skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you recommend some resources for building and sourcing a solar setup like this?

A lot of people like Will Prowse on YouTube[1]. I've watched a few of his battery test videos and it's influenced what I'll end up buying. I haven't watched any of his solar videos.

I've been lurking in r/SolarDIY[2] as well.

I'm buying a bunch of Victron[3] gear. They have forums, HOWTOs, some videos, plus the various product sheets. They have some circuit diagrams too.

The rest is Google and reading blog posts, DIY articles, price comparisons, etc. There are books, but I haven't read any.

I've got basic electronics chops and tinker with things a bit. I'm by no means an expert.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@WillProwse
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/SolarDIY/
[3]: https://www.victronenergy.com/
when Apple studio comes with a one terabyte integrated ram option the hardware to run even the best llama model will become widely available. For now we are stuck with a medium llama model which is still surprisingly good
> NVIDIA was very secretive of their tech

Oh the irony for Apple to dislike others being secretive...
> MacBook belies that you seem to not realize how insignificant those sales were to Apple’s revenue

Unless we look at the actual data (i.e. Mac revenue was always bigger and was a actually growing at very fast pace unlike iPod by the time the iPhone came out)

Revenue from Q4, 2005:

Mac: $1,611,
iPod: $1,212

Q4, 2006:

Mac: $2,213,
iPod: $1,559

Q4, 2007:

Mac: $3,103,
iPod: $1,619,
iPhone: $118

Q4, 2008:

Mac: $3,620,
iPod: $1,660,
iPhone: $806

Q4, 2009:

Mac: $3,952,
(only MacBooks: $2,866)
iPod: $1,563,
iPhone: $2,297

Revenue from iPhone sales didn't surpass MacBook sales (so desktops excluded) until 2010.

(iTunes revenue was lower than Peripherals, Other Hardware, Software and Service in all of those years)
Would auto-joins be better in production envs?
The tags are specified in the wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:surface

In this case, the spec allows for "commonly used" user defined values, which is unusual (how does a user defined value become commonly used enough in the first place?), measured per this site: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surface#values

You can find a few non English entries in there, but the vast majority and all of the most common ones are in English. "木“ has 2 entries, "wood" has >200k. I think it's pretty clear that even in cases when the specification is open, the intention is for values to be English whenever practical.

The alternative is so outrageous that they made it into an April fools joke: https://weeklyosm.eu/osm-tags-soon-in-german-and-french-and-...

Here's someone attempting to translate the tags/values (for display): https://github.com/osmlab/osm-planning/issues/20
I don't like the analogy of "compression" that much, because for example if you train a model to predict linear data points, ideally it will only end up knowing two numbers in it's model weights when it's done training: "m" and "b" in "Y=Mx+b".

Once it's successfully captured "m" and "b" it has "knowledge" with which it can predict infinite numbers of points correctly, and hopefully it didn't "compress" any of the examples but discarded all of them.
Make companies and their leadership responsible for any harm or damage that comes from AI generated content or actions. If a recipe is a hallucinated recipe and poisons someone, treat it the same as if someone created a salad recipe calling for raw kidney beans and rhubarb leaves in order to intentionally harm someone.

AI creates a ton of garbage unmitigated, and cracking down on when that garbage is harmful will be a good way to reduce the amount of garbage these companies put out.
Does Kubernetes has reliable and predictable cronjobs already?
You're probably not wrong. But I think we should recognize that what is humanity is rather fluid. If you were to talk to the 15th century clergymen, I think they would tell the horrors of printing press and how it has/will break humanity. And they wouldn't be wrong either. Humanity evolves, and, well, that's it. And overall, hopefully, and this is where we hopefully can effect positive change, we can steer the change to more humane, and moral direction.
The Side Project Advantage
Can you expand on your thoughts a bit? Do you envision that a very large amount of posts get reviewed in a community notes style?
I said underclass was physically segregated. The US systematically discriminated against black people to form an underclass that shared a racial identity. Neither ethnic nor cultural Chinese in Vancouver are an underclass and have nothing to gain by executing a "race riot". The First Nations people you have so poorly treated are too small a fraction of the population and too dispersed for you to see a "race riot" on par with Los Angeles or Detroit, but the protests are there.
Using PyTorch is not "LLMs from the ground up".

It's a fine PyTorch tutorial but let's not pretend it's something low level.
> That feeling when you're wasting hours of your life trying to make something you know is abandonware work just because it looks nice. There should be a word for that feeling. In Danish or Japanese. Or German.

How about: fröbelen

https://nl.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/fr%C3%B6belen

Roughly means: To be creatively busy for fun
My personal hope is that they’re white holes that have been heavily red shifted… probably gonna be something way less exciting but none the less interesting.
This sounds like a good way to accidentally create an industry of reverse lobbyists where the government contracts them to convince tax payers to allocate money to their department.

I might be too pessimistic though, I tend towards liking the idea but I'm concerned about the changes it could cause.
Show HN: Vue Fes Japan Speakers
A list of past speakers at Vue Fes Japan, a Vue conference in Japan. Use Nuxt3, Nuxt UI, NuxtHub.

Source: https://github.com/yamanoku/vuefes-japan-speakers
Andrew C. Greenberg, co-creator of the Wizardry series of RPGs, has died
Not as technically proficient as you guys.

I am a retired psychotherapist not CS engineer.

I have been having fun trying to make a basic bash script to mimic bleachbit.

although I only run bleachbit once every few weeks, if I remember, it takes forever sometimes.

this is so much faster

=======================================

#!/bin/bash

# simple database cleaner

function dbclean() {

profile-cleaner p /home/user/.librewolf/gcm9o6u9.default-default/

profile-cleaner p /home/user/.mullvad/mullvadbrowser/51q7dddr.default-release

profile-cleaner p /home/user/.mercury/u6islnxq.default-default

}

# Call the function

dbclean &&

sudo su <<HERE

/home/user/.cargo/bin/srm -v -r -p 5 /home/user/.cache/* &&

cat /dev/null >/home/user/.bash_history &&

shred -vn3 -u /var/log/.old &&

shred -vn3 -u /var/log/boot.log.[123456] &&

cd /var/log/lightdm/

sudo /home/user/.cargo/bin/srm -v -r -p 5 /var/log/lightdm/log.old

HERE

============================================================
> Driving an EV of any kind is a strong political statement.

This surprises me (I believe you though!). I've read lots of articles and fun facts lately about how places like Texas go fastest at installing solar panels, because solar is now the cheapest source of energy and all. I'd blatantly assume that those new solar field owners would be charging their cars with their own electricity, also purely for money reasons and not climate/ideological ones.
He could cast a ball bearing from the same material, to further decrease the mechanical-to-thermal losses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._Greenberg
Improve JavaScript module load times with <link rel="modulepreload">
Hell, I've been pulled over (and given a ticket) in nearly that exact situation you describe (I think it was more like 1am for me). Reasonable human discretion didn't help me that time.

> if an officer isn’t willing to be in the field to issue the ticket and show up in court to defend it then there shouldn’t be a ticket in the first place

I'm torn on this in general. The idealist in me really really really wants to agree with your statement, but the sheer number of cars on the roads means that cops see a teeny tiny fraction of things that happen. Driving-related injuries and deaths are disgustingly high, and I expect most of them are related to speeding, and running red lights and stop signs. That is, stuff cops are supposed to be policing.

No human-powered enforcement mechanism can watch for all of those. Yes, the usual deterrent factor applies: even if you are a butthole who doesn't care about safety, you might follow the rules because of the (relatively small) possibility that there just might be a cop nearby that sees you doing something bad. But clearly it's not really working all that well; car-related injury and death statistics are still (IMO) unacceptably bad.

I feel like this is sort of unique. Like, for other illegal behaviors, you can usually reduce them through other things. Like, have a healthy economy, low unemployment, under-control inflation, and housing that's affordable enough for everyone who wants to live in a place, and you have an environment where it's rare that people feel the need to commit property crimes. But drivers who speed are gonna speed. Drivers who run red lights and stop signs are gonna run red lights and stop signs.

Maybe -- like for many things -- better enforcement isn't the answer. Better road/traffic engineering, stiffer penalties for when people do get caught doing unsafe things... I dunno, maybe that will get us there. Perhaps we'll have some sort of a transit renaissance, and so many fewer people will opt to drive, and that will naturally make things better. Or maybe self-driving will get good enough (and be used pervasively enough, or perhaps even mandated) that riding in a car will become a lot safer, on par with train or even air travel. Who knows.

Regardless, though, I think my personal level of comfort is somewhere in the middle. I certainly don't want dystopian 100% panopicon-style enforcement of every single thing, where everyone is recorded everywhere they go to make sure they aren't breaking the law. But I think a light sprinkling of automated enforcement here and there is probably not harmful privacy/freedom-wise, but can indeed be a societal good. But I don't exactly trust law enforcement to stay within the lines of their mandate when it comes to these sorts of things. And I don't trust elected officials and judges to actually do something when law enforcement gets out of control.
I think you said it yourself: some (arguably most) people are impressionable.
I found that Anthony Fu's QR Toolkit is a great alternative: https://qrcode.antfu.me/
Food and housing, financial independence.

Burning myself out trying to end the rat race as soon as I can.
What counts is not specifically hardness or elasticity, but the hysteresis loop up to the stress and strain involved for a ball of a certain mass falling from a certain height.
Roland JP-8000
Did you just overlook the "for energy" part of the sentence?

You burn plastic instead of oil, and if you burn it properly it has zero toxic emissions.

In the net, you have reduced CO2 emissions, because now you don't need to pull extra oil out of the ground - you instead burn the oil in your hand.

> This is a monstrously insane statement.

I suppose if your plan is to hold plastic bags in your hand and burn them. Of course that's not the actual suggestion you were replying to - so you basically made up a scenario, then criticized it.

Yes, that's a good plan - don't do the thing that no one was suggesting anyone do.
Artificial intelligence comes to male sex toys
> “but the ultra-rich get special low-interest loans”

If you are rich, and is not borrowing at high LVR, it means the lender has a reasonable belief that you can pay back the loan (and the collateral is also good). The lender _can_ give you a lower interest rate, due to the loan market being pretty competitive, because they take on less default risk compared to a non-rich person taking the same loan.

it's not gonna be a massive difference, but for large sums, probably does make a difference worth doing.
Muslim women know. how is this controlling Gilde called in Dune again?
The Django ORM makes migrating database state (a hard problem) super easy. It also makes GROUP BY queries (a relatively easy problem) oddly difficult. Use an ORM where it helps, use SQL where it doesn't.
And the entire point of constitutional rights is that they should make the society better. There is no inherent value in abstract principles.

Broadly speaking, freedom of speech can mean two roughly orthogonal things:

1. Lack of government censorship.

2. Freedom of speech as an outcome: a society where people can speak their minds without excessive consequences.

Sense 2 is inherently vague and can't be regulated, as people won't agree on when the consequences are excessive. But it's usually what people want when they care about the freedom of speech.

The two senses are sometimes opposed. If you say something other people find unpleasant and a million people decide to ruin your life, it's clearly against freedom of speech in sense 2. But if you have laws against such mob justice, they can easily violate freedom of speech in sense 1.

Freedom of speech in sense 2 is more about culture than government regulations. If you have a highly polarized society, you can't have freedom of speech in that sense.
what book
At 1 module = 1 pixel resolution, it definitely is, although a gzipped SVG gets you closer than you'd expect. The main problem with images is scaling: unless you can force the image to scale "without" interpolation, you'll get a blurry unscannable mess. If you increase the resolution enough to be crisp on a modern high-res display, at some point, SVG becomes more efficient. I did some experiments on this a few years back, but can't find the results right now.

A even if you can force nearest-neighbour interpolation (in CSS this is only possible since 2015 in Chromium and even later in Firefox), the result still won't be perfect at non-integer scales (see [0]). Other use-cases (like PDF files IIRC) don't give you the option to force scaling modes at all, so drawing them with vector paths is the only option to make them crisp.

[0] https://codepen.io/robinrendle/full/EaOJeq/
> Supporting the war in Ukraine is just another example of “bombing brown people”, yet you appear completely oblivious.

How?

Russia invades the Ukraine.
Ukraine defends itself.
Ukraine's allies, incl. the USA, send weapons.
None of the allies, incl. the USA, fight in Ukraine or Russia.

I'm afraid your independent thinking has formed a prejudiced opinion. George Carlin would not be proud.
It went to "only viable if you develop in .net or Java" to "kinda usable for other tech as well".

So yes, it's improving, but only because it comes from very, very far compared to Linux.
>but he threatened a fine of 200k and imprisonment to the person Musk appointed as representative if his stricture orders were not complied with

Moraes essentially wanted a hostage. Executives of companies shouldn't be arrested for things they have no power over, such as content moderation. My guess is that Moraes wanted to force Musk's company to not have a legal representative in the country, because the moment you know if you accept a job there's a high chance that job will result in you being arrested, those business men and women won't want that job. So Moraes clearly forced a situation that drove X out of the country.

If anything – it would still have been incredibly draconian and abusive from Moraes part – but it would have been “less bad” if the had skip the whole "arresting the legal representative" thing and had went straight to "block Twitter/X for not complying with his orders" part. But I guess Moraes really wanted to go for the "they didn't have a representative in Brazil, so we ban it" narrative.

Which by the way, this requirement, even if it's in the law, it surely not demanded from the vast majority of online companies that offer their service in Brazil. Otherwise they would have blocked Blue Sky as well, because (I assume) it doesn't have legal representatives in the country. So at best this law is being selectively enforced.
So basically your suggestion is let's make everything worse in order to hopefully convince people to maybe at some future date make things better.

> without a plan to stop creating single use plastic

Not to mention this is not something that will ever happen. No one is planning for this because it's a bad idea.

Plastics REDUCE CO2 emissions compared to the alternatives. Unless your alternatives are everyone not eat and not do anything, and just sit at home.

A tiny example: Wrapping an English Cucumber in plastic dramatically increases its life. Or you could not do that, but then we'll need to grow 3 to 10 times as many of them, and/or ship them by air to every store.

So what do you choose? The single use plastic? Or the alternative that consumes dramatically more resources, and emits far more CO2?
In nileblue he doesn't talk like this. So clearly intentional.
Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger
> Why not just come to a full stop?

Because people don't. That's just a fact of life, and we even have silly names (like "California stop") for the all-too-common behavior of barely or not completely stopping at a stop sign before continuing on.

I'm not excusing this behavior (even though I do it myself), but it's a widespread fact of life. The world is squishy, and I don't think it's reasonable to punish everyone for not coming to a full stop every single time, even if it's 0.01% safer to do so.

It's also kinda hard to define a "full stop". Well, obviously there are some states that are very obviously a car at rest. But if you were to, say, graph my car's speed at an intersection with a stop sign, you might see a curve that flattens out to where the slope is zero. Maybe that zero-slope point is a teeny tiny fraction of a second, though. Did I come to a full stop? Yes! Can a cop actually realize I did come to a full stop? Often not. Ok, so I did stop, but did I give enough time while at a full stop in order to assess that it was safe to continue moving? Do I even need to do that after I've come to a full stop, or can I start that assessment when my speed is 3mph, and know by the time I've fully stopped that it's immediately safe to continue? I think so, yes.

It's just fuzzy. Humans are fuzzy. The law is fuzzy. Safety is not a yes/no binary, it's fuzzy. Many many people don't always come to a full stop. That's just a fact; asking why is probably pointless.
Just curious, which desktop are you using on Linux?
Musk himself said he had no choice but to comply, to justify censorship in on several other occasions. Looks like he doesn’t have to after all.
Yeah definitely understand the frustration. I've been there and while I don't think we've found _the_ solution, we've settled into a flow that we're generally happy with.

For us we separate validations in two. Business and Data validations, which are generally defined as:

- Business: The Invoice in Country X is needs to ensure Y and Z taxes are applied at Billing T+3 days otherwise throw an error.

- Data Validation: The company's currency must match the country it operates in.

Business validations and logic always go inside services where as data validations are on the model. Data validations apply to 100% of all inserts. Once there's an IF statement segmenting a group it becomes business validation.

I could see an argument as to why the above is bad because sometimes it's a qualitative decision. Once in a while the lines get blurry, a data validation becomes _slightly_ too complex and an arguement ensues as to whether it's data vs business logic.

Our team really adheres to services and not fat models, sorry DHH.

To me, it's all so controversial whatever you pick will work out just fine - just stick to it and don't get lazy about it.
Quantum Secrets
Isn’t it a “limited availability” feature? Why would they use it?
Read the rest of this thread. Burning plastic for energy reduces the need for oil from the ground. It's by far the best way to handle plastic.

It removes waste, it's emits less CO2 than pull extra oil from the ground, and it's cheap. You don't get a triple win like this very often when it comes to the environment.
Puff piece wherein it’s revealed that the fix for spending lots of money to put ai in charge of things it obviously can’t do properly is spending a lot more money on “ai security” that just points out that ai isn’t working, and seems to have no real path towards fixing the problem.

The security aspect mentioned here is that ai generated recipes could poison you when they hallucinate. The fix is “governance” which isn’t really described or defined, but no doubt it’s as necessary as it is costly. We could probably just not use cooks that seem to randomly poison the food and not create a new industry of equally suspect chef-policing but hey, where’s the fun in that?
"And for only $100 more, iPhone Extreme is 40% thinner and has 10% longer battery life"
I don’t think either of these things are true.

By the mid-90s, C compilers were good enough - and CPUs were amenable enough to C - that assembly was only really beneficial in the most extreme of cases. Sony designed the Playstation from the jump to be a 3D machine programmable in C - they were even initially reluctant to allow any bit-bashing whatsoever, preferring devs used SDKs to facilitate future backwards compatibility. No doubt some - even many - PS1 games dropped down into assembly to squeeze out more perf, but I doubt it’s anything like “all”.

As for Lisp, Crash used a Lisp-like language, “GOOL”, for scripting, but the bulk of the game would’ve been native code. It was with Jak & Daxter that they really started writing the game primarily in a Lisp (GOAL, GOOL’s successor).
Anytime I hear ORM, I always think of this: https://blog.codinghorror.com/object-relational-mapping-is-t...
I'm ambivalent. Often the need to feed myself annoys me because of how often we have to do it. On the other hand, I have notice my mood improves a lot when I take the time to make a tasty meal as opposed to just heat a supermarket meal.

I'm annoyed by the constant necessity of eating but I can also appreciate a nice home made meal.
Lots of UK contractors absolutely made bank on this, I’m assuming the smart ones will make bank again in 2037 but most will have retired by then!
Python is used by beginners because people say it’s good for beginners because it’s used by beginners because people say…
Feels like simply using the parametric form of the circle equation would be way easier

For t in 0 to 2 pi in whatever small steps you want, draw_pixel(x=a+rcos t, y=b+rsin t) where a and b are the x and y coordinates you want for the centre of the circle and r is the radius.

The derivation of this form is pretty simple if you know basic trig. https://publish.obsidian.md/uncarved/3+Resources/Public/Unit...
I don't really find anything wrong with your approach (I do the double-stop sometimes too, if conditions warrant it). But coming to a complete stop (once or twice), for many intersections, for many road conditions, for many times of day, is not going to meaningfully increase anyone's level of safety (yours, another driver's, a cyclist's, a pedestrian's...) vs. a momentary pretty-much-but-not-really-stopped stop.

To use your phrasing, the risk of anything bad happening after a not-quite stop may be overblown.
Weird how pointing out climate change inaccuracies destroyed scientific debate.

In any thread about climate change they are desperate to tell you that you’re a climate denier when you point out inaccurate information.

For those who remember the vicious attacks on science, we called that the dark ages.
Probably just companies trying to impede progress of other companies. Not to say that the statement is wrong necessarily. But given that this is coming from a group of people that could very easily solve the problem, I'll take it with a grain of salt.
That doesn't make it more complicated, it just makes it hurt more to give it up.