fact. Had no bearing on the point I made or the discussion with the other poster I was having.

Everything you've just said above is nonsense. People in the US have significantly lower incomes on average then most other western countries. You really don't seem to know what you're talking about. At all. Yet you feel the need to insert yourself into every conversation.

I won't be replying to you again, and by gods how I wish HN had a block function for people like you.
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How does the Eddington Limit relate to black hole formation ? Does it means that accretion is slow until the star's matter has finished fusing ?
well that's petty
It's kind of wild that these tools just transfer a copy of these models every time they're spun up (whether it's to a Google Colab notebook or a local machine.)

This must mean Hugging Face's bandwidth bill must be crazy, or am I missing something (maybe they have a peering agreement? heavily caching things?)
I think this would be very hard to estimate because it would be hard to tell how many workers work their specifically because of this policy. There are also some customers who shop their specifically because they appreciate the fact that they are closed on Sundays.
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I got my wife a chromebook a few years ago to replace her mbp that died unexpectedly right when she needed a laptop. I figured she would use it for a while and then we would get her a new Mac and hand-down the chromebook to one of the kids.

Almost five years later, though, she's still using it and loves it. She uses it for everything, doesn't play games or need to run heavy compute locally, and now that Docs and Sheets can open Office documents natively (as opposed to conversion, which it used to do), there's really nothing she needs beyond that.

Recently I mentioned that the new Macs that had come out had a great battery life/performance profile and did she want to switch back - and she had little interest in it. They're pretty capable machines for general purpose use.

That's anecdata, of course, but if I think back to setting my grandmother up with a mac mini many years ago, if I were doing that today I would absolutely get her a chromebook for the security and data reliability alone.
It's not a thin client. Hasn't been for a long while. Has Android and Linux layers which runs apps / programs locally and offline. There's also several web apps that can be run offline, including Google's own. Certain models have Steam support. Chrome OS devices are closer to being general purpose computing devices than iPads.

You could run one as a thin client and have a great time with it. But it's no longer limited to being thin.
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It happened already over 30 years, and in most countries should plateau in less than 10 years.

You went from about 200 years of an industrial world where <5% of the population was elderly to - in the span of 30 years - that going up to the mid 30s to low 40s in almost all developed countries.

Japan & Italy led the charge.
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If you compare the size of the training datasets and the size of the final models, I don’t think you can extract much more than the very popular, famous, and duplicated data.
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You could store and playback video from a CD … it looked like crap though. The best computers could handle back then was MPEG-1 video which it was really really blocky at CD bit rates. Double whammy of lack of storage and lack of processing power.

Things finally got good enough with DVD that had 7x-13x the storage and MPEG-2 was available.
>All Chromebook Plus laptops come with the the following guaranteed hardware specs:

I feel like these sorts of guarantees used to be useful, but now I'm not sure.

Outside of my work computer, I buy off-lease ThinkPads for use around the home (ie family computers). I think the oldest one still in use is a 3rd generation i7. And it's totally fine as a daily driver.

On the other side, I bought an off-lease desktop that has a 7th gen(?) quad-core 8 thread i7 with 32GB of RAM, and it's not going to allow me to run Windows 11. Kind of silly.
The allegations here are very serious, but it can be simultaneously true that a company is doing important work, and that they need to fix deep problems in their workplace culture.
Feel free to change the above to claim they stated it would create a negative PCR test or a PCR test with less than 1 one respiratory symptom or 2 systemic symptoms. It does not meaningfully change the issue whatsoever. The asterisk by infection went, without skipping a beat, from a 'PCR test and symptoms' to 'hospitalization/death.' These are very different things.
Well I must be part of the exception then. I am not proud of anything I have not directly contributed to. Feeling proud for other people achievements is very strange to me.
It's just for a week, use the local library.
Running my project's computation-intensive test suite takes 83 seconds under 3.11 and 67 seconds under 3.12. That's a pretty good improvement!
it's MIT, lol.
In the rural Europe, attendance at church on Sundays was more or less socially or even legally obligatory even among the agrarian majority, but distances from farms to parish churches were sometimes so vast that the journey to church and back could take all day (in the Nordic countries it could even take two). Therefore, the idea of Sunday as a “rest day” might not have been so well-entrenched, but it was already a “no work” day for many farmers.
> run Linux in full control and still get outstanding battery life.

Why do you believe this would be the outcome? Good battery life is an attribute of software, not hardware. The likely outcome of slapping Fedora on a Chromebook will be exceedingly poor battery life and prolonged frustration as you attempt to figure out why it doesn't have energy efficiency parity with ChromeOS.
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I figured, I was curious exactly what
Public companies also do this, they buy their own stock and drive the price up

Maybe the process is more transparent, but the mechanism is the same
How is it easiest "for them" to have the mess instead of having the newer standard be less messy?
The mouse cursos ir really annoying, stopped reading for that reason
My point is that parsers structured as a combination of parser combinators are worse than hand-rolled parsers, because:

1. It's not hard to write a parser, and one you it's a problem you don't have to solve very often, so the ungodly amount of time people spend thinking about their formal properties and attempting to come up with new parsing methodologies is baffling. Just witnessing the literature leads people to believe writing a parser by hand is some Herculean task, they don't attempt it, they pick up a weird parser combinator library and have bad time.

2. You're limited by what can be expressed by your parsing methodology of choice, which usually means a context-free grammar. There's even fairly basic formats that can't be expressed as a CFG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode). If you're sure your requirements won't change, this is not an issue, but if you're not, a custom parser can give you peace of mind, since it can be extended with literally anything thrown your way.

3. Performance
You'd need pretty extraordinary vision to tell. My vision is pumped up to 20/18 with my glasses and it looks better than the retina Macbook Pro that sits right next to it (thanks to the lack of gloss).
My understanding is that almost all side-effects of mRNA covid vaccines originate in the fact that the body produces a part of the virus. If that part of the virus can damage the body, so can the vaccine. This is the mechanism for the myocarditis after vaccination. But it also means that the probability to get myocarditis from an actual infection is much higher because of the exponential growth of the real virus.

If that understanding holds up against scrutiny in the future, mRNA vaccines are an extremely safe and capable platform to deliver vaccines.
Your threshold for clear evidence may vary. I found several studies, including an attempt at a randomized trial measuring the effects of screen use on the optical surface:

http://doi.org/10.1111/cts.12933 "Effects on the Ocular Surface from Reading on Different Smartphone Screens", Yuan, K. et al, 2020

A few other studies found differing effects on blink rate and visual fatigue from different screens.

http://doi.org/10.1097/OPX.0000000000001616 "How do Different Digital Displays Affect the Ocular Surface", Talens-Estarelles, C. et al, 2020

In this case, screen size was also associated with detrimental effects, with larger screens generally performing worse, and smartphones similar in effect to the e-reader. This may partially account for some hitherto unexplained preference for smartphones over computers among some users. The e-reader was better than the tablet, but not better than the smartphone.

The earliest study to show any effect was Benedetto et al, focusing on visual fatigue, which has been widely cited:

http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083676 "E-Readers and Visual Fatigue", Benedetto, S. et al, 2013.

At least one study found statistically insignificant effects, though the e-reader showed mostly improved (but insignificant) test results, which does not weigh against the existence of an effect:

http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-1313.2012.00928.x "Reading on LCD vs e-Ink displays: effects on fatigue and visual strain", Siegenthaler, E. et al, 2012.

Siegenthaler et al do not measure effects on the ocular surface; such effects seem to have reached scientific interest only in the late 2010s. Also, the difference between e-Ink and LCD peak luminance in Siegenthaler was only 10%; the ratio of ambient to screen luminance has been observed to mediate the relationship between screen usage and eye strain:

http://doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2020.101943 "Influence of ambient-tablet PC luminance ratio on visual fatigue", Yu, H. and Akita, T. 2020.

While I attempted to find any high-quality studies, positive or negative, available looking at the relationship between screen type and eye strain, my interpretation of the data likely reflects (hah!) my strong intuition that shining a light directly into your eyes is bad.
Share buybacks are not even close to the same thing as wash trading. Please don’t make assertions that are obviously untrue.

Wash trading creates fake sales data at successively higher prices to create the illusion of demand and liquidity.

Share buybacks are a corporation buying back shares (on a regulated public market) and ‘retiring’ them to reduce the amount of shares outstanding, which makes each share worth a little bit more.

How are these even remotely similar?
You wouldn't be surprised if RT went on the defence for a disgraced Russian. Don't be so surprised that the NYT, too, does so for one of their own.
As an artist, I can observe that (generally) aesthetic images such as paintings or photos, are visually unified. This unity is similar to that of a signature: complex yet uniquely expressive.

this singularity is composed of many elements (themes, forms, subjects etc) and sub-elements. What I would have loved to see in this paper is a means by which the heirachies of these elements can be changed, to produce new heirachies (and therefore new images).
I know the tensor power pixelbook was shutdown and I never heard the actual reason just a bunch of speculation about costs/profitability which is probably true.

It's a shame that there isn't more competition and development in the neural asic world to harness the power of llms/generative AI on a low power, cheap hardware platform like the pixelbook line. For someone that invented the TPU they have done a not so great job of ensuring it's commercialization and support. Both on the hardware and software side.

The coral edge tpu seemed to be the right high level idea but without proper execution.

https://github.com/google-coral/edgetpu/issues/668
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Frustrating, I looked up MS/C#'s implementation and they don't get stored in a proper semisequential fashion in MS SQL Server because MS stores UUIDs in an odd binary format.