skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point, utility scale solar projects have reached scale in the supply chain, and cost estimates tend to be quite accurate once you break ground and start construction. Yes items such as solar panels tend to be procured upfront and costs locked in (so even if a 2020 style supply chain crisis hits, the extra cost tends to pass down the chain... even though, of course, that sort of crisis will always balloon costs.) The main risk on cost slippage in this sort of project would come from 2 areas:
1) pre-breaking ground (i.e. pre Final Investment Decision)... going through regulatory/licensing/permitting. This is exactly when you can't lock down long-lead time items and are subject to market prices.
2) the transmission line: unlike utility-scale power plants, these tend to be one-off projects and also face a lot of social challenges once construction starts. That price/time could definitely balloon, even after breaking ground/FID.
I think you are close but not quite. The real problem is that tech giants rule the SP500 now and Congress all have portfolios laced to the gills with stocks. My only hope is that eventually the rich realize they make more money betting on the market going down than up, the stock market does mean reversion, and we break up the obvious tech monopolies that are causing the dystopia we all find ourselves living in right now.

https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/s&p500-mean-re...
Maybe totalitarianism is the wrong word and not 100% correct by definition, but I'm certainly struggling to find a single word to define the direction the UK is descending into. It's definitely a descent, and it's definitely not looking pretty with no hope of recovery that I can see.

I mean, geeze, just the hate-speech laws that are being used to punish wrong-think. That alone should scare you to the bone.
Neuralink says it may have fixed its brain implant problem
LLM Pruning and Distillation in Practice: The Minitron Approach
I think the original idea was that they were using one of the (now retired) metal masters (the moulds for the LP). It makes sense - "you've sold so many records that our master has worn out, so have the old one as an award".

Then later as the convention of the awards stuck, they just metallized an LP.
I don't know... I watched my grandpa hand shovel heavy wet snow until the year he died. If we really care about polution, we'd just buck up and use a hand shovel.
That's a good call out. I do try this in practice, e.g., "some members of the Inuit community are pushing back against the term Eskimo, because it's an exonym"

By I do sometimes fall back to the passive voice.
The ballooning isn’t typically driven by mass manufactured components like solar panels so I would guess that aspect is largely irrelevant.

It seems likely to me that they lock the price in but I don’t have any special insight
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> On the other, US is supposed to be a republic and politicians are supposed to be smarter than to give in to the mob, who will always vote itself whatever it currently wants.

Just the other day I learned of the Sunshine Protection Act. From the first paragraph on Wikipedia¹:

> the Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent, although several senators stated later that they would have objected if they had known that the bill could pass.

Maybe politicians are “supposed to be smarter”, but they’re not.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Protection_Act
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> “So we’re at our studio here in California and I was smoking the pot,”

The use of the definite article before the word "pot" really gives that sentence a "How do you do, fellow kids?" vibe.
I feel like it would have been suiting of the Beastie Boys to follow up with a Manilow remix beat on a track.
Australian East coast power is already free during daylight hours.
The organization doesn't devalue people. Other individuals feel put-off and alienated by people who act the way the author of the article describes. Like it or not personal relationships matter, reducing friction matters, and small talk and the apparently wasteful social rituals can add to team and organization cohesion. Lone wolves, high-performing or not, get perceived as not team players, not someone willing to help others even with small things, hostile to routine human interaction.

Some workplaces go too far in one direction or another. I would prefer working in a more casual and friendly environment even if that meant engaging in idle chit-chat and signing birthdays cards, rather than a workplace where everyone had to shut up and pretend to optimize their performance. In my long career I have always found jobs and freelance work through friends and former work colleagues, and a big part of that comes down to them perceiving me as someone they enjoyed working with and hanging out with, not just someone who optimized my productivity and told them to buzz off because I had to write more code.
After watching "Practical Engineering"'s video on solar power[1], I start to think solar power plant of this scale is a bad idea -- it hate AC and just does not play nice with the rest of the power grid. A software bug can bring down the whole grid.

.. and TFA is taking about expanding the grid.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G4ipM2qjfw
What would make a good replacement for a plastic cutting board for use with meat?
Privacy Preserving Telemetry for Android Apps
I read all sort of contradictory "scientific facts" about this subject.
By the end of the day, listening and observing your body will provide you the right answer.
Her channel has strayed far beyond the topics she has credibility in. A physics academic talking about AI, sociology, and politics… why should I care? Even of the physics topics that she does cover it’s all “pop-sci” news coverage stuff, she’s not even using her actual depth of knowledge to make videos that are different than the layman takes from dozens of other YouTubers.

Someone speaking provocatively and authoritatively on topics they don’t have credibility in is where you should think critically and turn it off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
Curated projects like this identifying real human writings will be more important as AI slop takes over the internet.
Yeah, there are lots of interesting applications of getting other vehicles or traffic signals to favor you by sending wrong data!

There are a bunch of references to "Security Credentials Management System providers" in the DOT document. So it sounds like there will be some attempt to reject self-serving incorrect data, and even a mechanism to report and exclude "misbehaving" devices. But there are lots of gray areas and value judgements in what's allowed to be sent.

The message types are interesting to read (second link below). I thought at first that the Red Light Violation Warning was a message where your own vehicle sends out "Hey, we're blowing this red light, everybody watch out!" But I think that one is intended to be sent by the traffic signal system. But still, if you aren't in control of what your vehicle sends, what's to stop it from broadcasting data you don't want it to send, like "Hey, we're exceeding the speed limit by 17 mph"? Another value judgement that seems like it would be made at some regulatory level. Even if the messages are completely anonymous as claimed, you probably (at a personal level) don't receivers to clue in traffic police to show up further along your route, or have insurance companies try to match those with private roadside license plate reader data. At a societal level I'm sure some people would favor that, and others wouldn't.

https://www.its.dot.gov/resources/scms.htm

https://www.its.dot.gov/research_areas/cybersecurity/scms/SC...
This seems to be a lack of communication on fees. Ebay should communicate estimate when you set the price. I know http://reverb.com does this, they show you exactly how much they will take in a chart during the posting wizard before you hit submit.
I've also seen someone on tiktok trying to play a small platinum record that just had someone playing some guitar chords in a loop.
Rust can have green threads. It depends on the reactor. The abstraction sits one level lower than nearly everything else out there.
Your "preferences" exist only in the context of the set of choices before you. Hence, Nash equilibria, etc. I don't think you can extrapolate very far morally in "golden handcuffs" situations. Or, at least, we should "hate the player not the game" when lamenting such outcomes.
Did I misunderstand something? that "3x3" matrix isn't a 2 dimensional matrix. It's a 9 item array.
I only use the high quality hardware store stuff now. I simply don’t run my snowblower enough for the price difference to be meaningful.
Holding a wake for one’s career and inviting people strikes me ad incredibly narcissistic.
Not really an answer to your questions, but just to add:

Solar (and wind) projects don't have the tendency to balloon in costs as other large infrastructure projects do [1]. They tend to be more modular then for example nuclear, making them easier to build (you place one rack of solar panels, and then another one, etc). Additionally, once (a part of) the panels is installed, you can already start generating energy rather than having to wait until the whole project in finalized.

Some parts of the project like the cable between Australia and Singapore to transmit energy might be a different story though.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90844859/why-massive-wind-and-so...
Power cables underwater are less controversial than power lines through e.g. farmland.

https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/humelink-budget-trimmed...

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2024/03/21/community-c...
Ambiphone – minimal ambient sounds, signals, noise, binaural beats
And yet, somehow, businesses thrived even back when massively spying on people wasn't a thing they could do.
It never even occurred to me that the "lake effect" would work in the opposite direction. Water's ability to retain heat is really amazing.

> People have no idea how fast global warming is happening.

For people that live near the Great Lakes, you may have stumbled onto a very compelling bit of evidence. For many, "rising ocean temperatures" is a whole world away. Whereas this kind of phenomenon is much easier to grasp.
The friction you are feeling is that arrays of structs require the computer to do more work to access individual members.
For aging men, finding a spouse unlocks the fountain of youth
python -mvenv aider
aider/bin/pip install aider-chat
aider/bin/aider

And you're done. There's also a docker version https://aider.chat/docs/install/docker.html

Just don't mess with the system-wide installed version of python and it will be fine. This isn't a python specific issue though.
You are right, of course. Clearly, I have been away from mathematics too long.
After the Mini Baby Boom's Death: U.S. Fertility Rate Reaches Historic Low
The browser is verifying that the certificate appears in public certificate logs. So if a TLA forges a certificate (whether with the cooperation of a certificate provider, DNS provider or domain owner) that is now part of the public record. And if they do it with any domain that has enough eyeballs, someone would presumably notice. Not to mention that it's an easy way for agencies from rival countries to tip a reporter or security researcher off that it happened.

Of course in reality most browsers don't actually check the certificate logs but only require timestamps signed by certificate logs that prove that at least two certificate logs know of the certificate. A TLA that can pressure at least two logs to provide those timestamps without actually publishing the certificates isn't really stopped. But at least that widens the circle of people who have to be in on the conspiracy.

In a perfect world browsers would do spot checks against the actual certificate logs, and require that the signed timestamps are from logs that are unlikely to be influenced by the same actor (e.g. a Western, a Russian-sphere and a Chinese-sphere certificate log). Your guess why we don't do either is as good as mine
The parent poster is getting downvoted, for I think obvious reasons (instantly bringing a broader topic to a narrow political hot take), but I don't think they are wrong.

From what I can tell the mainstream media (which unfortunately has blended itself into a stew of "real news" and opinion pieces through their own outlets and through various readers) exists to serve a couple of interests.

In this case, I think this would be called "earned media" in marketing speak. A "journalist" or someone working in a news organization knows a bunch of PR associated people who have lines on what could be called lifestyle newspieces. The juicier the lifestyle piece the more clicks the org gets, so cultivating these relationships with PR firms that push this stuff results in revenue for the news org. That PR firm might push the segment onto multiple receivers, so you get a little critical mass.

The second interest, what the parent poster is alluding to, is the political party that the news organization and their journalists are aligned with. Since everything political now is so existential, the entire news organization ends up having this zeitgeist of pushing their political agenda. And obviously we are at where we are at in no small part by the shock outrage clicks political news headlines receive.

So, I don't think the parent is wrong, but it's more complicated than "it's all propaganda". Criticising the mainstream media has become popular in the last 10 years, but goddamn it's so easy to do because of how transparent the whole process has become.
Here's one example of a common complication: Let's say your apple example is for an apple trading app. Each house is related to 2 boxes. One is available_for_trade_box_id and another is save_for_eating_box_id. How does your auto join tool know which to use?
Maybe we should replace positive and negative when talking about electricity. After all later certainly carries negative connotations... I suggest protonic and electronic with sähkö going from electronic terminal to protonic one. Sähkö is nice and easy to write and much simpler word than electricity...
It was raised because I was describing myself as queer, and how that word is an example of the evolution of language. However, it's not a word typically considered appropriate for use by non queer people.

People objected to the word I used for non queer people, so I asked for alternatives that people would prefer.

So it is directly related to the topic and the linked article, but only from the standpoint of in vs out group.
Sonos want to re-release the old app but cannot
i have made few more changes to make it more intutive.Now config is on the main page rather than hidden in import dialog which still works btw.
That could be. Agner's tables seem to confirm that.
OSI is very widely used, most of the large ISPs use it. End consumers are just unaware of that fact. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-IS
Build your first Nextcloud app in Python
Stupid Americans and their checks notes acronyms.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

Note that it requires a second graphics card to work.
when AI can code clojure it’ll be called “AGI”
>I've been saying for a while now that there's an absolute gold mine waiting for people who want to specialize in fixing AI generated applications.

The real savvy ones will use later generations of LLMs to fix the output of early ones
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They didn’t say they were doing something goofy like that. They said they were running into problems at work. It could well be that they have a million-LOC repo that’s enormously complex with decades of legacy setup to consider. Presume that they’re competent at their job, and maybe what they’re trying to do isn’t trivially easy.
I searched HN and saw that it was posted a few months ago by the creator @matteason (as a Show HN), but it never hurts to resubmit something that is good and free :-)
Really interesting, thank you!
Fast food has a Gen Z problem
> It's interesting as I agree with the points the article makes, but come to the opposite conclusion. Euphemisms don't need to be changed, because it's not the words themselves that are a problem, it's the thoughts and stereotypes that people have about others that are the issue.

Those negative "stereotypes" may be actually accurate, while the euphemism may be inaccurately positive. There is a reason the euphemism treadmill exists for various concepts, a reason new euphemisms gradually acquire a negative meaning again. One possible reason is that the category of things in question really has significant negative aspects.
Make sports betting taboo again
CLI is good and the best way to manage docker containers, however editing that compose file from a browser tab and hitting recreate slaps different. A web GUI makes it so that users who are otherwise intimidated by CLI can still make use of docker.
Exposing youth to programming by finding the password
> This is my main objection to higher marginal tax rates. Sure, people will get around it more or less, but it's incredibly inefficient and wasteful. And that inefficiency is difficult to measure and has other negative effects on productivity.

This is where I disagree completely. A high marginal tax rate incentivizes capital investment into businesses, the modernization of processes, and the hiring of employees whose salaries don't come anywhere close to being in the highest tax brackets. You aren't taxing the unrealized gains when the value of the business increases, but you are taxing the extraction of cash from the business.

This is also why wealth taxes are tricky and can lead to unintended consequences if lawmakers are not careful. IE, estate taxes should exist but with a very deliberate structure and rate.
That's an interesting idea though. Having very long pipes running across solar zones to cover varying evening use. I wonder how feasible that is.
I don't know which is the "original STL" in this context. Alexander Stepanov's proposal of a standard template library for C++ pre-dates Musser's invention of introspective sorting (introsort). Stepanov is a smart guy but he's also somewhat famous so I'd guess if he invented it first we'd know that.

As I said, Orson filed a bug in LLVM bugzilla for libc++ going quadratic for adversarial input in 2014, and it was eventually fixed (by using introsort) in 2021.

There's a fun sideshow in that ticket, remember Orson actually wrote what is probably the best general purpose unstable sort at the time - but all he's done is open a ticket saying libc++ doesn't meet the minimum requirements. After a while, with the team having dragged their feet and still not even landed the patch to just use introsort somebody pipes up to report that they have benchmarked sorts and actually libc++ is faster than other popular C++ sorts (in their benchmark). So, Orson politely asks them to try PDQsort. That's the first time he explicitly mentions his Pattern Defecting Quicksort in the ticket, and maybe a harried LLVM bug handler wouldn't notice who filed the bug until then. Just another name.

But it's OK, the LLVM devs are unperturbed and ignore him, focusing instead on the minutiae of the performance numbers for their known defective unstable sort. Year later somebody eventually adds introsort to libc++ and closes the defect ticket. Nobody answers Orson's question, the answer of course is "Oh, yours is much faster".
An unborn child is strictly dependent upon the placenta for survival, let alone for development and maturation of physiological structures which we only get one of per life
time and we are hard-dependent on.
What, would make it non-playable anyway.
At the same time, perjoration is real-- names associated with disadvantaged groups take on a derogatory meaning. While it's maybe not your fault that "retard" has moved from a neutral, medical term to an insult, it's not great to call people "retarded" in any context.

A certain amount of this is just necessary to treat other humans beings humanely.
We have and love a battery electric trimmer and push mower. They’re great. Way better than gas, and better than wrangling a cord.

We were gifted a battery snowblower. It basically doesn’t work. Maybe there are better ones that do, but this thing was not fit for purpose at all.
You're conveniently leaving out the pressure from TLAs outside of corporate greed and lobbying. There's no way the intelligence community would allow for this vector of gathering information without a fight. Tapping into the take of the social platforms is a huge amount of money and work not needed to spend by the agencies.

The greater good for the greater number of people is a nice concept, but I don't think it has been true for much of the US's history. The thing was started with lines like 3/5 of a person included in it while totally ignoring half of the population based on gender.
Interesting, but I would be careful to generalize from mice studies
Nice! Will this work for Triton instances ie can I swap the model loaded to the Triton instance? Or am I miss understanding the concept?
EDIT: typo
Organizations can usually tolerate a considerable amount of mediocrity and incompetence, even at the upper management levels. Organizations usually don't want to allow insubordination or threats to the hierarchy. You see the same thing with cops protecting their own, even corrupt and dangerous cops. Managers and executives work like that too, because if they allow challenges to their authority and competence from the lower ranks that threatens the whole structure.

I don't necessarily like how organizations work in that respect. Maybe you have good reason to challenge the CTO and can accept the risk. I just want to describe the reality of organization dynamics. You can read all kinds of books on management that get into how power structures and hierarchies maintain their authority, putting that before more rational priorities such as competence and job performance.
> Zero day vulnerabilities are a thing, and you intentionally prevent yourself from getting those fixed quickly.

And yet, Windows updates are a bigger threat to me than malware.