skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loss of power during distribution is not a problem that needs solving, power losses due to transmission in conventional grid are mere 5%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...

Considering how costly and inflexible all superconductors are, I don't see why they would help.
I could talk about this for hours, but "screen time" is too vague - placing a kid in front of a youtube autoplay stream is vastly different than playing a word game on the iPad with their parents right next to them.

I've found low effort, high stimulus creates bad behaviour, which is obvious. But specifically, it creates a low effort flow state, setting false expectations about life in general, and parents should make sure to minimize this kind of media.

However we found a few good apps, and both my kids knew the alphabet before 1 year old, and my 2 year old is drawing Chinese characters (he's spent 1/4th of his life in China) thanks to good apps, and having parents present while using them.
And passive media isn't all bad, How Things Work and David Attenborough, and anything space related has taught my kids a lot.

I wish more studies would not focus on "book time" vs "screen time", because what's really important is interactivity, such as being present with your child for them to bounce things off you, or apps that give small rewards for high effort tasks, rather than large rewards for low effort tasks - it just so happens that books are more conducive to this, but if you actually pay attention to what your child is doing, screens can be a powerful tool.

That being said, it's really tough being a parent, and sometimes you just want to put some high stimulus thing on the screen to get a break - in my experience, it's only bad when that becomes a habit or norm.
They shouldn't be able to pull Rocket League from customers who already have it in their library. They couldn't do it with other games like Metro Exodus either.
Most popular and easy to use Flutter open-source UI library
But is Swarm a valuable target? My feeling is that Swarm is going to be EOL'ed in not a so distant future.
They are using pre-fab (not sure if this article mentioned that). Makes things so much easier where buildings can be built in factories with similar standards. Lots of new builds nowadays have so many little issues due to bad quality control.
Stock traders are accused of siphoning $60B from EU state coffers
If I had a dime for every pop science article that shows "good parts of the brain light up in MIR machine for X" images... well I'd have a helluva lot of dimes
Azure Keyvault: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/key-vault-o...
That's like saying "let's first neatly reorganize all the files on these 700 harddrives before thinking about backups" when you can just do both.

Spending for space exploration is currently at a laughably low level, if countless people didn't manage to solve all our problems in the course of decades then adding a few billions of dollars won't do anything except make a few people even richer.
The problem is not so much the flow rate as it is the river's temperature. You can't raise that too much without harming the river's ecosystem. This is what limits several of France's nuclear power stations during summer.
Another "more advanced game" is the collaboration game. In this game, the players determine their common ground. The players evaluate each other and think, "Hey this person seems to be good at X and knows a lot about Y. I know a lot about Z. Maybe we can join forces." They then identify common goals that they can work on together.

I don't know about most people, but I'm definitely more interested in playing the collaboration game. And, I tend to overlook people who aren't into it.

Also, it's unfortunate if many people are influenced by Aristotle and "see human political organization as fundamentally hierarchical." Anthropologically, Humans tend to follow those whom they respect, not those they are told to follow.
>> most of the Davos set truly believes in and is worried about climate change

Over a thousand private jets would indicate the opposite. Perhaps one owner could offer to fly Greta to her next destination, surely one of them must be going to the same place?
You seriously misunderstand what’s happened here. Sonos didn’t change anything at all, they just explained it again because (clearly you) didn’t get it.

All you people suggesting chrome cast as an audio solution are hilarious. It’s literally already in the unsupported state without updates that Sonos is going to do with products ten times as old. Wtf are you thinking? What is the difference in your mind between Sonos issuing bug fixes but not new features, and relying on chromecast audio which already stopped supports years ago? It’s absurd
The world has hope, but we are really constrained.

The correct advice is "make the best of what you have and are" and not pie in the sky "you can do anything".

And yes, it's because you cannot meet everyone or even afford to try every educational path to learn who they are and their language. Or sometimes even move out of country, and even when you do, the are costs.

Ultimately you have to run a cost benefit calculation and many benefits are big gambles in reality.
I used a slightly modified version of the byline for the HN title. The original title, "It May Be the Biggest Tax Heist Ever. And Europe Wants Justice." seems a bit too much. Also added "EU" to the title to clarify that state refers to countries and not USA "State"s.
There is probably room for specialization in the car industry:

- small, light, efficient, cheap 1 or 2 seater for commuting

- 5 or 6 seater with cargo for holidays: little automation and noisy but only used 1 month in a year

The cost for both may be still lower than a luxury "bundle" and more energy efficient overall.

But I think the main problem with the car industry, is that if they start making aerodynamically efficient cars, they will all look the same, and nobody will by them. And if they make efficient, low power and cheap cars nobody will buy the powerful and expensive ones.

So marketing dictates: make distinctive and inefficient cars, make cheap and low power models stunningly inefficient.
I'd add: for some reason the pivot made them loose hope in the vision (unclear communication of new vision, frequent pivots, unattractive idea)
Swarm is on its way out. Mirantis bought that part of Docker and they said this:

"The primary orchestrator going forward is Kubernetes. Mirantis is committed to providing an excellent experience to all Docker Enterprise platform customers and currently expects to support Swarm for at least two years, depending on customer input into the roadmap. Mirantis is also evaluating options for making the transition to Kubernetes easier for Swarm users."

https://www.mirantis.com/blog/mirantis-acquires-docker-enter...
> I think that [1] is the paper

Sure it is, it is linked in this sentence of the article:

“Now, though, new observations have thrown a monkey in the wrench with all this. Those galaxies aren't the exception. They're the rule.”

The other relevant link is:

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/citizen...
yes, it mentions it clearly.
> The solar panels do have to be fabricated.

Let me tell you a mindblowing fact: It doesn't matter which energy technology you use, there's always technology involved that has to be fabricated.
All you people suggesting chromecast as an audio solution are hilarious. It’s literally already in the unsupported state without updates that Sonos is going to do with products ten times as old. Wtf are you thinking? What is the difference in your mind between Sonos issuing bug fixes but not new features, and relying on chromecast audio which already stopped supports years ago? It’s absurd to complain and then choose a product with even less support which was dropped after like a year on the market
However, when they do interfere they're a real pain in the rear.

(Second hand: including invalid vindication, account lockouts, wage garnishment.)
A stream of perpetual future payments does not need to be decrease exponentially (or decrease at all) to have finite present value. A contract to receive $1/year forever (which you can resell or leave as inheritance etc.) is worth 1/r, where r is the risk-free rate of return at the time the contract is sold. At 1% interest a $1 perpetuity is worth $100 — the amount of money you’d have to put in a bank today to expect to get $1 in interest per year forever.
That decision is up to the restaurant. They could also just accept cash, if people like you stop frequenting their businesses.
We used a similar setup to co-ordinate a project team split between New York and London. At both locations, at the end of the row of desks, we had a monitor at about head height on a stand running a google hangout. You could immediately see who was about and what kind of activity they were doing and then gather round the monitor for conversations etc.
i probably should clarify, i was referring to businesses, not people. Right now, opening up your website to google, is basically an invitation to steal your content. Paywalls are the only way to keep them from doing it.
How many satelites are devoted to reporting fires on the other hand?
Even with prefab components this is an amazing achievement. I suspect that here in Germany we would still be waiting for the hospital to treat the Marburg virus patients to be completed.
As far as humans are concerned overall progress has been linked to climbing up fractions of the kardashev scale since fire was invented.

And even before fire, organisms could only become more complex as the energy available to them increased. You can't run a hummingbird or mammalian brains on photosynthesis directly, it's just not energy-dense enough.
> "Nuclear fission plants take at the very least 10 years (!!) to go online from the day construction begins."

Yes, but that's what the small modular reactors being proposed by Rolls-Royce, and others, intend to solve. If successful, they would greatly reduce the construction time, risk, and cost of nuclear projects.
On a roundabout there's usually not enough time to consider turning off as two separate maneuvers. Instead you follow certain rules and it "just works".

i.e. join on the outside lane if you're turning off immediately and join the inside lane otherwise.
The problem with this analogy is it implies people are forced to use roadle if they want to get to 70% of places. They can only allow their own destinations and cease to be a search engine at all. However in this case any competitor can produce an equally complete road system. This is why roadle has to constantly add additional services to entice drivers. Otherwise they're a commodity. To treat it like a private-road dystopia is to deprive customers of the benefits of competition in this market.
Sarcasm, nah, just ordinary common-or-garden comedy. Also a literary reference. Anyone?

All seriousness aside, if a business wants to be cashless, that’s a business decision, not religion. If the system goes down, they can dogmatically refuse to function, or they can place a large can on the counter and get on with it.
Viruses seem to start and spread faster using the complex infrastructure.
This is yet another reason to prefer independent cars to herd-like public transport.
36 years ago Steve Jobs unveiled first Mac
Nike’s Vaporfly running shoes and tumbling records
>There isn't much of a [Linux] gamer pool anyway. This may surprise you the number...

It doesn't surprise me at all. That number would have been zero without emulation like wine/Proton though.

> Anyone I know who plays games and uses Linux Dual boots.

As for myself, I don't play a lot, but a Linux version (native or emulated) plays a big role in deciding which games to buy when I do. It's not due to 'Open Source' reasons though.

Dual boot is too much of a mess for me, I have a separate Windows laptop which I barely use otherwise (it does have a few Windows-only games), it's a bit of an hassle too. I don't feel like booting it and discovering it needs to install 10000 updates. I have already had to reinstall Windows 10 once so I can run a game (the game didn't support the old Windows 10 build, and the in-place upgrade crashed). It's much easier when I can just take a break and run a game on the same Linux system I use regularly.
Ok. I'm lost here. What if it's a multi-colored board but all are straight?
Capitalism is an ideology, too.
"Named secrets" being things like the plaintext password for a database, API tokens, etc.
From TFA: "“This idea is laboratory testable in principle,” said Vopson. He suggests taking mass measurements of a digital data storage device when it has full memory. If it has more mass than when the device’s memory is cleared, then that would show the mass-energy-information equivalence is correct."

While the idea is interesting, the actual proposed experiment is laughable. It's like suggesting that a mechanical light switch should have different weight when switched on or off.
perhaps if, however, tripadvisor had not been opening its content for free to google, but took it behind a signup-wall (like facebook does), they would have trained users to use their own site instead of google for trip information. It's doable, because the use case of their website is quite specific (i've only used the tripadvisor app while traveling). If they didn't make it so easy for google to impersonate them, they might have had a more loyal, monetizable audience. It's slightly inconvenient for users, but the alternative nowadays is complete destruction of the company.
A lot of our "accomplishments" are indeed meaningless even when averaged into a society.

A few are important, such as healthcare.

The ultimate drivers are politics and high technology (research) to which the common person has no access. (Even academia is limited.) The top half percent does.

Being recognized for being average sounds like a participation award or paraolympics. It's insulting to those who are not and are pushing state of the art.

Let's face it, the worth of an average life is low because it is really readily replaceable and not in short supply. Some number of average folk is necessary to run economy that the actually important few can push everyone forward - which they sadly lately do not do often, instead exploiting their privileged position.

Instead of building laboratories and schools we build factories to produce literal garbage and waste the environment... Shops to sell the aforementioned garbage so that someone can profit. Create circular service jobs so that more people can afford services, and especially get rich off it, not create opportunities for advancement and betterment. Etc.

Selfishness is everywhere.
Not really. The supply of economically extractable fissile material is limited in just the same way as any other mineral.

If energy prices rise then it will become worthwhile to extract, if they fall then it will be less so. Of course if the number of consumers rises this will also improve the viability of mining. According to this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_Australia, it is currently uneconomic to proceed with several mining projects.

Regardless of economic considerations fissile material is a finite resource although it could be that we will never reach the limit.
Most people have not heard of it, my Doc had never heard of it. It is old (in used since the 1940's IIRC) and rarely used nowadays, due to the fact that there is no marketing budget around it. As for getting a script it should not be that hard the dose is so low that a meth addict would have to take a quarter of the bottle to achieve the same effect as smoking street meth. Desoxyn is a salt so it is not smoke-able and smoking is the way that Crystal Meth achieves such an intense high.
Is the real barrier to CPU production open source of the logic design or is it in research into chip production, node design, including hundreds or potentially thousands of process steps, maximising yields, segmentation of the market and other marketing issues, defining standards, chipset design and integration, validation, the generally prohibitive cost of building fabs and actually producing the chips and getting sufficient capital to make inroads into the marketplace, e.g. with OEMs.

The idea that open sourcing the logic is going to make other companies competitive with a financial behemoth like Intel is really a stretch.
Single dimension fallacy might be a good alternative name.

I'd add that often things don't have a single ordering of goodness at all. Like a tomato sauce: some people like it thick, others watery, others chunky; so it actually has at least 3 orderings.
Think hard before shaming children
Truly an art & a science!!! :)
Nuclear energy has a PR problem that is very hard to solve. It doesn’t help that movies dramatize it. From what I remember, the only people who died due to Fukushima were those that died of fear. The reality is that nuclear is remarkably safe, clean, etc.
Long-term existential problems (was there ever any meaning to life if it just dies on earth?) most likely require technological solutions.
We have been trying to simplify Vault + Kubernetes integration in our KubeVault project. https://github.com/kubevault . I would love to hear if you have any thoughts.
I don't really see what you're getting at? As is, you seem to be employing some convoluted reserve-psychology scheme in an attempt to square this law in with "HN reality", where all politicians are corrupt and stupid, and all laws are either evil or pointless?
The guy thinks morality is required, but it is not.
> “ Many of the large tech companies are investing in alternative languages such as Swift and Julia in order to build the next iterations of these libraries because of the hard limitations of CPython.”

I would be interested in evidence of this. I work at a big tech company in ML and scientific computing, and have close peers and friends in similar leadership roles of this tech in other big companies, FAANG, finance, biotech, large cloud providers, etc.

I am only hearing about the adoption of CPython skyrocketing and continued investment in tools like numba, llvm-lite and Cython. At none of these companies have I heard any interest in Julia, Swift or Rust development for these use cases, and have heard many, many arguments for why Python wins the trade-offs discussion against those options.

In fact, two places I used to work for (one a heavy Haskell shop and one a heavy Scala shop) are moving away from those languages and to Python, for all kinds of reasons related to fundamental limitations of static typing and enforced (rather than provisioned) safety.

I mean, Haskell & Scala are great languages and so are Julia & Swift. But even though in some esoteric corners people have started to disprefer Python, it’s super unrealistic to suggest there’s large movement away from it. Rather there’s a large move to it.

It reminds me of the Alex Martelli quote from Python Interviews,

> “Eventually we bought that little start-up and we found out how 20 developers ran circles around our hundreds of great developers. The solution was very simple! Those 20 guys were using Python. We were using C++. So that was YouTube and still is.”
Air purifier against Coronavirus/2019-nCoV?
I can't answer your questions but may I piggy-back?

What stops Fab Facilities existing in "western" countries at the moment?

Someone told me a major reason for the move was because the chemicals used in top-tier facilities are basically banned in the west. Not technically banned but considered so dangerous (they're all carcinogenic) that the cost (health and safety, insurance, compensation) make them uneconomic.

Is that right?

Does it matter whether fab facilities are near to final manufacturing locations? Will Apple\Foxconn buy chips from a San Fran shop if they then have to be shipped to China for inclusion in the device? Since most devices are put together in SE Asia, the delay might be killer...
They can track it with a simple js onclick handler, or a simple redirect on their server, that's not the problem. (They do both btw.) The problem is that they want to track what I do on the links I already clicked - which is absolutely none of their business.
I'm reminded of the The Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

It's evidence that knowing some things requires not knowing other things.

It may not be possible to know everything.
Use Airtable to collect website data
title of post is missleading and article doesnt do a job describing the status of germany's energy sources.
Secret Node.js vulnerability posted in the future
Words Are Our Weapons, So Don’t Waste Your Artillery
>I suspect that here in Germany we would still be waiting for the hospital to treat the Marburg virus patients to be completed.

>from Fefe [0] "[...] it's done by 3rd of feb. I suppose we could do the same in Germany, but it'd be 3rd of feb 2030."

[0] https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a0d41799
Good point - I edited to clarify that a little more
The pursuits of a perfect cup!
All the Single Ladies
Has it occurred to you that in a free market economy these beds may already have been built? Are you impressed by reports of patients showing concerning symptoms being turned away from government-run hospitals?

There's really just one lesson and that is anything built by a government is on average inferior to the same thing built by private sector.

Maybe the China government is less wasteful than the US government. The solution to optimizing the both is to privatize everything. Why should one be impressed by a less bad choice?
Fundraising numbers. Others dropping out would count as progress too I guess. Although polling is still in single digit but 5-6% is certainly progress from 2-3%.
I believe the problem in France wasn't the flow rate of the river, but the maximum temperature the power plants are allowed to leave the river at

During the heatwave the rivers were so warm the reactors weren't allowed to dump any more heat into them
While it is absolutely true that cycling and running produce CO2 emissions, the figures I found for running "at a very challenging pace" equate to 54g per mile above normal respiration [1], so even with two people in a car (especially driving in urban areas) running would still produce less than most cars on the road today. Of course, there are other factors involved.

Stated tailpipe/windpipe emissions don't include the carbon cost of production for either fuel or food. That will depend on your diet, where in the world you live, where food or fuels are grown/extracted, where/how they are processed and transported, and so on. The environmental impact of production can also cause CO2 emissions long after production through land use change, land remediation, etc most of which is not accounted for when making these comparisons even if a "full" LCA is undertaken.

The carbon cost of manufacturing a car is rarely quantified but I remember one maker estimated it was the equivalent emissions of driving 40-50,000 miles. A bicycle is far less and lasts far longer (I've had my bike for 23 years and it's fine). And of course, that's just the manufacture. Car maintenance also has a much greater carbon impact than a bicycle or replacing the soles for your shoes.

We also have a fairly crazy situation where people drive to work or other places, but then go for a run or go to the gym to burn calories and 'get fit' – perhaps even running on a treadmill which itself consumes energy. Just the idea that you have excess calories that you need to undertake an activity specifically to burn them is a counter to the argument that walking or cycling more would lead to increased food intake. Of course, I know that some people go to the gym to do resistance training targeting physiological benefits.

But then again, the obesity epidemic also demonstrates that excess calories (exacerbated by shifts in the make-up of diet) is an existing problem.

[1] https://www.livestrong.com/article/524672-what-effect-does-e...
You've clearly not got a clue how a software engineer works if you think its not derailing.