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US battery storage smashes deployment records in Q4 2023
Photo: Mortensen The US battery storage market shattered deployment records across all segments in Q4 2023 – a 101% increase from the previous quarter. The US battery storage sector saw 4,235 megawatts (MW) installed in Q4 2023, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association’s (ACP) latest “US Energy Storage Monitor” report. For the …
Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers
Do you dream about switching to a career that’s drastically different from your current job? Many people do. But they never make the leap: the costs of switching seem too high, and the possibility of success seems too remote. The answer isn’t to plug away in your current job, unfulfilled and slowly burning out. The answer …
How Spammers, Scammers and Creators Leverage AI-Generated Images on Facebook for Audience Growth
Text-to-image models such as DALL-E and Midjourney can produce impressive, at times even photorealistic, images. Past research by the Stanford Internet Observatory has covered the very serious implications for child safety and nonconsensual intimate imagery. Researchers and policymakers have expressed fears that they could be misused to inject false information into political discourse. In a new preprint …
Safe-T-Cam daylight saving glitch proves costly for truckie
The truckie says drivers everywhere should be aware of the potential glitch in the camera system. Image: Alf Wilson The failure of a SA Safe-T-Cam system to correctly adjust for daylight saving changes ended in a surprise court summons and a costly legal bill for a distraught veteran interstate truckie. Adelaide-based Kym Ottey has since …
Preface :: Dive Into Systems
In today’s world, much emphasis is placed on learning to code, and programming is touted as a golden ticket to a successful life. Despite all the code boot camps and programming being taught in elementary schools, the computer itself is often treated as an afterthought — it’s increasingly becoming invisible in the discussions of raising the next …
Massive ‘Apex Legends’ Hack Disrupts NA Finals, Raises Serious Security Concerns
Apex Legends Respawn Something rather terrifying has disrupted the North American Finals of Apex Legends, and players are now starting to potentially worry about their own accounts and the overall safety of the game. Respawn and EA have postponed the North American Finals in the wake of the “competitive integrity” of the game being compromised. …
Ask HN: Recommended change to the book “Crafting Interpreters”
I know that the author frequents HN so hopefully this can reach him 🙂 Let me first say that this is an excellent book and IMO is as good as a Compiler book for laymen as it can be. It is way better than the other books with the same focus IMO (I compared it …
Multi-threaded computing across multiple processors demoed — promises big gains in AI performance and efficiency
Simultaneous and Heterogeneous Multithreading (SHMT) may be the solution that can harness the power of a device’s CPU, GPU, and AI accelerator all at once, according to a research paper from the University of California, Riverside. The paper claims that this new multithreading technique can double performance and halve power consumption, which results in four …
Quiet-STaR trains AI to think before it speaks, promising a leap in machine understanding
Summary Researchers at Stanford University have developed a method called “Quiet-STaR” that enables AI systems to learn to think between the lines. This could pave the way for more versatile and efficient AI that can better solve complex tasks. When humans write or speak, we often pause to think. We consider how best to phrase …
Bringing Verse Transactional Memory Semantics to C++
AutoRTFM is designed to make it easy to take existing C++ code—which was never designed to have any transactional semantics—and make it transactional just by using an alternate compiler. For example, AutoRTFM enables you to write code like: void Foo(){ TArray<int> Array = {1, 2, 3}; AutoRTFM::Transact([&] () { Array.Push(42); // Array is {1, 2, 3, 42} here. AutoRTFM::Abort(); }); // Array is …
