skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50% efficiency is pretty massive for a light or most anything really. And you can get higher if you underdrive them.

Just because a light appears white doesn't mean the spectrum is evenly distributed though, generally if you graph the color spectrum of these lights green is in a huge dip. If you go to page 13 of this data sheet they show show spectrum graphs. https://cdn.samsung.com/led/file/resource/2020/09/Data_Sheet... All of which appear white in real life. They may be more cool blue white or warmer reddish white, but white nonetheless. Especially with the intensity that they shine.
Trying to piece together what the actual concerns are:

* Mapping is not purely factual, some things can be mapped in different ways and corporations might map things that conflict with how normal people see them. Maybe an example would be deleting a commonly used path through cooperate headquarters that was made for staff/visitors.

* Too much data in niche areas like driveways overwork volunteers and steers attention away from citizen areas of work

* Governance model, fears corporations will get too much control through sponsorships

I see these as valid issues but I think they can be worked through. For me it has been extremely nice to have a free and open data source for projects and the OSM data model is really easy to use I think. I feel the benefits outweigh the problems but I am only a user looking from the outside.
It has become very common these days, to label people who don't agree with them as fascists, nationalists etc. This kind of mentality trivializes real issues. Facebook, Twitter and other big tech think of themselves as erstwhile English East India company or Dutch East India company. Just because someone is from the west, doesn't give them any right to give any kind of certificate to government of other countries.
If you want to do it right, you probably have a generator wired in that feeds off a big propane tank. There's also a lot to be said for having an automatic system that works even if you're not home. (That said, this is the perspective of someone in a northern state who normally travels a lot so I come at this from the perspective of not losing power for an extended period during any random winter.)
Hate speech inciting violence is what was banned not any speech.
You're talking about how the app looks, but GP was talking about how the app feels.

Slack looks nice but feels quite broken. For example, its non native context menus are beautiful, but do not dismiss properly, do not support single-click selection, do not support spacebar to pick, do not support type-select...

When I use Slack I am constantly frustrated that things don't work the way my other Mac apps work.
It's a worthy goal but may prove difficult to execute. Voat's original goal was to be a free-speech alternative to Reddit. What happened was that it was then flooded with racists who shaped the culture of the site.

That could happen with this site too. A site's culture is determined by a complicated combination of engineering decisions, moderation decisions, and the behavior of its users.
Free speech and right wing are fundamentally incompatible in India. No matter how much the founder of Koo dreams of being "apolitical", soon enough there will be a barrage of "hurting religious sentiments" charges on him or any of his users signed off by random small town judges anywhere in the country. Look at the number of activists, journalists, comedians or any other citizens behind bars today for simply liking the wrong tweet or facebook post.
Headphones have plenty of mid range, they just lack bass ;)
unfortunately "blind allegiance to a tribe who you don't hold accountable" applies to almost everyone who regularly engages with social media.
Same, I had played 7, which was AMAZING, and 8 was fun. But I was young and not a long time fan of the franchise.
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Could you please tell me who is registering these domains? I'm honestly interested, I don't want to use the services of such crooks.
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This owl became trapped in the grill of our car after hitting it. We didn’t discover him until 18 hours later. Once discovered a wildlife specialist had him out in about 30 minutes. He is currently recovering at the Carolina Raptor Center. We hope that he will be returned to his home soon as owls mate for life.
Windows 3.0 convinced me that paying the premium for a Mac was worth it.
The case in the paper I linked above was an intracloud flash, but nearly all cloud-to-ground flashes also start with a breakdown up in the cloud, so I agree that any model of lightning initiation can apply to both intracloud and cloud-to-ground flashes.
> That was the past. The dynamics have changed, and renewables are much more competitive now. Nobody is building more nuclear right now.

Uh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#/media/File:Nucl...

> Here's what I expect to happen today with a carbon tax: it'll kill fossil fuels, and give a huge boost to renewables. Nuclear won't benefit nearly as much, because renewables can sell each GW/h cheaper and are much faster and easier to build.

This is overly simplistic. Eliminating carbon emissions is not just about generating more clean energy. It's about replacing the energy that fossil fuels currently provide. It's hard to do that with intermittent sources.

> At that point you can subsidize nuclear, heavily tax renewables, or subsidize storage. My view is that the last one is the long term solution because nuclear won't outcompete renewables long term.

Perhaps, if we have a miraculous breakthrough in energy storage. But unless that happens, we'll end up building nuclear power to fulfill off-peak demand. And since nuclear power is just as cheap to run 100% of the time as it does to run part of the time it'll just make the bulk of renewables redundant.

If you have 100 GW of solar solar panels plus nuclear plants generating 100 GW for nighttime use, it's just as cheap to run the nuclear plants 24/7 and ditch the solar panels.
It seems kind of strange that this is a kernel function at all. It seems like something that should live in libc or the like. Is there a performance benefit from having it up in kernel space? It seems a bit outside of the scope of the kernel IMHO.

I can understand functions like sendfile() being able to cut down on context switches and being helpful for bulk data transfer, but is that the case here? How much benefit do you get from copy_file_range() vs. a read/write loop?

I do note with some amusement how the kernel developer basically went "Why are you using copy_file_range on things that aren't actually files?"
Broad brush: Is it worth hardening our infrastructure to protect against disasters? I would say yes, absolutely. Whether you use a one-in-a-decade, one-in-a-century or some other metric is up to the bean counters and their C-B analysis. I'm currently working on a $200mm project that is reinforcing some infrastructure against a one-in-4000yr event, there are definitely some differing risk tolerances out there.

To call it simply 3 extra days of electricity is a bit disingenuous I would think. There are massive downstream costs caused by this disaster, not even including the loss of life. How many apartment buildings will need to be torn down to the studs to remediate the water damage? How many buildings won't receive proper repair and end up with residents suffering from the health problems living in those conditions would entail? How much economic output/activity has been suppressed by a weather event that other parts of the country would have/did shrug off?

And to venture down my own political rabbit hole, how much of that hypothetical 10% extra cost of electricity could be absorbed if the utility was public and the share of funds that go to profit instead went to expansion and upgrade of the infrastructure?
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> If wisdom of the crowd worked then casinos would be out of business.

That does not follow. In prediction markets or sports betting, the gamblers aren't betting against the casino. They're betting against each other, and the casino (PredictIt, BetFair, etc) is skimming off the top, just like Duke & Duke in Trading Places. Most forms of gambling where players do bet directly against the house are games of pure chance where no amount of wisdom will help you beat the odds -- odds which are naturally always stacked in the house's favor.

Not to say that I think these betting markets are good at predicting future outcomes. They're clearly very bad at it! But I do think in concept they could be at least as good as any other method, since the existence of a betting market essentially sets a bounty for beating that market.

What is limiting them is a mix of: obscurity, bet size limits, bet participant count limits, counterparty risk of shady betting sites, cost of fees/taxes making many bets not worth taking. Some prediction markets eliminate parts of that equation but amplify others, like the crypto markets not having the bet size limitations but also being much more obscure and shady.

Furthermore, I don't even think those are problems that should be solved, because if none of those problems existed you'd see big traders like investment companies playing in prediction markets with billions of dollars, and then you'd have way bigger problems with insider trading and the market affecting the outcome. Things as mundane as surprise resignations and as shocking as assassinations.

People already joke about stuff like that happening on PredictIt, with its $850 investment cap. No way to prove that it did, but it would be very easy for certain employees to do and get away with it. For example, in the 2020 election there was a market for when the GSA would ascertain the winner (releasing funds to the transition team). That was a decision made by one government employee. The market started on Nov 18th and had brackets like "Nov 23 or earlier", "Nov 24-Nov 30", "Dec 1-Dec 7", and so on. By the afternoon of Nov 23, with no news, the "Nov 23 or earlier" bracket was trading at 1c. Then the ascertainment happened and it settled.

Now, that could have been a coincidence. It probably was a coincidence. But if you were the GSA administrator you could've made around $70k taking those 1c shares on the 23rd, and nobody would have to know.
Semi-related: I discovered that you can divert control flow to an arbitrary point on the TI MSP430 using only the bytes in ascii alphanumeric range.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19K7SK1L49reoFgjEPKCF...
Maybe off topic but I’d never heard of whitedate.net. Is that considered something bad? I mean it’s a little weird and creepy from the look of it but plenty of exclusionary dating sites exist. I can even think of a few others that exclude based on race.
Nationalism vs. Patriotism

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/an-important-distinction
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Usually, you don't have any good thing to do with the error, so keeping it around just makes your code worse.
I blame smartphones, the hardware. Without them, social media, the software would be MUCH less invasive.
That works for many scripting capabilities, but there’s plenty you can’t polyfill. If you’re stuck with the old MSHTML-based web view (which you will be on all but very recent Windows 10 and even sometimes there), there are various CSS Grid features that you can’t polyfill, and you’ll have a number of weird and annoying SVG sizing and styling issues quite apart from any potential missing features, and a bunch of other things like that—even if you polyfill everything in reach (which, even where possible, may perform terribly).
They’ve clearly shown themselves to have huge biases. The policy on “hacked” materials is a good example that was selectively applied only against one side.

I’m really not a Trump fan and find most of the “conservative” media hilariously amateurish, but if you don’t see the obvious bias Silicon Valley has, I’m afraid you’re not paying close enough attention.

From the perspective of a foreign government, why let them control information in your country? As I said, it makes no sense for them to do so.
Many people felt Polymarket resolved the market too early after the election was called. They then setup another market where the question was whether Trump would be inaugurated. It was possible to make 20% on that market at one point.

I wouldn't compare it to GME and WSB though. It's still stupid.
How many of them use the NaMo (narendra modi) app? That's been very successful at creating a pro-Modi fake news machine.

https://qz.com/india/1534754/modis-namo-app-spreads-pro-bjp-...

iirc BJP (Modi's political party) was also a big client of Cambridge Analytica and various whatsapp based troll farms. I remember rumors from around the time of the last American election that some of Modi's tech advisors were helping the Trump campaign on how to use whatsapp groups, but I'm not sure if that's true.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-presidential...

It seems that connecting a billion more people to the internet in the past few years has accelerated the rise of ultra-nationalism via memes and fake news.
I support what the Koo founder is doing, he sounds like an upstanding guy who wants to build a social platform that better meets his countrymen's needs (Indian language) and that's fantastic. I just thought the "we're going to a free speech platform" was a funny angle when twitter's being abandoned in this case for too much speech.
Yeah: comparing absentee ballots to a petition is shenanigans. It's much, much easier to cram a petition full of fake signatures, and every petition I've ever seen has been. So it's no surprise that you get very different results.
I am curious. You complain of the potential for it becoming a "a politically-controlled echo box," but how is that different from the current big social media sites? They are blatantly controlled too.
The great Stalin himself was Nationalist in spite of the whole world communism spiel. When shit hits the fan, 'national identity' where people coalesce. Damn it, right in front of our fucking eyes, CCP is doing this shit with their wolf warrior diplomacy.
It’a interesting that Texas NOT having a capacity market actually makes it more appealing for “green” energy sources. Texas created a market that favored green energy and now several of their prominent politicians are rallying against the green energy that their system incentivized.
Huh, funny seeing this here, started using it just a week or so ago, really like it so far.

I'm writing my frontend in JavaScript with Svelte, and able to make impressively smooth RPCs to the Rust backend with Tauri's API. Really nice work.

Edit: actually that's something quite important to add perhaps that the headline doesn't make completely clear - it's not merely 'written in' Rust, but like Electron gives you Rust (resp. Node) to use.
Uber is cheaper because they're avoiding tax.

When Uber claims that they do not employ the drivers they're also saying that the drivers (as independent businesses) are responsible for charging VAT and paying that to HMRC. You only have to register for VAT if your vattable income exceeds £85,000 per year, so most drivers haven't registered for or charged VAT.
I think the concern is big companies might get into governing positions and make decisions about the projects future... For example, they could decide to divert some efforts into a commercially licensed 'extended' dataset, or they could sign restrictive deals to get hold of 3d laser scan or satellite/aerial imagery that isn't so easy for volunteers to collect.
A big dollar sale of an NFT like this makes headlines and is a shot in the arm to the whole concept of NFTs. I wonder if one or perhaps both parties to this sale somehow stand to gain much more than the final sale price if NFTs become seen as a hot commodity.
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No it isn't... You can buy just about anything with any of the world reserve currencies. You can also pay taxes in the applicable jurisdiction with any government currency.

You can do neither with BTC.
I see you are still pusuing the ridiculous idea that Texas, unlike literally everywhere else on Earth, has been constrained* from upgrading its infrastructure on account of decisions made nearly a century ago.

*Denying that it is a constraint does not alter the fact that your argument, such as it is, depends on it being one.
For those of us who don’t like exceptions I think the concern is more that the exception might not be caught right there, so an exception may potentially transfer control to an arbitrary point above the current function in the stack.
Your summary of 2011 is in complete contradiction of the FERC report on the incident. And frankly, I trust them more than I trust you.

The report in particular said that 67% of the lost capacity was directly attributable to cold weather, specifically frozen sensing lines, frozen water pipes, windmill blade icing, etc. A remaining 12% of the shortfall was secondarily caused by the weather, specifically plants running low on fuel. This leaves a remaining 21% for “other”, which presumably includes downed lines. I wouldn’t call that the “major” problem, not compared to the 67% caused by the plants freezing.

https://www.powermag.com/ferc-nerc-february-blackouts-in-the...

As far as 1989 being 30 years ago: it’s still within living memory. It’s not like we’re talking about the 1899 freeze or whatever, lots of people in Texas remember it! So far Texas has had power issues due to the cold in 1989, 2011, and 2021. I think by the point you’re having this every 10-20 years, it’s time to start planning for it, no?
From wikipedia:

Nationalism is an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people),[1] especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity[2] and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty).[1][3] It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on shared social characteristics of culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history,[4][5] and to promote national unity or solidarity.[1] Nationalism seeks to preserve and foster a nation's traditional cultures and cultural revivals have been associated with nationalist movements.[6] It also encourages pride in national achievements and is closely linked to patriotism.[7][8][page needed] Nationalism is often combined with other ideologies such as conservatism (national conservatism) or socialism (left-wing nationalism).[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism
There are gonna be 0 chances of getting a waiver. You would probably have to be law enforcement/lawyer's with a talktalk connection and involvement in the case.
It's a display of power. We've been stuck in a certain mindset from the Cold War and habits are hard to break. Over time we've dialed back on the heat (we don't do live tests anymore for instance and we are not actively developing new warheads). But there's still a whole military industrial complex that is not going to go away anytime soon. So you do this new missile. It keeps people employed, it shallowly reminds other powers that we're still doing perfunctory defense stuff.
"What are you in for, son?"

"Drinking and driving, but I actually drive better while I'm drunk, these cops know nothing!"
Why is the market not already flooded with the digital equivalent of knock-offs on Amazon?
So I as a parent from the fruit of my labors have no right to help my children through life?

Also please note most millionaires in the world are self made, with over 80%. Of the other 20% most made it to millionaire status before receiving an inheritance. Also note the people you most worry about, the ones who get money young, usually plow through it and leave nothing for their children.
Treaty obligations limit the count of American nuclear weapons before costs do. Minuteman III ICBMs are technically capable of carrying multiple independent reentry vehicles but treaty compliance means that they all carry one warhead in practice. Trident II SLBMs are still deployed in MIRV'd configurations -- though with fewer warheads than they are technically capable of -- so in practice there are more warheads deliverable by the American submarine fleet than by its land based ICBMs.

Of the 280 submarine launch tubes, only 212 were counted as deployed with as many Trident II missiles loaded. The treaty counts a missile as deployed if it is in a launch tube regardless of whether the submarine is deployed at sea. The United States has declared that it will not deploy more than 240 missiles at any time. Assuming each deployed submarine carries a full missile load, the 212 deployed missiles correspond to 10 submarines fully loaded with a total of 200 missiles. The remaining 12 deployed missiles were onboard one or two submarines loading or offloading missiles at the time the count was made.

The data shows that the 212 deployed missiles carried a total of 945 warheads, or an average of 4 to 5 warheads per missile, corresponding to 70 percent of the 1,344 deployed warheads as of September 1, 2017.

The New START data shows the United States now has just under 400 Minuteman III ICBMs in silos, down from 405 in March 2017. Normally the Air Force strides to have 400 deployed but one missile was undergoing maintenance.

Although the number of deployed ICBMs had declined from 450 to 400, the total numbers of missiles and silos have not. The data shows the Air Force has the same number of missiles and silos as in March 2017 because 50 empty silos are “kept warm” and ready to load 50 non-deployed missiles if necessary. Reduction of deployed ICBMs started in 2016, five years after the New START was signed. And the actual ICBM force is the same size as when the treaty was signed.

The 399 deployed ICBMs carried 399 W78/Mk12A or W87/Mk21 warheads. Although normally loaded with only one warhead each, the Trump NPR confirms that “a portion of the ICBM force can be uploaded” if necessary. We estimate the ICBM force has the capacity to carry a maximum of 800 warheads.

"New Data Shows Detail About Final Phase of US New START Treaty Reductions"

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/01/new-start-full-data/
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Dynamically loaded system libraries use shared memory. You can load it once for the entire system.
The kinds of people you'd meet on a site called "whitedate.net" are probably not worth meeting.
Errors are a part of the API. I'm not sure why we keep thinking we need to treat them differently. We don't complain when we have make decisions based on or transform data that is passed to us from a function or method. We just handle the data. Errors are just more data.

The correct thing here is to correctly model your Error domain and map errors you don't control to Errors that you do. In the Java Checked Exception case the Throws clause only grows because everyone is trying to ignore the errors and make somebody else handle it. I would argue that in Rust the explosion of different generic error handling mechanisms is also laziness and a desire to not handle the other half of the API's you are handling.