skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's little reason to build massive batteries at one spot, unless you are repurposing an only transmission line.

Instead, a good chunk of grid storage is getting deployed right at the generation site of solar (and some wind), which allows more efficient use of that transmission line.

Instead, we should be looking for large amounts of total install. However, this still won't happen much until it's actually needed by the grid, which starts to happen at much higher amounts of renewable generation than most states are using.

The tech is there, it's being deployed at massive scale where needed, and it's dropping in cost as fast or faster than predicted.
I remember when SimCity 2013 launched and caused a massive controversy because it required a constant online connection in order to play the game. The Xbox One also had to do calls home every few days to allow you to play games you purchased before Microsoft backtracked when it caused bad PR for them.

It only took a decade but now this stuff is just common practice and nobody cares about paying $100 for digital purchases that will be ripped away from them when some server is shut down in a few years.

Honestly, physical games are kind of a bust at this point too. Many games are shipped with incomplete versions of the game on the disc, and you're required to download some of, if not majority of the game when you insert it. Hell, some games are sold in physical cases but you open them up and instead of getting a disc/cartridge you get a piece of paper with a download code.
Remote code execution vulns are still routinely discovered, for example: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-4199...
Chicago is mostly on nuclear and the reactor is quite close to the city, just over the Indiana border.
And why is that shocking?! So using technology now is taboo? Ok then don’t print the coloring book and draw it by hands, don’t print cartoons decorations and learn how to draw and then draw it yourself.. list goes on, technology been and will always be an assistant tool in every day life.
Interesting, but:

1) it's his company, so did anyone doubt that he could have it work differently if he wanted? only interesting thing would be that you can hack your own Tesla to work this way, but it's not like this would be very common.

2) the stored data is interesting, but probably not as alarming as what your smartphone company has available

I'm not saying it's not interesting, I'm just saying it's not as interesting as lots of other stuff about both Tesla and lots of other tech companies, that we already knew.
I bet it likes salt & vinegar microchips
Wouldn't it be easier just to write a utcnow() function of your own in a support module and do a find-and-replace to use that?
I think your notions are just too basic. It's a bit like in school when the teacher says "you should write all your sentences as subject + verb + complement". It is good at school, to teach students the basics and to put boundaries of the studied regions (you don't want to have students using more complex notions by accident and having to cover everything in lesson one), but as soon as you begin to be a professional writer, you realise it is better to ignore this rule.

I know the notion of measurement that you try to explain, I've studied it when I was an undergraduate students. Since then, I have passed beyond this notion and use something better. It's not a matter of "you don't understand", it's rather a matter of "you understand too well and see the limits of this notion and that it's not useful for you anymore".

The book you share seems to confirm that: it is for undergraduates. Things get more complicated with real world practice, and the basic rules used to forge the understanding needs to be left behind. For undergraduate students, they are going to do basic lab experiment with a ruler and a chronometer, and the goal is just to practice, not to answer to a real unknown situation. In real life, no one needs to measure things as trivial as what they are measuring. When people do that, they realise that the distinction between calculated value and measured value is meaningless and not helpful at all.

Again, as I've said, you just use x +- y and you don't have any problem. What would be the problem of using x +- y that you will not have otherwise (knowing. of course, that you are educated enough to understand very complex notion and that therefore you totally understand and know things as trivial as significant digit already)?
To the guy who said the pull was horrible:

IMO, the most important thing about a pull request is to... actually be productive. I've worked with people in the past who would nit-pick my commit messages wanting me to waste hours of my time trying to use arcane Git commands. Any of which might and probably will clobber my work.

If you're doing Git reviews a good use of resources is to look for security problems, performance issues, and general engineering problems with someone's code, etc.

A BAD use of Git reviews is to spend the time making stylistic comments 'I would have written it like this, it looks much better', being overly pedantic about code formatting, or forcing your OCD on someone for their Git history. The reason people hate code reviews is somehow they're always done by this latter group of person.

If you're forcing people to waste time for silly reasons then you can count that they'll eventually leave your silly company. I know I have. I was once about to work at a company but saw that they literally used a committee of people to review every commit message wherein they would force every engineer to rewrite code for reasons that seemed to make astrology seem like a hard science. Consider not doing that.
You are not disagreeing then.
I read your post several times but still am not sure if I'm reading it correctly. Are you saying the media landscape is more complex than AI can solve?

If so, sure. I wasn't saying that. By "silly IP battles", I meant old guard media companies trying to sue AI out of existence just to defend their IP rather than trying to innovate. Not that different from what we saw with the RIAA and Napster. Somehow the music industry survived and there are more indie artists being discovered all the time.

I don't think this is so much a battle of OpenAI vs NYT but whether copyright law has outlived its usefulness. I think so.

If I misunderstood your reply completely, I apologize.
What about switching display input source?
DoD forgot how to make things for pennies, and the institutional wall[1] against commodity is too high and too thick. It'll take a sizeable and strategic US defeat to overturn the applecart.

Best case, we manage to get a few decent drones for $10m a pop, but we still risk getting shanked by a frickin' mob of Chinese crap, because they don't need to go that far to get into theatre. I dig what Anduril's trying[2] to do with Roadrunner, but it's still too damn expensive - the hard kill mechanism still results in a total loss-of-vehicle.

[1] I.e., quivering mass of overpaid box checkers getting salaried as Analyst IIIs.

[2] There's some whispers, too, that Anduril isn't actually able to operationalize any of their widgets at any sort of scale, but I don't have any inside eyes on this. I DO see, though, that their fab capacity is . . not amazing.
At the moment, coal and probably gas is more expensive than solar, purely due to the turbines and generators.

Nuclear relies on the same subsystems, and it’s unlikely they’ll get significantly cheaper any time soon.

Having said that, I think nuclear could be made cost-competitive with coal and natural gas, at least in theory. Also, it’s unclear that we’ll be able to build a reliable, net carbon negative power grid without a large number of nuclear plants.
If someone says my 92-year-old grandmother's face that she is "successfully aging" she's liable to kick them in the nuts.

She's old. As hell.

The minds of people who spend time writing things like this article are so foreign to me that they are incomprehensible.
The title makes it sound like they're using an angle grinder.
There is no conspiracy, that's the neat part, it's just how the system itself works.

Media survives through advertising. Those who advertise dictate what gets shown and what doesn't, since if something inconvenient for them gets shown, they might not want to advertise there anymore, which means less money. It's the exact same thing that happens online, it's just more evident online than in traditional media.

How come that even before Oct 7 Europe in general sided more with Palestine than with Israel, whereas it's the opposite for the US? Simple, Israel does a whole lot of lobbying in the US, which skews information in their favor. Calling this "brainwashing" is hyperbolic, but there is some truth to it.
It was actually on HN a while back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850591

Glad you found the old blog of mine insightful.
What Uber Eats et al have done is normalize shitty cold takeout delivered unreliably. So now that the bar has been reset, Pizza Hut is trying to take advantage of reduced expectations.
> not automatically true

It very obviously is. Solar power (and wind) are constrained by the planet’s insolation. Even assuming perfect efficiency, we start approaching diminishing returns based on power input within a century.

Now assume imperfect efficiency and resource constraints, and you see that cliff approach within decades. This is fine. It’s the law of diminishing marginal returns. It’s why a diversity of sources almost always beats monosourcing.
TIL PHP uses dynasm, here I thought only LuaJIT did. Cool!
Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager
Do slime mold have a language? Slime mold can learn and adapt to environments, so it is intelligent and can do rudimentary reasoning, but I doubt it communicates that information to other slime molds.

It is a very different kind of life form though so many things that applies to other complex being doesn't apply to them. Being a large single cell means that they learn by changing its proteins and other internals, very hard for us humans to reason about and understand since it is so alien compared to just having nerve cells with physical connections.
I gave my old tv away and bought a used 1080p projector, and have an AppleTV hooked up to it. When I turn the projector off, it all goes away/clears the room. The center point of my living room then became the coffee table, and I rearranged seating around that.

It feels so modern, and I love it.

As for content itself, ads and subscribing to multiple services aren’t necessary. You can get almost any title you’re looking for through your local library or inter-library loan. Curation is usually better than what you see on Netflix or any other streaming service.
No different from the usual rewrite in Zig and Rust articles on HN, and more industry relevant.
https://archive.is/eaIVQ
No need to imagine, because it is. At least if you believe electricity market prices reflect reality.
> If we covered an area 10% the size of Arizona in solar panels

And what are the various Friends of Rare Bugs and Small Furry Animals groups doing in the meantime?

I joke, but even I would balk at the environmental impact of that. Certainly it's going to be greater than any equivalent nuclear installation.

> Of which 0.72% is U-235

Fortunately we're not limited to U-235. With breeder reactors, there's enough nuclear fuel to run human civilization for billions-with-a-b of years.
So now what? Now that you realize that the majority of people are not high performers, which is totally fine by the way, what are you gonna do? No amount of neglect, shame, coercion or otherwise is going to change that. People aren’t dumb (I mean some are) they are reasonably hopeless. And that’s perfectly OK, so what are you gonna do about that? I hear lots of people say we need fewer people or those people just didn’t need to not have kids. OK who? I’m not sure how you make this claim without landing at some kind of insane system which rank values people.

In fact, there is a singular solution, and only one solution. A healthy community that cares about people individually and finding the right place for them in society as their full selves.

There are more than enough people on this planet for us to all take care of each other. The fact that our resources are put primarily towards self gratification is an indictment of the structures that have been created, not a reflection of some foundational natural order.
I've never heard of this domain before, so I shouldn't click on it because vulnerabilities in the browser are still routinely discovered.

Sorry for the sarcasm, but if you trust clicking on links in a browser, QR codes should be fine as well.
Note that this article isn't saying that EV sales are declining, but that the rate of increase in EV sales is declining.

Most people who buy new vehicles are price-constrained, and buy vehicles to fit their specific needs. We need a wider range of EVs, and cheaper.
> the notion that our intelligence potential has remained static for at least 50k years and we hadn’t figured out how to cooperate and plant seeds until relatively recently is difficult to swallow.

I wonder the same things, but we can see the fact that development varies greatly among humans with the same intelligence potential. Today there are isolated societies with neolithic technology, and they have the same brains that people commenting on HN have.

Also, there are other examples. The alphabet was invented once, in Greece around 700 years ago. How could nobody else think of it? (One explanation comes from experiencing contemporary technological development - many things are obvious in hindsight.)
My code was AGPL.
OpenAI can go to h..l

(Footnote: I like your poem. It conveys the concept much better than anywhere I'd ever seen before)
> You said it stops being cheap - does it? Compared to alternatives?

“As cheap.” Solar will keep getting cheaper until saturation, then overshoot while it gets a bit more expensive. The equilibrium will shift from time to time as technology advances. But there are fundamental limits, and power demand is only going to grow.
Wow, happy to find another QR code enthusiast here! They simplify a lot of things, indeed.

Great use case! I did a tool inventory management use case once, with the underlying platform [1].

It starts with generating QR codes for sticker papers [2], from the app. Those never expire and are all different (v4 UUID). You can then assign a QR to any new item, then scan it for registration in the app, specifying room, drawer, etc. (and gps, picture, etc. if needed).

You can browse tools per room, drawer, etc., and scan anytime to record an update. Each tool gets a history trail.

You can even make data-entry easier by making special QR codes for drawers; scanning them fills some form fields with presets, so you don't have to manually select stuff and make mistakes.

I mostly see use-cases where other people scan a QR you made, but there are use cases where the QR codes are only ever scanned by you and your staff.

[1] https://admin.trak.codes/
[2] https://share.darkaa.com/!9DXEQQTg2z/trak-qr-codes-demo-hn.p...
> It doesn't benefit society

Bold (and wrong) claim
And if the Eiffel Tower is closed for the Olympics then the staff won't be able to strike during that time!

Sarcastic comment, I admit, but for those who know the French CGT Union (the union behind this strike) this may sadly be closer to the truth that one might think... This is their level.
> Can I use PyTorch or JAX comfortably in Julia?

No. And it doesn't seem like that will become possible any time soon.
I think it’s also the design philosophy. JuMP and ForwardDiff are great success stories and are packages very light on dependencies. I like those.

The DiffEq library seems to pull you towards the SciML ecosystem and that might not be agreeable to everyone.

For instance a known Julia project that simulates diff equations seems to have implemented their own solver

https://github.com/CliMA/Oceananigans.jl
None of the standard mappers used in Game Boy/Game Boy Color games provide 32K switchable banks. They all provide a fixed 16K bank at the beginning, and a switchable 16K bank afterwards. If there are 8 bits of bank selection, the maximum cartridge size becomes 4MB, but some mappers allow more than 8 bits to select a bank.

One of the common mappers even enforces that you may not pick bank 0 for the switchable bank, picking 1 instead.

Mappers found in bootleg multicarts do allow you to change the base address and size of the game, which will move the fixed bank.
but is it targeted?
Verbatim usage of content is copyright infringement obviously but speaking English is not. Learning from content is not copyright infringement either. I don't know if NYT has a clause for this type of usage of their content but still I don't think it would be covered by copyright the way I understand it

As long as an LLM rephrases what it learned and not regurgitate verbatim text, it should be fine but we'll see what the judge says
Link won’t open without registering a google account.
Perses is also the name of this Prometheus dataviz project: https://github.com/perses/perses

Funny that the God of Destruction is such a hot name lately
Trust me when I say randos aren’t dropping modern 0days on restaurant menus. Not when a novel attack can fetch millions through brokers.
I think Ishmael Reed would like a word with GP.
Georgia has some of the largest coal plants in the country. The power company (Georgia Power, part of Southern Company) was allowed to pre-bill customers for the costs of the new plant well over a decade in advance. If you lived in Georgia before the new units came online, you paid to have them built but received no benefit from them. Investors in Southern Company received unwarranted protection from the consequences of poor project implementation and cost overruns on the back of the utility's customers.
How to Build a Small Solar Power System
Indeed, my bad for only skimming.
Just so I understand this correctly, this is a tool where, if you provide it a program, it will use reduction/rewrite rules to find a simpler program that exhibits some given behavior?

In practice, how is this applied? Do compiler developers essentially use something similar to quick check to generate breaking programs and then use this to reduce those programs to a minimal form, or am I missing something else altogether?
The entire point was that we do not understand it? That much of how the brain work is "magic" atm.

It's our field that are the alchemist mystics, rambling about AGI/Philosopher's Stone in ever increasingly unhinged ways, while stirring our ML-pots that we have never even tried to prove have a chance to be anymore successful than the alchemists.
> Seems to me the people saying solar and battery only future do not live in areas that can be cloudy for multiple weeks.

Or we've researched it and understand the basics of solar technology.

In sunny California solar has a capacity factor of around 25%. In Germany, which is prone to many cloudy days this drops to around 10%. So yes cloudy days have an impact but do not entirely eliminate solar from contention and certainly don't require enough battery capacity to last all winter.

In terms of capital costs solar is around $1 per watt while nuclear is around $10. Combined cycle gas plants are roughly the same as solar. It takes a bit more than a year to build a solar farm, while a new nuclear plant you're looking at a decade. ROI on solar is on the scale of 1 to 2 years. Nuclear will be shockingly lucky to have even started construction in that period.

When we look at the levelized, unsubsidized cost of energy (https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april...) we get a range of $24 to $96 per MWh for utility scale solar, while nuclear is $141 to $221 and combined cycle gas plants at $39 to $101.

And the trend lines strongly favor solar + storage.

Is it any wonder investors are reluctant to fund nuclear projects? For the same amount financed I can build 10x the capacity, have half the marginal cost of production, and see nothing but upside in 2 years.

Places like Singapore that lack land suitable for utility scale solar will need to look to other solutions including nuclear. For the rest of us the decision is not difficult.

Seems to me you are unaware of basic facts of the matter while you make naive criticisms of solar investment due to a personal affinity for nuclear technology.
The computers need to be able to reach each other, yes. You should be able to do that by adding a route overriding the VPN route (just like how any VPN client has to prevent the traffic to the VPN server from going through the tunnel).
Maybe he conflates discovery with accident. Materials science searches chemical space and makes discoveries. There is no accident in that kind of discovery?
> Nuclear as it exists today is not cost competitive.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this notion entirely depends upon your definition of costs, and the definition of what is competitive. It's vastly more costly to society to have unreliable power (e.g., blackouts, brownouts, or weeks on end of lowered usage restrictions) than it is to have slightly more expensive electricity.

There is no rich country in the world with expensive energy.
> why do you believe that?

Why do I believe what exactly?

That this is what I was taught? The point I was raising was now there's an n=2. chiming in. I've learned to trust my childhood memories down to about age 6. I've been proven right close to 100% of the time I've had people challenging those memories. And I remember being taught the whole Fertile Crescent story. I could even tell you the teachers' names that taught it to me over the years, and have distinct memories of their classrooms.

That it makes sense that grade school teachers can be behind the times?

If that's what you mean it's because almost everyone is behind the times. And I don't expect a grade school teacher to be an expert in their "field". We're talking about an age range where teachers can even be somewhat fungible between subjects.

Further, anecdotal evidence from my life (including both as a child and as an adult) corroborates this.

The story revolving around the Levant *was* the generally accepted truth at the time among the larger population. It makes sense that this is what was being taught to grade schoolers.
There is no correct terminology. My life became a lot easier when I realized that language changes meaning not just across different languages, but words take on subtly or significantly different meanings based on culture and dialect.

A lot of red-blue state misunderstandings are based on that, as are ones across US racial subgroups. Ditto for lawyer-engineer conversations.

"Theft" has pretty different meanings depending on whom you're speaking to. Legal jargon here is quite different from business, which can be quite different from popular. That's okay!
I want to make clear that I am not arguing against solar. My belief is that nuclear is an important piece of a much larger puzzle. Wind is not reliable, and for solar to match the figures you provided, we would need to figure out storage, so lets diversify our portfolio :)
Good point. I'd hope that there are other sources of iodine than salt in regions that have higher iodine content -- after all, salt was just the vehicle chosen for the supplement. But I can also see what you say about prepared foods.
For what it’s worth, tipping is one of the most popular pieces of advice on r/ChatGPT to improve prompts. It’s ridiculous but seems to work for a lot of people.
Thanks for catching that. I probably missed it when migrating SSGs last month. I'll get a fix up this evening