skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Battery was and is never supposed to take up the entire storage load of a network - nobody is designing or forecasting future networks in that way.

Batteries provide fast response

Pumped hydro is what is being used on a lot of networks and in future network planning. Ironically old open cut mines are often perfect locations for them.

This paper discusses an algorithm used to find pumped hydro sites - there is _a lot_ of capacity out there waiting to be tapped

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...

There are already numerous draft or under constructions plants that are "triple" projects with a combination of solar/wind + battery + pumped hydro
This explains it well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
Consumers should come first before massive corporations. It's why we have regulations in the first place.

A world controlled by a few giant conglomerates that own all of your data while providing the illusion of choice of "just don't buy it" is not a good outcome.
You may well be right on this point. But I'm still too ignorant of Urbit to be sure that it's simply pretentious (and fundamentally unimportant except as a fundraiser), rather than a sincere attempt to further Yarvin's political project. His political writing is manipulative, but I think at some level he genuinely means it, and it has influenced a lot of people. And while he plays the character of an outsider genius in a very annoying way, in reality he is clearly at least quite smart. I have no idea how Urbit is supposed to help bring about his neoreactionary utopia, but I worry that dismissing it out of hand might be too complacent. Some of the weirdness could be genuinely strategic, rather than purely the marketing arm of a scam/hype-trap.
Into our minds where they belong.
Non-Paywall link:
https://archive.md/aFkJW
From my experience with Chinese, the classification in the article follows the established convention but seems to use non-standard terminology for each category. Arguably, it's much more straightforward to categorize the characters as:

1. Pictograms: 人 'person', 木 'tree', 日 'sun, day', 月 'moon, month'

2. (Simple) Ideograms: 上 'up', 三 'three'

3. Compound Ideograms, or Meaning-Meaning Compounds: 休 'rest' (人 'person' next to a 木 'tree'), 明 'bright' (日 'sun' and 月 'moon') - note that the pronunciation of the compound character is unrelated to either component

4. Phonetic-Meaning Compounds: 晴 /qíng/ 'clear (weather)' (日 'sun' as a meaning cue, and 青 /qīng/ as a pronunciation cue) - the vast majority of Chinese characters belong in this last category

More categories can be (and historically were) distinguished, such as when an additional component was added to a character to clarify its meaning, even though the original character already had that meaning, but that primary meaning became overshadowed by a secondary meaning it acquired later; however such distinctions are mostly useful for understanding the evolution of Chinese characters rather than the way they currently are.

Of course the above classification, even with only the basic four categories, is still largely subjective, for example 娶 /qǔ/ 'to marry (a woman)' can be thought of either as a meaning-meaning compound (取 'to take' a 女 'woman'), or as a phonetic-meaning compound with the phonetic component 取 'to take' pronounced /qǔ/ as well.

It also has to be said the pronunciation cue is often not very helpful anymore, as the sounds in Mandarin Chinese have shifted, and guessing the pronunciation from similar characters can end up being hilariously wrong. Besides, sometimes it is not even clear which component of a character is supposed to be the phonetic cue. Now I don't know about Japanese but I imagine these pronunciation cues must be even less helpful than in Chinese.
I am currently using a Digilent Nexys A7-100T.

https://store.digilentinc.com/nexys-a7-fpga-trainer-board-re...

It has a USB host port for a keyboard and VGA out for the display. The jury is still out as to whether I can build the entire CPU using nand gates, including the ROM and RAM memory. Doing so will use a lot of the FPGA's resources from calculations I've seen. If that's not possible for the memory, then I plan on using the block RAM that's included on the Xilinx board, but for everything else I plan on following the book's design as close as possible. So far, I am in chapters 1-3 simply porting my solutions in the course's HDL to VHDL, which is relatively straightforward so far. I'm taking my time to make sure I'm doing things "professionally", as I'd like to learn the Xilinx toolchain in my professional work at some point. My experience with FPGAs has been implementing them with LabVIEW, which actually makes learning VHDL somewhat mechanical although a bit frustrating. (If I had an FPGA big enough that's targetable via LabVIEW, I could probably build and test the computer in a day or two aside from the VGA and keyboard.) The combinatorial gates are done now, and I've implemented a DFF and am building things from there. So now I'm learning about clocking and such with VHDL. The most troublesome part I anticipate is what to do about the ROM and RAM memory and the display and keyboard. I'd also like to update the CPU where I can interactively download new code to the CPU from a PC using the assembler and software stack I'm building, which is in F#.

I have several books I am using as reference:

- VHDL By Example by Blaine C. Readler (great first intro to VHDL)

- Digital Design Using Digilent FPGA Boards: VHDL/Vivado Edition by Haskell and Hanna

- Effective Coding with VHDL: Principles and Best Practices by Ricardo Jasinski (I'm using this to sort through the various ways to do things in VHDL and have best practices in my code.)

- VHDL for Logic Synthesis by Andrew Rushton

- FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples: Xilinx MicroBlaze MCS SoC by Pong Chu
Which is why they're screwed. You can't tell me nobody is walking in that case without an opinion against them at this point. Zuckerberg has enough influence still to alter the way Facebook operates and every time he's been subpoenaed by congress to testify defending Facebook, he gives backhanded do-nothing corporate speak. He continually let his lower level managers police conservative voices (it's entirely irrelevant whether they were legitimate or not) and thusly garnered a lot of hate and people who are spiteful enough to write to their politicians. On top of that they along with Twitter have actively tried silencing conservative voices and politicians. Now a lot of these state governments had enough and they're going to reign in big tech.

These major companies have just gone too far. They shot themselves in the foot when they didn't bother to self regulate in a way that could appease both sides fairly. They tried running it like a typical corporate business when it's not that. They've been in the media too much and their name is constantly plastered with a negative connotation. They did this to themselves and they deserve ever ounce of dissolution they get.
Can you give more context? Were there locks on consoles and now there aren't? I'm not aware of this.
Patch notes:

- bug fixes and general improvements
I think it's kind of naive to think that antitrust litigation will really fundamentally alter the balance of power with these companies. Remember, that initially Microsoft lost their antitrust lawsuit and was ordered to break up. On appeal MS managed to get the order to bifurcate the company overturned and the rest is history.

MS is bigger and worth more now than it was back during the antitrust lawsuit, although it also faces a lot more competition now and has no clear monopoly outside of perhaps business productivity software.
> You want a government mandated software platform?

Sure.

I like that cars all have government mandated turn signals and brake lights too.

Computing is an essential freedom and we can't let these companies turn it into "special sauce" that only they control. The fact that they're this close to doing it is both scary and a shame. We have a chance to get back on the right path, and we should do it.

It's not like an industry and academia consortium wouldn't step in to help build the standard. The W3C got us pretty damn far.

> The way to unseat Apple isn’t to use the government to force us back in time. It’s to recognize the needs they aren’t satisfying and actually contribute to meeting them.

How do you compete with a $2T giant that can easily clone you or lock you out? They've created a "hardware + software + services" megalopoly that does nearly everything. Email, photos, video editing, movies, music, devices, health tracking. When businesses do compete (take SONOS, for instance), Apple comes along and builds their own. Owing to deep integration and ecosystem forces, the competitors aren't able to escape the growth/funding gravity well.

Apple is Thanos, and they're snapping freedom and competition out of existence.
No and I'm sorry I came of pretty hot headed there.
Sure, and your personal liability insurance should be really cheap if you're acting safely so it won't even matter.

If you want to be slightly riskier then your insurance will be more expensive. Or you can go without and be on the hook.
Developers asked for some support for PUSH frames in Fetch for 5 years[1]. There were a couple api ideas that came up. But no browser ever implemented anything to make Push actually useful & interesting to developers, beyond the very basic & boring.

It is extremely unfortunate (cruel?) that we will no longer have any chance to see what these very interesting capabilities are good for.

This is a seriously difficult change, but I don't think it should be ended. I hope a browser with more courage can help it along, and that the world has a chance to use this amazing enhancement to HTTP.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/65
Yes. There are no current browsers that implement HTTP/1.1 pipelining, and even various proxies and others don't support HTTP/1.1 due to head of line blocking and proxy errors.

Also, with HTTP/1.1 pipelining if a client sends multiple requests but one of the requests results in an error and the server closing the connection all of those other requests are lost.
That's currently the case in the UAE. Only fancy people who race camels own camels.
Gift cards with expiration dates are illegal in some states.
You are thinking of Facebook's technology, not Facebook's business. Business is what matters in terms of monopoly.

Facebook's business is ads.

Google + Facebook have a virtual duopoly on online ad revenue.
I don't know who "centimeter" is and never claimed to agree with their viewpoints, so I'm not sure what the other viewpoint is that you're referring to.

The Chinese language looks extremely arcane to me, but that doesn't make it so. Quantum computing is pretty arcane-seeming too. Urbit probably seems arcane to those that know nothing about and haven't invested the time to learn. Fortunately, the docs are very good[1] and updated frequently[2]. They're also publicly available and lots of people[3] are working pretty hard to make them understandable.

Urbit is really welcoming to everyone, should they take a moment to ask about it. Here's[4] where you can find out how to get in and get set up. Here's a place where, earlier today, I offered a free planet to someone that asked[5]. And here's[6] what ended up happening.

[1] https://urbit.org/docs

[2] https://github.com/urbit/docs/commits/master

[3] https://github.com/urbit/docs/graphs/contributors

[4] https://urbit.org/using/install/

[5] https://twitter.com/cjremus/status/1334140349900611584

[6] https://twitter.com/cjremus/status/1334304210750464004
Not everyone can wait this out, some old people need protection. Others just want to get on with life and not be locked up for 20yrs.
The Social Life of Forests
Don't both parties need to agree to (e.g initial) the redlined sections?
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064855
I would buy a new device to install that kind of software, and keep my personal device/account out of company (internet/WIFI and software).
More power to you. Sustain yourself with your own self-contained air supply in your personal biosphere until the pandemic is over, and feel free to do whatever you want.

Oh.. Look at that. You also appear to be instantly allergic to criticism. Be sure not to expose yourself to any.
Ask HN: C/C++ Project Ideas?
I have programming experiences in Python and JavaScript but recently I've been wanting to dive deeper into lower level programming. Syntax in C/C++ isn't foreign to me and I do have a good intuition on what level of abstraction they're at.

But I want to build something that's meaningful and fun but can't really think of anything that is worth building in C/C++ and not in Python or JS.

Any recommendations?
I don't think anyone should force you to do anything. You just pay up when you make someone sick. Pretty easy.
It's going to be a disaster of a case that's for sure. Who is the protagonist? The customer already gets Facebook for free, and can opt out by simply not using it.

Smaller ad tech companies? Literal scammers! Facebook lied about video views - everyone lies about impressions. But 0% of Google and Facebook's competitors' inventory converts, because it's shit traffic, carefully disguised and evasive of efforts to avoid it.

I don't use Facebook, I have no dog in this race.What are they even talking about though? It's a dumb as nails case.
Actually yes, but not 指事文字 and 会意文字
You can spin up test Kubernetes clusters with different underlying container runtimes using Minikube. If you want to play around with a cluster running containerd instead of the docker container runtime use:

minikube start --container-runtime=containerd

Use this to convince yourself that all your current docker images will still deploy and work as usual.
I'm honestly not sure if you implicitly meant that these other apps are popular/used - which would be valid, but I guess we'd need to get the market share #, or if you are asking strictly based on the presence of competition.

Monopoly is defined by market share in a specific regions, not by the unavailability of alternatives (1). So it doesn't matter if there are "many other messaging apps" what matters is what's being used.

(1) https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
So much competition? Which app store do i go to if im not happy with giving apple a 30% cut of my revenue?

I'm honestly surprised how many people come out of the woodwork to defend apple's app store policies.
It isn't because if you play every week you should be looking at EV and returns - not the likelihood of winning the entire jackpot on one run

With prize pools often paying down to a few numbers selected you could be +EV over the field if you pick numbers they don't
I feel very similarly to you. As time goes on I feel myself becoming more and more of an Anti-Natalist, especially as I reflect on my childhood. It seems like having kids is just a very instinctual/romantic thing that people don't really try to resist, and oft not thinking about the implications that come with it (and I certainly don't just mean loss of time and autonomy). I find it very strange, and somewhat disappointing in a way. Having a kid just because you "want" to feels kind of perverse to me.
The writing is on the wall about Google being the most powerful actor mandating what should die or live in the web specs.
The monopoly would be bad alone, but to make things worse, they have a clear conflict of interests giving they are a
powerful cloud computing operator that is very interested in centralizing, controlling and monopolizing data (which is the 21th century gold).

We can expect a "war" against anything really distributed from the big tech once some tech that would menace their centralized control over our data.

Have them dictating what can or cannot be in browsers will prevent new blue seas on tech, and i expect that if nothing changes the picture, even the startup scene will be pretty slow, giving it will have not much left to do, and the ones who find out a way, will probably be bought and left in a dump of vaporware.

Lets get a blue sea as an example, AI.. they have access to massive data no one have, and there's no way any AI product can compete with that in the long term.

So your browser being a "dumb" client that fetch and save everything in the cloud is the only thing they need, and the thing they will optimize for. And this is not in the users or devs best interests, much less the civil society as a whole.
I think it's pretty common to have time-of-use pricing (that's what my provider calls it, and I am on the plan), but it's relatively fixed. Ours switches schedule twice a year. So you can get used to it, I only charge our EVs after 10pm for example. But if it changed dynamically, I'd need to have a lot of automation in place to react, because it would get tiring to personally pay attention to price all the time.
Absolutely cruel and unjust, unless you want to redefine manslaughter’s punishment to perhaps the cost of a couple doctor’s copays. A jury trial would hopefully protect most people by refusing to condemn under such a punitive and anti-social regime.

Humans cannot survive if they reduce social interactions to such a naked transactional level.

Reminds me of that short story in which, in the future, we all pay each other micro-transactions for the dozens of small IP infringements we commit every day.

I’m not saying coronavirus isn’t serious, in case it need be said.
> For Ichiwa, that means doing one thing and doing it well — a very Japanese approach to business.

This stood out to me. There's a reason UNIX-like design has stuck around.
Exactly. We already know that such metrics do not identify the best performers, they identify those who are willing and able to game the system the most.
While that's true, the flight testing is done by skilled pilots, while courier flights could be done by some who's really scraping yhe barrel.
Oh, sure. There's a number of different suspect or convenient sequences out there. All of the evenly-spaced sequences could be considered suspicious if you go broadly enough. A detail I tried to add back in up-thread: The sixth ball is from a separate pool of 20 balls. So 50c5 * 20 is the total number of possible draws, and there are 14 directly in-order sequences.

But the main point was the methodology. (1 - (1 - chance_of_sequence)^(n_draws)).
Energy is required to produce anything, thus consuming and producing CO2.
The Grand Unification of Web Technologies
If you find yourself feeling a sense of smugness when reading this kind of stuff, perhaps it's time to evaluate your own insecurities.

I so want to believe that someday the rubbernecking at failed startups will wear off. Whenever I see these articles, my first thought is always "who cares?" It's no secret that startup founders are an odd bunch in general who want to succeed at all costs, and then we're surprised when some small % of them end up making up BS and getting caught? Small-time scams are happening constantly all over the world, it simply isn't interesting.

But I guess a fancy webpage and graphics can make it seem interesting. The Verge seems to really love this stuff. I was a long-time reader before they started diving headlong into hit pieces on startups because they realized it was good clickbait. Blah blah public interest, but most of the companies they do hit pieces on hadn't even lasted long enough to make any market impact whatsoever. I haven't heard of Oomba, I bet you haven't either, and I bet you couldn't find 5 friends who had.

Might be time to read the story of Apple's very first deal, and imagine a blogging/clickbait environment that tore down Jobs as a result. Talk is cheap.
So I don’t think that is actually a problem wrt climate change. Then it is more comparable to other mined minerals.
He's not hoarding anything. People who claim the rich "hoard" wealth is under a misconception that investing wealth takes away wealth from other people.

It doesn't. Investing wealth creates more wealth. Of course, the instigator of the investment gets a disproportionate reward for such investment, but taxation, and the general increase in technology level due to such investments will benefit society at large, even if the poor is an unrelated party to the investment.
Is Python adding Switch cases?
Assuming for simplicity that it's 6d50; you'd get 6 numbers ascending or decending:

You have: 50^6 / (50*2) / (1000/day)
You want: yr
* 427.79832

about once every 4 centuries.
There were tons of oil companies beside Standard Oil...
Well that energy could be from renewable — we can continue the plastic age into the zero carbon emission age.
> Consumers should come first before massive corporations

And yet corporations don’t exist to do your particular bidding and make your desires real. Unless a corporation is doing something illegal, you have no right to tell them what to do and what to make.

Apple could, for all intents and purposes, sell useless slabs of aluminum. Your demands to have the government coerce them into creating open APIs would be just as outrageous in this scenario.

Finally, giving the government this much power is shortsighted at best. Has the Trump administration not shown you the extremes the government can go to? The TikTok debacle after Trump’s Tulsa rally was ruined by it, calls to repeal Section 230, etc.

The government is not your friend and it never will be. There will always come a time when it will abuse its powers to the greatest extent possible. Unless corporations are actively and illegally harming consumers, I don’t see why your proposal is necessary.

Consider supporting companies that further your ideals with your own wallet rather than telling other companies what to do.
Simple solution just use a $20 4yr phone that only has WiFi access and you only use for work, no cellular data

Old smartphones are cheap these days
I've downloaded Sidekick and now testing it for work. Seems convenient for a digital marketer like me who spends hours switching between a bunch of Google Docs tabs, emails and messengers. Really enjoying, thank you!
20 years for me, for sure. Maybe a touch longer.

I love it. My professional career moved to .NET and Python over the last decade, but if I'm building for myself, I build in PHP.

Whatever foibles people claim are in PHP are really just personal gripes about features they don't like, while ignoring all the other pieces that are ideal for web API development. Frankly, I believe first-class duck-typing and nearly-zero impedance with JSON make PHP a first-class citizen of the web. Duck-typing pairs so well with dynamic typing that I don't know why so many languages abuse themselves with the alternatives.

I remember the Docker switchover being very confusing. Why do all these people need such elaborate instrumentation around their development environments? With PHP, the kitchen sink is always there, and always consistent (we'll ignore money_format() for now). Once I really started using other language environments, the pain points that necessitated Docker cropped up, and of course the deployment benefits are excellent. It was just a very confusing couple years trying to figure out why the Node and Python guys were living like animals.

Anyways, cheers to another 20.
Gravity batteries! Basically a hunk of concrete that uses spare grid power to be hoisted, and then converts the gravitational energy when its dropped.

Seems like there are only a few companies giving it a real go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
As more people move to electric vehicles putting in solar panels will become more feasible. The price of solar is falling so fast that if it is unfeasible today it might not be the same 2-4-6 years from now. 5-6 years ago a lot of people that are installing solar now calculated that it was not worth it for them then but it is now as the prices have fallen 50-60%.