skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you agree that for quite a few countries/regions in the world, there's a large seasonal fluctuation in renewable electricity generation which cannot easily be met with seasonally fluctuating demand?

As countries/regions try to get to 100 % renewable electricity they'll likely have to massively over build, leaving them with huge seasonal surpluses.

If so, then wouldn't the conclusion be that there needs to be seasonal storage of energy to _some_ degree at least?

If so, then do you think such seasonal storage can be achieved with batteries?

I doubt that. I'd rather envision hydrogen as seasonal storage from fluctuating renewable generation.

When/if the hydrogen is available, uses will likely follow.
I buy from the same vendor but will buy in different orders, I.e. I'll buy half the disks as soon as I know what we are doing and then buy the other half installed in the machines a month or two later,

or ill buy the machines with half the drives, build out the product them buy the other half of the array and slap it in a couopke days before go live.
Smells like https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-saying-ok
In my case, no. WFH because I prefer it. I manage a team of 7. In our team there are people all across UK. Childcare would be easy for me but commute, oh no!

There's talk about less than 40 and more years old. I'm over 40 and prefer remote. In our space it's younger folks that prefer hanging out in the office.
I favor Intel and Snapdragon processors because of the Linux support. The nvidia case is unfortunate because its competitors are too far behind to put pressure on it.
As far as I could tell, the handler wasn't inside the NOC, but was able to contact them directly. I suppose 1st and 2nd level don't actually have to be inside the NOC to be of use.

Wouldn't be surprised it they do some sort of CLIP filtering/routing, or if they no longer use humans on the front lines, it's the way of the enterprise once they exist long enough :-(
Hybrid vehicles are ICE vehicles with something on top. How can they be more reliable? Best case they should be as reliable as ICE vehicles. There must be some other factor at play.
CANbus is on the way out. The future of networking in cars is Ethernet. A proper switched network with TSN [1] can dramatically cut down on the amount of copper in the car while increasing bandwidth and reliability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-Sensitive_Networking
Neubrutalism in Web Design
Tech Layoffs May Have Peaked, but They're Still Accumulating
https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/fever-a-to-z
Does tree feel the pain when we cut then?
First incarnations of Unix were paid by corporations and universities.
>Linux, Postgres, etc. All great! But have been assimilated.

If you're a company, you almost certainly want support, certifications, and related benefits of having a commercial product. And it's nice to have that avenue to fund developers. But the side effect is that the software is still free as in beer open source that anyone can download. In general, I'd say open source infrastructure software has won pretty thoroughly (even if not universally).
"In the consumer realm it has lost" is kind of weird to me, though. I'd say, don't think about "developers" v. everyone else but "anyone doing anything creative, as opposed to merely consuming, with computers and related devices" and it's not at all clear that the creators are the losers?
Yes, WebUI uses the real installed web browser, so no rewriting is needed like WebView. The lib is 200 Kb !!!
"You really need to learn your history."

Hum ok, once we've reached condescension point the conversation is not worth it.
Did they crack AACS 2 yet? A couple of years ago it was still a problem to backup UHD BRs.
As opposed to what? Isn’t that always the question?
> I think it's best to write modules in Swift/(Kotlin/Java) and have your React Native UI communicate with your modules via the bridge.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just write everything in Flutter?
The react + base swift modules looks like a maintainability nightmare, and especially consultants would never touch if the employee who wrote it ever left the company.
React Native has been great. Until recently, updating old versions of React Native had been a real challenge though. The complexity all comes from the native layer bits though.

A lot of SaaS providers offer React Native components that are ready to go, even newish startups. The ecosystem feels strong and it's way more economical than writing two separate apps.
Diesel trains have been reliable for far longer than ICE cars,and they are hybrids.
How is it better for this use case than just using rlimit?
> Security through obscurity is inferior to security through transparency

According to what exactly?
Show HN: HomeHarvest – Library for free, agent-less MLS Data
wow that looks really cool, I wanna try it out :)
Define "gracefully"?

The standard behavior of "render unknown elements as if they were a div" isn't viable for more complex elements that aren't just content holders. Alternatives that involve developers specifically coding a backup component are more expensive than just writing a bespoke component in the first place.

What sort of graceful decay are you imagining for these cases where a whole widget is missing or is implemented differently across browsers?
As a developer not only can I be trusted to not install extensions from unknown sources, but there’s a much easier vector via NPM :)
I reported this behavior 4 months ago on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36675729

[The researchers wrote in their blog post, “As far as we can tell, no one has ever noticed that ChatGPT emits training data with such high frequency until this paper. So it’s worrying that language models can have latent vulnerabilities like this.”]
In a few years, this will switch.

I regularly work with mobile machinery that was primarily diesel powered, but which is now switching to electric power. The new electrical equipment is far more reliable than the diesel and hydraulic systems they replace, but there are more design issues out of the gate; the engineers are still learning about battery cooling systems, motor sizing, etc.

Once the knowledge and experience gap closes, the superior reliability of moving electrons instead of pistons and belts and gears will be clear.
Oh, it can. Fruitlessly, but it can. U.S. law covers all U.S. citizens, regardless of physical location. Just because you're in Mexico doesn't mean you have carte blanche to bribe or commit crimes. This is an explicit point ground into all Federal employees yearly.

It's just that the operations in question will invoke "National Security" and "sovereign immunity" arguments sufficient to ensure the judiciary will either summary judgement the case. Or leave it conspicuously unreviewed.

Or, at the end of the day, a Presidential pardon will be conferred at the appropriate/most convenient opportunity.

Or actions will just be undertaken with the understanding that the participants will be operating deniably, in which case it is quite literally the Government unilaterally deciding that breaking the law is the only way.
It's not condescension. It's the fact of the matter.
Good question, lol. I never understood that field at all. How is it different from race? Shrug
From what I’ve seen in the corporate world, it’s the overwhelming default. The business simply will not pay for separate native iOS & Android apps, even if you present convincing evidence that it’s better, faster and cheaper.

It’s not the worst thing in the world, but React Native makes your entire app feel kind of janky and clunky. It’s frustrating when something as simple as a push transition looks and works 1000X better with a few lines of SwiftUI.
I don't have tinnitus nor "ear rumble", and I can't visibly wiggle my ears -- but I can reliably equalize air pressure (eg in airplanes or car rides with altitude changes) by inducing a yawn (via swallowing-like action in my upper throat) and/or moving my jaw side to side.
I think dark patterns mostly work against the long-term interests of the companies that deploy them. But a big problem is that dark patterns drive measurable benefits but are associated with unmeasurable costs. So metrics-driven teams can end up deploying them to the long-term detriment of the company itself. Management needs to ensure that teams are not sacrificing intangible soft capital in order to meet measurable goals.

For example, a dark pattern might increase subscription conversion rate, time spent on a page, and so on -- which can be directly measured and appear in OKRs -- but may also result in people developing negative associations with your brand and gradually avoiding visiting your site in the first place, when they see it in a linked URL.

Think of a website that is relatively free of dark patterns -- maybe McMaster-Carr or something -- and notice how often you might find yourself looking there first. That's good-will, a valuable but ephemeral resource which is be very hard for a company to quantify, and therefore easy and tempting to spend down in pursuit of short-term gains.
I've been able to rip 4K UHD but only using specific models of drive. (some LG drives). Would really like to use Pioneer as they are more reliable but they are not cracked yet(as far as I know).
The writers won.

I think people who believe in "automated entertainment" don't actually understand the economics of media and how the attention economy works. People want to see high quality works and they want shared experiences. AI doesn't do that. I'd bet there's books, movies, or TV shows that you're excited to watch. I'd also bet none of them were created by AI.
That people actually entertain these ideas is SO WEIRD to me. The last sentence is just obviously false, precisely because the models are software that anyone can trade around. LoRA's, in other words. The fact that original models "might" -- and even that's a big might -- be hard to produce from scratch, so what? Operating systems are hard to produce from scratch, but anyone can grab Linux and do anything.
If you look at their pictures (specifically the two of employees in the fields with laptops), and read their marketing copy ("Get secure, private connectivity with M6 Pro instead of using risky public WiFi networks where data can be easily compromised"), I think they are marketing to biz.

The security line is mostly nonsense (if you are running https or other secure protocol, it doesn't matter, assuming your local device has a restrictive firewall - even if you don't you'd get the same thing by using a data sim on your laptop). But it sounds nice and will likely check some compliance boxes.

This is not a consumer device - it doesn't make any sense. They think procurement depts and CTOs won't want to buy extra devices.

The smartphone probably could do the same job, but duct-taping the phone and wifi router may not be the best look.
Ask HN: Can qubits be written to crystals as diffraction patterns?
Coherence time is the operative limit to SOTA QC Quantum Computing.

Holographic data storage already solves for binary digital data storage.

Aren't diffraction patterns due to lattice irregularities effective wave functions?

Presumably holography would have already solved for quantum data storage if diffraction is a sufficient analog if a wave function?
It's because ffp3 is a European standard. They're terrible to wear though. I'm glad COVID is over and I only ever wore the absolute minimum required. Only got it once during the mask mandate and that's when I didn't actually wear it in a crowded bar (nobody did so there was no point). I only sniffled for 2 days anyway.
Didn’t work for me either on iOS.
Calling it a trap implies malicious intention. Instead reality is that people are just trying to accomplish a good thing because it is a good thing. That Republicans may decide to be evil and shoot themselves in the foot with regressive policy doesn’t make doing good things a trap.
Isn't this a problem of overconsumption, not overproduction?

The internet has exposed us to exponentially more ideas and content than our ancestors had, in much the same way as printing gave them over theirs. AI making this stuff is only an iteration.

If consumption is bad, we only need ration our intake, use slower mediums, do something, exercise, play an instrument, craft, create.
Trackwrestling down, halting tournaments across the US
Because it's an EU standard. I guess N99 would be similar in the US?
No idea of what precise sort of hardware is there, but the fact is that these cables consist of a bunch of fibers. Dozens of them typically, quick search suggests up to 144, but I doubt that's a physical ceiling. So I suppose they make a branch when needed, with some number of fibers going to another direction.
Given all the compute infrastructure in Ireland, I'm surprised it still has no direct connection to continental Europe (they all go through the UK first).
I mean, good luck!
I am looking forward to the report on how did this go in production on a large self managed DB that has active dev cycles.
It seems like the spirit
of the 4th amendment could / should be applied to the corporations and big data brokers. The problem seems to be with how it's applied in practice, private entities are freely allowed to make insecure papers / effects (data) of their customers, claim it as their own property and then redistribute it.

If that was happening with physical property instead of digital data I don't think anyone would be confused about the legality of it.
good wake up call. germany actively played against european nuclear energy and now people are waking up. for countries with larger populations than iceland this is either using nuclear or being woke and burning coal when there isn't wind or sun. everyone that will go nuclear will have a large market advantage on pretty much everything.
Wrong, Google drove NaCl for a long time (portable LLVM bytecode) but then Mozilla countered with asm.js which kickstarted and heavily influenced the development of Webassembly.
These are tame compared to some of the stuff I have been tasked with at a previous company. I don't want to go into specifics really, but I can tell you that it sort of became normal. Should we test out defaulting the newsletter checkbox? Sure, oh great, it improved newsletter conversions! Should we show a fake "X amount of people viewed this product"? Sure, if it works we can actually implement it! Etc. etc.

Until I was outside of the culture of the company for a bit, I didn't see any issue. Improvement of metrics was all that mattered.
I don’t think your comparison holds. How do you compare trains and cars?

If you’ve got an ICE engine and an additional electric motor, there’re more chances of either breaking. You cannot have _better_ reliability.
An OS built with the Ironclad kernel and GNU tools
I still haven't found a use for LLMs. The propensity of them to get it wrong, and being fancy statistics machines based on existing data, just feels like a cheap trick. It's still a fancy Markov chain, it just has guard rails.

There just isn't a place for them in my life.
> People want to see high quality works and they want shared experiences. AI doesn't do that.

Give it three years.
I think there are a lot of theories about why people eat too much, and all of them apply to some people. I have been eating "healthier" for months, including about 5x as much vegetables as I had been previously into my eating, cutting back (but not eliminating) desserts. I still found that I did not lose weight because I was eating too much. I don't believe it was because I was not getting adequate nutrition - I just wanted food.
This. All most of 20-30 that I interact with are. Hi, how are you doing today? And then pause. Boomers just go straight to the point.

I'm also huge proponent of https://nohello.net/en/ in the workplace and elsewhere.
IDK. Personally I don’t like the term Russophobia. When I hear it, I think of a vatnik claiming it’s all irrational fear of the saint nth Rome. It is very rational to steer away from anything Russia-related. And prepare for the inevitable which comes sooner or later.
Complaining about companies releasing their work under a liberal open source license is a first-world-problem if I've ever seen one ;)
Ask HN: What are your Betamax technologies?
I was reminded of Cappuccino[0] recently which for me was/is a great framework for building JS frontends but didn't seem to have reached a broader audience.

Yahoo pipes was another technology that didn't seem catch on.

What are some others?

[0]=https://www.cappuccino.dev
Your opinion doesn't make any sense to me.

If it takes a hundred million dollars to train a SOTA LLM, who is going to pay for and put that in open source?

Even Stability is starting to put restrictions on their releases (and is rumored to be searching for an acquirer).
Why shouldn't i use supabase?
All these react haters here are just scared of losing their jobs. I love it I can build what I want easily with RN. I know that I sound stupid but that's the reality
Thus GNU... And Linux.

20+ years later, look who is still around.
Oh yeah it's also a valid market, it's just not worth of the current valuation though.
The various pieces aren't equal, so it isn't just a matter of more is worse.

For instance, a hybrid drivetrain might be more reliable than the transmission it replaced.
NeXTSTEP drivers were written in Objective-C.
A lot of wasted capital that could have gone toward real problems. A gross misallocation.
This is only undersea cables. Europe and Asia have overland connections too. But mostly it's because both continents do more business over the internet with the US than with each other.
How do you develop extensions then? Surely it must be possible somehow.
Article title is misleading. It is not about "Good old-fashioned AI" (GOFAI) at all. That's a term of art referring to symbolic AI like planning and explicit inference. All the stuff covered in Norvig's classic "AI: A modern approach."
Israeli grid maps make life in Gaza a 'macabre game of Battleships'
Why are people so eager to look away from the clear agenda that's playing out?

It's not the time to be sticking one's head in the sand. Google is dead to me once they push Manifest v3.
> Compatability is only better if you make the assumption that all your users need to be using javascript

Are any companies foolish enough to assume otherwise? I understand there is a minuscule number of users who don't want to run JS in their browsers, but aside form Amazon and their near-unlimited resources, who is catering to that small number of users?
The generous reading, which I think is mostly correct, is that consumers mostly don't directly run open source software, e.g. LibreOffice on Linux. A ton of the software they run has significant open source components but it's packaged up as a proprietary SaaS or an app store app.
What proof is there that copyrighted data was used? Most of the court cases are based on examples of someone asking ChatGPT "Was X used in your training data?" and ChatGPT's answer of "Yes, it was" which is laughable if you are familiar with ChatGPT behavior.

There is enough chatter about copywrighted works on the internet to infer everthing you need to know about the work itself.
Simple cultural propagation between adjacent groups and between generations is pretty far from a species being a single connected cultural propagation network, which is what would need to exist for a species wide behavior to possibly be learned and not innate.
> I think text written by it should be marked as such

Good luck with that. It’s a tool.
I'm not swigging the Kool-Aid yet either, but I think you're being a little dismissive. I've found ChatGPT useful for some sorts of questions that can only really be posed in natural language, particularly grammatical oddities that come up as I learn Spanish.

Probably the single most impressive result I've had so far was with "What's that weird thing on the top of a P-38's engine nacelle that looks like a recessed sideways wheel?" Got it in one. I can't imagine getting anywhere with a conventional search engine there.

I definitely wouldn't rely on it for anything professional, though.
Because the idea that something being simpler always makes it more reliable is a convenient fiction.
It is the same for every tech advance. What used to be awesome is now mundane.

The article is about questioning the reality of picture. It started way before AI, when image manipulation became possible. Many people find it difficult to appreciate the picture of a beautiful woman on the cover of a magazine, because it must be all makeup and photoshop. Even if she may be stunningly beautiful and natural in real life, what to believe once we know what photo editors can do?

With or without AI, I tend to assume that all awesome pictures are edited in some way, unless some somewhat trustworthy source tells me they aren't.

And even without editing, straight from the camera images, what you are seeing may be a distorted view of reality. For example, a wide angle shot of a room makes it look bigger than it is in real life, a trick well known by real estate agents. Our eyes don't have the field of view of a wide angle lens, so is such a picture "real"?
John Naughton: Preserving our digital content is vital
That's not necessarily true, I have a feeling that I can't really back up that ~all infectious respiratory diseases are airborne (i.e. the infectious particles travel between rooms and linger in common settings), but some combination of infection routes, innate and learned immune responses (actually quite fuzzy when you look at them closely), and human behavior (e.g. "alternate explanations" that epidemiologists come up with like sneezing/coughing) explain why most people don't believe that's the case.
Isn't React Native a framework that generates GUIs using native frameworks by transpiling whatever React code you have down to the native frameworks you're targeting?

I get the point of reusing front-end expertise to develop other frontend code like desktop and mobile applications, but I struggle to understand the selling point of React Native. If I recall correctly React Native started as a personal project, and that's perfectly fine, but I don't understand who in their right mind would base their product on a convoluted and heterogeneous Jenga stack of technologies when all they need to do is just use the native frameworks.
They can only remix what already exists, not create new things, no?
I think your comment was written by a GPT, does that make it true?

Please refrain from making baseless accusations.
I believe the whole language is "style insensitive" for variable names. So it's not just a feature of the stdlib.
Why not Flutter or any other cross-platform framework?
I see they did not. I also see that in denmark in 2023 (not in the 1970s and early 2000s when the data was gathered) about 1.6% of 16-34yo’s had used meth that year. The prevalence of full blown meth addiction is going to be dramatically lower. 0.5% seems high but let’s go with that - 50 people in this study. Seems a bit of a reach to say that’s what’s skewing the data.

But the overarching point is: why is your default that fat is unhealthy and you must have bulletproof data to believe otherwise? My default is i don’t know one way or the other and I think health is probably way more complex than what % body fat you have and I don’t understand why so many people are determined to use it as a proxy for health.
And Linux is mostly paid for by corporations, directly and indirectly.
Ha, came here with similar feelings. Put it on a stick! Is what I thought… Could it be on a handle of sorts?
Again, this is the opposite of my experience and I’m sorry you’ve been treated this way.