skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Here is a year old article on the DC replacement package, and there are lots of CPUC PDFs that are more recent and go into more detail

Uh huh ... you say that, but then there is a Stanford/MIT study from 2021 that called the closing of the plant a terrible idea. This utopian replacement of DC with no-gas sources is just that .. utopian.

>No, the technology is changing and there are far far more sites due to enhanced geothermal

... EGS is a science project with no clear path to commercial viability.

>The GW and GWh of deployed lithium ion batteries seems to disagree with your unsourced version of reality...

No! Who is actually using Lithium ion for grid storage? WHO? Lithium Ion is finding a nice little niche in providing very short term storage to even out spikes in electrical transmission. That's great, but not good enough to make wind/solar viable.

>Before there was a telephone network, did it ever strike anyone that because it didn't exist, it would never be possible?

Uh huh.

>Germany is always brought up as if it is some sort of energy disaster, and even if it were, it would not disprove the ability of renewables to power a grid.

Germany isn't an energy disaster, but it goes to show you that actions speak louder than words. If Germany was confident that they could replace fossil fuels with Wind/Solar/Battery they wouldn't spend billions to build gas pipelines from an authoritarian nation ... for decades to come.

So the question for you is: What do you they know that you don't.
You missed 2.6: b-strings
Clubhouse grew during the pandemic when some people needed to signal to others that they weren't meeting in person. Once that need fell away it started dying.
> passwords kept unencrypted on his phone

Yeah, I scoffed at this part.

What are the chances someone working in OpSec would leave his personal devices so insecure? Either the CIA had much more access than what this article claims, or the article is missing details.
When I was at VMware in the 'aughts, VESA often saved us as an unaccelerated option for guests that didn't yet have a driver for our virtual display. Was there really no VESA driver for the 9x family? Or does QEMU's BIOS not do it or something?
For more like this, read Skunk Works, by Ben Rich, former director of the same. Brilliant book
This is sort of the elephant in the room, and it's why I find the arguing over how many bots exist on the platform to be pretty boring. It misses the point. Twitter is a platform and coordination mechanism for elite opinion. That's what makes it valuable, and this is completely separate from whether or not "twitter makes money".
No, you're missing the fact that Twitter is a publicly traded company. If they knowingly provide false or misleading information in their filings, the SEC and likely the shareholders can go after them. It would be tricky to prove intent here, but there may be other risks. I'm not a lawyer.
Wikileaks has always claimed that the emails were leaked to them by someone inside the DNC, not by hackers, Russian or otherwise. The claims to the contrary have essentially all come from sources related to US intelligence services, and the publicly available evidence amounts to "trust us, we're the experts".

Russiagate is QAnon for liberals.
His other work is great too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0
It depends entirely on who shows up first, because top posts tend to dominate a thread regardless of their quality. I've seen plenty of 'liberal' topics get burned to the ground here because the other side is triggered or wants to brigade or do damage control for someone.

>Want 5,000 points? Just bash Trump in world news.

I bash Trump all the time - and i just get downvoted and flagged. I've seen plenty of what you would probably consider 'lies from the left' treated the same way. It's all relative.
Speaking of superchargers - I decided to look into supercharges near me (I live in a city in the U.S. midwest with a metro population just north of two million). There are 4 - in this metro region comprised of 7 counties! Four! And only two are open 24/7 every day of the week, the other two are only open on Sunday and Wednesday! Not sure why a charger would only be open two days a week, now I'm curious. I'm going to have to drive and see where these chargers are so I can better understand what's going on.

Of the two that are open 24/7 - one is located somewhat conveniently close to me but is located inside a parking garage. I don't know if you'd have to pay the parking fees to use the chargers and I don't know if you'd have problems with someone parking in a spot you'd need for charging.

So there's one supercharger that's open 24/7 that isn't located inside a parking garage and it has 10 chargers - to serve a population of 2 million people. Realistically what that means is anyone living in my metro area driving any EV is charging at home. They have to have their own garage. Seeing as how my city has a lot of townhomes and homes without garages that's going to hamper adoption!
Media over QUIC is interesting. For RTP or peer to peer QUIC, there is more work to be done. But you will end up engineering many of the same things as webrtc suit of protocols (ICE -- STUN, TURN, MULTIPLEXING, etc).

QUIC and webtransport can definitely already do DASH/HLS without some of the protocol complexity by using the QuicStreams (but to use QUICs underlying features, DASH/HLS need to change as well).

Some of us wrote a position statement in 2017, see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rtpfolks-quic-rt.... There are new documents around media ingest being proposed currently.
If anyone's interested in the programmatic side, I found the new Windows APIs for encoding to be very sufficient for both H.264 and HEVC: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Media.Trans...

I does not have as many tunable options as ffmpeg, but served me better for the purpose of multimonitor screen capture (~ 7k by 3k total resolution) precisely because it flings DXGI surfaces directly without the need to copy pictures from GPU to RAM and back for encoding.
It's still useful for comparing potential performance of algorithms with different O(x).

e.g. an O(n) algorithm will most likely outperform an O(n^2) algorithm, but two different O(n) algorithms can still perform quite differently.

But you're right, it's meant for comparing scaling.
I like to put things on x/y-charts to get a visual overview. Even things that usually are not displayed in this fashion.

When it comes to prime numbers, it always irked me, that one cannot easily look at them in a visual way. I always thought that they would probably look beautiful.

One day, I had the idea to counter this by visualizing prime numbers in the complex plane. I then wrote a little script to colorize each number in the complex plane by how "prime" it is. And indeed, the result looks beautiful:

https://www.gibney.org/does_anybody_know_this_fractal

Then I went back to do more mundane things with x/y charts. The one that became most popular is Product Chart:

https://www.productchart.com

But every once in a while, I still dream about the "complex divisor fractal" and what mysteries might be hidden inside of it.
There was a try at an ATSC 2 that kept the same transport but added interactive features. They gave up on it and went to ATSC 3.

The greatest tragegy in modern television is cable boxes. To this day a cable box takes 80W to do what a phone does in 0.8W and you are always waiting for it to do it.

There was this

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

but a standardized digital signal early on would have gone a long way. As it was cable companies struggled mightily with proprietary systems until Comcast developed a decent system circa 2015.
I predict twitter's board blinks and sells at <40 bucks a share, then Musk settles a bunch of shareholder lawsuits for pennies on the discount he negotiated.
Coal and nuclear have equivalent steam sides. Well, nuclear often has even more complexity with separate loops with heat exchangers to minimize contact between the reactor water and rest of the plant.

CCGT turbines are a bit different in that they have turbine first, and then the same steam boiler to turbine setup.

That is why I ask. All generation from mechanical sources needs generators, they need control circuitry. Steam plants need boilers, cooling towers and what not.

Just wanted to point out that singularly focusing on "hurr durr renewables need to dig stuff out from the ground and not made using pixie-dust" is quite the irrelevant take since the entire energy generation industry shares so much complexity, no matter the source of energy.
Basically getting banged around. It's like a series of rapid blows. In the case of aircraft it's where everything just rapidly swings from side to side.
this is exactly what I like in Golang
Artificial Intelligence is Human Ignorance. Being able to do things without insteranding why can only be temporary stop-gap in the knowledge-gaining process. It cannot revolutionize science by definition.

The biggest effect it could have is ending science, convincing the powers that be that understanding is no longer a prerequisite of capability, and thus science can once again be relegated as a nerdy hobby that is of no interest to the state or corporation.
For anyone curious in gaining a more intuitive understanding of this good answer, I highly recommend playing a few hours of Kerbal Space Program. Hitting the sun is both hard and expensive: things in orbit want to stay in orbit, so it takes a lot of energy to change orbits. (And you're likely to have a few rockets explode within the atmosphere as you attempt)
I think this form of imposter syndrome is fairly common. I feel the same way, quite often. I no longer feel like I don't belong because I'm not smart or skilled enough, but that I'm not passionate enough to keep my skills as sharp.

One thought that helps me deal with it, is that every company/team needs people like us. If everyone on the team is obsessed with the work, then it starts to create bad habits of overwork that will further alienate new people. So just by being less interested, we're helping normalize separating work from life, taking things slower, and hopefully preventing the whole team from burning out.
WatchOS 9 delivers new ways to stay connected, active, and healthy
> who the hell is even using OTA

It's pretty common with cord cutters.
This, so much this!!!
I parsed it the way you did at first, but on second reading, I believe it could be rephrased to "the work of 100 engineers simultaneously attempt" to make it clear the simultaneity referenced all the various systems working together.
I've got experience with plaster+lath, plasterboard+veneer, and drywall walls. Plaster walls are generally much more substantial, apart from when horsehair plaster starts crumbling and pulling out of the lath.

Sure you can use thicker stock than the bare minimum, or double it up for rated firewalls. I've seen such, and such walls do provide good sound isolation between apartments. Ultimately yes, a material is just a material. But it's like OSB versus plywood - you can build cheap or quality things with either, but there's certainly a correlation for what types of things get built with each one.

I'm sure there's some survivorship bias - the cheaper plaster jobs probably fell apart before I was born. But none of this really changes the overarching critique of being in a cheap ranch-box, and hearing everything else going on in the house.

(And for sound transmission I don't think it's the thickness itself, but rather the hardness creating more of an impedance mismatch with the air).
> Twitter’s assertions about bots are in SEC filings

now assume twitter lied in those filings
It’s a good filter for me to single out narcissists.

Everyone wants to be a cult leader
Hi,

Since i found it here on HN, it has been my goto language for all serious projects. Only respect and praise for Nim community ,I started by asking dumb questions on Nim channel, but someone was always there to help. Later I started using Nim for wrapping existing C libraries which allowed me to read codebases, i otherwise would not have read. Being able to write high level code and access memory directly where-ever necessary, hit a sweet spot for me. I recently started porting Code to use ARC, which has been really cool to play with and also provides out of the box automatic memory management for existing C code. Having a single codebase for cross-platform development has been a great help.
Personally would like to use Metaprogramming, macros features for some complex cases , still learning about them.

I think i know you from Nim discord channel, I mainly spent time in Science channel. Thanks for your contributions and checking out the website!
Interesting take. I think I agree with you. I think the corporate and fashie interest in psychedelic magic bullets is seriously misguided. The alt-right seems to want to use it to reprogram people and the corporate interests want to give us LCD or DMT without the "fun" so they can make it a product. Why remove the fun? Imitrex (Sumatriptan) is a migraine medication that is DMT with some extras. It'll save you from a migraine but it SUCKS. Why? Why not just give people DMT? Maybe it's more effective, maybe it's a pro-drug.

With the ongoing war on drugs and the abysmal outlook of just hacking the charm of psychedelics to make people into dispassionate monsters or work robots, I don't think we are on the right road to what the substances can do for society.

Also, not everyone needs to trip. Fact. In most cultures that do have psychedelic substance rituals they are used by individuals that need to go to a shaman and sort out a complication such as loss, sickness, or mental disorder. Usually the shaman is the designated tripper for the community and that lifestyle is not considered to be a super sweet gig or constant party.

Drugs being illegal has relegated them to parties, which I think is the wrong way to look at mind altering chemicals. Not that getting high as fuck at a party can't be super fuckin' fun but it commodifies the experience in a way that does a lot of harm that could be avoided without prohibition. Decriminalizing everything would open the door to building those structures into society and some places in the world have had good results with decriminalization and legalization.
Agreed on all counts. Matt Levine is a genius and one of the best writers ever, and Musk is a charlatan and a bully.

> I literally can't imagine ever wanting to do business with Elon Musk.

Never mind Twitter. Buying a car from that guy is really absurd and dangerous.
I dove in for the first time several months ago and had the exact same impression. I found the data model and webhook system to be pretty quirky on the whole - though not impossible to work with at all.
Did he? Without the contract, it's impossible to know.

Due diligence and "fraud" are two different things.

If twitter's numbers are garbage, how is he supposed to do his due diligence before getting the data?

As a normal person, not involved in mergers and acquisitions, it seems perfectly reasonable to make an offer based on the presented facts, and then dig in to make sure they are correct before finalizing the deal.

If twitter won't give the data NOW, why would they give it to a prospective buyer?
I agree that RTP over QUIC [1] is closer to what we'd build today if we were starting from scratch than WebRTC is. (Partly benefiting from the lessons learned getting to WebRTC 1.0, of course.)

It's worth noting that QUIC is also a very complex specification and is only going to get more complex as it continues through the standardization process. In parallel, there's ongoing work on the next generation of the WebRTC spec. [2] (WebRTC-NV also adds complexity. Nothing ever gets simpler.)

My guess is that we're at least three years away from being able to use anything other than HLS and WebRTC in production. And -- pessimistically because I've worked on video for a long time and seen over and over that new stuff always take _forever_ to bake and get adoption, maybe that's going to be more like 10 years.

[1] https://github.com/mengelbart/rtp-over-quic-draft
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc-nv-use-cases/
Apple launches its own 'buy now, pay later' service in Apple Pay
It's interesting how some corporations do not do what they seem to be doing.

I think of the airlines and rewards programs, google identifying people, and silicon valley startups selling stock.
I would love if it was Twitter that sent Elon to the poor house
> How can I even find a part time job at this point?
> Everything points in the direction of companies wanting more of my time not less.

You'd have to look for smaller companies without the clout to pick up FANG engineers. They desperately need folks, and can be negotiated with.

I've had two part time gigs. One was a food delivery app startup, but not as big as uber eats. They had a real patchwork of an engineering team, few contractors, few full timers. I just told them 20h/wk is my maximum and declined their requests for me to work more. They needed me, and hiring is very hard.

Another was a tiny payroll software company. Another small contender in a larger market. But they had their niche, and some real old software built almost entirely by one contractor at a time over the course of two decades. Moved at a real slow pace. Paid me $130/h if I remember correctly.

However.. since you sound like me in every other way (FANG, distributed systems, tech lead level), know that the work in smaller places like I describe is boring. It's cleaning up old cruft, shoehorning features in with no budget to rewrite any existing code, working with terrible tooling and documentation..
All good if you can turn off the part of you that wants to write sexy code and build beautiful novel systems. I lasted about 1.5y. But got to travel the US, play music, date, have serious side projects.. a good life for a while.
Apple Announces M2 Processor
What happened to the title? It used to be “In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Model”, which is the literal blog post title. Someone has now changed it to the boring-sounding “OpenStreetMap's Data Model”, probably resulting in fewer clicks.
I inherited an old java project where all routes were defined in web.xml. One of the biggest productivity drains was to keep having to look back and forth between the route configuration and the servlet implementation. Over time the route mapping xml had grown to a humongous size. Coming from ruby this kind of indirection was very hard me for quite some time.

When we switched to spring annotation driven configuration it was a breath of fresh air. The mapping of http verbs, params etc. were all colocated with the services and there was no need to keep jumping across files.

Very few people may use sinatra now, but its spirit will live on among countless frameworks that have embraced its minimalism to whatever extent their host platform allow.
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I don't think he's defending fraud, he's saying despite this Musk has committed to the transaction.
In movies you see military folks with a very dry sense of humor. Doubly so for Airforce/Navy pilots, and then test pilots just bury the needle.

Having worked with a few different veterans over the years (army, Intelligence, and submarine) I don't have anything in my small but diverse sample size that disagrees with that mythos.

Golden Era NASA was mostly pilots and quite a few of them test pilots. "Houston, we have a problem" is iconic but as far as I can tell, not exceptional.
That's my reading of the situation. But, probably both Elon and Twitter want to cancel. Elon would in principle like to buy, but the timing was unfortunate, and the offered price is now too expensive.
Apple announces M2 chip for new Apple Silicon Macs
> They're about what you need

I've no experience with game dev, but in other areas of development what you need is often not known ahead of time (which I believe the parent is trying to say). Operating under those conditions makes the Position abstraction somewhat arbitrary (until it's obvious it's needed by other parts of the system). Aggressive refactoring and robust testing are necessary when operating under these conditions.
Its true - he can cancel whenever he wants.

Just needs to write a $1B check.
$666M in Ethereum short positions liquidated in one day
It's definitely possible to find the same thing online. Most of the online spaces I hang out in aren't like that: here, the various subreddits I joined, my fairly carefully culled Twitter feed, etc.
Why?

With as obnoxious as Elon Musk has been on his Twitter account, it is far more likely that Elon Musk is providing the Twitter-lawyers with plenty of examples for their inevitable court case.

Ex: Elon Musk needs to explain his "I don't care about the financials of this deal" statement to a jury, or "Single most annoying problem on Twitter" tweets.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1511230314902953984

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When you have an obnoxious dude making public statements, lawyers want them to make _more_ statements, not fewer statements.
While not commonly expressed this way as it is usually phrased in terms of much flashier black holes, this is one of the questions that we need a (correct) theory of quantum gravitation to deal with. I think the best answer is nobody knows. I think you could make a decent handwavy case that this probably produces some sort of gravity entanglement that will collapse (or whatever, insert your favorite theory here) later, as it would ultimately be very strange if gravity is not itself "quantum" w.r.t. also ending up with imaginary probabilities and the quantum effects that naturally follow from that, but this has neither been successfully formalized into math nor experimentally verified.
Apple announces new flagship M2 processor
backlights do fade; perhaps look at a new monitor to compare?
Actually shen can kind of handle dynamic type checking, I think only this and Maude https://maude.lcc.uma.es/maude321-manual-html/maude-manual.h... can do that.

I found the best way to learn shen was the book of shen:
https://shenlanguage.org/TBOS/tbos_255.html (dynamic type checking example here)
In hindsight, some kind of clause about the market valuation moving by X% might have been a good idea.

Not sure how you would contract for that, but the actual value of the asset has significantly declined.
It's exciting that these computational tools have unlocked a new phase of "butterfly collecting". Can't wait for the theoretical developments people come up with on the back of it.
For Germany the beginning of the welfare-state is usually associated with social legislation under Bismarck, a generation before World War I: health insurance 1883, accident insurance 1884, old age and disability insurance 1889/91.