skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Kragen, small world! At an individual scale, I think plan B is pretty much always a small tri-fuel generator. At a society scale, it's probably a natural gas turbine. If batteries continue to follow their own price curve down, storage may well be a viable answer to 95%+ dunkelflautes at some point in our lifetimes.

I'm curious about the land use analysis and the embodied energy. Given the capacity factor inherent in my climate, will solar panels ever pay off the energy used to make, ship, and install them? Similar question for batteries. And how much land do we need to cover to handle the P95 dark/calm weeks?

Anyway, interesting stuff. Solar continues to eat the world, slowly but surely. :)
I bet Nvidia would quite like that too. Private and public-sector funding, theirs for the taking! Few businesses are ever so lucky.
Great article. Readers might also be interested in this:

Trust develops gradually via making bids and setting boundaries — https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7CKF6r8MegtcCWDbT/trust-deve....
Thank you for the information. To me, that policy sounds absurd and inhumane; is it perceived that way in Australia, or do people generally believe that this is a reasonable way of doing things?
Nostalgia, no links about AI!
(updated above now as well. Thanks!)
From page 11 of the decision:

"We reach this conclusion specifically because TikTok’s promotion of a Blackout Challenge video on Nylah’s FYP was not contingent upon any specific user input. Had Nylah viewed a Blackout Challenge video through TikTok’s search function, rather than through her FYP, then TikTok may be viewed more like a repository of third-party content than an affirmative promoter of such content."
They automatically occupy that position because in practice no user of a microsoft system can audit the entire "supply chain" of that system, unlike one built from open-source components. Any "control" someone has over "their own" system is ultimately incomplete when there is a company that owns and controls the operating system itself and has the sole power to both fix and inspect it
Great, now my YouTube recommendations are also on HN...
None of the alternatives like RN or Flutter will allow you to skip learning about a specific platform if you have a platform-specific bug or issue.
Forget Firefox as a fix. Call your legislators and explain this Google Chrome funny business to them.
The contract is likely structured into "Scope of Work" and "Ongoing Maintenance and Support" to help justify this cost.
Wtf does that even mean?
Rare deluge could hit parts of Sahara that never get rain this time of year
> People say tmux is more powerful. Whatever that means?

I very rarely use screen/tmux nowadays, but as I recall tmux is a better fit for someone who wants to script their interaction. It makes it easy to send keys to other panes/windows in the session, and also to capture the content from other existing panes/windows.
My beef is with the fact that the battery powered switch wants to be paired with the thing it directly controls and cannot be used alone with it just controlling something that is on the other side of the tradfri gateway. The five button round one apparently can be used for that, but the two position square one can't.

By the way the tradfri gateway is weird piece of hardware, the thing is mostly empty and only contains small board with apparently the same RFSoC as all the other tradfri peripherals connected somehow to ethernet PHY…
The price to get solar installed in the US is insanely high compared to the cost of the materials. I've seen my extended family get quotes north of 40k for modest installs. I got a modest system with batter for around 9k in the EU, and id say I'd install the same for under 5k at today's prices.
Using WordPress packages on the front end
> The fact that one system might be too complex to contain doesn't rule out a much smaller system that can sit quite happily in the mind of a single person.

Yes, definitely. Also that complex systems can be reduced to smaller and simpler ones where making a decision doesn't have to mean unleashing a cosmic horror.

> I'd also like to thank you for bringing up the consequences of choice. Maybe I'll add that as an extra section at some point, as I feel I have a lot to say about it.

Sounds great. I really enjoyed your post.

I've often been in these situations where a customer will ask why a certain thing works a certain way and I'll overhear the discussion between the developers who, as it turns out, only inherited that decision from somebody else, but the response is all the same: "This is the intended behaviour". Even though nobody currently at the company ever intended it to behave that way. We might placate the customer by mentioning we might take a look at it in the future, but it's the same as a user accepting the defaults. The current owner accepts the current behaviour and becomes complicit in the design decision, even implicitly becoming the reason why it persists until the next owner (and probably every owner after that).
Because it's not a government website, it's a company the government contracts with.
Moral attitudes towards effort and efficiency in American and Chinese history
There is nothing in the double slit experiment that makes collapse necessarily an objective reality. There is in fact no way to check if collapse of the wave function has happened or not.

I imagine you're thinking of the version of the double slit experiment with a detector installed next to one of the slits, which prevents the interference pattern from forming. However, this only applies for a "measurement device" installed at the slits. That is, a classical system interacting with the photon/electron/etc before it hits the classical screen. But this is not mysterious at all: the classical device causes decoherence of the wave function and thus prevents self-interference of the beams traveling through the two slots. That is true even in interpretations that consider that wave function collapse is not a physical phenomenon, such as Many Worlds.

But this doesn't prove much. We already know that a photon hitting an atom doesn't cause wave function collapse, while a photon hitting a detector does. We can say that an atom is not a measurement device and an observer is, but this immediately raises the question of why. Or, we can choose the MWI route and say that the wave function never collapses, and the only difference between an atom and a detector is that we are not entangled with that atom, but we are entangled with the detector. And if so, it immediately follows that if we could get a detector that we are not entangled with, we would not see the same results as we do in the traditional double slit + detector on a slit experiment.
Bahrain and UAE being big aluminum smelters is a bit surprising.
Really cool idea! You may want to update the explainer video to use a different example of incorrect logger usage though. The current example (https://youtu.be/ObIepiXfVx0?si=-lumV_0ShKLpNl_h&t=203) claims that the use of Println is incorrect and logger.Info should be used instead. However, that would break the command in question as the command is outputting the current configuration as YAML. By using logger.Info, the additional logging prefix would make the user's life more difficult when they presumably output the command into a file or attempt to copy and paste the output. I'm sure that over time Patchwork will learn how to filter out these false-positives, but perhaps it's not the best thing to show off in the demo.
I thought you misunderstood domain privacy, but I think you are on to something here reviewing this myself.
I'm using Beelink SER 6 pro from the last couple of years. It has been great; no issues so far. Got it for cheap in one of the sales.
Easy to Overlook PostgreSQL Performance Issues in Rails Apps
Yes, it isn't being paranoid, this is what happens. If you respond in any way, even to tell them to stop, it confirms the number as an active number and your number then becomes valuable. They then either won't let up on contacting you or will sell your now confirmed/valuable number onwards to people that want to buy active numbers for their own, usually nefarious, purposes.
Ok, but why then, if storage is not a big problem of solar power, the US has 179 gigawatts of installed solar capacity with rated power of all grid storage on the US grid being 31.6 GW, of that only 4.8 GW being battery storage. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_Stat...
[2] https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/us-grid...
Around here, cost of solar have risen recently. Even though there still is the stimulus rule that any surplus put into the net can be extracted later (ie., the net functions like a storage facility for any residential installation), recently, power companies have started charging for returning energy. Quite massively too - the difference with their sale price is 2-4 cents/KWhr.

While there are good (as well as bad) reasons for this, the upshot is that the RoI for residential installations changed abruptly and became significantly worse - more or less overnight.

Due to that, and the low cost of the panels themselves, whether they become cheaper isn't very relevant for the market here (since other costs dominate).
The current state of sandboxing
It's essentially search-space limitation, based on what you want to nudge the engine into responding with.

I.e. what power users used to do with Google, before it decided to ignore user intent
Related:

Two Dots Too Many (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9900758 - July 2015 (38 comments)
This is the kind of software that makes me excited, the future is going to be so much less wasted resources and so much more time spent building!
Major publishers sue Florida over 'unconstitutional' book ban law
Seems like there are so many hit pieces out there anymore because they don't like someone or something.

What happen to fact based reporting.... :(
Great question, and this shows why we could never get a 100% efficient solar panel. Otherwise your scheme would brak thermodynamics.

The most efficient possible way to convert sunlight to electricity is ~86% and is related to the second law of thermodynamics. So we use the heat flow from a hot reservoir (sun) to a cold reservoir (earth) and are able to convert some of that heat into work (electricity) which can then be used to heat something else to a higher temperature without breaking the second law.
> You live in France, so the major tech powers don't have unregulated power.

Because that's reserved for the government? :)
It doesn't, this is a snapshot of the costs now, you know what they were 5 years ago you can extrapolate a curve. The costs are still falling and will continue to fall.

I should be able to supply a data point of the cost of panels today without getting admonished as being off-topic, rtfm.
The Tiwai Point aluminum smelter uses 13% of New Zealand's electricity [0]

It's overseas owners are constantly playing hardball with the country over the price they pay. Feels like every year they threaten to shut the smelter down unless they get better electricity rates.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwai_Point_Aluminium_Smelte...
I'm not talking about the arctic circle. This applies to Northern US, Sourthern Canada. And for that matter, a good chunk of the EU.
My first model is pretty janky and definitely built as a one-off, lots of hard-coded stuff in the arduino code I wrote for it that are specific to my setup. I've been thinking about making a new, more streamlined version that could be fully assembled by a fab and sent ready to flash and wire up into an HVAC system. And of course, I'll publicly release the KiCAD files and code for that when it's ready! :)
> Purchasing refrigerant requires an EPA number.

Why can I buy as many cans of it that I want for my car then? Is the stuff used in house systems that different?
Unfortunately we're in kind of the worst of all possible worlds here too. Not only do we want to "automate" these kinds of tests, but governments have bought into the "security through obscurity" arguments of tech giants, so the degree to which these automations can even be meaningfully improved is gated in practice by whoever owns the tech itself approving of some auditor (whether automated or human) even looking at it. The author of this article takes the serious risk of retaliation by even looking into this
I think there are a few very interesting ways this could play out.

Option 1: ByteDance appeals, loses, and the ruling stands

Option 2: ByteDance appeals, wins, and the ruling is overturned

Option 3: ByteDance doesn’t appeal, the ruling stands, and nobody has standing to appeal the ruling without bringing a new case.
Seems absurd to include Kotlin Multiplatform with Flutter and RN, given KMM is far less user-friendly.
It would be nice if this cost was actually all broken out; the grid operator should charge for connectivity, the various energy providers should charge for the energy itself.

Net metering could still make sense; your residential solar installation might make enough to cover the gap.
From my reading, if the site only shows you based on your selections, then it wouldn't be liable. For example, if someone else with the exact same selections gets the same results, then that's not their platform deciding what to show.

If it does any customization based on what it knows about you, or what it tries to sell you because you are you, then it would be liable.

Yep., recommendation engines would have to be very carefully tuned, or you risk becoming liable. Recommending only curated content would be a way to protect yourself, but that costs money that companies don't have to pay today. It would be doable.
How Is GCC IR Different from LLVM IR?
I've used tmux for ages and would go back if zellij ceased to exist, but I found zellij so much more discoverable. Want to do something new? Chances are there's a menu for it.
All of that data is already available, just look into “shadow libraries”. Now, I do wish Meta and other companies would publish their data sets and we, as humanity, could improve upon them and empower even better LLMs, but the unfortunate reality is copyright is holding us back. Most of what you say is essentially gibberish, but there is truth that LLMs would be better if it could not only utilize its weights, but reference and search its training data (that is collectively owned by humanity, by the way) and answer with that and not just what it “thinks”.
Social Security has implemented Login.gov integration. IRS returned detailed feedback that GSA is working on.
Show HN: We built a Chrome extension AI Fantasy Draft Assistant
The problem with that idea is that we don't have any other model, and little room for it. We already know from Bell's inequality and the experiments that verified it that there can't be underlying variables that we haven't detected yet (or if they exist, we have to rethink special relativity and by extension QFT). It's also quite hard to explain why the wave function is so good at predicting the results of experiments if it's not a part of the underlying reality.
> [if] you want to retain as much precision as possible and still use floats, don't store it in a float with range [0.0,100.0]. Store it with the range [0.0,1.0].

I just tested this out and it doesn't seem true.

The two storing methods seem similarly precise over most of the range of fractions [0,1], sometimes one gives lower spacing, sometimes the other. For instance, for fractions from 0.5 to 0.638 we get smaller spacing if using [0,100], but for 0.638 to 1 the spacing is smaller if storing in [0,1].

For very small fractions (< 1e-38), it also seems more accurate to store in the range [0,100] since you are representing smaller numbers with the same bit pattern. That is, because the smallest nonzero positive float32 is 1.40129846e-45, so if you store as a float32 range [0,1] that's the smallest possible representable fraction, but if you're storing as a float in range[0,100], that actually represents a fraction 1.40129846e-47, which is smaller.

For the general result, see for yourself in python/numpy:

x = np.linspace(0,1,10000)
plt.plot(x, np.float64(np.spacing(np.float32(x*100)))/100) # plot spacing stored as [0,100]
plt.plot(x, np.float64(np.spacing(np.float32(x)))) # plot spacing stored as [0,1]
> Around here

Where?
Similar set up with a dotfile repo then I use GNU Stow to manage my dotfiles once I clone the repo.
Yeah, but buying a hammer and hitting yourself with it is different.

The dangers of social media are unknown to most still.
Restrict is treated as a no-op in Fil-C. Fil-C offers no escape hatch from memory safety, period.
How many of the software engineers, project managers, and sparkle-shoe consultants from Deloitte are on Medicaid?
I now need to deliberately choose the sites I browse to avoid those that work with the stupid closeAI?
> The value of those kinds of blanket security audits is questionable,

You're totally right. Why are people afraid to say that they're worthless? Why caveat or equivocate?

Adversaries in computer security do not mince words.
A kitchen remodel in a high income city in the US is 75k-100k for something basic. The lopsidedness of US prices for light construction projects is a huge problem.
Not true, Ruby and Python are absurdly slow at even trivial tasks. Moving stuff around in memory, which is most of what a webapp is, is expensive. Lots of branches is gonna be really expensive too.
> given the point of this is not having to learn android

We wouldn't say that is the point of using Skip. The benefit you get from using Skip is that you can use a single language and a single framework for building your app, and you can iterate on your app's development without needing to constantly context-swift between different worlds.

But there is no denying that at some point, you will need to interact with the Android universe: you will need to run the app on an Android emulator or device to test it, you will need to use Android Studio (or IntelliJ) to run the app in a debugger, you will need to grapple with the Android-specific nuances of deploying you app to the Play Store.
No clue! We'll see how they play out in time I guess.
Using Custom LLM Evaluations to Build Reliable AI Applications
Sounds good, thanks for the feedback! Would open-sourcing CodeViz change your willingness to give it a try?

Definitely agree that rigor is a tricky term here, do you think the open-ended nature of C4 diagrams is a feature, not a bug? We've found in practice that top level diagram generation is both an art and a science, maybe it ought to stay that way.

In any case, shooting you a PM to set up some time to chat, and thanks again for the input!
It's fine that it's enough for you and I applaud you. I was also not only talking about CPU but also IOPs some of us have more demand on what we call a server. I don't understand how you can be so defensive about a piece of hardware it's actually rather concerning and my zero w 2 does have problems with FullHD streams with high bitrates. It doesn't even have the io bandwidth to push more than one stream.
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Not just the USDS (as the USDS is a small part of a larger effort), the GSA as a whole is pushing for this. They maintain a lot of open source software for the federal and state governments and they try to do open by default and FOSS COTS where they can.

Just the main GSA github org has over 1000 repos in it.

https://github.com/GSA/

https://open.gsa.gov/
Everyone says this but when people say "critical thinking skills" it really means "is obvious they will willfully disobey the instructions given to them by the judge and hold their own moral/ethical code above the law."

You're literally describing jury nullification in a situation where by the hypothetical judge's instructions they're obviously guilty. I might agree with you that the law is bullshit but by right you and I should be dismissed.
Libya's Central Bank Coup Turns to Farce with Plea for Passwords
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting personal attacks and flamewar-style comments. You can't do that here, no matter how wrong another person is or you feel they are.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I wouldn't count the Privacy Sandbox doublespeak as "telling you". Brave is not my browser, but it seems completely unjustified to just put them on the same (or even lower) level as Chrome.
>All I know is they rearchitected Slack recently so that now the mobile app feels asynchronous, in a bad way.

I feel like Office 365, specifically outlook, is like that probably for similar reasons. Unread counts and such on the mobile app are never right, and it was fine when our servers were on prem and I was using the mobile app.
That subsection of 230 is about protecting you from being sued for moderating, like being sued by the people who posted the content you took down.

The "my moderation makes me liable for everything I don't moderate" problem, that's what's addressed by the preceding section, the core of the law and the part that's most often at issue, which says that you can't be treated as publisher/speaker of anyone else's content.
Umm yeah there are tons of examples in Github repos.
Those are for truck drivers and those carrying dangerous goods
The Blackwall Tunnel in London has those signs starting something like ten miles south (ie on the edge of the city!), to try an ensure such vehicles don’t reach the tunnel unwittingly and force it to be closed.
Yes, some code is sent to Anthropic. We're hoping to: find initial users that are comfortable with software copilots (github copilot, cursor, etc) -> iterate on their feedback to make diagram generation require less sophisticated LLMs -> move everything locally
Thanks for catching this and providing the feedback. We're iterating very hard to make sure the fixes are indeed always fixes!

I won't waste the chance to engage a logging connoisseur – could you see yourself using this if the hit rate was 99%?
> single-use tool websites use Google's login

Topic drift, but no tools should use google login. Doing that means handing over to google the authority to decide who can and can't use your tool. And we all know google support is nonexistent and unreachable, so once it fails it's forever.

If you market a tool, you'd really want to own the decision on who you can sell it to.

For a government organization though, I'd agree it makes sense to use a government-run login service. (government run, not outsourced so some for-profit third party!)
Okay but if it's not your project then, to you, it should be a nothing burger.

> but it is the correct name for the master version

Why? Literally why? Main means the exact same thing, it's equally correct. Why choose THIS hill to die on? This is what I'm talking about.
To me the key thing with any TCP implementation is the timers. Just sending a single TCP packet causes the kernel to have to track a lot of state and then operate asynchronously from your program to manage this state, which also requires the kernel to manage packet buffering and queuing for you.
Am I understanding this correctly? The judge didn't like what X did (or didn't do) so he is making moves against StarLink, which would allow users to potentially bypass the censorship this judge is pushing for.
If you're interested in the latter technique (hitting the HW directly from userspace), take a look at https://www.dpdk.org/. That's the framework that 95% of things that do that use (number pulled directly out of my rear end).
“On mobile? Add a calendar reminder to install CodeViz”

This is genius
4chan is actually moderated too.