skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, the 18-20 year olds I know know EVERYTHING from YouTube; they are really digital experts in past urban trends. I had a discussion (and subsequent alcohol excess where an old communist joined-in) on a customer event the other month with mid-20s customer supporters who described themselves as neo-punks (with lots of metal in the face) and were big in "dark" music and knew every single politically-incorrect dark metal band from the 90s. Also, it's not uncommon to enjoy a Jean Gabin or Film Noir movie, say, for the ones I know.
Where did that comment come from? Greeks and Romans? Is it because of my username? I'm afraid that it was chosen because it's the name of a popular beginner's Latin textbook, not for misplaced Romanticism.

However, I will say that reading the classics in their original Greek and Latin has added a lot of sanity to my life, and I would recommend it to anyone. Your own conception of Greek and Roman sexuality is highly romanticized, and would fall away with a course of general reading.

This is not to say that I would hold the ancients forward as examples of "sane" societies. Generally the opposite, in fact. General societal sanity is a post-Enlightenment condition.
Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing
Lots of ISPs do it yet your example is an ISP that stopped doing it?
Of course! The idea would be you would provide your battery service at a price that made sense to you!

At $9/kWh (which is a truly absurd rate) the battery pays for itself in roughly 12 cycles.

At a less insane but still hefty $1/kWh margin, it would pay for itself in roughly 100 cycles.

Of course you wouldn’t scrap your whole EV, you would buy a new battery for your EV with the profits, and ideally end up with both excess income, and a longer overall vehicle lifespan, with longer effective ranges over time.

I’m sure someone has done all the math on this and knows exactly how good and cheap the EV battery has to be in order for this to be worth doing, and it seems like we’re nearly there.

Plus, with the same hardware plus a safety switch in the house, the EV becomes your house battery backup as well.
There’s something delightfully physicsy about deriving Euler’s identity, which famously deals with the irrational and the imaginary, by brute force calculation using log tables and fudging the fifth decimal place. But the approach of sneaking backwards into the algebraic continuation of e^x by actually doing the arithmetic is a great way to viscerally get that it’s all just the same set of mathematical tools.
Apparently Pivotal, Pluralsight and Zuora are also being sued by the same law firm (http://www.howardsmithlaw.com/index.html)
It’s simple open source economics: Since no one is being paid to maintain the software, there is little incentive to continue developing it. However, since it is open source, anyone who feels inclined to can fork the code and create a maintained branch.
Just taken at face value, it looks like they didn't want to put in the significant effort of moving to newer display stacks. Wayland has a very different story for screen recorders, in ways which are likely to require significantly more ongoing effort.
No one would believe you.
Sorry, updated. 1Gbit connection, about 100TB/mo.
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Do you live in east/mid Texas? That sounds like some super great insulation if you are only accumulating 2 degrees an hour during a hot humid Texas summer.
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> It is more like if the guide that used to send visitors to your property

Here is where your argument falls apart. The web is a public space - it's not your property or your front yard. It's more akin to going to the town square wearing a fancy hat and getting upset if people look at you and your weirdly shaped headwear.
Not sure if this is still the case but in some areas Comcast used to limit the cap to 100gb unless you bundled TV with your internet plan, then it went up to 1tb.
Also capacity is only limited due to ISPs not spending the money we've already given them to update our infrastructure. Trash companies
Depending on where you are, the sound track may well have included some Orbital, Leftfield and Chemical Brothers also, it was stripped out for the North American release though.

There was also an album of the music released.
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I read the intention as "limit the social media distraction", not as "make it harder to do things with other humans". There's lots of social activities you're either involved in via an online group, or you won't know what's going on. For example, planning for a canoe club I was a part of existed only on IM / FB group. FB is still available non-mobile, but WhatsApp is not.
>If there are multiple users on his account (e.g. him and his kids) then you're talking just 1-2 hours of Netflix streaming per person per day per month.

I find that a lot still.
>The work has rattled the contract employees, who are not told where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained -- only to transcribe it

This sort of accusation could be overblown or underblown. Do we actually know the source of these recordings? Whose audio was recorded, under what conditions?
Funny enough the owner of Der Spiegel was himself considered an anti-semite by the Wiesenthal Center[1] a few years ago which stirred quite some debate back then.

[1] https://m.jpost.com/International/Wiesenthal-dean-labels-Aug...
There should be ways to deploy parachutes faster. Maybe with springs or pressurized gas.

Otherwise having large airbags deploy under the vehicle could be another option.
That would be nice but gas liquefaction units were still quite expensive and large, too much so to put one at a single well last time I checked. I haven't been in O & G in a while but I don't think it's changed based on comments elsewhere in this thread.
Both Bing and Google use aerial imagery with centimetre-scale resolution (certainly 25cm). PlanetScope is 3m I think, the totally free stuff like Sentinel 2 is 10m (5 day revisit). The best commercial imaging satellites are <0.5m. Below that it's simpler to use aircraft.
I can understand Toshiba’s move if had the monopoly on selling laptops but they don’t. If I had to replace my laptop because it was unrepairable because Toshiba forcefully removed all the service manuals from the internet I would be unlikely to buy another laptop from that manufacturer. However, if I could fix it and but I eventually desired an upgrade then I would be more inclined to chose a model that I was familiar with. Seems like they have not thought this through properly.
as opposed to countries where only government approved idiots and their dogs have assault weapons?
Even more than that. Angolans are using free Facebook/Wikipedia data caps for illegal filesharing.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nz7eyg/wikipedia-zero-fac...
That depends on how you define "users". If you define a website creator also as a Google user (by virtue of wanting to be found through Google), then Google is serving part of its users to the detriment of their other users.

And if you view Google instead as a connection broker, e.g. a middle-man between publisher and consumer, then Google is destroying their own business by snubbing publishers. Assuming that Google is still making rational, intelligent decisions, it follows that Google no longer sees itself like that.
I meant 100TB/mo. But Bahnhof offers 10 000 Mbit/s.
At it's core, it's also what drives Carmack's Fast Inverse Square Root (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root).

Yes, yes, I know Carmack didn't invent it.
Are you asking for a hypothetical scenario where I was the web developer in question having to stand up to some marketing drone?

Take a closer look at the key phrase in my post: "makes no effort". If a web developer who's trying to pay the rent makes even a single comment to the marketing drones about how email signup forms might not be a good idea, and asks if they're sure they want to do it, then that web developer has my sympathy and not my hatred. But if they just cheerfully say "Yes sir!" when the marketing drones make that demand, then I hate them just as much as I hate the marketing drones, because at that point they are marketing drones.
One thing I will always appreciate about Feynman as a teacher is that he never shies away from telling you why things work the way they do. I've spoken with a lot of people who "hate math" and it's almost always because they never had a teacher that went into the whys and wherefores behind equations, tables, graphs, etc.

Here we have a plainspoken yet rigorous explanation of what algebraic operations actually mean (addition is iteratively adding 1 b times; multiplication is iteratively adding a b times; exponentiation is iteratively multiplying by a b times, etc.).

I wish more students would have the chance to build up such intuition, for such intuition is the key to keeping oneself interested in math and not finding that one "hates" it.
IIRC only the Playstation version had licensed music from those artists. Other versions (such as the Saturn version that I owned) had tracks written exclusively by Cold Storage.
I am enjoying the nostalgia in this thread. I also wonder what people have moved to right now, I see that Linux has been the most common case.

I also created a subreddit for this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga_refugees/
> why is said oil and gas industry not investing in solar power themselves?

Some are:

- https://www.chevron.com/technology/technology-ventures

- https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/new-energies/she...

Admittedly, that's not a ton. What's really stopping it is that the family offices etc. don't want to invest in any thing but oil. It's a safe bet, they know it, and tech has given it very high odds of a return compared to what it used to be.

Some investors are doing just that (all though more with wind), just not a ton. Oil prices are down quite a bit off their last high, so expect to see less of this. Every thing in this equation is relative to oil.
How the hell did Uber just lose $5B in three months?
There's far too much variance to have a European standard. I vaguely recall seeing bandwidth-capped plans in the country I'm living in now last time I was shopping for internet plans, but I'll have to check again.

That 20 Mbit/s driving across remote areas probably wouldn't even hold true for Switzerland.

But yes, overall I'd say the US definitely has worse home internet infrastructure (though it's unfortunately still not as bad as some other developed countries).
People who use more bandwidth they already pay more. ISPs charge more for a 100mbps connection than for a 10mbps connection.
We still have data caps in Belgium. One of the most popular ISP has lower tier internet subscriptions which have a 150GB and 200GB data cap per month.

Even though most are "unlimited" nowadays, they're still under a fair usage policy which means that if you download too much (usually 1TB+), you will get a call to explain why you download so much or you'll have your internet speed reduced.
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But a good party should introduce people to new experiences, no?
>My go to has been "ceo@example.com" for years.

I think I may make the effort to learn how to make a Firefox extension to automate this. Scrape "about us", "contact", etc. page in background for first email address, then autofill it into the email spam form. Boom, done.
Thanks for all the replies, that is fascinating; I intuitively understand that for A/C, it all kinda sorta averages out without much movement.
But for DC, I assumed electrons actually moved at a "meaningful and impressive velocity on human scales" - not as fast as the electricity propagation, I appreciate and understand the analogies and they make sense - but I imagined it'd still be way, way faster than "centimeters per hour" :O

It astonishes me that much energy can be transmitted / work can be done, with so little actual movement of electrons... I'll follow the links / articles suggested and see what I can gleam; thanks all! :)
If there weren't municipal companies with better service, faster speeds, no caps, all for cheaper, then I might agree. But these companies are greedy, and they keep crying wolf while increasing their profits.
Out of all the crises society has ever faced, you're talking about one of the most peaceful times in mankind. This is why people are getting annoyed at youtube's recommendations and part of the problem. People like you and Peterson trying to fight over people's minds and telling them you need to be offended by this or you need to do that. No, I just want to watch my nature docs, I don't need people trying to recruit me to fight in their own personal culture wars.
Thanks, I missed that. I was just looking at the number of decimal places. Is that method accurate?

(1000 * incorrectly_rounded) / 1000 == incorrectly_rounded
"have to be", "need"

Says who? You can describe your party as psytrance, or just trance if you have to.

I have an event in my facebook feed that just says "hospitalization" and a list of djs. I know what kind of music they will play because I know the organizers and djs, but it would still be helpful to write an bigger description.

You're all stuck on "micro-genres" but when I'm looking at a new dj at some event I expect a full paragraph describing their style with a soundcloud link with some dj sets.

Maybe the fundamental difference is that with a dj or even a producer you can't just download an album and see how they sound: the actual set will probably be unique, and in tune with the party. And yes I do want to know vaguely how it will sound.
> I would say those landlords are going to be in for an even bigger shock.

Not at all. We is a player in major markets that are populated by professional landlords that have been in this business for much longer than the founder of WeWorks has been alive and have seen it all before, dressed in different clothes. At the end of the day, the class A/B/C buildings as well as the lots they sit on and the air rights above them are real appreciating assets, while the tenants are just the revenue stream for opex.
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The populist right AfD is doing also very well among gainers after the reunification.
This is about perceived current inequality, not about a much needed compensation of double de-industrialization and de-capitalization of the east (post WWII and Post 1990-Treuhand). In saxony the local candidates are well off business men with a tendency to war lord like attiude to local power grabs and corruption.

AfD is not thematizing any of this but is currently on a well funded campaign run to retcon and ursurp the civil movement of 89/90 as a nationalist movement and branding itself of it's heir. All this while having no problems of having high ranking Stasi-Officers in the party itself.

East Germany's larger cities with significant university clusters (Leipzig, Dresden, Halle, Rostock, Potsdam, Jena-Weimar-Erfurt) are doing well, the rest is aging away on well paved streets. That populist reigns there is no suprise if educated post reunifcation youth works in those cities or elsewhere and might return some day. But wouldn't write off the east yet, since a populist right with maximum 1/3 support of electorate is not too uncommon and it's all about how conservative CDU positions itself in relation to that.
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It comes at the cost of many people wasting a portion of their lifetime waiting in a subway rather than doing almost anything else that they'd probably prefer doing.

For every 60K people that spent 12 hours sheltered in the subway, 80 human-years of life was consumed.
Most networks are far from energy proportional; that is general usage barely affects consumption for cables which are “always on”.
I can't stand reading modern Germans. They generally read and think just like English, for one thing, so that you can barely tell you've entered another language.

It is pleasant, however to retreat to the 19th-century Germans, and bathe in their erudition and learning, from the period before the world went sour.
I’m really disgusted by how much recent tech IPOs inject pitch deck-style garbage into the S-1 filing, especially this one. I’ve always had a great amount of respect for the mediating nature of the S-1’s dry, candid, and ruthlessly honest assessment of business risks, and even though those things are still there, they’re blown out by marketing photos, full-page charts, and branding.

This is basically like putting perfume on a term paper. Regulators could do well to clamp down on this sort of activity, especially with the S-1’s reputation as a means to truly inform investors.
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The biggest factor is how much of the EV charging can be done at algorithmically controlled times.

If the load can be computer controlled to exactly fit the supply curve, the electricity becomes extremely cheap to provide.

If that same load can basically instantly switch from charging, to paused, to discharging we end up with an extremely smart and efficient grid that can very effectively utilize high variance generation sources.
Some others would say they understand the challenge of losing weight and the diet coke habit is a great first step! Do you know what you'd like to tackle as the next one?
> On the other hand, if you constantly keep pumping charge to maintain the desired potential difference between your original plates/grids, that precisely means that you are not allowing your plates to be fully screened: you get your drive field back in between the plates, but now you're basically back to the unscreened case and it seems that my original objections hold.

What happened to your previous realization that

> Oh! I hadn't understood that the ion is what's being screened, but of course it would be.

?

As I already explained: pumping electrons between the plates will (partially) restore unscreened conditions around them, but as the ion leaves, it goes into the surrounding plasma and gets screened, i.e. decoupled from the device, thus invalidating your original objections.

As an aside, I find it odd that you decided to post this comment above the earlier subthread where I explained screening to you. Maybe you just don't know any better, but it creates an impression that you are trying to rewrite the history of this discussion.
I have Comcast and used to pay the $50 a month for unlimited. It brought my bill $123 for internet. We don't have tv service with them. I switched to their business account that doesn't have caps and my bill dropped to $99 a month. But my download speed went from 150 to 75. But my upload went from 5 to 15. Download was never a problem but the better upload is nice.
Maybe the fundamental difference is that with a dj or even a producer you can't just download an album and see how they sound: the actual set will probably be unique, and in tune with the party. And yes I do want to know vaguely how it will sound.

Ok, now we're getting somewhere. Thats a very interesting point, thanks.
I read it as sarcasm, in the sense that the organizers seem to be putting a lot of effort into pretending they're not merely appropriating college age "study in commons" lifestyle.

So you take your psych 101 textbook to the commons and read mostly quietly for a half hour and then party all night with whoever else shows up to "study" and the only difference is you're older and not paying $50K/yr for the privilege to do so.
How do you read things like this? I'm overwhelmed but feel like there are nuggets all over in this document.
> Price signals may work but at the end of the day utilities need to be cheap enough that the poor can mostly use them without thinking twice.

No, utilities need to be subsidized for the poor (perhaps through s general subsidy, or otherwise through a utility-specific one) and perhaps also those somewhat less poor with special needs so that they can use what is essential without undue hardship; the prices of utilities for the rich don't need to be low enough that the poor could pay them without thought.
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Genuine question, with all the context and nuances you have provided, what positivity would bring to Beijing if they use military force? For me I dont see a militarized HK will help with the trade dispute in any way.
This material is concerning to me on a base level.

To me, it doesn't reflect positively on the cost and complexity to implement a large scale system. It presents much of the material without a simple guide to what should be optional, when, and where.

You almost need a huge number of people to even digest the material and then make decisions about it. It feels like a massive reflection of the government contracting industry. I see it illustrating the value of editorial or architectural control and a willingness to take risks by saying "no".
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I don't see what the point to any of it is other than some feel-good CYA maneuver. I fully expect that every single Apple laptop will be recalled eventually.
EVs don't need to be charged at peak usage times. We have ours scheduled to charge starting at 11pm every day (which is just before the lowest demand part of the day in my area), and most EVs include this functionality.

And as EVs become more common, I could absolutely see them being a useful tool in power generation. I'd absolutely allow the power company to control the home-charging of my car for a discount (and some agreement that i'd be able to charge to full at least once a day). The power company could enable more EVs to charge when there is a valley in demand, and turn some off when there are spikes. And all of that can happen without vehicle-to-grid systems which come with their own bag of tradeoffs.

Also, keep in mind that gas engines aren't 100% efficient (IIRC they are under 50% efficient). So even though there is theoretically 1.7 mw/h of power in a barrel of oil (I'm taking your number as true here), I assume that cars are only using a fraction of that (especially after all the refinement as well, which I'm assuming cuts into that efficiency even more).
In EU (the Netherlands) you can get 4G unlimited for phone for about 20$. I live with my friend hosts his own server for backups and home cinema.

For movies/tv shows/games we probably spend few TB a month.

I had never heard about such thing until now, it's ridiculous to have cap and I'm so glad that I don't have to live in such a place.
You mean something like dying a fiery death because your laptop caught fire on a plane?
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Aws was a blip on the rader for years when amazon was still one of the richest companies.
Wow this is great! Spend so much time on the original.
This is to protect the buildings from liability through issues with workers. You don't want to be sued by a worker for something and have the buildings on the table.
Just play the part bro.
The big challenge with V2G is planning for it. Consider the case of a single distribution feeder with 10 vehicle chargers that each support V2G. There are infinite combinations of real power (P) drawn by the chargers.

For simplicity though, let's limit to one of three states (0, full charging, full discharging). There are still 3^10 combinations for that one feeder. The utility needs to know that the system will work in all of those cases. Doing the analysis for that is quite complicated, and a lot of the tooling isn't there yet.
If you have power, the goal is to reduce power distance so you can function in the relationship with less power. The best people never do this.
What if current job pays exception Ally high for my geographic area?
There's still deception even if companies use dry language. Using deck-style language only makes it that obvious and easier to decipher.