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>“Modern wind farms are one of the most efficient ways to generate green energy. However, they have one major flaw: as the wind approaches the front row of turbines, turbulence will be generated downstream. The turbulence is detrimental to the performance of the subsequent rows.”

Yes, this is called a 'wind shadow' and it relates to the slower, turbulent, dirty air coming out of the back of a wind turbine being less energy rich for the turbines behind it. Wind farms are designed to minimize wind shadow impacts based on prevailing wind directions.

> “[VAWTs] can be designed to be much closer together, increasing their efficiency and ultimately lowering the prices of electricity. In the long run, VAWTs can help accelerate the green transition of our energy systems, so that more clean and sustainable energy comes from renewable sources.”

This sounds like it will make the wind shadow effects worse.

> The research found that VAWTs increase each other’s performance when arranged in grid formations

This seems like straight bullshit, and is really unclear. The argument seems to be that VAWTs are somehow positively impacted by wind shadows?

The air coming out the backside of a turbine (VAWT or HAWT) is less energy dense and more turbulent, so the results seem fundamentally flawed. The best design is one that minimizes the amount of 'wind shadow' being swept by turbines.

I am entirely unconvinced.
It's also, er, mostly _wrong_. Gibbon might be an interesting thing for someone to read, but it shouldn't be taken at all seriously as history.
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At first I thought this was going to be about metal fever: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fume_fever
Safari was never released for the classic Mac OS – it was released in 2003, two years after Mac OS X was introduced. Before that, folks mostly used Internet Explorer for Mac.
> if there are ads resources in the page

Please read the full comment (or preferably, the standard) before spreading FUD.
The data extraction piece is bad enough.

I find the problems of integrity in that data to be worse.
Tying right into that narrative is "Coded Bias", a documentary investigating the bias in facial recognition algorithms [0]. Available on Netflix [1].

[0] https://www.codedbias.com/about

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/81328723
Problem is that everyone is a nazi nowadays, except the ones calling others nazis.
Thanks for being that guy. I thought HN had decided FLoC was good, but I guess not.
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There's plenty of ways to pressure/coerce NASA that are totally legal and easily covered for as due diligence.

They can change the budget in the next cycle to specify that NASA must add another contractor as a secondary for risk mitigation reasons. They can haul the administrators in front of committee and throw a bunch of concern around to cow NASA into revisiting its decision.
I would take that claim with a pinch of salt unless they're able to explain the physics of how one turbine suffers in less energy dense, muddy air whilst another thrives.
My wife picks out tablet games for our kids. I know my kids like some of the Sesame Street games. During the pandemic, my four-year-old stared reading thanks to one of their letters games.

BTW, these games aren't very hard to find. Just start with looking at games from PBS and see what you find.
Having lived in Manhattan for 7 years, and Hong Kong for 9, I'm pretty sure the air quality inside the Hong Kong MTR is better than the NYC subway. Air in the stations in Hong Kong is air conditioned and filtered. Not that feeling is the best measure, but the feeling of the air in a lot of the NYC stations is just not great.

Outdoor air quality in Hong Kong was pretty rough a few years on either side of 2014, but it has either gotten better lately or I've stopped noticing the bad days.
Depends on location, IMO. I was an Android user for years (since the Nexus One!) and the vast majority of my contacts were on iOS. My lack of iMessage was a constant frustration and I would have signed up in an instant.

But I'm in the US, which has a disproportionately high amount of iOS users. Across the rest of the world iMessage would be competing with WhatsApp and its existing network (something the e-mails in the article note) and I think it would have been an uphill struggle.
Use height to the 2.5th power as the denominator rather than height squared.
Criminals don't like bitcoin, because it's money that they cannot counterfeit.
I completely agree. Property taxes determine who can live where in my area more than any other factor including property price. There are pros and cons to that. For example if you want to turn a poor area into an incredibly wealthy area, cough cough Southlake, you raise the property taxes every year until poor people can no longer afford to live there and are forced to sell.
The article was very well-written but it would have been significantly improved by diagrams like that.
Noise pollution is pretty harmful to sea life, especially cetaceans.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/ocean-noise.html
I could not find the reference to TLS in the replies. Generally Signal does not use TLS for their messaging system, it is instead something home brewed.
Would a hash with multiple sequential (separated) 8s be an exceptional rarity or a disqualification for luckiness?
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> is there a clear commitment somewhere that Google plans to not include pages that do not use the FLoC API in the future?

Not something as clear as I'd like. The closest I see is:

A page visit will be included in the browser's FLoC calculation if document.interestCohort() is used on the page. During the current FLoC origin trial, a page will also be included in the calculation if Chrome detects that the page loads ads or ads-related resources. -- https://web.dev/floc/#do-websites-have-to-participate-and-sh...
> Alternatives exist nowadays for all of the products developed by a shapeless and faceless corporation that listens to nobody.

Do they exist? True. Are they "good enough" for the average person? False.

To add insult to the injury, they have nowhere near enough reach to build a network effect outside the narrow community of tech geeks or communities that are somehow underserved by the status quo (including communities built around repulsive things, which gives bad reputation to open and uncensored solutions).
It took me way more than "four or five tries" to learn to tie my laces. From childhood to about age 30, I was tying a pair of half-hitches, sometimes making a granny, rather than using the superior "bunny-in-a-hole" method. I only learned the better method when I had to teach my kids.
there seems to be excessive distorsion at the poles. Is this for a lack of data, or is it due to the coordinate system?

The poles are the most interesting part to me, but there doesn't seem to be a way to control lighting, so they are at least partially obscured. Moreover, I'd have expected the terminator to be less fuzzy due to Mars' thin atmosphere, but it might be just me.
This brought up a though for me. Are PoS cryptocurrencies halal? Would it be considered gambling or the rewards from staking riba? I'm not a muslim but I would like to understand,
It's really interesting how much scrutiny this particular game studio failure gets. It's almost the norm that video game companies struggle and court disaster with over-ambition. But because of Curt Schilling's association, and the polarizing reactions he gets, this story won't die the way a hundred other similar stories do. Well, that and the state of Rhode Island foolishly plowing money into the endeavor.

I haven't played it myself, but everybody I've talked to who has says that Kingdoms of Amalur is really a pretty decent game.
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And why is this a problem? I write niche books on topics that really interest me, and if I write a book that a few thousand people buy [1], and perhaps fifty readers engage with me via email, social media, or a phone call, then I am totally satisfied.

[1] I recently made all of my recent books free downloads at my personal web site https://markwatson.com so the situation is now even better: a huge number of downloads, and increased engagement with readers.
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"Federated" is the only part of that I can see as not being simple. But even if all 3 words were generally unknown, I don't know if it's really a problem. You need to understand what FLoC is instead of what the individual words mean to know what the issues with it are.
Why, yes, behavioural economics leaves abstract bullshit in a dust.
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I suppose you are one of the special few in that case. In other social groups people tend to gravitate towards a common messaging infrastructure, only sharing the absolute essentials when reminded of those that are not part of that shared system.

This means that while you might be part of the group while physically present, you are not a part of the group outside of that. For billions of people around the world that is a problem (not the tech, but the isolation), and as such, that is where a good deal of focus goes towards.

This isn't about selecting your friends or social groups based on tech, but about groups of people dynamically interacting. Replace the applied construct with something else and it still applies. (you don't like smoke signals because big smoke is evil to you, so you use carrier hawks, but al your friends still use smoke signals and can't be bothered to learn how to maintain a hawk)
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And stocks give you legal ownership of a portion of an actual business with actual assets and profit streams to redistribute
Reminds me of the books as a kid that told you what each hockey card was worth.

In reality they probably count on most people not circulating them.
We don’t. OP is displaying scientific arrogance.
I'm not understanding why you feel this is micro-management. People constantly "micro-manage" their life in far more detailed ways than this - what you eat, what you wear, where you sit, all kinds of trivial decisions made minute-by-minute as you live. Being aware of one more environmental factor and making some decisions based on it hardly feels like a huge additional burden on my life.
> Hansson’s response to this employee took aback many of the workers I spoke with. He dug through old chat logs to find a time when the employee in question participated in a discussion about a customer with a funny-sounding name. Hansson posted the message — visible to the entire company — and dismissed the substance of the employee’s complaint.

This is not how any leader should behave. It's a childish passive aggressive bullying power move by the most powerful person at a company. It's disrespectful to that employee by the person at the top of the ladder. That sends waves of signals to everyone else and that alone to me would be a reason for DHH to resign because how are employees supposed to work respectfully with each other if their leader is so openly disrespecting another employee who is in a huge power imbalance to him.

That's extremely poor behaviour to say the least.
Have you looked at recent publications in AAAI and IJCAI? Those are the big conferences of AI without specific focus on machine learning.

You may also want to have a look at KRR (Knowledge Representation and Reasoning) and one of the robotics conferences, whose names unfortunately I don't remmeber by heart. Again, those don't tend to focus on machine learning.

Finally, there is such a thing as symbolic machine learning. For example, see the IJCLR conference (unifying a bunch of conferences from the symbolic machine learning field, like ILP, STAR, NeSy etc).
Looking at the commit history and closed issues there was some actual work involved here to make it a nice plug/play experience for the end user. So, yes, the core functionality is done for the author, but there was some effort involved.
So I’m going to say “yes they absolutely are”

And you’re going to argue with me on the semantic definition of “force”, ignoring the sheer power Google (and a few other tech companies) wield over the technological word, which now encompasses basically all commerce and industry to varying degrees. The smartphone market alone means you’re forced to deal with Google.

Single line pithy comments set up these situations. They’re not good communication really, in my opinion.
I’m not the commentor and I’m skeptical of that claim too.

Here is the place where you wanna go to get information about the industry: https://www.bookweb.org. You might could dig enough to find answers to all the claims in this thread.
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I have some money on AMD as it seems to be a fan favourite. When I ask why I hear "price points". It is possibly a good way to remain in mindshare
How come the amulet "Winter evening, a leaf, a blue sky above." renders beyond mythic on their scratchpad (https://text.bargains/scratchpad/), yet it doesn't on the command line?

echo "Winter evening, a leaf, a blue sky above." | sha256sum
c0d26be133a1570239f4af2582b15fc8b91d64d64bcd99fdb584e5e3f477840d
He even said that the vulnerability was not in there.

But since he advertised that one, anyone wanting to compromise Cellebrite has an easy target. So Cellebrite has to fix it.
I tried to explain that here:

> I consider my relationship with my husband to be a core part of my identity (certainly not the only part, of course). It's a major part of who I am and how I move about the world; how I exist within it and relate to it. And this is what straight people do, as well - and for them, it's considered absolutely normal (and society even encourages it in some ways).

> What's unfair, to me, is to say that my "existence" is only relegated to physically living - life is about a lot more than that. We're not talking about killing the gays, here. We're talking about people who'd like to force the gays back into the closet so that they don't have to hear about relationships that they think are an affront to their religion.

There's two senses of the word "existence" here - one is physically living and being present in the world (ie: not dead). The other sense is "projecting outward from yourself," as in interacting with others and having relationships with other people in your life, moving through and impacting the world somehow around you. The latter sense is what I'm talking about. It's philosophical, but important.

To move it out of the realm of your personal relationships and fully into mine, let's replace your Aunt with my Aunt. My Aunt has expressed to me that she doesn't want to ever hear about me being gay, to the point of asking me not to bring a significant other around her children, lest they know that I am not straight.

That's the kind of "opposed to my existence" that I'm talking about - they don't want to kill me, but they want me to be entirely muted and silent; present but not really participating as a human being. Preferably, they'd like me to pretend to be "straight" if at all possible, including therapy to change myself. It's not for my benefit, obviously.

That's what I'm trying to get at, and I still think it's fair to say that people professing conservative political values like my Aunt (maybe yours too, who knows) would very much like me to be "seen, and not heard" - back in the closet pretending the actual substance of my life doesn't exist because it's more convenient for their worldview, and changing myself to suit their narratives whenever possible. I very much see that still reflected in modern conservative politics - see the debates about whether or not cruelties like "conversion therapy" should be banned, whether or not trans people are allowed to live their lives openly, etc.

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Please note: your Aunt only came up because you brought her up, but I'm not trying to bash on her repeatedly. We can talk about mine instead for a handy point of reference, or someone else entirely. Bringing family into this makes it a lot harder to talk about, and we can instead pick a different point of reference. Denigrating family members isn't what I'm trying to do here, and I hope that much is at least obvious.
> Based in this argument alone, it makes more sense to tax "Individuals who own more than a Billion USD" instead of "Charitable organizations and Universities who own more than one Billion USD" if one were to be forced to chose between the two.

But the washington post is owned by bezos, so I suspect you won't see articles making your point anytime soon
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Exactly.

Currency was created because barter sucked, Cryptocurrency was created because some people didn't like some aspects of prevailing currencies, now the technology supporting cryptocurrencies has made barter not suck, so we're back to barter with just gigantic liquidity pools that can accurately route an order between two arbitrary assets and keep their prices in sync.

So if you're keeping up, barter doesn't suck any more and the market has accepted that, which is a game changer.
If you want to sell Android apps, you are. Yes, I know Android allows installs from sources other than Play Store, but if you want to be popular, you have to be in Play Store.

I'm actually surprised/impressed with how successful that strategy has been for Google. I've always considered sideloading and alternate app stores to be an advantage for Android, but Google's store is effectively a monopoly anyway.
Here's a machine-translated post on vertical turbines by one of the pioneers in the modern wind turbine market:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...

TLDR; they have been tried out and found impractical.

I'll add to that that many, many years have gone into the manufacturing of current big wind turbines. Making something that can withstand the weather, have a high uptime, relatively cheap to manufacture and put up - these are not easy problems.
>As for the remaining millions, only a tiny minority of them will even know this is a thing, let alone care enough to make the change or contact a developer who can do it. These are the folks who have hosted their wordpress site with GoDaddy because it was cheap and quick when they needed a site.

One company decides to do something stupid and you expect millions of website owners to scurry and add junk to their headers to create a "mitigation"? This is nuts.

This is a browser problem, not a website problem.
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There's no physical limit on credit, either.
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The majority of the Western world eats too much food!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-shift-obes...

We need to start taxing the Obese and Overweight to encourage them to put their forks down, and to pay for their externalities. With 67% of Americans obese or overweight, this would help more than switching to a "better" beef.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20191220/growing-obe...
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It changes whether I could exploit the device. I have realistically no way of developing a new hole in their software, but I'm capable of becoming a script kiddie if I wanted to.
If they know you clicked your own ads, then why can't they simply filter these signals out?
To me it seems like they are trying to find every avenue to wiggle themselves out of paying.
Such a nasty company.
I've had the same experience.

I grew up in Staten Island, the son of a couple of Brooklyn Italians. As a kid I had what I now hear as a comically heavy Brooklyn accent.

As a middle-middle class kid surrounded by other kids like me, I considered my accent normal. As I got older and was exposed to people from outside our little bubble, I began to notice their reactions to my accent, which were always in jest but affected me just the same.

Hearing their jokes and their own accents, I began associate the 'standard' American accent with upperclassness, which I wanted to achieve. So I consciously worked on my accent over a number of years. By the end of high school, my R's were nearly properly rounded. By the end of college, my accent had almost completely gone. Today, it is 100% gone. I speak like a journalist from Ohio, except with more swearing.

In many ways, I miss the accent. I feel like an outsider wherever I am, whether it's at work (where I feel like I'm playing a part to fit in) or at a deli, buying a mortadella sandwich, where it feels like returning to a place I've left. But 'fixing' the accent has undoubtedly made it easier for me to advance my career.
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Absent government regulation? Yes, exactly. If Mecha-Godzilla shows up I'm very, very happy to have Godzilla around to fuck them up, even if Godzilla is a dangerous monster and it would be better to have no monsters.
I genuinely can't be convinced there are people alive today that the risk of one scented candle in the home and/or plug in air fresheners are higher than the background danger of auto, industry, and just general pollution. This seems like an anxiety in search of a problem, or am I very underestimating it?

It just seems like the road in front of my house is probably more of a problem than my vanilla candle.
I have a family, small children, relatives. Grandparents loves to see videos of their grandchildren. Sharing a video via group MMS is fraught with problems, it often doesn't work, or the resolution is garbage. iMessage works every time. I'm not dismissing your experience but the green vs blue bubbles do make a big difference for many of us.
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Eddy Cue still has a job at Apple.
Great question! We are in the process of packaging the build software in a license-compliant way. I'll update our website and this post with the links as soon as that's done.

Did you have a chance to try the release version?
> It is the mark of a monopolist or a crook.

It could just be that they know every other option will treat you in the same shitty way. I suppose you could stick that under 'crook'.
That’s because KoA was made by Big Huge not 38 studios. I’ve worked with a lot of people from Big Huge and they had been working on KoA long before 38 acquired the studio.
Just to be clear, I am talking about auto-cross and other events, not pushing cars on a public road.
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That doesn't seem fair or just - not just "very" but "at all"...
There is a very good episode about him in the last Cosmos season.
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"Does the person appear disconnected from family, friends, community organizations, or houses of worship?"

https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign/indicators-human-trafficki...
How can you be sure about the click fraud issue? Their hands aren’t exactly clean, having paid $90 million in a settlement for click fraud in 2006. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-settles-fraud-case-for-9...
> If you want to sell Android apps, you are.

No one is forced to sell Android apps, therefore, no one is forced to do business with Google.