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It is very difficult to prosecute though, because convergence is something that happens without collusion. You need to have a smoking gun to convict a group of companies under anti-collusion laws.

Case in point, the 30% fee for digital stores existed before both Apple’s and Google’s stores.
> women-only can send a flirt

So something similar to Bumblebee. Thanks for the feedback.
True wisdom here. Heed it, younger people!
The level of precision offered by that is too high for just one-man woodwork or something, I guess is the point.
I think[0] we should probably be aiming for a few hours of storage, even with every affordable grid interconnect (which would help a lot with short winter days). We use less power at night — and some of what we do use is incentivised by lower nighttime electricity costs from power plants that don’t scale down well — but I expect we will continue to use some at night forever.

For the sake of Fermi estimation, I assume average electricity use in a developed nation is 1kW/person, and that average all-forms power use in the same is 5kW/person.

Transportation is almost certainly going to be batteries or synthesised fuels like hydrogen, and can only be backed by gravity storage if you have the kind of beamed power that would be banned by international treaty on the grounds of being too easily weaponizable[1].

If you’ll permit me to assume grid interconnects and lower nighttime demand than at present due to different pricing incentives, we might be able to need a mere 3kW-hours/person of electricity storage per night.

Using the lifetime cost estimates in the article, 3kWh/person/night is about $0.51/person/night for gravity storage and $1.10/person/night for LiIon. Neither is bank-breaking, but cheaper is better.

However, the volume required is a different question: 3kWh of batteries has a volume of 4.3 to 12 litres, while 3kWh of gravity storage is 1.1 metric ton kilometres[2].

You can make the distance required smaller by using more mass, but if I assume the average home mass is about 200 tons, you’d still have to raise the entire building 5.5 meters every day to store the same energy as a backpack of batteries. I do not expect construction on this scale to be the optimal solution in general, despite it being a very good idea in some specific cases such as hydro dams and preexisting deep shafts.

[0] Armchair opinion — I’m a software engineer not a civil engineer.

[1] Assuming they’ve read or watched any Larry Niven, the Bobbiverse, The Expanse, Babylon 5, or the news at any point in the decade following the second week of September 2001 — 'A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive.'

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=3kWh%2F%289.8m%2Fs%2Fs%...
I was mystified by a series of videos of rather serious politicians singling ridiculous songs, then found the clips were generated in Wombo.app.

It’s a funny little gimmick, but it had me questioning things I’ve previously seen and thought real.

https://www.wombo.ai/
> It's just a legal contract

In business, finance, housing, consumption we are expected to bide by a contract. Yet, somehow partnerships are exempt from this rule.

Could you imagine if startups were run this way? "Hey a legal contract is potentially life destroying for me. So just take me at my word and do this secret handshake. That should be good enough." We'd laugh them out of the room.
This seems like a "running before we can walk" statement. Until we can handle day to day problems, it seems weird to worry about edge cases. I imagine as we transition to renewables and storage we will still have fossil fuel peeker plants to handle these sorts of snaps.

It won't be until our power storage is far more beefed up that we'll shut those down, and that will take years.
If you're immitating Tom Cruise. But not if you just need to roughly look and sound like someone that the Dutch MPs have rarely seen before.
Names and identity are different.

In particular names only need to be locally meaningful.
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I’m all for helping the homeless who are mentally ill or due to being working poor, but in America we see a lot who just don’t want to obey rules or follow society’s laws and homelessness is a lifestyle choice. They’d rather just steal bikes and do meth in the park. I’m sick of those scumbags and wish we’d actually arrest them for all the damage they cause. They are causing massive environmental damage and we just shrug it off. Can’t even go to a lot of parks without feeling unsafe. Beaches have needles in the sand in LA. It’s just disgusting what we are allowing such a small percent of the population do to the rest.

I don’t think society should have to bend over backwards for people who refuse to help themselves and only negatively impact society. The homeless gutter punks with pit bulls on Haight and Ashbury shouldn’t be getting government support just because they want to be a loser.
The cost isn’t that minimal when everyone has materials denominated in customary units anyway, tool sets in them, and so on, and the benefit isn’t that big when the industrial and scientific applications that really would most benefit are already done in metric.
I've used both, and I wouldn't describe the time savings as significant.

Compare the case study of Yang, who runs either

git checkout neighbour-fix
git checkout -b yang-work
<time passes>
git checkout neighbour-fix
git pull
git checkout yang-work
git rebase neighbour-fix

or

arc patch --diff D12345 # arc's a CLI tool for Phabricator
<time passes>
git fetch
git rebase -i HEAD~2
<goes into phabricator and finds the new commit hash for D12345>
<pastes it into vim in place of the original commit hash>

From this, it's not clear to me that Yang is getting the better deal if he uses Phabricator. Certainly, he has to enter fewer commands, but he also has to leave the terminal to go copy a commit hash from Phabricator, and then paste it into an interactive rebase session. If given the choice, I'd choose the PR workflow over the Phabricator workflow, based on not switching to the browser and not needing to copy-paste things into an interactive rebase. Phabricator and arc handle deep stacks of diffs more nicely, but that's rare enough that I'd rather optimise for the common case.

Apologies if I've misunderstood exactly which commands Yang would run in either case.
Cost functions have an implied ethical system behind them. Using money is just waving your hands over it and going “well, money is objective, so we don't need a value system” – but there's still a value system there. It's like “machine learning” in that regard; there's no magic.
And a weak type-system prevents that?...
Missing is the Voyager 1 image looking back to Earth from 4 billion miles, the one referred to by Carl Sagan as "the pale blue dot, a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam". It doesn't have the resolution these images have but it's impact on our civilization is over-whelming.
What happens when an app store distributed via apple store contains apps that have malware? Will apple be able to remove them? The entire news will be of apple iphone has malware and such.

I would like easy sideloading of different ipa stores. So that we can have modded premium apps. Youtube with adblocker and sponsorblock and so many things
To see a short interview of the carpenter along with some footage of the construction of the shelters, here's a Good Morning America segment on the story: https://youtu.be/0zkrH6yquWM
It isn't. The only major countries in the world iPhone approaches 50% are US, UK, JP and the Gulf oil states.
Same exact saying in the Jewish circles I grew up in :)
The downside is that we will lose our #1 reason for having symmetric upload/download speeds in residential areas.
even more insidious is our culture of hollow sentimentality
Side note on what is currently existing with gravity.

The suiss folks are gaming the west European energy market this way.

When the French produce too much nuclear energy, the German have leftover and stop buying it 100%w
Price go down.

Swiss buy it cheap and pump water in their dam system with it.

Inevitably, the french grid align and produce a bit less. Price goes up slightly.

That when the suiss comes out, release the water into a turbine system and sell the energy for a higher price that what they bought it for to German, French and Italian grid.

I can’t even be mad at them. They have the perfect setup. But you need the Swiss alp and climate to do what they are doing.
And being freaking Swiss.

Source/Context from a Swiss news paper : le temps, in French

They describe that « system » and apparently it’s being disturb in recent years with the evolution of the German market.

https://www.letemps.ch/economie/barrages-suisses-vendre-esto...
> is to not be career driven

I'm building ParttimeCareers (https://parttime.careers) to tackle this problem. I think part-time remote jobs can be reasonable accommodation for people who want to work and take care kids. Basically, you'll just need to work 4 or 5 hours per day or less if you spread it into weekends.
It funny to me that this has been chalked up to ‘state-level actors’.

When it involves a Russian dissident and disinformation, is the list of nations potentially involved particularly long?
The service they provide is to decide that it's useless on your behalf, to save you wading through useless shit.

If I pay an offshore content farm to do content stuffing, do you want my gibberish in your results?

Then it becomes a question of which algorithm you want. Filtering out daily mail bollocks is the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to google. Am I concerned about the implications? sure; but here and now, it's doing exactly what I want.
April 23, 2021
"...for a given drop rate" seems implied.

There will be a maximum drop rate that is supported by the machinery being built, and it seems reasonable, though not mandatory, that a 5x weight system will be designed to handle more generation than whatever it's 5x of.
Fine on the unauthenticated part. But about private data - it's literally anonymous and just counting the number of installs of a package and the number of build failures. All the data they collect (and the code that handles it) is public. They can't even isolate individual users because no individual data is collected.
Is it really surprising that drug addicts can’t afford housing in the most expensive cities in the world? In San Francisco we are constantly fed propaganda to tell us this is a housing crisis, but someone on meth or heroin can’t afford the rent regardless if it’s in SF or Des Moines. The drugs are the big issue but no one wants to address it.
Not at all? I just tried to install mongodb through nix, and it begins by downloading the C++ compiler, because it has to compile I don't know how many files. Homebrew was a lot quicker and lighter in that respect.
to the people that have experience designing Operating Systems - how difficult is it to have proper application sandboxing ?
If everything is user level sandboxed. app can only access it's data. then apple | google wouldn't need to charge 30% to vet apps.
if data is to be shared - it has to be explicit.
The "buy" buttons links to different sites. I guess the site that crated the NFT is important. Perhaps it should be shown in the description in the front page (like the domain here in HN).
And I didn't take into account that a third of the paid price was shipping, and that battery prices are dropping like a rock:

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/EE/D0EE0...

Re-examining rates of lithium-ion battery technology improvement and cost decline
Not "PQ falls over with 1Ks of items," but rather "the M language does not do well with accumulation patterns on tables; naive approaches can hit significant performance issues in the 1Ks of records and sophisticated approaches struggle with 100Ks."

These are two very different statements. I've happily used PQ to ingest GBs of data. Its streaming semantics are fine to great for some types of processing and introduce performance cliffs for others. There's no binary judgment to be made here. Laziness is neither a fundamental flaw not an unmitigated good.

I've already shared one specific pattern above. I can share some mocked up data if you need me to, but that might be a day or two. Also, feel free to reach out via email (in my profile).
In the U.S. too, people just don't seem to realize it.
Those studies are always without any proof. Just because someone says they were “living” there doesn’t mean it’s true or in what capacity. I live next to a cop and believe me we are getting homeless druggies from all over because other states would rather send us their problems and those druggies would rather be here where we have loose and permissive laws. Our DAs regularly refuse to prosecute people who have dozens or even hundreds of felonies.

We built this hell.
Rural homeless isn't just possible; it exists.[0]

[0]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/04/7362403...
This is exactly why on a project I recently set up CI on, it is only run when a collaborator gives an approving review, or something is pushed directly to master.

I saw far too much of an attack surface from Github actions, especially with MSBuild.
I’d just build the generation out to that maximal use case. During the off peak times power a desalination, hydrogen, or other energy intensive plant.
Hi HN friends!

A possibility opened up for remote work to come out of the niche into the mainstream.

But I’m sad because I see how big tech corporations are already forcing (maybe a bit strong word here, but it seems like this from what I see in the news) their employees back to office.

What can happen, if people have the courage, is that these people who want to work remotely but their company won’t let them, will change their job.

And here’s my small contribution—a tool to choose a new company who works remotely.

I’m curious about your thoughts on big tech corporation remote policies?
Funny how people tell you that that this does not make any sense at all, but here it is: http://www.naturspeicher.de/en/naturstromspeicher.php

(Yes, I am aware that it is not storing the water at the top :)
Niche market so high markup to pay for the maker margin and the seller margin.

I found the vendor by following:

https://diysolarforum.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoj6RxIAQq8kmJme-5dnN0Q

DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse
The real problem is that not everyone gets the PM's number. If you have it, you have a chance to get special treatment like Greensill attempted. A select few people have the ear of government and will sell it, as demonstrated by the former PM.

I'm not sure we can continue like this, it's possible that we just need total openness, even if it makes the PM's private life a bit weird. Just complete pants down government, everything is visible to everyone. I don't really buy that secrecy benefits overrule the transparency benefits.
The U.S. Military Needs Citizen-Soldiers, Not Warriors
Does you partner have health insurance? Will she be able to make decisions for you, visit you in the hospital, or inherit your assets, if something were to happen to you? There are many legal benefits to marriage.

Are feminists forcing women into focusing on their careers or just giving them the option? AFAIK there are still plenty of women who are want to lean out and do the housewife thing. I mean “Real Housewives of X” is one of the most long running and popular tv franchises in the US.
I can’t, care to share the way you do that purely within WhatsApp for iOS without a jailbreak?
...about interpretation of existing law and of material facts. Not about "what we should do".
Feel free to reach out via email if you want to follow up. My address is in my profile.

I'll note, as I did to a sibling reply of yours, I made observations about a specific pattern that showcases performance issues in PQ/M. PQ/M easily scales beyond 100Ks of records, but not for arbitrary processing patterns.
They seem to be conflating a few different things here. We are right now doing branch-from-master-and-squash-merge-pr, just do we don't have the bisection issues they mention.

Having a far greater emphasis on even smaller units of work for a single feature (per commit) seems to unnecessarily increase cognitive load? Like now I have to do even more "planning ahead" of how my changes are going to inter-relate, and find some way to separate them out. I mean, that is ideal, but... software also has to be written.
While the crime rate has been going down since 2013, Newark still has a murder rate of 57 per 100,000 while the US average is 5 per 100,000. Perhaps their policing model should not be copied.
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Newark-New-Jersey.html#
Yes, and that story even included very strong HN-bait like drones and surveillance! But still almost nobody was interested.

If OP is looking for early comments on the start of the pandemic from something similar to the HN community, then this one at ArsTechnica is good (Jan 9, 2020):

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/never-before-seen-vi...

That story also was submitted to HN, but ignored: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21996996
Hey my friend, I'll be confident with u...

executing that kind of stuff without being aware what it does really is really a bad move...

So to run it it needs a study... and then you decide if you will run it... Okay...

to be a lil more confident with you... am not sure everythings happens into the processor unit...

but that's cool it decorates your shell :)
Go 1.17 will allow converting a slice to an array pointer
Ignoring the last paragraph for being factually incorrect.

What does it mean to have "no one home for the kids?"

Daycare is without a doubt a net benefit for learning and socialization. K12 education should be similar.

So I'm not sure what time of the day "no one is home".

Maybe in the situation that people are working second shift, but this is a small demographic rather than a general population problem. Are you talking about single parents who work second shift?
Digital is just a higher level version of mechanical
Its one giant organism, we are awfully hung up on that its parts are not touching and imagined some fringe type of individualism like covering your eyes with your hands makes you invisible. We are nothing without context.

We are slaughtering, maiming and torturing people (plants and animals) all of the time, non stop, since the beginning. We build ever more sophisticated machines to do it. I cant even look at the butcher robots that feed me.

Chimeras might actually improve the situation. It would force us to question our holier than thou, my shit don't stink attitude. I for one welcome our chimera underlings. It will be a revolution of philosophy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language
My wife is quite different than I am, in many ways. She was an arts major who lived in a punk rock house that had shows with out of town bands in the basement. I was an Electrical Engineering major who listened to a lot of prog rock. None of our mutual friends expected us to hook up. We have been together over 20 years, and the fact that we are different means we are more often able to complement each others' skill sets (not least in the raising of our daughter). Just one data point, of course, but there you are.
It makes sense to talk about discovering a bioactive compound, such as from an herbal remedy, or by testing a family of related compounds. An engineered vaccine is a wholly different animal.

The only other time we say "discover" about something manufactured is when somebody else did it. We can discover a meth lab, a Ponzi scheme, or (in principle) an alien civilization.
From linked-linked article [1]: "For now, NuScale's reactors exist mostly as computer models [...] the company has built a full-size mock-up of the upper portion of a reactor"

I'd place the bet: never going to happend. Reductions in price for wind and solar power is going to kill any black bottom line for this project.

1: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/smaller-safer-cheape...
That post is 4 years old. Since then, Vulkan compute has made enormous strides forward, while OpenCL has stagnated. Examples of the things Vulkan has now are subgroup size control, explicit float16 and int8, pointers (previously you had to fake them with arrays), and a memory model. The memory model alone is a pretty big advance.

What is still a mess is the tool situation. You have to write your shaders in GLSL or HLSL (the latter is still missing some subgroup operation) and compile to SPIR-V. You also have to have CPU-side code to manage all resources, including memory allocation and putting in explicit pipeline barriers and other ways to manage the asynchrony. For someone who just wants to get their code running, it's pretty painful.

My own application is 2D rendering, but a lot of the motivation for improving Vulkan Compute is machine learning workloads. One of the projects to watch is IREE (https://google.github.io/iree/).

I've got some blog posts and tutorials in the pipeline, stay tuned.
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Created DharmaDB to learn more about the inner workings of databases while learning Rust.
Looking to find a real world use case so that the databaae characteristics can be tuned towards that use case.
Suggestions and contributions welcome.
Or then we could use lot more of this pretty cheap, pretty available, pretty easy to handle stuff that we have mature technology and understanding for. Namely water. Only thing is that need nice reservoirs on top and bottom. The shaft it self can even be narrower and less sturdy...
UMN Chinese Research again?
Maybe I do not understand it fully (ne pas parle de francais), but where do they game the system?

You buy cheap when you have storage and sell expensive when demand goes up.
Pretty much how the market should work?

This way there is incentive to balance it out (by creating storage) - and in this case stabilize the grid.

When the grid would become more flexible, so even homeowners can do this with their solar panels and big batteries - then this should be net gain for everyone, no?

Unless gaming it, with big money, destabilises it. So some safeguards probably should remain.
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Welfare polices do not subsidize single motherhood as much as punish intact families where the man cannot find work. In that way it does create perverse incentives that are harmful to families it is meant to support.
Oh wow, I loved Xandros. Ran it on my PCs for a good period before the next new thing appeared. Is it dead?
The Half-Truth on Infrastructure at the Heart of the American Jobs Plan
Just one more way in which college supports the class society. But really, is this a surprise to anyone?

Now what would be interesting would be to investigate if a one-year hiatus on in-person college causes marriage rates to drop in a few years.
> hoarding it; which is pretty much the only thing you can do with it

You just can't be more wrong than that! With Bitcoin you may buy narcotics, illegal guns, false passports, child pornography, order DDoS attack or even a murder!
From my experience as a gamer and not game developer . what a game engine can do is to add support for text to speech TTS for menus , popup messages and in game dialog. This engines will allow you to enable TTS support, and would make it easy for users to change the font sizes for example. I am not sure if there is a cross platform TTS interface.

My initial point was that if you want to make a game and not some hobby project try using existing engines, I have nothing against hobby projects I am also considering experimenting with a game that would simulate a world using Prolog , but this would be a toy/experiment.