skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the specific things they are now saying they have good science on, allowing previous models that forecast it as a problem to be updated:

> Fifth, many scenarios suffer from incomplete power-to-X routes, a lack of comprehensive sector coupling, and excessively high costs assumed for key flexibility-providing technologies: batteries and electrolyzers. These are the two most important VRE supporting technologies that strongly increase the VRE supply share in scenarios by overcoming the day-night limitation of solar PV, supporting strong electrification of practically all on-road transportation, squeezing out biofuels for road vehicles, and enabling highly cost-attractive power-to-hydrogen-to-X routes for almost all remaining energy segments that cannot be directly electrified, including long-distance transportation, high temperature industrial energy demand that may remain despite comprehensive direct electrification, and hydrogen-based chemicals demand in industry. Thus, low-cost batteries, low-cost electrolyzers, and established power-to-X routes strongly increase the VRE share in covering the total primary energy demand. Solar PV benefits more from low-cost electrolyzers than wind power, since low-cost electricity is most efficiently matched with relatively inflexible energy demand categories through the intermediaries of hydrogen storage and electrolyzer-based power-to-X routes

Since you mention Australia, they seemed to be one of the first movers on green hydrogen, though everyone else seems to have caught up recently.

The amount of hydrogen used just for fertilizer globally dwarfs the amount of pumped hydro storage by multiple orders of magnitude.
> I haven't used sound on Linux for a long time but when I did it was in a completely different league to Mac and Windows - in a bad way.

I am not a sound engineer. I don't do music composition. I am simply a user who wants things to work.

Sound hasn't been an issue for me in Linux (as a user) for a long time. There was a period when the audio system was replaced with Pulse, which was terrible as they published Beta software to end users, but that quickly fixed itself and we are talking 20 years ago. Linux audio has been by far the best for usability for me.

I also understand that the latency issue has been dramatically improved over the decades with the current situation with Pipewire being excellent. If it has been a long time since you have used Linux sound, then just be aware that it is not the same as it was.

My Mac refusing to adjust the volume via HDMI I assumed was a feature to push towards buying an Apple display.
The replays can possibly malfunction if you speed the playback up faster than 1x. Not sure about the technical reasons, but the devs never fixed it. Many players still don’t know about the workaround to use 1x though.
No compression, and its slower than just reading a file with ‘read’ if you plan to consume the whole thing.
Wow, this series of posts is awesome! I have a Kia EV6 and just finding the OBD-II PIDs is a massive pain in the arse. Kia is actually required by EU law to disclose them (Art. 61 EU regulation 2018/858 [0]) but refused to do so even when I wrote to them. Need to follow that up with a complaint to the Spanish type approval authority (which approved the EV6)...

Writing custom software looks like a really promising alternative though, especially if the vehicle's cellular connection can be used. Hell, if the IVI uses the CAN bus, perhaps there's a reverse-engineerable list of PIDs.

[0]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
This does seem fundamental.
This sounds a lot like we need to come up with the correct API for this and switch to it.
Have you encountered any Indian bureaucrats recently? They are so far detached from technology and science it's hilarious. But they are very smart (cunning) in imitating whatever the ruling government is doing. So if government is trigger-banning everything, bureaucracy will do the same (and double down in most cases) without ever questioning it.
Yeah, this only works when the culture is based on trust. And when individuals trust each other. Using the question, especially in the way described in the article, is just putting more social pressure on employees. Bad management, bad people skills and in the end bad for ops management.
> Each such missile would still need complex computer system and propulsion hardware and so on. It would be cheaper then a Starlink sat but not by that much.

We flew a rocket to the moon with less computing power than a modern pocket calculator. I’m inclined to say we’d manage.

I think I’m confused about your term ‘launch capacity’. If we’re talking average/sustained payload/day, then sure. But I think the capacity of the soyuz and falcon is about the same.

Edit: Never mind, Soyuz has like 2 times less capacity than a default Falcon.

It’s probably not fair to use Starship for that comparison (as much as I want to) because it has yet to successfully launch.
My aunt that do remote conference a lot told me jitsi is slow and ureliable? She's not very tech savy so maybe she had a bad experience at the time when lockdown happen and the servers might have been overloaded.
The trouble with pumped storage is that in most cases, our ancestors were smart enough to identify all the locations that lent themselves to building a dam and built them. Often more than 100 years ago. We aren't the first generation to be faced with the energy storage problem.

In Central Europe, where I live, there aren't that many opportunities left to build new ones on a large enough scale. Also, if a drought comes, you suddenly have a double whammy on your hands: not enough water and not enough electricity.
See I hate this kind of statements. Even if every citizen "did their part" simple actions by corporations can undo all of their effort.
> To someone from a place with modern, well-maintained light rail, I imagine Bay Area streetcars seem as quaint and outdated as old Ford cars in Cuba look to Americans.

This is why San Francisco's streetcars are a tourist attraction. Few people go to Edinburgh just to ride on a modern tram, but some people visit Scotland and take a trip on a steam train (with or without the Harry Potter theme).
This project is at least 12 years old! Clearly you believe in it.
governments have been funding renewables left and right because it's a populist measure, and it creates jobs that guarantee voters. The dynamic is a positive feedback loop
on that front. Europe is subsidizing teslas. But one has to look at the downsides. Germany has overinvested in solar, but the results are feeble as it's not a sunny country and renewables are unreliable.

Even if there was an agreement on 100% renewables, i m certain it would get squandered in silly but popular projects such as solar curtains or rooftop
No it really isn't technologically possible.

Throw in a physicists who actually understands the difference between power, energy and time offset and the green grid plans that assume the sun shines at midnight underestimate the cost of replacing on demand power by two orders of magnitude.
Renewable energy is a lot less energy dense than oil or nuclear. Just to maintain renewable energy projects we need to re-invest about 25% of its energy output to keep it going long-term. This 25% needs to come from your living standards. Compare that to oil of about 10% and nuclear of less than 5%. Going green means that we loose productivity and have less money available on non-essential products and services. And many "greens" think they can keep their iPhone - I dont think so -, far away vacation - nope -, having a car - maybe a tiny one which you share with the whole family (incl. uncles and aunts).
At some point the carbon lobby will lose the political upper hand.

This will impact their ability to do public relations/lobbying and that will lead to more taxes and lower profits which will impact their ability still further and so on.

I dont think it'll be a linear decline - there is a political feedback loop here.

At some point after that deniers and skeptics will likely cease to be a thing as the money to push it will dry up.
Japanese vegetable cutting techniques (2021)
thanks for the heads-up, wasn't aware he added Julia now. I will take a look this semester break.
Once upon a time I too was upset when people found things funny that I did not. But, I've come around since then. Not to finding things i don't like funny, but to the idea that humor is complicated. Essential. Necessary. People offset anxiety and tensions with humor, and not laughing leads to problems more often than laughing does.

And, tbf, "the wife is never wrong" encodes some wisdom, same as does the saying "Happy wife means happy life" or, from White Men Can't Jump, "Always listen to the woman".
It might be, my 15 year old Getz has one (I know because it plays up sometimes due to poor conductivity), but that was never released in the US.
Ah, linear extrapolationists are again at their game.

The world doesn't need 100% renewable energy, and does not need to build enormous power storage farms to deal with unstable power supply from solar and wind. The correct answer is nuclear power, and the sooner people will stop having NDS (Nuclear Derangement Syndrome), the better for humanity.
What school was that if I may ask?
In that very limited sense gatekeeping has value. I like DnD but it is not my favorite system, I like deep lore, emotional roleplay, and, and if needed, I'm perfectly fine with artistic license by GMs/STs. Especially if there are power gamers in the group, because nobody likes plots that become entirely about NPCs and the 2 power gamers.

I also have no interest in suckless, so I have no reason to be upset if I, a fan of exactly the software suckless is a rebellion against, am left out.

The problem is when it expands a bit. Occasionally you'll get people saying stuff like "You shouldn't be using a computer at all if you don't want to use the command line and write C" or "Girls shouldn't plat TTRPGs at all, it's a guy thing and they just do it for the attention".

And of course, the unsolvable problem of whether non-suckless people should make an effort to write their programs in a way that can be used outside of the Red Hat de facto mainstream stack, even though they personally never expect to see a system like that and only a small number of their users will.
Fighting AI with AI: The Battle Against Deepfakes
Yes, it does.
It could easily be the backend of the messaging apps without you noticing any difference
Utility scale MW Compressed Air Energy STorage is much much cheaper . . .

[1] https://energystorage.org/why-energy-storage/technologies/co...

[2] https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/sepm/article/view/1574/131...

and, of course, there are other approaches.
This is a crime scene. Possibly an act of terrorism.

What do they mean by an "intentional" act?

What's the current forensic and motivational analysis for this?

Water sensor data should be able to point roughly to the dumping
location, and winding back through the keyhole and ANPR data should
bring up candidate vehicles proximate to the river-bank.

Mercury salts aren't a particularly "problematic" thing that requires
covert dumping, and moving a large volume of it would seem odd. If you
had a quantity of it already loaded in trucks then abandoning the
trucks in a remote wood or desert would seem more expedient.

It is however an ideal aquatic poison for agricultural warfare.

I remember in the 70s when Israel was hit by mercury poisoning
(deliberately injected) of Jaffa oranges - relatively easy to handle,
hard to detect without x-raying all produce.

I don't buy the implied (by absence) narrative that this was some kind
of "accident" or motivated by only selfish economic forces.
If “green technology” was superior on it’s own terms (cheaper, more available, etc) it wouldn’t need support from politicians.

Hint: it’s not, it’s a massive failure, and stupid countries like Germany are now paying the price.
Great, where is the link to cheap batteries that can store energy overnight?

There aren't any because they don't exist.

Renewables without grid scale storage are a pipe dream. We don't have grid scale energy storage and we won't have it for decades yet.
I dont understand the ai ml distinction you are making. What does ai without data even mean.
True. I keep it at "System default microphone" but its not 100% reliable. BUT, that is also the case with every other conferencing tool as well (Meet, Teams etc). At least in Zoom its easier to quickly override it when things go south.
It's everything BUT php. The mysql server on the site is too slow and crashed, the HTTP server somehow broke and served source code. PHP is the only thing that works there, and it tells you that mysql connection is not available.
Nonsense because non of it is actually renewable.

There is an insane amount of commodity input into so called renewable energy sources.

And what happens once you have two or more dry, becalmed winters, going to be hellishly cold when there is no juice in the battery and you've killed all meaningful hydrocarbon energy sources. On a long enough time line you will eventually not have enough storage to cover these scenarios. The idiocy of the narrative "climate change makes the climate unpredicable, solution become dependent on the climate", fucking moronic.

The EU could be a revelation of what's to come. The current drought has brought hydro to it's limits, the progressive liberal foreign policy has starved it of hydrocarbons. If this winter is cold and becalmed europe will collapse and all of you bleeding heart liberal bear responsibility for the millions who will die.

And if we do get through this winter we'll have the massive global shortfall in food due to the war on fertilizer both the Netherlands and Canada are waging.

You know what, fuck the animals and fuck the climate I want to be able to eat and not freeze to death.

No credit no control.
No vote no power.
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> Monkeypox can spread to anyone through close, personal, often skin-to-skin contact, including:

> - Direct contact with monkeypox rash, scabs, or body fluids from a person with monkeypox.

> - Touching objects, fabrics (clothing, bedding, or towels), and surfaces that have been used by someone with monkeypox.

> - Contact with respiratory secretions.

https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html
You make the foolish assumption that theses "researchers" are not biased simply because you agree with the premise due to your own bias.

It is rather surprising to me how people who used to rail against the "evil corporation" now love them some evil corporation simply because evil corporations have been created to pilfer society through renewable energy.

It could be a scene from 1984; yesterday the people hate corporations they always have been at war with and always will be, today they have been told to love corporations and they do so with zealous mania.
That COVID-19 is new in humans, is incredibly fast spreading, evades both vaccines and tests worries me. Now it just needs to pick up some genes that can cause it to be more deadly and we are in a lot more trouble.

Did a postgrad degree in Mol Bio a while back, and I cannot think of any reason why this virus has/will not pick up genes that would increase its pathogenicity.
> My evidence for this is that in the vast span of human history before these things existed, neither did climate change!

We are currently in the Holocene. Do you know what that means? Have a look at this temperature graph and you might get an inkling of the changing climate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene#/media/File:Holocene_...

Realise that this graph only shows the interglacial period (Holocene), not what things looked like during the Pleistocene (the last glacial period) or the Younger Dryas. For a more expansive overview have a look at this graph:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Evolutio...
AU Federal Court fines Google $60m for collecting data on the sly
Is this a sarcastic comment? It is hard to tell these days, because it is ironic in many ways.
Europe, Japan and China and many other countries beg to differ and are running and/or building plenty of railways.
Same issues here. I don’t care that my dock has a mic port that Zoom and Teams think they should automatically use. Use the damn system setting for my hardwired headset mic.
Why people install Zoom? You can use it from browser. I had to use it few times and it worked good enough.
> It doesn’t seem that arbitrary if it’s true that he was directly profiting from money laundering as described.

It remains to be seen what they mean by this. Tornado doesn't extract fees, so the profiting couldn't be exactly direct.

> It also doesn’t follow that a private ledger would be banned any more than, say, credit cards or PayPal are banned.

I specifically said "fully private", not "private from your neighbor", to differentiate with credit cards or PayPal where users have no transparency or control over who sees their data.

> The thing which would get them banned would be refusing to comply with KYC laws, which is a political choice rather than a requirement.

It's not possible for a decentralized system to "comply with KYC laws". That's like asking that paper dollars require an ID to transfer. They can't do that, they are bits of paper existing in physical reality.

Similarly, autonomous consensus-based systems like cryptocurrencies and trustless smart contracts can't just say to users "sorry, I'm not able to serve you until I see your valid government-approved ID", they are "things" not "services with a helpdesk, a street address and a CEO".
The delaying people are still the same though. As long as they get listened to by politics, we will never transition to sustainable energy before it's too late. In fact, even today might already be too late if you look at the latest data from Antarctica and Siberia. By 2050 we will need nothing short of a miracle.
They will go like...

storing energy is an unsolvable problem

Yeah sure. But if you have an abundance of electrical power you can literally lift up concrete blocks with a crane and generate electricity by letting them down. You can pump water up and use turbines. If you live in a flat area you can do the same in mine shafts. A German guy developed a way of cutting huge granite cylinders out of solid rock that you can lift up and let down producing high pressure waterflows that can be used to store energy. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen and run turbines off of it, you can charge batteries. You can warm up sand in insulated containers and use the heat to power turbines. There is so many ways to store energy it is hard to enumerate them.

And if you have much more wind and solar power than you need you don't even need to worry that much about the efficiency of the storage system. Sure, you're gonna select the one that you can finance, maintain and find the space for, but a lot of that stuff could be built literally everywhere.

Storage is no argument any serious engineer would pull out. Serious engineers would say that our electrical grids are not capable to deliver that much energy if we try to replace every form of energy with electrical energy — and they would be right. But this is again not an impossible problem to solve. We know how to transmit electricity pretty well. We just need to build the infrastructure.
Buddy, what has that got to do with my reply? lol
I feel like that rule conflates two different things: initial launch and maintenance. New development (creation of new features etc) can happen past launch, and maintenance (fixing bugs in "finished" features) can happen before launch.
Hacker News is global and English-only
There are a number of problems merging at the same time and the world needs to focus on re-engineering itself for resilience to weather pattern changes instead of trying to make more people subscribe to a religious belief (religion polarizes instead of uniting towards a common goal). Temperature extremes, droughts, flooding, eruptions, earthquakes, animal diseases, are all problems when they exceed the parameters infrastructure and human settlements are designed for. We need to first and foremost broaden those parameters, build accordingly, and create fallback plans to enable humans to survive failure. We need efficient quick housing and water supply solutions. We need proper communication and evacuation channels in case of emergencies. That’s an engineering, logistical, and political problem that is very real. Sustainability of food and energy sources is also hugely important.

The part about carbon credits is financial engineering that inverts the incentives and the political resolve of most economically lagging regions of the world (the most polluting ones) to do anything about the above - because it is political and religious. Religious as in focused on redistributing resources based on beliefs - akin to buying away your sin in Catholicism, and political when it is ignoring the fact that a lot of climate regulation in developed world simply outsources the dirty work to the undeveloped/developing world for the lower cost of production, thus not actually helping the planet. Or that politicians of both camps are heavily backed by the two dominant energy production camps and reliably fund whoever is backing them with regulation instead of building engineering solutions to mitigate the wider range of risks for people.

The world needs low cost ways to move housing, redirect water, feed people, provide energy, find and plan for regions at risk, identify and contain outbreaks, all engineering and social problems, as soon as physically possible. The religious and political fights that are happening instead make all of that less possible and even impossible when it shouldn’t be. The short term thinking is leading to politicians pulling the rug on a still not completely outlined problem in their own favor, instead of preparing 8 billion people for resilience and education to re-architect us into a better position for survival in the face of change.

People with the technical understanding of what is needed need to run for office and communicate what is needed to the world.
Your quote misses out the part of the sentence immediately following:

"this rationale does not necessarily apply to later-presenting young people, including the predominant referral group of birth-registered girls"

The group referred to here is defined by being later-presenting. Female is only a subset of this.

Also, Cass is just describing the rationale, not endorsing it. This is implied by the paragraph immediately following, where she discusses the paucity of data regarding potential negative effects of puberty blockers on brain maturation:

"A further concern is that adolescent sex hormone surges may trigger the opening of a critical period for experience-dependent rewiring of neural circuits underlying executive function (i.e. maturation of the part of the brain concerned with planning, decision making and judgement). If this is the case, brain maturation may be temporarily or permanently disrupted by puberty blockers, which could have significant impact on the ability to make complex risk-laden decisions, as well as possible longer-term neuropsychological consequences. To date, there has been very limited research on the short-, medium- or longer-term impact of puberty-blockers on neurocognitive development."

> and only recommends reviewing puberty blockers for AFAB people

Cass does not make this recommendation.