skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because your "explanations" are incorrect. You just assume storage systems will become multiple orders of magnitude cheaper than they are today, and offer no reason to justify this assumption.

In fact, read what TFA actually says about storage;

> Key pillars of this new energy system are solar and wind energy, energy storage, sector coupling, and electrification of all energy and industry sectors implying power-to-X and hydrogen-to-X solutions, complemented by upcoming carbon dioxide removal.

I chuckled when I read "Power-to-X". It's a pretty funny way of saying "we no idea how to deliver storage at this scale".
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk are said to have these “alien/robotic” personalities. I don’t believe it’s a simple as “well that’s cus they’re programmers”.
> I'm curious if there will be legal implications from this

Since it was considered to be perfectly safe when they used it, and they stopped 20 years ago (presumably when they discovered it was unsafe), I don’t think there’s any legal ground to stand on.
Firezone (YC W22) hiring engineers to build a modern corporate VPN (remote, US)
Does it have to be a video feed?
Since you are teaching programming, there are multiple options to share editor sessions where the text is viewable on both ends. Then all you need is a voice channel.

VSCode has a live sharing extension (https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share), and there are some editors with this functionality built-in such as SubEthaEdit for Mac. If memory serves there’s even a Vim plug-in.

Looks like there’s a few online services dedicated to doing this in a browser: https://codeshare.io
There are many reasons why not every building in Manhattan is 50 storeys. The most obvious one is that each neighborhood's infrastructure imposes limits on the density of the block. Other considerations are public transit, water main, and school capacity. So the effective amount of "land" today, is closer to what exists today, relative to a block of residential 50-storey skyscrapers.
The discussion is

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32438368#32442794

Here is my comment:

This is actually very poor statistics.
Take a look at the actual study:

https://www.jhep-reports.eu/article/S2589-5559(22)00122-7/fu...

And look at table 3.
They are testing 6 different types of PFAS, and only 1 is statistically significant.
They need to be using the Bonferroni Correction because they are checking multiple hypothesis. To do that, you divide the required p-value (0.05) by the number of tests (6). If you do the Bonferroni Correction, none of the PFAS is statistically significant.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/

Thus the real conclusion is that the study did not find any statistically significant link between 'forever chemicals' and liver cancer.
Because of geopolitics, the rest is just hypocrisy. Germany and France wanted to build the Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok with help from Russia. That new Europe would became a 3rd power (after US and China) It's a good match. They can get cheap resources from Russia, manufacturing can be move from China to Siberia where pollution is not a big problem. Russia would balance China, so no need for massive military spending. USA could be pushed out of Europe.

It would guarantee future for Russia. Right now 50% of Russian budged is from carbohydrates. Due to fracking and decarbonisation it won't be profitable to mine in Russia in 15 years[1]. Without that income, states like Chechnya, are gonna try to leave the federation.

It's good for China as well, since USA sanctions would not be that effective.

The Atlantic world doesn't want the 3rd power (hence USA and UK are helping a lot in Ukraine) as well as Central European countries (Poland, Ukraine, Baltic states etc.) The table that shows military aid by GDP is an eye opener.

[1] Gas and oil from Ukrainian shores (Crimea) could speed it up.
And are also not basic human rights.

A basic human right that is a corollary to security is the right to self-defense. You cannot obligate other's labor to provide your security, but you can provide your own security and that is your right.
Related: team staying extra hours and working weekends to make a deadline that is “critical”, and then turns out higher ups don’t care, cancel project, didn’t even look at it.

Morale in the team plummeted, and everyone just switched to “paycheque mode” - then manager starts again on “critical deadline” - but this time no credibility and everyone is laughing at them.

Very toxic place I’m glad I’m not there anymore
They also know that free trade is superior to planned economies, soviet union style.
It seems the solution is to change the UEFI settings:

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/Enable_Secure...

Better articles about the same problem:

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59931.html

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Pluton-Windows-Default
I can’t access the article. However, AD tried to recruit me, and it was just embarrassing. They used to be one of those companies that wanted you to build an alpha of their app and then you might get hired. This was a requirement to get to the first interview. Not like any pro is going to put a week into a maybe-project.
Do you mean a tutorial to use the GJS lib to make an gnome app?
Moonray started at PDI, but DreamWorks has been developing it for years and years since then. There was lots of cool tech coming from both PDI and DreamWorks-LA. As an ex-employee of PDI I certainly wouldn’t say all the tech was coming from PDI. I will say, however, that in the late 90s and early 2000s, PDI had the most amazing graphics scripting & coding environment ever, and I wish the tools and scripting language could have been open sourced. Having joined immediately after grad school, I was a kid in a candy store, it was stunning how productive and fast you could be at prototyping new ideas. Just a few examples, I wrote a caustics renderer one afternoon, and another day wrote an analytically integrating environment map light source that outlived my career there. Juan Buhler’s subsurface scattering was originally a quickie day project. In production, we’d write one-off systems for all kinds of effects sequences with fire & smoke & water & foliage. Anyway, I’m probably gushing, but I still really miss that environment and the people who made it.
I have been thinking about this for a while...I cannot think of a way for it to be possible to profit from housing without causing poverty.

People say a lot of things as fixes:

1) Build more: this only works if they are affordable to the people who "need" them...not just the same investors who are already controlling the market.

2) Higher density: We had a highrise completed last year in my town. There are only 6 full time residents. The rest is investment/vacation rentals. Now another is being built. Meanwhile, affordable houses are being razed in order to leave the lots vacant or develop them into unaffordable housing.

3) Move to where nobody is: I live in Idaho. We used to be that state. Now we just have a market where you are required to make 2-3x what the average renter makes in order to purchase (assuming you can compete with the cash investment buyers). There are very few high paying jobs...and rents are increasing due to people buying investment properties in the middle of a bubble.

I would love to have a solution. The issue is greed. How many warning stories do we have about greed through history? Largely ignored...too much FOMO being exploited.

Currently, our town has companies shutting down (tons of unaffordable commercial/industrial rentals), restaurants closing multiple nights a week due to lack of staff, increasing homeless population in the region, but most importantly...the gap between "classes" is widening and the hatred is growing. Maybe that was the point the whole time.
The COVID vaccine isn't a radical new class of treatment; it's a vaccine - something which physicians have been giving on the regular for about 250 years. The oldest treatment in modern medicine. We understand their side effect profiles very well at this point.

But even if you don't buy that argument, even if you believe that a new RNA vaccine potentially has a radically different risk profile than all previous ones: When the cost calculus is a known risk of many people dying now versus a nebulous potential risk of an unknown number of people maybe or maybe not having adverse effects of an unknowable sort later, is it really that contentious of a decision?

We didn't have a 20 year trial period for the Polio or Smallpox or HPV or even Chicken pox vaccines before rolling them out. So why are so many people who were quiet about these other vaccines before now singling out the deployment of the COVID vaccine as an abomination?
Housing much more directly impacts individuals than software is likely to do in most cases. What makes being a landlord unethical by default, IMO, is you're participating in the commodification of one of the most basic human needs. Inevitably, even the most ethical landlord will, at the end of the day, have to make a decision based on their own economics which can easily cause a highly negative externality to the tenant, one the landlord is not required to deal with.
Good for profitable companies, yes.
Sad. Was one of the few things keeping me on Uber eats. Now they have no benefits over their competitors. Doordash costs the same and has more restaurants. Plus the markups from restaurants in Uber is higher than DD. No point using them
Quick update for everyone .... life is lethal and we will all die ... but our addiction to technology since the industrial revolution is adding to the cumulative toxins we are ingesting into our bodies.

Before the 1930's we were able to live lives without plastic, now, we have plastic in our lungs and blood because of technological progress and convenience. The very things that were designed to help us are now responsible for quickening our demise.

Why don't things change? Because everyone is too addicted to this modern lifestyle and will not do what is necessary to reduce plastics and contaminents in our life.

Just look in your house, how much you have of these contaminating technologies....if you feel so stongly about it, try to eliminate all but the most essential.
Exactly - lead was known to cause harm since well late Roman times I guess.
Thanks, I really appreciate it. Word of mouth helps a lot.
>The actual cost of construction/materials of the house itself makes a negligible part of real estate speculation.

$250/sqft, want to loan me 3 million? It will last more than a few decades.
The irrational fear-factor associated with anything nuclear is highlighted by how much attention Fukushima, the nuclear disaster, which gravely injured like a dozen people, gets relative to the earthquake and tsunami causing it, which killed 20k people and leveled a huge stretch of coast.
https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share
IANAL, but I thought the phrase "All Rights Reserved" was in direct opposition to "Some rights reserved, some rights released under the following conditions" upon which Open Source licenses are based

So, yes, AIUI all creative works ever have copyright, but only Open Source grants rights to others, such as folks who might want to contribute to your project
Very true. I’m both left handed and work in a data oriented position. I use the numpad to enter numeric values quickly during the day, and when I find myself playing games, use the numpad, home/delete to page up/down, and sometimes the arrow keys if I need to map additional keys.
Seems like a stretch to say Germany wants Russia to invade Ukraine...
But heating up rivers is one reason why nuclear energy isn't green.

Our problem isn't energy production, it's energy production with the least damage to our environment.
To be fair, the article promises advice on how to have a startup and 9-to-5, not on how to have both while raising small kids. Doing just 2 of 3 is hard enough.

> Run home at 5:30

Author mentions he's remote and don't have to commute which saves ~10 hours per week.

> cook dinner

If you are picking up kids today, could your partner cook dinner?
This is a noble savage error. Shelter was still a valued commodity and not guaranteed human right. Tribes fought over land, and dwellings required labor. They often had many people to a dwelling because of this specifically.

If you wanted to build an igloo or adobe building today, the land is cheap as are the materials. No one is interested in doing this exactly because the conditions would be considered economic destitution.
An article is not a puff piece simply because it casts something in a good light. This article is largely a transcription of the images from the linked report, and also addresses a common counter argument, “the power plants are dirty”. Batteries as energy storage/source are a related but entirely separate concern from the ratio of energy in to energy out (the focus of the article).

I also find it interesting to replace “precious metals” in your comment with “fossil fuels”, which also require destructive mining and have limited volume.
Ukraine has a large deposit of uranium as well.
Wtf is this article? Horribly translated and chopped up pieces of a Phoronix blog post. Why not just post the real article that's not written like buzzfeed click bait?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Pluton-Windows-Default
There is no technical reason. Previously, everyone could browse the MSDN (or whatever it’s called these days) catalog and view the checksums listed there. Only downloading required a subscription. This has changed. Now, browsing the catalog also requires a subscription.
The White House and Twitter Censorship
—Or a partner that bears an outlandishly lopsided portion of household and parenting work.

Also, instead of investing in and maintaining relationship with said partner, reserve the post bedtime time for your SaaS

resentment, burnout and/or divorce is galactically more likely than startup success, so do be sure that you’re the exception.
That's the developer license. The price to deploy was... close to absurd.
Lets see what the "informed choice" is? Freezing to death in winter or burn higher energy dense fuels. But you have a choice :-D
There is https://github.com/hofstadter-io/self-driving-desktop that enables you to "drive" the mouse and keyboard across applications. I originally built this for automating recordings. It even has a recording feature itself, so you can go through the demo by hand and then cleanup the steps afterwards.
Ukraine sank the war ship as far as I know? I do not consider providing supplies war, the same goes for economic sanctions.
But it is increasing over time: https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/Trends/

Global trends are difficult to accurately capture as we’ve seen with Covid. Most countries don’t have the infrastructure to get accurate and good statistics from.
I worked on Infotainment for a number of years with an Automotive OEM. I’ve only ever heard insiders use the term IVI, so I’m curious if the author has some exposure to the industry.

As for gaining access to the engineering, I’m interested that it was left in. We logged everything of course, but all of our engineering tools were removed during the build process. Essentially, our engineering mode was baked out.
The bomb. The hydrogen bomb. It's about the bomb!

Due to the bomb, US academics got a big dose of money aimed at:

Making sure the US is never behind in anything in math, science, or even medicine in any way that could hurt US national security or even the US economy or US health care. Or "Never again will US academics be permitted to operate independent of the US military" -- or some such, and I do recall the thought but just now don't recall the source.

So, the departments of math, physical science, and engineering get grants from the US NSF, DARPA, DoE, NIH, etc.

The university takes 60% or so for overhead and, thus, pays for the nice campus landscaping, the limo for the President, the glass walled coffee shop, the theater group and the string quartet concerts, the social science departments, the humanities departments, the art departments, the artist in residence program, the library, etc.

But the US stays up in number theory, mathematical and theoretical physics, computer science, ....

"Education"? There, sure, the first requirement is that the prof knows what the leading edge results are and understands them well enough to teach them and, more important, direct research in them.

How to make sure the profs are not just wasting time? Use competition, have all the profs in competition with all the other profs in the world and insist that the US profs getting funded look like the best profs in the world.

How to evaluate a prof? Count published papers. Weight the counts by the prestige of the journals. Count citations. Count prizes. See what job offers the profs are getting.

If the US starts to fall behind, then Congress can vote more money. Congress can vote lots of money, plenty to be sufficient to keep the US ahead.

Uh, Congress has lots of money because, net, the US is rich. E.g., the last time I added the retail cost of the ingredients for one of my pizzas for one, the cost was $0.39, that is, 39 cents. When a lot of US people are getting paid $30+ an hour, the 39 cents represents some astoundingly high economic productivity -- for the flour, cheese, sausage, trucks, railroads, farm machinery, wheat, corn, soy bean seeds, etc. involved.

Education for good jobs in the economy for the students? Naw, .... Instead, the main issue is the bomb, the hydrogen bomb!!!! Did I mention the bomb?
The ecological damage from unchecked climate change is by far the largest amount of damage. I'm not sure why we should give it a pass and only focus on smaller amounts of damage.

Because then the conversation will just be dominated on focusing on a smaller issue, with a similar impasse. Just because a bully gets outraged when somebody stands up to them is not a reason to stop standing up to them, and the same folks opposing environmental protection will fight just as hard on other issues.
No, I do not assume storage systems become multiple orders of magnitude cheaper than they are today. Even the storage systems available at today's price points would allow renewables to be leveled at a price that could be afforded. Rather modest reductions in cost would be preferable, of course, and we can expect those to occur.

Power-to-X is using technologies that are mostly off the shelf. The particularly important one that wasn't, low cost electrolyzers, has seen tremendous progress. The Chinese are now selling these for < $300/kW, a fraction of the price assumed in the 2030 assumptions in that modeling site I like to point to.
They're not oblivious, at all.

The switch to subscriptions has been a giant success for Adobe.

Their stock went from hovering around 30$ for a decade from 2000 to 2011-2012, to skyrocketing every year since they introduced the subscription model (in 2011-2012), now being at roughly 450$.

Anyone who doesn't think that's a giant success is living in an alternate reality.
> War is happening now.

> It started when they sunk the war ship russian..

I'm sensing this is a (((they))) kind of they.
The value of the land is based on

1. The inherit value of the land - rivers, gold or oil being key examples.

2. The nearby infrastructure

3. The zoning policies

4. The community and commercial services

If there is land zoned for another NYC, with the infrastructure of NYC, including the excellent port access, it would very quickly become worth what NYC is worth as people showed up. We see this with the pop-up cities in China after they reach completion. Though no doubt some will stay in ghost status forever.

It is up to the local government to do what they can to make the most of their land, just as much as it is up to the landowner of an individual parcel to do what they can to make the most of their land. The city is incentivized to zone the area so that it is valued highest. If they do a poor job of that, that is on them.
> Storage issues might be solved

The problem as I see it as that any '100% renewable' solution which could be ramped up relatively quickly would necessitate technology that doesn't exist yet. Of course there will be some progress in tech, but we have no way to predict exactly what it will be. It will also be extremely expensive simply due to the massive scale required, and there are numerous powerful & well funded groups who will throw down roadblocks along the way.

The reality is that we will continue to use fossil fuels for a long time. While nuclear energy is our best low-carbon option for baseline power, we probably aren't going to be able to build new generators quickly enough to displace natural gas usage for decades, and that's only if it's politically possible to do so. Which continues to appear to be a long shot.

In short, we're holding our collective breath for a 'hail Mary' breakthrough that somehow cuts through all the intractable quandaries and gives us a viable path forward. In the mean time, the increase in severe climate events will destabilize nations and make it even harder to reach the kinds of major agreements needed to go down such a path.

It's probably a good idea to either own land or have friends in an area near a large freshwater lake that isn't prone to flooding and has a history of handling both extreme heat and extreme cold. There's no way of knowing whether you'll end up embroiled in civil unrest or full blown war in such an area, but at least you can limit the number & types of risks you need to worry about.
"...we've decided to end Rewards soon, as we shift our focus to our new Uber One membership program." (EDIT: received in an email notification)

It looks like they're trying to drive loyal customers into a paid membership who may have been otherwise happy with the benefits they were receiving under Uber Gold or other level.
We know for sure one is true. The other is still TBD. Publications should be more forthcoming about that.
This characterization of rights seems somewhat melodramatic. A government is capable of providing its citizens with rights without forcing individuals at gunpoint to provide them. The way this happens is that the government creates an organization that is dedicated to the provision of these rights, and then individuals can voluntarily join it. The government can set the wage, or produce summery marketing material, or issue medals to encourage participation in civic practices.
For the visible homeless the percentage is high, but there are a lot of people living in their cars or on a friend's couch who just can't afford housing.
> After I learned about how residential radon was determined to be the “second biggest cause of lung cancer” I stopped immediately trusting these things.

> I just don’t think the science that led to its installation is rigorous. It’s a basement not a coal mine.

Can you explain this thinking? What you've said so far sounds like an argument from incredulity, not backed up by anything.

Radon testing is fairly straight-forward, the nuclear science behind it is all rigorous and well understood; radon gas decays into radioactive "radon daughters" that, not being gases, settle as dust in places where there is poor airflow. You can test for radon in a building by either sampling the air in the building, or by leaving a filter there for a while and then testing the filter for radon's daughters. If you do this testing, you find that radon is prevalent in some areas and a non-issue in many others. Do you think this testing was never done, or the results mistaken for some reason?

> “second biggest cause of lung cancer”

Maybe you're incredulous because you heard this claim out of context? Smoking is said to be the cause of 80-90% of lung cancers; the "second biggest cause" is just the scraps, under 20%.
The Uber growth hacking pyramid scheme is complete with the phasing out of the rewards programme with nothing to replace it.

It was a good run for the investors who suggested this growth hack in the early days and now they are laughing all the way to the bank and the users and drivers are left behind once again.