skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left the electronic warfare industry even though I'd helped build a program from nothing to a product bringing in $100M (probably billions since I left) because I didn't want to be in the war industry any longer where the entire legacy of my lifes work could be measured in destruction. Worked as a software engineer in industry for a while, gradually moving up in salary, then went into contracting. Contracting seemed too uncertain in the rural area I lived in, so though it was bringing in a lot of money I took a job as a software engineer in a college CS department, supporting various research projects. The college job was dead end, there were almost no other people doing anything similar to me, and there was no path to advance (unless I wanted to get a PhD, no thanks, didn't want to be a slave for 4+ years at even lower pay), but the work was very interesting. So I stayed with it for 20 years. Maybe I worked on some things that will change the world, maybe it was all futile. I wasn't happy about the pay, but some of the benefits were great, I have some minor hopes of getting some future income from patents, some of the profs were not great to work with, but some were and the work in general held my interest. I learned a lot, though it was difficult, every single project was very different from the last project and often required learning new skills. I built a Beowulf cluster, electronically herded cows, did a lot of work in wireless sensor systems, help design and build a smart watch for medical applications, and much more.
Some discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720090 (7 comments)
Alternatively this is an economic opportunity for any industry that can usefully make use of intermittent free* energy.

* Long term I have to imagine this is just "cheap" because there's got to be tons of industries that can use intermittent free energy.
I'm intrigued. But with an electrical grid that requires a constant match between electricity generation and consumption, how would you ensure the stability of a thing when its controlling mechanism (pricing) is its own derivative?
This is less of a zoning issue and more of a structural one. Traditional stick buildings can't really be built higher than 5 stories. This is changing as glulam gets more popular but most 5 over 1s are not built with glulam for now.
There are several factors that operate successively and in combination to reduce fertility: infant survival (low infant mortality); secularisation (loss of religion); urbanisation (or more accurately neolocality, the practice of moving away from family at the time of marriage); education, particularly of women; and stronger government (stability and military defence, universal application of the law, protection of property rights (perhaps counterintuitively)).
> They tend to be expensive real estate, and the landlords prefer national corporate chains, so you see lots of banks, realtors, cell phones stores etc.

If you require the retail space, this is probably a non-issue, because there's only so many national corporate chains that will want to open a store in a given area; if you have a LOT of 5-over-1s in a neighborhood, there should be enough space left over for independent stores too.
Consulting: goldenwordai.com

Product (Unreleased): silverletterai.com
It is complex, wholesale prices generally do not reflect in retail directly. even when suppliers have flexible pricing and support V2G /buying from users solar etc, there is only only some correlation not 100% pass through of rates.

There are also technical and economic reasons this may not work beyond just inelastic vendor pricing, there is cost to transmission(loss) and all the step down that has to happen before electricity is at your door, that cost will be always positive so it may not actually be net positive.

At steep enough negative pricing this could be profitable, however at that point power plants with the highest costs and easiest scale down/ shut down procedures will start acting.

Projects like the one at Dinorwig (pumped hydro-storage) are more viable solution for excess capacity.
if you can stomach it the apple silicon macbook airs are really really nice. I do wish they'd bring back a 11 or 12 inch option but actually I super enjoyed the extra screen real estate of the 15 macbook air I just liked the macbook pro keyboard so much more I spent 2.5x or more on a macbook pro lol
that is dependent upon the origin developmental state, and biochemical history of the stem cell in question
Octopus and OVO also offer EV tariffs where you get a cheaper kWh price if you let them control when your EV is charged. You can always override the smart charging but you pay the standard rate.

* https://octopus.energy/smart/intelligent-octopus-go/ - 7.5p per kWh

* https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime - 7p per kWh
Is your audience receptive to what you have to say? are they curious and inclined to believe you? Tell them your conclusions right up front, so if they don't hear anything else you say, they learned what they need to know. It will also help focus their attention as you proceed.

If instead they are apt to push back on what you plan to say (because it would eliminate their jobs/research for example), then instead you start by building a case with a series of steps they will agree with till, having led them down that primrose path, you reveal to your new allies the inescapable conclusion. They'll still push back, but they will at least have learned what you have to say.
More stories would require more-costly construction techniques than the inexpensive wood construction discussed in the article.
I’ve been on Zepbound since January and my craving/desire for any alcohol basically is gone. I have gone periods without drinking before while trying to lose weight but I always felt like I was missing out because I was only not drinking to help lose weight, I would avoid some social gatherings just because it wasn’t fun to be there and not “socialize”. Now I just don’t want to and I don’t care about saying no thanks or even think about it. And if I do have a drink it’s usually literally just a drink and even then I might not even finish it.

I’m down 60+ lbs so far.
Can you tell me what democratic deficiencies you see in this? Why is the process of having a prime minister/chancellor/etc as head of state fine in a national democratic process, but not on a european level?

If I see any issue with the way EU passes laws is with the terrible overhead of having three to four bodies that govern the whole process, from proposal to legislature, not necessarily with the way some participants get there.
Searxng: Search Engine API from Disroot
Understanding the Atomic Density Fluctuations in Silica Glass
I'm not saying they're great, especially recently, but as another anecdotal point, I've been using nothing but ASUS boards in my personal systems since 2003 and have never had an issue with their hardware
Around year 2000 I wrongly predicted Nvidia would integrate a physically based sound generator that could produce sounds for objects in games, for example how a coin sounds when falling on a wood table, given the shapes, distances and forces.
Why isn’t wind and solar politically dicey? Nuclear is only politically dicey due to ignorance. I’d rather one nuclear plant than having the landscape covered with huge windmills — windmills made out of materials that aren’t recyclable. Solar is even worse. Nuclear doesn’t affect wildlife like wind and solar.
Facebook/Meta has been doing open research in ML and NLP for far longer than the current LLM era: Convolutional Neural Networks for Sentence Classification (2014), FastText (2016), PyTorch (2016), fairseq (2017), LASER (2018), RoBERTa (2019), XLM-R (2019), and BART (2019),

They were always present at ACL with decent open research as far as I have been studying/working in NLP (2014).

It's part of a strategy to attract top talent in the field. If you want top researchers you have to let them publish, which in turn hones a reputation of solid research, attracting more talent.
Ontario's ultra-low-overnight time of use rates are 2.8c / kWh. Keeping the nuclear plants running overnight means they're losing 7 cents/kWh overnight. Better to shut those plants down overnight, but of course approximately all the nuclear costs are incurred whether the plants are running overnight or not, so shutting down overnight would just double the daytime costs.
Ah, looks like it is tied to "has this IP ever logged in with this email" kinda thing.
Diablo Canyon was a Gen I/II design from the 1950's/60's. Gen IV designs are far safer and cleaner, Thorium designs in particular, however they don't generate byproducts for nuclear weapons (boohoo), which is why the Thorium pathway was not taken.

If electricity was cheap it would give people inducements to use electric vehicles and appliances. It would be a market driven transition to these things instead of a policy driven one, which is doomed to fail as soon as the subsidies end.
Sorry for the late reply. I have only started recently--within the past month or so. My favored strategy is very similar to yours.
That necessitates executing both sides fully. Very often, those are "business logic" branches that are very long, and you would only prefer to cover branch mispredict penalty.
The article completely ignores quantum field theory, which forms the basis of the standard model of particle physics, and in which particles are emergent (rather than fundamental) features of the respective underlying field, which is described by wave equations.
Moritz Klein is the reason I got into synths, his YouTube videos[0] are a really accessible intro. I’m super excited for this, we need more accessible prototyping platforms/tools. I ended up going down that rabbit hole myself a few months ago and built this[1] but it would be a pain to commercialize.

[0] https://youtube.com/@moritzklein0

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/synthdiy/comments/14roaib/synth_bre...
Liability can be quite a problem when the original entity collapses or thoroughly transforms itself. A possible development for both corporations and nation states.
A great loss. R.I.P. Dr Chomsky
EDF is 100% owned by the french government since 20230608:

https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/08062023-letat-redevient-lac...
Memory Alpha is good, but I was somewhat disappointed when they moved to Fandom. It used to at least have its own domain (en.memory-alpha.org for the English version); I don't know what hosting and platform they used at the time.
And solar plants, unlike most other plants can be easily and quickly shut off so you don't even need to sell at negative prices.
Uh, all established VR headsets support it?

I mean the support is technically in the browser, not the VR headset - but still...
France is its own unique thing because of how the government paid for so many things out of pocket they ended up losing money selling at wholesale rates. Safe Nuclear ended up being a lot more expensive than earlier predictions.

It’s not some design issue that you can fix with small modular reactors or whatever. Every time anything significant goes wrong people kept adding systems to prevent it happening again. Sometimes that’s something physical like a wall or redundant system, and other times it’s longer procedures and more paperwork. This has been great for avoiding another SL-1, 3 mile island etc, but mitigating every possible risks isn’t cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

For example there was once an expensive issue where foreign material fell into the spent fuel pool where fixing it significantly extended an outage at a single reactor so now everyone working on anything at any reactor takes significant steps to mitigate that risk. Great things working as intended except now something that might have cost 100k now costs significantly more because of that mitigation effort.

Extend that to any significant issue across hundreds of reactors and 50+ years and suddenly triple checking to avoid every fuck up means doing anything is really expensive. Worse very little of it is wasted effort, there’s just far more ways to fuck up in practice than in theory.

PS: I do believe it’s possible to have safe and cheap nuclear power, it’s just going to look very different than what we’re doing today.
I'm not an expert at all, but my understanding is that Gaussian splatting is essentially a rendering technique. Normally, you'd take actual data, like a set of photos, and optimize some Gaussians against it to arrive at a volumetric representation. In the case of AI-generated splats, it's kinda flipped. Instead of optimizing against a known ground truth, the AI is generating Gaussians to be rendered. The insight of this paper is that we already have great statistical tools for numerically estimating ground truth based on a bunch of Gaussians, so why not just apply those?
Isn't it a bit whishful thinking to think that storage will come down in price and nuclear won't?

Beyond that, leaving out storage costs, what are the technologies that can cover the world's storage? And in what quantities?

Because if I think of lithium, wouldn't it be an environmental disaster to extract and recycle all the materials involved?

In general, I don't understand why basically nuclear is to be replaced.
My knee-jerk reaction is that traditional building styles are probably not cost-competitive, and modern construction mimicking traditional styles would be perceived as fake and inauthentic. But I stand corrected on the history; thank you.
> The main issues with them is that they are don't create much community, with their lifeless corridors and alienating common areas

What I noticed with development patterns when I lived in Munich, is that there were a LOT more "pedestrian plaza" type areas scattered throughout the city compared to US cities.

I think that's what's needed, is any given neighborhood having at least a few plaza areas with some open space, some benches, a fountain, etc.
Spending $20B for $1B worth of generating capacity is and always should be politically dicey.
Operating costs for a coal-fired power plant, a nuclear reactor power plant, and a solar-battery power plant (requirement: steady power output 24-7) are all pretty comparable these days. Upfront constuction costs on nuclear are higher than others, so nuclear comes out near the top of the cost envelope. A lot also depends on variable costs of uranium ore and the fuel rod production process.

While a 1 GW coal plant might burn as much as 4 million tons of coal a year, a comparable nuclear power plant only consumes some 30 tons of fuels rods per year - but depending on ore quality and U-235 enrichment level, that might translate to 300,000 tons of uranium ore that needs to be mined and converted into fuel rods through an expensive multi-step process. Coal is much dirtier in terms of average daily emissions (though there's always the catastrophic failure risk with nuclear).

Solar / wind / storage operating costs are limited to maintenance and battery replacement, which can still be considerable.
> A market where a good fluctuates between profitable and not is not one very attractive to investment.

This is the most wild thing I've ever read on this website. Pick just about any security and you'll see that buying and selling it over time fluctuates between profitable and not profitable. If something was always profitable everyone would do it and get infinitely rich. Arbitrage wouldn't exist. Economies would shut down.
Note: nuclear near rivers is prone to the same "reliability" issues as hydro.
Yes, Yann LeCun posted about it on twitter ~2 weeks ago.

Edit, it was a month ago: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1793181068943639014
posted 40 min ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720876
Okay. Well he’s not omniscient. He gives a pretty weak argument by analogy, while LeCun makes multiple detailed arguments which I find compelling.
The amount of land required isn't that high. Nate Lewis at Cal Tech once told me that "the amount of light falling on the numbered highways of the USA can generate more power than the US's entire generating capacity.

Of course he didn't mean that we should cover all the highways; it just says we could afford to build and maintain them all and have that much land area, so building an equivalent area of solar would be both cheaper and feasible.

That was over a decade ago; solar is both cheaper and more efficient. IIRC something small like a hundred km2 or so of desert would do the trick. We spend much more of that growing corn that we wastefully turn into fuel.
posted 40 min ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720876
Is there a more credible source for this than a tweet?
For an average person, I suspect that some real estate listings will adopt Gaussian splatting soon. Many newer listings include photogrammetry already, and splatting will provide a significant improvement to existing solutions.
Lego Bricks Are Helping Scientists Build Astronaut Shelters on the Moon
In my first marriage we combined our finances, at my wife's insistence. This was simple in that we had only one account, but complex in that we had to negotiate over spending in a tedious fine-grained way. Our priorities and risk tolerances differed greatly; I felt like my wife ended up with all the money, while I ended up with all the responsibility. Unable to resolve this (or any other) conflict peacefully, our partnership foundered.

In my second marriage we kept separate accounts, at my insistence, having learned an incomplete lesson from the first. We divided shared expenses in proportion to our respective incomes, otherwise managing our own affairs. This was simple in that we rarely had to talk about money, but as my income grew, while her career (and mental health) deteriorated, it became awkwardly lopsided; resentments accumulated. Again, being unable to resolve our conflicts peacefully, the marriage failed.

In my third marriage we have both individual and shared accounts, for administrative convenience, though we tend to think of everything we are doing as a joint effort. We have structured our flows of income and expense differently at different times, depending on our circumstances, and we check in every couple of months to make adjustments as needed. This works - and I believe it will continue to work - because we consistently keep each other's interests at heart and resolve our conflicts in a way which draws us closer together.

In summary, I believe that the details of your financial structure are less important than the process of communication and accommodation you establish around it. There's no single right answer, and the right-now answer might not work so well next year. What matters is that you include a periodic check-in about financial state as part of your ongoing expression of care for your partner's well-being, that you maintain flexibility and willingness to adapt as your life changes, and - most of all - that you resolve your differences in a way which leaves you feeling like a team.
Engineers unlock design for record-breaking robot that could jump very high
Security wise, a much more decentralize system have some big advantages...

Yes managing intermittence have a cost, but battery is not the only solution out there.

A good diversified / complementary mix of source of energy reduce the level of the intermittence. Aside of thermal powerplant, some hydropower and biomass can be very flexible for example.

Solar and wind are so cheap now, that it make sense to build more than we need at peak, giving some extra buffer.

You can work on the demand side of electricity. Lowering the peak or making demand more flexible for example.

On the electricity storage, stationary batteries make sometime sense... EV can also play a role. There are also other solution like pumped hydro.

And thermal storage have a huge potential - and it is relatively cheap
FWIW, they cost a bit more than the generics, but I've always had good luck with the BusBoard breadboards in particular
As far as I know and even learned as a (since failed) physicist, a country needs a good mixture of energy sources. Mind you I went to a university that's nuclear energy focused and even they didn't advocate for full on only nuclear.

In my opinion, if someone says we should just have all nuclear, it means they are dealing in absolutes, maybe God in politics and debate, but they ignore that reality is much more complicated, as technology meets economics and politics (and much more).

(Again, AFAIK) nuclear energy is great when it comes to meeting the "baseline" requirements, roughly the level below which energy consumption of a region never drops. It is because nuclear energy cannot be scaled up and down quickly, so it's not adequate for peaks.

To balance the peaks and keep the network stable, you need energy sources that can increase their output in seconds (or less?).

That's also one of the issues with wind and solar, you can't choose when it is available and when it isn't, so coal etc is still needed to make sure that energy production and consumption is practically equal at all times.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720744
Is there a more reliable source?
Almost all big social media platforms have bots. Reddit has a major voting not problem. Here on HN there are voting and flagging bots as well.
Last time they did this, I was not granted access
I'd say it's more or less consistent with QFT -- it's saying essentially the same thing, just not in that exact language
My x1c6 managed to cut into the e-DP cable inside its hinge when it was only three years old (right out of warranty). That was not a repair for the faint of heart (have to completely disassemble the monitor unit).

One of the thunderbolt ports started detaching from the board when it was around 4 years old, stopped working even for charging about a year after that. I didn't even try to fix that one
Until it does…
Obituary - https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theo...
Rest in peace Mr. Chomsky.

PS: There's something utterly contradictory announcing his passing on >Twitter< of all places. He's already rolling in his grave.
Coding and testing JS with the help of ChatGPT is several multitasking levels above what I’d be willing to even try on a phone. Android, I assume? Big screen? BT keyboard even?
The people complaining about how these buildings look should compare to what a modern suburban subdivision looks like. Rows and rows of look-alike houses that cost vastly more than these apartments, taking over a much greater land area, and adding vastly more vehicle traffic.

Every single "iconic" architecture looked stale in its era.
I'm pretty sure it's generally 1 spider per web, and I thought blackwidows (assuming they are still alive) take down the webs when done. So presumably you have quite a few spiders.

In any case here's a discussion of said paper.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/death-tra....
What is the battery life like; maybe in ops/kwhr? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40719630
Moritz Klein, the designer of this project, is a genius when it comes to analog circuitry. He's been making simple DIY synth kits (with Erica Synths) for a good while now. They're all amazing. They come with manuals that are much more enlightening than most electronics textbooks. They're fun to build. And they sound pretty great.
With cross-laminated timber you can go even higher (though I imagine it's more expensive than this building style): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber

> In 2012, Forte Living, an apartment complex in Melbourne, Australia, became the tallest plyscraper framed with CLT alone. The building has 10 stories and stands just over 32 m tall. The 759 CLT panels necessary for the project were manufactured in Austria using European spruce that was grown and harvested there.[31]