skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't seem to understand either pumped-hydro,

No, you don't seem to understand pumped-hydro. The largest pumped-hydro plant in the US, the Bath County Pumped Storage Station, can store enough energy to satisfy US energy use for 250 milliseconds. Yes, milliseconds. Suppose you want to have enough pumped-hydro to store US energy use for, say, 1 hour. There are 3600 seconds in an hour. You need ~15 000 pumped hydro plants. Where are you going to build them? Where are you going to get enough water from?

> or economics. Using hyperbolic language like "through the roof" when we cannot magically wave a wand to make a 100% renewables world in one go, but are approaching it asymptotically means that the pricing function, the costs, and the outcomes are not 'through the roof' but a function of where we are in a migration.

Of course it will be "a function" of something. The above sentence is devoid of content. The real question is, what will be the shape of the function? I argue that if we depend on renewables on majority of our energy, the cost per kWh produced will go through the roof. I argue why it is so. Do you have any argument? Show me your math, like I do in my every comment.

> And have upside consequences like increased employment, which means the spend is not 'hole in the ground' but actually has net beneficial effects on the economy.

This is just a broken window fallacy. Having lots of people spend lots of effort on something that before didn't require so many people will be greatly detrimental, not beneficial to economy.

> To repeat what I said elsewhere you have mis-represented the 2/3 losses figure.

Ah, thanks. I misinterpreted the figure.
Chiming in from Hamburg, Germany with its main station at 550.000 pax per day in 2018. About crossing the oceans: What about floating submerged pipes, maybe going to artificial island hubs in international waters with blackjack and hookers? Has the hype left the loop? Where is your VISION?
Just to play devil's advocate, and I do agree with the climate research, the primary mechanism for global temperature is heat. There is one thing that I think could muddy the waters of historic variability: the history of geologic trends in correlation to expended heat versus CO2 emission. I think it does the challenges of climate science a disservice to use CO2 concentration as a simplified blank check.

Before the industrial revolution the largest non-cyclical emission of CO2 was geological events. That is primarily volcanic eruptions, but not limited to that. Large geologic events expend a large amount of CO2 and heat in different ratios. For example an earthquake will expend more heat than CO2, especially compared to a volcano, and an underwater volcano will expend less CO2 into the atmosphere than a surface volcano.

This is more complicated than it sounds because CO2 emission into the atmosphere isn't uniform due to sequestration factors by geography and chemical reactions from ocean chemistry. This is also complicated in that greater than 2/3s of the planet surface are oceans and water is the fastest and most efficient natural conductor of heat.

I believe the current climate science indicates that mean ocean temperature is rising faster than mean atmospheric temperature, which could be due to a combination of various considerations. This by no means suggests that human activity isn't responsible for temperature rise in part or whole, but it could mean there are additional natural factors that human activity is exacerbating beyond CO2 concentration.
We're still ironing out a few things but unit tests for various functions then we have smol statistically representative datasets for each model. In CI we train a model on the small dataset (aim for <5 mins e2e) then have a a suite of model metrics we care about, tests confirm values are within acceptable bounds and the test values are pulled into the PR.
The author of this article needs a lesson in what facts are.
There tends to be a mindset of "we can't replicate every current business model without copyright, so it must be preserved." That's a false argument for two big reasons:

1. Creativity adapts to the environment available. The guy who whines "I can't make my artistic vision without the current licensing/copyright financing model to bankroll it" isn't that different from an artist in 1600 whining "I can't make my vision because CNC milling does not exist." If you want to tell a story, you'll find a way to make a go of it with the tools you have. Maybe you'll have to make a lower budget version, or come up with an installment format to make it viable-- sometimes it's the constraints that give creative works their charm.

2. Could we be missing out on entire new styles of expression because of copyright? Collaborative and evolutionary works, especially at scale, has always been touchy under a regime that requires attribution and ownership. Maybe the Great American Wiki replaces the Great American Novel. Voluntary open licensing doesn't actually help there-- compliance is still complex, expensive, and time consuming, even if it's done with a good intent.

As for crowdfunding, I'd say it's extremely meritocratic once bootstrapped. Once the system has been around for a while, it becomes clear who delivers.
So why is Venus so warm?
(Just FYI, I automatically downvote links that have no context or description.)

"Jancovici : Can we save energy, jobs and growth at the same time?"

08/01/2018

Jean-Marc Jancovici

Jancovici's conference in ENS School of Paris - 08/01/2018

> The depletion of natural resources, with oil to start with, and the need for a stable climate, will make it harder and harder to pursue economic growth as we know it. It has now become urgent to develop a new branch of economics which does not rely on the unrealistic assumption of a perpetual GDP increase. In this Colloquium, I will discuss a "physical" approach to economics which aims at understanding and managing the scaling back of our world economy. Biography : Jean-Marc Jancovici, is a French engineer who graduated from École Polytechnique and Télécom, and who specializes in energy-climate subjects. He is a consultant, teacher, lecturer, author of books and columnist. He is known for his outreach work on climate change and the energy crisis. He is co-founder of the organization "Carbone 4" and president of the think tank "The Shift Project".
The iPhone does this, at least for the mic. Cortana would randomly turn on the mic even while I wasn't in the app, when I opened the app it stopped. I uninstalled it.
Sure, but that changes nothing about the central argument that such restrictions would not stop social media platforms from thriving.
I use the almond scala kernel for jupyter and I think its awesome.
Google ChromeCast is the usual solution for this. ~$50, the size of a hockey puck, needs a phone-charger for a power plug, and does HDMI-out.

Turns your TV into a YouTube/Netflix/Spotify/Hulu, and the remote-control is your phone.

If by "arbitrary 1080p content", you mean a collection of media files of your own, I'd get a Raspberry Pi 3B+ kit for $50, plug in a large external HDD or two, and setup a Plex server.
'meat' created by bacteria after feeding it certain nutrients

Isn't this more accurate? I guess making it look, taste, and feel like meat is an accomplishment.
Is this similar to ZeroTier https://www.zerotier.com/?
It's probably more stringent now heh.
Read this book to learn about "willingness to pay"
https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Desig...

Sadly, I haven't seen anything literature on real value based pricing
Because it's more than just UI? To stick with your example, where in OSS git do you get a task runner that executes your test pipeline? Do you think that might use some RAM to coordinate? Yes. Where do you get an audit log exporter in OSS git? Etc.
> and I'm incredibly excited about WebAssembly outside the browser.

What's your take on the browser, instead? Curious to hear your point of view.

p.s. Thanks for working with the Alliance, I think it's great news overall.
Searching requires that you know what you’re searching for. So, 1) I doubt most people use the settings search in general and 2) I doubt most people know there are settings related specifically to advertising to search for.
> A week's supply of biofuels, given our current energy use of 101 quadrillion BTU/year, and assuming 100% efficiency, is 2 quadrillion BTU. At the peak of our production, we produced around 0.2 quadrillion BTU worth of biodiesel. This means that a week's supply of biofuels is around 10 years of production.

We produce around ten times as many gallons of ethanol as biodiesel. It has about half as many BTUs, which implies we would need around two years of production. Not really a problem if we only need that much once every two years.

It's also assuming we couldn't produce more than we do now, or do something more efficient like convert existing coal fired plants to burn biomass from algae.

> The real question is, why would you do so, if it would be much, much cheaper to just build enough nuclear plants to cover your needs. France managed to do it in the 70s., why can't we do it 50 years later?

Because we do whatever costs less. Nuclear plants are expensive. On the other hand, so is storage. It's not actually clear which one is going to cost less in the long term, so what we should probably be doing is building both at the same time.

Which has the additional advantage of replacing fossil fuels even faster, because the two technologies have very little overlap in terms of either labor expertise or materials use, and complement one another in that there is more electricity demand during the day when solar is generating but there is still non-trivial demand at night which can be handled by nuclear. They're not coming at the expense of one another, they're both coming at the expense of fossil fuels, so the more the merrier.
Honestly I'm not sure your comment is any more helpful to me than just leaving a down vote. You havn't explained what you mean, there isn't an argument and I'm at a loss trying to follow your complaint. I could see that applying to the other part of the sentence - "ideas that the individual taxpayers vehemently oppose" - but the bit you've picked out is just literally true. Taxes are levied to finance schemes whether the taxpayer agrees with them or not.
IBMs 200K Macs have made the workforce happier and more productive
> " the other tracked the individual calendars of staff working in the community platforms, human resources, and communications teams, she said. The tracking had made the staff in those departments feel unsafe, the spokeswoman said. [...] The suspensions have been a hot topic of discussion at the company in the last week, stoking anger among some workers and prompting claims that Google is punishing people who have taken a stand against management"

To what extent do the involved parties agree on the facts as presented in this article? It seems incredible that any Google employees would be upset that somebody was fired for what amounts to stalking other employees. I assume they don't believe that's what actually happened, or they're just being totally unreasonable..
Or reduce commuting through advancements in remote work
I recommend caution when asking the agents at Shannon if the Republic of Ireland still has sovereignty from the United States of America. In my experience, it hits a nerve.
I feel like porn moderation is a more trivially binary choice: Legal vs. illegal, in a way that is crisp, clear, and clearly legislated.

Whereas what about weird videos that try to sell products to kids under the age of 5? What about anti-semites? What about subtle racism (Is that even something we want to moderate?) What about bullying?

The moderation space, and connectivity between peers, is orders of magnitude larger on youtube. Hours of content controlled for.
4 Shady Facts Netflix Doesn't Want Viewers to Know
The fun part is that the DMV sold them the info about your registrations.
Scary Xiaomi Phone (2017)
As an engineer, I revel in avoiding these monolithic supercorps. I don't know why anyone would want to work in centralizing innovation and creativity into the hands of a few greedy people.
> If someone there is having an issue with the process, they can withdraw their entry request and leave.

Since August 15, US border agents in Canada are now able to prevent you from withdrawing if they detain you. (Bill C-23)
PSF News: Seeking Developers for Paid Contract Improving Pip
> The easy way to ensure that a switch is waterproof is to use something like a magnetic reed switch or hall effect sensor,

Um, using a hall effect sensor is exactly the kind of "soft switch" we're trying to avoid, no?

And magnetic reed switches are big, very expensive, vibration sensitive and failure prone. Since this is security, you're going to want it to fail open and you're not going to want a switch that closes briefly if you vibrate the phone.

Mechanical engineering is hard. Let's go shopping! ;)
Yet another “what’s my IP” & Favicon endpoint
API URL: https://www.gentlentapis.com/tools/v1/getIp & https://www.gentlentapis.com/tools/v1/getFavicon

Supports ?format=text and ?format=json.

Just wanted to share in case someone needs it. :)
I have verified some of the claims in the article myself with a Redmi phone running MIUI 10, as it keeps connecting to api.ad.intl.xiaomi.com (and similar), and since it's blocked on my network, it keeps retrying every minute indefinitely.

More info: http://blog.thijsbroenink.com/2016/09/xiaomis-analytics-app-...
seems less about Google and more about the balance of power shifting towards tech workers over the tech employer
Breaking out energy demand by country doesn’t work, because the climate doesn’t care whether a ton of CO2 is emitted by an American or a newly middle class Indian. There is no strategy based on renewables and conservation that even plausibly allows the third world to reach the development of the first world while averting climate change.
Sure but it's fair to say that's a different problem. I'd be totally fine with that especially as part of a broader right-to-repair bill.
Jack, CEO of Twitter Visits Nigeria
ctrl-f "democracy" - 0 results
> If you absolutely must have 100% uptime then $1000 will get you a diesel generator which would keep the batteries topped off if you ever need it

Ah, great, so every house that has food in a freezer or likes to stay warm in winter now has to buy and maintain a diesel generator. Welcome to the great new renewable world.
A human protein co-regulation map reveals new insights into protein functions
I work in infrastructure... Nothing has changed here. This is leasing. Dell also has a division named Dell Financial Services that will lease or loan you the hardware.
I think that ruling flies in the face of the Constitution, there's no exception that I can find in "the right of the people" that says non-citizens don't qualify.

There are a variety of federal laws that codify that as well, and I think they're all unconstitutional also.
Yes, you’ve made your point. Take stock in the fact you’ve reiterated the whole debate is an incalculable, formless hypothetical in the first place without saying so explicitly.
The real problem to me is the Climate TMI. There are just too many arguments/opinions/facts etc., there's no way to tell which one I should believe based on my gut feelings (which is the only thing I can rely on at the end of the day). This OP looks sensible, but I'm sure I'll be persuaded by any other article that has an opposite argument. I'm practically drown in the sciences. I hope it's not just me.
Is IDFA carried in the http request header? Can government track this too?
Culture is public. By arguing that it should be privately owned, you are effectively saying that poor people shouldn't be allowed to participate.

Disney's business model has been destroying the potential of thousands of great artists who failed to reach cultural relevancy because their parents were barely making ends meet and couldn't afford to buy in, and the cultural language is now locked behind a gate with a toll (if it can be licensed at all).

Why are the greedy profit motivations of a giant multinational corporation more important to you than poor children's cultural participation? You aren't being a rational realist, you are just being selfish and classist.

Disney built their business on the back of the public domain. Every single great movie they made builds off the work of others. Now they are trying to silo these once-free properties behind IP laws to shut the door behind themselves.

Can you name single great work of art created by Disney that isn't mostly derivative? Reflect on why you can't: they are monetizers of existing culture, not creators of originality.
Not only that, the founder of xHamster doesn't claim they manually review everything: "We don’t allow just anything to be uploaded and immediately appear on the site. Our A.I. reviews the content for some violations or refers it to our team for additional review. We have had a legion of volunteers... who review uploads in exchange for in-site rewards, as well as the health of the community."

Also, this line from the article is blatantly false and shows they know nothing about how content moderation actually works at Facebook or other social media sites: "Although some links and words do trigger a basic moderation algorithm that prevents the update from being posted, most moderation is done post hoc, often after problematic content is reported by users."

Last I heard a lot of the haskell core team worked at facebook on Sigma (https://engineering.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haske...). Everything goes through Sigma and while Sigma is primarily a rules engine there are also many sophisticated ML algorithms in the background as well. It's ludicrous to suggest that xHamster's "AI" is better than the haskell team's rules and ML from the people who created PyTorch.

Content can be sequestered for manual review. It doesn't even sound like xHamster pays anyone to do this. I guarantee Facebook pays hundreds if not thousands of people to review content already.

Facebook is just as culpable for underage images or video as xHamster. It processes payments so it's responsible for anti-money laundering. I'm sure there's a list of things it does regulate.

The issue is not with Facebook's technical ability or willingness to identify and sequester problematic content. It's all about what they consider problematic.

Making them legally responsible for bullying or hate speech is probably going to happen and may be necessary. But it's silly to make believe they don't already deploy extremely sophisticated technology, sequester content, and perform human reviews for all the things they are held legally responsible for.
It's not a good idea to make leap of logic regarding what a particular community may feel.
Is that a good way to cope with confusing events, to assume that other people are just being totally unreasonable?
Let's go shopping ... for a metallic surgical implant for our index finger so we can operate the hall-effect-based camera/mic on-off switch. :)
Sounds like Andy Grove's "High Output Management", which I believe mentions that values need to be something you can use to make a decision one way or the other.
Doesn't being subject to search apply regardless of citizenship status?
> If the human population were limited to one-child per couple for a few decades, then everyone can have a family, and the population still declines.

Yeah, you can fuck right off. I may consider stopping at 3 kids. Or I may not.
>In the past, one of the employees said, employees could review internal documents for virtually any project underway within the company. In recent years, however, more projects have become closed off and accessible only to smaller groups on a “need-to-know” basis, the employee said.

>Earlier this year, following a series of leaks to the media, Google executives tightened their grip. They shut down thousands of contractors’ access to company documents, citing security concerns. Google’s senior managers, meanwhile, warned employees not to access or share certain documents.

Can someone explain what the controversy is here?

It reads like two people exfiltrated documents and shared them with the media to further their political (?) ends, after being part of a larger group that was warned not to do so.
They present their INTERPRETATION of the facts. For example some may call ANTIFA as a force for good and others as a terrorist organization. Snopes themselves have a pretty clear slant/agenda.
I think you meant "lede".
And many libraries (especially my local city library) have a notable lack of technical books, so you need quite a bit more than dedication and critical thinking if you're going to go that route.
How about everyone goes to work and does their job and goes home. You can believe X, I can believe Y, and both of us believe Z, but XYZ doesn’t have anything to do with doing our jobs so we shouldn’t let it prevent us from doing our jobs. Super cool that everyone likes their own things though, I support liking things unrelated to job, just weird that people demand that their job adheres to whatever weird thing they like.
It currently works with Deedle and XPlot.Plotly (which I personally far prefer to FSharp.Charting). We're also adding XPlot.GooglePlots support for rendering the charts inline.
With 10% of netflix customers volume but how many will drop netflix of that number for disney? Disney will do fine so will netflix. Plenty of room for both.
The theory behind managers soliciting anonymous comments from workers is that this cuts through preference falsification. Preference falsification is when somebody lies about their beliefs or opinions, often due to perceived social pressure or lack of trust. Preference falsification is a real problem, not just in business settings but throughout the broad domain of human interaction.

Unfortunately soliciting anonymous comments is often ineffective at combating preference falsification because when a boss tells their workers that comments are anonymous, the workers simply don't believe it (and often they're right not to.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
A Simple Guide to the Bulking and Cutting Cycle
https://puri.sm/ makes great laptops with hardware switches. I have one, love it, and reluctantly accept that this market will always just be the same ~1400 nerds.
When it comes to building the body of your dreams, there are many different strategies. Two techniques for gaining muscle mass and losing body fat are commonly referred to as bulking and cutting.
Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max camera review
> Evolution has created the rules that one doesn't mix politics with business

This 'rule' is a purely artificial construct encouraged to ensure the common employees keep their heads down and let those in charge continue screwing over them and/or society. The history of organized labor involves no less than straight murder of labor activists by company owners.
There are Firefox extensions that let you use chat on the standard mobile site.
iOS, the Future of macOS, Freedom, Security and Privacy
CockroachCloud PM here -- we hear you on the transparent pricing. Cloud pricing is transparent, see here
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Glad to hear you signed up for the beta. We've been letting people off in batches and hope you can use CockroachCloud for your apps! If you have any feedback on the beta product, do let us know!
> Multiple laboratory experiments have confirmed that atmospheres rich in carbon dioxide retain more heat from radiative sources. Here's one you can do at home: https://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/Resources/jesei/co2gr....

I don't think the book is arguing that CO2 rich atmosphere don't retain more heat. Factors like these don't exist in isolation though. And he seems to be arguing that variations in natural factors explain the global climate history better than CO2 levels. I'm not sure if that's true, but that seems to be the point that needs debunking, if it isn't.