skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that we already have one: lithium-iron phosphate (LFP). This fire was at a facility that used nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) cathode chemistry in an unusual indoor housing.

https://www.energy-storage.news/fire-at-moss-landing-energy-...

It is [Moss Landing] Phase 1, the battery-within-a-building, that has burned down. According to Vistra representatives, neither Phase 2 or Phase 3, nor the legacy CCGT plant were caught up in the fire.

Phase 1 was equipped with nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) chemistry batteries provided by LG Energy Solution (LG ES) and mounted in the LG ES’s TR1300 Transportable Rack.

...

ESRG’s Nick Warner said that MOSS300 was built before California fire codes were updated to encompass large-scale battery storage and today’s product standards and certifications were in place for BESS equipment and installation.

“I think the main takeaway here is that while we should learn the lessons we can learn, I think it’s such a unique case that it’s not going to have a big impact on how we’re doing energy storage otherwise because best practice and codes have evolved so far from there, we would never do something like MOSS300 again anyway.”

Others have commented that the industry today has already largely moved away from NMC chemistry batteries to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) for stationary BESS applications.

While LFP, like NMC, can go into thermal runaway, it does have a higher thermal runaway onset temperature, Drew Leibowitz, managing director at BESS consultancy Powerswitch, commented on business networking site LinkedIn. LFP now accounts for more than 80% of battery storage projects, Leibowitz wrote.

“Indoor BESS projects are rarely built today, partially because of the fear that fire can spread throughout the system unchecked. Instead, most new installations are outdoor, pad-mounted systems which make fires less likely to spread,” Leibowitz also wrote.
As a website owner and VPN user I see both sides of this.

On one hand, I get the annoying "Verify" box every time I use ChatGPT (and now due its popularity, DeepSeek as well).

On the other hand, without Cloudflare I'd be seeing thousands of junk requests and hacking attempts everyday, people attempting credit card fraud, etc.

I honestly don't know what the solution is.
I built a decision making tool
Can DeepSeek R1 Teach Better Than Humans?
The president can't decide to stop spending money Congress has passed by EO.
If that could somehow be automated that would be cool
Sure, but does that means that we, Linux users, can't go on the web anymore ? It's way easier for spammers and bots to move to another user agent/system than for legitimate users. So whatever causes this is not a great solution to this problem. You can do better CF
i always find it fascinating when projects like these can seem to find a proper overview for the AI curious non-PhD students.
That might have been good for preventing someone from spamming your HotScripts guestbook in 2005, but not much else.
DEI was the reason GitHub was forced to remove its meritocracy rug. Do you remember that? People questions whether it was a meritocracy based on disparate impact[1].

It has almost never been about widening the size of the funnel, and almost always about putting the thumb on the scales for chosen people.

[1] https://www.creators.com/read/susan-estrich/03/14/whats-wron...
Honestly, this is true for any of these corporations.
Slogans aren't binding, and are essentially meaningless. Like mission statements.

"We wont be evil". Until we are.

You can work for them. Until you don't.
Solo: AI-Generated Websites by Mozilla
Yes, I agree with your statements. This was a quick attempt to roughly bound the problem. Comment I responded to was surprised that the field had shrunk, I feel this clearly shows it has shrunk at least by a factor of three, but yes, probably more anecdotally as I also live in a large metro area and the only live radio DJs are very niche or very syndicated.
From my experience, if you tick off the wrong person, the threshold for them starting a DDoS is surprisingly low.

A while ago, my company was hiring and conducting interviews, and after one candidate was rejected, one of our sites got hit by a DDoS. I wasn't in the room when people were dealing with it, but in the post-incident review, they said "we're 99% sure we know exactly who this came from".
Key Points:

In a task of generating SQL queries, I found that Google Gemini Flash 2.0 was much better than DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o3-mini. Specifically, I found that it was very significantly cheaper, had a much higher context window, lightning fast, and was more accurate when it came to generating syntactically-valid SQL queries
The Gemini api has a customer noncompete, so it’s not an option for AI, what are you working on that doesn’t compete with AI?
President doesn't have authority to shut them down by EO either. Congress does, yes.

(It's one of those "power of the purse" things. If Congress has created an organization and funded it, the executive is required to spend that money on it.)
It's not something I've needed to deal with personally.

We have run into added content filters in Azure OpenAI on a different application, but we just put in a request to tune them down for us.
That is the frustrating part - the article had it's lane and just had to stick in it.

Instead, we get someone extrapolating and guessing when we have actual data from COVID on class delays/size reduction(as well as more controllers retiring earlier) coupled with lower training intensity while air traffic was depressed.
At Google? Where’s the evidence? Most DEI efforts come down to making sure you give a diverse candidate pool a chance to prove themselves instead of just hiring buddies that look and think and act exactly the same. That’s hardly “performative”.
On the contrary, targeting childhood household income will see representation of the groups you're trying to help drop to nearly zero. Impoverished white children outscore wealthy black children by a significant margin on standardized tests, and there are a lot more poor white children than poor black children.

There used to be programs like that, and they mostly helped the children of Chinese and Vietnamese refugees from communism. Low childhood household income doesn't really have much effect - "low income" in a US context is quite rich in a world context.
Yeah, same here. I've avoided it for a most of my customers for that very reason already
He means NRO- the US would miss a nuclear center being built in Iran or where ever because all the NRO left to be SpaceX minions.
“sponsoring” in this case means writing nearly all of it ourselves (although we’ve had lots of help from Arm and some others on specific areas like OpenMP).
DDoS is a problem, but for most ordinary problems it's not as bad as people make it out to be. Even something very simple like fail2ban will go a long way.
> sources which are occasionally dead links

Dead links owned by the very companies being reported on. If a company lets their diversity report 404, why do you hold this against statisticians that gathered the data when it was live?

> from different years

You work with the data you have. Because the data isn't perfect, we should disregard it entirely and rely on your prejudice instead?

> without enough detail to actually assess the impact of any DEI program

The data is about the state of the companies, not the impacts of individual DEI programs.

> isn't it wonderful that Meta has achieved greater black representation through content moderators in Kenya

Given that this data shows Facebook employees as only 3% black, perhaps it does not count content moderators.
If you have been using git for 30+ years, you need to take me to your time machine. It turns 20 this year.
The actual law is a high dimensional interaction of all active legislation. Predicting what the legal system will do is hard and often cannot be achieved with high reliability with a google search.

This is why lawyers exist. Presumably doge and trump have access to good lawyers. I’m not asserting that they are right, just that a shallow legal analysis is error prone and looking at a single law likely does not yield useful prediction making capability.
Dumping open source for proprietary rarely pays off
Yes, famously the Australian Government tried that and undid it as pesky white men were being hired at a greater rate because of them[1].

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...
Appealing to customers by coming across as fair and progressive is great. But Google has a huge anti-trust lawsuit that can wreck them. Trump can probably make that go away.

If they stay more "woke", Trump is guaranteed to try to destroy Google.

Google has done the calculus and likely concluded that kissing Trump's ass is better for their shareholders than continuing to align more left.

I think this is a business decision, as it was for Meta, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Blame US citizens for giving so much power to Trump.
Your method is still incremental design, unless you started at page 1 and stopped at page 60.
You’re screwed.

He’s already made thousands of Venezuelans illegal immigrants that were here legally under temporary protection status and threaten deportation and tried to revoke birthright citizenship.

He’s definitely going to do his best to keep people out from “shit hole countries that only send rapists and murderers” (if it isn’t clear, I don’t hold that opinion)
I would argue zig had the best c integration. This is why it’s different.
To resolve an [SWE bench] Issue, write tests for the issue and relevant or adjacent code in different commits, w/ FB ACH
I'm not suggesting we re-invent RDF or any other kind of semantic web idea. And the fact that semantic data can be stored in a PDF isn't really the problem being solved by tools such as these. In many cases, PDF is used for things like scanned documents where adding that kind of metadata can't really be done manually - in fact the kinds of tools suggested in the post would be useful for adding that metadata to the PDF after scanning (for example).

Imagine you went to a government office looking for some document from 1930s, like an ancestors marriage or death certificate. You might want to digitize a facsimile of that using a camera or a scanner. You have a lot of options to store that, JPG, PNG, PDF. You have even more options to store the metadata (XML, RDF, TXT, SQLite, etc.). You could even get fancy and zip up an HTML doc alongside a directory of images/resources that stitched them all together. But there isn't really a good standard format to do that.

It is the second part of you post that stands out - the kitchen sink nature of PDFs that make them so terrible. If they were just wrappers for image data, formatted in a way that made printing them easy, I probably wouldn't dislike them.
Which is still the funniest and most interesting result in AI so far IMO. Fascinating, but sort of makes intuitive sense too!
What do you think about the legality of each federal department having millions in kickbacks to Politico in the form of hidden premium subscriptions?

What about USAID being used to pay celebrities but only those that support one of the political parties?
> ...unless you believe your fellow “white” population harbors literal beliefs of a.) racial identity and b.) racial superiority, that c.) the “white” people making hiring decisions are actively excluding candidates based on these beliefs, and that d.) application of a nonwhite bias is just and measured in the face of a-c.

I believe many of my fellow "whites" believe this, but more importantly it's pretty obvious that many of the most powerful "whites," including the current President and his boot-licking minion Donald Trump, absolutely believe this.
We as thoughtful human beings can consider non-extreme points where we find other optimizations that aren’t necessarily around profit or resiliency. We can create a new metric called “human progress mertric” where we consider profit as a strong driver but also put weight on things like resiliency and allow profit to slide a bit so our real goal is better achieved.

Rarely ever, IMO, are worthwhile goals entirely profit optimized or resiliency optimized. Some blend tends to be best, and sometimes you can even have both simultaneously (they’re not always inherently mutually exclusive, although those taking in the winnings may want it to be).
SoftBank Nears Deal to Acquire Chip Designer Ampere
save your opinions for the things that really matter instead of another bikeshed to build! (not telling you to shut up, btw :) )
neither have happened and virtually all employees of USAID have been put on leave at the orders of the acting deputy administrator.

(via CNN) - It is not legal for the president to unilaterally “abolish, move, or consolidate USAID”. He needs to have congressional authorization to do so.
I was assured right here on HN that the data was public to begin with, and downvoted for suggesting it was possible unseen corruption. Hopefully if that is true they find it just matches what has released publicly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ty6853&next=42914628...
Sadly, link isn't loading for me. I'm assuming this is the attempt to TDD into a Sudoku solver?

Sucks, as it is largely a dunk on the author. It really is a sobering experience, to attempt something like that and use what are advertised as good tools, only to fall flat on your face.

I think what people often fail to appreciate is if you see ANY strategy work, it has almost certainly been rehearsed. Many many times. Even when you are doing something where you are using the exact correct tools, for it to work smoothly pretty much requires rehearsal.

And this is exactly why you do gamedays for how to react to failures. If you have not practiced it, then you should not expect success.
I really wanted to give this a try. A whole lot of GBs for the setup, but I guess that's today's standard when it comes to anything AI-related. And then it also wanted root to run. I draw the line there. Will try again if/when I get around to replace that package that requires root with something that doesn't, or someone else does.
You need an answer to someone buying $10 of booter time and sending a volumetric attack your way. If any of the traffic is even reaching your server, you've already lost, so iptables isn't going to help you because your link is saturated.

Cloudflare offers protection for free.
Similarly:

If you’re waiting for a moment where you’re like “this is it,” I’m telling you, it never comes. Nobody comes on TV and says “things are officially bad.” There’s no launch party for decay. It’s just a pileup of outrages and atrocities in between friendships and weddings and perhaps an unusual amount of alcohol.

from "I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There." https://gen.medium.com/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-a...
i sort of meant it as a combination, unsecure sites on rogue wifi
In this case, a U.S. citizen sued, not the Chinese government.

Again, foreign governments don't have a Constitutional right to propagandize our citizenry.
So does that include all particles of a similar size, like any sort of not digestible dust for example stone dust or sand dust etc?

If that's true, then I'm even more confused regarding how we assimilate and absorb nutrients into the body. I thought these broken down nutrients were microscopic and selectively absorbed, which suggests that our bodies naturally contain all sorts of potential contaminates that are not chemically broken down like nutrients are.
I always get to, “You may not use the Services to develop models that compete with the Services (e.g., Gemini API or Google AI Studio).” [1] and exit

- [1] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
Quite right. The entire possible space for enums to explore was exhausted in the age of 1960s assembler. There is only so much you can do with a number generator.

Which, I guess, is why we have this desperate attempt to redefine what an enum is, having become bored with a term that has no invitation potential. But, unfortunately, we have not found shared consensus on what "enum" should become. Some think it should be a constraint, others think it should be a discriminated union, others think a type declaration, so on and so forth.

All of which already have names, which makes the whole thing particularly bizarre. You'd think if someone really feels the need to make their mark on the world by coining "enum" under new usage in the popular lexicon they would at least pick a concept that isn't already otherwise named.
Even Cobol code hasn't been ported in it's entirety, and the whole codebase at the peak was probably orders of magnitude smaller than C++. It's also far easier to port Cobol - with it being used mostly for data processing and business logic - than C++ that was used for all manners of strange, esoteric and complicated pieces of software requiring thousand to millions of man-hours to port (for example most of Gecko and Blink).

C++ will be here forever, at least in some manner.

edit: spelling
Right, understanding that the government itself creates the space for the free market to operate, so any tinkering with it ought to be done carefully. New companies will replace old ones that die- and this is good. Failed states can and do happen, and it would be hubris to think it couldn't happen here.
I wonder though, in specifically this instance, if the price of their feed is going down because of how many chickens have been culled or just flat out died from disease.

But yea, if other cost rise, they will need to rise prices.
It is a good question. Hopefully we get an answer before we are all bankrupt.

No idea why the markets aren't in freefall at this point.
What object detection model do you use?
I am complete outsider and know nothing about this so I am sorry to ask but in my view this is a shocking proposition. Can anyone corroborate this?

EDIT: Specifically the claim that "SpaceX is so far behind on its bills that dozens and dozens of companies in Texas have had to place liens against the company"
Easy to set up, easy to screw up user experience. Easy-peasy.
How well do they work when you want to do things like grounding with search?
Your OCR vendor would be smart to replace their own system with Gemini.
TBH I'd say if you're looking for a pure Rust engine, it's production ready already. I used it a year or two ago and it was reliable, fast and had most of what I needed. I asked for some fringe features like improvements to the textbox widget or a headless mode for multiplayer servers and they were quickly added.
For those of us that didn’t know, Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor appear to a class of antidepressants used for, among other purposes, treatment of anxiety disorders.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake...
The original statement stands, if what you are suggesting in addition to it is true. If the initial one-time investment of $505m is enough to distill new SOTA models for $0.50 a piece, then the average cost for subsequent models will trend toward $0.50.
That is largely due to a difference in complexity.I would say that the level of complexity of a blueprint of a house is on par with a 20-30 line python solution of a leet code easy excercise to a programmer. If the one reading the blue print is an engineer and the one reading the python code is a programmer. A crud app is more like the blue prints for a vacuum cleaner or something like that.
Famously this guy James Damore tried to explain why the approach to diversity at google was not going to work. How did that work out for him?
Sure; but sensible defaults ought to be in place. There are certain "well known" urls that are intended for machine consuption. CF should permit (and perhaps rate limit?) those by default, unless the user overrides them.
Bcrypt is a password hash, not a KDF, which is the way it was used in this API. It's super unclear to me why they wanted a string-based KDF here at all; does anyone have more context?

I've in the past been annoying about saying I think we should just call all password hashes "KDFs", but here's a really good illustration of why I was definitely wrong about that. A KDF is a generally-useful bit of cryptography joinery; a password hash has exactly one job.
On that note, I've always wondered whether a lot of this is because of his Apartheid-era South African upbringing.

Unlike a lot of White South Africans he's English, and they were viewed as outsiders by a number of Afrikaners. Same with with David Sacks being Jewish South African and Peter Thiel being the kid of German expats in ZA.

On the other hand, Roelof Botha tends to remain outside the political limelight despite being from Afrikaner political royalty (his granddad was the Foreign Minister towards the end of Apartheid).

Maybe Musk, Sacks', and Thiel's anger and political weirdness is because they felt like the perpetual outsider no matter where they were.

Musk, Sacks, Thiel, and Botha all must have been 2nd or 3rd degree connects well before the PayPal mafia even started because their parents were all at the top of the social and economic strata among White South Africans (same handful of private schools, country clubs, etc)
You do realize most people aren't working on AI, right?

Also, OP mentioned fintech at the outset.
They're hard to come by because people think rockets magically solve all of our problems and so any problems they introduce are ignored for the "greater good".
Huawei is doing that, with their own OS.
Yes, so isn't that a satisfactory answer for why the Republicans won't remove the filibuster? It's ultimately self-defeating.
> used by journalists and lawyers to hold government accountable.

The journalists from Politico have just been ousted by DOGE has having had received $8 million in annual funding from USAID (another Government-run institution that has been ousted by the same DOGE), so I can understand how come Musk would want to keep DOGE's dealing away from journalists that might see this agency as very antithetic to their (the journalists') material well-being.
My issue and questions isn't so much languages but character sets, expanding say an ascii dataset to include all the non-ascii language glyphs or other unicode characters has got to balloon the parameter count
the constitution is just an old piece of paper if the president controls the supreme court

personally I think this was Gödel's Loophole
Cloudflare has been blocking "mainstream" browsers too, if you are generous enough to consider Firefox "mainstream." The "verify you are a human" sequence gets stuck in a perpetual never-ending loop where clicking the checkbox only refreshes the page and presents the same challenge. Certain websites (most notably archive.is) have been completely inaccessible for me for years for this reason.
I agree. What's worrying is any stable working environment that exists now can become volatile like this overnight. It is more uncommon with Federal employment, but is pretty common in the private sector unfortunately.
The government isn't designed for one party to decide to play winner take all politics. It was assumed that people would find a way to work together, not that one party could punish bipartisanship within its own ranks, and then be rewarded for it.

Furthermore America has been moving towards this for decades. There has been openly shared plans on how this was to be achieved, for multiple different stages. From stacking the courts, to gerry mandering, to creating Fox, to strategies to stack the SC, to more recently project 2025.

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I am feeling dumb for having to mention this, after re-reading your message. Am i right in suspecting you are aware of these strategies and are driving to a specific point?