skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Passivhaus is probably a cheaper solution than nuclear-powered heat pumps for keeping people from freezing to death far from the equator. Outside of the Arctic Circle, passive solar gain is always a potential solution, though inside cities it may not be viable. And most of the Arctic and Antarctic have plenty of wind power available.

Nuclear reactors are steam engines. Steam engines used to be piston engines, but they switched to turbines because, as I understand it, turbines are cheaper. I'm not sure why piston engines are still used for internal combustion, but I suspect it may be a question of faster ramp rates — more important for peeling out of a stop light than for your power grid. But ships are commonly propelled by large two-stroke diesel engines, and ramp rates are not much of a concern there. Such engines made by Wärtsilä are reportedly comparable to turbines in their efficiency and priced competitively with turbine generators for small electric power plants.

However, neither turbine-powered generators nor piston-engine-powered generators are priced low enough to compete with solar or wind.
Where I live, the U.S. Military (and the constitution by which they swear an oath to defend) is stopping them. That is the importance of the word “legally”. There is a role to play for state governments, and that role is solely to protect the individual liberties of its citizens. Not to provide services or products. Tesla doesn’t send policemen to my door to intimidate me to buy their cars. But if I don’t pay my taxes…
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BattleDash - "Here's XSS, Account Takeover, Ban Reversal, and a heads up before I publish it"

EA - "So here's $0."

If anyone is at EA, this man just saved the integrity of your entire empire, you might want to give him at least a token amount.
This ignores shared memory between GPU and CPU, akin to Intel iGPUs of yore. It also ignores the less efficient memory management of using 16KiB pages, unlike x86 using the more space-efficient 4KiB pages.

This is a macrumours.com article, though.
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Thinking the systems that a company has are so sensitive that the company is basically above the law is the insane thing.

It is just a company--a group of people granted certain rights. They have databases...fancy filing cabinets. Just because the company is famous shouldn't preclude their filing cabinets from being searched (presuming legal processes are used and not abused).
How much is custom silicon from an established fab for the average person? I suspect that even a small run would be more than $50k, but I don’t have any point of reference.
It would be amazing if you:

a) There were a test / eval suite to determine which model works best for what. It could be divided into a training suite and test suite. (Training tasks can be used for training, test tasks only for evaluation.) Possibly a combination of unit tests against known xpaths, and integration tests that are multi-step and end in a measurable result. I know the web is constantly changing, so I'm not 100% sure how this should work.

b) There were some sort of wiki, or perhaps another repo or discussion board, of community-generated prompt recipes for particular actions.
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> In a 2-1 decision, the FERC found the regional grid operator, PJM Interconnection, failed to prove that the changes to the transmission agreement with Susquehanna power plant were necessary.

If the standard is "necessary" then you can shoot down anything you want on a whim. No particular connection or plant is ever necessary.

> “Co-location arrangements of the type presented here present an array of complicated, nuanced and multifaceted issues, which collectively could have huge ramifications for both grid reliability and consumer costs,”

...and? This is so generic, and you have even more potential for ramifications if the power has to take a less direct route.

What's the actual meat of the complaint here?
The bad news: the government stepped in and ruled the strike illegal. So horrible PR. December 2nd, 2022: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-r...

They did get a pay raise, but the main issue was over paid sick days and this was denied.

My only small sympathy is that this was still at the tail end of the pandemic. So the strike could have legitimately made things really bad and accelerated a recession.

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Good news: There were still negotiations, and mid-february 2023 a few unions announces a deal that would give them 4 sick days + 3 personal days to convert to sick days. They apparently credit the senate for putting pressure on the railroads to allow this.

So despite calling off the strikes, there was essentially more negotiations behind the scene to prevent long term damages to morale (i.e. workers simply retiring early or otherwise leaving the industry).
As a non-European, it seems like these raids happen regularly to large companies' offices in Europe (mostly US companies). Maybe some Europeans can chime in and answer something that's been bothering me: Does this happen to smaller companies, too? Is it a serious problem to getting work done, not knowing if regulators are going to shut you down and rifle through your filing cabinets?
Not by comparison to Uber at least. 'Historical' documentaries about it are going to be wild. And probably on Netflix.
What do you mean by such standards? What would example ones be for software?
My guess is some Saudis flagged this post.
That is an absolutist position, which some of us don't agree with. Taking the view that in practice there are degrees of "memory safety". That is generally my position, and that the largest benefits come from spatial safety, then temporal safety, in that order.

On that absolute position, there possibly are no "memory safe" languages, not even Rust as until it's borrow checker "bug" is fixed, it fails the absolutist position. If such a bug is left unfixed for long enough, one can deem it as de-facto "won't fix".

The Go example code provided elsewhere in the thread included a memory race on an "interface value", that being a form of "fat pointer". It was that I was referring to, updating only half of value, so making it internally inconsistent.
You can still purchase physical copies of Intel's version: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/intelsdm
I felt it simplified the description to not mention they were assembler macros, but in retrospect, that was begging for a correction :-)

The linked page with details was interesting, thanks!
PiML is also a common abbreviation for Physics-informed Machine Learning.
One of the first things I look at for products like this is whether the access to a variable's value can be done entirely in memory, rather than requiring a network hop.

Varse seems to do the latter: https://github.com/varse-io/varse/blob/master/sdk/varse-io/s...

https://docs.statsig.com/client/introduction/ is a good example of the former; each client maintains a data and execution environment that can evaluate getVariable(variable, requestContext) entirely client-side, with full logical consistency across platforms and devices (including stable auto-assignment of user IDs to different segments for A/B tests and canary rollouts), and synchronizes that environment periodically with the server. You can also do this in-house if your configuration model is more complex, with a background thread doing a periodic fetch and setting a pointer to a data structure atomically in memory; we've built a highly custom system for this, with configurability at various levels for our various marketplace participants, with Django and Gevent.

As a developer, I don't want to worry about whether I'm accessing a variable in a hot loop and suddenly creating an N+1 request scenario. And not needing to "await" is a huge plus as well. Having a highly granular configuration system that makes each access as quick and simple as an in-memory key-value read is incredibly valuable, and the slight latency in rolling out variable changes until all clients poll for the new values is well worth it.

Your approach is still very valid, of course! It's a very reasonable approach for a lot of use cases, and keeps things simple. Excited for your launch and will keep a look out for how the product evolves!
We are caught too much in words.
Well since the probabilities of infection is magnified by lesions, and those occur more often in the receptive partner, it will disproportionately affect women and gay men. As is the case for stds in general.

The extent to which these vaccines would be helpful to mean is usually to avoid hurting women. Which is not minor at all, I would definitely get one for that reason alone. But I wouldn't be concerned for personal risks.
... Wait, are you assuming that all 10 million immigrants work on this project? That cannot possibly be true.
It's not a problem of bureaucracy, but rather efficiency. Urban centers emerge because they make sense - grouping together labor, production, and consumption. If we just equally distribute people across the country our economy would implode on itself. How do you get to work? Where do you work? Where does your work go once you've worked on it? Who buys your work? And what work do you buy?

I'm not going to build a doctors office, or a train, or a corner store next to 10 people. I'm gonna build it next to 100,000 people. And now here we are, where we have space but not really because most of the space is worthless.
> - because losses can be offset against profits. These tend to be middled out over multiple years. You can port losses to other years.

These losses expire (different from country to country)!! Plus, inflation is not taken into account.

> a lot of companies (holdings etc.) don't pay out income tax and are basically just letterbox companies. These companies need to pay tax on dividends otherwise they would literally pay zero tax.

Tax on dividends is not corporate income tax. Dividend tax is classified as capital gains tax, which is entirely separate. My point is that anyone taking out money must pay taxes through personal income tax or dividend tax. So corporate income tax is just money that would be taxed anyway - or invested/used by the company. So no real purpose other than producing another cash inflow for the government.
This is no silver bullet. If the pension custodian assumed retirees would live to 75 on average and they start living until 90 then it's going to have a problem.
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But OP's point is that the 200k a year person could instead negotiate a 100k salary with an additional 100k into the 401k (by the employer) and that would be allowed.

Edit: Although it does appear there is a cap to the employer's contribution ($69,000 for 2024 [1]). But I think the general point still stands, why bother to have employer and employee limits.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-participant-employ...
Weight reduction would be a serious benefit if this actually works
This is a really interesting approach to AI privacy. I'm curious to see how the performance of the local models compares to cloud-based solutions, especially when it comes to handling complex queries.
Quick user feedback: I tried to generate violent images (just for the sake of testing), but I felt it was still being censored by the AI model.
That's true, although it might get complicated to remember the setting for each user, and for each rollout feature! For more complicated combinations you need groups on the configuration side and to put users (or buckets of users) in groups and give those groups a certain config option.
Does a search warrant for your house give the police the right to search your car, if they found your car keys in your house? What about your neighbour's or your employer's car - perhaps on the other side of the world - if you happened to have those keys? To compel you not to tell your employer to change the locks, so the seized keys won't work?

These seem like closer real-world analogies for what exactly a warrant to search someone's computer should entitle the police to do.
This comment is particularly funny because the neologism "enshittification" was coined by an outspoken anti-capitalist AS a criticism of capitalism
Would it be legal to publish any future vulnerabilities without giving them heads up?
> if we assume for the sake of argument that only about half of Saudia Arabia's foreign workforce is working directly on Vision 2030 projects.

It would be very surprising if it were anything close to half of foreign workers; it's just one (very big) project.
> You can’t just buy NyQuil [at the Apotheke/pharmacy], you have to go up to a person, do a little song and dance, and hope that you’ve convinced them enough that you get the product that you want.

German here. Kinda surprised to hear that, it hasn't been my experience at least. I never had any trouble asking for a specific product. What they do pretty systematically since a few years ago is to ask you whether you're familiar with a medication, if you understand how/when it's supposed to be used, etc. I suspect this is some new directive/regulation to prevent accidental misuse of off-the-shelf medication.

You can usually cut this discussion short by just answering that you already know how to use the medication and are aware of the risks.

> With most non-freelancer jobs, if you get sick you’re allowed to take off work for a few days, but on the third day you’re required to go to a Hausarzt and get krankgeschrieben (“written off sick”). That process itself is kind of annoying – most practices won’t give them out over the phone, so you usually have to go in person while having a cold, just to get a piece of paper saying you have a cold.

Getting the note by phone should currently be possible - but it's completely unclear if it will stay that way.

This is regulated by law, not a thing the practices can decide individually*. There is also no technical reason for it, it is 100% political.

During Covid, the government (grudgingly) permitted sick notes to be issued by phone to reduce infection risk. Since then, the regulation has been rolled back and reintroduced several times. The issue mostly follows the same trajectory as the "work from home" debate in the US, with progressive parties wanting to make the rule permanent and conservative parties being on an eternal crusade to abolish it. We'll see who wins in the end.

(* at least with current legislation, practices are allowed to do it, I'm not sure how required they are. So maybe OP's practice was opting out)
Engineering problems can be solved with engineering solutions, e.g. better material science that's not toxic (PLA is common now but it was an engineering marvel).

As long as there's a problem and there's money to be made, these things you mentioned can be solved.
Show HN: Capd – idea to visually analyze active PowerShell with OpenAI Vision
I'm not sure you'll find that useful but the point is to debug last-displayed error messages no matter where they come from, and without scanning textually (not even sure it can be done textually). Don't forget to insert your API key in the py file.

Here's what GPT says about the idea:

"Using OpenAI's vision capabilities to scan a PowerShell window and generate prompts for troubleshooting error messages is an innovative idea and could be helpful for diagnosing issues, especially if you have frequent and complex PowerShell scripts. This could allow for quick, contextual recommendations based on the exact error text or code provided."

Sounds good to me

See you around
You are aware of the fact that tax evasion means these companies are freeloading on the tax money the rest of us (including: you) are paying? Especially in the case of uber which is essentially using public infrastructure to make their money having them pay taxes should be normal.

I agree that customer data needs to be protected, but it is bold to assume that is the case at all with these powerful corporate entities: if they lie to the state when filing taxes what makes you believe they are ernest when it comes to the protection of their users privacy?

Maybe it is a weird ideology I am holding here, but the more powerful an entity is, the more transparent it should become — nowaday we got this completely reversed with poor people being naked in front of the state and big corps literally fooling everyone.

Edit: some also seem to think the state is the behemoth that jumps on the poor little companies here. To that I just have to think about the account of the German public prosecutor Bäumler-Hösl (of wirecard fame) where she told about a raid on a bank where she and 4 collegues were opposed by 130 (!) company lawyers.
Is it decided then that screenshots are better input for LLMs than HTML, or is that still an active area of investigation? I see that y'all elected for a mostly screenshot-based approach here, wondering if that was based on evidence or just a working theory.
Not necessarily. Depending on how the org's set up, the system may be permissioned to access too much stuff. I think justice systems should lean less on a general warrant - too much of a fishing expedition - and instead focus on subpoenas specifically related to their area of investigation. E.g. if they seize the CEO's computer on accounting or tax concerns, I sincerely doubt they showed a judge probable cause to seize, I don't know, new product designs. As such they should not be able to access them.
We're still chasing around the same issue. Say the following happens:

1. I open my laptop, and I say I want to vote for Alice. It presents a QR code.

2. I open my phone and scan the QR code. It says I'm voting for Bob.

I repeat this five times and the same happens. What do I do next? Assume I'm also afraid of publicly admitting I'm voting for Alice. Assume this only happens for a small part of the electorate, say 1-2%.

Here is another scenario: I have a sophisticated malware on both my phone and laptop.

1. I open my laptop, and say I want to vote for Alice. The malware connects to a voting server and asks it for a vote for Bob. The voting server replies with a QR code that proves I voted for Bob. The malware on my laptop then prints a QR code that says "hey, phone malware! this person thinks they voted for Alice, and here is the validation for their vote for Bob".

2. I open my phone and scan this QR code. The malware on my phone tells me "Yup, this is a vote for Alice". I press "Vote", and it sends the information from the Bob vote to the validation server. I'm happy that I voted for Alice, but the system has recorded that I voted for Bob, with all necessary signatures.

3. Even if the system includes the ability to check your vote, I can't prove to anyone else that I was trying to vote for Alice.

Now, if this happens to a huge number of people, the election may be contested and re-done (in a functioning democracy; in a dictatorship, it was the whole point). But what if it happens to a small minority, enough to only steal 1-2% of the vote? What if it's additionally well targeted to people that aren't generally trusted by their peers, so that they will be easily written off as cranks?

Also, what if I come out claiming this is what happened to me, but this didn't actually happen? What if I'm a celebrity, or a well-known scientist? What if I'm actually Alice herself, shamelessly lying to my voters that the election was stolen?

Another scenario that defeats this scheme, that I haven't even touched on before:

I am coerced, defrauded, or payed to share my private key with a third party. They vote in my name from the comfort of their own home, with every single system you described attesting that my vote was cast legally.

Try to prove that I shared my key, while still preserving the anonymity of private key <-> individual person association.

And this doesn't even get into how the private keys are given to every single person in a country without revealing them to a third party in the first place, but also without generating valid private keys for people who aren't entitled to vote.
> Any time he goes off on some wild tangent in his books, I assume it's because he just recently learned a lot about it and feels compelled to put that info somewhere.

Stephenson discussed this a bit in the Long Now launch event[0] for "Polostan" and more or less confirmed what you suspect. He also went on to say that he has learned to reel that in and avoid those "rabbit holes". He avoids such digressions in Polostan, in my opinion to the detriment of the book.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTK1vuv96Rc
This highlights why a design process is so important. It feels great to start with a clean slate and “just code”, and many seem to get rewarded for that in a “move fast and break things” culture.

However there always needs to be a plan on how to migrate data that uses the old way to the new way. It’s not as sexy, but it needs to be done and takes time away from building new features. Skipping the design process is tempting, but it’s a direct path to this type of technical debt that’s easy to foresee.
Starting your own business and getting it to succeed while generating a consistent monthly income, is not an easy job. This usually requires you to work even more time that your standard 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM work routine.

If you’re still interested in building a business or startup, willing to put in the work, but afraid it might not succeed, why not ‘test’ your business plan while continuing to work your primary job?

You can start a business by simply creating a website and testing for traction. Throw the bait and see if anyone bites. There are multiple ways to do this depending on what your business idea is.

There are two ways to do this:

1st Way: You can go with the simplest way and cheapest way by creating a website with a contact form and test the waters.

2nd Way: If you are willing to invest in your website and expect traffic you need to get a bit creative with more than just adding a contact form.

For example, if your business is related to pets, pet services, or a pet shop, you can add a “Mobile Grooming Price Calculator” and email the user a quote whenever they fill in the form. This way you can check if you get any grooming appointments and check if the business has potential.

How do you build a tool like a “Grooming Price Calculator” with no technical skills?
Check Bubble if you don’t want the code and not planning to scale the calculator into a customized tool and scale it. You will pay around 30–50$ in monthly fees if you want something as basic.

If you want to own the code and have full control over your application, try PagePalooza. You generate a foundation landing page from a single prompt, and create tasks that are reviewed by a software engineer, that gives you a quote. A “Grooming Price Calculator” could cost you a one-time payment ranged between $50–$500 depending on complexity and the features to include. You own the code of the calculator and have no scalability limitations.

Start a business while working your primary job and try to put around three hours a day working on this business. If you want to take this a further step and you are serious, use your PTO and fall in love with your business and your business plan. Monitor the traffic and check for converting clients. Depending on the number of customers and the revenue that's is when you need to do the math and make a decision with all these metrics in hand!
You would be able to charge much more than $1 per call and the real $ wouldn't come from unbanning but banning instead.

Think about being able to empower a kid to ban anyone they want.

It would turn into chaos but I do not think such a service would be long lived as it would generate so many support tickets and issues that EA would start looking into how it was happening.