skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia also claims that PG&E pays more per kwh for solar, without storage.

If diablo Canyon is cheaper than the next best alternative, then it obviously makes economic sense to keep it. It doesnt matter how scary the big number is if the alternative is higher
I'm sure they spent loads of time thinking about their website, but I find these webpages that reveal information only when you scroll to them really annoying. I find it such a distraction from trying to digest the content I generally give up, like I just did.
Somewhat related to Getting to Philosophy phenomenon [0].

Interestingly, there are only 3 degrees between Banana slug [1] and Ergodicity [2]. I thought there will be more and Philosophy [3] would be one of them. I was wrong.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Getting_to_Philosoph...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_slug

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodicity

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
This is a happier ending, could have been "he finished the project, it turned out to be bad but now everyone has to use it".
A night at the Vegas Sphere: it's pixels all the way down
The test of time. I just recently finished reading Skunk Works, and in the last few months seen a few references to it here on HN and and on reddit. It was published almost 30 years ago and people still talk about it online? That's an easy signal for quality to go by. Counter example: Freakanomics. It did not pass. Even though everyone was so hyped about it at the time. Too bad we don't have a time traveller hanging around to give recommendations.
Are you asking about the IMGUI paradigm or DearIMGUI the library? In the case of DearIMGUI:
- it does not handle theming (but forks do)
- I don't know what reflow is
- in a way, GPU acceleration is the default. In fact, DearIMGUI doesn't handle anything at all in that regards because it doesn't have to. You are the one responsible for drawing, DearIMGUI just outputs you a vertex buffer that you send to the GPU the way you want to. There are proposed backends but you can totally roll your own. People even have made networked and web backends. I don't know how those work.
I was doing you the favor of ignoring the irrelevant hypothetical. I find "but what if something else entirely that you didn't say?" questions rather annoying. And I believe I was rather clear that the problems I am talking about extend beyond facial recognition, yes.
I don't think they shouldn’t on principle, but they might not need to have them. For example, if there's a limited number of people who are going to work with the tools, and you know that none of them need such features, it could be entirely reasonable not to worry about them.
New York Times Doxxes Source By Publishing Passport Number
We're pursuing grant-funded research at the moment. We have some hunches on some specific fungal genetic functions but they need to be better characterized before we think about commercialization.
Not sure what you were feeling bad about, but it’s also directly from the readme, so OP just saw something cool on GitHub and posted it along with a comment with the project’s own description, which is pretty standard on HN (I think, that’s how I’ve done it at least).
I was already running KDE/Plasma for years by the time Windows 7 came out, so for me Aero's emotional associations are negative. It was the user interface of the janky, annoying side of my computer that I would occasionally boot in college in order to play trendy Windows games with my friends, and eventually abandoned because I hated having to deal with it. I can't help but be a bit repulsed looking at that UI (or the original Aero theme for Windows).

It's funny how those associations can color perception in such an immediate way. The 'pure' aesthetics are harder, if not impossible, to access.
After reading the tutorial at https://vanjs.org/tutorial I was about to open an issue suggesting that they include constants with the SVG and MathML namespace, so that this:

const {circle, path, svg} = van.tagsNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg")
const {math, mi, mn, mo, mrow, msup} = van.tagsNS("http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML")

Could be expressed like this instead:

const {circle, path, svg} = van.tagsNS(van.SVG)
const {math, mi, mn, mo, mrow, msup} = van.tagsNS(van.MathML)

... then I looked at the code at https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/vanjs-org/van/public/van-1.2.7.m... and realized that adding those constants would increase the size from 1729 to 1806 bytes - a 4.45% increase for a feature most people would never use.

This thing is tight!

Just for fun, I ran their minified code through ChatGPT to see if it could deobfuscate it. It did a pretty good job of guessing sensible variable names for things: https://chat.openai.com/share/9dac0b13-7b24-409a-9cc1-494667...
Yeah that just seems like a poor decision on the part of these charger owners. I feel like there’s an opportunity for a company called “EZCharge - we take credit cards”. People will seek it out when looking for a charging station because they know they won’t need to download a BS app.

Or maybe another solution would be like WeChat Pay in China, something that’s so ubiquitous that all stores just have a QR code you scan to pay for anything nowadays. I’m surprised nothing like that has taken off in the US, it’s crazy convenient.
Anytime I see a claim that our 7b models are better than gpt-4 I basically stop reading. If you are going to make that claim, give me several easily digestible examples of this taking place.
As I stated in my other post, when you add more information into the scan the situation changes. Social media adds social network information which carries a lot of other info.

The task of picking a face out of hundreds, matched with the other additional cues social media can add, is radically different than the task of picking a face out of the entire human population. It is the latter that is infeasible.
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

Unfortunately, I too think it will be a bit of an uphill battle for you.

If you haven't already, take a look at Mojo and Julia. Both offer many of the benefits of Fortran, but unlike it, they are seeing growing adoption.
I have mixed feelings about this.

I have a few SiriusXM stations that I rather like. Every year for the past decade - and I have a calendar event set up for it - I call or chat and politely say "I simply can't spend $40 or more each month across my two cars this next year and would like to cancel unless there is a substantially better promotion available." Within 10-15 minutes I've renewed at an acceptable yearly promotional rate that's around a third of that.

This is very unlike what continually happens booking hotels or AirBnBs or rental cars or phone services or cable TV, where you get to the final page and there's just any number of total nonsense fees that radically inflate the price to ludicrous degrees.

Keeping a decent rate on SiriusXM is a 15m/year negotiation, as opposed to resort fees, cleaning fees, service fees other non-disclosed mandatory fees that other businesses spring on you at the last minute with no recourse.

We absolutely need to get rid of junk fees, but SiriusXM are far from the worst.
Iconoclasts love Orion. It makes site building fun again.
Sure, but I think the GP's point is that this doesn't just happen overnight. Let's say the same people who planned out keeping this nuclear plant open another 5 years today said "ok, let's plan out a same-price solar build and get it started".

How long would you expect the planning process to go, buying up the land, permitting, the construction process, connecting it to the grid, testing, and then finally energizing it? A couple years? More? (Also remember that this is California, where people will put up stupid roadblocks even for construction out in the desert, away from anyone's home.)

Now, they absolutely should be doing that in parallel! It's dumb that they aren't. But this nuclear plant is running today, and will continue to provide much-needed electricity, and that'd still be needed if we got this (unfortunately only hypothetical) solar project going right now.
Is this doing anything more than using ChatGPT as a frontend? I thought based on your comment ChatGPT would run all of that, not just call an API that does the actual work.
The largest single shareholder. Musk owns 12.9% of Tesla; the second largest is Vanguard, with 6.9%, followed by various other investment fund companies.
> When what used to cost 1,000 qubits and a complex logic gate architecture sees a tenfold cost reduction, it’s likely you’d prefer to end up with 133-qubit-sized chips – chips that crush problems previously meant for 1,000 qubit machines.

Is it just me (tired, and overworked) or is this poor writing?

edit: Oh man, this article is dreadful, what the heck? Is this ESL or AI or what is going on?

Another example picked at random, that's not even trying to discuss a complex topic:

> It's hard to see where the future of quantum takes us, and it’s hard to say whether it looks exactly like IBM’s roadmap – the same roadmap whose running changes we also discussed here.
Show HN: Send AI-Generated facts about anything to your friends
Accepting this, for the sake of argument: sounds like warnings such as jakelazaroff's are a good thing then, to make sure creators are informed enough to decide.
> Not to mention the amount of data that could be mined from those customers

That was my cynical take on it.
1-bit CPU for 'super low-performance computer' launched – sells out promptly
^ @asplake knows lots about this. He's literally written the book on positive change management: "Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation". If you're at all involved in organizational leadership, do yourself a favor and read his book.
I wouldn't go that far. But "this lacks accessibility" isn't sufficient reason to rule something out, imo. It's better for a piece of software to exist, without accessibility accommodations, than it is for it to not exist at all.
Kids.

I've gained much more focus and I live more in the moment.

I also don't care as much about work things.

Loads of technical debt, unsustainable roadmaps, weird coworkers, bad bosses, who cares?
Startup Breakr raises more capital, pays $3.5M to creators
As the article says, it's nice to have something to latch on to. But the article says that reconditioning doesn't work. What the hell am I supposed to do? I've been working out like crazy for the last year. My strength is up, my total endurance is up, but my stamina almost hasn't moved. I feel winded and oxygen starved only a couple reps later than when I originally started. Am I supposed to just accept that I'm permanently disabled? Anybody here have any experience or reading for me?
> $6B for a mere five years is highway robbery. Installing $4B of solar and $2B of batteries will result in 20-40 years of carbon-free electricity, and far far far more of it.

Because the goal isn't generating arbitrary amounts of carbon-free energy. The goal is displacing fossil fuel use with carbon-free energy. California is already hitting daytime saturation of energy demand for about a month of the year. $2B in batteries isn't actually going very far. The US manages to build battery storage at ~500/KWh. So 2 Billion is only about 4 GWh. The Diablo canyon plant puts out 2.5 GW of electricity, so this is less than 2 hours worth of battery storage relative to the plant its replacing.
Oh I've read that thing many times, it gets linked everywhere...
I… don’t think so? Machiavelli was challenging the zero-sum 14-1500s Catholic Christian thinking that the world was set in stone by God and that providence was beyond humanity’s control. This is what he means by encouraging “ambition” among elites - a conscious act to produce the betterment of the state and those within it. Indeed he hoped virtues would flourish in such an environment - but was not optimistic about the odds.

> Machiavelli would seem to dismiss the possibility that a society can reorient itself towards empathy, charity, and equality without imploding.

He’d dismiss a state founded on ideals, yes, but he’s in favor of human progress, even if he’s pessimistic about what that yields. Remember in his era to be ambitious and want to change things was to go against God.

It’s easy to dislike Machiavelli as he’s cynical and amoral but he’s a modern thinker in many ways.
Is there a method to set these flags for all Electron apps on Linux?
>re: doing well for one's offspring - Consolidation of wealth and generational wealth are concepts worthy of debate. I don't think they're an unalloyed good, nor do I think I'm alone in that thinking.

That wasn't the question. The question was whether or not the ability to maintain control of an author's work for a period of time after their death would or would not be a motivating reason for them to obtain a copyright. It obviously is, how could you dispute that?
I wouldn't call 8.5% insignificant. It's certainly not a majority, or even a plurality, but "insignificant" is surely downplaying its importance.

And if we shut down Diablo Canyon today, what do you think would replace that 8.5% in the years before a replacement solar+battery field could come online? Probably gonna be more natural gas.
So what? For high-power charging, DC is better anyways. For low-power charging, having extra phases is useless.
I feel like comments like this always come up. Basically reducing it to, why not just become Manhattan?

They want a solution for today, not decades from today which is what urban planning would take. But also they likely want the neighborhood they built/moved to. They don’t want to live in a super dense mixed use plaza. They also want solutions that the plethora of communities like theirs can replicate. They just want a little upgrade to their bucolic life. They don’t want to hit the reset button. It seems way more reasonable to upgrade than try to reinvent it.
I think what you are looking at is how the program makes use of functional idioms. And it's simple enough that a functional form isn't wildly different from imperative. But the for/fold ...max construction is higher-level than regular imperative already.

If I missed your point, please elaborate?
> Wahoo! I mean it'd be nice if we could start not building nuclear reactors on fault lines, but I think this is a good start.

It'll be okay, since when the big one hits and CA falls into the ocean, it'll just take the plant with it. So the rest of us will be just fine.
Frequentist analysis is exactly the wrong approach here, for the same reason that one can't defend a crime by pointing to a much greater number of legal acts.
Citation required. You cannot replace Diablo Canyon with $6B of solar and batteries.

Installing your proposed $4B of solar will get you 4GW at peak, which will produce about 5840 GWh per year due to variations in sunlight over the days and seasons. Diablo Canyon produces 18,000 GWh per year. Replacing Diablo Canyon with solar will cost $12B plus batteries, maintenance, and operations staff.

Figures/Sources:

- $1m buys 1MW of solar panels that provides 1,460 MWh per year. https://coldwellsolar.com/commercial-solar-blog/how-much-inv...

- Diablo Canyon produces 18,000 GWh per year. https://diablocanyonpanel.org/history-of-dcpp/
>And yeah, I’m using the word compliance in the straightforward, obvious way. If that’s a problem for you, I don’t think this discussion is ever going to be useful.

I'm a patent litigator - nobody uses the word compliance in this field. It's not me that is making this conversation difficult. It's your apparent ignorance and obtuseness.

> Think about it. If legislation can make FRAND mandatory, it can also make the penalties sufficiently unfavourable to large corporations

Do you even know what FRAND stands for? Is this a joke?

>Perhaps, and I’m just spitballing here, back pay for non-compliance could have a defined multiplier. Then there could be an additional multiplier for non-compliance after the date a complaint is made by the patent holder. And a further additional multiplier for non-compliance if the corporation has revenues over $100 million annually.

Compliance WITH WHAT???

>The key point is that the system can be built in such a way that a patent holder doesn’t need a team of lawyers with clever tricks to be entitled to favourable outcomes.

Patentees don't need clever tricks, they just need to prove infringement. That's the only hard part. You skip past that entirely. I think that's what you mean by compliance, but you don't seem to have any idea how any of this actually works. Which is bizarre considering you are offering recommendations on how to improve something that you do not understand.
Is there a reason they compare bundle sizes with for example jquery when every framework ends up importing jquery anyways, since animations are a headache and are often readily available already with jquery?
That doesn't make sense. Especially not at the price point we are talking.
The money is better spent elsewhere.

Just look at this and draw your own conclusions:

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
Yea, half of this seems like problems we've already solved for APIs generally, the other half is LLM specific, like prompt management, log/mon, response quality in prod, real time feedback

It seems like tools from our current ops ought to work just fine for the non-LLM uniqueness. At the same time, Datadog is pretty popular for a managed experience, and the LLM services as proxies kind of fit that model

This project looks great and aligns with my thinking
Was it a loss? I don't think so. It was either ineffective, stale or a massive privacy issue. We're better off with local caches.
How likely would civilizational collapse cause technology to stagnate?
Suez Canal Obstruction in 2021
Is $1/W purchase or installed cost? Installation usually inflates the cost 3x.
This is quite the "take". But it's also directly contradicted by how Tesla designed the Cybertruck: with thick stainless steel body panels that weigh a ton compared to typical body panels used in cars. This was justified/marketed with the claim that these are bullet-proof - something that is far less relevant to the average driver than hitting a pothole or a curb.

So is the Cybertruck the exception to Tesla's design philosophy for some reason?
There is no way to communicate when you are charged up that way, maybe via an SMS that you add with your phone number. Also, you have to communicate your charging preference somehow. It’s not like pumping gas, you rarely want it to stop at 100%, although the charging standard might at least be able to control that from the car.
That's not a solution. You have to guard against all image URLs, because every domain and path can steganographically encode bits of information. 'foo.com/image/1.jpg' vs 'fo.com/img/2.jpg' just leaked several bytes of information while each URL looks completely harmless in isolation. A byte here and a byte there, and pretty soon you have their name or CC or address or tokens or...
Car companies do pay for out-of warranty repairs for recalls. They sometimes pay for other fixes as well, though for these other fixes it's usually because the company fears a severe loss of reputation or an expensive class-action lawsuit.

In fact, if a part is flawed and it could have a detrimental effect on vehicle safety, the car company would open itself to some serious legal consequences for not reporting/issuing a recall and instead keeping it quiet.
As an example, asking questions like "show me which genes from my genome are related to growth regulation" requires an API call to give ChatGPT a list of annotated genes from the genome we're studying so it can then filter them into growth regulation related genes. Leveraging ChatGPT's extensive knowledge of genes lets us find new insights into our newly assembled genomes much faster.
I remember the garage owner telling my parents they should only half fill the tank to reduce the weight being driven around.
The "lack of state" refers to being immediate mode rather than retained mode.
Touché. I just updated my comment :-)
The goal is to not have to trust the node operators, but to have as much diversity as possible. They can only deanonymize you if all three nodes in one cascade collude.

Running a non-exit node carries very little to no risk.
Interesting Stuff. OpenBB has also implemented an LLM/AI-based solution using GPT to query stock/trading data in QnA format. I want to do something similar with an e-commerce website using RDBMS(MySQL/pgSQL). Does anyone know any such solution?

Like, if I am running a t-shirt store, my users can query like: "Do you have a round neck t-shirt in red color in XL size" and it returns all relevant results
> Sure, but I think the GP's point is that this doesn't just happen overnight.

The article says Diablo Canyon generates 2,250 megawatts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_California says "The Solar Energy Industries Association predicts that California will increase its solar capacity by over 27,000 MW over the next five years".

According to the chart titled "California Solar PV Capacity by Year", they added two Diablo Canyons worth (4,779 MW) of PV capacity last year alone.
You and I both know what these conventionally mean, and the overwhelming bulk of American adults are of sound mind and body, and you know that, too.
I would maybe place them further than bullshit rental fees in the "reasonable and honest" direction on the spectrum, but that doesn't mean they are across the midpoint.
this is awesome. also nice to know i'm not the only one who talks to llms like this

> that was a bad visualization...
I've written some Rust. This isn't by far the first language that aims to replace C. I haven't touched Rust for a while, and now decided that I want to get into Spark (that's Ada's thing). And going through the process of learning a new language that's somewhere close to C, for... I don't know exactly which time now, I realized that:

The unsafe aspects of C is what you pay for comfort. Sometimes, when you write a program you simply don't know what type it's going to be, and the details of that type aren't important right now. You just need the convenience of casting everything to everything or passing "void *" around just to get things done.

Similar to Rust's lifetimes Ada has what it calls "access checks". Roughly, it's a static check that your pointers are always valid. Similar to Rust's lifetimes it's a huge pain to deal with. Sometimes you'd sit in front of your monitor and be like "this code is correct! why don't you just do what I'm asking you to do and let it fail at runtime so I can tell where the problem is?" And then you start to weasel around. You don't spend time actually working on the problem you need to solve, you just typedef this, expand the definition of that, try making something a constant, a variable, try not passing some piece of data -- all kinds of manipulations just to make the checker happy.

All while in C you can just tell it to shut up and move onto the next goal. It's more natural to deal with problems when your code actually fails.

So, in the aftermath: do I like C programs? -- Absolutely no. They are unsafe and will potentially do all sorts of bad things. But do I like writing in a safer language? -- No... not really.

I wish there was a way for humans to write in C and then some magical compiler would read that code, understand what the human actually wanted and produced an Ada or Rust program from it. While there isn't such a thing, maybe the next best thing is to write first in C, and then rewrite it in a safer language?
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