skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 12 weeks almost certainly doesn't refer to what you think it refers to.

It appears to be a somewhat arbitrary notion of how long would it take the full storage to be completely depleted, if it was being partly offset by continuing renewable generation over that time.

This accounts for the most initially bizarre claim of the paper, that introducing bioenergy into the system (i.e. storage of natural gas from non-fossil sources) would increase this 12 week period to a full year:

> Interestingly, the decrease in renewable overcapacity in parallel to the increase in overall storage volume means that the period when storage is fully used, that is, the period that defines storage requirements, is prolonged to more than 1 year (10 October 1995 to 3 February 1997).

But obviously a longer period is actually better by this weird metric.

They give some more reasonable numbers of 12 days of energy storage elsewhere, which corresponds with figures given in models like this one, which suggest 13 days of power-to-X fuel would be a low cost optimum for Germany:

https://www.wartsila.com/energy/towards-100-renewable-energy...

i.e. the stored gas would if burned and used exclusively for electricity production would last 13 days as it equals 4% of the total electricity production. Of course, it wouldn't be used in that manner, but in concert with other energy sources, leading to the inflated number you quote from the paper.

And of course, an electricity system that burned 4% fossil gas would hardly be the end of the world. I personally would rather see nations do that and pay a carbon fee to let poorer nations achieve their low hanging goals than obsess about the last 4% in an unhealthy and (often seemingly intentionally) conuterproductive manner.
That's an interesting idea. Until AIs will get access to keyboard drivers to type their dogshit.
Have you built a $1 Trillion company? No.

Has your company pioneered some great open source software (Kubernetes, Go, React, PyTorch, Cassandra? No.

How do you even know that your method is correct, scalable? Answer is you don't know.

It's mind-boggling that people who hire for software engineers who write CRUD apps used by 20 people, think they know how to hire for firms that serve 4 Billion+ users.
Floating point 101. And it almost never matters.
Ah yes, that’s surely what I am conflating!

I didn’t think the phantom stack idea was that great (but it was just an idea worthy of a working paper, so no big deal).

Also I really don’t think spaghetti stacks were so great in retrospect, especially when implemented on modern architectures that lack the lightweight stack support of the PDP-10 which probably inspired the design.
I am often confused by people who have loads of money, live in big houses, and drive nice cars who are not willing to pay a few bucks a month for a private email inbox and other services. I assume they are trapped or too lazy to buy a domain and make the necessary changes. What other reasons could they have?
>Pumped hydro is really great at scale

What's your citation on this? I've spoken to a few civil engineers on this topic and they just laugh and say people that promoting pumped hydro haven't done the math and do not realize the size/scale of the mechanisms that they are proposing, and that they are thus not at all feasible.

I don't think you can just say "pumped hydro is really great at scale" sans evidence.
Those nice realistic people ready to bend over any master peeing on them and saying its gold, how nice would have been monarchies for those sweet realistic people

Id call “naive” and “worthless for mankind”

Who knows how many were calling the founding fathers naives
This is the same in any language then.
Inaccurate finger counts are a staple of manmade children's material as well!
CrystalChat – 7B model from LLM360 beating Mistral
Looks like the model is slightly worse on language ability but better on coding ability. This might be a good model for trying agents.
It's irrational but I believe you are right. See this comment for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31356857
Get to a doctor!
the problem is that data tends to become less useful/relevant over time as opposed to iron that is still iron and fulfills the same purpose
IRC was commercialized very successfully. It’s called Slack and Discord.
An example on the top page shows that this is an operation that should be written as a program. Therefore, this is not markup. Syntax that is not markup will not be the HTML specification.

> <button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML">
This must have been what it was like watching General Electric go from 'maker of all the things' to 'very financially unsound derivatives trader'
> Most people doing tech hiring are idiots.

Didn't Guido van Rossum once get rejected for a Python job for having insufficient experience?

When the hiring team demands X+5 years of experience for a technology that only came out X years ago, it's no surprise when the applicants start faking experience.
It’s the “we will make this so easy for you that you never want to switch” moat. Definitely akin to Slack, which also has the integration glue to keep you on their platform. Even though there are many Slack alternatives now that are really great, most companies on Slack will opt to stay there rather than invest in migrating.
From an "interfacing with the OS" point of view, a game engine interacts differently. Most desktop apps ask the OS "please render this text here, with this font" and the OS takes care of that. A game engine just asks the OS "here is a canvas I have drawn, please just put these pixels on the screen". The OS doesn't know that a chunk of pixels is text, so you can't select it, copy and paste it, or screen reader it by default.

This is the same difference between an system like Flutter and native App toolkits (I'm going to talk about Flutter because I know more about it). It has massive advantages on portability - Flutter rendering is very predictable on different phones because the only thing that can vary is screen size. The subtle variations between OS versions and phone manufacturer UI skins don't screw things up.

There are downsides: You need to implement all the common stuff that you'd normally get for free. This includes native look and feel - Flutter has to have all the Android and Apple widgets. It also includes text rendering accessibility, etc. etc.
"Men don't do stuff at home which is evidenced by marriage rates and fertility declining."

That's a massive leap to tie marriage rates and fertility rates to some unsupported claim that men do nothing. I suppose all the single men out there are starving and living in filth. This is a very damaging stereotype that has nothing to really do with declining marriage and fertility rates. Many other factors are at play.
My personal guess is that they don't put it in training data, BUT they still have human read what you send, to see 1. what are the innovative uses that they can try to copy/integrate; 2. optimize (both in score and throughput) for their consumer's usage.
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That's a different why. That a:

Why are people eating so many calories?

Why aren't people getting off the sofa and moving?

The actual "mechanic" of weight gain are well known. That's not up for debate. But for some reason, it is. And the gains keep on coming.
Hit me up so we can work on it :)
Think of it like the difference between building a bicycle by taking existing parts and assembling them, vs just starting with raw materials and fashining a bicycle. If you use the pre-built seat that has a spring (suspension) on it, then you get that "for free." If you're assembling from scratch, you either have to build a spring (not very easy) or go without one. For many bikes, it's going to be without and for the ones that do it, odds that the spring will be as good as or better are low.

With a game engine the OS is basially handing you a blank canvas and telling you to draw what you want. With a GUI toolkit like GTK or Qt, the "OS" is handing you a bunch of pre-made parts and you get to arrange them on the page how you like.

If you're writing a game, the former is obviously better. If you're writing a standard application, the latter is usually better. By "better" I mean higher quality output, and less work to construct.
Boeing 737 MAX Incident a By-Product of Its Financial Mindset
Github's feature is under private beta right now. I feel that it will be impactful.

UI components can be generated as per your UI guidelines, same for tests. Hoping for good things
Sublime Text and Blender (and I guess the majority of CAD applications) creates their own UI engine. That would be better than the current state of electron apps, but most UI engines I encounter have support for custom elements. The issue is more wanting access to lots of cheap developer resources than branding.
Used to have a game on a portable device that wasn't networked. Had to have a code to authenticate software downloaded from your desktop machine.

Folks failed to put in the right code, routinely. Biggest trouble ticket frequency, Code doesn't work!

So we issued upper-case only code, capitalized whatever they put in. Removed all blanks. Tried multiple matches, swapping '1' and 'l' and so on until something worked.

Trouble ticket dropped to nearly zero.

The code didn't really matter to us. Just something the platform needed to work. So we were happy to be generous.
I rather like the model of "encyclopedia as a collection of viewpoints" rather than "arbiter of truthiness", personally. Wikipedia tries (though sometimes fails) to show the controversies in a field.

Many of the studies in that list explicitly mention omissions, actually.

Nobody claims that Wikipedia is without bias or perfectly comprehensive, just that on average it doesn't seem to be much better or worse than Britannica and similar.

That's been my personal experience too, as someone who grew up with Britannica, World Book, Encarta, and later Wikipedia. Britannica was written in heavier prose, but I don't remember any of them to be especially better than any other, except that Wikipedia had a lot more coverage of topics that would've never made it into a print encyclopedia.

But anyway, I understand your point, even if I haven't experienced it myself. I thought they stopped publishing Britannica. If it's still around, I'll have to check out a copy the next time I'm in a library (while those themselves still exist, lol).

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Edit: It looks like the print version stopped in 2010, 14 years ago? A lot has changed since then.

They still have an online version though. Is that what you're referring to, or do you think even the 14 year old print version is better than Wikipedia?
I mean let's look at all the game menu screens in existence today.

For what they are most of these screens are far better than HTML counterparts. UI is snappier and more special effects.

Game UIs off the menu have always been better than web pages too. Look at say baldurs gate 3. I don't think such a UI is easily pulled off in web. Possible but awkward to build.
What does Apple's Vision Pro use to make it "transparent" when people are nearby?
They do, but compatibility isn't perfect and fixing anything requires huge reverse engineering knowledge or prior knowledge.

See:

"... PSD is not a good format. PSD is not even a bad format. Calling it such would be an insult to other bad formats...

If there are two different ways of doing something, PSD will do both, in different places. It will then make up three more ways no sane human would think of, and do those. PSD makes inconsistency an art form...

Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this, I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing them a copy of some document or other, probably signed in blood. I can only imagine that they make this process so difficult because they are intensely ashamed of having created this abomination..."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575122

https://layervault.tumblr.com/post/56891876898/psdrb

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129237
ChatGPT will solve all API problems.. except yours
... or to just update to a newer version of Firefox.
Parliament is completely sovereign. It can overturn laws, never mind decisions based on interpreting laws. UK parliament has even made lots of ex post facto laws over the centuries. It's one of the fundamental disagreements, along with taxes, that led to the foundation of the United States.

Here's one example: Alan Turing was convicted of "gross indecency" (having gay sex) and ultimately took his life rather than live with the chemical castration ordered by the courts. It took a lot of convincing, but in 2017 Parliament ultimately passed a law pardoning all men convicted of that former crime. It doesn't matter how correctly the court interpreted the law in 1952, it was fundamentally a miscarriage of justice that we recognise in the present day.

It has already been determined by other court cases that many of the court cases that convicted SPMs were unsound, particularly because the court took the Post Office's word for it that their software worked correctly, and we know it did not. Rather than wait years to thoroughly re-examine every case on its merits, which would in itself deny justice to anyone who dies of old age in the process, we should move forward by annulling all of the Post Office's cases.
It is required by law because this is part of the language. So not to break the language. It is in most slavic countries. I think Russia is the biggest one.
Female surname - ova/ska, male - ov/ski.
Check in google translate "One car and one truck" - the word one is gendered.
It is normal way of speech - don't confuse this with north korea where you have a list of few names to choose from.
I think its purpose was to provide fresh blood to the John Birch Society. It seems to be working remarkably well, in that respect.
There's a lot of money to be made in sunset industries, where you acquire cheap and keep it barely running for those still paying.
It isn't connected to the internet.

Also how does the internet connected torque wrench know what bolt it is being used on? If you have different bolts, it wouldn't know. If you have only a single bolt, you could just use a single setting.
Thanks! Yeah I am working on some ideas to get more users.
Strong agree on all points. The gains from bumping e.g. a C++ version are much higher.
But all that makes close to zero difference in the vast majority of cases. This is feel-good stuff or green-washing.

Maybe cut the number of children you were planning to have, move to actual low carbon electricity (i.e. no offsets), etc. stuff like that. Orders of magnitude more impact than anything you can do using your "talents" in the overwhelming majority of cases.

That's because the issue is not about talents to help, it's about the human species demand for resources, which is the product of numbers and consumption.

> A friend of mine works on AI-based solutions for decarbonising industry

He certainly wins at buzzwords bingo ;)
That's it. Google is loosing the ground here. It is no longer "the gateway to the Internet." There has always been dog shit, it's just there will now be much more dog shit than ever. Indexing dog shit is not working anymore. There is still Internet out there with useful information, it's just you cannot access it by searching. Are we back to the era of curated sources, encyclopedias and web rings?
> Most don't even work anywhere adjacent to tech. We call them migrants.

As I indicated, at the beginning of your career as a young person without a family or much tying you down, moving to a place where you're more likely to get a job in your field obviously makes complete sense, but that's not who we're talking about here. These are professionals-- many in their mid to late careers-- that got laid off, largely without notice. Being expected to abandon your life, mid-career to flock to the latest career hotspot because we complacently allow large established employers to pick up and discard large numbers of employees at their convenience-- demanding loyalty and offering none in return-- is not the same thing.

> Millions of people leave their spouses, kids and parents to move to another country for work.

Millions of people also have nutritional rickets.

> If you're ambitious/hungry enough, you'll do whatever it takes.

If you think system this rewards ambition anywhere close to as much as it rewards people already within the existing power structures, you're fooling yourself. Tech is no different than many other industries: it treats less privileged classes like donkeys while the privileged sit on top with a carrot on a stick being sure to let them get a bite every now and again when their frustration starts impacting their output. Of course there are individual success stories you can cherry pick to make it seem like reality for the majority, but you could take the worst NBA free-thrower and cherry pick them a perfect record.
Not quite. The very first German bash.org clone is https://bash.pilgerer.org/
When I got into Linux around 2010 there was something that encouraged me to make a DSA key instead of an RSA one ...
So in other words you are contributing to the enshittification of e-commerce, giving the smaller sites the same hostile customer experience as Amazon. I don't blame you, might as well make some money off the trend while you can. But I doubt that this will end well for the sites themselves. If they can't deliver a better experience than Amazon then customers will just stick with Amazon.
I've said it many times both here and in "real life" - teams filled with any sizable proportion of consults (15-20% and up I would say) are one of the clearest, brightest red flags you could see.

I've seen first-hand organizations shift from 100% employed teams to being majority consultants, and the majority of those consultants on 1-2 year contracts then leaving. Code quality goes to absolute shit. The name of the game is spending the first half of your contract not getting fired and the second half looking for the next contract. Zero documentation. Refusing to do turnover meetings. Not showing up for the last day/week of the contract because their next contract wanted them to start earlier so they didn't care if they got paid for this one or not. Most egregiously someone just brought in their next contract's laptop into our office with over a month left on their contract.

None of this happens with employees. Sure you'll occasionally have someone quit with minimal or no notice but that's the exception. We had to basically assume that any time we got in the last month of the contract was a bonus. Consultants work for their recruiting firm, not for your org, and they behave accordingly.
Europe has an expectation of privacy that is completely lost on Americans and American companies.

Europe also has this expectation of privacy for a very good reason.
Those days are in my past. Also though medley had some good ideas I preferred the MIT-style machines and commonlisp.

I will say that in general PARC’s cloud services of the late 70s/mid 80s were still superior to what we have access to today. Another case of “worse is better”.

Sadly it feels today that people think that means “worse is preferred”. It’s like all the people who know the title “Goto considered harmful” but never read the paper, so grossly misunderstand it.
Steam's refund policy makes this a non-issue. It takes way less than 2 hours to figure out you have a bad game.
My favorite example is if I search Google for "tide me over vs tie me over" it comes up with "Tie me over is correct". Not only is this wrong, but if you click the link, the source itself says it is wrong! The source is literally on the importance of fact checking, and Google is pulling a quote that the article uses as an example of an incorrect fact.

Google:
WARNING: It is a common misconception that the phrase “tie me over” is actually pronounced “tide me over.” Some even go so far as to say the “tide” refers to the ebb and flow of hunger, but this is not the case. Rest assured “tie me over” is correct.

Actual source:
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Tie-me-over-vs-tid...
No clue what FlexOS is but High C v1.7 seems to be there: https://archive.org/details/mwhc17flexos

Maybe it can be "ported" to some other kind of OS.
Fd stores are an awesome way to do this too. We used to start up a new version of the process and then they would have to find each other and pass the fds. It's pretty complicated and it's a weird model for the supervisor.
It's definitely a multi-faceted problem. As you say, you usually need higher density to support more frequent, smaller format stores.

Although you do see some smaller grocery stores in the US: Aldi, Lidl, and Trader Joe's come to mind. I live close enough to a Safeway, Trader Joe's and a Whole Foods for biking to be viable, and I have an ebike, but I don't bike there. Why not? The bike infrastructure is shit to get there, and parking lot/front of store area is not designed for bikes at all. Fix those two things and I'd start biking.
Who cares? No one is making you use Facebook. It is totally okay to walk away and say "nah, I don't want to be tracked."

You can consume alcohol and various drugs in the EU but can't say yes to consenting to tracking. Absolutely absurd.
Not "everybody", just "not us".
I've snorkeled at Electric Beach -- underwater you could hear the buzzing from the powerplant. Somewhat surreal and I'm surprised it didn't bother the marine life.
> Then they turned the screws and locked people out of their own content

How did Adobe do this?
TypeScript is simply a much more robust type-safe language and the compiler abstracts away subtle differences between browsers. Likewise React abstracts away subtle differences between browsers.

And most applications are far more complex than just needing to update a small part of the page.
I think Neon is KDE's Linux distribution.
Well, they currently have a set of default faces. But, you could just build a regular app, that's a watch face.
Maybe the AI learned that children prefer inaccurate fingers.
The problem is that the dogshit machine was constrained in its output by the organization creating it. Sure you may have paid small amounts per article but your resources were still limited as cost scaled linearly with content creation. Now any size of organization can make a metric tonne of lexically unique content with a fixed cost given the incentive to do so at the moment, it’s all but inevitable.
"The internet has been broken in a fundamental way. It is no longer a repository of people communicating with people"

But the examples given are... google search results and articles from big publishers, things made to cast a wide net. Those were never good ways to communicate with other people online imo. If you want to interact with real people look for smaller communities and individual creators.
> An attacker who targeted and compromised a manufacturer using these could, I dunno, specifically and slightly alter all the bolts used on an airplane, in a very specific way, so it is prone to failure prematurely.

Hmmm...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67919436