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It's always surprised me that game mods tend to be developed behind closed doors. Why don't they follow common open source development processes? Is there a cultural or perhaps technical reason why open development doesn't work for mods?

(The one in TFA is an exception of course.)
For me, this is the only new piece of information in this thread! Thanks!
Technical overview of Kandria, a game and game engine developed in Common Lisp
But where else can you easily find racist climate change deniers who communicate in English worse than the people they're attacking?
Interesting results, would be even more interesting if the importance of the features in the trained model had been analysed with a method that considers the interaction between them, like SHAP values
It says it's a problem carrying around more battery than you need most days. And implicitly argues it's better to carry around a combustion engine (and gearbox) you don't need most days. I guess that means less rare metals, but then wouldn't pure BEVs with a small battery be ideal by his logic?
Low carb and lifting can work, you just schedule most carbs immediately pre/post workout.
It's swept under the rug because the US pardoned many of the the perpetrators (such as Shiro Ishii) in exchange for data about their experiments, which were then continued under the US biological weapons program, and projects like MKULTRA.
He is correct. The answer to climate change is not the EV, it is the electric trolley, the electric train, the electric bus, the electric scooter, the electric bicycle.

The EV, despite its many advantages over the ICE is still an incredibly resource, dollar, and space-intensive form of personal transportation.
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Hypothetically, if we banned BEVs today to sacrifice their batteries for PHEVS and only sold PHEVs for next 10 years it would be way better for emissions.

Of course no one really wants a PHEV anymore!
As a non-driving cyclist, the size of cars is one of my biggest complaints about them and almost certainly is a major contributor to queues of slow moving traffic belching out fumes.
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They've been talking about hydrogen vehicles for ages. I remember stuff from the late 80s early 90s suggesting this is the future.

Yet now I can think of only a single hydrogen fuel station in London (there are likely more but I am only aware of one), yet there are literally countless electric charging points all over the place now, and are starting to appear on on-street lamp posts now (see ubitricity et al), at least in London. It seems like hydrogen has an unassailable infrastructure issue, while EVs are getting increasingly more viable.

I appreciate that lithium batteries are not especially eco friendly, but there is scope for new chemistries in the future so I would be reluctant to say that BEVs are "not the answer" because lithium.
This reminds me of the story about a mysterious outbreak in Mozambique https://www.damninteresting.com/the-curse-of-konzo/, which without giving too much away bears some similarity. It's a pretty good read for a Sunday.
Your thinly veiled accusation of racism notwithstanding, I don’t think there’s anything morally deplorable in thinking the media should help the public build a more statistically representative model of the world we live in, regardless of the cultural background of criminals. As an example, I don’t think the demographic of young white guys fare too well in the mass shooter statistic, but omitting this reality isn’t of public benefit.
I don't think it is important that AI is intelligent what is more important is that it is useful and that it solves problems. AI Intelligence would just be a means towards that goal.

As human beings, we slowly evolve from one generation to the next but our tools can evolve much more quickly and it can give us in a sense, superpowers. Cars were invented and allowed us to travel great distances while Self-Driving cars (which will require some sort of AI) will reduce car accidents and provide mobility for everyone.

AI has the potential to greatly improve the lives of a vast number of people and so it might be looked-upon as some sort of "saviour" and that has some religious connotations but most people still would treat it as just a tool but possibly a life-changing one.
There is no ability to not comply. Seizure of assets is handled with financial institutions complying, and with the police backing up court seizures for physical assets.

No one is going to assault a cop, or have their bank shut down due to non compliance.

Where I am, what often happens is the damaged party has papers showing debt owed. It then becomes a colllection issue, sometimes, in some jurisdictions court takes an active role, in others, you have to do the work yourself.

Eg, you have to find their bank, hire a sheriff(the seizure kind), and go get what is now "your stuff".
FastECC – Reed-Solomon coder computing one million parity blocks at 1 GB/s
Do you have more details why Shopfiy is light years ahead of the other ecommerce platforms you mentioned?

When you say you're running ecommerce - you mean your own shop or building ecommerce solutions for others?
rebel bias ? :)
> Also interestingly, lower limits often reduce congestion and increase total road capacity.

Exactly. People driving closer and paying even less attention because “driving slower”. Lack of attention and driving skill is what leads to accidents, not speed. I do need to say, though, the speed limit in the city, between pedestrians, I personally treat as saint. But outside of the city, especially when there’s almost nobody around, well, that depends but never reckless.

> I'm not sure how safety at the race track works out, but skilled, predictable drivers in well maintained vehicles with race marshalls and huge run off areas probably makes any comparison awkward.

The only race track I’m familiar with, is the Nordschleife. Not much run offs there.
Dumb. But then… people are ignorant.
Inner city driving should be restricted to service vehicles only. The inner city should be dense enough that shopping is easily done by foot or by bike, and things further away are covered by a tram or bus line within walking distance
As I said, corruption will always exists, but still EU water is not as polluted with forever chemicals as the US is, and that's just one example.
nobody argues for using batteries for everything. But as cars go they can pretty much hit 90+%(1) of use cases.

As for hydrogen the problem is that you can make a battery car go several times as far on the energy required to produce the hydrogen. That means to fuel it you will have to pay several times as much as the electricity equivalent. Or of course you can relatively cheaply make it from fossil natural gas via steam reformation but that generates lots of CO2 and if you were to just make electricity from the N-gas and use it in battery cars you could again run more of those than you could from the hydrogen you generated.

(1) source my ass. just a guesstimate. does not include things like Medium sized Trucks. Its fine not to solve those right now.
Definitely not. 28 meters is roughly 5 car length. That’s not what I experience in The Netherlands, especially during rush hour. Bumper to bumper with zero visibility two cars ahead.
List seems to be nearly all novels, with a few plays and poems.

No Euclid's Geometry, no Herodotus Histories, no Bible or Koran, no Samuelson's Economics or Smith's Wealth of Nations, no Plato's Republic, no Communist Manifesto, no Leviathan or Rights of Man, no On the Origin of Species. Just off the top of my head.

All of those and more are arguably in the top 100 greatest books of of all time.
This is the obvious answer for any rational observer.

Everyone seems to want to attribute it to some projected character fault in Musk, a chance to elevate their morality or intelligence higher than a famous rich guy.

Musks offer was strategically made before yearly earnings, when everyone posted bad earnings the market tanked.
"Brake light flashers"?
OS X is Darwin.
Actually, it's a problem on both sides of the media, though I admit I was interested to see if biases would be revealed in any responses...
nit: 40 Easy Crockpot dinners... more like 10 :p also they are all "healthier than the takeout" and full of flavour...

Would love to hear how this works.

Check out https://text-generator.io which is much cheaper than GPT-3 and still makes creative writing/code autocomplete.

You can dial up the repetition penalty or N to generate more sequences in a single request (and you are only charged by the request not by characters/tokens which helps), often generating N results is much more creative than generating a long result as the generated output gets fed into the input when generating long text and often causes that kind of repetitive looping.

So some tactics to mitigate that repetitiveness are:
* repetition_penalty/retries/seed
* Generate N results and combine instead of doing one big generate and trying to get 40 results and ending up with 10 similar ones
* Creative input prompts

There's probably other creative ways of getting variety by splitting the generation into different calls with higher repetition penalty as you get longer or looping detection etc. Its easy to detect repetition in the structured case like chat but hard when doing longer text generation/creative writing
> That’s because the ethnicity of a criminal is usually not a relevant detail.

That’s a big assumption rooted in a moral framework rather than in objective science.
> and wrap it in ads, and derive content from it

i am probably missing something but can you give an example where this happens?
This guy just is just a PR for Toyota PHEV/ICE engines. He talks about lack pf infrastucture and range anxiety like a reason to postpone the transition. Toyota still lives in denial. It's like they don't know Tesla and VW are manufacturing mass market EVs.
> c) journalism in the U.K. operates a revolving door with the conservative party’s communications division

Actually the prime minister’s press office, and to be fair Labour perfected this process thanks to Alastair Campbell.
>people with PHEVs ignore the plug-in functionality and drive it on gas the whole time.

even in that case PHEV gets much better mileage than pure ICE and thus is a significant improvement.

I think the problem with Toyota is that Japan seems to be targeting hydrogen (in particular there were plans for large wind farms on Kuril islands with production of hydrogen and transporting it to Japan), and Toyota probably has bought into that strategy, and thus considers PHEV/BEV as temporary solution, and thus even not investing much in BEV. Hydrogen in a bunch of aspects is better than BEV, and its main issue - infrastructure - is what Japan is perfectly capable of doing. Other countries are very different from Japan, and this is i think where Toyota's miscalculation comes in - the other countries are transitioning to BEV much faster and doing it as as main approach and without any plans for hydrogen totally disregarding that supposedly, under some conditions, better approach. Hydrogen is the Betamax so to speak.
My take is that it's the scale of things that pits the entire world against itself in every issue. Because irregardless what belief you have, whatever your take is, chances are there exists an individual that is passionate about the exact opposite of your take. And the global interconnectedness has removed all barriers from instantly arguing, in some cases letting you setup keyword searches that notifies you when your "enemy" dares to speak up. Add to that the fact where there's lots of passion there's less of reason. Which will make you more inclined to argue in bad faith.
> ...approximately half of the investments were predictably bad...

I thought it would be higher than that. Investing in startups seems to predictably bad right off.

If this gentleman has solid evidence that there are predictors of success for startups that would be a much more interesting signal than noting that most startup investments are bets that went bad.
My take is that Toyota is 100% correct here, but simultaneously too late with this messaging today.

Imagine if the EU and others had taken a reasonable stance 15 years ago, and said "every car sold after 2015 must be an EV or a series hybrid with more than 50 km realistic range on pure electric". The transition towards zero carbon emissions from the road sector would have gone exponentially faster.

I mean, even if you look at the countries with the highest rate of EV adoption, like Norway with 65% of the vehicles sold in 2021 being pure EVs, it's still only making a tiny dent in the amount of gasoline and diesel sold - around 5% decrease when you compare Q4 2021 to Q4 2019, and then it's still a bit unclear how much of that drop is attributed to WFH and covid.
Ah, my mistake about nationality. Even if I don't agree with all the analysis, it's interesting to see what kind of conversation is going on inside Russia.
Officially and publicly, no.

Behind the scenes - who knows (not meant to be suggestive).
It's not quite so simple though is it? Electic cars require a lot more resource intensive mining to make, and I believe you are looking at around 50,000 miles before a Tesla is better for C02 ouput than a prius? And an electic Hummer is going to be worse for the environment than a Prius no matter how many miles it's driven?
Or we will have to travel less or more slowly using solar zeppelins.

Or battery powered plains with in the air charging using microwaved renewable battery.

Or we need better batteries the necessary energy densities are hypothetically possible with a theoretical limit of 2,700 Wh/kg of Li-S https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02574 . Chnages to mission profile with Aerotowing for take-off might also help a lot.
How can this guy sleep at night.

The way he dances around the point clearly demonstrates he knows the argument well enough to know he's lying.
> As to the sex argument, do you really find it persuasive?

The argument is of course completely bonkers, but this is the thinking behind it — and I grew up in a deeply catholic area: You just need to talk to those people and ask them "Why" a few times and you will end up there. The church seeing itself as a torch of morality in questions like:

- when do people have sex?

- what do women wear?

This is nothing new and not limited to catholics. If they control your private life they control your life.

IMO church should limit itself to questions of spirituality and be kept out of the state, law and private lives of the rest of us at all cost.
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The "Christian" church in nazi germany was a state sponsored group that got processively diluted down to emptiness.

One of Hitler's goons stated that in the utopian future the churches will not be granted licenses to rebuild their churches inside the city or anywhere. The nazis fully intended to get rid of christianity and hitler was to be the head of a new religion, nietschze style.

The real Christian churches were persecuted by the Nazis inside Germany. The nazis sent out some officers to the monastry on Mt Athos (orthodox monks) to take home relics. The officers that arrived at Mt Athos decided not to ransack the place and just hung out instead.
EVs aren't completely pollution free either. Their pollution comes from tyre wear and brake dust which is increased (compared to ICE vehicles) due to their increased weight. It might not be as immediately noticeable, but they're still turning the air dangerous.

Edit: I hadn't thought about their use of regenerative braking which certainly reduces the amount of brake dust particulates. Found this literature review (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13522...) that uses an estimate of zero braking for EVs and yet the increased tyre and road wear still makes the particulate pollution similar to ICE vehicles:

By analysing the existing literature on non-exhaust emissions of different vehicle categories, this review found that there is a positive relationship between weight and non-exhaust PM emission factors. In addition, electric vehicles (EVs) were found to be 24% heavier than equivalent internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). As a result, total PM10 emissions from EVs were found to be equal to those of modern ICEVs. PM2.5 emissions were only 1–3% lower for EVs compared to modern ICEVs. Therefore, it could be concluded that the increased popularity of electric vehicles will likely not have a great effect on PM levels. Non-exhaust emissions already account for over 90% of PM10 and 85% of PM2.5 emissions from traffic. These proportions will continue to increase as exhaust standards improve and average vehicle weight increases. Future policy should consequently focus on setting standards for non-exhaust emissions and encouraging weight reduction of all vehicles to significantly reduce PM emissions from traffic.
I guess I have similar idea. Yep, for sure electrify would simply lots of things, but is it really necessary to carry a such gigantic battery? Carrying a much lighter ICE and fuels might be more economical, or even better fuel cells. If we can get hydrogen fuel cells working, it would be even better.

Unfortunately, it's not uncommon that inferior but cheaper solutions won the competitions. Let's wait and see.
It’s not synthetic if it’s a biofuel
I absolutely would want a PHEV for my next car, assuming that it had a sensible pure-electric mode. I've test driven both a BMW and a Mitsubishi a few years back, and the UX was absolutely horrible.
The biggest challenge with making a search engine is to combat adversarial SEO. It's an issue that's very easy to be overlooked when you are small, but at Google scale, your enemies have billions of dollars to make from your visitors.

I bet Google spends at least as much to combat that, and it's extremely hard to deal with while being open-source. It's useless to call for a non-profit search engine without tackling this very core issue.
What's the video performance in Qubes OS like?

When running with VMs anywhere, I'm constantly aware that moving those pixels around is generally incurring a huge overhead.
> Many of us will never be able to plug in at home.

800v infrastructure cars can DC fast charge at over 250KW, which means you get 13 miles of range per minute. Plug in, and let's say it takes you just 5 minutes to get a coffee and donut in the shop on your way into work - you've got almost 70 miles of range added. If someone lives in the city, that's a significant amount of driving, from just 5 minutes of charge time.

But charging at home...I take it you mean people who live in apartments without a driveway? Because "level 1" charging is actually pretty sufficient for many, many people given how few miles they actually drive per day. You plug in when you get home around, say, 7pm and by 8am your car has been charging at, say, 10 amps / 120v. That's 14.4kw/hr. Many evs use around 250-300whr/mile on average, so that's 48 miles of range every night. If you install a level 2 charger, you're looking at being able to fully charge in a couple of hours.

There's no reason apartment buildings can't be set up with charging systems for their parking lots/garages...with deployment scaling as there is demand.
The internet, somewhat ironically, really needs a search engine that works in the current day. You can't find anything anymore. It's like Google has been un-invented.

Hopefully some day soon the internet will be searchable again.

Thanks to everyone involved in attempting to make this happen (preferably in a non-profit-maximized way).

(Said before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32034390)
Interesting to see that there are 1,2M app installs on the platform.
Ephemeral server instances?
I think parent has reached another level of enlightenment.
They are right! Eating maybe cause all of these things and for some people eating is just a chore.

I wish I was like that. I love eating though and I also enjoy a few more bodily functions!
Are your sure they're combating it? It seems like they've given up.
The risk of gasoline 'explosion' (neither would be an explosion, it would be a fire) is higher with gasoline because its vapors are heavier than air and tend to pool on the ground and in structures.
Even worse is the trend of what I call "lazy logos". Take the name and do a typographical tweak to one letter. Upside-down, different colour, italics, whatever. One slightly different letter and bam! It's a logo. Boooring!
These measures that disallow use of antibiotics by humans are inhumane.

For example, a chart in the article below shows huge growth in number of admissions after 2002 guidelines to replace full antibiotic therapy for acute UTI with 3-day antibiotic treatment.

https://bjgplife.com/confronting-the-urinalysis-tyrant/

Your last sentence is the most probable cause of superbugs.
While the point you're making in your comment is very valid, I really don't think "models vs reality" or "all models are wrong but some are useful" is what the article is about.
Philosophers commonly bridge a lot of the gaps between dumb ideas and sophistacted ones with very sharp sentences and poetry.

It is possible to compress complex down into smaller packages, but very few people do it well. Often working out the complex idea is hard enough without having to express it poetically.
It's unfortunate that with all the immense value that search engines provide the idea of paying a small monthly or annual fee to use a search engine is incomprehensible for most people.
Why is https://commoncrawl.org/ not enough?
That reads as an article from a person who congests propaganda from the other side. Not everything is about not does everyone care about being carbon neutral. BEVs may have just been left out because they are unpopular. It makes sense to teach about common types of cars.
In a news report about an individual crime?
Ah it was a while ago thanks for the correction.
It goes well behind the show and the song. My dentist and his office are all zoomers and they have the best music of the 80s blasting all day, music that I grew up with. It’s weird for me because I start remembering all the songs and the lyrics, but it’s entirely new for them.
This article is pretty funny “[VW] said it would continue to use the cannons if necessary”.
Not sure if VW is just giving lip service by “complying” and limiting usage of those cannons - while reserving the right to continue using them.
My TDI was build in Puebla and I didn’t know about this - pretty interesting. 150 acres is a lot of cars
I'm not sure why everyone defaults to dystopia.

Just move things around so people don't have to sit in traffic or commute for 4 hours a day.
Just imagine being able to hit ctrl+space in your editor to add "this question has been marked as a duplicate." :P
> 13 Aug. 1813

This is a good illustration of what I call a “backward legitimization attempt”: you quote a letter that comes from ONE CENTURY after copyright was introduced.

And by the way, the Statute of Anne, was actually introduced as a way to end publisher's monopoly and create the public domain after a short period (14 years), how ironic.
> I've tried to experiment with new artists....there's nothing there…

Not true in the slightest. Every older generation has been saying this about the newer generation forever. New music today might even be the best yet.
>> Already, EVs from Audi, BMW, Porsche, Tesla, and Volvo are sold without AM radios, and it's been that way for years.

Tesla aside, the primary reason for European car makers to drop AM radios is the decline of AM radio itself in Europe.

While it's a better, albeit lower grade, band for long distances and ieally suited to the sprawl of the central north american midwest .. it's FM that is king in the more compact European environs.
This is a good thing. AM needs to go. It's the least efficient way of transmitting audio.

From a technical perspective 2/3 of the power of an AM transmission is wasted with the carrier and that has no information in it at all. If you have a 30kw transmitter, 20kw is just burned on crappy modulation scheme.

Edit: fix typo