skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the US, at no point in time, day or night, summer or winter does any zero carbon energy go to waste. So increasing demand means more fossil fuels being burned.

Are you just forgetting the part where there's less gasoline demand or any efficiency differences?
what do you mean given how many people cycle, are you not allowed to ride on the street with cars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiJUV3Av-W8

This guy is doing around 40kmh on a ride through the city. granted he's an extreme outlier, but it's definitely possible.
There is a type of guitar collector who is actually a hoarder though and doesn't play. Sometimes derogatorily called "Blues Lawyers" after the stereotype of a lawyer who has all the money in the world to buy guitars, but no time to play them because of their profession. Same thing goes in synth communities.

Personally I like these people because they keep my local music shop in business.
Nulls, exceptions, and no discriminated unions. I use C# professionally and those traits completely ruin the language. And, no, the nullable stuff doesn't cut it. It has some pretty awkward quirks.

Also, almost nobody writes code that is fast. Sure, aspnetcore might be optimized to the teeth, but drop EF in and that's all wiped out and then, not some, a ton.

Idiomatic C# has also become what I call abstraction infatuation. It's impossible to tell what actually happens in that perfect 5 line method that uses 30 different interfaces and 10 different factories. Better have a good debugger handy (you won't: they all barf on async code). Aspnetcore and EF take abstraction to such academic levels that the most hardcore of Java EE devs would blush.

I started learning it months after it launched, I am a truly seasoned C# veteran. I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. But hear-you-me, I have had one too many exception in my time, and C# is massively overated.
Or maybe he's like me, and both walks and drives, and doesn't want anybody to have to sit in a car wasting their life for longer than necessary.

Efficiency matters.
They probably get great photos but the camera may be set to the actual limit whereas the fine only comes when you exceed that limit by a certain amount.
To me it sounds like a useful thing, for communicating your vision and getting early feedback on whether you are building the right thing. Like uh, a live action blueprint. Let's say the client is like "Email???? That's no good. It needs to be a text message". Now you have saved yourself the trouble of implementing email.
Purchase price != total cost of ownership
Anything that classifies and/or recommends images will likely be a deep learning model these days.
Nuclear power is used to provide baseline grid capacity. You can't just burn more or less uranium/plutonium as demand changes with the reactors that are in service. On the margins the surge demand largely comes from hydrocarbons, because you can just burn more or less coal, oil, or gas. Thus electric vehicles that tax the grid are going to result in new power being added as needed, and it will be nearly all from hydrocarbons.
It is very hard to be faster than a bike in Amsterdam.
That's kind of the point. Part of the design of Dutch cities is to make the fastest, most direct, most convenient form of transportation _not_ the car.

You use a car when you _have_ to, not simply as a default. If it takes longer to get to your intra-city destination in a car, that's the city working as intended.
That describes the situation where the 12V battery is flat but the HV battery is charged. But what happens if the HV battery is flat on a non-plug in hybrid? Can it be charged from 12V?
> makes me avoid Portland

It worked!
I gleefully await Matt Levine’s article on AI demos as securities fraud.
In Scenario A, more clean energy deployment immediately reduces transportation CO2 emissions. In fact, every single bit of roof top solar being deployed contributes, in some small way, to reducing CO2 emissions from transportation.

In Scenario B, no amount of clean energy deployment changes the emissions of transportation. In fact, a good chunk of that production is likely wasted due to the mismatch of production and demand, without the benefit of storage.
Check out hanami next time you're starting something new. It's a little more complex than sinatra, but really gels with how I like to architect things. It's basically "what if dry-rb had a web framework"?
Ask HN: How do you bootstrap your social presence?
Ive mostly been a quiet, anonymous user of the internet.

I’ve recently broken out of my shell and have been trying to use the internet to connect with others in order to build a network from which I can learn from and share ideas and ultimately find paid work.

However, doing this by starting from a 0 follower account anywhere seems like an impossible task. How do you guys do it without spamming others or following a thousand unrelated accounts?

My X account is https://x.com/ssjbillz

Is there anything I could be doing to achieve my goal?
I do have some criticism on it. The way that both the motherboard and main frame are linked and not available as spare parts is pretty repairability inhibiting. The aluminium frame can scuff easily but it's not possible to replace that part :( making it necessary to use a case, the lack of which would have been a huge advantage of a repairable phone.
With those figures, that would be 1000 objects per year.
That guy is nuts and shouldn't be cycling at all. Many, many examples of endangering other users of the road because of his ridiculous speed.
I don't know if the article title changed, but the title used here is slightly misleading - this isn't just about Fusion (the macOS desktop hypervisor).

The article title is `Broadcom to 'divest' VMware’s end-user computing and Carbon Black units`.

It'll be interesting to see what happens here, particularly given that the concept of "use the same cross platform low level VMware hypervisor" is a moot point on Macs going forward.
Solved it all last year, looking forward to finishing this year’a puzzles!
The reasoning behind Lavabo was that its a short name and probably easy to remember. In romance languages Lavare means to wash, and Lavabo comes from old Latin which also means washbasin. The meaning of the word does not really have a great connection to our products besides that for some products in our product line people usually put them on the sink haha like the toothpaste and mouthwash. Earthbound might be more difficult to pronounce for some other languages but our main market is the US, with Europe following later on.
Where are they using sex changes before SSRIs and therapy? I have not heard of this and am genuinely curious where that info is coming from.
Without the Society part?
This brings back the days of trillian (the best multi-chat client for the desktop in the age of ICQ, AIM, MSN) that got killed by the raise of mobile phones and mobile chat apps.
In 110k miles in my 2018 Model S, I have only replaced tires and wiper blades, as well as wiper and brake fluid. That’s it.
This is so boring stop.
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And the inner ring part of Amsterdam, which is were most of the action is is less than 7.5 km across, rarely would you visit more than one outlying area and the center in a single trip, and if you did you might take your bike on the subway (outside of the rush hour only) for the long stretch. Small foldables are always legal and don't have a surcharge.
After his March arrest in Montenegro, Kwon received a four-month jail term.
Justice Minister of Montenegro intends to approve the request for extradition made by U.S.
The co-founder of Terraform Labs, Do Kwon, is allegedly set to be deported to the US instead of South Korea in order to face criminal accusations.

A report from the WSJ citing sources close to the situation states that Justice Minister Andrej Milović of Montenegro intends to approve the request for extradition made by U.S. authorities, as reported on December 7th.
To help me get a grasp on the meaning and significance of this finding, could anyone provide examples of things outside the domain of cellular automata that are omniperiodic?
CAN bus is still really slow (1Mbps, so bus contention is a problem). Sensors, cameras, AV stuff, etc. can't all live on the CAN bus. Cars are not the same things they were in the 90s.
Yes! Electroporation is literally just subjecting the cells to a strong electrical potential. A lightning can definitely do the trick in some conditions. Many cells will die, but it is a sacrifice natural selection is willing to make.

Although, this doesn't mean you zapping someone with enough lightning and they can become the flash. The electroporation process is one way of damaging the cell just enough to make them take in foreign DNA. Think of it like poking holes in the cell and DNA got in. Whether that DNA get recombined or not depends on other processes, which might also get activated as a stress response to the damage. But it is entirely random. So the DNA coding that specific function/protein must be available in the environment first, and the cell must survive the process of getting struck by Zeus and be lucky enough to do the recombination just right to retain that piece of DNA to produce a proper mutant.

Lots of entropy here, like someone said elsewhere. But that is life. Do it enough time and maybe something fun come out of it.
Google's best Gemini demo was faked
Are we not all still buying multiple packs of AA batteries every year? Or maybe it's just those with kids.
Earthbound
As others have pointed out, elements and tags are different things and always were. An element is the thing comprised of tags and the content between them. eg <tag>content</tag> is an element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Tag
The only way to settle this once and for all, is an arm wrestle between Arvind Krishna and Satya Nadella.
Constructing SQL by string manipulation is hard to get right, hence we largely stopped doing that. Same story with C, really. It's okay to admit you're irrationally attached to a tool, and calling things stupid because of it.
> i'm pretty sure that's only a legit business model in the usa

lolwut? i haven't gotten a single camera-based ticket, ever - many decades of driving in the US - unlike say Italy where every time i drive (about once in 5 years) i seem to break some stupid minor rule and get a photo ticket
The golden goose for car repairs is Engine repairs or Emissions related repairs. Neither of those really exist for EVs.

The biggest repair is a battery replacement and that's largely unskilled and low manpower.
> It will be several decades before a combination of renewable overcapacity and energy storage can meet any increase in demand for electricity. In the mean time, anything that causes an increase in demand, such as electric cars, will be met with an equal amount of additional coal or natural gas supply.

There's a lot wrong with this comment, but this bit especially is just made up nonsense.

According to [1] 39.7% of USA energy generation on average is already either renewables or nuclear, and as other commenters have pointed out even if it was 100% coal including transmission losses it would still be more efficient than petrol in an ICE.

And saying that all additional power production built in the US grid will be 100% coal or natural gas for the next two decades is a bizarre claim.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
Why is it inherently noisier?
48V is also used on some boats (eg. certain trolling motors)
You should beleive it because its true. Please read my comment again carefully. Marginal demand is not an intuitive concept, but it is quite real I assure you. Please don't be upset. My figures are from the paper "Conventional, hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric vehicles? State-based comparative carbon and energy footprint analysis in the United States". Also see my reply to virtue3 for what I hope is a clearer explanation of the marginal demand concept.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03062...
Relevant SMBC: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-10-09
I have had zero problems with Apple Podcasts that just seem to work. Spotify is just kind of a mess.

Apple Music still needs work but it’s ok for the price
Interesting comment. So, what would you do if you were called by someone whose cloud account got hacked and wiped? Or whose cloud account got closed because of 'unspecified suspicious activity on your account'? Of course that never happens, right?
This is not quite true, while you're correct that there is no third gate, the Greenway (as pictured in the upper left corner of the 3 picture illustration you're referring to) is not the road which is shown in the "close-up" (lower center picture) of Bree which goes "To Deadman Dike".

The illustrations are taken from "The Atlas of Middle-Earth" and the road which goes diagonally north-west from the prancing pony towards the greenway (Old North Road) is described as follows in "The Atlas of Middle-Earth" (pg. 124; At the Prancing Pony):

> A drawing shows a lane which curves north from the Great [East] Road, one branch climbing to the crest of the hill, while another leads through a small opening in the hedge for a shorter route to Combe and Archet.

The "North Gate" shown on the picture is the "small opening through the hedge". I'd say it was probably marked as a "Gate" here since Bree is surrounded by a Dike/Hedge and should simply illustrate that you can't simply cross on a "normal" road here.

The drawing which is being referred to here appears in `The Return of The Shadow` (History of Middle-Earth Book 6) as `Plan of Bree` in Chapter `XX The Third Phase (2): At the Sign of the Prancing Pony`

The drawing "Plan of Bree" by Tolkien can also be seen on pg 45 (Illustration 25) in "The Art of The Lord of the Rings"
I'm in a startup now, but friends and former colleagues are in established, public companies. None of us are in the AI world though.
> At $38,990, the base Model 3 sedan now costs $8,700 less than the average amount paid for a car or truck in the US.

Not sure why Jalopnik would compare the Model 3 prices to a "segment" including cars and trucks.

Perhaps because the actual average price for a new mid size sedan in October 2023 is actually $32,400...

> The starting price for a Model Y SUV is $3,700 below the average auto price of roughly $48,000

The average price for a new Crossover SUV in October 2023 is $35,700.

I think it's highly disingenous to compare against "all cars and trucks", not against segment.

Now the Model S is almost at the average in its segment, starting at $74,900 versus $73,536 for the "luxury car" segment (I don't actually agree that the Model S is a luxury car, more 'high end', but we'll go with it.

Source: KBB via https://clark.com/cars/average-new-car-price/
I think that's a technicality if the expressed concern was this piece was just non-answers. It's a regurgitated answer but still new information to many of us.
Was this inspired by http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ ? Seems to be very similar in specs.
Thanks for the reply! And whats your reasoning behind the choice?
I don’t understand how to calculate those odds though. Like is it a continuous rate of event probability?
In C++, how can I make a member function default parameter depend on this?
do you have a link? I searched for a while :)
I'm ok with "edited for latency" or "only showing the golden path".

But the most impressive part of the demo, was the way the LLM just seemed to know when to jump in with a response. It appeared to be able to wait until the user had finished the drawing, or even jumping in slightly before the drawing finished. At one point the LLM was halfway though a response and then saw the user was now colouring the duck in blue, and started talking about how the duck appearing to be blue.

The LLM also appeared to know when a response wasn't needed because the user was just agreeing with the LLM.

I'm not sure how many people noticed that on a conscious level, but I positive everyone noticed it subconsciously, and felt the interaction was much more natural.

As you said, good speed-to-text and speech-to-text has already been done, along with multi-model image/video/audio LLMs and image/music generation. The only novel thing google appeared to be demonstrating and what was most impressive was this apparent natural interaction. But that part was all fake.
>the engineer is usually imbued with ethics when they work at any firm. It’s that simple, you work at an airline manufacturer, your duty is to not cause harm, test properly, it’s no different with AI.

One point here is that there's no licensing requirement for AI engineers like you see in some other fields of engineering. As someone recently quipped on Twitter:

> did you know that there are currently no licensing requirements in the US for training potentially world-threatening AI models, but there are in the state of Louisiana for selling flower arrangements

https://nitter.net/littIeramblings/status/173092523732656542...

In any case, what's been happening in AI engineering is significantly different than in other fields of engineering.

There is no consensus as to the magnitude of AI risk, although extinction probability estimates are generally high: https://nitter.net/AISafetyMemes/status/1729892336782524676#...

In practice, AI engineers self-select into different places of employment depending on how worried they are. If you're not very worried, you work at Meta. If you're significantly worried, you work at Anthropic or even someplace like MIRI. Most AI labs have a safety culture that's somewhere in between those extremes. [Obviously, from the point of view of preventing extinction, this situation seems unsatisfactory.]

With regard to the point about the board -- their job was to supervise the CEO, and they say Sam was making that difficult. See https://nitter.net/hlntnr/status/1730034020140912901#m
I did this as well. I worked on a localized navigation system back when I was in a school, and unfortunately we broke all available GPS receivers in our hands over the course---that particular model of RS-232 GPS modules was really fragile. As a result we couldn't actually demonstrate a live navigation (and it was incomplete anyway). We proceeded to finish the GUI nevertheless, and then pretended that this is what you see during the navigation, but never actually ran the navigation code. It was an extracurricular activity and didn't affect GPA or anything, for the curious, but I remain kinda uneasy about it.
That's an EU thing and aims to make it safe to put e-bikes on the bike paths instead of in the car lanes. It groups vehicles with similar speed and relative weight together.
I bet that if Google stops matching one of those requirements, the team will just drop that requirement instead of abandoning the whole project and all their work.

Which means that these requirements are at least partly informed by the capabilities of Google pixel phones.

I have to say though that the timely security update thing is really a weak point of Fairphone. Yes they have years of support but they often delay updates for many months or skip major upgrades altogether.
This does not look at all usable. Your application is exposed to the "internal binary format" that SQLite has chosen:

select jsonb_extract('{"foo": {"bar": 42}}', '$.foo');

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ jsonb_extract('{"foo": {"bar": 42}}', '$.foo') │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ |7bar#42 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The component I'm referring to is at the top, named Filter with a magnifying glass icon. Not the components you can expand.
Silicon Valley is plagued by over promising far too early and fooling everyone we are years ahead of where we actually are. Estimates are always way off, and claims and even fake demos are almost always oversold to get investors.
Kinda.

Abu Dhabi is the emirate that controls the UAE. As such, they decided to put their guy in charge.

When UAE got the chance to host COP28, Abu Dhabi was always going to drive the agenda.

When most people hear UAE, they think Dubai, but the actual economy and power is in Abu Dhabi. Dubai had to get bailed out by Abu Dhabi a couple times, and Construction+Real Estate+Gold doesn't generate enough money or power within the Emirates compared to Abu Dhabi's Oil and PE/VC strategy. Also, Abu Dhabi has an actual conscripted army with combat experience in Afghanistan, Yemen and Sudan, unlike the other Emirates so they can push everyone else around.

Dubai attempted to become India's Hong Kong, but they couldn't dethrone Singapore. Look at YC for example - they recommend Indian YC startups formally incorporating in SG if they can't make a Delaware corp.
Because I see technology as a being used as a means to social control and authoritarian rule. Most HN commenters are perfectly willing to see this as well when it comes to DRM, remote attestation, secure boot, etc, but magically forget that when discussion of traffic and cars comes up.
We are talking about whatsapp, no?
The Park Database has a great 3-park blog series on the business of theme parks. This is part I, the others are linked from there: http://www.theparkdb.com/blog/the-business-of-theme-parks-pa...

They have a really interesting blog overall.
The end goal is not the extinction of car culture. The end goal is to get everyone from A to B safely and swiftly, regardless of transport mode.

Basically if you put Germans and Dutch people together, they'll argue which country has the best car infrastructure. The grass is greener on the other side. Dutch people say you can go faster on German roads, while Germans say that the dutch speed limits make traffic more smooth and logical.

Either way, once you drive out to the highway you can theoretically lock the cruise control to 100 km/h [1] (including on intersections) until ~5-10 min from your destination.[2] That's not a bad country for cars!

[1] Except eg. Amsterdam ring-road which is 80 km/h. Exception that proves the rule.

[2] I did say theoretically. Roads ARE busy and you may need to tap the brakes sometimes. Though... in practice I'm willing to bet that on any given day some number of people actually manage to achieve this by accident. (outside rush hour and with a little luck)
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Wouldn’t this cause more pollution? Lower fuel efficiency, increased congestion, more half-clutch inching, more stopping, more time spent by each vehicle on each road…

…At least assuming the number and routes of travels stay constant.

I used to drive a 2010 Diesel VW Golf, about 55kW, in Central Europe. It would take 4l/100km at 70kph and closer to 11l/100km when maneuvering slowly. 2.75x pollution diff per km in these scenarios.

Sound is important, but cars also pollute the air.
Have a look at the codebase for OHM (Open Hardware Monitor). It's fairly clean C#, and I found it refreshingly easy to grasp. I know what you mean about all the abstraction but you can use the language without all of that.
Interesting that this got flagged off the homepage. Wonder why. If you flagged this would you explain why a development like this in a world capital is off-limits?