skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now you shifted the problem to power transmission, because there's no way to generate an excess of power at all times in all locations using just wind and solar.

So while in my region at the time of posting this, 100% of electricity is generated by wind, there'd be 100% less if there was no wind (which happens from time to time).

Solar wouldn't help either, because right now it's dark outside and it will stay dark for another 6 hours.

So right now, even if there's an abundance of power generated elsewhere, it would have to get transmitted efficiently to here (and from here to where it's needed if applicable).

Local storage and massive interconnected power transmission capacity is what's required. And that ain't cheap.
> That statement is patently false, specially considering that some programming languages are notoriously challenging to parse.

Sure, if you create an artificial problem in the first place, you need an artificial solution for it. That's why careful language design is even more important than parsers.
Hm, yeah I hadn't considered the possibility of the machine itself having aliased instructions. That's some interesting info, thank you.
You’re currently building something like this in Hawaii? Let’s talk! My email is in my profile.
- you distribute edited Riot's file to allow people to connect to your servers, it is IP theft, and a big security threat towards Riot's consumers

- leaking private discussion online, that's a thing that'll be used against you in the court

- you complain about the way they handle the situation, you wanted them to work with you on the project instead? .. what a terrible excuse
Using a debugger is largely passive - it shows you what is actually happening.

Debugging via print allows you to step outside and peer in ie it is active.

Print debugging can be prone to bugs within itself which may cause additional ignorance about the potential bugs being diagnosed. How meta can you get? 8) There's also the effect of the effort of actually looking - that may or may not have an effect.

Anyway, the discussion here is largely ignorant of language and function. At the moment I spend time fiddling up Python and OpenSCAD scripts if I dig out a programming language. For me, print is really handy. For a Linux low level latency sensitive driver in highly optimised ASM n C I suspect this matter is moot.
Its high time, a slow, authoritarian resistant, mesh net infrastructure standard is developed, were travelling people become the data carriers for requests from cut off regions. Nobody knows what s/he carries, and it can only be decrypted by the receiver.

Routing could be done by likelihood of organization association.
Organizations are cellphone-proximity structures, formed by popular vote of each member validated with its history.

If you claim to regularly fly to hongkong, somebody on a busstation might transfer to your phone via BT a encrypted documentation, all even with plausible deniability, if part of the meshnet is a friendly virus.
If your behaviour does not correspond to your actual behaviour, it gets written as a sink into a public ledger.

Imagine the data-organism taking shape in such a mesh-net.
Classes in a university are constituted by the lecturer joining the class, the ever changing setup in a bus is constituted by the bus-driver.

Its like providing a reliable behaviour prediction, makes you a reliable routing predictor for the data hoping from phone to phone. I predict three hops to the train-station, near a household router, which is regularly in contact with X.
As the owner of several "smartwatch" with a transflective display (Pebble, Pebble Steel, Pebble Time Steel and Amazfit Bip), it does make a huge difference in battery life and I wouldn't downgrade to a smartwatch with a battery life of under a week.
> she's pretty explicit that the incident affected others and that there are many more who haven't been so fortunate. She even names several and tells their stories.

For the three other athletes mentioned by name, in each case the story is that they had medical issues caused by, exacerbated by, or at least neglected by the NCAA. That's a real injustice and a real story. What happened to the author is meh.
Marc is among other things longtime DEFCON staff.
Anyone breaking even usage-wise with rooftop solar is already much of the way there, and that's excluding utility generated power and big savings from improved home design (e.g. passive solar heating) and other technologies not yet well deployed like ground source heat pumps and air source heat pumps. Once people realize that these technologies are cheaper than the current go-to options, things will happen quickly.
I have nothing against of schools having clubs doing sports. Even marginally supported by funds from students for things like travel and gear.

But the level of strange commercialisation is just different from rest of the world. Insane amounts of money spend and revenues generated, but nothing really end up at athletes.
Peak solar production is in the summer.

Peak electricity demand is driven by AC, primarily when it’s hot... in the summer.
The Slander Industry
A giggle, I'd imagine.
I love this tool and its spiritual Windows counterpart WinDirStat.

Whenever I’m running low on space, graphical disk map tools like this are super convenient for knowing at a glance what’s taking up so much space.
> Now I'm very curious why <summary> is a button.

I’m fairly certain it’s a shadow DOM implementation detail. While it technically toggles a binary state and is probably more semantically similar to a checkbox, I think the way it’s exposed to web APIs makes that either impractical or non-obvious.
Why Do We Believe in Photographs?
Consistency is the reason to store, not amount. The sun doesn’t shine at night and the turbines don’t spin without wind (which also is more likely at night). Modern society is built on always available electricity, and some things absolutely require them (eg a data center).
"Her hands tightened on the steering wheel. For the first time in all our talks on the subject, I sensed from her something more than reticence. The ambiguity of whether I was Dylan’s child was so much less important than the certainty that I was hers. I hadn’t seen that, and she was hurt. We drove the rest of the way in silence."
Usually your objects are boxed, and the box contains a type identifier which the gc can use to identify pointer offsets. It is apparently possible to do precise garbage collection without boxes—I'll see if I can find the paper and link it later—but this is not widely done.
How does that store energy for the grid?
That's like saying that seatbelts don't help very much, unless you're willing to wear a motorcycling helmet, and install a roll cage in your car.

In the worst-case scenario, no, your seatbelt won't help. I'm still going to wear one.
CovidPoops19: Summary of Global SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Monitoring by UC Merced
I had a brief look at Alan Kay's most recent comments here - but couldn't find much about VPRI in particular - I was hoping maybe there'd been some post mortem that I'd missed - but doesn't appear so:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=alankay
How many deaths are acceptable to the regulators? Like, a hard number.
Missionary
The difficult part is storing it on the kind of massive scale required full stop. Sacrificing efficiency can only do so much to help solve this, especially since the wasted energy has to go somewhere and dealing with that has its own costs...
There has been a brief period in my life when I did not have the clearance to read code I was writing.
Meanwhile the largest California utilities are rolling back incentives for solar[1]. Why? Because they're effectively paying people to take electricity during the peak hours of the duck curve. Texas has the same issue during peak periods of wind power.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-03-16/california...
How can a platform not support j.i.t. compilation?

In what way does a platform need to coöperate with that?
How well does it work if you have at least partial tree cover on your entire property?
I started reading that essay, and then ran into two back-to-back howlers:

>The electrons streaming into a child’s eye from the screen of the wooden television are as physical as anything else. As physical as the neurons subsequently moving along that child’s optic nerves.
Can someone explain how we know these “announcements” are real? What’s to stop me setting up a company and announcing random dormant address ranges that I don’t own?
You're right, thanks. (For anyone else unaware of the difference, Ponzi schemes are financial fraud and always illegal; pyramid schemes form a more inclusive set.)
When I start to use a new server framework, I like to step thru the main loop, just to see how it works with system calls/listens/accepts/reads and how it dispatches up the stack. But for debugging, I like to a) make it reproducible, b) read the code, c) add logging to help with any deductions that b yields. (Sometimes will just go to b if it's a simple bug).
HARC also seemed to end suddenly. I was never able to get any details on why.
<plug>You might want to take a look at https://reviewable.io -- we can diff arbitrary commits without Gerrit's weird model, and a whole lot more besides. </plug>
I can just write print(whatever) and get the job done, I don't want to put breakpoints and search for a data structure I need. Why can't I write something like this:
breakpoint {
debug(var)
}

?
Yes, and preventing fraud is why they do that, and sometimes, the due diligence isn't good enough.

In this case, though, apparently the bank was in on it.
Can confirm that Lua does run in WASM in the browser: https://github.com/vvanders/wasm_lua

I sometimes wonder what the world would be like if Lua had zero based indices and saw a bit broader adoption. It's such an easy language to embed/extends although QuickJS looks like it's going to give it a run for the money in the long term given the similar goals on ease of embedding.

I wonder if anyone has compiled QuickJS to WASM and run it in the browser.
RSPS server sources are all from leaks; you can decompile/reflect the client all you want but the server bits (let alone sources) were never distributed. Jagex has used this fact to go after RSPSes.

It's not totally clear from the post, but it sounds like this is different in that Riot is just straight-up serving all the assets they need? I can see how that'd lead the project developers to think they're in the clear.

It seems like a lot of people who get involved in fan projects are unfortunately naive about both the technical legality of what they're doing and how eager the company will be to stick it to them. From my perspective having done RSPS things, it's absolutely insane to have not operated from the beginning assuming that adversaries wouldn't do everything possible to dox you and ruin your life. You need to be able to laugh at threats like this if the goal is a long-lived project, though that presumes an adversarial relationship with the devs. I guess my point is that non-adversarial relationships with projects of this sort are really rare and that assuming this was fine strikes me as questionable at best. Even if you do think you have some sort of fair-use defense, you should expect to have fun experiencing legal-system process-as-punishment for a couple of years.
Blizzard erases Kael'thas voice actor in upcoming WoW patch
The missing simple description in the article is:

Launderers with tainted money buy struggling businesses that have large assets as collateral for loans, and then walk away with the loan. It leaves the bank holding the asset to be sold off.

From the launderer's value at risk perspective, $10m in dirty money is worth probably $5m or less clean, because if you taxed that $10m and did all the fees, and then there is the risk of being caught for the crime that generated it, 50% free and clear seems pretty good.

The more I learn about the investment business, the more I think it's like crime without the violence. The money laundering problem in Canada is most obvious by the oversupply of certain retail businesses, but there are other scams I see on investment prospectuses more often than seems normal. The two problems I think is a lot of the launderers are politically connected, so there is no scrutiny, and even if leadership did something, it would only be to put even more of a burden on law abiding businesses.

Imo, complex laws and regulations only affect the people who follow them, and they reward corruption.
Doesn't help when it can take several days to land! (e.g., waiting for CI.) But I will admit this is a problem that is somewhat specific to the nature of our project :)
I always wonder about the upbringing(read: brainwashing) that fans of the NCAA who are such rabid defenders of its "heritage" had to have gotten to believe such childish things. The NCAA is the ultimate unpaid internship; if you are such a big fan of those, I encourage you to quit your paying job(if you have one) and pursue one.

I remember in high school(~6-10 years ago for me) people would talk about situations with the NCAA like this, and people who had absolutely no stake whatsoever in the system would defend it, often with the kind of weak arguments many have mentioned in this thread. Disappointing that we can't simply agree that people working should be proportionately paid. Some mention scholarships and the like, and I don't think that this is a "terrible" system, but it's clearly incredibly weighed in favor of the NCAA and the schools themselves.
The free market really has no method of pricing developments with 30+ years to profit/free cash flow. The government first started subsidizing solar to be price competitive in specific situations in the 1970s.

There simply aren't any rational free market actors funding large unprofitable initiatives for 40 years with the expectation that the technology will be a bananza after all the principals have retired or are dead.
that's a good thing since humans seem to be full steam ahead on destroying them (at least currently)
I'm not very optimistic that we have enough time, nor individuals have enough financial resources, for the market to realize how cheap / efficient these technologies are. We really need this progress implemented as part of large scale systemic programs. The market is simply too slow.
The heart rate monitor is pretty decent, I've been daily driving mine for quite a while now and am more than happy with it.
A wireless ISP is not running a "mesh". But yeah, having an income stream to pay for height above terrain makes all the difference.
I'd love for that to be the case, although I think it's more likely they'll anounce a reverse catalyst - running macOS apps on iPadOS.
Well one good way might be to try to quit eating everything that walks, crawls or hops and switch over to veganism.
Home ownership unaffordable despite 95% mortgages, analysis shows
His final tweet:

https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1383978072655818753
That's why central banks start working on crypto and China even plans to introduce money with expiry date.
A “Virtually Unheard of Trade” Spotted in Lumber
It's kind of mind boggling to me as a non-American how the US can spend such vast amounts of money on defense and so relatively little on space. Surely even from a purely egoistic perspective the prestige and potential profit of being the only serious player in "space industrialism" must be worth a few less fighter jets?
@bdon Awesome! The geospatial industry is in need of simpler tooling for specific jobs such as generating tilesets.

Currently complex tools such as QGIS and GDAL do everything, but the learning curve is very steep.

An addon you might consider a feature to drop an image (and adjust it to fit) over the OSM data to generate a XYZ tilesets directly on the customer AWS S3 (or equivalent storage).

This might be a good way to monetise your offering... I know my customers would buy it.
There is a paper here [1] based a lot on these cases calling for a review of the presumption that computer evidence is correct.

It is an absolutely crazy situation where the onus is on the person disputing the computer evidence to show that something is wrong.
Even in the middle ages they had a system in place where both parties would have reliable evidence to deal with non reputation in financial transactions. They used a split wooden tally sticks [2], yet now because it is on a computer, and computers are supposedly rarely wrong the courts will allow an organisation to produce something from essentially their own 1 sided ledger and it is up to the other side to prove it wrong.
The sub postmasters had no evidence, no ledgers or paper receipts of their own, they were expected to rely entirely on this system to be correct, when it wasn't the entire justice system was rigged against them with the only possibility of winning was to prove that a multi million £ IT system was not working correctly. This would have been hard enough anyway, but the company who built it and the one using it were both willing to lie to cover up its failings.

[1]https://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/article/view/5240

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_stick
Checkout their latest update - but basically in the next 3 months I believe. But of course that all depends on the manufacturing situation, you literally have automotive giants pausing production due to shortages.
This is pretty much the only way I debug;

- cross language/platform

- forces you to come up with hypothesis up front, then test these very systematically

- you know what you are doing

- debugger doesnt interfere

- works across threads and processes
$22,000 would pay my electric bills for about 12 years, not even factoring in opportunity cost. What are the ongoing maintenance costs/total cost of ownership over 12 years of such a system?

As far as Powerwalls go, I'd definitely want something like that in an outbuilding and not in my house. Last thing I want to do is wake up at 3:00am with a raging battery fire in my basement.
Assuming you mean something like "leverage the debugger to print, so I don't have to do it in code": you can, in most debuggers. This is effectively a "log breakpoint", or a "conditional breakpoint" where your condition is "print(thing)".

I use debuggers even for print-debugging for this kind of reason. No need to re-compile between changing prints, just re-run - the debugger session will hold them from previous runs, you can temporarily disable them with a single click, etc. It's FAR faster and more flexible.
Nah. BMW used to have sane numbering, as did Mercedes. Nowadays its all made up bullshit. 28i? you might thing straight six 2.8 Liter, well its a 2.0 Turbo. M550d? 3 Liter. Merc E63? 6.2 Liter. Dont even get me started on Porshes non-turbo/electric Turbos, or Mercedes 4 door "coupes".
Isn’t the damage to climate and health arguably a subsidy to big oil? While they get that damage for free, of course they win.
>> This is a failure for the US society as a whole, I am really surprised it's not a bigger discussion topic in the US mainstream media (at least I wasn't able to see it).

It's not a failure of the US society. In some parts of the world, which include the US, if you're out on the streets on your ass it's your fault. In other parts of the world, if you're out on the streets on your ass it doesn't matter whose fault it is, we'll take you in. Usually "we" is the family, sometimes "we" is the state.

But it's a feature, not a bug. Some parts of the world are so individualistic that everyone is on their own, for good or bad.
Most censors employ the cheapest possible firewall solution for their blockades. And those, more often than not, involve merely blocking DNS requests. DoH (and DoT to a lesser extent) mitigate censorship to an extent. Censoring HTTP/S connections by inspecting SNI (server name identification) field is prevalent, but it is defeated by clients like GreenTunnel and GetIntra.Org that split the SNI carrying packet in to two. A stateful (read: expensive) firewall can defeat this technique, but not many use it. And anyway, in this game of cat and mouse, Lantern and Psiphon, the two VPNs, have been faring admirably well.
Some platforms are enforcing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX because malware also wants to create novel machine code within a running process.
But here the banks are controlled by the people committing the fraud, presumably they are defrauding the borrowers (the books were $5.5 billion short).
Because they quoted the lowest price for support.
How much would you pay for electricity / month if you did not have any of that?
(most) debuggers can print - I often use conditional breakpoints with the "condition" "print(thing)". It works great, doesn't require re-compiling, can be enabled/disabled with a single click, etc. It's handy when you want to see a lengthy sequence all at once.
Well I have my doubts about that because it would have come right back after the DDT bombing stopped. Mosquitos can breed exponentially with zero issues, so I think that puts a huge hole in your theory.
Definitely a good starting point. Most of us give them money by watching their sports on tv, so that will be the toughest thing to stop. In some way that makes many people complicit in way they don't realize.
> you need ~ half of Paris in solar panel

So put solar panels on roofs in Paris then. Europe has plenty of space if you actually look for it.
"[The propaganda is] a constant source of stumping to manipulate people into doing what the propagandists want them to do. For instance, wear a face mask, social distance, stay home, get vaccinated, apply for vaccine mandates, wear two face masks, etc."

The author must be using a non-traditional definition of "propaganda".
The last time I flew to Europe, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of residential rooftop solar there was.
Considering your background you might have a likely selection to what they could be referencing, but for other readers this is what I assume they are getting caught up on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)
I don't believe there's any law against "leaking" a private conversation like this. For one, there's no expectation of privacy established. For another, it's a member of the conversation deciding to make it public. That has to be protected.

I'm not sure about what legal issues might exist around intellectual property, but it must be better to make a forthright claim - "You are infringing on our IP by doing X. Please stop or we will bring legal action" compared to whatever this is.
There's some methods to work around that if it means a portion of the solar array is shaded at times (you separate them onto different 'strings' feeding power back to your controller, as I understand it).

A single panel in part shade tends to produce a lot less than the fraction still exposed to sunlight, but I believe recent advancements in panel tech has made this less of an issue.

Ultimately, situating the panels in areas where, barring cloud cover, they will receive full direct sunlight is always the optimum approach.
My point is if it is truly decentralized... As in blockchain or distributed db... Without transaction fees of course...

And it's immutable. As in nothing can be deleted. Admins and authorities could probably block display because that's delivered via api, but all messages remain on blockchain or whatever permanently.

Addendums could be allowed maybe... From site admins for just that site, DAO team for a sub data item that's linked and always shows with it, or the user themselves could add a retraction, correction, etc... Say under penalty of torture...

But the original message and every revision/addendum is public record...

Any site pulling from the fire hose can decide which parts of the api to display or they could filter blocked items individually...

If there's something really bad like media links to child porn those could be flagged so sites could perma block them....

But all the data is decentralized and ran by a DAO, with a purposes of ensuring transparency in social media.
Pushing for free markets? Capitalism and free markets got us into the whole mess in the first place.