skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I was describing the cost of constructing a new hydrogen storage reservoir in a salt formation by solution mining. Of course existing natural gas storage caverns could be repurposed; that would be even cheaper.

These are not hypothetical costs. Construction of these caverns is state of the practice for natural gas storage. Vast volumes of gas are stored in these things, allowing steady production of natural gas and constrained pipeline capacity to serve seasonally unsteady consumption patterns.

The reason PHES is the only one with historical costs is that, historically, PHES has been used for diurnal storage, from the days when baseload plants were cheaper. There was never a market for long term storage via hydrogen (although some hydrogen storage has been constructed and used to help steady the hydrogen input to ammonia plants); why bother for the grid when just varying the use of fossil fuels would serve that function just as well?
How is the latency (Time To First Byte of audio, when streaming) and throughput (non-vibe characters input per second) compared to the existing 'tts-1' non-HD that's the same price? TTFB in particular is important and needs to be much better than 'tts-1'.
And yet they're so massive that them all doing layoffs at the same time despite that profitability has a huge impact on the labor market of the while industry.
DNA evidence says first Americans came from Asia
In the EU you can approach them via the privacy/GDPR avenue. You probably still won't be let back in, but you can get your data and ask to be forgotten.

I suggest the "GDPR Nightmare Letter".
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> Software engineering is one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode"

Is it though? People in software seem to be constantly talking about burnout/mental health issues.

Like we need some explanation as to why software has such high pay, flexibility, limited education requirements, and yet not everyone in the world is doing it. High pay is usually a sign the job is compensating for being shitty in other ways.
Just in case you didn't know, cryptominers in Javascript are already thing. Firefox even blocks them.
It’s not so easy in Germany when the company has 10+ employees. You need a process consisting of warnings, giving time to correct the behaviour and what not. There are cases where people who have been terminated for sexual misconduct or stealing have been ordered by the court to return to work.
In one dog breed, selection for utility may have selected for obesity
I strongly feel that groups within the "classes" often have vast differences that make me question the idea of class consciousness. A well off tech emloyee has interests that align far more with those with wealth than a small business owner who might have interests far more aligned with blue collar workers. And don't even get me started on social differences, like LGBT right etc that divide people.
Will banks have the balls to trigger margin calls on a key player in a cruel and vindictive administration? I kind of doubt it. “Cost of doing business.”
Unfortunately some 10 years later Google is still pretty much the same with regards to video codec understanding.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. If there was something outside of stupidity, zealotry would be another one. Although I guess one could argue zealotry is also a form of stupidity.
Why Plaid Migrated from Managed MySQL to TiDB [video]
Rails can certainly handle those issues. I’m commenting on your example which isn’t a problem anyone _needs_ to solve.

I’ll also point out, sure, better UX, but again—not profitable. Look at Microsoft, one of the largest software companies in the world and people still use their awful products despite no consistent UX.

This isn’t a Rails problem, it’s a leadership problem.
Many SOTA apps are, unfortunately, only for Apple M Macs.
We do put metaphorical cats in bags, but we do so by releasing metaphorical dogs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Was_an_Old_Lady_Who_Swal...
Yet another deeply unconstitutional EO from the president. I personally think we should be impeaching the president for this kind of EOs.

Order itself: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/impr...

> The Department of Education currently manages a student loan debt portfolio of more than $1.6 trillion. This means the Federal student aid program is roughly the size of one of the Nation’s largest banks, Wells Fargo. But although Wells Fargo has more than 200,000 employees, the Department of Education has fewer than 1,500 in its Office of Federal Student Aid. The Department of Education is not a bank, and it must return bank functions to an entity equipped to serve America’s students.

Sounds like very efficiently run agency!

The "meat" of the order is this:
> Sec. 2. Closing the Department of Education and Returning Authority to the States. (a) The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities while ensuring the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.
(b) Consistent with the Department of Education’s authorities, the Secretary of Education shall ensure that the allocation of any Federal Department of Education funds is subject to rigorous compliance with Federal law and Administration policy, including the requirement that any program or activity receiving Federal assistance terminate illegal discrimination obscured under the label “diversity, equity, and inclusion” or similar terms and programs promoting gender ideology.

It's really hard for me to say what this even mean in real terms.
Gemini 2.0 Flash et al are excellent. Think you need to try them again.
> If USA decides to side with Russia on the invasion of Europe

USA is still part of the NATO, siding with Russia while it hits any of the NATO member will be a problem beyond shutting down EU telecommunications.

Now if your question is whether the EU can sustain an open war with the US and Russia simultaneously, I honestly don't think so, irrelevant to whether Apple/Google sabotage their EU infra or not.

I naively think it would need to get China on its side, but that sounds like the literal end of the world.
It's more likely they'll offshore the union job.

Unions lead to an ossified workforce where nobody does more than what is essential. New employees are jealous of tenured employees with more benefits. Once people get tenure, they'll take advantage of their status. This leads to lower productivity, not higher productivity.

Without a union, you have people fighting to show their seniority and leadership at every level. The top 10% naturally sort themselves out. And the take home typically correlates with that.

Union jobs get easier and cushier with tenure.

Non-union jobs get harder the more you want from the job, but you are in control of your career progression and comp. And the strongest rise to the top.

Switching jobs or unions will fuck with seniority, dues, etc., so it will become a factor in choosing jobs. It will likely lead to many more "lifers" who work at a single job for a long time. This leads to less knowledge and skill mobility, tighter code ownership (less fungible, less exposed to new ideas), and this will certainly lead to ossification of organizations and business functions.

Businesses are probably more afraid of unions than they are high compensation.
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> Have there been any comments suggesting CEOs "should be" guillotined as you claimed above?

Fundamentally this is not a question of whether or not I can pull up specific comments that meet your interpretation of my original comment, it’s a question of whether or not Hacker News is permissive of narratives contrary to the interests of Bay Area technology executives. Here’s a few comments (some of them qualified: “I would never advocate for violence BUT…”) celebrating the murder of the United Healthcare CEO:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318585

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318319

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318391

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42317953

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42368219

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349705

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42328735

The moderation of this forum is incredibly permissive; the people who feel they are being censored are more often than not just getting flagged by the community for posting off-topic political rants that were never permitted here to begin with.
a COP of 4 can certainly justify having to install 3-4x less panels.

it disappoints me (but thrills me) that improvements in PV efficiency and cost have made solar thermal hot water more or less pointless.
I guess it depends how you define "plainly". Musk is right at the forefront of spreading exaggerated or misleading claims. Condoms to Gaza, Power's 30M, tens of millions of dead people receiving social security. He's not new to it either - remember him alleging that the scuba diver who saved those Thai kids was a paedophile?
Conversely, software engineers are generating considerably more profit for their employers than they receive in compensation on average. I know it's not the only metric of exploitation, but it's a hard one to ignore.
> But if tech workers don't acknowledge their privelege, they shouldn't be shocked when no-one else turnsout to support them

It's hard not to read your comment as anything but virtue signaling, and doing so in a way that makes everyone worse off.

You seem to think being a part of a union means you think you have a bad job and everyone should pay special attention to you. Forming a union does not mean you are asking for anything, it means you are giving yourself protection to ask for things in the future without being fired. That's perfectly sensible.

Most tech workers I know are well aware they have desirable positions and do not see it as a bad job. Is there something specific you want people to do to acknowledge their privilege? I would guess not, short of "don't ever complain about your job, ever," which is not realistic in any profession

And as a side note, "tech" means a lot of things. There are lots of people in tech making a teachers salary with no benefits. Doesn't mean it's the worst job ever, but it's probably not most people's image of what "tech" is.
Unless you have a valid suspicion. However, you have to tell the employee he is under observation.
> one of the ways of playing life in "easy mode"

you have never done 80 hour weeks in software?
I'm probably guilty of making comments that read this way at times, but it's almost always out of curiosity and a dash of invoking Cunningham's law.

Lately I've started feeding my questions into LLMs to explore these ideas. Given that I will almost certainly never make a decision where an improper understanding of astrophysics is at fault, I'm willing to run the risk of hallucinations leading me to improper conclusions. :)

For the morbidly curious: https://chatgpt.com/share/67dc94a3-07c8-800c-bdbf-039dd2ce50...

(It's funny, I've seen people say that they generally don't even bother with spell checking questions to LLMs because it doesn't seem to make any difference. I was tempted to rerun this before posting to fix the disorganized thoughts in my questions, but I ain't got time for that.)
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interesting perspective, as well.

that's really the core struggle with learning games: not being too boring, not being too repetitive, not introducing stuff too fast, enabling user choice but also making sure learning is achieved...

will take both your point and parent poster's point into account :)
Not a lawyer, but this sure seems to open a legal and ethical can of worms.

Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained on the real thing, the possession of which is inarguably illegal and immoral.

So how could the model be legally or ethically trained? And if they _cannot_ be legally or ethically trained, then how can the _use_ of those models be okay?

What will be the implications of this in cases where _real_ CSAM was produced or possessed? Certainly this opens the door to a whole plethora of new "it's AI art, I swear!" defenses. After all, how can one definitely prove that CSAM is authentic or not, unless the chain of production is verified?

From the article:
> ...If purely private possession of AI-CSAM is constitutionally protected under current caselaw but production is not, then using AI models (even locally-hosted ones) to generate child obscenity in one’s own home is not wholly insulated from criminal prosecution. Subsequently transmitting it to someone else, especially someone underage, is also grounds for liability...

Can of worms, ye be released!
Most are missing the momentous importance of this not only strategically, but also the negative impact it will have on the US defense industry, and semi civil-military like Boeing.

And this momento will carry on into the IT industry. MAGA might be the best thing that ever happened to Linux...
I mean where else would they have come from
Data Center and Operations people absolutely are blue collar in attitude and mindset, but you DC folks get to be isolated.

If you're in a working environment that hires SDEs straight out of Tier 1 Universities, start talking about what it's like to grow up poor and you'll see quickly how everyone's eyes glaze over and you get treated like a pariah.
Did you miss the friggin’ president turning the White House front lawn into a Tesla showroom? This feels like small potatoes in comparison.
Ok, happy to be deported. The problem in the US right now is the for profit concentration camps where they retain the "arrested" people without a clue of when they'll be able to leave. Read the article of the Canadian lady; but not her case, but the cases of the othrr people detained in the concentration camps.
Eh, your definition implies people who are actually skilled (i.e. able to do "reasoning" jobs) don't/can't suffer from burnout. I'd bet there are cases of the opposite of what you describe, where people would be able to solve problems with reasoning, but get burnt out from being locked into a map-lookup structure. Or cases where people are good at, or enjoy, reasoning about one type of problem, but then get thrown into a different field they're not as attuned to or interested in.
If Biden's Secretary of Commerce did this, they would've got sacked and it would be plastered over the news for weeks. Democrats should stop pretending that rules and decorum still matter. You can't claim democracy is at danger and then hold up a small paddle meekly and claim you did your job.
If I ask qwq32 anything that is even slightly complicated it will ramble until it exceeds the context window, then forget my question. Q4k which is all that fits (with context) on a 3090.

Gemma3 27B gives me a rapid 1shot response, and actually works really well for the type of rubber duck brainstorming partner I often need.
If someone produces less effort than they cost, it's reasonable to fire them even if the organization as a whole is profitable. That's probably not what the FAANG companies did, but layoffs are not unjustifiable for profitable companies.
Wait, but I'm on ProgrammerTok to improve my skills while I'm waiting for my code to compile!
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I din't think of that, interesting idea. What I'm focusing right now is long-form content for more offline-ish listening, but maybe a plugin could work to load longer texts, but I'm not working on a screen reader atm.
Purely on its technical merits Grok is pretty good and fills a niche in the selection of AI agents. But I can absolutely understand not wanting to use an AI owned by somebody who makes Nazi salutes and is dismantling the US government.
Trick is you don't have to pan or zoom — but yeah, successfully communicating this has been the main UX challenge so far...
I was on usenet in 1995 but I have heard that was too late and usenet already sucked then.

In all fairness too, my 17 year old self who knew basically nothing about the world ,really did add absolutely nothing of value to the usenet discussions I participated in besides noise. Of course, at the time I thought the complete opposite.

The thing that amuses me most is at the time there would have been a lot of "pro communism" in my responses on anything society related even though I knew absolutely nothing about communism and even less about economics as a whole.

I think this is just the way semi-anon discussions with big age and generation gaps go.
Crumbling for who?

I've always avoided the brand because of the massive surveillance.

But if the prices fall far enough, I may consider a used Tesla (although to date, in spite of all the press, they still aren't generally cheap enough to make me overlook the spyware).

The angst over people driving these cars is massively misplaced.

From a prior post:

A person driving a tesla is not elon 8-/ So in spite of anyone's anger at elon, directing that anger at any tesla owner is about as close to actually tilting at windmills as one can get.

If someone wants to go egg the security perimeter around one of elon's compounds, knock yourself out. That won't accomplish anything either, but at least it will be directed at the correct recipient.

I think almost everyone who bought a tesla, did it for the purpose of electrifying their transportation. Which is a good thing. Noone should be taking their elon angst out on tesla owners.

On the upside of tesla over other EVs, they are the only maker that implemented a significant charging network, and that network is very well integrated into the navigation feature of the car. Driving a tesla around and across California is totally feasible because of that integration.

On the specific subject of having one's tesla stolen, I can see the motive, but again I don't think it would solve any problems.
I feel very fortunate to have worked other jobs before my first in tech. My last was hanging drywall and I will never forget how awful it was. I haven’t loved every part of every tech job I’ve worked, but I’ve always chosen to be there.

I think the author is missing perspective on what the alternatives are like, and seems to have a lack of agency when they say things like:

> How many of us have been forced to work on projects that make us sick to our stomachs - surveillance tech, data mining tools, algorithms that reinforce social biases - because we don’t have the power to say no?

There’s incredible mobility within tech - more so than almost any other industry. Vote with your feet! I’ve taken major pay cuts to have more choice over my work, and have never regretted it.
I think this is where things went off the rails for him. Commiting back to the same branch that is running CI has too many gotchas in any CI system. You touched on the first issue, the remote branch immediately deviates unexpectedly from the local branch. Care has to be taken not to trigger additional CI runs from that commit.
Just stop working more than 35-40 hours a week. If you get no bonus because of this action, that's not so bad. If you get let go because of it, the next one could be more tolerant. You are not a slave, so don't act like one.
I visited Knossos on three occasions and every time I returned I found it even more enchanting and evocative. Not only does it speak of a fascinating flourishing Bronze Age civilization which could be said to be, via the Greco-Roman, the grandmother of Western civilization, but also because it speaks just as loudly of another time of flourishing arts, this time much more recent, of all those artists mentioned in the article, and more besides.

Evans clearly wasn't perfect, nor his restoration (confabulation? reinvention?) work, but I think they are also better than what the critics claim. For better or worse, he really did give new life to those old stones. Sure, he might well have exaggerated Minoan pacifism (and proto-feminism) to make a point, but didn't completely make it up either.

Talking about Minoan art, here's [1] an article about a jaw-droppingly exquisite seal stone only recently discovered. Also related to the article in that it depicts a bloody war scene. It was found in a Mycenaean tomb, they were known to be much more war-like, so maybe a commission. What's most remarkable though it the anatomical precision which took a thousand years to be rediscovered/reinvented again, this time in Classical Greece. The same type of work stunningly modern-looking musculature depiction can be seen in a couple of fragments at the highly recommended Heraklion Archeological Museum in the capital of Crete. Worth checking out in the same museum, mind-bendingly playful yet refined pottery, called Kamares Ware.
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Maybe Llama 3.3 70B doesn't count as running on "one GPU", but it certainly runs just fine on one Mac, and in my tests it's far better at holding onto concepts over a longer conversation than Gemma 3 is, which starts getting confused after about 4000 tokens.
Busting their kneecaps is too mild. Shoot them in the kneecaps, Jack Higgins / Liam Devlin / IRA style:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Higgins

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Devlin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecapping
personal theory: burnout is basically when you're expending more energy than than you're able to recover during rest -- over chronic timelines. that is, i think getting physical health right addresses many causes of burnout. getting your device and app use right addresses a set of others. finding ways to connect with your team, users, company mission addresses other potential problems; ie feeling alienated and on a futile or harmful mission is a great way to get burned out.

wrote about some of this here: https://vonnik.substack.com/p/state-changes-work-and-presenc...
You may find "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism" book to your liking.
SEO for LLMs looks to have a bright future.
This is a common misunderstanding. The thing knows how a naked woman looks, also knows how a child looks, it puts two and two together and voila. It doesn't need to be trained on the real thing to be able to generate it.
interesting idea, will put it on the long-term todo list :)
Yes, kokoro is great, and the language flexibility is a huge plus too. And the best prices per character is for sure if you self-host.
I use Gemini (Advanced) over ChatGPT. Google's privacy issues are concerning, but no moreso than giving my conversations to OpenAI.

In my experience, Gemini simply works better.
> Then again, on a practical level, any ocean floor area humanity might mine would be carefully studied beforehand. That's needed to know where and how to mine, if nothing else.

And if they discover life you're thinking they'll stop the mining? Or will your next argument be "Oh but actually that's not a lot of life" or "it's OK if that life dies out".

This is a very wise quote that applies to relying on good faith actions:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

From another commentor:

> 1. There is a lot of animal life in the deep ocean where these modules are present and absent where they are not

So it's pretty clear if anything that today we already know these nodules are likely relevant to deep ocean life in some way we don't fully understand yet.
New term, "God's advocate"!