skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
note that 89 dollars per megawatt hour is three to five times what solar energy usually costs

as i have said before, if small modular reactors were cheaper energy sources than diesel engines, they would power every ship in the navies of the usa, france, the uk, russia, and china, instead of just the aircraft carriers, some of the submarines, and a few other russian ships

(and note that diesel engines are too expensive to compete with solar and wind)

one day nuclear energy will be cheaper than solar and wind, but for now the humans' manufacturing is too primitive
Anything before you were ~10 is "old", things between ~15 and ~20 are natural and right, things between ~20 and ~35 are modern and exciting, and anything that occurs after that is proportionately unnecessary and annoying. :P

/shakes-cane-at-cloud-infrastructure
That's all good and possible but not quite mainstream yet.
It's so cool. I was wondering if we can make crawler tool much easier and better. It's more similar to the "human" way to interact with a website.
Does an equivalent linter exist for Python, or for Golang, or for Scala? I'm sold, it would be great to have something like this.

EDIT:

- pylint: using-constant-test (W0125) https://docs.pylint.org/features.html#id13

- golangci-lint: revive's constant-logical-expression https://golangci-lint.run/usage/linters/#revive
There's an article I've been meaning to write for a while called Death to the Salesmen.

I've spent a large part of my career working on products for insurance agents, real estate agents, and car salesmen.

My experience has left me with one conclusion: we should eliminate most of these jobs. They're about as predatory toward the customer as they come, adding little value in most cases.

There are certainly cases where they do add a lot of value but mostly because of government regulations, cartels, and monopolies they have a much bigger footprint than they should have in anything resembling a just world.
Thank you! We are also very excited about combining the fast fine-tuning and efficient serving. In fact, what you just said is very related to one of our very first motivations. In my previous blog post [1], I call this scheme "Just-in-time Fine-tuning". Our previous measurement is that, for a medium-sized webpage (~10K tokens), it takes around 30 seconds to 2 minutes to finetune a LoRA model. Another good side of this JIT fine-tuning scheme is that, we can turn any model into a long-context model.

We'll keep doing more research on finetuning. And hopefully, we'll see the results soon.

[1] https://le.qun.ch/en/blog/2023/09/11/multi-lora-potentials/
Users flag comments, dang with usually reply if there is a legit issue. But mostly like the rule about taking a commentors best intended meaning rather than their unintended easy to refute meaning.
I am surprised they don't mention the book a Citizens guide to 5GW
it's news to me that utah's head of state is a mayor

i would be surprised if your information about warren's position on renewable energy turns out to be more accurate than your information about how he spells his name

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-19/buffett-s...
Many broadcasters are positioning to accepted the broadcast part of their business as the freemium entry point into their online app. The ads will never be turned off everywhere but the better experience will only be found over the jump.
> The question in my mind is, 74 million monthly users have a good time (or not bad enough to not come back, whatever) vs the inevitable catastrophic event as you say, isn’t it well worth it to accept the risk and continue?

Assuming the 74 million are really getting lots of value from it, compensating the victims of the catastrophic event is more than worth it. Holding the host liable for the harms, and trusting the host to charge an appropriate amount warranted by the value received to the users is one way to do this.
Does anybody know of someone making a successful claim with Title Insurance? I've long been skeptical about how often those situations happen.
Your focus on individual names does kind of gloss over the fact that for centuries the Neoplatonist and Advaita Vedanta schools of thought had an extensive foothold on philosophical thought.

Someone like Philio might not be widely read today, but the adoption of Plato's ideas into the dual creation of man in Genesis lives on today among Kabbalah much as Plotinus's contributions to Neoplatonism evolving alongside the Gnostics which in turn live on in everything from Scientology to The Matrix to Nick Bostrom.

That the commenter is mischaracterizing medieval and later mainstream philosophy doesn't mean their underlying claims about views of being in a world-copy being extensive among the broader set of philosophical thinking is incorrect. It was quite prominent in both East and West in various points in antiquity.
The reason is to not have the windows be absolutely blown out. They both look better that way and you can see the view, of the house has one.

Of course, there’s tastefully doing it and…not. When I did real estate photography I (almost always) solved that problem by using additional lighting inside to somewhat equalize the interior and exterior brightness. It looks a lot better in the end but it’s also a lot more work and requires more equipment.
"the distribution is the same" is a clear disproof of a link.

"substantial number who don't" and "large number of people who don't" is not disproof of a link.

A substantial number of people with cancer never smoked, and a large number of smokers don't get cancer. That sentence is completely true despite the strong link between the two.

Also I was specifically talking about the artists and bipolar claim, not clowns. But where is that info about the distribution of sad people? I don't see it in the article. Or was it a hypothetical?
Resources for Keeping Up with Enterprise AI?
Hi all! I got added to a team recently focused on AI adoption at a corporate enterprise scale. The current licensing on Microsoft, given existing tech stack, but we're also evaluating the landscape at large. There's obviously an endless sea of cutting edge "thought leaders" that all claim to have the only opinion worth listening to. But what sites, podcasts, etc, have you found that actually seem to hold up on the topic of enterprise AI implementation? Or in general, if there's not much in that space yet.

Any references are greatly appreciated!
Kinda sci-fi, we're so close to a future where when/if original source code is lost, a mainframe runs in an emulator and the human operating it is also emulated.
Our hands are specialized for _grasping_, not for swinging. We grasp things all the time, but we swing very rarely.
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Twine! You guys single handedly snowballed the Kickstarter revolution! Huge inspiration for us and Pebble in 2012 directly.

Your campaign felt like a “butterfly flapping its wings causing a hurricane” kind of moment. You inspired so many entrepreneurs of that time to take a risk and crowd fund which then inspired another generation. Some of whom ended up huge and going public like Peloton.

Regarding choke points - I don’t think they’re all bad. Sometimes certainly, but others it’s a defensible moat that forces an industry to specialize into various key players that serve integral roles. I’m thinking specifically of semiconductors with companies like Western Digital locking up storage, Qualcomm with radios, ARM with compute, Samsung/Hynix with memory, etc This creates a stable enough ecosystem to build various software abstractions on top.
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Between depth of focus, various obstructions, details that are too small to notice until they bite you, multiple angles, very large spans of travel etc I don't think that's feasible. It's one of those 'why don't they' statements where an outsider thinks they have an obvious solution to something when the experts in the field are anything but stupid.

What does work is to disconnect the motors while keeping the rest of the electronics powered up but not all industrial robots have such a facility. The e-stop will disconnect everything and that stops you from doing things like firmware upgrades. And when things are broken it gets even more complicated and unpredictable.

Servicing machinery like this is difficult, sometimes dangerous (but not even the most dangerous, for that you have to go visit a steel mill) but not impossible. The biggest danger really is familiarity with the machines to the point that you stop to respect them, that's when you are really in danger. Personally you can't pay me to go near one when it isn't locked out, I'd much rather field strip it and test the components one by one than taking a risk but a service tech might be promised a bonus if they can get it working again quickly and that might cause them to work in less safe ways.

I've seen people do incredibly stupid stuff with machinery and I've also seen the results in terms of fingers and sometimes eyes or whole limbs lost as evidence of prior fuck-ups. And some of those people still took risks afterwards.

Walk into any metal machining shop and just watch, it won't be an hour before you see someone do something that they shouldn't be doing. And in almost all cases it will end up without anything being damaged or someone being injured. One more step on the 'normalization of deviation' track. It always ends the same.
Latest codes have backed off of that. Doors that can meet the old fire doors had closing springs set so strong the elderly couldn't open them (or couldn't get in with packages after getting it open)
My realtor drove 160 miles today on my behalf, just to make sure I didn't forget something minor during a pre-closing walk-thru. I've had prior realtors that would have absolutely found an excuse to miss things like that. She also realized that I might not be able to make closing time due to commute logistics with my job and so proactively rescheduled it for 1 hour later in the morning. I found out about the problem in a text message after it was already solved.

My realtor is about saving me time & frustration. I don't have to think about what a title company or MLS is, how many there are, how they work, who to talk to, etc. None of it. I say "I want to look at houses in area XYZ" and next thing I know I have an agenda with route in my inbox and tentative dates for viewing. Even closing feels like it goes warp speed with this person. I've never had it take more than 45 minutes and I'm going on the 4th time. Every part of the experience should feel like cruise control if you are working with good people.

I totally get the arguments on the other side though. If you are looking for something modest/routine & you also don't have a lot of constraints, the 3%+ fees start to look very manipulative. Additionally, if you are willing to spend some of your own time to do legwork on various logistics, then I can understand why you'd rather that money just stay in your pocket.

For me, I'd happily burn thousands of dollars to save half an hour depending on how mentally stressful that 30 minutes is expected to be. Look to tax filing services if you need another example of the same psychology. Turbotax never takes me more than an hour and never comes back weird, but I'd happily cut a check to make the whole notion of doing my own taxes mostly go away.
If this is the math you did:

> A crude calculation (earthradius_equatorial^2 * pi * (1000 W/m^2) * 1 year in units(1) --- gosh, Unix is great!) suggests that the total solar energy falling on the earth is about 40000 * 10^20 joules per year.

... that's not a good approximation. There's someone who actually has done less crude math for maximum possible solar energy, at least for the UK: https://www.withouthotair.com/c6/page_38.shtml (though the HTML version is somewhat annoying because it's still paginated as if it were a book). Spoiler alert: it's roughly enough energy to cover total transportation energy demand, nowhere near total energy demand in the UK.
The last deal I did, the appraiser asked me (the buyer) if I was okay with the appraisal, or wanted a different number.
My landlord does this. Every email, no matter how mundane, ends with an all caps warning that the information in it might be privileged or confidential, etc. and how I'm to delete it posthaste if I was not the intended recipient.

Like … I don't take orders from an email. You're basically begging to be uploaded to the Internet like that.
those are interesting points. i think on the first one i think i am using a different definition of democracy. in short, for me democracy means something that actually works and respects the will of all people including minorities. simple rule of majority is not really democratic in my view. the flip side of that is that i do not believe that there is any country in the world today that has a functioning democracy.

in short, it looks like we both actually want something similar here. what that is needs more discussion.

my idea of democracy also has a heavy focus on decentralization. basically i believe that decisions or rules should be made at the lowest level needed for that rule to be useful.

that means, things like traffic rules should be made at a national or better even global level because it is not helpful to have different rules for that in every city. same goes for issues like polution. those are global problems. but many other problems are local, and it is better to decide those on a local level. i'd even go as far as suggesting to make every possible choice at a local level first and only escalate to a higher level if the local decisions create a conflict with neighboring localities.

so i am 100% with you on decentralization. though i don't see less laws or less taxes as a goal or as an obvious result. decentralization could lead to less laws or taxes, but it doesn't have to. personally i don't care either way. that is up to each community to work out for themselves.

i think the problem at the start of the thread was that the claim was that there should be zero taxes or zero mandated contributions of any form. and that is something i disagree with. and it appears that you are not asking for that either.

the next question would be: how would a political or electoral system look like that enables those things? whether it is called democracy or something else.
After so many times being the youngster advocating for things like this to the 20-30 year experience crowd, I am not sure I agree that age or experience are really major factors in this context.
They save you maybe like 2-5000 worth of time sometimes if you have a good, knowledgeable realtor who has done their homework.

Beyond that, 6% is obviously asinine.
Did you also use help from LLMs in coding this app instead of just coding it all by hand? Just curious.

I am finding myself reaching for GPT4 more often to spin up POC apps.

You could fine-tune a coding assistant on your library and good quality example apps with documentation ... and that might take the ease of churning out new demos and apps to the next level?
Bugs?!!! Some good ones sure but I don't understand "Bugs will be your arch-enemy for life". Bugs can't be your enemy. Bugs are what you do. It's your life. We are talking software engineering. If you hate bugs. If bugs make your skin crawl. If you throw up or throw monitors out the window... Then please don't get into software engineering! Or at least first look at yourself and recognize that this is why you get the big bucks. Sorting out bugs is normal. The time it takes is normal (well, do get better as you go about it...) You get paid for that. People rely on YOU sorting that out. Bugs are not the enemy. Bugs are the job. Get yourself to a point where bugs are not the enemy. You can't spend your life getting frustrated by bugs.
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Market monopoly.
> states.intersection({'VALID'} | {'IN_PROGRESS'})

Does this Python code count? Haha.
I see it as reaching for a point it doesn't quite get to. It's pointing out that comedians are focused on opposites (up / down, good / bad, big / little), and they play with the contrast between extremes.

It echoes the section about internal / external contrast (happy facade, sad inside).
nuclear tech had the biggeet subsidies program in human history in the 01940s and 50s, continuing to a significant extent into the 80s, which is how the humans got it in the first place

some historians argue that subsidizing nuclear tech too heavily was a major factor in the collapse of the ussr
> Under German law, anyone involved in a criminal case has the right to privacy.

Until convicted, I presume?

Are the identites of those arrested (and possibly prosecuted but acquitted) protected forever?
This is essentially a personal blog of a long-term Microsoft employee on all sorts of interesting technical topics.

It isn't an official Microsoft publication.
It's time. The AI are actively working to bring eachother down.
That isn't what this lawsuit was about though.

The main issue is the listing agent splitting the commission with the buyer's agent, not that the seller has to pay some % of the sale price as a commission.
As an electrical engineer I have to sadly inform you that electricity transport is not free. Transporting electricity from those places to the places with populations is overall inefficient.

So the best place for a solar panel is right next to were the energy is needed (provided there is at least some sun).

Solar installations in deserts could still be a thing if you are willing to think it differently (e.g. use the energy for desalination and to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, transport that hydrogen via container ship etc).
the appraisals seem to come in ridiculously close to offer price every time.

Few people make wild offers unrelated to the market price and even if they do, sellers rarely accept them. So it makes sense that the appraisal usually comes close to the offer price since both the buyer and seller usually do at least some research of looking around at comparable sales.

Though I saved $25K on a house once when the appraisal came in $25K under my offer price. I told the sellers that the bank wouldn't give me a loan at the current terms over the appraised price and I didn't have another $25K in cash to put down on the house, so I'd have to withdraw the offer. The seller made an appraisal appeal that went no where, so they reduced the selling price by $25K.
There's definitely a bunch of crazy unmoderated stuff going down in those places, but it does seem more underground and out of the way unless you specifically look for it.

Actually, I'd guess that it's probably easier for people to find themselves in such weird spaces today. There's a lot of resources and guides out there, and if you want to, you can most likely find them.
Used to live in a city where the ham radio group was actively involved in and integrated into the city’s emergency response plans.

Their muster sites for a major disaster had at least 50% of their space dedicated to radio equipment. Every community center had equipment installed on site. There was a large radio room in the regional emergency operations center building, a wackload of antennas on the roof, and a dedicated desk for the group in the main EOC room.

The city paid for me to attend multi-day courses where some of the other 12 people in the room were “the chief of the fire department”.

The group, internally, ran a multitude of training programs to ensure the people responding would be able to handle the tasks they would need to do. During some day-long simulations to test the emergency response, the city explicitly called a communications blackout to simulate all phone and other communication systems going dark and validate the capabilities of the radio group.

There’s still a lot of value in amateur radio in an emergency… with an organized, trained group of people. Which across the multitude of places I’ve lived I’ve only ever come across once.

So yeah, mostly just LARPing.

(As a maybe-interesting side note… The average age in that group was substantially lower than anywhere else I’ve dropped in on a radio group as well.)
There's also the Principal Agent problem here. If the seller's agent gets the home sold for an extra $50,000, the agent only makes an extra $1500. If this takes an extra month of work, it may not be worth it. And what guarantee does the agent have that their extra work will actually pay off?

Good agents do get referrals, which is a good incentive to do a good job. But are homeowners even able to tell apart a good agent from a bad one? If someone's slick and kind, the bed-side manner might be enough to be considered a great agent. But they might just be less competent compared to a more gruff one.
Huh weird, I'm getting that too. OpenAI has been having periodic outages today, think that might be why since it was working fine earlier.
This makes me so mad, and it should make you mad too. Omegle isn't substantively different from Reddit or Discord or an MMORPG chat channel, but it's currently being dragged through the legal system while presumably the others are not.

The truth is, Omegle's real sin is being midsized. There's a real risk in being a certain-sized company. Large enough that suing you is likely to result in a payout, but small enough that you can't just absorb the lawsuit cost.
The 1990s were the worse, then regulators realized kids were not playing on the new stuff and changed the rules so fun stuff can be around again. Things are safer, but we focus more on safe surfaces to fall on, and allowing climbing only to heights that are high but not too high.
They’re also a huge part of the economy.
Hell, my motorcycle was enough of a hassle compared to my car to forgo riding it often. Wearing gear, packing my lunch and everything else for a days work into saddlebags, and dealing with the weather was a pain compared to just hopping in my car. It would be worse on a bicycle. At least in a car I can listen to a podcast without feeling like I'm making a tradeoff with safety.
funded by backdoor taxes if texas is any indication. Prop 7 passed, which is basically just shifting the cost of grid reliability from the energy companies to the tax payers. So now you get to pay top dollar for the energy which is 50%+ carbon sources, while also paying to keep the plants operating from the general budget.

Its like a wet dream for those energy traders.

https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Proposition_7,_Creation_of_Sta...
People forget just how terrible the Taxi industry was before Uber showed up too. Uber has plenty of problems, but you can be in the Taxi in 5 minutes and there are no surprise fees and you don't need to carry cash and you don't have to sit on hold for 20 minutes waiting for the dispatcher to pick up. The old taxi industry killed itself. Once there was any alternative it was dead.