skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not understood by the prime majority:

As said above, the performance, and power consumption of modern CPUs is an "all, or nothing" choice.

Modern laptop CPUs are nothing, but well disguised desktop/server cores. Nobody designs designated mobile use cores, unless you are in ARM world.

In principle, they are unable to work in the "middle gear." CPU makers tried to make them to, but never managed to get a reasonable trade off. So you cannot run them reasonably at "half-performance"
This comment is triggering my whataboutism reflex. So many words, yet the real motives behind this rant remain unclear.

If you operate in the EU, you are expected to follow the local rules. Not sure why would you object to that. I mean, I have my suspicions but I'd wait for a clarification before accusing you of exceptionalism

I wonder what you have to say about your country (US, I bet) bending most of the world to its will via the very real threat of violence.
One problem that I have with Spotify is just how often does it repeat songs. Yes, I liked it, I still do, but may be don't play it the times in one week? How do I communicate this and get to discover new music instead?
Easy on Linux, not so much (and messier) on Windows.
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Yes. What the consumer wants is a free product over a better one that costs money. HN is probably one of the only places where that isn't a majority view. "Manipulation" is an excuse by those of us with a minority opinion for why things should be done our way rather than what the majority wants.
I started writing the comment before looking at the chart

however

nuclear capacity fell by 8GW

natural gas grew by 4GW

and the charts only explain the capacity

unlikely the renewables can replace nuclear in that sense

of course, saying that the historical shutdown of nuclear was replaced by fossil fuels I mean in the same and following year.

If Germany keeps betting big on renewable after that and it's currently producing 41% it's a different story
TFA says memory is mirrored on the FPGA. So while peripherals don't operate much faster, memory does.
For anyone interested, it’s SFW.
> I'm pretty sure that they understand that. What they don't understand (and what I don't understand) is why is Sinn making the amount artificially high by ignoring the economics. I immediately understood what Zerrahn was getting at, and even before I knew how different authors approached this problem in literature, I would have myself intuitively gone for an approach like Zerrahn's. MRTS is surely not a difficult concept to grasp.

It's not about being difficult to grasp, it's about whether they are the right tool for the job. Which they aren't, because the temporality of the phenomenon disappear, while it is the single most crucial factor when talking about storage: 24 hours without wind in a row have a dramatically different impact from 24 days each without wind for one hour. In the first case you need enough storage for an entire day, while in the second case all you need is one hour of storage! (And that's where the two orders of magnitude come from: «several days» being ~100 times as long as «1 hour». The storage you need is strictly superior the sum of consecutive hours with a positive residual load (minus what can be produced by you non-renewable plants), to calculate this value you must keep the time (and also factor in the availability and economics of your back-up non-renewable power supply if you want to go one step further, which neither I nor Sinn did).

Sinn doesn't take economics in account, because it's not relevant to the discussion here, it's all about physics here. (And Sinn being an economist, he really deserves credit for focusing on the physics aspect).

> I can't tell you what Zerrahn's approach would tell you for the French grid. You can't really extrapolate that from German results. You'd have to pretty much re-do the whole work, including getting equivalent data for the French grid.

It would be easier to just grab the German data used by Zerrahn to reproduce Sinn's findings (because they claim them to be easily accessible). Maybe I'll have some time later in the week to do so.
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I am from a non-German-speaking part of the EU and I believe that anonymity is an important value that helps unpopular speech survive.

Societal trust levels in the EU are all over the map, with some countries being really low, and in that situation, the 'you don’t have to fear anything for lawful activity' principle isn't really exportable from Germany. You do not want to try this out in a country where mafias are strong, for example.
I've started my IT career as an Technical Support guy in 1995. Back then, computers in local companies were used mostly for Accounting tasks and word processing. So I've seen a lot of accountants and how they work. What bothered me back then is an amount of manual data entry they did. Fast forward to today, and I still see no significant progress in this area. Sure, I am not as close to accounting professionals as before, but it still seems like some good 50-60% of their job is data entry, with various kinds of reporting filling the rest. Perhaps some kind of "IDE" can solve the efficiency problem, but I doubt it would solve effectiveness issue. Still I completely agree, that open standards for data and common protocols is the way to address this, but as long as accounting software vendors trying to maximize their profits, rather than business outcomes of their customers, I'm afraid we're stuck with what we have.
Realistically, it's highly unlikely that the device itself received and is storing the CC details. Most likely the device pings Canons servers when ordering should be done, and then the backend servers handles the actual order and payment.

But, never say never, it wouldn't even be the worst thing i've seen in the IoT world.
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Oh yes! I had forgotten the tiresome collection of labelled boot disks, and the trial and error to create a combination which would work for a particular game.

Do I skipping loading the CD-ROM drivers for this one, or the sound card drivers?

Do I want extended memory or expanded memory or both or neither?
Do you do it after working for 8 hours though?

I sometimes do it on the weekend, mainly because then I can program in new and more interesting areas. But after work feels impossible, I just don't want to sit in front of the computer still.
Genesis GV60 Gets Factory-Installed Wireless Charging Option
OK, good point, I'm going to plead guilty. I didn't set out to do that and I am concerned about big tech censorship and the like but nevertheless I accept that was the effect. Mea culpa.
A minority is anything that is not a majority (this is the definition I'm using). So a < 50% group can hopefully still be viewed as non-negligible, even though it is not the majority.
Some of them may have thought the researchers were lying about it being a sugar pill and was actually active
I'd love to work on reliability. Unfortunately, my TODO list contains months of new features that need to be shipped, asap. My clients push aggressively to get the new stuff done, reliability almost never something they're interested in, as long as it is not embarrassingly obviously broken feature.

I do what I can, given the constraints imposed on me (since I also hate buggy software), but it's very tough when it's not a key customer priority.
in summer 1968 ... an employee of the Florida Bell Telephone Company illegally monitored Engressia's telephone conversations and divulged them to the FBI
This is the key. The placebo effect only works for subjective measurements that the patient has to report qualitatively. A placebo asthma treatment will cause patients to report that their breathing has improved, but it won’t change how much air is actually going into and out of their lungs. This makes it useless for most things. Maybe it’s ok for pain, since pain is purely perceptual anyway, but for anything else it’s just going to cost people money without actually helping them.
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The one concrete example he uses is a broken form to pay for electricity.

I’m pretty sure that the form works for most people most of the time. Why? Because otherwise the electricity utility in question would be hemorhaging money. If it would be completely borked the beancounters would be kicking the developers door in in no time.

I cannot say if this is what is happening but I have seen this many times where an expert user gets hung up on some process because they choose options only an expert user would even know about, while masses of regular people passes through uneventfully.
Sure, you could simply stop hiring junior devs and focus on poaching senior devs. With your below-market pay and working conditions, there should be no problem doing this. That'll show those junior devs who's boss!

Why are you still at this company?
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The Genesis GV60 implements the SAE J2954 wireless EV charging standard:

https://www.sae.org/news/2020/10/new-sae-wireless-charging-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_J2954
Yeah, because their incentives strongly align with it. The argument is that the incentives don't align outside of mission critical systems.
There have been quite a few major Internet disruptions in recent times and all those "lot more reliable" services proved to not be that reliable after all. We're talking about hours of downtime here. And all those who decided to depend on them were suddenly down, at the mercy of their overlords.

It may get better over time but so far it hasn't exactly been a panacea.
But BELIEF is EXACTLY the point. Joe Dispenza just uses (or, in your view, abuses) scientific terms to explain the HOW to his audience. You can't teach belief to people if you prefix everything with hesitancy or overly qualify everything, that would go counter to the effect you're trying to have.

Again, in summary the "teaching" of Joe Dispenza is that belief creates emotion, emotion modulates biochemistry, biochemistry can be harmonized (placebo) or disharmonized (nocebo).

The scientific wording is just a wrapper, if that's distasteful to you, fine, but it's nothing more than a superficial reaction, one that's very common in the "skeptic" community.
The importance of weight depends on the geography. I cycle 3 miles to the office each way but there are a couple of steep hills on the route, and I would dread it if my bike weighed much more than 10kg. Some of the bikes shown in the video look like they could weigh twice as much.
Have you tried Caved of Qud? The setting is also (further into the future) post apocalyptic but there's a little more plot/direction given where CDDA is more simulationist. Probably my favorite rogue-like these days.
The Portuguese brought chillies to India from SA, before which they used black pepper for (obviously milder) heat.

That was a bit of a 'mind blown' moment for me when I saw it on Raja, Rasoi, aur apni Kahaaniyaan (kings, kitchens, and their stories^) - quite a nice food/history/culture programme, each episode being a different region in India.

(^to save someone pointing it out, it's actually 'king, kitchen, and his [or its] stories', I just thought that sounded more awkward, and confuses my description of it being a different region, sometimes king, food, culture etc. each episode.)
The data does not speak at all. You are drawing inferences based on the data, inferences of a type that are pretty easy to poke holes in by looking at the pretty large class of things rarely used but situationaly useful (often life saving).

This type of bizarre logic makes me feel like I have to habitually use features even when they are not useful in order to protect them from UX designers in case I'm subject to some misguided A/B test.
But they're not being paid to do so, like this Law establishes. Unless they're doing it to bbenefit content that are more likely to generate ad revenue. But they already have the freedom to do so with their algos...
"all is mostly solved by science"

I think this is a terrible misconception which I had as well in childhood (a MSc in physics cured me of that - I'm mostly as dumb and ignorant as without the degree sans some tiny areas of knowledge).

Maybe this misconception is caused by the popular faith in 'expertise' and the fact that only well understood phenomena make good news articles and popular science programs.

It's important to popularize current state of knowlegde but it also causes a fake perception of god like understanding of the world when in fact - what the human species has achieved through science is remarkable - but so very far from 'total knowledge'.

The daily question science asks are becoming more intricate, but we are as far from 'total knowledge' as ever, I think. We just see the rabbit hole going deeper and deeper. And it's fun!
> I know that when I middle click a link and “javascript:;” opens in a new tab, an asshole a developer wants me to left click it instead.

It frustrates me when developers actively break things like this
Subjective symptoms can be affected by placebo. Chemical data from the body isn't really.
I appreciate your concern but fear not, no offense taken.

I do appreciate all efforts to keep the conversation polite though so have an up-vote ;-)
Alzheimer may be a comorbidity of ALS
You are always free to keep your own fork of GCC.
In the ads business the ad buyer is the customer, not the user. For people to be able to pay in small amounts, I believe that the lightning network is a great solution in the future, but right now either the user pays by looking at ads, or by monthly subscription, like Netflix.
Fusion reactors activate their structure and can leak tritium gas which is a nuclear contaminant.

Any fusion practical designs will require a liquid lithium cooling blanket that will breed the necessary quantities of tritium. They therefore share the weakness of other metal-cooled fast breeder reactors, which have proven exceptionally difficult to operate, since the highly reactive coolant will catch fire or explode upon contact with water or air.

Since the coolant is radiologically active, any such 'nuclear' incident will be regarded by the press and population just as bad as the Monju issues or the Superphenix.

https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurescrapping-m...
If you had any experience with what people online say about the teachings you'd understand that your ratio is WAY off. And there are MANY people that are HARMED by medical advice, there is such a thing as the "voodoo curse of the diagnosis", where trusted authority figures like doctors solemnly announce to patients they have X weeks / months to live, which creates GREAT stress in those people, exacerbating the condition => self-fulfilling prophecy.

Likewise with "your condition is incurable", etc. etc.
What about when placebo-based medicine offers better patient outcomes, for certain disorders? E.g., for sleep medicine without side effects? We used homeopathy for my daughters car sickness and it worked great.
The Catholic Church has been doing this for centuries.

This might surprise and scandalize some people, but Communion Wafers and Communion Wine actually contain absolutely none of Jesus H Christ's flesh or blood.

The Church even made up a special magic word to describe the act of not trusting what your lying eyes tell you and pretending you're cannibalizing the flesh and vampireizing the blood a mythological figure who has been dead for thousands of years -- "Transubstantiation":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation

Transubstantiation is even less "effective" than homeopathic medicine, since they never even started with any actual Jesus Flesh or Jesus Blood then diluted it until not one molecule but only the "water memory" remains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_memory

US Bishops even went so far as attempting to punish the President of the United States Joe Biden by voting to withhold his placebo Jesus Flesh and Blood, therefore damning his eternal soul to hell. Maybe the Secret Service should investigate this attempted assault on the President's eternal soul, by the same people who supported a pussy grabber who incited an insurrection?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/19/biden-threaten...

Biden threatened with communion ban over position on abortion

US bishops vote to stop pro-choice Catholics receiving eucharist
I would love to review Joe's material to be able to provide a more thorough response, but I can't afford the 100s dollars he charges.
You have a potato theme park don’t you?
Yeah, I'll regularly finish work and continue programming for a few more hours. I like it a lot.

Not always, of course, but not rarely either.
2880×1080 is a super widescreen ratio (8:3, or call it 16:6 or 24:9 if you prefer); I don’t know how you intend to compare it to a regular widescreen ratio (16:9) which is only two thirds of the width for a given height.

It also depends on the screen size. Such super-widescreenness is probably only found in fairly large monitors, and at that size I’d say that doubling the resolution (5760×2160) will have a massive effect on perceived text quality. At that size, and depending on how far away from the screen you use it, you could possibly even double it again and still tell and appreciate the difference.
I might do a summary or a survey after Apple talks. That's after 18th.
See Adoptium.net/members.html for participating groups and vendors. More than just IBM.
The answer for "what's the source of this version of this crate?" is always "what was published to crates.io?", the content of the git repository should be irrelevant. All serious code review efforts should always operate on the code that's actually going to be used instead of the upstream git repository, for reasons outlined by the blog post.

This is how cargo-crev already works: https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev
Subjective symptoms can modulate biochemistry and that affects the body. See voodoo curses.
I did find it to be extremely poor but once I started liking individual songs, not whole albums it does better. Still, I'm not sure it uses other listening habits to feed the engine such as:

- Early skipping a song from a generated play list (-1).
- Repeat playing the same song from a generated play list (+1)
> Saudi Arabia has no military except the US military

This laughably wrong.
That’s something that bother me a lot. Nowadays systems are closed and their base security is totally teenager-proof.

A lot of « us » learnt to (love to) program or to hack on their crappy limited but « open » hardware.

This is not reproductible with an iPad or a smartphone and I’m really afraid that the current generation is going to let the machines control their lives because they’ll have no incentive to learn how to control the machines.

For this particular reason, I’m really happy that projects like Raspberry Pi just exists. And I’m pretty confident that my son’s first computer will be a Raspberry Pi 400 (or the equivalent, because he is too young atm).
Predictive models of RNA degradation through dual crowdsourcing
> If you want a transactional, consistent datastore you are gonna have to put a lock on something while writes happen. And if you want consistency it means those locks need to be on all systems in the cluster.

FWIW, it's not as bad as that sounds. There are traditional locks, and there is optimistic locking. If a there are two conflicting transactions, a traditional lock detects this before it happens (by insisting a lock is obtained before any updates are done) and if there is any chance of conflict the updates are run serially (meaning one is stopped while the other runs).

Optimistic locks let updates run with lock or blocking at all, but then at the end they check if the data they depended on (ie, data that would have been locked by the traditional mechanism) has changed. If it has they throw it all away. (Well, perhaps not quite - they may apply one of the conflicting updates to ensure forward progress is made.) The upside of this is there is if there are no conflicting updates everything runs at full speed - because there is no expensive communication about why has what lock going. The downside is a lot of work may be thrown away by what amounts to speculative execution.

Most monolithic databases use traditional locking. Two CPU's in the same data centre (or more likely on the same board) can rapidly decide who owns what lock, but cycles and I/O on a high end server are precious. Distributed ACID databases like spanner, cockroachdb and yugabytedb favour opportunistic because sending messages half way across the planet to decide who owns what lock before allowing things to proceed takes a lot of time, whereas the CPU cycles and I/O's on the low end replicated hardware are cheap.

While opportunistic locks allow an almost unlimited number of non-conflicting updates to happen concurrently, their clients still have to pay a time penalty. The decision about whether there was a conflicting update still has to be made, and it still requires packets to cross the planet, and while all this happens the client can't be sure if their data has been committed. But unlike the traditional model, they are never blocked by what any other client is doing - providing it doesn't conflict.
the same reason safari doesn't play ogg, but plays aac fine. Apple just want to promote their patent encumubered codecs over free ones.
A similar tool to prolong laptop autonomy is XSuspender <https://kernc.github.io/xsuspender/>. It configurably SIGSTOP-s unfocused X11 applications. It is, sadly, XWindows-only.
You can find most of it for free online. And I'm not talking about pirating stuff, just tons and tons of free content, not to mention community content.
Well, the author does a great job of giving intuitive explanations for things not covered throughly in the book.

Besides, rate of change is high school material: physics and last year math lessons do cover it.

At least in eastern europe they do.
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> People plugged them into the front of their Macs and snapped them off so often.

I winced
Ah. A good old-fashioned Jerry Maguire rant.

While I totally feel for the author, as someone else commented, money talks. People pay for dross, and companies will build their infrastructure around creating and shipping dross.

For myself, I am totally focused on writing and shipping ultra-high-Quality software. It’s difficult, frustrating, time-consuming, and very, very rewarding (but mostly on an emotional level).

I work for free. Honestly, I can’t see commercial entities paying the very substantial premium required to ship software at the Quality bar that I set. It’s orders of magnitude costlier than junk-grade software. Just yesterday, I spent almost all day, “tuning” a popover presentation controller to manage and present flexible content within a 1-pixel tolerance. It required that I rip out almost all my previous work, and realign my fundamental design.

I can think of no corporate entity that would tolerate that kind of anal-retentive level of detail. I would have been forced to ship the crap I had working the day before. People really, really like using my software, but they also don’t pay for it.

Calls for licensing are quite reasonable for things like medical devices, transportation, educational, infrastructure, children’s software, etc., but would be ridiculous for a significant swath of SV’s products.

As someone who has worked in a highly-structured, Quality-focused environment, I can report that the structure can easily crush innovation and development velocity. I call it “concrete galoshes”[0].

I feel that the industry is currently run by folks that use money as the only measure of success, and they aren’t actually mistaken. Money brings power and influence. It drives culture. The people who make the money, make the rules (the classic “golden rule”).

Until a reward structure (as opposed to a regulatory structure) is in place to encourage (as opposed to enforce) high Quality, I suspect we won’t be seeing significant improvement.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/concrete-galoshes/