skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be another factor.

PV tech to date has a presumed lifespan of about 20 years, at which point it's both typically degraded to 80% of nameplate functionality and cheaper to replace with newer, more functional, components.

That said, extending life by a factor of 50--100% could be a game-changer, particularly where PV is a major (or majority) factor of electricity generation or all energy inputs. At that point, needing to replace 5% of all installed capacity every year becomes its own daunting task. Reducing that to 2.5% would be a tremendous win if that could be achieved at a competitive cost.

I've done some reading on both how and why panels fail and durability/lifespan testing (much of this comes out of NREL in the US), and as it's due to multiple degradation pathways achieving greater lifespans isn't a trivial task, and the 20-year benchmark is itself quite dependent on specific experiences. E.g., a heavy hailstorm won't much care how old your panels are, but on average the expected incidence of such events is factored into the 20-year life expectancy (along with other similarly variable factors).
Here in Berlin there are an enormous amount of kebab places (thousands). Basically, most places are embedded in neighborhoods and have a crowd of locals that go there. The quality varies wildly as a lot of these places are obviously aimed at the money laundering business (cash only) rather than serving food. Poor hygiene, indifferent service, etc. Many of these places are completely pointless from a business point of view. Other than the money laundering thing. They are easy to recognize since they look kind of old and dirty and there are usually not a lot of customers. If it's lunch/dinner time and nobody is eating, maybe skip it.

And then there are some really outstanding places with proper char coal grills, staff that knows what they are doing and are friendly and laser focused on customer service. These places are wonderful and generally good value. Some of these marinade their own meat as well and they venture beyond just serving the standard kebabs. If you find yourself in Berlin, worth getting some advice on where to go in your area. There are some amazing kebab restaurants and most of those places have been around for ages.

And then there's a third category of places that you find in the usual late night and travel hot spots targeting travelers or people that are drunk that will probably not be regulars. Competition for this audience is fierce and there are some good choices here that people will take detours for to get to. Many of these places are well run and optimize for throughput and consistency (but not necessarily high quality).
The grandparent article claims that Page and Brin were paid by NSF, working on DLI projects while researching PageRank and that the equipment for their prototype crawler was partly paid for by DLI.

If that's true, I'd say they're very fortunate that the Digital Library Initiative existed and that they could put their research into the public domain to reuse it for free at Google. In another context, I'd call the DLI an angel investor and they'd have wanted a slice of that Google pie.
I tried this with the new ‘apple intelligence’ that I thought could see my screen.

I had a birthday invite with clear date and time: so I asked it to add to my calendar.

It just said, “add what?” repeatedly until finally deciding it needed to send it to chatGPT to help. Which it did, then just returned the text in the image without taking any action. Then I say “can you add the event now?”

“Add what?”

So I try copying the text from the image in photos and giving that to Siri to add as an event. Surly this can work?!?

Nope.

It’s just utterly pitiful.
i think it probably varies from workload to workload. reducing handshake time and header compression can have substantial effects.

it's a shame server side hunting/push never caught on. that was always one of the more interesting features.
Just tap every ad you come accross until every advertiser leaves the platform
Reputation matters. If someone comes to market with a shoddy product or missing features/slideware then it's a self created problem that people don't check the product release logs every week for the next few years waiting for them rectifying it. And even once there is an announcement people are perfectly entitled to have scepticism that it isn't a smoke and mirrors feature and not spend hours doing their own due diligence. Again self created problem.
Speculative execution cpu bugs. Or whatever the next class of problems is that can expose bits of process memory without software memory bugs.

That's already a fringe case. Do you really think everyone's writing web applications in a language like rust without any unsafe (or equivalent)?
I am a software developer. I avoid technology in my house. I like people; I would love to see other people get paid not fired and replaced. I am Dutch so it will not happen in the near future for me. We have strict laws for employment; plus we are always behind in tech (Except for self service).
It is not narrow minded; AI (ahem, Machine Learning) is quickly replacing the wrong things in my opinion.
What is this idea that a country should bend over backwards to "invite talent"? Especially with the underlying implication that it is not for the "talent" to make any efforts. Is Germany that desperate?

If you move to Germany at some point you need to learn German, don't you?
Speed or security? Speculative execution in Apple Silicon
> 2. All those "bad kebabs" actually located within 500m from the nearest station. No kebab located in further than >500m is bad.

Right, but this is selection bias. There will always exist a distance D from which all bad kebabs are located.

Unless D is provenly chosen _before_ looking at the data, this has no meaning.

One also has to take the kebab density into account.
Wow, that was… Surprisingly good. I did laugh a few times and I really didn’t expect to.
How Russia's war on Ukraine reshaped the energy world
I don't use AI, I have a brain to compensate.
I am not a man. I am a trans woman. I don't suffer from an unfortunate condition, unless that condition is ignorant people like yourself who cannot handle the complexity of how people can be different.

Blaming us for the backlash is the same abusive thinking as "i wouldn't hit you if you'd just do what i want." Trans people are just the easiest target. If it wasn't us, it'd have been someone else.
When you’re refactoring a system (which is really what he’s claiming to want to do) you don’t just delete the repository and start with main(). You figure out where the edges are, how they fit together, where are the Chesterton Fences and how can we protect them until they’re understood. A/B unit testing.

This takes a non-zero amount of time and it takes careful consideration by subject experts.

I can’t really speak to your hopefulness of good intentions - as a parent that relies on government agencies to help my special needs child with the tools she needs, I see no hope here.

What does success look like? How long should the chaos and pain last before you’re beyond hope? Will there be remuneration for people that are materially hurt by this scorched earth policy? How will you be hurt, personally?
Mindreading, Brain Hacking, Remote Communication,Neuromodulation: Sci-Fi No More
Good to know - neither the parent nor the article mention this. h2c seems to have limited support by tooling (e.g. browsers, curl), which is a bit discouraging.

EDIT: Based on the HTTP/2 FAQ, pure h2c is not allowed in the standard as it requires you to implement some HTTP/1.1 upgrade functionality: https://http2.github.io/faq/#can-i-implement-http2-without-i...
> it's not object-oriented programming. That's it.

Yes, exactly. And this "classical" object-oriented programming is an anti-pattern itself.

(That being said, OOP is not well defined. And, for example, I have nothing against putting related data structures and functionality into the same namespace. But that's not what OOP means to him here)
Atheists not exposed to what Communism really is might have thought that Communists are atheists, but they were extremely wrong.

Communists have changed completely the meaning of many words, in order to obfuscate the true essence of Communism.

Communism was not atheism, on the contrary it was a kind of monotheistic religion practically indistinguishable from a Christian sect, but where everything was renamed and whose priests succeeded to obtain the supreme power in the state, unlike in the Western countries where religion is more or less separated from the state.

There is a huge list of exact correspondences between Christian concepts and Communist concepts. Communists had prophets (Marx, Engels and Lenin), holy books (i.e. the books written by the prophets), saints, martyrs (illegalist Communists), priests (the members of the Communist Party with party functions), a Pope (the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), Inquisitions, heretics (e.g. Trotsky or Tito), and so on.

All the religious institutions have been replaced by the Communists with exact counterparts having different names, e.g. the chaplains of the military units have been replaced by political officers through which the Communist Party controlled the military institutions, the religious education in schools has been replaced by a so-called political education which taught the Communist religion, and so on.

While Christians were manipulated to behave as their leaders desired with the promise that obeying the rules will ensure them a happy after-life, even if their present life sucks, the people in Communists countries were manipulated to behave as their leaders desired with the promise that obeying the rules will ensure a happy life for their grandchildren who will live in a true Communist society, even if their present life sucks because the present society is not truly communist.

There has never been any relationship between Atheism and Communism, except that the Communists have hijacked the word atheist, by claiming that the Communist religion is Atheism.
Do you volunteer for such a massive undertaking?

Sarcasm aside, I'm seeing a lot of wackiness on both sides of the political spectrum lately. The Constitution is fine and provides provisions for changing it via amendments. You guys aren't involved in the political process at all, I caucused and was a delegate so I can tell you the system is fine and working as intended. Don't complain about it if you aren't even involved in the process. That just makes you look silly.
If I can't tell I can't do anything about it. If I can tell I might switch company/service.
Are they profitable, and at which point in time? How good of an investment was it? Sorry, my eyes were swimming in their financial report hosted in their domain.
Thermoelectric Solar Panel
Indeed. And the papers were about doing better translation of char sequences, essentially the tech emerged as linguistics improvement for language. Then someone realised the parrot learns enough ZIP and JPEG alongside and can spit back hazy memories of it all.

the one still super useful thing OpenAI ever released must’ve been Whisper. But they could’ve been much more open for sure.
Isn't Sectigo Comodo? Extra rich coming from them.
> Domain models are fundamentally an object-oriented programming concept

They are absolutely not. In fact, they are not even specific to even just programming, let alone OOP.
Discussion (1082 points, 27 days ago, 355 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856023
You'd probably have a better time using something like Cloudflare to block known scrapers than trust companies that pirate terabytes of books to train their models to obey a "please don't" text file.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo...
I'm developing a deep-linking marketing tool for mobile apps that's significantly more affordable than competitors. I run a software development agency specializing in integrating deep-linking platforms like Branch and marketing attribution tools such as Adjust and AppsFlyer, but their costs are sky-high. That’s why we’re building https://grovs.io — offering the same functionality at just 40% of the price.

In summary, our tool lets you generate dynamic links, track attributions, and analyze referrals. You can easily see which links and marketing campaigns drive the most installs, reactivations, reinstalls, and views.
Code like Uncle Bob suggests is not easier to read and understand, it is harder, IMO and that of many others. Since the disagreement starts from this any further discussion is impossible.
Where's my cut of the AI profits?
The prime number code hurts to read. I feel like Bob is living in a different reality than most of us.
First time I've encountered a site blocked by the work firewall, funnily enough.
No love for XML…
My father passed away in October and it’s still difficult. I’ve dealt with grief before - two very close family members passed. The hard truth is you will never fully recover. 7 years later, a memory will bring you to tears.

The only thing that relieves it somewhat is time, in my experience. Something else that I kind of think helped was trying to guess what my dad would want for me (living sensibly, taking care of myself etc.), and try my best to follow it (not perfectly or even very well, but I try). I hope you will recover from your grief as rapidly as possible. I don’t think my father would like the idea of me being crushed by grief, and I don’t suppose yours would either!
That’s why I use AdNauseam (https://adnauseam.io/) instead of uBlock
Any kind of ship is a plausible explanation.
I used to blog and write a lot and I never cared how many — if any — read it. Purposefully avoided analytics tools etc.

But after the last few years with the proliferation of “AI” tools and the increasing amount of noise on every level I just don’t like feeding the “grey goo of information”. It might be unreasonable but I’ve felt it for over a year now and it’s not going away. Instead I value interpersonal conversations a lot more again. I hang out in discord voice chats with a few people at a time. Text communication feels soulless and low signal to noise in general now.

Anecdotally almost every text chat server I’m on has less active users writing than I’ve ever seen in 25+ years of using the internet. Might be a coincidence but I wouldn’t be surprised if people’s behaviours are changing. Just like knowing you’re being watched changes your behaviour, knowing text content may or may not be fed to or generated by a slop machine algorithm probably changes how you view text as well.
An exchange isn't a bank.

Why trust money that banks create out of thin air?
Where can I find Martin’s code? I would like to see and compile it.
BP faces 'existential crisis' after ruinous attempt to go green
im not arguing intent, I'm arguing effect. the effect depends on how bad the rot is. the existing system is so bad it seems incapable of self-policing (tessier-lavigne was exposed by an undergraduate journalism major, not a fellow scientist). maybe it's time to start over, any 'partial' solution will have a hell of a time figuring out who to cut and who to keep.
Loved the title! XD
Caller ID Spoofing: The Invisible Threat to Phone Security and How to Combat It
Comfortaa works well for this:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comfortaa
> I know the distill models are not at all the same as the full model

It's far worse than that. It's not the model (Deepseek) at all. It's Qwen enhanced with Deepseek. So it's Qwen still.
There hardly are any plug and play human employees.
> This may be true for some cases, but I don't see a non-contrived way for code to describe why it was written in the way it does or why the feature is implemented the way it is.

I have to call bullshit on your argument. Either you aren't even looking because you have the misfortune of only looking at bad code written by incompetent developers, or you do not even know what it looks like to be able to tell.

The core principles are quite simple, and are pervasive. Take for example replacing comments with self-descriptive names. Isn't this something obvious? I mean, a member function called foobinator needs a combination of comments and drilling down to the definition to be able to get a clue on what it does. Do you need a comment to tell what a member function called postOrderMessageToEventBroker does?

Another very basic example: predicates. Is it hard to understand what a isMessageAnOrderRequest(message) does? What about a message.type == "command" && type.ToUpperCase() == "request" && message.class == RequestClass.Order ? Which one is cleaner and easier to read? You claim these examples are contrived, but in some domains they are more than idiomatic. Take user-defined type assertions. TypeScript even has specialized language constructs to implement them in the form of user-defined type guards. And yet you claim these examples are contrived?

I'm starting to believe all these vocal critics who criticize Uncle Bob or Eric Evans or any other author are actually talking out of sheer ignorance about things they know nothing about. They read some comment in some blog and suddenly they think they are an authority on a subject they know nothing about.

So much noise.
Which tutorials and books?
It's cloud that takes "o"ver "u"
Having the verbatim answer to the test is not a "limitation" it is an invalidation.
I am noticing a good dose of hallucination for 3.7 thinking in cursor.

3.7 seems more reliable.
It's also insanely cheap.
Send them an invoice for the rental of your screen space to display ads.
"times square olive garden" hahaha
I think reddit maybe, r/llc and some small business ones

maybe FIRE (financial independence, retire early) ones, but those are mostly penny pincher communities with frugality that has no concept of end

bogleheads follow a philosophy but also just like to make money in any compliant way possible
So a job with extra steps - why bother?
There are some niche applications where innovative greenhouse technology, AI and similar tech can contribute to better agriculture.

But this "tech think" completely misses the point, when it comes to Agriculture. We already have all the technology we need to convert Agriculture from a major emitter to a CO2-dump. We could dramatically increase current and future arable land by using known sustainable farming techniques without loosing or even while enhancing productivity per hectare.

Especially the idea that we need ultra-productive greenhouses in urban settings is plainly speaking stupid and ignores basic economics. Land is actually quite plentiful, even directly adjacent to major agglomerations and (with the right tools and techniques) can be highly productive without capital intensive tech projects.

Innovation is needed much more in terms of giving producers the right incentives to farm sustainably – at the moment much of government subsidies and trade incentives has a directly opposite effect.

Of course it would be nice, if a farmer could use a $2,000 drone to weed their fields pesticide free by employing AI, etc. But the real holy grail would be to get a farmer to use known techniques to drastically reduce fertilizer and pesticide use while increasing the diversity of crops and the carbon content of his soil.
Interestingly since Space Force was created by Trump who sees it as a prestige project and it depends on Musk's SpaceX for launches this is probably one of the most secure agencies in the current administration.
It really is getting tiresome. I guess a lot of HN commenters are directly or indirectly heavily invested in the AI bubble and so cannot / will not argue in good faith because they’re barred by personal interests.

I saw a hint of it with crypto and NFT hype cycles, but this is on another level.
Jordan's Proof of the Jordan Curve Theorem (2007) [pdf]
> To make sure that your connections can be snooped on over the LAN? Why is that a positive?

No, to keep your app from having to deal with SSL. Internal network security is an issue, but sites that need multi-server architectures can't really be passing SSL traffic through to the application servers anyway, because SSL hides stuff that's needed for the load balancers to do their jobs. Many websites need load balancers for performance, but are not important enough to bother with the threat model of an internal network compromise (whether it's on the site owner's own LAN, or a bare metal or VPS hosting vlan).

> Sure, if you're at the scale where you want/need that then you're getting some benefit from that. But that's something you can add in when it makes sense.

So why not preface your initial claims by saying you trust the web app to be secure enough to handle SSL keys, and a single instance of the app can handle all your traffic, and you don't need high availability in failure/restart cases?

That would be a much better claim. It's still unlikely, because you don't control the internet. Putting your website behind Cloudflare buys you some decreased vigilance. A website that isn't too popular or attention-getting also reduces the risk. However, Russia and China exist (those are examples only, not an exclusive list of places malicious clients connect from).
A music library organizer, as a replacement for my current workflow with Beets (https://beets.io/).

Beets takes almost 5 minutes per incremental update of ~1000 folders of tagged flacs with my current configuration, when all I really want it to do is:

- fetch album art if not present

- create folder structure readable by Subsonic server

- symlink relevant files

Very raw and unfinished, currently only implemented adding new albums. However, 5 minutes to <1 sec is a promising improvement.
After a ten second glance, it looks like there are simply more kebab shops close to stations, and therefore a larger sample from which to see a broader range of ratings (including bad ones).
It's still worth doing wood work in the age of IKEA. Perhaps even more so.
This was actually a great post and made me aware of your product for the first time.

I eventually landed here: https://getlago.com/docs/guide/self-hosted/

It would be nice if there was a feature matrix for self hosted premium vs open features, since that's the first thing self-hosted people are going to be looking for.

Also, I'm looking at your Lever page, but no SWE roles are listed. Maybe if this post really does numbers, that'll be changing soon!
The article examines how DeepSeek serves as a catalyst for companies to explore cost disruption through AI tools and augmentation.
It's a good thing you are "starting to settle" 2025. I mean before 2020 they disbanded federal bodies for pandemic prep and look what happened.
when there are two commands in a prompt example

do A and then do B.

the model completely ignores the second task B.
currently im trying to write more! i have been a fan of several bloggers for years now, but have never had the courage to start myself. hoping to change that this year.

i figure writing online would be a fun way to try and start conversations with people who are interested in the same topics. also, hopefully any technical posts can go to show employers that im not just another junior engineer whos reliant on LLMs for coding, and have some deep knowledge.
I remember in 2012-13 facebook didnt even have a delete account option only deactivate. I dug deep enough to stumble across a facebook delete link in their community support or something.
I made sure to change all my details and then i used that link to delete my account. Used my friends account to verify if it was actually deleted or not.

Never visited facebook since. Its great!