skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"never" is not itself a problem, people do the same

you only need to solve fusion correctly once
It’s literally just that having a solar+wind grid that can survive 3 days of bad weather costs 6x as much as a grid that can survive normal day to day.
>a NIMBY is anti-progress

And what is "progress"? We both have ideas about what progress is. Are mine the same as yours?
I'm not so sure counting lights on at any given moment is a good measure of occupancy.

The resident might be at work, at the gym, out for dinner or at the cinema, at a friend's house, in another room, might have good blackout curtains and only use lamps for ambience instead of the ceiling light, on holiday. I bet if you stood outside one of these buildings where "most of the lights are off" for the entire evening, you'd see lights come on and off, and in aggregate find that most of the flats were in fact occupied.

By the same logic, I could look outside my window right now, count zero cars driving down the road and declare it a useless waste that nobody uses.
Are you in ad telemetry industry?
https://archive.ph/lFodc
I wonder how many premature deaths and life-altering injuries were enabled by people using his devices to get away with endangering other people.
> most productive part of the country is a good idea.

In what sense is London productive? What are the products?
Wait and see if this will actually be up and running by 2028 at the costs indicated.
No kidding about unusual uses of ICs. Not related to microprocessors, but I have an old analog triple conversion HF receiver (Eddystone EC958/3 for what it's worth) that uses a TTL IC in an analog circuit! I'd have to look at the schematic again, I think it's a multi-stage counter, but basically what it uses it for is to generate a comb shaped spectrum, one "spike" of which can then be picked up by an analog circuit and locked to, to generate precisely spaced tuning steps for the high stability tuning.
He's talking about the economic consequences.

AGI in an internet connected world is capitalism end-game. Once you have AGI, labour (both physical and intellectual) becomes redundant, humans have a "value to the system" approaching zero.

Our economic system is built on a series of assumptions that fundamentally cannot survive AGI, and nobody is really even trying to grapple with that fact.
How many MWH does that battery array store? MW is a useless number for energy storage. HN should know better.

Edit:

The article linked states:

> Roughly, one could assume that the energy storage portion of the project – 1.4 GWh worth

So, at the 690GW (which is unrealistic) nameplate capacity of the solar field, they are installing roughly 120 minutes worth of energy storage to back it. This is actually a better number than most projects I've seen, but still utterly inadequate and representative of the typical project.
> I don’t understand why wind solar is subject to absolutes devoid of probability - “what if the sun and wind stop simultaneously for 2 months?”

Something close to that happens almost every year in Europe. Last year there was nearly 3 weeks in winter where there was very little wind across the continent (<20% capacity production on all wind farms), and obviously little to no solar (high latitudes).
"One of"
Their agenda is to frame the self-serving interests of a very narrow group as the economic interests of everyone. That's shady.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/libraryextens...

Automatically queries libraries for book availability and displays the info online on Amazon (and similar) pages.
Would recommend the Pikuma 3D graphics course
Yes, or no regulation at all an unsafe cladding is not installed.
I think that if you look at the people in positions of control in political and economic sectors (and mass media, which is a key element), the vast majority came from just a few schools.
SGI's 3D File System Navigator [video]
New AI diffusion model approach solves the aspect ratio problem
I find it concerning that changing yourself with medication is the solution, unless the symptoms become extreme. My young daughter is showing signs of this, but I would be very resistant to giving her medication if I could avoid it, at least until she could be actively involved in making that decision.
As an iPhone user since the 3G, I’ve never had these kinds of issues, and I find it hard to understand how people are triggering this. The only thing I can think of is you have the screen facing out when in your pocket? And then resting your hands on your lap on top of the phone? The simple fix is to have the screen facing your leg when in your pocket. That triggers the proximity sensor and the screen doesn’t react to anything.

I know this sounds a bit like “you’re holding it wrong”, but there’s just the simple element of physics involved.

I’m truly curious in what scenarios this is happening.

P.S. I’m also aware that there’s a large population of people whose clothes aren’t manufactured with pockets large enough to hold a phone, and they probably deal with this type of thing more often. But I’m just talking about people who have pockets.
A pleasant user experience?
This is essentially the 1% rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
Right! Imagine how big they'd be if they hadn't given up on microtransactions in the 90s. I'd guess not trying to be broken up by the DOJ.
"They put the bandaid over the wound caused by a flagrant disregard for the users privacy, security, and safety."

Phew, glad that's over and will never happen again.
I doubt that anything that connects to the name "Three Mile Island" is going to be good for PR.
Everyone loves the NHS in an abstract sense, but mostly if you ask them, they'll have stories about how terrible actually being treated by the NHS is.
Announcing Fjall 2.0 – embedded LSM Rust storage engine
You're a bit pessimistic, but beyond that I feel like you're missing the point a bit.

The purpose of a RTOS on big hardware is to provide bounded latency guarantees to many things with complex interactions, while keeping high system throughput (but not as good as a non-RTOS).

A small microcontroller can typically only service one interrupt in a guaranteed fast fashion. If you don't use interrupt priorities, it's a mess; and if you do, you start adding up latencies so that the lowest priority interrupt can end up waiting indefinitely.

So, we tend to move to bigger microcontrollers (or small microprocessors) and run RTOS on them for timing critical stuff. You can get latencies of several microseconds with hundreds of nanoseconds of jitter fairly easily.

But bigger RTOS are kind of annoying; you don't have the option to run all the world's software out there as lower priority tasks and their POSIX layers tend to be kind of sharp and inconvenient. With preempt-rt, you can have all the normal linux userland around, and if you don't have any bad performing drivers, you can do nearly as well as a "real" RTOS. So, e.g., I've run a 1.6KHz flight control loop for a large hexrotor on a Raspberry Pi 3 plus a machine vision stack based on python+opencv.

Note that wherever we are, we can still choose to do stuff in high priority interrupt handlers, with the knowledge that it makes latency worse for everything else. Sometimes this is worth it. On modern x86 it's about 300-600 cycles to get into a high priority interrupt handler if the processor isn't in a power saving state-- this might be about 100-200ns. It's also not mutually exclusive with using things like PIO-- on i.mx8 I've used their rather fancy DMA controller which is basically a Turing complete processor to do fancy things in the background while RT stuff of various priority runs on the processor itself.
> A 1 GW offshore wind farm costs about 1 billion

A 1 GW offshore wind farm does not produce anywhere close to 1 GW most of the time.

A 1 GW nuclear reactor can produce 1 GW 90%+ of the time, with the downtime being _scheduled_ maintenance.
It’s autist, I’ll allow it.
> Stronger property rights

Does the UK have stronger property rights than, for instance, Norway that was mentioned by another contributor here as being so much more efficient? Yet Norway has abandoned, for now at least, the south western half of the Oslo to Drammen E18 road upgrade because buying out the owners of expensive houses on the route would be too expensive.

Are you claiming that other comparable democracies have such weak property rights that this significantly affects infrastructure projects? Which ones?
HyDE: Hypothetical Document Embeddings [1]

RAGAS: RAG Assessment [2]

RAPTOR: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval [3]

Self-RAG: Self-Reflective Retrieval-Augmented Generation [4]

Agentic RAG: Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation [5]

GraphRAG: Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation [6]

[1] https://docs.haystack.deepset.ai/docs/hypothetical-document-...

[2] https://docs.ragas.io/en/stable/

[3] https://arxiv.org/html/2401.18059v1

[4] https://selfrag.github.io

[5] https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/tutorials/rag/langg...

[6] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unloc...
I tried to do the math once to figure out if Japan would have been better off building a coal power plant instead of Fukushima, the nuclear plant that had the worst disaster in any western country. It was a surprisingly tough question.

https://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-v...
If you're on reddit or Twitter, lots, thousands daily. In fact, the common refrain on those platforms is that at least half of all content was made or submitted by bots, and not even necessarily generative AI ones either but those that take previous posts and repost them, while another bot scrapes the top comments and recomments them.
Every single thing I've heard about Arc browser has been a massive red flag. Turns out it was even worse than I thought!
Circulating thousands of bombs disguised as innocuous consumer devices into the public is targeting civilians. I'll add that Israel's terrorist act goes beyond those who were hit with explosions. We're all more at risk. It's a crime against humanity and the world is less safe, we all have to look at our devices differently. I will not forget that Israel did this.
Playing childish racing games in regular traffic at the limit (or beyond) one's abilities deserves absolutely no respect there. Radar detection enabled much more of this, and countless innocent deaths down the line.

They say speak only well about the dead, I'd say speak of them as they deserved, each of us builds our own legacy.
Number goes up, it's addictive gamified engagement.
Tell HN: Negotiate SaaS deals near end of quarter
Coming up to end of quarter sales teams will authorize bigger discounts to fit deals in, especially for new business.
Mouse crawling out of meal forces plane to make early landing
> And all whilst we have one of the highest tax burdens in our history.

It's easy to have a low tax base when you subsidise the state spending with North Sea Oil from the 80s onwards... Prior to that we had really bad balance of payments crises from the Second World War onwards as the empire fell apart.

Low and middle earners in the UK pay pretty much the lowest taxes in Western Europe. We've eroded our tax base all over the place and somehow expect European services.
I remember the ads in old Car&Track and Road&Driver magazines at the doctor’s office. They always had a veneer of illegality to them, even in states where they were legal. Funny how something like Waze doesn’t. I wonder if it’s that Waze is just the technological equivalent to the oncoming driver flashing their brights at you.
Also surnames like d'Urberville?

(Alec d'Urberville in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" is a nouveau riche person who adopted the name rather than a descendent of the original d'Urbervilles. Probably that happens in real life, too, though I expect the people who did the study have taken that into account and have done the best they can in the absence of reliable public ancestry data.)
Nobody died at TMI.

Nobody died at Fukushima (from the nuclear incident that is, 10000 died because of the Tsunami)

Hundreds of people died at Chernobyl.

Those are all the major accidents at production nuclear power plant that have ever occured. There are no others.

There is just one that was deadly, and it is about as representative of the safety of nuclear power as flying in a 1920s' plane compared to a state of the art Airbus.
Yep, most people are lazy and don't add an initial prompt so it's incredibly obvious when it's an LLM. However, I prompted it with the previous and appended "in the style of an average Hacker News commenter" and it's much closer:

> Here's a comment in the style of a typical Hacker News commenter that might generate mixed reactions:

> LLMs are overhyped, but they're not useless. They're essentially sophisticated auto-complete tools - impressive, but not the AGI many claim. Their real value is in augmenting human work, not replacing it. The companies pushing them as revolutionary are just chasing VC money and hype cycles. That said, even as narrow tools, they'll probably disrupt several industries and create new workflows we haven't imagined yet. Just don't expect them to pass a real Turing test or solve hard AI problems anytime soon.

Honestly, it does sound like a lot of the comments I read here.
Do you know whether this is solid as a daily driver in the US?

I'm thinking the minimal: Reliable phone calls including VoLTE, reliable SMS and MMS, working data, poor but working camera, no crashes/lockups, OK battery life, etc.

(A few years ago, my Pinephone nth-version developer edition was interesting, but none of the software I tried was ready at the time.)
Examples that "grab live data from Internet and do work" are appealing, I think you should lean into that a little harder.
Interactive Story – A Journey of Choices
You didn't address my observation at all (and that's ok, you have nothing to answer for)
I never would have thought that he would be the voice of reason, in any language other than C (ANSI C -not C++). He may just be one of the best C programmers around, and has always been a ferocious advocate for it.

Rust is not my language, but it really seems to be a legitimate addition to the system programming toolbox, and that seems to be his PoV.

I liked the interview. I haven't always been a fan of his pithy approach to interpersonal relationships, but I have always had tremendous respect for his technical acumen. This has given me a bit more personal respect for him.
really? got a link to that, im kinda curious.
The Design of an LLM-Powered Unstructured Analytics System
> DirectX 12 was announced by Microsoft at GDC on March 20, 2014, and was officially launched alongside Windows 10 on July 29, 2015.

> Vulkan 1.0 was released in February 2016.

What people forget is that Mantle was basically a proprietary AMD API that they wanted and developed until, well, the release of Metal in 2014 and DX 12 in 2015.

Only then did they "graciously" donated Mantle to Khronos for the development of modern APIs.

Vulkan was not just late. It suffers from the same issues as OpenGL before it: designed by committee, lackluster support from the major players.
Spaniard here: we have zero gas and zero uranium nationally sourced, yet thanks to solar, wind and hydro, our energy grid is among the best in the world. We are at 20% nuclear, above global average, and above USA or UK, no need to install more.

Get down your "education" horse and solve your own problems first, asuming you are from the USA. In terms of energy we are good, thank you, and need no lessons from the USA.
Profit is… not fake, but fiat. Energy and clean water are real.

With collapsing demographics the current economic system will fall over anyway, either due to inflation or defaults, so maybe it’s a good time to start thinking about how to separate utilities from money.
Exploring the World of Open-Source Text-to-Speech Models
Hats. The fedoras they wear shades their faces from view, m’lady
Now when you visit Sweden or Denmark you know what to pack
Docker Myths Debunked
I taught my numpy class to a client who wanted to use GPUs. Installation (at that time) was a chore but afterwards it was really smooth using this library. Big gains with minimal to no code changes.
Many caves are not particularly wet , slippery, or prone to flooding. Only a few have issues with a lack of airflow. I understand the interest in robotic exploration for some specifically risky caves, but I don't like this generalization that implies all caves are too dangerous for humans to enter.
Gosh I regularly burn through that much just updating games in steam :D. Not proxy bandwidth of course but isn't it funny that the the line between regular usage and $$$ can be what is using the bandwidth. Or rather, isn't it funny that regular consumers expect to be able to use multiple terabytes of data for < $100/mo but the same can still be thousands in other enterprise domains
"Here are ten ways to take advantage of your customers and manipulate them into buying stuff they don't want to buy."

Yet another great example of why so many people consider marketers to be scumbags.
So terrorists? You're concerned data logging may harm terrorists?
It certainly brought plenty to some people, didn't it? Other people still get nothing.
Judging by blog posts on HN, I got the impression that these vulnerabilities are often not rewarded at all, or rewarded by a minuscule amount. It almost seems like companies are begging hackers to sell these exploits. Perhaps because they aren't penalized by the regulator for breaches?
The primary reason most people own radar detectors is for bullshit speed limits and speed traps.

Very few are people looking to street race or be reckless drivers.
Ugggggggggggh. My favorite part of the job is scaling/optimization, and my least favorite part of the job is... this.

There are a LOT of "engineers" who understand that one thing might be faster than another thing, but lack the chops/wisdom to understand when it actually matters.
It's quite fitting that the topic of this thread is self-correction. Self-correction is a trivial existence proof that refutes what LeCun is saying, because all the LLM has to say is "I made a mistake, let me start again".
What's Happening to Entertainment?
I've seen more near accidents from people braking hard after seeing a cop.
I meant “room directory”, not “room list”. Can’t edit the comment anymore :(
Water quality by country.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-qua...

US is good while countries with more left leaning setups do bad.

It is not as black and white as you imply.
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
-- John Maynard Keynes.

I think he's onto something as I see the lengths Boing, Intel, FAANG, et. al going to benefit us all everyday...
Fission is a bad complement for solar power. A good complement for solar provides dispatchable fill-in-the-gaps type of power. However, nuclear power plants cost about the same amount of money per hour whether they're running or not, so are poorly suited as a solar complement.

You can get to 100% carbon free by using a combination of overprovisioning, source diversity, geographic diversity, storage and statistics. You can't get to 100% but you can get to an arbitrary number of nines and say "good enough". The grid is only 99.99% reliable so having generation be better than that has little value.

If you really want 100% reliability out of a primarily-solar grid you choose something the opposite of nuclear: something cheap to build but expensive to fuel. For example, synthetic natural gas. The cost of the fuel has little relevance when it only has a duty cycle of 0.1%. And they're cheap to build and likely don't even need building because we already have lots of them.

China built a lot of nuclear reactors in the 2010's, but is slowing their build rate. 10GW/year of nuclear power is not very impressive in a country that built 100GW of solar in the first half of 2024.

That being said, I still support restarting TMI. The main costs of nuclear are in building and decomissioning them. We've already incurred the cost of building TMI and we're already on the hook for decomissioning it, so running it is likely cost-effective once you remove the sunk costs.
The reason that Britain has stagnated is the same reason most of western Europe has stagnated (in that GDP per capita hasn't increased for around a decade): continuously increasing debt and an aging population. It's a classic empirical economic result that a high enough level of government debt leads to reduced growth rates, and it's also well-known that growth rates decrease as the average age of the population increases. Over the past couple decades the UK population has been getting older and older on average and the national debt has been getting higher and higher.
As rjsw says, they refuse to disclose who funds them. See https://www.monbiot.com/2022/10/07/thinktanking-the-country/ for some background.
Would be really cool to read a whole CD this way. Actually, that wouldn't sound any different. You could read an LP though.
I prefer the Costco solution 90% of the time. If and when the Costco solution does not work, then I do the research to figure out what might be better.

For example, I like to wear $30 Costco shoes. I can usually get at least a year out of them, but even if not, they’re only $30. I can buy 3 in a year and come out ahead. And I don’t waste time researching shoes.
Fair play to them, it's a detailed paper. But I'm not sure that this would have much practicality in other caves. The terrain just changes too quickly (most of the time).
Indeed, this is spun nonsense. The problem with the UK right now is brexit. You can see it on a GDP graph: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/GBR/uni...

It's growing steadily through the 60's-2000's, has a notable dip[1] at the 2008 financial crisis, then starts growing again until just about 2015. And it's been flat since.

The UK had found a profitable niche as the transatlantic hub of finance and commerce, and threw it out the window in a fit of nativist pique over the wrong languages being spoken on street corners.

[1] More pronounced than comparable nations, to be fair. The UK was always more dependent on finance.
Crypto Scammers Steal $243,709,068.03 from One Guy
I remember my Valentine V1 fondly. It was so clearly and immediately better than all the other radar detectors. Knowing where the signal was coming from was a game changer.

I’m not saying speeding is good, but when you’re on the road a lot and are a responsible driver there are definitely places where you can safely exceed the speed limit and where it feels like the police see enforcement as a fundraising opportunity rather than a safety issue.
> Vulkan is fully supported on windows.

If and only if the GPU vendor supports it (they do for now). Windows itself fully supports only DX

> Though, for games, if you want to support Xbox, that usually throws a curveball into API choice

As does Playstation. Very few develop with Vulkan for Playstation as GDN (or whatever the name of the native framework is) is the main choice.

And on mobile, well, you need to support Metal.
Yeah it's one of those things where it's like...

...okay, I can let this nonsense go today with very little impact, but if I do... will the team need to deal with it 100 times in the future? (And more broadly, by silence am I contributing to the evolution of a bad engineering culture ruled by poor understandings?)

It is very very difficult to know where to draw the line.
> Conspiracy theory: one or more companies are background manufacturing Google hate

Personally, I believe that Google's issues are just a general issue of tech debt and creeping complexity that is common in all organizations.

That said, Amazon was a victim of a strategy similar to your conspiracy theory

In 2019, the WSJ [0] exposed how Walmart, Oracle and Simon Property Group were funding and astroturfing anti-Amazon groups.

[0] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-grassroots-campaign-to-take-d...
That’s a good one, and it’s true!