skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California has a target of 100% carbon-free energy by 2045.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/8/31/1779909...

EDIT:

And on your second point, having a large number of electric vehicles may actually help smooth out load -- it's easier to temporarily throttle charging during peak load than it is to get everyone to turn off their air conditioning. Public charging stations, like Chargepoint, already do this.

You can even imagine a future where you could tell your car to discharge its battery to power your home during peak demand and then charge back up overnight when power is cheap and plentiful.
Can someone explain how the variable i works in the home page's sample source code?

: main
i := ball
loop
sprite v0 v1 7
v0 += 3
v1 += 5
again

: ball
0x38 0x74 0xFA 0xFE 0xFE 0x7C 0x38

I understand v0 and v1 -- makes sense they're initialized to zero, and the language must not require declarations -- but i is a mystery. ball is assigned to it, but then nobody refers to it again.
> The legislation asks them to take their finger off the scales, not put it on the other side.

Yes. But the notion that tech companies are putting a "finger on the scales" in favor of liberals is the conservatives' perspective. Another perspective is that they're banning categories of speech, such as misinformation and hate speech, which just happen to be more prevalent on the conservative side.
I am at least n=1 in that I came to the comments first, as I always do, and upon reading this warning have opted out of clicking on the link because I’m on my phone. Not exactly life shattering save as I would have just noped out after clicking on it anyway but eh, appreciated none the less.
As EV ownership rises gas stations are going to become rare enough to be a real hassle. That’s likely to push people to 95+% EV around 2040ish. At which point the remaining IC cars stop being a big deal.

We already went though something similar with catalytic converter requirements. Some people are going to drive 40+ year old cars, but they quickly become irrelevant.
A separate computer would also be good because some malware won't run in a VM since the developer knows it's probably getting analyzed.
Musk will text out don't worry, it's an anti-theft measure, stock jumps up 5%.
Civil Rights Groups Say Uber Actively Hurts Black People
I have done a couple of large projects in agol and had some pretty serious issues.

* Vector layers are fast but you cannot easily query attributes for a shape within the esri web apps.
* Feature layers are dead slow for large datasets.
* The API sometimes relies on you submitting form encoded JSON documents which may or may not actually do what you want on the backend.
* API error message are not always descriptive.
* The API documentation is not great. For example try finding the correct string formatting for a date.

It is a mass of different systems clustered together into a tightly coupled mess.
I think google pays Mozilla to keep them out of antitrust lawsuits similar to what Microsoft faced for internet explorer .
Lol no, how about: 'Newsom pats himself on the back with an executive order'.
Skirmish? Wikipedia says it lasted two months, one week, and five days, with nearly 11 thousand casualties on each side. (The US casualties about 20% dead, the Japanese nearly 100%.)
Found this little gem: Chip8 implemented in Go with an SDL based rendering engine.

https://massung.github.io/CHIP-8/
How I wish we could phase out cars. I know that they're necessary for some, and a huge convenience for most. But I would LOVE to be able to walk down a street and not have to worry about getting run over by a 1T steel object because the driver was reading a text.
Catchpoint to Acquire Webpagetest.org
not the first at all, but still a good step forward -- see the commercially available Argus II -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_retinal_prosthesis

* though it might be the first to work for those with optic nerve damage, or with this pathway
The literal translation for carbon fiber would be "Kohlefaser" and that is also used quite commonly.
What about trucks that transport goods across the state, including Amazon, UPS, and USPS trucks as well as traditional cargo trucks? Are those still going to be diesel powered and leaving a significant amount of brake dust in their wake?

What about the ships that burn the dirtiest fuel imaginable right up until they near California ports? Are they still going to be greeted with open arms?

What about all of the methane leaks from natural gas operations in the state? Will those actors face consequences?

What about the oil drilling that happens all along California's coast? Will they still be able to extract fossil fuels without paying royalties to the state?

Passenger vehicles are such a small portion of CO2 emissions, and implementing these restrictions pisses off a lot of people who do not want to change. High hanging fruit that is barely ripe.
Timely post, since the Trump administration is currently "Actively Discussing Radical Measures To Bypass Election Results"[1], i.e., working specifically to game the counting process.

For anyone even mildly concerned about the state of the democracy, or whether they are runing the Dictator's playbook of undermining independent institutions (separation of powers) to convert a democracy into an autocracy, this should be something of a wake-up call.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/23/report-tru...
I thought about resizing the window, but then most websites slap you with a hamburger menu and neuter the interface.

The web is such a shit place in terms of design. This is probably why I like reading books and magazines in print. At least the lay out is done by a professional who doesn't have a title "UX/UI" designer and doesn't have a Behance/Dribble portfolio. These people are professionals and they conduct themselves as such.
I can't even figure out which is the correct one to install. Google's Play store has at least 4 versions:

* Firefox Browser

* Firefox Focus

* Firefox for Android Beta

* Firefox Nightly

Can anybody tell me what I'm supposed to install?
> cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse

Additional strain on the electrical grid could do so (else more rolling blackouts)

>The Governor invested in forest health and fuel reduction

Missing text "Your money"

The Governor invested YOUR MONEY in forest health and fuel reduction

> The executive order will not prevent Californians from owning gasoline-powered cars or selling them on the used car market.

Ok, so a dealership can still bring cars in from AZ, OR, NV etc?
Learned helplessness is made worse by flat design[1], and major software developers' habit of changing the UI frequently, for no reason.

1. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design-long-exposure/ : reduced efficiency even in "skilled" computer users.
This law would make it illegal to host discussion forums such as Hacker News.

Subparagraph (c)1(B) says that the only safe harbor for removing content is (c)(2). (c)(2)(A) restricts the criteria that can be used to remove content to the following: "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, promoting terrorism or violent extremism, harassing, promoting self-harm, or unlawful".

The current Hacker News Guidelines contain stuff like "Be kind. Don't be snarky". These are broader than the text in (c)(2)(A). Therefore the safe harbor may not apply.

Worse, section (c)(1)(C) implies that removing ANY content by a user could make the forum liable for ALL OTHER content posted by that user, unless there is "good faith", but "good faith" is defined in section (g)(5)(A) to require all moderation criteria to be defined with "particularity". "Be kind. Don't be snarky" could be construed to lack "particularity".

The only alternative provided by this law would be to only remove content according to extremely legalistic moderation criteria. In my personal experience, all high-quality open forums require moderation with a degree of subjectivity with open-ended criteria similar to our Hacker News Guidelines. Given the legal risks of having to go to trial to argue about whether you are a "publisher" of other people's forum comments, it would be foolish for anyone to continue to employ open-ended moderation under this law.
They'll probably make electric versions of those vehicles? Is there any reason those types of vehicles must be gas powered?
It’s a reference to the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritan. It’s not some racist jab.
Drilling down into the sources suggests that the top-level claims are a bit of a reach:

> Specifically, while superconducting technology eliminates the cost of moving bits within the superconducting domain, the cost of transferring data from the outside into the superconducting domain does dissipate energy at 4 K. Consequently, superconducting is expected to perform poorly on, for example, big data applications where the bulk of data is streamed from the outside into the processor. What is more, the energy cost of logic in superconducting circuits is expected to be similar to that of CMOS.
I wish these articles would also count many are primary cars (i.e. a household replacing or buying a car, meaning they don't otherwise have one), and how many are secondary cars (i.e. in addition to another car, particularly non-EVs). My anecdotal evidence from Norway suggest most people get EVs as their secondary cars. I wish I had more numbers.
I have seen it happen several times where it was considered illegal to use waste methane (for example, to run a generator) because the operator was unable to get a permit to do so.

The reasoning is that small scale power generation produces other pollutants (NOx, etc) that are even more tightly regulated than the methane.

This plant still should have been able to secure a permit to flare the methane (thus converting it to CO2 + soot) which would at least be better for global warming than releasing the methane directly
I’ve been toying with Azure OpenID Connect w/ Cloudflare Workers. Not local to the datacenter but you could probably do something similar elsewhere?
AI enhanced old video to 4K with doubled frame rate to 48fps
Section (d)(2)(B) makes it illegal NOT to "expeditiously" remove illegal content once a provider has "actual notice" of illegality. If someone has a blog that they don't really maintain, someone else posts an illegal comment, a third person flags the illegal comment, and the blog owner doesn't get around to moderating their blog for a few months, do they go to jail?

That same section would make it difficult for web hosting providers and DNS providers not to take down other people's websites immediately if they receive any complaint about any illegal comment on those websites (they already do this sometimes, but this would make the problem worse). This would make it easy for trolls to take down small forums or blogs without the means to employ a 24/7 moderation team; just post something illegal then immediately complain about your own comment to the DNS provider before a moderator even has a chance to see it. The only solution allowed by this law would be for small forums to pre-moderate all content.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1319331/download
I use the left side bars to switch languages all the time
Licences usually have an end date. OpenAI might have got more money from a single customer than by splitting it among several. And they can always go back to the trough once the licence expires.
It says passenger vehicles, so I expect trucks to be included but not semi trucks and other cargo vehicles.
Techdirt has always been that way, you just started noticing. Mike is all about the clicks. Mike seems to never be wrong, according to himself. Mike will distance himself from his own words when convenient. Techdirt should be called The Daily Outrage.
Are you saying he should have broken campaign finance laws by donating under an alias?
I have started working on something along these lines. I don't write pixels directly to the screen and I am continuing to use the browser and all of its capability, but I have abstracted the client viewport as a 2d surface that I can set arbitrary pixels on from the server. There is a tiled diff mechanism w/ JPEG compression in between client and server for more efficient real-time update of dirty parts of the view. 100% of client events are processed server-side. All the client browser does is display whatever tile it is told to as quickly as possible.

Biggest advantage is response time on complex views, followed by the ability to guarantee pixel-perfect presentation on any device capable of websockets and jpeg decoding. Caching of content is on a final tile basis rather than full viewport. This increases the hit-rate substantially, as tiles are not at fixed pixel boundaries, but rather aligned with logical UI elements. Fixed sized elements will more likely produce the same final tile(s) with equivalent SHA256 regardless of client device. Hashing is performed in terms of the UI element's properties (dimensions, size, text, color, etc), so cache lookups can be made along these lines.

Biggest downside is latency - This approach has a similar practicality envelope as Google Stadia, et. al. WRT distance from datacenter. 2nd biggest downside is the fact that this technique is fundamentally incompatible with classic web development ideologies and requires new ways of thinking about solving problems. I personally find this last point to be a benefit, but I recognize it would prevent wider adoption in the community.
In my experience 'Kohlefaser' is a pretty common technical term, I've only ever encountered 'Karbon' w.r.t. bicycles (but that just be my limited view).
Is that program the one for high school children?
sure would be nice if the HN mods didn't bury this
The subtitle says all vehicles sold must be zero-emissions, so that presumably includes diesel. But this seems to only target passenger vehicles, not freight carriers.
EV models of such vehicles are starting to be produced in "demo" models now, so it doesn't seem like a technical barrier to have them in mass production by the time this takes effect.
This would be a lot more reassuring if the same (better storage in a bound form) hadn't been promised for at least 20 years, back then being solved in principle, but not being ready for prime time...
Section (g)(3) says that "Being responsible in whole or in part for the creation or development of information includes, but is not limited to, instances in which a person or entity... comments upon ... or affirmatively and substantively contributes to, modifies, or alters information provided by another person". This implies that one editor of a wiki could be held responsible for not noticing and removing illegal content posted by another user while they edit a page.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1319331/download
> But you can't set up a hydrogen fuel cell factory in your back garden.

Sure you can. Electrolysis is a middle school science experiment, and it's efficient to do at a small scale. In fact, it's often more efficient to do small scale electrolysis at fueling stations than to do it in a larger scale operation and ship it to the fueling stations.

(Splitting it from natural gas is cheaper, but then it's no longer clean energy, so...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#Acquisition_by_Mi...

"As of June 2013, Nokia's mobile phone market share had fallen from 23% to 15%, their smartphone market share gone from 32.6% to 3.3%, and their stock value dropped by 85% since Elop's takeover."

"Controversy arose around Elop receiving a €18.8 million bonus after Nokia sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft and he stepped down as the CEO. The controversy was further fueled after it was revealed that his contract had been revised on the same day as the deal was announced."
Now that you mentioned terraforming Earth, let me mention my favorite forgotten mega projectL Antlantropa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa). Peel away the colonialism, ties to Lebensraum, and lowering the Mediterranean by some 200m, the man-made lakes to irrigate Sahara is an interesting idea, I think! Boosts Africa's untapped potential. On a similar vein also see the Qattar Depression Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project)
Has the problem of having to recharge rapidly been solved?

What if I need to drive somewhere in a hurry but my car isn't charged?

What if there's a power outage or I forget to plug in my car overnight?

I'm not saying these are blockers, but they're not convenient.
Debates on major topics during a campaign aren't really known for their scientific quality and attention to nuance, so I'm not really sure we should be upset if anyone's passed up on the opportunity to debate acceptable fuel emissions during campaigns. Between healthcare, immigration, criminal justice reform, etc. there isn't exactly a shortage of topics to debate and pick a side on during a campaign. And unlike (perhaps) the market, it's not like mother nature gives points for democracy either.
>It would be more surprising if someone didn't own AMZN.

That's only true if you include ETFs/mutual funds/pensions, but I don't think you need to make a disclosure in those cases.
Does that include imported energy?
The required disclosures for buying houses vary _widely_ between different US states.

In California, it is not unusual to receive a packet six inches thick.

In "other" states, a couple dozen pages will suffice.

I think your standardization idea is an excellent one.
> "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6oRuu9tLg"

Content aside - I feel like this video is terribly edited, scripted and produced. It's impossible to follow - thanks to all the shallow jokes, weird cuts and messy presentation. Almost like it's intentionally made for people without an attention span...
To address centralized polluting, the advantage is that it's refactored out of millions of cars into one grid. As they adjust the sources in the future, all the cars keep going. Also, centralizing generation allows for easier observation.

One thing you didn't mention is efficiency. Electrics are around 60% and gas around 20%. Once you have some power at the car, you make better much use of it.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/03/10/electric-car-myth-buste...
I like it conceptually, but isn't there missing technology still? Batteries have improved mildly, but energy to weight ratio (and energy to cost) remain problematic.

If we witnessed a jump in battery technology, we may not even need to wait for 2035 for the market to do this for us. But in the meantime we're still seeing electric cars that cost at minimum 10K more than their gas counterparts (with the low cost of oil/gas right now only making that look worse).

I'd love to own a Tesla Model 3 for example, but realistically it is a $37K car that competes with $25K gas vehicles or $27K Hybrids. When is THAT going to change? When is electric going to be affordable for the average person?

The $7.5K federal tax incentives also disappeared (and we never had state incentives here).
Elon on hydrogen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPnT-DCBVs
Authoritarian laws wrapped in a 'save the children' package make a mockery of our legal system.
Yes, I agree their fundraising messaging is deceptive and it's the primary reason I no longer give money to them.
Show HN: Create AWS infrastructure, defined as Terraform TypeScript code
Electric cars are all well and good, but even if everyone drives them, they still consume far more energy than public transport.
On the reliability front, electric vehicles have far fewer moving parts than IC vehicles. If the world switches entirely to electric, really great electric 4x4s will appear.

I can't recall a time that I've used a cordless drill and thought to myself, "man, this thing would be so much better if it were powered by a two-stroke motor".

This advantage is especially clear in the case of a 4x4: one need not include viscous couplings and fancy differentials.
I found a lot of factual inaccuracies within this report which leads me to believe this either an attempt to tarnish the Azure brand or (as someone else pointed out) the author of this has invested in it’s competitors. For example, they state the following which is trivial to show as completely false:

> Amazon is already building an ecosystem around its own chips, while Microsoft has yet to deploy any custom chips in Azure.
It’s a good time right now because the fires in California have put a spotlight on environmental issues.

Also you have to adapt to changing conditions and then take actions accordingly. This is true generally, and possibly even more so for politicians and governments.
Previously the website did focus on other areas, but it wasn't worth the increase in stress. I studied law in university so I have a good eye for what makes decent law notes. The same isn't true in other subject areas.
YouTube closing 10yr old guitar teaching channel, without clear copyright claim
California, legislates its way to homelessness then blames the lack of government
Sue'm all and the let the judge sort them out.
This is great - typing this from a X1 7th gen where on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS the internal microphone still does not show up and the 4.0 speakers sound way too crisp (after I upgraded from 19.10, might need to do a fresh installation).
4x4 / all terrain doesn't seem to be much of an issue for electric vehicles. Electric motors are torquier, and it's easy to design drivetrains that use multiple motors. It seems pretty likely that electric trucks will be here by then (Rivian, Cybertruck, freaked-out traditional manufacturers jumping in a few years later).

The bigger issue is probably range, for users that need to work in truly remote areas. But big trucks can carry a lot of batteries, too. I think the number of operators that genuinely need more than ~500 miles or so of range is probably pretty low.
I support anything remotely similar to what you're proposing.

I just can't get over the case of Henrietta Lacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

TLDR: The immortal cells central to cancer research are hers. Unacknowledged. The debt we owe this woman is immeasurable. Yet she and her family have no claim.

How many more Lacks are there?

There's a wide band between a record of my shopping habits and this woman's genetic code. But the principle is the same. If someone's making a buck off my data, I want my cut.
This was an executive order, not a law that was passed. Given that multiple new governors will likely have taken office in California between now and 2035, and any one of them can rescind or modify this based on the then-state of the electric car market and the economy, it doesn't really mean anything.

If the electric car market is mature enough by 2035 for this to not cause major economic issues for car dealers and others throughout the state, then it will stand. But if that's the case, the majority of car sales will be electric with or without this order. If that's not the case, it will be quietly rescinded or modified by the then-governor. So this order, effectively, is just political posturing and changes nothing that won't naturally happen (or not happen) anyway.
I've never realized how often I do both scenarios but now that you said it, that's exactly right, it is very useful. Being multi-lingual myself, the benefit of the switching language is not just for bias but also because some topics are just more expanded in other languages. I keep Google in English so obviously English wikipedia articles are the ones showing up, but let's say I look at some francophone music artist, i'm more likely to get a longer wikipedia page once I switch to French.
You're right. But I don't think it means what you think it means. Consider the problem of gluttony, which has always been a human problem, but which has grown far worse with the advent of industrialized food processing. The feedback loop is very similar, in fact, to the entertainment/information feedback loop that began with the invention of writing. Plato wasn't wrong in kind, only in degree.
The luxury air business is booming – as many Californians struggle to breathe