skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are larger. Moss Landing is about an hour northwest of this install (California Flats in southeastern Monterey County).

> Phase 1 of Moss Landing Energy Storage Facility was connected to the power grid and began operating on 11 December 2020, at the site of Moss Landing Power Plant, a natural gas power station owned by Vistra since it acquired the facility’s previous owner, Dynegy in 2018.

> At 300MW / 1,200MWh, the BESS is considerably larger than the 250MW / 250MWh Gateway Energy Storage project brought online earlier this year by LS Power, also in California. Not only that, but Phase 2 of Vistra’s project will add another 100MW / 400MWh and is scheduled for completion by August this year.

> The site at Moss Landing then offers what Vistra called a “unique opportunity” to expand the project’s size and storage capacity even further: the company claimed that the industrial zone in which it sits offers the potential to support up to 1,500MW / 6,000MWh of energy storage capacity, “should market and economic conditions support it”.

https://www.energy-storage.news/news/at-300mw-1200mwh-the-wo...
Isn't that what most of them are? Just ISO + glycol for thickness?
Just make sure it’s 70% - that’s the optimal number. Also 70% alcohol without buffer like aloe Vera will be quite harsh on the hands...
Again - similar to sports. Is somewhat of a "winner take all" market.
One more factor though: path dependency. For historical reason, BTC is the most popular cryptocurrency. Maybe as you said, an altcoin with PoW is a better choice. (Or maybe there are other reasons PoW is not good. Let's just take your statement as true for the sake of discussion.)

But you can't change everybody's mind like turn off a switch. Adoption takes time and change people's mind is difficult, but it doesn't make everyone else to be lying.
Or maybe he should had restricted the foundation's mission scope to solely open source software and not tie everything into a progressive endeavor. Your culture determines everything. Collective action and employee protests at Google is very different than at Amazon/Microsoft. If RMS had tied his personal brand to FSF's success, then he would have easily weathered the coup attempts. This is basic executive power MBA 101. During the massive corporate adoption of open source post-2010 he could have restructured the foundation to make it more scalable like the Linux Foundation or Wikimedia, a force unto itself with cash reserves and endowments. But he didn't, I think he has learnt an important lesson this time.

The FSF is a startup that never grew beyond the "scrappy entrepreneur in garage" phase. Starbucks has a much better chance of surviving collective action than your average neighborhood kombucha café place.
Samsung phones actually use their own Bluetooth stack not the one from AOSP Android. This is why the Bluetooth feature set sometimes doesn't match with the others.
A share of Weyerhaeuser stock costs around 35 bucks and gets you a (modestly levered) claim on forestland, one of the most inflation-protected assets in history. A round lot costs around 3500. If you prefer hard metals, there are highly liquid ETFs that trade in even smaller denominations. If you want exposure to these asset classes you can mostly get them.
Can’t easily wash my hash my hands with soap in my car.
They're just showing their dedication to transparency.
I think this article is a very nice example of why the US is superior (or at least I think is superior) to China. The political system that allows someone (or some entity) uninhibited power over its citizens, institutions, companies and rights; or the political system where power is fragmented and people need to converge toward a solution (through potential infighting in a big building), need to convince other people using words (through media, lobbying, NGO work, etc...), and need to accept compromises with people who have wildly different ideas and ideals than theirs.

The author positioned himself as the sole source of truth. Then, as a judge, deemed all cryptocurrencies and their operators as an evil. Then, wants to use the full powers of the United States (judicial, police, regulators, diplomatic) to enforce his ruling.

It's not even clear why this author should have any authority? He doesn't have any projects, ran any companies (or any mentions of that) or did any significant academic work. His whole blog is a crypto rage: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html
> Are numbers really lying if it's actually an incorrect data collection method or conflicting definitions of criteria for generation of certain numbers

Obviously it's a figurative metaphor, but it's pretty clearly a case of "this supposedly objective factual calculation is presenting an untruth."
You do understand that cops and fighter jets and nukes are the only reason why you are not slaving in labor camp for some foreign power? It's a necessity. Bitcoin is useless for anyone's physical safety. As of today is provides almost zero value at all. You could argue, that censorship resistance is helpful for people living in authoritarian regimes but that's about it, so the only value it has comes from it being "illegal" in some region. At the same time Bitcoin is already wasting as much resources as some mid-sized European country. The environmental argument is relevant in every way.
But if ticket vendors wanted their tickets to be easily tradable, they could make that happen. They clearly aren't that interested, though. I think they see it as a threat to their control of the primary market
I've heard RF-anything is quite hard to get right. One of the reasons why Intel was dumped for XMM modems is because they were just slower than Qualcomm.
Imagine CF being Terraform + Terraform Cloud (only free!) - but more reliable and having real changesets with more predictable behavior and the state being the true AWS state, not some projection of it within Terraform.
It is a bit hard to talk about safety when everything one has to play is an API that allows for all the usual stuff that C is known to cause.

Everything can call it, and everyone has to redo the safety work.
You still need to teach what the delete keyword is and how memory management works in C++. There's tons of code out there not written with smart pointers.

And yes we use valgrind, but it's important not to overload students who are new to programming. Students tend to reach for withdrawal forms when you tell them "I see you are overwhelmed by this new tool you're learning. To solve this problem here's a new tool to learn". The near-universal sentiment I've gotten from students going from C/C++ to Rust is "Wow, this is so much nicer". YMMV.
> Clearly crypto mining is emitting using a lot of power and some of that is CO2.

All of it is CO2. Let me explain.

When you burn energy for bitcoin mining, you don't just use capacity of your local energy producer, you are delaying removal of legacy power producers.

Before a particular power producer (for example burning coal) can be turned off, the capacity must be created from other sources (for example renewable). If you decide to start burning huge amount of energy, before those CO2 guzzlers can be turned off we will now have to build even more capacity -- exactly the amount you are burning to mine bitcoin, but it also means that while this is happening the CO2 is still being emitted.

This assumes that introduction of new renewable sources of energy is independent from bitcoin mining. As far as I know this is true.

Or in other words: if introduction of renewable sources of energy is independent of bitcoin mining, the energy production from these sources is the same regardless of whether the bitcoin mining exists or not. Logically what this means that what is changing is energy production from non-renewable sources and it could be explained that they are working at either higher capacity or their removal is delayed.
The possible disappearance of a star in the low metallicity galaxy PHL 293B [pdf]
IMO, see if you can find a government or big corp position where things move slowly and nobody really cares about the job.
You can join each crypto's subreddits/youtube/twitter to find more. This is basically what crypto news aggregator do. They just read articles/watch youtube videos all day.
I can't speak to this directly because of numerous reasons, chiefly among them being that I don't get to make those decisions. Standard disclaimer follows: I rejoined in the last two years, what follows are my opinions, these opinions are my own, blah blah.

Android has never been about driving the hardware narrative -- it's always been about building a phone with mostly open contributions and driving the start of a wedge to open up the phone industry a bit. It's always been a software answer to a hardware problem, even today. Prior to Android, all we had were closed source low powered feature phones and Blackberries.

That being said, building silicon is non trivial work, and building a BLE stack and controller is even more so. Will a solid BLE stack sell phones? Hard to say how it could drive that narrative, realistically, and even harder to say if such a controller could be made cost effectively. Given Android's archetype (software solution to closed hardware), this puts such a project into a much more difficult position politically and financially.

I can't see this kind of thing having much in the way of legs in a large corp. That being said, I do think if a startup could challenge this landscape, it is a HUGE opportunity.
For some context, I've been programming in Go for about six years now, and I've literally never even thought about this.

In general, you really haven't got much reason to be worried about something's "interface type", because if you're really worried about something's "type" (which can happen) you are almost certainly worried about it's "concrete type". The only interesting thing you can ask about the interface type directly would be "Does the value inside this interface implement this interface?", and the answer is statically yes, the compiler assured that, and the interface type is statically assured at runtime, so it's not a very interesting question. Even if fmt added a way to "see" the interface type passed in, I can't imagine what it would be useful for, because it could only ever be:

var x SomeInterfaceType

// some number of lines of code

fmt.Printf("%I\n", x)

which would statically print "SomeInterfaceType".

So, I mean, it's not like anything said in that blog post is false necessarily, but if you're collecting reasons to hate on Go's nil handling, there's no real justification in adding this to your list. I'd also add that I answer newbie questions a lot on Reddit, and nothing even remotely like this has ever come up there, either.
Really? The SEC bans all sorts of securities issuances for exactly that reason.
> that demographic is huge.

I just asked "who knows what VPN means" in IM group of non tech savvy folks, most under 35. No one knows.

Perhaps among us Firefox users that's different but certainly "most people under 40 today" wouldn't know even what VPN means.
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> Oh, and don't forget that just because it works on your Samsung, doesn't mean it works on your Moto.

And just because it works on a new Samsung doesn't mean it works on a 2 generations old one. I had to do two projects recently developing cross platform mobile apps, one had to interface with the WIFI stack - holly shit the deprecated APIs that only work on Android 10, legacy that doesn't work but is the only way to do it on Android <10, cross device inconsistency, incorrect documentation (one thing in the docs, another in the source code) etc. etc.

To be fair, iOS doesn't expose a lot of that functionality to user space apps (without special certs) but I prefer that to Android where it's technically possible but practically impossible because of the insane support matrix - it just wastes time.

I'm not doing any mobile development from now on - the entire process is just riddled with busywork and working around crap APIs, people used to complain about having to support IE, mobile fragmentation is probably 10x worse.
Why would you need operator overloading in a low-level language? It's not like you are gonna write Jupyter notebooks with it. Zig is not meant to replace MATLAB, Python or Julia. I would use it instead to build the backbone of such a data science platform.
i mean, what's the alternative here? This feels like just the complexity and tradeoffs of living in reality -- a bit of perpetual "damned if you do, damned if you don't".

Either they're "preventing life-improving sanitizer from reaching citizens in a time of need", or they're "poisoning citizens" by letting through just a tiny bit of byproduct that would be MUCH more common if they weren't taking a regulatory role.

This is an apparatus solving a complex, high-dimensional system of equations, not as academic test for which there's a real "right answer", no? * shrug *
I have a friend who is a freelance chemist.

He handles similar issues by finding an experienced consultant via LinkedIn. The regulatory environment is nuanced where the choice between two similar sounding words is often the difference between acceptable and raising additional questions.

Or to put it another way, you don't know and that's the only honest answer.

The execution is all in how you deal with not knowing.

Good luck.
There is a nontransitive example heading this very comment section:

var b *bytes.Buffer
var r io.Reader = b
fmt.Printf("r == nil: %v; b == nil: %v; r == b: %v\n", r == nil, b == nil, r == b)

r == nil: false; b == nil: true; r == b: true
The meme that stalls progress is the myth of the perfect C developer.
I was just wondering how they'll respond to any copyright notices if they don't log network activity.
I thought songwriters had some sort of union or industry group that went to bat for them? The article and this discussion makes it sound that doesn't exist.

edit: hmm, ASCAP and Songwriters guild are a couple names that come up... though this might be something of a dispute within different groups within ASCAP..
Don't worry, when I published up I also learned about a previous similar project from commenters ;) probably wouldn't start if I knew earlier ;) fortunately I didn't know :D just in case if you still have some mojo left, up is very open to an idea of a RIIR contender, it's actually even kinda encouraged in the readme :)
I'm glad that I've been making our household sanitizer then. Everclear is 95% ethanol (food safe)

I take 3 parts everclear with 1 part water. Mix, and put in spray bottles.

That's an alcohol concentration of .95*.75 = 71.25%

That's within the WHO's recommendations for concentrations from 70%-80%

It can be sprayed on your hands, surfaces, food, etc. And since it's all food-grade products, is safe (well, as much Everclear is "safe"!).

(You can also modify the recipe by using 3 parts everclear with 1 part food-grade aloe vera, for a lasting hydrating effect especially on the hands. Make sure you're not allergic to aloe before doing this. Anaphylactic shock is no laughing matter.)
Wow. I kind of like that idea. I'm not sure it's true, but I like the idea.
> If someone senior at Samsung said to their vendor "good Bluetooth or you lose the Samsung account", that would provoke some, um, intense conversations at the vendor between sales and engineering.

The problem: There aren't that many suppliers left in the field, and Broadcom knows that their customers are pretty much locked in. The notable exception is once again Apple, they have proven that they can and will go and implement the technology on their own if their suppliers fail to meet their expectations.
I guess you're replying to me. I have no idea, but that seems a non sequitur. Where's your evidence that no terrorist group uses BTC for any of their transactions?
Race 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
The National People's Congress in China has more members per capita than the US House or Senate as well as more independents and minority party representation.

The NPC has a higher percentage of women than the US Congress (exceeding the world average).

Ethnic minorities make up 8% of China's overall population, but they make up 14.7% of the seats of the NPC. They also make up 7.3% of the more than 90 million members of the Communist Party of China (which also consists of 27.2% women). Ethnic minorities make up 39% of the overall population of the US, but only 25% of the US Congress.

A study by the Harvard Kennedy School found 93.1% satisfaction with the central government in China in 2016. US Congress currently has a 29.3% approval rating, but has been hovering below 20% for most of the last decade.

The two viable US political parties are overwhelmingly funded by billionaires and large corporations. Those two parties decide the criteria for acceptance into the presidential debates which prevents minority parties from gaining national prominence. Billionaires and large corporations also own all the major media outlets and platforms, and they use that power to control narratives and deplatform inconvenient political figures and ideas.

Therefore China is more democratic than the US. See how easy that is?
That's about it. Horrible user experience - oh you're about to pay us, just click a few sidewalks first - and condescension of asking people to do a menial task that improves their ML models. But forcing you to use one of their sanctioned browsers and let the record what they want to is where the real hostility comes in. Its exercising monopoly power to squeeze more out of people and repress competition, I'd call that hostile.
If you want to reduce the number of wars and conflicts there are better, more effective ways.

Work towards ending racism; support young girls, women, and LGBTQ+ folks around the world; support environmental protections and projects that reduce food waste and increase water security; support fiscal policies that reduce wealth inequality; and topple authoritarian dictators and fascists.

In this techno-libertarian utopia when someone defrauds you and steals your crypto-coins your only recourse is to buy the justice you can afford. Exchanges have already done this to folks who've been defrauded and sought recourse.

Regulation and protections are in place to protect consumers just as much as they are there to limit damage from bad actors.

I don't buy this notion that the world would be better off without a central banking system.
NewBlue died because I quit Google. I started that project and was its main motive force.
wasn't this the premise in Naruto's written exam test if I remember thing correctly?

The teachers expected them to cheat since the exam was made very hard on purpose and the only ones who got eliminated were the one who were caught cheating. they were testing their spying abilities not academic knowledge (without the participants being told so beforehand).

and if my memory is not failing me, they even placed fake participants in the exam room to be the source of the correct answers.
Just FYI that this post comes across quite aggressively. I assume it wasn’t your intention.

Hope you have a good day.
The deck we used to raise our seed funding
Soap is great but requires people to go through the much more rigorous and unavailable method of washing hands. Hand sanitizers are much faster and easier, which makes sanitization available in areas where it wasn't previously. For example in the office, school, stores, anywhere you're handling materials, etc.

You should absolutely wash hands too, but there are a lot of reasons for portable hand sanitizers.
There's a few of those EPAM is also US-based but has most of it's workforce in Belarus and Ukraine.
It seems to me you've not thought through the game theory of banning cryptocurrency very much.

There's an immediate competitive advantage (in the form of increased business activity & tax revenue) to the first country to adopt clear, consistent rules regards CCs and their use. If a few big countries try to ban it, that competitive advantage becomes even stronger for any country willing to buck the trend.
It's difficult to estimate accurately, but their methods are spelled out on the website.

https://www.websitecarbon.com/how-does-it-work/

"Energy intensity of web data

Energy is used at the data centre, telecoms networks and by the end user’s computer or mobile device. Of course, this varies for every website and every visitor and so we use an average figure. The figures used are for 2017 from the report On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030 by Anders Andrae and Tomas Edler, adjusted to remove manufacturing energy as this is not relevant to this calculator. We then divide the total amount of energy used by the total annual data transfer over the web as reported in the Nature article, How to stop data centres gobbling up the world’s electricity. This gives us a figure of 1.8kWh/GB."
Users tend to overwhelmingly read headlines and skip articles. HN is not any different than the rest of the Web. Something to keep in mind here and elsewhere.
From the comments I've read so far, I'd say next to nobody here knows the split difference between record contracts and publishing contracts.

Here's how it was when I studied this 15 years ago.

In a traditional big four record contract, the artist (which for a band like Korn is five people), the record label gets 92% and the artist gets 8% (to split between them), but that's only on domestic (US) sales. On international sales the split is worse at 96%/4%. The artist would typically also pay for any damaged product, which mattered more in the case of shellac records as they are more brittle and broke more often.

For a publishing contract there's more variance in the split but it would typically be more like 60/40.
In case anyone is wondered why there is benzene in hand sanitizer: Ethanol forms an azeotrope with water, which makes it impossible to dry completely without further processing. Benzene forms its own azeotrope with water at an even lower boiling point which allows for cheaply drying ethanol by further distillation; With the, in this case inconvenient, side effect of residual benzene contamination. Now you don't actually need dry ethanol for hand sanitizer, but the production capacity for fuel-grade ethanol is way larger than pharmaceutical or food grade.
> During development every functionality is tested each time a minor change is made.

Isn’t that much more time consuming than writing a test of any sort?
Anyway that’s why e2e/integration testing with cypress has been becoming one of my favorite kinds of testing. It gives me the security of knowing that a user flow is not broken with a new change. What’s happening under the hood is of little concern and the complex/critical parts also get their unit tests.
One of the best software I've used, a multiplier of speed and editing powers.

Pity it's not free software (as in freedom), and that it would lose all its superpowers in a CLI environment.

If only I could replicate its functions in vanilla vim
Thanks! Really appreciate it. :)
They had a pretty wicked breach (for nearly an entire year) a while back: https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach..., and I've also heard their rather expansive marketing (the usual youtube personalities) brought up as a negative, but that one doesn't register much for me.
Yes! Exactly. Are there analogues in GCP and AWS?
Which systems and editions would you like to see? Adding new ones is pretty trivial, the current list is based on my own (limited) market research of what is popular. I don't want to allow freeform text because I'm worried the search will become too fragmented.
This is excellent advice. Take this to the heart, OP!
Great tool! I will take it into account on my next project.
I don't think "democracy" is something you can measure objectively like a scientist in a lab. What these indexes measure is proximity to Western liberalism, but I think different peoples have the right to their own forms of government.