skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those six days they could. But even if we need fossil fuel as backup for some time, burning a lot less of it means we don't cook the planet as much.
People like these small wins.

Population of Portugal is 10.5 million people.

We have such a long way to go.

Global fossil fuel will hopefully peak by the end of the decade.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/world-oil-gas-coal-d...
What vendor lock-in? They built their stack from the beginning to allow for hosting on bare metal, and then they made that transition.
Having bought a car from a Hyundai salesman and dealt with a dealership's sleazy finance guy, I wish this had happened sooner.
Pretty sure he's campaigning for VP and not President
i remember a tv documentary where they'd give volunteers just the active component of weed...im surprised nobody has caught on the opportunities of that option

i remember it was on liquid form, dont know how it was administrated, but it was in a hospital or health service building
Sorry but I don't believe what the title proclaims. And I don't even think the author does: "Thus, the large, high-quality dataset becomes a more complex challenge to solve in robotics, and deploying a fleet of robots in production is the only way to build a diverse dataset." -- So you acknowledge that we haven't even started gathering the data we need to train the model but compare it to GPT which was trained on the entire Internet, which, fortunately, already existed. So why exactly are we near?
If you can resurrect a prime Hyman Rickover and put him in charge of the world's shipping fleet, I would consider retracting my statement. Though even if you did, I think he'd agree with my assessment.
6 hours of daylight, then you need to over-provision the solar so you can charge 18 hours worth of batteries in that time. This is still cost competitive with nuclear
I think it's one of the those things where it doesn't matter what the answer is because it doesn't provide a useful lens for advancing your mathematical thinking.
For what it's worth I'm not either and absolutely agree with your point, it just felt like that was the more important argument but not the one people were engaging with.
There's no causation line from abstractions such as mathematics to material effects. The fact material conditions follow abstract conditions is a very particular problem and different from the one you aim to solve with your reply.
Well that just services a different customer demographic.
> I'm not sure what that means, the loan guarantee already seems like quite a risk. Are they going to go for nationalization of the power sector or something like that?

Seems large parts already is nationalized. Vattenfall is a huge power company and is owned by the Swedish state.
How do they contrive to spend over a million bucks a year on storage?
how are you supposed to run audio applications @ low latency when the OS is on the cloud!!?
For a good reason or a bad reason? ;)
(It's got a very action-film visual pace, that's for sure...)
Yes? If you’re not burning gas, there’s no issue.
Reminds me of people uploading music videos to YouTube with "copyright not intended" in the comments
The weaponization of artificial intelligence (2019)
Put whatever unexpected work comes up into a general inbox somewhere, without preprocessing it (i.e. without figuring the next steps). Then periodically process what's in the inbox (figuring out the next steps and scheduling them), once a day, once a week, whatever. Also, buffer for unexpected stuff in your deadlines, in my work it's generally 40%.
The Evolution of Stretch by Boston Dynamics [video]
> I personally know multiple people who refuse to text green bubbles, to the point of refusing dates from people who have Android.

Sounds like not dating them is dodging a real bullet if they're that shallow.
No part of the distinction is important. It's a subset.

Imagining I were to hand you a book. It's Harry Potter but missing every third sentence. You tell me "It's Harry Potter" and I'm like "nuh uh", I'd be just being a pedantic ass and not making a good point.
Aww thanks! Although, I'm hesitant to call it a success story yet. Pretty sure that would triple the odds something spontaneously combusts.
Not worrying about reducing my stress reduces my stress.

And I don’t worry about becoming more productive. I just try to show up and start doing some of what needs to be done and trust that I will get better at things with time.

I know that I think better when I am doing. Other people are probably different. I don’t know. I just know what tends to work for me.
Yes - the plants are on standby, not consuming much beyond a "pilot light" worth of natural gas and not putting energy into the national grid.

This is quite different to coal fired power generation which doesn't have low energy standby mode with rapid online to full generation ramping up in the manner of gas fired turbines.

During the six day period the national grid was supplied only with energy from renewable sources.
This is really exciting to hear! I've been paying for it for a few years now, and it's awesome to know that my little contribution has helped towards this!

I've been using the app to plan the end of my own full time employment, and seeing this makes me more determined than ever to see that through!
LLMs and image models are already better than that scene

I can think of solutions for the physical component or simulating the perception of a physical component
Much appreciate this response, definite upvote, i found it very helpful and clarifying, however, a couple things here that strike me:

1. while all this is compelling, it doesn't change that the author of the study started off by making a statement as if it were a fact, leaving no room for alternative views. i would be shocked to find that this study has been peer reviewed and accepted.

2. the scientific definition of psychopathy is so generic and encompassing that i've long ago ignored it, when i hear psychopathy, i think of trauma that causes extremely deviant and harmful (to others) behavior, and i find that most others find there is a negative connotation associated with it in line with psychopaths being harmful to others. simply being depressed or a "tortured soul" doesn't hit the bar for a psychopath in my book. when you're good at getting people to open up, you find that by the scientific definition, we're all psychopaths. and given the current state of society, it's little wonder just about all of us are a little bit sick in the head.

From a dictionary that quickly goes from pretty much ANY mental illness to this for "psychopathy":
"A personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, exploitation, heedlessness, arrogance, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, and lack of empathy and remorse. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder."

Makes no sense that people that are simply traumatized or depressed would be thrown in with this lot, but the latter are what most people think of when they think of psychopaths.

Just to add on, i live around the Boulder, Colorado area, and i can attest i've met a some creatives that show absolutely no signs of even the scientific definition of a psychopath. Totally well adjusted people that just have really cool ideas.

Also, are you a parent? Kids are about as creative as they come, making things up as they go every day. I'm constantly surprised at the things my 4 year old daughter comes up with out of thin air. Maybe she was traumatized by birth? Just so bizarre that the fundamental element of innovation would be associated with psychopathy, no matter the definition.
Peculiar nova eruption inspected by astronomers
> This is why I don't buy Google's bad faith shaming of Apple for not adopting RCS.

But the point to me is that I don't care whether it's "bad faith" or not, just that (again, to me) it's actually the correct point of view. Messaging integration between iOS and Android, in the US at least, is not just fundamentally broken, but the presence of a single Android user in an iMessage group chat can break the experience for everyone (e.g. potato quality video), and if you are the "odd man out" on the Android people start resenting your presence in the chat (and, to be clear, I'm middle aged, not in middle school). For an example, see https://www.instagram.com/p/CwLKeGRLieb/

There is no reason for there to be such messaging incompatibility between iOS and Android. My feeling is that Apple knows the regulatory winds are shifting very much against anticompetitive behavior, and their iMessage incompatibility was just looking like the blatant protectionism that it is.
Original article at https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04903
If your boss refuses to talk to you because of something as petty as imessage bubbles, they're petty enough to fire you for any number of reasons. That person is a horrible boss no matter what you do.
What's most surprising to me there is that she actually recognized Snoopy as a dog. He's a pretty abstracted drawing, walking on two feet and pointing with human hands. There's something interesting to be said about perceptual development there. I believe that Daniel Everett said that even the adult Piraha couldn't understand abstracted 2D drawings at all.
Show HN: BuildInPublic] Starting My Second Microsaas Part 2
If you missed part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266089

What I'm developing
For those of you who didn't see the first post, I'm developing my second microsaas. It will be a habit tracking app with a focus on bigger goals, as my thesis is that no one starts a habit without having a goal to achieve, and no one reaches a goal without following a habit consistently.

And now...
In part 1 I said that I would start developing the app and that I would take a cleaner, more minimalist path in terms of layout. Well, that's what I did.

First I looked for some inspiration on Dribbble, but I didn't find anything that I liked. Next, I decided to browse Pinterest and see if I had any more luck, and didn't I find some cool things!

It's a shame that here at TabNews we still can't attach images :( But I posted the progress on my Twitter in case you're interested.

After these inspirations, it was time to get my hands on the code!!! And I was faithful to the objective, I kept it simple! I created a simple home and a first screen for the user to input the title of the habit.

Today, at the end of the day I will try to make good progress with the form.

Tell me... Do you have a product running to share with the crowd?

Networks
Follow me on X to follow this journey! https://twitter.com/joaolandino
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaopaulohildebrandlandino/
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Email: joaopaulohildebrand@gmail.com
Hey HN, I'm the Tim McNamara mentioned in this post. Let me know if you have any questions!
You make some good points. I don't agree with them, but they're solid.

> Therefore, the kindest thing they can do is leave the autists alone so they can cope as best they can in peace.

This one, no. I'm probably autistic. It wasn't a diagnosis for anything when I was growing up, I was just weird. I craved connection so badly it compelled me to try to "improve" myself to be more like others. I'd be completely fucked today if someone offered a fake, effortless alternative.

I don't think parasocial relationships are actually working out for anyone. The kids are all miserable, lonely, and have a million mental health issues. Kids used to negotiate their differences and play together. Now each of them thinks they get to set the rules for the entire playground. I'd be lonely and bitter too with that mentality.

> You could argue the AI companies would have an incentive to exploit their users, but this is a thing that happens in real relationships as well!

Sadly, yeah. Your chances of finding a human companion who isn't a piece of shit is way higher than finding an ethical tech company to pour your heart out to though.
Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment?

Lock-on after launch is certainly a possibility, and one i see making more sense considering the 1/r^4 nature of radar echo reception and the fact there's not much point in dimensioning a radar system past its expected detection horizon under normal conditions.
You're probably joking, but solar installation killed my uncle's employee (he had 3), which made him sell his installation business (he still has 2 solar farms I think).

I'm pretty sur solar kill more per generated MW than wind.

The main difference is that solar/wind only kill or inconvenience/maim blue collar workers. It's like chemical spills in North America, you only hear about it if it inconvenience white collar or large owners, if it's only 30k blue collar workers, it'll hardly make national news.
As long as the gas plants aren't burning any natural gas, I would say that's fair.

Standing by to supplement power on load spikes is one of the primary roles of gas plants (together with pumped hydro), and that they didn't need to supply any electricity over those six days is noteworthy.

From a climate standpoint there also isn't much wrong with having generating capacity in fossil fuels, what matters is how many greenhouse gases and how much pollution they put out. Which isn't much if they are just standing by.
Oh, yeah, we had that issue too and solved it pretty successfully with `.editorconfig` (shareable between VScode and IntelliJ, https://editorconfig.org/) combined with `prettier`.

Each IDE is configured to:

- Not reformat code on its own

- Ignore whitespace

- Run `prettier` as a pre-commit hook

Those settings are saved to `.editorconfig` where possible, or to each IDE's repo-specific folder (e.g. `.idea`).

Then in theory each developer can use whatever IDE they want, whatever whitespace settings they want (tabs vs spaces), and the end code committed to the repo is still the same. It took a commit or three to set up and work out all the kinks, but afterward it ran flawlessly.
> Not only do dealerships provide local jobs

Which is a terrible reason to keep predatory businesses around.

> but generally their owners tend to be well to do

You can always make a lot of money when you're ripping off the public

> and donate prolifically to local elections

"Bribes local politicians". Car dealerships seem like some kind of mob racket. They are a third party that managed to insert themselves in the middle of transactions that shouldn't involve them, they extract a ton of money from the public while providing no value, and then bribe lawmakers to make sure they can keep the rigged game going.

The sooner we can get rid of them the better.
Ask HN: Any good Black Friday deals?
Let's share it with the community :)

I'm wondering if there is any reverse engineering / malware analysis training that is on sale for BF. But do please share everything!
Railroads/Positive Train Control, emergency call centers, etc. QNX is used all over the place. If you want an even more impressive Microkernel RTOS, then Green Hills INTEGRITY is a great example. It's the RTOS behind the B-2, F-{16,22,35}, Boeing 787, Airbus A380, Sikorsky S-92, etc.
Tesla's charging equipment itself is just flat out more reliable than competitors. AFAIK they re-use modules from their vehicles ganged up so benefit highly from using an automotive grade battle-tested component. It also means there are plenty of spares available for replacement.

They also have a lot more "boots on the ground" so to speak so when a station needs service they have someone within a few hours drive at most who is capable of fixing it and likely has the parts on hand. They aren't relying on a bunch of random franchise operators to maintain equipment, nor contractors who are touching an EV charger for the first time and may need to order replacement parts that take months to arrive.

I have seen some people discount the vehicle-to-charger billing system but that is also a reliability factor. Not having to maintain a payment reader is one less thing that might break. It also means the charger can operate even if it loses network connection... it simply queues up the billing records and reports them once connection is re-established. Auth via an app or NFC terminal usually requires internet access which adds yet more points of failure.
I think most times you don't need to make a simile but just re-state the issue as simply and explicit as possible.
Like, they heavily advertised and sold a feature and then took it away after people were used to it.

They had valid reasons for that, but people were understandably mad.
Huge waves in Portugal, when I visited. I'm guessing it's the wind coming off the Atlantic Ocean is strong and steady. And somewhat not common.

Where I live, for most of the Winter the sky is overcast with clouds. So that somewhat limits solar panels. But I'm sure California is great place for them.
I would get pretty bad wrist pain due to what I'm assuming is carpal tunnel, so I got a DeltaHub Carpio 2.0. It changed everything -- no more pain. It took a few weeks to get used to, but now I don't even notice it (unless it's gone). I work with it, I play competitive FPS games with it.

Another would be a standing desk with an Ergodriven Topo Mat. I stand 99% of the time. I don't even own an office chair anymore. My back feels much better (I really feel better overall). My feet hurt pretty bad in the morning, right after I wake up, though. But a worthy tradeoff.

Another would a Audient EVO 4 audio interface. It lets me mix ambient sound from my mic with my music (sometimes I like to hear my wife and kids or my mechanical keyboard, other times I do not).

Lastly would be an AirDoctor.
Found one:

https://github.com/0x90n/InfoSec-Black-Friday
I've had Tello for a few years now. For about $10 a month, I get 1GB of data and unlimited text and phone calls, which is more than enough for me.
If you choose Delaware, make sure to look at the costs in year 2 and beyond.

I did a Delaware C Corp as a bootstrapper. The first year cost $1,000 in total incorporating cost and the second year was going to be several hundred just to stay in good standing.

This is compared to an LLC costing $100 one time in South Carolina.

If you’re bootstrapping, it’s worth thinking about the costs.
To state the obvious, navy reactors do not have to be economical. No one is saying it’s not possible to build small reactors, it obviously is. just not for a cost or cost per watt that anyone is prepared to pay.
> Not all iMessage users can send/receive RCS or SMS.

What do you mean? If Apple includes RCS like they did SMS then it would operate as follows:

Is target an iPhone with iMessage enabled? Yes? Use iMessage.
No? Fallback to RCS.
RCS doesn’t work? Fallback to SMS.
And early 'unlimited' cell plans required the user to be 'local' usually in a city. Leave the city and boom, back to charge per minute because of 'roaming'.
That sounds Gibsonesque.
Looking good for a test run indeed!
This is interesting because it highlights just how fast propaganda can propagate… I don’t know how we are going to fight the onslaught of disinformation we are about to get not to mention the weaponization of AI generated disinformation.

Maybe advertisers are the solution.. they won’t want to be associated with disinformation.
I was expecting an article on dynamically allocated arrays in C++, but this is better.
it is not a suspicion of false entrants. generally wonder how some of these small competitions are run (tho "Young Animator of the Year UK" would suggest it is reasonable size by now).

how would you avoid an entrant submitting pre-created or even some (obscure) work by someone else?

what are good prizes that incentivizes good submissions? how would you run such small competitions?

Because I think these small competitions could be super interesting for fostering skills among younger folks.

on the other side, what is in it for the organizers? is it best run as a charity?
Spam

The reason why 3rd party native SMS/RCS don’t exist is mobile platform wanting to prevent spam.

Imagine a rogue 3rd party SMS app blasting all your friends unauthorized texts, from your device.
And what if the corporate gatekeepers censor themselves due to market forces instead? Like advertisers threatening to pull funding because they don’t think it’s a good look for them.
When a blob is saved, first I write it to Postgres (https://neon.tech), so that ensures there's a persisting backup. However, it's typically a waste of money to store infrequently accessed blobs in disk with Postgres over months and years. After 4-6 weeks data is offloaded to object storage - so that you benefit from low long term storage costs.

The lifecycle of a blob works out roughly something like as follows, based on last read date:

< 30 mins ago

- In-Memory: Cloudflare CDN

< 30 days ago

- In-Disk: Redis Auto-Tiering Memory/Disk combination

- In-Disk: Postgres

> 30 days ago

- Object Storage: Backblaze B2
It's usually not like in the movies that when one sprinkler goes off, the entire building is getting a shower. That's only for high risk installations.

Usually it's just one in the fire area, they trigger with a heat sensitive capsule that breaks.
Any evidence Bill Gates did any of this?

Even if true, compare this against the difficulty finding a job if you have a criminal record. Now there's a real blacklist.

> Justine Sacco is still unemployed

No evidence she was sabotaged by a corporation. Besides, she's employed as of 2018:

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-mat...

> silicon valley wage-fixing scandal

Is kinda nothing set against government wage fixing laws.

> old-school blacklist

I'm sure there are informal blacklists. But I've been in tech all my life, and nobody ever handed me a blacklist and said "don't hire these people". There are a zillion companies in the US, any such pervasive blacklist will inevitably become common knowledge.
I know I could do these things, but the problem is (1) it's a cat and mouse game of trying to keep up with functionality they don't want to support and (2) means I'm not paying them for a service, which is the point of doing it.

IMO Signal need to figure out what they sell to people with the money to say "yes, this service helps me make money" so they fulfill the big mission statement. That's true viability.

Within that bucket there's some real obvious ones: server monitoring and alerting (I have Signal, let my severs have Signal so they can talk to me, maybe at an agreed reduced throughput rate so someone doesn't just try to run TCP/IP over it), and letting businesses have a secure multimedia messaging channel to their clients for notifications.
I've been using it at my job for about a year now. It's pretty decent. Their support team is also highly active on Slack, so if you run into any trouble, they will help you resolve it right away
Machine Learning for Microbiologists
If I have a hybrid car and I make a trip that doesn’t use the engine, are you saying I can’t say I didn’t use the engine because I could have?
Yes, generally. Especially if those randos are, for instance, me. RCS needs server coordination, and I don't want to use it if I can't bring that on-prem.
The Denver Post is $6 for an entire year.
Is it because Google wants to sell their own news or for mlre tight information control?
Hope it works for you too ; ) Try without a heart monitor first (cheap and easy to build) then improve as you see fit!
- Portugal electricity prices: ranks top 30% of EU

- Portugal per capita GDP: ranks bottom 30% of the EU
Still, if they are sunlight stimulators, wouldn't that mean that the heat from real sunlight could cause this also? These lights were too far for air heating to be an issue. So it must have been all IR.

Maybe this kind of foam isn't entirely up to the spec either.
I feel like this is a known tactic. the US Army has been using scatter communications since the Vietnam War to make radio communications go further.
If you left your current job for a job where you see coworkers, how would you guarantee that your future coworkers aren’t all assholes?