skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utilities get a local monopoly and guaranteed tariffs in exchange for the considerable investment in building out the supply grid and generating capacity, and the obligation to maintain it.

If individuals are allowed to opt-out, that changes the financial promises made to the utilities. Of course this was mostly done at a time before it was economically feasible for anyone to go off-grid with solar and batteries.

I quite honestly prefer this arrangement. I have zero desire to own and be responsible for the maintenance and safety of tens of thousands of dollars worth of on-premises solar/battery/electrical transfer switch gear. I'm quite happy to pay the local utility to run a cable to my electrical panel and have them be responsible for everything outside the walls of my house.
Haha. I'm sure any intel agency worth its salt can do better than my supposition. Sleeping on it, I realised that since Singapore is presumably a major five eyes sigint hub there is likely an additional attraction to Darwin re. reduced latency access and reduced transit costs for newly captured undersea cable data from Asia.
A considerable portion of SDN craze involved pretty much this. Even systems that didn't use OpenFlow were incredibly chatty, creating complex chains of NextHop routes from centralized or at least semi-centralized servers to the actual switches.

Even in more sane setups, it's not actually uncommon to have control plane talk over network to actual forwarding plane - IIRC Cisco Nexus operates this way, with actual forwarding engines talking with control plane over Ethernet link.

I like the code to run on the switches directly, but SDNs very often eschewed that for dumber forwarding engines controlled OpenFlow way, even if actual protocols used weren't OpenFlow.
Because they run their own DNS servers and inside of their network they're going to be using their own infra...
As someone who spent a decade doing precision metrology with optical devices... there isn't a way to correctly measure that part with the precision they indicate in the measured values.
one of my favourite frags 'Kouros' by YSL uses ambergris (or synthesised)
shame that over time the formula has changed so much.
as per descriptions..it really used to smell like "sweat"/"heavy"...and has changed to much fresher and cleaner.
For example: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/13138
Surely it depends on what country you live in. Battery subsidies are mostly local at least.

How do we even calculate the subsidy paid to fossil fuel companies by letting them externalize the cost of their mess onto the planet? Oh well that’s for young people and future generations to care about!
This makes much more sense now; thank you!
People who will depend on UBI won't innovate. People who innovate don't need UBI. Slavery was expensive (guards, low productivity). In USSR Soviets realised that in Gulags it's more effective to pay Zeks regular salary and treat them as contractors than keep them as slave work force.
Using a 100 billion parameter LLM to `grep --count` surely is something
First off, Hurricane Electric has always been one of the "cool" companies on the Internet since the early days (of public Internet, at least). So, my goodwill with them tells me that Network Solutions, a company that most certainly has NOT been one of the cool companies, is at fault. I feel and know this to be the case now, as well.

Having said that, I am also greatly pleased that the NANOG mailing list is public and plebes like us can see these kinds of discussions, which I feel are becoming harder to find as time goes on as services get consolidated into larger, government-friendly corporate private digital gardens.
It isn't that simple today, but it can be.

Integrate the new-fangled battery (of whatever specific chemistry), the BMS, and the heater into a box with just two posts on top (just like lead acid batteries have had for over a century). It can be designed to take care of itself.

And if it's cheap enough to produce and sell, and offers good enough performance over its normal usable lifespan, then it doesn't need a diagnostic interface for sorting out issues any more than a lead acid car battery does today.
The War on Estonian Forests (2022)
I would say that's more prevalent in HN. A lot of the "Who's Hiring" posts are veiled show-and-tells. Some of those companies clearly have no intention of hiring. Even got an automatic rejection email from one of those (within a minute of applying). To be fair, it does work - I've discovered some interesting startups and market niches from the Who's Hiring threads.
Good job we have something a bit better than human eyes:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258728873_X-ray_Tom...
I think it would be too well insulated to function very well in a fully automated way; you'd have to manually open the door every morning.
Here is a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owSJK7vMSLk

Interestingly, humans come very close to it during operation.
In jurisdictions where that's not legal, can you realistically maintain a connection for just the cost of the customer fee and draw no other power? Or are there typically other roadblocks to installing solar in such places?
Color picker that generates colors from natural language descriptions
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This can be accomplished just as easily by targeting the analog input for the actuators or the analog input of the stick. Or attack one of the other myriads safety critical systems outside of the bus.
That does not include the costs for inverters and other electrical system parts. I am not endorsing these vendors but I am happy with the result. My system paid for itself in less than 18 months. I have many years of experience buying from China in industry. I purchased batteries from Docan Power and BMS/battery housings from EEL Battery. My inverters are from EG4 and UL listed. You can see current pricing on their respective websites. I would say there is some learning curve for a complete novice. The diysolarforum.com is a good vendor neutral and honest resource for information.
Can't wait to be able to run this locally using electron.
“…this is also an area where distributed ledgers with low energy requirements (so not Proof of Work but Proof of Stake) could shine by creating an ‘trustless’ system (meaning the system justs works, also if there is no ‘trusted’ party that plays the boss).”

What? This bit at the end has nothing to do with the thesis! Carthago delenda est much?
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Nice job ! I've tried with a hiking GPX. It works pretty well and the sliders to adjust the settings are great. However, I'm seeing weird vertical lines on the map.
This has a video

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240702_14/
Definitely the most interesting to me.
You mean besides being found in Greece, made at a time range where Greeks were both powerful in the context of the hellenistic empire and had important mathematicians and astronomers like Archimedes and Hipparhos, the labels being in Greek, and the whole on-device manual being in Greek?
The problem is not that the cars are cheap. The problem is they are cheap because of illegal support from the Chinese state.
Few, if any; instead, it's typically the propagation of an electromagnetic wave that transmits a signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity
That's why my outer loop goes from low-complexity cases to high-complexity cases, it has basically the same effect as shrinking (without actually having to do any work)
And sometimes an exponential is staring you in your face and you just don't realize it. This has happened before. Early computer scientist did not imagine anything like you and I take for granted and put in our pockets without thinking about it every day. That's only a generation or so ago. Two if you are half my age (50).

IMHO, the theme of this century is making cheap, sustainable energy so ridiculously abundant that we'll be wondering what the hell we were doing before and how we managed without it. There are so many technological breakthroughs converging on making that happen that IMHO this is just going to happen. It's a question of when, not if. The timelines are uncertain, but not really. The author of this article is extrapolating a few trends over a time scale that is rather short. He could be wrong. Even by a factor 5. And it would still happen on a reasonable timeline. And I don't think he's going to be that far of the mark. 2030-2035 it will be RIP ice engines and fossil fuels. You'd be out of your mind to use anything else than dirt cheap electrons stored in dirt cheap batteries. At 50$ per kwh, it's a no brainer. At 5$/kwh, you'd have to be bat shit crazy to use anything else. That's 'only' a 10x improvement.

Assuming all innovation grinds to a halt in 2024 and that no technical progress will happen beyond 2024 seems like the naive point of view when there's so much happening that is well funded and seemingly on track to get some kind of results. The opposite view on this is of course that progress is a foregone conclusion. Some things will taper off and other things we haven't even thought off might pick up the slack. Between now and 2030, you can make a few educated guesses though. Which is what this author is doing.

Anyway, cheap, clean energy is transformative. Most of the major challenges right now are directly or indirectly bottle necked on energy. Making energy cheaper matters. 2x is nice. 10x is nicer. 100x is what we might actually see in a few decades. Anything in between would be transformative. Anything beyond that is hard to imagine but yet not unlikely. We might actually nail fusion at some point. Who knows? It might even become cheap to do it.

But we have a nice fusion plant that we orbit around beaming down orders of magnitude more energy than we actually need. We're learning how to harvest it using solar panels; a trick plants and trees have of course mastered ages ago. This article is about leveraging batteries for storage. The two things combined are a thing of beauty.

The point about sodium ion is that there are no exotic/scarce materials in there. The materials are cheap. And we're not going to run out of them. How many twh. of battery could we need. Tens, hunders, thousands? We only use about 25pwh per year worth of electricity right now. That number is going to go up of course. What would you do with 25000 twh of battery? Annual production is about to cross the 1twh/year. And most of these batteries last a few decades. 25pwh of charged batteries is a lot of power. And yet we might have that sitting around in a few decades.
Based on the reports that I’ve read so far, this vuln was different to the one I found, which was on an authenticated endpoint.

Definitely some similarities though, I’d love to see some concrete technical information on it.
Why tesla charges 5x for their Powerwall? I know their software is excellent, but I haven’t seen prices like that anywhere.
We will continue working on the documentation, there are a lot of features that still need to be highlighted. For example when you edit any scene, you can put /advanced at the end of the URL to access an advanced editor, more like Unity, where you can change the entire structure and tap into the threejs/aframe layer with code. For example, this was a simple basketball scenario I put together in the advanced editor: https://scenario.transferthought.com/apps/7de7c3ca-16a6-4293...
That’s already the case. Eurosys includes an Artifact Evaluation for submitted papers - which typically includes code and data to allow reviewers to reproduce the work described in the paper. It’s optional, but encouraged.

This page lists the artifact evaluation criteria for a handful of conferences:

https://sysartifacts.github.io/
Great news! It's a private company and they can do whatever they want! Just like HE likes to censor.
https://2fas.com/
Nice find. One tweet says this, hadn't seen this sort of data point before:

>Well 1) the site lost the index after he started using the api - the spam redirects worked before that :) 2) it is quite clear that API has to be used for jobs and videos 3) I have tested this with multiple domains and always after 3-9 months you get killed.
I don't understand what you mean, I think the headline must have changed?

It is currently (4:50 PM EST) "GRAVITATIONAL WAVE RESEARCHERS CAST NEW LIGHT ON ANTIKYTHERA MECHANISM MYSTERY" both in the article, and on the HN item.

If it didn't change, I guess my confusions stems from this is an extremely straightforward way to state it.

Two gravitational wave researchers wrote the paper, and the paper gave us more certainty about whether the Antikythera mechanism represents 354 or 365 days.

I can't envision how to make it less sensationalist.
> How is this cheap?

It's $900 + inverters for 10 kWh. A Tesla Powerwall 2 (14 kWh) is $10k (inverter included).

I doubt the inverters cost more than $1k.
Sure, I have worked on multiple plane systems which were connected wirelessly, even to the internet. (Although that is something which I am extremely glad I have left behind me and would never brag about in my profile name)

Even though, a modern jet is still able to function without internet.
It’s not sustainable. Solar panel producers are going to be in big trouble in 8-10 years I think.
The best part is when you realize the movie production did 20 takes of that scene.

And so actually did discard 20 huge, otherwise pristine props, and had another 30 waiting because they didn't know how many takes would be needed.
Hell yes. The age of Japanese mechs foretold by anime is upon us.
As someone who knows little about battery technology I was interested and trusted the author. But once I read the part about blockchain PoW vs PoS it seemed so off base that it threw the entire article into doubt...
I haven't read through the paper but it seems that it comes to the same conclusion as this prior paper: https://bhi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/BHI-Antikythera...
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Over provision the panels by a good margin and have them at a more southerly angle (for northern hemisphere). You can play around on nrel pvwatts to see what configuration produces the most even expected monthly output: https://pvwatts.nrel.gov/pvwatts.php

Most solar charge controllers allow a certain amount of PV overprovisioning.
The hold appears to have been removed as of few minutes ago:

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2024-July/225903.h...

I didn't know HE.net was using Network Solutions, maybe they will switch to someone else soon. My personal experience with Network Solutions wasn't so great (lots of trouble and human intervention needed to transfer a domain out of their service).
Really cool.

I’d love to see a similar analysis to “Who Wants to be Hired”. What trends exist in folks struggling to find work? That can help point people to how to target their career growth.
That's for uniform distributions. We don't know the distribution here, that's part of the problem, but I would expect early cave art to be more sparse and worse preserved.
a tool used strictly internally
The American way of thinking. Meanwhile half the workforce essentially still works as a slave.
And here I've always thought that Babbage's big mistake was using decimal instead of binary.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Most reading material is just fine as a regular post and can't be a Show HN, thats very near the top of the thing I linked:

On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

Things that can't be Show HN can be perfectly fine regular HN posts, just like this thing already is.
Show HN: Web Intern – I made a simple AI assisted web playground
If you're like me and often use Chat-GPT to help you with HTML, CSS and Javascript, you might find the constant back and forth between Chat-GPT, your editor and your browser aggravating.

I made a small simple UI wrapper around a GPT-4o prompt, that includes an editor and a live preview, so you can keep iterating without having to switch app.

Features:

- Bring your own OpenAI API Key
- Edit GPT's code output before asking for the next change
- Live preview (with some limitations because of iframe sandboxing)
- Sharing (send a link to a friend)
- Download your code as a HTML file
- FLOSS: https://codeberg.org/fracwaffle/webintern
"Ambergris has been synthesized, but its synthetic versions are not convincing. They lack an indefinable something that is gained only after years spent at sea."

Probably a bit like synthesized truffle oil, good enough for most people but lacking richness for a trained delicate palate.
there's also a Node.js and NodeJs
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- Make a list of the most common (spoken) words
- Sort them by usage frequency (most used words on top)
- Associate a unique sequence of 0 and 1 (dot and dash)
- Use shorter sequences for common words, longer ones for the words below
- As you don't transit letters but words the transfer rate is much higher than in "modern" telegraph systems
- profit ?
Neat, but I'm personally missing some key info here - most importantly "why?". What problem does this solve or why is this particular function good or better than other "standard" hashing functions?

And I have to admin that this kind of obfuscation/minification is especially dangerous in languages such as C as there are quite a lot of footguns already as it is. I don't think that minifying C produces faster programs :)
idk. aren't they tier 1? what if it breaks peering? is all their management capability strictly "inside" their network? what would happen to the rest of the internet if they dropped off?
Read the second part of what they said

> it's hard to verify without code because there are so many false positives for "go" on any post.

Hence grep being insufficient in this case.
It kind of is. I often use randomised tests (fuzzing) for data structures and algorithm implementations. Throw a lot of asserts in and see if an hour of random input can find any edge cases I’ve missed. Usually the first time I run something like this it finds problems instantly. It’s very humbling.

I find when I do this I don’t need to write by hand anywhere near as many tests to get my software working well. I also usually turn any failures found by the fuzzer into standalone unit tests, to make any regressions easier to find later.
thanks! i meant 'cursor-addressing', to avoid the ambiguous term 'tui', which usually (and per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface) means cursor-addressing, but nominally also includes actual text-based user interfaces, as seen in e.g. the traditional unix utilities.
Only in science fiction, I think. See https://www.amazon.com/Souls-Great-Machine-Greatwinter-Trilo... in which case natural neural-based computers are used to implement digital computation.

I imagine the folks who built this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Tumble may have used computers to design/optimize the parts.
Why wouldn’t you just mess with a mechanical component or simply murder someone without doing it while they are on an airplane?

Car bombings still happen sometimes but it’s much easier to just shoot someone or push them off a balcony.
Sounds great, but are there actual businesses who will come to your home and do an install, or do you need to to become a mad-scientist electrician and DIY? I got quotes on getting an LG system a few years ago and it was 4X these prices (also for me a problem is that my 'ancient' panels from 2013 use a single inverter instead of microinverters, so if I touch the system I have to replace it all). I keep hoping there will be a bunch of small businesses electrifying everything, I'd love to see - good, practical, safe - EV conversions driving around too, but it just doesn't seem to be materializing.
The early (graphical) Internet was black text on grey background with blue links and no images.

Myspace and Geocieties were already a couple of generation on from that, and ... frankly kind of a mess.

For the most part, I vastly prefer the Reader View rendering of websites over whatever's native. Design gets in the way of many things, including robustness and resilience over time (what happens when all those dependencies and embedded resources go away and/or are replace by pr0n, crypto miners, phishing, and/or surveillance payloads?), and simple legibility.

It's the exceedingly rare instance where "interactive" pages provide any additional information or capabilities, and virtually all of those are specialised one-offs. I'm thinking of several of the xkcd specials, or the work of Bret Victor or Nicky Case. I'm sorely hard pressed to think of any others. Mainstream pubs (notably the NY Times) are far worse for their efforts in this space.
Biggest issue I run into is building the initial container. I'd like to take advantage of docker caching so while doing dev you can just start up the container with most everything built. However, that requires working with non-docker caches. Unfortunately there's no way to bind the caches while building you can only do that with the running container image.
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Ladies and gents this is what standard-issue Silicon Valley style grift looks like (following in the footsteps of the great Kurzweil). Ignore basic physics, massage data so you can more credibly fit an exponential curve on it, and extrapolate a fantastic future for it.

All this to underpin the grand illusion of capitalism that exponential YoY growth is sustainable to justify insane VC valuations. Which is even more perverse when all this is done in the name of saving the planet.
There's a difference between a website which features dynamic content and a site that requires a modern frontend framework like Next.js.

If you just need to support things like user auth and some dynamic content pages, then most of the time you'll be fine with a server side framework like Laravel. I'd recommend Laravel because the documentation is great and you get a lot of out of the box – although most of the time you'll be better served just picking a framework written in a language you're familiar with.

If you really need client-side rendering then Next.js is probably one of the better choices given its popularity, although Vue is just as powerful and slightly easier to pick up for beginners so I would recommend that. I'll never understand why Vue doesn't get more love.

Personally I think people are far too quick adopt frontend frameworks when all they really need is a good backend framework and a good templating engine for dynamic content. Unless you need to dynamically load content on the page from an API or do some really fancy client-side stuff, you don't need a frontend framework and you'd be better off keeping things simple.

It's super hard to recommend anything from the single sentence of info you've given us here though.
Interesting. I hadn't considered that angle, and my expectation was that this would be less prevalent here.
And... attacking manually gives more plausibility to it being an accident rather than having a dongle attached to the plane, or code potentially surviving on the system.