skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, little micro workouts (completable next to your desk) throughout the day are great. I find most habit hacks questionable and/or too situational, but "habit stacking" works pretty well for this. Every time you test/compile/deploy/etc do 10 pushups next to your desk.
They mostly weaponized themselves, in a sense. Before the 2022 invasion (yes, even after 2014), the entire post-Soviet cybercriminal space, including the Baltics, was tightly connected (not just ransomware which is a recent thing but also carders, DDoS-for-hire, scammers, etc) and everyone has been outsourcing parts of their "business" to everyone else. What media used to call Russian ransomware gangs were in most cases loose networks of criminals scattered all over the place. As the war started, they quickly separated and started attacking the legitimate infrastructure of the other side and also their former accomplices.
Anyone know the difference between Bard Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Dev API on the leaderboard?
How would they get phone usage data though? Even I wouldn't know how to get that info off my own phone other than abstract "screen time" metrics.
“To answer your question about chatgpts progress it’s necessary to…” (proceeds to list what it’s going to do instead of doing it).

Gosh that gets annoying
Part of the issue with higher fps is that it should be balanced with a shorter frame exposure time, so motion blur matches the frame rate. The rule of thumb is shutter speed should be 2x the fps, so shoot at 30fps, you want the shutter around 1/60s, if you shoot at 60fps, you should use 1/120.

This means anything that adds or remove frames is going to quickly cause the motion to look unnatural or at least different from the original.
The Next Global War
OPEC is a possibility because ease of access to petrofuels was very sporadic, but the same is not true for battery chemistries, sodium and iron batteries are being used for storage scale and even some transport cases [0][1] and even lithium can be extracted from sea water [2]. Given how ubiquitous those 3 things are, there'll be a pretty hard ceiling/competition amongst different options. I suspect we'll encounter something more like agricultural cartels than petrostate cartels.

[0] https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/02/10/rusty-batteries-cou...
[1]https://cleantechnica.com/2023/12/29/electric-cars-powered-b...
[2]https://samcotech.com/is-it-possible-to-extract-lithium-from...
> How long would data last on tape?

> The Canadian Conservation Institute says that VHS tapes have a 10-30 year lifespan, on average.

https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/con...

That sucks, I just got in VHS for various reasons and bought a 1987 copy of Ghostbusters. It still works despite being 36yrs old. I'm curious what it means for tape to degrade and how to detect it in films.
this leaderboard seems easily cheated/gamed. once enough eyes are on it it will be worthless
Thanks for sharing. I'm inclined to try this approach too, although I must admit the thought of early morning training is daunting.

I was previously a night owl, and used to train before lunch - but when our daughter came along everything changed (which I am certain you can relate to).

So yeah, family time gets undivided attention, as does work - which means I ended up compromising on my afternoon training. And by night time I'm just too exhausted to get in a good training session.

Anyhow I think you're right with your approach. Our girl is usually up around 6h30. I may as well try wake earlier and see how it goes.

If you've been at this a while then congrats on the discipline!
Hot Take: Prompt engineering isn't engineering. It's discovery
I'm in the drug discovery space, and for all the "engineering biology" talk that's around these days, I find a bunch of parallels to drug discovery in the AI, particularly LLM space.

The fact that these models get created and the poked and prodded with prompts reminds me a ton of chemical biology, aka the field of using chemicals to investigate biology.

It would appear that in the case of AI, the engineering has become art.

Ironically these technologies are the ones being heralded as the way to take biology and turn it into an engineering problem.

I always come back to may favorite XKCD "Here to Help"
https://xkcd.com/1831
2. If batteries are growing exponentially right now then we are in the beginning of the S curve.
Anyone else seeing this error for the embedded videos on the website?

>Video matches no known sites
> although I suppose it should let you know whether you could hope to change anything by changing human activity

This is the discussion. As I understand "climate change deniers" aren't denying things like the increase global temperatures or the rising of sea level. The science is clear that these are happening. They are denying that human behavior changed or changes anything. I agree it should be a moot point whether humans caused it or not as there are other reasons to make changes but being inconvenienced is hard and spending money isn't profitable. It's a lot easier to bike shed.
Indeed. Assuming you have a sustainable source, the next most important thing is distribution and storage.

The cleanest candidate (Hydrogen-from-electrolysis) suffers from storage and distribution issues. These can be overcome, but at high cost.

The easiest (batteries) suffer from a combination of storage and distribution issues (heavy batteries have to be transported, you can't pipe them around, energy grids have power transmission costs/depend on batteries to work, an ouroborian problem) as well as toxicity issues.

Given that batteries cannot indefinitely become cheaper, and likely that demand will outpace supply, clean hydrogen, not batteries, seem the logical ultimate choice.
No problem whatsoever on my side. GrapheneOS btw
The android pm probably wear Patagonia and use iPhones. Honestly
Yeah Linux desktop environments are a bit of a mess but OP specifically called out MacOS as well. Once you add Rectangle it is a solid DE in my opinion. Also it is Unix/linux compatible so kind of the same beast with good GUI/hardware and *nix terminal.

Was just curious what Windows only tools I am missing out on.
“Heat in the wilderness” must be so small in terms of global emissions footprint to be almost irrelevant, no? The wilderness implies ultra low density sort of by definition.
I have to say this is very well written. So much long form stuff is just fluff, but this had some nice narative, a beginning a middle AND an end.
I tried one (maybe a terrible one? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09TP8RZRT/), but the connectivity was flaky and I couldn't find a good place to mount it in my Odyssey. (Ideas and product suggestions welcome! It's not bugging me enough to replace the head unit.)
Example from OpenAI embedding:

Each vector is 1536 numbers. I don't know how many bits per number, but I'll assume 64 bits (8 bytes). So total size is 1536 * 115K * 8 / 1024^2 gives 1.3GB.

So yes, not a lot.

I still haven't set it up so I don't know how much space it really will take, but my 40K doc one took 2-3 GB of RAM. It's not pandas DF, but in an in-memory DB so perhaps there's a lot of overhead per row? I haven't debugged.

To be clear, I'm totally fine with your approach if it works. I have very limited time so I was using txtai instead of rolling my own - it's nice to get a RAG up and running in just a few lines of code. But for sure, if the overhead of txtai is really that significant, I'll need to switch to pure pandas.
Using the house as a thermal battery (heat or cold, dealer's choice) works great in my house but my house is so well insulated that we have CO2 problems.

Planning to setup a fresh air intake with an ERV to mitigate this.
In my experience the magnetism weakens and the video just becomes more and more staticy. But I think there’s also physical degradation of the tape.
I would bet the cost of the solar panels was only a fraction of the total costs. The fact of the matter is that individually owned and operated power generation doesn’t make sense for a variety of reasons, which is why we invented the power grid. It would be prohibitively expensive to run your own natural gas turbine at home as well, even though you have a pipe going straight to your house. So instead we build natural gas power plants that turn a profit.
I would settle for cleaning our own house and setting a good example
Comparatively BARD models have relatively lower number of votes. I would wait until number of votes are in the same magnitude as other models.
I think regular people would feel better about the system if the law applied equally to lawmakers.
This is Hacker News. Technology, science, business, not politics and certainly not geopolitics.

There are many discussions worth having, not all discussions worth having should be on HN.
Humans are going back to the Moon to stay, but when is becoming less clear
how is GPT4-Turbo higher than GPT-4?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143054
It's not entirely just about sensitivity or aggression, but also when and where the appropriate time and place to manifest those behaviors is. Too many folks these days are sensitive about things that they maybe ought to just "let slide" (ignore / forget), overly aggressive when it's really not appropriate, and not nearly aggressive enough over things that really need more folks to stand up and say "No more!" over.
Yes, there are excellent non-"battery" technologies. I'm explicitly talking about the high capacity chemical batteries everyone's crazy for these days.
Weird that Win11 needs absurd hardware requirements but still has an Arm edition.
The lies are subsidized by those with a financial interest in the public believing those lies.
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An important part of Barak’s involvement is the complete recognition of ICJ’s jurisdiction over the matter, which it found (and Barak didn’t disagree) it had.
That is not even comparing apples to oranges, that is comparing apples to steel. You are correct in that energy density does not matter very much for weight-insensitive generation such as grid-scale generation, but energy density matters for weight-constrained applications such as airplanes and rockets as the poster mentioned.

However, assuming that the renewable generation cost curve continues to improve exponentially then the most likely outcome for a carbon-neutral or carbon-negative future will be using electricity to manufacture high density combustible fuels out of atmospheric carbon, effectively using it as a high density "battery" for use cases that demand high energy density.

To the extent that your analysis is relevant to the concerns of the poster, all it means is that batterys are actually ~4x better than the raw energy density would indicate. As to the specifics, Wikipedia claims petrol is ~12,888 W*h/kg or ~24x the battery energy density in the article, so ~6x better with respect to car motion. Note that the current curve has only gone from ~100 W*h/kg to ~500 W*h/kg, so we would need to see density growth comparable to the last 30 years to happen again.
There's a huge leap being made from "driving is a necessity" to "using a phone while driving shouldn't be punishable"
"Better" is hard to judge, but mosul was about ten months and resulted in 10k civilian deaths. This one is already several times that count in a much shorter time span.
I mean that's going to depend heavily on insulation, light insulation, how many device you have generating heat (computers, servers, refrigerator, tv), and how many times you enter/leave your place.

In a well insulated place with airlock-style entrance (even just a mudroom with solid insulation on both doors) where you're blocking out sunlight and not running a ton of electronics, it could easily take hours and hours.
Linus doesn't bring in any revenue or manage the foundation. He's more like the CTO of Linux. Mozilla has over $500M revenue and almost a thousand employees.
> a one-in-eight chance of being unaffected (assuming 50% for each phone)

Where are you getting 50/50 odds of being affected? Is that cited somewhere, or just a random possible percentage?

(I own one unaffected Pixel.)
Here is the actual court order: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...

The measures to be taken are specified in paragraphs 78–82 on page 23.
I'm happy for the crabs being so smart
I think you missed the point. They put it on tape and claim it will last 1000 years. Will the knowledge, ability, and devices capable of reading tape last 1000 years?
As for parties, well that's not a problem. This is by design. U.S. political system is the way it is to prevent tyranny - not to provide the most efficient or even effective government. The Founding Fathers understood it and it was an acceptable tradeoff. Nothing in America assumes or expects a functioning government able to get things done, society and business exists pretty much on it's own. It's the best thing government can do - do nothing, and provide a good shitshow for the people to watch. A healthy society doesn't need government to babysit it.

Corporations can't "demand" profits, profits are what the market conditions form.

Renewable energy will work in America once it makes more money than fossil fuels for the same input. Business in the U.S. is almost not susceptible to political shit.
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What is the use case of long term storage in batteries? As some kind of reserve?
Why do all of the PalWorld dedicated server repos I see have a crazy amount of stuff going on? I run my friend group server using a 27-line Dockerfile[1], and that could even be compressed a bit without losing any functionality...

[1] https://github.com/jagapher/palserver-container/blob/main/Do...
The place where Sam Bankman-Fried got many or most? of his coworkers from.
Disinformation is blamed for swaying elections – research says something else
#1: certainly decades. Probably several, not few, decades. Unless a BIG breakthrough happens.
I still don't understand why GW would be capacity, and GWh is duration.

I would think capacity would be gigawatt-hours, and max delivery rate would be gigawatts
Can you expand on your first sentence? Why does the US need diy solar? We don’t operate individual natural gas turbines in every house either for a lot of reasons, instead we invented the grid.
Now that there's a canonical ABI as specified by component-model, it seems like the good work can start.

As recommended elsewhere in the comments, there's a pretty damned fine talk my Luke Wagner that covers wasm components & the promise. He talks about cross-platform was 18m35s in: https://youtu.be/tAACYA1Mwv4#t=18m35s
Remote customers have to pay more to get connected to the grid in the first place, but the higher maintenance costs for low density grid service aren't passed along on an ongoing basis.

The problem is that electricity prices in California historically lumped a bunch of infrastructure costs into the per-unit costs for a kilowatt hour of electricity. This was an implicit subsidy for anyone whose costs to the electricity system came disproportionately more from infrastructure maintenance than from energy consumption. It has become a growing problem in recent years as rooftop solar has proliferated, since solar households are (mostly) still connected to and reliant on the grid but are consuming much less energy from the grid.

The most straightforward solution would be to split out energy consumption and infrastructure charges and bill each customer for their actual infrastructure needs and energy consumption. This is politically unpalatable because it would raise costs more than average for low-energy-consumption customers (typically lower income households).

The better solution that wouldn't hurt lower income households would be to change billing like proposed above but offer state financial assistance to low-income households in proportion to the old implied subsidies. This way the economic distortion would end but low-income groups wouldn't suffer. I don't know why California didn't do this.

The worse solution that California has selected is to charge households a fixed connection charge according to income rather than according to infrastructure costs. This maintains the economic distortions of the old billing system since it means that there is no incentive to avoid wasteful infrastructure. If you're affluent and you're going to be soaked on electricity service either way, you might as well live in a big sprawling rural property since you'll not get any economic benefit from living in more infrastructure-thrifty urban or suburban housing.
Some of my inspiration came from the 4 Hour Work Week.

I block out time when I look at email, jira, and messaging.

From my own ideas, I do not schedule meetings first thing in the morning. I reserve that time to think and do strategic planning.
The UI is totally broken
A business owner arguing against competition in his suppliers is the dumbest thing

"worth it" implies an ignorance of opportunity costs
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I don't think there are elephants in Alaska, let alone indoors, in rooms or otherwise.
The PCIe switch, SATA controller and USB3 controller all add a fair bit of power compared to having those functions integrated into an SoC built on a better process. But that also means it's not entirely fair to say the Pi is using more power; it's the system as a whole using more power because of all the extra parts needed to overcome the Pi's limitations.
I read your post on WASM debugging with Emscripten and VSCode[0] just last week, thought it was amazing!

Not quite the same, but tangentially related since we're talking WASM+WASI and VSCode extensions - I have high hopes for the vscode-wasm[1] project. The VSCode extension host is a massive hog, and this seems like a big step in the right direction.

[0]: https://floooh.github.io/2023/11/11/emscripten-ide.html
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-wasm
For Slack, this seems like it should be a checkbox you set somewhere that causes Slack to archive everything instead of deleting it. And if you want to be ISO 9001 (or whatever) compliant you have to set the checkbox.
>> Have you ever wondered why KDE was deprecated in RHEL? It wasn't just because KDE Plasma 5 was so big that they couldn't make the jump for RHEL 8, it was also because people were not paying for RHEL for the desktop, so they had no budget for more people.

When you make code libraries or other "infrastructure" software it's important to be as stable as possible so your users don't have to constantly maintain compatibility. I suspect if it was easier to upgrade RH would have kept it KDE around. Same can be said for some of the Gnome updates too, and other software as well. "Maintenance" should be minimized particularly when people are working for free.
> But the climate change discourse is so poisoned, and scientific research so politicized

Only because the people profiting from fossil fuels completely lie and deny facts to make it "politicized".

No different than when young Earth creationists claimed that evolution or astronomy were "politicized" and demanded that schools "teach the controversy" or put warning stickers on biology textbooks to say that the science doesn't align to Biblical creation stories.

The rhetoric to deny climate change constantly moves the goal posts. First it's not real, then it's real but not human caused, then it's human caused but too late to change, then it's not too late to change but the proposed solutions are too expensive, then the solutions are reasonable but involve too much government intervention, etc.

The discourse isn't poisoned and the research isn't politicized. It's a fact, and pretending it's "politicized" is just the latest angle the fossil fuel profiteers are using in their propaganda campaign.
> The only people I've ever heard saying "eyes" so it sounds like "ice" are native German speakers and other Europeans

In German, many syllable-final consonants (in particular, "s") are always voiceless, but the English plural "-s" is voicet (which strangely enough none of my English teachers ever botheret to mention) so if you apply German phonological rules to "eyes" you get something that sounts identical to "ice". But Germans hafe no problem pronouncing "eyes" if the "s" is not syllable-final, e.g. in "Eisen" ("eyesn", iron).

To learn to speak a languache like a natife, you neet to break habits of thought you didn't even know you hat.
Incus 0.5 has been released (container/VM manager)
First release of Incus since Canonical re-licensed LXD and added a CLA, still a lot of changes and improvements.
Isn't good old cdma a spreadspectrum technique, used for cell phones back in the day from quallcomm?
Ah, so. I'm not the only one.

In my case I actually can't properly pair the device at all. I hadn't used my watch (Fenix 6 X) in many months, and last time I used it was with another phone.

I went to pair with my Pixel on Android 14 and the actual bluetooth pairing works fine -- shows up in the list of Bluetooth devices -- but the Garmin app refuses to add it, thinks it can't talk to it.

So the phone / watch connection can never happen.

I suspect Google has made changes to bluetooth stack yet again and the Garmin stuff simply isn't working with it. (TBH their apps seem pretty janky)

After this I might just go back to an iPhone.
fyi Two Fingers == Amon Tobin
https://ninjatune.net/artist/two-fingers
Glad you made it OP, congrats! As an immigrant in the US I went through the "Extraordinary Ability" path and the process was a journey of pain and anxiety. Many roundabouts with a lawyer that promised me expertise in the process and it ended up with a NOID (Notice of Intention to Deny - something like that) from USCIS. My wife and I had to study the USCIS manual page by page and re-wrote almost all documentation from the lawyer. It wasn't easy but we made it.
Microsoft Mesh is a virtual meeting platform on Teams
What changes would you make to this description to make it more neutral?
I’m by no means an expert here, but it seems with WASI preview 2, component model, and GC all converging around the same time, things are looking more optimistic than ever
Is there any tips for creating the game setup irl? You have to make the 10,10,8,12 decks without anyone knowing which is which.
Staffing proper QA teams went out of vogue a couple of years ago.

Turns out that the way incentives are set up at most tech companies today, nobody gets dinged for shipping major software regressions/bugs while everyone is patted on the back for shipping even completely broken features on time.
>I truly don't understand.

Moral licensing, the idea that if you perceive yourself to be morally superior in one situation you will naturally make immoral choices further down the line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing
I hope we find that "battery" is a sufficiently broad category such that individual bottlenecks (lithium extraction, for instance) end up being worked around by using different materials.

I also think that biotech has picked up some new tricks lately (alphafold, etc) that might let it branch out from academia, medicine, and agriculture and affect things like mining re: bioleeching fungi to move minerals through mycelial networks to the surface.
Thank you! No license or anything, just go for it if you want to use them.
This will encourage RTO. If off-site workers can't engage in illegal and anticompetitive behavior without it being documented, then they'll be shut out of the important roles.