skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cost of supplying the servers with renewables 90% of the time would be much cheaper than supplying them 100% of the time. The former can easily be done with some batteries; the latter requires more extensive consideration of rare dark-calm periods.

Another consideration is that servers can be located in the best places for renewables, not in places with high seasonal variability and relatively low winds.
Smoking Linked to Brain Shrinkage, Irreversible Even After Quitting
This is all just so true. I managed to get into law school while struggling and ended up dropping out the first time around because I worked too much. I made it through the second time, but was crushed by $100-$700 fees for random required things. For example, some test required access to special computers for $300, or some trip that you're 'really supposed to attend' but it's $250. They just expect you to have this cash on hand to go through the program. Obviously a gatekeeping method for the poorer students.
It should be "the platform FORMERLY known as Twitter", but it's pretty funny this way since I imagine it's still technically Twitter in most formal ways.
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (1998)
They're upgrading Vandenburg to do 100/year and Kennedy/Canaveral to do a ~daily cadence.
"During the height of the pandemic, I wrote an article about how a Polish hacker had developed a dongle that was being used by American repair professionals to bypass DRM on ventilators needed to keep COVID-19 patients alive."

That's extremely evil. I'm not emotionally invested in right-to-repair like many others here are, but it's corrupt that DRM is causing/has caused difficulty in operating things necessary for people's survival. Shame on these companies.

Those who want to convince others of right-to-repair should point to cases like this because it's the #1 thing that makes me want to rally behind it too.
A few years ago I bought my own easily-pronounceable domain, pointed its MX records at Fastmail's servers, and transitioned away from Gmail. In the 3+ years I've been a Fastmail customer, I have never had a problem with my email being sent or received.

Is it full sovereignty? Depending on your definition, probably not. But it does give me a few things:

1. I'm not contributing to the Gmail monoculture

2. If Fastmail stops being awesome, I can point my MX records somewhere else

Even higher levels of control would be nice, and Gmail is trying to shut down independent operators, but the choices aren't "run your own server" or "give in and use Gmail". There's a spectrum of email sovereignty, and the kind of nearly-complete sovereignty that comes with a personal domain is well within reach of most people on HN.
> I don't want to say Linux is free, in practice it's not, those who are running the big powerful machines are using RHEL and paying hefty licenses.

Google/Amazon/MS isn't paying RHEL licenses.

Reason for using RHEL is basically "we don't want to hire experts", which makes a lot of sense in small/midsized company but in big one it's probably mostly the ability to blame someone else if something is fucked up, and the fact some of the software basically says "run it on this distro or it is unsupported".
But of course, the WSJ would never want to admit that massive wealth inequality has negative consequences...
Only for trusted testers.
> So we get stuck with high prices,

Yes, historically this is how it works. High inflation leads to higher prices which then settle, an higher salaries etc. lag but roughly catch up.

It's more useful to think of inflation as a rate of reduction of the value of money than as an increase in prices. Tools like the CPI baskets are attempts to find a measure of the "real" loss of value, but this is inherently flawed. Tools to affect it (e.g. federal rates, QE, etc.) are inherently ham-fisted and only indirectly coupled to the economic drivers of inflation, so also flawed. Companies take advantage of the variability to be more aggressive with price experiments, etc., etc. - so it's complicated.

And so it goes.
We’re waiting on the benchmarks once the archive has been rebuilt to double check if we’ll be affected in that way, but if indeed we do find that sort of regression, we’ll exclude Python from this change (and any other package where there is a substantial hit).
Thats crazy, do you know if there's an article about Dropbox breaking auth? Don't remember hearing about it.
Well said, I think we would be friends. Please send me an email at the link in my bio if you want!
> Even the pyramids were built by well paid craftsmen, not slaves as is commonly believed.

Half right. It's currently believed that the bulk of the workers were lots and lots of paid laborers. Not craftsmen. That would be expensive!

https://www.britannica.com/video/226777/did-enslaved-people-...
Exactly. Seriously underwhelming for just grandiose announcements, yet it doesn't matter.
Yeah I changed the title of this post to a question. I just heard from a single source and they might have been feeling bit spicy about it. They definitely laid some folks off today but the extent of it is TBD it seems.
The biggest thing you're missing is fracking. We're getting a lot more fossil fuels that were previously considered inaccessible. (Not all of it is oil. We're doing a lot more with natural gas, including a majority of new power plants. That means more petroleum is available for gasoline.)

The other big thing has been shale oil, which was not considered economic in the 90s. But the price of oil went up, and it became feasible. Ironically, the price of oil has since declined -- due in part to all of that shale oil entering the system -- but once they'd invested in the infrastructure, it continued to be economically viable.

The US in particular is producing a lot more fossil fuels than it used to, and is actually exporting it despite previous predictions that we'd be running out. It's because we're using fuels that we didn't expect we'd ever be able to get at cheaply enough.
Elon Musk hits back at critics with impressive new Tesla Bot video
"In a new post on X via its Tesla Optimus account, the company posted a video of its Gen 2 Optimus robot captioned. "There's a new bot in town. Check this out (until the very end)!"
The headline is a bit confusing as to just what's being counted. From deeper in the article:

Of the 360,000 troops that made up Russia’s pre-invasion ground force, including contract and conscript personnel, Russia has lost 315,000 on the battlefield, according to the assessment.

In other words, the number of its casualties is 87% the number of people it had on the first day of the war. It's not actually 87% of those original 360,000 individuals.

The number of Russian troops in Ukraine is nonetheless larger than that original 360k count. It might be around 500,000, though estimates have enormous error bars. Russia has a draft, and is recruiting from inside prisons.

So even with a number that staggering, the war is a long way from over.
"Innovation" has become a straight-up fetish in the US tech sector, and that fetish is increasingly a cause of a great deal of harm.
I'm guessing you're thinking smaller independent artists would "need" this?

Most artist's websites are created by their management/label/etc. They'll want to have tour information, and lots of other stuff than what Spotify might know about them. There's no way to add concert images/media and personalize it. This is just a reskinning of Spotify and drastically limits usability

This seems like a nice experiment of "can I use a 3rd party API to create a new thing" which is a valid thing to be able to do. And you've made a nice little thing with it. Is it practical? If you're goal was to learn and hack together something, then mission accomplished. Job well done. Is it practical for the artist? Sorry, but I don't think it is.
I'd say, trying to read this, the biggest problems are:

- tons of visual clutter, all those gradients and lines like the header or hero image
- a floating ToC which insists on jamming in 'recommended links' (?!) the entire time
- no outlines. Every single image or screenshot blends into the actual article.
- a visual summary which is hard to read because it has tiny text and looks like a correlation heatmap instead of a table
- highly inconsistent use of linking. Like, why does 'We have evaluated Gemini across four separate vision tasks:' link only 2 of the 4, and then not to the section in this article?
- highly repetitive screenshots, which add nothing, and in conjunction with the lack of outlines for the images and the many outlines inside the images, means that the benchmark sections are a frustrating visual jigsaw puzzle where you have to decode the screenshot again and again to look at the tiny text inside it. It would be better to provide one (1) screenshot of each model's UI, which is all I need to see to get an idea of what it looks like and the implied workflow and what sort of metadata/options it has, and then for each task simply show the image/prompt and each model's responses as a normal blockquote or text.
Ok we'll wedge an artist in there. Thanks!
If you believe the reason some children are fatherless is because a hedge fund manager owns a jet, you're reaching.
Accused Spy for Cuba Lived the American Dream
Could you give some more insight on this?
Yes! Only slightly joking: The AI overlords might become useful after all (to us - they can do what they want when they are on the clock) by doing a better job of lining up novels for our consumption. They might even customize them on the fly. For example fixing the characters' gender to something they know we will prefer.

For that matter, they might edit some authors. Who greatly need it.

That brings us back to misleading blurbs. They will have to fix that too - which they can, by reading the thing before we do.
I would bet entire dollars you'll hate this source, but here's one: "The Magnificent Progress Achieved By Capitalism: Is the Evidence Incontrovertible?" [0]

Here's a less insane one: "Comparative Economic Systems: Capitalism and Socialism in the 21st Century" [1]

Another one: "Economic Systems and Economic Growth" [2]

It's not really controversial in your field to claim that rewarding effort is a superior model to spreading out value evenly. The question is more of "to what extent" or even "what is achievement."

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/41560252

[1] https://www.bu.edu/eci/files/2021/08/Comparative-Economic-Sy...

[2] https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87244/1/MPRA_paper_87244.pdf
But if one factor correlates more with crime than all the others, it sure looks like that one is the cause.
What really blows me away is stuff like the z1 extreme and a laptop I have that is two generations behind that but has a 130w power envelope pushing 60-100fps AAA titles at 1440p - runs super hot but in a few years we may have handhelds doing something similar which I'm super excited for.
Analysis of usage patterns in on-demand programmes – BBC R&D
Chatmail – replicable, fast and secure chatting infrastructure for all
The Linux 6.6 kernel ships with a new default scheduler[1]. Is the testing methodology in this paper relevant and used to assess the current (EEVDF) scheduler, or is it irrelevant?

[1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/925371/
Recent related discussion on Derek Siver's Tech Independence (including email setup): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37555560
For sure, the benefits cliff is a huge flaw in our social safety net. We should direct massively more resources to create a comprehensive social benefits program that covers a wide range of social strata with both goods and services, either subsidized or at-cost.
> lastly there is no correlation between the work you actually end up doing on the job and the coding interviews.

This is true but irrelevant: leetcode tests are just a first level cutoff to separate people who can code from people who can't. If you can't code you surely can't do the job. If you can, you might be able to do the job.

> they can just say you didn't do the coding interview well enough while what they are really thinking is

They can already say that you're not a good cultural fit or that they found someone else. At least leetcode-style testing is objectively measurable in some respect (the tests work at the end or they don't) and it's easy to record (some platforms record sessions by default)

> also, people go to university and get a CS degree exactly to not have to go through this bullshit

What do you mean? That people get CS degrees to never have to solve abstract coding problems? If anything, they get CS degrees to learn how to solve abstract coding problems efficiently.

> people who manage to graduate in a good CS program can pick up any language or toolkit in a week or two max.

Then no problem - they can pick up leetcode problems in a couple of days!
Just because existing industries are a certain way doesn't mean they have to stay that way forever - if we thought that way then everything would stagnate. Disruptive changes _can_ be good.
This theory only works if you narrowly construe crime to exclude large-scale white collar crimes like attempting to overthrow the government, poisoning the whole nation with addictive painkillers, dodging taxes, etc. It's pretty clear that on a crime-weighted basis the root cause of virtually all crimes is being born rich.
https://leaderboardhq.com. My family needed a simple scorekeeper that included the ability to score individual rounds within a set and track set winners.
Heh yeah thats fair.
hope you can sleep at night
My point was kinda that it should extend to other industries, not just programmers. Compassion for others.
Sure, but I was addressing the issue of why "hallucinations" occur in the first place, and how to fix them.

Having a human in the loop does seem pretty much required at the moment, but it doesn't help when asking the AI for the answer to something you don't know, and therefore not being able to realize that the confident answer was hallucinated and wrong. Of course multiple-answer quizzes are easier to get right by process of elimination, so the human might sometimes be able to say "THAT can't be right" and catch SOME of the hallucinations.
No "of course" about it. Nuclear is struggling to find any reasonable use case. Nuclear and renewables not complementary; you can't economically back up renewables with nuclear.
I don't think the depth of this comment chain has anything to do with the UX design. The words on that warning are unequivocally interpretable as "the data will not be deleted."

At the end of the day, it doesn't even matter if hidden in the terms of service or somewhere if it is made clear that the data will be deleted. It doesn't even matter if it is clear to @andrewmutz and @garblegarble that the data will be deleted[0]. What matters is if not thinking the data would be deleted is a reasonable interpretation. Full stop. It also matters that when explicit communication (unequivocally interpreted as slated for deletion) that the user was given 7 days, which was not even enough time, especially considering Google's egress rates.

There's a lot of this on HN lately and I'm not sure why. Communication is fuzzy people, I'm not sure why that's surprising. But when there's disagreement don't ask yourself which is right or wrong, but if a reasonable interpretation was made. Because communication is like an autoencoder: there's what's in your head (input), what you say (lossy compressed intermediate latent), and what is received (decompressed information with imputation). There's too many attempts to defend a believed objective reality which just is absurd (ironically making the view less objective).

And, importantly, RTFA

[0] Obviously these two are reading between the lines. It is not a bad interpretation and we often should practice this, especially to be on the safe side, but it's clear that there is inference, so what's wrong with the comments is their strong assertions that the communication was obvious. One may also make the argument that Techdirt isn't telling the full story or timeline, but that's also a different issue and inferential.
Don't forget sex shops. I road trip quite often and the amount of billboard advertising purchased buy Lion's Den is truly staggering.
I don't have this information. Was told second hand. I updated the title of this post to a question.
It seems like the opposite situation is currently the case. People are getting news (or asking questions about the news) through the chatbot because it doesn't have a paywall, whereas every other news site does.
Deno KV vs. Cloudflare Workers KV, Upstash Redis, AWS DynamoDB, Google Firestore
Same! I even wrote a thing that prints out my latest listens on my website: https://dreamindani.com/iam/
The US has higher salaries than Europe, way higher, so calling it slave labor is rich. Wish people would understand that just because Europe does something doesn’t make it the right way to do things. As far as reality shows, the US system is the most innovative and the European one is definitely not.
I didn’t hear about that one. How can I check the new settings in my Apple account?
It looks like it's becoming apparent that Elon's empire is based on a lot of impossible promises.

Starlink is probably one of them. A perfect 'business' for Musk. You can show something great - high speed internet in remote areas - and then extrapolate that - just think about the whole world etc... Faster than fibre, with V2...

Thing is, this business is probably not economically viable. It can work if not a lot of people use it - but it's maintained afloat by government money. But if 10x customers sign on, bandwidth will completely plummet and it won't be such a great service anymore.

But in the meantime, and it's quite a long time, Elon can continue to extract billions $ of taxpayers money.
They are upstreamed in LLVM and work today, though they are feature incomplete. From what I understand, the main reason you shouldn't use them is that development is stalled because the people who were working on them went to work at Modular.
I think you are swapping cause and effect here.
Sorry, but I call FUD here;

Had a very similar experience with google, except with maybe 20tb rather than 200, and no data loss.

They gave warnings at least a year in advance about the transition to google workspace from google for business or however it was called before. It was quite clear that this transition would eventually be mandatory and that it did not include unlimited space for a flat fee.

I punted on the transition for as long as possible, and when it finally arrived I temporarily added some accounts until I removed the excess data (mainly old backups I did not need anymore).

Nothing in life is unlimited and taking such a promise at face value appears to me as being willfully naive. Relying on such an offer as your main storage is begging for trouble. Expecting this to happen is precisely why I only stored backups there.

You don’t need to be an expert to do the math, consider that just to store the data, without any redundancy and without it being constantly spinning would have retailed at at ~ $4K using the cheapest drives (~25 8tb drives), and would have cost them ~$1/h or ~$700 to constantly run at CA electricity prices (~8W idle per drive). And this before redundancy, backups, bandwidth, etc. This is obviously unsustainable and will eventually end.

Same goes eg for dropbox, who offered “unlimited” storage for their business plan until fairly recently but now have the same limit of 5tb/acct as Google.

Who in their right mind would rely on such an obvious abuse of what was meant by “unlimited” to store the only copy of their life’s work?
Interesting, you inspired me to https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama/issues/1507

I've also had good success instructing arbitrary grammars in the system prompt, though it doesn't work at the logits level, which can be helpful
I think the competition for text to image services is over and open source, stable diffusion won. It doesn't matter how detailed (or whatever counts as "better") corporate text-to-image products get, stable diffusion is good enough which really is good enough. Unlike the corporate offerings, open source txt2img doesn't have random restrictions (no its not just porn at this point) and actually allows for additional scripts/tooling/models. If you're attempting to do anything on a professional level or produce an image with specific details via txt2img, you likely have a workflow with txt2img being only step one.

Why bother using a product from a company that is notorious for failing to commit to most of their services, when you can run something which produces output that is pretty close (and maybe better) and is free to run and change and train?
The success of SpaceX is placing Musk in a position to decide where America's allies have access to the internet and choosing what region of the world can be cut off just through meeting politicians he likes.
I'm not sure there is a need for a distinction here, legally it is considered a recall whether or not it can be resolved with an update.
This is easy to falsify; lesbian parents exist, how do their kids rank? Study after study has found little difference in outcomes.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-sexual-continuum...

Fatherless-ness in those

Various studies have analyzed personality data written by teachers, managers, etc of kids raised by straight parents and kids raised by lesbians. Kids of lesbians self report fewer instances of anxiety to their teachers and other non-parental mentors. Those non-parental mentors register in their teachers notes, or medical notes, similar sentiments; trained professionals see fewer outbursts in kids raises by lesbians.

Personally, will categorize this as “ossified mind parrots memorized social script, film at 11”

What’s most likely is economic instability and too little quality mentorship overall leave people feeling crime is their only option.
SpaceX was profitable last quarter.

https://www.reuters.com/business/elon-musks-spacex-turns-pro...
> If someone is offering free food, and it gives you food poisoning

That's not a suitable analogy for users of Google's free services. A suitable analogy would be, someone is offering free food, but (a) its quality sucks, and (b) they arbitrarily withdraw it from a significant number of people for no good reason. Yes, that's unpleasant, but "well it was free" is a suitable response in that case.

The issue in this particular case, though, is that the journalist was using paid Google services--which is a very different situation.
I'm not buying the argument that everything AI generated is crap, I mean sure there's a lot of that and most definitely even more in the future but I believe that AI + <insert any job title> is a killer combo and that goes for journalists too.
Your counterargument hides a major flaw.

It is true that more traditional offerings have an easier time demonstrating that they should be able to do that. But decades of traditional telecoms failing to hit promised targets demonstrates that they are unlikely to perform as promised.

That said, regulatory capture has let them regularly get away with the argument that you describe. Regulators motivated by politics and corruption have pretended to believe them. Non-incumbents therefore struggle to navigate their higher bar.
I agree, I just think it is funny when you have a large majority of your power coming from renewables or nuclear, you face similar looking problems. You are faced with the choice of artificially lowering a nuclear plants capacity factor by throttling down, or using batteries to keep the capacity factor high.

The price of grid batteries in the future will basically fully determine what power generation technologies we use.