skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without net metering the solar panels cover a lot of the electricity spent and I assume they would pay for themselves eventually.

If you do the math, a single 10W light bulb consumes 0.24kWh per day if you let it on all the time. A single solar panel is rated for 2kWh per day. Many appliances are also under 2kWh per use.

Any electricity you spend during the day will be saved by the solar panel automatically. If you live alone and leave during daylight hours that might not be worth it, but for a lot of family households it's free electricity.
Its an amazing phenomenon in Texas. I've seen a bunch of these wind and solar installations as I've driven through the state.

One technical issue with the article, and I see this a lot, is the unit of measure used to describe the storage capacity.

> Texas added nearly 1,500 megawatts of battery storage

In the addled, quasi-imperial units of the US, shouldn't this be megawatt*hours?

I once asked an english person about BTUs, they had no idea what I was talking about. Even though that is an allegedly British Thermal Unit.

Of course, in rational units this would be something like gigajoules:

1.0 Megawatt-hours (MWh) = 3.60 Gigajoules (GJ)
The administration claimed that the first year or two of employment is part of the "application process." We all know that's nonsense. A generation of skilled workers is learning to distrust and avoid government service at all costs, precisely the people government should want to attract. Wrong move, DOGE bros.
https://archive.ph/8Ppac
Are people still including wood and wood pellets as "renewables"? It seems like that would be throwing off any cost calculations
Show HN: JobBridge – Real-Time AI Interview Assistant
I built Job Bridge, an AI tool that provides real-time assistance during job interviews. It listens to interview questions and suggests relevant responses on the fly, adapting to the candidate’s resume and the job description. The idea came from my own experience struggling with high-pressure interviews and thinking about how AI could provide subtle, non-intrusive support.

How it works:
Runs in the background during video calls (Zoom, Teams, Meet, etc.).
Uses real-time speech processing to generate response suggestions.
Adapts to different industries and job roles based on context.
Supports multiple languages.

Would love to hear your thoughts—especially around ethical concerns, undetectability, and any ideas for improvement. Feedback is much appreciated!
I think that's basically the Elon playbook. He did it with the supercharger team as well at Tesla.
Probably not going to be super popular but maybe heating your brain for 20 years? https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5293253
EVs use different tires from the factory than regular cars to help increase efficiency, maybe it's about the type of tire?
https://archive.ph/Z1WYY
> damage to roads scales quadratically with weight

It’s much worse, it actually scales quartically with weight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
The official documentation contains some guidelines and the reasoning behind them:

https://git-scm.com/book/ms/v2/Distributed-Git-Contributing-...

https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatches#describe-changes

For examples of projects that do this very well, I usually point people to the Linux kernel (for which Git was invented) and Go.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-pa...

https://go.dev/doc/contribute#commit_messages
Icechunk can handle growing dimensions with ACID transactions!

For irregular shapes in some cases using multiple groups + xarray.DataTree can help you, but in general yeah ragged data is hard.
Probably they just read "safety" and thought this is one of these things they are supposed to cut down.
Meta's New AI[, VideoJAM]: Outrageously Good
Food waste. Chase it with a reasonable amount of water. I've never had a drain clog due to food waste. Hair in bathtubs, yes.
Interesting idea that Google Search will be the backend for ai chats.

Many AI services and crawlers scan sites more intensively than Google Search. I've seen this myself in Google Analytics.
Of course. The study goes back to the 1960’s, so they can’t use classifications that didn’t exist back then.

That’s why I said “preliminary”

Alternatively, they could read more than three abstracts, and find a better definition.

Regardless, there’s enough evidence for a ban, and also quantifiable metrics that could be used to define one.

I’d expect the regulators and scientific community to do better than my proposal.
Wouldn't it be due to price? Quality LLMs are expensive, so the real question is can you make a product cheap enough to still have margins and a useful enough LLM that people would buy?
I wish the billionaires would leave us alone.
It's a thing that nobody is smart enough to use and didn't actually work, but hey at least Darcs is also 1000x slower than git and will lose data!
https://archive.ph/cQM6a
Note that there are other environmental trade-offs to be made. Cotton is know for requiring tons of pesticides. Wool production also often involves pesticides and neuro-toxic dyes. In Let My People Go Surfing Yvon Chouinard claims using “every acre of land from Maine to the Mississippi” for sheep would be required to replace one synthetic wool yarn mill (pg102, 2016 ed). I’d be interested in finding corroboration of this, but regardless it’s made me rethink trying to go mostly natural textiles. Not to mention, for outdoor activewear, synthetics are almost always superior.

I think the real solution is to try to buy less clothing, reuse old clothing, use clothing longer, and reduce consumption from the worst offenders: fast fashion. Yes, you are still exposing yourself to plastics in your own home, but my impression is industrial production is by far the largest producer of microplastics.
>> that speed has resulted in complications, including firing people agencies actually want to keep.

No shit, Sherlock. If the agencies didn't want to keep them they wouldn't be there.

Also, 'probationary' employees are most likely to be new hires, which the agency has actively invested time and money into recruiting and hiring.

They are probably also younger and have more voting years ahead of them :)
It never occurred to me to lookup the creator of the tool[1] that I used to use so often. It's so easy to overlook that there are actually humans with their own story (tragic or not) behind the tools that we use.
I should learn to appreciate people behind the code more. And, I'm so sorry what you had to and are going through, Mr. Meyer.

[1]. https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/
“The NBA talent pool is homogenous” is the new worst hn take I’ve seen.

If “most teams can build rosters that get to the playoffs” is true it’s only because the NBA playoffs are so big. I’d assume it’s false based on any interpretation of “can build” you pick.

Realistically only a handful of teams compete for a championship in any given span of years.
Btw, the propaganda is specific towards china. If you ask about other authoritarian countries and politicians, it behaves unbiased.
No thank you. I spent months trying to find the source of mysterious segfaults on my system, that magically disappeared once I moved away from conda.

Sorry for not being more specific, but at this point I just lost faith in this package manager.
Burning things can change their toxicity.
Well of course, why would anyone even use electricity unless an absentee investor was reaping ROI from it? Duh...
1000x is a bit hyperbolic but I'll admit I had forgotten the purgatory of slow version control. You are correct about that.
He did it at Twitter also
The lower cases letters are certainly ugly as hell, though.
The tyre wear has been tested as well. TLDR EVs don’t wear more tyres than ICEs, except for the Tesla. Wear is larger for FWD cars.
https://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/dackslitage-elbilar-siffro...
Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare
Website: https://hila-chefer.github.io/videojam-paper.github.io/

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02492

From this Two Minute Papers video about VideoJAM I understand this technology contains something akin to "Attention is all you need", i.e. "Inner Guidance is all you need" (for motion in videos).
I love being on Reddit
I saw on linkedin a federal nuclear safety engineer was looking for work. Good job government.
I left $400k job to build SaaS. It's damn hard
I'm saying I would have preferred to have more time to make an informed choice rather than facing the consequence of losing a job in a single-income family with several dependents. And now, after the fact, seem to have inexplicable symptoms after taking the vaccine, which leads me to question if they originate from it.
Especially in the LLM era...
I think the younger generations do have more critical thinking at their age than previous cohorts, simply because there is so much nonsense flying around and people are more sceptical/cynical than, say, 50 years ago. The trouble is how to produce content / character that rises above the slop and get their attention as an actually credible source of information.
RIP the Ad Accelerator, which would up the speed upon detection of an ad. Youtube has found a way around it and it no longer works.

https://github.com/rkk3/ad-accelerator
Fire-prone?

Managing fire risk is a simple task; California refuses to engage in controlled burns.
I think the available evidence supports calling it very deadly to humans. As you said though, it's possible and even likely the CFR is overestimating. However I doubt you would see a 50% CFR equate to something low enough that wouldn't effectively be a disaster if human to human transmission began, and at a rate similar to the flu or covid. Let's pray that never happens or that we have an effective vaccine by that time.
China's Salt Typhoon Spies Still Hacking Telecoms by Exploiting Cisco Routers
so like skimmers?
Maybe they’ve fixed this since then. I haven’t looked at darcs in AGES.
I'm guessing that it's more complicated than that. Possibly when the specifications for a basketball court were laid out, the 3-point line was intentionally drawn where it would be a risky shot. And the coaching/playing culture developed with that mindset.

But since then people have gotten at least a little bit taller. We developed more ways in which to train and grow our physical strength. Training got more intense, improving results. And more subtle changes along those lines, which are micro-changes that accrue over time, and often hard to notice.

It can take a while for someone, anyone, to realize that all the various changes have made what was intended to be a risky maneuver into a viable play. It seems obvious in retrospect, but until someone points it out, it's one of those avenues of thought requires you to shake off what you've known your whole life before you can accept it.

Could also be that none of that was relevant, but it's worth considering and keeping in mind.
The only accountability here (apart from mob justice) is through gov/legal action. So if you want to see it, start calling your representatives.
Nuclear and fission take at least a decade to build. You can build the same firm renewables in 2-3 years. Regime change will occur first.
Ah, that makes sense! Thanks for this insight!
Why is this propaganda on hacker news?
i've never seen a post with so many upvotes disappear so quickly
> In tort.

New word for me.

A tort is a civil wrong, other than breach of contract, that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act. Tort law can be contrasted with criminal law, which deals with criminal wrongs that are punishable by the state. While criminal law aims to punish individuals who commit crimes, tort law aims to compensate individuals who suffer harm as a result of the actions of others

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort
I don’t qualify for blood donation, so at this point it really is my only option…
This is all according to Aleksandr Dugin's playbook for russian supremacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Good thing Microsoft has never been evil. Otherwise, one might be concerned about locking up your project's history in Github's/Microsoft's proprietary issue tracker (embrace, extend, extinguish!) rather than open source tools like Git that you can migrate out of.
Solar panels are a commodity and they are getting cheaper. That will continue regardless of which political party is in charge.

Moving the solar supply chain to be domestic is a massive undertaking. First Solar, one of the stronger US companies, will be at at 50/50 manufacturing in the US versus not:

"We inaugurated our new $1.1 billion Alabama facility, which when, fully scaled, adds 3.5 gigawatts of vertically integrated nameplate solar manufacturing capacity. The start of commercial operation at the Alabama facility, along with our under construction Louisiana facility, which remains on track to begin operations in the second half of 2025, keeps us on course to achieve our projection of over 14 gigawatts of annual U.S. nameplate capacity and over 25 gigawatts of global nameplate capacity by 2026." https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/10/29/fi...

You are correct that it will take investment to continue to build factories here instead of Malaysia or India, but the factories will be built regardless.
Point capture and atmospheric capture are vastly different processes, economics for point capture are great, economics for atmospheric capture are terrible due to the thermodynamic high energy input inherently required for separating out a low concentration (400 parts per million) substance.

But this article puts both processes in the same category, which perfectly sets up a low-information, divisive debate. Why they would want to do that - well, some people stand to gain a lot from renewable energy program investment, let's put it that way.
The sad truth is then that you can’t.

If you aren’t willing to say “no” and prioritize, there isn’t anything else.

We all make choices based on our priority stack. I don’t judge anyone for having a different priority stack than mine. I do however try to let people know the tradeoffs.

Before I got into consulting, I fell into roles as an early hire when mostly new to the company managers, directors, CTOs were starting new initiatives.

I talk to them about how they manage priorities and work life balance. If I saw a situation like yours I personally wouldn’t accept the job.

In fact, I didn’t accept a job that would have paid significantly more than I was making to be over the cloud migration and strategy for a largish company. I didn’t want the stress.

Again, I’m not saying that a high stress early startup is not the right choice for you just be aware of the tradeoffs and have an exit plan before it starts affecting your mental and physical health and your family if you have one.

I’m 50 and while I still need to work, I don’t need to chase comp. I enjoy my relatively low stress job as a staff architect at a consulting company with unlimited PTO.
Show HN: Practice Typing by Typing Wikipedia Articles
search for wiki articles and type it out, simple as that.

This is a new feature added to typersguild. typersguilds main feature is to practice touch typing by typing out classic novels
Thanks for laying this out.

I had no idea about this until last year, when there was an eminent domain vs nimby struggle I heard about concerning putting co2 pipelines through farms for this purpose. I always thought carbon capture by machines was an impractical, but learning that what it actually is in practice is a way for govt subsidies to pay ethanol and oil companies and enable them to extract more oil.

I wouldn't be surprised if a significant majority of govt money spent on environmental efforts has been captured by industries and is being used to accelerate environmental harm. I only know that this is the case in the areas I'm familiar with. It's sad.
Depending on the the wind/nuclear mix in the grid possibly as low as zero.

But batteries are a very important innovation for power grids regardless of renewable energy goals. 50% of the job of an energy grid is just keeping the ac power supply stable when generation does exactly match consumption. Lithium batteries help smooth out spikes in demand over milliseconds and hours to save millions of dollars

Lithium grid scale storage is awesome no matter what happens with renewables.
How does this shape employment sentiment in the US? Has there been any change in how people behave at workplace as result of mass layoffs?
Mmm... There's probably a Chinese EV company or two that would like a word. :)
"If you don't find yourself in need to add back at least 20% of what you removed, you didn't remove enough". Elon's word. Sounds like an excellent engineering principle, with some caveats of course.
elon musk literally cut off 80% twitter employees at 2022, he literally doing the same thing

while he think he can get away with twitter and some left over engineer manage to keep SLA in check

but for an entire federal employee in 1 country???? too much complexity for that
Hi, I think you may be reading different meaning to what emotional labor is.

Men can have emotional experiences. There can be emotional work required to live life, in fact there always will be.

However I don't think that is the same as emotional labor. It might help to read more about 'emotional labor'? I personally did not understand much about the emotional labor around me until later in life.
> Firing an employee and then begging them to come back because of how essential they are?

Typical Elon style - Fired entire Supercharger team, then hired right back. Maybe for PR. Same stunt with Tesla stores and Twitter. He fired Twitter's 80% team is a lie.
Yeah, there was a lot of FUD being spread around Darc's exponential merge corner-case. We were using it with a medium sized codebase (~50k lines) and never encountered that issue. Anyway, we begrudgingly moved to mercurial a few years later and then onto git, further along the road. With every step, the tooling got worse.
Yes, but Meta is a consumer of React not a provider. They don’t host React apps, let alone present themselves as the prima facie way to deploy them.
I'm curious as to how this differs from an older project that seems to solve the same problem:

https://github.com/scheme/scsh
As someone who modded my PSP a few years ago I can confirm that Mario 64 now runs fine with working sound, and you can even force it into widescreen
Your comment adds nothing to this discussion! Perhaps you shluld read up on the site's posting guidelines.
As a non-American, what's wrong about that article?
If going to the sauna daily is all it takes to prevent it, that would be quite a thing!
My specific fear is that connecting those cheap solar panels to the grid will be the hard part. I have no doubt that they will continue to plummet in price, and than new innovative installation methods will continue to cause installation prices to drop, etc. etc.

The technology for a 100% renewable energy system for all of humanity is about 90%-95% there, the biggest impediment is political and not technical now. (Hard-to-decarbonize areas like industry is close but not there yet, and we can do all the other areas while new solutions are found for cement, chemicals, etc.)
There are a few ways to get the weight down. Improvements in battery chemistry, lower range trims, and simply smaller vehicles.
It has been heavily advertised, but its support is inconsistent. If you are deploying devices across multiple regions, you likely want them to function the same way everywhere.
This is HN: my focus is technical (here specifically), maybe "technical" in world assessment and future prediction (in other pages).

I.e.: I am just trying to understand the facts.
Interesting! Do you have a reference for this?

Was there any explanation given?
Could be that besides the bio/normal food, also the diet composition is completely different?
air filters will produce black gunk?
They can hire Homer Simpson.
> why the first time someone tried it then it worked

Is this the first time a team has tried to shoot 3s?

> It it really impossible to think that it was a huge oversight?

I’m not saying biasing towards 3s, with serious threats inside, is a bad strategy. Im saying multiplying a shooting percentage doesn’t tell you that.
Bolt EV is ~3600 lbs
Direct Ascent Synthesis: Hidden Generative Capabilities in Discriminative Models
Perhaps it gets into a legal area that considers "reasonable expectations and behavior". You can absolutely sell buggy, non-functional, and even dangerous code. You just need to go to greater length too ensure that the buyer is informed about what they will be getting.

>Generally the idea of holding the seller of a product liable for harms caused by the product is that the law (or society at large) don't like businesses profiting from selling stuff yet shifting risks to the consumer at the same time.l

I think it is more about the law attempting to mirror social expectations than having high-minded objectives itself.
There is no certainty this is the case. There is no European country that is operating at a surplus currently.
Daryl Morey? Is that you?

You can’t just tell your players to start jacking more threes and coast your way to success. Many tried, many failed. The game is more complex than that.
How about for the long term?

My napkin math last time I did it said that if we took the current annual production of solar panels and used it to built solar farms in the world's subtropical deserts and built carbon direct air capture (DAC) plants in those deserts powered by those solar farms (using the energy requirements per kg of capture that current DAC plants achieve), and continued doing this each year, in around 200 years we'd be removing about 10% more CO2 per year than we'd be emitting assuming that the human population peaks as expected somewhere in the 10-11 billion range and the per capita CO2 emissions do not go much higher than they are now.

Using the entire current annual production of solar panels for this is clearly impractical now, but if production of solar panels continues its current growth trends for several more years we should reach a point where diverting an amount equal to current production might be practical.
The deepseek advancements will allow more frequent retraining incorporating updates, it used to likewise take months for the Google index to update: you could tell because they listed how many sites were indexed on the homepage.
Ionizers can attract particles, but I would argue not to that extent...
And flagged within seconds on HN...
The notion of carbon capture always sounded crazy to me.

But there already is a technology to do carbon capture. Plants. Plants cover the world. How does one think a machine could do better?
So I just need to find larger round block cut from single tree...

Or then just give up and live with my plastic cutting boards...
I wonder if you're open to making something that can double as a p2p data store for collaborative p2p applications, including web apps? That was always my wish for pijul, that I could use it in this way.
This makes me happy that I've moved my entire family over to Steam Deck from Switch. I like some of what Nintendo does, but their stand on intellectual property is unconscionable.
Rich to see SSC calling other people insane.
The more you look into it, the more you realize we are already doing this, kind of. Then you realize that the real low hanging fruit is sort of in other areas, sulfur dioxide, methane capture, particulate, and especially home heating. European wood pellet and home wood burning stove users, I'm looking at you.
The goal of DOGE is to dismantle the Federal government, so they consider the loss of trust a feature, not a bug.
Because it violates the guidelines?

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html