skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Baseload energy" is a completely misguiding term. The base load is a purely statistic artifact. Operating the grid means, that the electricity generation exactly matches the consumption at all times. For this it doesn't matter, whether the demand is close to the base load or high above it. If the electricity generation doesn't match the consumption, you get grid failures. Overproduction can be as problematic as underproduction.

The base load is nothing especial, only the fraction of the maximum load of the grid, that is always drawn and can be served by power plants which cannot be regulated well. Which most of the time of the day is a big disadvantage of those power plants. If there is a demand peak, they can't serve it. If their overall output is too high, you cannot turn it down quickly enough. As coal and nuclear power traditionally had a large part of the supply and both are quite slow, for decades the net was designed to raise the "base load". Like in Belgium, where all highways were illuminated at night to consume excess nuclear energy...

The good news about wind and solar is, they can be switched off quickly at any time. Their disadvantage is, and that probably is, when you talk about base load, that the maxim power output depends on the weather. With a coal plant, you can put more coals into the fire, with solar, you need to wait for sunrise. That is indeed a challenge and requires storage and grid planning to compensate. Larger scale grids which mix wind and solar are much less affected by the.
But nothing of this has to do with the base load.

And with nuclear: yes, wind should beat nuclear easily in the aspects of cost and CO2. But the most important metric is: the cost of building new nuclear plants is prohibitive. Just compare the costs of the most recent English nuclear plant with new wind installations. They are about 1/3rd of the cost and not have any of the problems of nuclear energy attached (operation risk, nuclear waste).
What's changing is that someone else is having fewer kids.

https://www.straightdope.com/21341212/if-i-hadn-t-killed-52-...
Your last sentence is I think true. Your first sentence is I think demonstrably false, for all contexts except linguists and computer scientists.

He's best known as a public commentator and political activist. As a public contrarian to the current world system. He's not best known for Chomsky grammar classes on tv
I certainly prefer an elected president, and others making these decisions, compared to some dictator or king doing so.

One, if making poor decisions, can often be replaced in a few years.

The other cannot.

Yet in both cases you may end up with a poor choice in the role.

Not sure why you think democracy is worse at this, than a dictatorship or hereditary king like system.
until samsung gets hacked and has every TV globally disabled.
Samsung can remotely disable their TVs worldwide using TV Block
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IMO Apple's planned obsolescence is based on ridiculously low RAM. Modern phones are running same workloads as modern computers. Browser engine is the same, kernel is the same. Phone CPU is as powerful as laptop CPU with similar power budget. Developers use same or similar frameworks to write apps. Imagine buying premium laptop with 2 GB of RAM. That's iPhone 8 while high-end Androids were shipping with 8+ GB of RAM at that time.

RAM requirements of OS and apps will increase every year, so it'll be obvious to stop supporting old phones because of lack of RAM, even if CPU and Disk are more than capable.
I covered quiet a bit of his work in a Language and Computation elective. I previously only knew him from his political writings. His Linguistics work left me with a deep respect for his intelligence, as well as a deep pessimism that computers would really understand language any time soon (this was 15 years ago).
> But, if my memory is good, when Apple was fined in France, it was shown that the throttling was performed without consideration for the battery state. So was done even with a new battery (or the power cord plugged)

I don't think you're correct here. The way this behaviour was initially discovered was that a reddit user ran a benchmarking app before and after a battery replacement, showing a substantial increase to performance afterwards.

It would not surprise me if this only applied to first party batteries, though I have no information one way or the other.
Of all the natural predators mentioned above, only dragonflies make a real difference. It's night and day in the same area depending on whether there's a healthy population of dragonflies nearby.
Not really.

I migrated from South America to Europe a couple of years ago and I didn't suffer any shock --- of course there are some differences, but I believe since both are western cultures the things in common dampen most of the shock.
There are a whole series of problems. Darrieus turbines and their variations are fun to watch.[1] But they have structural strength problems. Also, they're hard to stop. Large bladed turbines have variable pitch, and are set to neutral during high wind conditions to prevent overspeeding. Most of the vertical designs can't do that.

In the early days of California wind power, there were some Darrieus turbines at Pacheco Pass. They're probably gone now. In those days, 30KW was a big turbine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrieus_wind_turbine
Actually it doesn't matter if your cruise control is dumb or adaptive. If you have only cruise control, of either kind, then it's level 1.

And if you have lane-keeping but not cruise control, that's also level 1.

The difference between 1 and 2 is weird.
>few loosely connected thoughts

Isn't this what blogs were supposed to be? Diary-like entries?
Just tried on a iphone 7, it really does the trick
My current phone, Samsung S9, got ruined in a moist tent. It said "water in charging port" and refused to charge since that point. Samsung fixed on warranty.

My wifes prior phone got cracks on it and it seemed to let in moist and then not drain or get dry. Something fried in it.
The Art of Building Wealth
Any Smart TV that you don't bring online is essentially a dumb TV.
It seems you are correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Cove https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracemont_(microarchitecture)

Does this mean we will get RPi style Gracemont SBC's or did Intel drop that after Edison?
It really depends on where you end up and what the local culture is around food, cooking and restaurants. I've been to places where restaurants are stellar, but I've also been where you would only get dogfood. Where, when asking locals about eating out, you get an answer like "only tourists are that stupid".
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A king being replaced after a few years of making poor decisions isn't exactly an unknown occurrence.
I'm quite interested in what made Einstein great, his work on physics. I have zero interest in his failures in his non-physics personal life.

Then you probably should be reading about his work in a science text book rather than a history book. For history books, the background and context of the people and events is as important as the events themselves.
Excellent replies to everyone in this thread. You're spot on.

Just out of curiosity, is there a marketplace for private APIs? I'd love if you could elaborate on the "charge someone else for it" part.
iPhones are not waterproof. Warranty do not extend to water damage and iPhones have internal indicators of water leakage. If Apple is not confident with iPhones waterproof properties, neither should users.
He certainly hasn't abandoned the anarchist label, and is still very active in leftist circles, frequently giving interviews in these areas.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12618.Chomsky_On_Anarchi...
Build a useful GUI app on desktop, make it free and add ads for income
Thanks so much, yes we agree - patients have hated being hospitalized to start pills long before COVID! But now, as you point out, there is even more urgency to treat people safely at home.
somehow the only real challenge for the tech community is how to wrap all that self-hosting complexity so that most people could just use it with the click of a button.

its not a technical challenge, its a moral challenge. it means doing what is good for the users even if they don't really know it
This is not a videocamera
Which is essentially a subset of history books.
As usual, /r/AskHistorians has a nice topical article: https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/p40j0r/how_d...

Not exactly about the radicalisation but I found this a good background to the current state of the country.
Learning a bit of ML is always useful. At worst, you'll get a bit of programming and math practice.

Be a little thoughtful about trying to do ML work full time (there are a lot of people competing for a small number of positions), and be very very thoughtful about describing yourself as an expert after a couple classes.

But go for it! Learning a bit will help you no matter what you decide to do eventually.
My main gripe with B&Bs as opposed to hotels is that not all of them issue invoices, at least in Europe. Whenever I order via AirBnb or Booking.com, the main invoice has to be issued by the owners themselves (AirBinb will issue the invoice for their service fee only). At least this is how it was before the pandemic.

With hotels, I never had any problems. At Hilton, my invoice waited upon arrival. In smaller Italian hotels, they would issue it at the last moment. But it was there. With B&Bs, I had to depend on my luck. They usually said they would issue the invoice, but sometimes they wouldn't. And it's hard to pressure someone living a few countries away.
It's odd to see so many comments siding with Google on this one considering HN historically celebrates small startups "disrupting" existing markets and sides against big monopolists and Google especially.

I wonder if this is a consequence of early-stage underdog startups having grown to significant sizes over time (or being bought out by the more established competitors) and loyalties continuing to align with those companies rather than their original positions.

Maybe the US's political polarization of the discourse around regulating "big tech" (with the anti-regulation Republicans insisting on tight regulations and the "pro-regulation" Democrats siding against it in response) is also having an effect.

I don't know when I last saw so many people implicitly arguing Google is not acting anti-competitively or that antitrust laws are just a pesky legal technicality that is moral and just to guard against by shaping your company's internal communication about your market dominance.
I feel we're not exposed much to that kind of positive behaviour while growing up. Busier and busier parents and grandparents, overwhelmed teachers, goal-oriented sports coaches. I can locate a few forks-in-the-road in my formative years, and they have to do with someone noticing I was hurting and being a little shit not to hurt others but out of despair, boredom, frustration, etc. and taking the time and energy to steer me towards creating, investing in doing rather than thinking (high school librarians), or to make me think on myself and what I was bringing to the teacher/student relation (later high school librarian) and helping prepare me for university.

I just feel it's almost impossible to learn mentoring and 'giving back' when you haven't been either the target of it, or been witness to it.
Is anyone surprised? They’re in the news frightfully often
Catch-22 is starting to sound less like a comedy these days. Probably one of the funniest chapters when everyone is trying to explain to Doc Daneeka that he is dead.

I imagine it is no fun in real life. The more you try to prove you are who you say you are, the more you sound like a fraud. How do you prove you are you, when every evidence you provide is considered falsified.
>it's just

It's exactly what the title says. Using Emacs in an IDE world, or else alongside IDEs. (Although I expected to mean using Emacs as an IDE.)
perfect examples of parasitic products that have no real reason to exist.
Trading is for multiple reasons ideal for this, one is that total global ordering is a key feature (and requirement) of the domain so this "1 fast big server" thing is good. It is also quite widely known that several of the big exchange operate this model, a single sequencer application and then using multicast to transmit the outcomes of what it sees.

The other thing that is helping a lot here compared to Discord: Trading is very neatly organized in trading days and shuts down for hours between each trading day. So you don't have the issue that Discord had where some channels have low message volumes and others have high, leading to having scattered data all over the place. You can naturally partition data by day and you know at query time which data you want to have.
Elitism doesn't make a group an elite.
some centering would be nice
Yet it doesn't happen without, essentially, a plot, perhaps the kingdom in civil war, and the next leader is just the next in line, with no real debate on worthiness either.

As well, kings have also been known to hold power through decades of poor decisions.
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"Narrow entrepreneurism" could also be mom-and-pop stores that provide a need to a local community. A lot of apps fall into this category: the might be perfect for a small number of people, whether concentrated locally in one city or country or dispersed across the globe. As with a mom-and-pop store, such apps might generate a comfortable income for a small team working full time, but won't make you a billionaire or even a multi-millionaire. And you don't need to care about changing the world, just focus on providing a good service that makes a small number of people happy.

Unfortunately winner-takes-all seems to be the dominant Internet business model, whether that's due to nefarious monopolistic actions on the part of the big players or just the natural course given the underlying technology and economics.
There's money in marketing 'startup culture' to those who'll build narrow apps atop your platform (e.g android, google, web services etc.)

There isn't much money in such in the 'hard engineering innovation' domains you mention.
There were lots of infrastructure and state building projects. Not only by US, many European countries funded development projects too. It was hard due to the ongoing violence, sometimes a project was funded and outcome couldn't even be inspected in situ, but only from satellite images.
I ran multiple search queries. I wouldn't be so dumb to post a comment like this here without having done my homework. The best I found after trying numerous keyword permutations was https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame, but this did not appear to contain all of the benchmarks' source, just the source embedded in HTML, which is specious at best. This repository looks mostly like frontend HTML and chrome, not a SUT, executor, nor even the sub-test code.

At the very least, I couldn't realistically re-run some of the example benchmarks from the source embedded in the HTML, because they did not include vendoring/version information for external packages they depend on. That made me doubt the provenance of https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame.
> But a fixed term for the entire length of the mortgage, whereby mortgage terms are commonly 30 years long, are only seen in the US and Denmark.

Strange, because I have a fixed term for the entire length of my mortgage and I'm not living in those countries. Admittedly it's for a length of time shorter than 30 years, but even at that timeframe it would be possible to get one.

There is however one additional modifier in the statement of the article: "fully prepayable", that may not exist anywhere outside of Denmark and the USA (but still, your source doesn't really explain where it got it's list of countries that have it, so I have no way to know it's correctness).
This was submitted and discussed at length 9 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=per.quest
In France the problem with fraud and excess registrations has got to do with data segregation. Files can't legally be cross-referenced between the ID system, the fiscal system, the healthcare system and so on. That leads to a lot of cruft. In Japan they've got tons of dead people still legally alive, it's a pretty common issue.

As for bank accounts, you need KYC everywhere, at least in Europe. I don't see how France is specifically problematic in that respect.
Related & recommended:

Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 By Markus Krajewski

> Why the card catalog — a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements — can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/paper-machines
>"Jobs later reflected that had it not been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple"."

>Steve Jobs was persistently awful.

I don't think the first statement supports the second, he did give some credit there. I think often awful.

although where awful is concerned, was he worse than a lot of powerful people. We have a lot of awful people to look at, where does Jobs fall on the scale, because when I look at Jobs he doesn't look anywhere as bad as Harvey Weinstein. Lots of people who frequent HN probably went around thinking Bill Gates was much worse than Steve Jobs, is he still or is Jobs the worse one now?
> wind follows a different weather pattern than solar

Some data to explore:

https://transparency.entsoe.eu/generation/r2/actualGeneratio...

Unfortunately, some interesting countries (e.g. Sweden, Germany,...) are missing. I am wondering how electricitymap.org gets their data from there for those countries? But there are also other sources, e.g.:

https://www.windjournal.de/erneuerbare-energie/aktuelle_eins...
I had a quick look through this page for examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/smart

There were "smart cards" in 1974, "smart casual" dress codes in 1924, and "Smart Set" magazine in 1900.

A more careful look will surely find older and more relevant examples.

Amusingly "smart money" and "smart tickets" existed in the 18th century, referring to the results of injuries ("ow, that smarts!"). See: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/smart
Android phones have had big.LITTLE a while now, you would hope that scheduler support has matured in that time.
Ah interesting note, we chose that color scheme for our software interface including that green - you're right, that does convey medical!
Uber is a glorified ride haling app, Taxi providers has similar stuff before that. Without exploiting their drives to the extent Uber does. Logistics is a well understood problem, the only company I could think of that made a impact in logistics is Flexport. And they didn't solve any real problem, they managed to build the latest global freight forwarder. Very impressive, but at the core this is nothing revolutionary.
There's a scene[1] in the Pixar movie 'Soul' where the main character(a black man) goes for a haircut to a black barbershop and has a deep philosophical discussion. Director Kemp Powers says 'There's really no more authentic black space in the community than a barber shop'[2] for the reason to have that scene.

Your friend and his team has put that space to a great use; Congratulations.

[1] https://youtu.be/MPXjSCHsfxY?t=21

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GLyDJveVs
All that tells you is that they are cautious in the famously litigious California yet confident enough to actually launch their service there. In the unlikely event something goes wrong, even if it is not their fault, they had a person onboard. It's the difference between that being just a minor incident or getting a class action lawsuit with millions/billions in damages. The law is by far the biggest obstacle to level 4 and 5 driving. So, launching in San Francisco is kind of a big step for them.

Once it has proven itself for a bit of time and they know how to set up their geo-fences and which streets to avoid, they can probably get rid of the person. That would be evident by that person never actually doing anything long before that.

The remote safety monitoring is a smart feature but it's not going to help much for the type of accidents people worry about most where something unexpected happens very rapidly. AIs are actually really good with dealing with those situations. Arguably better than humans for whom this is probably a leading cause of traffic fatalities. The way Waymo operates without hands on the wheel (i.e. level 3 & 4), basically means they have safety nailed already in those kind of situations.

There's no way a remote person would be quick enough to intervene. That person is there for other reasons. It's complex traffic situations that cause AIs to get stuck occasionally that require human intervention. Usually this is less of a safety concern and more of an annoyance.

The key metric of interventions per hundreds of thousands of miles of distance traveled is the key metric that both Tesla, Waymo, and other companies use for this. Both companies boast some pretty impressive statistics for that. Though of course it's hard to confirm those independently.

It's interesting the way Tesla and Waymo approach this problem in different ways. Waymo goes for level 4 but only in areas they've thoroughly vetted. It's taken them many years to start moving to new areas other than relatively safe and easy Phoenix. Tesla on the other hand offers their AI features just about anywhere they can but positions it as level 2 that is really aspiring to be a level 4 but with a requirement for hands on the wheel just in case (which means it's level 2). Level 2 is a legal tool to dodge a lot of legislation and bureaucracy. It basically means that if anything goes wrong, the driver is at fault. It will stay in place a long time for that reason. Liability, not safety, is the key concern here.

Arguably, Teslas would probably do pretty well in the areas that Waymo has vetted as well. But they are not in the ride sharing market and need to sell cars world wide and not just in specific geofences in Phoenix and San Francisco. But I wouldn't be surprised to see Tesla offer a similar ride sharing service in similarly geo-fenced areas at some point to get to level 4 & 5. I suspect that race is a lot closer than some people seem to think.
That's just devious marketing on Tesla's part. They can always excuse customer misunderstandings with the original meaning you explained, while normal people can be savely expected to interpret autopilot as full self driving (and I'd be surprised if they didn't have actually tested this with focus groups beforehand). So not really lying (great for the lawsuits), but constructing misunderstanding on purpose (great for the brand image).
Funny, I've been using the same sort of format for my own notes on physics [1]. Although in my graph there is no semantic meaning between graph nodes, maybe I should add that.

1: https://0x5.be/physics-notes/index.html
Also self taught and no degree. If this helps you get motivated: I worked for UBS, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, etc.

No one ever asked me about my degree. They were all interested in what I can do for them.

Judging by other comments this is pretty much the norm.
All you need is passion and time.
It would be a shame if a lot of bots were to flood their form with spurious data.
I use my smart tvs as monitors, I got a small 2nd hand pc for each of them with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. No rules, no restrictions, no ads
Macaroons are great. I was using them successfully in a (now dead) product. Very easy to reason about when you get the basics. Unfortunately the ecosystem is small and the effort spent of getting colleagues on board (i.e. convincing them you're not using some fringe thing) was substantial and continuative.
What the actual **? This is end level dystopian stuff.

Okay guess I need a VPN to access it:
> Access from your area has been temporarily limited for security reasons.