skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. It is not disputed that one wind farm doesn't have the same availability as one (modern) nuclear power plant. My point is that you have to look at availability from a whole-system perspective point of view. Offshore wind farms spread out over large areas, coupled with tighter net integration and backup power sources can make renewable power just as reliable as nuclear.

Nuclear power is not magic either and can also suffer from disruptions. For example, if the delivery of uranium fuel is delayed, if there is a CODID-19 pandemic so workers are unavailable for maintenance work, if there are strikes, if there are Greenpeace activists who have breached the security lines sitting on the roof, etc...

In fact, I believe that the reliability of the German grid has gone up after Energiewende. Though it was a long time since I looked at it so I don't have a source handy. Reason being that the main source of power outages is disruptions in the electricity grid and not in the electricity production.
Now that's data slurping on a whole new level.
and 599 CAD, which is like 14% markup comparing USD price to CAD
Anecdote: I help run a gaming community (think public large Rust, Ark, etc. servers); we routinely have players, anywhere from 14-20+ age, try to "help us out" by donating large amounts with stolen cards, hacked PayPal accounts, and the like. Almost always the country is BD/PK/BR/VN/ID/LK. We don't have CIS (RU/UA/...) players, so assume that's excluded from this anecdote.

I'm unsure why, whether it's cultural or socioeconomic or otherwise. They don't see anything wrong in doing it, and when aggressively questioned (because we've banned their game accounts from our servers for fraud) the answer is always "what's wrong I am just trying to help" and "everyone here does this, no one wants to pay $[50+] for [GTAV/other AAAgame/etc], everyone buys hacked or keylogged accounts off secondhand market for $2"; some of them outright just try to offer lists of cards ("dumps?") in exchange for privileges/virtual titles on the forum/etc because they don't want to go through the effort of cashing them out. Of course we're like WTF in response.

If you look on r/gaming or other forums, it's super common to have someone "buy" your hacked account and when you reset it and recover it, you get a barely-comprehensible angry email asking why you stole the account they purchased legitimately and paid $1-2 for.
Saudi money
Grass is always greener on the other side. If you used siri you would be confronted with the bad instead of only seeing the good (this goes for anything which you are not using)
Ransomware attack that impacts Tesla vehicles would probably be the worst case scenario for the company.

Not sure how vulnerable they are to that but it keeps me from buying cars that are too heavily reliant on electronic controls...
I enjoy the garden. I wish people would just fuck off and let me have my walled garden. Please, fuck off.
I meant "payment processors" more generally, referring to the greater oligopoly of Visa, MasterCard, the major banks, etc.

It's little consolation for the vast sex industry that it isn't Stripe et al's fault that they are deplatformed.
> It's in no way comparable to a some other devices (mentioned on HN too)

what sort of devices?
You can actually purchase digital content in the Prime Video app now (with your Amazon payment info). Hard to know exactly what Apple/Amazon's deal is on that. You used to have to go to the browser to purchase movies/shows.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/1/21203294/amazon-prime-vide...
My toddler can’t turn Google Home on. He have probably tried over 300 times the last year. Seems like it is not trained on enough child voices in foreign languages. I had to record my voice for him on the iPad, so he can use it. Just with the short “Hey Google”, in Norwegian.

He pronounces it correct. The only difference is the high pitch/tone of a child.
I think there's a great opportunity now for a new search engine that evaluates the general spamminess of a site, and then punishes sites that link to spammy sites.
Wish Apple would release a GPU line. A man can dream right?
Good. Seriously. It's impossible to compete with Google on Search if you don't have a trillion dollars.

Apple is one of the few companies in the position to make a small dent. I suspect others here may disagree, but I wouldn't even hate to see them absorb and improve duck duck go.
I don't think anyone read that case study as somehow disqualifying for Go, so there's no need to litigate it; it's an example of a "Go -> Something Else" case study, that's all.
This reminds me that what I'd really like in an ebook reader is something that will sync a local library down from 'the cloud' in some automated way over wifi, without having to manually go in and update or import or whatever with books like everything else I've seen. ReMarkable seems like it wouldn't be practical for that for lack of enough storage for my Calibre library, though.
> I too could have invented calculus (after learning about it in school).

Incidentally, this is written as if it's obvious, but it's not at all a given that you can invent something even after you've been taught it. If you can, then it's a serious credit to your teacher.
The tone of voice analysis could be a game changer for people with Asperger's. If it works well, it could provide valuable feedback. For neurotypicals I'm not so sure of its utility. Seems like it could cause anxiety.

An interesting feature would be the ability to replay what the microphone picked up. This would give more context to the analysis. Though again, this could cause a lot of anxiety as people replay situations and worry about how they sounded.
That's what I thought I said in the original comment. I wonder what people disliked.
Ask HN: What is Scotland's food culture like?
I am doing research for a restaurant concept in the US and was wondering if anyone could share some insight into what Scotland's food scene/culture is like and more specifically, what their sushi/fish culture is like. Very interested in learning about decor/design/architecture/furniture in these venues as well!
As I read this on a Macbook Pro I'm staring also at the ceiling light behind me.

Oh how I wish I could leave my light on and still use my multi-thousand dollar machine without strain!
On what planet is talking to your phone easier or faster than taking 2 seconds to tap the your email app and skim the headers O_o
I think you could sell ebooks if you were willing to part with 30% of the revenue. Physical books that come with ebook access, or DVD/Blu-Ray that comes with digital access are treated as physical purchases, I believe.

My guess would be that the rule is that there's no Apple cut if you're selling a physical thing and there's a digital attachment. But Apple probably reserves the right to disregard sham physical transactions, where the physical item is de minimis in value compared to the digital item.
The reality of Black pain is breaking American sports' status quo
This is already happening with targeted clothing on Facebook. The jump from simply scraping FB data and filling in the gaps to AI generating the clothing entirely on its own will probably happen soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TargetedShirts/top/?sort=top&t=mont...
Found this just searching: https://www.mesotheliomafund.com/
No, it doesn’t. We just built a merchant app for the App Store where merchants of our platform should be able to handle and process orders made on our website from customers.

Apple refused to approve the app unless we added a storefront to our app and used in-app purchases. But that’s not something we consider a core feature of the app.
Hollywood isn't daemonized, but I used to give basically the same advice. Industries that run on attractive young people, people looking at very short careers, tend towards evil. Ask any successful recording artist about their first record contracts. Taylor Swift is writing songs about that dark place.
Apple App Store – Principles and Practices
For what it's worth, stateful is a good thing; NFSv4 leases are what allows it to safely do more aggressive caching than NFSv3. Back when it was new, benchmarks showed a good speed increase all around...
re: ""iOS and iPadOS 14 beta bypasses Google Search with Spotlight Search""

I just updated my iPad Pro to the latest 14 beta this morning, tried Splotlight search, and I didn't see this effect.

EDIT: I forgot to add that I look forward to a privacy respecting search from Apple.
Ask them fizzbuzz:

Solved < 7 mins: Senior
Solved < 15 mins: Mid level
Solved < 45 mins: Junior
Otherwise: No hire
Sure, but it's rather indicative of larger use of carbon emitting technology. Neither of your suggested replacements actually exist in any meaningful way, and virtually every investment comes with significant CO2 emissions.
Since their internet service will generate a lot of money, maybe spacex should just provide very low cost launches of future telescopes. Or maybe spacex should launch their own telescopes in partnership with researchers and sell the service for a low fee.

I also hope we tax companies that launch and own satellites to fund a clean up service that de-orbits all the junk before they cause the Kessler syndrome.
You should make clear somewhere (in the App Store description ideally, otherwise on your website) what are the limitations of the free version.
When compared in isolation, yes. But such mechanisms aren't free; they add to both language complexity and compilation time, two things that can have a negative impact on correctness. So it's impossible to say which approach leads to more correct programs overall without empirical study.

We see similar tradeoffs of soundness in formal verification as well. We're not talking about exactly the same thing here (because affine type safety is compositional) but the general principle is the same: soundness has a cost, and it is not necessarily the most efficient way of achieving a required level of correctness.

Anyway, I think that both Rust and Zig have very interesting approaches to safety, but I don't think we know enough to claim one is more effective than the other at this time.
OH NO WAY! That guy played a role in the documentary Sons of Perdition, rescuing "lost boys" from the fundamentalist mormons. Sort of. I'd read that sometime after the movie release he was exposed as some sort of fraudster but this story just gets crazier...
Most decisions, including where you live, come with some upsides and some downsides. Rural residents in developed countries made their choices. They accepted having less infrastructure than more densely populated areas in exchange for other factors. If they valued high speed internet that highly they would have made a different choice.
I use mine to set timers and "navigate to X"
They're very clearly shifting to software and other media as they get more of the hardware marketshare. The spend on Apple TV+ is massive.

>Plus their web results will probably be strictly censored and say goodbye to open web

Based on what? The app store and the web are vastly different beasts, and Apple knows this. (Plus it's not like Google is doing the open web any favors, just look at AMP).
Using the grid frequency as a price signal seems to make perfect sense. A mapping table can be published of frequency to market price, and updated periodically. The prices for outer extremes of allowable system frequency should be "+Infinity" and "-Infinity" so there is never a situation that someone let's the grid frequency go outside allowable bounds for business reasons.

Then home users can use devices with very basic built in electronics to save money or even earn money on electricity bills.
> Unlike many other products, customers buy electricity when they need it, not when it’s cheap

Not so. Home energy storage systems are getting there. Case in point, smart storage radiators: https://www.ovoenergy.com/smart-home-heat
This, one of the biggest blinkers technically-inclined founders have is that they forget or ignore that so much is relationship driven.

Rules like Stripes (+ Wells Fargos) are not interpreted like code, everything is open to negotiation and degrees of freedom depending on the relationship established.
Any way to sync it with Linux? It strikes me as odd that it’s that open, Linux based...but doesn’t have a Linux app.
Not so sure, many of the impressive A64FX numbers were published with no source code changes. Even large complex codes like WRF (a weather simulator) "just works" and was faster than a dual socket Xeon 8168 (each Xeon 8168 is $5680 each list).

For another F90 benchmark (Himeno) they got 4 times faster than a dual Xeon 8168 AND 1.1x faster than a Tesla V100 running the CUDA version of the same benchmark. IMO that's pretty amazing, no source code changes and you get BETTER than GPU performance without having to rewrite your code.

So sure a standard Epyc or Skylake refresh will run your code and "just work", the a64fx opens up the possibility of significant performance upgrades with no source code changes. If your code isn't currently rewritten for CUDA getting 10x the bandwidth and 4x the CPU performance would be really attractive.
One of the issues I see is that half of the country seems to see Oath Keepers and Threepers as “extremist militias”, while the other half sees them as a reasonable reaction to an increasingly powerful government.

I’m explicitly not taking a position on this topic -instead, I want to call out the significant disparity in perspective. HN seems to nearly unanimously accept the labels applied to these groups without question while other communities of which I’m part reject them (also without question).

More worrying than the polarization to me is the fact that neither group seems aware that other sees things so differently, and that the opposite opinion is broadly held by the other side. The assumption seems to be that only “extremists” would hold that view, when the reality is that 30%+ of the population share it.

The “moderate” position is vanishingly small these days.
Hi there! Like this line of work. As an enthusiast of Alife-ish things, CAs (and NKS-style computational systems generally), and also an author of an ML library, I was looking forward to jumping on the slack and just having a chat with likeminded folk, but I'm having trouble finding how to actually make an account on https://distillpub.slack.com
Some phones and earbuds have dedicated buttons for this, making it faster to use that than switch between apps.
Nuclear waste is so so so small, it's okay for it to last a long time.

And you'd better not ignore how much radiation is released by coal.
If this eventually bears out in reality, will not be surprised if they make an attempt to buy DuckDuckGo since they align on privacy as a business model. However, I'm not certain how I would feel about the concentration in a few large players, which would be the outcome of that, although it sounds like it might increase rather than decrease the level of competition...
Fair enough, I can see that. I think a good portion of the evil in those industries comes from sexism, but that's really tangential to the topic and I appreciate your point.

EDIT: I would like to expand my previous comment though. Whenever prostitution is legalized we see massive improvements in the lives of sex workers. It seems clear to me that further reducing the demonization of sex, sex workers, etc would lead to a better work place in those industries for similar reasons. There may be a baseline of evil, for the reasons you point out. I don't think that should stop us from working to at least reach that baseline, rather than just leaving the people and businesses that inhabit that crucial landscape to rot.
Seems they are trying to add these restrictions to smaller new apps and not mess with already established markets. Apple is quite literally toxic to innovation by these practices.
That's the retro mobile site, which may be in danger of deprecation and removal.
That is an argument against nuclear power in France as an economical base load generation mechanism.

The remaining points about the intermittent nature of renewables and how difficult it is to incorporate them into a reliable grid economically are still valid.
I've had better experience with the Body Cardio scale. Though I haven't validated against other measures, I believe the body fat percentage is accurate enough based on my subjective opinion (it has not been generous to me like another poster's experience). Research has determined that impedance can be +/- 4% from actual in optimal conditions and my scale seems to fall close enough within that range.

Regardless, I use it for all the variables tracked. I look at body fat percentage but body weight is ultimately the value of concern. I don't agree $99 a year is a good value just for bf%, because I do agree that visual impression means more than a specific number.

The subscription cost for Amazon's service may be a great value (privacy concerns aside) if their photo algorithm is within a couple points of DXA or hydrostatic.
You can do it on Android.
I'm not an absolutist about physical controls vs. touchscreens. Of your examples, A/C and traction control are automatic enough that I don't fiddle with them during driving and the touchscreen works great. As for transmission, the Model 3 doesn't have one. Radio, headlights (brights), and cruise control have physical controls that work just fine.

The wiper controls are really my only complaint. It wouldn't even require hardware changes to fix, as they could add a gesture involving holding the button while moving the stalk or something like that; they just haven't bothered, presumably because they think everyone should just rely on the auto wipers.
What does UK English have to do with EU? Most of the EU doesn't speak english natively so if a company brands itself as European it doesn't make sense to choose British English over US English or vice versa. That would only make sense if it identifies itself as a British company.
I wonder if there'd be any value in a search engine that recognized popular third-party ad networks and simply did not add to its index any page which includes them. (Or, at least, provided users an option to filter those results out.)
I was looking forward to trying it but the first thing it did was ask for my email. I would have liked if it let me at least try it without having to enter my email. Anyway, reluctantly, I entered my email but then I never received the access code.

I think you have a pretty big hurdle in the sign up and might be losing customers because of this. I would suggest allowing users to at least try it without signing up and also provide "Signup with Apple" instead of email.
Will "Digital Remastering" become "Digital Remaining"?

A little more thought should be made before we hastily insist on major changes to everyday language.
> It is marketed as a sketch/note pad and that's about it. The e-reader feature is like the youtube functionality on a Switch. It's there because "lolwhynot" and little more.

I personally disagree with this. I almost bought one because I wanted a good notebook and a lot of notes I write these days is specifically related to ebooks and pdf documentation that I work against. I almost ordered one after seeing this post.

However, from the review it appears like this will be impossible to annotate documents with. I want to be able to highlight text on an epub (like I can on my kindle) and write notes to reference later about that section. I want to draw some diagrams as I'm reading the book to make sure I'm understanding code/workflows properly, etc...

I'm not sure why that's so out of the realm for a notebook style device.
As someone who developed web applications appx 20 years ago and back doing it for a few personal projects in the past couple of years, I am a bit disappointed in the progress that’s been made in the web development space.

Edit: specifically front end.
Looks really cool. I’ll definitely give it a try. Can you add your own repo too? Let’s say I use an addon from github, would I be able to use that as a source?
It is just a start, even the word 'git' is offensive to some people.
Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share
I've done a fair bit of tinkering with ePaper displays attached to little Linux and MCU boards, and it is not trivial. Few if any have touch overlays, the graphics APIs are usually at the level of: magic initialization happens in this opaque chunk of bit-bashing, then you get a raw framebuffer; have fun!

You absolutely could homebrew a touchscreen ePaper "slate" with a similar broad set of features, but much like the Libre laptops (Purism, Novena, etc.) it's going to be slow, power-hungry, and chunky compared to a complete consumer device like the reMarkable.
Yes, but in insidious ways. In the era of Charlemagne, many other things would have had significantly higher micromorts. As a dinner guest, I would have enjoyed the show rather than headed for the doors. At a dinner party today? No way.

According to the official CDC report which was used by the EPA to ban new uses of asbestos [1] the gist is that asbestos isn't a traditional poison. We measure most "poisons" in terms of Lethal Dose (LD50) or roughly paraphrased "how much of this would it take to kill 50% of subjects." We tend to think of something, like cyanide, as "very poisonous" if a small amount of something will kill you very quickly. But we measure lethality in other ways - "lethal concentration" (LC0 - whats the lowest concentration in air that has been observed to caused a fatality, LC50 at what concentration is 50% affected), lowest observed adverse affects level (will this mess you up like lead poisoning?), lethal time (LT0 - lowest amount of time observed to cause fatality, LT50 - time to cause fatality in 50% of population), and a host of others.

Asbestos doesn't have an observed LD50 (at least not in that report). No one has died within a few hours of inhaling asbestos like they would if, say, they ate Fugu pufferfish.

What it does have, is a very low LC0 and very long LT0 numbers. Only a little bit needs to get into your lungs, which unlike the pathway we observe in cigarettes, will stick around for a very long time, where it will eventually (on a long enough timeline) cause cancer. Exposure makes these numbers go up. 10% of asbestos mill workers die of mesothelioma, 2% of people who work with asbestos insulating boats and planes die of mesothelioma or related cancers - most within 5-20 years. If you're a smoker, the synergistic effects can further increase your risk of cancer by 90x(!). Other figures in other reports are a bit lower, but the panic was over the issue that there was no 'safe' dose of asbestos unlike with other toxins and no trivial environmental remediation.

I only gave it a scan; happy to be corrected by someone more informed on the subject.

[1] https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp61.pdf - since updated in 2001
The standard advice I have seen regarding Creatine as a fitness supplement is to basically just take 5g / day. I have never seen guidance to use it for a few weeks only. Creatine helps replace things that get used up during hard workouts and supports the cellular energy cycle. It wouldn't make sense to just take it for a few weeks because it doesn't do a one-time effect.