skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People will build off-grid solars to avoid fees, and government will make off-grid illegal or tax it severely.

That sounds like a waking nightmare
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Browsers are cited as an example of interoperable tech in the article. While it maybe true that *anyone* can write their browser, we see that Chrome does have inordinate amount of power. Even though it's literally based on an open-source engine that people can (and have) fork to build competing browsers, there isn't a wildly competing browser market.

Maybe just enforcing interoperability won't cut it.
Don’t underestimate the power of default options
> nuclear power plants take forever to build.

In France, the first nuclear plants of the current production group were contracted in 1970, and connected to the network in 1977, so that's 7 years for a pilot industrial project. Later plants were built in 5-6 years.

The kicker is that this work is highly scalable: France built over 6 reactors per year over its program.

The current issue with new generation reactors seem to be related to loss of industrial knowledge, there is no reason to think that the next built in the series would suffer from the same issues.
You're responding to a comparison to >10k years ago (8000BC) with '1950s America'?
We have evolved to remove God from religion but we still blindly follow pop-cultural leaders, politicians, appointed experts. Controlling people with mass media is easier than organized religion.
Knowing that so many things are being changed for good is amazing.

"climate change is forcing everyone's hand"

Everyone should see it this way. Like, there's no leeway, just do whatever it takes to tame climate change.
GM is currently in need of being revived. It was not back in 2014. Tesla just exploited the whole industry’s complacency and incompetence.
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Meeting sizing is a good point. It feels like adding additional people is often done aggressively but thoughtlessly, so maybe the solution is to have a company-wide rule to counter-balance that tendency.

If voice/video meetings could have no more than 4 participants unless (insert somewhat burdensome exception process), all participants would presumably consider more carefully who should be added.
The filmmaker-facing description you've written here is far more compelling than the consumer-facing experience I encounter when I hit the site.
Not true where you have to get ethics consent. You can't do this because you're lab will be shut if you are found to be doing experiments in secret. Yes - in some labs for maths, physics and so on you are right, but not medicine & biology.

If you don't believe this then look at the failure rate of the projects.

The other thing is that the funding agencies really, really, really don't like this - they want high risk research not handle turning. So if you get caught out you will get blacklisted - it's misconduct.
Not what most people run, but SSH honeypots are also useful:

https://lwn.net/Articles/848291/
> You have eSpeak, which is GPL V3, so including it in your own software is a problem.

Can't you just include it like a separate module and provide any improvements to it specifically upstream?
It’s culture thing. Personally, I prefer in-person or video meetings because it’s an event and people are usually focused on task. One on one calls are great too.

Text is good or bad. It’s an attention thief, and you never know what you are getting. Also, I find that platforms like Teams are great for the present, but awful for history and context.
An overwhelming number of reasons.

Because you need data, trained models, etc.

Because data scientists aren't typically product people or software engineers with UX in mind.

Because ML packages are brittle and tied to specific hardware configurations.

Because the ML world is evolving rapidly. It's quick, dirty, and messy.

View these as stepping stones for research and product development.

(I created https://vo.codes using a lot of these, fwiw, in an attempt to make it easy.)
Along with Atom, RSS is simple enough (it's in the name) that you can add RSS support even for static sites. ActivityPub, the most popular carrier for ActivityStreams, is "designed around the concept of an inbox and outbox" <https://lwn.net/Articles/741218/>, requiring that the server itself provide support. If you know of a realistic demonstration of ActivityStreams-without-ActivityPub that establishes a pattern that can be appropriated for re-use elsewhere (e.g. on static sites), then ActivityStreams is worth discussing, but otherwise probably not.

It's my claim that for all the work that goes into Mastodon, Solid, etc, none of them will truly succeed without the ability for programmers themselves to effectively put them into practice on static sites, especially those associated with their GitHub profile using GitHub Pages. (I despise GitHub, FWIW, and really hate that so much of the world of development has settled there, but I can know what I know from seeing what I see.) When it's simple enough to do that, that's the point where non-niche productized services for non-programmers to do the same will start popping up and off-Twitter chatter will take off. Despite the inroads that Mastodon has made, I don't consider in non-niche; it's being held back by the same factors described here.
There are certainly high risks with nuclear power, but accidents with a large loss of life also happen with other energy production methods. Also, a big accident like Chernobyl sounds horrible, but people forget that burning coal produces a lot of pollution (including radiation!) that over time kills much more people.

To get a perspective of how nuclear accidents compare with those of other energy production methods, have a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
> you're selfish

Thanks for the insult. I appreciate the feedback.

I'll do me. You do you.

Have a nice day.
Well, it's kind of a problem then that, as a human, all that you value as "good" has been determined by what has been advantageous to persistence of your genetic lineage.

You may find joy and fulfillment in pursuing the proxies such as love or even truth, but you're fooling yourself if you think it's not because you are at the core biological.

We forego bowing to genetics and tradition at our peril. How would we convince a sentient super AI to "not be evil" or even describe to it what that means?
That's a poor explanation mostly because Satoshi was not a cryptographic expert, at least not at the start. For example he insisted early on that you can't use elliptic curve cryptography for encrypting messages (wrong), he stated that he had to research ECC because there was very little information out there about it back then, and so on. More importantly all actual cryptographers were trying to build e-cash systems out of novel mathematical constructs. Bitcoin ignored all of that. It just uses SHA2 and digital signatures. Cryptographically it's as plain vanilla as it comes, and lots of developers understand hash functions and signatures. There's no actual expertise required to use them.
> OTOH, as a trans-national organization, I could see shifting the Catholic hierarchy into thinking that unlimited mass immigration to Western countries was desirable. More membership, more souls to save and all that.

I don't think that's how it works. Churches are usually very "local", and "local" stuff is usually the ones that resists the most immigration.
Probably not for Russians (the ordinary people), since it will likely bring more extreme climate. And in general it's quite hard to predict what will come.

The Russian elites (politicians, oligarchs) could however benefit significantly - opening of north passage -> better access to ocean for the navy; better access to natural resources; and other powers will suffer more, so Russia could get relatively more powerful. I think this is part of the reason why we see climate denial from the disinformation sources...
In my experience, many people prefer meetings over asynchronous communication because they can't write. I'm not referring to grammar or to spelling, but to being able to communicate effectively without a continuous feedback from the recipient of the message. When these people are asked to write documentation, the result is usually very sparse text with too many bullet points, table and images.
Good asynchronous communication requires a high degree of introspection, clarity of mind and empathy, that not everybody has. A meeting allows you to pass your message through successive approximations, as in adjusting what you are saying based on the reactions of the listeners and being pushed in the right direction by their questions. Unfortunately it is also much more time consuming, because everybody has to stop whatever they are doing and listen for 1-2 hours, while reading 2 pages of text would taken them 30 minutes and they could have scheduled it at their convenience.

I don't see much of a difference between older vs younger generations nor between native and non-native English speakers.

I'm open to accept that it's just my own experience and that it doesn't generalize.
I was pretty surprised to learn this several months ago, given how much people still cite the Ethereum fork as a putative smoking gun.
Sometimes I turn off my laptop's wifi before putting it to sleep, and it makes a big difference in battery life.
I see your awful and raise you a company where the default culture is to send blank meeting invites.

At best, you might get a subject line.
Not made by IKEA but a Swedish programming language none the less: https://github.com/pushmatrix/fikascript

<script type="text/fikascript">
om (x < 5) {
konsol.log("hej!");
} annars {
konsol.log("nej!");
}
</script>
The cars are a rounding error, where's at is aviation.

They're fixing to stick it to general aviation - mass market plane travel.

Perhaps only after private jets are outlawed - what, no?
10 million executions with 1gb of memory at ~300ms per invocation costs like 40 dollars.
Can you speak a bit more to this? I dislike Oracle with a passion, but I am not sure how the GCP comment connects.
I think large part of it is increased scrutiny and standards. Which is entirely justified. And most of issues could be solved as said with knowledge and proper pipeline of keeping people who already gained experience from past projects on new ones.
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Yes, I'm aware of the SF90 strdale.

But the SF90 stradale is a plugin hybrid, made for the 90th anniversary of the scuderia.

They simply had no other choice.

Don't take everything literally, you can have a Franciacorta or a Parmigiano that is produced with raw materials that sometimes are not exactly from the Franciacorta or Parma-Reggio area, but that's the exception, not the rule.
This is the first time I’ve heard of that. Which countries specifically won’t prosecute for randomly attacking and lightly injuring someone standing on the sidewalk or in a public park or some other gathering place?
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Red Hat sells GPL'ed software for billions. Oracle tried to do the same. Amazon created a whole ecosystem (AWS) around GPL'ed code. Even M$ embraces GPL.

Can you name the problem, please?
Linux has reliable sleep on many more laptop models than mac os. But the rule is that you need to buy known good hardware that supports Linux to have a frictionless experience. (Yes this means you often have to buy something that's been on the market for a bit of time already.) Anecdotally I've had less sleep problems than mac-using coworkers, over a long time and many laptops.
To be fair, US Catholics appear to have roughly the same birthrate as US Evangelical Protestants, although that might change as Catholic demographics shift to Latino.

What we (the world) will be awash in is Moslems and sub Saharan Africans unless those curves get bent via behavior changes, resource depletion, or war. I can't say that the Pope is much involved in that situation.
It's capriciousness. The god of the bible has all the psychological characteristics of man. The slogan is "God made man in His image." But the foundational documents show it is, yet again, another man-made deity. One of thousands man has created and disposed of.

Job is the best book though. God and Satan make a bet...
Bild Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRg0_B0XX4
Not a world saving solution, just adding necessary context around the “fairly small” comment.
I’d recommend just using a long term service channel version of Windows. It’s designed for embedded systems like MRIs so I doesn’t do any of the auto install and restart crap. Also doesn’t have the telemetry or most any other bloat ware Windows usually comes with.
I had a look at one of his Peertube feeds and I see that "soy[noun]" is something he uses often enough that it's probably not a typo. Example: "climate soyence," "OBS is major soyware." All with the soyboy meme guy overlaid. The "soy" thing is very much an alt-right dogwhistle, but those have a way of leaking out, so it's not always a red flag in isolation. I don't think such a charitable read is warranted in this case: he's all in on the meme. Put it together with all the pepes and whatnot, and it's clear he's at least well into the pipeline.

This is why I'm usually against making such accusations without extra context. There's no way a casual reader could have seen this. If you don't have that context, it's clearly just a typo! So Kaze404 looks like a goofball, unless you have context.

edit: more context that removes all doubt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28653868
You can fix the seed for the pseudorandom number generator.
A contrarian point of view would be that it's modern capitalism, consumerism and individualism (that supports contraception, abortion, divorce, etc) that has caused the climate emergency. Thus opposing the things that consumerism supports also helps fight for the environment.

For most people doing this is harder than not and people will protect their investment.
Try Yoga. I started doing it every morning for 15-30 minutes, it makes a big difference.

Another advise I can give you: your health is more important than your job. Take the time you need every day.
How do you think Readspeakers voices compare? https://www.readspeaker.com
It's never going to be economic for individual countries. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
From an astronomical perspective that is EXTREMELY close call.
sometime get the feeling percentage of people that would die from covid, die from vaccine.

they don't get counted

they bring the death count amongst vaccinated down.

and soon no treatment for the unvaccinated ?
Windows update is one of the things that don't show up with powercfg, as far as I can recall.

My desktop used to wake itself up all the time to update and in addition to hunting down all the devices, there was a scheduled task for Office updates that I had to disable. It would wake the computer up and then Windows updates would install because the computer was awake at the scheduled time, giving me the false impression that Windows update was causing the wake.

In 8-9 years of using Surface Pros, on the other hand, I have never had one that woke from sleep to install updates or cooked itself in a bag. They have been trouble-free for me and my favorite travel computer.

Really need to look into a BSD with Windows VM for my next desktop though.
That's why the rest of the world needs to stop using the dollar when not dealing with the US.
Wow! I really like lots of this, and I’ll look into air quality monitors.

The only exercise I recently had an urge to do was laying on the bed (diagonally) and lay my arms up near my head. I swim almost daily for 10mins and I do not know: how to incentive exercise?
> if you live in the northern or Southern Hemispheres

so... anywhere in the world?
Perhaps you’re over sensitive or you get a kick out of derailing. Either way, time here has been lost to the topic.
Very hard sell for the "Third World" when rich westerners tell them to stop trying to reach for their heights.

Almost like pulling the ladder from under us after we're at the top. Doubt it would mean anything unless it's backed by sanctions, military action or intelligence operations to topple governments that attempt to pull their countries out of poverty. That would make us decisively "the bad guys", regardless of motive.
How I built forlater.email, my first big side project
> are pushing ourselves further away from science and transparency...

because China was not transparent and hid (probably destroyed) evidence. Its concerning that people dont want to hold China accountable.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/how-china-blocked...
They would have had to be very quick though. Submission was end of march 2018, there would have been a review process and I think it's unrealistic to put that at under six weeks. So that takes us to mid may 2018. Then they would have to have got some money and ask someone else - again that's going to take three months or so unless they had the money in their account. Then the project would have to be stood up - lab space sorted and so on so that takes us to 2019 even on an express train. I think that the Darpa projects in this call were aimed at start in 2019 btw.

So then the work would have to have happened and the virus escape happened in 10 months. In the proposal they are looking at q5 of the project for the genetic engineering to happen.

I don't think that the time lines work - also the genetic engineering was slated to happen in North Carolina...
It's a nice idea, but what can I pay for now? Does it rely on a centralized notion of identity?
"Vaughn Cooper, who studies pathogen evolution at the University of Pittsburgh, told us that he hasn’t changed his view that SARS-CoV-2 is extremely unlikely to have been created in a lab—but the lack of candor is “really concerning.” The DARPA proposal doesn’t “mean that much for our understanding of the origins of the pandemic,” he said, “but it does diminish the trustworthiness of the research groups involved.”"

This. Documents will get out. Why hide them and feed the conspiracy theorists?
Too bad the US government is worthless. Say what you will about other countries and the EU, but at least they assert themselves sometimes.
possible that it did escape...
I know this was mostly an aside, but the comment on grid battery storage isn't quite right. This hasn't been widely publicized beyond people working in the industry, but the efficiency of battery storage actually has improved exponentially in the last 20 years. The cost of leading edge NMC battery packs has fallen from $1000+/kWh in the mid-2000s to around ~$100-150/kWh today. Most industry insiders believe grid-level battery storage can be cost effective somewhere in the $50-100/kWh range. So, pretty close.
That statement is so untrue that it borders on arrogance.
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And I think this is somewhat the original talk's point: if the superiority of a given method is predicated on things happening (which rarely do) or things not happening (which often do), then it might not be superior.

If TDD is superior if leads write tests, but leads rarely write tests, then is it superior?

If meetings are superior if everyone shows up on time, prepared and generates documentation of the meeting, but nobody ever does those things, then are meetings superior?

Tl;dr - Be honest about your team's reality, and choose the optimal option for that reality.
> BEV makes sense for commuter cars but are pretty atrocious for performance cars

Why? The Volkswagen ID.R did the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 6:05. Only the Porsche 919 EVO has done better than that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRCiGABQupA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRHIiJjWhWo

All you're really saying is that there need to be better, lighter batteries, which is true.

Luckily, many organizations are conducting exactly this kind of research and development. Lithium sulfur batteries, for example, weigh less for about the same volumetric energy density:

https://lyten.com/lyten-launches-lithium-sulfur-battery-plat...

https://newatlas.com/energy/sugar-doped-lithium-sulfur-batte...
I wonder if we were to count total loss of life in maintenance and installation of solar, wind and hydro. How much worse would nuclear do. At least per energy produced.

The worst case for hydro at least is immense, possibly multiple millions death in some cases.
Or Georges Perec.
UK mulls easing visa rules for lorry drivers amid fuel supply problems
A CO2 monitor is quite helpful with keeping a room properly ventilated. The CO2 levels found in many indoor spaces are high enough to cause drowsiness, headaches and poor concentration. Of course all you need to do is open a window, but you'd be surprised how fast levels rise again after you close the window. It's particularly bad in small rooms and cars.
It should be considered terrorism automatically and carry such penalties.
Two years ago, I bought a Renault Zoe, which had been in production since 2012. Renault has been dead serious about electric for a very long time.
So... exactly what they said in the parent post?
You have no choice and no value unless the landlords bestow it upon you.
I think it helps if the first half of a walk is up hill. I live next to national forest land, and even a 20 minute walk helps because the first ten minutes is up hill so my heart rate increases. When I am hiking without friends, I move at almost a jogging speed when walking. With friends, we walk leisurely. I try to do one very long hike a week (2 to 4 hours) if my work schedule permits this. Anyway, I have read that it is distance covered that counts, that jogging 2 miles is about the same as walking two miles.

Feel free to call out bullshit here, but: I think that exercise where you are mentally calm and happy counts for a lot more than exercising when you feel tense or unhappy.
It doesn't seem to me that local populations or organizations have much say in the matter.
Perhaps battery sized for a reasonably long joyride and nothing more? I'd say that's how you'd build a lightweight electric sports car.
Maybe if they asserted themselves as much as the EU does the tech situation of the US would be the same as the one in the EU.
Joe Manchin argues:
"If they're eliminating fossils, and I'm finding out there's a lot of language in places they're eliminating fossils, which is very, very disturbing," he said, "because if you're sticking your head in the sand, and saying that fossil has to be eliminated in America, and they want to get rid of it, and thinking that's going to clean up the global climate, it won't clean it up all."

How is that coherent at all?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Satellite_Station
>Green Parties the world over are anti-nuclear and have been since the 80s.

>I'm beginning to wonder if they aren't lobbied by fossil fuel companies.

There was a large oil-exporting and gas-exporting country that has been aligned with Green Parties' political programs back in the 80s. USSR was known to train and to sponsor activists, academics, and publishers as part of its influence campaigns.

It helps your case that the fossil fuel exporter USSR was ran in a top-down, by-fiat fashion, rather similar to how corporations function internally.
Sorry, that was definitely bad wording on my part. But still, I think my hesitancy to platform people who openly use the vernacular of people who actually do want that is reasonable. I obviously don't know Luke Smith and have no idea on what he actually wants, but I know the people who use those words and what they want.
"short answer: they can" it seems to me is not the right answer.

Competitors are doing it, the market trends seem to go towards this direction and the laws are being shaped to force it. And this has been for years now.

I have heard several times that Ferrari was behind with the electric conversion and that was probably a mistake. Not sure if they were waiting for this exception or simply they could or they did not know how to make it.