skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not inherent nature, just economics and politics.

I didn't know that night and calm days with no wind are economics and politics

> Wind always blows somewhere, the sun always shines somewhere.

Key word: somewhere. How much wind and sun needs to shine somewhere to cover the needs of, say Europe, on a quiet night? Note that that somewhere will need to cover that somewhere's needs, too.

Note: you're also likely underestimating how large the area covered by nighttime is. Here are two examples: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=202... and https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=202...

I'm guessing your proposal is to pump energy from China to the US through the Pacific Ocean?

> Making a global power grid is something which I don't expect anyone will do in the next 15 years

Or ever. You underestimate the size of the Earth

> I'd be least surprised if it's China on a belt-and-road type project.

You know that Europe has a unified power grid, right? And that the US has three major grid regions?

> Batteries are necessary for electric vehicles, and I do expect >50% of land motor vehicles in use worldwide to be electric within 15 years of today; that scale is sufficient to invalidate concerns about intermittent renewable generation in most

wat?

Just because you have batteries in electric vehicles doesn't mean you have enough batteries to provide electricity for a country/continent.
What reason would you have to think that primates are exceptional?
Learning styles in the formal sense yes. But if you have dyslexia, a video will be better. And if you have auditory processing disorders or deafness you'll want closed captions.
Two of the German military's new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbit
Of course you can. Look at Dresden (look at Marshall Plan[1]), Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, etc., after World War II. And yes, empirical evidence shows that dropping atomic bombs was not necessary to achieve Japan's surrender[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

2. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-a...
You cannot power up solar panels at night, or wind turbines when there's no wind.

As for nuclear, you don't need to stop them. Instead they provide a base load so you don't need to ridiculously overprovision other power sources. And they are flexible enough to go 50%-100% quickly: https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
My mistake, yes; I only now learned they are different contests.
I suspect that Israel has vastly more support within America's ruling classes than Russia has in China's.

But the Russia=>Ukraine war is far more in China's objective national interests than the Israel=>Palestine war is in America's objective national interests, so...
> we have a budget of entropy

In closed systems. The Universe doesn't seem to be a closed system.
I used ST since v2, and SM since the release. Sublime Text used to be my IDE for Python/C++/Go development. But later I switched to IntelliJ, and now Sublime Text is naked/pluginless editor for me, that I am ok to pay 100 every 3 years. I love the product.

I use Sublime Merge only as a diff tool, or a review tool before the commit. Love it as well.
>> Your guess is as good as mine why the same steel shape is an I-beam but an H-pile.

This is because the shapes are different. I beams are typically more slender through the web because the goal is to concentrate mass at the flange for moment capacity because they’re beams and geared towards bending. H piles are thicker in the web with the web thickness usually similar to the flange because the use case requires axial capacity and various constructability considerations. I beams turned into W (wide flange) and S sections in the standard shapes and H beams are called HP sections.

You’ll often see them cross-specified for foundation work but it’s rare that you’d choose an HP section over a more efficient section like a W or S for something “out of the ground.”
It's already like this for creative communities in things like illustration and writing. You will (rightly) get ostracized and blocked by your peers for using AI. It's a signal for poor quality for most people in those spaces.

Definitely interesting to see the different culture in tech and programming since programmers are so used to sharing code with things like open source. I think programmers should be more skeptical about this bullshit, but one could make the argument that having a more flexible view of intellectual property is more computer native since computers are really just copying machines. Imo, we need to have a conversation about skills development because while art and writing accept that doing the work is how you get better, duplicating knowledge by hand in programming can be seen as a waste of time. We should really push back on that attitude though or we'll end up with a glut of people in the industry who don't understand what's under all the abstractions.
tl;dr

German sources say they did not fully test the functionality and deployment of the satellite antennas on the ground.
Forget about the 8 glasses of water per day rule, according to these experts (2022)
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238509
Compartments usually seat 6 (though DB ICE trains often have a family compartment that seats 5, with a little toy cubby that you can use to store a buggy).

Six seats, three on each side. That means someone needs to sit in the middle, and unless you're traveling in a group, it's 5 other strangers.

Personally, I prefer rows of 1 and 2 like normal 1st class, so nobody has to sit in the middle.
> The technical part surprised me: they string together multiple LLMs which do all the work. It's a shame the author's passions are directed towards AI slop-email spam, all for capturing attention and driving engagement.

In defence of that guy, he's only doing it because he knows it's what pays the bills.

If we want things to change, we need to fix the system so that genuine social advancement is what's rewarded, not spam and scams.

Not an easy task, unfortunately.
> I'm aware that they are product names

Then what is your point
LOL! Love the spirit of this... (though most likely won't go this route)
Previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857618

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40857984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40858023

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40863445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40864133
Well, a friend of mine built its house thanks to btc last's ath. Surely someone is cashing out nvidia right now. Indirectly useful :)
Don't you guys have anything better to do? You know, write code, instead of bothering people about nonsense like this, getting offended and crying on the fediverse?

What the hell happened to people?
Show HN: I built a full-text search for your browsing history
Hi, I’m Peter, co-founder of Browspilot.

I built Browspilot, a minimalistic tool, to help you recall anything you have ever seen online using any clues you remember, or just scroll through your past activity.

Browspilot is perfect for popping up pages you use a lot but don’t want to keep open all the time or digging up stuff from way back. Whether you’re a student researching papers, a professional balancing multiple projects just type in what bit you recall in the moment, and boom, it’s there.

Looking ahead, we’re excited to take search to the next level. We’re working on features that’ll let you integrate and search across different apps and find things based on meaning—including images—using advanced vector search techniques.
Generalizing over generics a.k.a. higher kinded types in Rust
Why Steve Balmer is now richer than Bill Gates
Somehow I still prefer using Nix to have consistent dev env...

Does the container approach bring something more than using Nix?
As I understood it the issue with the infrastructure is not so much that electrified switched fail, but that there is not enough personal to man the monitoring and control stations for those switches.

Which results in tracks getting blocked for traffic, as there is no-one who could monitor the system.

So the issue is not really about unions blocking automation. Now, the recent union win about the 4 day week is not going to help with that.

But generally, the problem seems to be more with infrastructure management/investment and less with the people or the unions.
To add to this, I find it easier to have a simple while loop that renders the screen, fetching variable data on-the-fly, etc. It is rather pleasing to the eye to understand the layout with IM interfaces, etc.

Comparing this to (something like) WPF, you create XAML files, with either or combination of ViewModels and back-end code to "bind" and can get complicated quickly. I guess the only exception to this is if you have commited to WPF non-stop for many months. However, with IM interfaces, its easy to get going (imo)
Not quite AI, but I been getting targeted spam from shitty startups and some job offers for the last couple years to my github commit email. It is scraped from github as I use it nowhere else.
That sounds great! Unless war were declared.
Show HN: wt.dev- Dev tool for testing webhooks and email sending
Easily test your webhooks and emails with our straightforward tool.
Here I am still using my trusty old GitX for commits, it hasn't been updated in about 10 years :) maybe I should stop being such a tight bastard and make the jump.
It can be, yes. But if it has a substantial benefit, maybe it should cost more.
Waiter, there's a whale in my bucket
I’d love to hear your feedback – please share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments!
Not that I am anyhow a fan of DHL, but thats completely unrelated and private company to Deutsche post, its failing are its onw. Or does DHL in Germany take over (some) deliveries from DP?
We’ve lived with billions of spam emails for decades. I don’t know if the method of writing the emails matters much.

Spam is spam?
I would liken it to cars. There is a difference between engineers, mechanics, and mechanics that know a certain car so well that they fabricate parts that improve upon the original design.
> What do you think will happen to the power grid when everyone switches to EVs?

Well the people who run grids keep suggesting that it'll help them make better use of their grid assets and so reduce the average cost of a kWh of electricity to consumers. It is after all a giant fleet of smart batteries.

But you, the person who thinks more energy use is better for society, are apparently making an exception for electricity use, which if it goes up will cause some unspecified calamity?

That doesn't seem very consistent? Well, I suppose it's consistently pro-fossil fuels.
> According to the Der Spiegel report, the Bundeswehr says the two SARah satellites built by OHB remain the property of the German company and would only be turned over to the military once they were operational. As a result, the military says OHB will be responsible for building two replacement satellites.

> Shockingly, the German publication says that its sources indicated OHB did not fully test the functionality and deployment of the satellite antennas on the ground. This could not be confirmed.

> This setback comes as OHB is attempting to complete a deal to go private—the investment firm KKR is planning to acquire the German space company. OHB officials said they initiated the effort to go private late last year because public markets had "structurally undervalued" the company.

Perhaps the public markets were quite correct to apply a hefty Incompetence Discount to OHB's value? These are hardly the first expensive satellites to have suffered Antenna Deployment Failures, for "that never happened before" excuses to apply.
Ehhh, fediverse is much comfy place. Not without its flaws, but nonetheless comfy. Anyhow, Judging a big place from the actions of few... not exactly reasonable to be honest.

But yeah,I think, it resurfaced, partially to recent, well, Ladybird stuff. Things got on the track, and the train went forward...
"DHL" is a brand of Deutsche Post...
Maybe there should be an analog of the Kardashev scale for civilizations capable of adjusting the rotation speed of their planet in order to make timekeeping easier.
If you read the article they talk about how Pew research did a study to find out why results like this happen and basically it has to do with people being incentivized to give incorrect information to speed through tests and these results don't actually reflect most of the people who answered in the surveys actual views of the world

Editor’s note (27th March, 2024): After this article was published, the Pew Research Centre conducted a study on this topic. It found that young respondents in opt-in online polls such as YouGov’s were far more likely to say the Holocaust was a myth than were those surveyed by other methods, and that in general, young and Hispanic participants in such polls are unusually prone to providing “bogus” answers that do not reflect their true views.
are LLMs even capable of humor? The attempts I've seen are not very funny
Business as usual iow. Used to be scrum masters, then javascript "experts", then crypto bros.

Snake oil salesmen we called em back in my day ;-)
A native executable includes only ... the language runtime, and ...

How small is that compared to the JRE? Also I guess this means the program cannot load arbitrary classes?
And yet someone is building all those super advanced computers and AI models. Someone is launching reusable rockets into space. Someone is building mRNA vaccines and F1 cars and humanoid robots and more efficient solar panels.

The "smart people are all working in advertising" trope is idiotic. Just an excuse for people to justify their own laziness. There is an infinite number of opportunities out there to make the world better. If you are ignoring them, that's on you.
Many healthcare providers now have APIs for patients to download their data in standard HL7 FHIR and/or CDA format. You should ask about this, and if they don't have it then consider switching providers. All modern EHRs have that functionality built in so for providers it's simply a matter of switching it on.

However, most of that data is useless for research purposes. Even if the format complies with industry standards the quality is often bad with many data elements lacking consistent coding. You can't just feed clinical data from a bunch of different random sources into a research project and expect to get accurate results: it's a garbage in / garbage out issue. That's why most clinical research studies involve just a few provider organizations so that the researchers can properly configure the systems and train the clinicians on consistent data entry.
Really? TAI cannot locate historical dates indefinitely. TAI doesn't even make sense on timescales that exceed Earth's lifetime. It doesn't encode enough information to answer questions about elapsed time of even ideal clocks at real, physical locations to arbitrary precision. Fast enough operations on a distributed database can exceed the precision limits of TAI's definition, making it impossible to canonically order events.
Read the article. You are just reacting to a light skimming which is something that this article talks about is the reason why results like this happen in surveys because people don't actually consider what happens when they answer without fully absorbing what that would mean.
I'll send it to a DBA colleague that is truly struggling with this XD
I apologize if asking for data hurts your feelings, and you’re obviously welcome to share your experiences as well (I did in a parent comment above).

The reason I asked for sources is that there seem to be a lot of experiences/anecdotes on both sides of this issue, but so far I haven’t been able to find too much research that supports the idea that working in person is beneficial to overall productivity, or to the company culture, or to any other company-wide metric that would justify having a mandate that all employees must work in person. If that data exists I’d like to see it, so that I can decide whether it’s worth changing my own position on this issue.
There are a lot of problems with the current arrangement. Privatization is not one of them for reasons that others have already explained. As far as I can tell, the real problems are: a) Ownership of tracks and stations are not separated from the running of train services, leading to discrimination against alternative train journey providers, and b) Insufficient investment. The last one is not insignificant. Germany spends relatively little on its train infrastructure, which is good for the government budget, of course, but definitely bad for train passengers.

IMO what needs to be done is separation of DB into a fully government-run infrastructure company and a fully privatized and publicly listed train company. Subsequently, the infrastructure company must be injected with lots of cash to fix the current infrastructure problems.
It's not a cause for concern because if you actually read the article you will see that the conclusion isn't that the data is correct The conclusion is that people just skim through things and then give really quick answers without fully considering. Which is what you just did
I think I see an underlying point though. What other Internet protocol or service requires the user client to supply endless additional arbitrary metadata to even gain access to a resource, let alone receive information? Not even email is that cumbersome for the clientside. Although it is the way it is for better or worse.
Even OpenAI doesn't really have a product.

This becomes very obvious when you use Claude Projects with Artifacts! ChatGPT depends heavily on one’s ability to copy and paste… and even though it is an improvement, Claude Projects still make managing a set of documents tedious compared to your standard code editor.

Third-party tools like Cursor are an improvement but will be prohibitively expensive compared to companies that create and manage their own LLMs.

I expect to see a native document editing/code editing software system directly from one of the LLMs-as-a-service companies at some point.
If he were really annoyed he wouldn't have marketed Wisp CMS?
I'm not sure where you got "Moderna COVID: ~$1 per vaccinated person"

Figures here seem to be more like $20 https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/how-muc...
It's well deserved, though. Those who take trains only occasionally don't notice, but once you depend on them it's a whole different story.

I spend so much time waiting for delayed trains that I made a social media account to keep track of them. In June alone I experienced 15 days with delays - shortest I keep record of is 10 minutes, longest in June was 43 minutes. And I have a friend whose weekly delays are hours long.

If I commuted daily (and I don't) my own stats mean I have a 50/50 chance of missing a connection. For my regional trains that means I need to buffer at least half an hour for a 45 minutes trip. Factor in the lack of benches (God forbid the homeless sit on them), the dirty stations, the drug users living in them, the broken equipment...

Two trivia points: the "Deutschlandtakt" program will supposedly bring the trains back to their former 90s glory. It is scheduled to be finished in 2070. And the government is reportedly planning to redirect train repair funds to repairing highways instead [1].

The train situation is bad and they deserve every critic they get.

[1] https://archive.is/LsMab, in German
Because the same parties interested in DRM in browsers (and everywhere else) are slowly working on making torrenting more difficult.
I think the coolest counterpoint to this I have seen so far is people using generative AI to design materials with desired properties. For example, discovering new super conductors[0].

[0] https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/230503-ai-discover...
You can SSH in and use vim or emacs the way god intended.

You can also connect via JetBrains Gateway.
the blog he links to is clearly AI slop too. Even the LLM he used to write it agrees that what he's doing is unethical.

> At the same time, we need to establish guidelines around transparency and consent for AI-driven communications at scale. Deception through omission is still deception – people should be aware when they're interacting with an AI agent versus a human.

This is clearly pissing in the pool. I've gotten so much value from people who have made their emails public with a 'if you're curious or learning feel free to email me' (e.g. patio11) and I've long had the invitation in my HN profile too.

Nasty for people to abuse this to extract value for the few weeks/months it takes people to realise what's happening and make themselves harder to contact.
A country like Russia will always benefit from cutting such a cable.

Anything else, like the rest of this post, is pure fantasy.
It feels like you missed the main point. Time-zone changes are already very easy to handle and are sufficient for dealing with this problem without having to use a leap second or leap minute ever.
It can, but you do need to decide which dimension(s) constitute a breaking change. IMO, the UI replaces the API as the main dimension in user facing applications, so if functionality is removed from the UI, or significantly altered, then that constitutes a breaking change.
I’m no fan myself, while keeping in mind that it is their previous exceptional precision and performance that people measure against rather than comparison to the rather abysmal peers, not only in Europe, but the European world in general. Try talking Amtrak somewhere and then get back to me. Make sure to plan several days longer than you think it will take you to travel using Amtrak though.

As much as “they” recently really screwed me due to the strikes, which was not really their DB fault since the strike was the conductors’ union, which related to your comment about “acting private” while not really being either private or public, probably leading to the worst of both, rather than the best of each.

To give the DB entity some credit though, it appears they are in that very kind of bind of being stuck dealing with the bad conditions of both being private and public, and in a country which was set up after the war to be as self-deconstructing and self-sabotaging as possible.

How do you deal with problems you both have immense responsibility for and over, while at the same time being unable and not having the power to actually affect, and the very avenues by which you could change that condition are also sabotaged and feckless and mired in self-sabotage to improve it? … you simply abandon, throw up your hands and walk away, but considering the nature of the system, you can’t of course do that as a whole, so you become passive in areas; which is what I experienced when it wasn’t actually the DB that sabotaged me, it was the conductors’ union that really committed a breach of contract and engaged in what should and possibly is criminal activity against me, causing me damages and suffering through their stupid strike in which they didn’t even want more money, they wanted to work less.

I’ll leave it at that, and I agree that I don’t see any of these things really improving, considering the fatal actions and atrocities that have been imposed on Europe now too, but on the sinking ship that is European civilization, it is surely not the DB that is there worst among the bad simply because it is no longer exceptional in the public transportation segment. I won’t go into the mind blowing impressive nature of the freight handling and hauling and logistics efficiency of the DB rail system, but is one of those things that is not nearly as respected as it should be for what it is, once you actually realize what you’re looking at.