skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That this person had to take to Twitter and Hacker news to attempt a resolution instead of being able to speak with decent customer support about such a major source of garbage behavior from the company for a non-tiny amount of money is absurd. Among the tech companies, the payment processing firms should have an exceptionally strict set of restrictions (legal ones) on how they can arbitrarily mess with their clients accounts. In many cases, these actions border on outright theft or fraud. In this case it was an enforced refund, but there are many others of money being frozen for months or longer with no clear guarantee of being returned, by a fucking private company that's supposed to be nothing more than a glorified payment processor? Disgusting.
By the sound of it, you'll still dislike it. It uses the bullet outlining, so definitely won't be good for longform journalism. Organising notes and research around that journalism yes, but not for the output.

Guess differences in approach make the world richer :)
Yes. It allows individuals to film police activity at all times.

But there is also the restriction that he doesn’t have a right to be in restricted areas.

So the solution is still the same, and still very simple. Allow people to make police reports in restricted areas, away from people filming, if they wish.
Yes, but we are talking about YouTube, aren't we?
Now this group of people who are all about environment but also think that inequality is fine (presumably because they are on top of it) will hopefully realize that these issues turn out to be connected in interesting ways ;)
TV was a thing for decades and they showed more ads than YouTube does today, at least in the US.
It’s exhaustingly inaccurate to plainly label WC a scam
It cracks me up how some people think giving advertisers your time is a moral issue.

The hell it is, I don't have to look at billboards while driving down the highway, I sure as shit don't have to look at ads while surfing the internet.

It's one of the biggest marketing scams ever.
Perceus Algorithm in Koka Lecture (Reference Counting with Reuse) (2021) [video]
I recently have been hitting the "Disable your ad blocker" roadblock. I needed to watch a video to repair my bike, so temporarily disabled my blocker. I watched 2 ads before the video (ok I guess), and then it loaded 2 more ads after 30 seconds...
The Lazard LCOE cost of unsubsidized solar/wind + storage has recently achieved parity with gas turbine combined cycle.

So the writing is on the wall for fossil fuels.

What's also important is that gas combined cycle kind of represented the end state of maximum power for minimum cost from fossil fuels. Wind and especially solar (perovskites, etc) and storage (sodium chemistries, etc) have lots of runway for further cost drops. So you might squeeze a couple percent out of gas combined cycle for LCOE in the next decade, but solar/wind may still drop by 50%.

So if you have a ten year view (which is what you have fore investment in power projects) fossil fuel projects (and alas nuclear, which is 6x more expensive than wind/solar) simply don't balance the sheet.

Lots of hope. Lots of work to do.

EDIT: response to "why do you think solar/wind have bigger runway to drop in price:" (I hit my post limit)

Wind can simply scale up more, and there are other designs coming online. Wind I don't have the holy-crap-this-is-still-coming thing.

Solar however has made its gains with silicon, but perovskites are simply dirt cheap to manufacture, IF they can eliminate lead and get them to last long enough. I'm spitballing, but perovskites will probably drop the cost by 50% long term in solar.

Solar also really hasn't developed large scale multijunction, and perovskites + silicon may enable that. Multijunction is how you get the higher efficiencies by capturing more wavelengths and the like.

As for gas turbine, they already are exceeding the carnot efficiencies by capturing downstream heat cycles and other tricks. And I think the other thing as an energy financeer I'd worry about is that any fossil fuel power generation has to be worried about an eventual carbon tax imposed.

As the political power of oil companies wanes as their economic strength withers away as EVs and alternative energy undermine their economic value proposition, their ability to keep the environmental lobby from imposing a proper externality tax on carbon emissions with falter.

So any gas generation power plant could overnight have their costs increased by 10-50% or maybe worse. Best case: you have to pay for bullshit offsets, which will probably increase costs 10-20%. Medium case: they have to explicitly pay for the carbon scrubbing/removal, probably 50% increase or more to the generation cost. Worst case: we realize that fossil fuels carbon taxes should include a cost to remove PREVIOUSLY UNTAXED carbon that is sitting in the atmosphere. So then the cost could be exhorbitantly increased.

Likely SOMETHING is coming that will increase the cost of fossil fuel power and fuels due to carbon removal. It will start small and increase as the political strength of oil / gas wanes.
I think I've just seen the perfect vehicle for commuting in Boston.
Sort of. Thermal generation provides grid services that they get paid for. This revenue is substantial. This means when frequency sags, gas plants were traditionally called on to ramp quickly to maintain grid inertia. Battery storage can do this ("fast frequency response") in milliseconds (vs minutes or tens of minutes for thermal generation, where fuel must be added and momentum of spinning turbines added to), and is eating this valuable revenue distinct from energy arbitrage (charging when power is cheap, free, or negative priced, and discharging when energy prices are higher). This helps kill the economic case for thermal generators, accelerating their phase out.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.9717...

https://www.sandia.gov/files/ess/EESAT/2002_papers/00015.pdf

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/07/27/tesla-big-battery-beg...

https://www.energy-storage.news/batteries-earn-big-in-europe...
Thank you, it sounds pretty good, especially solving the modules problem. I will look into it when finished current sprint.
It's kind of like a Vine.
I have the same impression. It looks like you must have a PhD from a top school plus relevant publications on venues like NeurIPS, ICML and others to start competing in this game.
If you're going to use popen(), you have to be prepared to handle how the utility you call sends data over that pipe. The bug is indisputably on the Python script side unless there's a spec tar claims to adhere to but doesn't.

That said, I don't think it's an unreasonable bug. I certainly wouldn't think any less of a programmer who wrote it.
I don't think tweeting and blogging can be compared really. I would see tweeting as a form of "talking to a group of people". You often don't research, proofread, and rewrite yourself when talking. The UI to tweeting also boosts this (mostly mobile devices I assume, via a small text box).

While bloggin is for writing an essay. You may write the essay and just publish it, but in most cases you do some research and at least proofread it once. And again the blogging UI is optimized for this: you have an empty page, nothing other than your written content.

And they really complement each other: you talk to people to get ideas for your essays, and you write essays to share your ideas with people and use them as the base for your writing. I don't think you ever can replace tweeter (or similar services) with blogging.
I think full automation where human labour is non-economic is a case where all democracy is communist but not vice versa (there's nothing preventing a repeat of communist dictatorships we've already seen): The state owns the means of production, the people tell the state what to make.

Given how powerful full automation is, owning that capacity is close enough to being equivalent to a state today, so private companies would become states basically by default (Workers? What workers? These robots just produce stuff for the shareholders); and also we could get anarcho-communism if normal people get to own their own personal Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti, which can happen very easily because all it takes is one person who thinks that's a good idea and log2(human population) self-replications of the RUR to give everyone their own personal robot.
Newpipe and the likes too.
My older intel based macbook pro has started to tell me i use it mostly plugged in and won't charge higher than 80% on its own. There's also a 'charge now' button.

I'm not even on a recent Mac OS, it's still on Monterey. No extra apps to handle battery.

Of course, it doesn't look like a hard limit, but something triggered by usage patterns.
With AI, Long-Gone Singers May Never Be Put to Rest
Apparently, it's a whole thing: https://www.mossadams.com/services/accounting/tax/credits-an...
Iraq, Syria comes to mind. Yes, the US is still in Syria. They would have tried that shit with Venezuela, but Ruskies got there first.
I put in foam-tipped earbuds if I'm doing a big compile or something, but the Ryzen 6850u runs pretty cool most of the time.
I mean... pH adjusters would definitely significantly alter things. The other major problem (I'd guess) is just the health implications of working with toxic wastewater. Is it safe?

For context, as of 2019, we produced enough of this "brine" to cover Florida with 30 centimeters of brine every year. That means, as a whole, desalination plants actually produce even more toxic wastewater than they do clean drinking water.

As a result figuring out ways we could utilize this _product_ ("byproduct" feels like the wrong term here considering it's the primary thing produced) is a major area of interest
The difference as I pointed out elsewhere is that while humans as a whole are intellectually lazy and don't always "reason" things through, they're on the whole very capable of it, especially under duress.

Hell, I've watched my 2 border collies do a kind of "reasoning" to problem solve -- step by step, observing, and breaking down a problem. They don't do it well, but they try because it's part of their drive.

This is in marked contrast to the LLMs, whose appearance of reasoning is actually just a mimicry coming out of the artifacts of reasoning that other minds have done for them. It's parasitical.
Well as long as the interconnect isn't proprietary we can work around that. Yes, maybe it means installing a battery in the cargo basket. Less convenient? Yup. But the bike will still work and that's a trade-off you can make without producing e-waste... or sell it to someone who is willing to make it.
I do not let my kids watch YouTube but one of them wanted a very specific blippi episode so I put it on and watched it with them.

YouTube showed them the beginning of an IDF ad with dead bodies. On a small children’s blippi episode. Not signed in but unbelievable still.

I had seen this specific ad and stopped it before we got to the dead bodies.

My kids won’t touch another google product until they make their own decisions. (13 or so). It also made me question the motives of someone paying to play ads with dead bodies on children’s shows.
Law enforcement doesn't need to do that. They can go direct to Apple because Apple's iCloud backup breaks iMessage end-to-end encryption for almost all people anyway (few enable the advanced protection program that fixes this blatant hole and both sides need it enabled to preserve the encryption). This isn't a conspiracy theory, it's documented behavior from Apple. People don't know or care.

Use Signal if you want end-to-end encryption and don't feel bad about using Beeper for people stuck on iMessage.
I triggered up a DNS based ad blocker for my home network, and I use Firefox with Noscript and ublock origin. Every time I use coffee shop WiFi I'm distracted and amazed by how many ads show up, and how many ads are videos. My conclusion is that ads result in a terrible viewing experience. Ad blockers save the web, for me at least.
That's probably a fact, and still a very interesting fact because it seems mostly US-related. In central europe, not tha many people use iMessage or even know that it exists.
On-Scroll Shape Morph Animations
> The problem is not that Google wants to put Ads on YouTube. The problem is that they are putting too many ads there, a disproportional amount of them.

Ah, ok. Just let YouTube know how many ads they are allowed to run and we can clear up this whole issue.
Impressive (and sad...) how adding:

www.youtube.com##+js(nano-stb, resolve(1), 5000, 0.001)

to my uBlock origin filter list made YT much snappier on Firefox.
You're lucky your post was not flagged yet. mine was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363132

Not sure why. If anyone can shed some light...
Unlike amorphous concerns like “privacy” that for better or worse only resonate with a niche audience, ads are by definition hard to ignore.

Once users are forced to both potentially replace their adblocker entirely and begin mucking around with config settings and filter lists it seems inevitable that many simply jump ship. Doubly so if the advice gets amplified across social media / streaming platforms et al.

The crowd you’re referring to - i.e who follow tech news and the manifest rollout - are a tiny minority many of whom probably never used Chrome to begin with. That’s not who I have in mind here.
> Do you believe some of these investors seen FTX collapse and decided to make ChatGPT? Do you believe that OpenAI was delaying the release of ChatGPT until FTX collapsed?

Something along those lines yes: they likely had ongoing research which could be turned into a product relatively easily, this took a few weeks. The timeline matches this.
Thank you! Indeed, it was a huge effort and after around 6 or 7 shorter stories on which I've given up many times before, this finally made it to the end!
Both Node.js and Bun are also single executables. Node.js doesn't (yet) transpile TS for you, and that's a single dependency away.
The next few years are going to be interesting for lawyers. I imagine all kinds of lawsuits including, but not limited to, stealing of trade secrets are going to started by OpenAI foundation against Sam's new employers and all the retaliatory counter-suing.
Most comments focus on consumer electronics where battery replacement is around $70-200. However the biggest impact is actually on EVs, where replacement costs are of much greater concern.

For large batteries supporting buildings or power plants, there's usually an optimization software that balances energy usage opportunity costs, and the amortized costs of battery degradation (personally built one in my previous job).
This reminds me of the contemporary use of e-bikes in Ukraine, which I understand is one of the many reasons that this war was not the curbstomp Russia seems to have expected.
Streaming video has been terrible for this. I miss the days when you could easily pause and ff with a traditional DVR system. Now, even the "DVR" systems will revert to streaming instead of recorded items and the ads become un-skippable.
This was my guess the other day. The issue is somewhere in the intersection of "for the good of all humanity" and profit.
I think I’ve heard MAGMA for this :)
I just keep using the term Big Tech. FAANG was nice but it's too annoying to keep acronyms up to date.
Well, yeah, of course bullies hate being bullied.
I’m sure this happens all the time in corporate America. Who knows
i like the name. more modesty in this thread than i would have imagined - the creator isn't planning to monetize so is it really that big of a deal ?
Considering their security practices, I would bet that they virtualised macOS more or less legally and hoped nobody would look too closely.
Exponentially faster language modelling
With hundreds of engineers at OpenAI threatening to quit, it will be interesting whether they are bluffing or whether there will be many positions open soon that I’m sure many people would love to apply for.
For the price of a gas power plant you can buy some *serious amount* of LiFePo4 batteries, and Sodium Ion batteries are now also slowly hitting the market.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361094

At some point we may still need small gas power plants to charge the batteries but how many days a year would we have to do that?

It may be a touchy subject, but to me Nuclear power is absolutely not the future because for the money you can deploy so much renewables, including batteries, it just doesn't make sense. And they are never on time and on budget.
Being a painter, a photographer, a musician, an actor, a freelance artist in any medium, has never been a viable career for any significant fraction of the people that want to do so. It has always been a hobby that some very small percentage of people manage to make enough money from to scrape by, and some infinitesimal percentage make enough money from to be wealthy. AI is unlikely to change that, because there will very likely still be a demand for celebrities that some infinitesimal proportion of lucky aspirants will fill, and the vast majority of the industry by numbers will be hobbyist or hobbyists-in-denial who think their small business drawing commissions for some normies & wealthy furries on Twitter will be an economically sustainable career for all the people that want to do it. The most likely outcome of AI in the long run is that a lot of these people produce significantly more work of equivalent quality without being paid any more because demand won't rise (there is already massive oversupply of art, demand is the limiter for financial feasibility), a lot more hobbyists are making art because of the lower barrier to entry, and animators + VFX artists have their productivity go up by a lot and can maybe trade that into real gains in conditions if they're willing to unionise.
Yeah, I just make my own wines these days (from my own home grown grapes). Because while the "quality" is not the same, it's a consistently more "authentic" product and I know everything about it and can appreciate it as my own product; and it's "cheap" (sort of), it's fun.
It's got nothing on the Central Heating Line.
Google openly admitted this, as the article makes clear but the headline of this post does not.
> rich and powerful people using the technology to enhance their power over society.

We don't know the end result of this. This could not be in the interest of power. What if everyone is out the job? That might not be such a great concept for the powers that be, especially if everyone is destitute.

Not saying it's going down that way, but it's worth considering. What if the powers that be are worried about people being out of line and retard the progress of AI?
'Git', at least, while not particularly rude, was deliberate.
I know it's anathema to say this, but I played Super Mario RPG when it was first released and didn't think much of it.
Evolving the App Defense Alliance (Google Blog)
Because it's the PM's job to oversee the whole project end to end.
Naah, if I would to attempt it my first try would be something like VNC (out of the box support) and Automator (out of the box support), or then some other tool to control mouse & keyboard.

The hardest part is probably keeping the duct-tapped stuff running.
The same way we prevent people from doing bad stuff? Strong norms, clear laws, and active policing... it's not rocket science man.
in the context of most of HN, unless noted otherwise, I think it is safe to parse foreign country as 'national entities other than the US'.
U.S. Offers Another Round of Free Covid Tests Through the Mail
Not ready to mount weapons on, if that's what you're asking.
1997 era internet would have scared the shit out of you.
>And now all bicycles with proprietary and locked to the maximum computers, engines, batteries, bms etc.

I think you are fairly safe if you went for a mainstream system like Bosch.
Outside the US it's rarely used, I doubt they care that much.
https://archive.ph/hf822
What a wonderful excuse to not use Chrome.

This may advantage Google in the short-term, but it'll suffer in the long-term.
What other motivations are there other than naked profit and trying to top Elon? /s
i think battery tech can be a real differentiator
With tsx instead of ts-node, it works just fine -

node --import=tsx --test __tests__/\*/\*.test.ts
> The reporter suggested they were chanting “Let’s go, Brandon” to cheer the driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying: “F—- Joe Biden.”

They were mocking the news anchor censoring the truth by lying about what the crowd could clearly be heard saying.

Just like I said.
The quality of ads also differentiates YouTube from other platforms (like proper TV) and even burned in sponsored messages. Ad reads in popular podcasts are miles ahead in terms of quality.

The average ad on YouTube is scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of creativity, cinematography and appeal to people in general. I’m talking about the average ad with personalization off — the mobile game “mafia boss”, slightly pervy, and really weird shock value ads, or the get rich quick schemes, or even straight up crypto fraud. If some better advertisers are targeting you - consider yourself very lucky.

I do enjoy a good ad every now and then. Something creative and well executed. But that’s not what YouTube is serving. And you might hate all ads — it’s ok, everyone is different. Though I think some people would be ok with ads that are respectful of their time as I am one of them.
If you look at the top post you can understand the disappointment when I click this link and got that.

Yes there are a lot of content. Just the topic is …
Lithium is extremely abundant on earth. Unless we start launching it into space, or start building up after covering the surface with buildings and roads, we’re not going to run out.

Lithium production capacity is scarce however, since it’s a mostly useless element unless you’re building batteries out of it.

Anyway, once cities realize that they need to stop taking water from rivers, we should be able to skim quite a bit of
lithium from desalination plant waste water.
Shame that 90% of people will only read misleading headline
Ads at the beginning and at the end of videos. Sometimes. Ads in the middle of a music video is only something a bad human would think of as acceptable.
That name is certainly a choice..! Not something I would normally associate with minimalism and certainly not a website I'm going to open at work but hey
It is about the little things that might bite you during a long development session, like deleting a generic function in source but still having the function in the image, or the strategy to update existing object instances when a class definition is updated (and slots are modified, added or removed).

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btw, regarding packages and removing a symbol: uiop:define-package fixes the annoyance.
Can someone explain to me why this drama is such a big deal? Why do openai employees care who the CEO is? Do they think they were working for him instead of the board or that it was his vision and leadership that let them succeed so far? And why does the public care including major news sites covering it more than the gaza war.
> It's also not a low cost thing, the SSLs resignalling cost at least £1.6bn and has been horrendously delayed.

Pardon my ignorance, but how can a signaling system cost that much money? Is it made out of gold and platinum or what?