skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is the average base demand over a year.

Then it's not clear where you came up with 13 GW, which is inconsistent with the ~24 GW from the Department of Energy.

> Either way, solving a 24 GW or 35 GW on top of ~20 GW something base is about as easy.

Needing 48GW instead of 24GW would literally double the cost, on top of doubling the cost of renewable generation since you'd need an average of 48GW of that instead of 24 to avoid regular use of a backup system which is presumably fossil fuels. That is not a small difference.

> Which is why nuclear power does not fit modern grids, because they will be required to shut down.

There is no point at which they shut down. They provide baseload. You get 24 GW from nuclear, which is the minimum load on the grid. If you also get something from renewables at this time, that's when you charge your batteries for later. This won't get you a week but allows you to do peak shaving. If the load is 48GW and you get 24GW from nuclear and 24GW from renewables, everything is fine. If the load is 48GW and you get 24GW from nuclear and anything less from renewables, now you discharge the batteries.

And then you only need 24 GW of peaker plants in the event that the batteries are dead and current load exceeds current generation.
The corners of Reddit I inhabit do not suffer from these issues.

I spent a lot of time on usenet in the 1990s discussing politics there (mostly talk.politics.theory which was riven with libertarians). Given that I've lived another 40 years since then, I would simply not bother to do this anymore. Mass discussion of political issues is, in my eyes, mostly a dead end.

By contrast, locale-based subreddits, equipment-based subreddits, how-to-based subreddits remain, in my experience, relative gold mines.
Clarity.fm/adams is me, and clarity in general has pay as you go mentoring / tutoring.

Also, we host a free AI Playground and Workshop every Wednesday at 11am-12:30est.

VCs, devs, film makers, founders, artists, coaches, it’s a cool space.

a@175g.com for an invite

Or just drop into AnthonyDavidAdams.com/zoom
And IsEven! (the not-JS one) https://github.com/Benjlet/IsEven

It looks really innocent. But then you browse it...
I realize this is off topic but I always wonder what causes stories to bounce off the front page. It was on the front page, then suddenly it wasn't in the top 300 posts (I didn't check any further), and now it's back on the front page - all without having a single comment.

EDIT - and after adding this comment, once again this post is nowhere to be found near the front page.
The error response telling me to upgrade to a paid plan isn't in json.

Also, I broke something, maybe in the caching logic. I tried 99999999 then 999999 then 99999 and down, and now I'm currently getting.

~$ curl https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/api/9
Invalid number. Please upgrade to a paid plan to use imaginary, non-real, or non-numeric numbers.

also fails on 8.
Llama 8B at 1800 tokens per second on Cerebras
I'm curious that the authors missed one basic explanation: food scarcity will force people into terrible decisions for survival. Maybe that measure is a gradient, not binary - the less food you have the more likely you are needing to steal or otherwise supplement income to feed yourself.

It's not the 'well fed' stabbing you in the alley for your wallet.
Smart Light Database
Wouldn’t it make sense to learn the basics with udemy or
Datacamp and then hit the expert at more mid tier knowledge level?
> Databases that are built into the application by default are the future. Our computers are definitely big enough.

That assumes local applications themselves are the future, and that assumption has grown ever weaker and weaker with everyone and their dog going cloud-only (or starting as a SaaS in the first place) to grab all the sweet sweet recurring subscription revenue.
Maybe it's just me, but I think people tend to drive by memory leaks nowadays because the footprint of binaries has grown, but the size of ram has grown more-erly. Proper big.

I routinely run on 1TB memory 128 core racks, and I don't worry about free() much.

I'm not humblebragging, I actually think this is lazy (!) and I would benefit from more explicitly thinking about the memory consequences of what I do but there are some things which I used to freak out about growing to GB and now, I regard it as an investment on the future me, running the same thing: It's very likely I've got it in a hash structure of some kind already. I just add columns to the dict() elements.

Down the other end, I recall some friends getting code which I expected to have to run on a major rack host to build onto a small memory model rPi and they said rust did that: allowed them to get rid of the overhang of other languages expectations to runtime size and be explicit about use and free in the heap.
Who has "an" application server though? Those of us who came up through PHP/Rails/Flask and even much of the modern microservices world were taught to do stateless, probably load-balanced application tiers with shared DB, maybe cache, maybe message queue. Both for scalability and redundancy.

Redundant SQLite is not impossible [0] but it is definitely less mature and well-known than replicated MySQL or Postgres.

[0] https://litestream.io/
not if you live in a country with an unstable or corrupt gov't
Since both SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose are declarative and semantic user-interface frameworks, components are generally presented in what the system believes to be the "correct" layout. So if you have a `SwiftUI.VStack` (which translates to a Compose `Column`) of buttons and text fields, then they will generally be presented with the "correct" spacing and alignment for the platform.

That being said, there is often plenty of need for customization with any but the most trivial app. So Skip has a lot of options for that, which is covered in the Platform Customization guide at https://skip.tools/docs/platformcustomization/.
What actions do you find slow and laggy? There are definitely UX improvements, but I don't find either laggy on the multiple platforms I use them on, as long as I have a good network connection.
The PureOS site <https://pureos.net/> is still up, which makes upgrades etc. unaffected, thankfully.

Nothing yet on their X: <https://x.com/puri_sm>
A Slash-Why Proposal
Show HN: E2E-Mailbox, NPM package for ensuring emails send in your int-tests
Hey HackerNews, I'm Allyn and some time ago I noticed a gap in my integration tests: emails. Emails play a vital role in the user's experience of a service, whether it's a notification, confirmation, or forgot password email. If I made a test to register a user, I had no simple way to check if the confirmation email was sent, or better yet, confirm the email address itself.

Similarly, if I wanted to test a password reset feature, I had no easy way to pull the reset pin from the "forgot password" email.

That's why I created E2E-Mailbox, an open-source NPM package that allows you to generate disposable emails and pull their contents in test environments for free. The email services are provided by DeveloperMail and GuerrillaMail, and since these are free services susceptible to service disruption, if one provider is down, the other would be used automatically.

This way, you could guarantee the correct emails are sending to the recipients of your service, and write end to end tests that take action on the info contained in those emails.

Thank you, and any feedback would be welcomed!
heh, parsing PDF files from the wild is practically a community driven fuzzer
When Reality Came Undone
> Like, if we’re going to have nonstandard sql, let’s just fix a whole bunch of things, not just one or two?

I think they intentionally kept themselves away from massive redesign of the languages, which has a good chance of becoming multi decades of frustrating death march. I know a number of such cases from C++ standard proposals and probably the team wanted to avoid it.
I think the "hosted flavors of SQLite" would be doing the type of trick Litestream does: streaming the WAL to other copies of the database. The copy you interact with is still local.
Hmm But I assume the fire must leave a lot of unburnt charcoal, so the fire over all might still be carbon neutral?
I feel like this requires an assumption that any post you flag is equally likely to be flagged by other users, and at a similar time as you, in other words that your flagging behavior is very similar to others that use this feature.

I guess this might give you a pretty nice upper estimate though. Unless N is very high / very few users use the feature, and you are frequently much later to the scene as the average user of the feature. Then N may be underestimated.
I think so. It depends however on how fast I think I am compared to the other flaggers. If I was really, really fast I could always be the first flagger.
If you like the aesthetic of this window manager, you may also like NsCDE:

https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE

I've personally used it on old 1.3 GHz P-III system running Debian 10, it's remarkably fast and usable even on such old hardware.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 grounded after failing landing attempt
At least when I looked into it last, it was less about price and more about availability. NIC's are easy to get, but the switches were a 50+ week lead time. I'm sure it has come down now though at least for my business, we are just focused on ethernet now. We can do 128 NIC's @ 400G into a single Dell Z9864F using ethernet. Few will need proprietary solutions for this as there are lower hanging fruit.
We do have a showcase app, literally called "Showcase": https://skip.tools/docs/samples/skipapp-showcase/. It is available on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, so you can compare the two experiences side-by-side, if you have both an iOS and Android device.

No "built with" list yet, but coming soon…
In that case you’re at risk no matter what you do.
They missed https://clownstrike.lol, though.
Again, I think you are focusing on differences at the fringes. I understand your argument, and I think my contention with your view is perhaps tainted by the fact that I have met people with similar viewpoints who ultimately arrive at the conclusion "I can only be sure that I am real, everyone else is a construct of my mind" and I find that view to be completely despicable and even moreso- completely asinine. But this isn't really what you are saying. You are right, it is quite clear that consciousness is some kind of spectrum, and people have different, perhaps even wildly different qualia from the same stimuli.
My only real contention, I suppose, is that this does not suggest at all that some people are so different that we can only consider them to be virtual, without consciousness, or even simply constructs of our own imagination.
wouldnt make more sense to train using microsoft flight simulator the same way they did DOOM, but im not sure what the point is if the game already exists
Skip is definitely a great way to ease into the Android dev world.

Lots of options for adding platform-specific code - including being able to directly call Kotlin/Java APIs from your Swift, move back and forth between SwiftUI and Compose, etc.

https://skip.tools/docs/platformcustomization/
I see. We're in two threads and looping. I replied to this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383588

In summary, you probably can and Disney won't care, but it is technically not allowed outside of fair use constraints. It's not legal in the same realm that it's illegal to ride a bike in a swimming pool in Baldwin Park,CA. Key point: don't make money, don't be stupid, and don't be unlikeable.

Even then, most platforms control the content and they probably won't defend you and would take it down. That's not a legal matter so much as a platform policy.

>people aren't getting sued for drawing Mickey Mouse for personal use because Disney would rather go after the big guys.

It's even simpler than that. If a lawyer costs $10k to run a small claims case, and they have a shaky chance (fair use) or a low payout, it's not profitable to go after you.

That's why other factors need to come into play, like potential brand damage, scaring off imitators, or simply pissing off the wrong lawyer somehow.
If they previously crewed on a yacht called "LLM" then this is suspicious, but perhaps this is just an outlier event?

Naming the yacht like that creates sentences which beg questions. Three crew investigated over the sinking of the yacht 'Bayesian' might have been kinder. Or, not calling the yacht after an adjective. (I appreciate this fault lies between the yacht owner and the headline owner, not the submitter here)
Yes it would be. At first.

Probably as good as it was for German armaments manufacturers pre-1945.

That China war might have been winnable if it had been started by 2020. Now, probably not.
The archive purpose isn't circumventing login, but archiving. They wouldn't want people to default to using them in lieu of the websites you mentioned, anyway.

The reader app's purpose is organising different x posts into a more coherent article, actually readable. While the content is a concatenation of x posts, it's an article by itself.

It sounds to me like you want to enforce rules for the sake of enforcing rules. There doesn't seem to be a reason other than that in your comment. X makes this website's experience worse, so let's follow the spirit of the rules when our interactions are considerably better, and not be rule extremists.

HN has repeatedly broken its own rules for the sake of making things better for HN. The same thing happens here.
Did you find it superior to Valgrind in some way?
This may sound like conspiracy theory but often this is exactly how corporations work - especially the highly visible ones. While I am not saying the reasons point by this person are exactly the reason but there's no reason to believe things aren't souring somewhere else in the company.

This is what the PR department is for. When something in one part of the company goes bad and could be publicly visible, the CEO asks head of PR to funnel a positive story across various channels. You identify these PR-only messages by seeing if it is backed by data or by fluff.

Remember the Amazon PR about saving 4500 years of dev time - yeah riiigghhthtt.
That demo page told me everything I needed to know about not using that framework. There's no right-click to copy the text, and there's similarly no context menu to open links in a new tab, or copy their URL
There exists Ghidra ... :-)
https://archive.md/a8SvF
Dell's rugged line has a serial port standard AND gives you the option of having an additional serial port! Now if they would only make a 4 serial port version then we could hook up the jet engine software we have without an adapter....
It truly is. I am not sure how one can be so detached from reality. To many people one million a year is a LOT. In the US many jobs pay 16 USD per hour or less, and you may not even work every day of the week.

Let us assume that you earn 16 USD per hour and you work 8 hours a day for 5 days a week, you would earn 33280 USD per year before taxes and deducations. Nowhere near a damn million.
I don't think it's especially polite to assume someone's degree of marginalization, marginalized people can also disagree on what moderation tools are desirable
> Technology is a vast field, you can't expect everyone "in tech" to know all corners of "tech".

I believe the keyboard sequence Ctrl+t > 'purism' > return would've been faster and more productive than writing a comment.
> "I hope the Military is allowed to repair their equipment. In a war, that ability is mandatory."

Even more than the right to repair, a lot of stuff designed for use in war should be designed right from day one with easy repairability (and if necessary "Jerry-rigging" it) in the field first and foremost in mind during the design process (as often was the case at some point in the past). Anything less risks human lives.
Everyone already knew they were going to be impressive so the stock price reflected that, and so it fell because they were expecting it to be slightly more impressive than it already was.
LINQ yes, but they killed off the component not long after introducing it.
Wouldn't be surprised. The 4th largest browser is a mere 2.7% of the market. What about the fifth and sixth? If I had to decide how to allocate testing hours, I probably wouldn't put much into the 2.7% vs the top 3 with 88%.
I'm sorry, this entire comment does not make any sense to me. What do you mean by "work"? in your second paragraph you keep using "it" without Identifying what "it" is. Also you keep saying "loop back" I don't understand what you mean by this. This sounds a little like some LSD-style word salad.
It's wild how if this were a plan to bail out banks or corporations it wouldn't even merit a second glance.

According to the Supreme Court, Biden would have better legal standing just sending black ops goons to shoot the owners of lending companies in the head than he would forgiving student loans. God forbid the US not be able to burden an entire generation with a lifetime of crippling debt from predatory loans at exorbitant interest rates that can't even be excused in bankruptcy. Gotta keep that gas lit.
Telegram boss banned from leaving France in criminal probe
To warn future researchers they will be wasting their time if they join.

I know some folks don't care about reputations, but this guy already established a reputation as a leader and should not have to do what he did to justify working on a project (PhD in his field from MIT, worked at AT&T as an MTS, which was a coveted role, for almost 2 decades, professor at a Tier 1 university. To me, if somebody with that level of background at high-value institutions is willing to write this, it means it's true, and important, and should be paid attention to by the appropriate constituency.
Is that so? Would you mind giving me some breadcrumbs then?
Interesting that imprinting on the individual transcends their morphing into this petrol driven creature. Presumably the birds get a sense of "who" not "what" very early on. The drive to both migrate, and follow-the-leader must be strong.

How do they train them to take roles in the lead of the "V" ?

Are they going to have to lead the flock every migration season from now on until a timely death?

It makes me think the pantomime dressing up as Condor might not be needed (which is done to avoid human imprinting I believe: the feeders wear condor-head arm puppets to feed the babies)
Whataboutism. And Woah what a great standard! Better than an actual dictatorial regime! Who could wish for more
Echo chambers and media bias are a universal problem; it certainly doesn't only affect tech billionaires. Maybe we expect "elites" to be less biased and consume information in a more intelligent way than the general public? TBH Silicon Valley still leans overwhelmingly left of center, and the individuals the author mentions are able to draw so much attention because they are an exception to the historic ideology of Silicon Valley.
I was watching a WW2 documentary yesterday and learned Nazi Germany’s encryption had already been (mostly) cracked by the time they entered the war, which (don’t quote me) significantly influenced the outcome of the war. They thought their communications were encrypted, but that was a false belief.

It got me thinking. Once someone truly does break current gen encryption via quantum or otherwise, how much time would go by before it is made known to the public that the encryption is broken?

It seems the safest path forward is to assume encryption is broken and move to post-quantum crypto before we “need” to.
One thing I've never understood regarding valgrind - other than intentional leaks, are suppression files ever actually used due to an actual false positive, or is it just due to the bug being in someone else's code that's annoying to fix?

"We implement our own memory allocator" is no excuse; the primitives you use should be hooked by valgrind so at most there should be false negatives due to your allocations being larger than the user-facing ones ...
I remember that time that a friend of mine had a BBS that used ZCPR3

http://kc85.info/index.php/magazines-mainmenu/morrow-owners-...

which would let you drop to the command line in a heavily tricked-out version of CP/M. He told me it was unbreakable and go ahead and try, so I started up BASIC and wrote something like

10 FOR I=0 TO 65535
20 PRINT I
30 POKE I,0
40 NEXT

which got to 100 and something before the machine crashed and disconnected. He didn’t think that counted as “breaking” it but he did say he was amused that it reset the real time clock to zero.
I'm glad side effects are mild for you, but obviously a single anecdote doesn't contradict data from millions of other users.
I recall having problems moving notes, and getting rid of extra rests or changing rests to the right duration... somehow the very behavior that you'd expect a computer to help you with when creating a score was not allowed.

I realize this is a pretty vague complaint, but I just don't remember exactly what the hangups were. I'll have to give it another shot.
> ... "like a blackhole laps up pretty much everything in it's vicinity."

That right there might be just about the most accurate analogy for unchecked greed I've read in quite a long while.
> If you're referring to the military industrial complex, I don't think this is what Eisenhower was warning about.

The opposition to the "right to repair" is coming from the "military industrial complex"

That complex is the nexus of industrial players who have become to feel entitled to anything they want

That is what they are doing with the opposition to "right to repair" and that is what, in general terms (he was predicting the future - cut him some slack) Eisenhower was warning about.
I see contradictory statements: some media report that warrant for Durov brothers was issued in March 2024 [2], yet, france24 [1] claims that:

> In a subsequent statement, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said Durov was arrested as part of a probe into an unnamed person launched by the office's cybercrime unit on July 8.

So the probe was launched in July, but the warrant was issued in March? I do not understand that. Was warrant issued on a different case? Is information about warrant incorrect?

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240826-telegram-ceo-pav...

[2] https://www.politico.eu/article/exclusive-telegram-ceo-broth...
You don't know how many times I've seen people claim that they had two redundant connections, when those connections clearly rode the same conduit across a bridge not half a mile down the road. No, I don't care what your traceroute says, the backhoe knows otherwise.
The article concludes with the following perfectly obvious conclusion:

>coincidences do and should make us ask questions about the circumstances that produced them. Sometimes, though, all we will find is that truth can be stranger than fiction.

The title is intentionally provocative just to get us to read something rather mundane.
As someone who has to purchase rugged laptops for users at my job... Dell has nailed away with the Toughbook market for us. When I first started Panasonic was the only game in town but Dell saw the market size and has done a great job. Now I can just deal with one vendor.

They have 2 levels of "ruggedness" and the one that works for most field work can be purchased for less than $2,000 new through the Dell Business Outlet.
But it's not hiding them from public view, it's hiding them from the view of your followers

It's a different problem than censorship, more of a split reality issue, each person sees a different world
Yes but it is not very durable and the blade dulls quickly, hence all the effort on fancy steel blades.
Yeah, I feel like this is like GIF… the word takes on a life of its own, and the creator of the name does not get final say.
Congrats. Will check it out. What is special about your parser? Any high level design/architecture decisions that you can share? From your graphs, it seems to perform much better than simdjson which seems to be SOA in C++ land.