skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a mix. They are pretty much all private companies, but very heavily regulated. There are different degrees of regulation and a few different "deregulated" market structures, but there is a lot of government oversight even in the least regulated market (in Texas).
It seems odd to me to frame this as manual desertification. Isn't it the opposite, return to a natural state after manual "grassification" that requires strong human intervention?
I guess I will be flagged or down-voted, but I have to ask.

From your response, are you saying it is OK to vote for people who actively support discrimination against a segment of people ?

How is allowing people to live their life without State Sanctioned harassment a "point of view" ?
Social media is spurring some teenage boys to form muscle dysmorphia
My favorite is this one:

https://www.falco.nl/assets/image-cache/2235e.1d162e0c.jpg

You hang the bicycle from its handlebars. Advantages:"

- No bent wheels

- You can lock the bike at "working height": minimal bending to the ground

- Bikes do not fall when for example people bump into them
> Because the QOL from one is insane for me.

You have an “insane” QOL then if having a manual kitchen timer or a simple conversion chart on the wall would be a major difference.

At least with the manual kitchen timer, you can always know how much time is left just by looking. Set a ten minute timer on an Alexa, you have to threaten it with violence to keep the timer visible for more than 30 seconds of it, and that doesn’t always work either. I went so far as to literally turn off every single thing I could from the display and yet it’ll prefer showing a content less main screen over just keeping the timer displayed.
Getting a vanity phone number with four consecutive digits
Well, most games did not have online DRM and such until Steam spearheaded the way. You needed to activate the game online through Steam to play Half-Life 2, in a move very criticized back then. Fast forward 15 years and people are threatening not to buy the game unless it's released on their DRM platform of choice.
> water inefficient

Only if you don't know how to wash dishes by hand. Hand washing can be more efficient.

If you live in one of those unsustainable cities built in a desert, this probably matters, but as someone who doesn't, I'm sick of subsidizing that lifestyle by having to deal with cleaning devices designed for those conditions that don't work well.
Well, using your phone as a voice assistant is using a voice assistant…
The lithium battery revolution has made “someone has to break something to get your bike” an impossible goal. I occasionally see Kryptonite U locks with neat angle grinder cuts through the end hanging from bike racks around Brooklyn. The only thing that would really work is ABUS’s aluminum-shrouded U lock which will make an attacker go through a few cutoff wheels before reaching the steel hasp. But it weighs 30lb.

Really the thing saving you is that jerks with angle grinders are pretty rare, and a U lock will stop any opportunist.
I made an interactive version 4 years ago. https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/climate_temperature_ch... - I should probably update it with recent climate data.
No. It's that the UI, privacy leakage, software, and electronic engineering of these things is simply horrible.

I'd be happy with IoT appliances iff:

--They weren't designed to fail because of poor power conditioning and thermal management.

--They weren't vectors for botnets due to poor security.

--They ran on my personal cloud or LAN rather than some godawful Chinese server.

--I had veto power over all SW updates, and I could roll them back.

--They didn't constantly beep at me as if I were their servant, rather than the other way around.

--Their MTBF was longer than "dumb" appliances rather than shorter.

I can design systems like this, but apparently the big white goods manufacturers cannot, or don't want to.
It's easy to imagine that this can be made by printing the edge stuff along with the text then precisely cutting.
This is the argument we need to press to stop it. How can it be constitutional to profit from the segmentation of people?
We Asked 600 Data Brokers to Delete Our Personal Data [video]
Yeah it is! I've just made a game in Bevy and it compiled straight off to a 'web page' using Rust's wasm32-unknown-unknown target and wasm-bindgen to generate the bindings betweeen the wasm and js world (this is a limitation they are still working on - wasm blobs cannot directly access the DOM).

as soon as a wasm blob can directly access a webpage's DOM, you are free to use whatever language you want for your frontend, instead of JS. a pretty big deal if you ask me.
> an edge case

Not really: that person could have easily assumed that she "did not need to own a computer, nor know how to use one", as she may have easily assumed that no random "rambling" uttered into a computerized microphone could ever trigger expenses. It's a justifiable expectation.
Does anyone know of a similar program with grants that are about 10x this size ($1k to $5k)? That's what I would need to get some of my ideas demonstrated.
I think the title should say "...cross-platform". That is all.
I don't think your strategies are so different – the proposal here is not to _not_ adopt new technologies, but rather to ensure that you consider and manage the risk in doing so (which is very sensible IMO).

Further most companies don't make money directly from their technology choices – they make money from the services they provide to customers (which in the vast majority of cases are different things).
The data is accessible directly from the visualization page. But humans are very bad at looking at sheets of numbers and interpreting them quickly. Visualizations help us understand much more rapidly.
I think part of this is inevitable, but I am still very concerned because we cannot rewire our brains in less than single generation, and despite what many think you are paying attention to those ads. My parents might struggle with technology but I'd argue it's because they are trying to do something basic (like access the internet) or of value (like watch their favourite streaming series). I'm not convinced these new "value extraction" pain points that cause us hardship are the same.
Could you say more about that? It seems like an intrinsic property of the demand curve and the attributes of different kinds of power generation (ie. some can be turned up and down quickly, some can't).
It’ll be interesting to see what role hydrogen plays. Prices for using it to store energy are currently a couple times battery energy storage systems, and the component parts are not getting cheaper very fast (turbines + storage + electrolyzers), whereas battery storage is rapidly falling in price. But as you point out: we know how to use hydrogen/synthetic methane/ammonia as a storage asset if we need it.
No, I can ignore ads very well. I just buy what I need after a lot of research (and sadly good/real reviews are harder to come by).

All new advancements in "tech" have actually been in money making. Like appliances that require special cartridges for no good reason other than it being more profitable for the manufacturer. They finally adapter the printer-ink model, heh.

Did you know most contracts forbid recycling companies from taking out parts and selling them? Because it would cut into profits on overpriced spare parts, of course (official reason is "we can't trust that they'll perform well"). And so they go to landfills or at best, are melted down into something usable at huge energy costs.

Yes, people will put up with it. I hope not for long. I know people making 50k/year (good salary for EU) and literally spending it all on the "best" shit, who wish to buy a house and saying it's impossible. Then there's the people making 20k/year who save for many long years and buy a 300k+ house, or at least an apartment.

Willing to bet who will be better off in a decade or so? Or whose kids? Ha ha, I might actually lose that bet if a war or catastrophic natural events happen.
Good luck keeping your car in a faraday cage though.
This article was fairly good, all things considered, but you need some background in order to get the most out of it. The kind of magic King does not eventually perform (goetic magic) falls under what's called "ceremonial magic". Key to this sort of magic is time/resource-consuming preparatory work (which besides constructing expensive seals, may include fasting / ritual cleansing).

When King says at the end, "the key unlocks the door but you are the one who has to walk through it", he's partly referring to the preparatory but also imprinting process. The fact that one has to spend a lot of precious personal time and money (if one follows the directions of the grimoire to the letter) means that one becomes invested in the process with many changes happening in the psychological realm. Think of the whole preparatory process as ritual, acting it out strengthens and imprints the work. Or stated another way, one is constructing a new model of reality and simultaneously imprinting it.

When the time for the actual conjuration comes, which could be years after one first sets foot upon the path, the mind has been adequatly prepared to open the doors to the unconscious. Again, King seems to possess an understanding of this when he talks about the brain being the medium for the work. So, ultimately one can say that there's nothing supernatural here and people who have stayed at the supernatural level are either charlatans or deluded fools.

There's a good movie one can watch about ceremonial magic, called A Dark Song. Even though it does have some elements that can be superficially described as supernatural, it's -smartly- playing with the interpretation and does not rigidly impose a supernatural causality.
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Gas still produces pretty large amounts of greenhouse gases, even if it's a bit under half compared to coal:

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11#:~:text=In....

Renewables without storage, but backed by gas when the renewables are not available, will perhaps cover 30-50% of the energy consumed in an area, depending on climate, etc. That reduces total greenhouse gases by about 75% compared to using only coal.

But lets say we want to move to electric transportation, more and more people expect to have air conditioning and in general, we expect more energy to be consumed, this will mean that greenhouse gas emissions will still be high.

Now, some people don't care much about global warming (or only pretend to care). In that case, the above setup is probably fine. (Even though it will be a bit more expensive than the most optimistic numbers from the proponents of this setup, due to extra expenses in the grid and due to the gas plants running below capacity half the time.)

If you care enough about global warming to reach carbon neutrality, then obviously, gas plants are not a long term solution. In that case you need to go to fully renewable, or some combination of renewables and nuclear.

If you want to go to fully renewable, you will need enough storage to cover ALL the variation in demand. In such a case levelized cost must cover, I would say, anything from 12 hours (for solar in deserts) to 48 hours or more. With current technology (and with the exception of a few places with plenty of hydro that can be pumped back), this will range from expensive (for 12 hours) to extremely expensive (for 48 hours or more).

From what I can read from the storage costs, the levelized cost including 12 hours of storage (at the source) starts at about $0.2-$0.4 per kwh of consumption (meaning that it can store 12kwh for each kw of peak capacity).

At the other end of the spectrum, standalonge storage of 48kwh for each 1kw of production capacity (like you may need for wind power, if it is quite intermittent), could cost over $3 per kwh of power produced. (48kWh * $643 / 2000kWh for "Industrial Standalone")

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-....

I don't have number for hydrogen, but I don't think storing energy as hydrogen is cheaper than batteries.

In other words, if you want to be fully carbon neutral, Nuclear is still the cheapest as long as the price of Nuclear is less than $0.2/kwh. Most numbers I've seen put the price of nuclear significantly lower than that. And in places that are not desert, the break even is much higher.
I never fully understood why my dad only really bought Honda vehicles as a kid. Nowadays I do. Less cruft, more robustness. They just keep on running. My dad's '91 Accord has 320,000+ miles on it now, and it's still trucking along.
I can code, and I already have a tablet in the kitchen as a recipe book. But my hands are often either dirty, or in nitrile gloves, both make using the tablet either awkward or impossible. My workflow is to open the recipe I want, and then not touch the tablet until I’m done.

Not to mention that voice enables me to do this while also doing something else with my hands, like cutting veggies.
The low capacity factor of wind/solar, especially in less sunny regions (did you know that Boston is way sunnier than considerable portion of Europe?) is a problem. When renewable power + green hydrogen plan starts to require >450 GW capacity installed (in a country with peak power usage of ~45GW for just electricity) and that's the optimistic calculation, things become more problematic.

However, electrolysis is a great source of variable load, and changing pricing structure to prioritise dispatchable sources (including renewable+storage mixes operating as virtual power plants) would also change the economics of nuclear power plants without wrecking economics of renewables.

Prioritise dispatchable power (buying from NPPs, hydro and renewable+storage VPP) then match the rest of the load with green hydrogen production using electrolysis and push hydrogen into other sections of the economy (metallurgy, vehicles that can't go for batteries, etc.) so that your target is always to overproduce electrical power using hydrogen as sink - is in my opinion a much better setup than backfilling renewables 1:1 with gas turbines, and fixes renewables being "destabilising factor" in energy market.
> I'm generally a fan of this, but following this too closely will eventually kill your company.

But isn't that where innovation tokens come in - evaluate the risks of the technologies you're using and know when you're taking a risk

IMV too many projects decide to try the new hotness without this evaluation, I've witnessed re-writes in the latest JS framework cost a company millions in lost revenue, also seen product rewrites take years and not deliver something that was much better than before

Yes some teams can build create products on top off 'non-boring' technologies but also witness how many every day sites are build on old boring technologies such as Rails
Maybe it's a portmanteau of "crossplatform" and "FLOSS".
My wife asks why I carry the gun in the house. I say it’s to shoot Decepticons. Wife laughs. Kids laugh. Toaster laughs. I shoot the toaster.
How does solar power load follow at night time? How does wind power load follow on a calm day?
My “modern” (20-year-old, which is solidly modern by this standard) dishwasher cleans much better than I remember my childhood dishwasher cleaning. It also doesn’t melt plastic on the bottom rack, which is a fantastic feature. The main downside is it takes two hours, and I think my childhood dishwasher took one hour.

My modern front load washer gets clothes clean. It also doesn’t severely abrade them. As I understand it, this combination of features is unavailable in a top-loader. Top-loaders with agitators clean well but damage clothing due to rubbing against the agitator. Top-loaders without agitators don’t clean well.

(Fundamentally, front loading is just a better design. There is no reason to submerge clothes for the whole cycle; to the contrary, one wants the clothes to move relative to the water. With a top loader, the clothes and the water move as a unit and gravity doesn’t help at all except to the extent that it avoids needing a seal on the door. With a front loader, gravity actively assists the process. And, aside from saving water, the fact that less water is used means that less detergent is needed to achieve a given concentration.)

Make fun of modern low-water appliances all you like, but a lot of them are much better than the things they replaced even if you don’t care about water usage.
Agree! please keep up the fight. Use the benefits (like ad blocking making YT watchable) to encourage other young people to fight too!
This visualisation is misleading because the visual area covered increases quadratically as the radius increases, and (less misleading) the velocity of the 'pen' increases linearly too. But it's measuring a difference (not an absolute quantity): so velocity and (especially) area are arbitrary. I could take the same graph and apply it to the period between 1890 and 1945 and it would seem just as concerning, with a different scale.
We've never even built datacenters using robots here on Earth
If you’re curious, the discussion in 2018 got 449 points and 176 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17192926
or until Queen starts haunting a demon’s car, then you know you’ve realbeezlebub has a devil put aside for me, for meeeeeeeeee
Think of the kids!
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Ask HN: GNU/Linux calendar software handling CalDav delegation and invitation?
Both Thunderbird (w/ TbSync) and Evolution work fine for basic calendar stuff.

However, when comparing to Apple Calendar, they seem to lack two crucial features:

- calendar delegation (sharing with other users)

- meeting invitation; the events do show, but I can't way to change one's attendance status

It seems to me that at least one software capable of doing this should exist.
Am I missing something? Is CalDav just a broken protocol whose full implementation is doomed to remain just a sweet dream?
I don’t think it’s a thing. I’ve never seen a car that shows ads. Logos in the nav system doesn’t really qualify IMO.
I installed Kubuntu 20.04 on my workstation almost 2 years ago, and it has been working out well since. It really does feel well integrated.
IBM adds side order of NLP to McDonald's AI drive-thru chatbots
They have the pronunciation written as one of the first things in the linked article: /ˌzɚnl̟ˌplʌsˈplʌs/.
> Animals have no magic "equilibrium" sense but rather the surviving ones have evolved to have an equilibrium with their environment.

There's nothing magic about persistence balance in nature. It happens in millions of ecosystems.
Did you see the price tag? This device is super cheap for what it is, same as inkjet printers are. It's easier to sell a $50 printer and recover your losses through ink, than it is to sell a $200 printer.

You could solve the "system" by regulating that companies are not allowed to sell products at a loss, but that would be unamerican.
It's not an environment that naturally supports soil. The energy and water needs to support an unnatural environment are quite large.
Coming from Rails, I appreciate Django's less-magical approach. I admit it has some silly limitations though, like not being able to call methods with arguments in templates, and the whole mixin view generic classes, just to name a few

That being said, Django is great, and so is Python :)
I think the confusion might be coming from mixing "instructions" with "operations", which are not equivalent especially since we are discussing SIMD which packs in multiple operations (single instruction operating on multiple data). If you re-read this thread and replace instructions with operations it makes more sense.
We bought whatever smart tv and not connected to wifi and use apple tv instead. I don’t see problems with it.
> how much faster would it be at SAT solving?

With modern SAT solvers or with historic (single threaded) SAT solvers?
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All-AMD US Frontier Supercomputer Ousts Japan's Fugaku as No. 1 in Top500
Hacking is capitalism at it's best. If someone else can do the same thing faster/better/cheaper, then they should! No one owes your business anything - certainly not patronage for bad ideas.
Ask HN: What 1BR apartment hacks do you have for an expecting family?
My wife and I are expecting our first child. We live in a 1BR in Manhattan and I am curious what “hacks” you’ve come up with when dealing with a child and a space constrained space.
You can generate keys off-yubikey and store them in a safe encrypted backup somewhere offline/online/wherever.
Then just import those keys into yubikey and use that.

Ideally though you would rotate keys if you lost your yubikey because you never know if the password was compromised or not.
I often have multiple timers, that gets crowded fast. And even manual timers require me to touch them, while the whole point is that I can set a timer while my hands are full of raw sausage mix or whatever.

And my Alexa has no display, so it’s just "Alexa, timer [Name] status"

Oh, and a conversion chat is also somewhat horrible, because this one country uses volumetric measurements where the form a product is in changes how much X of that unit means.
> what is the multi-universe equivalent of this discussion

Probably it's a smeared out infinity of quasy-equal probability arising... and the people that see multi-universe as a "real thing" in that multiple classical universes actually exist get queasy by this because they intuitively feels this is off as an inifinity of infinity etc. of universes would violate the conservation of some meta-universal thinggy.

...but if you just take the Everett / many-worlds interpretation that many quantum phisicists say they subscribe too as just meaning "the wave function is the only real thing" and "we're just talking of multiple classical universes" as an "interpretation" because classical universes are the only thing that human intuition can grasp, so we'll talk about this to at least get some semblance of useful intution, as the real thing is intuitively incomprehensible and you can only "shut up and do the math" with regards to it :P

Humans are really bad at accepting the limitations of their own minds so they try to come up with all sorts of "interpretations" and "understandings" to paper over it and the fret out about made-up problems with these made up interpretations not agreeing with each-other.

(Though tbh, I'm not even sure that intuitively working with a non-real-probabilities universe is beyond our intuition... even examples from stuff like human legal practice and other cases where we work with incomplete information allow useful ways to grok this stuff... there's also extra-boolean logical systems like the pentavalent buddhist logic that could be generalized to include negative interactions and quantitative represantations... dunno, maybe we're just very early in understanding the universe... closer to cockroaches than the quasi-gods we imagine ourselves :P ...probably we should just be humble and focus on the math when intuition fails but not give up on trying to expland intuition too...)

Edit+: P.S. And it's probably obvious that I dislike superdeterminists because of their conceited lack of humility... but I actually think superdeterminism is a very useful stance, because if there are some/many extra hidden variables, then we need to assume their existence if we are ever to devise experiments to actually get to them... otherwise we're stuck. So maybe the superdeterministic stance is the best for moving experimental particle phisics further faster, the Everettian worldview could get too many people stuch in weird philosophical traps and dead ends. Kind of like Nietzsche said that christianity helped modern science arise and grow (with it's focus of clearly separating good vs. evil, then by extension true vs. false theories etc. rising in the end to the scientific methodology)... superdeterminism could probably helps us make the next baby-steps forward faster :)