skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A study was undertaken for the Australian grid.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-near-100pct-renewable-grid-for...

It basically found that you can get close to 100% relatively easily with minimal storage (5 hours average demand).

The issue with getting over the mid-90s and to handle 100% is that you need to cater for the edge-cases (conditions that may occur 1-2 times per year max).

Either way from memory, LCOE (in $/MWH) for grid-scale solar is around 50-60, adding storage brings costs up to 80-120. Nuclear is in the range of 200-300+, so even with storage the economics of renewables are better with costs trending downward. Especially when you can build them and scale them up quickly (compared to 10-15 years of nuclear builds).
Dave Plummer is such a cool guy. I love how casually he writes about building one of the most ubiquitous kernels of all time.

> He created the Task Manager for Windows, the Space Cadet Pinball ports to Windows NT, Zip file support for Windows, HyperCache[4] for the Amiga and many other software products. He has been issued six patents in the software engineering space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer
Grifters request that you not write the grift down.
Again bringing it back to the drag racing analogy… you wouldn’t commute to work in a drag racer. Thats not the point. The point is to push the hardware to the point of absurdity, just like drag racing.
If extreme overlocking isn’t for you then that’s fine.
Schwarzenegger had posters of body builders on his wall growing up. He was dedicated to it from the beginning.
Does New York have a functioning justice system? This is insane for this nonsense to go on.
It’s a bit off topic I’m not sure behaviour being “instinctive” means it’s thoughtless (whatever that means).

For example, being uncomfortable might be an instinctive response to being cold, but it’s hardly thoughtless. Some people choose to swim in icy water as a form of recreation. Some sit outside on a cool night and enjoy the crisp air. We write songs and poetry about the deep frost. It means something to us.

I know our nervous systems are far more complex than eg: a bivalve mollusc, who are probably not composing poetry about the sensation they get that makes them close their shell.

I don’t really disagree with you about the observed behaviours in TFA, but I do always feel weird when I hear any living thing called effectively a thoughtless automaton.
It was certainly how I learned to do it, but lambdas have been around for over a decade and I still see people writing functors. The only use case I've seen where it made sense is for things like coroutines.
There is a way to insert arbitrary data into Bitcoin transactions. Ordinals and Runes leverage this fact, then create specialized tools and indexers on top of it to create meta-protocols for fungible tokens and NFTs that have a very clunky base-protocol secured by Bitcoin but a lot of higher-level tooling to make interacting with it easier. It’s a positive step for Bitcoin because it moves the ecosystem of a stagnant chain forwards (if you think that’s important, many btc maxis see it as a toxic development) and creates a plausible mechanism to pay miners post-inflation which had not existed yet.

ETH is insanely advanced because of Layer 2s. Optimism, Arbitrum, zksync, Blast, Base, and many more literally cost fractions of a cent per transaction and their security is the same as Ethereum because they are protected by the ETH layer 1. Google roll up technology, how Optimism works, etc. it is very fascinating.

Solana is the new XRP, they somehow got the normie-aligned faction of crypto (huge retail bags) on board. But it is literally a centralized database - it routinely goes down for hours, because the system is centralized. You can’t join the network as a validator unless you spend enormous amounts of money and colo your server with the foundation’s servers. The major innovation on solana is tons of meme coins. There is money there but I’m not seeing much serious organic development. But they have a lot of capital that will reinvest, so maybe.
Is that power available 24/7?
His YouTube channel is great too! https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage
Dropping a $trillion isn't shrinking much?

And remember that the economy has been growing the whole time. If the economy grows while the money supply stays constant then it is effectively a shrink of the money supply since a constant amount has to spread across more activity.
It's a useful tool! I used it to create a 128GB FAT32 flash drive for sharing my games collection between retro PCs.
How would you deal with things like Japanese and English, where the source and target languages are awfully apart?

French, Italian and Spanish all share the same root and English borrows a lot of words from the three of them (plus the alphabet and the indo-european origin).
I bet the ArchiveTeam might be able to help you out with this. They were quite helpful when I wanted to make sure a site was preserved, and might be able to help you as well, or at least point you in the right direction. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
> If you wanted to you could spend your entire life shooting heroin, eating junk food and playing video games - but most people, for some reason, don't seem to.

The vast majority of people could not, in fact, afford to live like this for very long at all. Not that that's necessarily the only reason they choose not to, but it certainly is a confounding factor.
It's actually useful in a code golf context, because "x * -~y" is two characters shorter than "x * (y + 1)".
> A common reason why bidets aren’t used in the US is that during World War 2, American soldiers saw brothels utilizing bidets. When they came back to United States, they shunned the bidet because of the connotations.

ofc something sex-related would sink an obviously good idea in the US.

Regardless, we purchased our first bidet in 2017 after I used one in an office I visited. It completely changed how I use the bathroom.

Any bathroom without one is neanderthal to me.

The idea of using nothing but toilet paper to clean quite possibly the nastiest orifice on our bodies is mind-bending to me. (Wet wipes would be an improvement, but it's super hard to find even those in public restrooms.)

Even four-star+ hotels in the US won't have bidets! I carry my own when I travel. (The St. Regis in DC has a bum nozzle, but I think they carry those because everyone in the world comes to DC and most bathrooms of the world is with it and has at least these.)

We upgraded two of our toilets to TOTO Washlets last year. These changed the game AGAIN. THEY HAVE DRIERS. I didn't even know a dryer for your bum was possible!

I'm glad the US is finally coming to their senses on this very important topic.
And after that paragraph:

> "What we cannot allow them to ship is the most sophisticated, highest-processing power AI chips, which would enable China to train their frontier models," she added

The Lovelace line is on the newer end, though the RTX4090 is more commercial driven in usecases.
It's documented here: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Restoring
Take a good long look at this list, that is always getting updated.... of all the wrong predictions for the end of the world.[1]

I used to take those things seriously in my youth. Back then we were heading rapidly into an ice age.

Don't go nuts spending your money, plan carefully for retirement, and if you're lucky, you'll get to spend those savings. But don't be so tight with it that you miss out on everything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
Yea, non-nullable types. Thanks.
look at ArchiveBox from the comments below
Thanks for giving it a spin and providing detailed feedback!

I've followed up via email with a fix!
> If more nuclear takes 20+ years to build while we can get wind farms online next month, is it really faster?

Building (roughly) plants 1 through 3 will be the hardest, take the longest, and cost the most, but after that—assuming you use the same design throughout—you can build quite quickly. Japan averaged ~5 years between beginning of construction and commercial operations:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...

France build 58 reactors in 25 years:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France%27s_civil_nu...

It helps if you don't start and stop projects/plants: many cost over-runs are because of wishy-washy decision making.

> When’s the last time anyone built a nuclear plant in 4 years?

2004 to 2009 is five, Tomari 3 in Japan:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomari_Nuclear_Power_Plant
These actually point of a failure mode of the original topic's visualization, at least as it pertains to public transit:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Ma...

(I think a previous commenter called this out by referring to subways as "wormholes")

As for car directions, you should be able to create an isochron by drawing circles in the transformed map!
to 90000'? that would be a tall order no pun intended. the bar would be heavy. one thing to keep in mind is that the gas will continue to expand, so that the size of the balloon visible in the GP's comment show it about 8' on the ground which is similar to my experience. by the time the balloon reaches burst altitude, it has increased in size to about 45'. this is part of the reason for needing such a long rope which allows for the swinging and torsion to this extent
Clusters? So with replication, leader election, load balancing, whole shebang? Kubernetes, with the help of one of the battle tested operators.
You may try kubeblocks(kubeblocks.io), a database control plane that can run almost any database on K8s.
Here we go again anthropomorphizing creatures that live 1-2 years by misrepresenting data for clicks.
These are great. Hot water is nice but your bum + the rate of water hitting it works fine.
Interesting twist on what other people have done, namely show a heat-map of where you can go using public transit + walking within 5 min, 15 min, 30 min.

time2reach https://map.henryn.ca/San%20Francisco

NYC Subwaysheds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36240264
There is a segment who want those 2D games.
Just send your users a login link to their email.

If you go with passwords, you already have a risk vector for resetting passwords. Skip the password and the reset.

Make the login link expire after 10 minutes so they attackers only have a short window.
Children will be startled, entertained, and then never do it again (in my experience).

In general, not having useful objects around the house because kids might misuse them deprives the tiny scientist of critical self-educational opportunities.
Landmark Study Confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is 'Unambiguously Biological'
From what I can figure out this is the longest one that: is on land. In/on a first world country (with a good level of logistical infrastructure) for the next 30-50 years.

There are other ones but the path of totality doesn’t pass completely on land or if it does it passes through Libya or something.

reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_th...
I wouldn't say ethnic-group formation happens as soon as the next generation (after the founding generation), but I agree with the larger point. I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple hundred years no one would bat an eye at talk of "ethnically American" or "Norwegian of American descent". My understanding is that that's more or less what happened with the French.
True. Although most science fiction which would take place over such a long timespan might involve methods of locking things down more firmly, and putting at least part of the world into a kind of stasis. This is almost necessary to explain how humanity could still be at a similar tech level to us now yet still be around for such a time period.
OP Should link to the original article which is listed in the first line:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quickly-do-large-language...
I'm diagnosed as ASD, and a psych has said I'm almost certainly ADHD but untestable. I have an unusually acute visual memory - I can accurately describe the room I was in while Churchill's funeral was on TV, when I was less than 3 years old. Most university exams were effectively open book because I could recall the pages I'd read as images.

I'm not convinced all the stereotypes about ASD/ADHD superpowers are true myself. And yes, autism super skills don't equate to commercial success for most of us.
Our definition of life is based on 1 single element.
sorry, noob here trying to make sense of this: you mean you can extract embeddings from the model file or that the embeddings are available in the repo and you can just use those files?
The survival rate for certain 15th/16th codices in Western Europe aren't great either. From England there are only three choirbooks (Eton, Lambeth, Caius) surviving from the first half of the 16th century, when the catalogue from just a single college at one university lists tens of choirbooks. Given the sheer number of cathedrals, colleges etc which supported musical institutions in pre-reformation England, the scale of the loss becomes apparent. Similarly there is almost a complete loss of all musical manuscripts from the royal court of France, such that the compositions of the leader of its court chapel need to be recovered (incompletely) from a Vatican manuscript.
I hope they learned something and aren't using forced hot air.. I don't really think the challenges are that high if lab space was designed poorly it is still better than typical Boston area residential, which certainly won't let you turn down the heat.

As for fire safety and egresses it basically begins outside the unit, so a hotel or boarding house and a office space actually have the same egress rules while a 3 bedroom is a death trap.
If I may ask, where can I read more about this? I wouldn't really know where to look for something like that, I'm afraid.

Edit: wording.
I have a will, as should everyone, but I wouldn't call it an alternative to a service like this.
You did fine. "Knowing what not to read is the wonder weapon", to repurpose the old joke.

Every paragraph without a thesis statement loses another significant fraction of readers.
It is truly awesome. I never get tired of this trick.
Code assistant for a niche programming language that GPT4 knows very little about and barely gets a hello world right.
The dehydrate comment is a reference to the three body problem - a great book!
Oh, come on, no.

Clearly this "law" is for clickbaity potentially-but-not-likely factual headlines, not ones that are obviously to some extent metaphorical.
Thank you.

So you and I are aligned that ETH is insanely advanced and if tomorrow the world had to choose a "base crypto with Layer 2 on top" to replace credit cards (or whatever the proposed purpose of crypto will be over the next 5-10 years if it doesn't fade away to oblivion), it would be ETH instead of BTC by a country mile, right?

What do you see as cryptos use case being? For example, right now it (stablecoins) helps people (Russia, who is out of Swift) transfer money to US. Isn't that "illegal"? It's #1 function is illegal at the moment, is it not? Next to speculative core of value.
They asked for verifiable facts. I think those answers fit that criteria perfectly.
None of those responses were at all hostile
Almost certainly your machine, but presumably you have a process to port services to your new machine. Gmail, I'm not so sure..
hope you can remember to use the typing EVERY single time. good luck!
That is overly cynical. It was a genuine effort to get the nuclear industry going in Australia; the Liberals have been angling towards it for a while.

* Australia is one of the most anti-nuclear-power countries in the world. At this point we're one of the few advanced countries left that doesn't have a nuclear reactor connected to the power grid. We're behind the curve on this and we should be looking at building up local experience in nuclear power.

* The right wing of Australia has been cautiously pro-nuclear since the Howard government and do little probes from time to time to see if the left have calmed down about advanced technology enough to build one yet.

* There is a lot of overlap between people who think the climate change people are not genuine and the pro-nuclear people ... but that is because the pro nuclear people have been pointing out the obvious solution from 1980 to 2020 to air pollution issues has been nuclear power and the green parties are one of the most vocal lobbies against it.

There are obvious financial risks to nuclear power, but Australia should at least enter the 20th century and have it on the table as an option. Our current policy is stupid.

> tl;dr at least some parts of the pro-nuclear-power lobby is actually just trying to end efforts to minimise climate change damage.

That is ridiculous; there is no such group. Australia doesn't even cause any climate change damage to minimise - accepting that as the goal, our contribution to global emissions rounds to zero, and we have no leadership on any useful technologies because our manufacturing sector has been knocked out of competition (arguably our terrible energy policies were one of the big contributors to this, although wages were a decisive factor).
And they've complied: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/29/0111242/nvidia-slow...

They aren't selling the "most sophisticated, highest-processing power" chips, but they are (and rightfully so given the law) selling sophisticated, high-processing power chips.

When we're beating around the bush refusing to not sell to China while they go and do the deed wholesale on their side, it's a foregone conclusion who is winning this New Cold War and whether it's worth waging it (for us) at all.

Also, it's been well over 24 hours since ComSec gave that "the very next day" statement.
> Wind farms deliver nada when the wind does not blow. The unsolved problem of intermittency.

The province of Ontario has a respectable wind infrastructure, but quite often in the middle of heat waves (when demand is high, because air conditioning is needed to help people keep cool/alive) the wind often does not blow.

Solar would be useful for supply in summer, but it's not useful at night obviously (when it can be cooler, but still hot (>30C)).
So instead of powering homes, farms, and factories they're burning through the energy budget enthusiastically speed running modern finance? But it's OK because it's mostly green power? It's not like Texas or its neighboring states could use that solar and wind to replace some coal plants or anything ...

L2 smells a lot like a hacky way of partially centralizing, to workaround a rotten foundation. I wonder how it will scale once mining takes more energy than whole continents.

VCs rubbing their hands together at the thought of picks, shovels, and financial services does not sound like progress to me.

Well, at least they can use all that waste heat to keep warm in those frigid Austin winters.
also, one ply toilet paper.

ONE PLY.

sandpaper feels better than that crap. low-grit, though.

how that can be considered toilet paper beats me.

it's especially punishing for women since they absolutely need the toilet paper to clean up.

Also, i don't understand men who cannot aim into a toilet bowl.
Eclipse day? Beware the IDEs of March.
Step 1. Get all of your shit off the cloud.

You don't own anything on the cloud. Yes, you can put stuff on there, but recognise this one fact. Out there, it doesn't belong to you. Nobody cares whether it remains safe or it disappears. especially don't have stuff on the cloud that doesn't exist anywhere else

To have it remain safe and under your control, it needs to be on your own server(s). And those servers need to be backed up daily.

Step 2. Have multiple backups.

Backups have been known to fail or die. If one backup goes, there should be at least one more.

Step 3. (And this might be sacrilege to some) Don't use encrypted drives.

If there is a problem with the encryption, the whole drive is irrevocably lost. If all files are stored individually, one or more files might get corrupted, but losing the entire drive would be very unlikely.

Step 4. Use hard copy. You know, that old stuff: paper.

Periodically, print out all your accounts, logins and passwords. Store that list in a readable documents package which will be read after your death, labelled such as 'Legal Documents'.

Step 5. Where have you copied all that stuff on your phone?

People too often forget to back up their phones. And it needs to be a backup that is not restricted to a particular company. So you've backed up your iPhone to Apple's Cloud. Are you certain that your next phone will also be an Apple? If it isn't can you replace all that stuff into your new Android phone?
good stuff, thank you!

I was hoping it was going to get into this wizardry, which I use a great deal: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/push_options.html#pu...

git push -o ci.variable=CI_TRACE_DEBUG=1 -o merge_request.create origin HEAD

although I'll be straight, there is waaaaaaaay too much ruby magick going on for my tastes so I tend not to try and be a hero with the variables if it's more complicated than just "-o ci.skip" or that trace debug one. Once upon a time I did some spelunking around in their abysmal rails codebase trying to find out, what, exactly syntax I can use and that's how I came to the "don't be a hero" stance because it was super opaque (yeah, yeah, I know: MRs welcome)
I think that every bad idea spread by the internet dwarfs the harms done by ideas spread by government. Every issue with the middle east over the last 20 years is the direct result of a crusade launched on a lie enthusiastically repeated by the same people claiming the moral high ground today.
Is joint hypermobility linked to self-reported non-recovery from Covid-19?
That’s a good question.

She did mention that her memory seems to be calendar based. She might be able to master the periodic table a day at a time. Jan 1, study hydrogen. Jan 2, study helium. Jan 27, study Cobalt.
The study https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39804043 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45107-3
That is a terrible headline. It implies that the _abilities_ are a mirage, but it's actually the "emergent" part that might be a mirage -- which is to say it's not an unpredictable "phase transition" but gradual and predictable improvement in ability as the models scale.
I believe there's one in Sydney towards the end of the decade.
How do you use it on mobile? Is there an app for it? I don't see it on the Google Play store.
Yes for cheap bidets but you need substantially less (think one sheet) to dry up versus needing 1/10th of the Amazon rainforest to achieve the same result
Rarely is human genetics this simple. For ages geneticists thought large swaths of the human genome were "junk" and over time more and more of it has been proven to have a purpose or function, it just wasn't readily apparent for various reasons.

Think of the human genome as sort of the ultimate dependency hell...
Nuclear drops down to within the same order of magnitude of the best solar, when you take exclusion zones into account(according to Vaclav Smil in Power Density). But solar (and certainly) wind couldn’t be called more space efficient overall.
It's an internet forum, not an academic journal. Water tight arguments are not needed. If one wants to call bs, they can just do it, no need to dance around the topic by asking for a citation.
I suspect you might have been the same age in 1999 as I was in 2004. To me, the games from 2004/2007 have shaped and defined the games being released now. CoD rewrote the shooter genre and is still one of the biggest games in the world. GTA:SA is a marvel of a game on so many levels. WoW is.... WoW. And Half Life 2 gave us steam.