skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Model 3 in Winter with heating on uses 420Wh/mile when driving 70mph. I think 1000Wh/mile is very generous estimate.
Further adjacent, Subnautica is a fantastic game for exploring underwater (albiet on an alien planet).
Right, so you just need to add high pressure air instead of a liquid to solar installations.

How is this an improvement again?
This is fascinating. It kinda sounds very unstable though. Like how does a pandemic ruptured economy somehow come out looking better than it was pre pandemic?
We used to call it Loading Screen Online. Really was a shame because I made some long-lasting friendships from that one game, many of whom I still play other games with.

Had they bothered to fix this early on as many of us begged them to do from day one of online's release, many of us would have stuck around far longer.

Oh well actually the shark card garbage coupled with ever-increasing item costs, as well as releasing the casino ~5 years late probably would have made me stop anyway.
4k will also absolutely destroy battery life, 3k is a good compromise
Thread: “I feel like I need an MBA”
In western economies, Piketty showed that equality peaked approximately in the 1950's, and has been dropping since. (Almost) no one recommends we have another world war to decrease the assets owned by the rich, but Piketty, like the original article, also recommends a wealth tax (this article includes the significant refinement that the tax be on corporations and not individuals; Piketty does not go into details for his wealth tax proposal).

If you disagree with these points, please site evidence.
I read this article a couple months ago and found it incredibly bizarre (to the point of wondering if the economist was actually real or just an invention of the author). Firstly, it spends a lot of time analyzing the consequences of exponential growth in energy usage over the next few centuries. But Google [0] will tell you that energy usage has barely moved between the beginning of their data of 1960 and the end of 2015 (and has actually been on the decline since its peak in the 70s).

Thankfully they then move on to discussing what will happen if energy usage continues not growing exponentially, when the physicist says this:

> If the flow of energy is fixed, but we posit continued economic growth, then GDP continues to grow while energy remains at a fixed scale. This means that energy—a physically-constrained resource, mind—must become arbitrarily cheap as GDP continues to grow and leave energy in the dust.

Then, to clarify, he says:

> Energy today is roughly 10% of GDP. Let’s say we cap the physical amount available each year at some level, but allow GDP to keep growing. We need to ignore inflation as a nuisance in this case: if my 10 units of energy this year costs $10,000 out of my $100,000 income; then next year that same amount of energy costs $11,000 and I make $110,000—I want to ignore such an effect as “meaningless” inflation: the GDP “growth” in this sense is not real growth, but just a re-scaling of the value of money.

No! This is not what economic growth means! No economist in the world should agree with that. It's possible that electricity will be too cheap to meter, or it's possible it won't, but some commodity increasing in price at the same rate as GDP doesn't somehow neutralize the possibility of there having been economic growth. Here's an example. Let's say widgets currently cost $2 to make and there's demand for 1000 widgets/year. If I find some innovation to save $1 on the per-widget production cost, that's $1000 of economic growth. If that innovation uses slightly more electricity (and let's assume the production of electricity is fixed), we'll bid up the price of electricity some amount and displace some less-productive use. That already happens for other finite resources like land (which in some cases leads to exorbitantly high land prices in areas like silicon valley, but that wouldn't mean there's been no growth).

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+energy+consumption&rlz=1C...
It's "enterprise", so you have to talk to a human and haggle. More info is located on the FAQ link in the article.
Hotmail had a 2MB e-mail limit. Gmail came with 2GB.
While it seems reasonable to assume there is no advantage in the perfect information scenario, it feels wrong. For large auctions perhaps a pattern emerges in which a rival strategy could be inferred.

Of course in the end it didn't matter! Hinton subconsciously knew he wanted to join Goog. And may have been inadvertently signalling such all along. And the American rivals themselves were probably colluding as well to keep China in check.

I suspect this "history" of Deep Learning was quite dry to begin with. As it mostly featured academics. Some cloak and dagger style suspense was peppered in to make it a more exciting read ;)
It's my understanding that it started as a fork of perforce, Google bought a source license for perforce. Whether you'd still call a fork of perforce anymore is like asking if a Computer is the same computer after you've replaced all the components over the years.
> What could we have in a World's Fair now that looks ahead?

I want a roboticized home that cleans itself, that is able to do autorepairs, rooms reconfiguration. I want an auto-laundry and an auto-kitchen. I want it smart enough to manage air flow, temperature and humidity efficiently. I want all that to be voice activated. Please make it offline to not depend on some cloud thingies.

I want a powerwall and solar panels, I want an automated herbs garden. I want things to be upgradable and fixable without destroying walls.

If you give me room on the exhibit, I'll throw in an automated greenhouse to produce a lot of the food and maybe an automated workshop that would be able to produce/repair small items.

That's doable, that's not here yet, but we have most of the tech.

The next frontier is not space, it is automation. I would go to a World's Fair that showed a future where we would have less work to do.
>One of the best ways of winning market share is to bid low, and then if demand is high, to simply not deliver to Commercial customers

Is there a contradiction between talking about the problem of an impending monopoly or duopoly and the problems currently caused by competition?

Could the consolidation be nature's way of solving the race to the bottom? Why not?
> I'm always amazed that in the land of the brave and free butchering general purpose computing machines is supposed to be justified by the fact grandma doesn't install the wrong apps.

If you want a low-quality platform with limited security updates, multiple app stores, and other debris then buy an Android. I chose an iPhone so I wouldn't have to deal with these issues.
Covid being a global thing has thus naturally become another battlefield in the modern cold war :

from an official US HHS report https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2020-annual-report.p...

" OGA coordinated with other U.S. government agencies to strengthen diplomatic ties and offer technical and
humanitarian assistance to dissuade countries in the region from accepting aid from these ill intentioned states. Examples include using OGA’s Health Attaché office to persuade Brazil to reject the Russian COVID-19 vaccine,"
https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/
That CGP Grey video is 6+ years old already and none of its claims have come to pass. That video and this blog post both seem like the usual techno-utopian fluff -- a sermon to the already converted.

Here's the truth: life expectancy is going down, birth rates are below replacement, sperm counts are down something like 90% in less than a century, we're working longer hours than medieval serfs, and suffering from more disease than our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

This Techno-religion of AI, genetic engineering, automation, etc being "right around the corner" is the opiate of the masses -- the propaganda keeping the working class from revolting.
surprised no one mentioned Ipod Nano, spotify, and then Iphone (for everything)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise#Active_D...
But if you had an insurance deductible of $1,000 that $1,000 could well be enough to buy a set of winter tires and rims.
Corrosion is a relatively slow process. As long as the display seal is intact and the phone isn't immersed for too long, it should prevent the kind of water ingress that's immediately fatal, and you very likely can get the tools and arrest the process before it damages any functionality.

The phone I dropped in the sink had a compromised seal due to a prior drop that bent in a corner of the case - something I did actually have the tool to fix, but hadn't got to actually fixing before the drop, thinking I had time. Of course, I thought I didn't need screen protectors either, until I dropped a phone and broke a screen for the lack of one - so, while I'm apparently pretty good at learning to fix phones, my ability to learn from experience may need improvement. It was the damaged seal that let in enough water to compromise the battery, but even so it stayed working long enough for me to pull a backup before I shut it down and took it apart. They're tougher than their size and cost make them seem, and these are just 1st-gen iPhone SEs - I expect the newer ones with glued-in displays are better still at preventing moisture ingress.

(Glued-in screens are harder to work on, but not impossible; I've fixed a phone with one, for a friend. You just need a heat gun and a lot of patience, is all. Regluing a new display seems like it'd be the hardest part; my friend just needed it working enough for data recovery, but maybe next time I'll get to find out.)
I have nothing against them leaving the store or criticizing Apple or the store.

I couldn’t agree more that people need to choose open ecosystems.

It’s the writing in support of Epic’s anti-trust suit that I dislike.
OP, I have 1 question for you.

How are you measuring your progress?

How do you know if you're getting better or worse?

I've found that the best measurement for this is the leetcode weekly contests.

In addition to being excellent interview prep, you see how you rank against others and that is really the only thing that matters.

If you're consistently ranking about average in these contests that's when you should start lining up interviews.

EDIT: I wrote the above before checking the link. Notice how even she measures herself by her contest rank?

Those contests should be the gold standard of how ready you are.
If I was one of the only White people on say a job platform, and I was treated with the same level of respect, dignity and fairness as everybody else, I genuinely don't think it would bother me. That's what everybody reasonable wants, respect, dignity and fairness, and that's what I want to give to the Black, Brown, Indigenous and Asian people in our world. My understanding is that if someone truly wants something else such as domination, then yes, normal racial tensions will foment and cascade into hate and suspicion, making it harder and more painful for everyone to give or receive that respect, dignity and fairness, even where someone's actively trying to give it. Different nations and systems have had to deal with multiculturalism in the past, some of them dealt with it better and some of them worse. Our communications technology has created an inconvenient shift in terrain, but there have been other societal shifts, and chapters in history much worse, so I have some optimism about it.

Mind you I'm also not 'normal' in terms of faith let alone ethnic demography where I live, plus I'm what they call "neurodivergent". I've grown up being very, very accustomed to being out of place one way or another. Maybe it would bother White people who are very used to being in the majority where they live and work, and can't cope with a stronger subliminal desire for ingroup dominanance. Dominance is comfortable for the dominator, and we have a nasty habit of liking comfort, so, to get a little religious, we do have to resist the flesh and aim for higher values found in sacrificial love.

I'm genuinely curious what it's like for you being Mennonite in Mexico. How does it affect your life?
Thanks.

> I’ve met a Costa Rican tourist in Europe who had a flag hat, shirt, backpack, and a small flag in hand.

That's very common with tourists, and it makes sense... you're travelling through other countries, representing your own. Same with carrying a flag in a protest or at an international sports event.

That's very different to putting up a flagpole in front of your house to fly a national flag.
If Wikipedia starts to receive commission for selling books the incentive changes from recommending the best book to the one who pays then the most
OsmAnd (open source) [1] is working on it! [2] Here's the Github Issue [3].

[1]: https://osmand.net/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OsmAnd/comments/l17r3l/any_updates_...

[3]: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/3391
I remember the old days of having to run a program to generate proper modelines to get XFree86 working with whatever monitor I was trying to use.

Though to be fair, having explicit modelines was once also useful when modifying a BNC Trinitron monitor that ran at one very specific resolution to connect to VGA.

It's nice that monitors mostly just work these days.
But for ML you’d probably want to download the whole thing anyway, considering it’s only like 47GB. I doubt many people want to make a model on only soccer pages or something.
More than anything, we see the absolute moral failure of Western Capitalism with regard to where you have things built and who you sell to.

-Every firm that builds their products in China.

- Every tech firm that depends on Chinese labor and rolls over to provide the government with whatever they want in terms of data access.

- Any major Sports organizations (looking at you NBA)
- Hollywood making films that adhere to Chinese censorship to make a dollar.
- Hollywood lining up with China & Saudi Arabia to finance films
- Hollywood saying NOTHING about the Uighurs and their cultural annihilation.
- Apple+ refusing to finance any film or series that portrays China in a negative light.

They all want that cheap labor that can work 24/7 on anything.
They all want their products to sell there and now depend on China for significant revenue %.

Capitulation in the name of absolute profit.
> Transparent PNGs of course wouldn't work (well there was a way but it was an arcane trick and I can't remember it for the life of me now).

In the recesses of my brain somewhere is a memory that it was related to ActiveX, and/or the CSS filter property. You set some special filter value that invoked ActiveX? Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly but if I think about it too deeply I might start screaming and never stop.
Others have commented on other points, but I'll note "Extremely high liability insurance is $50 a month or less." – the cheapest liability only insurance I can find is $120/month, and I'm 32 & married with a clean driving record. $100–$150/month seems to be the norm, talking to my friends.
Filtering DNS proxy?
I really don't think that's true. It's not tradition, it's practicality -- control characters are good because they are established, standardized, and work perfectly to solve an ongoing need.

In-band signalling is inherently a bit of an architectural challenge. But the problem is solved. The entire internet is run on in-band signalling! We're going on 35 years for TCP/IP, and more like 50 for ASCII control chars. They work very, very well.

Yes, Microsoft broke control character generation for users of their OS, but that's a compartmentalized failure, and easily avoided. The Ctrl+Shift GUI workaround in Windows (and copied in Linux) is not elegant. But any alternative without control chars would be a total loss of functionality.

Ctrl+C being broken by Copy is a trivial example. There's a whole alphabet of control chars (in fact there are 32), and we all use more of them than most people realize[0]. Some have dedicated keys on the keyboard (backspace, return), but obviously not all of them.

I use about a dozen control characters regularly. This is not unusual for someone who works closely with server operating systems.

[0] I'm not sure how to gauge your knowledge of communication signalling or protocols, so I apologize if I'm being pedantic. It sounds like you have ideas about alternatives (and this is interesting to me), so I am curious about any specifics you can share or link to.
This spat is news to me. What's going on?
Because the presence of trees effects others. In an urban/suburban area they effect temperature, air quality, and rainwater runoff, among other things.

In a rural area in bulk, they effect air quality and carbon capture. Also erosion and water run-off. Clear-cutting a forest completely changes the local ecology, and not for the better, in a way that is irreversible.

We all need trees, and they take many years to grow to maturity. they should not be cut down en masse capriciously. And to do so effects others.
If this sets them on a self-sustaining path without having to rely on running highly conspicuous donation campaigns on Wikipedia, I think that's a wonderful thing.
I thought the proper way to implement something like this was:

- fixed point instead of floating point numbers for currency.

- have a journal with transactions such as withdrawals and deposits, plus a "checkpoint" at one point in time where you store the computed balance.

e.g.: your balance is = starting balance for today + today withdrawals + today deposits
The encryption is transparent, the key is stored on a security coprocessor if the encryption isn’t “turned on” the key simply isn’t encrypted with a KEK which is derived from your password.

Sometimes the default key is also all zeros/ones until the user has initialized the encryption function at which a random key is generated and encrypted with a KEK.

W/E you format the drive with or too or how you use it doesn’t matter, you don’t have raw access to drives anymore (sectors, clusters etc don’t mean anything anymore) with or without encryption the controller basically emulates an “ideal drive” to the OS and does it’s own thing.
That joke persists in the DeFi / yield farming space right now, except with sillier names because the main services have names like Sushi and Pancake
This looks hella cool. Kudos!
Integrated review: UK to lift cap on nuclear stockpile
So what do you do about townhouses that share walls or homes that share enclosed backyards?
Show HN: Bulk Stock Data Downloader
It is no longer necessary to download historical price information from Yahoo! Finance for multiple stocks tickers into separate spreadsheets then combining the multiple series into one spreadsheet for analysis.
it's very convenient to not even have to say something isn't true, but that russians or chinese dug it up.
I guess the article are targeted towards general public, not technical people

I found this page which has more technical details on what it actually is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise

Also found out that it is open source: https://github.com/wikimedia/OKAPI
15% is "nothing"...

Do you know KaiOS? The commission of the crappy KaiosTech (generated via the ads) is 70%

https://www.kaiostech.com/sub-agreement/

" As regards the Net Revenue generated from Advertising: 30% of Net Revenue to Developer. 70% of Net Revenue to KAI."
It may signal where to invest more effort into decomposing the material (if the pressure degrades the material) or where it wouldn't be a good idea to put effort into sprouting to reproduce (wouldn't make sense to put your reproductive organs in harm's way).
Hello, author here. I can’t recall if anybody has tried the consortium idea but I would welcome it, the same way I would any new competitor to Google that leapfrogs them in someway. I’ve been doing this researching and raising the alarm about Google’s web crawling advantage because it’s something every search operator but Google (even Bing) complains about and offers up as part of the explanation for why Google does so much better. I am touch with many different people trying many different strategies to break Google’s hold on the internet, and I view my role as advancing one particular strategy that nobody else has really tried yet (government regulation of web crawling).

There’s only so much space in an op-ed column so I couldn’t get into the interplay between crawling and indexing but I’ve published much more about this at https://knuckleheads.club/introduction/ . Crawling doesn’t stand alone and the development of new methods of crawling goes hand in hand with new indexing and search features. But right now only Google gets to decide what those new indexing and search features are going to be because they are the ones with the dominant position in the market as well as with far and away the most privilege when it comes to website access.

What I would like the government to do is get Google to open up their web index so that innovation from outside Google can come in and bring competition back to the search market by pursuing new indexing and search strategies that Google hasn’t or won’t pursue.
Personally, I'd really like to see the unmolested, with-dependencies versions[1].

This version is VERY easy to ship and adopt. But in my mind, these components hide how the sausage is made! Many were built with a library (Catalyst[2]), but the tools were obfuscated out in these end products.

There's a huge amount to be said for these web components. We need more models like this. But I also think there's an opportunity lost here, to teach, to inform, to help others learn how to build components, using the tech Github actually used to develop them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26439167

[2] https://github.com/github/catalyst
The key is always stored with the data either on the drive itself in an unencrypted hidden partition or on an attached storage/security coprocessor.

The key is encrypted with a KEK which is derived from a users password.

What many of these encrypted drives do is just always run the encryption but with either a default key which is all zeros or with an unencrypted key until the user enrolls into the encryption feature at which point the key will be encrypted with their password or fingerprint.
wikipedia is a large input into their knowledge graph
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-journalistic-tattletale...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/journalists-start-demanding...
"Salt is a regional business, it’s just not economical to move extremely bulky road salt over land more than 150 miles"

This is wrong. Here is a map of salt deposits and production in the U.S.

https://panethos.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/4mhrldi.jpg

As you can see there are vast areas of the country more than 150 miles away from where salt is mined.
So, it is not enough we have pandemic, economic collapse, global warming, and continued long list of issues that need money... but somehow there are always spare money for additional very expensive doomsday weapons...
Crypto mining can't run on renewables?

Careful here. The 'renewables are cheaper' narrative is sacred.
I didn't read the book but listened to the econTalk episode with the author and read an article by the author with the same thesis. When I looked into it a bit I came away unconvinced. As much as I want to believe, I don't think he fully accounted for shifts in manufacturing.

I forget exactly what I found, but if I where to guess it would be something like our imports of certain resources might have peaked, but that doesn't account to things that are manufactured in part/whole outside the US. If I buy an inflatable Kayak made in China, then how is that oil/rubber accounted for? US oil/rubber imports maybe have gone down, but have our inflatable Kayak imports gone down and is it tracked?
Care to share it?
That's so cool. You don't happen to have any photos your family took, do you?

I'm a little younger, and Tomorrowland at Disney was that for me.