skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Listen, everybody can read the exact same comment I wrote and see how you are ignoring all the parts that are inconvenient to you. It’s there in black and white.

We are talking about if the NSA abuses its power to go after illegitimate targets.

You quoted the same single source twice but written by different people which when we got down to the heart of the claim showed that there was actual evidence of approximately 1 incident per year over more than a decade time frame.

I also explained precisely how and why things had changed in the past decade since that quote was relevant so that it wasn’t possible for people to do that any longer without tripping all kinds of alarms.

If you have other evidence then please share it but what you have so far doesn’t support your claim at all.
I remember the surprise in seeing him in a very minor role in the 1967 The Billion Dollar Brain. He was playing a tape monkey for a huge mainframe, loading huge reels of magnetic tape into a Honeywell. It was fun to see the genesis of a great man's acting career.
A historical example might be communism which impeded a lot of people's lives and was pushed by intellectuals going back to Marx himself.

More recently some people are unenthusiastic about promoting trans stuff and affirmative action.
There was a report from MIT a few years back that looked into the price reductions of solar between 1978 and 2012, during which time module costs fell by 97%.

They suggest that early on R&D support from government was key, then later market support to help grow the scale of deployment. Since 2001 its been manufacturing scale that has dominated price reductions.

MIT News article with link to the actual paper: https://news.mit.edu/2018/explaining-dropping-solar-cost-112...
They can hear it from a TV/radio ad, they can see it on a billboard, they can hear it from a friend. Exploring that an app exists doesn't happen only on the product website.
The burning problem was a SNAFU on the first-gen “T-shaped” connectors. They redesigned gen 1 into an “L-shape”, which fixed it.

The cable rubber was always remarkably shit, even with really delicate handling. Lucky now it’s a braided cable, and holding up well so far. Time will tell

Lastly, they thankfully made the cable modular, with a USB connection to the brick. Sometimes I use it with a USB-C to C cable, so I can use it with my phone.
nothing is safe from the google graveyard!
Yep, stuff like this makes me question many things. I mean in a sane world this should be enough to sue them into oblivion. But the general bar in that regard is so low, that apparently even open source companies can do it as default.
6 minutes earlier"

"Google is investigating reports about delayed indexing in Google Search. We're working on identifying the root cause. Next update will be within 12 hours."

I doubt they did it in 6 minutes!
…yet.

Negative energy prices are a relatively new phenomenon, and it attracts attention because of its counterintuitive nature (I can get paid to use electricity?!?). Yet, it doesn’t happen that often. If I look at the Dutch market, this mostly happens on sunny+windy Sundays.

I think 2 things are happening that will make arbitrage feasible:

1. As solar production capacity increases, so will opportunities for arbitrage

2. As battery costs keep going down (capacity learning curve), so will the investment to do arbitrage.

At some point the curves for (1) and (2) will cross convincingly enough that investing in storage is just good business, and people will invest. If it’s anything like solar (home batteries), adoption might actually go very quickly because decision making would be decentralized, small investments, and without permits.
What would you have them do in this situation exactly? Do you want them to write a readme guide for North Koreans? Should they never write malware again? Should they send out signatures to AV companies.

Please explain to me what you think should be different.
We will offer a paid subscription for those who want to use Midday without hosting it themselves. However, as you mentioned, we will not earn anything from self-hosting. Going open-source means a lot to us, and the value we get back from the community is worth much more in terms of trust, extensibility, and general feedback around Midday
I actually quite liked Unity and thankfully it’s still alive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Unity

Nowadays I mostly use Cinnamon with Mint but either of those two felt more pleasant to me than stock GNOME.
Solutions like this do exist, the problem is the fact that aren't cheap.

I mean, it's pretty common with basically any permanent modifications you can make to your house if you think about it, is not like you can build a porch without a lot of experience or detailed instructions.

Solar pannels are like that, pretty doable but you need to do your homework
um, excuse you, it is all about ANI/AGI/ASI now!

/s

on a serious note, to me this field was already in quagmire of bs marketing the moment they named it "AI" almost a decade ago. in retrospect, seems like naming it "data science" was the move that started it all. but then political sciences get away with it, but i should not be picking multiple battles at the same time.

lowkey grifting has been part of the r&d space in the corporate world from as long as i can see. but lately i am afraid that the bubble will ruin it for all of us.
It's claimed in the source economist article and reuters also claims it [1].
It's unlikely that the Chinese government wants to say how much it subsidizes, as this will prompt tariff increases from importing countries.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-solar-industry...
I.. what?

You really should read links you post.

Brave even has an option where you can choose to do:

- “aggressive” blocking (will refuse to connect to ad domains)

-“standard” blocking (will connect but block, to prevent breakage)

I will stop responding now because I’ve corrected you multiple times and you refuse to listen.
It's bad because of Australia's unique situation. They are uniquely well suited for solar while being uniquely unsuited for new nuclear.

Australia has 2x the sunshine of Europe, more spare land for panels, and less seasonal variability.

Australia has no existing nuclear plant experience. No experienced regulator or legal regime. High labor costs and little relevant local labor. And a track record of project cost blowouts and time overruns on large projects.

Australia's small energy needs are also an issue. The marginal cost of new nuclear drops after you build the first few plants but Australia has such small energy needs that it won't reap the fruits of scale benefits.

Australia has large community opposition to nuclear but not to solar. About 35% of the electorate approve of nuclear, with almost all state premiers publicly stating opposition, while 80% approve of solar. This will lead to social licensing risks like what Germany, Japan, Taiwan and California face with planning and legislative delays, and potential early plant closures leading to wasted capex and higher energy costs.

Australia's peak scientific body, the CSIRO, estimates that a mostly decarbonized grid will be 2x more expensive with nuclear than pure renewables with transmission and storage. The above local factors contribute to that conclusion.

In other words, Australia is not China. And even in China, solar is beating nuclear.
Worried about what exactly?
Speed (or more accurately, length) is a part of pronunciation. English speakers don't often think about vowel length because it has no semantic significance like in some other languages, but there's still some phonemic variation, depending on one's dialect.
> but I'm curious why we're still writing applications

> Have we not learned our lesson yet,

"We"? Do you speak in the name of the developer? What an odd choice of pronoum.

Either way, if you are adamant about writing a new browser in your "memory-safe language" of choice, be the change you want made. Go ahead and write a new browser from scratch. Show the world how it should be done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

>The worm initially spreads indiscriminately...

And most of the rest of the article. They made a worm that was only supposed to activate in incredibly specific circumstances, but spread indiscriminately to find that specific circumstance.

edit oh, and let's not forget those extremely specific circumstances still seemed to have hit a thousand other targets accidentally, which is the exact thing you said isn't ever going to happen.
Nobody is saying there is a programming equivalent of the language of diplomacy. He said that using Rust to achieve memory safety is analogous to using French for diplomacy, in that, whatever value the language itself might bring to that goal, you are not likely to achieve it if you are not proficient.

If you are not proficient in French, you likely ought not to conduct diplomacy in French.

If you are not proficient in Rust, you likely ought not to achieve memory safety by writing everything in Rust.
Can you share plugin for NetBeans? Last time I checked it was some outdated plugin from JetBrains (who, obviously, aren't interested in any other IDE).
Not really. The most important part is already monopolized: transport. Then we have storage, which is not monopolized yet because there's very little of it. My bet is that the transport monopoly will take over storage as well.
> As much as diplomacy tends to be derided (and I'm certainly among those detractors), I also want to believe diplomacy still fucking means something for the sake of a civilized world.

I don't understand what benefit for diplomacy is this insistence that a war without a declaration isn't a war.
This sounds like a game changer. I wonder if they need to do a tonne of specific work per model?
If this could be implemented in Ollama, I'd be over the moon.
same that was extremely fun but im not sure i'm going to grasp the zk proof thing
>> I'm curious

> Is it really curiosity though?

I'm kind of annoyed at this whole train of comments ("I'm curious..."). In so many occasion I see something cool and the main comment track is "why hasn't this been writte in rust?" (or some other allegedly safe/better programming language).

It's like seeing a beautiful painting being painted and arguing about the kind of paintbrush the painter has used.

It's so sad.
This old myth is as old as the RN vs Flutter debate itself and I'm willing to help bust it again.

The simple answer is that when people have a problem or question about Flutter they simply key in Flutter. With RN they can ask about React, JavaScript, typescript, RN itself or one of the many components you use to make an app as it's the sum of a lot more parts.

So if Flutter didn't get more searches here I would be surprised and concerned.

The longer answer I'll just tease but suffice to say it's more complex than above.

It can come down to lots of things including the competency/experience of developers and maturity. As an experienced developer I might need to search for or ask about what I'm doing maybe 2 times a week. For someone getting started that might be that many times an hour. If you just looked at the two of us as a blob it might seem that whatever the other is using is more popular despite it being 50/50.

So yeah, number of searches or stack overflow questions or Reddit posts or whatever it is does not equal popularity.
In some senses, everything is finite, but the reason crystalline Si cells have beaten all the other fancier technologies in the market is the raw simplicity. Pure boule silicon, phosphorous and boron dopants in very small quantities, then wiring (silver/copper/aluminium). Then a glass/upvc frame structure.

The low kerf diamond wire saw is also a critical technology for this, but the powdered diamond required can be synthetic.
I wish I could care less about such things, but sometimes linguistic descriptivism is the wrong path to take.

The H should be voiced. Just because some people are too lazy to speak their own language correctly doesn't make it correct, in my worthless opinion.
Theres a scale difference. Many platforms are mini countries.

Hell - this article was about a tiny number of American citizens with the patience and resources to learn how to get this done.

If you are in Myanmar, PHP or many other countries, you are SoL. It’s the one thing that grinds my gears on these topics.

The more I see it, the more I think people are going to split these firms up.
I'm Switching from Laravel to Rails
Smoke alarms in a domestic setting might, but not systems installed in large buildings.
My wife and her parents live with us and speak primarily Spanish. My wife and I speak primarily English to our son. He is bilingual with some funny quirks:

* He speaks based on his listener. So Spanish to abuelita, English to papa, and dealer's choice to my wife.

* In the early days, he would mix-translate, e.g. saying "another more" since presumably that was how he translated "una mas" in his head.

* He picked up my non-regional accent that I thought I never used anymore.

* His understanding varies based on his vocabulary in a given topic. He understands science in English, but colors generally tend toward Spanish.

* I consciously spoke a lot of Spanish to him when he was young. He didn't fall for it and only speaks English back to me.

So, I wouldn't necessarily overthink it. The goal is to get her exposure to hearing the language and building the vocabulary, and secondly, to compell her to use it to express what she needs.
There was a report about training small model on eventset completely generated by GPT4. Small stories using kids vocabulary. Probably (half) a year back. So it's possible. My idea was to mix in significant portion of generated texts on logic and reasoning. Which would be expensive to create using humans, but much cheaper using GPT. But you are right, process is unstable and will (likely) collapse without some extra efforts. Mixing is one way. That will make it still respond correctly on original data.
He’s making the point that poor governance delivering poor outcomes will eventually by replaced by its ideological opposition, no matter how distasteful.
I found NoScript to be a good alternative. It disables JS by default but then you can reenable per page but also per domain. You only enable just what you need for the page to work and sometimes only temporarily.

I still need to enable things here and there but it's a fairly easy straightforward process.

Couple this with uBlock and firefox Container (where I am logged to google only for gmail in a specific container) and the web is pleasant again
> On the flip-side, the power market is now seeing a bigger gap between low and high-priced hours, increasing the incentive to invest in storage, he added.

Seems like the system is working
If you have ever worked in no-tech IT sectors, such as financial institutions, you'll notice that the overal level of knowledge, even with senior developers, is limited, which makes someone who is just'good'very quickly a 10x developer. But it's not the 10x developer that is super good here, it's the other team members, who are just utter shit
> does anyone have budget numbers or even a decent order of magnitude estimate for how much subsidy was applied

Cheap producer credit, covering up to 50% of new-facility costs and feed-in tariffs [1]. At least the latter began getting phased out after costing Beijing over $15bn in 2017 [2].

Haven’t run the precise numbers, but that one-year figure seems to line up with the IRA’s total solar package [3].

[1] https://chinafocus.ucsd.edu/2021/02/16/solar-energy-in-china...

[2] https://chineseclimatepolicy.oxfordenergy.org/book-content/d...

[3] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1830
The model of reality is created by and used by your mind, and your mind is part of reality, so already that catch-22 intuitively precludes the model from being provably correct and complete even if your mind could somehow be completely unbiased and objective in every other way (which our minds aren’t, our biases and preexisting beliefs and feelings inform physical theories and models all the time).

I don’t see why your approach is not subject to the same limitations.
the language of Ukraine is Ukrainian
It has weather/season/storage/transport bottlenecks.
Ask HN: Recommendations for Smartphone IO Board
what are the options for interfacing a smart phone with sensors, ADC and controlling motors, actuators? I have seen so far IOIO-OTG
bentley is always worth reading

it's interesting to reflect that the 'supercomputer' he cites is a hundred megaflops, about the same as a pentium pro in theory (though the super didn't have a cache to slow it down, so it was typically faster by over an order of magnitude.) i was using a pentium pro at the office when i first read this article. now my cellphone can manage tens of gigaflops if not hundreds

the bob martin mentioned is http://www.ewaygroup.com/Bob-bio.html, not the better-known ignorant blowhard
Well I don't want to throw poop at Flutter but I hope so. There's no need for yet another language for doing cross-platform mobile apps and having single overlord (Google) financing the language (Dart) as well as the toolkit (Flutter) doesn't seem sustainable in the long run (cough Stadia etc).

Kotlin has Java interoperability as well as wider community support which to me seems a lot more organic than Flutter's. And, personally, I dislike Flutter's obtuse OOP patterns. From what little I used Kotlin it seemed like more modern Java that didn't make your fingers sore with its boilerplate. Although Gradle is still the worst package manager I have ever used.
> One thing I didn't like was the paragraph on how they differentiate words with no formal training.

You don't like it when you're wrong, that's understandable. Of course your reaction, to just deny that you're wrong and learn nothing isn't actually going to help you be less wrong in the future.
Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers
Greetings!

I would like to share with you my project, Lady Deirdre.

Lady Deirdre is a framework that helps you create new programming languages in Rust. It is specifically designed to develop compilers and interpreters with support for code editor extensions (LSP servers) from day one.

The framework includes essential components to design parsers and semantic analyzers capable of incrementally reparsing dynamically evolving source code.

Lady Deirdre can be seen as a replacement for preexisting projects with similar goals, such as Tree-Sitter, Rowan, or Salsa. However, Lady Deirdre aims to offer a unified framework API that guides you through the steps of programming language development, providing even more components necessary to develop a full-featured language ecosystem. For example, components to develop a source code formatter.

I will be happy to answer any questions.

Ilya
Hugues Hoppe is alive and well!

https://hhoppe.com/
fyi one of the App Store screenshots misleadingly shows "German" language in "Preview" when in reality it doesn't seem to be available at all
Around the turn of the century, the "Mozilla" browser used to support themes for its chrome, written in XUL [0], which also supported inline images. The themes were available in a repository called "Chrome Zone".

Google later appropriated also the name "Chrome Zone", for a chain of retail stores in the UK. [1]

[0]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_Zone
AI Literature Review Suite
on linkedin, for starters
How big is your user base?
Widespread Impact from Vulnerability in Popular PC and Server Firmware
Why are there negative prices when wind and solar can mostly be shut down almost instantly to 0kw production?
While that might be true for "most" people, plenty of people do still use multiple forms at the same time - including people who do not engage in a lot of casual sex. But lots of people also do have lots of casual sex, and that is a choice they have every right to make.
SpaceX debuts portable Starlink Mini for $599
One decade later, Ads is still one of the main reasons Dart matters to Google, that is the value.

That alone would be enough, Google has plenty of internally used languages.
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No, it's not complex at all. Russia invaded a sovereign country.
Just like they did in 39', 40', 08'.
Even Mozilla doesn’t seem to care about Firefox; why should anybody else?

The primary value in Firefox existing right now is that the web standards process becomes dysfunctional when there are only two major browser rendering engines, but that is fading away with Firefox’s market share. Hopefully Ladybird can gain enough momentum to matter there because it doesn’t seem like Gecko can maintain its relevance.
Deadly!

Breached!

Unprecedented trail of destruction!

Scores of Adélie penguins and skuas dead!

and what percentage is that of the entire Adélie penguin and skuas populations?

I will tell you.

Because of its very large and increasing population (estimated at more than 10 million mature individuals in 2020), and its unfragmented habitat, the Adélie penguin is considered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to be a species of least concern.

How is that a "mass mortality event"

Look out Australia the bird flu jab is heading your way.
The electricity doesn't need to be free. We've had range of interesting business models and regulations taking advantage of off-peak energy for decades.

Anyone looking to take business advantage of solar should be looking at predictably below average prices for most of the day, rather than only when it hits zero.

edit to add:

An example, yesterday on CAISO in California they broke records for solar generated, and battery discharge, but the price never hit 0 and batteries were charging from 6am to 6pm and making good money meeting evening demand:

https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso?date=2024-06-20

And it's possible to argue that the price didn't hit zero in part because of the batteries knowing they could sell it for more later.
Just to share somewhat of a "corollary" to this: if you get into one of such institutions, chances are there already is a "10x developer" and chances are those environments are the kind of environments where a few people (or maybe a single person) can monopolize the decision making process (because they are regarded as the 10x developer).

So think twice about pursuing such environments: very often it's not the other team members that are utter shit... Is that the "10x engineer" is making that work environment toxic and not worth staying for other "10x engineer" (but also for "15x engineers" and "35x engineers" who only lack the context about that specific domain).

So the logic is actually inverse: those environments very often will only retain a manipulative/toxic/narcissistic "10x engineer" and a bunch of people that are okay with doing whatever and getting the paycheck at the end of the month (and get, maybe wrongly, referred to as "utter shits").

Don't ask me how i know.
I am quite sure it allows cross platform development.

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/fm-applicati...

> The fastest way to build connected C++ apps for Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, gadgets, and wearables
By comparison, the original from https://minesweepergame.com/download/windows-31-minesweeper.... is 28kb. Might be interesting it disassemble, surely somebody's done that?
I’ll be that guy and point out that if you have to ask this question, it may not be the best personal fit. Unpaid open source contributions work the best and last the longest when they scratch your personal itch. Find a bug or a missing feature in a piece of open source software you use all the time; find an abandoned project you need and try to improve it; or build something you want but doesn’t yet exist. Forcing your way into open source through a large project that is not in any way special to you in order to learn, build your personal brand, etc. may not be the most sustainable source of motivation. But who knows, maybe that also works for some people.