skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, you already moved the goal posts given how many poor countries (which you were talking about in the comment I responded to) do not have 24/365 electricity. Also: where does the magic number of 0.05 USD/kWh come from? That number is lower than the LCOE for all the items on this graph except wind which is almost exactly that number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electricity_costs_in_doll...

Second, natural gas plants don't operate 24x365; the figures I see say 27%(!) to 71%. Even nuclear varies between low 70s and low 80s percentages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

Third, even if batteries were as expensive as you think, PV is cheaper than the running cost of a fossil fuel plant, so all the poor countries would still want to install them even if they also used natural gas at night, and that's still a win-win over using natural gas 24/7.

Fourth, given I can't use the statista.com link without an account:

> Today the LCOE of hybrid PV-battery systems ranges from 5.24 to 19.72 €Cent /kWh. This wide cost range is due to the large price difference of the various battery systems.

- https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/publications/studies/cost-o...

Which is US$ 56/MWh to US$ 197.2/MWh at current exchange rates.

For comparison, €500/MWh would be the cost of building a storage system from the kinds of battery packs supermarkets around here sell for use in off-grid caravans, and then assuming they last exactly 1000 cycles before being discarded entirely.
Get your fireworks ready, we might be in for a surprise soon given the weather trend.
So what happened to all their competitors?
Strongly agree. LLMs need something more than just the DDL of the tables and an instruction to write useful SQL in the real world.
However, I've had decent success by (1) integrating heavily with a semantic layer on top of your database, and (2) going the agent approach where the LLM is allowed to run different queries and explore the data before writing the final query.
YC Stats from 2005 to 2023
I absolutely love NFS and pay for the support option even though I don’t need it, simply to support them. Everything about that service is simply ace.
C++ uber fan here.

> C/C++ can be made memory safe

> I have never claimed that it's easy.

So... you didn't say much. I can rewrite your sentence with assembler or machine code. Again, not much said.
Huh? The US doesn't have income tax?
Given a large enough neural network, I'm quite confident music could be compressed much - MUCH - more than traditional methods.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/metas...

Article mentions 6 kb/s
A non-response. /u/scotty79 has a better argument. You remind me of Walter Bright.
We learnt this in Math and also in the CS subject at high school and had to program it as well.
Oh, I agree with your point. But I can't afford to fly around the world and inspect factories. Hell, even if I could, I wouldn't have the time and the inclination to learn what to look for.

> if I know they will last and they are made to my standard

That's exactly the issue. How do you know that as a regular person?

I'm mostly happy with my shirts for example, which I think are made locally in France (but don't know how they source their materials). Their quality seems to be fairly stable, and if I buy them on sale, they're very good value for money.

But with other name brands, it's been more hit and miss. Levi's jeans, for example. One pair has lasted so long, I don't even remember when I've bought it, used it a lot riding a motorbike. Another pair has started thinning between the thighs in maybe two years of lighter use (going to the office or out around town), and it's never even been close to my bike.

> I've yet to find anything outerwear(hoodies, jeans, shorts etc) made to my standard that is less than $100, I'm not sure it's possible if you include responsible sourcing.

I'm absolutely fine with paying more for garments that last. What I hate, is paying a ton and ending up with poor quality.

If you would be able to articulate what you look for in a quality garment, I'm sure a lot of people would be more than happy to read on it.
This would be used in something like Starraker. That design can get 100 tons to orbit with a single stage much more efficiently than any rocket. Take off like a plane, climb to high altitude. Enter a supersonic dive. Pull up and ignite your rockets from high in the atmosphere when travelling relatively fast. You need much less fuel that way. The wings get you the first 30k mètres.
What tooling are you people using to avoid that type of issues at your workplace? And are you satisfied with your setup?

We are a pretty small team developing SDKs that have a pretty large amount of weekly download. I’ve been evaluating tools such as snyk, aikido.dev, and some solutions built on top of renovate (that we already use for general dependency management), it’s not obvious if they would help with this, and given we are still tiny dealing with a large amount of false positive (that was the case with snyk) is a pain. Just curious how others are dealing with this.
I'm a hunter, and it's not a problem at all. You shouldn't be successful every time, and there should be some dang rules :) The state is doing exactly what they should be, given the circumstances. In fact, I'd expect a state with a game PROBLEM to do the same damn thing!

If I was successful every time, I'm not sure I'd enjoy the game as much. And if you've ever hunted, you'd know that you can do everything right and still walk away with nothing to show from your time. That's how it goes, anything less and you end up with killing and not hunting. I appreciate the meat in my freezer, if/when it comes, but being able to guarantee it isn't what I signed up for.

Plus, that "over-selling" is money into outdoor conservation, as long as it's not mismanaged to hell I don't care that they get a little extra. If you start moving that money into other bullshit then sure, we have an issue. But most of us like the outdoors and want to keep it around.
Comparing 2003 Iraq to WW2 Germany is the most nonsensical take I’ve read in awhile.
And my household of two produces 20l of regular non-recyclable trash every month, 40l of plastic trash every month, maybe a couple of kilos of organic waste per week. But we buy a lot of organic and glass where possible.
Do you know any decent framework (ideally using python) to visualize such interactions?
Lift from wings means overall less fuel usage, launch from an aircraft increases the choice of "launch rockets from here" locations.

ie. Can presumeably get closer to the equator and choose the desired "west to east" ascent line (and fall to earth line for debris in case of rocket failure).
So was 2020 the peak of intelligent commentary on the internet? I seem to recall that the quality of discourse was much higher around the year 2000, even though average IQ was higher in 2020.

I think this is a red herring. It used to be harder to access the internet, and it selected for a certain type of person. Today, in the era of the smart phone, virtually everyone in wealthy nations is on the internet. Most notably, that includes vast numbers of children.

I bet if you looked poorer countries where few people have internet-connected devices, the quality of discourse is much higher. In particular, there are likely few children participating (and the ones who do likely have unusually proactive and involved parents).
Someone did not use the datetime library and implemented something by themselves.
Stupid question but don't the wings make most of the work in term of lift? I would assume you need less energy to pull some weight up in the air, obviously a lot slower also.
It's worse, if you address these things seriously, like, as another post here addressed last week, about software quality, you get rapidly stopped in your tracks. Like you say and more; 'but everyone does it like this, why would we waste time?' and 'It is safe enough, maybe later we'll revisit'. It is kind of true clients don't pay for it directly, however, indirectly, it can tank a company.
3 points _on average_

It’s troubling. Who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes?
I’m getting the sense they can be too close to form life, but can form further out with the right planetary characteristics. How often favorable atmospheres form would be interesting.

Taken another way: Venus’ atmosphere would get more “tame” further out. That might make it more conducive to life. But would its atmosphere still form at those distances? (Clearly it’s not impossible.)
> I wonder why this massive change to everything-should-be-packed-in-plastic happened

I don't get why people keep pretending plastic being widely used today is due to some conspiracy instead of it's just better at its main function, even without factoring in cost.

Compared to glass container, plastic ones are much lighter, harder to break, flexible, malleable, .. the list goes on.

In the 1980s, the use of glass containers was more out of necessity than preference. People didn't opt for heavy glass containers to be environmentally friendly; they simply lacked alternatives.

The appeal of single-use (plastic) containers lies in their convenience. Although they are undoubtedly more wasteful, their ease of use cannot be denied. People favor them for this convenience, with their wasteful nature being an unfortunate byproduct. If we refuse to acknowledge this fundamental truth, progress in environmentalism will never be done.
> I'm way more excited about the super stable jitter

Indeed - significant quality of life improvement for drone operators !
“ Of course, riders who use a throttle-enabled electric bike won’t reap the same level of benefits as pedal assist e-bikes that still require pedaling…”

That’s the buried lede. Most e-bikes I see are throttle enabled and used like electric motorbikes. Many look way too heavy to be pedaled any distance or up a hill.
You think this way because you do not pair in the right way the Maxwell equations. The divergence equations are not paired. The same for the curl equations. Pairing the equations in the wrong way can actually lead to errors in the relativistic case.

Two equations are intrinsic properties of the electromagnetic field because it is derived from a potential, i.e. the null condition for the divergence of the magnetic field and Faraday's law of induction.

The other two equations are what you call "physical", i.e. they show the relationship between the electromagnetic field and its sources, i.e. electric current and electric charge.

Alternatively, if you use potentials to describe the electromagnetic field, which is better in my opinion, you just have the relations between potentials and their sources (together with the conservation law for the electric charge). With potentials, you can get rid of the "geometrical" relations (though the choice of potentials is not unique).
How will Mojo solve what is essentially a GPU driver issue (ROCm vs cuda)? AMD's track at supporting GPU computing is very poor to be trusted so far.
Now check the price per litre and ask your decision makers to introduce a deposit system for glass and plastic bottles.
Ah it's me that misread it then.

I interpreted it as the smallest distance travelled towards the goals in comparison the the countries in the following sentence which have made most progress.

Now I'm not sure what it means. If other countries have made more progress over the last decade, how can the countries listed with Estonia be closer to their goals?
Having children has become way more exhausting: the need for advanced degrees and career climbing before reproduction means we do it later in life when we have less energy. The same factors plus mobility means grandparents are unavailable or worse, in need of care themselves. When both parents have full time jobs, the crunch is even worse.

This all has 2 psychological effects: when parents feel like they’re just barely keeping this teetering lifestyle from falling over, they become very controlling. Tight control becomes the name of the game: it’s how everything’s done and anyway no one has the time or energy for the unexpected.

Also, when the child represents a gargantuan investment, people become realty protective over their fragile prize. Like a luxury car that you can barely afford: all protective measures will be taken.
Beast AI attack can break LLM guardrails in a minute
Unfortunately they're popping up in Japan too, I just walked past this one https://ibb.co/27nh6gZ
German Flaschenpost kindly disagrees.
Strictly speaking those shouldn’t make the grass look greener.
Hidden file name styling can be customised in the theming.
not where I live - Heinz and the major local brand here (Idun, I think?) tend to sell only in plastic bottles.

I can sometimes find fancy ketchup in glass bottles, but considering that I only buy ketchup once or twice a year, I just can't remember. The glass bottle available isn't the Mutti ketchup that I bought years ago, so I'm just buying Heinz.
Herd mentality gets a bad rap, but it generally works for the herd.
Our "fixed norm" might be temporary in the Grand Scheme of Things(TM), but for the typical human life span, it could still work out to be nothing but... birthdays on Tuesdays :-/
I'm one of those people, though I don't use 501s specifically. I've noticed Levis quality has become hit-and-miss. I have two pairs, bought at the same time. Same model, same color, only the length is different [0], but same waist size.

They don't even fit the same! One is clearly larger, whereas the other was skin-tight when new. One seems somewhat thicker than the other.
Sure, like many things, and you should because it's going to be hardware accelerated, but in practice people don't.

Also, blink was removed before the CSS version was efficiently optimized on the browser's side: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900
I think there's a difference in culture between panic and exceptions. Panics are usually reserved for violated invariants, programmer errors. Exceptions are used for normal errors.
LLMs should never do customer support in heavily regulated Industries in the first place. I hope that becomes one of the new regulations.

Why is it that brick and mortar businesses need to provide customer support and online business get to dodge that responsibility?

Regulations need to catch up on them.
My grandad worked for Heinz in the big 57 factory. When I was a student he used to get me loads of cans of food, all without labels, you had to just know the little codes stamped on top to know if it was sponge pudding or chicken soup. I don't think they stamp the codes in the metal any more.
> I don't get why people keep pretending plastic being widely used today is due to some conspiracy instead of it's just better at its main function, even without factoring in cost.

I don't know how you read parents comment and concluded that they're talking about some conspiracy. They seem to genuinely ask a question that I'm sure they're not the only one thinking about.

> In 80's people use more glass containers because they didn't have choices, not because they love to carry heavy glass containers around to help the environment.

Again, don't think they said that people used glass containers back then to help the environment, just that for whatever reason they used those containers, it was less harmful to the environment. Not because that was the reason, that was just a side-effect of glass being the only choice. Then they ask the community what the reasons could be for everything being wrapped in plastic now.

As it reads right now, your comment doesn't seem to assume good faith of parent comment, but instead you're arguing against some position that isn't even talked about.
good to hear, I haven’t dealt with Kafka for years. Zookeeper was a pain to deal with, glad to see there are alternatives
Where I live only restaurants can buy glass bottle soda. It is quite sad, since I like those. They are way nicer to drink from.
There's also the minecraft thread: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=6273.0

Sadly many linked images aren't available anymore and the oldest archive is pretty recent from 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130517160444/https://forums.ti...
Video on the subject from EverydayAstronaut https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AAt9WDQEMoA

Those gains appear more marginal than expected.
[Principle of least privilege][1] is widely accepted to be a good practice, so I'm not sure about the bad faith argument.

In the same way my apartment door is locked because it's the safe default, and not because my neighbors are known to be criminals.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
What do you think about EdTech?
Coursera stock is lagging, Duolingo stock is exploding. Yes, they are different companies within the EdTech space but wondering if you had any views.

Coursera insiders are selling stock hand over fist, which is annoying.
I did some horseback riding when I was a Girl Scout, and I quickly found that I actually preferred to be on my own feet and interacting with the horse rather than on its back. All of my best and most vivid memories from that time are of petting and grooming horses, not riding them. Riding feels so impersonal.
Plastic is essentially a byproduct of fuel production. My understand is that a lot of companies will pay others to take that plastic off their hands. Not only is it cheaper to use plastic than glass, it's positively subsidised.
Do you put garden waste (bushes, grass) in the compost bin? Otherwise it feels an order of magnitude off.
Truth is, I don't know. Each case is different, as in the case of Legacy Media Vs Netflix etc. It's not all linear right?

But the overall setup/theme has definitely catalysed many of these outcomes.
Before reading the article, I was really surprised of the title, but then I realized it was not floppy disk drive music scene.

We're not there yet for the Floppontron.
There is a little button "Code ▽" under the demo if you want to see how it's working!
> how many people have talked me up about how innovative their structure was

If this crap flies I'm going to deploy the first non-Euclidean capital structure.
That's a very good point, which made me look on a different direction (after realising that I can't buy a pinephone or a librem with a VAT invoice in the EU):

I'm probably going to buy a raspberry pi 5 or equivalent, slap a 2x12000mah battery and 5" oled touch screen on it, build an case around that and call it a day. It's going to be pocketable, it's going to have a lot more battery life and a lot cheaper.

As for my phone, I'll probably get a pinephone or librem equivalent once there's one I can actively use for about a normal working day without having to replace the battery or experience slowdowns.

Thanks for all the info on this thread!
For sports specifically, if you want to get started with regular short exercises, you might want to look into Tabata playlists.
> a scam perpetuated by the plastic industry

What does this actually mean and what are you basing it on? Without any sources or references it reads a bit like FUD.
the seal is waste depending what it is made of. ramune uses some kind of plasticy stuff, for example
I was wondering how a missile interceptor was even possible in the 50s given the insane precision required to hit a bullet with a bullet at those speeds, but it actually uses a nuclear warhead.
We really need something like The Onion with quotes from users, the way university newspapers will have a row of headshots and quotes from random students asked some question. The Onion of course was orginally a student newspaper that had something like that.

Instead all we get is an endless stream of BS from "Big Tech CEOs".

I want to hear what the people say, not some "Big Tech" compulsive liar.
Ketchup should be in a jar rather than bottle really. You can't get the ketchup out of glass bottles. Or atleast 5yo me couldn't. And that was about the last time I had those.
The levitating self-solving Rubik's Cube [video]
We don't live in a world where what's supposed to happen is what actually happens.
That law reads like a good starting point for the lifetime evolution of matter around a star, but too simple to be expected to capture the full range of possibilities. Probably shouldn’t be used to refute hypotheses.
This competition also made me feel incredibly dumb: https://youtu.be/dSnOLW_W6og
That can be true of bicycles as well to be honest.
Just a few points....

1. Some decisions are better made than delayed. Most choices are reversible. So get over those being be important/relevant.

2. Everything else _should_ be thought through. Push for it. If that's not possible then you have to live with the consequences. These are most often sales traps though, see e.g. "scarcity" in "Influence: The psychology of persuasion" which covers deadlines. If you fail for these then please read the book or listen to the audio book.

3. Winning an argument is not just about thinking about arguments. See "The art of being right" for a set of arguing tactics that will make you look like you are dumb.

4. Fast good action is often a matter of turning it into a routine. That's what you do for incidents (gamedays), fire drills etc. If it matters then better be prepared!

But on top of everything.... I've been doing on-call for years. I can tell you that bad decisions under time pressure and emotional stress are often bad and far from optimal. It's ok. It's human.

The thing that makes me a bit uneasy is that it looks like you are stressing yourself on top of everything. You can get professional help for that too.
1,000,000,000,000 in USD, right?
software piracy means "the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's work.". It doesn't mention stealing. Stealing have a different meaning
Ah interesting. I though it was glass on glass.
We Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Made
Shortened the title from: We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years.
But in your example both prompts are untrusted. In that email example, instead of prompt injecting at the end, you could just change the content to "send $500 to this account"

There was no separation of trusted or untrusted input.
And also a link to the entire study, with sonograms and high-speed photos and the whole 9 yards.
Light Base Map look very early 2000s. Washed out and low contrast with pastels.. It's very pretty. I'd use it as a background image. But I feel you can't see anything really without really straining yourself. You don't get an immediate sense of the terrain or road network without taking a minute to look at it in detail.

Maybe b/c it's what I grew up with, but I've always found AAA maps (do they still print them?) had the best colors and contrast. I've never found any other map app that looks anywhere nearly as good
I just saw an interview with more detail and it sounded to me like they were going to have the turbine drive a generator powering an electric motor to drive the fan. Like a diesel electric locomotive. And this is supposed to allow it to transition from turbofan to turbojet to reach mach 2.7 to allow starting up a ramjet which launches the second stage to mach 5 before lighting its rocket engine. Not sure why none of that detail was mentioned here.

https://youtu.be/Detvd2EqWWU
> Compared to glass container, plastic ones are much lighter, harder to break, flexible, malleable, .. the list goes on.

Yes but they also have the huge waste issue and society isn't doing enough to deal with it. The drawbacks are also huge, the cost just isn't an issue for the companies putting the plastic out into the world. It's more cost effective because we allow it to be, because we subsidise the oil industry, because we don't tax plastic waste highly enough etc etc.