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> With this ruling, HN is suddenly responsibly for all posts here specifically because of the moderation.

I think this is a mistaken understanding of the ruling. In this case, TikTok decided, with no other context, to make a personalized recommendation to a user who visited their recommendation page. On HN, your front page is not different from my front page. (Indeed, there is no personalized recommendation page on HN, as far as I'm aware.)
The middle of a large desert is effectively free land, and perfect for solar. I don't see how space could ever be more economical in any respect. If beaming energy gets cheaper than transmission lines, we can beam it point-to-point on the earth too.
I remember as a child being on a school tour of the Enrico Fermi nuclear plant South of Detroit being told that nuclear power would soon become too cheap to monitor. This was over sixty years ago!

So I am a bit skeptical. I also remember around 1975 getting all excited about solar and getting told that costs were dropping so fast that in five years solar would be cheaper than power produced from coal or natural gas. Close to fifty years later I am still waiting.

I bet if you're in San Diego, Dallas or Tampa its already there. We have tons of solar getting built in the state of Michigan area but if you inquire its all either government subsidized or wealthy folks who can afford to not care about the economics.

I am not against solar in the least. But it needs to be pointed out that those of us in the Northern climates need a Plan B whether it be nuclear, geo-thermal or something else.
> are not an issue with Julia (eg memory safety)

Note that Julia does allow memory unsafety, for example you can mark array accesses with `@inbounds` to remove bound checks, kinda like how you can use `unsafe` in Rust except it looks much less scary.

It also doesn't help that the official example for how to use it safe was actually not safe [1]. Granted, this is just a single example and has been fixed since then, but it doesn't give a nice impression of their mindset when dealing with memory safety.

More in general there doesn't seem to be a strong mindset for correctness either. See [2] for a collection of such issues.

[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39367

[2]: https://yuri.is/not-julia/
> an organic use of an altered meaning. The term is imposed by huge corporations who force it

LLMs were entirely proprietary. In that context, Facebook put forward a foundational model one can run on their own hardware and called it open.

At the time, nobody had defined what an open-source LLM was. People came out to say Llama wasn't open. But nobody rigorously proposed a practical definition. The OSI has started, but they're being honest about it being a draft. In the meantime, people are organically discussing open versus proprietary models in a variety of contexts, most of which aren't particularly concerned with the OSI's definitions.
> freedom of speech and strong arm social media

I also see a billionaire strong arming a sovereign nation to push their propaganda machine down their throat.
K so several of the most well-funded tech companies on the planet sink literally billions of dollars into psyops research to reinforce addictive behavior and average parents are expected to successfully compete against it with...a lecture.
> The one thing I'd say is that the market is rife with non-mainstream brands.

Brands in the far east are quite different and less important than in western markets; to me it seems there are say 5 manufacturers that build OEM products that 30 will relabel with their brand and put into their box, then give to 1000 sellers, each one running like 30 shops on Aliexpress, Ebay and Amazon.
Numbers are totally made up of course, the point is that the name isn't that important over there as the very same product can be (and often is) rebranded in many different ways.
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It's not a loophole. That's the intended meaning, otherwise it would be a violation of freedom of association.

That doesn't mean anyone is free to promote content without liability, just that moderating by deleting content doesn't make it an "expressive product."
That depends on where you live. In my area, labor is cheap and the costs of panels, batteries and inverters came down significantly over the last 5 years. You can now break even on electricity costs for a residential pitched-roof installation in under 5 years. This is without any subsidies, without selling anything back to the grid.

Utility-scale solar installations also make a lot of sense, but around here transmission capacity for that is still a massive issue. You can install more transmission capacity, but it's not cheap.
In a working democratic system, this kind of deed should be malfeasance in office and in minimum lead to the termination of the employment

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malfeasance_in_office

Basically a wilful misconduct.

However the balance of powers in Brazil are different from common law, or are corrupted, so we see what comes out of this.
Government is force. It is laws, police, courts and the ability to seriously screw up your life if it chooses.

A corporation might have "power" in an economic sense. It might have market significant presence in the marketplace. That presence might pressure or influence you in certain ways that you would prefer it not, such as the fact that all of your friends and family are customers/users of that faceless corporation.

But what the corporation cannot do is put you in jail, seize your assets, prevent you from starting a business, dictate what you can or can't do with your home etc.

Government is a necessary good. I'm no anarchist. But government is far more of a potential threat to liberty than the most "powerful" corporation could ever be.
I'm kinda hoping World Governments will use their Public Library infrastructure to train AI. Japan is my #1 hope with how they are opening public science knowledge. Super-computers have been prohibitive for a long time but national science institutions could be a great place for open source & open weight AI.
(speaking as a person who isn't blind) The biggest omission seems to be that there is nothing to tell you what floor you've arrived at. This is probably fine for an empty elevator but as soon as it gets busy and there are 10s of floors I'd imagine it gets hard to navigate.
the quality of the search is really good! really useful to see how opinions change over time on HN (try typing in 'rust is').
>What will the world be like when panels cost $0.05/watt? $0.01/watt?

"Good morning, I would like a 400W solar panel"

"Sir, that will be $4"
Brave is a Chromium derivative, not Chrome. Can't imagine why any of this would imply they would need to stop deriving Chromium: they can develop and deploy whatever cookie policies and defaults they want.
I had the same thought - got some results for "GAK" https://www.alltext.nyc/?search=gak&page=1
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This only talks about the cost.

I'm more concerned about if it can actually deobfuscate such large file (context) and generate useful results.
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Is it unreasonable when the executive and shareholder in question is in their personal capacity flagrantly opposed to compliance and also professionally trying to avoid compliance with a previous court ruling by removing more pertinent assets? And the satellite network itself is a delivery mechanism if/when X gets blocked in Brazil, so there's reason to preemptively seize that given Musk's public statements on this topic.

(In case it isn't obvious: I'm not a lawyer, I've not really considered this in any depth beyond some other news sources besides this tweet, and this is a totally noob question that may have an answer in literally lawschool 101).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/brazil-supreme-court-just...
What if I just bought a field and laid them on the ground, over some plastic or something? Sure, I might be giving up some efficiency gains by not swiveling towards the sunlight or something, but I have to imagine there's a "plug and play" option possible here.
And I can’t understand why any reasonably intelligent human feels the need to be this abrasive. You could educate but instead you had to be condescending.
Tried also to ask ChatGPT (4o) and it got it right on first attempt.
There's an apartment building here in Seattle which has solar panels mounted flat on its west-facing wall (602 12th Ave). The panels were apparently cheap enough that they did not care about maximizing daylight exposure and simply installed them in the easiest place. Quite a change this is from what I remember when I had solar panels installed on my roof eleven years ago!
For outsiders money spent on AI is a waste but its peanuts for big corporations . All they care is not missing the next big revolution.
Why bother if they could just put everyone involved on the "dangerous terrorist" list which has zero controls and zero accountability because "national security"?

That's what happened to Tulsi Gabbard: https://www.racket.news/p/the-worm-turns-house-senate-invest...
A lot of people seem to missing the part where if it ends up in court, you have to argue that what you removed was objectionable on the same level as the other named types of content and there will be a judge you'll need to convince that you didn't re-interpret the law to your benefit. This isn't like arguing on HN or social media, you being "clever" doesn't necessarily protect you from liability or consequences.
> You think Llama is trained on peoples private messages?

Facebook says no, at least for Llama [1].

[1] https://itlogs.com/facebook-uses-user-data-to-train-ai-but-l...
> because the visitor of the site was a young girl that they chose to surface this video

That's one hell of a specific accusation - that they looked at her age alone and determined solely based on that to show her that specific video?

First off, at 10, she should have had an age-gated account that shows curated content specifically for children. There's nothing to indicate that her parents set up such an account for her.

Also, it's well understood that Tiktok takes a user's previously watched videos into account when recommending videos. It can identify traits about the people based off that (and by personal experience, I can assert that it will lock down your account if it thinks you're a child), but they have no hard data on someone's age. Something about her video history triggered displaying this video (alongside thousands of other videos).

Finally, no, the girl did not do a search (that we're aware of). But would the judge's opinion have changed? I don't believe so, based off of their logic. TikTok used an algorithm to recommend a video. TikTok uses that same algorithm with a filter to show search results.

In any case, a tragedy happened. But putting the blame on TikTok seems more like an attack on TikTok and not an attempt to reign in the industry at large.

Plus, at some point, we have to ask the question: where were the parents in all of this?

Anyways.
(pt-br) https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/moraes-bloqueia-recursos-f...
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What is deficient about the original explanation that the wave function is not real but rather a scientific theory? The issue has been unresolved for about a century now, it's relatively unsatisfying but hasn't held the science back in any way.
Sam Cooper is well known in Canadian circles (especially Vancouver), and he’s been reliable since I started following him about a decade ago.
If I upvote something illegal, my liability was the same before, during, and after 230 exists, right?
We know that backdoors can be intentional for use by 3-letter agencies. And there is plausible deniability of the bureaucracy when they can pass blame onto a single individual.

Or it's beuracracy being beuracracy. The TSA is a lot of security theater anyways.
I have seen a ton of articles about the plummeting 'costs' of solar over the past decade, so I was shocked when I recently got a bunch of quotes for a 10-12KW residential install: they were almost the same as the cost of the 10KW system I had installed back in 2014.

So at least here in California, inflation and rising labor costs have eaten up all of those savings.
Thanks for all the references / replies, folks. I appreciate it.
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The problem is deeper and simpler than that.

Authentication should not need to be re-implemented by every single organization. We should have official auth servers so that FlyCASS doesn't need to worry about identity management and can instead just hand that off to id.texas.gov (or whatever state they operate from) the same way most single-use tool websites use Google's login.
Yeah AFAIK every orm will easily store an Instant/Date/LocalDateTime pretty easily into a database. And serializing them with any JSON library just works out of the box.
> Ctrl+a from my cold dead fingers

That conflicts with the standard Emacs binding to move to the beginning of the current line. Many years ago, I switched to C-z instead, on the theory that it is really easy to type C-z C-z when I really want to suspend whatever is currently running.

Pity that (AFAICT) terminals have no concept of Super and Hyper (USB doesn’t know about Hyper, either, but at least X11 does).
This printer will simply refuse to print without an always-on connection to their cloud, it's diabolical. Thought I might be able to get root via its crappy web interface but no luck, and it seems to use properly implemented TLS when talking with the verification server, so I've taken it apart to poke at some interesting looking points on the PCB.
Would be awesome! Would love to see something like this in svelte done well.
You're not really asking for an open source model though, you're asking for open source training data set(s), which isn't something that Meta can give you. There are open source web scrapes such as The Pile, but much of the more specialized data needs to be licensed.
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The simplest way to do this, and the way I think this post is referring to, is to bring up a WireGuard session. WireGuard is essentially just a UDP protocol (so driveable from userland SOCK_DGRAM) that encapsulates whole IP packets, so you can run a TCP stack in userland over it.
I am reading what you’re saying as a belief that governments don’t make mistakes or don’t abuse their power. And that their action should not be questioned or challenged. But I feel all governments are not trustworthy - even in the US where constitutional protection and legal process is great, there are flaws or mistakes or abuses.

In Brazil’s case - when the order to perform censorship is secret, and when the people arguing against censorship are not allowed to have legal representation without implied threats of arrest, how can the public even know of or debate the legality of these orders? It creates an opening for abuse of power, which is exactly what is happening here in my opinion.

By the way, each of the other countries you are referencing is a different situation with different nuances. For example, regarding the liability of lawyers representing defendants. Or whether the orders are done and secret. Or what their constitution says. It’s been a while since I dived into this but my recollection was that Twitter correctly complied in other cases (legally not morally) and is correct to take a stand here.

In Brazil’s case, it is important to note that there has been no new legislation that granted these powers to this single Supreme Court justice who is unilaterally issuing secret orders for censorship. Orders are not issued by the judicial bench as a whole. Some of the other justices have spoken in support of the approach, but it is possible that they are themselves acting out of fear because of how things have gone. For his part, De Moraes claims his power comes from a different court (to simplify, Brazil has two different top level courts with different powers) but it is suspect because courts cannot make laws and because he served in that court previously.

Ultimately though, censorship is bad. Free speech is good. And even if it was legal I think the use of such power is highly unethical and not compatible with democracies. For that alone, I feel Twitter / X is on the right side of this issue, independent of legalities or what the situation is in other countries.
C-Space here
We don't really have AI yet, was just using it for short hand.
but that exists already and it's called databricks
Here's a source from one of the biggest newspapers in the country: https://oglobo.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/08/29/moraes-...
I love Emacs but using it as a terminal sucks. Eshell is not a proper terminal emulator. Using it with programs that take control of the entire terminal window like less is janky. Stuff like ncurses based TUIs don't work at all.

Editing with TRAMP, on the other hand, is a pleasure.
Wind. Panels and their support need to be anchored to the roof, lest they become flying solar panels.
For IEEE 754-2019 basic formats, subnormal and denormal are synonyms.

There are formats (like x87 80-bit as implemented in pre-387 hardware¹) that are not 754 basic formats which admit non-normal encodings that are not subnormal (i.e. not smaller in magnitude than the smallest normal number). Some people used to call these "denormal" as well (even though the x87 docs call them "unnormal"), which caused confusion. "Subnormal" is unambiguous.

In decimal IEEE 754 formats there are also non-canonical encodings, but these are neither subnormal nor denormal (decimal encodings are not, in general, normalized the same way binary floating-point is).

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¹ on 387 and later these are invalid encodings, and behave like a signaling NaN.
You can trivially choose not to associate with a corporation. You can't really do so with your government.
I don't think this has anything to do with us? You can do userspace TCP over WireGuard anywhere you can run a WireGuard connection to.
Money. Eventually the lobbyists would make it so cumbersome to get the certification that only the defense industry darlings would be able to do anything. Look at Boeing Starliner for an example of how they run a “budget”.
The sunlight that hits the reflectors would never have hit the Earth anyway.
Neat, do you have a quick reference handy? Thanks!
Came here to say Humanify is awesome both as a specific tool and in my opinion a really great way to think about how to get the most from inherently high-temperature activities like modern decoder nucleus sampling.

+1
Environmental impact is not the main concern when it comes to power consumption. Main concern is how long will it work on a battery before a maintenance person can come by and switch the battery or if the sun will come out and start charging it again.
Without any kind of filtering (that's an algorithm that could be used to manipulate people)

Do you genuinely believe a judge is going to rule that a Boyer-Moore implementation is fundamentally biased? It seems likely that sticking with standard string matching will remain safe.
No, it says convert everyone to whatever religion is “promulgated by Rust”... which is a stronger accusation (spreading vs. converting everyone).
Yes, on paper. The legal action against Starlink has claimed that they're being considered part of the same economic group for being controlled by the same private owner, who is considered direct responsible for the violations of one of them. Which is true.
> The unattended workaround is to have the tmux daemon spawn at login via `start-server` + enable some tmux settings like `exit-empty` plus some I can't recall regarding environment handling, but nobody does that.

I just have my terminal emulator spin up tmux when it starts, and I start my terminal emulator from my desktop, so it always runs in a clean environment.
The entire wchar_t API is hopelessly broken. It isn't guaranteed to represent Unicode nor is it guaranteed to be UTF-32. Unicode has a large number of codepoints designated as ambiguous width. This is largely due to existing narrow text presentation symbols being gifted a wide emoji representation. Which width is the default is heavily dependent on the font(s) in use and your rendering engine. Gnome VTE has a configuration option to set the default width for ambiguous codepoints.

Any program has to expect wide, narrow, or an inconsistent mixture of both if font substitutions are invoked. With no actual API to reliably discover a codepoint display width, your best option is to print some candidates and check the cursor position as a heuristic.
Right, but if your "open source" package doesn't include .... the source, then you need some other definition.
I was lucky enough to go to a charter school where my teachers encouraged me to read books like "People's History of the U.S" and "Lies My Teacher Told Me". They have an agenda too, but understanding that there's a whole world of disagreement out there and that I should seek out multiple information sources and triangulate between them has been a huge superpower since. It's pretty shocking to understand the history of public education and realize that it wasn't created to benefit the student, but to benefit the future employers of those students.
I think a lot of it comes down to the much larger variation in screen sizes... back then, you pretty much had to work in 640x480 or 800x600 and were usually good... 1024 got a little harder, then it was all over when 1440p and larger became very normal.

A lot of the designs were also somewhat flexible via Flash/Flex and not HTML alone.
Somewhere between 4 and 8 minutes worth of storage deployed over the span of a whole year is not even remotely close to feasible. Even diurnal storage to even out solar production will require 8-12 hours worth of storage. Seasonal intermittency will require days or even weeks.

Since 2020, battery prices have gone flat. Moore's law works because computers get faster as transistors get smaller. That's not the case for batteries, or most other goods. A new car cost a million dollars in 1900, $100k in 1910, and $10K in 1920. Would it have been reasonable to assume that a new car would cost $10 by 1950? Of course not, the steel and rubber in the car is worth much more than $10. A car cannot cost less than the input materials used to build it.

Input materials account for 75% of the cost of a battery already (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-cost-of-a...) The room for further price reductions become ever more slim.
No one wants to hear it, but this is the case. We need to revamp how we charge for electricity.

A flat fee that accounts for all the fixed costs that the grid requires, then an additional fee based on usage. There is no magical bullet that removes that. Maintaining lines and transformers and keeping it all monitored and balanced and so on takes money.

That will make it so solar is still viable without making utilities complete money holes.
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Geoguessr. Its popularity has only been on a steady rise to this day.

For those curious, there are different modes, including the one where you cannot move along the street at all (but you can look around by turning in that same stationary spot).
Medical drugs should not be sold online.