skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solar energy has a place in the modern grid but some crucial information is missing from this commercial. Energy return on energy invested. When you calculate the amount of land, mined resources, labor, waste disposal issues and other resources needed to make the dream building a vast excess of solar, upgrading the grid to accommodate it and storing energy in hydrocarbons or even hydrogen, you begin to realize how far fetched this dream is.

The truth is usually somewhere in the middle. We will use the technologies described but when something sounds too good to be true, it is.

But the hype is huge. Hydrogen has much more people working on it in the EU Commission than nuclear despite nuclear being the biggest single electricity source in EU and hydrogen still in the prototype stage.
invited, good luck. Moderation there is VERY tough.
You can look at a world heat map plot of solar irradiance. That's one factor.

The other factor is seasonal variability, which is a harder problem to solve than low irradiance. Low irradiance can be solved by installing more panels, which will automatically be solved with future price declines.
SME and streaming SVE. In fact I was going to include “…and nobody seems to have good evidence of ARMv9 support” but I figured my comment was enough as it was ;)
Hmm. I see a dark tunnel when I close my eyes. It’s blobby. Kind of like a swooshing in and out spiral. It’s almost blue or purple against the black which gives the shape of the tunnel. Or maybe it’s reversed, as i try now and it’s definitely a most dark blue but blueish indeed. It expands, contracts, swirls, and goes.
Would be quite unpleasant to do programming with voice.
100% agree. I would be the first doing the same. Being a regulated entity is stupid hard.
Linux won though :) "the year of the Linux Desktop" is a joke that started over two decades ago to dismiss Linux and OSS as a delusion of a few nerds but now we have Android devices everywhere, every server on earth using it, supercomputers/HPC clusters, game consoles, and even on desktop it keeps growing. Those who were in the FLOSS community back in the late 90s and early 00s probably remember how most people literally laughed at you and would call you crazy just for believing that things could be different.

The idea of a phone that can have its battery easily replaced is several orders of magnitude less crazy in my opinion.
Your comment is amusing and biting! Sadly, with and irony are not particularly valued on HN. Direct clear expressions are preferable for the expected neurotypes of this pseudo-community.
Larian outsources most of their work to cheaper countries, so they don't have to pay benefits and can boast about not doing layoffs.
> If consumers who are human can't decide what's good for them. How will regulators who are also human decide what's good for them?

Because it's their job to ensure the well-being of their citizens. This is not about ability; _some_ people certainly have the ability and self-control to make decisions that positively benefit their lives. But when companies rely on psychological manipulation to push their addicting products that harm not only individuals, but society as a whole, we can't rely on everyone to resist the machinations of billion-dollar companies and make the right decision. And individual decisions don't impact the rest of society, as individuals don't have the full picture as governments do.

I'm not saying that governments are benevolent, or should make all decisions for citizens, but when it comes to Big <industry>, it's their responsibility to protect us from corporations. This often doesn't happen as well as it should, as some governments have a symbiotic relationship with corporations (lobbying practices in the US are a clear example of corruption), but I'm still glad that some governments at least try to do the right thing.

> If someone wants to smoke cigarettes they should do it provided it doesn't interfere directly with other people's lives.

Agreed. But would you agree that heavily restricting access to cigarettes with strong regulations and taxation is a good thing for society? Or would you rather go back to the "freedom" consumers had in the 1960s, with the cancer rates that went along with it?
My sister's favorite thing as a baby was getting tossed into the air. Holding her head in position was her responsibility.
It used to be called executive summary. It's brilliant but the kids found it a too formal phrase.

IMHO almost every article should start with one.
After years of Javascript frameworks noise, i still don't understant why people build simple things using complex tools, so to build a "sleek" music player, i need to know Rust, then Tauri, then Javascript, then Svelte, then all the tools to put all of that together?hmm sounds very sleek to me.
Ummmm, surely capital cost does not use MWh units!
Innovation and Market Demand!

Technological Advancement: Utilizing high-performance GPUs for backend operations isn't about extravagance but necessity.

Economic Ecosystem: The claim that this is merely a way for "cryptobros" to swap cartel backing for corporate backing is an oversimplification.

Corporate Strategy and Investment: Companies like NVIDIA support these developments not out of sheer greed but as part of a strategic vision to lead in a competitive market.
Yeah, but all these things (even the heat transfer from exhaust toncoolant in the Prius) need to transfer many kilowatts of energy to actually work.

A kilowatt-class liquid heat exchanger is the size of a large coffee cup. A kilowatt-class TEG is the size of a car engine. See for instance the paper linked below, Fig. 12, their module is 1 m x 0.3 m x 0.35 m.

For comparison the Ford 1.0 Ecoboost engine is famously said to fit on an A4 sheet of paper and produces 100 kW. So adding a TEG you would more than double the size of your engine for a 1% efficiency gain.

https://pangea.stanford.edu/ERE/db/WGC/papers/WGC/2015/26009...
The general scheme doesn't make a lot of sense; there is no deterrent value in punishing someone for killing their own child. The punishment is that their child dies; nothing you can do will compare to that.
I think their training methodology was suspect.

Also I think there’s a bunch of important techniques that just are t shared.
They could do an anti-institution hard fork, that adds a built in mixer that would be illegal for institutions to use.

Then the network will hard fork and we will have SETH (the sell-out ether) and regular good ole ETH.

It's up to Vitalik now to determine our fate , let's destroy em from the inside.

/sarcasm
That's incredibly wasteful. You can't be serious?
Good idea. Sometime back, you could hear from the sound of your floppy if something was hung. Or from the HDD LED. (Of course only for processes involving the disk).

> So I saw a lot of animated "progress" bars in software that was actually hung.

That is indeed a scourge. It is not easy to solve since sometimes you have to wait for a server to respond which in the proposed solution would show “nothing’s happening”.
if the first thing I get when trying to play with a new service is "log in/create an account" => Instant CTRL-W.

don't have any buy-in to your product yet and you are asking me for upfront time and personal data investment.
I was interested until the homepage referenced AI models and the app asked me to login with a Github or Ethereum account. Also why have you submitted 34 links since 4 days ago?
In line with this idea, at least the 'datagrip' part of Jetbrain can sometime be added as a paid plugin. In my case, I've worked for a long time with the "WebStorm + Datagrip plugin" combo when doing fullstack JS.
Salaries vastly depend on locale. What region are you asking for?
That's "decrease". Implosion is a rapid catastrophic crush, like that Titan submersible.
uh-ow!
And there's the down votes. I sincerely ask the downvoters to please read my other lengthy posts on this subject in this thread.
i feel like this need to come with a warning about this advice is ONLY for people without traumatic relationships with their parents. I know there are a lot of us out there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSD/

but I see these "call your mom" articles all the time that really make the CPTSD victim feel even worse than they already do.
Thank you, I hadn't seen this yet, and it's a legitiately well-researched piece by medical scientists with methodological expertise and communicative clarity, which is not always the case.
Uvalde Families Accuse Instagram, 'Call of Duty', Rifle Maker of Grooming Gunman
> Pneumonia impacts breathing function.

Side note, but I recently had pneumonia, and while I got a large number of terrible symptoms, my breathing wasn't impacted.
...though with the slightly unexpected side effect (for Brotli, at least) that your executable may end up containing (~200KB, from memory) of very unexpected[-1] plain text strings which might (& has[0]) lead to questions from software end-users asking why your software contains "random"[1] text (including potentially "culturally sensitive" words/phrases related to religion such as "Holy Roman Emperor", "Muslims", "dollars", "emacs"[2] or similar).

(I encountered this aspect while investigating potential size optimization opportunities for the Godot game engine's web/WASM builds--though presumably the Brotli dictionary compresses well if the transfer encoding is... Brotli. :D )

---- footnotes ----

[-1] An aspect also previously mentioned on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160590

[0] "This needs to be reviewed immediately #876": https://github.com/google/brotli/issues/876

[1] Which, regardless of meaning, certainly bears similarities to the type of "unexpected weird text" commonly/normally associated with spam, malware, LLMs and other entities of ill repute.

[2] The final example may not actually be factual. :)
The solar output for Nordic countries during the winter is basically 0. Which is a massive problem, because winter is also when you need the most energy.

During the summer, Nordics are already at solar capacity with electricity prices often dropping negative.

So basically you are producing electricity when it is already abundant and making nothing from it and not producing anything when it is actually needed.
I think they probably fired anybody at Spotify with influence in the relevant teams in their Christmas cull. Which is probably why they are discontinuing it, because there is no one left who knows how it works.
everyone knows ICQ comes from "I seek you" right?
Now that many open source LLMs are already “useful” it is key to ease the development _around_ them, in particular in a way where users-developers can leverage on “private data” (really, data that is not present in the pre-training of these models).

Even if in the repo it is stated that it is optimized for big models (needing A100/H100), I still feel this can help with smaller models more than large ones.

We can extend “If you build it, they will come” with “If you provide the tools, the will build”
Armed highway thieves steal 40 tonnes of avocados in Mexico
IntelliJ Ultimate has all the plugins ("other IDEs"). So you could purchase that one time, and use the fallback version for smaller tasks. Granted, it might not have the latest features.
Use WSL
Yes, it is necessity, and that's exactly what sucks about it. Employing a LLM to troll your users and give them bad advice is the least efficient way of doing so. If this is really what we want to do, we can just write a Markov chain generator in JavaScript and push that to the user so that it wastes their compute resources, not ours.
Being written in Java was probably instrumental in enabling the huge modding community around Minecraft. Which in turn was probably in large part responsible for its success.
Interesting.
53286 accesses is a lot, I wonder if some of this is writing firmware to another processor, or writing a table. Some may also be busy waiting on status bits.

It would be interesting to see what the minimal subset of the 53286 is, which can be automated using the Delta Debugging algorithm, but it would first be necessary to figure out if there were any necessary waits during the writing process. Also blindly deleting stuff may produce a system that, even if it works, isn't a good citizen of the RF spectrum.
You are using a perfection fallacy, or black-and-white thinking here. That a significant number of ordinary peopple do not mask well or do not have / know of the correct mask to use doesn not make the masks or the process ineffective.
The status change and signaling by ICQ is something I wish other instant messaging did more.
> If you provide the tools, the will build
Only makes sense if the incentive of learning that tech provides expectations of future benefits.
> Yeah, but are there any official docs on that?

If they document it, it becomes a standard and people start to rely on it. Even if the documentation itself is merely to explain the how and why of the database's encryption.

> Last time I checked, they switched to SqlCipher as well, but with the password in an unencrypted file right next to the database file.

> What's the threat model of such an odd design choice?

The only thing that is more secure is to use Window's Credential Manager to store the key, which is what Bitwarden does [0].

But those credentials can also be easily dumped [1]. But at least this means that a system-wide data dump doesn't reveal the DB's content.

I am not well-versed in the credential manager, but I wonder if it is possible to tie the credential to the executable (signer? hash?).

[0] https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/blob/89d7e96b25594e51a7...

[1] https://gist.github.com/micjabbour/654e67d29cbd62be3587b9f1d...
there's literally a tl;dr in the linked article
The Mechanics of Turbulence
This is great. I wish all humans could think that way.
This fan wiki seems to say the EGA version had a unique title screen: https://spacequest.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Quest_IV:_Roger_Wil...
More like a bunch of cardboard figures raised extruded and raised up to look 3D. You couldn't stack floors in Doom for instance.

2.5D would be the semi top down games such as most beatem-ups allowing you to roam around instead of just going left/right as the typical platform or action game, or most SNES RPG's.
This is nonsense. There's no evidence that "glucose control" is helpful for anyone but actual diabetics. Glucose spikes are completely normal physiology and nothing to be concerned about unless your actually diabetic.

This whole "all sickness is metabolic disorder, caused by glucose" is a fringe grifter youtube quack theory. On the other hand, semaglutides have actual science behind them.
Not really how it works, GDPR protects individuals and allow them to request deletion with the data owner. They need to then, within 60(?) days, respond to any request. Google has nothing to do with that beyond having to make sure their infra is secure. There even are provisions for dealing with personal data in backups.

EU law has nothing to do with this.
To call Spanish treatment of native Americans 'genocidal' simply echoes the opinion of Raphael Lemkin, the guy who literally defined the term. I'm not sure your assertion that there was no mass killing in Spanish-conquered America (presumably the writings of the conquistadors and their contemporaries are part of the "indoctrination"...) is more intellectually respectable...

As for Columbus as an individual, there are certain circles that will argue that despite being the sort of bloke whose reaction to the natives' peaceful inclinations and ignorance of swords was "with fifty men we could subjugate them and make them do whatever they want", who insisted on making good on that by deporting some of then to Spain even when explicitly asked not to and presaging the encomienda system with demands to find gold in greater quantities than the locals actually knew about, Columbus was a nice man who just wanted to make friends and religious converts who was unfairly maligned by his compatriots, just as there are certain circles that argue that Auschwitz was merely a temporary internment camp. And I've already acknowledged the unintentional role of diseases which helped Columbus and his compatriots depopulate territories with far more efficiency than the Final Solution, but it's more than a little difficult to insist that the forced labour and punishments and roundup of nine and ten year old girls to be used as sex slaves didn't play any role. The best thing that could be said for Columbus is that some of his compatriots were likely a lot worse.
> This is for making bombs, and only bombs.

While most of LANL's CPU cycles are likely being spent on that, the code mentioned in the article (PARTISN) is used pretty routinely in nuclear reactor and medical shielding calculations. You can even get a copy of the source code from RSICC if you were so inclined.
Yes but beware of a shit storm of bad news (unable to assess how much disinformation would they contain) on the sector, see for example https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/solar-p...

Particularly this piece of news seems toxic to me, as selling energy to other markets is an obvious response.
https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/17/russias-dmitry-medvedev-...

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/07/21/poland-must-be-remind...

I could only find older expression of this sentiment towards Findland but I heard about it recently too, just didn't pinpoint the source and I can't find it now:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vladimir-put...
What the 'scale' appears to do, is to sugarcoat things which appears less hurtful for most people:

1)Eliminate individuals targeting other individuals at a personal level on a routine basis.

2) An officially worded notice, as opposed to some thug threatening at you.

3) Some written text that has has a resembles of order call the 'law'. To give an analogy consider why religions texts appeal to people. People have a lot of reverence for the written word including areas where IMO it should not be relevant: example marriage.

To highlight my point, if a thug were to go around extorting people for money verbally on a periodic bases which are _less_ that the taxes currently paid and provided _more_ services than the government then the targeted individual of the extortion would more resentful than he/she would have been of the government.
Ngl this will likely bring parity in reproductive freedom across next generations.
How can i train my Whats app chat model ??
First paragraph:

"This will enable features that the current, closed source ESP32 Wi-Fi implementation does not have, for example 802.11s mesh networking. It will also improve the auditability of the code."
Function calling might be one reason. If your app has a lot of custom functions for interacting with tools, fine tuning may be preferred over using context tokens.
The Facebook case is misrepresented. The payment restriction was not about ads, but about data sharing. Here's the announcement https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-04/edpb_opinion... and it literally says:

> controllers should
consider also offering a further alternative, free of charge, without behavioural advertising, e.g. with a
form of advertising involving the processing of less (or no) personal data.

GDPR says: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-7-gdpr/

> When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

It's not some hidden gotcha that they didn't know about. It's the basic right to use all services, without loss of functionality, without giving away your data which is not strictly required for the functionality. Ads or no ads doesn't matter.
Except the experts are mostly objective. However, the waters have been muddied in the public's view by anti-maskers, like anti-vaxxers. This is a real catastrophe of the pandemic.
A solution with unknown risks for a problem effectively solved by condoms.
Latitude is one factor and population density is another. If the density is low enough and the panels are cheap enough, you can find some essentially worthless land and install the panels there, and the investment will be worth it. For example, there are currently several multi-square-kilometer solar plants in various stages of planning in Finland.
Took me a while to recall mine, but 13427018.

Saying the number now it just rolls off my tongue, it is just so familiar, great times.
US golf courses take up 2x the area of currently deployed solar panels and California already has over 20GW of deployed capacity. When you combine unoccupied deserts, unused rooftop area, and agrivolataics, land use should be a non issue.
I really like Mint witht he default desktop environment cinnamon, especially if you are running Windows. The layouts and keyboard shortcuts are pretty similar and make it easy to go between the two.
Why 'no'? Care to elaborate or did you just want to throw your baseless opinion out into the wild?
Similar to how thought is organized, as a collection of items, rather than a singlar that it appears to us to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought#Computationalism

And then the "Selector" they talk about is similar in function to the neocortex, which selectively inhibits the activation of the other parts of the brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocortex

Interesting that the researchers converged to this approach, while not seeming to cite models of thought explicitly.
By that logic, female birth control pills also have no value.
The Penrose Triangle
A typical example is cooking fire in Africa. This is a major cause of deforestation. The introduction of cheap e-methane is the best solution in sight. When off-grid, cooking with electricity does not make sense.
You misunderstand the utility of masks, where it is significantly more an infected wearer of the mask who protects others by their wearing. So, being infections before you have symptoms is the problem, which is why people should - as is standard in Japan, for example - wear masks in public whenever they feel unwell or feel a 'cold' coming on.
When it comes to traditional NLP related tasks, LLMs are far below dedicated NLP pipelines like POS tagging and feature tagging. However, fine tuning bridges the gap quite a bit between the two.

It's a narrow domain, but so is most of programming. I think if you're just training a general purpose LLM to be more inclined towards your data -- no, fine tuning is probably not very relevant. But if you're trying to solve a very specific yet fuzzy problem, and LLMs can get you _part_ of the way there, fine tuning is likely your best bet.
Always interesting to see how these small screens can display a relatively large amount of information so nicely.
> "solar has scaled up faster than any other sources of electricity"

Every industrial revolution also happened faster then the previous one. Which is related, but indirectly.

Solar came to the fore at the apex of human industrial productivity (i.e. now, as opposed to any time in the past): so it would be very surprising if it didn't scale up faster then every previous energy source.

Which of course makes sense that it did: China is the largest manufacturing base the world has ever seen, solar panels are made in China, and China is one of the most recent major industrial revolutions.

This is one of those observations that doesn't really mean anything on it's own: any technology today which has an advantage should scale up faster then anything which came before, because we can make more stuff then before and have more wealth then before.
In mice..

>Of course, it remains to be seen if this target molecule could have the same impact on human sperm.
At the rate we are going the next generations won't be the one who care about reproductive freedom
Is that a problem? Condoms are not a perfect solution.