skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lazard's, also points out that solar is the cheapest energy source (on average, this varies by geography).

Fossil fuel subsidies are much larger than renewable energy subsidies, as a total dollar amount, but then right now we get much more of our energy from fossil fuels.

> For fossil fuels, the nature of subsidies differs. Tax provisions like the expensing of intangible drilling costs defer expenses rather than involve direct payments. Critics argue that these measures should not be classified as subsidies since they do not provide government cash infusions. However, any form of subsidy, whether through direct spending or tax incentives, skews the energy market and undermines the principle of free enterprise.

The most shocking thing is the battery, to me. Because the battery subsidy is at most 1-2 years of price drops. So if today, batteries are cost effective, but only because of subsidy, in a short time they will be cost-effective without any subsidy.

However, if we want cheap energy we should keep the subsidies in place. Batteries and solar get cheaper the more we build of them, so the faster we make the investment, the faster they get cheaper, and the sooner we have a cheaper energy source, which all in all saves us massive amounts of money.

The "Inflation Reduction Act" was a funny name for Biden's on-shoring of massive amounts of factories for renewable energy, but I think in the end it will stop future inflation, long after he has died. Energy price spikes are frequently the cause of inflation, but once we have the coming energy abundance, and most of the cost of electricity is in storage rather than generation, we don't have to worry as much about global geopolitics cutting off our supply. The worst will be a week-long shortage due to a continent-wide weather event that we have not yet seen the likes of, but likely will in the future due to climate change. Or, a volcano eruption that also at the same time destroys crop production, in which case lower electricity levels won't be much of a concern...
Adventures in VDI
White House bans AP journalists from Oval Office amid continued Gulf dispute
Basic thermodynamics say atmospheric carbon capture will be more expensive than switching to renewables.

However, we’re already committed to carbon capture because corrupt politicians decided not to switch to renewables in the 1980’s, and will continue to block them for at least another decade (if we only want to wait another ten years to take action, we’ll need to somehow magically replace Trump with democrats tomorrow).
I'm more scared of macroplastics, a 2 ton hunk of plastic falling on you will kill you way faster.
Show HN: A parody app which shows how every ridiculous idea can be AI powered
For the last year, everywhere I looked, I saw AI, even for minuscule stuff, it had AI slapped on it.

So I joked around with my friends how the next big thing would be AI-powered toilet paper, and other similar ridiculous ideas. That's when I decided to make a simple satire app where every suggested idea, no matter how crazy, will "explain" how it can be AI-powered.

I had fun making the app and then trying out random ideas with my friends just for laughs. If anyone wishes to try it, it is free to use on hyperai-frontend.vercel.app

Any feedback is welcome :)
I also think it's a useful tool, but the economics of carbon capture have to sustain the cost of developing these methods. Pointing consumerism in the right direction seems like the most effective way to drop carbon emissions from both a short and long term perspective. We need to "stop the bleed" before tackling anything else.
>What is your process to turn Mac minis into a cluster

1) Apply science. Benchmark everyting until you understand if its memory bound, i/o bound or compute bound [1].

2) Rewrite software from scratch in a parallel form with message passing.

3) Reverse engineer native instruction sets of CPU, GPU and ANE or TPU. Same for NVIDIA (don't use CUDA).

No special hardware needed but adding FPGA's for optimizing the network between machines might help.

So you analyse the software and hardware, then restructure it by reprogramming and rewireing and adaptive compilers.
Then you benchmark again and you find what hardware runs the algorithm fastest for less $ using less energy and weigh that against the extra cost for reprogramming.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofline_model
its not like the reverse problem doesn't exist. Environmentalists and policymakers shy away from obviously good policies because they're too capitalist or dont let them have political controls (carbon auctions a la SOX or NOX auctions, privatized transport like hong kong, singapore, tokyo come to mind)
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. -- Woody Allen
Owning a hybrid with regenerative braking vs a non-hybrid of the same class of vehicle, there is a noticeable reduction in brake wear and replacement with regenerative braking.
Either you're familiar with GPU pricing and being willfully ignorant, or you're not familiar with the pricing in which case let someone who is point out:

- "Datacenter" means it's comparable to Runpod's secure cloud pricing.

- A spot instance of an H200 under someone's living room media console wouldn't go for A100 rates.

$3.50 will also get you an H100 at a laundry list of providers people build real businesses on.

Certainly all better track records than fly.io, especially on a post where they explain it's not working out for them as an offering and then promise they'll keep it shambling along.
Regenerative braking has much less tire wear than traditional braking because it's done much more slowly and smoothly.

Also, none of these discussions use up-to-date information on EV tires. Consumers aren't willing to replace their tires much more often for an EV except at the high end of the market, tire manufacturers are already making tires last much longer for EV purposes. New designs are already shedding less dust per unit mass of the vehicle than they were a few years ago.

Plus, some manufacturers are now working to reduce the toxicity of their formulas. This will eliminate the issues a lot more.
My recollection is the Leaf and Volt were selling in numbers while the Tesla Roadster was a less practical, low volume novelty.
You're mistaken, anti-cheat (some of them) do work on Linux[1], such as Easy AntiCheat, BattlEye, nProtect GameGuard etc. But not every game using these will work, since some of them require the developer to enable Linux support - which is usually as simple as ticking a box. Unfortunately, many game studios / publishers don't want to support Linux, for various reasons. Some of them even are even biased against Linux, such as Epic's Tim Sweeny, who has made several unsubstantiated nonsensical claims against Linux. Unfortunately there's not much you can do about these people / studios, besides boycotting their products and services.

There's also a second category of anti-cheat (kernel-level), which will never work on Linux, as @p_ing elaborated. I second their opinion that you shouldn't run games which use these, even on Windows. The Crowdstrike incident has shown us how dangerous such programs can be (causing BSODs and instability). Kernel-level anti-cheat programs are even more dangerous, since they monitor everything on your PC, actively sabotages any inspection tools, and protects itself from being uninstalled - which is behaviour very akin to malware/rootkits. You should _never_ install such programs on your PC. Once again, the solution here is to vote with your wallet and boycott games and studios which use such solutions.

[1] https://areweanticheatyet.com/
Planting trees is a form of carbon capture!
Awesome.

I modified a library card software (Blacklight) into a searchable PDF industrial manual system awhile back on a one-off basis. It couldn't go any further than a contract project that delivered the source code because it's hard to do anything programmatically (at the time) to a PDF without Ghostscript.

I've often thought of rewriting it with Python (and Postgres, to get rid of Solr or Elastic as the search backend), maybe now's the time...

I trust you long enough for a second look because I ctrl-f'd the readme and found "pdfium" so I know I don't have to retread old ground in your github issues about how there's really only a couple of ways to parse a PDF with a semblance of reliability, lol...

(for anyone else reading this getting started with documents.. Adobe and Chrome are really the only PDF rendering libraries that work. PDF.js aka Firefox has always been broken, and Apple's is problematic as well, in both cases rearing their heads in terms of incorrect word / letter spacing).
Which law said the overhead rate had to be 50%+?
Not sure why this was downvoted, it’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. Even ideas as abstract as private property comes into play here, private owners are incentivised to make the most of their investments, and when one of the many main vehicles for wealth is land ownership, one is driven to find ways to maximise the use of that investment which in this case would be drilling oil which in turn gets further refined into plastics (among gasoline, etc.).

If we weren’t forced to live under a system that prioritises private ownership and the maximisation of profits, can we honestly say that we would independently come to the conclusion that our continued use of fossil fuels and their derivatives is okay and should continue?
Grafting can promote cacao production without sacrificing biodiversity
That is significantly more involved (and for most people less comfortable) than regen braking, which just... happens. Many (most?) EVs will also do blended braking when using the braking pedal, so even when you brake "manually" you're still not using physical brakes unless you really step on it.
I don't like America having nuclear weapons... but if we have them... they should be handled safely... concerning.
Apple Aims to Boost Vision Pro with AI Features, Spatial Content App
EV specific tires have basically eliminated the difference in tread loss already. And because there's public pressure on this, the toxicity of the materials and tires is decreasing rapidly.

Every study I've seen from people pushing on this uses very old information about tires, proving there's a problem really requires updated work taking these things into consideration.
"Musk...beaten up and abused as a child". Proof? By his father? Whith whom he now has a stellar relationship? "Musk is an engineer"? Taught where?
WSJ at its best.
The dollars don't actually substitute, either. We can spend on both more than we'd be willing to spend only on renewable sources.
Three or four years ago, yes. Newer EV specific tires don't seem to be wearing faster.
I work for a major consulting firm and we’ve been threatened with fire and brimstone if any part of client info (code, docs, random email, anything) ever gets sent to an LLM. Even with permission from the client our attack lawyers prefer us not to use them. It’s a very sensitive topic. I still use LLMs from time to time but always starting with a blank prompt and the ask anonymized. (Heh I’m probably not even supposed to do that)
> Diligence won’t save you if a driver unexpectedly swerves into you.

That's the point. Diligence won't save you but crumple zones might have.

It's also not obvious that most collisions being with cars isn't just because most other vehicles are cars. If two motorcycles collide with each other at high speed, the damage they do to each other isn't your problem, it's the resulting loss of control and the damage to your body when you impact the pavement.

> Letting cars drive on pavements isn’t permitted for the same reason e-bikes shouldn’t be in traffic (or on the pavement).

But then you're stuck between three bad options: You have separate roads specifically for e-bikes (implausible), you put high speed e-bikes in pedestrian zones, or you limit the top speed of e-bikes to something safe for pedestrians and then people go back to buying cars because e-bikes are too slow.
Can you explain to a non ML software engineer what these distillation methods mean? What does it mean to have R1 train a Llama model? What is special about DeepSeek’s distillation methods? Thanks!
Safari, with lockdown mode enabled.
Maybe "Ruby Outperforms C" was bait for "Outperforming a C extension" which is about the relative cost of calling C from Ruby?

https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/
https://www.hnreplies.com is an unofficial way to get comment replies via email.

Perhaps you should look into Vale or Pony then, they have memory safety like Rust, also without a GC, but they use different mechanisms for it.
The name was specifically chosen because of that effect. I believe it was based on the work of Saul Griffith who has a PDF here explaining it:

"Electrification is
anti-inflationary."

> Unpacking the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act: What was
in it? What could it mean for Australia?

> Clean electrification is the transformation of our energy economy away from one based on
low-cost fossil-fuelled machines that require expensive future commitments to fossil-fuels,
to higher-cost electric machines that are powered by clean electricity. This turns the energy
economy from one of fuels to one of finance, and the beauty of finance is that it locks in the
cost of something for the period of that finance. It is literally anti-inflationary as can be seen in
Figure 2.

https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/612b0b172765f9c62c1c20c9/...
But why not add an option to rent them out without too many abstractions?
well, it’s a few things. a lot of it comes down to reading structured data and scripting. i will often stream logs from k8s or when running a service locally that outputs JSON, and nushell can parse the logs for readability or to find a particular field. i mean, that’s nothing jq couldn’t do. but having an integrated experience based more on readability makes things nice.
also when i say scripting i mean actual real functions. you can define a command complete with parsed documented arguments as if you’re using argparse or clap, and it also supports completions. so when i go to sign into the company VPN i have a lil function that grabs my credentials and takes an argument that is one of several providers my company uses, which i can autocomplete with tab because i’ve written a simple completion helper (literally a function that returns a list). it’s documentation as code, and i push all these helpers up to my company git repo so when someone asks me how to do something i have workable readable examples.
if you’ve ever wanted a real programming language (like Python) as your shell, i think this is worth a shot.
Sounds like your company/team have some serious communication issues. These things do happen in all companies regardless of size - but from what I understand, this is a repeat event.

Mentioning these sorts of concerns with other people in the company (especially higher-ups) is crucial. They can offer you the guidance on how to handle the situation far more effectively than some strangers on a forum.

I have had many instances of these sort of situations. Half the time you just suck it up and do it (if the person is more senior or it's a topic you're not so confident about) and the other half you can usually find some other strategy like meeting in the middle.

Maybe Celery is the best option? Have a team-wide meeting to discuss his side of the story. Sure, he might be one to just advocate constantly, but give him his pedestal to speak. If his arguments are shaky, he will step down from the pedestal on his own when he realises that this decision is inefficient and unnecessary. If he's not the founder/CEO then talk to the founder/CEO or anyone above this guy so that they can help you put him in his place.

Sorry I couldn't be of technical help but I hope this feedback will help tackle your team's root problem - communication.
> but it also exposes the Associated Press’s commitment to misinformation.

just harmless trolling for now, which evidently generates upvotes
I heard from someone working at a big car producer that they force EV’s to use the mechanical brakes every now and then because if not, they rust away.
Not just the Romans, but anyone over 50, particularly in urban areas, got dosed with plenty of lead as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
"Why Aren't We Losing Our Minds over the Plastic in Our Brains?"

Because people value convenience and low costs over most risks. It's actually amazing that Organic food has found as much traction as it has with the increased cost and less convenient shopping.
Yeah, my VE id.3 has drums on the back and disks on the front. Apparently the brake pads are effectively life-of-the-vehicle items under normal driving conditions.
The best example of this in recent history is probably lead. This sort of thing is likely to be multigenerational.

If you ask the average person today why we stopped putting lead in gasoline (or why we started, but I digress) I doubt you'll get a consistent or correct answer. I've no doubt the same could be said with respect to these plastics in fifty years.
> Borland was in trouble long before Kylix and .NET.

That’s true. Maybe I should have said “final nail in the coffin”.
The safety is a function of the speed you are going. Legal ebikes in the UK are limited to 15mph which is normally survivable unlike say a 125cc scooter doing 60mph.

I've got an ebike in central london and find it quite practical on the whole. For local journeys <2miles it's faster than anything else and you can go down mostly traffic restricted roads. For intercity you can put the bike on a train. Rain is a bit of a pain.
My Chevy volt has 199k miles and it's original brake pads and rotors are definitely almost new looking, but I'd say to be conservative they are 60%.

My cheap Chinese Walmart tires have lasted me 50k miles and are due to be replaced soon, but I spend zero attention to driving smoothly or in an eco mindset.
Probably EFF suing DOGE, and them not wanting to say that directly since political posts are flagged quickly here.
For most people the break-even is longer than that. Net-metering is an unjustified gift from non-paneled ratepayers to ratepayers with solar panels.
Don't show this the MAGA guys giving them ideas about further fund saving possiblities...
The poster didn't specify which type of transformer...
Losing my mind over the plastic in my brain wouldn’t do any good either, it’s already there.
The Leaf and Volt were compliance cars. The Tesla Roadster was “make it work” in “make it work, make it right, make it fast.”

Note Nissan and GM’s EV offerings today, considering how long they had since then.

(early TSLA investor after a ride in the Roadster)
You would produce the energy without releasing carbon.
> I also don’t buy Elon’s messaging that a database upgrade will save social security, or whatever.

This is not what Elon is saying or doing or planning to do.
VS + C# mostly. I’m also porting my code to Rust to get better at it.
I suspect drum brakes were chosen by the electron pinching EV engineers. They're the only brakes that are friction-free when not applied. Disc brakes rub (and slow the car) even when not applied.
Plastic waves its hands: “this is not the plastic you’re looking for”
> the color coding program was completely misguided because it assumed that we didn’t know what healthy food was. I challenged the nutritionist to an experiment: Make two plates of food, go into the restaurant at lunch time, and ask people to point out the healthier plate. My bet was that if you did not purposefully make it very tricky, people would unfailingly point to the right plate.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

I used to struggled with weight most of my young years. No matter what I did I achieved incremental advances at best. At some point I decided to start "counting calories", something that I used to frown upon.

To my shock some foods that I ate that I considered "healthy" weren't so much so. This isn't even counting the fact that most experts can't even agree what is healthy or not, and opinions change over time.

Just like with coding, there are some black/white examples where the average person could make an easy distinction, but then there is a wide range of greys in the middle where people might not really know what's "good/bad".
It could be a continuation application that claims priority to an earlier application.
There are a lot of things going on in the US currently where I could ask "Why aren't We Losing Our Minds over ....?" The answer is money. Moving away from plastic is expensive and consumers aren't demanding it so business as usual.
The top comment there pretty much sums it up nicely. Attacking Nintendo is like attacking Disney or Apple - they're a lifestyle brand. There are some people who spend thousands of dollars annually on their products and might feel irrationally invested in the business. Others might have insecurities or extreme dysfunctions they perceive to be "solved" by the brand. People are deeply entrenched in the concept of these brands more than they care about the utility of them.

Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and even Valve all suffer from this to a degree. They're fighting for shrinking margins in an industry that is consolidating and seeking faster turnaround with lower headcount. Sony wants exclusives, Microsoft wants studios, Valve wants clients, and Nintendo wants to keep their preexisting studios from collapsing. Game Freak is on death's doorstep, HAL hasn't developed a real video game since Mother 3, Intelligent Systems is begging for someone to shoot them and Nintendo EPD has been sliding in quality since the Switch's release. Nintendo has every incentive to stay in their lane and try to salvage what they can.

I personally quite like Nintendo, but I'm also willing to see them for their flaws. I don't think their legal stance against YouTubers or C&Ds against Pokemon fangames will be their undoing, though. Nintendo is most likely to collapse for the same reasons Sony and Microsoft are threatened; games need to be made cheaper and faster, which is hard to equate with quality. If tariffs take away your hardware margins and indies destroy your software margins, the entire concept of a "game console" may not persist much longer.
Arguing with someone who starts demanding your obvious claim has the burden of proof is useless. Any proof you offer is going to contain an obvious step or assumption and they demand proof for that too.
Why we stopped, health. Why we started, can’t be anything other than profit.
Some factors I think are involved, but I don't see mentioned - EVs produce more readily available torque in general, and also tire choice heavily factors in EV range (low rolling resistance), which has a negative impact on tread life
> People act like their web framework and SQL connection pooler and stuff are so simple

I'm just sitting here wondering why we need 100 billion transistors to move a piece of tape left and right ;)
I don't use it myself but Laravel is arguably a good reason to pick PHP.
Trees are good but are largely a temporary store. Most of the carbon they capture ends up be re-released upon decay. Of course some does get more permanently sequestered in the ground, but a relatively small amount, and is a very slow process. I'm all for planting more trees, but I'm afraid the problem can't be entirely solved by merely planting more trees. It's also a rate problem - it may not be possible to plant enough trees to completely offset the rates we're adding carbon to the atmosphere.
“Print what we tell you or you’re banned”
In a gym class? What's the point?
Well, I personally just can't do 3D modelling any other way, if I had to use graphical tools to create it, it would be pain. On the other hand, writing code is a second nature for me, so even if it's a little inconvenient, it's still much better than anything else (for me).