skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The point is rather that you could make a passable image of this bitrate using the better codec. It opens up a new level of compression not possible with JPEG.

This is simply not correct. Anyone can get a passable image with that bit size. You're trying to stipulate "image pixel size" as some kind of inviolate thing, when it's not in reality. In reality, web content authors don't do insane things with their compression settings (I mean seriously: how would you even produce this? Standard conversion tools, for obvious reasons, will never emit an image like this). This isn't a real argument. This is cheating.

> it would look like a blurry smear,

Assuming facts not in evidence. The image in h.265 is plenty smeary already, FWIW. I think we both know that if this were true, the spin in the link would have done that instead of cheating with macroblock resolution. But in fact the blurry smear looks just fine, so they had to cheat.
You are probably right, but home solar has a few advantages. You already have the space for it. And you don't need to transport the energy anywhere.
Typical PG&E rates are US$0.12/kWh, which includes not only buying the energy (at prices ranging from -$0.05 to $1.50 or more, depending on supply and demand) but also maintaining and constructing the transmission and distribution systems, as well as incidental additional costs like black start capacity, loan interest, and investor profit.
Imagine you run a very popular website, and you have a policy that says "we will never modify any site data by accessing the database directly", to try to ensure that everything goes through site functionality and can be properly logged/etc.

One day, some weird data gets into the database somehow, the site's completely unable to handle it, and it crashes and goes totally down. You're faced with two options:

1. Rewrite a major section of the site code to be able to handle the bad data. This is expected to take at least two days to complete.

2. Break the policy, fix the data in the database, and have the site back up in 5 minutes.

Do you truly believe that Option #2 needs to be treated as completely out of the question?
My family has tried Garmin LiveTrack and it RARELY works. We have 4 people with 4 different devices and all of them are Garmin's most premium devices (Garmin Forerunner 935) and it fails almost every time. We all just gave up and have turned it off at this point.
About a decade ago the US tax code gave rebates for improving homes to be more energy efficient. I think this started in Bush & went through Obama.

I know a lot of people who upgraded windows & insulation.

Many also did geothermal heating. I've heard from some trades people a lot of negatives about this one though.
The problem with your explanation is that it reverses the probability of an action being illegal if the context of it is not provided.

More people are accidentally injured with knives than they are used to commit assault, but in the examples the probabilities are flipped.

You could say that under that reasoning, running over an old nun in the street is illegal because it's "evidence of illegal activity", Well... no, it could just as easily be evidence that you were stopping a mass shooting by a psychopathic old lady.
Everything you say is true, but I also remember every time slashdot would publish browser usage percentages it was something like 70% IE. visible perception did not match reality, even then.
Most web browsers can handle PDFs out of the box. Is this really a roadblock that isn't likely to already be workable on the Librem kit?
You can use such stuff more if you don't want to be productive, and this is coming from a 100% Linux user for nearly half of my life. Unless you write code then the contributions are basically useless.
> With the current administration, despite accusations of the contract originally being designed "with AWS in mind", I'd take a 99-1 bet this goes to Microsoft. No way Trump will let this go to Bezos' company. And I myself find it incredibly sad how the fact that I think that will happen, with no or muted outrage, doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

GovCloud is AWS and Azure right?

I don't understand why JEDI would be exclusively one provider.
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Could you elaborate on what you mean by "public data"?

I'm not sure that just because some data is in Google search it becomes any sort of 'public'.
> I was really hoping for an explanation of why they felt they could break their promise to users that Studies would only ever be used for, well, studies.

It's literally there:

> Because we had a lot of users who were affected, getting them fixed was a very high priority, which made Studies the best technical choice.

Which makes perfect sense to me. When you have a worldwide critical degradation of service, you fix that as soon as humanly possible, ideological pearl clutching be damned.
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>At this point, I feel like the only reason fossil fuels are used anymore in new projects is inertia

Solar might work for boats and trains, but can it work for a plane? What about drones?

No renewable energy source can beat gasoline, sans nuclear power (which I think we should be transitioning to, along with the rest of the renewables). MIT built a gas powered drone that lasts 5 days (not minutes!) in the air[1] - that's simply impossible with today's battery tech. I know there are electric planes in development, maybe in production - but none of them match the passenger capacity or cargo volume of a Boeing 747. Until they do, there will always be a place for gas guzzling airliners.

Solar can work for households, skyscrapers, and apartments, and like you said, I think the advantages do outweigh the advantages of traditional coal plants so I'm excited to see that become more mainstream.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/mits-gas-powered-drone-is-...
How many people chose to keep their insurance with their existing job rather than to forego it in order to start a company?

Economically speaking a 20-something will have fewer responsibilities than say a 40-something with a family and children.

So many startups have been funded by 20-somethings having the ability to couch surf and live off their parents health insurance -- likely because they're the only ones that can afford the risk.
It does seems like an artifact that after-tax premiums aren't always deductible. We already have a model for how to do that in the homeowner's mortgage interest deduction: insurers (banks) report the total of your premiums (mortgage interest) to the IRS, you get to deduct that value from your AGI.

If you're paying for insurance with after-tax dollars, you can deduct it as long as you're a) itemizing, and b) have total medical + premium expenses >7.5% of AGI, but given that people who pay for insurance with pre-tax dollars get that benefit regardless of those criteria, it seems like it'd only be sane to relax the rules so that people paying with post-tax dollars get the same break.
Canada government commits $40M for atomically-precise manufacturing
How come all of google's size-related software ends in 'li'? Zopfli, brotli, knusperli...
That's pretty much what Google MyTracks was. Of course, it's been discontinued.
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>Those in the future will laugh at your concerns for them.

Those 100 years in the future may shake their fists at us with fury as they die off regularly in their early 20s from cancer from breathing plastic-lousy air, from drinking plastic and chemical-lousy water, from eating what food that manages to survive the harsh weather and periods of drought - that just so happens to have various levels of heavy metal contamination from the soil it grew in.

In ten thousand years, there might not be anything remotely resembling what we think of humans today.
I'm not an expert but based on my personal research adding a ridge vent to the roof and getting a convection current drawing fresh air from the soffits through the attic and out the ridge supposedly makes a big difference. When you've got it all sealed up you've got a solar oven.

You'll still want insulation on the floor of the attic space, and seal off the living space from the attic.

From what I gather the main complication is keeping critters out while opening your attic to a substantial flow of fresh air. A pile of rockwool insulation sounds like a hell of a home for many small mammals, and bees can get past all but the finest of screen meshes. It seems feasible to diligently install screens on all the vents but it'll be a maintenance burden to keep them intact as the years go by.
s/s\/and\/or/s\/and\/or\//

Can't forget that trailing slash :)
Our industry is regulated so if you run the software using anything other than the vendor sanctioned way, the vendor will not validate your system, and without validation you cannot use it to produce or test any clinical material. Well you can try, but the FDA will simply close down your company. There simply isn't any business justification to change anything since what we have is working just fine. My larger point was that "office workers" includes lots and lots of industries where the domain-specific softwares are largely windows based.
Energy companies see rooftop solar as competition. Their primary motivation is profit. I do not doubt that they will all eventually go 100% renewable, it's just a matter of ensuring that they lock in their profits. Another issue is the amount they can charge customers. The utilities are also charging for maintenance of the power lines. With rooftop solar, that fee is lost unless the home owner pays the monthly fee to tie their system to the grid.
And the evidence from countries that have implemented this supports that conclusion!
I think your comment itself is a little presumptuous of motives and commits some of what you accuse others of doing.

But that aside. The free unix-like desktop has a lot of choices to be made, and one person's setup isn't going to be the same as another's. To me, that is the opposite of looking down on somebody for what they use, if we all agree that these are legitimate choices. And there is a little bit of a spirit that if something is lacking, you can try to pave your own way, which I don't see as a bad thing, though I can see others rejecting it.

If anything I think the current community is a little too homogeneous, with a lot of people opting for stock Ubuntu or whatever, than it used to be, and that's a criticism I would make.
Exploring new business models seems like a good idea for them.

I can't see how ubiquitous scooters is anything but a niche business.

Selling scooters to those that want them does make sense as a business. But I doubt that helps Bird because that's still probably not a very big business. I'd think it would take something on the order of decades to make $300M selling scooters.
INAL. Public data will be anything without a sign up wall.
Do you really believe that an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars got to that point purely through hype? No benefit to platforms like AWS and Azure at all?
"The last reactor, N Reactor, continued to operate as a dual-purpose reactor, being both a power reactor used to feed the civilian electrical grid via the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS)"

"Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory. "
Isn't 2 a great argument for nationalised healthcare insurance?
"global sunlight conditions will change drastically" is an interesting way of saying near extinction level event.
Eh, I don't agree with this. The issue in your case was that someone didn't properly secure a piece of scrap metal to their vehicle. The fact that China demands scrap metal doesn't seem relevant to me given that this sounds like simple incompetence.

You wouldn't blame the automaker for a drinking and driving incident that resulted in a death, you'd blame the driver.
Lithium ion batteries have limited lifecycles so they aren't sustainable. We need to be building massive pumped hydro.
Even though that's a lot of money... I can't help thinking it's not nearly enough.
Solar farms are spreading & starting to take over a lot of quality farmland in the northern midwest because of the scale/price reasons you suggest.
Okay. IANAL, but software licenses I had to research a lot, so let's see whether I can explain it and if my understanding is correct.

Maybe look at https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-affero-general-public-lice... first. The AGPL GNU page https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html also covers questions and has an explanation. I think the summary covers it already:

> It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server. Therefore, public use of a modified version, on a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source code of the modified version.

So the license requirement is for the users of the software directly. They need to get access to the modified source.

> So, who does need to be provided with a copy? Just the 'administrators', the people using it to send email?

If that is a closed group said group. If it's the public the public. So in your case yes, the administrators.

You could make the argument (it has been tried before with editors) that the email is part of listmonk, but reasonably it would not stand. At first look there is more weight behind the argument that accessing the email is a form of network access between the user and listmonk, vie email, but I don't think that would hold up either, given the implications with regards of what is a software and what is a product.

> What about if I modify it and repackage it as monklist or whatever, and charge people to use it. I must give them the source code for listmonk too, and, since another requirement is same licence, the source for my modified version?

I don't think that you have to give the original source of listmonk, but you have to give users - including those who access the software on a server, like in a SaaS scenario - access to the source code of monklist, yes.

> i.e. monklist couldn't be closed source, but myapp that happens to use listmonk unmodified for sending emails can be?

There it gets murky. There are different understandings of when a software with different parts becomes one thing and thus the AGPL and GPL apply, and afaik that's not very well tested in court. That said, yes, if myapp just uses listmonk and is not a modified version of listmonk and listmonk is not an integral component of it, then myapp is not influenced at all by the AGPL. AGPL talks about "modified versions of software", myapp would be no such thing.
It died without a vote, and thus it's not even clear from the article who I ought to be calling and yelling at. Chiu? Presumably he pulled it because of pressure from others. Is there some way for me, as a voter, to determine which individual legislators are to blame?
For those of us not familiar with the game, what are the consequences of death in Fallout76?
What do you mean the allow domains?

It seems windows pro receives less ads than home so it may be that. Anyway there have been times where I was doing heavy browsing where I got over 20% and some times over 25%. I also block everything from facebook.

My top blocked domains today are: self.events.data.microsoft.com, activity.windows.com, watson.telemetry.microsoft.com and reddit.map.fastly.com
More importantly, hemp grows well in poor soils.
Hair color try-on in an Android app
How do you become like this?
Q12019 revenue was ~$15B [0]. So, about a month's worth of revenue. Honestly, 1/12th of a year's revenue is a fair bit of pain. It's not exactly a slap on the wrist.

My econ-mojo may be really off, but revenue is more akin to the gross profit, not the net profit, correct?

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/24/facebook-earnings-q1-2019.ht...
All those internal combustion engines filling the congested LA roads aren't exactly cooling the place down either. More of the energy from the fuel is lost to heat out the radiator and tail pipe than goes towards propulsion.
Remember when Munich ditched Windows? It only lasted a few years before Microsoft successfully won them back by offering steep discounts and moving their headquarters to Munich.

One has to wonder whether history will repeat itself.

https://itsfoss.com/munich-linux-failure/
You only need to think of the other things that solar requires in order to see where scale cost might arise - land and infrastructure. Labour is cheap.

Solar needs space and it needs a way to export it's electricity to where it's needed, or to where it is stored. Places where space is cheap enough almost universally don't have infrastructure.

So large scale solar does come with large capital costs.

Contrast to home owners/businesses installing solar on 'space' already paid for (or under mortgage) and there is something of a sunk cost advantage in those circumstances.

Plus there are many reasons to install solar, not just financial. Plus incentives in many parts of the world are being removed, like no guaranteed feed in tarif rates etc. Solar is just becoming cheap enough that in pure electricity bill savings it can start to make sense.

If you think about that then the expectation is that energy prices won't necessarily increase as you mentioned, and may possibly fall under pressure from decentralised generation. Already I believe some areas force citizens to pay an infrastructure charge at a base rate towards upkeep of large scale transmission lines and base load power stations etc. So the situation is much more nuanced that your comment seems to presume.
Long term profit vs short term profit.

Corporate execs and short term investors just want to line up their pockets RIGHT NOW! Fossil fuel based infrastructure has been built over a hundred years. The only thing to do to make profits is keep the machine running.

Why invest and work hard to create something whose fruits will be reaped only after they death?

This logic applies to a lot of baby boomer politicians if one cares to correlate.
Yeah, there are ammonia-absorption refrigeration devices that can run on any source of concentrated heat, including concentrated sunlight (though not merely the ambient temperature). This is considerably more efficient than going through 16%-efficient photovoltaic panels first. Ammonia refrigeration has some safety issues (upon overheating, they release a giant cloud of caustic, inflammable gas) but in this case they would be substantially reduced by putting the unit out in the yard, not inside the house.

Ammonia absorption does not require violating the Third Law as some commenters have suggested below. It is less efficient than the Carnot limit, so you cannot use it to get a perpetuum mobile.
There are no working tab group addons post XUL, I've tried them all and they are all completely broken. While I agree that you shouldn't run without updates, please don't tell people that there is a working substitute for this functionality.
Still distraught that Equifax, which was so egregious, was not disciplined at this level.
Except it's almost entirely Dota 2, LoL, and exploitative F2P games that make up those market figures. The only thing this indicates is that the mobile gaming culture is extending to the PC. Personally, I wouldn't really flaunt these numbers as PC being having more revenue for most developers, just the lucky few that have their games run on low-end hardware and/or use exploitative tactics.
There's plenty of space in every US city being used for storage of private automobiles to support both a bike and scooter share program.
I wouldn't necessarily blame the business boys. Now that public cloud has existed for a decade, there's a whole generation of devops people who know nothing about infrastructure. (I assume most app developers never needed to understand it.) As long as the stork keeps delivering those VMs, who cares?
I live in a different country now and it's difficult to maintain long distance relationships in the best circumstances. When I lived there and saw them on the street (I lived nearby) it was always nice and they are wonderful people, but there was no way to have a relationship beyond that as my ex, the replacement relationship, and child that followed, were their family then, not me. It's always in the back of my mind as I adored the family and they treated me like one of them. It's just how it goes.
Carbon nanotube device channels heat into light
In that sense it's an investment. Your savings are determined by the price of energy, so there's no guarantee the price will stay the same (or increase) over 10 years.

It isn't just the utility's price that can change. There can also be changes to laws regarding net metering. In fact there's loads of cases where local/municipal/state utilities will try to change the law and eliminate net metering so that they don't have to pay for residential solar.

I really think there needs to be some kind of state owned grid where market forces determine the cost of energy. Everyone who wants to hop on the grid gets a meter installed and there would be a marketplace where people would be free to pick where their energy comes from. In that way the cost of energy becomes democratized and takes power away from entrenched utilities that have every incentive to keep them in control of the energy supply and to keep the price of that energy high.
> Would you use this app if I built it

No, because of the gamification angle:

> The app will encourage you to invite friends to form teams. The teams will drive leaderboards, gamification and hopefully some virality.

I wouldn’t want yet another app trying to manipulate my behaviour[1], even if for an ostensibly good reason[2]. I’m unsure if competing around “which team does the most good” is a healthy way to solve the problem.

But I applaud your cause and might reference the app’s existence to some people on that basis. Whether I’d do that or not would depend on the implementation.

[1]: Though I appreciate your honesty.

[2]: What happens if incentives shift?
What is the base load supply?
I've been both insured and uninsured. I agree with you. I'd rather die than go to a hospital and leave with enough debt to cover Harvard, Standford, or [name your institution].

Also, know that the primary care givers (nurses mostly but also doctors) don't get paid as much as you think they might. The insurance companies are all for profit so the system is gamed this way.

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I can't tell if the duck curve thing is intentionally misleading, but people all seem to jump to the wrong conclusion.

The demand isn't greater in the evening, the relative demand, after you subtract all the energy provided by solar, is in the evening, during periods of the year when demand is low but solar supply is high.

It's like someone cured cancer and then someone came up with the llama curve, showing that some of the people who survived cancer got pushed off cliffs by llamas ten years later and everyone was like "Oh no, that cancer cure has caused the llama curve, what will we do?"
To make this a bit more on point,
try jogging back to the ER after breaking that leg.
That's what essentially you are asking of people
Yeah, but everyone in the industry still calls it Mirth.

Personally, I'm a Qvera man myself, but there's a cost to entry there (unless their free Standard edition does what you need).