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“Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers first detected a methane plume at the power plant in 2017 but didn’t alert DWP until more recent drone surveys showed the leak had worsened.”
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Diesel engines produce plenty of emissions.
>If he can ban the sales starting in 2035, why not 2021?

Because the governor cannot ban gasoline cars, he doesn't have that authority.

The title is click bait. What actually happened was the governor directed the California Air Resources Board to establish regulations requiring that all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California in 2035 be zero-emission vehicles.

That said, the state is going to need to address the power grid and lack of charging overall but especially in residential. California has had power outages this year caused by fire and demands on the grid. I don't see this being solved within fifteen years considering little has been done within the last fifteen to fix it.
CA regularly amends its constitution via voter initiatives, so I'd say we (Californians) actually do live in a fairly direct democracy.

Also, I'm not sure anyone has ever characterized representative democracy as: politicians campaign on certain issues, and then after getting elected — and with no material intervening factors — they enact sweeping regulations that they never even hinted at during their campaign (or decades-long prior political life).
I also think the Mirai is a dead end, but here are some things that might interest you:

* The energy density (kWh/kg) of the Mirai fuel cell system (stack, tank, etc) is probably 2x or more than its battery. Replacing it with a battery would probably cut range substantially.

* New car ramp-ups are weirder than I would've guessed, even when they're not pioneering a new fuel source and infrastructure. Eg the Prius took 8 years to break 50k sales per year, and it was a money-losing or breakeven proposition throughout that entire period. Later, of course, it became a breakout success story. [1]

* If fuel cells eventually matter (eg for heavy-duty applications), the Mirai could fail as a vehicle while succeeding as an R&D testbed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius
>Mozilla went out of their way to appear as a progressive employer and player in the marketplace

A fair point. Although I'd say that if Mozilla was actually being progressive, they would focus on Eich's professional decisions, not his personal ones.

Perhaps I misunderstand the term "progressive," but I see it as moving us forward in the context of our current culture/society and not as punishing anyone who refuses to conform. The former attempts to bring positive change, while the latter seems to be focused on stifling personal expression.

>But this would be a bit like the CEO of Greenpeace going on a whale hunt for sport.

I think that's a poor analogy for several reasons:

1. Mozilla is a software/technology organization, not an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. Eich's personal political views are irrelevant to running a tech organization, while Greenpeace is specifically focused on the species diversity and the environment. Apples and oranges, IMHO;

2. Not only was Eich not CEO when he made such donations, I am unaware of any anti-LGBTQ+ actions by him in any of his working capacities at Mozilla (please correct me if I'm wrong). Or that Eich ever brought his thoughts about same-sex marriage into the office;

I may be way off base here, and have no experience working at Mozilla and don't know Eich at all (although the ideas behind the Brave browser disgust me, and as such, perhaps I should just pile on and demonize him just for that).

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> relatively recent renewed support for Firefox against Chrome.

I have not seen this. Where have you seen this? Firefox has no marketshare and is still losing marketshare.
I think the first step is to cool Venus down. A giant parasol in heliosynchronous orbit (a bit inwards to compensate for the push light and solar winds give) seems to be the way to go.

Mars could require less mass. I'd go for a charged ring structure diverting protons from solar winds and focusing them into a spot on the surface to replenish the planets lost hydrogen and directing electrons towards the the edges so that the atmosphere would slow them down.

Imagine the autoras. After the sun sets, you'd see all those electrons plunging through the atmosphere and screaming in blue agony as they lose speed by hitting the CO2 molecules.
>> During the summer California struggles to keep the lights on...

That was my first thought as well. Gotta love rolling blackouts. But EV charging will likely take place at night when air conditioners are pulling less power so maybe it will smooth things out? They're still gonna have to support the peak load and do so more often.
It's true that the HN guidelines call for original sources, but we tend to prefer the best third-party article to press releases, corporate or otherwise.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I did a double-check on a few "simple" math topics, and -- yeah -- I think you're right. The Pythagorean theorem[1] article (even though rated as "Good") is all over the place, not to mention way too long. If I want a super simple introduction, Math Planet does a much better job[2]. And if I want a more technical deep-dive, Wolfram Alpha does a better job[3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem

[2] https://www.mathplanet.com/education/pre-algebra/right-trian...

[3] https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PythagoreanTheorem.html
It isn't semantics. We give protected classes extra protections because they are attributes of who a person is. To give the same protections to actions that people do would be wildly different.

A salesperson should be able to be fired for shit-talking their own product. A customer service representative should be able to be fired for treating a customer inappropriately. The editor of a magazine should be allowed to edit contributors' articles. Putting speech on the same level as a protected class is ridiculous.
> You had to move around with Ninja Gaiden/Dark Souls-level precision in a game engine that just was _not_ designed to give you that much precise control

This is the direction Path of Exile has gone and frankly it sucks. It more closely resembles bullet-hell games than old school Diablo 2.
Oh shoot. What about a long and flexible Archimedes' screw?
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I think Blizzard is expensive in terms of headcount. In 2012 apparently they had 4700 employees.
Maybe there will be a special class for certain niche applications, like off-road motorcycles and light trucks used in rougher applications in remote areas.

I would love to have a diesel-powered 4x4 light pickup with a 5-speed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Amarok
Yeah, too often discussions go like this:

Problem: the only food poor people can afford is wonderbread.
Solution: only accredited investors may now buy wonderbread.
I believe that is to be true.
Algebra of Programming [pdf]
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Why not use something like alienvault? What are the perks of using this over other services?
Please educate me, isn't climate change a lost cause now? We know its inevitable and despite wide awareness, no one basically does anything. Individual action is not going help and US government does not even believe that any such thing is happening and has relaxed EPA regulations on polluters and such, so is CA restricting sale of fossil fuel vehicles going to matter in the long run?
The press release only mentions passenger vehicles, not farm equipment. Within a couple of decades I think there will be some good choices for electric off road vehicles. Polaris already sells an EV side by side [1]

[1] https://ranger.polaris.com/en-us/ranger-ev/
I wonder if this is more or less effective a path to reducing emissions from cars than attaching a gas tax to fund equivalent carbon capture and storage. My understanding is roughly 100 gallons of gas -> 1 ton of CO2, and I see forward-looking estimates of costs for capture and storage in the $60 - $120 per ton range. So ... maybe this would increase fuel costs by up to 40%?

Would phasing in such taxes to strongly push people to buy zero emission cars be more or less accepted than a ban on sales of gas-burning cars?
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This is interesting timing. I wonder if this is because Tesla's battery day was yesterday and also the Volkswagen ID4 was announced today?
IIRC, the federal tax incentives phase out per manufacturer, based on the number of qualifying vehicles sold. So buyers of VW's newly-announced ID.4 will be able to claim the full credit, but buyers of Tesla's Model Y won't.
Why not both? ;)

Airbus is experimenting with liquid hydrogen: https://www.airbus.com/innovation/zero-emission/hydrogen/zer...
this will kill BEV then. there are large swathes of california where BEV will be an absolute nightmare. and i don't just mean rural places. in dense urban areas, garages are the exception not the rule. i find it hard to imagine every parking meter and every alleyway becoming a charging station. even in suburbia, garage space is rarely used for car parking. is everyone going to snake ugly cables out to their 2nd or 3rd car parked at the curb?

H2 fuel cell will take over.
I believe i is a register that in this case points to the location of the sprite data used by the sprite command. In this case the data represents the pixels of the ball.
> I don't see why...

The mistake here is assuming that just because you don’t see a reason, that must mean there is no reason.

Maybe you should visit California next time we are in peak firestorm mode and then you might see.
Norway heavily subsidized new electric vehicle purchases to achieve this result.

Coincidentally, the principal for Norway's huge sovereign wealth fund comes largely from oil extraction.
And another political tool. Doesn't seem to going too bad for Mozilla.

> Bevensee’s host org is the Anti-Defamation League

wow
It is noteworthy that the defining aspect of human experience in your model is an "unnecessary artifact".

The issue is not the precise boundary between unconscious and conscious mind, the point is that there is, in fact, such a boundary. You dream, do you not?

What you fail to address is what 'function' would require this otherwise inexplicable asymmetric partion of mind. Why this asymmetry? Why this duality?

Your principle error, imo, is that you simply assert that un- and sub-conscious psychological action is deterministic. You, nor anyone else for that matter, has any basis for making this determination. "We can't explain it so it doesn't exist". All we have observed in some experiments is that psychological signals that engender action occur before the conscious mind 'thinks' it has made a decision. To choose to label one's own mind's actions "deterministic" in that modality is merely an assumption. The simpler view is that one's 'self' has both unconcious and conscious aspects. This continuity does not require any assumptions; it seems self evident that 'it' is a unified 'thing'.

It is entirely irrelevant what physics has to say, today, about consciousness. Physics is having rather significant problems addressing a coherent, unified, treatment of simple matter, nevermind self-conscious minds. I think it is both prudent and rational to have a bit of humility in terms of what we actually know and understand, as a species.

[p.s. in context my OP, to be precise: I assert that it is "my unconscious self that has made a decision; my conscious mind becomes of aware of my decision, and a bit of continuity theater of the mind make my ego think it is the one that made my decision." It is an error to confuse 'ego' for the 'self'.]
The trade-offs of being a startup founder
Not necessary, but convenient. Venus has very little water, so maybe impacting comets at the equator in the right direction would be enough to solve both problems
This is not a case of gallivanting engineers running free.

All of the moonshot projects are done at the direction of executive leadership in the hopes to open new profit streams.

In fact some of the more technically promising projects (like Servo) had their whole entire team laid off recently to "refocus" on more of these executive-sourced profit grab moonshots
> I hope we don't bloat up wikipedia pages with too much whitespace. Getting of borders, "minimal" looks bother me so much because they're sacrificing layout for aesthetics. There is a reason why borders exist. It is a line segment that separates logically laid out content into groups.

Wikipedia is difficult to read due to the small font and large column width. Even with the updated versions (I checked French and Hebrew since I can read them) - the column width is in the acceptable range, but the font is too small to be comfortable on a 4k screen. 14px font is a thing of the past. I see Medium, with their thinner columns and 21px font as much more readable.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/nor...
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Ok, let's see here...

Hydrogen has 142 MJ/kg and at 700 bar is 42 kg/m^3. "At this pressure, 5 kg of hydrogen can be stored in a 125-liter tank." (https://energies.airliquide.com/resources-planet-hydrogen/ho...). That's 710 MJ in 125-liter tank.

I couldn't find the stats on a 127-liter tank, but a 49-liter, 300 ft^3 tank is 139 lbs, or 63 kg. That would hold about 2kg of hydrogen. (https://www.mathesongas.com/industrialgas/pdfs/Industrial-Cy...)

That's 280 MJ in 65 kg, or 4.3 MJ/kg. A lithium ion battery is 0.36–0.875 MJ/kg, but jet fuel is 43 MJ/kg. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density)
I see where the op is coming from, but I found the debugging quite easy in practice. If something doesn't work, go to the traefik panel and find the element you're looking for. If it's not there, it's normally fairly obvious.
> Because the right to free speech is working out so well for American politics these days.

I am unconvinced that the state of US politics is a consequence of a more permissive environment for speech.

> I'd wager you're talking about the right to extrajudicially murder people who you feel threatened by

That's one hell of a biased way to describe the right to defend oneself. The right to self defense, and to use basic tools in aid of that defense, is indeed an inherent human right and not one that that springs from the text of some document.
Your first source uses 2018 data.

The second is from 2017 data.

Try again.
Haha yep, I was commenting around 2AM. I probably should have just gone to bed.
Thank you for the kind words!

Agreed adding a mechanism for automation would be a win! It’s at the top of our “one of these days” list :)
Define "market".

C++ has vendors behind it. Those vendors make actual dollars selling C++ (or at least tools that work on C++.) When Microsoft markets Dev Studio (with C++ support), is that marketing C++? How about C#?

In contrast, what does Google do to market Go? Put up a website, and put out notices of the next version? When have you ever seen an advertisement for Go? For a tool that supports Go? How about for C++, C#, and Java?
Uv will break water and the solar winds will blow the hydrogen away. You'll need a lens to push the protons inwards so the don't blow the atmosphere away.
Cost structure: ~$5/kg now; forecasted to drop to $2/kg by 2030 and $1/kg by 2050.

https://about.bnef.com/blog/hydrogen-economy-offers-promisin...
Almost none of these games work correctly in the CHIP-8 emulator for Sony Vita. Of the 12 or so that I've tried, it's only the jam title games that seem to perform the way they're supposed to :(

I blame the Vita interpreter, myself.
Of course my point was that they shouldn't be used in isolation - re-read my original comment, which states: "Furnish evidence or a solid argument for why he is wrong." It wasn't poorly expressed, and you are nitpicking. Though had I known you'd nitpick, I would have said: "Furnish evidence or a solid argument for why he is wrong in addition to it."
Try updating to the latest kernel. I had major sound issues until I updated to bleeding edge.
Also see https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if...:

"Trump’s state and national legal teams are already laying the groundwork for postelection maneuvers that would circumvent the results of the vote count in battleground states. Ambiguities in the Constitution and logic bombs in the Electoral Count Act make it possible to extend the dispute all the way to Inauguration Day, which would bring the nation to a precipice. The Twentieth Amendment is crystal clear that the president’s term in office “shall end” at noon on January 20, but two men could show up to be sworn in. One of them would arrive with all the tools and power of the presidency already in hand."
Hospital for ICE accused of mass hysterectomies says it only carried out 2
> I've yet to hear an explanation as to how well the grid will tolerate millions of cars being plugged in all the time

Really well actually, done correctly it will actually make power production cheaper per watt for everyone.

Since cars spend the vast majority of their time idle they can charge whenever. Whenever in this case being the middle of the night when the lack of workers causes power usage to bottom out.

The power companies would prefer a flat usage line and having cars that can intelligently start charging when ideal can totally help with that.

Additionally I would point out that while zero-emissions is a bit disingenuous electric cars are the only real path forward to zero-emissions. The only other technology is hydrogen which also requires electricity to produce.
What’s the client bundle size for a “Hello World” in Blazor WebAssembly? Last I checked it was ~2.5MB, which makes it a non-starter for public-facing web apps, imo.
There is a scene half way through "The Tale of the Princess Kaguya" that blew my mind. A little context is necessary though.

Like many Ghibli women, the princess was free spirited. However, she let herself be reformed into a bland and meek woman. She did this only to please her well-meaning but dim father.

Eventually her mind breaks and she runs away. Her expensive clothes fly out from behind her. The formerly restrained artwork becomes wild, thick charcoal lines that jump around. Even the normally static moon shakes in the sky. It was beautiful, and I loved how the style changed to match the princess' emotions.
I really hope so. It just takes a lot of pieces to really make a thing.
There are questions that still need to be answered. I will respond to your comments as there are some inaccuracies and understanding the problems and solutions in greater detail can lead to better dialogue.

1. Zero-emissions - you are arguing semantics - if you are an EV and are sourcing your energy in CA your carbon emissions are very low.
2. CA is closing Nuclear plants and are doing alright. The loss in baseload power is getting replaced by inventive policies DR policies, energy storage, solar and some natural gas. No, the answer isn't just more Nuclear - can Nuclear be part of the solution? Maybe - Nuclear is really expensive and has some siting and health challenges.
3. The grid will tolerate a change in the overall load profile (i.e. more EVs) by dispatching new programs, new price signals and new assets that are variable.
4. California doesn't struggle to keep the lights on in the summer - it had rolling blackouts that have yet to be determined the first time in 19 years this year (19 years ago was due to illicit energy trading i.e. Enron trading). It does do rolling blackouts for risks to wild fires.
Neither are most other terms, but that counts for little.
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I dual boot an x1 with windows and Ubuntu. It's shocking how much more performant Ubuntu is. Runs at lower temp (very noticable on thin laptops), smoother, switches between applications faster, everything just runs faster. Ubuntu + X1 is an amazing combo.
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How do we know that a feasible solution is replacing the cars instead of keeping the forests and plants alive and growing?
They're not variables, they're CHIP8 registers. The I register is used to hold memory locations; in particular, the operation that displays a sprite reads sprite data from the memory address in I.

Check out this reference: http://devernay.free.fr/hacks/chip8/C8TECH10.HTM
So there are roughly 150,000 active editors ( hard to get good numbers cross language/project https://wikistats.wmcloud.org/wikimedias_html.php?s=ausers_d... but if you sum you double count people active in multiple which is common).

WMF had 104 million in revenue in 2018. Even if you could give all of that to contributors, no administrative fees, no money to buy servers, no developers, no bank fees, etc (highly unrealistic), you would only be able to give rmeach person $690. That hardly seems like enough to actually get people to edit wikipedia as a job.

There's also plenty of articles on the internet about how introducing money into volunteer projects can very easily cause the project to collapse and have unexpected side effects.
It's more likely that some good non-web UI frameworks will write WASM-based backends, so that your pre-existing code works in a browser box with all of the good and bad that came with Java, Silverlight, etc...
> libertarians who essentially argue that one core principle should guide their political philosophy.

this isn't really true of libertarianism even. the word "aggression" from the NAP does a lot of heavy lifting and is subject to a lot of different interpretations.
Why do you say "clearly you can moderate based on your ToS"? I don't see anything here would permit the ToS to have moderation criteria such as "off-topic" while retaining the safe harbor. Section c1b is what leads to the conclusion that only the criteria in c2a are allowed, and section c1b doesn't mention "good faith" at all. Furthermore, for many sites such as Hacker News which define their topical focus broadly, "off-topic" could be judged to lack the "particularity" necessary to qualify as good-faith moderation criteria under section g5A.
Because we tried it and it didn't go well, they were called the projects and it concentrated poverty and crime.
It's faster to me once loaded. What sucks for me is that I switch between apps constantly. When I reopen firefox, it takes about 20 or 30 seconds for the app to load.
Please, since someone from wikipedia is probably reading this:
Keep the JavaScript to a minimum. The plans aren't clear to me, but given what sites like reddit/etc have done during their "updates" the new UI's are terrible on anything that isn't a top of the line device with a screaming fast internet connection. Wikipedia (and a few other "older" sites) is such a pleasure to use as is, don't ruin it.

AKA round-tripping 1000 times sucks on high latency connections, and my little atom based tablets/a53 based phones/etc choke on those sites and its absolutely miserable trying to use them.

So, put some effort into measuring the before/after and making sure that the download/render times remain in the same ballpark on older devices/connections.
Your comment doesn't make sense - please explain.
> California has been closing more nuclear power plants than it has been opening,

California has brought far more solar/ wind power online over the past 20 years than they've retired nuclear power plants. They are also slowly phasing out non-renewable power. Though the pace isn't as fast as many would like, it's happening.

> To extend off that question, I've yet to hear an explanation as to how well the grid will tolerate millions of cars being plugged in all the time.

For the typical 10,000-20,000 mile/ year driver, an electric car uses less power than it takes to air condition a California home. If you have even a small solar install—which makes tons of sense in California—the load on the grid is near zero.