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Good point, it's relatively easy to get to 70/80/90% renewables. Its that one week in January, where its cold, the wind isnt blowing, it's cloudy and your nuclear reactor is down for whatever reason.

But most countries seem to be shifting to gas away from coal in the short term, wouldn't gas generation be better for that kind of situation, ie if you have mothballed gas and coal generation, why keep the coal around?
Was it successful?
Chiming in as someone who works at an insurer in clinical analytics.

There's a few ways we can pay less for a compound where there are generics/biosimilars. We could contract with a hospital group saying we will pay a small % markup on the cheapest drug to treat each condition - i.e. they can use the cheapest generic/biosimilar and make profit, or use a more expensive one and make a loss. They naturally shift all volume to the cheaper one. That then makes demand very elastic to price, and so encourages a lower price from manufacturers. We do see some compounds all sit at the same lowest price and not shift - that does suggest collusion - potentially tacit collusion though. An alternative is to contract with one pharma company to get a rebate if we push volume to their drug. We could then mandate to providers that we'll only pay for that drug.
> ...premature deployment of half-baked parlour tricks...

And the “fake it till you make it” attitude in SV only makes this worse.
While his tone seems a bit adversarial, at least he is providing relevant information to the topic instead of a generic rant. I greatly prefer the former.
This is the second post that you've made that isn't true. Revolut is not profitable. It reports an operating loss.

What's your reason for such inaccurate information?
+1 for getting that cert in so quickly! Hopeful to hear more about this project when you have time to update details.
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No mention of VR support yet. If this comes out without support it will be quite sad. Xplane 11 in VR is amazing (if you can get the framerate of that old engine high enough)
> It's my understanding that machine translation started to become semi-useful after abandoning traditional grammars...and switched to statistics.

What's curious about this statement (and forgive me if I am in error here; I am not extremely familiar with the machine translation field) is that the community chose to go down the route of "traditional grammars" and their rules, for the purposes of translation, rather than down the route of statistics to begin with.

Because as it was noted, this happened after WW2 and the advances in cryptography, which were by and large also driven by statistical analysis and other similar mathematically based advances; one would think that such insights would have carried over into the machine translation realm.

But they didn't - which is simply a curious historical footnote. It's also something we see often in history - particularly as it relates to technological advances; that there are certain paths that are taken that lead to virtual dead-ends decades later, but which the path that should have been taken was presaged by earlier work, yet for one reason or another wasn't pursued.

If we only had a way to avoid such "wrong turns", we could be much further along technologically - but of course, that would also be tantamount to "telling the future"...almost.
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I was physics/CS undergrad and did very well academically. I didn't really take notes much though. The strategy that worked for me was to read the book ahead of time, then the lectures were more to help digest material I was already familiar with. And for those giant auditorium-sized lecture classes, I just skipped class completely and only read the book. In fact I found taking notes to be distracting - how can I pay attention when I'm trying to copy everything down?
I'm guessing the "AI" was used in the geometry mapping from the sat data they used for their region maps.
The temperature at which it will last the universe's current age is 462K. This is 189 Celcius, or 372 Fahrenheit. They didn't choose an unreasonably low temperature to say it'll last the universe's age. They picked a temperature to say it'll last the universe's age even if you crank up the heat to an absurd degree. They could have given a much larger timespan if they stuck to room temperature.
Forcing them to cross deserts while sick with no food or water?

Oh, wait, no, that's what their traffickers from Honduras and elsewhere are doing as they claim that those children belong to them when they reach the border so that they can receive higher priority treatment, whereupon they enter and recycle the kids back across the border.
The study you've referenced is invalid for this particular discussion (but it's an interesting read and thank you for posting it). The study is focused on memorizing words, with this limitation being clearly stated in the study: "Future research is necessary to investigate the effect typing has on remember more complex stimuli, for example, phrases rather than just words."

It's also notable that the participants are 72% percent female (females as a population are better at writing than males [1]), and that 72% of participants admit that they prefer pen and paper.

Having said that, I agree with the study in that the kinesthetic aspect of writing will generally lead to better retention of words - I believe this is well established.

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180920102135.h...
If "Adjusting your lifestyle and behaviour in line with climate goals is not about making a difference," then why does it matter that your voting didn't help? You are a good person after all.

Really though, what is your point here? Can you imagine if a politician whose platform was fighting climate change walked into CoalTown USA and told everyone that they were bad people? Do you think that would help?

I don't mean to get into the weeds of argument and rhetoric, but if we ARE going to accomplish anything on the level that this problem requires, then we have to be convincing, not smug.
According to the benchmarks at https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks, Crystal is about twice as fast as Go.
That's a common fallacy. Places that have high paying jobs usually have high cost of living. You can't typically command high salaries in cheaper areas, but people seem to think that just by virtue of living in a certain area you are defacto well-off.

Anyway, this hypothetical guy isn't helping my case, because we can either add or subtract virtues to make him more or less sympathetic. As someone who matched this description personally, I can tell you I did not feel "upper middle class" by any stretch of the imagination, which is what I was responding to.
Why are these doctors delaying the inevitable? Let them die in sweet ignorance and righteous anger.
That is why these systems generate their own certificate that you add to your phone, so you still can see the traffic.

For MITMProxy you can visit http://mimt.it when the setup is running.

A bit more difficult with “pinned-setificate” where you have to:

1) Decompile the app (easy if you search for the online APK-download and APK-decompile tools)

2) Move the certificate out of the APK and use it for the traffic between MITMProxy/Charles and the server

3) Replace the certificate in the APK with one generated for MITMProxy/Charles, or just delete it if that works for the app (most likely not)

4) Re-compile the APK and install on your device

5) Run MITMProxy/Charles as before, just with some parameters to load the “pinned-certificate”

(There is also a lot of guides for this. Maybe not for pinned-certificate.)
My reply is a little off-topic but I wanted to share as it is Flight Simulator related.

Last year an old boss and friend passed suddenly. He had only just turned fifty but the years of poor eating and sitting caught up with him in his late forties.

He was a Flight Simulator addict. He held a private pilots license as well and would fly small aircraft. Took us up a few times which was amazing. Very different to a regular airplane. He had an amazing setup with, I think, six screens, proper chair, and controls. We once got him a pilots cap for a birthday for him to wear :)

So when I saw the new Flight Simulator announced during Microsoft's E3 event the other week my first thought was how he would have loved this. He had moaned for years about Microsoft killing it off so this would have excited him like nothing else. It really hit me in my gut and my heart just how much I miss that guy.

If you are having some small health problems please get them checked out and take your health seriously. My friend was there one day then the next found sitting in his god damn home office with work documents still on the screen. He left behind a wonderful wife and two teenage kids. Rest in Peace my friend.
> The midrange ($30-$40) sony ones are the only brand I've had that can last a year.

I've had a couple pairs of midrange Sony earbuds (MDR-E821V) that I've used for the last 10+ years. I've replaced the padding with some silicone ones, but other than that, they work great for me.
Prediabetes is broadly defined, it catches a lot of people who aren't necessarily going to become diabetic.
Microsoft's Bing maps uses a huge amount of aerial orthophotos as well, not just satellite. Also aerial lidar for DEMs vs satellite radar data (the old srtm 1/3 for us48 states, etc).
Yeah, we just had to wait for firmware.
> ...without being rightly defined as supporting white supremacy.

I did say "can be", not "is always defined as such, in a logically-consistent way"! One point that should be quite obvious is that one can always say "that doesn't go far enough!" in a totally unfalsifiable way. (And yes, people have made such arguments, seemingly in all seriousness, even about such things as women's suffrage or civil-rights legislation!) It's a mistake to think that this sort of mindset is restricted by any kind of logic or rationality.

> How do you distinguish between "taken as axiomatic" and "is the case"? ... If so, when did the US stop being a white supremacist society, and how?

Again, the point is that the radical-progressive mindset is not interested in such questions. They are simply not seen as something that's inherently legitimate as a subject of inquiry. You are naïvely assuming that the appeal to notions such as "white supremacy" is intended to be meaningful - to say something, anything about the real world - when in fact it might as well be something that's said purely "for the lulz", for the sheer amusement of making one's political opponents uncomfortable. It's less about "debate" of any sort than it is about sheer intimidation and willful confusion.
Same here. I've found the new iPad Pro + paper like screen protector to be a very near real experience with very little noticeable input lag for notes. Now, it is a very pricey alternative but agreed on all points.

I did consider the Boyue Likebook Muses [0], but figured for longevity the iPad may be the better buy. I did try the reMarkable and was very disappointed in it's price to performance/usability, at least for me. Little things like no backlight at that price point was hard to get over.

[0] https://goodereader.com/blog/product/boyue-likebook-muses-st...
I agree so, the plan is to roll out slowly, and give it to a handful of customers initially, and then see how the usage and adoption goes from there.
>Do you think mainstream search engines someday will provide a “commercial search” and “non-commercial search” buttons side-by-side? SEO/ad gamed and non SEO/ad-gamed?

If we put on our computer science hats on to attempt an algorithm to classify the "commercial" from "non-commercial", what would that look like?

Distinguishing ads that are disguised as innocent posts vs authentically innocent posts is a very hard problem. What would the AI machine learning rules be?

Let's take one example thread that's currently on the HN front page: "Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?"

(screenshot of HN: https://imgur.com/a/zK5IZ4E)

Was that post submitted for discussion to spur sales of the new Raspberry Pi 4? Or was it a genuine question free of any hidden commercial intent? How would a computer algorithm know? Likewise, how would we, as humans, be able to truly know? To me, the thread doesn't seem like it's advertising-motivated. But do you trust my judgement on this?

Let's take that post's indeterminate status one step further and look at the Google search results: https://www.google.com/search?q=what+do+you+do+with+a+"raspb...

(screenshot of Google: https://imgur.com/a/YGShV9r)

Notice that Google includes that very HN thread in its results. Should the hypothetical "non-commercial" search button include that HN thread or not?

Here's an example of the opposite effect where people misclassify something as commercial when it isn't: A HN user accuses me of selling something[1] even though I actually wasn't! I just happen to view hundreds of videos about entrepreneurship and I keep copious notes. It was easy to share my notes with HN readers. I have no commercial or even personal affiliation with any VC.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12507716 -- "There's so much selling in this post I get tired just by reading it."
I did a PID mod on mine when I bought it around 5 years ago and love it. Built like a tank, and looks more commercial than similarly priced machines if that means anything to you.
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There's tons of Jewish people, including a Holocaust survivor and former victim of a real concentration camp, telling AOC to quit her bullshit.

The kids are in a detention facility. Donald Trump didn't personally decide "fuck Mexicans" and rip kids out of their loving homes. He's protecting children from the people in an adult detention facility who have actively broken the law and took their families with them in the process.

Calling Trump a Nazi and calling these places concentration camps is a massive slap in the face to the millions of people who actually died from the war.
Rolling back to the original point, that the US was High Trust right from the start, doesn't the point that there were major barrier's to entry for being part of the "democracy" for both men and women show that there was some inaccuracy to that statement?
So you think experience is itself an illusion? When you kick a rock and feel pain, you're not really experiencing pain? Is the rock also an illusion?
>I know no sane scientist or enigneer that would say they use more than 3D physics.

Are they from flatland? If not, how do they calculate motion?
Thanks for the report! The link that linked to the non existent page is now fixed...
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Thanks for that link. It's clearly a joke and obsolete, but I wouldn't mind having something like that to backup a few small things (ssh keys, passwords meant to survive me, etc etc). After all, we will likely always have some sort of image-capturing device to leverage - unlike with discs of any sort.
Thank you. I was simplifying, but in fact DPRIVE is new to me.
A carbon tax and dividend is considered a pretty good idea by many economists. There is information about an American initiative to enact this here https://citizensclimatelobby.org/.
> I have had gigabit internet for a few years now

Keep in mind that you are in a very small world there... most people alive today will never have internet that fast, personally i've never had a connection above 6 Mbits in the middle of a city, and I know that's likely above the median globally (keep in mind average is a poor metric due to connections like yours, SDL is still the primary type of endpoint for homes)

My point being, the previous generations USB based ethernet still has massive headroom for the vast majority of peoples internet.
high insulin prices are about companies using a chronic disease treatment for cash flow.
Story time: as a kid I would use FS to do intercontinental flights with my cousin. My (small) room would be divided in two: passenger seating, and cockpit.

We would sit down at my computer and take turns flying. I would convince my little sisters to sit down in the passenger area which were two chairs behind a curtain (they for some reason found it less entertaining than we did and often decided to leave early in the flight...).

We even had a little toy kitchen (borrowed from said sisters) to serve cheerios as inflight meals.

Fun times.
Not sure I agree with this. A huge number of young people I know in the UK have switched to Monzo as their primary bank account. The business model is simple: the same as any other bank. Their competitive advantage is:

1. Having better technical capabilities than traditional banks (they have apps, but they're usually limited and clunky).

2. Not having physical branches, and the associated costs.
>Persistent foam (crema) forms due to the presence of trapped CO2 in the grind, rather than just the high pressure.

If this had been true, you could just toss coffee grounds into hot water and it would foam up.

> If you are to try and use just an uniformly fine grind for espresso, the machine will have very hard time extracting from it - literally a drop a second instead of a flow.

Really? Any uniformity in grind will block machine? Could you explain physics behind such phenomenon please?
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> That's how you end up with dead people.

Bossnapping and other militant protest forms are well known to French protest culture and it's rare that people die there.
Absolutely. The payload was apparently successfully delivered. The only issue they had was with the recovery of the heavy, which was, apparently, somewhat expected in this case.
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It’s hard to link natural disasters to climate change definitely on an individual basis, unfortunately.
Incidentally what doesn't Monese (https://monese.com/business) have that you need? Is it the end-of-year statement?
I have read that the trajectory is intentionally off dead center of the drone ship, until the very last moments, so that in the event of early fuel exhaustion it is highly unlikely to hit the ship.
I grew up playing MS FlightSim, and my main memory of it was that we never (for 15 years) felt like we ever had a computer powerful enough to run it at full detail, full FPS.

Now I know that it was because their engine was never really fully optimized for a GPU. But my brother still uses FlightSim every single day. I'm so happy for him, but I want my kids to also learn how to fly on it. My son's already started (mainly holding the yoke while we fly it).

So a big fist pump for this news, every single word here makes me happy. (Emphasis on "Simulator", PC-first, etc).
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Besides which, consciousness and agency are two different things, damnit! I've got a github repo in which I train agents by policy optimization. I have no illusions that my Pytorch models are conscious.
Yes if we innovate our way there. We cannot ever stop the human desire for a better life not should we, the power of mankind lies in our ability to innovate around d challenges. We fixed the ban population crisis with the green revolution. New energy sources like nuclear can give everyone the quality of life they desire and deserve. Asteroid mining can be a revolutionary source of resources. And we don't know what humans could invent next. But we need to support science and education to make this future happen
Is it not possible to get it from another country like India?
All of those problems with single-payer exist with the current system in the US, at least for those of us with excellent insurance. High deductible plans are an attempt to correct those problems, but I'm not convinced they work as well as one might hope.
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> It's a near certainty that I've written an order of magnitude more elixir code than you have and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that elixir's lack of static typing definitely makes it less useful.

You should really read that post I linked, and do a bit more research on this topic. The consensus in the Elixir community (where many members have written an order of magnitude more Elixir than you) is that static typing would be "nice to have", but is not critical by any means. Your post seems to be an attempt to spread FUD.
The problem is that "generally accepted perspectives based on concrete data and interpretations" in this context usually means the IPCC conclusions, right?

The IPCC has been greatly criticized by the scientific community because since it works by consensus over a very large body of work it is always years behind the latest data and science.

For example here are the comments from a Nobel prize winner on the IPCC understating the effects of feedbacks on its latest report from 2018:

> Mario Molina, who shared the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1995 for his work on depletion of the ozone layer, said: “The IPCC report demonstrates that it is still possible to keep the climate relatively safe, provided we muster an unprecedented level of cooperation, extraordinary speed and heroic scale of action. But even with its description of the increasing impacts that lie ahead, the IPCC understates a key risk: that self-reinforcing feedback loops could push the climate system into chaos before we have time to tame our energy system, and the other sources of climate pollution.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/09/tipping-...

The IPCC is slowly starting to realize this and their next report coming out in 2021 will show warming is actually accelerating much faster than previously stated.

> In earlier models, doubling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) over preindustrial levels led models to predict somewhere between 2°C and 4.5°C of warming once the planet came into balance. But in at least eight of the next-generation models, produced by leading centers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and France, that “equilibrium climate sensitivity” has come in at 5°C or warmer. Modelers are struggling to identify which of their refinements explain this heightened sensitivity before the next assessment from the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the trend “is definitely real. There’s no question,” says Reto Knutti, a climate scientist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. “Is that realistic or not? At this point, we don’t know.”

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/new-climate-models-p...
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And this is a good illustration of how the system is completely fucked up. No part of what you wrote is sane (I'm not implying anything about you, just the system). The corporations have gamed the system where it's now normal to suggest that you are responsible for determining and getting discounts, in this instance that it was on the subject of the article to figure out the system, the system that was supposed to be helping him.

Being in an employee-owned company, I'm very aware of how much the company pays for insurance. It never goes down, it always goes up. The company has to switch to plans where employees pay larger and larger deductibles, just to keep the insurance cost increases down in the 10% per year range. Usually the reason costs go up is because we "use it too much", people need to use generic drugs, etc. Of course, it's hard to determine actual costs in such a convoluted system, but orders of magnitude cost increases for medicines obviously plays a significant role.
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We do have hard data and people are still playing with it to justify themselves.

This would be fine if these were isolated examples. But we have people in power and rich doing this. Seriously. Even lax (currently known to be inaccurate - an underestimate) old IPCC model gives problematic conclusions that are against status quo.