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But energy efficiency has been increasing at a fairly steady rate for much longer than the last 10 years.

Jevons paradox(1) has previously ensured that increased efficiency resulted in increased demand. What has changed now?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Or they can do what the spam industry has been doing for years in order to address random domains names being used for malware.

For example, newly registered domain names tend to get a small added spam score when used in emails. Spammers could wait a month but that gives registrars time to detect the fraudulent registrant data and revoke the name before it can be used.

Spam filters has many years to adapt and develop. The arms race for browser security is just in the beginning. I expect to see score based systems becoming popular, just like it did with spam filters.
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I think, I agree that we should expect more from AI drivers. But how much more?

Even if they managed to decimate the number of fatal accidents, I'm sure that a large portion of people would still be really irrational about it and that worries me a lot
Don't forget child labour! Clearly we're missing out on this great untapped pool of cheap workers!
In a way, this is all kind of a free market solution to energy over-use (I'm not saying this happens all the time), companies develop electronics to be more efficient so that customers will look at how much less they'll spend on electricity, so energy companies will (due to their monopolies in many parts of the world) raise prices to keep their revenues consistent, which means there's an incentive to make electronics even more efficient.
> Most of the electricity is lost in transmission.

False.

"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that electricity transmission and distribution (T&D) losses average about 5% of the electricity that is transmitted and distributed annually in the United States.1"

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=105&t=3
And I believe you're right. And the EU is a "single market", which means someone residing in Germany can buy things in France and don't have to worry about paying import tax (1). Switzerland is famously not part of the EU, so there are limits and taxes (import tax plus VAT of where you are importing the good) when goods cross the Swiss border.

(1) Skimming Wikipedia suggests otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax
The only folks willing to perform security testing on any product -- anyone who can benefit from exploiting it. /s
The short answer is: It's pretty ugly. I don't know the details, but we PXE-boot and install CoreOS, then run kubelet using rkt (using a systemd service). The other k8s components (etcd, apiserver, controller manager etc.) are managed by the kubelet using static manifests. Persistent volumes are backed by a separate storage appliance via NFS.

Our team built this entire process ~2 years ago, when we started using k8s. We would probably use some off-the-shelf parts today, but practically nothing existed back then.
What, like an incredibly space inefficient train or bus? It will also cause insane traffic congestion if people cared less about the congestion.

At a certain level of congestion people think it will take too long and avoid the journey. All this will do is move the threshold even higher. Most metro areas need to look at transit as the solution. Self driving vehicles may play a role in feeder routes but the idea suddenly congestion will be solved because of self driving vehicles is crazy; and IMO will actually be the opposite.
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I think the point is that the car would not have been in traffic otherwise, thus avoiding any death.

Though it does lead to interesting questions about whether the deaths that may occur now are acceptable if traffic deaths are reduced in the long term as a result of the testing.
> The pricing structure that is currently baked into power bills assumes that the cost of generation is paramount, and that the cost of distribution is nothing.

This isn't true; not only is distribution included in pricing, but there are three major components in pricing (generation, transmission, distribution) and you've completely omitted one.
Look up gravity blankets.
It wasn’t blocked in 2007 when I moved to Beijing nor in 2016 when I left. There were times when it was blocked, but not for very long. Wikimedia was blocked a bit more, it still sporadic.
Yes. HK, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai pay on par or better, especially if you are in finance / fintech / AI.
People are getting older, and use less resources overall as they age. Drive less as well.
Very nicely put.

I've worked with lots of programmers over the years and a CS degree has been a very poor indicator of their ability to program in the large.
>Now if they started serving the JS from random domains and URLs

you don't even need random domains. random urls from the same domain would work fine.
The advantage to Newegg is that they don't have to add 6.75% to their prices. Things look cheaper.
Except in the US you can actually integrate into society and be treated as an American[0], that's not true of China.

[0]: I know there's still racism and discrimination, but if we're comparing to China let's at least compare the two countries on the same scale.
GDPR is not about money, you may not accept payments at all.
Train or bus are pretty annoying. Like quite a few times, the bus is packed.
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Oh yes, carrots, with a side of dictatorship. Sounds quite tempting.
Unless they make exceptions for the Great Firewall, this carrot won't be so enticing.
Plenty of devices have loud fans irrespective of their current CPU load. Being facetious, there also exist fanless PCs submerged in oil which do not make sounds based on CPU load.

Checking your CPU usage via `top` is a relatively "power-user" esque function so your experience is unlikely to be reflective of the general population.
Also, queries containing "revolver": https://www.google.com/search?output=search&tbm=shop&q=beatl...
Yeah, if nothing else, it sounds like it could be a bookkeeping hassle for the customer. I've recently seen mention on a local subreddit that people here in Colorado are getting notices from Newegg about this [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/comments/7w6opn/newegg_use_t...
In Australia there's a specific phrase, "top of the bed night".

It's self explanatory. And these nights happen all summer.
site publishers would resort to social engineering ("click yes on the popup to continue reading)
Glue gun?
Hey can you tell me how to spell "pedantic"? Thanks.
I got the same letter for about 3k of purchases for an old PC I built almost exclusively from Newegg parts.

The fact is Newegg tried to fight it and got strong armed. No idea why we expect Newegg to fight a legal request from a government agency for rightful tax collection.

We all knew the gig, no tax professional, or even tax software, didn’t ask about purchases subject to the use tax.

People still comment about tax killing good deals, the fact is the tax is always there, whether you report it is sometimes up to you.

I’m probably paying the amount (want to verify the amount doesn’t include one returned item), we always knew this might happen.
Like electric trains. And to make infrastructure costs low, make virtual trains of self-driving electric cars on dedicated lanes.

I really believe the US will get self-driving cars first, as a first form of pervasive public transportation. I call it a second-world technology effect: just like we in Eastern Europe have much better internet and cellular service (not to speak of online banking) because it was built after the first-world countries already heavily invested in obsolete technology, the US can use the latest technology (SDC) in building its first public transportation system.
That's kinda like saying your yard is a space inefficient park.

There are good reasons people don't want to be crammed on a bus or train with other people all of the time.
The companies involved haven't even shown that their systems are as safe as learner drivers.
Posts like this make me think of this: https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet
A C compiler with support for inline assembly, gotos, structs and weighs under 2000lines and is self hosting.
This is interesting, especially in the areas TVA covers. Would be cool to correlate this usage by average age of the customer base.
Learner drivers have an instructor in the passenger seat. Who has a set of auxiliary brakes.
A "free" incentive is completely orthogonal to the demand required. The electricity during that free EV charging period on weekends must still be produced and is part of the aggregate demand.
or local generation.
I find this a really interesting concept but really hard to pull off on a big scale.

First of all I thinkg battery energy density will have to multiply a few times.

Traffic will have to be actively monitored 24/7 to avoid collisions, avoid vehicles going through no-fly zones.

Crashes would also be a lot worse, possibly crashing into houses, schools, hospitals.

Not trying to be overly critical, just a fun thing to think about.
Not sure we have space for everyone to have a mobile home on the road. We hardly have enough space on the roads for the cars/commuters we already have.
The American tax code is more of a crime than a half-competent taxpayer. However I'm sure the state is more interested in serial tax evasion than Joe with a new GPU.
> Alternately, a nature reservation shouldn't have residences in it, should it?

True, but the ones that have historically been there are usually grandfathered in when the area as a whole is declared a reservation. There will be strict limits on what you can do with such a place but that's a small price to pay.

There was one for sale here in NL, at least 2500 meters away from any trafficked road but - ironically - the people that live there have road access to their property making the whole thing much worse for the other users of that area such as me when I'm cycling there (the road is only about 2 meters wide).

I'd be very happy if you had bought it, that would save at least two vehicles that still use that road!
Are they still knocking about? They used to do a weekly blog post but nothing since March 2017
Remote work could solve congestion.
> Edge caching only blunts sufficiently this if everybody's searching for the same passwords

AFAIK caching already kicks in when people check different passwords that have same first five characters in their hash.
uMatrix + uBlock Origin, and everything by default is blacklisted.
Yes but you've probably got 100 people on the bus if it's packed in a few square metres of road space. If you had a self driving vehicle that was comfortable, you'd need probably 100s of square m of road space to take all the people. Which means even more immense congestion.
heating via electricity is less efficient (cost wise) than via natural gas.
Do you know how utilities can ride the wave of lower demand from homes and businesses due to more people installing their own solar roofs? They could try and get ahead of EV revolution and install and own EV chargers everywhere.
This would mean that the car companies won't invest in improving because they have less accidents then some number, maybe they can put some money into lobby so that number is the largest number possible obtained with some statistic gymnastics.

Than number of car crashes is not the same in all countries,states or regions so I would hate that a safe city will be less safe in the future because of this.
Mesos running on AWS, almost entirely with EC2 spot instances.

We were big Heroku users as well, so carried over a number of Heroku patterns. For example, configuring everything with ENV vars, lightweight load balancing, grouping apps into several deployable targets, etc.

It’s certainly not better than Heroku in most ways, though there was no plausible way for us to continue running our workload on Heroku.

(Edited: typo)
People are excited about self driving cars for their potential to reduce accidents by removing human error from the equation. It's not just human error that causes accidents though.

Human emotion in general causes dangerous situations. When we drive now, we're restricted to driving and driving alone. We can listen to the radio but for the most part we are restricted. Because of this, we tend to want to get to our destination as quickly as possible. We drive fast to get the restrictive experience of driving over with.

However if we were free to do other things, like get work done or sleep or watch TV while in our cars, I think we would generally be much more tolerant of travelling at a lower speed. While eventually our self driving systems may be capable of being very safe at very high speeds, I think reduced speeds tolerated by people could offer an extra layer of safety.
Very insightful answer! Thank you!
Do you know of any books or related hub of knowledge on these topic? I am trying to find some sources of information to learn more about these.
RTA

>The issue of imposing sales tax on out-of-state purchases ultimately may be settled by the Supreme Court.

>In a 1992 case dealing with a mail-order office supply company, the court ruled that states could not require companies that did not have a physical presence in their state to collect sales tax.

It goes on to say that South Dakota has passed a law saying out of state retailers need to collect state sales tax, but that the supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to the case.
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Buy first class train tickets then? On DB you can even get a private office on ICE trains. They're really expensive; because that amount of space is by its nature expensive.
While I agree with your overall point... this:

> If China wanted to be the new US it would start where the US started and being [bring?] in the poor, tired, cold etc.,

China just had a billion of those people, 15-20 years ago. They still have a quarter of a billion people living on less than $3 per day. Maybe they'll get to what you're referring to eventually, assuming their economic expansion survives the shift back to a strong-man dictatorship.
I'm also a big believer in calisthenics and bodyweight progression, but it's worth noting that pistol squats and several other advanced bodyweight squats can strengthen your quads and glutes very well, but end up teaching you a different movement pattern from a biomechanically-sound (i.e. straight-spined) squat. It's basically impossible to avoid tucking the pelvis and rounding the spine when doing a pistol.

E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NvOuty_Fnc

Edit: Shrimp squats are an exception, I suppose.
The GDPR applies to transactions with a nexus in the Union. If a US or Chinese traveler books a hotel in Germany, the GDPR protects their data. If a Chinese hotel chain offers a room to a German guest, the GDPR applies to processing of that guest’s data, even if the chain has no other presence in the Union. If that chain stays out of EU data protection agency reach, enforcement is a non-issue. But if Germany and China were to enter a bilateral agreement (as the US will), or if the Chinese hotel chain wants to establish a presence in Europe, then compliance is not optional. Fines are up to 4% of “global turnover”, which is a serious risk to take lightly.
That really wasn't the point of my reply.

Sure, if the machine dies, my services die. But it's still dirt cheap.
Chrome displays an icon on a tab to convey that it’s playing audio.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to similarly visualize tabs with high CPU/GPU consumption?

A browser does most (if not all) of what an OS does, so it shouldn’t be surprising if a task manager (which shows CPU usage) is also useful for browsers.
There are 37M college students in China and around the world. Why do they need foreigners to come over?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-04/08/content_243650...
I might actually try that. I tried improv for a while, it makes you more watchful, observant of other people's behaviours, attitudes etc.
I’d love to understand GPDR but this article isn’t helping. Can anyone suggest something more focused and direct?
And this is kind of the problem with politics. Something I've never understood with people is why they have a desire to punish others who disagree or don't share their political beliefs.

Sadly, it is this opposing views between people that causes wars and yet on a local/individual level, it results in things like not promoting someone who doesn't share your views or limiting a salary increase or bonus.

It's really disappointing about ourselves, I guess.
For me, there's a privacy dimension. I don't want people to see what I look like, or am doing, when I'm asleep, when I don't even know what that might be. Although, the privacy feeling might just be my subconscious brain's way of telling me to get a blanket.
Also, if there's a known-trusted resource, go for https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... - if the resource changes, it will fail to load. If unchanged, offload to a CDN, if fails, serve locally. Multiple identifiers allowed, which mitigates second preimage attacks.
I agree, I had to read that sentence a few times to make sure I wasn't missing some end quotes.

I imagine this is a case of a tax guy not used to the spotlight, finally getting in the spotlight and not using PC language.
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For anything (eg. questions, feedbacks) i'm here.
I think you should also use quotation marks around the word news.

Maybe the alternative is: if you don't want to charge for the content you produce or give it for free don't bother producing it. There are huge chances your content is just shit anyway.
I would guess that Jevon's paradox doesn't exist for many domestic applications. Most people have all the lights, washing machines, etc that they need. Making lights more efficient won't make people buy more of them.
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While demand might be slowing, it's still very inelastic. We can improve efficiency, but we absolutely can't live without lots and lots of electricity.
"Do they do so in a compelling way?"

I'm not even remotely a Shelly scholar, and really don't know all that much about Frankenstein's authorship, so I'm not sure my opinion counts, but from skimming The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein I found the arguments interesting. I think it'd be worth reading for someone interested in the topic. I haven't read the other book.

As for whether the arguments were compelling... well, many of them sounded reasonable to me. But I don't know enough to judge whether many of the claims were true or not.

For example, (if I remember correctly) the book alleges that Mary was not educated, either formally or informally. That seems to argue for her lacking the education to write Frankenstein. But is it true? In another thread on HN someone claimed that Mary got an excellent education from her father. Did she? I don't know.

Another example: The book says that many of the subjects covered in Frankenstein, like science and the Gothic, were interests of Percy's but not Mary's. Also, I think the author claimed that those interests were in evidence in much of Percy's other work, but not Mary (if I recall correctly). If that's true, it would again argue for Percy's authorship of Frankenstein. But is it really true? I don't know. I've never read anything else by Percy or Mary, and don't really know anything about their lives.

It would be great if some reputable Shelly scholars substantively and honestly engaged with the arguments presented in these books and either refuted or substantiated their claims, point by point. But as far as I know that's never been done.

"What do they say about the manuscripts written out in her hand?"

Mary transcribed many other works universally recognized as authored by Percy and dictated by him to Mary. So just because they're in her hand doesn't mean she was their original author.
Who said no one expects to be held accountable for use tax?

There’s a field right there on your tax forms for it, it’s very clearly explained:

http://www.ct.gov/drs/cwp/view.asp?A=1510&Q=270228

I wonder how many people are going to be caught pants down if they go after more companies...
Because it's not consumer friendly to have to have a CPA, a spreadsheet, and a lawyer on call every time you buy a $5 USB mouse.
I'm actually not getting any results from any query period. Apparently Google realized online shopping is virtually non-existent in my country and just gave up?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&output=search&tbm=shop&q...

"Your search - iphone - did not match any shopping results."
It's good to see Backblaze confirming that their GPDR compliance will benefit all of their users. That's definitely been a hope of mine as someone who doesn't live in the EU, so hearing that is encouraging.
Right. What I'm arguing is that if they can't make the sellers collect sales tax, then they can't collect sales tax at all. Expecting consumers to keep track of sales tax themselves for every little purchase (often hundreds per year!) is nuts.
Good point; perhaps it is not efficiency then but outsourcing of light/heavy industry (simply meaning while TVA et al demand is falling, Chinese power demand is growing even more rapidly), and the fact there is more supply in the form of unmetered local solar/wind generation which looks like a fall in demand on the grid but actually isn't. Interesting.
I think there’s a sizable part of the population which believes very strongly that what would come after gun confiscation is worth fighting a war to prevent.

And you can’t fight that war if you aren’t armed for it. So it’s a do or die / back up against the wall proposition at that point.

Men rise up in violence all the time to protect what is sacred to them. “Change one law” is I think not an accurate depiction of the premise I was responding to - which was repeal of the 2nd amendment and large scale gun confiscation.
You can position the tooltip on the left, right, top, bottom in the markup with a class name. This way if the tooltip is in the header you can use e.g. `tooltip-bottom`.

Having 10kb tooltip library for doing this automatically is a bit of an overkill for me [1].

1 : https://atomiks.github.io/tippyjs/
If Chinese companies want EU customers they will have to comply with GPDR as well.

Also "communist" China? Have you been living under a rock for the past 30 years?
Is the article written in defender of purple prose? Perhaps written in this way to allude to Victorian or Edwardian stylistics?

Difficulty caused just by the choice of (quite outdated and rare) words is mostly superficial though.
How does that system account for the risk level being so much more dependent on the driver than on the car?
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I've been concerned about the "move fast and actually break things" aspect of autonomous devices for the past year and a half because I view malcode pushed from the update server as a mass damage event / equivalent to weapons of mass destruction if intentional.

I'm not sure how it is now, but according to someone talking to me privately at one company early programmers were SSHing into fucking moving cars with passengers and running commands on them and had it not been for the layers of redundant code would have crashed the car.

We need to regulate autonomous devices and we need to do it before there are billions of them. We need a public effort to get policy makers open source outlines of regulations; otherwise the car companies are going to be writing them and they aren't going to write in protections against black swan events and we're going to get the autonomous equivalent of a BP oil spill or worse one day.