skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer: anything above 20% is unproven and will cost significantly more if you expect to have 100% uptime/reliability. If you're okay with 95% uptime, wind/solar can get the job done, and I believe cheaper based on https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S25424...

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The flaw with renewables is they are so dam cheap and so dam finicky. Basically, renewables force nukes and nat gas to sell power at a loss or sit idly by for most of the time. This becomes worse and worse as the renewable's market share increases and they eat away at the profitability of the dispatchable sources. The limit is something like 20% at which point nukes and nat gas just can't make any money and so a free market system would just get rid of them. But yet, they need to be there, just in case, because they are dispatchable and you want shit to work at all times. Unfortunately, prices for consumers don't go down because you need the super dispatchable power sources which just sit there for a lot of the time and cost just about the same if you have em on or off, and you also just built a bunch of renewables which are cheap and make money for the guys who built them, but hurt the rest of the grid because you have a bunch of idle equipment (gas/nukes during the day and most of the year, panels at night). Lower cost storage is a way to address that, but has to be really low cost, especially when you increase wind/solar market share. Keep in mind, there's not yet a good solution for long term storage (days or weeks or months).

To go beyond 20% renewables you need a power market that rewards dispatchable sources, essentially preventing solar and wind from taking all the money and bidding everyone into oblivion. If the market is fair, there will be little incentive to push renewables because they just make things more expensive. There's a bunch of ideas on how to do this like capacity payments. Might work, but it's gonna cost more because of all the unused equipment. Everything is possible, you just need to be willing to pay for it.

In an 80% renewables grid, most of the time, renewables will be meeting 100% of demand and producing much more than needed. 20% of the power is delivered by nat gas. But they will mostly be called to do that only on the bad days where they will have to be able to match closer to 100% of the demand. So you've basically got two nearly complete fleets. Who's gonna pay for the idle equipment? The solar power producers should right?

One data point: Germany is 30% renewables and pays 50% higher than EU average. That's old prices in a country not ideal for renewables. It's no Arizona or Washington.
This sounds like something your ID card would be suited for, German ones already support NFC and can used to authenticate against government websites.

Of course that would eliminate anonymity, which would be horrible, but maybe ok for Gmail where people use their real names anyway.

But in the event of loss of ID card or identity theft, there is a trusted instance (the government) that can block old ones and issue new ones. This could be used as a reliable way to rotate a 2FA key, because some unique number attached to a citizen won’t change.
Usually, an upvote should suffice, but this is the best ELIF of IPFS that I've read.
How do people distinguish between “actually seeing it” and a visualization?

I’ve heard it being used to memorize the digits of pi, so it’s clearly extraordinary, but it’s difficult to see what is a normal reaction to music in the first place. I can’t imagine “just” perceiving the music at all.
Reading the description on Wikipedia, I would say it can be part of the dynamic analysis. "With a dam and reservoir it is also a flexible source of electricity, since the amount produced by the station can be varied up or down very rapidly (as little as a few seconds) to adapt to changing energy demands." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity
The plex and steamlink apps on my Samsung TV get daily use. So does the Chromecast connected to it for other things.

In the case of plex, having a native app on the TV is far superior than fiddling with my phone or tablet or starting something on my computer and running into the next room to watch it.

For steamlink, I've suddenly started playing some of my old steam backlog, and now that epic is throwing games at me some of those as well. And I've also got a serious retroarch habit that works great over the steamlink app.
I'm surprised no one mentionned Prestashop here.
Aside WooCommerce this is a really solid solution since years now, that can scale and have real plugin official marketplace with verified contributors. WooCommerce has way more hassle ...
"Apple isn’t just providing payment processing"

I didn't say they were. I said Apple's role is comparable, in that it is not deserving of automatic 30% of revenue. It may be a lot of services, but it still doesn't cost a lot per user and per app, especially when compared to what a brick and mortar retail store does.

And it certainly doesn't make sense for an app like Netflix, which is comparatively expensive per month because of how much use it gets, how much bandwidth it consumes, and all the licensing and production costs. Imagine if Netflix had to pay 30% to Apple.

Netflix gets away with not paying that 30% because they have leverage. But smaller apps can't. Sounds to me like exactly what antitrust is for.

"If Apple let apps side-load from a website, and not access any of the iCloud or push services... you’re basically back to a PWA."

If they wanted to (or were forced to by antitrust action), they could allow third party services to do all those things, and for them to interoperate. They choose not to because they make ungodly amounts of money the way they do things now.
I mean if you can buffer and defer, always do that. Synchronous only when you have to?
authy is basically the only sane way to do 2fa.

Clonable, backupable, encrypted on disk and in cloud sync.

I have it on my phone, laptop, and desktop.
Another commenter posted:

> It's simple, demand "pulls" the economy far better than supply pushes it, and we are a rotten insecure society with no demand.

I'm not sure it's so simple. In certain industries, we have a ton of demand that isn't really met: housing, education, healthcare, to name three.

But the reason we don't meet the demand for these (now highly-inflationary) goods and services is political, not economic.

1. We know how to build lots of really nice housing for not that much, but the most in-demand regions prevent that construction through the political process. Any innovation in construction tech has to contend with not just limits on construction in in-demand areas, but also requirements ("all new construction needs rooftop solar!" -- I love solar, but the costs are way, way lower at utility-scale) that increase costs.

2. High-quality, public education used to be ~free, a reality that applied significant downward pressure on private college tuition as well, but state funding has entirely dried up as costs (often non-teaching-related) have soared, in part thanks to (1)!

3. Due to somewhat well-meaning regulation, healthcare has become a disaster of hidden price signals, requiring a team of bureaucrats weeks to months to decide how much money to exchange for a service already provided. Powerful political organizations limit the number of new practitioners trained in the US,

There are good and totally justifiable path-dependent reasons why we are where we are in the three industries above. But they are now the largest category of consumer cash outflows, pushing innovation to the margins (cell phones! computers! ads!). The reason housing, education, and healthcare are so expensive is because demand vastly exceeds supply, and supply is limited by politics.
What am i looking at? I type in the provided search input and nothing happens. I drag images to the interface, nothing happens. The github site has an animation that shows something being dragged, apparently then searched (indexed i would have assumed? but its unclear what is going on) and then some results get displayed without any typing ever happening.
IMHO much of the issues around validation are largely self-inflicted by the use of needlessly complex/verbose/flexible formats. Having worked (fortunately, not much) with SOAP, I can safely say it's one of the worst offenders. Text-based formats add so much more flexibility that they dramatically increase the space of both valid and invalid inputs over a simple binary protocol. The article shows how this can happen with numbers, but my favourite example is a boolean - if you use a textual format, you may think "true" and "false" are valid, but what about "True", "TRUE", "FALSE", " FALSE" (with whitespace), "tRuE", "falso", "yes", "no", etc.? Maybe you will think it makes sense to allow only the first two, but in a nearly-optimal binary format like ASN.1 PER, there's no need to even think about such things: a boolean is a single bit, representing exactly the two states which need to be communicated. There's no ambiguity[1], and (even better) no room for invalidity!

[1]I guess if you really stretch things, you can say 1 is false and 0 is true, and I have actually seen that before, but I can't think of any other ambiguities a single bit could have.
You’re missing my point.

More people die in pools because there are more pools and more people in them.

The percentage chance of dying in a pool is incredibly low, partly because it’s low risk and partly because we mitigate the actual risk (training, lifeguards, etc).

Mine shafts are an order of magnitude more dangerous. If pools were as dangerous as mine shafts, they wouldn’t be anywhere near as common.
One solution is to use an easy to remember prefix with your passwords and only write down the secure part.

Password is mayfly-DyHpE82sd3r3rvr!2sDQ

Part you write down is DyHpE82sd3r3rvr!2sDQ
No, they need to allow other stores with different rules and different pricing models. If not, then their store needs to drop the anti competitive practices. This is what the EU investigation is about.
You laugh, but in China, your national ID card is used for nearly everything important, and then your WeChat account or phone number is used for everything else. Almost all logins are done through SMS verification or WeChat login (no passwords in many cases), and your WeChat and phone numbers chain back up to your national ID card.

It turns out that you can completely centralize ID and authentication, provided you have a government which is mercilessly willing to violate your privacy...
I've been reading Daring Fireball for more than 15 years now precisely because I trust John Gruber to call out Apple when they need to be called out.

I'm always surprised to see people who think he's a biased shill - see you reading the same site that I am?
Not the OP, but as I live in a "lifestyle city" (Knoxville, TN) there are several middling big cities that are in close proximity to activities (hiking, climbing, skiing, beaches, etc).

Pretty sure the cities the OP was referring to are Boulder Colorado, Boise Idaho, and Chattanooga Tennessee. My family prefers Knoxville due to it being closer to the Smoky Mountains, but Chatannooga was on our list when we were deciding where to live.
MFA has made authentication less reliable.

You can reset a lost password with an email and an automated process. You can not do this with 2fa on just about any 2fa enabled site I've seen.

2fa is a net gain in how likely you are to get locked out of your account, This is why nobody wants to use it.
KeepassXC can do TOTP, no need for Google Authenticator or other phone app. And sync/backup your database.
I think it's more likely they will change when the EU courts find them guilty of anti-competitive practices.

From my layman's perspective, the case looks a lot stronger than it ever did against Google where at-least alternatives to Play Store existed.
False flag gone bad. Gun bans followed.
If you're comfortable with PHP, Shopware & Sylius (both built on Symfony). For Python, look at Saleor. If you don't want to live in a world of pain (
see looping__lui), use a SaaS solution like Snipcart or BigCommerce (which has very competitive rates vs. Shopify). Use the time to learn how to market your product, run ads, create content and grow your business.
30% seems to be the standard commission rate in the gig economy for "I did something for you".

Grubhub: I brought you an order, give me 30%

Apple: I brought you a customer, give me 30%

Uber: I brought you a passenger, give me 30%

Competition can lower the industry rates for food & personal travel, though I suspect there is price fixing at play right now. But it cannot for Apple platforms. The antitrust proceedings _must_ happen for us to see progress here. You don't persuade the largest company in the world to change their ways. You legislate them to. Too bad our lawmakers have no teeth.
One result was it gave a pretense for the prime minister to issue the equivalent of an executive order banning 1500 types of rife which were previously legal and giving anyone that owns one a 2 year grace period to dispose of it. This was done without going through the legislative process.
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
Prestashop, WooCommerce, Snipcart, Magento, are all decent self-hosted solutions.
Err https://www.reuters.com/article/us-barclays-regulations-gold...
Did this guy just re-invent memos?

There's a lot of history here, going back centuries. The military has put much effort into designing written communication. There's the classic 5-paragraph operations order format. There's the "bottom line up front" style, which for information rather than orders. The military makes a very strong distinction between info documents and orders.

Diplomats have some traditional formats, too.[1] Most correspondence is formal. Sometimes there's an "appreciation of the situation" attached to correspondence from a mission to its state department. That's an informally written summary of what the writer has observed and what they think is going to happen.

An amusing read is "How to Live though an Executive", which is nominally by L. Ron Hubbard, the Scientology guy, but was really written by Richard DeMille. This is from 1953. It's someone trying to invent Slack, before computers. It's done with wallboards, clips, carbon paper forms, tear-off tickets, and people called "communicators" doing the paperwork. It was never used. Too complicated pre-computer. The basic concept is a trouble ticket, with an organized system to insure that handing off the problem to someone doesn't mean it gets lost to follow-up.

[1] https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/hks-communications-pro...
Plus moving desktops/laptops to ARM would require a giant effort of developer opt-in and monetary investment industry wide. I don't think company experience with mobile/tablets via the App Store is a sufficient example of buy-in to say it will be a viable choice.

There's a ton of random MacOS software that would need to be ported, upgraded, or virtualized which could take a full decade to really cover the full ~99%, with the last 1%+ mostly dying off.

Apple usually doesn't like running two product lines with arm/x86 options, so it would probably be some weird transition thing.
Totally agree. Just if they are no longer for only accredited investors, there should be increased disclosure
I wonder why SHA-256, and not BLAKE2(b/s) or BLAKE3. BLAKE3 is significantly faster.
There is a petition in support of him which also has some big names. That should be sufficient to warrant further investigation rather than immediately forcing him to resign.

https://sites.google.com/view/petition-letter-stephen-hsu/ho...

Signatures include:

Scott Aaronson
Scott Alexander
Sam Altman
Linda S. Gottfredson, Professor Emeritus, University of Delaware, Past President of the International Society for Intelligence Research
Jonathan Haidt, Professor, New York University Stern School of Business, USA
Geoffrey Miller
Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Robert Plomin, Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London
Brinks is an American company.
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Most data centers needs non-stop 24/7 reliability, and there are very few use cases where it makes sense and is even possible to delay your workload waiting for lower energy prices. Smelters have complicated processes, and they cannot really turn on a dime. Lastly, data centers and smelters are expensive capital investments, and typically the economic calculation requires them to be run non-stop to recoup the capital investment.
People keep assuming that asking the question "what relationship (if any) is there between race and intelligence from a biological standpoint?" is the racist part. The question by itself isn't really the problem.

The racist part is pretending that it's still an open question. It isn't. There is no measurable biological relationship between race and intelligence.

There has been a massive amount of research into what influences "intelligence", and the sum of it makes it clear that environmental factors easily have a significant enough effect to explain differences in scores between racial groups on different metrics.

Someone might bring up the fact that often even when controlling for factors like education and family income, the racial gap narrows but might not disappear completely. The response is that it is fundamentally impossible to fully control for the effect of race on the environment someone grows up in. Even when absolutely every other factor is identical, a white person and a black person are not going to have the same environment because their race constantly affects how the rest of the world interacts with them.

Essentially: We know environmental factors can affect any given metric of intelligence on a magnitude consistent with racial performance gaps on those metrics. Proof of this can be found in things like the fact that average IQ scores have increased over time, and the average IQ of black people in the 1990s was equivalent to the average white IQ in the 1940s. Biology does not change in 50 years so the improvement must be entirely from changes in environmental factors.

In addition, race itself intrinsically has a significant effect on one's environment. Those two facts alone are enough to make it clear that any hypothetical biological component is too insignificant to be measured.
I wrote an extremely light, dependency free NPM package that also has a CLI version.

https://github.com/moltar/pwnedpasswords
Perhaps there are fractions at Apple wanting to change this, and Gruber has sided with them...
Spasibo for the review. I'll have to watch it beyond the "is power money or truth?" scene now :) Incidentally, your last sentence reflects upon the US police problem, because some of them seem to have taken a comic-book anti-hero "The Punisher" as an inspiration, or at least someone whose symbology to wear.

I agree that bad ideas should be allowed in discussions[1]. If we're still talking about the same poor idea, it's probably a good idea if one quashes the ideas (whether poor or good) that run afoul of a platform's violence[2] policy
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/glorification... "You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people" (maybe reword your poor ideas to avoid saying "the shooting starts" in a country that distinguishes between assault and battery?) before publishing on that platform. I believe Theodore Roosevelt found his office a bully pulpit (note: not a bully pulpit) despite his lack of FB and TWTR.

Thanks also for the clarification of russian culture[3]. That sounds more advanced than anglophone (I am guessing the UK is not significantly more advanced than the US on this front, as Orwell makes it abundantly clear in both his fiction and nonfiction that he is a product of the english middle class), but I have no good suggestions for anglophones beyond education, which takes time. (not to mention that in the world of unvaccinated coronavirus, a two-student schooldesk is unlikely to be introduced in the US), time which is probably beyond the US Buxton Index[4].

[1] an advantage earlier US politicians had is that journalists would routinely rewrite even their on-the-record spoken comments to be more palatable in print. ("more" is an important qualifier here; Earl Butz resigned despite the fact that his jokes had been edited for taste when being reported)

[2] one amusing thing comparing US and USSR 70's and 80's movies is the completely different censorship. On one side you get very little blood, on the other very few breasts. (as for beasts, they're either scary or befriended. both systems agreed pirates are always villains)
I was surprised by the ending to White Sun of the Desert because it was the first I'd seen a soviet shoot-out.

[3] I've learned some russian from Lavrov's poetry. Does anyone have suggestions for which pieces of Pompeo I might improve my english with?

[4] I learned of the Buxton Index from Dijkstra. Something else that stuck with me is that he said, as a young dutchman, he was educated to never start speaking a sentence before one knows how one is going to finish it. Maybe the equivalent for twitter should be "don't start typing before you've thought through the 140th character?" More cynically, the old IBM slogan ought to be revived: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-f...
This seems pretty thin... Isn't Brinks a private security company? Isn't it possible that someone else apart from Canadian law-enforcement decided it would be a good way to transfer a large amount of cash?
Hardware is software embedded in electronics so it cannot easily be changed.

But there are electronic components that can be programmed with software.
> Equating a desire for sex with women with misogyny is in itself discriminatory.

It fits the definition for misandry. Ironically. Equating courtship advantage things men do with contempt is inherently misandrist (or we're at an impasse). I hope people are able to reconcile their corrosive relationships and prior life experiences to be more collaborative.
Where is your data for GDP per capita from?
I tried to look up the same on below links but the values and trends are very different from yours. Maybe it is measuring something different but I can't tell the difference.

https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/gdp-per-capita
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita
Great link.

You know, that would be a great way to fix most intermittent headphone problems, where you mainly need a strong mechanical result as much as the electrical connection.
I think the point is that console game’s code has to be signed by the console manufacturer or the console simply won’t run the code at all.
The problem is, most people don't have enough literacy and practicing to communicate via text.
Most of them appear to be able to read and write text, but they are not. They simply recognize the few keywords and pretend they understand it.

That's why most of the people, after remote work become the norm, fallback to inefficient video chat rather than efficient text chat.
> As the listener, before responding, it's a good habit to say "This is what I understand about your proposal" and proceed to summarize and give the original speaker an opportunity to correct you.

I find a practice like this is also helpful for following up after a meeting. For meetings that warrant my taking notes, I like to type them up immediately afterwards, send them out to the other attendees, and solicit corrections or confirmations while the meeting is still fresh on everyone's mind.

It was a bit scary when I first started doing that since I'd fear that I might have misunderstood something and would be revealing my ignorance. But to the contrary, I've found that it tends to encourage others to share their notes for comparison and elicit further discussion. (If there's something I've misunderstood from a meeting, usually someone else was confused too.)