skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The challenge wrt deployment rate at utility scale is grid interconnection queues. Reform is taking time to speed deployments. “Where plug?”

https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

https://www.klgates.com/FERC-Interconnection-Reform-Is-Full-...

https://emp.lbl.gov/news/grid-connection-backlog-grows-30-20...

https://decarbonization.visualcapitalist.com/gridlock-visual...

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/grid-interconnection-queue-...

https://energypost.eu/1500gw-or-renewables-deployment-delaye...
> Llama 3.1 doesn't really help Meta's bottom line

Not directly. But most genai needs text models. And Meta definitely doesn't want OpenAI or Google or someone else controlling the state of the art. Zuck is essentially preventing anyone from getting too big by preventing the only options for "quite good" being behind someone's metered API.
Chicken nuggets are typically ground or minced chicken formed into a nugget shape before being battered and fried. “Boneless” wings and the like are usually whole pieces of breast meat, in my experience.

They’re more expensive, and rightfully so, than a chicken nugget because they’re whole pieces, not reclaimed scraps from processing chickens.
Which is why it's good that at least we got thee of the best comedy series out of old Rupert plus the inspiration for Succession.
> They don't need to be better. In fact they just need to be 1/5th as good, and then it's worth it.

Usain Bolt can run 100m in around 9.58s, and gets paid a lot for that ability (indirectly via sponsors etc). Assume I can run half as fast, say 100m in 19s; do I 'deserve' half of Bolt's fame and half of his sponsorships?

Similarly, you can't hire five 20% generals to put in charge of your army, and expect the same result as hiring one 100% general.

Or try hiring five 20% novelists or film makers or artists or actors etc.

> That's the whole point here - CEOs aren't paid proportionately like you or me.

Yes, and pay _not_ being proportional to ability is common and normal in all kinds of fields. It's nothing specific to CEOs.

If anything, pay being (even approximately) proportional to ability is probably the exception.
Did you diy a roof install? I’m really looking into this as I live in the southeast, but I’m getting ridiculous quotes (60k for a 10kw system with two power walls).
this is exactly the kind of scenario where you’d expect to find a high-value zero-day deployed (state-level actor against a known, high-value target) so I see no reason to disregard the actual claim in favor of a lesser one.

yes, this class of exploits definitely exists (a while ago there was one that worked just receiving a text message!) and is the primary reason why apple offers the lockdown mode for these sorts of people who actually might be the target of these advanced threats. Lockdown mode severely reduces the amount of “auto” shit that happens in the background, which ruins the experience but is also more secure against this style of attack.
Quorum just means you are a CP system rather than an AP system.
What is an “average max allowed age”? Does the law, or do corporate policies, say anything about max CEO age?
'New El Nino' discovered south of equator
This is really interesting. I would have expected the understanding to be that humans make a guess, test it, and learn from what did or did not work. The lessons learned from the prior tests would impact future guesses.

Do you know if a system like the OP is learning from failed tests to guide future tests, or is it a truly a brute force search as if it were trying to mine bitcoin?
Does anyone know what this fine is about? It says celebrity endorsements but I'm not actually sure what the root issue is here?
"positive net worth still"

If its not in the bank, it does not exist. Trust me: I own a business.

Me and a couple of mates have been doing it for 24 years. We have a slack handful of employees. We've had good and bad years. At the moment it is a bit bad. Bad to the point where we are down a bit on our personal remuneration.

You cannot replace loss of profits with loans. I might allow that you can use loans to bridge a known and controlled, temporary ... issue. That's a form of gambling and ideally you own or can kick the house in the knackers.

There are all sorts of exciting sounding ways of running up huge debts and messing around with funky sounding things like gearing ratios.

Do remember that not everyone gets to be a unicorn or even tinkerbell and plenty of businesses crack on and work and survive without being particularly exciting. They also might happen to be rather stable in a rather unstable world. They just get on with it.
Watch out for the lead and heavy metals and cacao https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/a-third-o...
I concur on the sentiment - I think it’s great we don’t have avatars etc here as it makes it more content focused -

But at the same time I think the OP has made an awesome project! Well done
This is different. Neither flow, typescript, nor javascript generate a runtime error for an out of bounds index. It's explicitly allowed by the language.

The result of the an OOB access of an array is specified to be `undefined`. The throw only happens later when the value is treated as the wrong type.

I don't consider a runtime error to be a failure of the type system for OOB array access. But in javascript, it's explicitly allowed by specification. It's a failure of any type system that fails to account for this specified behavior in the language.
Why would someone allergic to watermelon be eating watermelon?
Thanks!

I left the Vaterland in 2009, and I guess it shows how out-of-date I am. Even my sister says that my German has become old-fashioned.
Make public the training dataset, and the weights associated with various elements of the corpus. Elements of the corpus must be assigned differing measures of importance or validity, influencing the formation of patterns in the resultant weights.

This would go a long way to reassuring users of the resultant AI, of the neutrality of the trainer.

It would simply reveal the core beliefs of the trainer. If it becomes evident (for example), that Marxist or Keynesian or MMT (or whatever) texts are given high validity measures, but texts by Hayek or Sowell are given negative validity, one could assume the trainer is a leftist, economically.

What benefit is there to not reveal these facts to the users of the resultant AI, if not to hide the internal bias of the trainer? Yet I am unaware of any large commercial AIs that reveal these training bias indicators...
yeah but it doesn't understand the exact syntax on an absolute level, does it...? I understood this to be the same as any language model applied to programming languages (aka Formal Languages). Is that mistaken?
I have a feeling this is partly due to training data being selected by an "aesthetic score". If weirdly airbrushed skin consistently has a high aesthetic score, that's what the model gets trained on.
> After the entry ticket is purchased (ie, not subtracting its cost in your EV calculation), the long-term losing rec still has positive expectation in a tournament. So does the pro. EV_pro <<< 100 * EV_rec.

ROI is a standard metric for measuring MTT success. Pros are typically positive, recs are typically negative.

Flipping the metric to EV after buy in strikes me as a straw man, but I will roll with it…

I am fairly certain that I would take action on the results of a basket of 100 mtt pros being 100x greater than the results of a basket of 100 mtt recs in the wsop ME. Like I said, I’m pretty sure that would be closer to 1000x, since the vast majority of the recs will not cash, while the pros are much more likely to cash and run deep. I think this is a decent proxy for roi. If you’re interested, I will be happy to negotiate terms and have a mutually agreed upon escrow-holder for a bet next year.

I agree with your comment that there is a lot of variance in poker, but that variance can be mitigated quite a bit via skill except in “short stack” MTTs that devolve into shovefests relatively early.
This is good news sure, but everyone else in the world, on average, is at more or less the same spot with about same growth rates, too. So there is no longer even an expectation that America is supposed to be the leader, and just not falling behind others is seen as a major achievement?
Meteorologist Mark Finan Gives Update Re: Park Fire
If Greeks were lazy, they would not be working towards creating powerful nuclear weapons. Based on my calculations, by 2030, maximum 2035, we will have personal nuclear weapons. By we, i mean millions and billions of people on the planet, including of course Greeks.

In general, what an individual is doing with his free time, is no one's business.
Right! I usually use rich's print [1] for this kind of thing too, which I chose after testing a few other libraries that do pretty printing.

--

1: https://github.com/Textualize/rich?tab=readme-ov-file#rich-p...
Exactly. No humans are involved in most of the process.
In Singapore, we even have a 10,000 Dollar bill as legal tender (about 7.5k USD at the moment), and nobody would think you are a criminal for using it.

Though these days people would think you a bit eccentric, perhaps.
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> Why should it be harder than anywhere else to install same Chinese solar panels?

Democracy. Permitting. Federalism. Regulatory decentralization. Lots of things that make construction relatively difficult in the USA.
Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse? Science, Engineering, and Speculation
> Unless I’m charged a lower cash price vs a higher credit card price, no, I’m not really ultimately paying it. You may be correct at a macro level but I’m looking at it from a practical standpoint.

It's typically the more expensive merchants with higher margins who accept American Express.

So you are right that staying with the same merchant, you seldom get an explicit discount for not using American Express. The non-AmEx discount is more hidden, in the form of being able to shop at not-so-overpriced merchants.
This may be of interest to readers in Northern California. This fire quite a ways away from the bay area, but popped up in an area near where PG&E lines sparked a deadly fire several years ago (near Oroville and Chico.) We were driving north on I-5 earlier today and saw an amazing / horrific pyroculumulus display.
Well, and I assume those upsells probably have a higher margin for her. Ie effectively she's charging those Amex guys more.
And yet it thinks 3.11 is greater than 3.9

(probably confused by version numbers)
Loblaw to pay $500M for bread price-fixing scheme in antitrust settlement
>Imo, the bigger question is why Hungary, Poland, Spain, Greece, and Cyprus (all countries part of the recent EU Spyware Scandal) [1] continue to allow their Interior Ministries to attack the phones of both domestic and foreign opponents, and are abusing "Spyware for political gain" [2].

It's also a national security issue given that Israel may be piggybacking on the spying.
All of these are in place in the EU too and we don't have a problem at all. We produced 10.2% of all electricity from solar in the same period. Having a lot less land and a lot less sun.
I've been really frustrated with price gauging in the installation quotes (also in the southeast). I'm no professional installer but I have done a few systems, one was a concerted cargo van with an off-grid 1kW system an 7.2kWh of lithium. The other system I'm in the progress of now, 9.1kW solar and around 70kWh of slightly used automotive cells.

For the system I'm working on now I have around $10k into the hardware if I'm not mistaken. There's plenty of skill and time that goes into designing the system, custom wiring, etc. I also had wuotes around $50k-60k. There's no way in hell I can justify 80% of the price in labor, very happy I happen to live in an area where I can install this myself without running into regulatory issues.
constexpr auto x = 1+1;
GenZoo
Launching GenZoo, the prompt-based lead generation and go-to-market tool to ease BDR's workflow!

Current features include:
- Typing out your ICP, and how many you want -> receive a list matching those criteria.
- Provide product website & lead persona details -> receive a tailored outreach message
Ditch microinverters, get a large MPPT. Sure you spend more in cabling but microinverters are poorly-made and fail a LOT.
Are you serious? I’ve never in my life found a bone fragment in chicken breast.
I read the whole article and still did not get if it's the real value growth or nominal.
I think the weakness comes if someone can predict or infer what the current display is, and then craft a malicious update that generates something visually similar enough to pass unnoticed.

Perhaps the kitten's bow is pink, instead of red, etc. Even a little bit of wiggle room makes the attacker's job a lot easier, much like the difference between creating something that resolves to a known SHA256 hash versus something which matches a majority but not all of the bits.

A simpler approach would be for the small piece of trusted code to discard and replace the hash/representation With a completely new sufficiently-different one whenever anything changes.
Thanks for the write-up. As far as I can tell, what you are describing in your first three paragraphs is exactly what I was trying to describe? Block specific wavelengths. (EDIT: sorry, I was mixing things up. My comment that I was referring to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41066579 but yours wasn't in reply to it.)

I don't think wearing any goggles with screens in them is realistic for climbing at the moment.

Yes, adding more distinguishing factors to the climbing holds works. A laser pointer's dot can be seen as a very temporary distinguishing mark.
I don't have a comment on pride, but I do think the growth is remarkable: the US and similar countries already have mature power grids, meaning that solar adoption is fighting against the "sunk cost" of hundreds of billions of dollars and decades of investment. Understood in that context, solar's growth in the US is remarkable to me.
Would have been more if we allowed chinese panels :(
25% growth in anything at scale is interesting.

It's true that some other places are ahead. For example solar in Australia has been growing at at average of 29% per year for 10 years[1], and wind at 15% per year for 10 years.

But every energy market is unique. The US has a huge supply of new, cheap oil and gas from fracking, and that means it has taken longer for solar to be cheap enough to undercut the politics of the fossil fuel lobby.

[1] https://www.energy.gov.au/energy-data/australian-energy-stat...
Now if Google copies it, or makes I'm Feeling Lucky default and you don't have millions for press coverage, you're done as a startup.
The war would take a different direction because it would take slightly longer for Germans to conquer the rest of Poland. That few weeks could help France and Germany to decide to actually join the war and attack Germany instead of just sitting there for months waiting for Germans to attack.
The non-agression pact between Poland and Nazi Germany was signed to normalize relations between the country, and not to partition another country. Ribbentrop-Molotov act on the other hand had a secret protocol where they decided to divide Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland into their spheres of influence. Yes, Poland did take part of Czechoslovakia after 1938, but it was a tiny sliver of land with polish ethnic majority. It was a bad move but nothing that can be compared to Soviet invasion in 1939.
Shingles vaccine is recommended for 50+ in US, 65+ in UK, and 70+ in Australia. Is the lower age in the US based on studies, an artifact of public health funding in UK and AUS, or is there little benefit before retirement age?

Also curious how long the vaccine lasts. I've heard a number of versions of dunno from health workers and doctors.
Next stop: Energy too cheap to meter.
If panel costs become a smaller and smaller fraction of installation cost over time, I wonder what sort of innovations we see where we install them "sub optimally" because it's easier to put them there. E.g. hanging them vertically on the side of a fence or on a wall might be easier (and thus cheaper) than placing them on the roof.
Get the school to start a Vex Robotics competition team. My son has been in it for 3 years in middle school and he is absolutely hooked.
Oh, I know something about this. Some people that made this are part of DragonSector [1] polish hacking group that broke DRMs in trains quite recently [2]. Sadly I joined company after there were long gone. Really surprised seeing this posted here as it was pointed out, the repo is pretty old and archived.

[1]: https://dragonsector.pl/

[2]: https://youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k
I've shared it at work before but I think you need to see something 5-10 times, then be motivated to try it, and then it really sinks in.

One neat feature I've also shown people is using worktrees to have many sparse checkouts from a big repo/monorepo so they can be used as more sane chunks.
> It also makes it possible to trust a used computer.

Thankfully all this complexity is not the only thing that allows to trust a used computer. There are other options, like not having a modifiable SW (that is SW not stored in non-replaceable ROM) run prior to handing off control to bootloader loaded from external media.
Thanks, all this looks helpful, will let my subconscious meditate on "desingularization(-singularization)" with regards to what I just read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_C*-algebra#Desingulariza...

Especially enjoyed the mention of the Ycombinator, my barbaric nonintuition would have been that nothing so activated could arise from 2 (or just the 1!?! beta-reduction) seemingly trivial constructs, but this punches me in the face like Mike Tyson says (and continuously, in the gut)

(I admit I am not in the pareidolic flow ATM, but promise to take a long look at these passages when I am)

Scott=Aaronson? Do you have a link?
My son has been competing since 6th grade. They got 2nd place at states and loved it, so intense watching them play.
Ignoring the catalyst that are missing in the silly title ...

The main part is an easy redox reaction

4 Al + 6 H2O --> 4 Al2O3 + 6 H2

and then burning the H2,

6 H2 + 3 O2 --> 6 H2O

so the global reaction is

4 Al + 6 H2O + 3 O2 --> 4 Al2O3 + 6 H2O

I can't understand how this can be better than just using the metallic aluminium as the anode of a battery. In the battery, you get all the energy stored in the metallic aluminum, but if you use Hydrogen as an intermediate step part of the energy is released and wasted in the first reaction.

Also, metallic aluminium is easy to recicle, but once it's oxidized it's hard to transform it again into the metallic form.
I've never used Smalltalk but I've heard of it!
A 2" bone won't either, if you chew your food properly like an adult?
Disaster! What if the energy prices go negative!!!
(I want to course correct the thread back to an inquiry frame) .. very relevant that there is not one definition of "AI" at all, and certainly many flavors and architectures of setups right now that all fall under an umbrella term of "AI" -- agree

DeepMind is a peculiar example, since they started by solving video games explicitly (very narrow and goal oriented)
This seems to be saying nothing. constexpr allows you to maintainably express the computation of a constant. This is useful, even if it morally is a script generating that constant it's valuable to not need to drag along a bunch of extra stuff to maintain a program.
(2023) Discussion at the time (50 points, 1 year ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746920
To clarify, this is production of solar energy, not of the panels themselves.
For Russians of Putin's generation, the domination over Central and Eastern Europe was normalcy and they want it back.

Until Putin expires, or his lights grow sufficiently dim. At which point they'll be worrying simply about their political and physical survival.
Half of the US voting population is still cheering cries of, "Drill baby drill". There are significant entrenched interests who are fighting renewable development wherever possible. It is only because the economics of solar panels have gotten too good to ignore that things are proceeding.
This is good feedback. The problem we encountered is that everything gets incredibly tiny if you zoom out, but we'll iterate on making the landing demo better.
I bet Larry Mcavoy highly regrets his actions.
Discussion (186 points, 3 days ago, 60 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41036526
ESOPs are common in the civil engineer world. I have mixed feelings about it. Private company stock valuations look like a magic show to my untrained eyes. Employee-only buying can lead to weird cash-flow schemes, like your ESOP contribution being held, unbeknownst to you, in a zero-interest slush fund until stock frees up.

What gets me most is that rank and file employees in the ESOP almost never have directly exercisable rights as shareholders to vote or have any say in the business. You don’t get to say no to a merger. You don’t get to fire the CEO when his big idea is a flop. The ESOP vote is wrapped up in a trust or some abstraction controlled by an advisor or a board probably appointed by the real board of the company. Ultimately the executive staff and hand-picked insiders will have all the real authority of ownership. Employee stock thus is not much more than a complex pension program for almost everyone. Regular employees will not be real owners in any meaningful sense unless they get into the small trust network of existing owners.

If you’re an early arrival to an ESOP with good growth potential, you will do way better than someone with a little 401K match. They also get great tax breaks. Overall they’re good for employees, but the messaging is usually misleading.
Apache DataFusion 40.0.0 Released
What parts do you have to fight? I’ve been using Zynqs for about almost a decade or so, and I really enjoy them. But that’s for personal projects with a lot of freedom, so I’m curious what problems arise in more commercial/professional settings.

Nowadays, I only often wish I had their ARMv8 chips instead of the old ARMv7 32bit architecture because that’s just showing its age, but that’s par for the course of using ARMv7, and doesn’t affect the PL side (much, except for interfacing sometimes).
>Communism does not have businesses, worker owned or otherwise. It does not even have currency and money at all.

Huh? You seem to know absolutely nothing about how the Soviet Union worked. They certainly did have money and companies. (And don't give me that BS about the CCCP not being "true communists" -- No True Scotsman fallacy)
For object inspection in Jupyter if doing more numpy type things, check out penzai: https://github.com/google-deepmind/penzai
Discussion (small) (25 points, 14 hours ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41067431