skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stand by my claim that the 'right-wing' are (for no obvious logical or politically coherent reason) against wind power. It's a weird global phenomenon.

They're also against solar, and efficiency, and EVs and believing in climate change etc. I personally would suggest they're getting paid by fossil fuel interests, not sure if that's generally considered a wacky out there conspiracy theory or not. At the very least they're taking advantage of conspiracy theories created by the fossil fuel lobby to gain votes for their unpopular ideas.

Meanwhile, the strange phenomenon of the 'left-wing' intentionally letting Google set up datacentres in places where they know that it will artificially drive up prices for consumers and selling them power at below market cost. That's not a stereotype I recognise. Sounds a bit right-wing if anything to be honest.

Combined Heat and Power, using carbon emitting fuels? I hope the 'left' is regulating that out of existance in a country with so much green electricity, heat pumps are almost certainly better, cheaper, cleaner.

And this is their energy expert? Their big focus is on 100% fossil-free power, but they also don't like wind power?

Wikipedia suggests that's not their only diametrically opposed policy goals:

> The party argues that other countries should reduce their emissions instead of Sweden which they believe is already doing enough on that front.[169][170] The party advocates keeping nuclear power plants as a prominent energy source in Sweden,[171] believing it to be an efficient way to combat climate change.

So nuclear is good for climate change, but Sweden shouldn't do more for climate change? That makes sense. Maybe the Swedish energy expert who said they were just lying about being pro nuclear is right.

> Nobody is calling them out on this,” he complains of the way the Swedish media has covered the issue. “If they want nuclear, how are they expecting to get it? What type of subsidy will they give? For Hinkley Point in the UK, there’s a 35-year contract where the government promises to pay £93.5 per megawatt hour — so about 1.1 krona per kilowatt hour for 35 years. That’s a heavy subsidy. So if the Moderates or the Liberals really want this, how are they going to set it up? They should explain that.”

> At the Hinkley Point price, Nilsson adds, it might actually be cheaper to generate hydrogen from wind power when power prices are low, store it, and burn it in gas turbines when prices are high, even though more than half of the electricity produced would be lost in the process.
I mean, it's not though, as things stand right now, is it? Absolute/mathematical financial privacy in particular we're talking about.

Maybe you'd like it to be, but right now it's not the case, basically anywhere, no matter how righteously you assert it. And you're a bit of an outlier if you think it should be. TBH, AFAICT, most folks think things like dark money, tax evasion, terrorist funding, proceeds of crime, proceeds of dictatorship and oligarchy, political bribes etc etc should be tracked and intercepted, so you're going to have an uphill battle trying to establish it as any sort of right.

And as we've seen with tornado-cash - if you deliberately build systems that enforce it, working around the law by making transfers that can't be traced, you don't magically solve the 'problem' of the law applying to you. In fact you probably create more.
> With all due respect, this is a fantasy number. When you're not including the storage and/or distribution needed to provide stable supply, this number means nothing. (Or rather, it's only relevant as long as only a small fraction of the power comes from such a source.)

Distribution will dominate at some point, you are correct. This was more meant to be illustrative of how current battery and solar prices look from the point of view of the market that existed when just finished nuclear projects were approved. $50/MWh with 4 hours storage would look just as crazy from the POV of 2006

Speaking of distribution. 80% of the world's population lives at a lower latitude than washington DC, and about 90% of the remainder is within 2000km. Over this distance HVDC is a viable transport method with costs commensurable to $10-20/MWh. The main issue is security (both political/market and against disaster). For areas without sufficient hydro a reserve of green ammonia or (even physical transport) could be viable.

> Currently, consumer facing prices are above $500/MWH, and may reach $1000/MWH this winter.

Green hydrogen is scalable at about $400/MWh presently and this is decreasing rapidly. This was a wakeup call that doing so is needed. Ammonia is not far behind. Realistic projections for the next 8 years are around $100/MWh.

Combined with short term storage, this makes the $50/MWh with ~unbounded buffer seem pretty achievable by 2030 if sodium batteries and perovskites (or equivalent improvements) are scaled.
Jesus Christ. If I was still with EA I might have become an Amazon employee? Bullet dodged!
He seems very popular in prompts. But how is he? He doesn't even have a wikipedia page.
It's not stretching the narrative at all, this is exactly how the executives think at Amazon. Everything must be connected and used to showcase the other parts of the business.
From the article itself:

> Other types of batteries, such as a recent design using molten salt electrolyte and aluminum and nickel electrodes, could work better at grid scale.
I think we are not far off from virtual conferences where most sessions are presented by DallE generated presenters, speaking with wavenet generated audios in turn are presenting GPT generated papers.
> Does Amazon really need to absorb even more? Doesn’t that stifle competition?

The burden of proof is on you. How does this stifle competition? Why can't Amazon own EA? A gut "they'll be too big / successful / profitable" is not enough.
I think you are confused between "random bigots bullying people" and "an actual law passed by the government".

Also, you know this exists, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans
There is a lot of money in video game publishing business, given how video games are slowly becoming persistent and ongoing. Companies like Microsoft and Amazon have the means to handle such publishing, and they would surely want control on that cash cow.
This comment resonates with me. I'm currently working in a corporate environment, and I suffer every single second. I always fantasize about being a writer, programmer, producer, artist, no matter what, but where I reduce social interaction to zero.
> are there any other car manufacturer that provide descent autonomy beyond tesla at the moment ?

GM SuperCruise and Ford BlueCruise are generally regarded to be better at actually driving than Tesla's cameras-only approach. They are geofenced to only work on properly mapped highways instead of just letting any idiot YOLO it and claim they're "testing" so they don't get as much attention but they also haven't killed multiple people in the process.

Tesla has a Level 2 ADAS system just like everyone else, they just market it as more than it actually is.

Mercedes is about to launch a Level 3 system where they actually take liability when the computer is in control. They will be the first to do so.

> 2035 seems awfully close looking at the quality of current models available..

Curious what you mean by this, there are currently a decent selection of EVs from a variety of manufacturers that all match the level of quality you'd expect from the brand. The main limitations for wider availability and use are the still developing public charging infrastructure and the same cost/supply chain issues affecting basically all cars, ICE or EV.

The cars aren't the problem at this point, it's figuring out how to allow those of us who rent in dense areas to charge at home. Solve that and you're left with just the long distance road trippers and trailer towers actually needing to burn fuel.
> If you need to lookup stuff in your waste of material you won‘t be able to finish everything. The time constraint was very hard.

Reminds me of my school days. Tests with hundreds of questions and less than a minute to solve each question. They were essentially testing the student's time management skills as well as their physical and mental fortitude in addition to their knowledge. Extremely exhausting and anxiety inducing.
As a note, baduk is the name of go in Korea.
This is clearly what I was saying, missing out the "internal" glibc symbols issue due to the static libstdc++ (I have not got into the details of those symbols, they may be benign since lazy binding is the default), and I would rather favor a "less worse" than "best" terminology to be fair, since it is still causing issues with games, the major users of the binary-only distribution.

We all know the only way to remove properly this "dirt", is too aim "explicit" (libdl) than "implicit" (elf dynsym section), which it seems to become the "normality" in many areas, like smp locking and high level syntax (was a target for python syntax).

And that would open the road for alternative elf/C runtime... ofc glibc zealots won't like that at all, expect a lot of resistance and "mauvaise foi".
Just mark it as spam, put it on blacklists and move on. If one decides to put their business domain into the abyss of undeliverability it's a costly mistake they make once.

On a different note, it might be a worthwhile idea to put profiles behind extra protection. An extra click to see contact info verified by a smart captcha might be the least breaking change. @dang
Hopefully the whole takeover of his (~8% stake) company "Play Magnus" (owner of chess24, chessable, etc.) by chess.com does not affect him.

There is a cringey announcement of the takeover on YouTube, including a TikTok video of Danny Rentsch dancing (to put it mildly ...).

The plan seems to be to draw Carlsen into that toxic sphere of influence. Chess streaming and the culture surrounding chess.com seem to be for the lowest common denominator.

Carlsen fit much better into the European culture of chess24, I hope he can ignore the circus and it won't affect his play.
A cynic might suspect it’s the same reason traditional media is bought and has value. By controlling video games, you control an important media influencing children profoundly. You teach them from a young age the lesson you want taught, it will be more impactful than school which is boring, and you get to shape them up to be good consumers for when they grow up.
> And about airplane mode. Yes “disconnecting is a choice”, but if the internet is just the flip of a button away, I’ve found I’m not able to keep that button off.

So we should all be denied a new potentially life-saving technology, because of your own self control issues?

Also, take the SIM out (assuming you don't use an ESIM), give it to your spouse or put it at the bottom of your backpack as others suggested, or leave it at home/in your car. Emergency calls will still work.
The action is super visible though. Sometimes that's the most important thing. /s
IMO, the interesting future is RISC-V and FPGA. Potential is huge. Just needs better availability of devkits. Long lead times on much of it.
That's not even close to what we have today in the US. Antitrust basically doesn't exist in the US.
Because unsolicited mass mailing IS spam, and spam is BAD.
I try to follow these ideas, and in many of my notebooks I frequently test them by occasionally running "restart kernel and run all cells" from the menu, which tends to point out anything I've accidentally moved or run out of order.

As a table of contents, I usually write some markdown up top with links to markdown HTML anchors elsewhere in the page, which themselves also have a link back to the TOC. Works pretty well. Will have to check out that extension.
I don't even bother rejecting cookies anymore, I reject the whole website altogether, bounce right off.
This is false according to CNBC: https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1563136384059285505
From a non-legal perspective, aren’t we all responsible for what people do in reaction to our speech, if we reasonably knew the outcome of our speech at the time?

The alternative is that we allow stochastic terrorism, where figures know statistically that if they keep denigrating a person long enough some unhinged person will take action. And legally we do allow this, as it isn’t incitement. But are we required to ignore the obvious reality in front of our eyes and not call the stochastic terrorists out on it?

Anyone talking about a Final Solution in 1938 was complicit in the violence, full stop. They knew or should have known what their speech enabled. The same with Rwanda and even now with Russia - every genocide has always been accompanied by a large group of people not explicitly engaged in violence but speaking that it wouldn’t be so bad if something maybe happened to this group. Non-inciting speech like that by enough people creates genocide.
It seems to me most innovation comes from increased competition and upstart companies. Do large conglomerates provide the main driver of innovation?
Edit to fix typos (sorry), and add google search;

search >'Shopping Centers/Malls installed solar PV's'< @DDG <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='Shopping Centers/Malls ...>

search >'Shopping Centers/Malls installed EV charger'< @DDG <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q='Shopping Centers/Malls ...>

search >'Shopping Centers/Malls installed solar PV and EV charger'< @google <https://www.google.com/search?q='Shopping Centers/Malls inst...>
Okay well break them up too.
By autonomy you might mean range or autonomous driving.

Tesla doesn't lead in range: https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/

Tesla struggles with FSP (full self-parking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsb2XBAIWyA

Tesla doesn't take liability for its semi-autonomous driving, whereas Mercedes does: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a39966189/2022-mercedes...

There are many areas Tesla doesn't lead.
Why aren't there C conferences? (2018)
Ignorant people and predatory ad vendors ruined the internet. It's positive that site owners are forced to disclose some of what they do, because otherwise people would pay it no mind and assume everything was all roses. If the EU can annoy Americans enough into enshrining some sort of consumer data privacy protections, maybe there'll have been a long term point to all this.
The way I used to write/set-up tests when I was teaching is that you could use a limited set of online resources to answer, but if you have to search every question you won't have enough time to do it. So it also tested your ability to quickly locate the information you need should you not know it right away.
It does mean high level language, and in this context it's trying to illustrate that Oberon is used to write the OS and drivers, despite having GC, a repl, objects and other high-level constructs (compare with C for example).

The general assumption is that if you don't have exact control over memory and threading, you can't write an OS.
A million dollar startup can buy EA?
The physical location where a field tech installs and implements technology &/or equipment. I worked in Building Automation Systems(BAS) in big box retail stores and covered >400 sites in 5 US states.
There has been no law until now, but these are different times, there doesn't need to be any specific law in place. But, we'll see.
> Personally, I'd prefer being responsible, but it is a by a thin margin.

I'd wager that's not the case for 90% of users choosing the email provider they trust the most, both in terms of what they expect the risks are, and what they actually risk in practice.

> key management has and will continue to get easier

You're talking about the blockchain space where it was not even the state of the art when it started. Key management remains a problem in all spaces, but it has even more dramatic consequences when you have no recourse.
It say a sign must be displayed, not should.

It still wastes school money.

Who installs the sign?

Who cleans it? Who prevents it from being defaced?

And where do their salaries come from?
Teardown of a 30TB external drive bought online for $29
It barely delays the inevitable, it's less than a drop in the bucket, everything you gain there will be instantly counteracted 10 fold somewhere else because we don't want to face reality.

But sure, let's stop using plastic straws and switch off our routers at night while we continue absolutely ravaging this planet
Page with his work is here:

https://www.artstation.com/Rutkowski
Back at university one of the first things we were told about being an a good engineer was: "You don't need to know everything, but you do need to know where to look it up".

It's a statement that I agree with. There is just too much knowledge to know it all. These days there is a very real skill in knowing how to search i.e. a second order version of the above statement "you need to know where to find out how to look this up".
Home server PC at around 100W. That adds a surprising amount, on it's own that's getting close to 1000KWh to run for a year.

And then there's the main PC setup, running maybe 12hrs a day (inc. WFH). And that was build for gaming, so it's quite power-hungry, especially when the GPU is kept busy, working on Unity projects.
From what I've heard about working conditions at EA, that's quite the indictment of Amazon!
I wonder if there's even a way to be sure of a minimum length? Like suppose I'm White, I know how to play Chess perfectly and so does my opponent. So (if the popular assumption is correct) we will eventually draw, but how many moves can I draw the game out for, assuming my opponent isn't willing to concede, but is trying to shorten the game ?
Wouldn’t that point more to an issue with the implementation of the limit rather than the existence of the limit? Are all implementations equally bad?
Why? Comparing the power consumption of an EV on charge to a fridge is a very unfair comparison.

If you drive 200 EV miles per week, you need 60kWh per week, or about 360W continuous.

At approx. 4.5kWh per cycle, that's 13 tumble dryer loads per week. Even that seems an unfair comparison - I'm not sure how many people run 2 loads per day every day.

I was hyperbolic in my original comment, but that's still several hours of tumble drying every day.
How discord stores billions of messages (2017)
Perhaps it's because you didn't start the exchange with enquiry, but instead claimed that what happens in your country is "exactly what every country does"
based on that website, it sounds like this whole thing is a marketing campaign for that mailscarp service. They don't actually want you to read their newsletter, they want you to go investigate and then sign up for their 'block spam' service.
How a user can be sure websites respect this header? Cookie banners is a work in a field requested by masses which is done obviously. The genie must work according to the letter of the request, and what was the spirit of the request he doesn't care.
Ably is solid and generally much cheaper than the alternatives like pubnub.

Also they come with reliable message delivery built in (pusher doesn’t I think).
Not really sure how it compares to this project.

Anyways just a happy user of ably, used it at work.
> Us and European anti trust don't look at the size of a company as a factor.

That has been changing very fast, this Economist article back from the start of this year touches on that aspect (among other things): "The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action" [1]

[1] https://archive.ph/grBbQ
I wonder what the author would think of C# now. Seems he's very much a fan of C++ over C#/Java, which may have changed in the intervening 15+ years.

Personally, I think continuing to use C++ for game dev (it is still the lingua franca) is more about momentum than it being the best choice (in most instances).

His predictions on what computing power will look like "in the future" (e.g. now) are interesting as well. Some have played out, others haven't.
I remember seeing one called 'Arson Fire' which basically conveyed the same thing.
From what I can recall of high-school chemistry, it depends on which ions are being used, and generally different for each combination. The basic zinc-manganese dioxide cell has an EMF of about 1.5V, while lead-acid car battery cells give about 2V.

https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/battery-characteristics/...

https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/battery-basics/electroch...

Update: I see it also depends on their concentration, so the voltage changes as the cell discharges, unless all the components are solids:

https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/battery-basics/nernst-eq...
I use purelymail with a registered domain. That's the best I can do that is functional and practical at this point.
> Let's take language learning as an example: do you consider a foreigner with a dictionary to be just as expressive as a native speaker? Perhaps there is value in testing the immediate knowledge of the student rather than their lookup skills?

You may be well aware of this, but you've essentially converged on the classical Chinese Room thought experiment [0]. It's usually applied to the philosophical question as to what does and does not constitute intelligence in the context of AI, but it's interesting how it is also applicable to what does and does not constitute knowledge in the context of learning.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
> The German Green Party was basically founded on anti-nuclear sentiment.

As an American it is not hard to see how these hardened anti-nuclear activists in Germany benefit Russia. It is also not hard to see the close political and historic proximity between the Soviet Union and the Green party.

It seems that average Germans do not make that connection. Why?
> On many CPUs, bitwise XOR is slightly more efficient than addition.

That's pretty interesting, any examples of CPUs (or microcontrollers) where this happens?
> Multiple EU countries have mass surveillance programs and spy on their own citizens

Stop saying things you can't prove.

> French mass surveillance program in detail.

not remotely in detail and not remotely close to what we call mass surveillance and not remotely close to what NSA does

from the article (which I have to suppose you haven't read, because it's in the first paragraph)

The agency intercepted signals from computers and phones in France as well as between France and other countries, looking not so much at content but to create a map of "who is talking to whom", the paper said.

The metadata from phone and internet use was stocked in a "gigantic database" which could be consulted by six French intelligence and security agencies as well as the police.

NSA don't simply look for metadata, they can simply ask Face.. ehm Meta for that (WhatsApp).

They actually look closely at the content.

The article also goes on saying that France haven't protested much about Prism because they have (assumingly) the largest system in Europe, after the Brits (that come way after the US)

So not "multiple countries in Europe" but a couple countries have put in place system that rivals with WhatsApp abilities to collect metadata, but WhatsApp obtain it from willing users.

Imagine what MS, Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, Oracle, and many other american corporations can collect for the NSA while hiding those activities as legit businesses and what that means for NSA: being free to focus only on everything else.
One possible solution to the "sync" layer (how do you sync the local db shard with the global consensus) looks like this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359578461_Continuou... (2022)

also need to fit whole view updates into 16ms frame budget (not just one query but every query on the page that is impacted by a change as well as downstream reactive views). At some tipping point it can be faster to move relational queries to the cloud (sacrificing local first), and treat local first as an edge case (not all page components need to be live in offline mode - depending on the app, you may just need document edits not relations)