skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wrong. many of the energy options that are claimed to be extremely cheap and that they lean on - wind and solar particularly - aren't as cheap as they're made out to be. e.g. people love to cite Lazard's LCOE projections, which undershoot actual cost, overshoot production, and undershoot wear and tear (esp. on solar).

storage numbers also often suck. frankly, hydrocarbons are probably a better option to synthesize and store than something like lithium-ion batteries. and storage becomes a much bigger concern if one considers running a grid primarily on inconsistent renewables rather than using them as auxiliary power sources. plus your magical all-green grid still needs gas peakers most likely unless you massively overbuild that storage and generation.
Funny you'd say that in a discussion of a whole directory full of gigantic walls of text. Other people posted replies thanking me for sharing the big walls of text, and I think most people prefer to have all the text and links curated, deduplicated, links checked and broken links updated to archive.org, and merged together in one place, instead of scattered around across many different pages with broken links.

It takes more than a few words to describe the contents of the half a gig compressed archive of Sims objects I posted a link to, and I think most people would want to have some idea what was in it, installation instructions, and links to videos demonstrating how to use it, before downloading it.
> Absent any evidence, I don't believe that claim

Acceleration and deceleration is calculated the same way: m/s^2. If you decelerate faster you put more stress on the system in a non-linear way - the square of it actually. This is why sport and race cars have huge brakes. The tire friction will also augment non-linearly - it will hold a certain acceleration and then quickly give up (slipping point), but the energy has to be transferred and partly absorbed all the time.

> they weigh more and thus increase tire wear in all conditions

Then get a lighter one if that is your concern. Defaulting to ICE is the wrong idea because they have much more externalities (like one ton of fuel per year that needs actually around 1.5 if you include the extraction and transport).
The simplest way to use a language model is to generate text from a prompt (followed by python code)

for the initiated this is not the simplest way.
You can just `ollama run` in your Terminal and get a chat repl
I've started just keeping a text list of "interesting things that I did / happened to me this year". It's nice to look back on at the end of each year - my primary reaction is "OMG that was this year??"
I imagine people have multiple screens but don’t want to keep multiple copies of a video?
I know these have their place in complex projects, but I'm often intrigued when people don't just apply the natural human instinct of talking about something and doing what needs to be done.

There almost seems to be a fetishistic obsession with referencing some magical method honed by masters of the craft.
Another way is plain old wget

wget --no-host-directories \
--cut-dirs=1 \
--recursive \
--no-parent \
--accept '*.pdf' \
https://donhopkins.com/home/TheSimsDesignDocuments/

drops all the pdfs into ./TheSimsDesignDocuments
You want the Commando-450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUt6BWeL1GE
Are Incandescent Light Bulbs Coming Back?
It is 55-45. I suspect the author read some data incorrectly (the YouTube analytics page can be a bit confusing).

The RPM she achieved is excellent (average in many niches is $1-$2), she could have been incredibly successful if she trimmed down her production cost.
Yes, the President is required to execute the laws but you’re ignoring two very important things.

1. The President isn’t forced to spend money on waste and fraud.

2. Most laws are written incredibly vague and high level. “$50B funding for FEMA as a disaster relief for Americans” leaves the President a hell of a lot of room to maneuver and stay within the wording of the law.

I do agree there is a big question mark on “if the President has fulfilled the law but money is left over, what happens?” or “the President says the law is fulfilled by members of Congress disagree”.

Presumably the courts will hammered out all those details, with restrictions put on the President such that a process is put around it. I also suspect the courts will tell Congress “do your god damn job if you want to specify exact spending”.
> Dimon then complained of employees wasting time during Zoom meetings, and how headcount for JPMorgan Chase had ballooned by 50,000 in the last four to five years. “We don’t need all those people. We were putting people in jobs because people weren’t doing the jobs they were hired to do in [the] first place,”

This left me scratching my head. If you work with people from other offices, with RTO you are now not only wasting time on Zoom calls, but also annoying everyone else around you. And the second part is pretty revealing for the strategy actually - why don't they just get rid of the people that aren't performing? Probably because that would involve severance payments (at least in some cases). Much better to do RTO and let them quit on their own if they don't like it...
This is silly however for the typical use case of a web browser connecting to a server and very silly as default behavior.
There is a difference in the required granularity.

Today there are usually only a handful of overhead rates for the entire university. Accounting only needs to be precise enough to attribute the spending to the right categories. Nobody needs to know which departments or labs benefit from that particular spending.

But if everything needs to be attributed not just to a specific department and a lab, but to a specific grant, things get complicated. Maybe one lab in a department only uses offices and meeting rooms. Another runs a bunch of servers somewhere on the premises. And a third has a wetlab and works with hazardous materials. Sometimes things go wrong and the entire building needs to be evacuated. Which means there is a need for all kinds of protocols and trainings and responsible personnel. And maybe also for more security guards at night.

Expect fun department politics when the PIs argue who needs to pay what for the infrastructure and who gets to spend more on actual research.
LOL have you spoken with farmers lately about their crops? If not I encourage you to ask them about the last 5 - 10 years...
I wrote a simple LLM tool that helps generate such scripts.

Tool: https://tools.o14.ai/do-nothing.html

Blogged about here: https://shekhargulati.com/2025/02/16/do-nothing-script-gener...
We don't have tech to do that and I cannot see it happening this century
When you have tech & cycling subscriptions in your RSS reader, the title can get really confusing!
When you have more than a few people, “talking about things and doing what needs to be done” breaks down. You can end up in analysis paralysis (endless talking), wild west (everybody doing their own thing and not doing things that work together), wild hares (doing things that aren’t important) or even all three.
Why would colonial powers let subjects control their own reproduction?
Web Apps on Flip Phones
applicable for feature or bugfix:

1. describe how things work (or not work) currently

2. proposed solution to the problem this commit attempts

3. more implementation/technical details

4. (optionally) tests or reproduction scenario
cool theory. McKinsey estimates a transition like that would cost $275 trillion and take until 2050. that's a lot of money. not only that, we all know the global south will, true to form, come calling with their hands out, demanding that we pay for their stuff too. which would essentially bankrupt America. we're already tens of trillions in the hole; we can't afford it.

just as importantly, since you're making a practical argument for why we should care, your own linked analysis suggests America will experience very little impact from global warming. impact levels run from a bit below +10 to a bit below -30 with zero as no impact; looks like our projected impact is around -10.

if you were assigning America some vaguely proportional cost, we could do so relative to emissions (giving us a $40T bill) or GDP ($72T). both of those numbers are significantly greater than the current national debt. they would bankrupt the nation, cripple the common man with inflation, and screw us out of any shot at reindustrializing.

as usual, unsaid is the massive downgrade in standard of living people expect us to somehow magically accept to build this bridge to nowhere.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/sustainability/our-ins...
>If I could reduce production costs, that would increase profits, which Omega and I talked about. They worked to tighten our post-production flow and shaved a full day of editing off each episode. Good! Beyond that, my options were to strip the videos of sound effects and graphics, publish them without color grading, find a new crew with lower day rates, or become a vlogger. I chose not to do any of that. I wanted the channel to grow and views to increase; achieving that while lowering quality didn’t seem like a solid strategy.

I watched one of her videos and the sound effects were annoying, so cut those. Skip the color grading. Stick to 1 or 2 stationary cameras. At least attempt to learn how to edit audio and video. No idea what a food stylist is, probably cut that out too.
> How hard is it to understand we shouldn’t be spending money on foreigners when Americans go without?

How hard is to start with this argument? Elon Musk is certainly making more Americans "go without" than he is cutting off "overseas sex changes".
Or more specifically, not all plastics are the same. So are they all safe?

https://www.bennettplastics.com/is-it-safe-to-microwave-my-f...

Do we except polystyrene as carcinogenic, if consumed? So don't eat it. Yet we've banned lead paint, because paint chips flake off. So eating paint chips or inhaling paint dust causes lead toxicity. Admittedly we don't think plastic is nearly as toxic, but some scientists argue it's understudied.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.2c03453

>> These adverse effects of PS-MPs [polystyrene] on human kidney and liver cells suggest that ingesting microplastics may lead to toxicological problems on cell metabolism and cell–cell interactions. Because exposing human kidney and liver cells to microplastics results in morphological, metabolic, proliferative changes and cellular stress, these results indicate the potential undesirable effects of microplastics on human health.

Lead has been around for a long time, and well studied. The cumulative "we" are just now coming to terms with microplastics. I think the concern is valid for what these microplastics might be doing to our cells.

https://sustainability.yale.edu/explainers/yale-experts-expl...

>> Anastas goes on to explain that our bodies are accustomed to breaking down, processing, and disposing of natural polymers every day, but newer man-made polymers come with many unknowns. “We just don’t know to what degree these human-made polymers are different and affect our bodies differently,” Anastas explains. “Our bodies evolved to process all of these other natural polymers over countless years, but our bodies and the environment have not been given the chance to evolve to process these man-made polymers.”
> help uphold those values

sorry, but the way to uphold those values is by 1) setting an example of a prosperous nation that is a good example of those values (something we're failing at miserably right now, unfortunately), and 2) creating incentives and motivating other countries to adopt those same values

the absolutely worst way to uphold those values is through military force, which is what Palantir is all about. So I quite strongly disagree with Karp.

(That being said, I do agree with the point that much talent and money is wasted on frivolous social entertainment instead of things that could truly benefit humanity.)
We had nearly a century of the best scientists in the world wanting to come to the US to study, teach, and work. To view this as America loosing and the rest of the world getting a "free ride" is pretty crazy.
If you can connect to a friend's jellyfin, you can also get the UI package delivered from the friend's server.

They've sort of conflated three different ideas - one, the non-browser clients are separate and need a way to select multiple servers from a common wrapper app; two, for development purposes separate the server of the UI package from the backend being accessed; three, have a server based application.

None of these items are uncommon, they are just commonly solved by making the separate front-end server an exception rather than a weird and senseless default. Most people solve this by making the dev mode case an exception.

Moreover, why not just add a button to the UI to automatically connect to the _UI serving server_ instead of having the user type it?

I love jellyfin, but this stuff is just terrible design for out of box experience or connecting from a new client instance, and it breaks when you're traversing a network boundary with something like Tailscale.
KW is Kalenderwoche (Calendar week) BTW
Typically when an independant judiciary gets its nose rubbed so deep in evidence they have to rule against it.
seems like you ought to build it.
Yes, the average VP at JP Morgan makes less than $200k. The VP title at banks does not mean what it means at other companies.
This feels like unsubstantiated fearmongering
Sean Carroll (the physicist) just did a solo podcast about federal funding for universities and what these cuts would mean,

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/02/12/bonu...
It's getting downvoted because it's the equivalent of saying "google it".
how else would you prefer to frame America footing a bill for a benefit to everyone? we benefited, sure, but everyone else received the same benefit for zero cost.

we spend a lot of our GDP on healthcare. part of this is due to other countries paying much less for new developments than we do. when you amortize your R&D costs across a small population instead of your whole market, that will mean charging everyone in that small population much more.

my issue isn't especially with the funding so much as it is with ensuring the rest of the world pays what they owe. America has functioned since WWII as a large charity project for those less capable of running a great nation (namely, everyone). i am pretty sick of seeing my tax bill every year and knowing that. so too are many, many others. i am pretty comfortable at a fundamental level with public support for medical research.

i am not comfortable with failing to protect the results of that research and ensuring that if anyone outside the borders of our country wants a scrap of benefit from those, we enforce payment for that benefit.
Why are the super wealthy happy to kill their grandkids children. I wonder about the mental gymnastics. Very few super wealthy seem to be doing much useful.
My tests might of course be faulty, but statistically speaking adding some will reduce the number of bugs in the main code that get through. The tests don’t have to be perfect to have a positive impact; in fact my impression is that the lowest-effort tests have an outsized impact and a very high ROI.
Looking at user-agents or IPs is the most shallow and non-deterministic way possible. They are arbitrary, I'm not a bot, but I'm using a highly customised one in order to enhance my browsing experience.

>They use genuine IP addresses, user agents, and even simulate mouse movements.

From the list above, only simulating mouse movements part seems like the hardest thing to fake correctly, which genuine IP addresses and user agents is something you can 100% fake. Why focusing on the ip addresses and user agent string then if you can just see that AI Agent is moving it's mouse in a perfect straight line between buttons and doing nothing else with it. Obviously human mouse movement patterns on every webpage are quite chaotic and having it mechanised is an obvious red flag which you should train your model on.

I think the future of ai agent/bot detection is a model trained on user behaviour patters when he is interacting with the page UI.
I recognise, but it reads as if it is. Overly complex word soup!
> why don't they just get rid of the people that aren't performing?

The other secret is that outside of really bad performers, no one really knows how well people are performing in a large company. And even if those people are performing well, are they doing a necessary job? This is why so many promotions come down to if your boss likes you, aka ‘team fit’.
Hmm I don’t know price range but Kobo is apparently going to be supported by bookstore.org soon.
My home appliances meet a number of international energy efficiency standards including those set by the EU. If the US wants that to be somebody else's responsibility that's ok; but China et el aren't going to invest in separate production lines without it just for the US.
I can't change the title, but if it's worth changing, someone will do it or it will just be resubmitted.

I think "new" would make sense and I accidentally conflated them also writing about the EPA rolling back *existing* standards for other appliances in this article.
To me both are beautiful. At risk of getting further tangential lol, microbiology and cancer genomics to me are beautiful competitions like trading between market participants (cancer cells vs immune cells).

What I'm trying to say is I don't buy the notion of humans "conquering" a disease or the virtue of somehow "elevating" ourselves beyond greed. We are just player-actors in both the beautiful cycle of life-and-death and the madness of crowds participating in markets of life (airbnb rental, dating, job, you name it). To pretend otherwise that somehow we can solve and tame uncertainty is -EV.
In a thousand years I think what we consider human will be a distant memory. Gene editing will transform our society. I call it the Michael Jordan Einstein theory
It works in plenty of Australian suburbs, which seem pretty car centric. I don’t know how they compare to Japanese suburbs.
>There is a war, because Putin wanted a war.

Well, yeah, but it didn't start in 2022 -- the Ukraine was building up its military and the West was training them.

But it didn't even start in 2014 -- have a look at this:

Here is George Bush Sr. in 1991 talking in Kiev:

"They [Americans] will not aid those who promote a suicidal nationalism based upon ethnic hatred." [0]

But then Bush was gone and new presidents thought otherwise with their efforts culminating in 2014:

"The night before the clashes, Right Sector called on all of its members to ready themselves for a "peace offensive" on 18 February. The Maidan People's Union also urged all concerned citizens to take part in the "peace offensive", which student unions had agreed to join as well. The Maidan Union reported on the morning of 18 February that columns of protesters would begin a march on parliament at 08:30.

That morning, around 20,000 demonstrators marched on the parliament building as that body was set to consider opposition demands for a new constitution and government. Around 09:45, the demonstrators broke through the police barricade of several personnel-transport trucks near the building of the Central Officers' Club of Ukraine and pushed the cordon of police aside. The clashes started after some two dozen demonstrators moved a police vehicle blocking their path to parliament." [1]

"Right Sector is a loosely defined coalition of right-wing to far-right Ukrainian nationalist organizations." [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkjxf76xRTw

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Protest_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector
Another own goal.
Russia does not collapse, Trump and Russia dividing Ukraine. Then Russia expanding further.taking over Hungary and Slovakia who will give up instantly. Then Russia attacking Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, German and Europe having war in home.

There is about zero good future with non collapsed Russia who is in addition supported by USA.

Russia will expand, until it collapses. And there will always be a war where they want to go next.
Most colleges don’t have billion dollar endowments.
Complete anecdote, but my personal life experience is that offices only cause me to get more easily distracted and forget what I'm doing (which costs me time and productivity), whereas at home I can actually concentrate and not lose track of my own mental models, leading to better results.

It's kind of sadly become necessary after having some traumatic brain injury, since I wasn't quite like this a decade ago.

It really depends on what you're doing and what dynamics the task at hand requires.
The "BITCH-100", a localized IQ test (1972) [pdf]
My longer-term goal was to sell a cooking show, or get cast on an existing production.

To me, that explains the psychology.
You sound very confident and certain, about something which it is not possible yo be this certain about. How do we know with very high certainty that seed oils are not worse for us, say than olive oil?
I am closing on to 40yo - having left most likely less than half of that is not what I would describe „best part” :)
Rash is excellent. I use it in production for a process that copies large parquet files on the daily by shelling out to the aws command, then processes them by shelling out to another command and then pushes the processed data over HTTP to another server using a Racket HTTP client[1]. My only complaint would be that the docs could use some cleaning up.

[1]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/http-easy/index.html
You're replying to a troll account, they won't steel man anything.
For now: Give Jujutsu (https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/) a try, it's good whilst maintaining a level of compatibility with git which is good for gradual adoption and uptake.

Avoid: Pijul. I doubt it will succeed in getting wide adoption. Some of the reasons already covered by others comments in this thread so don't want to repeat.

Wish: I really wish darcs was rebooted and made a comeback. What can we do to make it happen? I heard a version 3 is a work in progress. I am also aware of this new initiative (GitHub equivalent but for darcs): https://smeder.ee
Such weak men running these companies. Their ego is unbounded.
OpenAI has the normies. The vast majority of people I know (some very smart technical people) havent used anything other than ChatGPT's GUI.
Technology was never apolitical.

Silicon Valley sprung up from the military industrial complex.

One of Tesla’s main driving forces was to ease the burden of the common man.
That’s pretty typical for banks, as I understand it. VP is a low-level management position.
I saw that too. I'm able to use Eightify for longer videos https://eightify.app/
> I paid into this system (actually I was forced to under threat of violence), and I do not want my money being spent on this.

You were only "forced" to if you wanted to continue to enjoy the benefit of being a US citizen/working in the US. I love a good anti-tax American essay just as much as the next person, but I also love this country and will pay my due even when that due pays for the salaries of politicians and their staff that I don't agree with (I don't want my taxes to pay for them--but life as an adult can be hard); you really do not come off as someone that wants to be a part of that or this country, but on an libertarian island. You may be more interested in Seasteading[0]

If you don't like being a contributing member of the US (who by acts of bipartisanship in US congress decided where the money goes), you are free to renounce your citizenship (assuming you are a citizen) and leave the country; if you are already outside the country then you are almost there, simply hand in your passport and file the paper work at the nearest US embassy. And never pay US taxes again. Problem solved.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading