skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite to the same level of technical complexity, but this short story about the horrors of mind upload is formatted like a future-Wikipedia article [0]. qntm, its author, is a great source of... outsider art science fiction? His written work feels similar to the movie Primer, which was created by engineers without much formal training in filmmaking; namely, it's impressive and imaginative and well-polished, but obviously without the mien and certain stylistic elements of those who learned the "rules" of the medium by rote rather than derivation and imitation.

[0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
This is a pretty decent overview of the merge and how it stands to benefit the world by removing a significant amount of energy consumption per year.

But the comments in that NYT article are almost comically against crypto, probably even moreso than HN crowd.

Even if Ethereum proves useful technologically, it will be a many years uphill grind to convince laypersons how it works and how it can be used beyond the fraud and schemes they read about in the news.
I'm increasingly sceptical. She's not in research anymore but has found success running an "I know what I'm talking about" contrarian blog.

If she was a software developer we'd rightly start to wonder about grand pronouncements coming from someone no longer practicing in the field.

When your market doesn't exist if you actually agree with anyone, the incentives start to be questionable.
I think that this is the TL;DR of the whole piece:

> So if you read yet another headline about some physicist who thinks our universe could have begun this way or that way, you should really read this as a creation myth written in the language of mathematics.
Bauble: 3D shapes using signed distance functions with Janet-lang
Thinking in microservice, the universe began as a monothlic, and for scalability reason, it starts split into multiple galaxies.

In software engineering, we do have black holes, it's where the code is a mess, untestable.

So, in conclusion, the universe were born as a dense mess, from a "strange" matter , from there all basic physic atoms were born.
Americans all started equally? You sure, that the early comers, to america, who got huge amounts of land and resources started equally to irish and itallian immigrants?

And even the modern monopolies... Gates and his mom getting him a deal with IBM is a bit different than someone else without a well connected mom.

And looking at tax rates companies like facebook pay, I think corruption is very well alive in USA too.
Google Cloud would be negligent if they didn't collect information about ingress and egress traffic mapped to each of their tenants. Since they own the servers and network, it's on them to be able to investigate and track abuse.
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi

This applies to pretty much all areas of life:

Food delivery, Web scraping, personal relationships, insider trading, nation building, you name it.

Also intent/appearance of sincerity matters:
"When Two Do The Same Thing, It Is Not The Same Thing After All."
Or go Scottish, and roll the 'r'...
7, since keeping track of the length allows you to skip storing the trailing 0.
"We don't know how fire comes to life, and we will never know."

"We don't know how to defend ourselves against beasts, and we'll never know."

"We don't know how disease spreads, let's just hug it out, we'll never know."

"We don't know how to fly like a bird, we'll never know."

"We don't know how to land the booster of a rocket, we'll never know."

"We don't know how to cure that form of cancer, and we'll never know."

What a ridiculous defeatist attitude. History has proven that, so far, we've been very reliable at figuring out things that were deemed impossible.

I'd say we already know. It would be infinitely arrogant of us to think we're the originals. We're likely inside an inescapable but observable simulation, inside a simulation, repeat for any unknown number of times. That's probably how "the universe" (our universe) began.

Our parent universes probably have far more complexities to them that have been stripped from ours, for the sake of computational simplicity. Perhaps the actual originals, or any of our parent simulators, know exactly how the universe came to be. We might figure it out, too.
This argument goes back to Parmenides.
Indeed. Why bother developing engines to power turbines for your ships, when you can just chain up a hundred slaves in the galley and give them oars?
My town's investment in renewables is really paying off.
The thing about "short term screwed" is that in some countries the "screwed" is actually "people having to pay more than 100 % of their income for electricity".

Theoretically, long term, this could all work out nicely and steer more people and governments towards renewables and decentralized generation, but the short term consequences are starting to look brutal.
That is true, and why not also ignore the frictions created by a single currency, free movement of labour and people, or the harmonization of judicial systems during times of crisis. Surely under such strain, it is only fair that Germany no longer subsidizes Italian public debt, institute border controls for the transport of gas and oil, eventually instituting controls for all energy-derived products of any kind where a pricing inefficiency is being exploited by any neighbour. It would mean Putin responded to our sanctions by destroying 70 years of European cooperation, and doing so without even so much as firing a single bullet.

Energy is the economy, and the failure of an integrated energy market means the failure of so much more.
“Have to”? I am referring to investment bankers, lawyers, business owners. These are people who, because they have the flexibility to live anywhere and pay local taxes, move to these areas to take advantage of local opportunities, and the vast majority end up restricting those earnings in their home country later in life. It is a huge opportunity, similar to manifest destiny.
I dont think we can get there.

First, we would need to solve time.
I am not sure if we are able to grasp it.
Then we must figure out what happened at T-1 or T-2,
which I think will be simple once we understand time.

The theory creates a start and then explains the progress from there.
but not what caused it.

In theory of the cylinder than the universe travels to that is good
but it does not explain how everything came to be.

We have a simple to state problem.
There was nothing, then there was something.

Much like in Genesis
""And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.""

Instead:

Science says there was a big bang and from that everything was created.
and we have figured out a model to explain (most) of the evolution since
the big bang. Which means we can say no god did it.

But the way the story begins is in my opinion quite similar.

In one version god is used to explain what created us.
Which then leads to the question of who created god
and to answer that we need to figure out time.

(I am aware that there are equations that explain what was at t-1
or explain that there was nothing and even asking the question
of what was at t-1 is crazy. I do not have the background that
could allow me to understand the equations, but every which way you do
it you end up with a question of what started it, or what was before
what was the trigger to get it going.

Perhaps you can say that the universe has always been there, forever,
sometimes it shrinks sometimes it expands, and we have a nice perpetuum mobile.
I didn't mean to come off as offensive in this particular post, it was just an attempt at humour, hard to pull off online. I am actually completely oblivious as to whether this idea may or may not be offensive or strange to locals. Most people - even the Swedes - find the north rather harsh.

> It's great that your small urban household can take the hit. It's becoming a real problem for single parents in the south.

Meh, no bank wanted to give me a mortgage so I bought a cheap rural house. I am already subsidising the leveraged people's interest rates in my massive taxes, so excuse me if my sympathies do not extend very far.
Air Travel Complaints Up 270 Percent Compared to Pre-Pandemic Level
Are you perhaps conflating Discord and Discourse? Discourse is certainly a forum in my eyes.
If the text really is there (and is just hidden by CSS), may I suggest Firefox reader mode?
I have friends who do grocery delivery to restaurants in early mornings and he knows which high end places sources most of their sides and even entrees from Sysco.
You definitely did screw up, but imagine how much bigger your screwup will be if you don’t do anything about it now.

33 should look a lot better for you, focus on that. You’ve identified the thing you wish you had done, and you have the time to correct the regret.

On the other hand if you’re still not motivated, then at least you have your answer; you’re not capable of more, and should find ways being content as you are.

WoW is a fun and social game; if that’s all you’re going to do with your life, at least you’ll find some moments pleasurable.

Really, I’m not knocking the idea of throwing your life away to video games, but recognize that’s what it is.
Those replacements obviously take a long time though. Corporations have peddled the idea all this would be easy. Goverments complied by mandating closures and driving up the price too soon. None of this is even ready to go.
When a site wants access to my camera or microphone, the browser detects my consent by asking me. I don't see why listening to clipboard events shouldn't be treated in the same way. Likewise with mouse and keyboard tracking events.

The number of sites that reasonably need to know when I copy/paste or need to override what happens when I do that is approximately zero. There's no reason to allow it by default for all sites.
Comparison of “The Book of Mormon” and “The Late War Between the US and GB”
It was a reality named Firefox.

But then a concurrent solution happened and almost everyone moved to chrome.

The history is sad but true: it's the general indifference to those conflict of interest that led us here...
The European bureaucracy is what dismantled all the old cheap energy production and forced massive investment and massive subsidies in renewable energy that can't actually cope with the real load.
I think this is one of the most honest takes here from a person supporting what happened, and so appreciate this comment.

I don’t agree this event was justified. Further I think it caused a lot of damage to our country by very significantly lessening institutional and societal trust: fairness of elections (not questioning here the actual vote counting, but the seemingly-partisan silencing of damaging info on one favored candidate), whether politically biased individuals can be trusted to treat those in other camps honestly and fairly.
I have to imagine most users are mobile or it's actively trending in that direction
A lot of mine are fictional and events that cannot possibly have happened, or ever happen. Ranging from being in an airplane landing on a bridge, to outright Sci-Fi…
There's a difference between AgTech and actual agriculture. Farms don't need drones, apps or tractors with DRM. They need people with knowledge of biological systems and logistics.
It's correct for the day ahead price [1]. Of course the most expensive producer needs to be actually needed to satisfy the demand side.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_order
As someone who has lived in this kind of a system in a country that doesn't exist anymore, I'd be (and am) a lot happier in a capitalist system, where workers can choose anytime to create their own budiness without the government owning it.

I'd be even happier if governments treated small businesses the same as they treat large (mostly by making tax avoidance impossible, and making the large pay the same taxes as the small ones to), but that's practically impossible with the corruption in our governments.
Here's a perspective to consider: the regret is a safety mechanism to keep you from doing, in the present, what you aspire to do.

If you make good use of the present, your regret for the past will fade, you'll have less time to indulge in it and no reward for doing so.
A huge fusion reactor in the sky that isn't available in the evening or when it's cloudy.
Limitations in transport capacity is only one part of it, a large part is that the northern zone have had rain most of the summer, much more than usual, while the south have had a dry summer. We did basically get all the rain the rest of Europe have been missing this summer
Mac can do it easily if you setup SoundFlower.

https://rogueamoeba.com/freebies/soundflower/
Model United Nations also uses Robert’s Rules, and provided me with a similar parallel education.
> The thing to realize here is that these "legendary developers" grew up in a time where the MOST addicting thing to do was write programs on a screen or read books. There was LITERALLY nothing more exciting to do.

I think its also critical to realize that this is all about frame of mind. Yes, to a select few, there was nothing more exciting to do. To most others at that time, sports or the opposite gender would've been far more exciting. Fortunately, we have at least some control over what we find exciting.
Why Computers Don’t Need to Match Human Intelligence
There are lots of great comments here. I would also add, what would have been the point of learning computer science earlier in life? You could have started a career earlier? That’s just a different way to squander you childhood and college years.

To quote one the oldest but truest cliches: youth is wasted on the young. There’s just no way around it. It’s ok to move on.
>I've read somewhere that Czechs (day ahead price of 463EUR/MWh) produce electricity at 0.1EUR/MWh

No, that's entirely unrealistic. 0.1EUR per KWh is realistic, so my guess is that you misremembered the units. The price per MWh would then be 100 EUR. But not even that is realistic anymore for the Czech Republic, given they produce most energy from fossil fuels[1], and the prices recently have skyrocketed.

Now you may ask why they'd be selling to an exchange and buying it back for more (if that actually happens to a degree that matters). One reason is of course profit. Although one must not confuse the production price with the final consumer price or even the exchange price. Production is one thing, getting the power to where it's needed is another thing, accounting, taxes and so on.

Another reason for putting it into exchanges, is that they might at times produce more than needed, so selling off excess production seems somewhat reasonable as the kind of plants they are running cannot be started and stopped at will. At other times, they might not be producing enough, and then need to buy at exchanges.

It's not as easy as assuming somebody is just grabbing a lot of money. Although some money grabbing is most likely part of the answer as well.

Germany is selling energy as well, by the way. Germany has thus far net exported around 20 TWh this year[2]. The entire energy need of Germany is around 540 TWh per annum. That would suggest Germany (thus far) has exported a little over 5% of it's energy production to other European nations in this crisis year. It may have something to do with France currently having temporarily shut down 32 of its 56 nuclear reactors[3], with a net 10 TWh being exported from Germany in the direction of France. And it probably has something to do with Germany producing a lot more energy than it needs when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing nicely.

The Czech Republic on the other hand exported 6 TWh net to Slovakia and another 4 TWh to Austria. But in turn Slovakia exported almost 9 TWh to Hungary[4].

That is to say... it's complicated.

[1] https://www.iea.org/countries/czech-republic

[2] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&...

[3] https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220825-france-prolongs-...

[4] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/import_export/chart.ht... (might be lagging behind a little)
So, which system do you recommend then?

I'm from a former socialist country (both former socialist, and former country, since neither exist anymore).
Lol can't see Ireland
Economics is a science. If you try to push one way on the market price you will get problems on the other side, this is the same way you can't get past the laws of thermodynamics) . The cost of reducing people's profits (or cost is what we are talking about) will be shortages because people will still be willing to pay for more electricity at a higher price, they just won't be able to find it because it was sold at a lower price.
All water of planet earth in a 700km radius ball (2016)
I'm happy for physics that finally someone from their ranks is trying, at least trying, to say that cosmology is a hoax. I've been writing this for ages. Here's one article I dug: https://notlar3.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Bang
I'm actually not opposed to xmpp! I think its actually pretty cool! I do, however, prefer matrix over xmpp, but its very much my own personal preference, and not because one is superior to the other. In fact, i love that matrix.org has a brief, little snippet around this topic: https://matrix.org/faq/#what-is-the-difference-between-matri...

I like the matrix approach of having all features included in the core protocol, instead of xmpp's approach of leveraging extensions...whicuh again is not bad, its simply what i prefer. also i favor matrix's bridging approach, though it has its flaws (for now). Of course, time will tell...and ultimately i favor any technology that empowers users with more privacy and security, and liberty (through choice as well as open sourceness).
That's the point. Zuckerberg admits it was a mistake. Jack Dorsey admits it was a mistake. Be honest: you just favor the flagging because it upholds your opinion.
No, we agree here. I'm not trying to minimize the impact. Factories will shut down, leading to job loses, shortages which will again cause inflation etc.

But we can't change that anymore. What we can do is build more capacity.
Never is a strong word.
Another suggestion in the same vein is Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
<rant>
i.e. Being a Murdoch cash cow milked by sycophantic weasels known as the Liberal Party.

Onion chump Abbott and his frenemy Turncoat being the main beneficiaries of forcing Murdoch's and Telstras decrepit copper/coax quagmire into what was originally designed as a full FttP rollout, already in progress 5% completed when they came into power and promptly halted everything to please their puppetmaster.

Next they promised to halve the costs by delivering a slow copper-throttled NBN. Except they blew out the budget by quadruple and still climbing... already over double the costa of the originally planned FttP rollout, so Murdoch got richer, and we get only 5% the speed we should have gotten... and now also pay double the monthly fees we would have had if those weasels had just kept their greasy pork barreling mitts off our nation building tax dollars </rant>
>Friend sells his surplus energy to provider x at low price

Sorry if this is a dumb question but why can't he sell at the going rate for international grid?
Hot take: Capital is not about economics. Reading it will in no way help you understand how economists think.
Like redrawing electoral districts, no one changes election laws because they are a good person. Everyone who redraws electoral districts and changes election laws claims it's because they are a good person.
And Globalstar's network has been in a variety of decays ever since.

There were periods of time that the Globalstar network was literally requiring you to use a "call times tool" to determine the paltry 10 to 20 minute windows at a time every hour you could even get a call out on the system. They were so desperate to keep customers that you could get a satphone for a whole $40 a month - with unlimited! calling.

They then, finally, a few years back, launched their Sat-Fi2 service. Instead of using bent-pipe CDMA, they decided to use bent-pipe UMTS. As a Sat-Fi2 customer I can assure you I never got a working voice call, and barely working data. Globalstar was so impressed with their own technology they killed off this "next generation" service.

Now to this day, they stopped selling satellite phones (while still allowing activation), dropped every single reference to the Sat-Fi and Sat-Fi2, and are pushing hard on their simplex burst data services.
sure, and we could go a few steps further because trees tolerate but are not fond of asphalt, concrete, gum, oil of parking lots. We could reduce the dependance to cars, cars take up to 26% of the space in cities, and more in pollution (25-45% of pollution), most of if isn't even from exhaust, it's from tires and dust put back in the air, they participate a lot in the heat islands phenomenon. Let's turn to small and light vehicles, designed for cities
It depends how literally one wants to take the law.

The "law" is doubling density every two years.

So strictly speaking it is done because it has taken longer than two years. But if you choose the looser interpretation and simple read it as, transistor density increases with time, then it's not dead.

Probably the bigger deal is cost per transistor is actually going up with the new nodes.

https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-rising-tide-of-sem...

and

https://www.eetimes.com/moores-law-dead-by-2022-expert-says/
Yea, the intractable mystery is the existence of spacetime.

Whether time has an origin, and whether we can measure how distant it is from us are questions that could be answered.
That just shows that English doesn't have an inflectional future, it doesn't show that it has no future tense. A tense being marked by a modal verb is not uncommon at all, German marks the future by means of the verb "werden", and French and Spanish also have an additional future (next to the inflectional one) using the auxiliary "to go" (e.g. "voy a comer").

The fact that future tense is not obligatory is also not an indication that it doesn't exist (again, it's the same situation as in German).

Compare the sentence pair:

"Every day at 6, I eat dinner"

"Every day at 6, I will eat dinner"

They have clearly different meanings, the second referring to something that will only start to happen in the future (which is why it's a bit hard to imagine a context in which the utterance makes sense). The first one refers to a habitual action that extends at least to the present moment.
In twenty years you could very well wish that you spent your current years doing something other than wasting your time on computer science (or not). Take some time now to do some serious introspection and meditation and figure out what is really worthwhile.
Dominion threatens to abandon 2.6GW offshore windfarm over performance guarantee
Maybe it stops being science and starts being math, but I don’t think that means we should discourage people from doing it. That said, I am sympathetic to an argument that we may not need to fund such inquiries.

“We will never know” sounds overly pessimistic to me; I could imagine someone from the 10th century claiming we will never know the trillionth prime number.
To use your words, Germany already collaborated with the good old old communist USSR under Brechnev. Thing is, so, Germany isn't using Russian gas (which was delivered reliably since the 60s) to produce electricity but for heating, industry and chemicals.

Funny, I remember when we had similar discussions about negative electricity prices and people mockes those capital intensive legacy producers. Well, history is so old and context too complex to bother if polemism does as well.
A Sample of Fair Use (2021)
No, The T-Mobile and Starlink agreement uses part of their existing spectrum to communicate directly between the phone and Starlink Satellite.
A lot of new aircraft don't even even have back seat entertainment anymore. Just movies that stream over wifi to your phone or tablet.
It’s more dramatic. A screencast would feel synthetic.