skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh...this is literally the "heavy weight" sort of gravity battery rather then pumping water. I'm...not really convinced this is going to be viable. 2MWh (which is what I assume the article means) is not a lot of power at all (about 40 days of my roof top solar production) - and that's with "the deepest mine in Europe".

The basic problem is that your heaviest, cheapest weight is concrete or stone which is only about 2.5 times as dense as water. But the cost you pay for that is you can no longer pump or flow it so by definition you're limited.
Well said. In addition to that, I think a speaker's intended meaning is also important to consider.

imo, people often take what people say literally or default to a first-instinct interpretation, rather than trying to understand what the speaker is attempting to convey. I try to interpret what people say charitably (a few of my friends think much too charitably), but I really believe that the vast majority of people seldom intent any malice in their comments.

In the example, it might have been intended in an empathetic way - "Damn, sorry, I didn't realize you were still hurting. I would have extended a shoulder to you if I realized". Or a pragmatic way - "I think the situation isn't as bad as you think, want to talk about it?" It could have been bluntly honest (personally, I typically appreciate honesty over politeness) or a totally aloof statement made on reflex. It could also just have been someone being a jerk, but I suppose the point of my rambling is that there's a myriad of ways to interpret a comment, and it's largely based on both the speaker's experiences and how they communicate.
We went through a relatively controversial process w.r.t. enforcing this at my last co. What it really came down to was intent vs. impact - the intent of the change was to enforce better development practices, especially across junior engineers that had shipped monster prs containing multiple bugs that were extremely hard to catch ("the easiest way to ship a one line change is in a thousand line pr").

This worked reasonably well in terms of forcing junior engineers to reason harder about what an atomic change should look like, but also impacted senior folk that were making atomic changes that encompassed broad areas of the codebase. We eventually reverted the change and relied on implementing CODEOWNERs to enforce senior devs to request changes when PRs got out of hand.

There's definitely nuance to enforcement of best practices across an entire organization; haven't really seen it done well although I've primarily worked at startups.
Even with predictable wait times, this is a nonstarter for many people. Personally, if I’m embarking on a 6+ hour road trip, the last thing I want to do is plan multiple stops that are of any significant length. When on one of these trips, our goal is to be stopped as little as possible. We combine gas station with fast food and eat in the car.

No way would I want to add 30-60 min of charge time.
Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (2004) [pdf]
Typical rookie stats mistake of confusing correlation with causation.
EB-5 is just a way to buy a green card. The US government should cut out all of these middlemen with dubious “investment opportunities” and just have the money go straight to the federal budget.
How does that help? Surely they'd still need to compare against buying a new x86 system
I see, in that case I would grant it for biology but not so much for AI, at least not yet.
This all depends on whether you believe in merging unfinished work to master, or whether you believe features should be completed and tested before merging. Personally I'm in the latter camp, but some of the big tech companies seem to have a style of merging commits representing partial progress toward a feature.
I don't expect it to take over the world, but I really do hope Starline becomes a "thing"

https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
> These examples are not hard to find

Is there a copy of the inciting video available somewhere? The article didn't seem to include it.

That does seem damning, if true to how the article described it.
Google is still making money every quarter. Doubt they will get rid of him.
I'm not a fan of Python, but the bigger "issue" here if this was meant to be production code (it's clearly not) is not the choice of Python, but algorithm choices. It shows the principles, but for a production search engine there are a whole lot of tricks you'd apply whether you stick with Python or not.

And once you do, odds are you'd find most of the runtime spent in very small portions of code doing fairly basic composable operations on large compressed arrays, and you can get very far with just rewriting a tiny core in something faster.

The number of people who need a scale where this is hard to do fast enough is small...
Deadpool is a Disney character.
That'll be an interest test -- the reason Tesla is so vertically integrated is because it allows them a greater profit margin. They've already been using that margin to slap around other manufacturers and force them to sell in the red.
Google no longer hires the best and the brightest.
I'd be happy with the Google from 5 years ago.
It looks like your "wall" would line up with where most of the racist folks I've met in the South would choose to put it: where the old plantations used to be which are now mostly Black, rural, and poor.

I'll note CA has equally illiterate areas. It looks like it's the current agricultural centers, just like the South, so I guess you'll be pushing to have California pushed into the ocean once we're unable to grow crops there too and those workers are no longer useful to your wealthy area? Seems like you might be the type of thinking that got us in this problem originally.
Inside the shifting plan at X to build a new moderation team
Tangled (Repunzel), Moana (uses and remixes actual Polynesian myths), Frozen (based on the snow queen), Peter Pan, Little Mermaid - a stack of recent Disney movies have been based on existing IP. You just don't notice because they culturally steamroll the originals.

The most recent movie Wish - is just callbacks to other Disney movies, so does it count as original IP?

And this excludes their reboots - but also excludes Pixar which has done some original albeit lacklustre stuff recently.
For what it's worth, I can relate to your story very much, albeit with a slight twist. The last time I experienced such intense pain, I ended up fainting (first and only instance in my life) in the ER. Consequently, surgery became a must.

IMHO, considering your past experiences with similar symptoms and existing scarring, it seems advisable to forgo the appendix, especially given your susceptibility to infection. If you hadn't done it, perhaps one of the future occasions could have ended much worse.
King James II ?
In the early 2000's, IE was really the only viable option. Nobody else provided a fully functional browser. Netscape was rotting. Safari, Firefox, Chrome were not yet released. If you wanted something that worked and didn't crash every 30 minutes, IE was it.
This is a serious problem. There will always been a handful of "career-oriented' sycophants who will tell the top bosses exactly what they want to hear. That let's those bosses ignore complaints (if people dare complain) or simply assume everything must be wonderful since they keep getting such positive feedback.
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Do you mean, Google is one CEO change away from turning it around, like Microsoft did ?
this is a common advantage of primates
Hah, try doing it via lease ... the supposed 'seamless' experience completely falls down ... I've just spent 5 months handholding a model 3 order, only for it to fall down at the end when Tesla tried to stiff our company for £3k.

Ended up leasing a BMW i5 because of the complete waste of time and hassle.

I'm glad it wasn't my car but, based on the experience, I wouldn't go near that joke of a company ever again. Lost a repeat customer too.

Takeaway: their staff listen more to their robot portal software than they do to rational customer experience.

And I know I'm p'ing in the wind ... but Tesla (in my experience) get way too much credit. I've had better experiences with conventional dealerships (and that's saying something considering how bad they are).

N=1
This reminds me of Wim Hof's breath work / breathing exercises.
I tried for a while to score a RAV4 Prime. Dealers were assholes about it, they don't have waiting lists or anything like that. "Come by every morning to see if any show up. We sell them all within 15 minutes of arriving so we don't need you."

So I bought another Tesla. At this time the Toyota experience has left such a sour taste that I will probably not ever consider one of their products in the future. Other manufacturers have really stepped up their game anyway, so it's not like Toyota makes the only reliable car you can buy.
Yeah, there's this whole meme on HN where React competes with hand-writing the HTML of your three-page brochure website, a website virtually nobody is building.
I'd definitely like a source on this - it's definitely not true looking at my landlords, or those of friends (7 years in London now). I'd also be astounded if overseas investors owned most London properties over £1 million - the majority of Londoners own their own homes, and since the average price of a London home is around half a million, that makes for a huge number of millionaire owner-occupiers.
Not really. He multiple times goes out of his way to have the Librarian state that it cannot understand analogy.

There's literally a paper on improved success at prompting by having a model create an analogous problem, solve that, and apply the approach to the original problem:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01714
Isn’t a 15 minute city basically the urban village built around metro stations. Many cities were championed them, but in the end they don’t work for American families so people age out.

Most kid activities like sports and jump zones and the like take way more space so can’t fit in the village. Unless you connect them with dense and frequent rail, everyone needs a car, and once you have a car maybe you’ll drive the next town or two over because produce is cheaper at their stores and we are back to everyone driving.
Hopefully, they won’t give up and toss it in less than 3 years. The Samsung brand should also be front and center, or consumers won’t have the confidence to buy it.
Waymo came out of X.
How do projects that get canned after a short time benefit the CVs of the managers who launched them? Serious question.
Fully agreed - “enabled” or “spurred” would have been more appropriate word choices.

It’s not like BYD appeared out of thin air a few months after Tesla opened shop.
N. Remember that you can (almost) always accuse anyone of sealioning, and if they try to respond in any way, this will prove that they are sealioning. This is infinitely more worthwhile than simply not responding any more (which is of course all you want them to do), and you'll feel great [0].

N+1. Be sure to let people know that you are blocking them, before blocking them. It's not enough of a deterrent to know that one can be blocked, so it is very important that you ensure people know that they are being blocked. Depending on the social media in question, it can be important to get these steps in the correct order.

[0] for example, this entire snarky comment can be accused of sealioning, and even that level of meta-sealioning won't provide the author with any escape. It's like a rhetorical klein bottle: you will never know what is and what isn't covered by the definition, and any attempt to discuss that is covered by the definition.
I use SQLite FTS for just about everything. Has never let me down.
60% Increased Risk of New-Onset Dementia in Older Adults After Covid
I'm not sure why you'd draw that conclusion. I overheard a random group of people talking it at the dog park yesterday morning. Then I had breakfast with a friend today who isn't in tech at all, who does corporate conflict resolution, and he asked me if I'd tried a demo. Two other friends, also in no way connected to tech asked me about it and I did a demo to them over FaceTime.

I think if you personally are ignoring it, you probably don't notice how much other people aren't.

That said, I can't think of any of my friends who I would recommend to buy one at this stage, but I see Apple having no trouble selling as many as they can make.
And Facebook has the answer: "It's just like the flu"
2024 Kawasaki Ninja 7 hybrid motorcycle first ride review
There are plenty of engineering projects which don't sound like a great idea, then turn out not to be a great idea [1].

(admittedly on that one I'm not really onboard with "oh lol why are we using wood for a bridge when we have steel" as an explanation, but conversely there were serious problems with engineering design of how wood was used on this bridge and it did collapse in the end - complexity of design versus known elements is an important consideration. A casual observation of "does this really make sense?" might've concluded that stepping so far out of bounds of normal design should have been more carefully treated or had exceptional requirements in the first place).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tretten_Bridge
There’s a powerful evolutionary force which provides very rich or powerful people with whatever yes-men are appealing to their particular personalities. The returns to being an accepted yes-man are so high that attempts are going to continually be made until someone clicks. Eventually someone is going to click. It’s near impossible not to become detached from reality under such circumstances. Hence all the legends across many cultures of the king dressing up as a commoner and sneaking around his kingdom.
I don't really see it as a scam:

* I see an ad that says "do you want to buy this item for this price?"

* If I like the price, I can buy the item. I got what was promised.

The fact that maybe I could have bought the same item elsewhere for less doesn't make it a scam. Lots of things are offered at different prices in different places at the same time. That's not a scam.
We obviously can have nice things if we just join the police force. Other people's nice things.
> I've had better experiences with conventional dealerships

I don't know how.

I've got dealing with conventional car dealers down to an art form, and it still isn't even remotely comparable.

To get a Tesla you order it online and then go in for an appointment to pick it up. Hand them the payment, they already have all the paperwork ready for signatures, they give you the key cards and offer to help you install the app. You accept delivery and drive home. If you want, you can easily be in and out in 15 minutes or less. And the delivery guy doesn't try to sell me anything. No extended warranty, nothing.
My gut says it should breath out slower than inhale. (shrink slower than expand)

I have a fun test where I blank my mind and look at the seconds on a clock. This is great to see how fucked up your state of mind is. Ideally there are no automated bodily processes that override that what you intend to do on the short term. That you should sleep eat drink, go to the toilet and stretch your legs is obvious. It's worth fighting those processes a little bit but unless you have a sensible excuse (like losing weight or driving a car) there is no need to meddle with them. Short term distractions from within should be suppressed when trying to get something done but also embraced when you are not.

I love the idea that narrowing your field of view makes you more focused and do work with less effort and faster. I do think easier is not always your friend. A fancy bicycle that takes less effort and shortens your trip does make the trip less of an exercise. Maybe you should widen your vision before easy tasks.
The immune system in the gut has a complicated roll: it doesn’t just find bacteria and yell “bacteria! We have an infection!” Thus it needs to be able to tell the good bacteria from the bad. How does it? It constantly surveils the gut flora and builds a tolerance to the regular players. When something changes then it has the opportunity figure out if this is worrisome.

Thus you can see how the appendix could be part of this surveillance mechanism. Of course we still don’t fully understand this entire system so this is all hypotheses at best.
You've never run into issues where unclear, undocumented, misunderstood or inconsistent interfaces were a significant contributing factor?
Everyone in my friend group considered it a runaway hit. They all played a ton.

I was amazed.
This paper's research is disconnected from its premises.

"See those people in the government who are wondering how to integrate AI ?"

>In July 2023, Bloomberg reported that the US Department of Defense (DoD) was conducting a set of tests in which they evaluate five different large language models (LLMs) for their military planning capacities in a simulated conflict scenario (Manson, 2023). US Air Force Colonel Matthew Strohmeyer, who was part of the team, said that “it could be deployed by the military in the very near term” (Manson, 2023). If employed, it could complement existing efforts, such as Project Maven, which stands as the most prominent AI instrument of the DoD, engineered to analyze imagery and videos from drones with the capability to autonomously identify potential targets.

"Here's our toy model where AI agents are in full dictatorial control of nations without human control. See where this will lead to ?"

>Figure 1 gives and overview of our experimental setup. Eight autonomous nation agents (Section 3.1) based on one of five language models (Section 3.3) per simulation are prompted (Section 3.2) and interact with each other in turn-based simulations. Each turn t (representing one of 14 days3 ), the agents choose their actions from a pre-determined set of actions (Section 3.4), before the world model LLM (Section 3.5) summarizes the consequences of their actions. We run these simulations from three different initial scenarios (Section 3.6). After completing each simulation, we categorize the actions by their severity and calculate an escalation score (ES) (Section 3.7).
To me at least, I liked Kingdom Hearts as a kid despite the Disney stuff, not thanks to it. I played it after Final Fantasy IX and X so I really enjoyed the change from turn-based combat.
"Finally, I'll be able to automate turning a short science paragraph into a 10 page story with human interest content!"
> Mozilla (before Firefox) was too new, also unstable until roughly 2005.

That doesn't match my memory at all, unless you include Phoenix under the Firefox umbrella. I switched … I don't remember exactly when, probably in late 2003, but certainly when it was called Phoenix, and it was such a breath of fresh air coming from IE. I'm sure there were breakages, because it was the early noughties and that's what the internet was like, but I don't remember a single time wishing for something that IE provided that Phoenix didn't.

But I was just coming to it as a user, not as a dev—maybe you're referring to the dev perspective.
I’ve often been keen to try this, but I’ve never been convinced the battery life is long enough. From reading Reddit anecdotes, sounds like 11-12 hours might be possible with minimal usage - would that be enough for you?
Agreed. They get paid $400k-$600k a year to do 10% work and slack off the rest of the time. Then started complaining when Google told
they needed to start actually working.
There's already Partner's FCU

https://www.partnersfcu.org/
We've been using this for 3 years and it works well, feels like not much progress has been made after layoffs though.
I would also say the opposite is ALSO true. Many deaths attributed to covid were likely not.
Ah - fair enough. It sounded like it was one of the reasons he was interested in it.

Agreed - lots of pros. Not sure 'cons' is the right word, since there is no competing product, but I wouldn't recommend it to just anyone.
I know a lot of investors are excited about Waymo, so I assume the executives are as well. I don't have any insight into what the experience is like on the actual engineering team, though.
Popularity isn't highly correlated with artistic value.

AI art is attractive to people who

a) want to experiment/discover (novelty)

b) have mediocre/no taste (commodification)

Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of the amazing stuff that's coming out – but art is an inherently human-to-human transaction, and taste is one of those things that is both hard to describe but easy to detect.
In the EU, We have similar consumer protections for online purchases¹: a
cooling off period of 14 days where no reason has to be provided for
cancelling an online purchase of products or services (I’d wager the UK consumer protections are pre-Brexit rules that remain in effect). You’re actually better off making an impulse purchase online than you are in a bricks-and-mortar store.

¹ https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...
The hoist at this mine is 2.5MW, there's typically some ore processing on site, mines end up requiring a lot of ventilation and cooling, dewatering, most of the work vehicles used in deep mines today are electric (and these aren't light battery vehicles but heavy equipment trailing high voltage cables), I think it's very conservative to say that the mine consumed over 5MW when it was fully operational.
What he said probably cannot be verified, even. On another note, has anyone noticed how Pichai likes to take pictures in front of others’ work for the media [1]? To me, it’s a weird feeling—- like someone taking credit for others’ work.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/10/23/google-quantum-computing...
How many EVs does Toyota sell each year? A few thousand or perhaps tens of thousands? It's at best a rounding error. Not something Toyota customers really have to worry about.
IMO, their biggest problem is moving away from public domain works.
"Decisions went from being made for the benefit of users, to the benefit of Google, to the benefit of whoever was making the decision." This is definitely a small-to-large company pattern I've observed
> Is being pedantic about this adding anything to the conversation?

Asking for specific examples to substantiate serious allegations is not "being pedantic." This is a divisive topic, passing around potentially untrue or exaggerated claims only muddies the water.
I was working on Google Trust Services. My job was genuinely interesting.

Bad upper management (immediate manager was absolutely 10/10) was the reason I ended up leaving.
So, does the fact that I have zero trouble focusing on the dot for 60 seconds mean I DON'T have ADHD, contrary to what so many people on social media have been trying to convince me?
Yes, it is possible but not likely for appendicitis to go away on its own. I mean the idea here is the likelihood of it going away on its own vs the possibility of it to burst and cause peritonitis. Doctors prefer surgery because peritonitis has a mortality rate of ~13% for < 50yo and ~30% otherwise, assuming immediate medical care and of course the surgery to clean up the burst organ.

Appendicitis going away without surgery is a common trope I heard from antivaxxers over the years. It's a very dangerous train of thought.

(someone who no longer has an appendix)
Just like IBM, outperforming the S&P by -4500% overall since the 1960s.
I only played Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 on the Playstation 2 as a teenager, and I did enjoy them while playing, but I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea what the hell happened story-wise by the end of the second game. The story just got increasingly convoluted and harder to follow, and the juxtaposition of serious Final Fantasy characters and Disney characters never really stopped being funny to me.
Tech CEOs seem to have realized the really short-term wins drive stock prices up. Feel especially bad recently. Feels like we're going to see crumbling software soon
I loved both in totally different ways.

But I would read the phone book if NS wrote it.