skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Extraordinarily good PHES sites can be found in most regions of the world, with extraordinarily low capital costs

This sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. There's plenty of locations where pumped hydro isn't practical (land too flat, too seismically active, too dry, too ecologically sensitive whatever). Just like energy generation has to be reasonably close to usage before grid connectivity becomes too expensive and losses to heavy, storage has to be reasonably close to both the generation and usage.

Right now, pumped storage doesn't have to be that close because it's just covering a bit of headroom in capacity and so can just have it in one area, and thus generation on the outskirts of that area will flow towards other areas instead, obviating the need for the pumped storage to have grid capacity to everywhere. But if we really have high wind/solar usage pumped storage will have to carry base-load and so this becomes more critical.

To really believe that pumped storage is some kind of universal solution, I'd really like to see characterization of what distances it is feasible to build the required grid capacity to, and if there's enough density of viable sites to cover all major population areas at that distances. A handwave about "found in most regions of the world" is not enough.
They're not as strong a separation. That said if they work for your usecase then yes they're lower friction by the same virtue. It is very loosely like containers being cheaper than VMs at the expense of some isolation.
Local government condemned a bunch of perfectly fine homes in Wisconsin, by declaring them blighted, to make room for a Foxconn plant which never really panned out. Where there is greed there is a way.
jr devs will tell you when they're not sure, or can ask for help.

GPT will dead-ass spew wrong answers right at you and sound 100% confident about it. when you correct it, it will do the exact same thing the next day when you try with a different account.
It looks good and all but it won’t past any visual tests when you go more than 10 seconds vs even hobbyist vids. There is still a big gap if it does longer durations
Is there a direct quote of this? I find it amazing.
Map of drone fly zones in the US
It's just an attempt to manage overwhelming case load with limited resources. It's on my list to build a system that gives better feedback.

On the other hand, I'm not sure that it won't just make things worse, since not everyone is going to respond as well as you might to a message like "Your account has been rate limited."
If you can do everything you use your truck for with a non-truck you don't need a truck, you want a truck. Which is fine, it's pretty common in the US to use a truck as nothing more than an expensive commuter vehicle.

I do find it weird how many people feel the need to justify a truck purchase as a necessity when it's clearly a luxury purchase, no different from buying a Lexus or Mercedes sedan because you want to.
AI in the Workplace: Staying Ahead in 2025 and Beyond
Map of drone fly zones in Canada
There are finer degrees of isolation than that. I do shopping in a different profile than normal browsing to make it harder for companies to track me.
It's replacing the bad C code. Not all C code is equivalently easy or difficult to write.
It's offtopic, but I hate articles which talk about a very specific thing and put dozens of links into the text, but none links to the actual product or company.
I agree, but also wouldn't lose sleep for pirating a book of an author that died more than 20 years ago, in most contexts.
It seems to have been restarted, which is good. But for a while (look at the the 2017-2020 gap) there was basically nothing done to it and for a while it was impossible to run on current versions of Python.
It may surprise you to learn that lithium is actually a toxic substance. No human being has ever suffered from a lithium deficiency. Lithium is not a natural or healthy component of anyone's diet.

So, the so-called therapeutic dose of lithium is merely a sub-toxic level, and must be monitored by frequent blood tests.

There are horrific side effects from using lithium in the long term, including convulsions, hair loss, diarrhea, suicidal and homicidal ideations, and extreme thirst (polydipsia).

So personally, I would rather not be tapping into lithium reserves for my health.
This chain of thought should be broken down into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction 's
what if they're just rich guys who got lucky, and at the right time, and now have more money than they know what to do with?
There are three levels of difficulty in innovation:
New Engineering, New Science, and New Fundamentals.

Wow, I've never seen this put so succinctly before.
What are the licensing implications of this? If I’m Google, I’d be pissed that my software is being used without a human there looking at the ads.
Captive Portal IPv6 Support
Here's .COM and .NET:

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/company-information/verisign-...

Signed domains are increasing where they're done automatically by registrars; where the market has a say, use is declining --- sharply!
E. Coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders
There is always sodium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-ion_battery
Her Majesty’s Rat-Catcher (2013)
Yes I agree that implementations must evolve. Still, there are cases where old architectures are just brilliant.

Having said that, I need to add, I am not an expert to say MVCC is good enough to be considered equally good like other write-concurrency mechanism in SQL databases. My example was given to just have a caution when judging, especially that the original counterexample had mentioned notoriously bad architectures (hello, MySQL...)
There's a great YouTube channel by a Romani guy about Roma history and culture: https://m.youtube.com/@florida.florian/videos
Darn, I was hoping this was a scooter trip planning app: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5cffMbZV8E0
How are they not as strong? Do you have an example?
IMO, people who own and regularly fly in private jets are definitely worthy of the scrutiny -- not to mention the flight tracking data is public information.

That said, to me it's redundant: social platforms owned by publicly-traded corporations are probably not worth enriching with your free content anyways. Every login, every post, every "favorite"/"like" is literally growing their profits.
I'm not sure I understand. What types of libraries? When I think of libraries, I think of ExpressJS, lodash, JQuery, left-pad, etc. There are absolute tonnes of vanilla JS libraries.

I've rarely used React, are you talking about React-specific libraries? I find it hard to believe that there are more maintained React libraries than vanilla JS libraries.
Terrible, self-indulgent page design. That aside, my parents are around 80 and while neither is showing signs of dementia, dad readily admits he's not as sharp as he used to be. Mom is in denial. For their ages, they're doing pretty well. As far as I know, neither has been victims of scams but it troubles me when I'm at their house and see things like "Congratulations! You just won $10,000" banner ads blinking on their monitors and tablets. Maybe I should set up some kind of network wide ad blocking for them but in general I try not to be intrusive on how they run their lives. I know the day will come when they're not able to and it worries me that my siblings and I might not see it before it's too late. Medical science has done many wonderful things for helping people live longer but it seems more common for our physical bodies to outlive our minds. In that period, there's lots of room for exploitation.
I tried many times and none of them were reasonable, so you must have been quite lucky.
But they are usually separate: an 8192 byte write does fit neatly get into two 4096-byte pages, and metadata writes, while also subject to write amplification, typically occur separately and can represent multiple data blocks.
That pandemic library was a huge, obvious over step by him.

It will have consequences far beyond the immediate lawsuit too.

The very concept has basically been iced for a generation and the net is only getting more locked down not less.
Exactly. Even shorter summary: MQTT broker is stateless thus easy to manage and hard to break. This makes MQTT reliable.
Aside, that reminds me of a conversation between a differently-abled protagonist and their commanding officer:

> "Having [your undercover identity's] corpse on my hands would be just as embarrassing as having [your real one]. Schizoid or no, not even you can compartmentalize yourself to that extent."

> "I am not schizoid," Miles bit off. "A little manic-depressive, maybe," he admitted in afterthought.

> Galeni's lips twitched. "Know thyself."

> "We try, sir."

> Galeni paused, then chose perhaps wisely to ignore that one.

-- Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
you're assuming people don't get that it's sarcasm, and are downvoting it because lazy sarcasm doesn't add anything to the discussion.
I’m sure there is some unscrubbable serial number to at least trace the first, second merchant
I can't remember if it was booking.com or some other site like travelocity, but I booked a hotel for work in Dublin, I arrived, and they couldn't find my reservation. After about 30 minutes of the desk staff confusingly clicking around on a computer they 'found' it and I was able to check in. This was a modern hotel too. I stopped using those sites and now only book through the hotel's website, even if it costs more.
Just my opinion but as a starting point for the argument...

* 20 years from date of first publish (renewable up to CAP? 50 years)
* Must remain available every year
* 10 year renewal blocks with massive registration fee increases
* Compulsory maximum license fee cap (can offer for less) in the laws

Note this is not TRADE MARK; trade marks are _consumer protection_ related to 'brand ownership'.
While the claims of the whistleblowers may or may not be true, your link is sworn Congressional testimony from credible sources.

So, despite the stigma attached to all things UAP/UFO, I think it should be upvoted and not downvoted.
Appreciated! And it's not that your point was wrong, of course; just the opposite—there are so many articles giving rise to such complaints that we have to try to filter the repetition.
Some notes/resources:

* Unlike the Stable Diffusion 3.0 release, where the public release was initially (and ultimately only) the Medium model, this is both the base and distilled (fewer steps needed) Turbo versions of the Large model (8B).

* ComfyUI has immediate support for SD3.5 Large [0], and comfy.org has released an FP8 scaled version of the model [1] for lower memory use (note that the FP8 version is almost as large in file size as the base FP16 model, but that's because it has the 3 text encoders baked in, while the base model relies on them being distributed separately.)

* Even smaller bitsandbytes nf4 version [2]

* Some SD3.5 LoRAs already released. [3][4][5]

* Fine-tuning guide. [6]

[0] https://blog.comfy.org/sd3-5-comfyui/

[1] https://huggingface.co/Comfy-Org/stable-diffusion-3.5-fp8/tr...

[2] https://huggingface.co/sayakpaul/sd35-large-nf4

[3] https://huggingface.co/Shakker-Labs/SD3.5-LoRA-Chinese-Line-...

[4] https://huggingface.co/Shakker-Labs/SD3.5-LoRA-Linear-Red-Li...

[5] https://huggingface.co/Shakker-Labs/SD3.5-LoRA-Futuristic-Bz... (don't ask me why it is "bzonze" and not "bronze".)

[6] https://stabilityai.notion.site/Stable-Diffusion-3-5-Large-F...
I don't think deprivation is the right model. Cells are still getting nutrients, just from different sources, particularly fat. Animals have 500 millions of years of evolutionary experience using this energy source.

I would be more concerned about the harm caused by not using this metabolic pathway, at least occasionally.
that link doesn't really do it justice. this was a vendetta
There’s still a huge gulf to cross to get to “instead of”.
Thanks Vadzim, I remember -- happy to be useful :)
The state of affairs surrounding this practice as well as the amount of money used up in the election system generally is absolutely ridiculous.
Modern-day human evolution can be less obvious. My favorite example are those born with six fingers on each hand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydactyly). This uncommon mutation grants a subtle calculation advantage.

Think about it. If this mutation had become the norm, we would have base-12 numbers, which over thousands of years could have accelerated mathematical evolution.

Nontrivial divisors of 10: 2, 5

Nontrivial divisors of 12: 2, 3, 4, 6

These people also have an unfair advantage in guitar playing.
You punish it if parts of the answer can be found in its training data, and reward it otherwise.
Also isn't something that a (geo)sharded postgres DB with the appropriate indexes couldn't handle with aplomb. Number of orders to a given restaurant can't be more than a dozen a minute or so.
You can't really do it perfectly unless a single site handles all the booking, otherwise you have race conditions, and obviously there's no incentive for airlines, hotels, etc. to give up booking to a third party since they can upsell you on insurance, upgrades, etc.
Fix: JoinsNamespaceOf=
Crewai Raises $18M–But Are AI Agents Ready for Prime Time?
Saw that Crewai just raised $18 million for their multi-agent platform, but I’m struggling to understand the value beyond what you can do with vanilla API calls to OpenAI or something like DSPy/OpenAI Swarm.

From what I’ve seen, AI agents aren’t even close to being reliable for real-world tasks yet. What am I missing here? Is there something about Crewai’s approach that’s genuinely groundbreaking, or are they just riding the AI hype?

Would love to get educated on this.
Links:

https://www.lycee.ai/blog/ai-agents-automation-eng
Crewai’s funding announcement: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crewai-launches-multi-agentic...
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Thanks, that does explain the long-standing conundrum I had. Having worked for a cybersec/GRC startup in the past[0], I got a good look at how risks and their impacts are categorized, but I still couldn't figure out, why does anyone care.

Like, "reputational damage", obviously nobody cares if a company gets breached - 99% of the customers won't notice, 99% of the remaining won't understand it, and the competitors are probably just as much at risk; all you need to do is issue some PR note and maybe offer free credit monitoring (some US peculiarity), and you're done. Same for most other things leading to "reputational damage". It feels like it's obviously a loss of $nothing, so why do CFOs and CISOs seem to put so much interest in this impact category?

Well, I haven't thought about stock prices, and their lack of correlation with customer experience. My bad.

--

[0] - I suppose I had all the things I needed to figure it out, somehow I didn't connect the dots. And/or was too busy trying to ensure our fancy probability math wasn't bullshit to pay attention to the larger context.
There is no disclaimer of liability and implied warranty. You may be on the hook for damages if someone uses your code under the WTFPL and there is a bug that causes them to lose money.
A lot of hate in the comments but I’m excited for this. I don’t think I’d ever inflict it on teammates, but this looks like a much nicer way to use functional idioms without making the jump to something like PureScript. I’ll definitely try this for personal projects.
Humidity is missing from your list. As is wind chill. Really, you could almost make a score based on just those missing 2, because I can live with a great variety in all the others if I know those two.
Yes, I see it all with

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aoreilly.com+inurl%3Ao...

So it seems like it mainly lost the overview page?
The people I've met that leave reviews for free product aren't required to leave any "particular sentiment". They just rely on tacit laws of reciprocity.
> so long as it's a profitable book

And here is the rub. You’ll end up with three or four super authors with the rest being ripped off.

Much better for it to revert to the author in that situation IMO.
Experts Challenge ECB's Claims on Bitcoin and Wealth Inequality
My experience is that ascertaining exactly what the report consumer wants to see on a dashboard report is, by far, the most difficult part of the process.

Often the consumer would want a visual way to confirm a vague feeling. By the time a data team can ascertain what the consumer actually needs to see, collects and wrangles the data, and builds the dashboard, the consumer may have lost interest or become frustrated and moved on.

Identifying a feeling and graphically representing it with data is an extremely difficult thing which led me to a place of great despair at a previous job.

Anyway, I don't have a good answer for this but I hope you can crack it and become wildly successful doing so!
Since it's not terribly restrictive with image generation (and pretty decent at it), I would imagine most professional use of Grok is for that. Whether that's a legitimate business, promotional material, or for scamming...I can't say.
I noticed the last few months that in several subreddits that have nothing to do with tech, the sentiment had shifted very negatively regarding AI art. Some subs straight up ban those images. No reason given.

It seems the mainstream view is grounded in anxiety and dislike for tech. This isn’t shared by my friends who enjoy tech at all.

Have others here been experiencing this?
I think patents could work again if the key acceptance criteria was that based on the patent alone, a team of engineers must be able to reproduce the invention.

This would eliminate a whole range of ills with the current system that seems to do little except keep lawyers employed.
Rules degenerating into infinite whack-a-mole is a strong (though inconclusive) signal a mistake is being made. "Let's ban rent increases". "Whoops, now all the landlords are slacking on property maintenance; let's mandate maintenance." "Whoops, now all the landlords have stopped making improvements; let's let them increase rents X% when they spend at least $Y on improvements." "Whoops,..."

So you end up in some new equilibrium. Maybe that equilibrium is better, maybe it's worse, but it's simply not true that it's always better to do something rather than nothing, and pointing out the loopholes in the rules is valid criticism.
What do you think the people in cities burn for fuel to keep themselves warm?
Good point. I'm guessing these 2 must be measured by the weather stations. I'll check the variables available.

Update: dew point and wind chill are collected by the weather stations. So yes, I will now aim to incorporate them.
Class solidarity with other billionaires and similarly rich folk explains it easily.
November 2024: AI is allowed to execute commands in a bash shell. What could possibly go wrong?
I don't want this come across the wrong way, but have you tried talking to them about scams, or what they see in the banner ads? It might give you an idea of how credulous they are.
My parents are in a similar age group, and I frequently share information about scams with them. I don't expect all the information to stick, but it just keeps re-enforcing the ideas of 'no free lunches', 'too good to be true', 'pressured to act quickly' etc.
In this case, it seems close to a prisoner's dilemma.

That would make the researchers the prisoners and Springer the jailer in this analogy.

All researchers are incentivized to defect to the jailer(s)/private publishers until they know that there is a critical mass of prisoners willing to make a prison break/switch to open access journals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma
20 years and counting, and it still sucks.
> we have provided three tools
> bash shell

November 2024: AI is allowed to execute commands in a bash shell. What could possibly go wrong?
Will climate change put Chicago at higher risk for hurricanes?
How long until it is profitable the tell a cheap AI to "win this game by collecting resources and advancing in-game" and then sell the account on eBay?

I wonder what optimizations could be made? Could a gold farmer have the directions from one AI control many accounts? Could the AI program simpler bots for each bit of the game?

I can imagine not being smart enough to play against computers, because I am flagged as a bot. I can imagine a message telling me I am banned because "nobody but a stupid bot would score so low."
While making an app, I'm learning what other people in the industry are doing. One piece of "advice" is to put AppStore/play store rating dialog in the onboarding. The case studies show that it indeed improves the reviews by a lot, because people simply rate 5 stars just to get through onboarding.
One of my good friends is, in his words, older than oxygen. He lives across the street in a senior’s home and I always saw him out for walks.

I have a rule - when I see someone enough for them to become a familiar, I introduce myself. So I introduced myself to him and now he sends me a text message a few times a month for a coffee.

He was getting close to getting reined in by a scam. It was a Canadian party pulling the same shit as MAGA.

He said something really interesting.

You’re young and nobody listens to you. You just get dragged around, told where to go and what to say. Then, you hit around 40 and suddenly everyone listens to you. They will stop what they’re doing to cater to you. But then you turn really old, your wife dies and all of a sudden, you have nobody to even drag you around. You’re totally by yourself and day to day, it doesn’t matter if you live or die.

He knew it was a scam and knew when it got too expensive so decided to walk. But it was human contact. And as he says, loneliness is worse than being broke.

The best part of being friends with him is how the staff treats me at our spot. It’s a pub he used to go to with his wife when she was alive and the entire staff knows him very well.

Whenever we have coffee, one of the servers inevitably looks at him, points at me and says “Ray, I see you’re doing your good deed for the day.”

Without fail, his eyes twinkle and he replies, “If I don’t teach this young peckerhead a thing or two, we’re all doomed.”

I’m not sure there is a moral, but if you happen to see an older adult regularly, stop and talk. You may protect them from scams. You may end up with a close friend. If you’re really lucky, you may even get called “peckerhead.”

Edit - Me spell not good.
Sure there are. The person writing the release gets fed some internal bullet points or summaries as source material; that material is strictly less bullshit than the resulting official press release.
The corporate tax burden is not my fault and I'm not going to pay the company's tax bill for them, they can get reckt.

All the BS that we saw where local govs were giving multimillion free deals if Amazon would locate there was a travesty, because of where that money comes from.
Watched some bits of your video on YT. Really well done! Great lessons.