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IANAL, but in patent law, novel means there is no single prior patent covering all aspects of the newly claimed patent; non-obvious means it’s not possible to arrive at the claimed invention by combining a few prior patents.

So, if there are patents for a horse-drawn cart (with two wheels), and for carriages (with four wheels), the idea of a horse-drawn carriage with four wheels is novel, but obvious.

I’m not claiming it works as intended, but the idea behind that is to prevent a combinatorial explosion of patents (“oxen-drawn cart with a bench to sit on”, “horse-drawn carriage with a cover against the sun”, “oxen-drawn carriage with a bench to sit on and a cover against rain and sun”, etc)

So, it’s not about being obvious to laymen (that’s hard to decide upon, anyways, as many inventions are trivial once you know of their existence)
This study [0] suggests that depending on adoption rates, the induced demand from commuting alone would be closer to 35-45%. The authors don't address how challenging scaling generation by that much would be, however.

Another article [1] suggests that it's not actually raw generation that will be the constraining factor, but actually power quality -- the authors suggest that cleaning and converting the power for high-voltage DC charging could be a much bigger task than scaling generation.

[0]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=883...

[1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=933...
>Don't buy games with anti-cheat

So you would let cheaters win? What a weird take. Small amount of people wants to ruin game for everyone > the solution shouldn't be abandoning online games
It’s cheaper to run 1 more GPU when you are already running 100

It’s the same price to add 1 eth when you own 100 eth as when you own 1 eth
Reminds me of a book with a 4-digit title.
Articles like this are why I come to Hacker News. They have contributed so much to my career it's not even funny.
What if your responsibilities/capabilities didn't change, and you merely realized that you're worth more to the business than what you're currently being paid?
Even if universe is deterministic, humans are still Turing complete, which means the end result of our thoughts is not known in advance, even if pre-determined. The only way to guess our behavior exactly is by letting it unravel.
That's what is different about this new study. It uses real time supply/demand figures instead of annualized averages. It meets 98.8% of demand with renewables and fills in with fossil power the rest of the time. To quote from the article:

Key results from the 52 weeks of simulations are summarised as follows:

- Renewables met 98.8% of demand over the year, with the remaining 1.2% met by ‘Other’ (fossils)

- ‘Other’ generation peaked at 6.59 GW on the night of July 12. Over the year its average capacity factor was 4.3%.

- Hydro met 6.9% of demand. This was lower than my target of 7.5%, and also less than actual hydro generation of 8%. This means that dam storage levels in my simulation would have ended the year higher than they did in the real world.

- 17% of the wind and solar generation was in excess of requirements and ended up being curtailed.

- 11% of wind and solar generation went into storage. Storage discharge met 10% of demand.

- 82% of demand was directly powered by wind and solar without having to pass through storage or be curtailed.
> it should be counted against the sale price of the vehicle itself

But why? Why should they do that?

For example a band that plays a concert counts on extras like merchandise sales to cover costs. Should the ticket price cover all their costs and is it unethical to also offer merchandise if they need it to cover costs?

I can't understand the logic in this thread.
This video came out yesterday and talks about this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pcAfeGCrUc
Adding the double-spend concept into it makes it even more silly. If you are changing the validation rules of Bitcoin to allow double-spend, then your block is rejected by the entire network and you must fork, even if you had 99% of the hashpower.
Video of the unveil at SGDQ 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbkv_DJ0f0

Some explainer videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_RighmL04g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9cCtRYMKm4
Nothing, nothing happens. You can't just lie about slashing, the term "proof" is being used in the computational sense.

The submission you're describing requires a cryptographic proof of that validator submitting two or more existing invalid blocks that they signed. You can't just falsify that without their private keys, so what you're suggesting is not possible.
It's an feature-rich well-designed performant program and I strongly prefer it to the built-in mail app. With ads, of course, not so much. I'd consider paying $5/year to remove the ads if Microsoft allowed it.
There's a simple solution to this: stop watching TV

Consume media that you own. Buy physical copies. Pirate. Read. Play!

We gave up control of our media and now we pikachu_sad_face.gif when it turns against us.

This is what we get for being lazy consumers.

Meanwhile those of us with hoardes of media files, DVDs, and Blu-Rays can sit atop our pile of entertainment and laugh at the peasants that gave it up
I still can't stop laughing. What would be the software engineering equivalent of this? Something to do with Kubernetes I suppose.
Could be that other banks are equally vulnerable and just not disclosing it. Hard to know without some insider knowledge. We'll know in a few months if class action lawsuits start popping up.
In the same vein, a short sci-fi film "The Nostalgist" [0]. This film really opened my eyes regarding why we may not want devices that alter our perception of reality.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCQtoQ8ypk
I don’t really care I’m just saying how it looks from the outside
Yeah but for someone like me who rarely rewatches things it’s not really a solution.
Or with the same caution as an ex.
> I don't mind that idea - if it turned out installing heated seats failed in say... 28% of installations, fine - charge me more for a model with functioning heated seats.

I know you just chose this as an example, but clearly it wouldn't be acceptable to anyone to have a failed installation of something like this. On one extreme, it could cause a fire; but otherwise, it's just a button that doesn't work, and damages the quality reputation of the car.

Processor binning only works because it is a black box, indistinguishable from the outside. You can purposely disable components if your yields get high enough, etc. and nobody will ever notice the difference.

For vehicles, automakers will learn from customers that this kind of nickel-and-diming is not appreciated, when people turn to other manufacturers that still "get it", e.g. Mazda.
Related: I wrote about Heroku a few months ago and there was some good disucssion[1] here.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559270
Yeah, as a resident I doubt that. We have a pretty aggressive driving culture and I don't think we can blame it on Trumpers driving in from the Burbs to cause trouble.
If you control 51% of the network (actually, with Ethereum PoS that number is 67%, as you need 2/3 of the validators to control consensus) and people know you are malicious, people will abandon the network and you will lose your investment because no one is interested in participating in a network controlled by a crook.

It's no different from what would happen in PoW. Can you please stop with the concern trolling?
Developed countries have a couple of weeks worth of natural gas in strategic reserves. I don't see why we couldn't do that with gas made from CO2, water, and electricity. Or ammonia. Or maybe hydrogen.
redis and postgres sounds like you could just use render
I’ve only ever been shot at while wearing a flak jacket…
Is it really though? How many gigawatts of gas peaker plants and all the associated infrastructure sit around waiting for the tens or hundred hours they're needed?

Turns out, it's a lot - and it costs the ratepayers:

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/just-how-much-b...

> Wood Mackenzie calculates the average peaker plant capacity factor will sit between 5 and 6 percent over the next two decades. That amounts to a low number of hours for storage to replicate.

In New York City, ratepayers are paying billions of dollars for polluting gas peakers that sit idle.

https://www.cleanegroup.org/ceg-projects/phase-out-peakers/

* An estimated $4.5 billion in ratepayers funds have gone to support the continued operation of the city’s peaker plants – most of which operate no more than a few hundred hours each year.

* Even though the power plants don’t run often, they can be significant contributors to local air pollution – accounting for more than 10 percent of nitrous oxide (NOx) emissions on high ozone days.

Luckily we have the technology to both start replacing gas peakers with storage, and roll out demand response and load shedding to reduce peak demand.

For example, my employer is a big power user. On a couple days in the summer during peak heat, the utility requests curtailment. The plant managers can respond by switching HVAC operation plans, shift some loads to the overnight - the utility saves money on peak generation, and the company saves a ton of demand charges. Win-win.
Neat, but "my own servers" is not what I think of as the "heroku lifestyle" at all!
A long time ago, I asked my high school chemistry teacher why we use hydrochloric acid instead of hydrofluoric acid. Wouldn't the stronger electronegativity of fluorine react more efficiently?

I'll never forget the answer she gave:

"I don't have time to attend that many funerals".
I talked to someone who had to re-ip his home network because he was using a subnet of 10./8 that conflicted with his VPN/work access. It's still possible to conflict with a local network you're on, it's not that nobody ever uses a 172.16/12 block.

A company I worked for, which is basically a group of a dozen acquisitions, uses practically every RFC1918 block which makes things really annoying. 10./8 used by IT, 192.168/16 used by company X acquired in 2004, 172.17/16 used by company Y acquired in 2011. The list of routes the VPN software installed was impressive.
That is not how we define open source. See:

https://opensource.org/osd

Openness is much more than “source available”. Open for use by others is an important part of that.
Classic moral hazard. This incentivizes all sorts of bad behavior.

Colleges can raise prices and truthfully tell students: don't worry about taking on debt the government will just forgive it.

But if you took out a loan to start a business instead of going to college well screw you. Also, all the people who already paid their loans off are suckers - they should have been less responsible and let the government bail them out.

And of course, this entire mess only exists because the government forces lenders to give money to students they otherwise never would - eliminating a critical check in a functional lending system.

I hope this gets struck down in court as unconstitutional.
There was a comment in the last thread on this (a few days ago?) that said 60% but uncited.
I think at this point Rust has more than marketing points. Then if you have some bright people, and I mean doing what they are trying to do and feeling that RockDB is a slow database... They should be able to pick it up. I don't think it's an unreasonable decision as a CTO/CEO.
This was always (well, long enough) a part of the plan and openly communicated. Dropping or changing difficulty bomb does not depend on the EF or the client software maintainers. Dropping or extending it preemptively would be trivial and would have been done already if there weren't consensus to keep it in place. It's in everyone's interest that nodes stay up to date if the network is to evolve and without it there would probably be a couple of years more until the merge that is scheduled for next month.

The first difficulty bomb was never set with the intention that this would be the move to PoS. It's a conscious choice to introduce regular hard forks in order to keep the protocol and network evolving.

It looks very likely that some percentage of node operators and miners will patch out the bomb this time, which will result in the PoW side of the fork staying alive. Which side of the chain retains monetary value in their tokens is up to social consensus. It will probably differ from protocol to protocol. So far industry and most major exchanges have been aligned with the rest of the Ethereum community here.

What you're saying is mostly correct but seems taken out of context. I've only ever seen people looking in from the outside have strong opinions on this particular point, not from the actual stakeholders involved.
Making a ledger is step 0 at building ERP-like apps so many of us don't see it as big deal (until the complexities of it arise!).

Also it could be very local-dependent.

Here in Colombia how we approach it is different to how I see people in USA do it.

What I don't know is how make it both easy, universal, practical and pluggable.

If for example is a out-of-band solution (aka: a micro-service) will be a total NO for many of potential users..
What Can the Social Sector Learn from Tech Startups?
Vague wording like this really makes me wonder how it conflicts with the real-world licensing of code. If you provide something free of charge, without warranty (eg. BSD or GPL), can the government prosecute you for a failure to design your code properly? The liability clauses suggest that you wouldn't, but then again it's hard to tell if this would supercede that precedent. Knowing the US government, no cybercrime is too stupid to prosecute!
I want to get a gaming desktop PC right now.

The extreme anti gaming-community behaviour of the last three years by Nvidia have convinced me to wait more. Prices are still insane.

I prefer to wait, may be for another year, and see these companies suffer a bit, and lower prices more.

I also hope Intel gets their drivers up to spec and becomes a third worthy contender.

Summer is almost over anyway, and university is a month away. I can wait until next summer.
I‘m on DigitalOcean App Platform and pretty happy with it. They keep getting better.

Very easy to use and cheaper than heroku.
Thermal power plants require water for cooling. We're probably going to need additional nuclear plants to meet base load demand since there's no realistic prospect of building enough grid storage capacity to fill that need with solar and wind power. If we can't rely on water flows in the major rivers then that limits our options for nuclear plant sites.
It takes time to get your stuff delivered. And quite a bit of money for heavier loads.
Because that's the only possible outcome?
> But the reason CF hasn't dropped them is none of the site operators will make the claim Cloudflare are open supporters of Kiwi Farms, while DS's editor decided to be cocky and make these claims.

Er, I don't think that's it:

> Now I can make an argument to say that we kicked them off because they they had alleged that we were supporters of theirs, or that they had harassed people who are submitting abuse complaints or lots of those things, but I think that’s a little bit hand-waving. If they had been a blog about shoes online, we would have cut them a lot more slack than we did. And if that’s the case, then that means that our feeling toward their content influenced our decision: which is the opposite of being neutral. I think that they are the exception that that shows why it’s so important to have to have rules.

- https://www.geekwire.com/2017/interview-cloudflares-ceo-stil...

If the CEO of Cloudflare thinks it's "little bit hand-waving" to say that claims of support were the reason they were dropped, I'm willing to say that's probably not it.
Pascal's arrays start at 1, at least by default.
My battery severely degraded without the cycles. I had 150 cycles after 4 years with 78% capacity. I am now at 239 cycles at 64% capacity.
Or better, if you are in the US chances are your library has collaboration with Kanopy so you can just stream for free using your library card.
So this means the manufacturer can conveniently side step doctrine of first sale, and continue generating revenue from secondary sales at absolutely no cost to themselves.

Pretty fun for them. Rent seeking usually is.

Pretty fucking terrible for everyone else. Perfect case of market failure, and an ideal target for regulation.

This kind of thing genuinely triggers disgust for me. Personally - I will NEVER buy from these brands again (and I'm in their target market for luxury cars). I'll also enthusiastically vote for politicians who propose regulation on this. In my opinion - nuke this bullshit from orbit.
Let me make sure I get this right: if you have two chains, one is mined by 49% hash power, the other is mined by 51% hash power, you think the 51% one won't be the longer one?
Yes, providing well detailed manuals on how to work around Apple's hostility to repairing is a good thing. A $500 replacement part to replace a battery is not a good thing.

I'd also say that your average end user is probably still going to be breaking tabs. Applying proper force requires physical calibration; calibration takes practice.
Arrays start at 0 because they're really just pointers. "[x]" is just shorthand for "+ x * sizeof". The first element is the one stored at the pointer address (0 sizeofs ahead of the pointer, the next element is stored 1 sizeof ahead of the pointer, etc.
Based on some back-of-the envelope calculations, a single Powerwall would provide about 5-10 hours of "house run" for the average house, and residential use is about 1/3 of all electrical use.

So a Powerwall on every house gets us a third of the way there. That seems entirely within possibility.
Free Teams on Observablehq.com
VMware confirms Carbon Black causing BSODs, boot loops on Windows
> if our current understanding of physics is correct

What do you mean by "understanding"? What does "understanding" mean in a world of determinism without free will?
The open source definition originates from Debian, driven by quite thoughtful industry practitioners.

Yes, permissive open source licenses tend to benefit large industry players.

However, you have it backwards.

We promoted these licenses to these industry players under the "Open Source" label so that we could use and contribute to free software at our day jobs, rather than being locked into a proprietary landscape.

It seems you are solving a different problem.
The "Victorian Big Battery" cost about 100 million to build and provides 450MWh, so at those prices the 120GWh they calculate for 5 hours would cost about 25 billion.

Not outrageous in the scale of nation building projects.
Legendary - Nokia.

I just bought my first iPhone since my Windows phone (Nokia 900? series) battery finally hit the 6 hours on a full charge point and my carrier is obsoleting all 3G by December.
> this is national virtue signaling and there's no way that ICE cars are going away.

Germany is planning to ban new ICE sales by 2030. Japan and South Korea, 2035. You can keep saying "they are not going away," but the truth is that they are going away, whether California bans them or not. Sooner or later, there will be no BMW, no Toyota, and no Hyundai that's running on gas. You may be able to buy a Ford a bit longer, but in a world where your potential ICE car market is dwindling year by year, production of an ICE vehicle will increasingly look like... "virtue signaling." Companies won't be able to make money from that, so they'll stop.

So, in the grand scheme of things, California is not in a position to make an independent decision anyway. But I'd say California is still right in making these decisions now, even from a purely economical point of view, because when the whole industry shifts you want your country to be on the right side of it.
One thing I would love to see addressed in these kinds of analyses: the efficacy of strategic placement of solar. Electrical demand tends to peak slightly after sundown for much of the year. However, the sun obviously doesn't set at the same time everywhere. Darwin's sunset is currently an hour and a half later than Sydney/Brisbane. Could building more equatorial/western solar installations together with transmission defer some of the need for storage, even with the same amount of solar deployed?
Yeah. As a consumer, I put solar panels on my house in 2017. They generate about as much electricity as I consume. In theory, I will break even on the cost in another two years. Obviously, they're going to depreciate and break at some point, but the only reason ~every house doesn't have them is the price of installation. If everyone did this, you're talking about a world where we would still need non-renewables for load balancing, night time, cloudy days, etc., but we'd still have a huge reduction in carbon. The only thing stopping us from having near carbon free consumer electricity with current technology is the capital costs. So duh, the government should just loan the money to consumers and get it done. We can figure out load balancing etc. later once we pick all the low hanging fruit.
This would require forging the existence of an invalid block signed with the key of the validator you're claiming should be slashed, which is not possible
Yes it’s a better experience but so is getting money by robbing someone over working 40 hour weeks. I’m not saying the two are the same because piracy is effectively victimless (at least in the short term).
I continue developing most apps with WPF mostly because they are OS-dependent productivity tools, and target Windows.

For the cross-platform stuff (mostly deep learning demos with UI) I use Avalonia because it supports Linux.
I use Claws Mail since ..uh.. forever (it was called Sylpheed back then) and never felt the need to change. It's fast, and I mean really fast; I keep all my email since day one online so I can quickly search among all messages exchanged since 1997 (I migrated the earlier mailboxes from Windows/Eudora flawlessly) and find everything, including spam filled with vintage Windows malware or those watermarked Viagra/Cialis banners. It's tens of thousand messages and searches in indexed fields is next to instantaneous. If you think web based mail sucks and console clients are too much for non tech users, Claws Mail might be a middle ground worth of consideration.

https://claws-mail.org/downloads.php
That's great. Eventually I'll have to emigrate from Windows 10 as well. Hopefully AGESA 1.2.0.7 solves the problem.
Absolutely not the case. You can verify the transactions without owning any ETH, you cannot participate in the reward process for your efforts though for that you need to be a validators and put up your stake.

The parallel with Bitcoin is quite strong. You can run a Bitcoin node without running a miner and verify the chain but you don't get rewarded. You can run an Ethereum node without staking and verify the chain but you don't get rewarded.
I had a play with it and Avalonia on Mac, Windows and Linux: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/11/14/1600

However, right now I’m actually writing a simple GUI app in Godot (the game engine), because it is the closest thing to Delphi/Lazarus that I can actually be productive in…