skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
900MW power and 20GWh capacity. Looks like Switzerland consumes around 60TWh yearly. Naively divided by 365 days thats 164GWh daily power consumption, again naively devided by 24 hours it's around 7GWh per hour. Maximum output is 900MW so 0.9GW. This is vastly off because demand is probably very uneven distributed but so is availability of renewables - see also here for germany: https://energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?stacking=s... - but I wanted to get an idea how big this is.

Pretty impressive. Might be enough to allow the surrounding area to run on 100% renewables. Not sure how realistic it is to build another five to ten of these but it doesn't look like it's impossible and would probably be enough to be fully self-sustained most of the time.
He was in ridiculous shape for Top Gun, I could hardly believe it.

I should add my favourite detail about the movie - during and after any pilots perform a manoeuvre, listen to their breathing.
Dunno what scenario it would fail on. You can also clone a local repo as long as you didn't mangle the .hg dir
I didn't realize how much water I was using until my bill went way up. Then I started running outside to read my water meter after various activities. Showering is the #1 usage of water: 80-100 gallons per shower!!! I had no idea. Literally, it never crossed my mind because water has always been so cheap.
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>Try not to turn people into strawmen.

As an aside, part of my frustration with talking to you is that specific problem. You're very early to dismiss complaints with things like

> (me) If an outsider does submit patches to scratch their own itch they can expect to at best be held to a much higher standard and at worst be treated quite rudely.

>> (you) This perception also grossly misrepresents or misunderstands open source.

Now I can point to at least a few instances of that happening, but I know from experience that the goalposts will likely move again. I can point to a well respected SDL developer saying "this architecture is not how anything else works and will cause significant issues for the SDL project, and therefor many games on linux" and a gnome developer saying "Fix the applications and libraries that claim the support Wayland, but don't do it properly.". Now even if they were right on a technical level (they weren't) that's no way to talk to your fellow open-source developers who were being very polite and explaining why the proposed architecture wouldn't work.

For that particular issue at some point gnome developers did step back and implement CSD.

But regardless, "this perception also grossly misrepresents or misunderstands open source" is completely out of line and where I decided you weren't worth talking to. I can point to multiple specific instances where gnome developers were rude, unhelpful, arrogant, etc, but I'd rather not drag into that. Like I say it gets insulting very quickly. The simple fact is that their reputation for being assholes is, on the whole, earned. I'm sure there are specific cases where it doesn't happen but assholery seems to be endemic to the entire organization.

If you want specific documentation on times systemd has caused significant issues (not counting the pwnies that are well documented) I've started documenting my experiences here (unpublished, and something that I'm unlikely to ever publish): https://traverseda.github.io/scratchpad/systemd.md.html

Or see this article here: https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...

Or this rather infamous interaction: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/3685

At some point I suppose I'll get around to documenting the times gnome developers were publicly assholes to other open source contributors, but honestly I'd rather let it go and just ignore the whole project as much as I'm able to.
> both Florida and California went through pretty stringent lockdowns

In Australia, police would patrol the streets to ensure people were staying within a 5 km radius of their residence, and to ensure they were only out for a reason deemed essential by the government.

This was accompanied by international, interstate and intrastate border closures, i.e. you couldn’t enter Australia, and couldn’t enter another state within Australia if already in Australia, nor could you in some cases even drive from one part of the state to another, without a special exemption.

I hesitate to ask what Florida did to enforce the lockdowns, because I’m fairly certain what passed for a “lockdown” outside of Asia-Pacific was a joke by comparison. I strongly doubt any of the above measures were done by any state in the US at any point in the pandemic.
I put in a reservation last year and it just finally proc'd
Same here, except the only times I noticed something doesn't work in Firefox but does in Chrome, it was because of my aggressive use of ad blocking and privacy plugins in Firefox.
I don't know exactly the "since when", but recently I was caught off guard when issuing `npm i` by mistake in a yarn project. It modifies "yarn.lock" by changing some, if not all, the registry from yarn pkg registry to npm package registry.
Very well said. I always tell people that D&D is one giant lesson in consent.
> How would you get impermanent loss on a pair of tokens that are both pegged to the dollar?

A "peg" for a cryptocurrency or token is a promise, not a guarantee.
This is how governments run too, but they add a few more envelopes as they have more avenues to peruse. War, plague, etc.
No, politicians are very (street) smart. Science produces results in the long-term, but elections are every x years and a career is maybe y years, all of which are shorter than the time in which science will show definitive results. So politicians will just look out for themselves as much as they can. The reason militaries get funded is because it plays on the basest fear in people and the money makes it back into politicians' pockets fast without having to show any more results than a pile of rubble.

You're right however, that nowadays it's structural that scientists request funding through defense, like of course it needs that cover.
Hg branching makes more sense to me. You can update to any changeset and then just start coding and it will naturally branch.
If you want something more permanent you can create a named branch.
If you can't find your unnamed branches you can bookmark or tag them.
This would work for me if I had two dishwashers. At any given time, one would be for dirty dishes and one would be for clean dishes, depending on which I had run most recently. The idea of keeping dirty and clean dishes side-by-side in a single dishwasher is unappealing.

But, it also takes me less than 60 seconds to empty the dishwasher, it doesn't really feel like work.
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This adds to the existing 4.49GW power capacity Switzerland already had (left panel, hydro storage label): https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/CH?wind=false&solar=fals...

Switzerland relies primarily on nuclear, hydro, and imports (especially from Germany), although I imagine this would enable the storage of cheap renewable imports (from France and Austria, vs dirty coal generation in Germany) that might otherwise be curtailed, as well as cleaner exports to Northern Italy ("IT-NO").
I bought a house in California, and the docs include a bunch of details on potential disasters, natural and otherwise. Dam inundation maps are engrossing - there's a dam over San Leandro that could put water on the OAK runways.

That said, I see wiggle room on "if nothing changes there eventually won't be enough water", even if we all know that in practice nothing will change in time, so I don't know how that actually plays out.
I saw this tech at a conference a while back. There is a white paper on the site.

https://www.polarissensor.com/skypass/
The record for factoring using a quantum computer is 21. Don't read that as 21 bits. 3*7. This has been the record for 12 years and that is arguably a result that is "cheating" with a priori knowledge of the factors.

There are some other examples of people factoring special-form composites that are particularly easy to factor on quantum computers, but those are basically stunts with no impact.

To threaten RSA, quantum computers need to increase the number qubits 6 orders of magnitude and improve the error correction at least 2 orders of magnitude. Check out this blog post for an illustration of where we are at: https://sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_landscape
Plenty of Chinese ones in subs like /r/China_irl etc., not seeing much traction of this story/dataset in Western world, though (hell, even on HN it barely got any upvotes 2 days ago.)
All we need is a start timestamp and access to the current timestamp. If we can improve the accuracy of the 'current' timestamp by hosting it on a remote server, so be it.

But I doubt that's necessary. How much do you think the clocks on computers drift between syncs? I would wager if I isolated my laptop and phone from any networks, they'd continue to show the same time for quite a while.
Or even higher up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charged_Particle_Lunar_Environ...
>I feel like I’m missing something

It’s just one of those things where a little more explanation is needed, but rest assured they’re very right.

It’s one thing to surprise your player(s), it’s another to let one player seduce the wife of another player without any consideration for how they’d feel about it just because someone rolled a nat 20 (actual situation I read about from another player. Also related PSA: a nat 20 does not mean automatic success, let alone that a player gets to do whatever they want).
The only button they provide is for accepting ads. To say no, they provide a link. That's a dark pattern.
In which case, I apologise to some degree as I completely misjudged the intent of your original comment.
Silly question, but is radium paint that bad? Like you wouldn't want to eat it obviously, or wear it on your arm your whole life, but would occasional exposure be an issue compared to other sources?

I could only find this [0], but I'm not sure how to find information about radium paint.

[0] https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/doses-dail...
Small scale. Where I grew up a billion had 12 zeroes, nowadays it has 9. It's a thousand millions, not a million millions.
I agree that long-term, outsourcing of compute capability is probably going to be a negative for everyone. That said, when your organizations point of difference isn't rooted in computing, and you're not a producer of compute platforms yourself, why wouldn't you source that from a third party? The arguments don't look that different to buying pizza boxes from HP, Sun etc - If they could have gouged your profits away I'm sure they would, but as long as the space is commodified competition should be assured, and that sets pricing down at competitive levels, not monopolistic levels.

Far as I can see the only arguments here are that either cloud compute is naturally monopolistic, which seems a stretch, or there's another factor that will lead to ruin here (e.g. long-term connectivity loss between your and your compute in a particularly nasty disaster scenario).
Like, I don't care* if my baker's goals are orthogonal to my own. They just provide crullers for the morning stand up and I can get them from other places despite the insurrection that would occur if staff ever went without. I can likewise not care if my cloud provider's goals are not aligned, because if they screw me I can just shop at another bakery, so speak.

All of this said, outsource to cloud isn't free. You have to have an exit, or at least transition, plan. You have to architect into the configuration, not just transpose what you have. You have to maintain platform-agnostic restorable backups of the information that's critical to your organization, and have an operable proven plan to bring in online. Failure to do these things, which I think is the case for a scary number of organizations that have 'gone cloud', could indeed lead to ruin.

I know this comment is weird. I'm in an odd space here of agreeing with your conclusion but mostly disagreeing with the premises on which you reached it.

*until we see a cloud provider that also owns major fab i.e. if Intel or AMD went into direct cloud provision and took it seriously for about a decade I'm pretty sure it's game and over the world itself would implode from the sheer monopoly that would ensue. Until then, however...
It probably makes financial sense too. Several hundred dollars on the flight vs several hundred dollars a month at the gas pump.
This is true, though lots more places could have hydropower than do, and presumably all of them could have as much nuclear as demand required.
The title is confusing.

Do we need much better apps? Or more, better apps?

“More better” is such a mind fuck
Exactly. In css this is exactly called

cursor:pointer/crosshair
What do you have against Rust?
The bottom one isn't a button?
did you just say "15% lower than the largest in history is so bad" ?
Ford and GM and Freightliner are not in a position to use price discrimination to confiscate FedEx's entire profits; if they try to sell trucks to FedEx at an inflated price, FedEx can just buy the same trucks from dealers, or buy them used, or buy GM trucks instead of Freightliner trucks.

By contrast, generally speaking, cloud providers are in an excellent position to use price discrimination to extract the entire surplus value of every transaction. And the flexibility and reliability provided by FedEx will to a significant extent simply be that of their computers.

(As chrisseaton pointed out, Boeing is in a cloudier position.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Hadron_Collider
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> There is nothing to "believe in" in science anyway, because it's an exposer of non-truth.

Trusting that the methodology leads to truth is the belief part of science.
Someone has to frame "the truth" as some functional model and that gives them immense power to influence, just like any clergy.
> Risky? Yes, substantially.

Then why not park the money in existing financial instruments which have a larger risk profile than savings accounts? CCC bonds offer >14.7% yearly returns. Argentina's 10 year bonds have ~50% yearly return.

> Question for you, though: how would "existing financial services" arbitrage it away?

If you think the annual returns are priced appropriately due to risk of default, then they can't. I only brought this up because you compared it the returns on a savings account.

Otherwise, they could just offer a 5% savings account, deposit the money into the crypto market you're talking about, and make an easy 6% return.
My voicemail now indicates that I am no longer answering unknown numbers and to please leave a message or text me if you can.

It’s a little lengthy, but it’s cut down on the number of spam calls I actually answer specifically and I’m reasonably sure that anyone who actually needs to get a hold of me has an easy path to do so.
The animations are causing me distress. They're jittery as opposed to bouncy.
Quite.

I tend to err on patch often and worry about fallout afterwards. All software vendors I deal with (MS, Canonical, Arch, Gentoo, Debian, RPi, Novell err SuSE etc) all do a decent job.

Fixing something like dialogue boxes going weird is one thing. Faking a kicking out of a bunch of Russians out of your honeypots is another thing.

(lol etc)
Ask HN: How will all wind and solar generation maintain grid frequency?
I always thought you need something really big spinning very fast.
Oh really. They lease their fleet of planes? I had no idea!
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"effectiveness" is an interesting metric, given that there definitely is not a shared viewpoint on the goals of gun policies. If you don't agree on the goals, it's pointless to worry about how effectively you're achieving them.
That's not what this is supposed to be like at all though. Not if you trust their explanation of how it works.
> flip the model from TCC to WDDM via nvidia-smi

I’m not sure that’s legal. I think NV wants extra money, details there https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...

> C++ AMP is deprecated and going away.

Indeed, but I never used that thing.

> don't rely on DirectCompute

DirectCompute is a low-level tech, a subset of D3D11 and 12. It’s not deprecated, used by lots of software, most notably videogames. For instance, in UE5 they’re even rasterizing triangles with compute shaders, that’s DirectCompute technology.

Some things are worse than CUDA. Different programming language HLSL, manually managed GPU buffers, compatibility issues related to FP64 math support.

Some things are better than CUDA. No need to install huge third-party libraries, integrated with other GPU-related things (D2D, DirectWrite, desktop duplication, media foundation). And vendor agnostic, works on AMD and Intel too.
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Did you benchmark if a the binary lockfile actually makes any appreciable difference for execution time?

Considering the speed with which a fast parser can gobble up JSON I'm somewhat skeptical that this would be relevant for common operations.
>> I'm sure the YT PMs have proof that this improves engagement.

...and it probably does in the short term, as you just try to engage more with the software trying ever harder to find what you want. But probably also kills engagement in the long term. Personal experience with this: Facebook post-2020 vs Facebook pre-2015.

Facebook pre-2015 was so magical as I was finally reconnecting with long-lost school friends and childhood neighbors we long lost touch with (pre-email friends.)

Facebook post-2020 is me engaging desperately to see something other than the same 10 repeated posts per day...knowing full well that the magic is still in there, just not visible by default. And then one day I just stopped checking.
a hundred scams running adjacent to the honest projects ... doesn't actually fundamentally block honest work

People expect the honest projects to give the same rate of return as frauds which is impossible.
Also because "mean" is the default state of far too much of humanity these days…
> if someone like Coinbase goes into bankruptcy, is the pool of money for their stable coins protected?

Theoretically, yes. Circle's reserves are separated from Coinbase. So one could be worried about their assets if they were being held by Coinbase, but if you are holding USDC on your own Circle should still be able to redeem USDC for dollars.
I’m always flabbergasted how often projects, including and especially the ones dealing with web technologies (JavaScript), fail to write a responsive website.

https://imgur.com/a/1yrgHR4
>For a company like FedEx I don't see the advantage of owning their own data centers. They just don't have the scaling challenges that would require that.

Depends how seriously they're locked onto the postman/route inspection problem. Which is a factor for delivery companies and, depending on how hard you chase it, a driver for almost infinite compute. Once you're playing that game, the economics look very different to most 'not an IT company' IT needs.
Why do they raise prices at midnight when oil goes up on the stock market?
Thank you, reading through most of this thread I feel like I've been dropped into some crazy world where freedom and security are somehow now mutually exclusive, and the user has become an infantile ignoramus who must be diligently protected from herself by the altruistic benevolent dictator, fearlessly and selflessly defending them from the nest of vipers that is every other company/developer/person. war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. I couldn't have imagined this level of elitism, arrogance, and paternalism if I had tried.

It reminds me a lot of this famous CS Lewis quote:

> “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
Then your concern is not about impermanent loss, but simply of the token's value going to zero.
I see a small impedance mismatch between "SQL prohibits updating in queries" and "SQL requires you to write query updates a certain way", though I see where OP is coming from. One of the reasons mini/microKanren has taken off in research is the use of immutable data structures to prevent the morass you can get with self-modifying Prolog queries.
> At the end of the day, the worst part is that we talk about "science" as if it's some kind of anthropomophic creature with desires and feelings and a plan for us all. It's a uniquely modern flaw to say things like, "Science tells us that..." "Science is about.." "Science is against..." Does this not strike anyone else as creepy?

This, like so many other reactionary screeds, is based on an intentional misunderstanding: nobody is actually anthropomorphizing science. English doesn't have many elegant ways to say "a process provides inductive evidence for a claim"; that is all anyone is ever really saying when they attempt to reduce a hypothesis to a pop factoid.

Similarly for factuality itself: the post's author is arguing against an 8th grader's understanding of "fact vs. fiction." It's simply not how either scientists (or the serious scientific press) uses it. Strip that away, and this is just a confused ramble about pop culture, everybody's favorite thing to hate.
I don't think sealed radium dials would be a big deal as long as they remained intact, but I can see how you wouldn't necessarily want to have them in a publicly accessible place where the glass might accidentally be broken etc.
Can you summarize? That’s a PDF I can’t read.