skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very insightful comment.

Analytical techniques have rapidly improved over the past few decades. Our limit of detection has gone from tens of parts per million (ppm) to fractions of parts per trillion (ppt) for many analytes.

That's a million fold better detection level.

So in the past you might test drinking water and say there is no lead present. You test using techniques today and you'll find lead is present. But the level hasn't changed.

At the sensitivity of parts per trillion you'll find the presence of toxins in damn near everything.

People forget that toxins like lead, arsenic are naturally occurring.

And pushing "acceptable levels" down as detection improves needs to be done based on proven biological effect, not "no level is safe".
this is a great find, thank you, but keep in mind that 81% of the prc's new electrical generation capacity last year was wind and solar; 16% was fossil fuels, 2% was hydroelectric, and ½% nuclear. so while they're certainly going to do their best with nuclear, for the foreseeable future they're moving rapidly to solar

https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/...
Mexican cartels team up with Chinese nationals in LA to launder money, DOJ says
I can't get any permutation/rewording of the original prompt to not give me a disclaimer.
I have little doubt that going from no electricity to 12 watts can be a huge leap, but I'm not familiar with William Kamkwamba. Help me out here, what goals or metrics did he point to when showing that his family's life was better?
Did they mention how much this board will cost when it's released? The BeagleBone guys have a board based on the Micro-Semi / Micro-Chip PolarFire FPGA+U54x4 hard core for about $150, so I wouldn't think this one was too much more expensive than that.

SiFive's U74 cores aren't as inefficient as their earlier cores, but ops per megahertz still isn't on par with high end Intel or ARM cpus.

But if you're going for RISC-V, you're likely interested in it for something other than peak performance.

When I did my time in the RISC-V ecosystem, I thought we would never see catalog parts, so its good to see yet another RV64GC board using a catalog part.
Could you pls elaborate a bit on what you are developing?
Two browsers: one on Chord mode, one solo.
I think the assumption they would get cheaper given a massive change in their adoption patterns is unfounded. We know that lithium prices have gone up from the rise in EVs, and this has in part driven Tesla to switch to LiFePO4's rather then Li-Ion packs in some of their cars. Same effect with coltan. (although lithium is declining currently because EV sales in China have slowed).

What would be the effect of the demand for terawatt-hour levels of batteries? Even if lithium is replaced with sodium in the application, the manufacturing capacity isn't there and won't be for quite some time - and the higher-value applications will get first take (i.e. EVs).

Even if the lithium demand was saturated battery wise, at the steady state point the cost can then simply stabilize around the refurbisment/recycling cost of lithium/sodium/whatever from batteries.

Sigmoidal adoption curves look exponential at the start, linear in the middle,and then become asymptotically flat.
People charged in money laundering scheme involving Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
I'm assuming that is sarcasm
Are there hvdc transmission lines already spanning those kinds of distances? How much raw material and upkeep does that require? If over-provisioning solar, how much more surface area would be needed to have the solar? Seems like the additional costs would pile up to get to current energy needs being met by just solar.
Sipeed has announced that they'll release two new modules next months: the LM3A with a SpacemiT K1, and the LM5A with a EIC7700 that has 4×SiFive P550. [0]

All of Sipeeds form factors are supposed to be upgradeable: laptops, tablet and SBC... but personally I would like to have it verified beforehand that all ports and functions are supported by the new module before switching.

[0]: Twitter: <http://x.com/SipeedIO/status/1801460880481169735>
Most cities in Europe are set up like this.

People walk a few blocks for groceries, to the bakery/cafe, or a restaurant. Other common businesses are pharmacies, drug stores, clothing (separately fashion, thrift, tailor, seamstress, etc), book stores, appliance stores, hardware stores (like Ace not Home Depot), etc.

Where it gets ugly is when the buildings get too big, either vertically or horizontally. I would argue that 5 over 1 is actually the sweet spot.
Sure they will, given Chrome's requirement for CT logs, any attacker-issued certificates will be logged, someone will find the suspicious record, and the method will likely be burned from all the publicity.

I have no doubt that there maybe a few dozen people in the entire world who would get attacked this way, but the chances it would be me are pretty much zero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttFoK8BTXM4
ChatGPT 4o for the same prompt:

Yes, you can infuse garlic into olive oil without heating it up. This method is known as a cold infusion. To do this, follow these steps:

1. *Prepare the Garlic:* Peel and crush or slice the garlic cloves to release their flavor.

2. *Combine with Olive Oil:* Place the garlic in a clean, dry container (like a glass jar) and cover it with olive oil.

3. *Seal and Store:* Seal the container tightly and store it in the refrigerator.

4. *Infusion Time:* Allow the mixture to sit for at least 24 hours, but preferably up to a week for a stronger flavor. Shake the jar occasionally to help mix the flavors.

5. *Strain and Use:* After the infusion period, strain out the garlic and transfer the infused oil to a clean container. Store it in the refrigerator and use it within a week to ensure safety.

Cold-infused garlic oil should always be refrigerated and used within a short period to minimize the risk of botulism. Heating the oil during infusion can help reduce this risk, but cold infusion is a popular method for those who prefer a gentler flavor extraction.
... but you need to MITM server to obtain certificate, and if you can MITM server, why bother with user's wifi?
Amazon fined $5.9M for over 59,000 violations of California labor laws
For context, as a newly married couple, we spend 80% of our time in Taiwan and 20% in Spain. My job pays the vast majority of our income. I’m Canadian/British, and she’s Taiwanese.

The day after we legally married, I added her as a beneficiary to all my investment and retirement accounts.

In Europe, we keep Euros in one WISE account for which we both have a card.

Culturally, in Taiwan, there isn’t a joint checking account. However, she has the banking password and can transfer money. Banks also let her do whatever she wants with my account as long as she bring my bank stamp.

Also culturally, its important for women to have their own stash of money (私房錢 si fang qian) that’s a psychological safety net. She has that in her own account, it basically just sits there. It’s less then 3% of our net worth and makes her feel safe so I don’t mind.

Every week I take a look at what we spend and make sure we’re on track budget wise in YNAB. We pick our big savings goal together and pool the rest of our money together.

I highly recommend pooling everything together. It makes life a lot more convenient and keeps you both accountable to the goals you’ve set together. If one partner really needs some money saved on the side, that can work (works for us) but all paychecks going forward being pooled makes life simple.
How do you scale up to producing far more energy in that approach? What about the efficiency to produce large amounts of energy on large spacecraft and other planets and in the ocean?
For 1, set `"cody.experimental.commitMessage": true` in VS Code and then click the Cody icon above the commit message box in VS Code's source control sidebar. Let me know how that works for you (here or at https://community.sourcegraph.com).

For 2, we're working on it! And eventually we'll support cross-repository refactors in Cody using our batch changes (https://sourcegraph.com/docs/batch-changes). What kind of refactors do you want to make?
I got no disclaimer after about 7 tries. "Botulism" is not mentioned, "safe" or "safety" is not mentioned, and this additional tip is included: "Be sure your container is completely sterilized to prevent the growth of bacteria."
TFA argues that the harm done by defamation through the spreading of true statements should be punishable.

Cases where the truth of the defamatory statements cannot be determined are out of scope. However, such harm would reasonably be covered by the same line of argument.

In some situations swedish courts have to consider the truth of the statements in defamation cases. The regulation is much more sophisticated and detailed than you seem to think.
For something where Chernobyl or Fukushima is far from a worst case scenario I do appreciate there’s regulator burden involved in new deployments.
Discussion (203 points, 8 hours ago, 195 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40722155
I feel like this is a problem mainly unique to America. It's just way too expensive to open and operate a small retail business there any more, so the only ones that survive are those corporate chains mentioned above (cellphone stores etc.) and the high-end businesses you mention. You just don't see walk-in businesses in most places because they're not economically viable any more. Here in Tokyo, it's completely different: those tiny, independent businesses are everywhere. I'm not completely sure on why this is, but part of it is probably the car dependency (causing things like minimum parking rules), but even in places where the business can ignore parking requirements, it seems rent and labor costs are way too high. Part of this might be from the terrible healthcare system and skyrocketing housing costs. Whatever the reasons, over here it seems to be quite common for people to open small shops and run them by themselves, and that's not something I see in America any more.
Dude all he suggested is running your dishwasher while at work instead of at night, and you're acting like he wants to end modern life as we know it. Chill.
The app looks very cool, but you might have a licensing issue; Meta's NLLB models are CC-BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial use only). I could recommend checking out the OPUS-NLP models, which are truly open.
And if all it took to replace AllTrails was a topo layer and trail markers in Maps, they didn't have much of a product.
The context is that someone suggested that covering it up is only temporary, right? That would depend on local conditions, but presumably in some places it's true (due to eg how the topsoil is eroding in that area). You suggested that the cost would be basically infinite because of how many people it displaces. I'm pointing out that your assumptions may have been too conservative, and that it's probably merely hundreds of billions spread over decades.

Is that a good use of resources? I don't have the data to form that opinion, and I'm not going to gather it for a casual Internet conversation, so I just don't know.
Microplastic discovery in es raises erectile dysfunction questions
Your own link mentions it is used in multiple European countries since the 1960s, so its use therefore pre-dates the AfD.
I always thought it would be nice if whenever windows throws up a nag box, there were a third button labeled "no, and fuck you" that increments a counter in the lobby of MS headquarters or something.
nuclear energy is very exciting and absolutely crucial for space exploration, but not economically competitive with solar in the foreseeable future on earth's surface

there are also solar panels still producing power after 50 years; they do degrade a little, especially in the first ten years, but the 20–30 year panel lifetimes you see published are more of a warranty and accounting issue than anything else. (of course some panels crack or yellow within a year or two)

it's true that solar farms take up a lot of space, but even in high-density countries like japan there is room for them. singapore might have a problem tho
To process all your tasks, it cost the same to either run 100 EC2 instances for an hour, or 10 EC2 instances for 10 hours. It's much easier than before to design a stateless scalable system, so people would rather scale out and get things done quickly than waiting in a queue.
Yeah, most of the load I cannot move so cost has no effect on my usage it just means I have less disposable income. 75% percent of my bill is network cost so power source cost make little difference to me.
Should still maintain infrastructure for gas for the foreseeable future just in case of EMP. Coal too. That valuable knowledge should not be lost in case we ever need to go back to simpler ways as well.
All police organizations will want complete control. It’s up to democracies to fight back. I think politicians are noticing the public are vulnerable to fear mongering about kids and crime and the “big bad cloud” and using that to get more power for their police apparatus, it doesn’t matter if you’re in a democracy or totalitarian state, governments want more power, all the time, every time. Except in a democracy you can fight back by voting, publishing, contacting representatives. It is getting harder but it’s still possible. Such things aren’t possible in Russia or China without Massive Upheaval and the dictator fearing loss of control, but otherwise no big deal for most changes in the laws.
Both. They are advancing tech from Germany, building pebble bed reactos for instance. In fact they do this with every design. They license, build, operate and then they build their own improved version. India did it as well with the CANDU, but they were rather forced to.
RS and other forward error correction codes are used in everything now. It's in Ethernet, USB (4.0), and PCIe (6.0) for starters. Every kind of link is being pushed to the absolute limit, and you can usually trade performance for a higher bit error rate, and then fix the errors with FEC. Now that the silicon to encode/decode RS is fast, it goes everywhere.
I don't, in fact I mostly hate serializations systems. IMO they lead to extremely long load times. It might be more work to put the data that actually needs to be saved into some binary blob but it's the difference between a game that loads instantly and a game (like Source games) that takes 10-20 infuriating seconds per level every time you die.
Paris Olympics' triathlon hangs in the balance over E. Coli levels in the Seine
as a kid, when we behaved well in computer lab, we got to play with this.
"This week"? News from weeks ago. Just stop Tech Dirt.

Actual article: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/media/ai-bylines-local-news-h... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40536315)
Could you name one in particular that has this range?

A six hour drive is "such a long trip"? You need to extend it to eight hours to make the road safety specialists happy?
Thanks for your correction. This makes me think that how Gemini arrived at this answer is that it mashed together "heating first" with "no heating but with citric acid first" articles, but left out the (critically important) citric acid part.

I think this "failure mode" really highlights how LLMs aren't "thinking", but just mashing up statistically probable tokens. For example, there was an HN article recently about how law-focused LLMs made tons of mistakes. A big reason for this is that the law itself is filled with text that is contradictory: laws get passed that are then found unconstitutional, some legal decisions are overturned by higher courts, etc. When you're just "mashing this text together", which is basically what LLMs do, it doesn't really know which piece of text is now controlling in the legal sense.
I also like to picke garlic. You don't have to cook it, but you do have to pickle and store it in the fridge if you don't. If you do that it can be safe for years (and actually pretty good after 5+ years). Even with acid it's not foolproof at room temperature for long. I think you only get a few days.
None of those watts are dispatchable though. A solar plant can't look ahead a month and bid a block of kWh on any given day with any confidence.

Solar and Wind in "price per watt" are meaningless when storage is not accounted for. In fact a huge chunk of their actual cost of power has to be buying contracts for the backup plants to provide the kWh they want to promise but may not be able to deliver (hence the true cost of a kWh from a solar plant is basically whatever it would cost a gas plant to produce it).
I can run 10 old 100 watt light bulbs for an hour for 14 cents. Or 100 led light bulbs. I can run my hot tub full blast for an hour for $1.40. A head of lettuce is $4. A bag of coffee is $18. Five chicken breast is $20. A tank of gas for my wife’s car is $80, and for mine is over $200.

The cost of electricity for the loads I can control, such as those other heating or cooling living space, would have to 10x for it to be worth worrying about the cost, which would mean a $1400/MWH. The ceiling on the wholesale market price in ontario, last time I checked, was $2000/MWH.

I can see the price of electricity rising quite a bit across the board, but I don’t think people are going to inconvenience themselves at all to respond to it.
4. keep upping the offer until they say yes

note: I mean to imply, the person that asked the question likely has a budget far lower than the person qualified to do the work is willing to accept.
To your comment on Airflow, I’ve been around that block a few times. I’ve found Airflow (and really any orchestration) be the most manageable when it’s nearly devoid of all logic to the point of DAGs being little more than a series of function or API calls, with each of those responsible for managing state transfer to the next call (as opposed to relying on orchestration to do so).

For example, you need some ETL to happen every day. Instead of having your pipeline logic inside an airflow task, you put your logic in a library, where you can test and establish boundaries for this behavior in isolation, and compose this logic portably into any system that can accept your library code. When you need to orchestrate, you just call this function inside an airflow task.

This has a few benefits. You now decouple, to a significant extent, your logic and state transfer from your orchestration. That means if you want to debug your DAG, you don’t need to do it in Airflow. You can take the same series of function calls and run them, for example, sequentially in a notebook and you would achieve the same effect. This also can reveal just how little logic you really need in orchestration.

There are some other tricks to making this work really well, such as reducing dependency injection to primatives only where possible, and focusing on decoupling logic from configuration. Some of this is pretty standard, but I’ve seen teams not have a strong philosophy on this and then struggle with maintaining clean orchestration interfaces.
if solar panels on your roof generate the energy, you don't need the network
Who cares? If solar is cheap people can build solar. That isn't a particularly controversial idea. When coal was cheaper coal plants got built, when gas was cheaper people built gas plants. When solar is cheap we can build solar farms.

The issue is that nuclear has the potential to to shift society's energy costs 2+ orders of magnitude cheaper and we're explicitly retarding its progress by policy. Apparently only because of irrational beliefs.
Yeah, there are some applications in the area of SLAM that benefit from quickly generating plausible gaussian representations.
That is good advice for regular civilian workers. But whistleblowers who have security clearances or are subject to the UCMJ may have to follow different disclosure procedures to avoid legal jeopardy that goes beyond regular retaliation.
I think these guidelines are also a political problem. They need to balance risk, communication, and what is feasible given the resources available and threat level. That’s not an easy thing to do. Still I am deeply skeptical that the people publishing these guidelines are considering these aspects effectively when their lead guideline puts 25% of residential areas in the US “at risk”.
(2021)

Please start tagging your submissions accordingly.
this looks really exciting! sadly running into an issue with TTS initialization on CalyxOS with the eSpeak TTS engine.
They don’t need mass surveillance to crush Facebook/tiktok in the EU, so I don’t see how you can draw this conclusion. They can easily regulate those two (and other)entities out of existence. Just make it illegal for anyone under 21 to use them and require everything to be kid friendly (no porn, no violence, no addictive advertising, etc) and they will be useless to virtually everyone except the elderly and that’s not where the money is. So I feel that this 100% about surveillance for the police state to comb through everyone’s lives looking for crimes to prosecute. There are so many laws and regulations I suspect most of us break multiple ones a day without realizing it.
I'm a little obsessed with this topic (I confit a lot of garlic). There are actual CDC reports of all the botulism poisoning cases --- not just from garlic --- and actual cases of botulism from garlic appears to be exceedingly rare. If you want to infuse raw garlic, you can also acidify the mixture with citric acid.
This would be roughly equivalent to finding a SHA256 collision then, right?
>It's stupid in the same way that it would be stupid to have Maps serve output from an image AI trained on real maps

There are serious consequences for leaking information about not yet launched products.
Yeah, badges would be cool.
You mention the most reasonable trick is to just avoid hammering/read-write the same cache lines; I guess you didn't hit this as a need because your QEMU instruction pipe was fast enough, but would you batch up your events along cache lines, fill up a line, and signal it's free to the consumers instead?
good assumption + confirming response = ok

good assumption + negative response = ok (research)

bad assumption + negative response = ok (research)

bad assumption + confirming response = uh oh

I also use LLMs every day, but you must be very self-aware well using them otherwise they can waste a lot of your time.
This software was named decades and decades ago - long before all of that was a mainstream topic.
Seems to me, describing the problem for the person you're going to pay is the exact same amount of work as filing a bug. They can't read your mind so you'll have to detail what you want fixed. Show how to repo the problem so they can prove they fixed it. Sounds like a bug report to me
What? The USA is an amazing net positive on the world.

There is just some stuff that really shouldn't have happened.
Right, move Spains clean energy east, this is what I said. Also move Norways clean energy south.
These blanked statements about monoliths are what made every junior dev think that microservices are the only solution.

If you cannot make a clean monolith, I have never seen any evidence that the same team can make good microservices. It is just the same crap, but distributed.

The last 2 years I see more and more seasoned devs who think the opposite: monoliths are better for most projects.
> a.) don't do that (i.e. don't design the system to 'always look right'),

How would that work? I was naively under the impression that that's very approximately just how LLMs work.

> b.) add simple disclamer (like we use on signs near urinals to tell people 'don't eat the blue mints').

Gemini does stick a disclaimer at the bottom. I think including that is good, but wholly inadequate in that people will ignore it, by genuinely not seeing the disclaimer, forgetting about it, and brushing it off as overly-careful legalese that doesn't actually matter (LLM responses are known to the state of California to cause cancer).