skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The jurisdictions buying storage today (California, Australia) are driving down the costs for those who will buy it tomorrow. As costs decline, the market expands, as storage paired with renewables (rapidly approaching $0.01/kWh at utility scale) is cheaper than existing thermal generation.
The fact the NYAG settled for $18.5M is as concrete as it gets. If there were more wrong doing than a frozen bank account, why would NYAG settle with no wrongdoing admitted?
Ps. Democrats are indeed the party of division and hate. (Ref: Hillary Clinton’s deplorable comments, Biden’s recent Maga comments, etc.)
Unless we believe in magic monetary fairy dust, it’s reasonable to assume that the fed cannot wish economic growth into existence.

Without real growth, we cannot have wage increases and asset price increases - one must take from the other. So far the fed has chosen asset appreciation over wage increases, we’ll see how things play out this cycle.
Is that for all 80000 shrines? That’s 6k per unit.

I’m sure the USA builds more backyard sheds than that, at a higher price tag, every year.
Credit reporting agencies, exempt from privacy laws
Companies can legally sell your personal information (home address, name, etc) to credit reporting agencies.

https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2019/05/exempt-or-not-exempt-part-2-the-california
Wouldn't that violate the second law of thermodynamics?
Are you me?

I'm 28, and genuinely feel angry about the anti-corporate "the system is for losers, follow your passion" shit that was shoved down our throat as teenagers and young adults.

It's not a recipe for anything except burnout and depression. Staking your ego on being the "guy who knows a lot about technology/concept x" is even worse.

Stick with your job, and make sure to keep time for your wife (or husband) and kids. You won't regret it.
Toner is cheaper per page than ink. But the quality of photo prints will be slightly better with inkjets. If you never print photos (on photo paper), a toner printer is perfect.
VFX Artists Use A.I. In Hollywood
It increasingly looks like I need a diversified portfolio of farmland, nonperishable food, solar panels, livestock, replacement parts, Nana's recipes, basic tools, loyal dogs, diesel fuel, antibiotics, good insulation, barbed wire, warm clothes, fertilizer, bandages, a foot-pedal washing machine, surveillance drones, firewood, ammunition, bags of cement, a reliable spouse, flashlights, a Toyota Hilux, a cast-iron stove, some bicycles, a well-borer, night-vision goggles, fruit trees, popular cigarettes, rain barrels, a hardcover encyclopedia, and marriageable female relatives.
The target language generally has nothing to do with the language of the compiler, where automatic memory management is just as useful (and also helps to minimize the amount of unrelated technical detail) as anywhere else.
Here’s a version by the same chef without the paywall: https://lidiasitaly.com/recipes/marinara-sauce-2/
Thanks, this is the answer to my question!
If we will have this much spare solar, can’t we just convert it to methane and reuse most of the current infrastructure for heating homes etc? The CO2 can be taken from the air…
"the only winning move is not to play"
It's not clear they're referring to Sarvecchio. Some people think Sarvecchio is as good as real Parmigiano.
Is it a problem you actually have? Have you identified something malicious users can do of they sign up for your platform?

I think you'll see significant drop-off if you try to get people to sit through a demo. And couldn't a bot do that anyway? What are other platforms doing, because have never seen this. I hate re-captcha and would not sign up of I had to identify crosswalks either, but maybe find a captcha that doesn't hate users and try that?
Then time for a class action against the NYAG office for not disclosing this to the public.
The grid doesn't rely on a single source of generation at scale today, I don't see why doing solar at scale is any different. A big chunk of power usage follows the sun; you don't need to store anything until solar is more than that portion.
Desalination is higher priority overall then crypto mining. There are several factors which make something a good candidate to use excess solar power. Maybe it makes sense for desal to always be running? Crypto can more quickly be spun up or down to respond to the energy market. Crypto mining can be done anywhere with cheap power but desalination needs to be near salt water and where water is needed. We will probably need a mix of several industries to effectively use the cheap power.
Do you want to be like your mentor?

What are you aiming for in life. Find someone like that to model.
> And the final step would be to sanction China to hell and beyond for their hoarding [2] which was a major price driver even before the Russians invaded. One might be inclined to believe China fully knew what was about to go down and decided to profiteer.

Why does any country have an obligation to export? I get that other countries might like them to, but sanctioning a country for not selling you something seems wrong. I get that sanctions are coercive, but usually not like that?
It will get worse with the further adoption of EVs. Perhaps someone should think it out a bit better.
This is pretty meaningless. It’s based on a survey and not any objective criteria for an (arbitrary but fit for this purpose) definition of “wealthy”.
Populations in some countries are expanding infinitely. These countries should adapt now, by reducing family sizes and generally operating within resource limits based on national output and productivity. Losses of 100,000 today will be 100 million tomorrow.

Mali Population 1950: 4.7 million

Mali Population 2022: 21.4 million

Mali Population 2100: 80.3 million

https://www.populationpyramid.net/mali/2022/

UK Population 1950: 50.6 million

UK Population 2022: 68.5 million

UK Population 2100: 78 million

It is unrealistic to imagine that countries such as Mali will voluntarily adopt family planning or quickly reach a sub-replacement fertility rate. The only limit to their population growth is incoming food supplies. About a quarter of the population is already reliant on international aid.
If not performance and not price, what considerations are close to the most important for your employer?
Yes. Pseudocode is better for teaching than C. Plus, translating pseudocode into a language of choice is a good exercise.

Another good idea is to write a compiler in the target language.
Why wouldn’t you be able to run them in parallel using CUDA? You shouldn’t be memory-transfer speed limited when group convolution layers are a part of a bigger net.

Note that pointwise 1x1 convolutions are a special case of group convolutions and actually I think they might be specially optimized in PyTorch (I’d have to run some benchmarks to test it though).
You do have significant differences between noxious fumes and clean burning between burning plastic vs burning fossil fuels. The energy captured from the burn is obviously not the same - same reason you can't just set fire to a "bowl" of plastic.
For things like that, are they differentiating the usage of it as a _word_ vs a name? That seems possible.

The name "Einstein" has existed forever I'm sure, but its current use in language didn't really pick up until, what 1930s/40s or later?
Is Netflix Screwed? (2019)
> but is it power in = water out, plus a bunch of facility maintenance and operations?

Basically yes. I'm mostly familiar with Reverse Osmosis, where electricity to drive the pumps is about 40% of the TCO. There's another big chunk for consumables - chemicals, failed membranes, etc. Then the rest is capital costs to build the thing.

It's not "free power == free water", but the power is a significant factor.

> Desalination will be the new pumped hydro.

Eh, no. Desal is a great place to dump surplus energy, but you can't get the energy back out. It pairs well with nuclear power, so you can use extra nighttime capacity. It's less useful with solar, unless you've severely overbuilt panels and can't find anything else to do with them on sunny days. It's a better tradeoff to buy fewer panels and use that money to pay for storage (pumped hydro, batteries, whatever).
It's a case of a measure ceasing to be a good measure because it became a target.

The purpose of running a background check is to predict if someone will be a problem. But they work by measuring interactions with the legal system (probably convictions in particular?). And if suddenly most of the behavior you care about stops generating records of interactions, well background checks just got a loss less useful.
Wouldn't you need quite a large patch (by garden standards) even just for a single home brew? I'm no expert but it seems to me cereals only really work at scale.
> as many gun control advocates have pushed

those are not the ONLY ones with that interest !
I am, because reasons, quite familiar with the security review portion of the process. Not only is it mostly/probably not run this way for anticompetitive reasons, but Google doesn't even run the audits; they picked specific auditors (last I checked, Bishop Fox and Leviathan), both of which have gold-plated reputations.

Like I said, there are things I don't love about the program. But it's not an elaborate hazing ritual.
Diverting compostables out of the regular trash stream also makes the regular trash stream not stink. My under counter trash bin can go two weeks easy without stinking up the place. It is mostly plastic that can't be recycled.
Survey source: https://www.aboutschwab.com/modern-wealth-survey-2022

It's interesting to compare against pre-pandemic versions of the survey [1]. In the national survey, the 2019 "wealth" number is actually slightly higher in 2019 compared to 2022. On the other hand, the Bay Area number is higher in 2022.

[1] https://www.aboutschwab.com/modernwealth2019
After COVID always worry about humans engineering some sort of biological net new specialized entity.
here they go for the credit record right away I think
radical. im inclined to agree.
Correct, landfills are not a miracle technology. Landfills leak.

https://www.clf.org/blog/all-landfills-leak-and-our-health-a...

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-040-03/
While I agree that it may or may not be true, I'm curious as to what makes it hard for you to "buy it."

I had always thought that anything attention-grabbing was likely involving some dopamingeric systems. It wouldn't surprise me if anything that grabs attention over a sustained amount of time could potentially lead to homeostasis-seeking mechanisms in the involved cognitive systems.

I doubt that humans / mammals evolved in a context with something often grabbed and held focused attention for hours at a time in the same way that is now routine for us to experience with phones, TV, video games, etc.

Conversely, I've wondered if some of the e benefits that some people report with medication are related to giving those systems a bit of a break.

It could end up being entirely false, but I always thought it had at least seemed plausible.
I did this for a while (most never shipped) but I had a different idea that I haven't tried which is to set a small monthly budget and have others develop and maintain the tiny project. That way you get a whole different game to play. Some tasks are much cheaper than others and hiring experience is a lot more efficient than learning a new skill yourself.

I imagined myself [silently] looking at such projects to see how they progress. I had a lot of fun looking from afar after explaining to folks how to do websites in html.
I eat it directly. Quite like the texture actually
A fraudster is standing by to book you a real flight at 50% off
Maybe it depends on what you Spotify Connect to?

I use it daily connecting to an Echo Dot from an iPad or iMac, and it definitely is not autoplaying anything.

What are you connecting to?

According to this page [1], they changed it earlier this year in response to those complaints the original article talks about:

> We're happy to announce that the option to manage Autoplay has been released for the desktop and now for the mobile app too.

> Once you have the latest version installed, you will find it as "Autoplay on other devices" in the Settings menu and it will apply globally for connected devices and the web player.

> Note that you will need to log in and toggle the setting on or off on either the PC/Mac or Smartphone apps, but once done you can continue using Spotify on whichever platform you prefer and the setting you chose will be reflected accurately.

Mine is behaving like that.

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Implemented-Ideas/AutoPlay-...
How much of Europe's biofuel crop is food grade?

My understanding (which might be wrong) is that much of the US's biofuel crop is "animal grade," or is otherwise not human-consumable without additional processing (nixtamalization). The latter makes it consumable but limits its cooking uses (again, to my understanding).
Doesn't the rind have wax? (same as candle wax)
And not just AC, but the service economy runs during daytime for the most part.
What you really need is the government to be able to set a moving sliding window on battery performance, and then update tax regulation to allow companies to quickly depreciate an battery that gets outpaced fast and move onto the better tech. You'd ideally want to incentivise upgrades and updates for better tech in this space because of the positive externalities that come with it.
Many of the Covid measures (lockdowns, handouts, etc) have caused inflation. How much of your money has inflation stolen?
Just on this, depending on location there are "rules of thumb" based on hours of sunlight, cloud cover etc.

Where I live the rule of thumb is 4. So 1 KW of panels will make around 4kWh a day, averaged over the year or about 1460 a year.
> I don't argue past epistemological closures...

Let's talk about that instead, if you don't mind. I think that might be a really useful thing to have in my mental toolbox, if I understood it.

What is "epistemological closure"? How do you know when a conversation has hit it? Why do you stop there?
That is quite remarkable (if true), given that total world electricity consumption is around 3 TW on average.

(ETA: one commenter adds that solar has an "average capacity factor" of around 20%, so that 1 TW deployed will provide about 0.2 TW on average. Still, very impressive.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption
> Also, the very premise that more CO2 is existential is contradicted by historical record: 250 million years ago earth was 15 degrees warmer than it is now and CO2 was a lot more abundant.

Maybe this is just a joke that sailed over my head, but this is obviously false and doesn't mean anything of the sort. Existential for whom? All you can definitely conclude is that the Earth won't explode if the climate increases by 15 degrees. You can guess that life would survive, but there were no humans back (or large mammals at all) back then. There's no reason to think we would make it.

> The people controlling the media won’t allow it. This is common knowledge.

This is just rank conspiracism. I know of no evidence to suggest that the media are somehow controlling events (?), laws (?), the "narrative" (?), simply to prevent nuclear reactors from being built. How? For what purpose?

And claiming "this is common knowledge"? Maybe that was just another joke, because normally when one says a conspiracy theory is true, one also claims that this is secret information that has to be carefully mined out of various data sources, because if everyone knows something is happening it's usually not a very good conspiracy.
There's this little thing called the sun, and it doesn't shine a big chunk of the day. Right about when you need the most energy for heating and lighting.
This is speciﬁc to tendermint consensus. Casper consensus doesn't seem to do it.
> Recycling is the most obvious way to cut down on plastic waste.

I would think that the most obvious solution is to not use a material that lasts thousands of years for disposable packaging that’s only needed for a few months. Seems like these types of “revolutionary” new processes to make recycling finally work come out every year, and yet nothing changes. I can’t imagine this will be any different. As long as it’s cheaper to create new plastics than it is to recycle them, nothing will change.
Fantastically frustrating to someone with an American point of view. What do the Japanese think about it? Perhaps there’s a different point of view?
Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, Mirror World Dark Sector, Hubble Constant
Indeed, we're seeing this happening. Bitcoin mining will pay $$$ for your waste power, and an increase in waste power is the problem with wind and solar.

We need a shitload of green generation infrastructure, and Bitcoin is going to pay for it. Sometimes the world is weird, sorry.
I think that’s the big difference between how medicine up until now has approached aging and how longevity research approaches aging. Longevity research is about preventing the state that causes people to get those diseases of aging in the first place, not trying to find bandaids once people are already sick. Can’t imagine how preventing Alzheimer’s, cancer, and heart disease could be a bad thing.
If it needs constant monitoring it's a potential problem... And at some point it will happen... We know that from ages of software development, if it can fail, it will fail at some point.
There are tons ways to escape: security, sre, engineering sales, etc etc.
I think the author, Lyall Taylor, was on point describing the main weaknesses that have led the stock market to devalue Netflix.
I think the implication is that China had previously imported much of their reserves and is now reselling at an opportunistic time. The argument for sanctions would be similar to the argument against price-gouging or scalping.
Cynicism is warranted for the reason that the other commenter pointed out: the fossil fuel industry (and by extension, any Big Industry) will use moonshot ideas like this as ammo for their PR machine. "Don't worry about our lobbying against viable solutions right now - soon we'll have this new silver bullet idea." That sort of thing.

But it's definitely worth exploring those moonshot ideas, so I'm not shutting that idea down. It's just good to be aware of how these sorts of headlines are used in the service of greenwashing.
synopsis: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/s68

Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.13000
The average person is much more susceptible to lies that seem evident than truths that are difficult. By proxy, it seems you're also making a statement on the intelligence of the average individual?
With luck you will succeed. And that is a great thing.

But I maintain my position. If users are choosing packages because of speed without worrying about correctness, then packages will become popular that care less about correctness than what you describe. And when people combine popular packages that make conflicting assumptions, correctness will be lost.

In other words the problem is the attitude, not the specific package. For another example of the same problem, look at how C/C++ compilers prioritizing speed has resulted in their taking advantage of undefined behavior in a way that makes it far harder for any significant C/C++ codebase to be correct.
I don't have anything written up but I extensively compared Argo CD vs Flux about 6 months ago and chose Argo CD in the end. I'm really happy with it and currently deploy multiple services to multiple environments (different AWS accounts for each env) in a way that works for multiple teams being able to deploy releases on their own.

I only use it in a pretty basic way for now (Argo CD + Pre/Post sync hooks + Notifications) but I'm starting to look into using Argo Events + Workflows. I feel like Argo CD pulls everything together as a cohesive framework for deploying workloads into Kubernetes, plus there's a built in web UI that's nice to give read-only access to developers so they can see details about their workloads without needing cluster access with kubectl.
Maybe not the landfills once they are buried. But certainly from waste transfer stations or unburied waste, seagulls and other birds will pick up trash because it smells like food or may have some food in it, and then drop it outside of the landfill/transfer station.
5th Circuit Court Finds SEC Enforcement Unconstitutional [pdf]
Tap.pushtostart.
It is also manual memory management, lack of generics, of polymorphism, and what not else. Even C++ would be a better choice.
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That was actually really funny.
Nodeexporter – Exporter for Machine Metrics
I think getting rid of (or renovating) old structures is a good thing. 100 year old houses are not generally fun to live in, unless they have been very very well maintained to the point that it would have been cheaper to rebuild.
> I still want to be creative.

If you managed to find a boring well-paying and low effort job then congratulation! You have just freed yourself from money while having enough focus left at the end of the day to pursue a creative interest.

Now is the time to start writing a novel, pick up hyperrealistic drawing, do some fancy cooking, start an indie movie, make a zen garden, etc.

The world is your oyster and you have all the time and confort you need to become the best in the world at something.
Clicking on https://pipenews.io/ redirects to https://pipenews.io/feed

When I try to go back, it immediately goes back to the feed, so I can never really go back...