skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m going to answer your “financially nonsensical” argument from personal situation.

I live in the Netherlands. Sure, we have a reliable power grid that doesn’t go offline for hours or any frequently to make a case for grid backup, but the power companies here charge heck of a lot of money for power. Think about it. The utility company commissions a solar farm (lower cost than roof top solar), but surely hire a 3rd company to operate the farm ($), and then the utility company wants to make $ for their shareholders, therefore, we end up paying a lot of € to cover these.

Now, I have as manay panels as I could on my roof (10) that generates more than my average use in the Summer. I run a heat pump that can heat & cool and Ioperate it when the sun is shining. I do laundry when the sun is shining. Because of net metering, my grid usage practically cancels out against my solar energy production. When the net metering subsidy goes away, I’ll install a reasonably sized LFP battery at home to smooth out day/night patterns, and possibly covering the occasional cloudy days right after a sunny day. No power costs from April to September already pays the cost of my panels in just 5 years. It is free money(as in I save it from going from my pocket to the utility company and their shareholders).

So, it does make sense. Atleast in many parts of the world. If you live in a part of the world with super reliable grid _and_ low prices, or you’re so rich as to not care, then probably, it may not make sense to you :-)

I was just talking about it with some friends from South Africa. They said almost every household there sort of needs to be energy independent because the power company is in the ruin. So, solar + batteries it is. What would you do otherwise?
Gadgetbridge doesn't. That's why it needs an external app to be able to show weather if you need it. I use the German weather app but there's several.
Switching to Firefox's Deb on Ubuntu 22.04: A Guide to Avoiding Snap Packages
There was a similar scandal surrounding German news magazine „Der Spiegel“ with at least 14 articles fabricated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius
This would be a much better example since we were talking about physics / code being done by some group of people

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/11sv7gc/linux_kernel...
This is one person's passion project and they are writing it in the language they prefer. We need to respect that they are doing free labor and publishing the resulting code as open source.

It sucks that it is not modern C#, but rather legacy .Net 4.8 which lacks the performance improvements and cross-platform compatibility of .Net 5 and above, but perhaps the author will feel an itch to refactor it, or someone else will come along and modernize it and make a pull request.
It makes sense in any country that has agriculture.

Solar produces 10x as much power per area than energy crops.

And other than with crops, you can have sheep grazing and have a functioning meadow ecosystem develop below the panels.
I don't get anything in Australia's app store.
The biggest difference between both is mainly their machine learning story but if you don't intend to go in it (this is a very specific career choice), I'd say both are equally good options.

I'd say both are pretty bad at performance critical tasks or UI stuff where usually you would use neither of those.
Or history is more complex than a sound bite.

Getting Germany off nuclear has been in the making since the 1980s, and a big factor was fighting corruption.

We still have a glowing mess from those days, waiting another 80 years until it can be cleaned up.
There's distros for this: https://github.com/marmolak/gray486linux – it's based on Linux 6.7.

Never used it; don't know how well it works in practice. But it's the type of thing that can be made to work. Looks like some minimum requirements are a tad higher than the minimum of Windows 3.1 though, so it depends a bit on what you mean exactly with "Windows 3.1 era hardware".
Doesn't sound like a collapse, sounds more like running hot?

Even if they over-leveraged, it will kill a bunch of companies, but the industry will bounce back.
Maybe that's what they mean with a collapse... so I guess the title is fair after all.
Well, this is from Reuters, while you're liking to one from NY times. The NY times one is paywalled, the Reuters one is open.
https://archive.ph/Gc8ba
Maybe it is the phrasing. I think it might help if you followed a format like

Lawyer in tech here. I find these types of articles often disappointing because the focus on technicalities rather than the real takeaways. For example, the article points out <x> but the take away is <y> <insert explanation> <repeat 0-2 more times>. If anyone has additional questions I'd be happy to answer

I think this would generate more engagement. Personally, I have so little knowledge in this space I don't even know what a good question to ask is. I suspect that this is quite common but that it's unlikely to be admitted. You know how us CS people are, we spend a weekend hacking on something and declare domain expertise lol.
> But all the theatre isn't a tool for performance, it is a tool for discipline.

Well said! I think it is merely an attempt to have some sort of baseline at a aggregate level which is impossible at the individual level (without the cooperation of the Individual).
Years ago, when Apple made all the icons in the Finder sidebar grey and then thin outlines, it became obvious the focus is about just changing things to set trends and ignoring the basic rules of usability. I still can't find what I'm looking for as quickly without the colors and strong shapes instead of monochrome outlines.
Perhaps it could have been offered as a "naive" interim solution to be replaced by machine learning, with the benefit that the ML team would have a benchmark to show how good their model was by comparison.
Lomg time ago, I think 2010ish, there was an experimental HTML renderer that would open up a GTK app in a browser that has its UI using plain HTML+CSS.

For the time, it was just jaw dropping. For context, I think it was before Atom, VS Code or Electron (or possibly even NodeJS?) was a thing.

Don't know if that HTML renderer is still around or not.
I love it! Though I am not an expert, I can at least see this.

However, I hate to be a nitpicker, but I think this is solving a separate issue. I don't think this issue is about authenticating the legitimacy of deep fake porn. Rather, the mere existence of it is the issue.

That is, people don't care that it's fake. People don't want to buy the Apple proof of reality because they don't want reality.
I wrote it wrong here, but I used the right wording there.

What I was exemplifying was that it had limits on the complexities in the instructions. And that anything with directions (left right...) can be hard for it.

These are not minor issues to evaluate the end result. It's good, but still lacking on some fronts.

BTW the level for witchcraft is too low for me, but to each their own.
Isn't there a study that shows that new theories don't get accepted because people got convinced by evidence but the supporters of the old theory just die of age?
I was surprised to discover that even with a backup battery, a typical solar install is not designed to power your whole home in the event of a power loss. Only some inverters support it, and most backup batteries can't generate enough amps to start an A/C unit, even though they'd have enough to run it for a while.

Tesla's PowerWall is more capable than some, but I've heard nightmare stories about working with Tesla customer service so I stayed away from that one, even though technologically it's probably the most advanced.
The issue means you cannot broadcast the link to people (for instance, plant it on some project dashboard, or paste it into a Slack channel), and then select who gets access. You cannot revoke 100% of the access from someone to whom you've given the link.

The reason you've been given sounds like something frowned upon in HN: a shallow dismissal.

Even if we accept their reasoning, there is still something wrong: users don't know about the behavior. There is no "warning: sharing a link to someone gives them a high resolution preview of a page of the document, which doesn't require permissions". It's not what you would assume in a document sharing system that has permissions.
This is a terrible article.

I think most of the solar "boom" and "bust" comes from PG&E and its influence on california energy pricing.

Solar could not have gotten such a boost if it hadn't been for PG&E running up the price of electricity in California. The wholesale cost of electricity in California is still 2-4c/kwh, yet california electricity costs residents an average of 36c/kwh, and reaches 50c/kwh.

This gave a boost to solar, because with power THAT expensive, solar is a no-brainer.

Additionally, there used to be some benefits to folks who got solar in california, where they could sell back some power to the grid to defray their costs.

However PG&E holds all the cards, and recently legislation was pushed through so that excess power generated by solar customers can be sold back to the grid for around the wholesale rate, no matter the time of day.

Some folks think this is fair, but remember that PG&E has always been treated more fairly than anyone.

It is looking like a "war games" sort of situation for electric customers. Get solar and batteries, because the only way to win is not to play at all.
Behind the Scenes of Dyson Farming with James Dyson [video]
"I do wonder why everyone wants to be told who is good & bad rather than deciding on their own."

The gist I got from reading this "book review" is that the author works in "EA" and did not like Lewis' treatment of "EA" in the book.

It's got some strange comments like where he is telling us how FTX had someone running communications with zero experience in that field, then he quotes some programmer with a Twitter feed as a "finance writer".

Or when he mentions getting the opinion of his "Wall Street lawyer" friend and then seeking counsel from his "homeless friend" on apprently the same issue.
> but hopefully you've enlightened some small child reading this thread

There's really no need for this kind of language here.
That'll require quite some knowledge and mental energy. Not many people are capable of that
What are you thinking about here? If it is "matter/antimatter" "particles/antiparticles" then this is not true. There are still conserved quantities in annihilation of particles and antiparticles which makes other particles and/or energy come out of these annihilations.
> He didn't claim to be the cheapest

Ugh! Every independent tradesperson that’s spun that line (“I’m not cheap, I’m quality” etc) with me has turned out to be a liar. Super expensive without the quality part …

Most are conmen and incompetent at running a business and price isn’t a strong signal for a good one

Anyone who comes in strong with the hard man, “I’m expensive for a reason” spiel is a hard no now
Made me realize that IO is the fundamental bits-atoms interface, thank you for writing.
Have you never mistaken a checkbox for a radio? I have not. At least not to the point I’ve noticed. Consistency within an app is important, but done well, I think it’s okay to break with conventions.
Human failure is, to some extent, normal. I just wonder how this bypassed our automated security checks that scans the code base for secrets.
Vector fields are just as incorrect, and ought to be relegated to history books as a mere stepping stone on the way to understanding.

Geometric algebra can reduce Maxwell’s equations into a single, hilariously terse equation:

∇F = J

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_descriptions_of_t...
Not even that, the prompt used is "Looking only at the years 2022 and 2023, what would a quadratic regression predict for 2024" as mentioned in the appendix.

So quadratic regression makes it sound all fancy, but with two data points, it's literally just "extend the line straight". So the 2024 prediction is essentially meaningless.
> it should be a requirement under the law that the shares be on the open market such that anyone who wants them can buy them and resell them at any time.

No, I deeply disagree with this. This is the reason we have issues like the 737 Max. Earnings reports and a bunch of idiot shareholders who don't understand a flying hoot about aircraft owning bits and pieces of an aerospace company and exerting control over it and pressure to "beat earnings".

I'm very much on board with being generous in giving ownership to employees. But open market? No. F that. Avoid it as long as possible and pay your employees dividends instead.
Why Polestar is destined for failure
There also seems to be a phenomena where the more complex the system the simpler the box must be. I'm kinda surprised by this as understanding complexities (especially around dynamic environments and future planning) seems to be one of the things that distinguishes humans from other animals. And opposable thumbs. I mean sure, there's other animals with those too but we stand out, literally.
It's called Broadway: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html
This caught my eye as well. I interpreted it as the map only shows countries that have English as primary language. But the article was not precise enough about this.

I applaud them for focusing on multilingual performance though, as that is an important area of NLP which still has lots of room for improvement.
Looks like a misquote of a Slavoj Žižek tweet from 2016 right after the U.S. election? That’s as far as I got with 2 minutes of digging.
Polarisation in general can be well-explained by the business models of social media. You’re shown content that you react to strongest, and that is usually one end of a spectrum of views.
Writing that abstraction can also feel BS.
You’re just quoting from Sutton’s reinforcement learning book, which proposes a learning algorithm with a Markov process assumption.

Markov processes are nice because they are simple objects and therefore have nice properties and solid mathematical proofs.

Many mathematical models are studied because they have nice theoretical properties and one can prove theorems about them. This should not be mistaken with an actual mechanistic explanation for complex emergent phenomena like human decisions.
>Rooftop solar never really made sense in the big picture kind of way.

I think it's in the big picture it actually does make sense. True it's not the cheapest, but it is the fastest way to actually get solar panels into sunshine and start solving our problems.

The additional cost is paid mostly by "volunteers" instead of having to raise taxes or wait for some corporation to make a move, there is no NIMBY-problem since it's actually the BY-owner who makes the decision. You can mobilize thousands of companies (solar panel installers) at once all around the country. Rooftop solar grows by about the same as a nuclear power plant per year in some countries.

Finally the resulting power generation is geographically distributed so that no single rain cloud can cover the entire "power plant".

I think larger projects run by governments and large corporations should be focused on generating gas or building battery storage, so that some of that cheap rooftop solar and other renewables can be stored for nighttime and winter, instead of being sold for negative prices at certain times.
You mean Broadway?

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/broadway.html
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-Broadway-Being-Used

I did not considered it as main/official backend but it is still there and was ported to Gtk4.
Didn't windows also switch button positions regularly for all their nagware around upgrading to windows 10?
Stanford is mentioned in Kaguya-sama love is war
Thanks for the suggestions. I will try that.
George Hotz gives a good example [1]:

> Cloth masks are ineffective against covid, that's a true statement, every doctor in 2019 knew it, and now I'm banned on twitter for saying it? Interesting.

Keep in mind for every famous ban, there might be a few orders of magnitude more bans of small accounts we don't hear about given Twitter "use(d) Artificial Intelligence to identify posts" "that are misleading enough to cause harm to people" [2].

Also keep in mind this is one topic of thousands that could get an account banned, there is no shortage.

Please keep in mind my broader point is simply Twitter might have felt like a community for some, but not for everyone. If someone's banned for stating hard truths, that's frustrating to say the least, and I think to some extent makes the individual feel like it's a not a welcoming/fair community to be part of.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJg0hAKtzt8&t=243s

[2] https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-technology-h...
GitHub Action: Evergreen
in metafont (the software) you can define a metafont (a font-valued function) in terms of bézier outlines as well as paths stroked with pens; the relevant metafont commands are 'fill' in the first case and 'draw' (rather than postscript's 'stroke') in the second. it doesn't have an equivalent of postscript's 'eofill'. chapter 13 of the metafontbook describes these commands

i don't know if there's a reasonable way to export any standard vector format from metafont; i think there originally wasn't
I haven't researched it much, but what's always smelled fishy to me is that rooftop solar is going up, but there's less utility-scale solar in the desert where there's more sun, no shade, panels angled correctly, and consolidated maintenance.

I suspect rooftop solar only appears to work because the sales pitch sounds good, there are government subsidies, net metering is broken, and people don't consider depreciation and maintenance.
Note that as a plane burns fuel, its maximum sustainable altitude and its most fuel-efficient altitude both increase. This explains why the pilots did not climb to a higher flight level earlier.
Performance exploration of search and analytics on AWS Lambda
I wrote this detailed technical blog post about search and analytics performances when running Quickwit on AWS Lambda. I would love to hear your thoughts!
We got some. I'd been skeptical that screwing with your roof that much was a good idea, but so many people do it and seem happy about it... it must be OK?

TL;DR never again. Way too expensive for what it gains you, way too much risk (to your roof, of future costs for roof maintenance, et c.) Installing on a roof is crazy-expensive compared to ground. If we have enough room at our next house I'll self-install panels at ground level and have an electrician do the rest. It's just not favorable enough a move, otherwise, to be worth the risk and hassle. Ground-level's way cheaper, even if you don't self-install parts of it, and won't make your roof more complicated. It's technically saving us a little money, but no, not worth it, the peace of mind is worth the tens of dollars a month or whatever.
I think it pays to just point out good use cases. For me, it's a superpowered thesaurus, a more concise and relevant Wikipedia, and an excellent listicle generator.

AI is not all-powerful, but those things alone help me a lot when I'm brainstorming.
This seems fair considering the panic over scooters going 12 miles an hour and the very strict geofencing applied to them. I especially welcome it in cities where it could save many pedestrians.
You guys had toilets in your schools? Fancy.
I just found a great tool to create NFTs only using AI
You can create awesome digital art with it, just by picking a name, a description, a color and a style
Can’t sign up because the confirm-your-email link insists on using tracking and I would have to disable too many things to allow that to happen. (*.sendgrid.net)

Unacceptable in 2024.

I wonder … will I receive marketing email despite not confirming my address? My money’s on yes.
>But it would be wrong--and unfair--if right-sized people were denied or discouraged from aggressive treatment because the population as a whole had other health issues.

Everyone should be discouraged from choosing treatment that does more harm than good, which (unfortunately) is practically the norm for cancer treatment in the US. If a treatment is described as "aggressive", it is usually inappropriate - aggression is rarely motivated by a thoughtful and careful consideration of the facts. The fear of cancer is wholly understandable, but it often leads to avoidable harm.

We're very good at identifying tumours and suspicious cells, but we're very bad at predicting which of those will actually develop into serious disease. As a result, far too many patients are being subjected to painful and risky treatments with life-altering side-effects for no clear clinical benefit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4322920/
ORMs can be annoying to use in my experience, especially with more complex queries, joins, counts, filtering by joins etc. And they make debugging harder usually.
noted. just express myself for the record.
we are commenting on an article which describes in depth how quantum mechanics, including qed, falls squarely within the paradigm maxwell pioneered. that's why my comment specifically talks about the 'maxwellian paradigm' and not 'maxwell's equations', which is, by the way, not a brand name

i thought it was too obvious to be worth saying that classical physics is still an excellent approximation to reality, but hopefully you've enlightened someone reading this thread
“People don't trust their utilities” is a strong claim that I assume is very dependent on your location. I think I’ve had maybe two hours total of no electricity in the last five years?
Everything is always easy as a purely mathematical/technical problem. Add in dealing with the real world - fellow workers, customers, regulators (especially in the case we're talking about), etc., and it gets complicated in a hurry.
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Yes. Sounds useful.
I guess this should allow to connect duckdb to a BigQuery instance since there is a Postgres compatibility layer?
Can't agree more, mental visualization is such an asset for any understanding as it relies on compressing information and forces oneself to digest the material.
Hide the dock, make it 1 pixel and max the delay.

Make finder quitable and quit it.

Disable as many other mac bloat features as possible.

Install a keyboard-driven window snapping program (formerly Spectacle).

Install Contexts for window/app switching.

Install MacPorts for OSS and unix-y stuff.

Setup Fish, iTerm2, Firefox and VSCode.

Then add programming language SDKs / build tools / IDEs as necessary.
The best way to study this is starting with Jeffrey Pfeffer's Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time.
I don’t have time to dig out some definitive study, but top google results list incontinence as a “common” side effect.
Which limit, exactly, are you referring to? Both load balancers and backend servers can juggle millions of concurrent connections nowadays. You mentioned a 64k connection limit but that’s not a hard file descriptor limit, nor does the 65536 port limit apply if the source and/or destination IPs differ.
Bookmark search is for rookies. I'd pay for a search tool over my 877 open tabs.
AI Auditing: The Broken Bus on the Road to AI Accountability
Another one about the same topic but with a broader perspective, which also enlarges the scope of the problems further.

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39173354
Ages ago, United would let you listen to the radio Comms in the in seat audio. I miss that.
That's a cool story. What did RMS think about QGF?