skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Without providing price detail, which companies say is commercially sensitive, Clarke said Carlton had struggled to finance the planned gas plant in part because of uncertainty over the revenues it would generate and the number of hours it would run."

This is the crucial point. Political uncertainty about the future energy system is jacking up the rate of return investors are demanding of gas plant projects without contracted revenues. This is the main reason why gas projects are falling through. At the same time, there is currently no scalable storage system for time-shifting surplus renewable generation over weeks-to-months, so that it can offset renewable troughs. This means surplus renewable generation is simply being wasted, and for that reason, is so low cost that even hours-to-days battery storage - which is a mature storage system - is economical. It's far less clear this is a long-term proposition for at-scale storage, as the longer you can store energy for the higher the efficiency of matching surplus to deficit. Hydrogen and pumped hydro can store energy for far longer.
BCLM can set charging thresholds on Intel Macbooks https://github.com/zackelia/bclm
NASA is pausing all Mars missions, effective immediately
Yeah, I use it for anything new, though so far it's been primarily hobby projects, including a sort of larger one I haven't gotten off the ground yet.

I wouldn't necessarily suggest that a newbie programmer go right to Deno yet because today you still have to be prepared to deal with some differences and quirks.

But here is why I like Deno:

- Typescript pretty much Just Works (TM) out of the box without having to think about it

- More web/browser APIs right out of the box with less Node-specific weirdness. Anything that is Deno-specific (such as anything that lives on the Deno global) is, in my opinion, better designed than Node's APIs.

- Requiring file extensions in import specifiers makes total sense to me. Some people think this is stupid, but I see no reason not to make them actual file paths and not this sort of pseudo file path that omits the extension.

- I like how Deno can bundle your application into a single executable.

- Testing framework and linter are built right in. Which is great because, let's face it, most of us have been using such things for a very long time now.

- Being able to pull in modules from the web without NPM is fantastic.

- Node.js and NPM compatibility has gotten way better recently.

- Binary data is handled as Uint8Array rather than using a non-standard Buffer like in Node. Makes total sense. Skip the middle-man and just give me the bytes in a widely compatible form.

- Granular security with strict permissions by default is really nice. Sometimes I do want to import a module but then have a guarantee that third-party code won't phone home. It's also flexible enough that you can allow your own code to reach your own domains but then some module you import from elsewhere doesn't send data to some other domain. I'd still choose to not use such modules, but it's good that you can mitigate the risk of malicious code without having to do anything.

And sure, Node has improved a lot since the inception of Deno and will continue to improve. It can probably do some of these things and may end up having more parity with Deno. I don't think that Node is bad. I still use Node, primarily at work, and in cases where a package has maintainers that refuse to support Deno (ex. Playwright).
Renewables can't power things like trains, planes or semi trucks. What we need is world where we recognize that everyone owning their own personal automobile is probably a bad idea. We need walkable neighborhoods and public transportation but we also need to recognize how powerful fossil fuels are preserve them for heavy duty tasks that would be near impossible w/ human muscle and or renewables.
Sure, but it will still be significantly worse if the US and the EU do nothing.
You've convinced me that's actually a good name
I wish ubiquitous advertising was illegal. Adtech has eaten and ruined the internet.

I think much of why people are so excited about using LLMs for discovery and writing basic code is because nobody has yet found a way to jam ads in the top three results and SEO listicles for next two dozen organic. "Aha, finally I can write a query and receive seemingly relevant content with no extra effort!"
I like how she has a wikipedia page that is 1 week old.
In semis, this effectively gives you the battery swap ability. I also think you can do battery swaps by just doing a second trailer that is a "range extension trailer" (kind of like you see UPS trucks with two trailers, at least in the midwest you do).

The range extension trailer could also do hydrogen (I am NOT a propoent of hydrogen in general consumer/commercial applications, too much trojan horse from the oil companies and other fraud, but it probably has its uses, and might here as well).

It might also give a braking regeneration ability. Driving a hybrid / EV makes me think of the 100 years of auto driving where we have wasted all the braking energy of our cars to heat in brake pads and how much carbon that must represent in the atmosphere, it is insane.
Technically, the human rights offences aren't applied by nationality (as parent poster brought up); those laws have universal jurisdiction. Most countries have similar laws; the Rome Statute requires that genocide and crimes against humanity be made universal crimes and prosecuted where possible by signatory states.
According to the TypeScript documentation for tsconfig.json the alwaysStrict option forces the compiled out to strict mode such that the JIT interpreter parses it as such. This happens anyways when using ES6 modules, but it also ensures the TypeScript compiler parses each file in strict mode regardless of having the "use strict" pragma at the top.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#alwaysStrict
Connecting OpenAI GPTs to Slack in 5 minutes
Does that mean deploying Deno to AWS Graviton is an issue currently?

Thats the use case I have in mind to cut costs
yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all
Polio Is on the Brink of Eradication. Here's how to keep it from coming back
I expect them to ratchet it up eventually and begin threatening Google Accounts for those who use adblockers. They'll just dress it up in Terms of Use or some bullshit, and the Javascript Cold War begins.
> should I have more battery

The answer to this question will surprise you as well. The answer is: Lots more. Well, this, assuming you want to store enough energy to be reasonably self-sufficient during weather events.

The shape of a perfect solar energy day approximates an inverted parabola. The integral of an inverted parabola is the energy you produce. This turns out to be 2/3 of the enclosing rectangle. The height of that enclosing rectangle would be the constant peak power output (think of a nuclear power plant, which is constant power).

Not too long ago, we had a period of about four months of fairly consistent mid to heavy rain. That meant heavy cloud cover even when it wasn't raining. If you want to plan for such events and perhaps, assume you might have to deal with the grid going down due to emergencies, you'll need a massive amount of batteries to store the energy. If you depend on an electric car for transportation it's even worse.

I installed a 13 kW system. That was nearly five years ago. In other words, I have years of looking at this data and navigating various hypothetical and real scenarios. My conclusion is that I would need to triple my system and have somewhere beyond 300 kWh of storage if I wanted to be self-sufficient enough for a two week event without grid power, particularly with electric vehicles.

I'm in CA, so a two week outage, while definitely black swan, is just one earthquake away. During the Northridge quake (I lived less than a mile from the epicenter then) we were without power for three days.

Anyhow, I like having solar. I just wish the people pushing it as the solution to the problems of the universe would understand the difference between solar reality and fantasy. Most of my neighbors were sold these small arrays (3 to 5 kW), have expensive leases and are in absolute pain right now as rates have more than doubled and the solar array turns out to be far from an idealized power source.
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Thank you for a fascinating comment. I learned new stuff from it; I appreciate you and your expertise!
Materiel from the previous batch got sold as surplus and are scrap sales now: https://nashville.craigslist.org/grq/d/bubble-wrap-cardboard...

I wonder how much waste could be identified right here in this one example. The Gubmint bought bubble wrap for how much? for the first wave, surpluses it out at what loss? and then has to buy how much again, at a higher price cuz of inflation, from whom? for the second round now.

That place also had a bunch of the "electrostatic backpack sprayers" from when "surface treatments" were the solution to an airborne virus. They'd got below $50 but are came back up last time I saw them advertised to $75... prolly $250+ ea minimum when they were being bought in bulk with tax money.
Now if we could just get the world to run on DC, then HVDC transmission lines would make distribution more efficient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification_in_Gre...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
Here is my personal experience.

I've been working on a large-ish Blazor (Server) application for about a year. The choice to use Blazor was not mine, but I went into it with an open mind. For context, I have used React and Angular in the past.

I will never used Blazor again.

Performance is not good, with CPU always at some base level, even when idle. My machines fan is always cranking while developing it. Hot reload does not work consistently (on like 25% of the time), and when it does, it is slow, so it might as well not work at all. Everything in Blazor just feels half-baked.

I'm old enough to remember things like "ActiveX Documents" and Silverlight, where were other attempts by Microsoft to provide a way for people not to have to learn and use a proper front end framework, and I think Blazor will end up on the scrap heap with them.

Microsoft has a bad habit of touting the next big thing for developers to use and then abandoning it several years later. This feels like that to me.
I only saw people talking about "morality of ad blocking", not "morality of ad blocking on YouTube".
Tangential, but I'm working on a personal recipe manager so I can easily search for my recipes and render them to PDF with a uniform style. But I decided that for v1, the database will just store ingredients as full strings, because I didn't want to write the code to parse them. I may just sign up for your service to do the parsing for me :) Thanks for sharing
This has the overall feeling of something developed by a team where leadership sincerely believes that security is everyone's job. Because it's everyone's job and they hire good people, they don't need specialists.

When there are deadlines to hit, average quality non-specialist management will generally prioritize keeping promises to leadership over meeting security requirements. It takes a rare manager with a strong grasp of the importance of security to stand up and tell their VP "We're not shipping, the security isn't there".

So how do these managers get there? They cut the corners that don't matter and hit the ship date. It gets them the promotion.
Have you run the numbers on this, or are you just imagining? In the 70s, solar and (to a lesser but still substantial extent) wind were still extremely expensive, impractical for large scale use. As were the batteries that are needed to smooth out periods of low renewable generation.

I'm an absolute supporter of renewables, and I'd love to see support for fossil fuels phased out, but it's been a long climb to reach the point where that's feasible.
The Europeans were starting to loosen Iraqi oil sanctions and develop the fields before the second war.

The US often does stuff that costs taxpayers trillions so that the people bribing congress can make billions.

PFAS, Canadian lumber sanctions and oxycontin are three recent examples.
Youtube resembles TV but the apparent commercial breaks aren't. Much of the purported content on youtube is shilling less thinly-veiled than the '80s most toyetic TV shows.

"We now return to your regularly-scheduled commercial."

"Oh good, I didn't miss a moment of this week's episode of Product Unboxing."

"This week's episode of Product Unboxing features the limited edition Thneed Premium but first I gotta give a shout out to my sponsor..."
Yeah I was confused that the Node installation directory was showing me 18k files in several thousand directories, but these seem to be global npm installs which npm seems to put into the node installation directory (which tbh is weird, I would expect those somewhere in my user directory).
When 175B, 300B, 1.8T models are considered large, 7B is considered small.
My DMV literally sells the data to whoever.
Not sure anyone accused you of being an evil communist here - not being able to find ample evidence of something surely doesn't make you a communist, just incompetent :)
With only the information we had in 2020, the two theories “language models don’t reason, they regurgitate” and “as language models scale, they begin to think and reason” made predictions, and the people who invested time and money based on the predictions of the latter theory have done well for themselves.
They might find a more willing audience if they behaved respectfully. Instead they are partnering with ad networks that use pop ups, automatic redirects, take over scrolling behavior, content overlays, load in ads that shift the content around while I am trying to read it, and so forth.
A lot of these frameworks either composed together or had an upgrade path where it made sense. Plus if you're structuring your application right in .net, that web layer becomes another interface. I have taken an application across a few of those with some fuss, but you're covering 20+ years of development there.
Isn't Scale largely a 3rd world sweatshop for labeling training data?
OpenAI's FUBAR Corporate Governance is a lesson for every Company
If we're using (M)eta for FB, shouldn't we use (A)lphabet rather than G? MAAMA
It depends on the corporate bylaws, but the most common quorum requirement is a simple majority of the board members. So 4 is not atypical for quorum on a 6 person board.
95% of OpenAI employees have threatened to quit in standoff with board
I'm hoping the aircon filters will start clearing the filthiness of the tube air. Something tells me they'll have to change them more often then think.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it. There's this dark mist in the London underground, I find it very visible on the northern line, around elephant and castle. Just standing at one extreme of a platform and trying to look at the farthest part of the station, you'll realise everything is "foggy" by lack of a better term.

One hour there would turn my snot black.
"AI could kill off humanity" is... perhaps the most-remote, most-boring, most-distracting outcome to discuss in AI safety.

GPTs have no chance of becoming an extinction-threat level AI. Intelligence is more than just spitting out words when an answer is demanded (and the folks who are saying GPTs are as "intelligent " as some people make me really worry what those folk must think the role of other people is in their lives). Putting a fancy chatter bot in an open loop isn't going to suddenly create a goal-seeking paperclip optimizer.

But there is real harm already being done to people by corporations and governments using AI tools. Yet somehow that doesn't ever come up in the "AI Safety" discussion. Facial recognition getting the wrong person sent to prison. Bad medical advice. Insurance policy denials.

Where are the calls from "concerned AI researchers" for slowing down biometric data collection? And if they are so concerned, why are they so busy pouring gasoline on the fire?
It’s shocking because Alphabet is in the business of making money at the expense of their users. They aren’t building Chrome because they believe in the open web, they build it to extract every last cent out of us. Ad blockers cost them millions, perhaps even billions, a year. Despite having the ability to stop it, they allow it to occur. And that is shocking from a capitalistic point of view.
They have just gotten recent Boeing data /s
One problem I encountered with ESM TypeScript development on the browser without bundling: many Node packages aren't set up for that.

You might ask why without bundling?

Sometimes you just want to start something simple on the browser and compile to JavaScript on the fly.

I tried the dev server from Modern Web [0], and I liked it. I program in TypeScript and the browser reloads whenever I save a file. Of course I could set up a bundler and for a small program waiting times are negligible. But I hate bundlers. I know it's irrational, but nowadays I program for fun so I think I should have the choice to reject bundlers.

This fails for many Node dependencies. There is a conflict between CommonJS and ESM. I am not 100% sure that what I want to achieve is impossible without forking dependencies and making a small change.

I even found a way to have a CommonJs and ESM polyglot, but this hack is extremely ugly. I named the hack modglot [1]. I don't think this is a good idea and I don't understand enough to propose something. I am somewhat dejected about the current state of TypeScript development for the browser and paused development.

Now I am programming in Rust again just for fun, but if I return to TypeScript, probably I will try out Deno.

[0]: https://modern-web.dev/guides/dev-server/getting-started/

[1]: https://github.com/nalply/modglot
Then why do I only get the 5-second-long skeleton UI on Firefox?

I use both Firefox and Chrome with uBlock. But I only get the slow loading UI on Firefox. If I change the User Agent in Firefox to Chrome, then it loads as fast as in Chrome.

This is deliberately set in place to be slow on Firefox.
I get similar speeds on my m1, though it depends a bit on the quantization. If anyone else is on Mac and just want to have a play, FreeChat (my app) is a simple chat wrapper for llama.cpp. Clicking the little … on a message and checking the info will tell you the generation speed.

[0]: https://www.freechat.run/
Nice, didn't know that!

Basically the SMC key that marcan discovered is the same thing for Apple Silicon
Someone at the previous thread dug through to find out. They’re able to find out ad blockers instantly on Chrome, but they have this logic that requires a 5s timeout for some other browsers
Sure, how about "dogs bite people", then?
What that article says is that one woman with the same job title as a man makes 1 million dollars less than the man. I doubt that's just a fixed salary, so it's hard to say how damning it is.

It also says that a spreadsheet from 2004 states that 85% of the top earners were men. This is unrelated to the pay gap argument.

The rest of the article is fluff completely unrelated to the leak. I'm no surprised there were no ramifications from this. If this is all that was found, it pretty much says there's no or practically no pay gap at Sony.
I think it's a Stretch to assert that for the GP. Where did they bring that kind of politics into their view or what led you to think that they, or anyone, thinks that
The reality is much more complex than "batteries replace gas" -

> Developers can no longer use financial modelling that assumes gas power plants are used constantly throughout their 20-year-plus lifetime, analysts said.

> Instead, modellers need to predict how much gas generation is needed during times of peak demand and to compensate for the intermittency of renewable sources that are hard to anticipate.

> "It does become more complex," Nigel Scott, head of structured trade and commodity finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, said.

> Investors are putting increased scrutiny on the modelling, he added.

- so basically, maintaining a large-scale grid is an optimization problem. And batteries merely shift the answer to "how much of which each type of equipment should we have?" around some. Kinda like someone architecting a DC-scale system has to understand trade-offs between L1 cache / L2 cache / L3 cache / local-to-core RAM / more-distant RAM / SSD / HD / Tape - vs. what equipment is actually available - at what prices, lead times, configuration limitations, ...
GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have one-time fee license
Your first point is excellent, that this sends capital market signals to investors to not invest in fossil generation. But to your other point, seasonal storage is not required. All available evidence indicates overbuilding renewables and simply making peace with excess curtailment can solve for that, along with transmission and perhaps pumped hydro where geography allows for that.
PropelAuth + Next.js + Prisma + Supabase, unless I need socket communication or integrating services like Slack.
My understanding is that the labor was primarily provided by non-slave populace during the periods where their labor was more available (i.e., neither harvest nor planting season). Would you as a pharaoh want your eternal resting place and it's associated grandeur built and installed by the adoring public who think you're literally a manifestation of a god on earth, or by slaves who probably don't accept your deity and will share the secrets of your tomb with grave robbers?

This aside, yes, there is a distinct difference between things built in the past (the circumstances of which cannot be changed, irrespective of modern observation) and things built in the present by (modern day) slaves for current use.
In my opinion, if we consider the simplest definition of Effective Altruism (EA), which is 'think about the most effective way to give to charity,' it differs from utilitarianism in a couple of ways:

Firstly, it's more pragmatic because it acknowledges our personal biases. Second, it's an individual practice, unlike utilitarianism, which is typically associated with broader societal or governmental actions.

I really appreciate this approach to altruism. It doesn’t force a moral standard on others. I like practicing it on a small scale, recognizing my biases. Just the act of thinking about how to best help my community is better than giving randomly. This approach also helps to see the world as a place with more love than what we often see in the news.

However, I have concerns about the more widespread version of EA, which seems to be about gaining as much money and power as possible while appearing altruistic. This, in my view, is more akin to a personality disorder, like narcissism, than to utilitarianism.

I've been using the term EA to describe this, but it might not align with what others think EA is. For me, it's a personal habit I try to maintain, but I don't let it define who I am.
NiMH doesn't have noticable memory effect. NiCd does.
That agrees with the point I was making. They are clarifying that this doesn't make the disease go away, but it sufficiently treats it to the point where it would have little to no effect.

So it's a cure for some definitions of cure, but not all
If you're trying to tell me there's a sucker born every minute, I knew that.
I found what is «Morphic», mentioned by Richard Feldman.

It's an another experimental programming language with the static reference counting. «Morphic uses a borrow-based reference counting scheme which is able to eliminate almost all reference count increments and decrements for a large class of programs»ⓒMorphic developer team.

Site: https://morphic-lang.org/

Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3591260