skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that M4 was the real electric Apple car project.
> How many houses can 13 GW of battery (+ whatever amount of solar to charge them fully every day) can power?

I suppose that's the confusion; you don't have "gigawatts of battery". Batteries store GWh of energy: GW is a flow rate, GWh is flow rate for time. So at 13GWh it could power 2.5 million households for 4.3 hours or so. The article seems to use "GW" when it means "GWh" and "GWh" when it means "GWh per hour".

> How many houses can 13 GW of battery (+ whatever amount of solar to charge them fully every day) can power? Probably way less than that, given that even in the summer, there are at least 12 hours every day when solar panels don't produce enough power.

But it really doesn't matter. Texas uses far more power than their solar capacity can produce at any moment in time, and solar charging batteries is solar not powering homes. In the long run when renewables outstrip fossil fuels, yes, you need lots of battery capacity for the night and when the wind isn't blowing. But in the meantime, it serves a different purpose entirely.

Until the point when renewables cross that threshold, much of the stored power _isn't from renewables_. Spinning fossil fuel generation up and down is slow. Besides buffering spiky demand, you use the batteries to soak up excess power as you spin down fossil fuel generation, and then keep that extra generation offline for longer (spinning it back up more slowly).

When solar and wind can satisfy all demand during the day, batteries can obviously capture the excess for use at night. But it can also allow a much smaller amount of fossil fuel generation to come online at any time to fill the batteries for night (regardless of demand, because that's already satisfied). Spinning up a small amount of generation for longer is much cheaper and environmentally friendly than spinning up a lot of generation for a short amount of time.
Having wrote an article on XZ, I was half expecting to have this text popup, especially as I'm fairly certain i was targeted by a misinformation campaign already
You're welcome! I installed home assistant about a month ago and have been really liking it ...

I was thinking of doing something similar to what you are dong but was trying to think of how to do it without the custom virtual device.
That doesn’t get around the root problem, just gives us multi-modal junk results lol.
If you can’t model the table with a natural key (or it would be so large as to inhibit performance), then a simple, normal monotonic integer is best. MySQL even lets you use unsigned ints, so if you use a bigint, you can go all the way up to 2^64-1.

For those who think this doesn’t work in distributed systems, it absolutely does – PlanetScale uses them internally [0]. If what is likely the largest MySQL (under Vitess) cluster in the world can manage, yours can too.

If this is still untenable, then anything k-sortable (like UUIDv7, as the sibling comment mentioned) is a vast improvement over randomness. Don’t cause B+tree page splits, especially in an RDBMS with a clustering index like MySQL.

[0]: https://github.com/planetscale/discussion/discussions/366
This seems to suggest that you can install it on a 2019 Mac Pro at least: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102742.

$4,859.99 for 8 128GB LR-DIMMS on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/8x128GB-DDR4-3200-PC4-25600-NEMIX-RAM...

The new Mac Pro (with the M2 Ultra) uses unified memory, so I guess no more third party upgrades? Looking here:

https://everymac.com/actual-maximum-mac-ram/actual-maximum-m...

The new Mac Pro is limited to 192GB while the previous Mac Pro can go up to 1.5TB.
If I wanted to build a PC today that could run the big models that were released recently (For example, Mixtral 8x22B and Command-R with as little quantization as possible) what would I buy?
For gaming, absolutely; few enough games even run on OSX.

For AI, unified memory is _way_ cheaper than high-ram GPUs.
Oh neat, as a Transit user, I always wondered if they were using data from those train/bus stop questions
I don't know what the relevance of prices from 40 years ago is, but today they want +$800 just to add +64GB RAM to a machine.
Dune took "Show Don't Tell" the the utmost extreme that it practically inverted upon itself. There's no character development to speak of, the plot is secondary, and visual spectacle is placed front and center.

I tire of movies with lazy expositional dialogue, but this was absurd in the other direction.
You know that's not what I meant. What do you think you're accomplishing here?
To paraphrase a famous quote...

"What do you think about mental health in software engineering?"
"I think it would be a good idea."
drawing, coding
Ask HN: What happened to bypass-paywalls-Chrome-clean?
Seems to have disappeared off gitlab and the developer's profile has been made private. This must have just happened within the last couple of days as they were updating twitter with new releases.

https://twitter.com/Magnolia1234B

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean
> So… 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,512,1028, 2056 terawatts in 30 years?

What did 256 terawatts ever do to you?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/probably
Could it also be that in NYC you just put trash bags directly on the sidewalk/street? It's very unusual to see, as a visitor.
Yeah I know what time is. My point is, this is 2024 and computers are insanely powerful now. Compilation times can't be that bad.
I don't really want any of those things. Predictability and control is what I want from a computer, not to be an ersatz companion that back-seat-drives everything I do.
This article is stupid (frankly) and written from an exceptionally prejudiced porn-is-evil perspective. I’m wondering whether it qualifies for flagging.
> You will be able to converse directly with your computer as if it was a person.

No thanks, I like that my computer only speaks an incredibly specific language which I can use to tell it exactly what to do, and know it’s not going to do anything else. If I wanted a PA, I would hire one.
Glassdoor didn't make a reviewer's name public, that seems to be a persistent misconception, although there are still things to fault them for. This link is claiming that OpenTable is going to publicly associate first names and profile photos with reviews. This seems much worse, if we're comparing cases.
Patents are usually narrowly tailored to a specific part of a design document of a complex system, not the entire thing. The idea is that a "person of ordinary skill in the art" can implement the normal stuff (ie the current state of the art) around the new innovation, and the new thing gives that system a non-obvious benefit.

A lot of research papers are written the same way. They will go into great detail on a specific thing like a protocol or a storage format and then say something along the lines of "bolt this onto Redis" before presenting their data.
> It's on OpenAI to persuade them that isn't the case

What no they can 100% be "harmed" and have zero legal recourse nor extract any demands from OpenAI or any other AI companies.

> It seems legit to me that the law should provide affordances for every Tom, Dick and Harry to become a plaintiff against OpenAI

I agree and Tom, Dick, and Harry should be made to pay both sides legal fees for abusing the court system and filing frivolous lawsuits.
Right now Apple hardware is silly compared to PC+Nvidia if you wanna play around with GenAI.

You mean it's silly how far ahead Apple is since they offer 192 GB of VRAM while Nvidia only allows 24 GB for reasonable prices? Or do you mean it's silly to compare <$10K Macs with >$30K Nvidia setups in the first place?
Steam Controller reverse engineering and customization project
I for one, welcome the junk-data-ouroboros-meta-model-collapse. I think it’ll force us out of this local maxima of “moar data moar good” mindset, and give us collectively, a chance to evaluate the effect these things have our society. Some proverbial breathing room.
Don't have an answer other than to say their lineage is sturdy enough to have pulled it off twice - crocodylomorpha were just about the only survivors of their giant and dominant clade in the end-Triassic extinction and, of course, they made it past the asteroid 135 million years later.
I do not disagree with you.

But critics of the past were never anonymous. If you review film or food or anything, and it got published you put your name next to it. You were proud of your opinion and how it was delivered.

I think it's why video is more interesting to the current generation than text. It isnt that video is more appealing, it's much harder to be in(un?)-authentic when your face is out there.
Exactly. It seems the way they use "users" there is much more accurately said as "Junior Devs", which takes your applicable pool from ~7billion max to "almost noone".

Quite literally not worth the trouble.
Yes, 1.2 is OK.

The problem is that the drivers are merely OK. Presumably if you're using OpenCL you care about the performance (otherwise why would you??) and since that's the case, it's the best on no platforms, and there are alternatives for any set of platforms that do better.

I think OpenCL is sadly on its way out, and it's mostly Apple's fault (and Nvidia a little). Vulkan compute is much more interesting if you're looking to leverage iGPUs/mobile/other random CPUs.

If you're targetting workstations/server workloads only, it makes sense to restrict yourself to a subset of accelerator types and code for that (eg. Torch or JAX for GPUs, use highway for SIMD, etc.)
Teen accused in cryptocurrency scheme seeks jail release as he awaits trial
> While it may sound insensitive, software engineering is nowhere near as complex or stressful as many (but not all) medical roles. It is both mentally and physically less taxing

As much as I respect your personal experience, I think you make a mistake in assuming that it is universal. Further, you are also making the mistake of invalidating other people's individual experiences based on your perception of what the average worker does.

In other words, it is trivially easy to find software engineers who are burnt out to a much nicer crisp than the average doctor, and your dismissal of their suffering won't change a thing for them.

This isn't a contest to see which profession is most toxic to its workers. Our aim should be to find ways to prevent and mitigate these situations.
Most firms screen for people that will not challenge their existing process. Whether it is "Culture fit" discrimination, neurodivergent specialists being exploited for not being ambitious in traditional ways, and or outright cons ripping off junior staff with insane contracts.

White Knight Syndrome is very real... The trick is knowing you have a problem.

Best of luck out there, =)
I'm seeing this happening. People are complaining about it on multiple forums related to multiple vendors. No one is talking about it except for Cisco briefly and they reference the link above. None of the normal places I learn about vulnerabilities are mentioning it. Anyone have any I sight on this they care to share.
That's fair - styling directly in the browser does indeed cut down several of the steps I mentioned, or at least it condenses it to one step at the end. I do think that installing the extension changes the experience entirely, because then you don't need to reference the docs.
How about when you long-tap on a touchscreen and it automatically selects the whole word?

Double-clicking is just one aspect of the wider principle, that is you make life easier for heuristics of all kinds.
The only rule in English is that there is an exception to every rule (including this one).
The UX of UUIDs... should not exist. There are so many great ways to improve UX that don't involve overloading or mangling an internal primary identifier that otherwise follows a standard structure.

Use immutable human-readable identifiers like "slugs" and/or "natural keys" in addition to robust primary keys.

> TLDR Please don't do this: https://company.com/resource/c6b10dd3-1dcf-416c-8ed8-ae56180...

That URL is fine, it should just be a 30X to https://company.com/stuff/cute-slug and you should use the user-friendly URL where possible.
Compare the increase in the money supply with the inflation rate. There's about a 13 month lag.

> Banks lend more money? Inflation.

People paying back loans? Deflation. It cancels out. Except the Fed loans out money and does not pay it back - inflation.

> Economy-wide supply shocks? Inflation.

Where does the extra money come from? And what about when the shocks end, why doesn't the price come back down?

> Population decrease? Inflation.

Reduction in demand means deflation.
Not yet, but was there a specific supplier you had in mind?
If "doxxing" means stating, correctly, that a certain student was a member of an organization at the time that organization signed a particular public statement, then no, doxxing an individual should not be any sort of crime, doxxing an individual under that definition is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Should ProPublica be able to doxx wealthy individuals by publishing their tax returns? Of course they should, that's called freedom of the press. And I hate ProPublica. The person that gave them the returns is going to prison, as they should, but publishing that information is called freedom of the press.

Even if ProPublica's intent is to harass wealthy individuals, which I believe it certainly is.
It’s an excuse for those who can’t achieve greatness while being great.
I’ve seen many videos produced by phones that are at least 10x larger than they need to be. I think they’re trying for some kind of cinematic quality, or maybe expect people to recompress them after the event (or in the worst case are conveniently choosing settings that use up more local and cloud storage so people need to pay to upgrade).

Other low cost video devices (like dashcams) can use higher bitrates and lower compression modes simply because they don’t have the CPU power to use the most optimal settings while also being able to record real-time streams.

You can save a lot of space by re-encoding these types of files on a real computer.
Perhaps you aren't the target market for this.
Of everyone's? No. But enough to store the signal messages of the President, down a couple of levels? I hope so. After I'm dead, I hope the messages between the President, his cabinet, and their immediate contacts that weren't previously accessible get released to historians.
Beach resort can mean jersey shore (of which there is both upscale and down market today), could also mean Martha's vineyard. I think Pompeians were wealthy from what I recall reading.
This looks very interesting I must say.
I draw the line at disrupting the workplace. If you're constantly badgering people about your political beliefs enough to make them uncomfortable, left or right, that's a problem. You can't (and shouldn't) fire someone solely based on their politics, but you absolutely can fire someone for creating a hostile work environment. In most cases, I would talk with the problematic employee with HR and try to get them to fly straight. I'm vehemently pro-choice, but I would still have just as much of a problem with an employee harassing a devout Christian about abortion laws.

What I have zero tolerance for is hate speech. These infractions don't get second chances.
The only one stirring up a regional war is Iran, arming terrorist groups around Israel as a proxy war. The fact they can act with impunity is a stain on the west just like the war in Ukraine that still rages on. This might not have been a bin laden level assassination but it was not that far and any other country that faces the same threat would do the same.
Sam Bankman-Fried files to appeal conviction and sentence
Spirit Airlines to furlough 260 pilots, defer Airbus plane deliveries
> Helen and Paris

Apologies for nitpicking but on the picture it says "Αλέξανδρος"/Alexander, not Paris
Literally everybody does this. It is actually a critical property of usable IDs!
The M-series is just so phenomenal for AI. Mixtral is my MacBook's daily driver, and will try the 8x22B variant soon. Being capable of that on a $3k-$4k laptop still blows my mind. I'm glad that Apple's leaning into AI.

(Aside: Apple's MLX framework is showing nice performance gains over PyTorch on their silicon. I'm excited to see that project evolve.)
Like many, I am not overly bearish "on ai" - I am bearish on an "ai-focused laptop in late 2024." I think what you say is roughly true and maybe in six months I'll be wishing my portable computer ran AI faster, but I don't feel that way now. As you say, the full client-side experiences are still in development and, I would wager, more than six months away. Other attempts at "local AI" from less skilled hardware designers have not impressed me and, though I'm eager to see what Apple comes up with, I see no reason to get excited yet.
See https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/politik-ge...
No? It’s still under active development; 8.3.0 came out in January of this year.
Foxhounds?
I agree. I just still don’t believe in Apple’s marketing in regards to AI. Past M chips were way slower than consumer Nvidia RTX chips. Their only advantage was the available memory. I’m speaking as a member of the Apple cult.
same detached disdain that the US does

really? An American was recently sentenced to 25 years in feds, which means no parole. His name may be familiar: SBF . I would say that white collar crime is not being ignored in the US.
Probably it's like their storage. LTT determined that Apple storage is worth more than it's weight in gold (at least at the Apple prices).
It amazes me how a company can make a decision like this without anyone in the team stepping up and saying "Deanonymizing users will make people mad".

It really indicates bad management - That either the decision-makers have enough unearned confidence to make this change despite the negative feedback they're receiving, or that nobody who actually understands the user base feels empowered enough to speak up and say that this is an unethical way of doing business.

I perfectly understand the decision to stop allowing anonymous content, but it is absolutely insane to apply this decision retroactively to content created by users who operated with the expectation of anonymity.
Modern zen4 based laptops can get 15 hours. My 2019 MBP was quoted as 10 hours but gets under 2.... Why? because it's more software than hardware that is the issue. My MBP runs out of battery quickly because outlook (or chrome) uses too much CPU and it drains quickly and runs hot. You get the 10 hours only if then SW lightly loads the CPU. This is the same for Zen and appple Mx CPUs. If you run exactly the same apps you will get similar performance.... The modern zen are very efficient CPUs.

Usually for me the culprit for poor battery life is MS office apps, but under MacOS I've seen window manager consume 90% CPU regularly.

Long story short, buggy SW dictates battery life on modern laptops, with very little between apple and zen (can't speak to modern Intel CPUs, i dont have a laptop with one)
We train 3.5 times more PhD's. What we discover isn't more physics, it's that the "Mythical Man Month" is more broadly applicable than it's writer realised.
You've also left out the other sense: proprioception.

To have art deliver such signals, I guess you'd have to like being a marionette... ;-)
I did the other direction, wanted to go to Naples, visited Pompeii because it's nearby. There's nothing wrong with Naples.
The Parable of the Wise Hiring Manager
As an aside, 2001 is an interesting case as it was produced concurrently with the novel. It's clearly not an adaptation, but I wouldn't say it's clearly original material either.
ULID has many advantages over UUIDv7, including (but not limited to) higher timestamp granularity, and more usable canonical string representation.
I thoroughly enjoyed the early days of my career/learning as a DOS pleb!
what is it you are trying to leave behind that could not be more portably replicated by a collection of flac files?

Personally ill be happy if my children would listen to some of the music i like and remember me. my collection will not mean anything to them, nor should it.
The author here. Thanks for the interest. Crazy things happened in life last year, so I barely find a time to write anything. Recently finally find a time to pick up writing again. Hopefully I can add more content to the book this year.
Same point stands.

Their circumstances are not conducive to any kind of learning whether before or during college and should be addressed instead of getting rid of merit-based college admissions
At Mac Pro pricing (128 GB = $1600) that's $12,800

Of course, I can imagine that there will be a significant discount even just considering the price of high end branded memory outside Apple.

Still, Apple has showed no sign of abandoning 8GB for regular people. Even if they switch by the end of the year on their high model, they have a serious handicap in their own installed base.
And catastrophically slower. I think a lot of people who are downloading llama.cpp to run on their M-series MacBook Pro or spending $$$ on high-RAM Mac Studios for AI are not actually aware that Nvidia GPUs are often literally ten times faster for the same applications. You'll almost always be better off either running on a local gaming GPU for things that fit or renting GPUs in the cloud for things that don't, just because the performance gap is so massive.
>critics of the past were never anonymous

That is a pretty bonkers thing to say about a review platform that has for many years been anonymous...

Not to mention that influential pre-Internet food critics have often been anonymous/pseudonymous to avoid IRL recognition by restaurant owners, ensuring that they receive the same level of service their readers would get.
Elon Musk Threatened with Arrest
Damn, it seems then Google is really behind here.

IIRC their Pixel 8 chips are so underpowered that they can't even run Google's smallest LLM models locally on device, so despite their whole AI hype sales pitch, everything on the Pixel 8 is still run in the cloud.

How is Google so slow at this? At least the likes of Intel and Microsoft have an excuse, they're old and crusty corporations that move slow.
What do you think would be a better description?
Right now there's not, but the market for smartphones was pretty small until the iPhone came out. If anybody could create a market for something, I'd believe Apple could do it.
I guess Lynch has his fans but I just looked up a list of his work and haven't seen any of it, to me he's the Transcendental Meditation guy who played a pretty funny role in Louis CK's TV show.
People use all kinds of colloquial models for mental health that may or may not have a relationship with reality. It is not obvious to me that there is such a thing as "underlying problems" that you mask by doing something else. Maybe, maybe not-- mental health is complicated and you have to prove this stuff. An alternative model is that people get depressed when they do nothing at home, and get better when they're surrounded by other people and have tasks to complete. I don't know what's actually right, but I'm always very skeptical when people approach these things with certitude.
Yeah, also every day we ingest large quantities of an industrial polar solvent while inhaling 21% corrosive oxidizing gas.

This is in addition to the constant state of chemically-mediated algorithmic war with swarms or hive-minds of rogue nanotechnology from an ancient Gray Goo apocalypse, but that's another story.
Where would you keep the bins? Where would people park when the bins are out? How many bins would a say 15 floor apartment building have?
Sounds like you need to use a ReplacingMergeTree + final keyword.