skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Texas has 6.3GW of battery capacity installed largely in the last three years and is on track for another ~15GW (a bit over 20GW total) by the end of 2024. There's 141GW of battery projects in the queue for connection to ERCOT, with a large chunk of that coming online in 2025 and 2026.

If 8GW over several is the most ambitious, what's 160GW in five years?

https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2024/04/22/5%20CEO%20Update...

Meanwhile rates in Texas have risen a good bit...to $0.14-15/kWh.
Kind of tools I wish I had a use case for.
I hear my voice. If I am thinking about a recent conversation, I will hear that persons voice. Sadly, I can no longer recall my deceased father's voice and wish I had a recording.
> south Washington where the state is sunsetting hydro & solar power

Golly. I am 8nterested in that.

Any links?
I actually love it.
It's so editorialized that I had to stop reading it. If it just told me what changed, I'd be interested.
Also, I don't want to even imagine how it would look on a SSH connection.
For the most part I'm staying near my field of study, programming, programming languages, theory about programming etc. In that way, just about everything I see I can relate to something I've learned before, I'm in true "I've seen it all before" mode at my age. For example the pattern matching and recursion-based "looping" navigation is just like when I went through my Haskell/Ocaml/Common Lisp/Scheme phase in the mid 2000's, so it was easy to pick up. The only new part of it is the actor-based concurrency model.

My foray into Category Theory so far has been reading "The Joy of Abstraction", which is a layman's book to CT. So far what's she's written makes perfect sense and would be mostly obvious to anyone who hangs out on HN. Moving up and down various levels of abstraction, the idea of "functions", as I read this I'm basically thinking it's what I've been doing for the past 40 years, not a big deal. We'll see as I continue in it.

Circling back to the original question, it's hard to assess my learning ability since I'm not venturing out into totally new territory for me.

When you have a job it's hard to fit in as much exercise etc. as you want, it's easier when you're retired. But also when you're retired it's easy to fill the time with other things, errands, as you get older medical appointments, and motivation is a little harder since you don't have deadlines on your projects. Work comes in spurts interlaced with reading, which is important but doesn't move the projects forward.

I do exercise regularly, especially after the heart attack. "Make these changes or you'll die" makes a great motivator.
Maintenance costs are more important than whatever minuscule percentage you add to the grid and maintenance costs are averaged out by everyone paying.

The cost of infrastructure doesn't change if you're consuming power 2h/day or 24/day.
Backing into Emacs on Android
just an early teaser, but feel free to tear it up in the comments.
> is like the freeway and if capacity is reduced, demand will be reduced as well.

Reducing freeway capacity does not reduce demand. It just displaces people who can least afford to be on the road fully off the road. It's effectively just a form of regressive taxation.
I've gotten into a habit of watching homebuilders on YouTube/reading about construction methods (especially with ICF forms), and it's been quite fun. Lots of advancements happening these days.

As for foundation issues, I live in a Gulf Coast state 2 miles from the Gulf as the crow flies, and my crawlspace is so humid that I had to get it encapsulated. I have 2 dehumidifiers, and now that summer is here 1 of them runs 24/7. On the flip side, the deterioration has stopped, but now the joists and subloor are drying and warping (I was warned this would happen, though).
Yeah and no.

It was Jerry Nixon, speaking at a Microsoft conference on behalf of MSFT as a Microsoft employee, not on person opinion. He said that Windows 10 was the last numbered version of windows directly.

Gartner did some faff around it and editoralised that into it being the last version of windows. Subtle difference.
Then they didn't take the bait, right?
They have a 6 week waiting list.

The place with the bunk cots is WeHOPE.
I may be wrong in some of the specifics, but the truth still is that every other version is half-baked OS changes with the main selling point to consumers being the upgraded GUI changes, while the actual working OS comes as the next version.
Thanks, you're right - my bad.
I thought the name is pretty funny in a self-deprecating way. Just commenting because everyone seems to hate it so far. I didn't know about the drug, though.
It does when everyone is waiting on "electric pumps" because they've switched to vehicles which are far more inefficient on average at refueling. Try thinking about the situation instead of just coming up with a dumb rebuttal that doesn't make even a tangential amount of sense.
They already have a profit cap at 10% of revenue. They have every incentive to drive their own costs as high as possible
Solving that will be a much bigger deal but it's at odds with producing a highly accurate emulation of human thought and language. Language models can serve as tools to understand and experiment with logic formulated as natural language but it isn't their primary purpose. What you're asking is equivalent to creating an auditable trace of everything that goes into making a statement which is pretty much impossible even for the person making a statement. We can get close by limiting ourselves to narrow domains like mathematics but even then someone can come along and question the premises on which we construct such a system. I'm not saying it isn't worth pursuing, it just isn't the standard that we should hold a model to when we ourselves are incapable of it. The goal here is to create a system capable of doing the things that a human can do. If you prefer to have a system that behaves within the confines of a mathematical formalism with well defined rules then build that model instead.
I’m confused by the numbers from which the OP draws his conclusions but anecdotally the sentiment feels on point. I recently logged onto FB to help organize a reunion and FB proved itself to be irreplaceable in that use case. But trying to use FB more casually to check up on old friends, I’m astounded at how ugly and user-hostile the newsfeed is. At least with twitter there’s an option (i.e. the ”Following” tab) to see your friends content exclusively.

But even the ads and junk content farms are far worse on FB. For example, one of my friends works with Caitlin Clark, and I’ll throw a like at her CC photos. For a month now, my feed is flooded with CC content. Not legitimate or interesting or content (such as game coverage or posts from the Indiana Fever account), but dozens of engagement bait posts from pages named like “official Caitlin Clark 4ever fan club” with a handful of followers using AI photos and prompts like “You are really Caitlin Clark Fans sey yes”

I spent 15 min awhile ago just manually hiding and blocking those accounts, with little noticeable effect. What’s the point of a content algorithm if you can’t filter out obvious low effort garbage and expose me to (presumably) the ad-buying official accounts
Does LMSys even claim to be using the public API? What API endpoint is "Gemini-Advanced-0514"?

Is LMSys "Gemini-1.5-Flash-API-0514" the same as what the public API endpoint "gemini-1.5-flash-001" provides, or "gemini-1.5-flash-preview-0514"? And is LMSys named "Gemini-1.5-Pro-API-0514" the same as "gemini-1.5-pro-preview-0514"?
I don't know what you want here.

The grandparent comment quoted the site's rules. I provided my opinion what is humor vs internet tropes.
This comment needs more attention. 47 people have suggested this be done, and it already is, in fact, being done
I keep a notebook of ideas I want to pursue later. A lot of times if you don't write them down they'll be forgotten over the years, unless they're of major importance.
Windows 11 and WSL2 is pretty much the best development environment experience around right now in my books.

Being in the Windows ecosystem lets me benefit from that crazy backwards compat and support for mainstream software, windows-rs lets me customize a batteries-included DE[1] without having to touch JS, and on the WSL2 side of things I can run NixOS for all of my regular development needs.

It's very sad and frustrating to see Microsoft, despite all of this, trying to make the operating system as un-useable as possible in all the ways mentioned in this article and in other comments.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLz3eqQDufw
Scholz's Star
> I suspect lazy evaluation is a part of this.

I had no idea R was lazy. Makes me wanna learn it now.
> rather California is blessed with a climate that doesn't really suffer state-wide extremes.

I think people who say this forget how large California is or have never been to the imperial valley.
I’d agree it depends on the expert

https://www.npr.org/2012/09/28/161955789/analysing-the-evide...
As in 12.5% of social networking services last 21 years?
Ed Crewe: Software Engineering Hiring and Firing
Author guy dares to blame the promotion of "anti-vaxers" by Facebook as the reason for the platform's decline when it was the lockdown and vaccine skeptics that were getting deplatformed left and right and the protestors having their bank accounts frozen that led to an absolute breakdown in trust in social media companies. Your job as a platform is not to wade into any topic and fact-check it. If someone you know is spouting off things you don't like on your feed, you can simply mute them or unfollow them. The antivaxxers were more right than they were wrong. The vaccine didn't stop Covid, natural immunity is not a right wing conspiracy theory, and lockdowns and mask mandates were excessive abuses of liberty and ineffective to boot. But I digress.

Absolutely no one wants a nanny bot to prevent discussion or opinions from being said on their own page. I also don't want to see 15 recommended groups, ads, or pages being injected into my feed while I'm trying to check whose birthday it is and what people got going on lately in their lives.

The reason Instagram is doing pretty decent is that it's a far less noisy social media site. It's mostly photos and video stories.
Happy to hear your thoughts and critique!
My dad bought a fridge from them a couple years before they went bankrupt. When he had issues with it he tried to claim the warranty but got a whole runaround. He declared to me that he would never buy from sears again probably 3 years after they went bankrupt
Could.

More likely we'll be debating the usefulness of yet another fusion plant over some hydrothermal project vs some tidal energy project vs UBI expansions and on and on.
They really should. Even if they give in to his threats, there's no guarantee that sleezeball won't follow through on his threats anyway.
IMO Lmsys benchamarks are essentially:

How AI nerds (like us, so a particular subclass of the "normal" population) rate responses from various AIs - this rating is subjective, of course, and an LLM that produces answers that read well though is less accurate/"intelligent" would likely perform better than a model that propduces answers that read worse, though is more "intelligent".

AI nerds/IT nerds likely have higher prevalence of ASD/Asperger's etc (or higher up the spectrum), so likely not the best way to rank LLMs.

It's fun, though!
On vehicle rental beeing trash is a solvable problem. Especially here in Europe where we have many apartments. I would welcome that every new build gets a garage with accessible EV for rental and in such a case I would totally opt out to not own my car anymore. Book in advance, do short trips with the EV in the garage or in front of the house. All doable.
Here is the search I'm using: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gaza+war

Most links are covering the recent Israel strike on the refugee camp in Rafah, where dozens of civilians were killed in a single strike. That happened after the UN's International Court of Justice specifically ordered Israel to halt their offensive in Rafah. I think hyperbolic responses to this would not only be expected, but perfectly appropriate. Instead I'm just getting a bunch of links to stuff that is repeating Israeli PR verbatim - it was a "tragic mistake", multiple senior Hamas killed, and so on. Are you getting something different? Opening up the link in multiple Tor windows I keep getting mostly the same sites: livenow fox, channel 4 news, TBN Israel, StudyIQ IAS, etc.
I think the classic joke was "we pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us".
I guess that most likely means not winning the bid with Apple. But these companies aren't exactly aged grandmothers who have walked all the way to the one pharmacy in town; I don't think this constitutes an abusive business relationship.
I have been wondering when they are going to start turning the screws on WhatsApp users to monetise that platform. Maybe this suggests they are getting closer to doing it.
I live far south enough that never occurred to me, nightmarish.
That's probably the value of being connected to the grid in case you need power, but not the value being able to sell your excess energy back.
> or changing the rate model altogether by charging separately for "hookup" vs. "power" line items

Earlier this month the utility commission approved a $24 flat fee. https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/news-and-updates/all-news/cut-reside...
Time for llm videos!
Haven’t people learned yet, Israel should be able get away with ANYTHING they want in this world.

Feeble International laws shouldn’t be applied to a country with the most moral army in the world!

They deserve a free pass for what they’ve done and everything they are going to do.

And anyone who disagrees is a bloody anti-semite, got it?!
Would there be a more canonical way do do this?
The graph is percentage of total production. You can see Chinese production ramps up significantly, which can presumably imply that US production as a percentage of total world production falls off, even if absolute production increases.
if profit is capped at 10% of revenue then it sounds like the incentive is to raise revenue, not lower expenses.
Jerry Nixon is one person, correct? Or is Jerry Nixon multiple people and also the official spokesperson for Windows? What other conferences did he speak at making that statement? What other official correspondence did Microsoft make stating it was the last version of Windows?

What part of my comment falls under the "no"? It was one guy (a Microsoft employee) stating one time at one conference speaking to a completely unrelated topic (Live Tiles). You think Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist, was the kind of person authorized to make such a statement of "Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows" while giving a presentation on Live Tiles?

If a developer evangelist was giving a talk about bringing Clippy back to Word and how you can add your own prompts and they made the statement of "we're discontinuing Xbox", would you take that as an official statement of Microsoft's intentions?
George Carlin said it was because of the idiots in front of you and the maniacs trying to pass you.
Again I say - good. If a person sees this headline and thinks aliens then they could use the dose of education that the article provides.
You seem to think that if you spread everyone out, they all need to commute back to the same place. That's not true at all however. With small cities/large towns I don't need to commute to "the big city" because the small city has all I need. My work, food, etc.. is less than a 5 minute drive away. Instead of ultra dense miserable housing, huge commute times, etc... we now have a much simpler lifestyle.

It's moving the need for everyone to commute (via mass transit or w/e) to just a much smaller amount of shipping to happen between cities to move goods.
In an ideal world I would go back to chemistry.

Since the option in the world we have is working 60 hours sub minimum wage trying to get through a PhD followed by bouncing round on 2 year short term contracts as a postdoc (still barely on minimum wage) while University administrators make your life hell I took the only rational route.

I switched to software and make people's lives and the climate worse for a paycheck that still isn't enough to live where I want to live.

But ideally I'd use my brain to research some of the fundamental challenges we face, battery chemistry, plastic recycling, industrial catalysts, etc, etc.
That’s interesting. The shape is not just similar, but identical down to the curvature on the letters.
What you're calling "worker empowerment" creates another power structure that claims to empower workers. Just like, on a grand scale, the USSR.
I was thinking about how fun it would be to add this my Python CLI [0] I made for launching Fedora CoreOS locally with QEMU for testing ignition, but with a flag that is turned off by default. Using the burn effect in TTE when launching a VM with my CLI would be so cool.

This instantly reminded me about Ansible and how it annoyed me that ANSIBLE_NOCOWS had to be enabled to disable the default output of Ansible with cowsay [1].

[0]: https://github.com/quickvm/bupy

[1]: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/10530
It's dystopian and yet, somehow, soothing.
What do you consider fads of the 90's? We had object-orientation, of course, Java, it was the beginning of XML.
My wife is on her third Surface because she can work on them. Meanwhile her iPad is used for YouTube and Netflix. The surface is a bad tablet but a great computer. I think the iPad has potential to be the tablet computer and it doesn’t need a dual boot into MacOS to achieve it, but the current app model with files as second class citizens, no real background processing and no child processes is just too restrictive for most professional workflows. In the end most apps need to export their result to a real computer, which means the iPad is not a real computer.
I do not think that there is any confusion or misreading of the numbers here.

Without dealing with the specific points made in the piece, I would argue that there is gap in understanding the premise of the piece.

The article starts with numbers but it is not a analysis of quantitative measures i.e. is it not a statistical analysis.

The article is an "outside-looking-in" qualitative argument with an attempt to support those quantitative arguments with quantitative values (this is called competitive intelligence in some circles).

In other words, it should be read as an "opinion piece" with some numbers in it: the numbers are not the point, the (subjective ) opinions are the point.

I get it that numbers can be used to make a point either way (i.e. the author could use "confusion about numbers" as way to make a point while there really isn't any confusion ) but the points I would take away from the argument about numbers are:

- the fundamental premise behind putting the numbers in the piece is to make the point that they are not the same numbers that:

i) the org has put out in the past
and
ii) other similar businesses have used and continue to use

- the number are definitely designed to be impenetrable no matter how you approach them

To quote the author:

"When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad sign."
What CLI tools have a slow enough boot to require a loading screen? I'm sure there are some but...

The only one that comes to mine for me is FileBot[0] - and if the loading screen made it take ANY additional time, I'd be annoyed.

[0] https://www.filebot.net/
Sure. No one is asking for that amount though. Every utility bill has the breakdown of the costs. Just pay me the per unit cost listed in the “generation” part of the utility bill. I’m pretty sure even then, I’d be at a disadvantage, assuming PG&E would have a lower cost advantage in generating electricity in bulk.
Today, absolutely not. But the damage was done back when those ranges were doled out.

That said at this point I kind of half-seriously prefer keeping the IPv4 space as exhausted as possible if it’ll even slightly drive adoption of IPv6.
My wife is a biologist and her income is evidence that PG&E does invest in transmission upkeep. You may not like the bang for the buck you get, but consider that part of that might be because PG&E has to pay her to drive to various remote locations to monitor construction workers doing maintenance lest they step on some valuable mushrooms (only a slight exaggeration).
Prod should be as robust and straightforward as possible; no distractions, no noise, no extra overhead. This is neat, but not useful, and it adds distractions and delays.
It is in California, but I don't understand how they decide what falls into each category.
Have more than one customer and one product.
Yes, but humans invented arithmetic. And then we invented computers that are much better than us at arithmetic calculations. That's a pattern we can observe all over the place: we're pretty damn good at inventing rich models of complex environments and processes but we're not very good at calculating the results of such models when that requires a lot of computation.

E.g., take chess. Modelling a game of chess as a game tree and searching the game tree by adversarial search is a human invention. Humans are pretty crap at searching a game tree beyond a handful of ply, but we can program a computer to go dozens of ply deep across thousands of branches, and beat any human.

So the challenge for AI is not to get computers to calculate when we know how the calculation is to be performed. The challenge is to get computers to create their own models. And that's a grand, open challenge that is not even close to be solved, certainly not by LLMs. Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio have said similar things.

The linked work doesn't move the needle any closer to that and it just shows progress in calculating arithmetic using a transformer, which we already know how to do in a myriad different ways and much more accurately. Hence my criticism for it.
So what we need is a heavily debt-leveraged private-equity buyout of Facebook? Then it will be gone in a couple of years.
Please do! It's a fantastic series!
But then what is your description of the root of the problem?

At least in cities or places with a trainstation here the demand versus supply is out of band. What do you want to do against growing population and limited space?
There is already a 3GW HVDC line between The Dalles, OR, and LA. (one of the oldest HVDC links in the US).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie
Well I'm not into sports, and I live in Russia so as you can imagine it'll be a while until we have any large concerts here again. I'm not nearly desperate enough to travel just for a concert, but if one coincides with me being abroad... Let's just say it's complicated.

The only time I've been on a truly enormous, tens-of-thousands-people-sized concert it was The Killers in Moscow, as part of the Park Live festival, in like 2013. Nothing like these wristbands was invented yet.

On a Zemfira concert in 2016, I somehow remember paper stars getting passed around so you would hold one in front of your phone flashlight. Cute.

So yeah cool tech, a shame I won't get to see it in the next 10 years.
It doesn't have to assume that, again because context matters.

If authorization data is stored outside my database, I may not store anything related to that user other than their unique ID. I may not know anything about the JWTs because a middleware talking to the external authorization service authorizes a request before I ever query my database.

I could also store valid JWTs in my own database or in a caching layer, say with redis for quick access. There's nothing wrong with that, but without more details on what someone is building and what it needs to be designed for there is no absolute right or wrong answer.
Interestingly, Lua has GC and is deterministic if you replace the random hash seed.