skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero dependency on China is a pretty significant bonus.
If that's the case maybe we as a species should die? Or at least enough of the species that we change our behaviour for good?

It's unfortunate that the ecosystem has to suffer.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237116
Grid storage is dominated by $/kWh.

For land and sea transport it's mostly volume/kWh.

For electric aircraft it's kg/kWh.
They've been out of the labs for a while. CATL has been producing sodium ion batteries for a few years already. They are used in some of the cheaper cars there. But nice to see more companies getting sodium ion to production.
Nice try, but no. Everything that runs on a server is not ipso facto an algorithm. It's a word that has a specific meaning, which you would (I'd hope, at least) be able to grasp if you weren't ignoring half the words in the definition you already quoted (and the specific meanings attached to those words, too).

> AI is artificial intelligence, "AI" is artificial but it's not intelligence.

And artificial tears aren't tears. Likewise with artificial vanilla, artificial plants, etc. Which is beside the point—because you have yet again attempted to provide a (crummy) response to the question I didn't ask and avoided answering the one I actually did ask.

Please come back when you can demonstrate that you can carry on a conversation without this type of rhetorically dishonest, empty, pigeon-shitting-on-the-chessboard condescending bluster. (And maybe take a course on the theory of computation and the fundamentals of computer science in the meantime.)
It depends on what one considers useful.

E.g. they were also first to support the `:has()` selector/pseudo-class, which I think can be useful for avoiding JS in some cases.
I'm the author and I've been trying to respond to everyone but Hacker News won't let me comment fast enough. Thanks everyone for taking the time to read my article and respond!

Your criticisms are greatly appreciated. This article came from having read a lot of posts online saying developers shouldn't learn C++ because Rust is killing it anyway. A lot of developers (new developers, especially) seem to take that statement to heart which I think is a mistake. I'm definitely not trying to take away from Rust because it's a great language (maybe even better than C++), but there's more to choosing a language than just which is better (unfortunately) and that's the point I was trying to get across.
The challenge with interpreting statements like this is that there isn't just one lithium battery chemistry in widespread use, and even within a single chemistry the detailed structure of the anode and cathode can greatly change both achievable charge/discharge rates and longevity. For example, compared to the most commonly available energy-storage-optimized NMC cylindrical cells, LTO cylindrical cells charge and discharge at rates up to 10x faster, and have an estimated lifetime of tens of thousands of cycles... in exchange for have half or less of the energy density. Which is to say, depending on the exact details of the sodium cells being discussed, it's extremely likely that their entire performance envelope is achievable today with some combination of NMC, LFP, and LTO cells; although they may yet prove to have a cost advantage.
Isn't the issue more that traditional ASR systems use US (General American) phonetic transcriptions so then struggle with accents that have different splits and mergers?

My understanding on whisper is that it is using a model trained on different accents, specifically from LibriVox. The quality would depend on the specific model selected.

The MFCC or other acoustic analysis is to detect the specific phonemes of speech. This is well understood (e.g. the first 3 formants corresponding to the vowels and their relative positions between speakers), and the inverse is used for a lot of the modern TTS engines where the MFCC is predicted and the waveform reconstructed from that (see e.g. https://pytorch.org/audio/stable/transforms.html).

Some words can change depending on adjacency to other words, or other speech phenomena (like H dropping) can alter the pronunciation of words. Then you have various homophones in different accents. All of these make it hard to go from the audio/phonetic representation to transcriptions.

This is in part why a relatively recent approach is to train the models on the actual spoken text and not the phonetics, so it can learn to disambiguate these issues. Note that this is not perfect, as TTS models like coqui-ai will often mispronounce words in different contexts as the result of a lack of training data or similar issues.

I'm wondering if it makes sense to train the models with the audio, phonetic transcriptions, and the text and score it on both phonetic and text accuracy. The idea being that it can learn what the different phonemes sound like and how they vary between speakers to try and stabilise the transcriptions and TTS output. The model would then be able to refer to both the audio and the phonemes when making the transcriptions, or for TTS to predict the phonemes then the phonemes as an additional input with the text to generate the audio -- i.e. it can use the text to infer things like prosody.
Is the federal vs. state thing “the federal government controls most of the land at issue in the west and decides policies, not the states”.

Because that's actually the situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands#/media/File%3A...
I haven't financed a phone for years.

I buy my phones cash and pay about 30$ for unlimited data on Mint.
Do you mean a former German area during the WW2 occupation of Poland or after the Second Partitioning of Poland at the end of 18th century?
Here I was scanning the article for what they floated on. I had assumed it was a peat-bog type situation.

I guess the key benefit of this strategy is that the water level is high and the water is nutrient rich? Otherwise it's pretty similar to a standard canal irrigation setup.
Woodworking (or any interesting manual labor) as a hobby is fun. Doing it as a job though is brutal, repetitive, boring, and dangerous. The client relationship is even worse —- at least most devs have insulation through the agile system from the direct force of clients. Selling in the trades is rough, rough work, and probably more than half the job.
There were only 377 delivered, though.
Interestingly I tried it as well, and the result was much worse than tablets.

Shortly after a test of washing machine tablets and powders came out[1], and none of the powders available there came out good in regards to naughty chemicals, while the tablets we had been using had none of those (Yes Platinum all-in-one).

They also came out better in regards to washing quality, so we've since changed back.

[1]: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/tester/vaskemiddel-til-oppvask...
Good good. Just wanted to check since it's a mistake a lot of people have made!
… am I wrong for thinking the actual play Workspaces is making is in corporate spyware, and the rest is mostly secondary as far as what may get businesses to pay for it?
West has really not much of a choice here. The US Declaration of Independence states:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

I understand it as the West believes it's the objective truth that the people want freedom among other things, and no references to the contrary are truthful. So when China says the West pushes their values down the throat, West shrugs and notes that 1) liberty is needed 2) there's no (enough) liberty in China - and that's enough to continue to push the values. Or, in other words - China, accept that the freedom is important, change the behavior accordingly - and West will stop insisting on deficiencies in this area.

So, ideas. They are hard to resist, other than by the other ideas. So far those other ideas are national traditions, which are doubtful on the surface, as it seems all nations reaching democracy mostly don't want to come back. Here the West receives the confirmation of its point of view, and the approach remains.
Exactly! Not only that but the entire message delivery routine as well.
Characterizing the invasion of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union as “governments leading wars against each other” is sloppy revisionism at best. Poland was invaded by occupying powers.
This depends on the font and give you options on how the bounding box works. Margins would be error prone, manual, and unreliable.
Yeah, it's proto-editing, but with such limited degrees of freedom in the activity your creative options are pretty limited and as time goes on and on the endeavor starts to look like this: https://xkcd.com/915/
I once built a tool to generate buttons with particle effects using this CSS technique [0].

Always thought it'd be a fun project to build a small "image" editor with basic shapes that automatically outputs them as CSS code. Is anyone aware of any such tools?

[0] https://bewelge.github.io/CSS-Button-Particles/ (I just checked and the UI looks horrible on mobile. The buttons effects should still work fine though).
Nvidia is a manufacturer. They’ve read all the books of all of the giants of logistics. They know that throughput means nothing if it doesn’t include sales. They know how to reduce in-process work and get from raw materials to boxes on store shelves as quickly as possible.

Which is to say: they know inventory is a liability and they know how to get rid of it.

Renting out equipment is an inventory management problem, which manufacturers don’t understand on purpose. That’s somebody else’s domain.
Here's Natron's page about safety: https://natron.energy/our-technology/safety

I don't think the battery is a big block of pure sodium. That would be unsafe.

The battery electrolyte contains sodium ions, but the same is true of salt water and Gatorade.

I think the industrial source of their sodium is sodium hydoxide, a common industrial feedstock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hydroxide
> The target market for this is presumably the same as the Playdate

I don't think "this could be an app on my phone" works as an argument for the Playdate the way it does for the Rabbit R1. A dedicated gaming device with real buttons is better than a touchscreen any day and the constraints of the hardware make the games unusual and highly creative. It would diminish the experience considerably if it was just a mobile app.

Contrast with the R1 which seems to want to be a general purpose device that just does everything worse than the supercomputer you already carry around in your pocket.
Sorry man, your wife isn't a replacement for a doctor. If she was, she'd have gone to medical school.
I’m confused. Are you saying that the studies being done and showing positive results should just be ignored? Why are these studies viewed as wishful thinking?
It is fair to point out that people in the third world that already live on "less cars, smaller homes, less concrete, less meat, less gadgets and more trees" choose to ramp up their consumption of those things as soon as they can afford to. The Chinese for example probably have more cars per capita than the US did when its GDP per capita was what China's is now -- and mopeds and motorcycles (and bicycles if my hours spent watching Youtube videos of urban outdoor environments in China are any indication) are banned in the Tier 1 cities: to travel on the roads, you have to have a car or ride a bus -- and the privately-owned cars vastly outnumber the buses just like in any US city.

And the Chinese eat many times more meat than they used to.

It is fair to point those things out because it is evidence that living on "less cars, smaller homes, less concrete, less meat, less gadgets and more trees" really sucks and that it is possible for us to overdo our response to climate change and ocean acidification.
Sodium-ion compliments Li-ion in the marketplace. Each battery variation is better suited for various niches. eg Sodium is a better fit for stationary storage. Though CATL and others are using sodium for down market vehicles too, which should free up Li-ion capacity for other use cases.

To reach net-zero 2050, we'll need an installed base of 2 terawatts of battery storage. Annual production is ~30 gigawatts. (IIRC.) So mfgs will still continue to scale up and make as many Li-ion (eg LFP) batteries as possible.

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Also exciting are the misc thermal solutions just now starting their own cost-learning-curves. Advanced geothermal (generation and storage), box of rocks (heat batteries), geothermal heat pumps (commercial and residential).
The Loudest Lisp Program to the Rescue – Paraprogramming Dispatches
I don't know about you, but I get dividend equivalents when RSUs vest to cover precisely this scenario.
it's hard to care about someone who lies about simple things like milkshakes.
If customers were supportive of this trade-off, why would we not already see companies exploring it with LTO batteries?
Big if cheaper - which is the crux of the issue.

LiFePO4 loses money in every analysis of putting in a home battery I've done: if sodium is more common, the question is does that meaningfully reduce the price of the battery.
International team cracks genomic code for earliest forms of terrestrial plants
Still... There's this "well organized" bit. Which means organization and structure, following orders and such. Where the firearms are kept is not specified, so it's secondary. Could be at home. Could be at militias armory. Could be that guns are kept at home but ammunition is stored in the armory like the Swiss do.

My reading is that the intention was for the states to have right to keep Swiss style volunteer armies, but what was dangerous was the "well organized militia" bit so it's not implemented. Instead guns and ammunition are allowed to be freely distributed to prevent the organization and exacerbate chaos between the people in the event of uprising against the government. If the anarchy comes, because of the prevalence of guns and lack of organization local warlords will quickly arise and mostly kill each other in struggle for power. Then the oppressive government comes in and just sweeps the thinned herd.
We need both, but reaching zero emissions is far more urgent and cost effective (by many orders of magnitude) right now.
It's a bizarre stance because justifying violent extremism creates more violent extremism, which endangers us all. Choosing this method of political activity should (and in my opinion does) automatically invalidate whatever political arguments you have. If you have legitimate political grievances, bring them to legitimate political arenas.

Note how my philosophy still allows you to address origins, roots, grievances, etc. while also preventing the formation of violent militias because people won't listen to them or take them seriously. Yours forces us to take violent extremists seriously, even when their underlying concerns might not be worthy of consideration. Which is what violent extremists want.
they do advertise, but they try to keep traditional (instead of influencers) https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-a...
I think that's part of it for sure, but another part is that 'culture war' stuff is Very Important for the people it affects and seems relatively winnable. Like, we got Gay Rights!!! That's maybe one of like 2-3 good things that's happened in the last 50 years.
Interesting! This could be read as:

[Packaging separate dies, each made on distinct process] is cheaper than [use 1 process that is sub-optimal for big part(s) of the chip].

Or: advanced IC packaging is cheaper than advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Still surprising this works for a <$1 chip. But makes sense considering what a new semiconductor fab costs nowadays.
Stretchable microneedle electrode arrays for intramuscular electromyography
Right - I'm more distanced from common usage, for sure.

On the other hand, my assessments and understanding is my own. My brain is not "outsourced" to consensus or experts. I'm fine with that!

I'm interested to see if you have a suggestion that would draw this distinction out better. The idea that something can be 'known' at large by a group, and the idea that the individual 'knows' because he has personally verified something. Are both these really "knowledge"? Can knowledge be a team sport? Is knowledge what the person with the biggest megaphone, or the most supporters say it is?

I'm also interested to hear a better term than 'know', for those things that the individual has verified vs what you would call (group) "knowledge" - but I personally think my 'hard' definition is the proper one. One knows, or one believes (or theorises/hypothesises/etc). It might (or might not) be fair/useful to hold consensus opinion - but, as far as the individual is concerned this type of information ought to be characterised as 'belief'.

I'm sure you can tell, but I think knowledge (all thinking and emotions actually) occur in the individual only. A generic "we" cannot know anything - knowledge is enlivened in the individual mind only.

I think this is all self-evident, but I'm always happy to hear alternative views, better definitions of terms, etc. I invite you to explain further and correct me!
They could always last a bit longer, that is not why
Testing the Waters: Scotland Surges Ahead on Ocean Power
I really hope in a decade or two we look back & wonder why we don't use the best data-over-time tracking tool that we have (git) for way way more. Far far far more developers know about git than any other system, there's far more tooling, and git itself has a massive amount of collaborative effort poured into it. We should absolutely be using this for storing & managing far more data than just source code!

Awesome effort. So cool to be able to see changes over time!
Is android.permission.INTERNET not a thing anymore? Unlike iOS, Android at least used to have this one.

I sometimes wish I could just configure that per-app as a user. Frustratingly, on iOS it's possible only for mobile data, but not for Wi-Fi – why!?
Discussion[0] (225 points, 24 hours ago, 131 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40237855
Games pays badly, big corp IT pays badly, and unfortunately despite the difficulty, embedded tends to pays poorly unless you are at one of the big tech companies.
8K Years Ago, Humans Navigated Deep into a Dark French Cave. Question Is: How?
Air Conditioning and AI Are Demanding More of the Power
But who wants a fat smartphone with lower battery life? Smartphones are where people want as much energy density as possible. Smartphones are also expensive devices with a relatively small battery, so it makes sense to add a few dollars for more energy density. Also most smartphone manufacturers are very much into planned obsolescence, so much that countries are starting to legislate, they don't really want long lasting batteries, especially not if it compromises the user experience.

There could be a market for power tools, where having more batteries of lower capacity for the same price can be desirable.

Also maybe for hybrid vehicles.
whenever i see a free to use cloud service like this i think either 1:

- they won't be able to afford to run it much longer and it'll shut down with apologies about being a hobby project that got out of hand

or

- they start charging more for it than i'd like to spend once i become reliant on it

don't see any links to any source code... so doesn't seem to be something i can host myself... i typically try to avoid investing in services that i don't have some kind of guarantee with either way (that i'm paying to keep it running, or that i can fork it or host it myself when the hobbyist gets bored)

why should i invest the time in using your product?
Factorio Friday Facts #409 – Diminishing beacons
For people who misinterpreted the title like me, thinking that exercising is negative:

Conclusion

Our findings showed that high CRF is strongly associated with lower risk of premature mortality, incident chronic conditions (ie, hypertension, heart failure, stroke, atrial fibrillation, dementia and depression), and poor prognosis in those with existing chronic conditions. The consistency of the evidence across a variety of health outcomes demonstrates the importance of CRF and the need to incorporate this measure in routine clinical and public health practice. Future studies should focus on outcomes with limited evidence and where the certainty of the evidence was rated as very low by improving study quality.
Lowering the power we use, is the only realistic goal.

I wear an Apple Watch. On my wrist, is a small, Lithium-ion battery, that contains a great deal of power.

That power is trickled out, over time.

If it were to all release at once, I'd no longer have a left hand.

Packing all that energy into smaller and smaller form factors, increases the risk; no matter what tech we use.

Energy is energy. When it comes out quickly, we call those "explosions."
If we have fixed resources, how should they be allocated?

I'd argue for every million dollars towards reaching net zero emissions, we should maybe spend 1 dollar towards carbon capture, where we scale that investment up as we approach net zero emissions.
Typically with split keyboards like this, you'd put the arrow keys on home row (or ijkl or esdf etc.), and access the arrow keys by holding a Fn key.

On a traditional keyboard, you can't access the arrow keys with your hands rested on home row. You have to move your hands to reach those keys.

Holding a Fn key brings more of the keyboard's functionality to within easy reach of the hands, at the cost that the keyboard is somewhat more complicated to use.
It’s akin to cargo culting, or rain dancing, etc.

A dog asking for beggin strips…
You can build such a bike today with LTO cells, which are commonly rated at 5,000 - 25,000 cycles (depending on manufacturer) to 80% of nameplate capacity. You'll compromise on range, of course; but in the worst-case corner (extremely low temperature outside, high current draw rate) the comparison to at least LFP is pretty favorable, and you're within a factor of 2x or 3x of NMC throughout the envelope.
It does but have to use the app to deposit checks.
I think making it a notification via the app (just like Facebook notification) will be better than email notifications (email notifications would be costly when so so bulky).
Why so cynical
I saw an Instagram Reel where someone claimed it could loiter on the seabed for extended periods powered by geothermal, but that sounds pretty fanciful to me.
I just ran into this recently: provisioning some older HSMs require creating an executable sent to customers. Windows defender now blocks these by default just because they have some kind of encryption going on in them.

Mozilla is correct, this is very dangerous to just freely allow access. But some people really need it. And IOT and firmware stuff really needs it to exist somehow. I dont know why active purposeful allow button isn't good enough however
Most diyers are using LFP at this point and that’s considered quite stable. a smaller group try to reuse old ev batteries and those are generally considered more risky because of the runaway effect that’s possible- which still seems relatively low. regardless, more stable chemistries are always welcome and i agree with others that the discharge recharge and cycles would be amazing!