skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intermittency and the unsuitability of grid storage batteries to compensate is heavily played up by the carbon industry.

The future of low emissions energy production will be largely driven by overproduction and demand shifting, not banks of grid level batteries.

This likely won't happen as soon in America, however, the economy is too tied in to fossil fuels and the appetite to upgrade the electric grid by utility companies heavily invested in gas isnt really there.
Google removed 813 creepware apps from the Android Play Store
Ersatz desire and relationship. There is a huge market for it.
If you have a lot of pieces of data in one React context, every component that uses any little piece of that data will re-render whenever any part of the data changes.
SARS-CoV2 Live Virus Skin Vaccine, https://tinyurl.com/y8ujrcze
That's pretty accurate. Some stuff is encrypted with the device passcode like Health data and Keychain data. Around iOS 9 [1], Apple implemented some functionality to encrypt backups through a similar mechanism. This never panned out.

1) https://wccftech.com/ios-93-prompt-passcode-restoring-encryp...

Edit: as others have pointed out, looks like this never happened because the FBI said no.
> Then both teams meet to negotiate the "Contract"

What you describe is pretty much front-end first with the tweak that when the teams negotiate, the burden of proof lies on the back-end. The back-end should contort as much as possible to satisfy the needs of the front-end, allowing it to remain as clean and nimble as possible. Only when it matters should the back-end be able to materially affect the shape of the api. In most cases "mattering" means balancing the needs of this front-end with another that also consumes the back-end.
First, we only need to slow down cars to 25mph where pedestrians are present. It’s not like cities with low pedestrian fatalities are stuck in the Middle Ages. Places where pedestrians are separated from cars can and should go faster.

Secondly I find it disturbing that discussions around acceptable traffic fatalities focus on unnamed and unspecified people as the apparently acceptable fatalities in pursuit of shorter commutes. I think this let’s a lot of people push off that moral calculus as something that happens to other, lesser, people. See: the reactions once people realized that Uber’s self driving car had killed a homeless woman. A better question is “what is the acceptable level of risk for you and your family to accept in return for faster commutes?”

Finally, don’t underestimate the feedback effect. High speeds are only economically necessary, if they even are, because we’ve chosen to design cities in a way that assumes high speed car traffic. Continuing to focus on keeping traffic going just puts off very necessary and politically difficult discussions about public transit and housing density. We could setup a society where 25mph in the cities works just fine, but we’ve made the explicit choice not to, and continue to reinforce that.
There has been experiments, published in Nature in the 60s that did confirm an effect. I personally know one of the authors.

The tub they used was something like 60cm deep and 3 or 4m in diameter.

I can pull up the reference if you like.

It wasn't perfectly reproducible though; in classic fashion when they demonstrated for a local newspaper (Sydney Morning Herald) the water went the "wrong" way.

I have given the url / details here in HN a few years back.
Yeah, there are 500 and 503 errors in the dev console.

Twitter is usually first to report this stuff: https://twitter.com/search?q=youtube%20down&src=typed_query&...
> In some cases it's questionable if some green technologies actually are a net positive at all.

This is just FUD, unless you actually have numbers that show CO2 emissions are higher over the lifetime of a solar panel compared to a coal power plant.

> don't want to consider the very obvious alternative, dematerialisation and reduction of energy consumption.

Forcing everybody into poverty is not a viable alternative.
That's an extremely silly and nonsensical argument.

Intrinsic worth means that an item has inherent, non-economic usefulness, i.e., you could use it even in the absence of trade of that item.

Gold has because it can be used to protect items from corrosion, to conduct electricity, etc., and these uses don't depend on it being traded.

Carbon fibre similarly has intrinsic uses, because you can do things with it even in the absence of trading it, like making cloth, parts, or vessels.

Fiat currency does not have intrinsic value. It's sole value is that it is accepted by a government agency for debts owed by the government, and/or that it is the legally recognized method of non-barter exchanges of value.

Cryptocurrency has no function apart for its role in trade, which is why--like fiat currency--it has no intrinsic value. Without trade, it's useless. It's sole proposition for having value is that the other people might want it.
Chekhov wrote plays and specially short-stories. Different beasts from novels.
Any blurring of moral lines likely comes down to hangups W.R.T Body Autonomy. At the end of the day, if you one believes that everyone is allowed to make their own choices about their body, that would have to include their daughter, their spouse, their mother even.
Well it's not like we have an army of amateur waiters out there waiting to serve you for free.
Ask HN: Have you used Firestore at scale?
We could also prevent another outbreak if our wearables had body temperature sensors as early warning devices. I wish apple/google/fibit/garmin engineers could start on this. Measuring temperature at the wrist is going to be an interesting problem to solve.
I did extensive research on this AI and found the perfect way of concealing a penis within a frame. Check it out here https://twitter.com/stas_kulesh/status/1261070742143336449?s...
All they need to do is build mechanical/hydraulic systems for storing solar power during the day and unleashing it at night.

For example, use solar power during the day to pump fluid from a lower reservoir into a higher reservoir, and then harness the energy of the water flowing from the higher reservoir into the lower reservoir through turbines.

As long as your output energy is always coming from the turbines, and as long as your solar powered pumps running during the day can keep up with double the rate of drainage flow, then you should have a constant loop with a steady supply of power.

This type of system could be retrofitted onto virtually any dam, giving you a way to create a closed loop with constant power and without the water loss typical from a dam (other than evaporation).

For areas where water is scarce and a dam isn't feasible, there are also other ideas, such as gravitational potential energy systems that use solar powered energy to lift weights on pulleys, which then power a generator as the weights are lowered by gravity.

Other ideas: Thermal storage including molten salts which can efficiently store and release very large quantities of heat energy, compressed air energy storage, flywheels, cryogenic systems, etc...
It recognized my smiley face with bleeding bullet-hole in forehead as a face, and recognized my mountains, but couldn’t recognize my fish. Not bad overall.
Society has a short memory it seems.
I sometimes reflect on the fact that, were it possible to be an intelligent fly on the wall at the moment of the big bang, molecules were not a foregone conclusion. Certainly I'd accept they'd be a good prediction, but molecules evolved just like everything else. We think that molecules, and even more fundamental properties, are just that, intrinsic, but they have something of the serendipity of clockwise moving right from 12 noon.
It's definitely down here where I live (Germany).
Navy pilots draw penis in the sky...
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/nation-world/national/ar...
top that !
The only reason renewables would cause negative prices is the subsidy they get on generated output, that would cause them to continue generating because for THEM they are still making money at that instant. Otherwise, the renewable source itself could capture the negative price by just not feeding power to the grid.
Actually it does matter if it's not properly processed. Government research found those metals were contaminating landfills, and imposed restrictions.

If you are interested in the facts, here are one. I believe in research done by my pro-PV government and scientists, not environmental shills and anti-science PV aficionados like you and this article.

http://knrec.or.kr/file/2018%EC%8B%A0%EC%9E%AC%EC%83%9D%EC%9...
If it's your friend, doesn't it make sense that she would feel sad when your are not feeling well? Empathy is being able to feel someone else pain.
Utility monster
I maintain that Quanta is definitely wrong. Quoting them again:

> To understand the quantum kingdoms, think of a drawing of loops. Imagine two indistinguishable particles, like electrons. Take one, then loop it around the other so that it ends up back where it started. Nothing seems to have changed. And indeed, in the mathematical language of quantum mechanics, the two wave functions describing the initial and final states must be either equal or off by a factor of −1. ... If the wave functions are identical, your quantum particles are bosons. If they’re off by a factor of −1, you have fermions.

This is nonsense. In 3D, you can't even define what it means to loop one particle around another, and there is nothing at all that says that fermions behave in a particular way when you loop them around some other particle.
> Redis you can definitely do without.

This seems to suggest otherwise https://hex.pm/packages/redix, Why is the redis client is so popular in Elixir world? For such a small community 3+ million downloads is huge.
But the first example is just unspecific, and attributing the downvotes to some reason is difficult without real replies.

And the example of master/slave is at most insensitivity, not at all hate speech.

Hate speech is really more characterized than that. Besides true insults and slurs, those are for example the theories that make some minorities the cause of societal problems by blunt reasoning, often using abusive generalisations at each of their sentences...

I understand your point though, and I agree, the law itself should be a lot more specific, explicitly.
much worst then the AI system I used at the Orlando science center
Ugly AF t-shirt blocks facial recognition technology
No. Take, for example, "China admits Wuhan coronavirus death toll at least 50% higher than first reported" [0]. Would you have labeled those who said before that admission that the death toll in Wuhan was probably higher than the official number as "promoting false claims about the past"? What truth would you have based your decision on?

I have as little love for the Holocaust-deniers as anyone but I have just as little love for those who want to suppress "false claims about the past" because I know darned well they have no better idea of what the truth is than anyone else and that it won't stop at just the obvious falsehoods.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wuhan-death-toll-coronavirus-ch...
According to the specs on interior dimensions listed on fueleconomy.gov, the Ioniq is actually bigger - 96 cu ft passenger and 23 cu ft luggage volume, vs. 97 cu ft passenger and 15 cu ft luggage for the Model 3.

So they've sacrifised range by installing less batteries, gaining more luggage space, lower weight and lower price.
I'm still watching, but my subscription feed is showing an error message
I've finally started working on my game based around markets and trading in a fantasy setting.

I've got a very naive global market running with some incredibly dumb bots, and am currently implementing local markets with their own needs/wants.

It's multiplayer by design so hopefully at some point I'll have some nascent player-base competing with each other =)...

I'm trying to keep everything simple and scope small.

To be honest, I wasn't really expecting anyone to ever be interested in my toy project, beyond spending a half hour idling their time, but a friend of mine has already started kicking the tyres which is very exciting, he's written a bot that scrapes the site and trades against it which I find hilarious.

There's far too much I could write here about ideas, but I'm just trying to keep my mouth shut and make it ;)...
My penis is not low value.
Yup, storage just like that has been built in Switzerland: https://www.alpiq.com/power-generation/hydropower-plants/pro...
California is mountainous enough to follow suit.
YouTube Outage
youtube down in France/Europe?
youtube is fucking down!
Parts of Wyoming (Jackson area) have actually been having lots of people (relatively) moving there and is now surprisingly expensive.
QuarXPress thought they owned the market and then they started taking advantage of their users. Same goes for Adobe. The resentment is building up. Once there's a viable alternative people will quickly switch and never look back.
Yeah this is just extrapolation and not based on actual tests. There is no way the number is as high as 25%.

I mean just look at New York or other hard hit areas, from the actual antibody tests performed the upper limit on the number of people who have had Covid19 is no where near 25%

I expect it's more around 5% and even that would feel high.
This whole situation started from bespoke protections wherein Congress members weren't subject to insider trading rules.
It seems like the main way to find decent quality furniture at non-ridiculous prices is older stuff at thrift stores/flea markets/garage sales. Gets harder and harder to find every year though.

IKEA does carry a few items that are actually made of wood, though most of those are pine. Not great but a step up from particleboard.

Home Depot of all places sells some reasonably nice self-assembly hardwood furniture. Some of them are available pre-painted or stained but a lot of them you have to finish yourself.
It's not working properly for me either can't see YouTube channels uploaded videos
Intergalactic Star
Affinity is definitely a step in the right direction. The Photo/Designer/Publisher combo holds its own and the iPad apps are pretty slick. It would be nice if they added something similar to Data Merge in InDesign, but for the most part, you can pretty much accomplish a lot of the same things for a fraction of the cost. And it's really not that big of a switch, considering a good swath of the market had to make the switch from PageMaker/Quark/Freehand/whatever as Adobe gobbled up the desktop market. It's similar to what Adobe did to the workstation suites 30 years ago.
Counterpoint, 2^638 is a large number. So a particular 638 bits is very particular.
It's down for me. Gitlab.com had problems all day with shared workers due to a GCP issue. Perhaps there's more problems there.
Whatever you do, do NOT repeatedly draw penises. Bad stuff starts happening....
from eastern europe, nothing works.
It's common here to have 150L+ water tanks. Can take it from 50C to 75C and then let the anti-scald valve temper the output when drawing.

OK on the freezer. Could still take the fridge down to 2C.

The concept of the fridge taking a break while running other loads is to reduce peak draw current. If everyone did that, it would make the grid more stable.
Thank you, good sir. Those’d be parts 2 and 3 of the business plan, with 4 and 5 being “???” and “profit”.

In all seriousness, I’m just hoping to revive a simple (and awesome) game.
This is exactly the comment I was about to make. It becomes a relatively simple mental exercise to guess the possible effects of each item in the scene on the plot.

I think many of the better movies out there are known for adding details that do not play into the plot, but which are there more for art's sake. It's something that is usually appreciated where it occurs, and it definitely improves the quality of the movie.
Thought I was the only one. All videos are being met with a 'Video unavailable" warning.

I highly doubt this was a scheduled outage. Really looking forward to see what caused this.
Although I'm sure the author had no malicious intent, I'm reminded of certain subcultures disguising not-so-great behavior behind comedy so they can claim it isn't serious when criticized.

Edit: and I've just now remembered what a great laugh I had reading some of the language in "The Anarchist Cookbook" even though all those non-traditional fire recipes were certainly meant to be used for some kind of malicious act :)
Thats something that has always amused me about the peninsula (other than SF). Other than the weather there really isn't anything remarkable about the place.
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I built a half-pipe with my 10-year-old son! We designed it in Sketchup, did a material takeoff in Excel, and built it with lumber that got delivered to our house. 4’ high, 8’ wide and 29’ long—-and hours and hours of fun. Teaching things like trig and how to use a chop saw and the difference between different grades of plywood to a boy who’s learning-starved since school closed has been one of the more rewarding things I’ve ever done.
This looks really good! Do you have a timeline yet for when this will be available to the public?
Maybe on the Internet, but Protestant values still rule America.
Natural gas produces about half the CO2 emissions per unit energy as coal. (And presumably less other harmful stuff like radioactive fly ash.)

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=73&t=11
To be succinct, the main issue I have with HN is that when I try to network and say things like "Email me about that. Let's discuss that issue privately." it typically turns into roughly "Honey, can I get your phone number? Can we have a coffee date (for romantic reasons and not business reasons)?"

I strongly suspect this is not a huge issue for men.
You'd think, if the people in charge had any sense, but it's really about lobbying, and Boing is much better at that than Intel.
im in canada and it just went down
Direct links to videos are working but no recommendations, descriptions, or comments. Doesn't seem to be an interaction with an ad blocker either.
Because the CPU is going to do the work to make that illusion happen regardless of if you participate in it or not - so why constrain yourself to anything less than 64-bit pointers if you're not going to get anything in return?

What cache optimization are you referring to? Just that 32-bit pointers is a form of pseudo-compression and can be more densely packed? Because there's not really any other cache benefits in play here, and you don't need 32-bit compressed pointers to get optimized cache utilization - value types & data oriented design is far more effective for improving cache utilization.
Ozone layer: Concern grows over threat from replacement chemicals
Is this Isabella Rosselini?
Yea it’s kind of weird there’s no hug emoji.
Reddit has launched their cryptocurrency integration
That does not display for me. Useless.

Let me repeat: we have copper and stainless (chromium) steel pots and pans (or, in the case of stainless steel, surgical implants!) The idea that PV is dangerous because of those metals is absurd on its face. Chromium toxicity is from highly oxidized (hexavalent) chromium that will not be produced from Cr in ordinary structural materials.

My priors for interpreting statements like yours is to treat them as garbage. This is because renewables have been subject to an endless stream of BS criticism for decades. The expectation upon seeing more such clearly dubious criticism, such as yours that flies in the face of elementary chemistry, is that it's just more of the same.
And less money for a functioning social net (which the US doesn’t even have yet)
Which all costs a lot of money.
I got the same rabbit comment at the beginning when I drew a generic smiley face.
More like, you immediately start guessing how the author will use it in the story.
"That's an interesting way to describe it"

This sibling comment response is literally giving me chills. Is this like a bot or something or someone who literally thinks the idea of sensationalist journalism is like a "huh that's interesting, never thought of that" kind of thing?

I am pretty sure sensationalist journalism predates real journalism... Why would a feudal lord want his subjects to really know what was going on in the world?
still works, watching videos from embeds
Indeed a lot of people especially when they start out, move to a new location. Away from family and friends and the office banter and social keeps them sane and not lonely.

Same with many older staff, kids have moved out or have their own lives. So many again love the office gossip and banter. Enjoying poping to the cafe or pub at lunchtime with others.

They also realise they need to ensure they are not just a remote voice on a concall and the odd email.

It seems at present the younger and older with lockdown are suffering more than those in more busier households.
> a rather grim detail that I didn't see addressed in that conversation (but maybe I missed it!!) is how that valuation changes for people when they are near the end of their life.

Yeah you did miss it. The question is asked directly ("Did we factor in the age...?") answered quite directly ("Valuing people differently was kind of tried once in 2003..."). I would suggest listening to the whole thing. It's quite eye-opening.

> She expressed frustration at not being able to have the shop opened weeks ago in a control+the owners radically changing how they operate the business to protect the high-risk populations.

It must be incredibly frustrating. I do imagine if she'd gotten checks in the mail to keep life her going, she'd have appreciated that at least as much as having to come to work in the middle of the pandemic, if not more.

> BTW, when she applied for her unemployment benefits in Colorado, an apalling thing with the legislation: Her tip income, which is 40% of her total, was legally not included with her unemployment payout. So she got a reduced amount of what she normally earns, AND she got it late. Other states probably did a far superior job, but I don't have any ideas if that's the case.

This is yet another reason why we need to get rid of tipping and just pay people better instead. And why we need to just mail everyone a check for the pandemic instead of having them rely on unemployment benefits.

> This whole thing is a tragedy, one way or another.

It is definitely a tragedy. However it doesn't need to be this much of a tragedy. If they sent people payments and changed laws accordingly then at least the only thing ruining lives would be the virus, not the economy. It's very tough to say the alternatives people are fighting about are all equally awful with equal certainty here.
Learn WASM by Example
The Lee-Leahy amendment passed the Senate. Not sure how someone can say there is no counter-balancing entity with regard to FISA courts.

From Senator Mike Lee's webpage[0]:

The Lee-Leahy amendment will strengthen third-party oversight of the FISA process. Specifically, it requires FISA court judges to appoint an amicus curae (a neutral third-party observer) in any case involving a “sensitive investigative matter” so long as the FISA court does not determine it to be inappropriate.

The amendment will also empower the amicus to raise any issue with the court at any time and give both the amicus and the FISA court access to all documents and information related to the surveillance application.

0: https://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/5/senate-pa...
Definitely true in general, but it would surprise me if the Trump administration wasn’t involved in making this particular project happen, just on the strategic importance alone.
Down for me in Berkeley, California.