skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empirically it doesn't seem that way given countries with nuclear power have cheaper electricity than those without. It's especially illustrative to compare power costs in France and Germany before and after Germany closed all its nuclear plants.
Well the obvious way to unsure that these waste are not going to threat human lives in whatever long period of time is to not create them in the first place.

And not doing it is even easier than saying we could not produce them.

Note that I'm not antinuclear or collapsist. Maybe in 10000 years there will be so much progresses in ways we don't expect that this material could be turned easily into safe or even useful material for human beings.
Doughnut shop in Indiana still using Commodore 64s as register systems
Take a look at Fretboard Theory by Desi Serna - it spends a lot of time on how different scales are constructed and relating different patterns and chord forms back to the underlying concepts.
That somehow makes people who create music for games and movies not legitimate artists.
It was a cool thing... I expected a hacky demo that'd fall apart mid-way but it held up. The Macintosh SE in the office was cool too.
It could have been worse. Apple use to love selling Macs that were crippled by horrible buses.

My first Mac was an LCII. It had a 32 bit 68030–16Mhz processor with a 16 bit bus.

I won’t even get started with the 12 inch 512x384 monitor that few games were compatible with
Yes

Type | yearly usage | average annual cost

Low (flat or 1-bedroom house / 1-2 people) | 1,800 kWh | £669.95

Medium (3-bedroom house / 2-3 people) | 2,900 kWh | £943.36

High (5-bedroom house / 4-5 people) | 4,300 kWh |
£1,291.34

source: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/energy/guides/average-bill.html
Apparently the UK government estimated that in 2016 and 2019 the average household saved £11 on their bill due to this feedback from smart meters. This page estimates the cost at £15 so 2/3rds is recovered just from that effect.
How Boston City Hall was born: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Frankenstein-film-by-Whale
Ask HN: Where can I read about puzzles in communication and coordination?
I'd like to read puzzles in communication and coordination and their solutions, is there a good textbook I can read on this subject? Issues like the two generals' problem[1], evesdroppers and spoofed messages, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%27_Problem
Because cameras have blind spots.
Show HN: I Built a Free Car Budget Calculator Using the 20/4/10 Rule
I’ve recently launched a website designed to help people make smarter financial decisions when buying a car. The tool uses the 20/4/10 rule to calculate a realistic car budget based on your income, down payment, interest rate, and loan term. The goal is to make car budgeting less stressful and more transparent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Stobart
> Today, with the global interpreter lock, only one of those threads can be executing bytecode at a time.

Yes, but Python now has a version without GIL, which prompted this post in the first place. So my question is: Now, if I use a version of Python 3.13 without GIL, can a threaded Flask app do better than an AIOHTTP server.
Any kind of automated or machine generated posts/submissions are already not allowed according to dang (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628):

> They're already banned—HN has never allowed bots or generated responses. If we have to, we'll add that explicitly to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, but I'd say it already follows from the rules that are in there. We don't want canned responses from humans either! ...

Hopefully, he'll formally add it to the guidelines page someday. So if you see any, feel free to flag them or send email to the HN administrators to report the user.
Hi HN,

I’ve recently launched a website designed to help people make smarter financial decisions when buying a car. The tool uses the 20/4/10 rule to calculate a realistic car budget based on your income, down payment, interest rate, and loan term. The goal is to make car budgeting less stressful and more transparent.

Here’s what makes it unique:

Free and Simple: No sign-ups, no ads – just straightforward calculations.
Dynamic Pages: Tailored advice for different states (e.g., “Car Budget in California”) and incomes (e.g., “Car Budget for $60K Income”).
Educational Blog: We also write about topics like understanding the 20/4/10 rule, car buying tips for first-time buyers, and affordable car options under $25,000.
Try it here: BudgetForCars.com
Example page: Car Budget for $60,000 Income

I built this because I saw a lot of people overspending on cars without realizing how it impacts their financial stability. I’d love to hear your feedback, whether it’s about the calculator itself, the design, or the overall concept.

Also, if you have ideas on how to improve the tool or expand its reach, I’m all ears!

Would really appreciate any support – whether it’s trying out the calculator, sharing it with a friend, or even just leaving your thoughts below.

Thanks,
Emirhan Ozsoy
The strong decay would just be forbidden from conservation of energy. If the mass of the Tbb state is less than the sum of the B+ and the B0 masses, then that decay isn't allowed.
People are screaming from the rooftops here when we occasionally hit 15 c/kWh in winter. In August this year our electricity cost was $15 for the whole house. Hydropower is nice like that.

My homelab in the basement is running an old Dell R730. It draws 200-300W depending on load. I could get something much more efficient, but then I would need to run a space heater in that room for most of the year...
Grayjay Desktop App
The FDA has a new definition for food labels
Fair enough.

GPUs in particular have a very hyperthread/SMT like model where multiple true threads (aka instruction pointers) are juggled while waiting for RAM to respond.

Still, the intermediate organizational step where SIMD gives you a simpler form of parallelism is underrated and understudied IMO.
People who opposed demolishing the neighborhoods would be called NIMBYs today and would be blamed for the housing crisis. I'm not saying this to be snarky, just that there is a real push and pull there that I don't think is appreciated. There are some beautiful old neighborhoods near me which are at risk of being torn down and replaced with multi-unit dwellings. The residents say 'save our neighborhoods' and the activists cry 'greedy homeowners' and in the meantime the developers are rubbing their hands in anticipation of mountains of cash.
This is an insane sentiment. It's interesting that I've heard a few times in this thread. I wonder where this logical failure comes from.

If I rock it explodes killing all of the astronauts, was that the purpose of the rocket and the mission?

If I crash my car on my way to the store, is that the purpose of leaving my house?
Scientists know our bodies are full of microplastics. What are they doing to us?
Genuine question - How hackable is this? Can I have the voice commands redirected to my backend server where I can process it as I please?
> MSF care less about the label

Why would they use a very strong label that they don't even have proofs for? All the genocide talk is only about labels. Genocide is something universally acknowledged to be bad, so calling something genocide is a good trick: who would argue for genocide?

> the international community to force Isreal into a ceasefire so they can do their job and save lives.

Well maybe saving hostage lives, that would also be a very strong argument for Israel to withdraw is something they should consider
does not seem so... Something as simple as "yaml" already requires reaching to apt-get: http://bd808.com/pecl-file_formats-yaml/

> Php-yaml can be installed using PHP's PECL package manager. This extension requires the LibYAML C library version 0.1.0 or higher to be installed.

$ sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev

This is basically how "pip" works, and while it's fine for basic stuff, it gets pretty bad if you want to install fancy numerical of cryptography package on a LTS linux system that's at the end of the support period.

I am guessing that PHP might simply have less need for native packages, being more web-oriented.
I didn't. Turn your paranoia down. I never mentioned you once and none of this is specific or particular to you.

But, to answer one point: yes, I do think that broad experience of lots of different desktop GUIs does qualify someone for comparing them, and for identifying particular strengths or weaknesses of particular ones.
This is really great feedback. The truth is that the pricing model is being figured out, so if you have a specific type of use in mind maybe we could figure out what works best and it might become the actual default pricing model.

I tried to tie the pricing with the amount of processing that the API needs to do, which is closely related to the number of grib2 files that the API needs to download and process in order to create the response. And it doesn't change as much wether I extract 1 point or 1000 points. But I thought I had to draw the line somewhere or nobody would ever pay for anything because the freetier is enough.

But I might make it same price for maybe chunks of 5000 or more points.

From the line of business I come from the main usage is actually to extract scattered coordinates (think weather where specific assets are, like hotels or solar panels or wind farms) and not whole boundaries at full resolution but it makes a lot of sense that for other types of usage that is not the case.

It is definitely in the roadmap to be able to select based on lat/lon bounds and even shapes. Also to return data not as timeseries but the gridded data itself, either as grib2 or netCDF or parquet or a plain matrix of floats or png or even mp4 video.
All of the Macs finally come with 16 GB RAM which is decent.
No, you didn't really have all the music: you were very limited by what was playing on the radio (fully influenced and often paid for by large labels) and in the local record store.

Now you can chose to listen to almost anything: https://everynoise.com/
Please stop attempting to associate Qanon/Pizzagate/Conspiracy to this whole thing it's desperate and embarrassing.
This picture is from Yelp, posted in 2023: https://s3-media0.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/46rjANZM2fcMkvCzvEjw...

The machines are still there, behind the counter.
> This buyout program provides a viable pathway forward for our most vulnerable community members

> Hong estimates that his home would have been worth about $3.6 million two years ago

Yeah, this person who was able to afford a $3.6M home sure sounds like "our most vulnerable" people. He needs a bailout for making a poor decision on buying that house in a place prone to landslides. Not the hungry kids in our schools whose parents can't afford/won't provide healthy meals.

We got money for millionaires but not hungry kids and people with chronic medical needs.

> "We’re committed to staying,” Reeves, 81, said. “We’re pretty financially committed now.”

> They are weeks into a major renovation after a fissure forced apart rooms in their home.

Their home is constantly being torn apart by the ground and yet they're committed to staying. Insanity.
... and instead he tripled the deficit.

Of all the various delusions people have about the debt, the idea of Reagan as the great government cutter is perhaps the most deranged.
I think the consensus is that the general purpose transformer-based pertaining models like gpt4 are roughly as good as they’ll be. o1 seems like it will be slightly better in general. So I think it’s fair to say the capability is not there, and even if it was the reliability is not going to be there either, in this generation of models.

I wrote more about the implications of this elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42465598
This would be interesting as a project using the Miniflux API (https://github.com/miniflux/v2). That way it would already use my existing feeds and I don't have a separate "reading tool".
Teflon is t the problem. You can eat Teflon.

It’s some of the chemicals formerly used in manufacturing or that it breaks down to when exposed to excess heat that have health effects.
I'm not saying PG&E shouldn't pay out, they were directly responsible.

But I will say that Paradise was in a bad state prior to the fire, simply nobody knew how bad. While a wildfire like that wasn't guaranteed, they were just one bad lightning strike away from the same disaster.

Funding FEMA, forest management services, and wildfire fighters something that isn't always prioritized and it should be.
Money isn't the goal.

It's much more important.

It's both the measure, the scale, the environment, and the terms of exchange.

It's the simplest globally agreed on proxy for the transmission of everything that exists.

Thus money is a proxy for everything no matter how abstract or concrete, freedom, self determination, the ability to bring complex things in your imagination to fruition by enlisting the help of others.

Money is nothing but...

If I was a fish, money would be my water and my gills.

Language & Communication itself is even less than money, it's just air vibrating or scribbles on paper, it has no purpose or meaning but what we give it.

It's also the fundamental operating system and protocol of both individuals and humanity.

Money is the knot that cannot be untied.

Goodhart's law is everywhere and in all things.
> Campen says you don't see a correlation between age and the concentration of microplastics in human tissue. In other words, it doesn't appear to endlessly accumulate inside us. It's possible that our bodies may reach some sort of "equilibrium" based on how much is around us.

> "We don't have enough data," he says, "but [our work] suggests there's a very rapid time to saturation — you do hit a limit and eventually you're clearing it."

> A study of Zebrafish (sometimes used in biomedical research) found the uptake of microplastics did plateau at a certain point and levels decreased when the animals weren't being exposed. The problem is the saturation point went up proportionally to how much the animals were exposed to, says Campen.
Getting ChatGPT to print its (alleged) system prompt
Because architects went from building monuments to God and creation to building monuments to their own narcissism. Notre Dame (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Notre-Dame-de-Paris) was meant to be pleasing to God. And by implication, to man, because man was created in the image of God. Boston City Hall wasn't meant to be pleasing to anyone. It's more important to "make a statement" than to make something that is beautiful and uplifting.
I'm frustrated at how often a how-to for something that takes three sentences to explain is a video. At the same time, it's amazing for things like simple home and car maintenance.
How Ukraine tries to change the battlefield with ground drones – DW News [video]
I remember reading in the UK papers about one of the first water companies to privatize. The very first act of the board was to vote themselves a BIG pay raise.
Yes and for reasons I was running an x86 SQL Server Docker image on my ARM Mac and that just works
> but also those operators get detected and, months later, fined out the wazoo by the regulator for pulling a stunt like that.

The ones that were detected were fined, we don't know how much of that goes on but more subtly.
20 Years of Social Future // NoSocial Past [video]
This video is a remix of all kinds of other videos in the same Content - Net Neutrality.

Everything is a Remix Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc

Open Source Documentary on Net Neutrality
https://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/open-source-documentary-on-n...

EVOLUTION - Linux Commercial
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xw3ws

…and many more!

This is a nonprofit video with one simple goal: to make you think.
They did cause the fire.

You could certainly argue that some sort of fire was inevitable, and that the fire would have been much less damaging if people hadn’t built their houses in such bad places.

But the law doesn’t really care about that. You can’t avoid liability by arguing what would have happened or what should have happened. If your negligence causes a fire and that fire destroys a house, you’re liable for it regardless.
I wonder how hard it would be for the microphone to listen for the word "union" and send an alert to Walmart Corporate?
How much does digging a hole or laying a cable cost here in the UK compared to elsewhere? I'm just trying to get a feel for whether things like the transmission/distribution network costs are higher than elsewhere.
Variable rate smart billing can be amazing if you have the right setup though!

Eg. An electric car that can do V2G with the following;

Power to the grid when Rate > Y and carCharge > 50%

Charge the car when Rate < X.

There's various posts on electric car groups where people have the above setup and pull in ridiculous profits. Your typical electric car can output power for a very long time during the ridiculous 10000% price hikes and on the flipside when the price occasionally hits ~0 charging is basically free.

If you have some system of power storage variable rate can make you money.

https://thedriven.io/2024/02/27/australian-evs-could-earn-12...
What would the reason for being intentionally draughty be? The only thing I can think of is if they were burning candles/gas lamps to improve air quality?
Fair. It's not like GPUs are entirely SIMD (and as I said in a sibling post, I agree that GPUs have substantial traditional threads involved).

-------

But let's zoom into Raytracing for a minute. Intel's Raytrace (and indeed, the DirectX model of Raytracing) is for Ray Dispatches to be consolidated in rather intricate ways.

Intel will literally move the stack between SIMD lanes, consolidating rays into shared misses and shared hits (to minimize branch divergence).

There's some new techniques being presented here in today's SIMD models that cannot easily be described by the traditional threading models.
The same author wrote the blog post that was on the front page here recently about the plummeting cost of solar [0]. I really like his posts, readable by someone like me who is way below layman on the subject, but I think also pretty interesting to someone with experience in the field.

[0] https://climate.benjames.io/solar-off-grid/
They are there in the print version (page 26)
https://cerncourier.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CERNCouri...
Sure, and citizens united doesn't prevent that. It says that your ability to send $2,000 doesn't go away when you are part of an organization.

If a corporation has a million shareholders that can each spend $2000, that is a hell of a lot of political donation.
This is Home Assistant. Everything is hackable.

Inside Home Assistant the processing is delegated to integrations providing Speech-to-Text, command processing, Text-to-Speech. You can make custom integrations for all of them
> It does not function as layer 3 forwarder (aka router), only as host, and that host function is theoretically optional.

Set aside the theory and look at how any of the real devices are implemented. These devices are all running Linux, and that Linux OS is managing a minimum of two separate NICs with the full software networking stack. They incorporate all of the software complexity of a full-blown router, and none of the simplicity and security/privacy advantages of an unmanaged Ethernet switch which is a purely L2 device. There's no separation of control plane and data plane; no hardware-accelerated forwarding between Ethernet and WiFi to allow packets to skip a trip through the CPU cores. In fact, it is often the case that the only meaningful difference between a consumer WiFi router and a WiFi extender is that the latter omits the Ethernet switch chip and consequently only has one or two Ethernet ports rather than 5+ ports. Presuming that a WiFi extender is less likely to be nefarious than a WiFi router by analogy to a layer 2 unmanaged Ethernet switch (with at most kilobytes of RAM and likely only an 8-bit or 16-bit microcontroller for a processor core) is entirely wrong.
Annually, that sounds about right.
I too get pretty consistent response and answers from Alexa these days. There has been some vague decline in the quality of answers (I think sometime back they removed the ability to ask for Wikipedia data), but have no trouble with timers and the few linked wemo switches I have.

I’m also the author of an Alexa skill for a music player (basic “transport” control mostly) that i use every day, and it still works the same as it always did.

Occasionally I’ll get some freakout answer or abject failure to reply, but it’s fairly rare. I did notice it was down for a whole weekend once; that’s surely related to staffing or priorities.
In a historic home in the Midwest a single month in the depths of of the winter could easily be 700-800 usd.
More Men Are Addicted to the 'Crack Cocaine' of the Stock Market
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/stock-market-trading-apps...
I agree PGE was negligent, but it also doesn't make sense to assign the entire cost of the resulting fire to PGE. The scale of the fire damage was a result of many factors, only some of which are due to PGE. A huge destructive fire was a matter of time. Whether it was caused by PGE, lightning, or an RV tire blowout was a matter of chance.

Or another way to put it, how much liability would you give the RV drivers in these two scenarios?

https://www.kktv.com/2024/07/23/rv-with-blown-tire-sparks-se...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carr_Fire
I don't understand. You first need the map, then you can drive, yes? How does the fleet help in the creation of a new map?
The HS2 project is mostly that - and very, very expensive it seems.
How innovation died at Intel? Uncertain future ahead
Key quotes:

"Nobody in the Intel Technology Development Group, who's either at the top level or one level down, would even have a seat at the table anywhere in the first three levels of management at TSMC," said the former executive who worked in Intel's foundry.

While the government is funding the expansion of TSMC’s and Samsung’s foundries in the US, the vast majority of those companies’ manufacturing capacity is in their home countries of Taiwan and South Korea, per Miller. That's seen by some as a national security risk in case of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. But "that doesn't automatically make Intel the solution," Rasgon said.

" We can throw all the money we want at Intel, it doesn't necessarily fix the problem," he added. Nearly 80% of analysts tracked by Yahoo Finance, including Rasgon, have a Hold rating on the stock, with an average price target of $24 over the next 12 months.
Snap packages – 10x slower than native
Why, do you think that pmdulaney?
Maybe, but the long term planning has been atrocious, millions of smart meters already need replacing because of the 3g switch off.

It's massively wasteful if they are all going to need replacing again in 10 years when 4g is switched off.

Not to mention the concerns about electricity companies remotely forcing meters into prepayment mode or switching off people's electricity supply.
> Like they still had food rationing for years after WW2

To be fair the UK was completely broke and responsible for feeding half of Europe.
> A big difference though is that UK (and US) submarine reactors use enriched uranium, SMRs won't.

I addressed that difference in my second sentence. The technological competence is to a large degree transferable, the specific designs are not.

And yes, something like the SMR is exactly what I'm talking about, as long as it comes with enough commitment and momentum to actually do the job.
Ah, now we know what to do with the Vision Pro's outward lenticular eye visualizations.
Tracking weather balloons. They use lithium AAs for power, and the mission only uses a fraction of their capacity. When the balloon pops and the payload lands, there's a good pair of AA's laying in some farmer's field, stuck in a tree, or otherwise sitting around waiting for you to clean 'em up.
To reduce condensation and mould.