skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar is stupidly cheap. I'm building a 40kw hybrid system with 50kwh of storage for less than 20k USD in Thailand. It's this cheap because there is 0% duty on my solar panels and inverters, I was able to source locally made aluminium racking. Of Course that is a DIY price, commercial installation would have been a lot more. However there was still 30% duty on the batteries that doesn't need to be there IMO.

Australia should negotiate a deal with China, remove all import tariffs on green energy products in exchange for guarantees of local manufacturing being setup here within 5 years and then subsidize the shit out of everyone doing rooftop solar with storage. If you remove the tariffs on LFP you can easily get down to $100USD/kwh for storage and similarly for panels $125USD/kw for rated power.

If everyone is running rooftop solar w/storage and not doing any export (or minimal export) the grid impact is purely positive and doesn't require smart grid shit to regulate things. It's possible to add an absolutely massive amount of capacity this way cheaply, without tech or solutions that don't exist yet and without much political capital being burnt other an upsetting some butthurt Americans that you are doing business with China.
I suspect that large tech companies are going to be increasingly relying on AI moderation to identify "unusual" behavior and ban accounts for it.

Failing to proactively ban a tiny obscure account posting illegal or extremely unpopular content just sets you up for political attacks either in the form of hostile new laws or of activist groups contacting your advertisers to convince them to stop doing business with you. Outlier users are definitely potential liabilities.
But now there is chance that Intel will at some point overtake TSMC again and most(?)/much of their production capacity would be in the US? That chance would no longer exist if the government nationalized Intel.. so what would be the point?
I would suggest taking basically any news of this type about NK with a grain of salt - a lot of it comes from South Korean tabloids afaik.
I have not from the perspective of seeking emplyment, but from the smaller mid-size employer side (200 employees, robotics) we have had to reject a number of candidates. Normally this is based on a resume review (so as not to waste people's time), but sometimes it does come out in interviews. My main challenge, and I'm not saying this is the case for you - I'm just offering the perspective on the other side, has been finding individuals/developers who plan committed to the company for the long haul (e.g. 5, or ideally 10 years) - not just a year or so. Learning our code base and the underlying math requires a significant investment, and we've had a rash of folks come in, learn what they can, and then depart, leaving us to repeat the cycle all over again. It's taking a toll, so we're actively seeking people who are committed to the long run so that the energy we invest in education has a decent return.

Again, not saying this is the problem you're facing or that every company needs to have long-duration and less-transient staff. This is just one issue I'm seeing and it's possible that it could potentially be a contributing factor.
There is plenty of scientific evidence out there that even people in western rural areas enjoy sex because it's fun.
No, the readers they install actually have NFC in them, believe it or not. So even the hardware in the POS at the store supports it
Do you have evidence for the second paragraph? The wealthiest countries are generally those with lower birth rates, although the very lowest fertility is in upper-middle income regions like Eastern Europe and E Asia
Companies need to stop being morality police
Surely you jest, you joker you. The number of problems with that idea far outweigh the benefits.

Should I go into detail?

Love your profile text, by the way.

EDIT: one quick example is that I’ve lost more data by forgetting passwords than I care to admit. They’ve all been from an age where I thought it was a good idea to encrypt my secret documents, lest prying eyes get to them. Turns out the secrets would’ve been interesting to me, but are no longer accessible. I suspect this isn’t uncommon.
Accelerated consolidation was policy for decades. Clinton Admin's dept of defence pushed it really hard, esp for defense contractors. To reduce costs, make our nat'l champions more competitive internationally, make our hair more luxuriant, and cure rickets. Because reasons.

Now the pendullum might finally be swinging back towards pro-competition and healthy open markets.
Ha, there was a treaty signed in 1967 or thereabout that made the moon property of "mankind" and that every nation has equal access to it. Now, if anything of value is found there I'm guessing this treaty is dropped immediately.
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 states there is no claim to sovereignty.

https://www.unoosa.org/res/oosadoc/data/documents/2017/stspa...
Arnell Group followed-up the Pepsi rebranding with the disastrous Tropicana rebranding.

Reportedly, they paid Arnell $35M for the Tropicana rebrand. It made their product look like a generic store brand. Upon rollout, they reportedly lost as much as $20M a month. They reverted it soon after.[1]

Arnell's explanation for the failure was similarly whacky.[2]

Two years later, Arnell Group's parent company, Omnicom, fired Peter Arnell. Though that might have been for misconduct that had Newsweek comparing him to Harvey Weinstein way back in 2009.[3]

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090226235602/http://industry.b...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arnells-explanation-of-failed-t...

[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120113061332/http://www.thedai...
Is your position that the scenario outlined above is irrational?
Things are very unclear. The author claims to have been able to download their own work prior to filing the appeal, so perhaps that's exactly what happened.

We're following a bread crumb trail of discord screenshots and instagram posts, no one is being straightforward about what is going on.

Google of course is a black box about enforcement actions on the foundation that transparency benefits spammers and doesn't help their bottom line, which is likely also true.
Google operates in many countries and is subject to many laws. Even in the US websites need to check whether you're over 18 to view (or read?) pornography, and Google Docs does not appear to have an age check at 18. Do you think this is an important feature that Docs should be working on? I'm not sure I do personally.
There are 3 good ways to give money to the private sector: as a purchase order, in exchange for equity, or as an interest bearing loan.

If the company won't accept money in one of those 3 forms they probably don't need it.
That unavoidable independence that comes with long-term human settlements (especially in places further than the Moon) is interesting to me, if only because historically interesting things happen when significant numbers of people establish a system outside of currently established systems, something that’s not been practically possible on Earth for quite some time.
> Just like it works everywhere else.

That's certainly not the case, though.
The false dichotomy is that you keep referencing Arch.

No one is disagreeing "Debian is absolutely easier than Arch"

Fedora, Endavour, OpenSUSE, may be easier than Debian. (Fedora is)

You fell for the exact false dichotomy by placing Arch vs Debian. There isnt 2, there is a circle of options, and Debian is not part of the consumer/daily driver circle.
> Atter processing the appeal, a pop up said my account was frozen pending review

Google presuming guilt until proven innocent. An appeal locking the account in retaliation is absolutely disgusting.
"who cares what rich people think" is an astoundingly politically naive statement.
So you think whatever process produces a GPT4 update is completely equivalent to pretraining and RLHF'ing a brand new model with new architecture, more data, etc??
In the Instagram screen shots was a message that I believe linked to Abuse Program Policies & Enforcement - https://support.google.com/docs/answer/148505

> Sexually Explicit Material

> Do not distribute content that contains sexually explicit material, such as nudity, graphic sex acts, and pornographic material. This includes driving traffic to commercial pornography sites. We allow nudity for educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purposes.
Or just that it got flagged for review, and upon review was found to be in violation of the terms of service perhaps? The ToS say you can't distribute sexually explicit material.
I think it might just have been that the capability makes the pattern matching unbounded in human complexity. The right side's expression is already practically unbounded in complexity, making the left side too flexible becomes insanely difficult to figure out. And when the Haskell community is telling you that some feature is too difficult for humans to use sensibly it's best to listen.

I think simple pattern matching is useful, especially type-based pattern matching, including which element of a sum type is matched. But you want to watch out for how complicated it gets on the matching side. Complex matching code is a very strong form of coupling. It may be a good thing but I think as a language designer you don't want to overpower it because of the coupling it introduces as the power gets used.
Google's policy doesn't say anything about using their services to create sexually explicit content, only using their services for distribution.

> Do not distribute content that contains sexually explicit material, such as nudity, graphic sex acts, and pornographic material. This includes driving traffic to commercial pornography sites. We allow nudity for educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purposes.

This squares with what happened to the authors here, who were only subject to enforcement actions when they shared the content via Google Docs.

But yes I think the basic idea of being unable to "trust" a free service which has no contractual obligations to you as a user is a given under any circumstances.
Do they also need to stop meeting legal obligations such as age verification for distributing/viewing sexually explicit material?
In Germany: this was my experience late last fall as well. It's not that I got no offers, it's just that the ones I got (2) were at least 30% below what I had asked for. It's definitely employer's market right now.
A lot of work went into this portfolio, and I am happy with the result. So I wanted to show it around. :ˆ)

Here’s the link to the website and GitHub:
Website: https://joeyderuiter.me/
GitHub: https://github.com/0xJ0EY/Portfolio-next

I appreciate any feedback, questions or suggestions.
Really? Do you have any source on that?
What a fun project it must have been, for the maker and the audience.

This part made me sad though:

> I spent $99 on an Apple Developer account only to sideload my application on two iPads. It was a decent compromise.

There really ought to be some consumer rights about running your own software on your own devices.
As far as I can tell you've identified that you have limited ability to get what you want in the public system because of an intransigent minority. The obvious response is to move into a parallel system where the minority doesn't have to participate. That is fast, fair and and pretty easy to execute all things considered - if people are serious about wanting to pay teachers more, which I don't believe they are.

> Starting a new private school system is a big effort for a position that says teachers should get 50k instead of 35k.

It really isn't. Or more accurately, if it is then that is the problem rather than the salary being paid. Teaching kids to the standards of a system that is currently paying its teachers ~$35k is pretty straightforward when you get down to it; and improving on it would not be hard. The economy is made up of people continuously taking positions on these sorts of issues.

I spent decade(s) being educated, I've got a respectable number of letters I can put after my name and all the way through the capital costs outside a couple of science labs and the actual school building were negligible. And a big chunk of the important material is available online for free. Education in real terms is a really easy field to enter and compete in. But I think if anyone tried they'd just discover that people don't actually want to pay teachers money. They want someone else to pay teachers money. Because without that little rider there is only a rather small problem here to solve.
What I don’t get is what is the ploy here. I’m getting them too, but have no indication my email is hacked. Therefore what’s happening?
Half the population of Australia (marked in red): https://imgur.com/dA92oJp

Most of the dry desert is irrelevant.
The level of scrutiny and plurality of opinions towards technology in general is imho what makes a tech forum good.
But why?

Like, use the 7B berkley sterling on a freaking 3060 laptop and you are still getting better results on both output and tokens.

I don't understand what they are getting out of these large models that perform worse.
Find a side hustle you can put sweat equity into.

Keep working your day job. If you have an idea that gets traction eventually you will be able to make the switch.

It will take years. It will be really hard and you will question whether it was worth it.

Don't quit your job. Figure out how to build a manageable project / business you can have full control over. For me this is more important than profitability, and my day job keeps the bills paid.

Staying in the corporate environment will irreparably damage your spirit worse than your feared repetitional suffering for taking risks. People won't respect the slow hustle either, but it's sustainable not sexy so don't be surprised when people don't get it. I don't know if it will be worth it but it's the path I'm on right now and it allows me to accept myself and my situation instead of fighting it and stressing out.
Everyone.

I am a very senior PM with two big name tech companies on my resume, and the track record of bringing multiple products from zero to one and creating revenue (and even profit!) from them.

In the old days, I had recruiters in my LinkedIn, I would breeze through the first 30 minute screener calls, and get lots of call backs. My hit rate for job applications for non-FAANG cold applies was fairly high.

Two months ago when I was looking, I was getting basically zero job application responses, half my screeners ghosted me, and I had very few recruiters reaching out. I think maybe 3 in 3 months-ish.

I got very lucky and landed a job, but it was a mild pay cut, and the company is basically on fire

Both them and my previous massively growing employer are not hiring ANYONE, even software engineers, which is the easier role to get picked up for.

My buddy who’s unemployed in PMM, can’t get a call back from anyone. It’s really bad
Adding "-vscode" or "vs2019" to the query usually does it for me. With go I pretty much always search "golang".
Well, it's still theft of the "depriving the owners of their belongings" variety.

It's just that the groups that can do eminent domain tend to both have guns and be in charge of the local legal system.

Which means they get to define the rules and make up their own name for when its them doing the thieving. ;)
I've actually been thinking about this. Seems like a lot of local jobs require a CDL (post office, parks department, bus driver, etc). How was your experience? It seems intimidating, but lots of people do those jobs, so must not be as bad as I think.
Especially in something like the current market, being a highly-regarded "fixer" (or whatever you want to call it) probably doesn't get you past first-level screens looking for specific skills/experience. One of the reasons networks are so important.
You see that on Youtube as well. Creators will also censor su*cide, both in audio and video, because Google / advertisers don't like sensitive content and the video will make a lot less money if Google thinks it's about mental illness or suicide.
I’ve been working on quantum computing and quantum communication for 15 years now and what I really want people to know is that entanglement is “beyond classical correlation.”

Correlation which is not beyond classical is shaking up a shoebox with a pair of gloves in it, and having two people take the gloves far away from each other to then observe what hand they got. They then understand the hand the other has. There’s one bit of information here corresponding to which hand went to person A.

Entanglement is just this but “more.” You can’t communicate with a pair of gloves. Person A does not know when person B has realized person A knows what glove they have. Just the same, it does not matter who matters which of the two particles in a Bell pair first! Many quantum information theorists don’t even believe the wave function is “real” but just a mathematical tool for making predictions about measurement outcomes.

You should come at entanglement from this angle, because the main difference between the bell test and the pair of gloves is the state of the particles is undetermined before measurement, and the chosen measurements will result in different correlations between the measurement outcomes.
This immediately reminded me of the 80s robot/scifi movie Runaway with Tom Selleck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_American_film)

(Completely off-topic, I really like the explanation Selleck's character gives for why he's the expert: paraphrasing, "I was interested in robotics, read some stuff, and suddenly I was the one in the department who knew the most about this stuff")

More on-topic: Can robots be used to reduce the number of Swatting incidents? Like a quiet robot that peeks in the windows of a "suspect" house after a 911 call?
> You just go back to the absolutely disfunctional state you were in before when you stop taking them.

Your brain adapts by creating more dopamine transporters...meaning you need more dopamine for same effect. This happens in an effort to maintain homeostasis. There is no free dopamine unfortunately...what goes up must come down. The brain's homeostasis system is hard-wired.

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

> but the normal of people with ADHD is different.

This is probably the biggest misunderstanding people have.

They are told that their brain doesn't produce as much dopamine as a normal brain, which is why they can take the meds and normal people cannot.

But this is not the case. Each brain produces the right amount for itself, and if you dope it with more, then it will counteract this, and you will build tolerance.

There is no evidence about the dopamine theory of ADHD. It's total conjecture with a couple of papers here and there. There are no biomarkers or imaging for diagnosing ADHD.

The end result is you are going to end up morphing people's brains to the point that they need to take the meds to attain their original state.

But whatever, no one seems to care, too much money to be made.
Platinum isn't required for alkaline electrolysis.
> Moving development from Earth into space should count as an overwhelming win for the environment.

the CEO discourse for justifying Earth being explored for future space companies profiting +6 figures
You are probably talking about something else. With Tor, you just browse the regular web. Just with 3 random VPNs in between (simplified). So quite anonymous in theory.
I have a couple follow up questions.

> a guy Charles who makes two letters

So Charles at least knows the information on the cards. Are you essentially saying that there's no way for Alice or Bob to distinguish that information from 'background noise'? If so, that is not a great analogy other than to illustrate a historical & incorrect perspective. Which may have been what you were doing and if so is fine.

> measurement "chooses" one of the states in the measurement basis

Okay, say you 'do some entanglement of multiple particles stored in two separate tubes' where you know there is some kind of pattern in the entanglement. Is the issue that there is no way to know how to find that pattern without possessing both 'tubes'?
here is one extreme excuse.

"they do not let go what we rightfully owned."

now, help think critically what we have rightfully owned and lost it.
So glad to see Kong finally releasing test suites that can be used to perf test Kong as well as some performance benchmarks.

Every use case and install is unique because every companies requirements can be too. There is no way Kong can perf test every scenario and infra setup. But this gives every customer the ability to perf test Kong in their own eco system and then fine tune it from there. And its open source too
The good news for Lloyds is that the US federal government intends to pay for the bridge rebuild.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-says-want...
>Which is to say in other words, most of the book probably replicates

This is extremely irresponsible.
UK economy went into recession last year, data confirms
>“Despite the hefty insured losses, we expect they will remain manageable for the insurance industry as they will involve a large and diversified pool of well capitalized insurers and reinsurers,” Morningstar said.

Is the insurance business world so scummy that just a couple of billions worth of claims could even remotely be a problem for them?
The original design (PDF) document is linked in the article.[0]

[0] - https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Nice concept. More prompts for what to ask could be helpful. Didn't work for my prompt. The assistant regurgitated my request incorrectly.
If they were to buy Intel for a fair price, why should that disincentivize investment?
You have to wonder if remote work is starting to bite developers.

10 year ago I started a business that had hundreds of engineers in London and New York.

I am now starting a new one and this time I am hiring talent from all over the world now that it is more acceptable for us and our clients.

Surely this must be a factor in people in expensive western markets?
It's emotionally difficult, because you've tasted being your own boss and it's hard to go back to someone else making your decisions. You should have more skills afterwards so you can easily get a job again. As long as you have closure, you can go back to employee. The hardest is if you think your idea can still work, you'll feel like you're giving up on your dream or quitting by getting a job.

My experience: I bootstrapped my company while working full time over the last 10 years. While transitioning to fully self-employed I took contract work to fill the income gaps. Now I'm fully self-employed, but there were times in the past I considered going back to full time employment.
A species that has the technical capability to mine and transport away ~10^23 kg of mass, is a species that has the capability to replace that mass.
Show HN: Open-source, high performance layout parsing for LLM's
The book of five certificate enrollment protocols
Please go into detail, I'm curious how encrypting your backups has more problems than benefits.
I remember this from HN or otherwise when looking for an alternative solution:
https://cryptpad.org/

There's a public instance in France to try it out.