skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting calculation! But the point of shifting electricity usage from refineries to car batteries still stands: Apparently it's 1.5 kwh per liter of gasoline [Edit: this might not be accurate, or might be mainly related to drilling, see comments below]. At 7-8 liters/100km we've already covered 11 kwh.

Edit: And 7-8 liters/100km for a Tesla seems optimistically low. But maybe 18kwh is also optimistic.
Sorry was I doing postfix?
Don't forget the US Civil War, which was a catastrophe.
What is your explanation for Denmark and Finland then?
How much violence in society is a reaction to cumulative rejection? I'd guess a good deal if not most of it. Our ancient lobster-shared neural mechanisms take it deadly seriously whether we do consciously or not. From the long perspective of our selfish genes, rejection is a mortal threat.

I appreciate the sympathetic treatment of incels in this article, which seems like an exception to the norm. I think most of us can sense the pain that goes with this designation. At least with race or gender based rejection we can see progress and action and a way forward. But how do you deal with rejection that isn't about your group, but is about your personal characteristics, your character and attractiveness? Things you either can't change or would make you someone else if you did? Violence is a loathsome reaction, but not one that's hard to understand.

I think that's why incels attract such hate. We usually can't help them, so our empathy becomes just frustration and shared pain. We imagine the mix of anger and depression a lifetime of that would cause us, which leads us to fear them. We reject people for suffering too much rejection, a vicious circle.

Yet much rejection is utterly necessary. You can't be a friend, lover or business partner with everyone. We must sometimes cause as well as recieve such deep pain. It's not a solvable problem.
Man. When I was 18 I was overweight and already balding. I worked at a gas station. Once a hooker spit on me because I wouldn’t let her steal some ice cream. I cut my foot once on broken glass in the dumpster because part of my job was tamping it down with my feet (it cut through my shoe).

Would I have traded it to be an influencer if I could have? Shit yeah in a heartbeat. But unfortunately for me no one wanted to watch me gyrate. (That’s unfair, some people probably would have).

That said. Now I’m a fully bald old man (I just turned 36). I’m not as overweight anymore though I could prob lose a couple of pounds. Blood pressure is good, though.

Would I want to be an influencer? Jet set around the world and stay in lavish hotels for free? Have companies throw products at me? Have thousands or millions of people knowing my every move? Have to give a shit if there’s a stain on my shirt? Hell no.

I want to sit here on my porch with my dog and my wife and do my work. Then at the end of the day I want to turn it off and set it aside. Maybe we’ll go hiking.

I know it sounds glamorous and maybe it’s appealing to some people. But man it’s not for me.
i think part of the point is - in some circumstances you can not fly low because you open yourself to certain types of engagement, and that for a particular test you could be certain that incoming helicopters wouldn't be that low.
This is because it's early and the ads are well designed for the platform, i.e. a lot of ads for flip flops and those 'butt lifting' pants for girls.

Once it opens up you'll see more annoying ads because most products don't fit well. That said, even car companies are making things a little less 'advertisy'.
Conspicuous consumption started with the invention of Santa Claus. Rolex and Mercedes leverage the snob effect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob_effect
I want electric vehicles, but I don't want all the auxiliary Internet connection/tracking that will come with it. Fuck all that shit.
I wish that would be a RISC-V instead of Cortex-M0+.
Imagine two parties trust each other to have the right intentions but imperfect endpoint security. If they send private data to each other, isn’t it better for messages to expire after a useful window in case either is compromised in the future? Same reason we have expiring JWTs
Snowbound car CO poisoning happens all the time:

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/carbon-monoxide-...
I always wondered why human people have an alternative minimum tax (AMT), yet corporate people don't.
I kinda understand what you're going for, but it sounds... very narcissistic, almost psychopathic, and indifferent or numbed to rejection and interpersonal relationships.

Maybe the authentic and true self is a prick that nobody wants to interact with in that case.
Have you been following the news on what's been happening at the southern border? 100,000 people a month coming through, some of them throwing their children over the wall to get here.
It‘s basically a PKI and this design was chosen with the explicit goal to participate in the EU Green Pass project with the goal that all EU members can participate in the same system.

When the the system stands the only bureaucracy will be for an issuer to get a cert from the authority or for an authority to be included in the root.

All the things you describe with the seal and number and system to validate is just as much if not more bureaucracy and is not that far off from the proposed solution.
The best pick in probably https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link. Uart via telnet or a webpage and a run-time cofigurable baudrate
My RPi4 handles mining 1GB blocks
We have thousands of years of nuclear fission raw materials available, and we'll eventually have to turn to them despite what the anti-nuke people say.
But significantly cleaner than oil and abundant enough to make an impact much sooner.
Same systems were introduced in 2003 when the sms messages were extremely expensive. Seems like the tech is going circles
I believe that the financial declaration is for post-graduate courses, and no proof is required for living costs.
> and not because it's been "left behind" in any way, but because I simply don't match the culture in very significant ways.

I'm simply going to assume on a stretch you're either on the LGBT+ spectrum or socially progressive, please forgive me if I'm wrong.

I disagree with you on the "not left behind" part: the "rural flight" aka all young people fleeing to urban areas as soon as they possibly can has made rural areas "left behind" socially, because the ones who stay behind objectively see that the young people are fleeing, but instead of placing the blame on politicians who did jack shit to keep rural areas liveable (e.g. by providing high speed internet and public transport), many of them resort to blaming "the gays" for "corrupting their children" and similar - which in turn is even more incentive for those few youth that remain to flee. It's a vicious circle.
Yes, there's very strong winds on Mars. There's even sound recordings of them.
Every ISP used to offer free access. It was promoted right alongside other offerings. The shrinking accessibility and visibility is part of the problem. It's easier to kill something off if the only people who use it are people who don't have a place on the mainstream internet.

Look at the uproar over Freenode. No one would notice if IRC had been as obscure as NNTP over the last 15 years.
> Jeff Bezos does not buy anything with every incremental thousand dollars. In some important sense, it's not even money that can be spent.

Luckily, nobody in the discussion has claimed this. What they have claimed is that it is possible a hungry person who died of starvation may have needed an incremental dollar more than someone who spent $42 million of their incremental dollars on a project to build a clock with no expectation of any return on it (or even a person of comparatively modest means who never has to look at the right hand side of a menu) and as such, diminishing returns to disposable wealth may exist.

Clearly actually addressing this claim is a lot harder than demolishing straw men and accusing everyone that suggests that diminishing marginal returns to money are a thing of being a communist.

Personally I'd trust people whose belief that markets are useful in generating wealth (again, not in dispute here) stops short of assuming that if people don't have money they probably don't need to survive as much as others need to conspicuously consume.
In Belgium changing your official address is actually a three-step process:

1. You notify your new local council of the change of address.

2. A police officer visits your new home to check whether you actually live there.

3. Your official address is updated in the government's records and on the ID card.

Step 2 takes place in your home; step 3 requires you to physically go to the town hall because the information on the eID card needs to be updated. But step 1 should be doable online but isn't in every municipality. However, I think this is more a problem of every municipality doing this on their own rather than using a shared system. Also, the frustrating part is not that you need to go to the town hall, but that it has very limited and inconvenient opening hours and (in larger places) often long waiting times.
God I wish I could afford to fail 90% of the time.
Thank you, this is a good summary of my views.
Because it lets adult men watch young scantily clad boys and girls jump around for free. That’s the sick part to me. These kids (and they are kids) are basically soft core porn for pedophiles. And Nike and Amazon subsidize it.
> “The number of young people who showed up at the main University of Missouri hospital emergency room with suicidal ideation was up by 25 percent in February 2021 compared with the same month the year before. Nationwide, those numbers also seem to be elevated, according to research published in Pediatrics in March.”

> Though the number of deaths by suicide among young people has decreased during the pandemic, likely due to “greater parental oversight,”...

How can you use the first statistic as evidence while simultaneously writing off the lower death rate? You could just as easily make the opposite argument, saying that deaths are down due to reduced pressure on kids but ER visits are up due to higher parental oversight of the subset of kids that are still struggling.

(I'm not saying that's more likely than the first interpretation; just poking holes in the logic of the argument laid out in the article.)
I am thinking how weird it would be if the EV charger revolution sneaks up on conventional gas station businesses and forces large oil companies to go out of business. Because they did not realize they were supposed to be "energy" business, not just oil/diesel/gasoline/petroleum business.

If they don't pay attention, this seismic shift could really cost them.
Going by wikipedia it took AMD almost two years to release an SDK with full OpenCL 2.0 support and Intel wasn't that much faster. Most of the Open Source implementations also seem to have died around the OpenCL 1.2 mark, with some having incomplete 2.0 support. So while you can probably blame NVIDIA for kicking a dead horse it looks as if something else got to it first.
Sorry, a stock market is the antithesis of communism. You're not going to redefine your way out of that one :-)
Rambox – Combine email add messaging apps
> Energy use for cars is substantial, a significant percentage of the energy usage of homes. If that energy use shifts from fossil fuels to home electricity supplies we'll need to substantially increase the energy delivery possible to homes.

Will it, though?

Earlier this year I had 12kW of PVC installed for about A$7k. That nets me, this time of year (3 weeks away from the winter solstice in AU) about 35kWh a day. In summer I expect an average of 50kWh / day.

A Tesla 3 standard has a 50kWh battery - providing 350 km driving range. The 75kWh long range version provides 500km range.

So worst case (winter) A$7k of residential grade panels can provide charge for 200km / day - and that's on a Tesla, which is definitely a premium EV in this part of the world. (A vanilla model 3 is A$63k - the long range version A$78k.) Add in off-peak grid charging (say A$0.10 / kW) and we're really knocking ICE out of the game.

For a lot of people, not just in the same part of the world I'm in, factoring in some panels on the roof would be a proportionally small capex delta, but make the TCO hugely more compelling.
TFA is from the now defunct magazine Monitoring Times which was about ham radio, shortwave listening and radio in general.

People interested in such topics may enjoy a successor magazine, Spectrum Monitor [1], which covers similar topics and has had some of the same writers as Monitoring Times (Note: I have no affiliation with either magazine).

[1] https://www.thespectrummonitor.com/

edit: Corrected name of Spectrum Monitor which I botched the first time.
"cooked" images here:

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/images/?t=636
There's no limit to the fake creativity of those idiots in order to justify their pathetic existence and more government spending.
What a time to be alive!!!
To me at least, they seem like the exception that proves the rule. The fact that they exist with a name means that in general things aren't like that.
And the articles about what a terrible country the USA is? Just checked, only one "USA bad" article and one "McDonald's Bad" article. Everything was about superior Chinese achievement and awesome CCP party members. lol
The recent outbreak of ‘range anxiety’ among combustion-engine owners in the Southeast US when the colonial pipeline went offline illustrates very clearly how thin a myth of ‘independence’ has been built around gasoline cars.

You can hit the open road and just keep driving - as long as a complex global energy distribution network keeps up just-in-time fulfillment of fuel to gas stations along the way.

Whereas an electric car, powered with charge gathered from the sunlight that struck the roof of your own home? That’s truly independent.
> That's about 70 GWh of overnight capacity that could have been used...Our grid excess capacity of 70 GWh means we can charge just under 11 million cars before we're using more than our current peak electricity demand.

You've ignored all losses. Transmission and distribution losses, the latter of which are worse for low-voltage customers (ie, domestic use, and is over 10%), total around 15% for domestic use. As well as that, charger loss is around 15%.

Adding all that up, a car that needs 20 miles at 333 Wh/mile needs 9kWh of generated supply power, or barely 8 million cars (assuming this power is actually available).

There is also the obvious problem that there is no solar availabe at night, which makes up a relatively large percentage of the UK's energy mix (over 8GW right now, as I just looked).

>The maximum delivered power in the last year was 47.275 GW

How much of that peak power was from peaking plants, for example, the 1.8GW pumped hydro storage at Dinorwic?

A huge part of the problems with EVs are related to unrealistic and misleading estimates. Please be careful with the maths.
What's the point of using an eight bit microcontroller if you can get something that's order of magnitude more capable for the same price?
But why the amphibious assault then? And why did they give Iraq, a land locked nation, a navy? Red team were assigned equipment like a peak Iran but were forced to play like a demoralized Iraq. It does not make sense unless there was politics involved.
Denmark has a tiny population - 1.5% of the USA. I live in a small US state (Massachusetts) which itself has a larger population than Denmark. The country is over 90% white of European ancestry.

The reason I say this is that getting an entire country to agree to support a government plan like a national ID tracker is much easier when the country is a monoculture with a population the size of a city.
A lot of what he experienced boils down to whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're correct either way.
In term of features, it would be awesome.

But in term of privacy and surveillance society, this will be a nightmare...

Imagine, the dream for all eu gov and tax/police forces to have a mandatory unified controlled system for identification anywhere. From there, it will be more easier to go one step further in surveillance for average citizen.

The thing is that currently, the multitude of not centralized, authenticated system allows to remain anonymous or quasi anonymous for a lot of things. But, once there will be an official guaranteed EU identity authentication system, everyone will want to use it.

You are visiting a city, and you need to pay the parking fee? the EU SSO will have to be used, and states will be able to know where you were, at what time.

You want to access a website that is required by law to do age verification? EU SSO has to be used and again, the state can monitor your internet browsing.

You buy/sell a few things online, on peer to peer website like "leboncoin" or "ebay"? or do car sharing on "blablacar"? Mandatory EU SSO id has to be used, and so everything you do can be monitored.
This more than anything else is why I am anticipating a lot of electric cars being tiled in PV.

Putting the cells on the cars is absolutely not going to fully charge them in most cases, and the same logic that leads to comparative advantage says to do this after better locations already have PV, but such cells will get 50-90% of the average daily requirements of the typical driver depending on location, season, and car size, which in turn will reduce infrastructure needs elsewhere.
Because you're likely editing local files with an Electron powered editor as opposed to files on some other server.
I guess I'm the only person in the world who smoked for 15 years, and stopped on a beautiful day, without suffering. I still smoke very occasionally, socially, once a month maybe, but I definitely stopped having daily cravings to smoke alone days after I stopped.
does that mean maintenance costs of both the ICE and electrical parts?
If karma points meant anything, I'd probably write what people wanted to hear :-)
Very dangerous misunderstanding!

Snow packed up around a vehicle has the same effect as being in a garage and definitely can cause lethal poisoning. When I'm doing multi-day off-roading we carry exhaust hoses to take the fumes far away, even though we're outside the whole time.
1) We did a 3000km road trip in a Tesla. We only spent 15 minutes waiting for a charge to complete. All other time spent charging was overlapped with toileting, eating or sleeping.

2) Electric cars are the leaders internal space. The most obvious example is the frunk on the F150 lightning.

3) Every electric car with a battery thermal management system (aka pretty much every car except the Leaf) has outstanding battery life. Take a look at the battery
warranty and realize that has to assume the owner has abused the battery, anybody who doesn't should do much better.
In France that's a fact of life and significant improvements are underway. Public transit is very good in most bigger cities, bike lanes are plentiful, high speed rail is available for most intercity travel, and all of those are actively being improved.

So the math is for an already decently non-car centric country.
> With the advent of online-only games

The meaningful difference is that with an online-only game you can't find it somewhere second hand or use an emulator or patch it. It stops working entirely once the servers are disconnected.

Your best bet is that some volunteer somewhere will spend an enormous amount of time replicating the servers themselves. But unlike emulation (which has been proven legal) these fan projects regularly get shut down by the companies who made the original games, and unlike ROMs, distributing a community server is not as simple as just putting a file on a torrent.

As an example, look at the work that's gone into trying to preserve the Miiverse -- about the best case scenario, Nintendo hasn't tried to sue them yet. In theory there are community options now. In practice, they're not really usable yet; most Wii U games just don't have that functionality working anymore.

So online-only games are in a separate category of difficulty to preserve. In comparison, Gameboy games are basically trivial to set up if you're willing to pirate, and relatively easy to extract from used cartridges even if you're not willing to pirate. The big difference is that even if you have a legal copy of an online-only game already installed on your computer or on its original platform, once the servers go away its no longer playable.
Good bikes. Apart from not being available atm solid ones start around 1000$ and have no upper bound. Something with full suspension or carbon is +1000$
What's the issue with using Thunderbird for this (mail or usenet)?

But I am old and I never understood why one would prefer a browser over native clients.
Americans are far more distrustful.

The idea of registering with your local municipality is downright alien in the United States. At best, you're required to eventually update your drivers license when you switch states, which (depending on the state) is the equivalent of "maybe" updating your license and vehicle registration whenever you eventually get around to it.

Compare that against moving between, say, Switzerland and Poland (or any other combination of Schengen member countries).
Maybe gmail addresses should be prevented from posting or whitelisted?
What Are the Phases of User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Do you know any peer reviewed scientific paper which confirms the lobster shared neural mechanism? Was looking for evidence for this claim a while back, couldn't find it.