skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't. Solar is so cheap now that it makes sense to build huge amounts of it, but most of the existing infra still needs to be in place for times where solar doesn't generate. We save some money on fuel costs, but those other generators just make a lot more money when solar isn't generating instead.

Battery-backed systems in general are still not really financially justified vs pure solar systems, but the bigger the disparity between dirt cheap daytime energy and super expensive nighttime energy gets, the sooner that will change.
Even less clickbaity title:

Most Republicans didn't share misinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential election on Twitter.
I’m not a boomer. Born in the 70s. I’m a white a male who teaches in higher education. White men have a more or less equal opportunity in terms of going to college. Until recently college admissions were on the decline and most colleges were way less choosy than in the past. Men are not oppressed. They just aren’t coddled as much as in the past. Men don’t seem to be able to deal with living in a society in which they aren’t privileged. It’s pathetic.
“for: hedgefunds banks manufacturers formula1 ..”
Not sure what "users" are you talking about. Most users are not programmers and most programmers are not experienced or skillful enough to alter binaries like that.
Probably actually colder, due to the ash in the atmosphere? Like the cold period caused by Mount Tambora.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
> now we're plagued with javascript and it literally being allowed to do what all malware ever wanted: to spy on users any way the site-op sees fit.

This is flat-out untrue. Beyond hyperbole. If JavaScript had the system access that literally any piece of malware sought, the world would be an utter shit show in a way it simply isn’t.
“Not hard” is very relative. Is it hard to run a Postgres database? No.
Is it hard to set up monitoring, automatic failover (without data loss), managed upgrades, tx wraparound protection, clustering and endpoint management, load balancing… and probably a bunch of other things I’m not thinking of? Yes.
It's a tough time for job seekers, especially graduates who are finding it hard to get a job.

I've also noticed many great opportunities on Twitter that get very little attention.

For those looking for a job, check out https://www.careerbrige.com/. This platform curates jobs posted on Twitter.
https://archive.ph/R5zkq
There’s an AI Backlash happening now in the enterprise in particular. Many vendors have promised big results and not delivering, especially in automation. Promising to automate 50% of your contact center with AI, of your interactions with AI, etc. No one is hitting it. The genie isn’t going back in the bottle, customers are committed to the goal. But vendors have way over promised across the board.

https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1780822118403621269

Has been shocking to see YC double down on LLMs so much in the last two batches.

Going to be a brutal reckoning coming for many startups.
AP news?
Elon managed to stop people posting links on Twitter by basically killing any tweet that has one.

One could imagine doing the same for any tweet starting with "RT @username" or its variants.
K by Arthur Whitney: http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10010830

vector the journal of the British APL Association
>Most don't know what they're agreeing to, because most people don't have the time to be experts in tech

I used to think this maybe 20 years ago, but I think it's about time we shift gears to the realization that the reality is people don't care about tech privacy and security.

We have to remember: The internet as most people know it (the World Wide Web) is 33 years old, personal computing is even older. The 30- and 40-years olds literally grew up with all this. The 10- and 20-years olds are living all this from the moment they were born. Even legislation like GDPR came into force. The result is still nobody cares.

Lack of awareness isn't a problem anymore. Everyone knows, nobody cares.

<Insert "Am I out of touch? No, it's the people who are wrong." The Simpsons meme here.>
Show HN: I struggle to remember birthdays so I turned them into a newsletter
Hey HN,After 2 year in VC I've decided to pause my job and double down on indie making.
The first outcome of this process is this small app that can save, manage and remind the birthdates of your friends via newsletter.

Do the world really need an app to remind the birthdate? Probably not, I know. But I don't pretend to change the world or make a unicorn over this project. This was just a good exercise to build in public, practice and be in the right spot, getting ready for what comes next!
They must when above a certain floorplan size.
And disabling JavaScript
For an object which is accelerating time passes slower. But an object on a mountaintop isn't accelerating, because the mountain has an upward counter-force.

What am I missing here?
Really? You think the foreign minister of the russian federation — the longest serving since the Tsarist era — doesn't know what's happening in his own country?
Cool idea. I guess some might be concerned about the privacy implications of giving access to their emails, so perhaps you could add some info on why you can be trusted?

Can you give any pointers on how to create such a plugin? I’m struggling even with a much simpler add-in to add an action inside Outlook for individual emails.
Australia has giant batteries for solar farms, and keeps building more. They think it's financially justified.
Use io optimized
It's not just security, there's a bit of an over-obsession with generalised future-proofing: useful optional proposed protocols have been shot down because they 'assume windows will be laid out on a screen with xy coordinates'. It's a recipe for committee bikeshedding to run rampant, especially with multiple very opinionated parties involved, any of which can torpedo even an 'accepted' extension by just not implementing it. It's a nightmare of fragmentation.
There is an enrollment crisis. It is not because colleges are denying entry by men. It is because men are not even attempting to go to college. Men don’t seem to be able to deal with a society in which they are not coddled as much as in they were in the past.
This, Aurora normal is useless now
I mean the subtitle at the very top of the article literally says "Less than 1% of Twitter users posted 80% of misinformation about the 2020 U.S. presidential election" so it seemed pretty clear to me. No fake news here.
This language is very popular among quant finance people associated with Morgan Stanley. I don’t see the appeal myself. Maybe it helps prevent people stealing the code since it’s so awful looking to work with! At one point I had to learn it and I think I’ve totally forgotten it now— it’s like my brain repressed it. Not my cup of tea, that’s for sure.
>A sales representative sets up a demo account. Then what, they load it with real customer data, with the customer's cooperation?

Better than Fujitsu who actually went into UK Subpostmasters accounts and 'adjusted' their accounts live.
No links - there are too many, but I would direct you to the various testimonies of the CEO of the PO, paula vennells (no capital letters for her) over the last....15 years.
nannyware has existed for decades before this, just like tracking devices existed before Apple air tags.
It’s bad enough that they are sold, but the people they are sold to seem like caricatures of the non-ideal candidate.

Quite how the House of Lords persists in a ‘democracy’ is troubling enough on its own.
Why stop there? It should also transcribe videos and everything said around the computer. Then, since it becomes possible to deduct the users opinion about just about everything if need be failing back on friends, family and coheard association it can also do our shopping and autofill the voting ballots silently on the background, without bothering me.

I mean, I have no idea how to stop laughing inappropriately at the moment but I know the product exists, that it can be delivered to my doorstep and that I can afford it.
You are claiming knowledge of Google's true motives for this change without evidence. More importantly, making allegations about Gerrit De Vynck's motives, mindset and competence without evidence, while De Vynck presents evidence in the articles - not enough evidence to remove all doubt (newspapers are not academic papers), but certainly more than you are presenting here.

The style of your posts gives the impression that you think your allegations are either self-evident facts or follow from them, but whether or not that is how you feel about them, I'm not buying it without better evidence - and if anything, ending with "it comes across as incredibly childish and manipulative" makes it seem less likely that your conclusions can be supported by dispassionate reasoning from objective facts.
This "binary data" already is audio.
The author did not want to do that because of the loss of fidelity.
Isn't NAT slipstreaming a "real" vector?

https://samy.pl/slipstream/
Very interesting. The abstract claims that although GPT-4 was claimed to score in the 92nd percentile on the bar exam, when correcting for a bunch of things they find that these results are overinflated, and that it only scores in the 15th percentile specifically on essays when compared to only people that passed the bar.

That still does put it into bar-passing territory, though, since it still scores better than about one sixth of the people that passed the exam.
> I just don’t trust anything

Surely you trust a lot of things and people every day.

One cannot make up ones mind about almost anything without being influenced by others, nor without taking into account information received from others. The point is to always be willing to question and revise one's opinions while consciously making decisions despite uncertainty.
Well considering fossil fuels continue to receive subsidies centuries after they were first regularly used your claim doesn’t sound correct at all.
Is this line in a.c enough for MIT license?

//k(c)2024 arthur whitney(l)MIT
There are a couple points to consider and a couple that refute some of your concerns.

First, you don’t need a full off grid battery setup to benefit. With time of use rates a battery that covers peak usage and even recharges under low time of use rates is a big benefit over its lifetime.

On safety, to sell back to the grid you need an interconnect agreement and inspection of your system. California utilities can install meters that can apparently detect secondary sources of back feeding the grid. Lastly if you try to DIY a correct setup you’ll have to buy UL1741 spec equipment for managing back feeding and equipment with other safety standards relevant to your use. Often this is not a code requirement but in the interconnect agreement and utilities have enforcement powers.

For off grid solar it’s a different story but the NEC always applies. If someone wants to do a comically bad job at their electric work they’re probably going to burn down their house anyway.

In my current home I’ve recently finished removing and replacing all the electric work accomplished by a previous owner’s “contractors.” Nothing like having electrical work run through low voltage grade audio visual wall plates and connectors for zero fire protection IN AN AIR PLENUM THAT GOES FROM MY BASEMENT TO MY SECOND FLOOR. That way if something does catch on fire it didn’t have all those pesky layers of protection between the floors of the house. Literally $30 in parts later and shorting wires get two hours to melt and trip a breaker.
> Windows NT was built on the foundations of DOS

AFAIK Windows NT was mainly influenced by VMS (which Dave Cutler worked on before NT). The DOS-isms were mainly coming in via the Win95 side and for backward compatibility reasons, but I bet everybody on the NT team hated those requirements ;)

> Absolutely cast-iron lie, and you should be ashamed of yourself for repeating it.

Not the parent, but it's at best a good urban legend and not much different from "Gary Kildall was not interested". Do you have any first-person accounts that paint a different picture?
What a ridiculous false equivalence.

Before the russians invaded, Western mainstream media reported that the russians were preparing to invade Ukraine.

Mainstream media [kremlin propaganda] in the russian federation mocked Western mainstream media and insisted that the russians weren't about to invade.

The two are not the same.
> This time around I was out of work for almost three months.

I'm curious as to what your experience was when chatting with recruiters while job-hunting about being fully remote? Did you next company advertize as remote-first?
RDS is such a depressing database option. It does not matter how much money you throw at it, its performance will always be limited by the awful disk IOPS. Luckily these days you can easily run PG on EC2 (or simply use CRDB).

Weird for Heroku to ignore this huge efficiency opportunity.
"As of the date of this filing, the incident has not had, and we do not believe it is reasonably likely to have, a material impact on our overall business operations or on our financial condition or results of operations. We continue to evaluate the risks and our remediation efforts are ongoing"

Ah, All is well then. It has no material impact on your business.

So, the 600'000'000 affected customers can kindly go and fuck themselves?
GenAI really is the new grift following crypto.

It is as wasteful, and barely more useful.

And I say that as someone who is shipping features that use GenAI at work because it's the current hype in the eyes of directors and will get me promoted.

Turns out something 95% right is as good as something 0% right.
Neither of these two opinions stem from a consistent set of moral principles of freedom, which Im sure both would claim to defend. It is a logical inconsistency to be pro-freedom and yet to hold such arguments of draft as valid. The conclusion is obvious

I would like to hear under which moral and philosophical framework of freedom these opinions of state-based-slavery stand?
How did blaster do it so fast?
That's only the case if the libraries loaded are identical, It won't work with slightly different versions of the same library (unless the differences are small and only replacements, so the pages remain aligned between different versions), and that case is very unlikely to be solvable
How those two compare?
>When you set anything metal outside on the curb with a free sign, it gets recycled.

That's not allowed in Europe if you just dump your e-waste in front of the building with a "free sign" on it. You get fiend for littering and the garbage company that picks it up fines the building where you live and it goes into your rent costs.
> linking paying for medical services and employment together

which was heavily encouraged by tax policies and government-imposed price controls on labor...
Everything I know about the fast inverse square root algorithm
Do you have an external IP? I expect you are behind NAT and no one is directly scanning your laptop.

Make it available on public IP wait until IP is listed on shodan telling it is XP and then let us know how long it was running without being infected.
What was the reason they gave for your firing in the end? Some trumped-up poor performance or for being "non-engaged" with work or something like that?
Apl always was kind of write only language.
But now you probly can paste all code in chat gpt and it will explain it
Of course!

The whole security circus is a legend and a paranoïa that mostly serves OS manufacturers. And now that Recall exists, it will be difficult to maintain that Win11 or M$ care about security at all.
> does Wayland have a generic way to move+resize windows?

I'm not entirely sure what you mean here or how it is related to hot corners.

The compositor itself can move windows anywhere (it is in full control). A client moving the windows of other clients is not permitted, although compositor-specific interfaces exist for this. There's no standard here because a stacking compositor implements completely different semantics from a tiling compositor. I'm sure that protocol extensions will come up for niche use cases over time.
> Going to be a brutal reckoning coming for many startups.

Isn't that like asserting water is going to be wet? The great majority of startups fail, in any field.
The russian federation have repeatedly been shown to produce fake news.

Massive amounts of fake news.

Suggesting that nobody can really know the difference between fantasy and reality is a misinformation tactic used by the kremlin to create more useful idiots who suggest the same.
Couldn't the players who purchased legal copies of the game in territories when it was allowed and now is banned; couldn't they file a class-action lawsuit against Sony?

They bought a game and now cannot play it. Classic breach of contract and expected product that was paid for.
AFAIK MacOS was just another UNIX, and in UXIX writing to a serial port was just writing to a file. Are you telling me MacOS had no shell scripting capabilities to write to a file via the command line? Even MS-DOS could do that.
I don't understand how. How do you debug something this? How do you go about fixing a bug? There are no docs nor tests. It seems like one would spend hours just trying to understand what's going on. Is there a good source on their methodology? Because my mind is blown.
I don't say this whatsoever to show off but just as an observer of the system: when I tweet about a new blog post I write which includes the link to the post (not in a followup tweet), the single tweet often gets a few hundred likes and tens of retweets.

While to a degree I believe people (even Twitter themselves) when they say tweet with links are downgraded, it clearly isn't crippling.
It’s the best demo-able software today that lets the customers’ minds go wild with the possibilities.

But then the nuances of human abilities in commercial settings, like call center, become realities and obstacles that the software can’t surmount. Costs rise, productivity not so much, and then legal gets involved and it’s even more costly.
Wow that cartoon is literally me.
It seems like we’re saying the same thing. Trust implies that you can afford to outsource your skepticism. Being willing to question whoever you trust is at odds with that.

It’s probably more accurate to say that whenever someone says something, it’s treated as an independent data point, each of which is assigned somewhere between "probably true" and "probably false". The datapoints get updated as more observations about the world come in.

Observations are different than taking someone’s word for it.
> Has been shocking to see YC double down on LLMs so much in the last two batches.

They also doubled down on blockchain sufficiently late in the game that it was obvious to most that there was zero value in all of it.

Either they’re really getting high on their own supply, or there’s some kind of model where you hedge against missing out on a unicorn, even if all indicators point to the fact it’s vaporware.
Cool, rise of concert tourism?
At least better than medical tourism ig.
I don’t know about the sample of leaked data, but I presume the fraud details is just a boolean value true or false which means the transaction was rated legitimate or not.
Same situation for me really.

It wasn't the entire decision, but a large part of it was seeing people who live near an office being forced to return.

I wasn't likely to impacted anytime soon given I lived no where near an office and was working as a contractor, but I've seen it before where once you have a mix of people in office and others working remotely the remote workers tend to become second class citizens. I had this happen at a previous position where I was often left out of meetings and discussion I should have been in I suspect because people in the office saw it as bothersome to bring a laptop with video conference me in.

I left for a remote-first company a month ago. I didn't want to return to office, but I to be honest I wouldn't have minded that much if I lived close. I just wasn't in that position.
>Nowadays we have new laptops with routinely 1TB of storage

Unless you buy Macs which still start with 256GB storage.
I've heard it said that it becomes easy to spot common patterns and structures in this style. Without knowing the idioms it's difficult to read but apparently once you know the idioms, you can scan it and understand it well.
My summary: Anything which drives predictions of "the next token" must create a model of "how the world works" AND a model for "what state is the world in right now". The authors train a transformer and demonstrate that it creates a structure that represents both of these.
My photo editor tool now has a button to automatically remove backgrounds, a cool trick. It's at least more useful than crypto.

Chat GPT is a fun party trick, but I'll never trust the output. That's the problem with AI: you can't trust the output.

Maybe generative AI is useful for the rich so they can fire even more people in the creative space, generating shareholder value.

Let's play a game: what do you think the next IT hype will be post AI?

P.S. can somebody calculate how much energy resources have been wasted on AI and how much good this stuff has done for the world?
Maybe someone could produce an LLM which takes a line of vector language code and expands it into the dozen(s) of lines of equivalent pseudo-algol?

(I mean, you could skip the whole hallucination thing and write an exact converter, but that'd be a lot of effort for code that'd probably get used about as much as M-expression to S-expression converters do in the lisp world?)
nice to see an exuberantly verbose arthur
I feel similarly about “boosting”, a lot of people who I follow that sometimes have worthwhile things to say in my opinion boost stuff that is utter trash leaving the question of do I unfollow the booster, mute the OP, block the OP, etc.

There are a few ways a toot can get boosted massively, politically oriented outrage is by far the most common.
People made it, people will break it

Please explain to me how anything achieved infallible nature. Consider the natural vacuum is space.
Big tech probably loses millions of customers from developing countries because of their bloated frontend engineering. Not everyone has an M3 with gigabit fiber.

My favorite setup when working remotely with slow internet is the following :

- Build tasks & large data operations run on my home server via SSH

- Markdown notes, Notion being unusable

- 100% CLI apps, which are usually the lightest and most efficient
I recommend checking out more of the APL family language family and the history of the notation, highly interesting. Almost like a parallel universe of computing, when you look past the syntax.
It seems you get downvoted but I think you're right, that 95% means we can't trust it. We don't know where the 5% is where it went wrong, and we spend more time checking the output than just creating it ourselves.
The story above cites a confirmatory study for its ozone hole result and should also cite contradicting studies for its warming result.

There was a study out of NASA/JPL that made a correct and timely prediction of major warming a year in advance (i.e. arriving last fall)

It gave a forcing estimate of +0.15 Wm−2, *equivalent to half a decade of global human CO2 forcing* arriving mainly at 18-24 months after Jan 2022 (last fall) and lasting for 5+ years
One time I worked with someone who said multiple times, "I closed more tickets in this sprint than anyone else on the team."

What I learned from that is to create a ticket for every slightest little thing.

Correct a typo in a comment? A ticket.

Combine a tiny bit of duplicate code? A ticket.

Add a little error check? A ticket.

Forget working together to create a great and well-supported product.

What counts is whether I closed more tickets than you!