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'too cheap to meter' was always nonsense and is nonsense now. the only time you're getting unmetered energy is if you have so much distributed generation and storage that transmission is unprofitable to build except for unusual cases. for example, most people with a household solar system with storage have unmetered energy during the day

the numbers you saw for solar in 01975 were wrong, based on at most five years of commercial solar panel production. now we have 50 years of commercial solar panel production to estimate the learning rate from, and consequently for the last five years or so solar is cheaper than power produced from coal or natural gas in most of the world. you should have stopped waiting five years ago

in northern climates your plan b is probably a combination of wind, batteries, thermal energy storage, and emergency generators burning emergency-priced liquid fuels — initially fossil fuels, later electrolysis-sourced
> won't this just benefit the largest tech companies

I'd wager the bigger you are the harder it gets. How would they fend off tens of thousands of simultaneous lawsuits?
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You're right, I did jump to that conclusion. It turns out it was the correct conclusion, although I definitely shouldn't have said it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41394465
Surely this will bubble up to the Supreme Court?

Once they've weighed in, we'll know if the "free ride" really is over, and if so what ride replaces it.
Somewhat meta here, can we please not link/upvote this kind of shitty "news" site which jams misleading nonsense click-bait into key phrases?

I was just trying to find details on how this guy plans to "fight" the citation, and its all dark-pattern bait-and-switch:

1. "New York City has been using so-called “noise cameras” to bust [modified vehicles] for several years now." -> Links to article about California laws, not New York's.

2. "But one man says his completely stock [Lamborghini Huracan] was issued just such a citation recently and he’s fighting it." -> Links to article about thefts of cars.

3. "Anthony Aquilino owns a 2018 Lamborghini Huracan Performante, which he says he hasn’t modified at all, preferring to keep the [supercar] in factory spec." -> Links to article about abandoned cars... On the other side of the world in frickin' Dubai!
Have you checked out Shortwave? One of the Firebase founders started the company, and they have a really powerful AI e-mail client.
I'd say no, because they averages over the entire group. If you ranked based on say, most liked in your friends circle, or most liked by people with a high cosine similarity to your profile, then it starts to slide back into editorial judgment.
> He'll have to pay much of those winnings back to his legal team.

I'm not sure about the UK, but in the USA, most lawyers would take this case speculatively and they would charge 30% of the winnings. It's an amount calibrated to just barely be acceptable but it typically isn't as bad as you suggest.
It is! Just downloaded it the other day and while far from perfect it's pretty neat. I uploaded a Gene Wilder/Charlie in the Chocolate Factory meme and it incorrectly told me that it was Johnny Depp. Close I guess! I run LLAVA and llama (among other models) using https://ollama.com

As a "web builder" I do think these tools will be very useful for accessibility (eventually), specifically generating descriptive alt tags for images.
You should be able to integrate your IKEA and Homekit devices into the one if you use HomeAssistant.

The IKEA Tradfri system is all Zigbee based - I have a bunch of their light bulbs and strips, plus a few smart power plugs. I personally have them attached to my own Zigbee controller, but there's also a Home Assistant Tradfri integration if you want to keep using their Smart Hub controller.

There's also a Home Assistant homekit integration, so you can use HA to orchestrate events happening on the Tradfri side to trigger something in the Homekit side, or vice versa.

(I don't have the Tradfri smart hub or Homekit devices, so YMMV on specific possible options)
Indeed; I've played around with various concentration methods (along with sun imaging using lenses). My US letter-sized Fresnel lens can easily start a tinder/kindling fire in a few seconds, and I've managed to melt a lot of things accidentally jsut by pointing the lens at the sun for a few seconds when the solar filter was not installed.
Yes, the way they grew is only sustainable from the current. What about not growing, but maintaining?
>pretend it never happened

I'm not suggesting this is what they have done here, but this is exactly what authoritarian governments do. Straight from the pneumatic into the furnace.
Does my codebase leave my machine when using your extension with it?
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Isn't it usually the case that when someone builds a shitty thing and people get hurt, the builder is liable?
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You can only do that if there are competing airports that are equally usable for where you want to go. Perhaps SFO vs SJC if you're going to the peninsula, JFK vs EWR or LGA, or the various Los Angeles airports but that's pretty much it that I can think of.
Then you don't understand what you're getting. If you want to be targeted and misled by opposing incentives, that's on you.
Maybe people wouldn't do this if applications didn't go into a black hole to either never get responses or get responses months later. Out of all my job searches I've only ever gotten one interview by applying with a company instead of working with a recruiter. If you only interview candidates from recruiters why bother posting the job on sites like Linkedin?
Sorry your propaganda machine was taken from you and now you have to actually hear the whole spectrum of people’s opinions
It absolutely is released like that. Please note that 'such as' does not mean 'all', 'a majority', or anything like that. It simply means 'one example'. (I eat many things 'such as' honey, yet that doesn't make me Winnie the Pooh.) And enclosures come up regularly here on HN where suddenly a company has embarked on a new incredible journey involving 'not releasing all the source code anymore under an OSI-approved license', so they are not even that exotic an outcome.
I still think it's wild that we went from having a dozen alt accounts and pseudonyms and never sharing anything private or identifiable publicly on the internet to just putting our entire lives on the internet tied to our name (and by extension our friends, family, where we live and work), complete with exhaustive image and video documentation.

I still live like I did in the late 90s and early 00s when I started using the internet though. I guess old habits do die hard.
wholesale it's €0.07/watt (peak) https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...
In the multi-year series of blaming (us) juniors for every ill in the programming world, they now also get blamed for over-architecting.

I took the opportunity to share that quote with some others on our project because this is a pattern that we recognize from our boss and a few of the productive consultants in the past. Not juniors but people who have/had the weight to set the code style tone of the project and has lead to hours of all of us scratching our head when having to read the code.

But thanks for souring me on this whole thread.
Both a competitor AND a history of operating in, to be polite, less than good faith.
It's cool! Btw I would like to report that the charts will mess up if you use Google Translate for the page.
Well, as long as by "AI" you are referring to pre-trained transformers, then what you are effectively asking for is the data used to pre-train them.

OTOH why you want the data is not clear. You don't need it to run Meta'a models for free, or to fine-tune them for your own needs. The only thing the data would allow you is to pre-train from scratch, in other words to obtain the exact same set of weights that Meta is giving you for free.
>Personally, the main thing I can't stand is that you have only limited ability to "choose your own adventure" and just go straight to the thing you're there to buy.

Sure you can, just go down to the basement area where you pick up all the boxes anyway. You only need to browse if you don't know what you want.
Imagine if you saw someone who ate so much food they weighed 10,000 pounds.

I come over and tell you, “this isn’t healthy! Nobody should weigh 10,000 pounds, we weren’t designed to exist that way!”

You come back to me and tell me that I’m making an emotional argument that isn’t backed up by facts.

But, the problem with that is that this is common sense, and it’s even backed by a bunch of science and observed reality. Someone who weighs 10,000 pounds basically can’t exist, and if they did it would be so ridiculous it’s almost incomprehensible.

I think it actually should be on you and not me to prove that people owning that much wealth is something that should be considered to be okay, not the other way around. You counter my “emotional pleading” with your own emotional “nuh uh, you are wrong” argument.

Who do you know that has over $100 million in net worth that you feel would be hurt by a proposal to tax unearned gains on people with $100 million net worth and above? I don’t know anyone like that. What I do know is that I would personally benefit from my government having more income to fix potholes and pay teacher salaries.

And that’s the other double standard: when the wealthy people advocate for policy that hurts the majority like tax cuts for the wealthy, they are seen as smart businessmen. But as soon as I advocate for something that hurts the wealthy, I’m being emotional and unreasonable.

Sorry dude, I’m just advocating for what’s in my best interest. It’s in my best interest as an average person who isn’t a billionaire or millionaire for these wealthy people to not exist. They’ve done nothing positive for me and everything negative. Every penny or nickel or dime that goes to their extravagant pay package is a penny or nickel that could have gone back to me, their customer. It would be better for me if my company CEO made $200,000 a year instead of $20,000,000 a year. That could at least buy us a solid pizza patty.
There is a difference between plain shells (as in M-x shell and variants) and terminals (as in M-x vterm, or ansi-term) in Emacs. The former are essentially an infinite buffer without ncurses; the latter are full terminals with ncruses and a shell. Emacs calls the terminals of plain shells “dumb terminals”, to not raise any hopes. I personally love their infinte length and ability to edit them just like any other buffer. I typically have dozens to hundreds of shells but only few true terminals multiplexed in a long running Emacs session.
No. I think they use that web & ML software to help run their $1.3 trillion marketcap online social network company, on which, I am given to understand from US Congressional hearings, they sell ads.
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as an electrical and electronics engineer liked your video.
But nuclear is not dispatchable either so what's your point? It's funny how everyone brings up the intermittance of solar and wind as a point how they can never work because they don't provide baseload and nuclear is the solution.

If you read opinions from operators and incident reports you'll find that large power plants like nuclear are actually a much bigger problem for network management, because if you have to take down a nuclear plant for some reason, you suddenly have a huge issue providing that electricity with fast dispatchable generation.
Yeah, I have to question OP's memory there. No way that could have been said in good faith.
This is impressively fast. Well done!
Yes, that's right. You can't steal credentials from another site without their permission.
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It's just a common glitch in human thinking and happens multiple times a day in your life. We constantly swap much lower expected value catastrophic events for much higher expected value dispersed bad events. We almost always socialize costs much larger in aggregate but much smaller individually to avoid costs much larger individually but much smaller in aggregate. You see this in traffic laws every day with lower speed limits being preferred over a slightly higher chance of someone being killed in a car accident. You see this in food and medical regulation constantly, you see it in environmental rhetoric, etc. It's just basically the way a majority of humans work. Something breaks in our mind when we try to compare high cost but extremely low probability things to anything else.
It's telling that you prefer Kotlin and Clojure. The few languages that are as popular as Java or more (JS, Python) have most of the problems you mentioned and more (and some newer languages, like Go, too). I.e. the vast majority of new software written in 2024 is written in languages that you think are "painful" and outdated. Quite a few of those who prefer these languages have actually tried languages that are richer (or mainstream) -- i.e. those that you call "modern" but some of which predate Java or are of the same age -- and found them inappropriate for their usecase for various reasons.

The thing is that programmers simply don't agree on what they want to have in their programming language. Some are absolutely certain that they need feature X and others are equally certain that feature X would make things much worse. They have contradictory views on what's better. But their preferences are not evenly distributed, and some views are held by more people than others. Languages that aim to be very popular need to target the majority view, and it doesn't matter whether majority views are justified in some objective sense.

But it goes further than that because the goal of a programming language is to produce software and the goal of software is to produce value that is usually measured in economic (i.e. monetary) terms. For a language to maximise monetary values it must accept some environmental realities, such as that most programmers who will be writing the software to produce monetary value are relative beginners, and so a language that is less attractive to beginners is likely to be less valuable, and so less succesful in the market.

That is why you see that over time, Java adopts more and more features that were present in ML (in retrospect, arguably the most influential typed programming language ever) in the mid-seventies. But that's not to say that ML is more modern or even that in 2005 it was "better" than Java, only that the preferences of the broad market have shifted over time so that certain features that were in ML in the seventies only became valuable to the market much later. That's why Java's designers, who knew ML back when they designed Java, chose to adopt its features only very gradually (Java's generics, lambdas, type inference, records, and pattern-matching all came from ML). Did those who picked ML to write their software in 2003 end up better off than those who picked Java? I don't think so.
Sorry, but these numbers are not accurate. Luminous efficiency of tungsten lightbulbs is typically around 1-3% (depends on voltage and power), and luminous efficiency of LED bulbs is around 10-30%. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous_efficacy)
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Summary of article: A single NPR link got automatically flagged by X to display a warning after NPR changed the URL for an unknown reason. It was reported to X who said it was a false positive and corrected it.
I get inspired by things on their own merits and properties. So getting inspired by others sounds like a bunch of romantic LinkedIn grifter BS. Sorry.
Specifically NetChoice argued that personalized feeds based on user data were protected due to first person speech. This went to supreme court and supreme court agreed. Now precedent is set by the highest court that those feeds are "expressive product". It doesn't make sense, but that's how the law works - by trying to define as best as possible the things in gray areas.

And they probably didn't think through how this particular argument could affect other areas of their business.
Getting passenger fatalities down is mainly achieved by not letting your trains crash, and keeping an eye on the platform-train interface. Copious announcements about how to safely walk around a railway station probably only make a minor difference.
This is Guido. I can assure you there was nothing nefarious. The incident is best described as moderation automation misfiring. The post was restored and a moderator has apologized for the mishap.
The UK laws elaborate on what is and isn't free speech, while the US law basically just says "there shall be free speech (as far as Congress is concerned. Other parties can do whatever they like to stifle speech)"
What does public control over governments mean?
I think it's reasonable to subsidize adoption of early-stage technology that's promising but doesn't pencil out yet, to kick-start the learning curve. Thanks largely to Germany for doing the lion's share of the early subsidies with solar!

But you're of course correct that this is a giant subsidy, and unfortunately it was funded by other rate payers rather than a central government, which was a nutty system from the beginning.
Personally, I always thought it's a bad platform. In a perverse way I'm happy Musk took it over, hopefully it will die faster.
interesting question: does it still make sense to have different or specialized languages for scientific computing vs generalized software engineering?
I certainly do. That said, I struggle to find another browser that's any better and most are worse. So I accept Firefox as the lesser evil.
Well, the value is ok, if considered seriously.

Also, any certificate bears a certificator company name. We can always say "company A was hacked despite having its security certified by company B". So that company B at least share some blame.
> If you'd like to try it out on a specific repo, you can always use our extension for further analysis.

VSCode extension marketplace doesn't have the best security rails or reputation for security, and with this being closed source, just personally, installing and running it on my machine isn't something I'm comfortable doing.

> The idea is that CodeViz can replace or augment search and directory tree by providing a more intuitive interface for navigation!

That to me is a different goal than the one in your post (maybe it's just phrasing or I didn't understand the OP correctly), and is something I'd be excited to have!

> ideally the definition of an architecture diagram would be rigorous enough that there is no ambiguity

Rigor is a big "if" in software ;). See: UML's attempt. C4 is some very loose guidelines. IIRC, a big part of its attraction is the lack of rigor/formal standards.

Anyway, best of luck! Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat diagrams
You're confusing X11 with Xorg. There were X servers before Xorg and there will be X servers after. (Xwayland is one!)
for some economic activities, energy is not a limiting input; you are implicitly referring to economic production enabled by electric lighting, such as office work, and indeed energy has not been a limiting input for that for at least a century. reducing the cost of energy will not result in more gdp in those sectors

for other economic activities, such as solar panel production, aluminum production, and neural network training, energy is a limiting input. reducing the cost of energy will result in more gdp in those sectors
We need all the renewables we can get, and I think you can have both -- utility-scale and rooftop. Rooftop solar (and battery storage) just needs to be cost efficient to offset the rising cost of electricity and make it a good return on investment.

The "attacks on net metering" are merely acknowledging that the proportion of renewables on the grid is high enough that balancing grid supply and demand is becoming an issue. I'm a big proponent of rooftop solar, but the reality is that 1:1 net metering just doesn't make sense once there's a critical mass of solar installed (the duck curve problem). This is not a problem unique to California or the US. If you look at other places with high solar adoption (Australia, EU), you'll find even stricter policies like negative feed-in tariffs: the utility will charge you for exporting solar to the grid.

Battery storage is a solution to that problem, but that's where prices are still too high. I'm actually surprised that battery storage is not mentioned in the article, because that's a critical component of allowing solar/wind to grow further.
If you have a Condorcet winner, sure. In fact, approval voting with "honest" ballots always yields the Condorcet winner if one is expressed†.

Where you get into trouble is that not all elections have a Condorcet winner. In particular:

> The problem with Approval is that we're right back at the Faustian bargain of needing to fully support the lesser evil at the expense of your preferred option.
Because the EU required them to.
West-facing is pretty close to revenue maximizing, with current consumption peaks in the early evening.
Another one from Australia from over a decade ago: https://amp.smh.com.au/technology/super-bad-first-state-set-...
ahh I didn't see the videos, thank you.
I feel like TSA is downplaying it to avoid public backlash. This is not childish or amateur. They are just doing what any government agency would do. If you speak up louder you will get arrested or screwed by some random agency knocking on your door, FYI.
The OP of the comment you answered was pretty much talking about how he uses his mini PC as a server and doing projects on it... and ofc a zero can do everything but at what speed? IOPS is disturbingly slow. I like the Zero for what it is but it's just not a good server fit.
Yes those things are true; albeit the apple to oranges comparison of a home setup vs community baseload provider.

One of the compelling deployment cases is to revamp existing coal fired plants with SMRs, which would be a huge win in addressing climate change.

None of this is meant to disparage or dismiss solar and other renewables; it's meant to be complementary.
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it would be much more, but the us imports 130% of the aluminum it consumes from places with lower energy costs: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2022/mcs2022-aluminum.p...
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