skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "we installed 1GW of capacity"

“Wind and solar supplied 12% of global electricity in 2022” that’s the number I am tracking not how many panels they happened to use. Location and other details matter. Plopping down Solar in the UK, Germany, or southeastern Australia is a poor investment. So no I don’t give a fuck about hypothetical GW in dumb locations, it’s also irrelevant to the point I was making.

> can move the needle on total CO2 emissions because the effect on grid production is much less linear then traditional thermal power plants.

Batteries + Solar means is more linear than thermal not less.

Again just track renewables by kWh over the year not simply nameplate capacity if that’s what you want to know. It’s not some secret people actively tack and report it as useful information.

As to the rest of your points, market conditions exist before you install the power plant. Initially the question is wind or solar more useful needs to be addressed. Pick solar and many choices remain.

Install solar with 1 or even 2 axis tracking and you get more hours per day of generation from the same land and panels than fixed installation but higher cost per kWh. Install it X miles west and power comes on a little later each day. Add a battery and you can shift supply within the day. People don’t just plop down panels randomly there’s a huge amount of optimization up front to maximize long term gains.

Thermal on the other hand has fewer levers, shifting the power plants location doesn’t help match the demand curve and there’s no option for cheaper but less reliable output. The economics also completely kill the idea of having batteries to cover the after work spike in demand etc etc. Right now people are trying to decide if they want a power plant that’s only going to provide 45% of hypothetical capacity while still being forced to pay the full construction costs. Net result an absolutely massive increase in how much wind and solar generation is used not just installed each year.
Defined benefit pensions themselves are set to implode once population growth stops - they are a Ponzi scheme that will break down within a hundred years resulting in at least a reduction in benefits.
As a Ukrainian, this sounds like betrayal. We went to war expecting sufficient military support from our superpower partner/ally.
All of those songs are worth a listen. True gold!
> Genuine question, are distributed systems naturally more resilient?

Only if they've prioritized the "availability" component from the CAP theorem.
Better than anything I tried!
Every single teacher I remember as being influential on me in any significant was was hugely enthusiastic for their subject and the material. No matter how hard or easy the class was, that enthusiasm was definitely the biggest contributing factor to how much of an impact they had on me. One of the only classes I ever really struggled with was a government / civics class. The teacher assigned difficult work and graded hard. But they were enthusiastic, firmly convinced that the key to understanding US government and politics was understanding the sides and arguments in the major landmark Supreme Court cases. So convinced of this were they, that many classes were spent with them enthusiastically recreating oral arguments for various cases. Presenting both halves of them as if they were the lawyers, and leaving us to ask questions about the positions and the arguments.

To this day, that enthusiasm for those cases, for understanding both how each side of these cases is both convinced they’re in the right and how often the cases pivot on very narrow aspects of the law has carried over for me decades later. Those lessons and the insights have shaped not only my passing interests in law and politics, but how I approach day to day conflict and debate.

If they had been unenthusiastic and dry, like so many other teachers I’d had, theirs would have been just another boring US history class with a jerk of a “difficult” teacher.
Its much better to do go.work and add to your ignore. This way you won’t have to muck with go.mod and commit the file with local replaces
The Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
Sorry but I didn't understand anything from your explanaiton. Nothing in it answers the parent's question.
One of the problems I often see is that when trying to explain one of the possible options, people don't understand it. When that happens, you try to explain it to them harder. Your explanation is then mistaken for pushing for that option. It's important to carefully navigate around this perception. People should understand that first you just want to be on the same page what your options are, and then discuss the best one.
But do more countries actually build them?
Is there such a thing as a tablet that accepts video input? In other words, use it as a tablet, then connect a mini hdmi or whatever and it turns into a monitor. Disconnect, and it's a tablet again.
>but I can't help but wonder why "Apple policies prevent the Chrome Root Store and corresponding Chrome Certificate Verifier from being used on Chrome for iOS."

It's probably a downstream effect from iOS not allowing third party rendering engines on ios, and the API for safari webview doesn't allow developers to swap out the TLS stack.

>I also find it hypocritical that Google wants a multi-certificate architecture when they won't allow sysadmins their own certificate: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/168169729?pli=1

It really isn't. The linked issue seems to revolve around allowing root CAs to be added without user involvement, which presents privacy/security issues. Meanwhile being able to support multi-certificate in this context is motivated by being able to use newer cryptographic algorithms while still being able to support legacy devices, eg. presenting ECDSA certificate to modern devices but presenting an RSA certificate to decades old IOT devices that only support RSA. I don't see how that's contradictory with "we don't want to allow installing CAs behind users' backs because it might be abused to spy on them".
haha true.. although not far from his real username which was "unjustly" should have thought about that username before trading with him though
Well, sort of. You’re likely going to use 100% of possible production for wind and solar. That’s much lower than “capacity”, true. But you’re going to use it.

Fossil fuel sources on the other hand are being rapidly downscaled. And if it’s not operationally profitable to run a gas plant at reduced capacity, the plant will have to shut down entirely. This is happening to peaker plants due to battery power coming online.

the economics of gas plants become much, much worse quickly. The cost of energy from a gas plant that’s run a small portion of its planned output is much higher due to the fixed costs.

This should push up the price of off-renewable time power, which will increase the business case for batteries. It’s a bit of a death loop.

Gas will be here for a long time yet but I predict mainstream forecasts are underestimating how quickly the tides will turn to the share of renewables
Perhaps there's some difference between bookshelves and weeks, such that the weekend both serves as bookends to the week proper, and is yet contiguous?
Or not we just need more Fairphones and less Samsung.
I'd like to hear more...
Hi, creator of DrawBeats here! I noticed a bit of extra traffic coming from HN today :)

Thanks for sharing this! I'd love to hear any feedback or ideas on how to improve DrawBeats from the community.
You can accidentally click on this checkbox you're talking about, then accidentally click on the UI element that opens up the AI prompting mechanism, then accidentally type something in and send it as well. I don't understand this
See the bottom of the post: "We charge per full medical record retrieval for a patient (which we call a query). This starts at $1 per query (with a monthly minimum), and scales down from there based on volume. We only charge for queries that return at least one record (and even if a query returns 1000 documents for a single patient, we still count that as a single query) - no charge is incurred for sharing data back to the networks, or making API calls to generate medical record summaries, for example."
I think she actually did, that and her Christian beliefs. Not all of politics is cynical, sometimes politicians are selfish and unreasonable and act on their principles. There were more fiscally prudent ways for Germany to increase its population for various political and economic ends if Merkel so chose to use them.
My 2024 Toyota has a DCM fuse that I've removed. No telemetry is being broadcast to anyone because the transmitter doesn't have any power.

Regardless, most of my around-town trips I do by bicycle.
(adding my voice) I would buy a dumb monitor of this without thinking. Name your price Daylight team.
Tip: use magnetic ports/cables on your USB devices. Moved to these after that happened to me years ago and love them - quick and easy to connect/disconnect, and less worry about tripping over the charge cord flinging the device across the room.

The only disadvantage is I haven't found any that support high amp/watt charging.
I’ve used Fable in production. It just works most of the time, but it’s not seamless.
FWIW, you can do a split-window layout without fullscreen by holding Option while hovering over the green traffic light.

Personally I use this (or even resize or rearrange windows) very rarely though. Most of the time if I need two documents side by side it’s in an IDE that supports panes.

As for command-tab, it’s deeper than just one command. The macOS windowing model is just fundamentally different with how windows are not equal to processes. A toggle would need to change the windowing model of the OS to work properly.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466590
I am not aware of any models of the universe that posit an infinite mass.

Edit: Also, "observable universe" is a frequently misunderstood concept. Just because something is now outside the observable universe (the distance between them and us is big enough so that the rate of expansion of the universe between us and them is higher than the speed of light) doesn't mean that we aren't, today, receiving light from a long time ago when the object was closer. If you go far enough back in time you can "see" the entire universe . As time passes, more and more mass moves outside of the observable universe since the size of the sphere is constant relative to the rate of expansion.
For all practical purposes it works like a warranty though.

I just checked my local amazon clone, and for a mac mini the warranty is listed as 24 months for consumers and 12 months for companies.

There is no official Apple presence in Romania so I can't check their official position.
Politics is just deciding what to do with shared resources, an ideology informs people’s choices about what to do with shared resources, managing people doesn’t really have anything to do with scum or politics, I think you’re missing the mark.

More to the point, you’re picking something more divisive than scrum and adding your thoughts about the divisive topic to add to a discussion about scrum, it doesn’t add to the conversation it just ratchets up the conflict. Take it to Facebook.
This and that open source 60fps e-ink display repo from a few days ago on HN makes me think we're about to see an explosion of new tech that is centered around eink type displays:

https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider
Don't see how it can "implode" -- the pensions would just get smaller.

Similar thing happened e.g. after fall of USSR -- elderly people simply became poorer with way less buying power they expected.
Just a note that they are complaining about the LACKING of overtime because they earn more with it.
In some places it is a minimum you describe and in other cases (a percentage of) the expected life of the product. Washing machines have different lifespans than phone for instance. Here we only have the 12 months of proof by seller/manufacturer and then it is the reasonable lifespan of the product.
Can I parse response (JSON, XML, whatever) into cells without VBA?
Maybe. They conspicuously refer to the radiation in what sounds like official language. Expanding the compensation for the harms of WWII-era toxic waste to people in St. Louis, rather than to include the people in St. Louis who were experimented on during the Cold War.

Wild that right after this topic, Burchett pivots the discussion to UFOs and aliens and the US Secretary of Energy asserts that they aren’t real. I guess it could be read as a dismissive suggestion to those interested that the St. Louis experiments are just another conspiracy theory.
I can't imagine many things worse than being famous. I guess if you are the kind of super-rich where you can completely avoid interacting with the rest of society that it would be fine, but not being able to just walk down the street or go to the pub without someone stopping you must get tedious.

The kind of quiet fame that Lehrer managed, known to a smallish segment of the population, for being really good at something, and then going off and living a normal life sounds pretty great to me.

As much as I love the maths based songs, my favourites are still Oedipus Rex and The Vatican Rag.

Tom Lehrer and Flanders & Swann were the musical background to my childhood. If you enjoy Lehrer you might enjoy F&L too.

While they don't have the science/maths background that makes Lehrer an obvious win for the HN crowd, F&Ls songs were razor sharp satires of the time. One or two have not aged so well, but most are great, although knowing a bit of British history helps. Like Lehrer they wrote songs about the insanity of war, nuclear weapons, and prejudice (A Song of Patriotic Prejudice is an awkward listen because of the terms used, but a great representation of English exceptionalism in the post colonial era).
Absolutely. [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18788...
In this context, I think of two things: hackable spying and data exfiltration.

If a device runs processes that can be hacked so that it can report on your activities. Capturing the display or keyboard input would be examples. This generally requires an active network connection, but not always. Because this device runs a version of Android, it’s potentially hackable (I’m not saying it isn’t secure, just that it would have to be validated).

Second, if a device can store or transfer data, it would be possible to send confidential documents out the door without knowing about it. Because this has on-board storage (and is small), it has this issue too.

A monitor, even if its OSD/firmware was hacked, is much less likely to be able to do either of these things.

There are industries that have real concerns about data privacy and security. In these cases, the dumber a device, generally the better.
Kabosu, Shiba Inu That Inspired the Doge Meme and Cryptocurrency, Died Age 18
I always appreciate how rigorously truthful most mathematicians are.
Objective-C was originally a macro processor just like CFront on top of C.

Objective-C++ likewise on top of CFront.

Until like with CFront, they became selfhosted compilers.

Groovy code is Java code, regardless of targeting the JVM, the same syntax is supported and extended with dynamic capabilities.

Object Pascal was created for Lisa project, exactly in 1983.

Tom Love and Brad Cox created Objective-C in 1984.
This is sad news. I spoke with him about one of the startups he founded/invested in (clect) a few years back. He was an extremely smart guy, very nice, and a wonderful human.

Regardless of what you think of his documentaries, he was an entertaining and genuine guy. RIP.
> The only "understanding" he is asking for by that point is that you lay back and let him have his way with you.

Ukraine seems to have lost about 25% of their population, 10% of their land and their electricity network is being shelled. Who knows how long it will take for their economy to recover. There is a lot of room among those statistics for debate about whether just folding immediately would have been better or worse.

And Ukraine isn't really holding any cards here, any negotiations need to happen between there US and Russia. Getting good outcomes requires the US state department to get some actual statespersons involved instead of whoever has managed to push Europe to this pre-war mindset.

> You're basically repeating standard propaganda lines

If we're going to start slinging insults here, you're showing a dire lack of tactical empathy. You're not going to understand diplomacy unless you can get in to the headspace of people you don't agree with.
> Don't see how it can "implode" -- the pensions would just get smaller.

You are describing an implosion - something getting smaller.
I don't see how that's going to work when greed gives a motivation to do the exact opposite of what we want.

Mind, the fact that we have to push for repairability is an issue caused by greed in the first place, as logic would dictate that a good product is designed with durability in mind.

Why do you think that the factor that caused the issue is going to help us solve it?
Although my current phone is an iPhone (a 12 mini) I had used Motorola "Moto G" phones prior to that and never had any issues when them other than Android updates eventually ending despite the phone being physically in working order.

The iPhone was a gift, and I still prefer the Android UX but so far it's had no issues either.

I'll probably go back to Android next time I need a phone; all the iPhones except the SE are too big for my taste. But it's hard to find a small Android phone from a reputable manufacturer as well.
The ICJ is powerless. How does it purpose to enforce it, or anything?
The Github repo says they're using the ADS1299, which is basically an all-in-one solution from TI for biopotential measurements. It's pretty popular, with lots of other examples to reference.

I'd assume they used the standard 5k series resistor/4.7nF filter capacitor arrangement the device recommends.
There are some none obvious ways to kill people with bad API design even if you don’t work in a medical industry and don’t deal with heavy machinery. Corners being cut here and there, context gets lost, then it gets reused in a (non)obviously inappropriate and suboptimal way and somebody indeed dies.

Please take effort and do quality stuff as if your life depends on it.
OpenAI "will not enforce" non-disparagement and non-solicitation obligations
The hardest part is when you're being nuanced and people misconstrue it as you being indecisive xD
Careerism's cracks are showing:

* Rise of interest in WFH despite execs harping shoving RTO everywhere they can

* Decreased interest in younger generations in managing

* Quiet quitting phenomenon

The collective revealed preferences right now all point to less interest in the job as a primary identity.
Am I stupid to start web design agency in 2024
So, right now we've seen how much AI can do, but we are still far from getting an aesthetically pleasing website in one prompt. I've had this idea for a long time to start my own agency, but this is a very competitive market. The cherry on top is that everyone is doing it, and 95% are terrible at it. There is also a wave of people selling courses on how to start an agency, especially those insufferable sigma males selling their courses. This makes agencies seem cheap because so many people are doing it, and I might become a sheep in a big herd that will fall into an ocean of traps.

But I am a big Peter Thiel fan, and he and everyone says, "Do things that don't scale." So I try to do that by selling website design as a luxury product. This means I will make the Rolex of websites. After revenue becomes great, I will automate as many things as possible and create a system that is so good and efficient it produces a website with everything in one day. So, I want options and advice.
Ok hear this, I was toying with zig last week and compiled a quickjs wrapper that can run React and compiled that to wasm. So I have a JS runtime running wasm which runs quickjs runtime via zig and that runs React. Just trying to learn zig though but not much different than running PHP in WASM haha. Layers and layers of shit pressed together.
In case you have not read:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/memories-of-flame-the-cr...
It's slow as shit on Firefox on PC here. Not a good sign... .
I though it was a me thing, adding reddit to my search queries. I didn't realise things were that bad.
It's a meme because it's unusual, eating glue is a shorthand for having low intelligence because most humans don't eat glue. Beyond that, most humans understand that given the way glue works and given the way cheese works the premise of using glue to make cheese stick to a pizza doesn't even make sense, thus the statement is immediately understood as a pun, not a credible attempt at a recipe.

If humans were no better than LLMs in the way that this input were processed, there would be no meme, nor would there be a thread about how ridiculous Google's LLM is. Humans would simply accept as fact that glue can be added to pizza to make the cheese stickier, because the words make syntactic sense. Yet here we are.
I absolutely believe this. The spouse works at a very large multinational working in B2B (exclusive) software. Their AI products have taken years to develop stretching years before the pandemic. Rushing useful AI out the door is a recipe for subpar products/services.
GP has said elsewhere that they are going to provide bootloader unlocking, so alternative OSes should be possible.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Sci-Fi Movie Tier List [video]
It's documentation. Sure, they could add the speed of the videos, but honestly, I want it optimized for showing me how to use the feature, not serving something it's not: marketing material.

Apple does this as well in it's documentation, and no one complains. Lots of companies do this. So, complaining about the documentation being optimized as documentation is silly in my eyes.
Hah, I just tried it and got a nice green color. Wtf Google? They really are phoning it in on all levels these days.

DDG showed the correct color fwiw.
We did. The U.S. is really more of a low volume, high end manufacturer.

We don’t have the ability to do the same kind of industrial mobilization we did in ww2.
Gini coefficient tell less valuable information than say total poverty rate, but a high gini coefficient can be an indicator of concentration of power in the "elites"
The article explains very little about how it works, other than “end to end.” Basically it just claims higher benchmarks. Is there a paper?

It sounds like a downside will be that you can’t mix and match. You’ll have to use their LLM and their way of creating the embeddings.
CO2 curve in the USA is going down: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states
Apple has a long history of being generous with repairs, nothing to do with the EU. Friend of mine, here in the US, got an entirely new laptop when his failed just out of warranty. Goodwill repair. And because they didn't have the old laptop available as a refurb, he got the current equivalent -- which was actually a pretty substantial upgrade.
4o feels worse than 4 for me.