skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes exactly. In the UK power is becoming increasingly negative in pricing when there is high wind + solar output. This is actually increasingly alarmingly rapidly (and there is 3-5GW of offshore wind, plus loads of utility scale solar coming online).

Prices are then very high when wind and solar is low - which happens to be when demand is the highest (cold weather snaps in winter which tend to result in very low windspeeds).

National Grid is already paying £1bn/yr to turn off wind farms when supply is too high (plus paying a fortune for new nat gas peakers, which are limited by law to run for 10 days a year max). It's projected that curtailment payments to wind farms will reach £4bn/yr.

While some of this will be rectified with more transmission capacity (there is a 4GW offshore HVDC link being built between scotland and england), if the claims of terraform are true and hold up at scale, I think this is the actual breakthrough people have been looking for.

These could be connected to substations near wind farms (which also happen to be near major gas interconnectors from the north sea) and generate when power prices were low or negative, which will be a large amount of the time. They'd then get paid not only for the arbitrage in gas prices but also they would be able to take (most/all) of the curtailment payments national grid is paying the wind farms.

To be clear batteries do not work particularly well for a market like the UK. Batteries work well for overnight storage of solar, they do not work well for northern climates like the UK that require weeks of storage of power to cover low renewable output in winter. That's not to say there isn't loads of batteries being constructed right now, there is, but it's to cover very short term movements in supply and demand - the much harder problem is covering days or weeks of low output.
I use it to help validate the reverse engineering of some 2000s, 2010s game security components (DLLs, etc). Support for windows is pretty good with other platforms lagging behind but still usable.
Nvidia does sell consumer compute cards, they're just sold at datacenter compute prices: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=nvidia+quadro

Nvidia's approach to software certainly deserves scrutiny, but their hardware lineup is so robust that I find it hard to complain. Jetson already exists for low-wattage solutions, and gaming cards can run Nvidia datacenter drivers on headless Linux without issue. The consumer compute cards are already here, you just aren't using them.
Same here in the US.
The most familiar thing to compare the pyramids to is probably European cathedrals. They were huge public works projects requiring a lot of labour, both skilled and unskilled, and done for religous, political, and probably economic reasons.
I'm well aware of the pros and cons of mutability. I object (hah!) to this novel new use of the word "object". The concept is well defined by the ECMAScript spec.

Your first link's first sentence's first two words are "Immutable objects". No problem there. It doesn't conflate objects with mutability.
I was thinking the same. Isn't this how they can afford to give me reward points?
The US and even Israeli governments consider these numbers as accurate. The Health Ministry provides the social ID numbers of every death so the deaths would be impossible to fake.
So if you're just an 9-5 office based terrorist doing admin stuff, you're off limits?
Yep. Python is my day job. If anyone on my team put something up that was as unreadable as a typical bash script, without really good justification, I’d immediately hit “request changes”.

This isn’t just because I’m more familiar with Python. I don’t even think it’s the main reason. It’s just that Python is more likely to be able to be read in a ‘natural language’ sort of way. It’s better at doing what it says on the tin. It’s more able to be read via pure intuition by a programmer that’s not familiar with Python specifically.

In bash land? “What the hell is [[?”

And yes, I could come up with 20 ways off the top of my head that Python is a far-from-perfect language.

And I’m not even saying that Python is the right tool for the job here. Maybe we’re better off with one of the many more modern attempts at a shell language. The main thing is that we should
acknowledge that bash has overstayed its welcome in many of the areas in which it’s still used.
> Politically and diplomatically, it could be argued Hamas have been considerably strengthened. They certainly think so.

That's delusional. Hamas’ operational capabilities have been highly diminished. Their leadership is in exile. It looks increasingly likely that their ground forces will be destroyed. While they've found sympathy among the Arab population, it's notable that not a single government--outside Iran--has offered to materially support them. And even Iran is starting to be constrained in its regional capabilities.

Israel isn’t winning. But Hamas isn’t either.
It's a good question. I also immediately found myself asking the same one of myself after posting that comment. I guess part of me just wants as many possible breakpoints along the process as possible.

But also at least then you have someone who is liable when things go wrong. When its fully automated, like the other comment mentions, they can just shrug and blame the AI. Who gets sued when a self driving car kills someone by accident? I don't know. Perhaps a lack of ownership is excusable. But when a weapon deliberately kills someone I think we need to have ownership somewhere.

Perhaps as a general rule the maker of the AI system should have liability for the AI up until someone else signs and accepts that responsibility. None of this "Company does not accept liability" crap. They have to make it clear that "customer accepts liability" or else it's them. That way they will be incentivized to make the military or whoever sign.
I think people will lose their jobs with all types of cost-cutting but the people left will be left doing more of the work. I think like Web 2.0 a lot of AI software will be created to manage other AI software.

Buster - Software that links databases and large language models

Vectorview - Custom LLM evaluation

Nuanced - Helps detect deep fakes and misinformation
The absurdity is unbelievable but it is true!
Is Psychological Science Self-Correcting?
I was extremely confused on why an IaC solution/package company would have a leg on the natural gas business lol
Forgive my ignorance, but could you expound a little on what makes these institutions important? Like, why do you consider them trustworthy and what specific good do they provide?
> there was this scene where the SS officer dude is about to burn down a hamlet or something because of "partisans" hiding in there

And we fire bombed multiple German cities, the British with an explicit policy of killing German civilians who lived near factories. Many things are horrible and either permitted explicitly by international law or, by convention and precedent, technically illegal but widely tolerated.
Cloudflare is cash flow positive and profitable on a non-GAAP basis, while being unprofitable on a GAAP basis. https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2024/cloudflare-an...
Yeah something tells me there is more to why Iran is a huge producer of Saffron than what the article says:

> Today, most saffron is grown in countries where workers are paid less than their Western European counterparts would need to be. The primary producers are Iran, India, and Greece.
Is the same system used to direct bombing in Lebanon against Hezbollah?

If so it's worth noting that we have much better data on that campaign. We know exactly how many Hezbollah members have died because that organization actually releases that information. We have good numbers on civilian casualties. Naturally there are many different factors but I think Israel has done a much better job over there in terms of minimizing civilian casualties. There have been some notable incidents like IIRC journalists getting hit, but the overall numbers I think are significantly weighed towards military targets.
The details of specific implementations are sometimes considered secret, but broadly speaking the mathematics of both projections and cryptography are extremely public. For example, GCJ-02 (the projection being obliquely referenced by the GP) is just WGS-84 + "noise". For cryptography, you can read any of the excellent textbooks and educational resources available (e.g. [0]).

[0] http://www.cs.umd.edu/%7Ejkatz/imc.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/the-great-amer...
It falls under the the foreign affairs and national security powers, the Commerce Clause, and the Taxing Clause (plus the Necessary and Proper Clause in support).
Your comment is a stellar example of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle in action. You'd have us wade through untold reams of international law for specific references, a task that would likely take hours, just to rebut your glib denial of the current state of play. Oh well, I've got some time to kill...

Shit That Should Land Israel's Government and Military Apparatus In The Hague, Abridged:

Per ICC Article 8: (https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/5nsf46....)

- (i) Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities;

- (ii) Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives;

- (iv) Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;

- (v) Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives;

World Bank report on destroyed civilian infrastructure: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2024/04/02/j...

- (iii) Intentionally directing attacks against personnel, installations, material, units or vehicles involved in a humanitarian assistance or peacekeeping mission in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, as long as they are entitled to the protection given to civilians or civilian objects under the international law of armed conflict;

The Israeli army has a storied history of bombing the shit out of aid workers that goes back decades, everything from shelling UN aid warehouses with white phosphorous munitions to calling in artillery strikes on aid convoys. This behavior is well-documented and certainly not limited to the current conflict.

- (xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions;

Do we really need to review the current state of play with relief aid in Gaza given it hasn't been 5 days since an Israeli patrol greased a convoy of aid workers? Shit's gotten so bad foreign governments have taken to air dropping aid.

Additionally as I'm sitting here combing through the Geneva Conventions there are a few things that stand out:

- Part I, Article 3, 2) seems to be in olay between shelling the fuck out of aid workers, bombing hospitals out of existence, and the several documented attacks on emergency response vehicles.

- Part II, Article 24 on child welfare also seems like an unambiguous faceplant given this: https://twitter.com/UNLazzarini/status/1767618985397272831?s...

I'm certain there's more here but you aren't getting more of my time than the initial hour I budgeted to the task of putting together this reply. Have fun with the supplemental reading...
to hear Lenny Susskind say it, "light moves at the speed of light"
To provide an easy place to find the behaviors that are included with those data structures.
Saffron ice cream (with coconut milk) is incredible.
Would be curious how “software spend” is defined here. When people subscribe to Netflix does that go under “software spend” or “entertainment spend”?

Markets are just so tricky to define. The labor pool includes Netflix, even if they’re not competing for B2B SaaS spending.
This link again. People keep posting it and it keeps—rightly—getting flagged. This source is a schoolbook example of lying with statistics, and so far HN seems prerry aware of that.
There's a more unfortunate interpretation, which is that whoever can afford the travel and time to not be at work is more likely to qualify. I know a fencer who was in his mid 20s consistently placing top 3 in every tournament he went to and was Olympics material (based on who he was competing with and which of them did go to the Olympics). However, he didn't make the cut because the points system rewarded presence at more tournaments higher than placement and he had a job to keep showing up at.
Seems like an "inventing the wheel again" moment a-la cryptocurrency. Any practical application of such a system would be too small to matter, any idealist application would be too dangerous to attempt. We already have democracy, and it functions perfectly well without the interference of language models.
Unsolicited feedback because I clicked:
- Don't require picking a composition name before getting started
- Whatever scroll settings you have broke swipe to go back, and then when I tapped the back button I got stuck in an infinite loop between the home page and the create composition page
The linked video is very much a nonomino.
Servers still fail, regardless of how much redundancy you build in.

Especially in a home, where kids spill a gallon of fruit juice and don’t think to tell anyone until 2 days later, pets knock things off tables, fires happen, power outages happen, theft happens, and so on.

There still needs to be a plan for when the server is gone. So, buy two home servers and run them in different locations? Back to cloud? Or what’s the plan?
These loans are typically fixed rate and long term. The cost of leverage is nothing next to what appreciation has been, and it's the latter that LVT seeks to neutralize. So it would increase the incentive to actually use the land rather than simply hold a deed to the land.

Again, I think that calculating LVT is highly problematic. If you ask me to defend it, I simply won't. Rolling leases are the way.
> pass laws on how many meetings are allowed every week

I'm not going to advocate they should do this, but...

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more successful startups under such a regulatory regime. Most meetings are for the benefit of people who either don't know how to or can't be bothered to compose async comms.

I must not meet.
Meetings are the work-killer.
Meetings are the little-death that bring total distraction.
You left out all the new money The Fed pumped into the system during Covid. We all know it happened. I don't understand why anyone would expect a return to pre-Covid prices.
Relevant Tweets by George Hotz,

[1]
Spoke with @LisaSu. She was very polite, but said nothing of substance and indirectly rejected my offer.

Here’s a firmware crash, run ./loop.sh to trigger. Tested on tinybox and 1x7900XTX machine, ROCm 6.0.2 and 6.0.3 preview. Must reboot to bring back.

[2]
No need to hire me, just open source the 7900XTX firmware+docs and remove the signature check. We'd treat it like bring up for our own chip, get builds in CI, HITL testing, fuzzing, etc...

Deadline, end of the week? Otherwise I'm not spending more time thinking about this.

Source https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/177166635165378186...
You can have complex huge dependencies, provided that they can be audited properly. Which means that, for starters, they need to be broken into smaller chunks for which the behavior can be fully specified. They need to be written in languages that are, inasmuch as it is possible, formally verifiable against the spec, even at considerable expense of performance. And where that is not possible, the languages still need to be the kind where any behavior that is not straightforward sticks out like a sore thumb.

Then once you do all that, of course, you have one particular version that has been audited and can be used as a dependency. Which means that "ship early, ship often" and "move fast and break things" are completely off the table.

In short, it means doing more or less the exact opposite of the trends in the industry for the past 50 years or so. Starting with rewriting everything that we already have.

And it will be insanely expensive, of course, because the sheer amount of man-hours needed on all this are massive. Nor can you get away with cheap disposable labor for most of it, since writing specs and formal proofs and doing audits all requires a very skilled labor force.
Thanks! Sure, I posted this comment in a Reddit thread a couple days ago to a user who asked the same question (and I added one additional point):

First I should say that it’s been a few months at least since I’ve used aider, so it’s possible my impression of it is a bit outdated. Also I’m a big fan of it and drew a lot of inspiration from it. That said:

Plandex is more focused on building larger and more complex functionality that involves multiple steps, whereas aider is more geared toward making a single change at a time.

Plandex has an isolated, version-controlled sandbox where tentative changes are accumulated. I believe with aider you have to apply or discard each change individually?

Plandex has diff review TUI where changes can be viewed side-by-side, and optionally rejected, a bit like GitHub’s PR review UI.

Plandex has branches that allow for exploring multiple approaches.

aider has cool voice input features that Plandex lacks.

aider’s maintainer Paul has done a lot of benchmarking of file update strategies. While I think Plandex’s approach is better suited to larger and more complex functionality, aider’s unified diff approach may have higher accuracy for a single change. I hope to do benchmarking work on this in the future.

aider requires Python and is installed via pip, while Plandex runs from a single binary with no dependencies, so Plandex installation is arguably easier overall, especially if you aren't a Python dev.

I’m sure I’m missing some other differences but those are the main ones that come to mind.
This looks like a game where people that have power, fight others power, for their vision.
Those whose power is not in the minimum threshold are not even taken into consideration.
the power is just a curve distribution (bell curve)

Honestly the best thing is ignore everything, and live your own life peacefully.
Actually there's a project underway to build a 4000km HVDC line from Morocco to the UK: https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/

I thought it was a pipe dream but has got some fairly big backers now and does seem to be moving along.
Your "guess" before your arguments is a pointless jab and ploy to win a point without having yet said anything.

If you think that accusing me of "being under the spell of market fundamentalism" is a succesful rhetorical strategy, then you neither understood my post nor are you worth arguing with.

My comment was made in the context of mentioned complex factors that you are ommitting.

Your 1 and 2 numbered responses are pure nonsense. Response 1 reveals to me who I am dealing with. This is going to go nowhere. Response 2 is ideological hand waving. 3 is true, but I included points that addressed it in my post.

There is zero political (effective) difference in the labor market between being underpaid and wanting more money, if the ask is for more money.

If they are truly underpaid, then they should ask for more money and get it. If they are not underpaid and ask for more money lest penalty x, then the market effect for employers is the same.

A further problem, as illustrated by your definitions of underpayment with which I disagree, is who is to decide what being underpaid means?

The answer to that question is that what constitutes underpayment will always be murky as far as the market is concerned and therefore, again, my point stands. Pay will never be enough, as a point of fact.

>No. I'd never talk about a fortune 500 CEO or a FAANG engineer as being underpaid.

"Never". That's a perfect example of the self-centered view of much of labor advocacy. Not only do they publicly only take the other side of the market into account when it opportunistically suits them (ie: when bucking for asset ownership or when owning assets themsevles), they have trouble comprehending how their own principles might scale to different skill levels in the labor pool.

> I see what you're saying, but the real world is a lot more morally complicated that the single-axis world where your comment here makes sense.

I disagree with your single-axis categorization. I disagree with the implication that this is largely a moral argument.

I disagree with the assumption you would be able to make moral assertions that had any impact on the economic forces that determine pay and job availability, given the mentioned constraint (mass immigration). My original point is that the labor market will not be able to have it all. It has to choose, and clearly it has made its choice.

But in its defense, the pro-labor market was co-opted generations ago by Business. That dissonance that you percieve and interpret as "moral complexity" is exactly their influence.
There will be an enshittified ad supported tier. You’ll never know when the model is hallucinating and when it’s actively trying to manipulate you. It’ll be great.
Coffee beans are bin-sorted in a way where the good coffee gets better, and the lesser coffee gets worse.

The most-shapely and consistent beans go to the more-premium lines.

The small, underdeveloped, or misshapen beans (called "clinkers") go to the cheaper lines, along with the other defects. And so does the chaff from the coffee hulls, which is rolled up into weird little balls and thrown in too -- which is not done with premium coffees. The unavoidable portion of insect parts is higher in cheap coffee than it is in expensive coffee.

In an ideal world, all of the stuff that is removed from premium coffees would be used as compost or something.

But it is instead included in the lesser coffees, where it is consumed.
90 percent of them ended up being innocent citizens
This is why, in my opinion, if AI will bring exponentially more efficiency, it will also bring an exponential increase in security issues.

The most common vulnerabilities are due to how input is handled (or not). XSS vulns, SQL injections, other injections, etc.

Now, the AI agent itself also produces untrusted input. But it does so, in a way, as an extension of the user using it who is actually a trusted entity. Because of this, it is solely up to the user to validate everything coming out of the AI but most users will not do that thoroughly.

What you mention in your comment is a good example of that. If the AI reproduces malicious code e.g. inspired from this campaign, it is essentially an injection attack where the user misses it and didn't properly validate the untrusted input.
Shouldn’t the free market fix this? If someone is able to sell a $22 burrito what’s stopping me from selling the same burrito for $11 ?
you want to buy your saffron from people who don't speak english, trust me
Did you see the link in the post to get DNA and lineage of trees tested?
Approximately no one who is having trouble affording bread and eggs cares that solar panels are vastly more affordable.
Sounds like something in Accelerando.
George Carlin's estate settles lawsuit over comedian's AI doppelganger
90 percent of them ended up being innocent citizens ... And they knew about it