skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From looking at the Wikipedia article on Saturn's moons [1], and especially some of the crazy orbital diagrams like this one [2], its difficult to comprehend how they even sort through the existing 146 moons to make sure they're not just double counting. Maybe they've got better data over in those groups, yet from what's available on WP, looks like quite a few were confirmed with the equivalent of 3-5 frames of stop motion imagery. Especially in the Norse group that looks very crowded. [3] "Sure that's not Bergelmir or Hati?" Most don't seem to have any announcements or articles listed after the initial discovery unless they're the really large ones like Titan, Rhea, or Enceladus.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_Saturn

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Saturn_i...

[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Saturnmo...
It's a battery/power bank/station that can be remotely controlled and aggregated into a so-called "virtual power plant", which the manufacturer can then sell power source/sink capacity to grid operators. That's why the cellular connectivity is there.

That is the true purpose of the entire operation - all other functionality is a distraction (and can be taken away at any time by a software update despite any promises).

As per their FAQ (https://pilaenergy.com/tech-specs#faq):

> As balcony solar and plug-and-power products gain momentum, we welcome collaboration with AHJs and utilities to help responsibly shape the future of home energy. If you're interested in partnering with Pila, reach out!

The plan is to find enough people to buy these so they have enough aggregate storage capacity to solicit "collaboration" and "partnerships" (https://pilaenergy.com/press) with utilities and make profit (I'm fairly confident the device is currently sold at a loss), with the buyers getting scraps in the best case scenario, and nothing in the worst/expected case.

I guess the buyers of the batteries will at least be satisfied with the knowledge that they have paid to "responsibly shape the future of home energy".
AI to provide instant home repair quotes
Perhaps that kind of thing could help us finally move on from the "stupid should hurt" mindset to a real safety culture, where we value fault tolerance.

We like to pretend humans can reliably execute basic tasks like telling left from right or counting to ten, or reading a four digit number, and we assume that anyone who fails at these tasks is "not even trying"

But people do make these kinds of mistakes all the time, and some of them lead to patients having the wrong leg amputated.

A lot of people seem to see fault tolerance as cheating or relying on crutches, it's almost like they actively want mistakes to result in major problems.

If we make it so that AI failing to count the Rs doesn't kill anyone, that same attitude might help us build our equipment so that connecting the red wire to R2 instead of R3 results in a self test warning instead of a funeral announcement.

Obviously I'm all for improving the underlying AI tech itself ("Maintain Competence" is a rule in crew resource management), but I'm not a super big fan of unnecessary single points of failure.
Sadly, a modern day french door is pretty inefficient. Consumers prefer them because of their looks but they are very far from being an efficient way to keep food cold.
I disagree with the notion that life isn't zero sum. It only looks this way using a definition that conflates wealth with value, or from a viewpoint far from the limits of nature that would otherwise make this kind of nature obvious. Arguably what we've done, is merely transformed wealth into other forms we valued more.

Certainly value isn't zero sum, as we can always change our minds and value something else more, but I don't think this is a good argument for life (or wealth) not being zero sum. Anything we create, takes energy or resources from elsewhere (zero sum). Every path you choose to go down in life, is a path you didn't go down (zero sum). Simply put - everything has a cost. Sure we may not value costs equally (not zero sum), but remove our arbitrary valuations for things from the equation, and it is zero sum.
Anrok is great! Anrok generates and files US returns. We still have to file EU OSS returns quarterly (based on the Reports created by Anrok), but it's manageable. Stay far away from Avalara... it's unusable and the contracts are predatory IMO. Filing UK VAT has been a mess.

I'm @ a US-SaaS company using Stripe and Quickbooks.
The ancient earthquake detector that puzzled modern historians (2018)
The Economist has a democracy index. The US dropped to "flawed democracy" after the coup attempt and has not recovered.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
How is there not a lot of special data?

Isnt it literally infinite via even the simplest simulator?

You could generate an unlimited training set just by implementing tik tac toe on an unbound grid, for example, in like 10 lines of code.
Another idea is that the window drifts slowly, so everyone gets an optimal time. Make the period non divisible by 7 so it doesn't line up on the same day of week every time.
You buy lithium battery (lifepo4) not agm, much longer life time. I have exactly the same Vevor inverter + lithium battery total cost was 400$. But I regret doing this setup, I should have just gotten Ecoflow power station, it's a bit more expensive but more versatile.. You can take it with you anywhere
this is because the cars are pieces of crap.
Isn't most of Discord backend Rust and Go?
Neat! One small bug - In dark mode, the text on the banner at the top is unreadable.
I actually really enjoy Go. Sure it has a type system I wish was more powerful with lots of weird corners ( https://100go.co/ ), but it also has REALLY GOOD tooling- lots of nice libraries, the compiler is fast, the editor tooling is rock solid, it's easy to add linters to warn you about many issues (golangci-lint), and releasing binaries and updating package repositories is super nice (Goreleaser).
Chaining calls is an anti-pattern. Not only this is needless duplication of ye olde imperative statements sequence it also makes debugging, modifying ("oh I need to call some function in the middle of the chain, ugh"), and understanding harder for superficial benefit of it looking "cool".

It actively hurts maintainability, please stop using it.
Frankly, I have absolute disdain for YC and the entire silicon valley investor class. So many people have shown their true colors as no better than the robber barons. I'm glad I made the decision to leave the US years ago, but yeah, the world will suffer from this immensely. It's hard to both want to distance myself from a government (and plurality of electorate) so heinous, while still wanting to do what I can in any small way to prevent the worst from happening.
Why not? People is the plural of person.
Entropy is geometry. And geometry is entropy
That could actually be a bigger problem for the company, since it means that any competitor can label their competing product the merely descriptive term "Pila", and the company won't be able to register the trademark in the US, according to the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure §1209.03(g): https://www.bitlaw.com/source/tmep/1209_03_g.html

> The foreign equivalent of a merely descriptive English word is no more registrable than the English word itself. "[A] word taken from a well-known foreign modern language, which is, itself, descriptive of a product, will be so considered when it is attempted to be registered as a trade-mark in the United States for the same product."

Worse yet, it might happen that the USPTO does mistakenly approve the trademark, but then revokes it when it's challenged.

Because Spanish is the second most spoken language in every US state, I'm pretty sure that in any city in the US there is a store where you can walk in today, ask for a "pila", and walk out with a battery. At least here in Argentina that's the term we normally use for single-cell batteries like a AA, while a car battery is a "batería".
I really like the idea of a well designed, and open, scalable home
power solution with grid integration. My thought for you; battery
technology is going to keep changing, so design-in that variability
for the long term. Ideally one should be to able to hook-up a mixed
bag of various cells, lead-acids, fuel-cells, lithium... in varying
capacities and conditions and have the management system look after
them all.
> It has an "app" user interface, requiring both a cellular connection and the service remaining in business. Plus it wants WiFi so it can receive "software updates". What could possibly go wrong?

Do not be so dismissive so fast without reading. The FAQs and the website says that they have a local interface and requires no internet for controlling it. E.g from https://pilaenergy.com/tech-specs

"While we think you’ll love the Pila App, you’re welcome to connect your own monitoring platform with our free local APIs. We embrace and actively support open standards like Home Assistant, Matter, and Thread for local data streaming from Pila Batteries — Because your data should always stay yours. Local API documentation coming soon. "

"Pila does not require internet to provide backup power, monitoring, or smart energy management features. The Pila Battery Mesh Network keeps all batteries working together, even when your home Internet goes out. The Pila App includes a Local Connection Mode for reliable battery control and monitoring without internet.

For reliable Remote Monitoring, all Pila batteries are equipped with a cellular 4G LTE radio for backup communication when home Wi-Fi fails.

However, we highly recommend keeping Pila batteries connected to Wi-Fi to receive the latest software updates and unlock new features, enhancements, and performance improvements—ensuring your system gets smarter and more capable over time."
By getting a manager who wants to have effective 1:1’s. The reality is that the effectiveness and quality of a 1:1 has very little to do with your own actions and more to do with who you get assigned.

Some managers only want more status updates and find more ways to discredit your work. Others want to genuinely build you up and will even help you get a new job because they truly value their subordinates.

I found the best way to have “effective” 1:1s was by getting a new manager. Either switching projects, teams, or companies. Most often it was by switching company. Even then, you’re still a victim of circumstance.

Especially in a place like Silicon Valley where the idea of truly investing in an individual is a long gone concept - you’re gonna have a hard time finding that kind of resonance. This is why some people follow their managers everywhere. I will also mention - just because a manager does this for someone else doesn’t mean they will do it for you. There are many reasons for that, of which are completely out of your control.
I don't disagree with what you literally wrote there but I don't feel like it's really a response to what I wrote. It seems to me that you are misconstruing the definition of self defense in order to justify poor behavior.

As far as I'm concerned, responding to immature behavior or misrepresentations or whatever with your own similarly poor behavior is not (at least in general) a form of self defense. It's just childish behavior.

If your argument amounts to "they behaved like a child so it's okay if I behave like a child" then I guess we just have fundamentally incompatible worldviews.

The much more important point that I was trying to make though is that, even if you feel 100% morally justified that doesn't make it an effective tactic. The behavior you described in your earlier comment serves only to further divide parties that already disagree while actively eroding social standards. It isn't just pointless behavior, it's actively harmful.
Thank you! This is super important to me (one of the software guys) personally. We want to make the software as open as possible, and will publish our MQTT topics and spec publicly so you can hook Home Assistant, whatever into it.

My personal goal is that the software outlives the hardware (and the batteries, inverter should last around 10 years with normal use).

We have no ecosystem or cloud to lock you into yet, because we're new :D
There's at least 3 top-level threads criticizing the decision not to rewrite in Rust. Including a RIR banner ad posted in the replies.

Holy Language Wars are a spectator sport as old as the internet itself. It's normal to comment on one side fighting another. What's weird is pretending not to see the fighting
> The reason I think UBI won't fix much is, UBI cannot give people purposes to live. Obviously we already have enough material wealth for everyone and UBI is just a confirmation. But "meaning" is always a luxury, and will be more so when less people need to work.

It's not like most jobs in this economy provide purpose and meaning now as it is. People on UBI can find meaning in hobbies, art, hiking, friendships, and other things that they currently don't have time for. Volunteering is another route. Remember how everyone started baking sourdough bread and making home cooked meals when the pandemic started? We'll find other ways to have purpose and meaning. UBI will be a lot like retirement is now only it will last for a much longer portion of the lifetime.
Readers might also enjoy "The Ketamine Secrets of ‘Ecco the Dolphin’"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-ketamine-secrets-of-sega...

More anecdotes from Mr. Lilly https://www.intuition.org/txt/lilly.htm

MISHLOVE: Perhaps this is a necessary part of everybody's journey, is to go through the epitome of terror.

LILLY: Right. For instance, there's an Iranian psychiatrist, an American psychiatrist, that put a hundred patients in a mental hospital in Iran through what they feared most, on Ketamine, and they all left the hospital. Now, I tried the same thing, after I read that. That evening I took 150 milligrams of Ketamine, and suddenly the Earth Coincidence Control Office removed my penis and handed it to me. I screamed in terror. My wife Toni came running in from the bedroom, and she said, "It's still attached." So I shouted at the ceiling, "Who's in charge up there? A bunch of crazy kids?" The answer came back, "Well, you had an unconscious fear, so we put you through it, just the way the Iranian psychiatrist did."

MISHLOVE: In the realm of the mind, the province of the mind, we can face all our fears.

LILLY: Well, you may not be able to live with it, but you should try it.
And Harold's Fried Chicken shack
No. This is normal native compilation mode. As you reference more features from either the standard library or the dependencies, the size of the binary will grow (sometimes marginally, sometimes substantially if you are heavily using struct generics with virtual members), but on average it should be more scalable than Go’s compilation model. Even JIT-based single-file binaries, with trimming, take about ~13-40 MB depending on the task. The runtime itself AFAIK, if installed separately, is below 100MB (installing full SDK takes more space, which is a given).
Apple has given Exo 2 M3 Ultra 512GB Mac Studios ahead of the public release
I'm no more thrilled than you at the cost of running ESLint, but using a high-level language doesn't need to mean being wasteful of resources.

TS currently wastes tons of resources (most especially peoples' time) by not being able to share its data and infrastructure with other tools and ecosystems, but while there would be much bigger wins from tackling the systemic problem, you wouldn't be able to say something as glib as "TS is 10x faster". Only the work that can be distilled to a metric is done now, because that's how to get a promotion when you work for a company like Microsoft
Seems like it would be more like a revival of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Paths and Waystations in AI Safety
It is India's close ties to USSR/Russia.

That's the western lens.
>Modi has the highest approval rating, according to western pollsters, of any leader in the world. India’s elections are free and fair. That’s all democracy requires.

Source? According to these sources Bukele beats Modi ~90% to 75%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_on_the_Nayib_B...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1456852/world-leader-app...
It's 2.4kW continuous, 7.8kW surge (ie to start up a sump pump, etc).

Thanks for considering!
There are actually (at least) 3 different places where cryptography is needed here:

* Proof that this starts after a given time. Traditionally this has used methods like "this is the headline of a major newspaper today", which is limited to 1-day granularity and has problems if you can just generate a large number of expected headlines and use them in parallel. But with crypto, we can just query any random-number-timestamp-signing server, and a network of such servers can mutually sign each other's previous packets so it's very reliable both against downtime and against attacks.

* Proof of sequencing. This is trivial with a chain of hashes, though it does prevent recompression.

* Proof that this ends before a given time. This requires actively submitting your signature data to a timestamp server for additional signing, which is a much more complicated task than the initial half. It is still possible to eliminate the single source of vulnerability, but much more work.

"Camera looks at monitor" is going to be a much cheaper way to make this air-gapped than adding a projector. And this doesn't strictly need to be continuous; most things are tolerant of one-day granularity and almost everything of 15-minute granularity.
Moving the shell of a house in my county is illegal without waste treatment, which is part of the house permit that forms the legal entity of a house. And I live in about the most deregulated county in the lower 49.

You could theoretically buy a shell of a house in a vacuum but it would be condemned the second it drops off a trailer. It's not useful in a vacuum, no one talking about housing prices wants a useless condemned house husk.
Why do LLMs fail to count letters? A simple explanation
Zig isn't memory safe, has regular breaking changes, and doesn't have a garbage collector.
Exactly, traditional lead-acid UPS cannot power much for long and often last less than 3 years.

Pila is great value.
Those prices, especially for web search, are absurd.

I have a hard time seeing how this API is better than https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol.

It seems like the motivation was "how can we make more money", rather than "how can we be more useful for our users".
What stops this discharging through whoever is trying to repair the power outage?
Exactly, I'm sure Boeing and Intel both had KPIs coming out the walls but both have had major engineering issues recently.
Curious what people think about the CUA API pricing? Any thoughts on what use cases it may or may not work for (the pricing specifically)?
> prevent back feeding the grid in the event of a power outage?

Yes - such devices need a constant grid output to sync to. When the grid drops, their output drops. Furthermore, at 800W, it wouldn't be able to put any voltage onto the grid even if it tried to as it would get overloaded (it'll be trying to power up the entire neighborhood).
It's all relative; Commodore sounds like it was nirvana compared to Atari!
Donor pushes redesign for Penn Station that aligns with Trump's taste
Why not rust? It only takes 5 years to compile the codebase. So much time for activities!
> Get a free instant estimate from top-rated, pre-vetted pros

So is my estimate coming from an actual professional like the site says, or an AI like the title says?
Wait, what? When did this happen. This is not the India I live in. India is fluid, complex beast.

Your comment reads like propaganda.
IOW you're just doing what the US has been doing for the last 30 years or so - shipping your "real" economy to China. Until that changes, Australia indeed doesn't have a future. The economy baby boomers grew up in isn't coming back, unless you're willing to tolerate a few years of a world war, and your continent is spared the consequences.
Great that they are local first. Far too many IOT products getting bricked these days. Plus my parents can use this without having to explain how to use the app. Just show them the touch screen.
> turn on captions for Trainspotting

Definitely needed subtitles the first five or so times for Trainspotting. Love that one! To be fair I need subtitles for almost all modern movies these days. My hearing or sound design are to blame... maybe both. :-/
Ah, any particular reason to want these SDKs public? Happy to, especially since you can see source on install anyway. Just curious!

And Kudos to SigNoz as well - have to check out other folks in the space :)
I said “Nothing like hearing English spoken in Ireland” and wasn’t talking about Gaelic. The rich way they use English and the accent are spectacular
> no one talking about housing prices wants a useless condemned house husk.

Nobody is talking about housing prices, so... They are pointlessly squabbling over whether or not a house and land are the same thing, when it is obvious that they are not.
Doubt is human, but it isn’t always warranted. In C++ can use a concurrent, completely pause‐free garbage collector, where the programmer decides which data is managed by the GC. This enables code optimizations in ways that aren’t possible in C# and Java.
Big, if true (it is)
How was I triggered?
I'm waiting for it to get some competition.
I take ketamine 2 to 3 times a year through a clinic. The altered state it puts me in is contemplative and gives me perspective-- I explain to people it's like getting a massage for my mind. I don't feel any pull or draw to abuse it or use it more frequently. YMMV of course.

That said, the article title is very misleading. It's essentially a (very) thinly veiled hit piece on Musk. As if we need more of those on HN. A better title would be "What Ketamine could be doing to Musk's brain, which would explain explain why he's so crazy/evil/nazi -- and why you should continued to be scared/panic/etc"

I can imagine frequent use of any psychedelic (or any drug) being correlated with all sorts of other mental and inhibition issues. That's not new/news.
He comes across like that because he was. From him you always get these profound wisdoms mixed with denigrating statements, a lot of times about mental capacity. He was an asshole, a brilliant one, but an asshole.

I, by the way, don’t celebrate him as other people do. I don’t think there’s ever an excuse for anyone to behave like that, no matter how brilliant.
> I would be so bold at to assert that no millennial really taught that a) Britannia had an empire and b) Britain ruled the waves.

Millenial here from the US. I was taught about the British Empire, extensively, in both high school and college. My high school teacher played "Rule, Britannia" (lyrics include "rule the waves") for us to hammer home the point.

Maybe you meant no millennial in Britain?
RPMB, a secret place inside the eMMC
Less than 60 seconds, impressive.
Can make anyone feel like they rule the world... Musk does rule the world, so, he's correct to take it?
I think this is more a reflection of the applicant pool. It's easier to put together a team when folks are early in their careers - also if you've been in industry for some time you might know VCs and are already an 'insider' to that industry
Obtaining ADHD drugs via telehealth could increase addiction risk
You've misread the table. 40F for 2 hours is the guideline. A typical fridge is around 35-38F.

Anecdotally my parents had a fridge fail recently and the food heated up alarmingly quickly.
Yeah, it's been working for me too! Feels weird but if it works it works I guess
Is it a delusion when he really does rule the world?
A common language is a key component of the "melting" part.