skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's important to differentiate a "Battery Home Storage" system like a powerwall, an EV, or even a bunch of stackable ecoflow's sold at Costco from small-enough-to-be-hackable e-bikes and scooters. Asphalt and gasoline are both "petroleum products", but completely different worlds.

The NYC problems are caused largely by stores and race-to-the-bottom retailers doing DIY spot-welding, homebrew extending of battery packs with the cheapest cells found off aliexpress (and skipping the engineerey-bits like cell testing and cell balancing), and going for the cheapest chargers that skip things like a BMS or any regulator circuitry because it shaves a few bucks in power ICs.

You'll see these things in the $100-1000 battery market.

Your powerwalls and EV's are expensive enough that they probably didn't have to cut those corners. Plus the installation should be permitted and installed.

I'd love to have Amazon require UL certification for anything with burn-the-house-down risk, but this defeats the whole purpose of the cheap-off-the-boat business model of Amazon so that won't happen. "We're just a marketplace, sellers should be able to sell whatever they want." Besides the outright fraud on there, there's also subtle fakery like "UL Certified" electronics where if you take the time to lookup the certification number, you see all that's actually certified is the steel box meets UL "steel box" box standards, nothing about what's actually inside.
Did you even read the article you posted?

1. It's explicitly stated, including by the doctor involved, that this is a "groundbreaking" (read: experimental) procedure, having been performed exactly twice in the US this century.

2. The doctor even says "he can somewhat understand the insurance company’s initial reluctance at coverage".

3. The insurance company denied it because "unproven health services is not a covered benefit" - this is expected, the insurance company can't just take a single doctor's word that "it'll totally work, I'm super good at this surgery".

4. The insurance company ended up approving her claim.

And then, from a different article - https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/portland-mom-who-sur...

5. UNOS actually downgraded her score on their list (highlighting that, unfortunately, this was not a 'promising treatment').

6. She died during the liver transplant operation.
my rsync backup use case over usb and adb (with adb root)

start rsync daemon:
adb root
adb forward tcp:6010 tcp:11873
adb shell "rsync --daemon --port 11873 --config=/sdcard/rsyncd.conf &"

rsync:
rsync -rltHDhP --stats --size-only --append-verify --partial --delete rsync://localhost:6010/root/data/data/ /backup/data

cleanup:
adb kill-server

/sdcard/rsyncd.conf for the phone:
address = 127.0.0.1
uid = root
gid = root
[root]
path = /
read only = true
This can be a very useful tool. In the Haskell community there's https://hoogle.haskell.org/ which serves a similar purpose. For me this search engine is indispensable anytime I try to do anything in Haskell.
too vague.
> Non-violent order is an emergent higher order phenomena.

Could you share a basis for that? What I've read from people who study these things - what is universal across cultures - say unequivicably that it's wrong.

Perhaps it is our bias that only we 'advanced' people could do that.
> ... and then boom, you have on-demand animated, interactive content.

And in addition to that it's also useful for rending still pictures. 2D generated images by AI so far have incorrect lighting and many errors. Once it's a 3D scene rendered by something like Blender (which is free), it's going to look flawless: lighting is going to be correct (and configurable) and all the little details that are wrong are going to be easily fixed.

We already have insanely powerful tools and apparently from here it's only going to get way more powerful real quick.
They were arguably for a military purpose as well. One of the demonstrations iirc was about creating a deepwater harbor anywhere you wanted more or less instantly. Suddenly your invasion surface is no longer limited to where anyone can look at a map today and see where a ship can land and unload supplies. You could probably dredge a whole channel inland with a strafe in certain areas.
For an EV?

I think the op is pointing out that some building codes put huge restrictions on building isolation with stationary storage like powerwalls, but as soon as those batteries are on wheels then regulating cars is someone else's department.
I directly quoted two of the people involved. That’s not believing media.
HN is the one doing the distribution, not the user. The latter is free to type whatever it wants, but it is not entitled to have HN distributes his words. Just like a publisher do not have to publish a book he doesn’t want to.
Probably this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_Act, possibl this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act
Certainly not nothing. What happens in Germany affects Florida and vice versa. The world is pretty small these days.
Totally agree.

I wouldn't be surprised if he went on an adderall bender that he never recovered from. Adderall and rabbit hole topics without a resolution (societal change) are not a good mix.
It’s all true what you say. Just pointing out that generational effects last centuries as you correctly point out, and that it is rare to get an entire culture to fix things.
I will never understand why in this day and age Italian is the only accent or culture left in the USA that's still ok to make fun of...
That's a reasonable approach, however I would argue it's incomplete without acknowledging the historical context. How could the specification explicitly acknowledge this as technical debt from the original design rather than letting readers assume it was an intentional architectural choice? Such context informs implementers about the constraints they're working with.
These are an interesting design, especially with the remote-terminal aspects. I do wonder how the CRTs were driven at that resolution.
Doesn't CF have a service to accomplish this anyways that doesn't involve spinning up your own Worker application?
Does this happen for internal technical hiring/promotion committees as well?
I like namecheap. It serves its purpose.
I configure bindings through Zigbee2MQTT. You can view the bindings in the switch configuration, where you can also update or remove them.
I use Zigbee2MQTT to handle low-level Zigbee tasks such as pairing, binding, creating groups, setting up scenes, and configuring devices. Most of these things are stored within the devices and work without the coordinator/ha-server.

The configurations you set up in Zigbee2MQTT are synced with HA and can be used there as well. I use the options provided by HA for higher-level tasks, such as automations, custom sensors, statistics, and more. Everything I configure there will not work when the server/coordinator goes down.
You saying it doesn't make it so. The precedent of far-right state oppression of economic freedoms, political speech, businesses, and the free market would certainly affect you. Look at how the far right has spread across Germany and the US, and many places in between.
Careful. That solve rate is overall. When planning your life in crime you probably want to use the solve rate for the particular type of people you plan to murder.

The solve rate for murders of white people is generally in the 80+% range, which is probably what you'd want to use if going after CEOs.
It ends with "All is scheduled, be patient". Presumably it means more videos are coming, explaining his motivation.
The creator of ChatGPT's voice wants to build the tech from 'Her'
Scid exists of course, I've used it since forever and it works fine. But you have to find your own games to fill it with (probably from The Week In Chess) and it looks like Linux did in 1998.

Most of my opening stuff is just in a bunch of Lichess studies these days though.
How to make robots more lifelike
Interestingly, you must know that any printing equipment that is good enough to output realistic banknotes are regulated to embed a protection preventing this use case.

Even more interestingly, and maybe that could help understand that even in the most principled argument there should be a limit: molecular 3d printers able to reproduce proteins (yes, this is a thing) are regulated to recognise a design from a database of dangerous pathogens and refuse to print.
I stand corrected, found a "reason":
https://www.ccr.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Hotarare_32_20...

"In the present case, the freely expressed nature of the vote was violated by the fact that voters were misinformed through an electoral campaign in which one of the The candidates benefited from an aggressive promotion, carried out in circumvention of the national legislation in the field of electoral and by abusive exploitation of the algorithms of social media platforms. Vote manipulation was all the more obvious as the electoral materials promoting a candidate did not carry the signs specific to electoral advertising according to Law no. 370/2004. In addition, the candidate also benefited preferential treatment on social media platforms, which had the effect of distorting the manifestation of the will of the voters."
Is it? It seems to me to be paired with shareholders' interests, and nothing more.
News article about Ontario bill 212 - https://www.cp24.com/politics/queens-park/2024/11/25/doug-fo...
Why do quantum computers need to be analog to be applied to such problems?
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/njKLK>
> Attacking him for wearing a wristband? That's an ad hominem attack, and not worthy of my time to counter you on.

I picked my words very carefully and I would appreciate if you responded to what I said, not what you think I implied.

I specifically called out - I'm having feelings of bias. That in a field full of quack science and overpromises and underdelivery, I am extraordinarily suspicious of anyone who I feel might be associated with a shall we say "less than rigorous relationship with scientific accuracy". This person's aesthetic reminds me of this.

> The fact is that "Burners" are everywhere, nothing about Burning Man means someone is automatically a quack. Your distrust seems misplaced and colored by your own personal biases. The list of prominent people in tech that are also "burners" would likely shock you. I doubt you've ever been to Burning Man, but you're going to judge people who have? Maybe you're just feeling a little bit too "square" and are threatened by people who live differently than you do.

You couldn't be more wrong. I'm a repeat Burner throughout the 2000's (though it's been a decade), and I've been to a dozen regional Burner events. I know many Burners both in the tech industry and outside of it.

So I actually speak with some experience. I know wonderful people who are purely artists and are not scientifically/technologically inclined - and they're great. I also know deep technologists for whom Burning man is purely an aesthetic preference - a costume not an outfit. Something to pretend to be for a little while but that otherwise has no bearing on their outside life.

And I unfortunately know those whose brainrot ends up intertwining. Crypto evangelists who find healing crystals just as groundbreaking as the blockchain. It's this latter category that I am the most suspicious of, and what I worry when I see a person presented as an authoritative leader in the Quantum Computing domain demonstrate in their external presentation.

I led with an acknowledgement that I am judging a book by it's cover, which one ought to never do. But I think it is worth pointing out because respectability in a cutting edge field is important, lest you end up achieving technological breakthroughs that don't actually change society at all (as already happened with Google Glass).

> You don't have to believe me, and I don't expect that you will,

Why would you expect that I wouldn't?

> but I've talked at length with him about his work, and about a great many other topics, and he is not as you think he is.

That's fantastic to hear! You have direct evidence contradicting the assumptions generated by my first impression. This is all that matters, and all you had to say.
> that are fairly intractable and require sustained, collective willpower that is unlikely to manifest in practice.

> if I thought it was easy

Your premises are false; that's the problem. Nothing is stopping you in reality.

You can easily do something about that.
...but the salesperson promised it would be easy, fast and low-cost! </sarcasm>
What role did the CEO who was killed play in that debate 15 years ago?

Why are you still shifting blame from the politicians who created this system? They didn’t have to listen to the healthcare industry. They are accountable to the public. They got voted into office and they put this system in place. Of course the healthcare CEOs are going to argue in their own interest - but they don’t call the shots here! The politicians do.
Really appreciate the Leko story about the endgames. He's the top level commentator that I enjoy the most, but I don't always understand what he says in his analysis. Leno's Banter Blitz was also quite fun to watch - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5-eGwi2NSmY
Cases like these build support for indoor farming if externalized costs of black swan events and pesticides are incorporated into the cost calculation.

Outdoors wins always from a power efficiency standpoint, but disease can flip the balance.
Good.

Roads should be used for maximum benefit to the public. That sometimes includes bike lanes, but from what I've seen, should not include rarely used lanes in poor parts of town for the benefit of a few people doing exercise at the expense of the actual residents ability to drive and park.
Did you even read the article you posted?

> Erika had waited more than a year for a liver due to insurance issues.

Yes, if you delay long enough, chances of survival go way down.

(There’s a reason “delay” was one of the three words on the bullet casings, I suspect.)
Show HN: IntraPaint – open-source image editor with local AI
I built this because I wanted a better way to use AI image generation to enhance traditional digital art techniques, not replace them. I've been working on this since 2022, but after getting laid off earlier this year I've finally been able to find enough time to develop this project into something really worth using.

Traditional image editing capabilities:

- A full-featured layer stack, including support for compositing and persistent transformations.

- Drawing tablet support, including configurable support for pressure sensitivity across most editing tools.

- Integrates the powerful libmypaint brush engine to emulate many traditional art mediums.

- All the usual tools you've come to expect in an image editor, including text placement, multiple selection modes, smudging, image filters, and more.

AI image generation capabilities:

- Full control set for inpainting, image to image, and text to image generation.

- Handles image generation through a connection to an existing local Stable Diffusion installation, supporting ComfyUI, A1111, Forge, and reForge.

- Supports simultaneous use of up to three ControlNet layers.

- Provides tools for manipulating the image generation area, making it easier to create and refine large images.

More details, installation instructions, and potential use cases are fully documented in the GitHub README. I've also created a timelapse video demonstrating my IntraPaint workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLD11Ttbnj8
HP bought DEC by way of Compaq. Some DEC Alpha assets ended up with Intel (e.g. Hudson MA). But your statement doesn't make sense in general.
I'd be curious how much of this changes once you account for a few basic fundamental things like:

* Being over 25

* Having a college degree.

The people who worry about marriage because of these stats are typically in this category. I bet just by accounting for these 2 points, the numbers would plummet to the 20s if not teens.
>the easiest way to fight back against this isn't to try to change laws to avoid this but for non-malicious entities like the registrar not to allow their customers to get exploited by this sort of behavior.

Easiest? Perhaps. Nothing around law is particularly easy (except breaking it, of course!) :) So, not altering existing laws, or not making new ones, would absolutely be the easiest method to that desired outcome. Many things would be easier to do if they were simply done how they were described, in a manner in which they were excepted, under the terms which they were agreed to. However, can we expect that a lack of laws/codes/statutes could ever result in effective or consistent behavior? Sadly, no. At least, not based upon historical experience. Perhaps the disposition of man will change one day - who knows what the future holds, but God!

Negligence is a thing that is bred in indifference and grown through a lack of consequence. Law and reform is the sole remedy.

Consider this: It would be far, far safer and more profitable for owners, employees, and customers of restaurants if the restaurant kept their cooking areas clean and tidy. Yet, even with unannounced and routine health inspections, various licensing requirements, annual training & education certifications, and massive fines...in spite of all of that, absurdly high numbers owners can't meet the bare minimum. People still somehow die from unsanitary food every year!

The best we can do then to combat the disposition of disconnected employees, and the blasé, checked-out business owners is to crush their skull. It is a judicial vengeance, a constant protector for all the people who had been abused unfairly; the ones who were discounted as "unimportant nobodies". Law is what gives the common man a temporary illusion of equal treatment. And when that illusion is chipped and broken from time-to-time, well, at least we can put another head up on the spike outside our walls.

It's certainly not quick, or easy, or even preventative(!), but it is the kind of response that is owed to the victims of incompetence and indolence.
>I'm guessing it has to be a case of code inspectors not particularly caring or knowing about the DC side?

I'm inclined to agree with this. US electrical code, especially in recent years, is pretty robust and has gotten to the point where people groan about excessive safety features(tamper resistant outlets required in all new dwelling spaces, arc fault circuit breakers, whole home surge protection all make wiring a house significantly more expensive than 15 years ago). Inspectors are pretty good at catching grounding and other issues. That said we don't yet have generational knowledge of PV and battery systems. A lot of installers are still learning by doing, it feels.

Are you sure it wasn't just DIY un-permitted work, though?
An experimental (e)shell pager
To me this is what all AI feels like. People want "hard to make things" because they feel special and unordinary. If anybody with a prompt can do it, it ain't gonna sell
That's now how the world is supposed to work, I wonder if there is going to be long-term psychological effects if being exposed to videos like these regularly. If our neurons are unable to receive a stable stream of reality like we have for millions of years will our brains become dysfunctional over time?
Who do you think lobbies those politicians?
A mix of cursor and claude. I’ve just used cursor to help me write a radar data visualisation tool using SwiftUI and Metal. Never used either before.

In essence I treated it like a junior dev who already knew the tech stack. So tell it what I wanted to achieve then pair program to get it working. Then iterate to add functionality. Once a feature is working, I could then ask it to help me understand how the tech stack was being used. Lots of fun, and very productive.
You will basically have to provide a video showcasing your workflow.
> no one is going to perform act of terrorism with this

Especially certain someone that’s worth a billion dollars, is 100 years old and their name ends with inc.
> All severe cases involve individuals suffering from severe malnutrition

> Malaria is common in the area, and it may be causing or contributing to the cases, the United Nations health agency said.

> Acute pneumonia, influenza, Covid-19, measles and malaria are considered as potential causal factors based on the signs and symptoms of those afflicted
Why the powerful may be more likely to cheat
YugabyteDB supports much more than basic things. I've been a 3+ years dev advocate for Yugabyte, and I've always seen triggers. LISTEN/NOTIFY is not yet there (it is an anti-pattern for horizontal scalability, but we will add it as some frameworks use it). Not yet 100% compatible, but there's no Distributed SQL with more PG compatibility. Many (Spanner, CRDB, DSQL) are only wire protocol + dialect. YugabyteDB runs Postgres code and provides the same behavior (locks, isolation levels, datatype arithmetic...)
Not OP but I use OVH which is better value and more reliable. OVH VPS’s also include unlimited bandwidth, by comparison hetzner imposes data caps and will nickel and dime you on just about everything. I run a few bandwidth heavy applications that do 10-20tb of traffic a month. If I was using hetzner I’d effectively be flushing cash down the drain
Welp, not when the oligarch ruling classes on each side estimate they won't earn more from war than keeping the peace and continue being fed by their own people.
> Today, anyone can buy a laptop and learn Pd / Max / SuperCollider!

And anyone can buy a laptop and contribute to the development of Pd, SuperCollider, Chuck, et al.

Not sure how much overlap there is between those two groups. Arguing against my earlier point: there still seems to be a separation between music systems users and music systems developers.
Last time I looked at these the lighting was in the textures, also the meshes were asymmetrical and insane. Not usable by a game dev studio.
what in particular is better as about this than

https://civitai.com/videos
Use flatpak, add an immutable distro and you can do what you desire? Or just run Qubes-OS.
It's mostly rsync for me. I love rsync.

And also: I don't want to connect my phone over the cable to my PC very often. I just want to quickly transfer sometimes (over WiFi).
But then you need twice the bandwidth (one for egress from your "real" server, once for egress from your "front-end" server), you have a lot more latency, you've created additional points of failure, you need to sync the IPs of your "front-end" to your "real" server to allow it access. Besides that you now need to find reliable hosting from two providers, one for your "real" hosting and one for your "front-end" (using the same provider would just lead to the same issue as in the original post).

Great if it works for you, congrats. But I don't think this solves issues for many people, I doubt it solves an actual issue for you and it's basically the same as using cloudflare/akamai/similar but with a manually setup proxy on a VPS.
Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us
Gabba gabba, we accept you, we accept you, one of us

From "Pinhead" by the Ramones, inspired by the 1932 film "Freaks".
Study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02997-0
Surprising how common it is. The first hardware I ever designed on the job was a device to detect employee theft.
I'm disappointed, but not really surprised that top American officials are having important conversations over unencrypted channels.
Surprisingly I did as well, at least for me it looks like I just misread it (some sort of human bias?) Interesting to be n=3.
£1.68B accounts trick inflated water firm's books
*Suspected killer

There are still a lot of unknowns, and the man mentioned in the linked article has only been arrested on suspicion.
Ah sorry, I then I have indeed misread your comment.
How can I be an AI engineer?