skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. My calculations assume the wind does not blow at night, that night-time power use is the same as daytime power use even though most people will be asleep, and that storage costs will not continue to decline despite anticipated improvements.

It also has the imperfect assumption that storage becomes totally worthless after 4000 cycles instead of gradually degrading, but that degradation starts at the first use and I don’t know the curve so I can’t integrate it to find the total lifetime stored energy, which might be higher or lower than the simplified model I’m giving here.
I'd take sketchy over sketcherly any day.
> because in the end it's just a bunch of code running statistical computations

... says a bunch of neurons that run on chemical reactions and electrical impulses. I think this line of thinking reeks of dualism - it creates a special something that is above explanation, a different essence.

But seriously, I believe the difference comes from embodiment. When we embody our AI friends they will be able to grasp purpose and meaning. We get our meaning from 'the game', when AIs will be players they will understand much better. Let them try out their ideas on the world and see the outcomes, grasp at causality, have a purpose and work on it. This will fill the missing piece. It's not that they are fundamentally limited, it's that we have the benefit of having a body that can interact with the world. Already AIs that work in simulated worlds (board games, video games) are getting better than us. We can't simulate reality in all its glory, and it is expensive to create robotic bodies. On the other hand humans and our ancestors have had access to the world from the beginning.
Based on my experience from using Ubuntu, it's perhaps more accurate to say that the Ubuntu 19.04 (and earlier) compositing window manager is slow enough to make new hardware feel old. It's extremely noticeable.

The blogpost they link to says as much:

> Gnome Shell 3.32 in Ubuntu 19.04 feels slower than Unity and other desktops. If you have a slow machine then it won’t run smoothly. Perhaps more surprisingly even if you have a fast machine then it still would not run completely smoothly.

(https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-perfor...)
What the Hell Has Hollywood Got Against Nikola Tesla?
> give them examples, then later explain the general definitions and syntax.

I think it's worth nothing that there are different learning styles, and some people actually enjoy bottom up approaches more.
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He set out to be number one and he isn't anymore, I get that as a personal story. That's all he was aiming at.

Cars and legs are apples and oranges. We have a car racing category, motorsport. Racing categories have very tightly defined specs to keep driver skill in the game. Stock cars and open wheelers limit how much traction control they can use otherwise it becomes too easy.

This is like cyborg legs being invented and smashing all the records. It would take some of the shine off running for sure.
In countries like the DRC or Nigeria, with large oil and natural gas reserves, who are we to tell them that they can no longer exploit those reserves for their benefit? If we don't want oil and gas to be extracted for wealth, then we need to force market dynamics in such a way as to make the exploitation of oil and gas unprofitable worldwide. We have zero moral authority on dictating what these countries can and cannot do with their own resources
This is why being the best at something is always a bit of an arbitrary level of ability. If there were only 100,000 humans I would stand a pretty good chance at training to be one of the best basketball players in existence. If there were a trillion people lebron would be struggling for a bench spot. I think its healthier to have some other type of goal generally.
> Now what is your cyborg player going to do?

Build and configure the machine better. Quick, tell me, what's better at playing Chess:

* Or is Xeon Platinum 8180 with maximum 8-way SMT memory sharing with a big-ol 1TB shared transposition table the fastest computer?

* Or will it be cheaper to rent AWS-instances with their V100 GPU in the cloud? Or is the latency for the remote-access bad?

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The cyborg player has to still build and program the machine to compete. It is all part of the competition. Can you run a transposition table shared between chess engines over RDMA 10Gbit SFP+ Fiber? Or is that too slow?

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This isn't hypothetical at all. The winner of the World Computer Chess Championship 2019 was 8 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 running Komodo vs 24 x Amazon AWS Intel Xeon E5 running Shredder.

Configuring and building the computer is still an incredibly difficult part of cyborg chess.
It's curious that this was flagged and removed so quickly from the front page.

What's the problem?

I don't agree with the author's take. But Tim Berners-Lee is not above criticism. These are fair questions to ask about his motivations and track record.

Moreover Berners-Lee can put his decades of celebrity behind his views, and get access to megaphones like the New York Times. There is no conceivable threat posed by this dude and his Tinyletter page.

Sorry HN mods, think you got this one wrong.
My vague understanding is there are still mixed feelings about it.
Perhaps "Everything in the Free plan"? I read it correctly, but it would be a pretty easy mistake to make.
The 1993 Battle of Mogadishu isn't the best example, as you alluded to. I'm trying to think of some other representative military actions. The 1944 Warsaw Uprising can be argued to be both evidence in favor of and against your point. It also featured an urban battle between well-trained military forces and civilians with limited supplies, and it's a bit better of an example because it features a much larger military force with the express goal of pacifying the city. The civilian resistance does eventually end up defeated, but only after the Germans essentially destroyed the city and acted without any regard for civilian casualties. You could argue that the Warsaw Uprising shows how much damage a civilian population with limited weapons could inflict. But I would point out that it shows what happens when the nation state doesn't care about collateral damage and needs to crush a resistance (which is why examples featuring the US as the nation state like the Battle of Mogadishu aren't the best).
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21642289
If I recall correctly there is no math until you get to Extra. But I agree that the questions are trivial and the multiple-choice format makes it even more trivial.

I am honestly shocked that there are any operators that aren't Extra class.
If you're delaying a DSLR/mirrorless because the camera already in your pocket is good, I would suggest also looking into the highest end point-and-shoots. They're getting crazy useful, they shoot in RAW, they have most of the bells and whistles you'd want outside of physical stuff like changeable lens options. Mine is Good Enough™ for everything hobbyist and I'm super happy with it. And it fits in my pocket.
* Antarctica!

Every map you see in Chile & Argentina includes a large pie-slice of the continent... and pretty close to being the same pie slice as each other's.

Not to mention some islands which one of them tried to take over, once upon a time.
I love the idea of sleepily putting together some charts for management and accidentally making 2 into 22 and being too tired to realize
On the other hand...

Most people have a built in bias to stick with what they know rather than trying something new. We probably stay in bad situations much longer than we should. Ymmv
Whenever I see claims like this "Old Hardware" seems to invariably mean "5 years old" and "fast" means "not as perceptibly slow as the bloated crap, but noticeably not as fast as actually fast things".
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Imagine if that Unity experiment didn't suck up five years of time.
> So sad that they didn't continue to develop it

You can run MATE with the Mutiny desktop preset, if performance is an issue. It's essentially the same workflow as on the old Unity 2D, and it isn't even Ubuntu specific.

> Without Ubuntu, we would probably have no Steam Linux client.

SteamOS is actually based on Debian, and Steam is even in the Debian non-free repos.
The author is probably thinking about what is sometimes called 5 mph bumpers.

These minimize/protect the vehicle from damage in low speed collisions not pedestrians. The insurance industry lobbied for them and my guess is that the "cybertruck" will ultimately come with some form of bumper.

As a pedestrian, what you certainly don't want to be hit with is a hood ornament like those on Jaguars. Fun fact originally hood ornaments were statically affixed to the vehicle before people realized they would eviscerate pedestrians.
Crimea has autonomy since forever and local parliament and government. Most schools in Crimea are russian speaking. This talk of abuse is just propaganda.
Feuding Korean firms risk disrupting electric car battery supplies
There was a four game match a few years ago where Hikaru Nakamura, #5 in the world at the time, played four games again Stockfish.

For two of the games, Nakamura had access to Rybka which was about 200 rating points weaker than Stockfish. Stockfish won one and the other was a draw.

For the other two games Nakamura did not have Rybka, but had white and pawn odds. Again, one win for Stockfish (b pawn odds) and one draw (h pawn odds).

In all the games, Stockfish was playing without its opening book and its endgame tablebases. It was running on a 3 GHz 8-core Mac Pro.

The games are here [1].

[1] https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfish-outlasts-nakamura-...
Why are you not looking for a new job instead?
I'm a bad writer. I'm not trying to throw in the towel, say software can't be fun, or that useful products can't be built within the status quo.

I can look at the product I develop and rattle off an impressive list of capabilities, talk about how well it is designed, say why it's the best product for the job on the market and talk about successes in the field. But I can also look at it and see a laundry list of design flaws, architectural limitations and unrealized enhancements that may never get time on the schedule.

The second side of the fence exists, and security people inherently spend a lot of time there. Spend enough time there and you see how the system that is the sum of all software is a mess. I'm not even saying it's a bad thing, just that it's the inescapable reality.

Your architecture is like swimming in a school of fish. By moving with the group you benefit from the successes of the group. Ubuntu, docker, typescript and delivering your product as webapp brings a lot of benefits in featureset, maintenance and training that come at a reduced cost. For the same reasons I also prefer to use as much popular off-the-shelf tooling as possible and stick to familiar designs wherever possible.

You're probably doing better than most. But even with all that benefit, the components of your system are fraught with defects and limitations that in a perfect world would already be solved problems. Both in the stack you use and your own software. And you make it work despite that. Great. That's not my point.
Another comment points out that he basically works for the US nuclear lobby (not that I think there's anything wrong with Nuclear). It's pretty clear reading this that he has a hidden agenda.
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I remember penet from the early Internet, although I never used it...

I agree that the OP / Service Provider - should read up on the legal issues surrounding a service like this... The Wikipedia link above is a good place to start. Ideally get a good lawyer and give that link to them...

If I had to make a choice, I would choose any other SaaS business, due to the historically contraversial nature of this type of service -- but that being said, I wish the OP good luck in his endeavor!
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So you want Facebook and other social media companies to pick and choose which facts to fact-check?
>We are spending more than $5T annually on fossil subsidies.

Ok, but China is adding millions of brand new drivers to the roads every year, they've had to institute a lottery system just to determine who can apply for a license. They're building roads, bridges, gas stations etc as fast as they can to accommodate all of the new drivers and you can see this documented in the China episode of Grand Tour last season. This is going to happen with or without subsidies (Besides, I highly doubt China is subsidizing their citizens petrochemical purchases in any meaningful amount).

China is going to have more drivers than the United States has people in the country in the near future and that will only continue to grow. Are you going to tell more than a billion people to never get a car and to only walk places?

What about the fact that China is actively constructing hundreds of coal power plants? Or the fact their middle-class is rapidly growing which will mean more energy demands (which will mean more fossil fuel consumption) and more consumer goods (more plastics, from fossil fuels)?

>Since the early 2000s, China's middle class has been among the fastest growing in the world, swelling from 29 million in 1999 (2 percent of population) to roughly 531 million in 2013 (39 percent of population).

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-middle-class/
Doesn't support Windows/Linux and here is the response from the support (Jim Neumann, Customer Relations Specialist):

> Sorry, but no. We are Apple only developers. Also the underlying technical structure of the database should not be messed with. The best bet: Buy a Mac and DEVONthink 3 Pro. You'll feel better about life. I promise. Haha!
Legally not true in which jurisdiction?
Can you elaborate on that a little? I've always gotten the impression that gnome is actively hostile to new contributors and anyone who isn't part of the "inner circle", so I'd be interested in hearing more about what that actually looks like, from someone who isn't very anti-gnome.
Any remote managers here? Looking fwd to learning from your daily rituals.
Helplessness
Have fun launching missiles at American cities and insurgents embedded in civilian targets. Even shooting missiles at the desert kill enough innocent bystanders to radicalize the enemy, now imagine doing that in Miami and Houston.
Benets of chat support services for businesses
Nope, France's president E.Macron tried to pull a fast one, raising tax on fuel and diverting the income towards financing the state, which was most needed because he also removed the ISF: Impôt sur la Fortune...
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-most-mindnumbing-of-office-t...
> This is a real hot take to be asserting as blithe fact.

Without knowing what is truly born of human hands, what value can art have? Our heuristics of establishing 'real' art are easy to manipulate. If we are presented with a soul-breaking poem and weep uncontrollably then its merit is regardless of its mortal provenance.
I see a lot of claims in there that sound reasonable, but with others I just don't know how to take them.

We won't have a problem with growing crops because we don't have now? That's a nice idea you got there, but we fail at distributing food as needed right now. Why would we get any better at it when growing it as before is getting harder?

I'm also not sure where these estimates of growing food supply are coming from. I mean, maybe? But certainly not by growing the same kind of crops in the same regions as now, cause at least in central Europe we are feeling the issues with that already. The last summers and falls just grew continuously worse with last year being an utter disaster. If we don't want to continue artificially watering everything, I guess we have to set for crops that need less water and more sun.
Go was never humans' game to begin with. It's a game intrinsic to all forms of space-based warfare. The heatdeath of the universe and geometry of black holes eventually segmenting space, is itself is a game of Go.
People have this idea that gun owners would stand in an empty field shooting at tanks with their handguns, and whoever won in that field battle would win the control of the country, which is quite silly.
First, if enough gunmen rose up, the US would be ruined, and the tyranny with it. Sure, they can bomb any rebelling city, but those rebelling cities are their cashcows. Enough of those destroyed and the tyranny is less profitable than freedom; too many of those destroyed and the country as a whole is ruined. Even if the factories are not ruined, big population losses would be equally bad.

Or they can do terrorism. Assassinations, sabotage of infraestructure. Tyrants live somewhere, and they send their children to school. Collaborators(which probably would be civil servants, police and the army) also need to sleep somewhere and have children and family. They could just be shot while going home, or killed by IEDs while patrolling.
Infraestructure is much easier to destroy than to repair. Killing the power grid or destroying a bridge hurts the rebellion as much or more than it does the dictatorship, but I don't think they would care much.

Having guns is also a great detterent to creeping tyranny(well, at least when the guns owners care enough to do something). If every overreach was met with hundreds of thousands of angry people with guns on Washington, they would stop overreaching.

I agree that it is quite foolish that these people support things which actually work against them, but do not understimate what hundreds of thousands of angry gunmen could do. Even if they didn't win, they would ruin the US. And making tyranny less profitable than liberty is a good protection against it.
> LA has .. lacity.org? That’s a bit unexpected.

It needs disambiguation because of Louisiana, while "Los Angeles" is more heavily in the collective conscious
But surely we can improve modern computing devices architecture by taking a look at the computing advantages the brain takes in order to achieve its desired tasks.

Don't forget humans are one of the most expensive resources and nothing can really replace them for even a vast majority of non-physical jobs. So if we could build computing devices that potentially solve some of these problems, needless to say, the productivity boosts would be plentiful.

Secondly, we aren't even close to being able to model anything relatively close to the computational capabilities of the human brain because we don't even understand the human brain. So your comments on highly parallel but slow and fast but no so parallel don't make a lot of sense.

For example take MapBox's new vision SDK. It's able to perform semi-decent feature extraction on the road while people drive via a camera. Well guess what I would absolute stomp the vision SDK on accuracy for every feature it thinks it identified, not only that, I am capable of identifying an order of magnitude more features than it can, not only that, but I'm able to identify new features on the fly and even guess with greater accuracy what they are.

So yeah, there are a plethora of functional yields that we have yet to achieve with some of the most powerful computers in the world that are achieved by the human brain every day. Which could be indicative of maybe both a resource, but also an architecture problem.
Garry Kasparov might be a bad example, since his immediate reaction to losing to DeepBlue was to accuse the IBM programmers standing on stage next to him of cheating (through human intervention in DeepBlue's moves).

But generally, humans have accepted computer supremacy in chess pretty well. Everyone realizes that a better chess-playing entity exists out there (in everyone's pocket, in fact). That doesn't make the competition between human players less exciting. It's still a match to prove that you're better than the person sitting across the board from you, and it's still incredibly impressive to see how deeply and accurately the top players can calculate, or how much knowledge they have of the game.
By AlphaGo/AlphaZero finding more effective/balanced moves than humans it's redefining beauty whether it appreciates it or not.
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It was Nokia to be precise. Nokia sold it to AUDI, BMW and Daimler in 2015
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Interesting historical background (not taking sides here).

Russia sold Alaska to America to pay for the debt accrued from the Crimean War.[0]

It was Nikita Khrushchev who decided to hand over Crimea as territory of Ukraine.[1]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea
You have a problem that you will never be able to resolve, even if you are making $1m per year. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
Penguins can outswim even Phelps.

The one physical activity at which humans excel is long-distance running.
Yes, a grey zone exists. That's not a reason for inaction in other cases. Where to draw the line between murder, manslaughter and unfortunate accident ? Where to draw the line between fair use and piracy ?
If anything, start with policing obvious falsehoods ("Obama and FEMA will take all your guns").
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In 2011 gnome 3 was released with a memory leak due to a mismatch between compiled code and Javascript which saw memory allocated during animations that would be freed in no reasonable time frame. Eventually all memory in the system belongs to gnome shell.

As this is really hard to fix they fixed this by constantly running the gc in December 2018. This worked OK but didn't fix the issue for all until 2019.

Does making it broken for 8 years so usability comes 8 years late count as making it slow.
> The vast majority of people in Crimea are Russian speakers (as well as being ethnically Russian). It's been that way since the Russian Empire conquered the peninsula from the Ottomans in 1783.

Where did you find population data before 1879? I have looked at the linked data before and it was called the first Russian census [1]. If I am not mistaken, the data at that time shows Tatars still being the biggest group at 35.6%.

In the context of this topic I think it is fair to also include the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars by Lavrentiy Beria, which is one of the reasons for their numbers dwindling to less than one percent in '45 [2].

The link [2] also shows that Crimean Tatars made up 98% of Crimea in 1783. From the linked authors, Tanner [3, p. 21–22], wrote:

> Ever since the first Russian conquest of the Crimean Khanate, the Tatars had faced striking and gradual colonization of Crimea by Slavs, mainly Russians and Ukrainians. At the time of the Russian annexation of the Crimean Khanate in 1783, Crimea was an almost uniformly Tatar country, Crimeans constituting 98% of the population (about 500,000) people.

With the other author, Drohobycky [4, p. 73], writing:

> Until the end of the eighteenth century, the Crimean Tatars were the largest ethnic group based on size. The process of formation of the Crimean Tatar people had been completed in the sixteenth century. After Crimeas annexation by Russia in 1873, Crimea was intensively colonized by the Russians and less intensively by the Ukrainians, Germans, Bulgarians, Jews, Armenians, Greeks, and other ethnic groups.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimea#Demographics

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...

3. Tanner, A. (2004). The Forgotten minorities of Eastern Europe: the history and today of selected ethnic groups in five countries. Helsinki: East-West Books.

4. Drohobycky, M. (1995). Crimea: Dynamics, Challenges and Prospects. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.