skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turning Fuel into Fire. How I'm finding my voice and helping people [video]
Per MWh in a place with the solar radiation of Arizona, the labor cost is lower for solar than a new gas peaker.
The GP was commenting about the lack of widespread solar in AZ, which is quite different from large scale solar in AZ.

The reasons why you don't see as much small scale (residential/commercial property) solar PV in AZ (or NM, where I live) are different from the reasons why solar is being built quite quickly these days.
Ask HN: Has anyone quit programming and switched to a passion field?
It seems there's a meme that programmers burn out after X years and become carpenters or yak farmers. I love programming, but the industry is very high-pressure and high-stress for me. I'm considering going back to school to learn a scientific discipline, but it seems that the job market there has you dealing with even more BS than software.

Have you or anyone you know quit software engineering (without retiring) in order to do something they're more passionate about?
Pushing the cost of power to $0 during the day seems worthwhile still. And panels keep making power until the sun is very low. LFP batteries have been around for morr than a decade. We just foolishly haven't pursued it in the US due to the fossil fuel industry's grip on our government and much of this country's misinformed populace.
I normally ask about building a multi-tenant system using async SQLAlchemy 2 ORM where some tables are shared between tenants in a global PostgreSQL schema and some are in a per-tenant schema.

Nothing gets it right first time, but when ChatGPT 4 first came out, I could talk to it more and it would eventually get it right. Not long after that though, ChatGPT degraded. It would get it wrong on the first try, but with every subsequent follow up it would forget one of the constraints. Then when it was prompted to fix that one, it forgot a different one. And eventually it would cycle through all of the constraints, getting at least one wrong each time.

Since then benchmarks came out showing that ChatGPT “didn’t really degrade”, but all of the benchmarks seemed focused on single question/answer pairs and not actual multi-turn chat. For this kind of thing, ChatGPT 4 has never managed to recover to as good as it was when it was first released in my experience.

It’s been months since I’ve had to deal with that kind of code, so I might be forgetting something, but I just tried it with Codestral and it spat out something that looked reasonable very quickly on its first try.
The drug changes your core motivations and mental/emotional states. Attributing bad behavior to a lack of will power is not being honest about it.
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The Time article is tiresome, how silly that we even need to explain that LLMs are not actually "AI" to people.

Top comment's quote is non-sense in the context of what an LLM is, a mathematical model, thats like wondering if a TV keeps "watching shows" when we arn't watching it.

And the quip that LLMs are ephemeral as a justification for not being "real intelligence" is just dumb heaped upon dumb.
Donald Trump is weighing an advisory role for Musk if he returns to White House
People might prefer to fix them. The paradigm of replacing rather than repairing is effectively enforced by insurance policies.

A different insurance model would be necessary to adopt a repair orientation. Maybe it's the equivalent of paying more to be "green," except that consumers don't really consider it as an option when they buy a car insurance policy. It seems like this kind of option would justify higher insurance premiums, so maybe a major insurer could consider promoting one as environmentally friendly.
That said, it does leave more/cheaper for Europe.
I've heard WSL2 on ARM works as expected, with the caveat that you are still limited to ARM Linux distros and their quirks.
I would disagree with the experience hunger without a stomach part, based on my empirical experiences with remembering being under general anesthesia. I didn't even feel my heartbeat and calmly wondered if I was dead until I came to. Phantom limbs are a thing certainly, but there seems to be a certain amount of dependence upon bodily inputs.
Researchers' Study Suggests That Once There Was No Quantum Entanglement
The reality is super majority of user base don’t care about data privacy or what government can see as long as it doesn’t affect their day to day lives. There was a big outrage when WhatsApp changed their privacy policy, everyone is still using it. Supermajority of people who live in China are not using any of the western social media. Or how nobody cares when there’s a breach of personal data, and it gets leaked online. Again, unless it affects them directly, it really doesn’t matter. We (people in tech and tech-adjacent fields) are in an extremely fringe bubble. And I can’t really blame them, after all who has time to think about all the second order effects of different policy changes.
I don't care what happened to Twitter now that I'm off it, but having an egomaniac not only owning but actively controlling, answerable to no one but himself, the most important digital public square in the world, is very problematic from a democratic (not the party) standpoint.

> Anyone who cares can build a replacement.

Technologically, sure; nothing special about it. But in terms of adoption and reach, no, Twitter is unique and extremely difficult to replace.
Its very interesting which ones make the cut as well. I doubt sincerely that foid or moid will make it to common use, but based and normie seem to have slotted right into young people's speech patterns perfectly.
Could be less environmental impact to install on land that is already used. The desert is habitat for all sorts of species of various level of endangerment.
Sound dampening artwork actually seems really interesting.
A fair number of YouTube content creators are diversifying onto other platforms to de-risk. Nebula seems to be a popular destination at the moment.
No, do you think operating systems only consist of a kernel?

What would you consider systems programming on Windows for example?
Detecting Cross-Origin Authentication Credential Stuffing Attacks
This is it to me. The argument that we are different because we have a current state that includes more inputs and other kinds of inputs than (current model state + context) seems thin. You could just expand context to include current physical state and expand output to include generating things like motor control in addition to words. The big difference between us and current AI is our (somewhat illusive) stream of consciousness. We operate on a combination of noisy decaying context and continuous training. Embody an LLM (or LLM-like architecture) with the right I/O, starting motivation, and the ability to continuously update its own state, and I think you'd have a hard time arguing that it isn't sentient.
"Normies" has been in common usage since the 1950s. I guess if you live on 4chan you think they invented everything.
> As beginner in web development I'm jealous of the simplicity of web development described at the beginning of the post.

I've been blogging for 17 years, and gone through a number of iterations (started with Wordpress, then my own PHP blog, then Posterous, then Jekyll, and now Scroll). The language I use now, Scroll (https://scroll.pub/), is very simple, you might want to check it out. You can start small with something like this:

header.scroll
# My Blog
firstPost.scroll
import header.scroll
Hello *world*
<b>Its fine to use html too</b>
index.scroll
import header.scroll
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> We’re in a society that had higher more progressive tax rates as recently as the 1960’s.

That's only superficially true. There were a lot more deductible things in those days, like company cars and 3 martini lunches. Tax shelter investing was de rigueur then. (Tax shelter investing is an inefficient diversion of resources into unproductive investments.) Reagan traded away the tax shelters and tax deductions for lower tax rates, which turned out rather well.

Washington state has enormously higher tax rates today than in the 60s. Sales tax, property tax, estate tax, and now an income tax.

https://dor.wa.gov/about/statistics-reports/history-washingt...
The unemployment rate in AZ is 3.6%. There are roughly 133k unemployed people there. Many of them likely lack the skills and/or physical ability to do solar PV installs.
Yeah, memory works by injecting everything it has "remembered" as part of the system prompt at the beginning of each new chat session: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Feb/14/memory-and-new-control...
This whole article seems light on nuance. The plant in question is a peaker plant. The entire point is to run it as little as practical. It's not being built to satisfy base load or to produce enormous amounts of total energy -- it's being build to supply capacity to the grid. Unlike solar or wind or even a battery system of any reasonable size, it can be run when needed and turned off when needed. It's entirely reasonable to build a sustainable grid based on lots of renewables and gas-fired peaker plants to keep everything working reliably under adverse conditions.

So surely the article should talk about the economics (to the grid operator and to the rate-payers) and how it, or a plant like it, affects the average emissions per unit energy supplied by the grid.

The next someone gets excited about installing a shiny new heat pump in a place that can get very cold (which includes parts of Arizona!), remember that its coefficient of performance can get quite low on a cold winter night, that it's really nice to keep one's house warm, that the sun won't be shining when this happens, and that the worst-case grid capacity has to come from somewhere. And, as some Texans can remind you, it really sucks when that energy fails to show up when needed. (Not to mention that parts of Arizona get very very hot and surprisingly humid, too, and the capaity needed for cooling and dehumidification on the worst days also has to come from somewhere.)

To be clear, I'm entirely in favor of calmly and carefully phasing out residential natural gas, but doing so is not at all a free lunch. In places where gas infrastructure already exists, and to the extent that leaks can be controlled adequately, an efficient, low-emission natural gas boiler/furnace is a very nice way to produce efficient heat in very cold weather, and it is just as efficient in very cold weather as it is in more mild weather. Unlike, say, a heat pump. Far too many people who want to phase natural gas out quickly don't consider the tradeoffs.
Their crystal ball for telling the future has proven that they are on "the right side of history [which hasn't yet occurred]."
You're pointing out that their license is not open source. I agree. It's not. My point is that they're not claiming it is.

I'll concede that the README is misleading but, as far as I can tell, it's not making any claims that the repo is open source. They may hint at it in an underhanded way, like having "open-source@20noise.com" as an email that you should contact them at, or make promises about open sourcing it "in the future", but they make no specific claims about their model being open source.

I also agree that corporations and many academics do a source of "open washing" by claiming "source available" is equivalent to "open source" but my point remains, this project doesn't actually claim to be open source.

And thanks for the link to piper. I do wish there were a list of "awesome (actual) open source tts/tts/misc." list somewhere, so, for those of us that care, can figure out where the actual open source models and data are.
Pusha popa and never yield back in between should suffice?
Very nice! An example diff on the landing page would help show the tool off. I copied a random commit from GitHub to test it on my phone.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.

IIRC, my first subaru (2006 WRX) operated as a FWD vehicle with rear traction assist. Perhaps the newer "beauties of all wheel drive" have better power distribution?

That I will never again own a center differential to again repair, leaves me energized. For certain, the Camry is always primarily FWD, with minimal rear assist (but helpful, no doubt).
Delhi temperature hits 50.5C as India's capital records hottest day
Putting money in a bank is not hoarding it. The bank loans out the money to people who invest/spend it.
And I always thought that the Turing test was a philosophical way to solve the matter- I always intended it as meaning "it's pointless to inspect closer something that quacks, walks like a duck: because walking and quacking are the essence of the duck".

And now I am surprised at how people seem to have understood the test the other way around- as if it was meant to be just some kind of empirical test to be confirmed by some more rigorous inspection.

And yes, of course LLMs are nor sentient as humans are: but the limits of their sentience should be clearly visible in the limits of their discourse.
If power prices were negative at 5pm, I’d be pre-cooling my house like mad before the sun went down… in other words, demand can shift and houses can act as energy storage.
Is this a genuine sentiment or just people upset that their favorite vehicle won't have a massive gas guzzling engine anymore? There are a number of people that also dislike trucks with aluminum bodies, despite that aluminum alloys can be strong (aircraft use them all the time) and it keeps your truck from turning into a rust bucket after 5 years of snowy winters. Car ownership is not always a rational thing and people will defend some strange platforms based only on emotion.

How are the CVTs in these trucks iffy compared to other CVTs? There's a number of reliable auto makers using CVTs for years, such as Subaru, Honda and even Toyota on their other vehicles. CVT transmissions have been in mass produced cars longer than most of us have been alive.
Well sure, but that wasn't what we were discussing. The original comment says they use that as their benchmark. While their coding task is a bit complex compared to other benchmarking prompts, it's not that crazy. Here is an example of prompts used for benchmarking with Python for reference:

https://huggingface.co/datasets/mbpp?row=98

At the end of the day LLMs in their current iteration aren't intended to do even moderately difficult tasks on their own but it's fun to query them to see progress when new claims are made.
Yeah, for what it's worth, I'm not guessing about the comment I wrote; could be totally wrong, but it's something I heard from two different people close to the story.
I wish this article explained the possible purpose of the removal, especially since, according to a quick Wikipedia browse, the codec is open source. What does this mean exactly? Will you not be able to play older DVDs natively without downloading the codec from somewhere?
Young people are vocal, older people revolt more silently. The effectiveness of each varies with the problem and environment.

There's no generational line to push.
Well that’s a fair point… I guess you could look at things like antivirus software as systems programming probably (or both systems and application programming)
The GP was retrospectively asking "why is there so little solar PV in AZ?"

The question was not "what would be cheaper to install right now, solar PV or gas?"
> Which games are you shipping in Java that depend on Security Manager's existence?

None, because it didn't pan out like I described above. No sense continuing developing something using a technology that is due to be removed. The project was abandoned.

This was for a third-party Old School RuneScape client which supports client side Java plugins. The current approach is to manually vet each plugin and its update before it is made available for users to install.

> Most games are deployed as services nowadays, they have a full network between their rendering and game logic.

Networked games do not communicate at 60~120fps. That's just not how it works, writing efficient netcode with client-side prediction is important for a reason.

> Yes, that is what Cloud Services do all the time across the globe in Kubernetes.

Yeah, on the servers they pay several grand a month for. Not on end user craptops which is where games obviously run.
Transmission in space is important too. It is a long haul to the demand center of Southern California and it may make sense to build closer and not have to build new power lines which take about as long as a nuclear power plant.
how is that loop going to work? You can't put experiences into language because you need a linguistic map to have a word that points to another word that points to another word ... because happy is just a word, its not the experience. So you say I am happy and the ai asks, what is happy? and you say its this warm and fuzzy feeling and the ai asks what is feeling? ... and off you go mapping abstractions for things that can't be written down for someone who never felt them because that someone does not have a pulse. ...

once you have the skin you can put touch into an electric impulse, yes, but you need to have had the skin first. why is this so hard to understand for people? do they actually believe that bullshit "I think therefore I am? please. ai is going to write our bash scripts and that is as good as it gets.
Did you google "market cap"? Market Cap=Price Per Share×Shares Outstanding

That's it, its a clear and simple definition.

Price per share is driven by investor SENTIMENT. The disconnect between revenue and PPS is reflected in the P/E ratio.
Thanks for a great explanation. It looks like the thing Scala does with its by-name parameters, but for every parameter by default. Even closer analogy, I think Io works in a very similar way - bodies of methods can access their arguments as Message (ie. unevaluated calls) objects and then decide to evaluate them as needed (which differs from your example in that the body can choose the context in which the message send is to be executed, it doesn't have to be lexical scope of a caller). It enables a great deal of expressivity - esp. coupled with some syntactic sugar for "operators" - and I always wondered why more languages don't have that feature.
The cause of this is not a technical limitation of "this is not possible" but rather "Go does this poorly due to tradeoffs* it insists on".

C# trivially pins only select buffers or other data that need to be observed by whatever it is being called across FFI while GC is free to move and handle everything else (or, should the data need to be marshalled, it can be stack-allocated and pointer to such is passed instead, or it can be malloc and freed just like you can do in C). Years of work in this area made the impact of FFI as minimal as possible, with extra levers available to the user to completely erase the overhead (suppressing GC frame transition, using methods to allocate objects on the dedicated pinned heap, static linking for aot binaries, etc.).

Go's GC implementation is comparatively simple and has other inefficiencies such as very expensive write barriers.

*sometimes the tradeoff is just a product, which Go is, that was cheaper to produce, despite common beliefs
Yeah, I’m fairly sure the “range extender” (engine) component was optional, not sure what the take rate was. A small percentage of an already infrequently-purchased car.
>220 outlet and a cable

== one type of "EV Charger"
Do you notice any progress over time?
I'm curious for the long-term effect.

I observe a certain laziness in myself when it comes to certain problems. It's easier to ask a LLM and debug provided code, but I ask myself if I'm losing some problem solving capabilities in the long run because of this.

Similar to the loss of speed in doing mental arithmetic because of calculators on the smartphone.
All parties appoint partisan judges. If you think your party of choice doesn't then you need to give your head a shake.
> I consider wanting to be more productive very lame, like you’ve been cucked by the patriarchy and capitalism

This is a common sentiment in Los Angeles and abroad, but I can relate to everything this person is saying as a resident of Los Angeles. There is not a peer group here to make you ambitious, and it’s slowed down my productivity in comparison to when I was in NYC or SF.

But you can fix this, it’s all about speaking in LA lingo.

For example, I tell people “I’m motivated by abundance”, which is spiritual speak for “making money via unbridled capitalism”. And “the universe sent me an idea” instead of my own late stage capitalist actions, as this crowd doesn’t hold themselves accountable for their actions, but you can mold that to your own ends

You’d think it was insufferable, until you saw the women that this engagement farms
If you want to implement this in a AWS/ALB (Load Balancer) setup, you have to:

- Remove the ALB's HTTP listener

- Remove port 80 from the ALB's security group
Ok. That makes sense. Thanks!

Can I reasonably assume that people who are very riled up about OpenAI not meeting its original (weird, IMO) moral standard are revealing that they do in fact take existential AI risk seriously?
A couple spring to mind, none of which is specific to private jets.

Airspace above the US is nationalized. It's managed by the government, which is funded by taxpayers. So they have a right to know who is doing what using that airspace.

Flying secretly (or at all) is not a Constitutionally protected activity so there's nothing inherently wrong with regulating it and denying something like this.

Either one of these is a good enough reason not to allow this type of thing in my opinion.
It makes sense to repair a totaled vehicle if you can do most of the repair work yourself instead of paying the market rate. A friend has an older Volkswagen Jetta that was hit from behind at an intersection. There was no frame damage or airbag deployment but the insurance company totaled it because inflation has driven labor charges for simple repairs to ridiculous levels. My friend took the insurance payout and repaired it himself using a junkyard bumper. Works fine. But he had more free time and better mechanical skills than most people.
Thanks for the pointers! Will look into those.

> Will you still pay top dollar if it is open source though? :D

There is one OS project that I do support financially. If I get commercial value out of any of the above, I imagine I would do the same.
I'm at 23 years blogging now (I feel it).
Honestly, I find that just a little bit allows me to live in the present and stop being so forward thinking all the time.

When I find myself being too disconnected from the "now" and stressing out over what is ultimately petty nonsense, I'll have a bit.

Having it available, consequence free, in a legal state, has drastically improved my quality of life; even if I only use it once every month or so.
I would argue the opposite is true.

My experience with coding with LLMs is that the only thing it's really good at is generating boilerplate that it has more-or-less seen before (essentially a library, even if is somewhat adapted), however it is incapable of the creative thinking that developers regularly need to engage in when architecting a solution for their use case.