skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany is in a very tough spot energy-wise and is the most impacted by the Russian sanctions. A lot of house heating is gas and that isn't something you can change in 6 month. So in the very short term they probably need coal to replace the gas where possible so that stockpiles can meet next winters demand for heating.

But for medium-term, a lot of infrastructure investment will be needed. Times are such that the public will be quick to condemn investment in fossil energy, so there will be pressure to find green solutions where feasible.

The other day I saw a headline that France had stopped subsidizing gas heating installations. I don't get why it took a Russian war to do that, but apparently it did.

There have been many other such headlines. Will it matter? Probably some, maybe a lot... one can hope.

Edit: or maybe the opposite. who knows
If you only have a few large services that work quickly and efficiently, you probably don't have many teams working on them and have little overhead / devops work. If you have thousands of microservices, suddenly you need many more architecture, platform, SSO / auth / ident teams, security teams, etc. Creates more jobs.
Interop is meant to guide future development. I think there's a reason the default values are based on the experimental versions instead of stable releases
Most EVs have battery warranties for 100,000 miles +, and that's to a certain degradation mark, not that the battery is expected to be non-functional past that point.

Even if an EV needs one battery replacement in its lifetime, that's an entirely different impact to vehicle design and infrastructure than having battery swap stations (brand/model specific???) on every street corner.

Newer chemistries are aiming for longer lifespan, with Tesla's stated goal being a million miles.

Basically most of the problems preventing EV adoption 10-20 years ago have been solved by scale and technology improvements, so I wouldn't expect those to stop today. I think if we put an interstate-highway-system level investment into battery swap stations and standardization we might see it all be obsoleted in a decade as cars can fit 500+ miles of range, recharge to 80% in 15 minutes, and have batteries that last 500,000 - 1,000,000 miles.

Also as the EV industry matures, I'm sure we will see a market for recycled and refurbished batteries outside of the OEMs. This is already happening at a raw material level, and OEMs are doing this at a battery pack level.

If your 2007 Honda has an engine or transmission failure at 200,000 miles, you probably are going to pay someone to rebuild it or buy an already rebuilt component, rather than paying Honda the value of your entire vehicle for a brand new factory engine.

Edit: And have you actually measured that your 2007 Hondas still get 100% of the rated EPA range? I would find that pretty surprising.
I would argue that maps are the killer app for phones, this phone having a garbage map app is a death knell.
> A smartphone camera which delivers 90% of the results while being on your person 100%

It delivers 0% of what I, and many, want. It's like saying a renault twingo is 90% of a porsche 911 because it can go from A to B, it's not and people who say it is simply don't know what they're talking about or don't have the perspective to understand the need for such tools.

> This is exactly why photography never evolves (see also film)... More specs! More specs! Ignore technological advancement!

Photography _never_ evolves ? Er ok, well if that's what you truly believe I don't see much room for argumentation

> If your equipment need RAW, you've just shrunk your market share by 80%. If you cannot post instantly you've just shrunk it by 90%.

> The camera market shrinks 10% YoY

It's fine, DVD don't sell much anymore either, people move to what's best for them, a dedicated camera isn't and if a phone does 90% of what they perceive is enough then let it be. Nobody's going to buy a sony a7rIV to take snapshots of their lunch and post it as a 480p image on instagram.

People use phones because they have phones with them anyways, not because they have computation photography assistances. If it was as easy as you imply don't you think we'd see viable products already ? There is no market for camera oriented phones nor for phone like cameras
I would say generally, "Yes."

Definitely 80% of the bugs will come from 20% of the features. 80% of the usability and attraction is also from 20% of the features, but not necessarily the same ones.

Perhaps relatedly, about 70% of all software work is diagnosis and debugging. So a small subset of (maybe not so important) features causes most of the overall work in the project.
Takes some time to boot Android in the container, app compatibility is hit-or-miss, Android apps can't really access the hardware (cameras, sensors etc.), you need to take care to not keep the container running in the background so it doesn't needlessly eat battery up, stuff like that.

You can set up Anbox on your PC and see how that works. It's the same thing on the phone.
Are There Tech Entrepreneurs?
Background:
As a person who studied software engineering, I worked as a designer and manager. I don't have a lot of experience writing code. I created a prototype and I'm trying to build a technology company(evetale.com). For now, I'm alone, the location is silicon valley.

So, is there somebody who has a similar background? Can you share your story, please? Or if your background is different, but you did it, could you give any suggestions?
Thank you!
There are even people who ordered in 2017 who still haven't got their phones. Purism also doesn't want to give out refunds (despite having a refund policy). It takes people hundreds of days to get a refund.
Woops you're right. This was premature. But once 15.4 has been released it'll have surpassed Chrome in the stable release as well.
The comment is explained by a €50-100/MWh carbon tax. Nuclear is sometimes necessary but still too expensive. Imported gas was chosen as a "green" alternative while hoping and dreaming a financially feasible energy source would come along. Totally surprisingly, it didn't. Lots of voters still oppose fracking, even when it's done in the middle of north sea. Europe won't see any further economic development until this insanity is over. You simply can't compete with countries that retained rational energy policies, like China or the US.
I respond with "Why dont you just send me a pull request?"
You're ignoring the vehicle has to be able to carry an HVAC system on it unless you're fine with freezing in sub zero temperatures. Like where do you think all that weight is going? Car manufacturers just arbitrarily making their own costs higher and fuel efficiency worse for nothing?

If your solution to this problem doesn't account for the disabled, elderly, physically unfit, or requires that some or all people be unable to drive in weather that personal vehicles right now handle without issue, like freezing rain, you're not gonna get much buy-in.
Possibly crazy thought. With wider CPUs needing more ports (read and write) on the register file, would it make sense to use accumulators as registers so basic boolean and math ops could be done locally with a single read port that the alu could tap?
Yes, with some caveats due to the fact that there are changes to the vendor <-> gonk interface that can't be achieved with a GSI image.
I’m sure the peoples republic of northern China will enjoy them very much.
Every app is the killer app for someone. I hardly ever use maps on my phone.
Eh, the successors of those current teams will still curse them and throw it all out when it comes time for a big revision.
Probably shouldn't reveal this but, Google are using it internally for their accelerated networking in their cloud, pretty much all Lanai hardware is deployed in GCP infrastructure.
I'm not sure if this was your intent, but you describe very well what Russia is telling its own people.
I like literate programming in theory but the most common response I see to it is that writing self documenting code is better because as you are working on a code base with many people, it is unlikely they will keep your prose up to date as the code is changed.
The southern front isn't going well for Ukraine at all, and I do not see what could change the outcome there, short of NATO forces joining the fight. If the southern front is done the invasion could resume on the other fronts, as well as continue in the south. Not hearing enough about this reminds me of the overly cheerful propaganda, the same sort as mentioned in these headlines.
I mean rust supports markdown comments and can compile them into documentation.[1] That's pretty good in my book in terms of documentation.

[1]https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/meta/doc.html
The first picture where the walls are bright white would have the windows look like a bright glowing rectangle vs. being able to see the outdoors through the window if they didn't use HDR. They overexposed the interior a little bit, which means the outdoors would especially look like bright white rectangles. Even when you have a lot of windows the indoors is significantly dimmer than the outdoors on sunny days unless the room is a greenhouse.

They did the HDR so well that you couldn't tell it was HDR. Artificial HDR is a choice, just like natural HDR is in that photo.

In pictures 8 and 9 they didn't HDR, so the windows look like white rectangles and very overexposed. In picture 17 they did the HDR treatment on the horizontal windows, but did not on the skylights. Those skylights should show up as blue vs. white rectangles if they were doing the HDR treatment on the entire photo, etc.

I think they also use off camera flash and bounced it off the ceiling, which is why I think it looks kind of glowy-white with all the white walls and floors in that place.
unless I'm thinking of the wrong vendor, the myrinet devices supported programming the nic. for some applications that was a really big win over IB verbs
We're talking about whether permanent ST is better than permanent DST, not DST switching vs not switching.
I live in a city with a 20mph speed limit in the city and for the most part it's adhered to. This sort of tech would be a game changer here.
The whole building. Central heating, can't be disabled per unit.
It's an interesting article (and thanks to the author for putting it out) but I wonder what their end goal is. Is it to have a 100% secure/private phone? I'm not sure if that's possible with the proprietary firmware (though the hardware kill switches are certainly a good idea). Most importantly, the questionable usability means that either the Librem team needs to work much more, or... this becomes a "smarter" alternative to a dumb brick without giving data to Big Tech. (Ignoring the fact that a sim card automatically makes you lose privacy to the government/telecos).

When comparing against something like a Pixel running GrapheneOS, it's honestly a bit more puzzling to me. Granted, I'm definitely not the audience for this, but with G_OS you can do most things that a regular phone can do, without taking several minutes to install Firefox.

As much as I love privacy (going as far as having a semi-random username), this phone is a bit puzzling. I hope someone can throw more light on this.
Biden warns Russian cyberattacks 'coming'
Because UNIX philosophy will sneak into any profession and somehow be accepted without question because of Antifragile psychology effects?

People will drink rat poison, as long as simple, natural, local, small scale, etc.

People don't want what is technically best. They want what makes them feel strong and smart.

They LOOOOVEEE to add challenges and problems because they want to build a world where people are "tested". If something is such a good design that it just works without a lot of talent they get bored.
I just recently stumbled upon a practical example of the first item in your list: try approximating sin(FREQ_SCALE * input) using a neural network and gradient descent for various FREQ_SCALE and ranges of input. You will find it to be completely powerless even though you can easily construct a single parameter "NN" with sin activation, that reproduces the function exactly when the parameter is initialized with FREQ_SCALE.

The problem extends to any periodic functions. I am working on a blog post about it.
How about Mary Barra at GM? Do you consider her a rare exception?
All the large tech companies train their employees how to request advice from counsel and use privileged and confidential email communication. I've never worked for Google but worked for two of the other MAGMAs and it was pretty standard. Nothing I saw about the training or common usage seemed suspicious; I think it's in the eye of the beholder.

After several big companies got their internal email used against them in lawsuits, esp. antitrust lawsuits, they focused heavily on training employees how and when to discuss sensitive topics related to competition, e.g. "don't say exaggerated things like "we're going to kill the competition", etc. And the trainings emphasize being extremely accurate and precise, and not speculating as to legality unless you actually are a corporate counsel. They teach you to take such questions to corporate counsel, e.g. "We're thinking about doing X, what do you think?" on P&C email threads.

I'm sure that some people could overuse this, but again, I didn't see anything suspicious, and I remember seeing one guy get called down for addressing email to corporate counsel as P&C and not actually asking a question.

I'm sure in every org there are weasels who would try to misuse this, but I'd have to see more evidence before I would believe that this was cultural at Google.
Anyone know of any unexpected consequences of using this for IVF? It seems to me that we are falling into brave-new-world territory without really trying. I'm sure parents will do this to help their kids but I wonder what the negative issues will be? Gender selection is one but that's already being done by other means. What will this particular technology bring?
>different formats

varying devices/platforms support varying formats

>bitrates

so some guy on watching on a 3G connection doesn't need to watch your 4K stream.
I don't think anyone is saying they can only be achieved with separate processes. It's more about independent scaling of the different parts of the system that is the big advantage. That plus the organizational advantages. It's a lot easier to maintain the modularity if you have different groups of engineers working on different services.
> If that approach works for you

I'll admit I'm speaking more broadly than graduate acceptance when I say what matters is what you do, not who you know, because in the grand scheme of things, who you know is incidental, but what you do is foundational and defines who you are. So it is not a matter or whether it works for me, this is instead just how it is. If we knew you murdered someone, we'd know you were a murderer. If we knew you built rockets, we'd know you were a rocket scientist. It all we knew about you was that you were a friend of a professor that got you into your graduate program, we could not possible think much at all of you. I choose to believe you are a rocket scientist.
>Academia requires proof; it's not a place of equity for bad ideas.

Tell that to Judith Butler.
You are right, should have confirmed that before posting. Old warped memory from ye olden days.
All 2017 orders should be shipped by now or are being shipped right now: https://forums.puri.sm/t/estimate-your-librem-5-shipping/112...
Desynchronization of nickel production and consumption
>>It's kind of wild to me that crypto has caused some people be to pro arbitrage. Arbitrage is the most inefficient form economic rent because it is a tax on producers of value (a group that largely gets ignored in the crypto-verse) that goes directly to speculators.

Arbitrage is a neutral activity, I dont see any universe where it could be seen to be a tax on producers of value (whatever that means), it is simply market participants correcting informational inefficiencies and providing liquidity.

>>Yeah, my definition if inflation is a year over year comparison oh how much a basket of goods and services cost relative to a currency. What's yours?

Reread my previous response to your reply on this point, on why this is not at all useful.

>>Which currency and where are the transactions? Are Venezuelans buying BTC with bolivars? If so who is selling their BTC for Bolivars? Are they transacting day-to-day in a currency I'm not aware of?

https://www.ft.com/content/02194361-a5b9-4bf0-9147-f36ba7759...
With nearly limitless solar potential, and widespread use of 2 wheelers (75% and steady), switching to electric could dramatically reduce air pollution in Indian cities, which is caused in no small part by ICE 2 wheelers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/664691/share-of-two-whee...
So, to summarize: you have no ideas for improvement, and just want to watch the world burn. Not put out the fire, not rebuild, just rage. Per your comments, Neoliberal policy has ruined the world and you hate all things Neoliberal, but don't express (or possibly have) familiarity with the alternatives you rail against.

Sounds good. Totally normal to be angry in today's environment. We disagree fundamentally. Not a lot more to be said.
I think of myself as someone who is relatively skeptical of authority, but even so it's hard to disabuse myself of the notion that company leadership is there due to meritocratic reasons.

Just because they're VPs in the biggest company in the world doesn't mean they're actually smarter or more capable than a random person selected from the population at large. Some of them might be, but SOO many people are in their spots due to the accident of their birth and other random processes that happened afterwards.
I would like to see a similar comparison between the Russian state media and the treatment of the Iraq war by US media in the first years.

Almost all Russian propaganda staples have direct correspondents:

- Denazification and demilitarization -> ending Saddam's support for terrorism and Al Qaeda

- Biological and nuclear dirty weapons -> Weapons of mass destruction

- Saving the people of Donbas -> Human rights abuses by the Saddam Regime, Iraqi freedom

- Special operation -> Military action (but in very short order, US media started calling it an invasion)

I'm not saying the situations are similar, they are clearly not, but the strong similarity speaks volumes about the constraints under which wartime propaganda operates. The US media, retaining its freedom, eventually recovered on the issue of WMDs and other biased points of view, the Russians will probably not.
> What amazes me is that the leadership repeatedly puts these sorts of incriminating things in email after being repeatedly told not to.

It's probably intentional in many cases to cover themselves when things hit the fan.
Nice, blame the users for your design mistake
> Its like a right of passage for every new generation of media covering a conflict.

More like a rite of passage for every occupying force.
Are you complaining about missing drivers in Linux? For the life of me, I never had to install any particular driver since like 2010 on both laptops and workstations. Not even for printers.

Specialized audio/video equipment? Probably, and of course the vendor will only provide them for Windows.
Depends on merging, etc. A lot of times when you develop monolithically you develop in different branches and some of your pieces won't show up until the next merge. You can unit test but can't integration test in many cases.
Aye. Its this type of folks that also suggest leaving a community when they hear another's complaints.

In short, trolls.
Not to mention that in a substantial portion of the world, motorcycles aren't practical for most of the year. Snow, ice and cold aren't great for two-wheeled vehicles.
The problem is that there are so many developers now who have never had any experience of anything that isn't some botched attempt at microservices. The idea that it's possible to encapsulate code and separate concerns in any other way is foreign to them, and an "API" to them is 100% synonymous with a rest/grpc interface. So there's nothing for them to revert to and they are doomed to repeat this pattern, clearly with the impression that this is what app development is.

Meanwhile a lot of the industry is trying to tell them that their problem is they haven't separated things enough and should be using lambdas for everything.
I used Bluestacks to play Android games on Windows, which was quite nice.

But I don't know if a full emulator is a good idea on a smartphone.
The southern front is the only one where Russians are making any progress, and near Kiyv there’s already been successful counterattacks.
From my experience "yes" in that 20% of the code requires 80% of the time/resources to implement it.
Very well put something that I have been observing for the past ~5 years.
That's like saying "You’re just stopping people from breaking their legs because you’ve decided lives of people with broken legs have no intrinsic value."
Number one difference is that US forces didn’t focus on killing random civilians instead of military.
I agree, the best thing we can do is to try to create new works outside of the current media industry/copyright system. It's increasingly dangerous to do that however. Part of the reason copyright law is so aggressively enforced and expanded is to make it more risky for people to create and publish their own works.

While I fully agree, we should try to support independent creators when possible, but even then people are still left with nothing but terrible choices. Should they cut themselves off from fantastic pieces of art and massive parts of their culture? Should they financially support the broken system and greedy industry holding art, culture, and progress hostage? Should they risk increasingly severe legal penalties for accessing content without authorization?

I think ultimately the answer is going to be a combination of everything. Right now, the media industry has the lawmakers working exclusively for them. Until we can get representatives who'll represent us we'll likely have to resort to increasingly creating, sharing, and consuming art outside of copyright law.
Kerning. Changes != Charges
The article seems to be missing the confounding factor that physical attractiveness is also fairly well correlated with other markers of success such as wealth.

Some of the reasons for that are fairly obvious e.g. if you're healthy, your brain works better.

But beyond that, this sort of selection isn't just occuring in dating. You're more likely to get a job, have a solid friendship group, be received better by strangers, etc, if you're more attractive.

It's a feedback loop, particularly for women.

I'm sure you can find a few outliers, like say pre-hair-transplant Elon or whatever. They're still not actually _ugly_ for the most part though.
It's so easy to forget that corp email is on a conveyor belt (esp when that belt is 18mos long).

Then you go to find an email past-you wrote and remember "oh, the 18mo thing."
I always had this problem with Mexican food.

- Burrito... ew
- Alambre. huh?
- "al Pastor" ok, that must be lamb... it's PORK??? WTF???

And then I order "papas con cuero" thinking this must be yet another poetic name for food, and find that it's exactly what it says on the tin[1]. /facepalm

[1] "What it says on the tin" is a reference to canned food, where the label on the can is important, because you can't see inside. Of course, the cans are made out of steel these days, but we still... ugh, never mind.
All frameworks are good when they are new and different from the one you're using, and bad when you've worked with them for a few years
I found this years ago: http://leoeditor.com/