skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>now they cost 8¢ a watt, down by half since last year's prices, prices which had been held steady for several years only by a price-fixing cartel.

Sorry, this is most likely not true and an unbased claim.

>this is precisely what you would expect in a niche technology as it becomes mainstream: the costs drop dramatically as you climb down the learning curve. one mechanism in that process is that the less efficient producers are driven out of the market because they can only sell at a loss

Yes, this is a common relationship in manufacturing known as wright's law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%27s_Law

The cost/prices trends for PV are well documented, e.g. see slide 50 here:
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...

There was no recent transition into "mainstream". The scaling has been taking place for decades already and nothign was "held steady" for 12 years.

If you look at price development during the last months (https://www.pvxchange.com/Price-Index) you will notice that the prices drastically dropped by more than 50% during the last year. This is a clear sign of oversupply, regardless of discussions regarding tariffs etc.

To explain this kind of price drop based on the history scaling laws (24.4% per doubling) would require the total production capacity (and installation) to have more than quadrupled over the last year.
I just check in my FreeCAD project files as binary blobs. For a mostly-one-person projects this works without a problem. I have never felt a need to look inside at the changes on the file format level. Opening two files/versions and comparing them visually I have don just once or twice. Frequent commits with good messages helps a lot though.
Have many hundred files now, made over the last 10 years.
There are rumors that the US and China have laser weapons for destroying satellites. Lasers are good for anti-satellites because they can sit on the ground with plentiful power. Then accurately target lots of satellites. Laser weapons possible whole constellation in short period of time depending on how fast they can fire.

Lasers shouldn't produce lots of debris. If anything, they would be good at destroying debris.
>> The AA industrial complex has such a hold on this part of our medical system

What is the AA industrial complex? I think you are imagining things.
No, Markov Chain Monte Carlo to get final stated from distribution which is hard to tackle any other way
China's DeepSeek Coder becomes first open-source model to beat GPT-4 Turbo
Just FYI, in Europe we mostly use manual transmission and clutch is mostly so robust that something else breaks way before that.

Also, a lot of auto transmission approaches use the clutch behind the scenes, at least in the older models. But, I am nitpicking here at the analogy being transferred to the clutch system.

I fully agree otherwise that the friction is the best term to describe what is happening across the system and within social interactions.
A synopsis of your "reflections" is that Lisp languages have nothing to offer of advantage, except to oddballs who follow weird practices that are incompatible with collaboration and long-term maintenance.

That's a baseless, misinformed attack on Lisp people, such as myself; if many people read and believe that, it becomes economically harmful.

Almost every capability in any Lisp dialect can be used responsibly, and in a way that a later maintainer will understand, due to good structure of the code, naming, documentation and other practices.
As text/code-based formats, e g. cadquery and the newer build123d work with text-based VCS systems like git.

Is there a diff tool for FreeCAD?

nbdime: https://nbdime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#git-integration-qui... :

> Git doesn’t handle diffing and merging notebooks very well by default, but you can configure git to use nbdime:

nbdime config-git --enable --global

Oh, zippey, for zip archives of text files in git: https://bitbucket.org/sippey/zippey/src/master/

Are there tools to test/validate a FreeCAD model to check for regressions over a range of commits?

git bisect might then be useful with FreeCAD models; https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect :

> This command uses a binary search algorithm to find which commit in your project’s history introduced a bug. You use it by first telling it a "bad" commit that is known to contain the bug, and a "good" commit that is known to be before the bug was introduced. Then git bisect picks a commit between those two endpoints and asks you whether the selected commit is "good" or "bad". It continues narrowing down the range until it finds the exact commit that introduced the change.

FWIW, LEGO Bricktales does automated design validation as part of the game. Similarly, what CI job(s) run when commits are pushed to a Pull Request git branch?
OK, I read the paper, agree the results look good, like the idea of better formal grounding for how to choose where your splats are, and ... I still have no idea what that top image is of. Is it the distribution of where they put initial splats for any given 2D image?? Why does the caption mention buildings? I'm really lost.
Quoting Thomas Jefferson of course.

I was joking but apparently someone beat me to that joke https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
The headline is misleading since not only is nickel mostly used in stainless steel but also the dramatic incident that opens the article as narrative hook is at a facility that produces stainless steel: "The metal is a crucial component for making stainless steel, the purpose of the facility where the explosion occurred."
There is a fork calls Onseel I believe, which has a slighty different UI. And it looks like many UI improvement are coming into mainline now / over the next releases.
I see the benefit of the doubt was unwarranted. Righto.
> I corrected the experimental methodology and while the results weren't quite as good, they were still quite good and I got published with the correct results.

I disagree. Your new results were much better, because they were sound.

Very well done.
What are some examples of things that were in the leaks that were actually new information? PRISM is basically the only thing the Utah datacenter could have been used for back then. Cisco firmware having backdoors wasn't even really considered to be on the crackpot side of things pre leaks. I remember people being surprised at the scope of their shipping-intercept program when the leaks were new, but that's about it.

Didn't they lose all biometric info for all federal employees in the OPM hack? Fingerprints and retinal images (for those who had them) too?
It's something that we know it will backfire very spectacularly, but might happen anyway.
I could see this backfire and have a industry wide reversal to other technologies. I have a gut feeling that already happened in other areas, like companies going back to bare-metal, but it's not really the best example sine cloud was and still is the best solution for most companies.

Does anyone with more experience than me have memories of similar things happening? Where a technology was hyped and adopted anywhere until something happened that caused an industry-wide reversal to more established ways of doing things?
The issue isn’t having quotas, I don’t think. It’s more the Office Space “minimum pieces of flair” aspect of hiding the rules from the employees.
> if Amazon is guilty of heinous crimes for not giving workers a strict written quota

The issue isn’t having or not having quotas. It’s having a quota and not telling employees about it.
Common or not, if the practice is bad why make the law specific to warehouse workers instead of making it a general law that applies to everyone?
The only way to that Sinclair refinery is to cross tribal land. This will probably shift those loads to the Phillips and BP refineries up in Ferndale.

Imagine a 3200 foot stretch of rail way costing you $400 million because you just couldn’t be bothered to live up to your end of a basic agreement.
Like very valid research being lost because they mention a retracted paper for some minor point that doesn’t really have a major impact on the final results.
I'm not actually arguing that they existed for you, but if they did I wouldn't expect you to be told about secret quotas.
Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility project
I am also aware of this fact, which is why I myself have real leather boots, phone case, etc. However, it's not very forward thinking to not develop alternatives that are vegan, because it may be possible that the world eats less meat in the future, and therefore produces less animal leather.

I also haven't heard the answer to my question– how is this particular alternative to leather, based on rubber and pineapple leaves (and not plastic), particularly bad for the economy or the environment?
Owning ~.00001% of a company feels illusory to me, more difficult to intuit values. So would Nvidia share owners rather own all of Nvidia instead of all of Apple? I suspect not. The marginal buyer of nvidia is either:
* MEGA-FOMO
* Betting on the singularity
* Momentum trading
I canceled my subscription when I found out they wanted me to buy two subscriptions -- one for each home I own.
A missed opportunity to use the "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" quote.
Should Python Adopt Calendar Versioning?
A few years ago, I was offered a job in fintech, a company whose whole business model was basically to sit on a pile of money and make it bigger. The company had a good reputation among developers and used interesting tech. Plus, I knew someone who worked there, and he had nothing but good things to say about the experience. During the final interview with the hiring manager, however, I asked a question about how they made their money. It was intended to be a mechanical question, getting a better understanding of exactly how the business functioned, where I would stand, and how I'd be contributing to the core business model. He seemed to take it as a philosophical question, however, and an answer that made me think either he deeply drank the Kool-aid or was justifying it to himself. It made me stop and think about the business's impact on the world and if I wanted to be a part of it.

I ended up taking a job developing software for medical clinics instead, which paid around $30k less. It was the worst, most demoralizing job I've ever had, and I'm counting Wendy's. A year later, they cut 50% of their development staff, including me, and I was let loose into the 2023 developer job market (0/10 do not recommend). At the time I really, really wished I took the fintech job.

Just when I was starting to feel desperate and cornered, literally the same day I got offered a job working on some legacy .NET software for an airline, where the manager gave me really bad vides, and was feeling cornered like I didn't have room to say no, I got offered a job in public transit, working with interesting technology. I'm a contractor, making around $100k less than what the fintech job offered. People are frequently mad at our agency, and it gets a lot of bad press. In other words, they care. They rely on it to get where they need to go and live their day-to-day lives, and our mistakes are visible and painful. My first production issue (a dumb mistake where I failed to account for a null value) was discovered in 15 minutes due to rider complaints. It may sound weird, but I love that. Sure, they were mad about it, and not necessarily very nice, but the fact they were upset? It meant they gave a shit about what I was doing.

Am I happier than if I had just followed the money and taken the fintech job? I can't see down that path. But this is the first software development job I've had in my 15-year career where I'm confident my work is a net positive for the world.
Shovel rush
Now I just need to rework it for my favorite HN front page viewer:

https://hackernews.betacat.io/
Alternatively, could provide users substantial consumer excess at no additional cost. Ideas are not the value, no?
I think it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" thing. If you make the law sweeping, businesses will complain it's an infringement of big government. If you make the law targeted, businesses will complain they're being unfairly selective.
Good luck designing a UI that includes settings for scrollbar width and other settings of that granularity in which any of those settings are discoverable...
Delete your payment methods. That will remove the biggest incentive to do something that’s a risk to you with the account.

From there you can write over personal data and maybe even change to a lower importance email address.
If only he could speak. At least he's still taking nourishment.
Yeah, I'm sorry that they spoke to you like that. It was unwarranted, as was the subsequent benefit of the doubt I gave them. It's apparently just the attitude they communicate with others with. Unfortunate.
I don't understand the snark here.

The existence of restaurants doesn't imply that people don't cook their own food. That people have long come up with their own solutions for the problem that Dropbox addresses isn't incompatible with the notion that Dropbox can be a successful product. Obviously.

The world is packed full of products and services that do things that people can easily do themselves, because plenty of people are happy to not have to do that thing regardless. That's Dropbox's target market.
Damn, academia needs a #me-too moment.

I find this vaguely reminiscent of Hollywood's casting couches.
Fun tidbit: while we all know Mario is a plumber from Brooklyn, Jumpman is in fact a carpenter.
$5.9M is not even a rounding error for a $2T corporation.
The question is how many of the citations are actually in support? As in: some might be citations in the form of "Donald Duck's research on coin polishing[1] is not considered due to the controversial nature". Or even "examples of controversial papers on coin polishing include the work of Donald Duck[1]".

I don't think "number of citations" typically make this distinction?

Also for some papers the citation doesn't really matter, and you can exclude the entire thing without really affecting the paper.

Regardless, this seems like a nice idea on the face of it, but practically I foresee a lot of potential problems if done "non-negotiably".
Well you wouldn't have been told about the secret quota, would you? But let's say you're right that it isn't common outside of warehouses. Even in that case, why would you write a law only for warehouses?

Let's say that there was a problem where cattle ranches were giving out beatings for underperforming workers. Would you fix this by writing a law that says "it is illegal for cattle ranches to beat employees" or would you just outlaw all beatings of all employees so that you won't have to revisit this when another industry decides to do it?
Meta has created a way to watermark AI-generated speech
Oh I didn't know that, I hope he gets better.
Life is such a bizarre thing. Billions of years pass in a universe beyond human comprehension. Then a baby is born and the spark of a person slowly takes shape. A few short decades later and that spark fades as the body becomes unable to sustain it. Afterwards, trillions of years may pass in this universe.

I wish our sparks could endure.
Related, found after I saw him opining on 'activists moving goalposts':

(2004) https://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_problem_with_john_ti...

(2011) https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/what-the-new-york-t...
Anyone who's met my stupid stupid chickens would appreciate that the stupid stupid chickens can totally manipulate us by making pathetic sounds when we know we are near, so they can get treats. Pre-chicken it was obvious to me that dogs, dolphins, higher primates, etc. were conscious. But stupid stupid chickens? Yes, stupid stupid chickens, it turns out. I love them despite the fact that they are ruthlessly committed to training me.

All which is to say that objectively and scientifically speaking they are obviously conscious although stupid.
“Music” or just “pleasant background noise”
I quit a relatively high paying job at Yahoo doing system administration to follow a passion in audio

Now I design synthesizers for a living. Way happier!
You got me curious, and I wondered what alternatives could be.

I found this interesting stack overflow answer:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/3206/best-so...

unfortunately the question was closed:

Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.

Annoying that stack overflow specifically shuts this stuff down.

Shutting down discussion makes it seem like a self-serving answer mill instead of a community.
Countries should take stock equity over fines. It dilutes the owners share value and punishes stockholders who don't make a company's' boards accountable. With ownership, the government also then has the ability to 'peer behind the veil' more easily and make sure management is behaving. Finally, if a company continues to misbehave the government over time takes ownership and can then replace the board (think a corporate equiv to a death penalty, since under the law corporations are treated as people).
I always thought Fisker was a scissor company that decided to make a car. Not a good image.
>So would Nvidia share owners rather own all of Nvidia instead of all of Apple?

Personally? Absolutely.

Stocks trade on forward growth. Apple has been stalled out for years now, with total saturation in the smartphone market, and anemic services revenue.
Can Amazon even count that low?
This is a completely bonkers idea that would accomplish nothing positive and would mostly erase tons of good science.

The idea of punishing third parties for a citation is weird. If I quote somebody who lied, I'm at fault? Seriously?
This happens to some extent via punitive damages, which are designed to be large enough to get the attention of the offender. I don't think it happens outside of punitive damages though.
This is a really cool concept! Even if it's difficult to trust it as-is (for reasons stated ad nauseam in other comments), this might put gas on the fire of a so-far small area of malware research, which will be good for the community at large.

It's obviously an arms race when it comes to malware, but this could be a significant step forward on the defensive side, forcing malware developers to evolve their TTPs.
This raises for me the question of whether NV will still be ultra-valuable in 24 months. Well, Most Valuable Company globally.

I think it's overbought right now, but not by a lot. The singularity-oriented investment advice is to buy now, I guess -- if any company in the world is likely to be able to achieve some sort of 'liftoff' on chip design for AI, it's NV, and if they do get there successfully, then the current valuation is super cheap, and therefore the expected value of this + a downside where they "only" have the world's most valuable razorblades to sell for the next few years = BUY.

I can't help but think that Apple and Meta have a few more body blows to trade in here, and that we haven't really seen developed AI business models yet. The bear trade on this stock looks like: only one of the following needs to happen

1. TSMC + Apple get something better enough out the door at scale, inference benefits from Moore's law and starts moving to the edge, and voila - NV is no longer the sole or best $/token provider for training large models. In this world, they slip back into a competitive environment, and do GREAT, but probably not world's most valuable company great.

2. Meta has better AI research, achieves some sort of design liftoff, and, say, buys Intel to control it.

3. The world's inference and training needs do not continue to grow geometrically, the market over-reacts to a trailing off in demand for high end datacenter AI, and they lose their hefty growth premium on valuation.

I guess I net out at HOLD right now personally. This is not investment advice. But I am interested in other takes on their situation right now.
It was called tool use before ChatGpt existed.
Yooo I been wanting to do the same for this https://nextrenaissance.art/society.htm

It's billiard-like and makes complex patterns over time that might sound coherent and interesting in various audio mappings. Runs best in Edge

https://github.com/mnenoff/society-htm/tree/main
Indeed: https://hnrss.github.io/

I have my own script that filters the firehose for topics I'm interested in into a new RSS feed and subscribe to that, so I see every single submission that might vaguely interest me.
I do agree that new use cases are emerging and it will probably enable tons of new businesses. I'm very gung-ho about the technology myself as well. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the new businesses that emerge because of this are not necessarily going to advertise that they use gaussian splats to do it, it's not a buzzy enough term, and many of the industries it serves just care about the results it delivers. Your average tech person is unlikely to hear much about it. Your average graphics engineer will have probably heard about it, but not know about all the use cases that are leveraging it. And your average person in the industry it is changing won't know what is causing the change (they will probably assign it to the nebulous ai bucket). I fully expect gaussian splats to be a quiet revolution.
interesting that this is published on Jeff Bezos' newspaper.
Out of curiosity, would your (or anyone else wanting to chime in) answer change if there was a qualifier that you had to buy today, and were not allowed to sell for 8 years?
As written, yes. I suppose I meant there’s no correlation in one direction.

Perhaps I should have avoided a technically-specific term such as “correlation”. It seems inappropriate for an anecdotal observation.
And even better, the incentive to expand the grid. The market is easy to control, because the money flows via the internet. But how to transport the energy?

Without a proper grid not possible. The various countries block the expansion for political reasons. They would loose their power.
> It's trivially obvious that some kinds of stem cell can become any type of cell, given that we all had our beginnings as a single cell.

It’s not that obvious, as the brain grows, certain kind of cells die off and never come back. For example at 4-5 years of age being able to speak different phonenes is lost due to mass die off of a certain type of brain cell.

Could be the same for the pair of cells that start a human life. Once their purpose is served they may never exist again.
> makes me suspicious that this isn't a good faith worker protection law but rather specifically targeted at Amazon

It seems to target Amazon, but for good reasons [1].

The law’s principal mode of enforcement is private [2]. This fine appears to be more the state laying a trail of breadcrumbs for private attorneys to follow than the last word on the matter.

> why is it allowed for all other industries?

Defining what constitutes a quota is hard. If there isn’t evidence of abuse in other settings, it doesn’t make sense to expand the regulatory burden for the hell of it.

[1] https://www.schneiderwallace.com/media/california-new-york-a...

[2] https://www.californiaemploymentlawreport.com/2021/09/califo...
I'm sure it's bursting right now but:

"Companies that mentioned AI in earnings saw their stocks rise 4.6% on average, a study from Wall Street Zen found."

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ai-stock-mar...
The JH7110 is a superscalar quad-core dual-issue design at 1.2GHz and has 2MB of L2 cache. The Core 2 Duo P8600 from late 2008 (around the same era you can buy Coreboot-able Thinkpads like my old X200) has dual 2.4GHz processors with 3MB of L2 on an OoO-superscalar design. It will probably lose handily, if I had to guess (strictly speaking, perf/watt may be better on the JH7110 due to newer manufacturing processes, but you're not using +15yo thinkpads if you care about that.)
I really doubt there was a strict quota, more likely some kind of stack ranking.