skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad keeps a hammer in his Tesla to break a window in case he's trapped in without the windows working.
I don't think any solar projects use 60Hz inverters. ~10kHz seems to be the industry standard, although I believe some micro inverters go right up to 1Mhz (saves on capacitors, copper, and steel, but you have to buy much more expensive silicon)
Good list here: https://psychedelicalpha.com/data/psychedelic-drug-developme...
…isn’t that 95% for the Prius also shifting emissions, though? That doesn’t seem like a point in favor of the hybrid.

One can’t say that a particular energetic electron was energized by a solar plant, sure. But one can look at new power deployment and see that almost all of it is non-CO2-emitting, a large majority is renewable, and more than half of it is solar. [1]

Over the past decade the US has turned over roughly 1-2% of generation capacity annually, and grown by about 1% annually [2]—but those numbers are accelerating: in 2023 we grew about 6%. [1]

Totally plausible that we’re at the start of an S-curve here; the grid is certainly not getting dirtier, and with an expected life of > 10 years an EV purchased today will be quite a bit cleaner by EOL based on charging power source alone.

[1]: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/chart-near...

[2]: https://www.publicpower.org/resource/americas-electricity-ge...
Yeah, Toyota is a poor choice if your goal with a vehicle is conspicuous consumption status signaling rather than transportation.
The electronic door poppers should be illegal. They’re so clearly a safety hazard with no cost or function/ease of use upside.

Other brands that aren’t Tesla don’t go to such great lengths to hide the emergency releases, too.
Batteries take a long time to charge and I believe time on road is a bigger cost factor. Hydrogen can do ~1000 KM (prototype from Daimler) vs 3300 KM for diesel trucks. Refill time is ~30 min to full compared to 5 minutes for diesel. The Tesla semi claims to do ~800 KM and can get back 560 miles after 30 minutes. So the EV semi is ~40-50% the efficiency of a hydrogen one. Now of course, there may be ancillary reasons why EV might still win (e.g. batteries continue to scale better because they have so many more uses & thus get better economies of scale).

Ultimately though, I’m not 100% sure battery production can keep up. Lithium production is growing by ~20% YoY and that’s just from transitioning a small portion of our automotive fleet to EV. Getting to 100% consumer automotive EV may bump by 2035 which is a common target may bump that up as would using it for grid scale storage. It’ll be interesting to see how the price of lithium keeps up with that increased demand as we exhaust the easily accessible deposits and have to start mining more expensive deposits.

You’re probably right about e-kerosene for aviation and ammonia for shipping although neither of those is actually net 0 in practice (+ emit all sorts of noxious other gasses). Hydrogen would probably be the cleanest although it has larger logistical challenges.
Most tech overhired during the pandemic. THAT was a bubble. Nvidia on the other hand just kept building GPUs, like they've been doing for decades. Then GPTs took off and people built them in CUDA.

They doesn't really seem like a bubble to me, but rather a moat they they've spent a long time building.

People are flocking there because it's the next big thing. For now.
This reminds me of the story of one of the only times Newton was known to have laughed:

“According to Henry P. Macomber's paper "Glimpses of the Human Side of Sir Isaac Newton," the great scientist worked with secretary Humphrey Newton during one of the busier periods of his life. Per The Newton Project, William Stukeley said he only witnessed only one laugh from the genius. It came about because Isaac had loaned an acquaintance a copy of "Euclid" and later asked them their thoughts on the book. The friend responded by asking why studying such things would ever be of any help to them, "upon which," wrote William Stukeley in a letter to Richard Mead, "Sir Isaac was very merry."”

Read More: https://www.grunge.com/639460/the-only-two-times-isaac-newto...
Model X's laminated glass is near impossible to break underwater according to the article.

Instead of a window hammer, in the US you could probably use a handgun to shatter the glass instead.

The Cybertruck though uses "bulletproof glass", so you can't even shoot your way to escape - it'll just make a hole to make the car sink faster.
Could not agree more, this exactly describes my motivation in publishing my own projects. I have benefited from the open-source ecosystem and I want to it to thrive into the future. My salary provides me with a comfortable life, and I doubt I could sell the kind of things I enjoy making.
How is this different from cadence by Uber or swf?
I've been using PlantUML, having come from using GraphViz.

I can't tell is has any relation to this. I use it to generate SVGs in Maven documentation site builds.
https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/ec2-linux-degraded-hardw...

Note in particular:

> For instances that launched from an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling group, the instance termination and replacement occur immediately
I bought license to Monodraw in 2018 and have used it off and on since, so I can attest to GP
How accessible are these diagrams to screen readers?
The use of “computer” throughout got me excited. Requires a Mac, yes?
Will that work in a Cybertruck?
The problem with AI is when those energy demands collapse. Right now they prevent a real tsunami of AI garbage from destroying the internet as we know it. Think USENET epic proportions.
Oh wow. I remember a kid in elementary school with CF. I didn't understand at the time what he and his family was going through. I remember his personality and intelligence, his skill on the soccer team. He was unusually driven for an 8-9 year old.

As I got older and into my 20s, I thought about him a lot -- it was understood that most CF patients don't make it out of their early 20s and I knew even if he were particularly lucky, as time went on and I aged, he was probably gone.

My father also recently died from lung cancer, and had a few months where he was effectively drowning in his own lung fluids, requiring doctors to drain his lungs with long needles through his back. That experience also brought me back to that schoolmate, considering what he had had to endure.

Recently, I was reorganizing my personal library and came across my elementary school yearbook and flipping through, saw his picture. It's been decades since he's likely passed on. It gave me pause to contemplate certain priorities in my life and try to cultivate greater compassion.

It's a particularly cruel disease, and this news is wonderful.
And how are you doing today?
Yep, is AppleScript

Still don’t know how they get around auto send, iMessage required user input last time I tried this

[Edit] Shortcuts still require user interaction, apparently mac does not, that's interesting
The trouble is "truth" and math are different.

You can verify a mathematical result. You can run the calculations a second time on a separate calculator (in fact some computers do this) to verify the result, or use a built in check like ecc.

There's no such mathematical test for truth for an ai to run.
Lack of care is harm.

That's why quacks are so infuriating other than money they take (even in social medical systems) time is lost which means disease progression. For many diseases there is now cure but there may drugs to slow it down. The drugs may take a long time to work so years spent on fake crap may mean it's too late for a person to go on a drug.
Thanks!

I plan to move it to JSON sometime in the future, but it won't remove the need for a webpack loader, at least not the way it is built now. The webpack loader exists to resolve dependencies. If your flow depends on Node1 from @flyde/stdlib and Node2 from @spankalee/flyde-nodes, "something" needs to resolve the code for these nodes.

A possible way around this is to bundle/compile a flow and its dependencies using tooling on Flyde's end, but that's just shifting what the loader does to another end of the pipeline :)

Regarding shipping in a web component - you could always wrap https://www.npmjs.com/package/@flyde/flow-editorin a standalone renderer. It's cumbersome and adds many extra KBs, but doable.

Appreciate the feedback!
Phase III is when you test efficacy so it’s exactly how it’s meant to be
I wonder which EVs these are? My Ioniq 5 has standard door and window controls. The doors still open when the 12V is disconnected. Maybe I should be glad I have a plebeian Hyundai.
It's not a "button", it's a slider. It's not easy to "mispress". And I don't think that slider is present on older Model X, so she probably pushed the stalk up to go into reverse. Which IMO is less confusing than most automatic shifter levers, where you have to remember than pulling it _back_ makes the car go forward.
I'm glad I have an old Model S!
It would but the incentives of the Internet (SEO, clickbait, etc.) broke the "inverted pyramid" philosophy in journalism.
> The political hopes that free software would help build a more free and anti-capitalist future are largely forgotten, and when remembered, seem embarrassingly specific to a certain mode of computing.

We are living in the "more free" future (it was never anti-capitalist) that free software built, and it spans most "modes of computing", dominating some. The thing that's specific to one mode of computing is having no practical alternative to an exploitative, consumer-hostile, proprietary walled garden. That's specific to mobile computing, and it's not some inevitable consequence of capitalism, only of monopoly power and weak regulation.
Partner up with the USB folks and call it STM32.6-Gen4.
CISA forced to take two systems offline last month after Ivanti compromise
My point is that I haven't heard of any instance of a ship being irreparably damaged. They were of course taken out of commission and had to be towed back
What makes you think they’d otherwise have leave?

All militaries do pomp and ceremony. Maybe a bit more in the UK. But it’s part of the job description.
I'm not saying to disallow it, but please at least understand that it still hurts.
> how is AI generated content worse?

This is a crucial question.

In human society, a feedback loop of nonsense is usually defeated by practical effects in physical reality and experience. The objective of education, for example, is to transmit knowledge and apply reason to important questions.

In manipulated social media, there is no check on the nonsense loop. The technology that we currently call A.I. could be used for educational good.

How it will be used, however, is likely to further distort discourse and generate nonsense.
Really? I would have assumed the opposite, based on cookies at least having some fiber and such. Do you have more information on this?
Download or buy a bunch of recipe books and then search inside them. They're of much greater quality. YouTube cooking videos are also superior in quality to anything you'll find on Google.
> that second option is exactly what we do

I don't think so. I see claims made all the time about science being "settled" purely on the basis of it being peer reviewed.

> replication is key before some new finding is accepted

If only that were true. In many cases it isn't.
Can you please state your points differently? I genuinely didn't understand what you are trying to say.

> so well formally there is no reasons to see a drop in salary WFH.

My observation says otherwise. Lot of remote companies have expanded headcount internationally or in cheaper cities compared to their pre-covid workforce.

> if you are from middle/high income cohort you earn more moving in the nature

This simply doesn't work for big segments of population - people with kids in schools who do not want to disturb stability of their kids lives, people with big social networks of friends and families in an area, a couple where one partners works a job which is necessarily in office etc.
Interesting, but on the wobbly side of science.

Trees are usually defined to be something very different from cycads and palms. Today if these were growing, they wouldn't be called trees, and their cluster not called forests.

And second, similarly to how 'there's no such thing as a fish', it's been postulated that there's no such thing as a tree. Many different life-forms that we call trees, have no known common ancestor.

Make of that what you will.
Thank-you. I need to work up to that. The first two hacks map numbers to rhyming words and numbers to shapes.

A couple modifications to the "memory palace" include (1) expanding each room to 10 numbered slots: each wall, wall meeting wall, and floor plus ceiling; (2) an entire hotel of rooms from the Dominic method.

There's also behavioral hacks, math tricks, and a bunch of others that I had never been exposed to.
I use a language with a builtin debugger and profiler (Lisp). Sometimes I even make good use of those tools.
Rage, Riots, and Death: Looking Back at the Pepsi 349 Debacle (2022)
I would not characterize any of these apps as loading "instantly".
I know there are crap reviewers that are basically shills, and I also know that if you’re going to accuse a specific person or organization of shilling, you had best bring receipts.

You’ll also note the guy I was originally responding to didn’t, and instead throughout this thread has made vague and uncritical commentary about social media influencers and how they need to be “managed” disregarding what Marques’s channel actually does. Don’t give a guy like that an out.
Age of Invention: The Second Soul, Part I
Why would you need 10K H100s for image generation? That sounds more like a training setup
Out of curiosity couldn't one recreate Twilio just by running an extended version of this from a Macbook?

You could read all inbound messages from the Messages app and reply as well. You could even hook it up to a local LLM and run a small support agent.

Is there ANY reason a small business owner couldn't do this and avoid paying SaaS fees?
> Peer review is supposed to characterize the research in terms of quality

Fraudulent research would obviously not be of the desired quality, wouldn't it?

> It's a system built upon honesty.

But if the purpose is to characterize the research in terms of quality, this can't be right. Since fraud is known to happen, and there are known to be incentives for fraud, any process that claims to judge the quality of research would have to have some way of checking for fraud.
I'd say it depends upon how you define "capitalism" because most advocates of "capitalism" define it as an economy of free and voluntary exchanges while most of its detractors define it as an economy of giant corporations that oppress their workers and buy politicians to protect themselves from competition. The staunchest advocates of "capitalism" and its staunchest critics ironically tend to share the same hatred of corporate welfare and monopoly. Both are usually all for the little guy selling goods and services.

Just like with "socialism", most discussions about "capitalism" are actually people with different definitions talking past each other. I'd say the important issue in economics is monopoly vs anti-monopoly not "capitalism" vs "socialism" and free software is definitely on the side of anti-monopoly.
> That is terribly difficult underwater and can be even more so when trying to bash through tempered glass or sturdier laminated glass, which most car companies use today. Those are the two types of glass that Tesla may have used in its 2020 Model X, according to company documents. Laminated glass, in particular, is lauded for its safety qualities, such as preventing a driver from being ejected during a crash; however it is nearly impossible to break underwater, according to testing done by the American Automobile Association.

So it sounds like it's a mixed bag from a safety perspective — you're less likely to be ejected, but more likely to drown. It's not crazy to choose this type of design if ejections are much more likely.

However, it seems like any car sold with this glass should come with a warning and perhaps an included safety tool to escape. I wonder if the AAA testing utilized window hammers or just regular brute force.
> All of these terms, including the Anglo‐Saxon word “lifere,” seem to closely resemble the English verb “to live,” underscoring the relation of the liver to life in populations influenced by the Celtic culture.

Except that "liver" (etc) and "life" have no etymological relationship, so this coincidence can't have anything to do with Germanic culture, much less Celtic(?!) culture.
I suppose the logic is more that the amount of people able to save themselves, even given the tool, is a rather low number.
Another piece was a science-fiction story about exploring an undiscovered tropical region of Antarctica. It imagines the Nimrod’s party making their way into the strange land of Bathybia, 22,000 feet below sea level. They used rafts made of giant, man-sized mushrooms to travel down rivers into a red jungle, encountering giant ticks, alcoholic algae, and huge carnivorous versions of microscopic Antarctic rotifers.

A few years earlier, the German science-fiction author Kurd Lasswitz published the novel "Two Planets", about a Martian colony at the North Pole. It would influence a young Werner von Braun, who would later guide the US space program, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39571588

More recently, J. Michael Straczynski, creator of "Babylon 5", participated in the writers room for the 2021 movie "Godzilla vs Kong",

> Apex CEO Walter Simmons recruits former Monarch scientist and Hollow Earth theorist Nathan Lind to guide a search for a power source into the Hollow Earth, the Titans' homeworld. Lind is hesitant as his brother died in an expedition to the Hollow Earth due to a strong reverse-gravitational effect. He agrees when Walter reveals that Apex has developed HEAVs, specialized craft able to withstand the gravity field. Lind convinces Andrews to let Kong guide them via an outpost in Antarctica. Lind, Andrews, and an Apex team led by Walter's daughter Maia board a barge escorted by the US Navy, carrying a sedated and restrained Kong.
> (2) EVs generally are hard to get out of because windows lack manual controls compared to ICE vehicles

My '07 ICE vehicle has non-manual windows. I thought basically everything except the very very cheapest did these days.
> The staffers don't depend on Twitter to do their job

Sure looks to me like they are. I guess we'll just have to disagree.
Show HN: Take back control of your time – Inspired by Nat Friedman
I developed the "Year Progress App," inspired by the idea that a week is 2% of a year, to make time more tangible using relative scales. Disappointed by the high costs and limited benefits of existing apps, I opted to create a free alternative that aids in effective time management. I chose not to charge for the app to avoid the hassle and to freely contribute to improving productivity. I've open-sourced the app, believing in the community's ability to enhance and expand it. The positive feedback on LinkedIn affirmed my belief in the app's potential and value.
Why would they announce if it's a beta? For all we know it could have been a bug or something, or an unfinished attempt to change it in some ways. I'm having a hard time imagining Apple just willy nilly nuking a fairly prominent feature many people use. Including myself, by the way.
I don't want to dismiss your anecdote, because it is very much possible you've come across an outlier where LSD actually had that effect, but without knowing for sure they had actually taken unadulterated LSD it's tricky. In any case it sounds like a harrowing experience, and certainly a reason to be careful (and to be mindful that whether or not you believe the risk of any given drug is acceptable, ensuring you get the drug you actually intend is another problem).

I'll also note I specifically did not call it safe. It is one of the safest. We don't know what a lethal dose would be, and to the extent users might do harm to others, it has been limited enough to not get picked up at any substantial scale. But you're right to not make a blanket claim that it is safe, and I would agree we can't make the claim that it is safe.

At least some studies of the "classic" psychedelics have found them to be correlated with fewer violent arrests, and fewer arrests in general[1] compared to no drug use, but the problem with that too is that we don't know whether this is down to who uses LSD vs. other drugs - if users of LSD are sufficiently less violent on average, then it could still increase that baseline and just not be picked up. But compared to the massive effects of e.g. alcohol, there's simply nothing to suggest it is even in the same ballpark.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29039233/
Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
I worked on validation at Intel and the primary source of faults over time is electromigration in the lower metal layers and our failure rates went out to 7 years (and there are multiple scenario %-failure curves in that window), and we dialed that back during the war with Athlon. Other sources of error are bit failures in sense amps in low-voltage SRAM circuits. Hitting reliability above 105 C Tj was really really really expensive for the big die sizes of Intel CPUs in the 2000s. Claiming the crown for low-yield high-performance CPUs required relaxing a lot of failure rates. However, intel was so paranoid to begin with, it didn't lead to massive failures but remember that industrial consumers have much more rigid requirements around reliability than gamers.
Monodraw is great. I occasionally use it to document system architecture in code comments and project READMEs etc. [0]

Also handy as a quick way to document CSS styles to help visualise which parts of a layout a given style targets [1]

[0] https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/f006a5f61b60160862ec13024e...

[1] https://gist.github.com/supertr0n/462325ec3f7fbea02780039150...
Thanks! I suspect I'll throw this all away for SD3, but –

It's a proper fine tune (LoRA, not "full"). I experimented with IPA faceID and a few others but got poor results. Especially when training characters that don't look like celebrities. It's really obvious when you train it on yourself vs a stranger. And in this case the character is the customer, so that matters. As an aside this whole space of "custom fine tunes" will eventually get hurt by people promoting IPA products, which perform worse, but are 100x cheaper than real fine tunes. That is, until IPA-style tricks get better. (So, 3 months from now?)

Here's what I learned after lots of experimenting: stick to koyha's defaults. I wasted a lot of time on custom pipelines to normalize training images. I also wasted a lot of time fixing Replicate's SDXL cog, which I now know is more of a proof of concept than something people are supposed to actually use.

Don't use reg images (not necessary in this case), use a "celebrity doppelgänger" tool to train an existing token instead of a rare token, and, importantly, give folks a tool for spot correction (inpainting) to e.g. fix hands. Pretty much every image has some AI artifact but you can cycle through a few corrections to fix it.

Not sure if you're building in this space but I'll add: try paying for a few of the headshot generators out there. They're a bit disappointing. I assumed they had all "cracked it" so I kept working until I had a decent process, and the result is arguably better than the current leading products (which mostly use upscaled & face-corrected SD1.5).

On the market and product – this landing page is converting paid traffic very poorly and has had zero sales, so it's impossible to predict which ideas resonate, even if the tech is interesting!
10 years ago they had a larger ceremony as part of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic; perhaps this is for the 80th?
Why have that issue on ollama instead of llama.cpp?