skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is precisely /not/ the case, as nuclear power plants are extremely slow to adapt to sudden changes in the power grid

Yes it is the case. Nuclear power plans are typically operated at baseload mode, where they run at their max capacity whenever online, but this is not a necessity of the technology.

Shutdown times are long, yes, but you don't shut down a plant to vary its output. Shutdown and start up times are long for many plants, independent of fuel. For example, most steam turbine natural gas and coal plants take more than 12 hours to start up.

Since you referred to France as an example, I'll use them too. France's EDF believes they vary their nuclear output by as much as 80 percent twice per day once renewables make up a significant contribution to overall power. They're currently equipped to handle swings as big as 21 gigawatts in under 30 minutes.

> you can "usually" cover all your needs with renewables + some dynamic technology and then cover the gaps (no wind no sun) by maxing out your dynamic technologies. This might have high CO2 emissions in the moment, but is still amortized small.

The math doesn't work out this way. We'll need to 3x our worldwide energy production by 2050. Developing countries are reaching for coal to do this because they aren't willing to pay the premiums required to make renewable energy work consistently. Energy storage needs to get an order of magnitude cheaper, or we need low carbon ways like nuclear to smooth that output.

On the map you shared, the majority of gray areas look like India does, and they're going to use a lot more energy in the next 30 years.
> That's a bit different than claiming time theft, isn't it? That's more of a suspicion that someone couldn't possibly be doing a good job if their attention is split.

The reason employers would not approve isn't because the employee's attention is split, but because the employee would not be meeting the conditions of employment!

40 hours is the commonly accepted definition of "full time" in the US, and this is often written into employment contracts as well. Additionally, employers generally have expected working hours where the employee is available for meetings, mentoring, pair programming, etc.

So, how can you fulfill the expectations of multiple "full time" jobs while only putting in the time for one?
What if you think that collective human courage is not even feasible? I’d venture to say it’s naive to even believe we’re able to restrict ourselves to the magnitude required. Even if one country found a solution, they’d have no control to exert it on other countries and it would almost certainly come with massive switching costs or limitations. Humans have too many tribal motives and politics to support a single cause like this.
This might be interesting, someone tried to use GPT-3 to generate 1.8k articles by scraping a competitor's sitemap: https://twitter.com/MackGrenfell/status/1514557363902205952
Who is claiming feral cars aren't a problem?
Vigilantes or stalkers without evidence? – Anyone can claim to be Anonymous. As in the film V for Vendetta from which this informal nebula is inspired, it is normally a force. But clearly, the “Anonymous” of recent years is far from their first fights – ideologically neutral – on the freedom of the Internet and the fight against paid criminals. After the recent small hacks against Russia, delving into the life of Do Kwon, founder of Terra (LUNA), seems to be their new passion.
Likewise (well a slightly earlier version of DOS since that’s what my high school ran on their ring token coax network, plus some (by that time) old college stand alones that you had to run something like ‘park’ to park the HDD head before powering off). In fact I’m pretty sure I’d written some of my course work in Word for DOS too. Feels like a life time ago now.

Anyhow, there definitely was an office suite (lower case O) that was bundled with some PCs. But as another HNer points out it was Microsoft Works rather than Microsoft Office.

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

(After reading the above link, Im surprised to see Works lasted so long. The last time I ever saw it “in the wild” was back on Windows 3.11)
I don’t use AirBnB because their customer service is shit.

Said that, it’s not my responsibility to ensure the flat I’m renting is owned by a real business that follows all the rules and not by a rando whose cheap hostel is causing havoc in the neighbourhood. That should be Airbnb’s responsibility.
If TikTok can actually access the camera and microphone after permission has been denied, then Apple and Google have a much bigger issue on their hands and need to fix that ASAP.
The graphs in OP show that cache latency is mostly ~10ms for desktop browsers. ~100ms would still be an outlier.
Not to mention the effects on our ability to think as CO2 goes up.
There is a (IMO quite funny) conspiracy theory that there was a massive disaster at a leading architecture and design conference some time in the 1930s, such that almost everyone who knew how to make beautiful things died, and nowadays we actually can't design and build beautiful buildings anymore, it's all ugly modernist stuff.
It was, yep.
We should consider using this on Venus or mercury.
Medium startup.
Can you provide a specific source for the "millions to tens of millions" figure?
The net solar flux hasn't changed. What you are talking about is increased albedo in specific areas. This is lowering solar flux globally. How will this effect agriculture? Plant life? Ocean life in twilight zones?

This is radically dangerous, and is only being proposed because we refuse let extractive industries die or change our lifestyles even slightly.
I think the only reason this idea is getting posted all over the internet is because someone at MIT decided to propose this. Whole thing sounds like someone trying to fix a badly written, buggy, slow program by adding more ram.

We need to fix the root of the problem, we need to find sustainable alternatives to energy production, protect natural ecosystems, find sustainable ways to make use of resources, not put some god damn sunroof over our heads and get an extension on dealing with this problem.
On the order of petabytes.
Tesla is cutting about 200 Autopilot jobs and closing office in San Mateo
Indeed, I found it very surprising that the latitudes of New York City and Rome are 40.7N and 41.8N respectively, especially when you consider the winters New York City can get.
", i.e. the heads of state of the 27 member countries. "

The Italian president is un-elected (chosen by parliament).

Also, what does this mean for Spain, whose head of state is a King?

Im sure "head of state" means "effective ruler of the country", a PM in Italy, the president of France. But ut just points to the Byzantine rules the EU has created in 20 (or is it 30? Or is it 70?) years.
TikTok is mostly adults now.
Except Ethereum is planning to eliminate miners and move to proof of stake.
Ok, for that to be true, what degree of warming will cause the sea to rise more than mitigations can be put in place?

If we keep warming to 3 degrees, do you think the sea works will not be enough?
Congrats on this. Love to see what you're doing here!
I wonder how many hours have been wasted on fixing mistakes made on git. Recently, I watch a friend spend two days try and figure out what the junior Devs have done with commits and branches
That's not "the standard", it's just worth mentioning that at least some companies have a proper legal team that seems to work on behalf of its users. Twitter's actually been behind a number of legal precedents on the right to be anonymous online.

I also don't speak for HN, clearly, since this post is full up on people who see no difference between "almost definitely has given full access to the government 24/7/365" and "Complies with reasonable court orders".
It'd be great if this could be codified in a proper regulation (that also has to be obeyed by US companies, not just Chinese ones).

But that's hard - it's easier to demand that private corpos play the enforcer (and corpos themselves were dumb to even get themselves into a situation of playing the moral and political arbiter).
It's a bit more complicated than just air-fuel ratio. The primary mechanism in NOx formation is combustion chamber temperature, while the primary mechanism in CO formation is incomplete combustion of HC. If you look at most emission maps, the NOx is decreasing rapidly while CO is relatively flat or increasing. My main point is that combustion is complicated and not as simple as "just do this thing to reduce all emissions". It's often a balancing act, which is why European regulations may be more favorable to diesels than American regulations and the opposite is true for gasoline.
tsk! you're not supposed to ask that!
idk if you can do all of that. Having one app that is just kind of a general purpose offensive option against any given US target seems handy.
yes restraint against structures is impossible, but if you change the structures to be still beneficial for humans and sustainable, thus not requiring restraint, youre good
Discord is the forum alternative for me these days. The fact that forums are terrible on mobile makes them less appealing, as much as I used to love them.
I'm conflicted.

TikTok collects data for an adversary at scale. Many complain that the US does the same but that doesn't change the fact that I live in the US. The Chinese government is an adversary of the West whether we like it or not.

With that said- It's pretty telling that the FCC only needs to go to Apple and Google. It would be really nice to have some antitrust regulation so that the FCC doesn't have this power.
The phones that run the Google OS are approximately 100% manufactured in China, just like the phones that run the Apple OS.
I disagree with the premise. Supposedly, Carr continues to run Trump's agenda, but then it would banning TikTok for the reason that the social network was used to organise anti-Trump activities during the last elections.
The Y axis of the chart that I linked, entitled 'Cache Retrieval Time by Count of Cached Assets', shows latency well above 100ms.
Miners have no say in it.

They "only" participate in the on chain consensus while the switch to PoS is governed by the underlying social consensus of what code to run.
How do QR codes compare for reliability and versatility?
Wow that is gorgeous.
A bureaucrat decides whether to add a hurdle or not. Now once in a while they do things that end up positively affecting some of the population, but at what cost?
Super cool project and amazing documentation! It's well worth a read.
Seems like a shortcut that shouldn't be.

I can understand throttling network requests, but disk requests? The only reason to do that would be for power savings (you don't want to push the CPU into a higher state as it loads up the data).
Trump did apparently want to withdraw the US from NATO entirely so what does right mean?

That German buying of Russian gas is a problem, of course, but what is Stoltenberg supposed to do about that.

Also German gas imports are something like 30% Russian which in turn makes up I think 13% of power generation, since the information trump states is vague.
Especially because mining is a business that you can fail at if you don't balance costs and income properly.

That's much preferable to proof of stake where early investors can just squat on their coins indefinitely with almost zero cost to maintain their authority percentage forever.
>China banning American services is to the detriment of Chinese users and competition in China, there's no reason to emulate censorship.

This is not true. China financializes everything, and pumps capital into projects at rates unseen and unmatched in the history of the world. There is plenty of competition, as evidenced by the fact that China has apps that are fare more efficient and feature rich than anything in the US. See: WeChat.
It's your lecherous winking that's so pathetic.
> I’ve often thought about getting together with some friends to pay into a fund to house our websites after we die. I don’t think setting that up would be too hard — the math around insurance policies of this sort is quite simple — I mostly haven’t tried to set something like this up just since it’s a pretty morbid ask. But, if you’d be interested, maybe reach out to me?

> Our ghosts could live forever, if we help each other.

I love this idea and would gladly assist in the effort, let's set it up :)
Sure...

- Pluses: furry animal in the house. This benefit can be bestowed by a dog or a hamster.

- Minuses: annihilation of several wild species native to CA. Neither dogs nor hamsters pose this risk.
Explored here: http://tom7.org/harder/

There's a video and a paper linked on this page with the information on this absurdity.
>Um, no.

Um, yes?

>Reciprocity is a pretty key concept in international relations

This makes much more sense in the context of physical goods and materials and international trade. It makes much less sense (I argue near-zero sense) in the context of some random non-lawbreaking, legitimate application or website.

Edit to clarify:

Refusing to export X to country Y hurts country Y, assuming they want X.

Banning legitimate application X developed in country Y does not hurt country Y (unless the majoity/all revenue is from your country), it just hurts your own citizens who may rely on application X. "Cut off your nose to spite your face"
"Email is dying" - one of those statements folks keep making while the number of email messages sent/received each year continues to grow.
There's a lot wrong with email protocols (it's still stupidly easy to craft very convincing phishing emails, and most junk filters are dangerously bad), but what's the alternative for the most common use cases? There's no other protocol where you can just hand over or publish your address in order to receive important/ structured/persistent information from another party. It doesn't require signing up to some single proprietary messaging platform and the fact it's existed for 50 years gives reasonable confidence it will still be around in another 50.
Nope, you're wrong. Each tableau dashboard component also had a link to download the underlying source data. You didn't have to even go through the html page source, it was readily available via standard tableau functionality. After it was discovered that the underlying data included PII information, they underlying data was replaced with a csv file missing that data. The csv file even said like "full data - copy.csv". Whether or not they meant to do it, that's open to interpretation. But my headline was accurate.
Exactly.

UBI is like printing money - the last stage before a country's hyper-inflationary collapse.

Instead of inflation & printing money, we should instead be thinking of salt - once a valuable commodity, nowadays so cheap people are literally giving it away (restaurants don't charge for it).

With enough technological development, almost every necessity of life can be as cheap (and cheaper) as salt. Except medicine, because people will always want to live longer, but even there technology helps - poor people in first-world countries have access to much better healthcare than even the riches human 100 years ago.
yeah surely if you want replicate Tiktok, you would make a new app rather than destroying the one good thing they have. Pumping our feeds with random vids isn't the same as stealing that snapchat feature
I bought one of these recently, and it's amazing how powerful it is given that it's a toy. It sits on the bus between the CPU and the cartridge, so you effectively get to change up to three bytes of program text / rodata* on the fly.

My favourite code is ANTOSA. This is a code for Super Mario Bros. which turns all pipes you can't enter upside-down. SMB1 has been disassembled with commentary, so it's now possible to see how the code works. It turns out there is a table of blocks for the top two layers of both non-warp and warp pipes, that looks like this:

VerticalPipeData
98dd: 11 10 .bulk $11,$10 ;used by pipes that lead somewhere
98df: 15 14 .bulk $15,$14
98e1: 13 12 .bulk $13,$12 ;used by decoration pipes
98e3: 15 14 .bulk $15,$14

The code to draw the pipes gets this address of this table and stores it in the Y register. Then, if the pipe isn't a warp pipe, it executes 4 INY (increment Y) instructions in a row to adjust the offset.

The ANTOSA code just replaces two of the INY instructions with a two-byte BVS (Branch on Overflow Set) instruction. However, the Overflow flag is never set at this point, so effectively this instruction is a two-byte no-op.

The practical upshot is that Y is only incremented by 2, which means it points two bytes inside the "pipes that lead somewhere" data rather than directly at the "used by decoration pipes" data. It turns out that the first two bytes determine the top of the pipe, and the second two bytes determine the second layer, so decoration pipes are effectively drawn (second layer, top layer). And voila -- "upside down" non-warp pipes.

If it was intentional, it was very clever. But I suspect it wasn't -- BVS is an odd choice for a two-byte NOP! An alternative would be change one of the INYs to a DEY (decrement Y), producing the functionally-equivalent codes EETOKX, EETOSX, EETOVX or EETONX, depending on which INY you change. I admit ANTOSA sounds cooler.

The full SMB disassembly (not mine) is here if you're interested: https://6502disassembly.com/nes-smb/SuperMarioBros.html

* Typically. NES cartridges could also contain RAM.
We need both since climate change has already advanced too much for comfort.
Utterly? They've been moving away from China. It's better now than it was.
At least some of those code books also included instructions for that kind of experimentation though. I very clearly remember my dad using those instructions to change Mario's jump height in SMB1 to just bypass whole levels by modifying the existing jump height codes.
Puzzle-Level Idea Strategies
If you're choosing a random subset, then new worse options may crowd out existing better options, so it remains the case that more options isn't always better.
Cherokee and mulungeon cultures are starting to be a bit more prominent in east Tennessee at the least. The accent diversity is really something else too - but yeah, plenty of Texan mentalities here I think.
The definition of a branch here does not seem useful in any way.
Fwiw a branch isn't a named sequence of commits, it's just a label that points to a single commit. It's exactly the same as a tag except that git moves it when you make a new commit.

Mercurial calls these bookmarks which IMO is a much better name because it works exactly like real bookmarks (in books, not browsers). A git branch feels a little bit like a branch of a tree because each commit points to their parent. Therefore, you don't need to track the entire sequence of commits in the branch but just the commit at the tip. I think if they'd had named only this concept better, Git would've been way easier to grok.

I wouldn't usually nitpick like this but given that the entire point of this article is it matters to get the basic concepts right, I figured the author might want to get this basic concept right.
Even more true than you may know! During this process I learned that my company establishes salaries, not based on COL or an hourly average, but an average of what they're competitors (aka "peers") are paying.
Because China doesn't ban US internet platforms, US internet platforms choose not to comply to PRC laws, which domestic PRC companies has to abide. Facebook/Twitter left because they couldn't/wouldn't censor calls of revenge killings during 2009 minority riots in PRC. It wasn't until NZ shooting and FB role in Rohigya genocide years later that political culture changed globally/domestically in US enough for FB to up the moderation game, around the time they wanted to re-enter PRC market. Except their employees protested and killed the initiative.

Flip side is Bytedance/TikTok bending backwards to follow US laws, because Douyin is used to dealing with PRC regulatory bullshit, meanwhile their employees just want to make money instead of undermine company expansion plans with geopolitical culture wars. Like it's not hard, follow the law in the country you operate in and be competitive. TBH that really leaves some Google services, a lot of western platforms simply can't hack it against PRC competitors for domestic PRC market.
As the joke goes:

Master Gorad asks his apprentice:

"How many statements does it take to call a function in Go ?

Apprentice replies puzzled "I can just call foo();" and I am done ?

Master Gorad beats his student with a cane. No, you silly, it takes at-least 3 statements to make a function call in Go:

r, err := foo();
if err != nil {
return nil, err;
}
That's a two way street. It's not that China has Apple over a barrel. There is a MAD aspect to the relationship. Apple is definitely trying to get out of China as a manufacturing dependency. They'd rather not be banned from the market, but they are preparing for that. Let's rip the band-aid off, I say.
Didn't they hem and haw in negotiation for months trying to save pennies per shot while people were dying and America was already rolling out?
Why can’t we do both? We clearly need more time so why not try to get it if we can while still also trying to deal with the root causes?
Can’t wait for part 2, way to be a tease, author!
Theoretically, but to make that work you're talking about a far greater advance in space capabilities than "just" launching from earth. You're still talking about launching 10 millions tons of material, and you're going to need local infrastructure to do everything like "make launch vehicles and fuel" if you want it to be an efficiency win over launching from earth.
You sound like you're working at a dysfunctional company. The people I've worked with at high performing companies have greater productivity than any F500 company I've seen. The trick is to hire few high performers, pay them a lot, and pay them according to their impact on the business. Go work in HFT some time and you'll see what I mean. No X years of experience required to be Y level bureaucracy.

There's a reason that every European car company has failed to compete with Tesla on software.
Knights of the Flexbox Table
I did actually. Must have missed that part.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220628182601/https:/www.busine...
> People all around CA let their ferrets roam outside and come back in when it gets colder at night (and to get food/water)

Do you mean 'roam' within extremely ferret-proofed yards? Ferrets famously lack a homing instinct and are not likely to find a way home after wandering off, if left outside unsupervised.
I don't answer to concerns about TikTok because I don't think there are any, and so I instead point to the ever-present elephant in the IT security discussion room.

And as for the US Government and concentration camp, maybe they don't use private sector data for that, but they sure do it based on ethnicity and origins, such as Japanese Americans in concentration camps during WW2, and South American children and their immigrant parents literally put in cages just a couple of years ago.
I love this example as it hits close to home. I once, several years ago, worked on a team where nobody else knew there was full-text search inside Postgres.

Took a few hours to convince, demonstrate and teach, but we got there. Took half that time to implement.

Six months on, there were about 10 full-text queries per hour. Posgres is probably overkill for what we're doing, but since the data is there. Imagine if we had gone the ElasticSearch route.

I still have fantasies of punching the guy who said "But if PostgreSQL has fulltext search, why would they had invented ElasticSearch"?
Not likely. It's rational superpower competition behavior in action.

The US Government isn't lacking in harvesting extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data.