skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right. apple does everything it can to "prolong the life of old devices" lol
“For Hate’s Sake, I Spit My Last Breath at Thee”: Revisiting “The Wrath of Khan”
Germany sits on a huge pile of coal as its main domestic energy source. France doesn't.

Germany's industrialization has largely been driven by coal.

> Meanwhile neighboring France, with its 70%+ energy generated from nuclear, generates about half as much CO2 per capita as Germany. Right now, and in the foreseeable future.

In the foreseeable future France is reducing its share of nuclear and adds renewable. Reason: nuclear is too costly, too slow to build.

Germany has invested in renewable, since that scales better now and in the future. By investing into renewable Germany has also created a huge export market for this technology, that will have a large positive impact.
[a] industry paradox.[a], by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism.

Replace a with basically anything people do.
I wasn't talking about whether people can do it.

It's not easy, and most people can't just quit their job right now, or within a month or two.
>The only issue before the New York court in the disciplinary case was whether, taking as true that Donzinger tried to bribe a judge, etc., whether he should be suspended. That did not require a hearing

And it also relied upon the testimony of Alberto Guerra, who later admitted that he was lying and was paid by Chevron to lie:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/neye7z/chevrons-star-witn...

Judge Kaplan is a corrupt piece of shit who should be disbarred and jailed.
Spatial Scores Additional Funding to Fuel Growth
That’s the second part. If I’m troubleshooting by logging into EC2 instances, there is something wrong with my logging infrastructure. That’s actually the larger issue.
The same thing did not happen in Germany. The increase in renewables more than made up for the decrease in nuclear.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Also interesting, between 2000 and 2010, before Fukushima, Japan had a large increase in coal use.
Fun fact: i do think while i'm asleep! my friends were shocked when i first told them about that. I don't know how to describe it, but i can think, alter my dream, reason about things, etc--and i used to do math and solve coding problems too.

the worst part is that my dreams are too tough. when i'm sad or something things get very rough on my dreams because everything seem so real.
Play Offense: A Mental Model for Stressed-Out Founders
Could this simply be a misunderstanding of what an internal monologue is?

Is there any science behind this?
Once you're past the distance where transmitting electrical power is feasible, you would probably have to store the energy chemically. In principle you could charge gigantic banks of lithium batteries and then ship the batteries, but that would require infeasible (probably ludicrous) amounts of lithium, and lithium batteries are a pretty inefficient way to chemically store energy.

Alternatively, it probably isn't cost-effective with current technology, but on a fundamental level, you could use a nuclear reactor to power a system that chemically recombined atmospheric CO2 and water back into hydrocarbon fuels. Unlike fossil-derived hydrocarbons, these hydrocarbons would be carbon-neutral since you'd be sourcing all the carbon from the same atmosphere that it would eventually be dumped back into. This is probably going to make sense for things like vehicles, aircraft, rockets, etc. long before it makes sense for power generation, but there are definite benefits. We already have all the necessary technology to burn hydrocarbons, meaning that any improvements in synthesizing hydrocarbon fuels can potentially eliminate the need to switch these things over to batteries or whatnot. Which may be extremely helpful if we run into serious resource constraints over lithium, or if we grow increasingly concerned with the environmental byproducts of lithium battery production.
Not that odd, this has turned into a veritable meme in the last week or two... you'd have to live under a rock to have not seen this hit Reddit, HN, Twitter, or some random blog recently.
Self-aware introspection and self-preserving strategy formation? I think the fact that human technology is meant to serve humans is the reason why definitions of AI and consciousness seem lacking. Even an amoeba has some self preservatory adaptive decision making.

The idea of 'I', myself,separate from all else. My decisions affect my fate.

You like others conflate "how","what" and "why". Whether or not it is biomechanics,electrochemicals or a projected hologram of quanta is "how", so is whether or not stimuli or measurement of stimuli form our reality perception.

A person has fainted, that person then wakes back up,you say:"the person lost consciousness but is now conscious". He was no longer in a self aware state where he would have made decisons to self-preserve and he is now back in that state. Regardless of intelligence or processing capacity, a self aware program that self preserves without explicit instructions for either functions is conscious.
Most of my use cases include converting values between currencies or measuring units. I mostly use Numi for that but having a simple tooltip is so much better.

I also plan to use it for information that I can't memorize easily. Like a mapping between GPIO pins for microcontrollers, I never remember what pin does what. With this I can simply create a hashmap with something like GPIO23 as the key, and info about that pin as the value and have that always at my fingertips.

Or things like displaying Google Maps urls for words that look like places, mail app urls for email addresses, Spotify search URI for artists etc. It's a very useful and powerful tool if you can come up with ideas for it.
Yeah, I pretty much agree with you about agriculture, especially after reading "Sapiens" by Hariri.

> We're the wildly pullulating caterpillar devouring our tree, and always were going to be just what we are.

It's really mind-blowing to think of us as a planetary-scale caterpillar. Thanks for the analogy!

Cheers.
By whose definition? There are more board games labelled 14+ releasing every year than there ever was
> outside of the driving first culture lobbied for by American car companies

Sorry, this is false. Los Angeles simply didn't evolve to favor public transportation in the way a lot of European cities have.

A simple example of this is the ridiculous concentration of tech and aerospace companies inside of a zone that requires almost everyone to use the 405 freeway. I know people who would rather have their fingernails removed without anesthesia than do drive the 405 in rush-hour traffic. I might include myself in that group.

Who gives out building and business permits? Car companies? No. The city, the county, the State. Why do they allow such concentration? OK, maybe concentration makes sense at some level. Why, then, do they allow concentration where they do? One look at the map --particularly if armed with traffic pattern familiarity-- instantly tells you it isn't a good idea to pile-up so many businesses in these areas.

So, no, car companies have nothing whatsoever to do with it. It's about urban planning and design. We could use public transportation but it would take me somewhere in the range of two to three hours longer per day to go almost anywhere and come back. Sorry, my time is far more valuable than that. And, to complete the picture, this means spending somewhere in the range of six hours per day coming and going from the aforementioned tech centers. And then you have to work 8 to 10, if not 12, hours per day.
It isn't intuitive to anyone, given that it's not the battery at all. It's a software update slowing down the phones. People replace a battery when the battery doesn't last. But Apple realizes if people replaced their battery then they would likely wait another iteration to replace their phones because they've sunk more cost into their existing phone, so they've extended the life of the battery by sacrificing performance. This way, people don't replace their batteries, and their phone is so much slower than the new phone that they're even more likely to buy a new one.

Not only that but this is the second time Apple's being sued since they did the same thing to the 4 and 5. And the thing is, they pushed the update when they released the 6. I'm surprised (but not really) that they're still pulling this crap.
> Bluetooth: get in reach of an attacker

This part looks very different if the attack is a worm.

How many phones are not in reach of another vulnerable phones at least once a workday?
The United States Doesn't Have an Automatic “Dead Hand” Trigger for Its ICBMs
Are the obnoxious wood pellets that spread fine dust included in the renewables?

Give me nuclear any day.
I paid twice as much for mine when it was the latest model (I got few upgrades, though). I'm pretty happy with the T480 overall, but if Lenovo releases another T-series with a significantly better CPU then I'll probably get it. I didn't think that I needed the dedicated graphics card, but now I think that having the additional cooling would help.
Most people joining Google or FAANG is not for the brand. It is for the financial compensation.

If <insert FAANG company here> doesn’t pay almost double the market salary then majority of people won’t work for that company.

It is futile to ask people not to work for a FAANG company. The reality is, majority of people need (not just want) the money. People who already worked at FAANG long enough to enjoy the benefit of being financially good can afford to quit or don’t work for FAANG, or don’t work at all.

Can non FAANG tech companies follow suit in increasing the salary? I mean, keep your interview DS&A hard and make it harder if you need to avoid bad hire, but increase the compensation too. Otherwise you will keep seeing major brain drain every year.
What? Sure there is. There's an enormous amount of space under every city to dig through before it becomes impractical to reach.
Yes, and rebooting, and logging out and back on, and several other things

I have 2 Roku;s. 1 is working (no autoplay) and 1 is not (still autoplay)..

the one with the AutoPlay still enabled is my primary one, and the newest one, the other is a older Roku Streaming stick.
Nike gave up on wearable devices. They used to sell their own fitness trackers and sensors.
I do this already but from my configuration management system on my instances, but one thing I don't have that I'd love if Route53 would help support is being able to run route53 to handle in-addr.arpa zones for my IP addresses so I can get reverse IP looking for my VPC networks without having to run my own resolver.
It's a beautiful exercise in circular logic you have going here. If time and money have run out for nuclear, it's only because of the anti-nuclear activism people like you have been ignorantly spouting for decades. Your point is less of an argument and more an instance of gloating.
There are aiment where leach treatment is suitable, generaly related to restoring blood flow. So mostly frostbite, transplantation and reconnecting of severed tissue (eq. an accidentally cut off ear, etc.)
> which is all from petroleum profits

It is an investment fund which is heavily invested in the stock market (up to 60%). A lot of the money in the fund is investment profit. They've been investing for 30 years now.
I'm generally in favor of nuclear power but the overruns and delays for constructing units 3 and 4 of the Vogtle nuclear plant is frustrating, especially since rate payers rather than investors are footing most of the extra cost. Shamefully the exact same thing happened during construction of units 1 and 2.
Does it feel pain? I think not.
How many of those were extensions? Pdftex, as an example, is not TeX. There have been roughly, what, eight releases in TeX since version 3? Hence we are now at 3.14159265.

This is not to say things couldn't have been done better. But I love that all of my documents still compile just fine. Modern practices? Nope.
Why don't they do what every other industry is doing? Have you wondered why in your phone battery degrades significantly after a year, in the mean time the battery in a hybrid such as Prius lasts about 10 years?

They are overvolting them and don't implement mechanisms to keep battery change using optimal levels.

Apple also pioneered the move to make batteries non-removeable (and other companies followed) most people are then forced to get new phone when battery gets bad.
Thanks for that, it was interesting and quite anti-panic.
No, he hasn't done that at all. That third group, "everyone else", includes an awful lot of middle-class people. They're just the middle-class people who aren't handmaidens of mammon.
We've always been at the mercy of ratings. Now instead of being rated by a single person, we are rated by hundreds.
I dunno, a page that lists a bunch of variations on a recipe, curated with some kind of objective ratings system sounds pretty awesome to me.

>Partly because I don't have the time to read through and test every single recipe inside of them, make a decision about what's good for dinner

The thing is, after enough experience cooking, you don't need to do this. If you know what the ingredients taste like and you know generally the ratios of each ingredient, you can make a rough estimate of the expected flavour of the final dish in your head. A curated system would help you learn this as you'll start to notice certain ingredients regularly being used in certain situations.

I personally use recipes as a starting point, for most things, some recipes do need to be exact, especially baking recipes, or a general guide. Once i've got a good idea of the main ingredients for a dish I figure out what flavours would add to it.

Cooking doesn't need to be exact, hence why one dish can have 100 different recipes. The secret to cooking is learning the characteristics of different ingredients and how to apply them to your food. Everything in a recipe has a purpose, once you figure out the purpose of different ingredients you can use them sort of without really thinking about them. You start thinking more about the situation of the current dish and what ingredients would go well, rather than what exact recipe you should follow.
The difference is that a physical process makes specific physical state changes to the physical world while an emulation does not. A computer simulation of an ice cube melting does not and cannot make state changes to the physical world as a physical ice cube can. For example, if you wanted to chill your beverage, dropping an ice-cubed sized computer running the algorithmic emulation of an of an ice cube melting will not chill your drink no matter how perfect your emulation is, while a physical ice cube can perform that physical state change of your drink.

Is consciousness a physical phenomenon? If it's not physical, then what is it? Is it an algorithm? Well, for one, there is no precedent. Nothing else in the material world is purely an algorithm...except maybe a computer running an algorithm...
Thanks! There is a subtle difference. We define microclusters within the category of anomalous edge detection as 'suddenly arriving groups of suspiciously similar edges' e.g. denial of service attacks in network traffic data and lockstep behavior.

Subgraph detection on the other hand is detecting anomalous subgraphs and may also not be able to detect microclusters (suddenly arriving groups of suspiciously similar edges.)
It's a straw man. Reasonable regulations are not going to raise prices by 400%. That's absurd.

Nobody is saying regulate them to death. But maybe, just maybe, don't let the company themselves certify their own aircraft when it comes to matters of safety, required training, etc.
With a data-driven system, you basically end up with the data as a sort of intermediate code which is then interpreted by the "environment". The interpreter still needs to support the domain objects that implement the required behaviours. If you keep extending such a system until it meets all the requirements, you end up with yet another programming language and interpreter.

A far more practical approach is to have clearly demarcated, library of reusable domain specific objects which are then assembled as required. Thus the majority of the functionality (the 80%) ends up being written in a sort of embedded domain specific language.
Earthquake hasn’t caused any problems in nuclear plants in Japan

A tsunami that killed over 10,000 people caused some minor problems. That’s like saying you got a puncture in a multi car pileup.
I would assume the numbers would look very differently if breader reactors and alternative nuclear fuel sources (thorium) would be considered.
Worker-owned co-ops are a cure for all of this.
When a homeless couple move in with a millionaire [video]
Grid Cells
wood pellets are basically not used for electricity production in Germany.
Ask HN: Is following many YouTube programming tutorials and tips of any help?
i'm lil bit overwhelmed by youtube recommends as in tech field generally, whenever i open it i got various videos relatable to my self-learning path but they are just infinite and overlooking them feels as if i miss alot
Consciousness is not how a mind works. It is a state property of the machine. Much like how you use to define a program using a finite state machine. It has nothing to do with reality or perception
Gotcha -- that makes total sense. Thanks!

(P.S. Sorry for putting words in your mouth -- I don't want to imply you said anything you didn't. My bad there.)
I'm curious, for most of the infected, is it obvious from the symptoms whether they have novel coronavirus, or just the regular flu?

That is, the tail end is clearly deadly -- but for the average case, are symptoms much worse than the yearly flu, or around the same?
That hasn't been my experience. 75k is not earth-shaking, but also not something that i would expect someone with 2 years of experience to get in London. What companies do you think would pay that to such a person?
What’s safer at this point, nuclear or coal?

A meltdown is terrible, burning coal which intensifies climate change is spelling the end of civilization.

I don’t really think it’s optional anymore. Shut the coal down, move with other technologies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
Maintaining insertion order is strictly a product of adding an additional list to whatever more efficient map you implement. Add something to a dict, push it onto the end of the list. When iterating over the keys, use the list instead of the dict structure.

It does come at a cost, but I think Python aims for ease of use over runtime speed and memory efficiency, so it seems perfect for them.
1540/1600 here + National Merit (1520/1520). I applied last admissions cycle, and was DOA for top schools, but mainly because of my 3.8 GPA.
This is really cool but seems almost too good to be true. Why isn't this being talked about more?
And, in places without usable water, space tends to be cheap.
3) Some people just want to see the world burn. I know people who truly believe in climate change and just don't care about the ramifications.
Environmentalists just can’t get out of their own way. Solar and wind were never viable alternatives to replace nuclear in Japan. It was always going to be coal.

But when good is the enemy of perfect this is what you get. So let’s raise our glasses to the next decade of coal energy in Japan. Congratulations environmentalists, you won! You killed nuclear!
Just another CVE for the human perceptual system.
You can plug Garmin devices into a USB port and copy the FIT files directly to your computer.
the government of Japan estimates the Fukushima nuclear plant cleanup costs are at least 80 billion dollars, private think tanks have suggested numbers closer to 400-600 billion. The cleanup is going to take 30-40 years, involving a lot of manpower and expertise so one can imagine the additional opportunity cost. Then you can add to this the amount of land that is permanently unusable and the future and current property value destroyed. I think you need to adjust your definition of 'minor problem' a little.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/clearing-the-radi...
I can't imagine why anyone would bother starting a new company in UK.

Brexit is looming and it is an almost certainty that a no-deal will happen. (UK wants it and EU won't be able to get unanimous agreement from all member states' and their parliaments).

And in a no-deal Brexit companies will have to ensure EU data sovereignty which means duplicating infrastructure in the EU anyway. Not to mention all of the complexity around tariffs and digital/internet taxes. Being in the UK you get all of the negatives of the EU without any of the benefits.
> ‘Would US customs have dared to dismantle a Stradivarius?’

The TSA has repeatedly manhandled and damaged priceless Western string instruments as well. I don't have a source handy, but there was at least one case of them snapping a $600k cello bow.
The death from coal pollution is cumulative over time.
By that, I mean that they absorb chemicals over time that
is believed to have contributed to the dying.

20 / day are not killed in coal plant explosions ever day.

Yet the numbers you compare are from nuclear disasters.
As far as I know, there are no numbers for the number of people killed in coal plant explosions and they certainly would not be 20/day

Now, how to count the number of people impacted by Chernobyl.

Do the numbers include the increase in cancer deaths in the north of Norway? The radiation in the moss that reindeer eat meant the meat could not be eaten for quite a long time and it is still not over.

I think that is more like comparing apples to apples,
than explosions vs long term exposure.
They're constantly working on making their processors better in this regard, every processor has more efficient cores compared to the high-performance cores. Most Androids have comparable battery degregation and performance rates because competitive performance requires pulling more power.
Do digital products released in the EU have to support European languages? Or is the typical citizen's English not good enough for that to work? It seems like there's a lot of money being left on the table by not confronting the language hurdle.
>>The real story is totally missing at this point, so it’s not surprising that the discussion has gone totally off the rails.

The real story is it seems there is no bounds to the amount of excuses Tesla fans will use to justify unethical behavior by the company. The mirror with Apple fans is astounding

In fact I wonder how many Telsa owners are also hardcore Apple fans as well, the psychology is very similar

>> any time Tesla buys back or is returned one of its cars, all optional features are cleared off the car.

and you have no ethical or other problems with this?

>>In a private party sale, the optional features that are currently active on a car will always stay intact.

There is zero rational for you to make that claim, and zero supporting evidence that this will remain the case in perpetually. In fact it would not come as a shock to me if this is a way for them to limit private party sales by lowering the value of the cars. Especially if they start getting less and less trade in's as the EV market becomes more saturated in the next 5 years

>>The software features on the original sales sticker are irrelevant.

That is the entire point, they should be. Disabling those features so they and double dip on the sales is HIGHLY unethical IMO

>>When the car was returned under lemon-law back to Tesla

Where was it stated the car was returned under a lemon-law
Interesting. The graphs on that website do not agree with the ones on Wikipedia. For example, for coal in 2016 Wikipedia says ~220 TWh but Strom says ~135 TWh.

EDIT: I see my mistake. I did not add both brown (~135 TWh) and black coal (~100 TWh) together (surprised to see those broken out, but it's a valid difference). In that case, the numbers still do not agree, but at least they are comparable.

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