skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This chart provides a false picture of R&D spending as European countries do in fact provide a lot of R&D to the global economy in ways that benefit regular people.

Even if you consider defense RnD spending "useless" (its not), look at pharmaceutical spending.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/health_glance-2015-7...

Why don't we nail down one of these countries you're describing, so we can directly compare the spending?

>but regardless of this fact are you implying that since the US subsidizes so much for the other countries that Americans deserve to live in this second rate system where everyone is on their own?

Where did I say that?

You asked why other countries can do X. One of the reasons is because they don't have to pay for Y. If other countries could not longer rely on the US or China, we would see a much different picture.

>First point that is always made is we should be happy that US employees makes so much more salary. What you fail to understand is that Europeans are coming from an environment where they had good schooling, probably no debt from University and made it to adulthood without any health issues thanks to good healthcare and good healthy food policies.

So why abandon that environment?

>Furthermore Europeans ALWAYS have an exit strategy to go back to a system that has all these fundamentals. The US employee may be paid better but they grew up and live in an environment where everybody else is sinking due to the lack of these fundamental systems.

Do you have evidence for this?

>Secondly on a tangental point, Europeans love to talk about how Americans have access to a billion options for snacks and food. What they fail understand is that if you have grown up in this environment of corn laden garbage it is a prison that is difficult to escape. It is easy for Europeans to be in awe coming from an upbringing of whole nutritious foods. Its another thing to realize how much more expensive it is to eat healthy in the US vs Europe thanks to policies that were in place before even I was born (88).

That's the first time I've heard of this.

Normally I hear "wow, you're going to pay 3x as more for the same job I was doing in Spain?"

Look, you asked why countries are different and I gave an answer. You're now debating whether or not that is "good". You're also leaving out countless negatives about these countries you're alluding to.
I agree it would have been better to phase out coal before nuclear, but it's not correct to say that there was a switch from nuclear to coal.

The switch was from nuclear to renewables. Coal was stable for a long time, and is now decreasing. Coal is currently scheduled to be phased out by 2038.

Source: Quick Google image search for the power sources over time plots.
32 keyboard options and no Dvorak? Thanks, I'll pass. /s

(But seriously, frame.work guys, add Dvorak!!)
Just-in-type supply chains are "cheaper" too.

:)
That's so cool, and reminds me of how I used Gnuplot as a makeshift oscilloscope to test and evaluate some (not real time) software synthesis I was doing.
That's a protocol that's a good forty years old, and even that is not supported. And I can see why, why on earth would you want to be adding support for that in 2021? What a ridiculous state of affairs.
The Tiredness Virus – The Nation
The virus is endemic now, the pandemic is over.

Get vaccinated if you wish, most people already have natural immunity.
Does any one have a copy of anything related to this?

Wikipedia had an article on it deleted, and I'm not getting much from the first few pages of google...
> It would probably help to show the working here:

Fair enough, I was on mobile. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum..., the world consumed 9,717 Mtoe or 112,717.2 TWh of energy in 2020. Dividing that number by 52 weeks/year gives us 2,167 TWh--the amount of energy we need for a week's worth of storage. 2,167 is about 3612 times the amount of capacity that Europe is slated to produce annually (previously I rounded various figures before doing the math, so my number rounded up to 3700 rather than down to 3600).

But as previously mentioned, this doesn't account for growing energy demands or wear on battery stock or many other pertinent factors.

> First, we will occasionally want them to last a week; most of the time you’d only want a day. This gives us longer to build out whatever solutions, more battery factories or reactors or whatever.

My "week" figure is based on the assumption that we need to be able to manage with near-zero wind/sun for a week. While most of the time you won't need a week, we're not concerned about "most of the time", we're concerned about the worst cases. By the way, I have no idea if a week is accurate. I've just heard "weeks" slung around, so I assume that "one week" is the low end. I would be surprised if we could get this down to a day on average. Mind you, this doesn't mean we need 1 week of storage, but it means we need 1 week of something besides solar/wind.

> Second, it is very plausible the non-linearity of scaling will reduce costs rather than increase them

I agree. The specific dynamics depend on the market and the supply chain, but I'm pessimistic, especially after seeing the havoc covid continues to wreak on supply chains the world over.

> Third, my personal favourite combo with batteries is intercontinental HVDC

This is really interesting. I always been a bit surprised that electricity isn't more fungible from region to region, and wondered why this was never really talked about as a serious mitigation against regional weather patterns. I've been thinking about clean energy as Europe's key to energy independence, but it would be cruelly ironic if Europe came to depend on simply a different region for its energy (and also for Africa, if its sunshine had the effect that oil tends to have on poorer countries).
That’s interesting. Do you think sixels could work for the baseline tests? Would it be feasible to have them display nicely in an IDE, like VS Code or Visual Studio?
Or you know, it could be that he has invested $10 billion into building Blue Origin over 21 years and likes his company and wants to wear the uniform because he's proud of it (even if you think lowly of it). Bezos is very well known to be a space nerd.

So what.
The expectation caused the fall. It's possible to even have an expectation of a rate increase and then not have any at all.
Exposing Climate Threats from an Empire of Dying Gas Wells
You're saying it's not feasible to manually evaluate reports - but really what you're saying is that nobody wants to pay for it. Set up a very modest subscription model (like 2$/mo) to fund report checking for your game, possibly with a free tier that starts with low trust, and nuke people by credit card number.
The need for Linux phones, in a market dominated by two companies and one government, is more than ever!

Hope we soon get a usable Linux phone.
When people search Pepsi Cola they expect to get a link to Pepsi or information about it. They don’t expect to see Coca Cola or RC Cola, etc. now in this case Pepsi makes sure search isn’t polluted by paying Google good money to always be the top results for that term.

Now, if you searched on the generic ‘cola’ or ‘soda pop’ then yes you expect to see those who bid higher to be at the top and at the bottom those who bid nothing unless organically somehow they ended elsewhere.
What, exactly, is "legitimate criticism"?
It's forty years old. Why on earth would you be adding that in 2021?

Why are we not focusing our energy on making something that is actually up to date?
Because a lot of customers are on "the other side" and are against mandates. If you ostracize those customers, you could be doing long term damage still.
Yeah I think the article is more useful if you ignore what the CEO says, but instead reference the stats:

> Coal-produced electricity has shot up in Europe, and European coal futures have more than doubled since the start of the year.... Gas prices in Europe, meanwhile, have nearly quadrupled since the start of the year. "
I feel like looking at a prominent climate scientist's lifestyle, and looking at the measures they take would be a good indication of how fucked we are. If we are truly fucked I imagine they're taking some pretty drastic measures to do their part to fix the problem (or if we're passed the point of no return, to prepare for societal collapse or w/e).
There's another forum where a Jacksonville ARTCC controller echoed they had 15 people call out (not due to some anti vax movement) and had weather looming on top of the military who takes over half their airspace and doesn't give it back promptly (or the FAA gets the word but doesn't pass it along). Combined with constant understaffing and the fact that JAX can't stop departures from places like Atlanta (but other centers can) doesn't help.
There is no better alternative (at least for some people)?

Just some examples:

- Integration between their devices cannot be matched by others

- Apple Watch has the largest app collection, great integration between iOS and Watch apps, smooth animations/UX, the most accurate GPS of smart watches

- Handover of AirPods between Apple devices is a lot better than with other Bluetooth headphones

- (subjective) iOS has a lot better UX/animations than Android
We vote for the one we prefer every time we buy something.

Supply chain resilience is incredibly expensive insurance for very rare and relatively short term disruptive events. Covid for instance is going to put things out of whack for two or three years, but is preventing that worth paying up for the redundancy and contingency plans over the previous 100 years?

Probably not. Over the long term, efficiency wins out.
Oh... The shame...

Yes. I miscalculated the dot density. :-(
Too late, they blew up the Philippsburg power plant 30km from my home last year:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zsSswlxThqo

One of the blocks was really old so I'm glad to see it go. I'm in favor of building new, safer reactors. Bill Gates is an investor in a startup that developed such a design, but it will probably be hard to get it tested.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower

China apparently also has made advances.
This is a great starting point, but things like BEPs mean this usually more complex than one country's sole secrecy index.
What are you considering is the conspiracy theory?

The walk off happened, just because the CEO says it didn't, doesn't make it so.

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1447679841717919744?...
> MMT is actually an improvement - by creating direct price inflation

MMT doesn't create price inflation, it acknowledges that monetary effects (like inflation and deflation) are the only real constraints on government finances when spending its own fiat, and that requiring debt financing for net spending is a farcical result of pretending fiat is resource-limited commodity currency, and encourages abandoning that kind of fiscal fiction in favor of expressly considering monetary effects in setting the kind of policy that has historically been called “fiscal”.
> I was going to link to an example but removed it before posting because I'd get in trouble

I sincerely doubt you would, since I asked you for the citation and we're discussing moderation in this thread.

In the absence of this, what is anyone reading your original comment to do with your assertion? Are we supposed to take some random internet person at their word?

If it can be used as an example to discuss further, whether for or against moderation, then I think the community here will be better for it.

Maybe you'll prove yourself wrong, and not be censored.
Fair points here. Unfortunately adding more vertical resolution starts to get a little unwieldy to navigate through. Maybe it could start using different characters to multiply the resolution to something sufficiently less forgiving of errors. If it could choose between even 3 chars, for example, it would effectively squash 3 possible values into one line, tripling the resolution.
Oh, this is something I use all the time!

It turns out if you use complex numbers for your coefficients, then you can represent any analytic 2D function with circular harmonics, like this:

F(x,y) = ∑ Cₙ (x + iy)ⁿ⁻¹

It turns out many real, useful fields satisfy this condition, such as heat flow, electric and magnetic fields, fluid flow and more.

Circular harmonics like this are used extensively in the design, testing, and running of particle accelerators. The magnets that control the particle beams are often modelled as having magnetic fields described by 2D circular harmonics.

The equation above can be used to plot something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/o9nUmVr.png

That plot was generated from 21 complex numbers, for example.

In fact, people build machines that directly measure these coefficients by rotating wires in a magnetic field:

https://jsss.copernicus.org/articles/9/99/2020/
The expensive part about nuclear power is the initial construction.

The cost to keep a reactor that's already been built going is low.
In truth, it's because text is quite easy to handle. It's easy to make a program that handles text, too.

And so we have a lot of text editors, diff tools, efficient compression, tools like sort and uniq: the whole unix ecosystem.

So if you transform sound to text, you can then use text tools to compare the output to catch differences. A simple serialization of numerical sample values would have caught the bug, but I agree that having a way of visualizing the output is nice.

Command line input, programming, etc. is also still mostly done with text, because it's easy to transform. Of course, you can imagine working at a higher level with objects (like powershell does IIRC), mimetypes, etc.
Smalltalk's components were so tightly interdependent that their integration smoke test was 4+3, because evaluating a simple addition expression exercised like 3/4 of the entire system.
1. Hotwire uses this approach for mobile as well (Hey and Basecamp are built this way)

2. Or you expose an API for those mobile clients. You might still be saving more work (but this is subjective and depends on the project).
It's all about the geographical decoupling with local storage and smart consumers to smooth the loads. For example tying the charging of your electric car while it's parked to the current price. Spatial and temporal arbitrage of energy, which nuclear is completely awful at.

Or using Swedish, Norwegian hydro and wind together with German, British and Danish wind. These links are on the same scale as nuclear reactors.

Germany <-> Norway (2021) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NordLink

UK <-> Norway (2021) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link

UK (Scotland) <-> Norway (On hold by Norway, cleared on Scottish side) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NorthConnect

Denmark <-> Norway (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skagerrak_(power_transmission_...
Idk who Benny Johnson is, but he certainly seems like a reliable and unbiased source of commentary /s
Multi-Tenant Kubernetes is straight up difficult to do well, especially where you're talking hard multi-tenancy for external customers.

There was a good report that covered a lot of the risks and mitigations here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/salesforce/kubernetes-cont...

But even then that had limited scope and didn't cover things like networking.
>while ideological idiots dream of conspiracy.

You don't need to be an "ideological idiot" to recognize that some proportion of employees nationwide are opposed to mandates and that it isn't a stretch that some might officially or unofficially stage a walkout/strike. This wouldn't exactly be the first that that officials were not forthcoming about events that reflected poorly on them or their businesses. This isn't just a complex of interacting hardware, there are people involved, some of whom have an outsized influence over its behavior, apparent or actual.

I think its a greater example of "ideological idiocy" to make underhanded assumptions about someone's comment after scouring their post history for wrongthink.
I personally don’t like most of what I’ve learnt about the guy, or Amazon, but I have voluntarily handed them thousands upon thousands of dollars and intend to continue.

There’s good and bad in everything.
This is not strictly true. Many AVR chips can handle more computation than their clockspeed would suggest due to some really nice assembly codes that allow for common DSP calculations.

I ported an AVR code base to a cortex M4 last year, and some of the inlined asm didn’t translate. I ended up having to use inlined C instead. So, my 120Mhz M4 chip struggled to do what a 90Mhz AVR did no problem.
I agree. I'm trying to switch to OsmAnd from Here and even that is tough when it comes to finding an address on the map. You can find place names if they have been added to OpenStreetMap, which is mostly in big cities but that doesn't cover everything.

I uses a separate app called GPS Coordinates. I give it an address and it gives me lat/long which I paste into OSM. I'm sure there's gotta be a better way.
Then the people who aren't willing to do anything about it should just shut up already. It's like complaining that the person in the stall next to you is making the bathroom smell like shit, while you sit there taking a dump.
If the rocket had blown up, all the fingers that denied him credit would be pointing at Bezos.
I wonder what would happen if everyone that knows about this just starts pounding Apple's online presence (twitter, fb, etc) in protest of their actions. Would they relent and pay up?
"Mostly peaceful" killed that for me. I wanted to believe what you're saying, but I can't anymore.
Except, none of those are crimes. Immoral maybe, but not doing these things means you will have your success taken away by someone who does.
> They operate on incredibly, incredibly small margins

I've never understood how an industry so hard for competition to get into, so defensively positioned with regulatory capture, and so overpriced and gouge-happy from a consumer PoV, can somehow manage to be barely scraping by. What is going on at the airlines where they seemingly can't make ends meet despite a silver platter cornered market?
> One side effect of our toxic national discourse is that I don’t know who to believe

That, largely, is the intent. "Some people" know that the more they poison this well the more people like you will then throw up their hands. And, while I'm sure you aren't one of them, most of them will then take that as a license to believe the source they want to believe and not the one telling them the truth.

And the frustrating thing, of course, is that the disinformation is largely asymmetric. One "side" of sources is more consistently wrong or misleading, and one mostly gets it right with the occasional mistake. Also, one "side's" thought leaders tend to parrot disinformation[1] more than the other, where you tend to see the worst whoppers primarily among the ground troops only.

[1] Ted Cruz pushed this particular meme, for example.
Next level conspiracy theory: Apple employs, knowingly or unknowingly, CIA/NSA agents who intentionally introduce these bugs.
> At some point public interest turned against cigarettes too despite moneyed interests being in favor of poisoning millions...

Wrong again. The monied interests turned against smoking first and then the public followed with "ads". You seem to think a couple of relatively small tobacco companies is "monied interests". You ignore everyone else with lot more money. The elites stopped smoking cigarettes much sooner than the masses. It's why we have the trope of the execs of tobacco industry not smoking. The masses initially resisted bans on smoking/etc. It took years/decades of studies/ads/propaganda by "monied interests" to sway the mindset of a significant portion of the public. This is true of everything from civil rights to gay rights and in between. The monied interests decide on something and they chip away with propaganda and "studies" and whatever to get what they want.

Your comments are so out of touch with reality it's hard to take you seriously. As I said, everyone from the world bank to goldman sachs to google to the UN to every major government ( US, China, Russia, EU, etc ) and every major financial institution ( IMF, FED, ECB, etc ) are backing climate change.

Now obviously there are some faction monied interest against climate change, but they are miniscule compared to the monied interests that are pro-climate change.

As I said, if you were right, google would be banning pro-climate change propaganda. Not anti-climate change propaganda.

> Climate change is a real issue and the overwhelming fact is we have a huge hand in the multitude of maladies that plague our planet and if we don't do something beyond trivial tokens like recycling a coke bottle we are all fucked.

Then stop using the internet. Stop consuming. Be the change you want to see in the world.
That's either a really good fake rendering of an airplane or it looks exactly like southwest's airliner.

Or maybe he snuck up to a real one and hung the flag himself /s

(edit: the "controversial tweet")

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1447679841717919744?...
Would that still apply if a target has iCloud backup turned off?
We can also use real time price mechanism to match demand with supply intra day, energy intensive loads like water/home heating and ev charging can cheaply (vs cost of batteries connected to grid) buffer many hours without issue.
I guess the same reason not every union simultaneously opposes every policy?
I don't have an account on Lobsters so I can't comment there, but that comment is pretty awful and includes some revisionist history nonsense. The author seriously has their timeline mixed up and doesn't seem to be aware of what actually happened in Linux land, so I would take everything they say with a grain of salt. I have no idea why Linux audio seems to invite so much FUD.

"A bit later, a new version of OSS came out, OSS 4, which was not released as open source. The Linux developers had a tantrum and decided to deprecate OSS and replace it with something completely new: ALSA."

This is blatantly false. ALSA begun development in 1998 because of missing features in the OSS API [1], in terms of both drivers and userspace. OSSv4 was not released until 9 years later in 2007 [2]. Various other Linux developers have also expressed unhappiness with deficiencies in the OSS API [3]. Whichever tantrum is being talked about here seems to be wholly fictional.

"Meanwhile, the FreeBSD team just forked the last BSD licensed OSS release and added support for OSS 4 and in-kernel low-latency sound mixing..."

This entire paragraph makes no sense to me and has nothing to do with OSSv4. Announcement of an OSSv4 compatible API didn't happen until 2006 [4], which is well into the FreeBSD 6.x series.

"It was several years before audio became reliable on Linux again and it was really only after everything was, once again, rewritten for PulseAudio. Now it’s being rewritten for PipeWire."

This makes no sense. Applications that were written with basic ALSA/OSS support just worked if they used the Pulseaudio PCM. Applications that used ESD or aRts had issues, but you had the same problems on BSD if you wanted to use GNOME or KDE. Also, Pipewire is explicitly backwards compatible with PulseAudio, so nothing is being rewritten.

[1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8234

[2] http://ossnext.trueinstruments.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&...

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/355542/

[4] https://wiki.freebsd.org/RyanBeasley
We live in the (dystopian) future
Some popular support?

"Days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Maines told a London audience the band did not endorse the war and were "ashamed" of US President George W. Bush being from Texas. The remarks triggered boycotts in the US and backlash from fans." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks)
At least Shatner didn't tempt fate by wearing a red shirt.
Space travel is magnitudes of magnitudes deadlier than cars. A large chunk of astronaut training is basically "you're dead in 5 seconds, your actions".

Read "An Astronaut's Guide to Living on Earth"