skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forcing Permian Basin operators to "save" the natural gas currently being flared would probably increase the price of electricity in Texas because someone has to pay for the pipelines.

If it would decrease the price, then operators could have and would have already increased their profits by building the pipelines to deliver the gas to generating plants.

"building": building collectively and with the help of the financial industry.

You seem to believe that the oil industry consists of vicious subhumans or something that need to be forced to do the right thing even when the right thing co-incides with their economic self-interest.
Eh, photoshop and PDF editors exist and we can still use documents and photos as evidence.

But, there will definitely be a new cohort of expert witnesses with software tools (functional or just appearing so) to testify about the veracity or video.
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I don't find it annoying. I can just keep typing knowing everything is queued up.
Makes sense. This is helpful. Thanks, TeMPOral!
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No European country has to shoulder the burden of a few problem areas across the whole continent. Germany isn't judged by destitute residents of Portugal or wannabe EU residents of Montenegro. Whereas the US does get judged by any happening in its 50 plus semi-autonomous states.

People are scarred of coming to the US because of a few square blocks of Chicago and random improbable terror.
What about fuels like petrol? :)
Given that I've spent a lot of time developing remotely using Vim, 100ms feels pretty normal to me. After a bit, you develop a buffer in your head and you think in slightly larger chunks of text (a word or two or a short statement), and you express that and then review it for any fixes needed at that time. Error correcting is less immediate, but it's not always a bad thing, as it lets you focus a bit more on what you are expressing instead of whether it's got typos in it.
I did refer to figure 4 in that PDF. It shows aluminum around 16 kWh/kg for smelting. According to the accompanying pie chart, electricity used in smelting accounts for 75% of the energy used in aluminum production while bauxite mining, alumina refining, primary casting, and anode production account for another 25%. Starting from 16 kWh for smelting that would put the full energy intensity at 21 kWh per kg of aluminum.
Only for the UK, France and Germany
I’ve had to explain to social justice interested college kids in other countries that they would be exempt from the woes they think define America these days.

Its the same for most people visiting China. Whatever human rights abuses you perceive don't define China and you are probably exempt from that and any socioeconomic problem there.
I heard the same about the plants that refine the aluminum from ore. Also that those plants being there was a major reason a large airplane manufacturer (Boeing) is nearby.
It's more about introducing HN to some diversity of opinion. I thought we all agreed echo chambers are bad.
> Another thing that is too easily forgotten, is the energy use of the infrastructure that supports many technologies; most notably the mobile phone network and the internet (which consists of server farms, routers, switches, optical equipment and the like)

While I agree with you, it's worth noting that the server farms of our tech giants are already powered by renewable energy (Google 100%, AWS 50%, Microsoft 50%, ...).
The music is very catchy, indeed: http://deepsid.chordian.net/?file=/GAMES/M-R/M_U_L_E.sid
Most back-and-forth discussion here doesn't get moderated. The ones that do are not the kind that usually end in resolution.
When Microsoft took the Chromium browser as a base for the new Edge version, they replaced over 50 Google services.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300772/microsoft-google-...
My comment was posted on an article about Google, so it follows that it's connected to the minorities inside Google which were fighting against e.g. a censored search engine in China or military contracts.

Notably absent on their list of demands was the dissolution of most of anyone's fundamental rights.
It drives the people towards having one browser controlled by a mega corporation. We, at the very least, as developers need to support multiple browsers to prevent the monopolization that could one-day threaten the current style and freedom of the internet that we admire and like (generally).
Despite the downvotes, I think this is a likely scenario.
I did not read through all the comments as I was in mobile - my bad!

Appreciate the help!
The list is somewhat biased:

Iron (from iron ore)
[...]
Steel (from iron)
Paper (from standing timber)

Is the energy for digging up the ore or felling that tree + transport + machinery for production included? Steel should probably also include the numbers for iron.

The list would benefit from a common baseline. Without that these are just random numbers.
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The fun part is seeing those ranges for silicon after having spent the last several weeks researching ways to decrease the energy costs of producing “solar grade” (one nine less than monocrystalline wafer) silicon from silica. There’s a paper showing 1.6kg of 6-nines silicon from rice hull ash in 6hours in a 50kw arc reactor (300kwh) (https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/gc/c5gc0...)
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Hey everybody,
I'd like to share a little project I'm working on, it is a web app that allows you to pull public twitter timeline of any handle.
Its still very early stage and I am unsure what features I would like to prioritize so I'm sharing it here for some Feedback :]
LINK: https://feederb0t.herokuapp.com
Also, if you don't trust the web find our public Github repository here and clone it locally: https://graybot666.github.io/Feederbot-Public/
Looking forward to your feedback,
Thanks.

P.S. All credit for this work should go to BoyCook [on Github], this project just builds on his and others work.
> I think we'll need Type 5-and-then-some AI pilots before any of this becomes a reality in day to day commutes.

Wouldn't AI in flight become much easier to create compared to driving AI on the ground? I mean don't planes already have somewhat of an autopilot.

I have no experience or knowledge on the matter, but common sense seems to indicate that air-flight has considerably less environmental variables and could be significantly easier in most cases.
We really setup our own trap and fell in it with social media.

I can see only 2 options: accept the consequences and live in social media-created chaos and inquisition, or control them Chinese-style.
The visualisation works fine in newest Firefox on Linux, though only in Chromium do I get the sound effects (like a high pitched fan noise)
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Apple sent me an email directly stating my Mac was affected. My early 2017 MPB has run hot enough to burn through 2 $80 charging cables already.

I've since switched operating systems to Linux and have no intention of getting serviced as there are no authorized service centers in my area unless I get on a plane.

Would I trust anyone else touching my Mac anyway? The answer is no and I plan to buy a Huawei replacement laptop with 5G.
What comments? That's not something we commonly do, unless we've banned the account.
hah samsung is working on this tech for something like 10 years with korean academics and others. it would be interesting if that obvious educated guess was followed with some serious patent fillings or smthn
Thanks for that nice diagram! What happens when the light source moves and the shadow is far bigger than the object casting it ? Wouldn't the speed of the shadow on the surface be faster than the speed of light ?
Same reason cars were once called horseless carriages
Hey @harshalizee, thanks for the comment !
I agree with you that more things should be mobile-friendly websites. And I create this app because it fits better with the use in the morning as @arman_ashrafian said well.
But I did it in a PWA way, so if one day I want to push a website, it's working! I didn't do it yet because I wanted to focus on mobile users, but I will definitely take your comment in note.
How much energy does a car use compared to a horse? I get your point and I agree with you, but that is probably not the right question.
I guess that's a repercussion from the succession. It was a long time ago, but I'm sure there were many people in positions of power that still held those viewpoints and wanted to keep everything separate for when that (in their minds) inevitable day comes again.
Exactly this is just awesome!

Keeping conversations going and following threads that don't just live inside forums but also commenting sections etc. is something very difficult and annoying with a web browser.

This could be a solution to keep conversations going longer than one keeps the tab/window with the according thread open.
The bottom line is that older music seem better because time is a filter - we remember the good stuff. People have always complained that "music nowadays" is crap.
I used to think LinkedIn was kind of silly, but these days I think it’s what you make of it. I work in public sector digitalisation in Denmark, and in my experience, LinkedIn is the single greatest tool to connect with managers and decision makers, and in my anecdotal experience LinkedIn is crawling with those.

As an example of what I mean by this. I was the main developer for a set of Enterprise Architecture principles for implementing new software at the municipality where I work. I sometimes write articles about what I do, and because I still haven’t gotten around to building that personal web-page of mine, I typically publish my articles on LinkedIn. This particular article was noticed by a lot of people, including a manager at our “trade organisation” (not sure what the correct term for a public sector trade organisation is in English) and as a result I was invited to work on our national standards for enterprise architectural principals for municipalities.

I would have never had that kind of connection without LinkedIn.
It's not irrelevant at all. The ex-Google poster was using the fact that only a minority of Google employees are fighting for those causes to dismiss their views.

I countered by saying that vocal minorities were able to achieve great things in the past, so implicitly their arguments should be evaluated on their merit.
Technically true; I was considering the worst case of "oh no, gravity is messed up now, we're dead" or "oh no, that's too bright, we're dead".
In some cases it works well, I would much rather pay a monthly subscription for Adobe PhotoShop then shell out hundreds of dollars up front for a license. Sure, in the long run I may end up paying more, but psychologically it feels like you are saving.

You are correct that as the number of subscriptions continues to proliferate we will at some point hit subscription saturation, but luckily, with most subscriptions it's as easy to unsubscribe as get started in the first place.

From an HR perspective, I'm sure organizations are already feeling this pain as they look at all of their different teams and the amount of money they are paying for subscriptions.
You don't have to prove anything to opt out of indexing.
Polaroid arguably discontinued their instant film business because they bet on Zink[1]

Zink is a Polaroid technology that powers many instant cameras. I own a Polaroid-branded one (Polaroid SNAP), and it's awesome: it never ceases to amaze people. And when I tell them that yes, they can keep it, and it's also a sticker, their eyes light up!

I've made friends with this new digital iteration of the technology. But when the Impossible Project was started, that tech was still very far from being mature; and many people still prefer the look and feel of the instant film. They are different products.

Still, it wouldn't be fair to say that Polaroid didn't try to stay relevant in instant photography. Ultimately, Zink is a success - although it's a separate company now.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zink_(technology)
There is a hypothesis that older music seems better because it is cherry picked, and is being unfairly compared against a random selection of new music.

That hypothesis is, unfortunately, starkly false.

Music nowadays really is crap; time is not helping it. If we use our 20/20 hindsight and pick the best music of, say, the past 50 years, it will be heavily weighted toward the first 20 of those years.

Thirty years ago, sure, I thought that a lot of "music nowadays" was crap; but, unlike today, I also thought that a good deal of it wasn't.
I'm surprised there aren't rate limiting controls for home when certain rates are hit (that the home owner can set).
1. GPUs can be used as external devices did you know that?
2. I don't.
3. If I would, there are plenty other computers to buy that I can still repair way easier than this crap from Apple.
Hi @mc32, thank you for your question!
The final idea is to take the people's fashion sense, but for now the proposals only give you an idea of a type of clothing to wear, which really leaves room for your creativity! I ask people inside my app of what brand they prefer, and I think everything will make sense when the people will be able to express their fashion sense inside the Inspiration section. And btw, I also think about a Closet section, where you put your clothings. So when then app display the weather, the propositions matches with your clothes of your wardrobe.
A great looking app. Just signed up for Beta :-)
Went through the website but couldn't find a piece of info:
Keyboard shortcuts (preferably vim-like). Is it already there or something in the works? I've been using a plugin for HN for sometime now and would love the same experience on a desktop client as well.
Reminds me of vaporware Moller Skycar[0] and Gyrocopters[1] from yesteryear.

[0] https://moller.com/
[1] https://i.imgur.com/JisWKOR.jpg
Yeah, I misread the Figure numbering in that paper, it should have been '2' (which has a big black '4' next to it).

On the whole, and prima facie, that graphic delivers much the same message, and rings true. Can't expect the L-T author to do -all- the work.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdilp9LM0E

It rocked back and forth and bounced when it landed, clearly a lot of tuning left.
What's especially sad is that there have been cases in Florida that were tied back to officers thinking that a negative test meant that it contained cocaine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/magazine/how-a-2-roadside...

>When we examined the department’s records, they showed that officers, faced with somewhat ambiguous directions on the pouches, had simply misunderstood which colors indicated a positive result.
What a title!
Are you a battery engineer? My understanding is the EoL for Li Ion batteries is when they are at 80%. Below that, their internal resistance is too great to do anything useful with.
Interesting hypothesis B. Can there be a zone around a supernova where it is strong enough to accelerate planetary objects but weak enough to not just turn them into dust and gas?
This is amazing, I can't believe it works as well as it does. Very well done! Reminds me a bit of mobirise.com.

I'm curious to hear about your future plans for monetization? Premium blocks? Concurrent sites creation limit?

I can also see that right now the project is cached in the browser session. Any plans to have import/export of project files in order to better manage several projects at once? Or a desktop version?
Problem is pipelines are a regulatory nightmare to build, even in texas. It is getting even harder to build because so much pressure has been focused towards renewables. The northeast has the same issue. Opposition to natural gas pipelines means gas shortage in winter months. They retired their coal plants and now use diesel generators for peak load.
Wasn't there a huge fuss about one of the Simpsons characters last year?
You can do Disneyland in a day if it’s not too crowded

Universal Studios’ AP is a lot cheaper but the park needs to add a lot more rides to match Disneyland
Hey @arman_ashrafian, thanks for your message! I share that thought with you. Btw, I made this app in a PWA way, so if one day I see that a lot of people prefer to use it on web, it's still possible.
It is not uncommon for a submission to get that many points and zero comments. No voting ring is implied. The votes on this submission look perfectly legit to me. Probably they were from users who found the article interesting but don't have anything substantive to say about the topic.

Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so could you please email hn@ycombinator.com with concerns like this instead of making it the first comment in a thread?
And what are you going to do with that money in one year. If you’ll need to invest it again the answer is not so obvious.
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keyboard shortcuts is in the works :)
That is depressing.
"including the energy used to feed, clothe, educate, entertain, transport"

As Sagan might not have Said:

If you want to make a kilo of virgin aluminium, you must first invent the global economy.
"View oriented" like https://www.liftweb.net/
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For example, when a light source is super close to an object and the shadow gets super big really far away, and the light source moves?

t0: SO U1 (U1 in shadow)

t1: S~~~~~~~~~~>U1 (shadow leaves top first)
O~~~~~~> .
~> .
.
.
'
U2

Dotted line is the path of a fixed point on the shadow during the time S moves.

I didn't do the precise math, but I'm pretty sure the tangential velocity of the shadow along the dotted line won't be greater than the speed of light. The curvature of the "wave front" formed by the tips of the arrows ">" above will be lesser than the dotted line curvature, so the photons near the top of the diagram hit the dotted edge before the ones towards the bottom. This is because the source, S, takes time to move away from O.

Note that the wavefront formed by the photons moves radially outward from S, but ascii art is limiting.
Not sure where you're getting your misinformation, but LA uses less water than the farms of the Central Valley or Southern California.

Cut the water supply and LA will do fine, but the farms will die. (Millions of voters vs. a handful of relatively minor donors. It's an easy decision.)
Assuming you haven't switched partition schemes to something like LUKS with pre-boot authentication.
It's not just "seconds and minutes". It can provide 70 MW for 10 minutes and 30 MW for 3 hours.
Scientists create 20-qubit Schrödinger cat states
This was all very cool up until I needed to create a Yack account. Yeah, nah.
Ok. I will consider adopting this in my life.
Think it was the 386 that first had protected mode...
The metal casing of many laptops reflects the xrays, hence you can't see anything inside them.
> Currently i use another browser for this(firefox is for browsing hackernews, chrome is for work since devtools are better)

Have you tried Firefox Developer Mode? I find it to be lots better, especially if you are using grid or flexbox.
> air-flight has considerably less environmental variables

Does it? Instead of routing in two dimensions you now need to do it in three. You then also need to take into account other actors who are also routing in three dimensions. There are no road delineators in the sky.

There's also the rather obvious safety concern that in the event of a malfunction, an accelerating, out of control thousands-of-pounds mass accelerating forwards becomes an accelerating, out of control thousands-of-pounds mass accelerating forwards and coming down due to gravity.
John McPhee describes the demolition in The Founding Fish.
I examined the ARM-1's barrel shifter on the die [1]. It takes roughly 10% of the chip so it's a fairly hefty investment.

8-bit chips probably didn't have a barrel shifter because they were very limited in functionality. (I didn't realize how limited until I looked at mainframes of the time.) Functions like multiply and divide are more useful than barrel shifting, and those were missing too. Barrel shifting is sort of a frill. As for the Z80, it was very, very tight on space so it's not surprising the barrel shifter was lacking. It didn't even have an 8-bit ALU; it had a 4-bit ALU that was used twice per operation.

[1] http://www.righto.com/2015/12/reverse-engineering-arm1-ances...
The auto industry takes it too far and shoot themselves in the foot imo, do you agree? Or are the examples I've seen insignificant? Most of the cost cutting disasters I've heard about in autos are non electronic.
I think it’s also fascinating how this is an age-old philosophical problem, as in the stories of the malicious genie. People have known for a long time that the rigid, precise specification of morality or desirability isn’t easy.
Wow! Hard to think of a more iconic landmark in that case.
> The difference is that you don't have the option to reduce your consumption today to save money.

are you saying that in Texas you pay a fix charge for electricity regardless of usage?

Assuming that this is not the case, it seems to me that should he/she take the same actions as said friend there would be a reduction to the bill too, just a lot less significant, due to the price being a lot less
This is something awesome to consider. Perhaps we only passed through the beam. Perhaps the beam itself was rotating.
I still get 0,05٪ interest! That is technically positive!
Automated its unlikely. I would guess they have a list of allowed characters to OCR to (right? Please!?)

But if entered manually by someone?
You can definitely default on a negative rate mortgage, by not paying your monthly payment. You cannot pay nothing each month. Instead, the principal reduces each month by more than the amount you paid. You still have a term over which you have to pay the mortgage off. No-one is offering (or will offer) a negative interest rate _interest only_ mortgage.

Negative interest rates make sense if you consider them as a lender trading current cash-on-hand for future cash flow. That is, the bank has $200k today, but it would rather see that broken up into payments over 10 years, even if it has to pay you to do it.

When viewed through this lens, it becomes clear that the factor driving this is likely that the bank is being disincentivised from storing the cash directly.
This comment breaks the HN guideline against insinuating astroturfing. If you have evidence, I'd like to see it—we take actual evidence seriously and always look into it. But the overwhelming majority of comments like this one turn out to be nothing more than the commenter imagining an explanation for comments they disagree with. Such imagination feels extremely convincing, but it is imagination nonetheless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here is a quickly made plot, both linear and log-yaxis.
https://i.imgur.com/BIRAZzJ.png
> Damore was fired because he violated California labor law.

From Wikipedia[1] referring to a Guardian article:

> The company fired Damore for violation of the company's code of conduct.

Which is correct?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Ch...
I would suggest optimizing the images, or lazy loading them. I have relatively fast internet but the images were taking a while to load.

I'd also suggest using JPEG 2000 or WebP images, as they can be faster to load.

Considering this is shared here, I am willing to wait but usually I would click out if the images are taking too long to load especially considering that images provide major info in terms of whether I want to use this or not.
Went last week, very disappointed by the new Star Wars attraction, essentially a glorified video game - I’ll be skipping Star Wars land next time
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