raphaelj

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Ask HN: Are OSS projects allowing vibe-coding?
1 points by raphaelj 2mo ago|1 comments
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by raphaelj 3mo ago
Well most of the increase in prices goes into petroleum companies' profits (at least the ones that can export). So it's technically not lost and will be invested somehow. Like a Carbon tax, the money doesn't disappear. But to
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by raphaelj 3mo ago
That's only about 35% more than the main telecom operator here in Belgium (Proximus: $7.2B revenue in 2025, $2.5B market cap, positive earnings for 15+ years). Obviously Starlink can and will growth. I'm just pointing out how insa
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by raphaelj 5mo ago
That might be part of the answer. But IIRC, in Belgium at least, these plants are also remunerated on "secondary" markets for non-productive tasks. These secondary markets are mostly for grid balancing.
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
It is 800W, but the battery allows it to buffer the excess and never output more than the legal limit.
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
Mine (Ecoflow Stream Ultra) has two 1200W regular sockets I can use while the grid down.
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
These inverters have to switch off if they cannot detect a grid signal, or if the grid frequency/voltage goes out of the safe range. Same legislation as the non-plug&play inverters.
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
You have to register to the utility, but that's just a form to fill with the model and power of the kit. With a e-meter, you will get compensated when you're generating a surplus (+/- €0.04/kWh last time I checked). Howe
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
House is facing South, but I'm laying them flat on the floor for economic and aesthetic reasons, with some 3D printed brick-based ballast [1]. Buying supports for PV is actually less economical than buying additional PV panels. -- [1]
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
We legalized these in Belgium last year. I bought a 1600Wc + 1.9KWh kit (Ecoflow Stream) for +/- 1300€ last summer. It took us about 2h to install (we had to setup a new plug outside), and I already saved 200€+ since July. I am expecti
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by raphaelj 6mo ago
A 10c€/kWh CfD is not strictly speaking a subsidy, at the government will recover the average market price. That being said, the total cost per kWh could well reach 20c/kWh, which is ridiculous. It's not only not competitive
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by raphaelj 7mo ago
Companies that do not reduce their workforce might outcompete you. It might not be about bringing more revenues but retaining market share.
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by raphaelj 7mo ago
I like Scaleway a lot too.
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by raphaelj 8mo ago
Interestingly, the Renault 5 Turbo 3E is more Cyberpunk than anything Tesla is making!
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by raphaelj 8mo ago
Same experience here. On some tasks like build scripts, infra and CI stuff, I am getting a significant speedup. Maybe I am 2x faster on these tasks, when measured from start to PR. I am working on a HPC project[1] that requires more careful
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by raphaelj 8mo ago
Could you try with some open-weighted models, e.g. Qwen3-coder, GLM-4.7 or Devstral-2?
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by raphaelj 8mo ago
The UK is actually world leading in wind electricity generation (especially offshore). So it's not all bad.
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by raphaelj 10mo ago
Why does he need to manually do the tracing or reference counting of all these nodes? Instead, he could just use the references he needs in the new tree, delete/override the old tree's root node, and expect the Javascript GC to di
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by raphaelj 1y ago
Made a typo, I meant 00s. I edited it, thanks :)
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by raphaelj 1y ago
> What is the basis of these revisions? Ideology
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by raphaelj 1y ago
Meanwhile, according to the IEA, renewables investments exceed those in fossil fuels since +/- 2022 [1], and are expected to be the top electric power generator by 2026 [2]. The Trump administration is basically following Kodak's
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by raphaelj 1y ago
I've been trying to use other LLM providers than OpenAI over the past few weeks: Claude, Deepseek, Mistral, local Ollama ... While Mistral might not have the best LLM performances, their UX is IMO the best, or at least a tie with Open
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by raphaelj 1y ago
Couldn't the battery just do, as an example, 1 minute long charge then discharge cycles? For example, if the electricity price is -28€/MWh (like today in Germany), and your battery efficacy is 80%, you could get paid 28€/MWh
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by raphaelj 1y ago
There might not even be any need for V2G or V2H. Just charging your car when the demand is low is probably enough to drastically reduce the overall cost of the system. And this has basically no impact on the battery lifespan.
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by raphaelj 2y ago
This is definitively possible. Are you thinking about YouTube or social media links?
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Show HN: Automatically Date Audio from Appliance Noises(datethis.app)
6 points by raphaelj 2y ago|4 comments
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by raphaelj 2y ago
I've an EcoFlow plug & play inverter, and it automatically shuts off if the grid comes down. That's a requirement for all these devices.
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by raphaelj 2y ago
Do we know which changes made DeepSeek V3 so much faster and better at training than other models? DeepSeek R1's performances seem to be highly related to V3 being a very good model to start with. I went through the paper and I underst
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by raphaelj 2y ago
Do we know which change(s) made DeepSeek V3 so much more efficient than other models? I went through the paper and I understood they made these improvements compared to "regular" MoE models: 1. Latent Multi-head Attention. If I un
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by raphaelj 2y ago
I've been using it for a few months (with Starcoder 2 for code, and GPT-4o for chat). I find the code completion actually better than Github Copilot. My main complain is that the chat sometimes fails to correctly render some GPT-4o out

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