skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Last I saw they couldn't sell a truck for $100,000 without losing money.

Is there a term for this kind of short term low-correlation thinking?

I’ve seen it with both Amazon and Tesla, now hearing it again with Rivian. It’s like a certain portion of the population is utterly incapable of ingesting a wide variety of information and then contextualizing it.
Can we safely assume that the goal is always to benefit the consumer. Perhaps there is a pitch to merchants, maybe they get some benefits, but as for consumers, many so-called "tech" companies would have every consumer using a computer for anything and everything in the name of "convenience" or some speculation like "this is the future". The so-called "tech" companies are the ones who stand to benefit. These companies may have a blindspot for conflicts of interest. Their interests do not always align with the interests of consumers. They certainly have a blindness toward the fact that computers are not always essential in every life situation.
>In what world.

Where I work.
I think some messages will cost more storage than others. I have 4 devices synced to my Signal account. Yesterday, my friend sent me a 6.8 MB cat video[1]. I presume Signal has to store this cat video until I boot up my 4th device and load the queued messages.

[1]: It was a copy of this cat video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Ud1Cr76j8s
doctors can have huge blind spots that they fail to recognize. It's not because you are super smart and knowledgeable that you can't use a dose of humility
GP is likely joking; it wouldn't make sense for a magician to deceive a doctor, but the stereotype of magicians working tricks and illusions into random and/or inappropriate situations suggests a type of person that might characterize masking their depression as if doing so is a magic trick.
Relevant: the same concept but it's classic Breakout

https://twitter.com/andreasklinger/status/172521353480679428...
Norse Atlantic Airways lands first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in Antarctica
What makes sense for Sweden may not make sense for the vast majority of energy production in the world.

It makes a lot of sense for Sweden to buy nuclear, even if it is exceptionally pricy and slow to deliver, if they don't have better options. But the fraction of the world population in that situation is not large, either, so we shouldn't extrapolate from Sweden to too many other places.
> It's obvious that in the early days, they'll operate at a loss, with many free features and cheap premium features. It's a good time to try it out and see what it can do, but you can't build anything that relies on it, it's a rugpull waiting to happen.

So you make hay while the sun shines. And sure, you probably want a plan for after, but that shouldn't stop you from doing what works now.
That's too bad. I'm surprised they have that much internal process for the desktop app. Using the app, it really feels like it's an afterthought.
Learn how to use the LT8912B chip to convert MIPI to LVDS and connect it to the OK7110-C development board for HDMI output.
This gave me a good laugh.

With your powers of intuition, maybe you should just put it all on black a few times then call it a day (jk, please don't)

Anyway, I appreciate you checking it out, and I'll do my best to still be here in 5 years when you come back ;)
> Do we get anything in return? We actually do, the changes and improvements that are being made to the extensions platform are significant.

Honest question, what kind of significant improvements do you actually see in MV3? I see a lot of more restriced, more complex APIs but few new features.
Fortunately we do have cheap, dense batteries that are being deployed on a massive scale with new solar.

The idea that we are not currently, today, deploying massive amounts of batteries everywhere with today's technology is just plain ignorance

It is no longer 2003. By 2030 it's likely that annual world production of battery storage will be 20-30 TWh. Today, we are getting close to 1TWh production per year.

Edit: just for example, take Texas's grid, which is one of the few places where storage is allowed to compete on its own cost merits. There are multiple GW, currently, much more in the pipeline, and prices still have a long ways to fall on battery installations (grid assets are usually measured by power, to convert to energy multiply by 4 hours:

> Installed battery capacity increased from 153 MW in 2019 to 3,518 MW in 2023. Interconnection agreements have been signed for an additional 7,945 MW of battery storage through 2024, allowing batteries to play a growing role in daily power needs in the near future.

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2023/1017
RCS for iOS. 6 different ways it’s fragmented. :p

Or maybe Apple will just implement it exactly as the spec says with no frills.
Debugging longhorn outages on a monthly basis: priceless.
Sorry, but if you're mainly using AWS for compute (ie EC2) and scale minimally you're doing it wrong and probably burning a whole lot of money.
They have already said they plan to do layoffs, and have actually already laid off a bunch of support staff.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/cruise-begins-layoffs-...
Plenty of ugly people do have those relationship experiences, all the time.

But I guess if something like this keeps incels from spree shootings then it's a net win for society.
Germany added more than 10GW of solar alone this year, next years number will be probably significantly higher. That easily equals 1 nuclear power plant, even if you calculate extremely pessimistic. By going with solar (and of course wind), Germany adds the equivalent to a nuclear power plant every year to the grid. In a few years, even the equivalent of several nuclear power plants. Amongst all other advantages, that is significantly faster.
(Not even looking at China, they add more solar as the rest of the word combined)
I believe that the matter of their defense is irrelevant. The truth is that real people were harmed by this, and they deserve reparations today. As to who pays, it must be the landlords. This is the supposed 'risk' they take on by being landlords, which everyone tells me is so great to bear.

Also to get on a soap-box, this is the truth of reparations, it is not in relation to a single event, it is an attempt to solve injustices that exist institutionally in our world today.
For logs, which are immutable time series journals, any copy is entirely sufficient. The first write is a quorum. Also from a systems POV reads are not a feature of logs.
There's certainly no shortage of sysadmins comfortable with their on-prem skillsets that have their heads in the sand about the cloud.

And there are plenty of us who've spent time managing hardware and physical networks, transitioned to cloud, and are very happy to not be looking back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelflaute
Isn’t this what happens every trading day for Apple stock (and others)?

I couldn’t begin to hazard a guess as to what a share of Apple “should be” worth, but if I do a little electronic research, I now have the advice that “around $190/share” is probably right.

Did I collude just there?
I have noticed in the past that companies that try to do many different products tend to fall behind the competitors that focus on just one product.

Prior to MS Office, there were companies that tried to create product suites that contained Word processors, spreadsheets, and so on. They were all very rudimentary compared to the market leaders in the category. It wasn't until Microsoft decided to buy the market leaders and package them as a suite that we got a great office suite.

I suspect that's Barb. Google is big but it has many products to deal with and it is extremely hard to be a product leader in all. Not only that but search is its main focus. My suspicion is that Google's offering will get better only after it finds a startup they can buy that will give them the edge. Their big advantage is that they don't always have to produce what they need, they have the money to buy what they need to stay ahead.
Yes the ultra wealthy shouldn’t be able to conceal wealth that gives them immense power to control a so called democratic and free society.

Regular people without that same wealth and power should have some amount of privacy from their government.

It’s not impossible to hold those two beliefs without being a hypocrite.
Not for starship, for the booster.
Why would you ever want to raise the bar for what constitutes open source, all the way up to "Must be open to spending their time reviewing and integrating massive contributions from 3rd parties"?
These optimizations should be done regardless of db power. You don’t need an extra eng to do them, you just do them. They are part of the job.
Pulumi.
> Please cite one example of an area where the drinking water has been rendered undrinkable by fracking.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1100682108

[Pennsylvania and New York] "we document systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water"

The average concentration of the methane detected in the water wells near drilling sites fell within a range that the U.S. Department of Interior says is dangerous and requires urgent “hazard mitigation” action.
It is true that artists are far more likely to have come from broken families than people who are not artists. I looked for the citation but could not find it, but I know it exists. From the same study it was shown that one or both parents of scientists are far more likely to have also been scientists.
Well, everyone hates Big Pharma and gives them what they want, and everyone agrees with honest legalization efforts and doesn't give them anything. You're welcome to aim to be loved. I aim to get what I want.

And come on, healthcare requires you to lie. The head of the NIAID famously lied about mask efficacy in order to get what he wanted and people backed him for it. I don't see myself as any different.
The real magic is this query here (which I got via Twitter after posting this article):

SELECT
SUM(size) AS size
FROM read_parquet(
list_transform(
generate_series(0, 55),
n -> 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/vivym/midjourney-messages/resolve/main/data/' ||
format('{:06d}', n) || '.parquet'
)
);

Turns out DuckDB has a lambda function feature these days! The n -> syntax.
The point is, a thread that should be full of technical conversation and speculation is full of pearl-clutching Karens calling for the government to step in. It refutes your point about HN being "skeptical of government regulation and control of AI" very effectively.

Of course, it's fallacious for either of us to refer to "HN" as if it were a monolithic bloc... but having spent some time in that thread, I have to wonder.
Bin Laden's "Letter to America"
I suspect magicians sampled are more likely to be self employed doing something they enjoy which pays the bills, and less likely to have dreamed that they would be doing something much bigger and better.

For related reasons, I suspect contract programmers are less neurotic (etc) than founders
This stunt too with Nissan Versas

https://www.motortrend.com/news/nissan-versa-note-gets-deliv...
The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess"
I don’t support any government bullying of private companies, although I’m sure any level of consistency would be unfamiliar to people like you.

Should TikTok be allowed to control what goes onto their service? That’s a yes or no question.
YAGNI…without customers and forming an LLC can happen as contracts are being written…but if you think your first potential customer is likely to sue before there’s a contract, walk away and find a different first customer.

It seems like what Paul Graham called “playing house.” Forming an LLC feels like progress but it’s not.

http://www.paulgraham.com/before.html

What I mean is as I have been thinking about my opinion today I think my opinion comes from a deeper intuition developed over the years.

The standard arguments for forming an LLC are not based on better meeting the needs of actual or potential customers.

Even worse I think is that the standard argument is based on assumptions that the relationship is adversarial, arms length, and short term.

Good customer relations are way more valuable than limited liability because problems tend to be worked out before lawyers get involved.
Discord is shutting down their AI chatbot "Clyde" by December 1st, 2023
After having worked on accounting software for a living, which did need to precisely take into account the variable nature of time measurements, I greatly appreciate that Numbat has decided not to open that can of worms.

Using averaged constants like this isn't applicable to all use-cases, but has the virtues of being simple and easy to reason about.

IMO they did exactly the right thing by not trying to shoehorn an endless supply of complexity and pain into their language's type system. Users who do need to deal with date math can use a library.
Great product, good luck!

I have the same dream, but haven't taken the leap.
I don't know if this will make you feel better or worse, but it's come rather apparent these days that the person in row 0,regardless of their skill, is pretty much the least reliable part of the system.

Except for the toaster, the bloody toaster is always acting up.
> fissile waste that lasts centuries (or more)

Better than waste from carbon based power which can't even be contained in the short run.

> potential for meltdown or other accidental release of radiation

Releases less radiation than coal plants

> major military target, a threat not just for loss of generation but for deliberate release of radiation (by attacker)

If an attacker wants to release radiation they can just do it directly wherever they want instead of being limited by where a power plant is.
Nuclear is a fine alternative to solar+wind but it is a poor complement since you need some dispatchable generation with either: solar+wind because they are intermittent; and nuclear because it is essentially constant baseload and demand varies throughout the day.

I think nuclear is cool tech but am doubtful it will play a big role in most countries since renewables are so much cheaper (1/3rd the price, so you can overbuild substantially) for getting to 90% emissions free generation.
Most folks aren't focused on portability. Almost every custom built AWS app I've seen is using AWS-specific managed services, coded to S3, SQS, DynamoDB, etc. It's very convenient and productive to use those services. If you're just hosting VMs on EC2, what's the point?
Discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38221121

That article isn't as good (less technical/more 'pop' audience) but they both link the actual AAIB report which I found quite interesting and surprisingly readable, and I don't think either article has anything extra to offer. I'd suggest skipping straight to it:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6544b3089e05f...
It is a multifaceted problem. Often it comes down to:

1) There is no established community / trade to build and maintain nuclear energy on a industrial stage. I live in the neighboring country (Norway), and the nuclear energy community here is pretty much 100% academic. There's are nuclear engineering, tech, etc. programs, so in the start we'd have to import almost all the workers - all while starting our own programs.

2) It's a very long-term commitment, takes what, 10-15 years from shovel in ground to energy production? Compare that to wind energy and similar. The countries that really need energy, are needing it now.

3) Many countries have long-term plans for energy, which were formed decades ago. This is the case of my country - they analyzed nuclear energy back in the 70s, and deemed it not suitable. They are still, almost 5 decades later, parroting the same strategy. "We will focus on renewable hydro, wind, and solar energy, and concentrate funding to those sources"

4) There's a non-trivial amount of political opposition - even though new tech is much, much more safe than the older plants. Nuclear is still big and scary, and some parties will vehemently oppose it - no mater what facts or findings you present to them. And it is very much a NIMBY thing...even those that want it, become a bit hesitant when it comes time to plan for places to put the plants, if it turns out to be too close to home.
It's too bad this is not direct sales. Direct sales are illegal in about 34 states, were you absolutely must by law go thru a car dealer. Direct sales would save a lot of money for people, and probably avoid things like discrimination.
I think you probably want to dial back this "pressure from the Jewish diaspora" stuff, especially if your mental model of that diaspora is 3 right-wing American pundits. Maybe this is a comfortable place for everyone to tie this thread off. You're not going to solve the Israel/Palestine crisis on this thread.
Every mistake you don't catch as being wrong in your inner thoughts simply become a part of your subjective experience/existence until challenged again later, if not forever.
1. $5 or $7 or so. Not got paid yet, coz its from a platform that pays out when you reach $100.

2. $50 odd, but similar to 1, from affiliate marketing.

3. $80, from ads on a blog, but like 1.

4. $1500 plus, from an online software help platform. Member there, not creator.

5. $Tens of thousands, from software consulting and training.
> The question is whether it is actually illegal under the law...

This has become a painfully, utterly common trope on Hacker News.

The Sherman Anti-Trust act is one paragraph long.

It doesn't attract the same spirited interest from judges as the constitutional amendments do, which are even shorter. Judges and Justices have been writing the law on those for a long, long time, including reversing their own precedents, "ignoring" case law - really just fucking disagreeing with the past. To hell with case law.

> underlying behavior seems really objectionable and should be illegal

This is what matters. At the end of the day, if the government wants to win these cases, it's not going to be by making RealPage look bad - one kind of tomfoolery - or by stare decisis - another kind of tomfoolery. Judges and Justices are writing anti-trust law.

So give them some good fucking propaganda. Make them give a single utter fuck about something as utterly god damned dull as this. Align it with their political opinions, because that is what decides these cases.

The same thing is true about the Google case. The FTC doesn't even care about advertising. The DoJ doesn't care about apartment pricing. The underlying problem is that the people litigating this have no passion about the thing whatsoever, they are way too big picture "company bad" and don't have much else to go on.
Except for the incredibly inconvenient and annoying coincidence that he happens to be right in his critiques of US foreign policy most of the time.
Germany exists in a single weather zone, North America encompasses several.
No, they don't. The French grid wouldn't have made it through 2022 without a lot of imports from Germany, as too many reactors were down for maintenande. They found a fault which concerned most reactors of that type. On top of that, in the summer the cooling of the reactors is a growing worry with raising temperatures. Of course, you could decide to sterelize the rivers used for cooling. Alternatively, you have to throttle the nuclear output.
I agree with everything before the semicolon. But as an NPR listener, I find it hard to be offended by it.
Not Exactly. When it comes to a government action, if an attorney sues under environmental justice laws, and they win, the government pays their legal fees. The lawyers are incentivized to file suit. Very much like the bogus prop 65 industry.
This already happens with chess - despite the machine being superhuman, people have never been more attracted to the human game.

Perhaps what will happen is that we will have more time to play/watch more?
This tracks. A modern artist takes themselves very seriously - which is not that different than insanity. A magician on the other hand knows it's a trick all along.
> Monopoly is the wrong term here, the root-cause of this situation is that Google is now maintaining the largest OS-implementation of RCS by far, only followed by Samsung, and then some carriers who also use RCS for other platforms (web-apps, STB,...).

Clarification - many of the carriers are using Google-hosted RCS servers as well. I don't think Apple especially likes the idea of iPhone user metadata (and message contents) going through Google-hosted chat servers every time they message an Android user.

> If there would be support from Apple, an RCS-server of Apple could handle the communication to Apple-Devices.

The issue there is you need something that authoritatively resolves a phone number as being routable via a particular server, and (ideally) to a public key for encryption.

This is the hard problem for chat services - knowing how to route and how to protect data. If there is a problem, then you have some other party monitoring your communications or even manipulating them.

If the same phone number could be authoritative to either Google or Apple RCS servers, then some other component has to make that call.
Thanks! What part of the journey are you in at this stage?
Allow me to sell you a dozen noseclips.
why is online programming/technical skill evaluation broken and so hard?
> the impact storage (both stationary and in the form of EVs) will have in the future.

Have you ever heard the expression "hope is not a plan"?
Yes, there is no such thing, philosophically speaking, as "actually illegal". The law is not a platonic ideal, it's constructed in every court ruling.
The government bullying left-leaning foreign governments is chill though, right guys?
Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
Presumably the content side, ie conde nast and some others just refused to do the work. Google's role was distribution but Google's rules was "do it my way" and the magazines probably had a better offer from Adobe (for instance) to produce emag output from their existing production cycle.

I don't work in the industry, I'm guessing.
You are wrong. Germany can meet its energy demands. However, a lot of times it is cheaper to buy surplus energy from neighboring countries.
IBM Data Processing Division: New Operating System – January 30, 1979
If iMessage gets declared a gatekeeper, RCS wouldn't be enough. Not all iMessage users can send/receive RCS or SMS.
Why Time Slows Down During Fear, Speeds Up as We Age and Gets Warped on Vacation
AI Robotics GPT moment is near
Wow. I hope he’s doing ok!
Because of the massive investment necessary, you cannot sell the energy profitably. It is just too expensive.
Yeah it can provide for your household lighting, but what about all the energy expenditures that go into the house via material means? Can you produce aluminum at scale? Or fertilizer? How much energy is used to produce a computer? And in most mass processes a loss or reduction in power input is a huge deal and results in production shutdowns that require far more than just turning a switch back on to restart.
“As one Lessor explains, while ‘we are all technically competitors’ RealPage ‘helps us work together’”

“RealPage explains that for its services to be most effective in increasing rents, Lessors must accept the pricing at least 80 percent of the time”

Yeah this is collusion.
It’s openly a grift. The fundraising messages are disingenuous.
They are encrypted, but (by default) the key is escrowed for recovery by Apple support, which LE can request just as well as the account owner (or other parties with judge decree, such as surviving relatives)
Gen3+ reactors are expensive as well. And nuclear is the only energy source where price is increasing per kwh[1] very likely due to increased safety requirements. And in 15 years, I think nuclear will be completely unsustainable specially if we could invent better batteries in 15 years.

[1]: http://solarcellcentral.com/images/avg_cost_of_energy.jpg