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> Now try to guess what is happening when everyone starts to do what Germany is doing for close to 20 years now ?

What will happen is that people will learn to build an energy system that works well with this situation.

Which will likely mean things like industrial plants that shut down when electricity is scarce and get payed for that by the grid operator, because that's cheaper than having a lot of storage. It will mean new industries will be built by using excess renewables (likely hydrogen will be such an industry). I'm excited to see that happen.
Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
If Robert Sapolsky was in this thread, he would have probably elaborately explained why island cultures cling to tradition more strongly than the continental ones.
Problem is there are enough millions of people satisfied with this delivery, that NBC will make enough money and keep their anti-competitive monopoly.

Quite a lot of the content is only available with their Peacock app. Free if you have Comcast/Xfinity, but still ads. If you pay maybe you also get ads, not sure. But the app is terribly slow, next to unusable. Click navigation buttons on the remote and its multiple seconds for the UI to reflect input. Netflix, Hulu, HBOMax apps all have reasonable responsiveness, Peacock is atrocious.

I imagine in less than 50 years we'll consider Google a glorified ad broker too.
IIRC, antopodal HVDC would have resistive losses of either 70% or 30% — I’d have to recalculate from scratch to find out which, but it doesn’t matter much either way: the real issues are “How much does the line cost?” and “what are the political implications of that size power line in all the places it has to pass through?”

Batteries and HVDC to your nearest major desert are what I expect to be the solutions.
Russian internet censor blocks Team Navalny websites
yeah, if anything that's what I dislike about julia, I wish it didn't claim to be a GP programming language, and instead worked more on figuring out how to glue it to languages that aren't C.

For context, I have basically stopped using julia (not for any taste-related reason except I started doing jobs that were more suited for elixir and haven't had to do numerical computation since), and elixir doesn't claim to be a GP-PL and it's perfectly fine and doing quite well.
> I have a cheap $20 antenna hanging in a window (you could use a suction cup) and I can get almost 40 TV channels

This doesn't work for everyone. When I put one up, I had to get a $100 directional antenna, a signal booster and mount it in the attic. Even then we had difficulty picking up some stations. Granted our neighborhood is in a big region, a good ways out and in a large depression.
I love this idea, but the name “digital footprint” sort of implies it’s what effect you’ve had on the Internet for helping keep your online persona under control: your tweets, comments, emails, et cetera.

But this is a great idea! Having a search engine for vaguely _anything_ you touch very much does look like it’d increase the signal:noise ratio. It’d be interesting to be able to add whole sites (using, say, DuckDuckGo as an external crawler) to be able to fetch general ideas, such as, say, “Stack Exchange posts marked with these tags”.
Why should it be freely viewable?
Import taxes are decided by the EU, so it wouldn't have been simple for Germany to quickly react.
In the Netherlands housing had a 30% price hike in some places due to the pandemic. Totally insane.
>Why? Because the majority of people prefer mindless trash to the idiosyncrasies of a local county commission meeting.

>I don't have a good answer because media companies have to make money to stay in business. Making them backed by the state is an even worse idea.

An excellent point. Local media outlets (in the US at least, not sure about elsewhere) are few and far between these days.

We need local news that focuses on "county commission meetings" and other happenings of local concern.

Unfortunately, unless you're in a big media market (NY, LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, etc.), odds are that your "local" news is written by folks hundreds of miles away, with no real understanding of local issues.

Here in NYC, we have dozens of local papers, blogs, independent news sites and local TV news outlets. As such, coverage of local issues is quite good.

But the days of small towns/counties having their own local newspapers and TV news are long gone in the US.

Anyone not living in a big media market will likely get only the broad-brush, zero nuance reporting that comes from national/regional news outlets.

That's a big problem for small towns, as there's no one with "skin in the game" watching the goings on of local and state government actors.

I don't have a solution (sadly) for this issue, because local news outlets in small media markets had a hard time staying in business long before the Internet, and the loss of classified ads in those small markets killed local journalism.

And so we have big national players like Fox, CNN, WSJ, NYT, USA Today, etc. that provide coverage of national issues and very limited (and inferior to real local reporting) coverage of regional/local issues.

This leads to really poor governance at the state and local levels and a lack of nuance about regional/national issues as they relate to local populations/economies.

More's the pity.
If it's a WebExtension, it's usually not too hard to port to Firefox (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...)
Yeah, that might be true. I've read very poor criticisms of Julia other places on the Internet. Most famously perhaps the "giving up on Julia" blog. In fact, the lack of good criticism was what prompted me to write this post.
As a german what is being described here seems crazy, we have to pay taxes which pay for state financed Independent media and it is also required that all important sporting events can not be behind paywalls. You can watch a germany focused broadcast of the olympics all day with minimal ads which only play maybe every hour or you can watch live streams of all events online or trough their app. Most streams also have dedicated commentators that seem reasonably knowledgable about the sports and have quite extensive background knowledge about the athletes and the last years in the sport. It has honestly been a blast watching all kinds of events i would never watch and having someone who is really in to it take you along for the ride
Media, including big tech, is not sympathetic of men's issues. This is because male users are worth significantly less as advertisement targets, they would rather lose 3 male users over 1 female user. Its just pure capitalism and not inherent bias, but still it means that you wont find any media that cares much about your issues because they would rather not alienate their lucrative female users.
One thing that I miss coming from python to Julia, is typing-as-documentation. In python I often write type annotations that are much more restrictive than they need to be. They work as checkable documentation of how a function is expected to be used (and under what circumstances do I guarantee it will work), without restricting how it can be used.
Oh wow I didn't know this. From what I see on iOS, IG still lets me Manage>Select more photos, whereas WhatsApp has a tiny "You've given WhatsApp access to only a select number of photos. Manage" at the top.

So now I've set all to Selected Photos and will just click manage and add extra photos when I need them. So much easier than I had thought, thank you!!
> "Given that the UK decided not to make itself subject to REACH, that presumably means it wants to diverge, which introduces uncertainty. Now, it's _possible_ that having its own copy of REACH was just political posturing (if you're taking the cynical approach, you might assume that this is even likely), but I can't imagine anyone would want to depend on that."

There is no difference to TSMC. The UK "diverging" i.e. making changes to its UK REACH regulations, versus the EU making changes to its EU REACH regulations. To TSMC these events would be one and the same. Uncertainty exists at all times. Business recognises this and, like the Internet, routes around it when possible or otherwise just absorbs it and gets on with business.

The UK copy-pasting EU REACH into UK REACH was /obviously/ done for business stability and environmental reasons and because generally it was just the right thing to do. Painting it as "political posturing" is certainly a highly cynical even hyperbolic interpretation.
Speaking of allowing tracking, Ghostery shows 48 trackers on that article.

“Don’t let restaurants track you. Let us do it instead!” - NYT
It sounds to me like a measure of conformity, because surely you now have to choose from a set of recommended handwriting styles that are considered "acceptable". By straying out of the standards, you're risking the subjective appreciation of the interviewer.

Do they test you on your handwriting during the interview to make sure that you wrote your resume? If they do, then it implies that they truly think that they can see something in how someone writes. If they don't then why not let the machine do it?
Learn How to Remove Fake Google Reviews
Last year(?) YouTube changed TOS to state (IIRC) that if you didn't explicitly mark your own videos as 'not for children' they would be included in search results that included content for young children. Then, if the video was found to violate TOS in the content, it could be removed or demonetized.

Creators like myself who may have cursing or other 'adult themes' would need to check a box saying that the content was not intended for children or risk TOS violation. Ergo many people self-imposed age restriction on their content.

So while people are looking at this in the lens of 'YouTube is censoring free thought!' it is entirely possible (maybe even likely) that the creator of the video chose to exclude children from their audience, and that YouTube's request for age verification is the consequence of that creator's choices.

Obviously there are still troubling implications here, but if a creator chooses to age-restrict their own content that's not really YouTube's fault (though their poor review policies combined with a 'shoot first' approach to takedowns could definitely be seen as strong-arming creators into this paradigm).
I think Alexandra Botez manages this kind of thing well— obviously she's young and attractive, and there's a certain amount of goofing around that goes on (her younger sister is a co-host), but overall the channel is pretty tightly focused on chess games, commentary, etc. And she's certainly a very serious player herself and has specifically spoken out on sexism issues in tournaments and the larger chess community, eg:

https://www.insider.com/how-chess-was-more-sexist-than-its-p...
Ask HN: How far can OSS development bounties go?
Hi HN!

this was originally a specific question, but because I am totally naïve to the entire subject personally, what do you consider as being the boundaries of engagement with open source development as a corporate sponsor of GPL licensed features and even discreet tools and applications?

The original question is from a attorney who is fed up with the difficulties with printing from iPhone and so thoroughly annoyed I've been told to come back with a price on this problems head. Well, the request was unusually emotionally made, by a client unknown for emotion and definitely known for following through, plus the business logic exists for this for sure.

So can a real small, but dedicated and I'll wager socially beneficial attorneys firm of 5 lawyers, succeed in financing successful pieces of open source software?

I've so much to add about this client I've known for 30 years, which I think will help understand the particular motivations, sincerity and needs of this client, however the general case is interesting to me increasingly, after a morning thinking about it. Are there any good case studies available? Could it be helped by a kind of agency assistance, such as the framework for rewards and delivery that a really good attorney can provide? I was daydreaming I'd find a clearing house where talented programmers are offering the prices for professional completion of their existing interests which are only not justified by reason of inability to support or release to quality that reflects their true abilities, and so on. My client is of a generation to automatically have been skeptical, assuming that the burden of compliance with regulations and standards and statutory testing is a burden on software developers. I didn't play that down too much, thinking how good a test budget would be to have - I mention this because couldn't a more organised exchange for bounties and code be at a advantage to automatically allocate budgets for such sensible purposes? I expect I am simply naïve and don't see why this shouldn't work in the event the right initiative is started. I can't stop thinking that eg a talented games developer could offer to write a popularly desired code on the condition of meeting the bounty necessary for fulfilment of a serious concern or any unresolved ancient Mozilla bug...
I don't know. For example, would the mechanism that stops the motor on resistance work properly in a given product model, if (from its perspective) the human was holding down the button, or pushing the button repeatedly, even when there was an obstruction?

Another thing I'd also look at, for a particular model, was how faithful the electrical/mechanical interfacing of the hack, and whether that had implications for system operation safety.
I mean I hate the details, but still like the "environment"/setting (?). Watching it (as an Asperger) makes me feel relaxed.
I only recall this happening once, when WRAL (then a CBS affiliate) did that for the March Madness NCAA Men's tournament 10-15 years ago. Later tournaments had sold off the rights to some of the games to cable networks, so they were unable to do it again.
The Answer to life isn't 42
Schengen and in the customs union is still a little better than non-Schengen and in the customs union (eg Ireland), but yeah, the customs union is the main thing.
Google Releases Privacy Sandbox Timeline
I don't think this is an inherent problem of having a compiled dynamic (in other words, JITted) language.

Things like Javascript (V8) and Lua (LuaJIT) manages to have fast startup times while having exceptional performance in hot paths - this is because they have a fast bytecode interpreter that executes the script first while the actual compilation is taking place. Unfortunately Julia in its current state, doesn't have a fallback interpreter to execute its bytecode/IR (which is similar to LLVM IR). And LLVM IR isn't really suited for fast execution in interpreters - it's moreso designed as an intermediate language for a heavyweight compiler than a bytecode for a dynamic language.

Maybe some heroic figure would come out of the fog and suddenly brings a whole new bytecode representation and a fast interpreter for Julia, but that would be quite a project..
> If you speak any non-English language, you will know that this obsession with getting English-language speakers to pronounce foreign words "correctly" is unique.

It's really not.

The entire point of language is to be understood by others. If you're unwilling to take any time to find out how to be understood, then you're really just failing at basic communication. It's not up to others to interpret your misunderstanding of how to correctly say something, it's up to you to put some effort into being understood.

And if you're smirking at people instead of taking the opportuinity to learn, well, I wish you all the best in your small minded world.
I probably should have added that I certainly find your post to be good criticism.
Try https://old.reddit.com/
The pitch is largely related to the speed at which the fan is rotating. Louder is just not true, looking at the Noctua examples that your sibling comment posted, for the 140 and 120 in the same marketing range, the 140 is louder.
I've never learned bopomofo in earnest, and for pinyin I just memorized everything that felt like an exception to me, even though it might have some internal logic. For example, I guess that the "a" in "yan" is different from "lan" because "yan" is its own coda, whereas "lan" is "l" + "an"?
I think you just made OP's point.
> Why haven't they looked at influencers pumping s*tcoins?

They have, and are. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-268

"The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer Khaled Khaled, known as DJ Khaled, for failing to disclose payments they received for promoting investments in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). These are the SEC's first cases to charge touting violations involving ICOs."

As the saying goes: " The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."
Probably the fabs that made these chips haven't made them for years. They probably cranked out billions of them 20 years ago then converted to producing something more valuable.

We've probably run out of new old stock and nobody wants to go back to making these cheap chips.
Doxxing isn't a thing anyone outside this website cares about. I agree, that article was a shitty hit piece, but it's not disinformation.
More white men are shot by the police than black men in the USA, so unfortunately you do have to worry about that (a little bit, but not too much).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

This means your example of white privilege is invalid. Do you have any other?
Tax the poor and the middle, express lanes for the rich.
If the data available to you are 90% carefully crafted lies, it's not that easy for critical thinking to save you. Correct reasoning based on faulty information will not produce good results.

I mean, critical thinking can cut through a bunch of the garbage, but it won't help with the well-done disinformation - not if there's enough of it.
Yes, but the author was not fired. Until journalist that fuck up this bad get fired, it's honestly hard to blame people for not taking these publications seriously.

In 2020, Callimachi was reassigned at the Times and will no longer cover terrorism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/caliphate-rev...
Show HN: 2500 Illustrations Design for Startups
I am trying an approach to lead generation for SMBs.

I'd like to verify these small business owners who sign up, so for example if Sally's Holistic Yoga wants to sign up, then Sally would make an account for her business.

However, I could manually verify this information somehow by calling them or whatever else, or there may be some API or service I could use to do this for me.

that being said, I've never done this kind of thing before.
> Who has had greater success at this than the media?

Totally agree that FOX News and other of the right-wing pundits have helped create an alternate reality where election results and public health guidelines don't matter. You're talking about The Media as if the Right doesn't have a media apparatus.

> When the Mueller report revealed no evidence of collusion

Reading your link about Mueller and other summaries of the Mueller investigation, I get the feeling that the investigations was not a "nothing burger": the investigation produced 37 indictments, seven guilty pleas or convictions, and compelling evidence that the president obstructed justice on multiple occasions[0].

> Trump's lie was immediately panned as utter bullshit.

Sure, AG Barr described the Big Lie as bullshit, but Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, Crowder, and Shapiro haven't come anywhere close to that kind of a statement. Their gravy train runs on the Big Lie.

If Republicans don't want to look anti-democratic, then they should have (1) unilaterally disavowed the January 6 Insurrection instead of denying it, or calling these people patriots, and they should (2) make voting as easy as buying a gun, since they're both rights protected by the Constitution.

[0](https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigati...)
The simplest explanation is often the best one!
It's so stupid. Nuclear power is the only way we can supplement renewables without fossil fuels and it's publicly poison.
> liu" should be pronounced "liou" and "shui" should be pronounced "shuei"

This is nuanced: in some cases it’s omission for brevity [1] and in other cases it’s how the phonemes sound 100 years ago [2]. And if you pronounce them fast enough there isn’t much difference.

The omitted diaeresis is certainly for brevity, although using v is more common to me.

[1]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/26010099
[2]: https://www.zhihu.com/question/313646560
Configuring the "plugins" and everything to get PHP working on Apache on Linux can be complicated and annoying if you're not already familiar with the process.
There shouldn't be any legal description of "disinformation" in a country with free speech protections.

ALL skepticism is crucial. Even ridiculous viewpoints should see the light of day to allow them to be investigated or dismissed.

The push to suppress opposing views is really only coming from one direction right now. If someone supports limiting free speech, I can probably guess which political party they identify with.

Like every other attack on rights, the stated goals are always very noble: "limit hate speech", "stop disinformation", etc. Cute. But behind those reasons, we're all aware of the real goal: silence anyone who opposes your views.
The M'Cheyne Plan API: Read the Bible in a Year
Belarus main cities are modern. It didn't not feel like a poor country during my visits.
Yes. That's exactly what happened.
There is literally no innovation in the crypto "space".
For me it's not generational, but cheaper. Adding the base TV package to my internet is cheaper than no-cap internet alone.

I rarely watch live TV, but it helps that I can use my TV login to stream most of the channels on-demand.
It's not, and that's perfectly fine from a societal standpoint, but people who are worried about working 22% fewer hours and are fine getting a "decent" salary are not the engineers you want to hire when trying to bootstrap a new enterprise.

They can run your company steady-state, but they are not going to build anything internationally competitive.
This looks really cool. It's beyond the scope of this project, but I think that having something like this as a browser extension would make it easier to use: instead of manually copying and scraping links, it could index and save pages that you've been on, placing much more significance on anything that you've bookmarked. Granted, this is just an immediate thought. I'm going to give this a proper try once I have some more spare time.
Which other European country would you suggest? I mean, if ASML can thrive in The Netherlands, surely Germany must be fine for TSMC?
DeFi is the future so I would say ETH is a better/safer investment than BTC in the long term. The only thing Bitcoin is useful for is doing transactions which any other cryptocurrency is also capable of. Also, consider Cardano. It's proof-of-stake already (so no environmental impact), and it's about to get smart contracts implemented in a few months.
Thanks for that, I'm apparently just wrong. I should point out that the 140mm doesn't get the extra airflow for free, as it's about 2dB louder. The lower frequency makes up for that though, and you will probably see more than a 2dB rise in noise for adding a second 120mm fan so it is still a net win at any given CFM.
> In contrast with conventional digital cameras, in fact, curvy imaging sensors typically require multiple and complex lens combinations to take clear and high-resolution images.

This sounds backwards to me. My understanding of the main benefit of curved sensors is to eliminate complex lens series needed to correct aberrations caused by a flat sensor surface.