skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A political issue with this is that Northern Norway has been exempt from the 25% VAT as one of many measures to make living in Northern Norway more attractive. Until now the cost of power in both north and south has been pretty much the same, meaning people in power zone NO4 have paid about the same price for power, but not the VAT.

But now that the price has gone up by such an enormous amount in the south, connecting north and south will not reduce the price in the other zones, it will likely just cause NO4 to go up to the same level as in the rest of Norway. This is mainly due to the NO4 being basically not connected to the the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, while the other regions are to a much larger extent due to underwater cables going to the UK, Denmark and Germany. This means that the price of power in Europe directly influences the price of electricity in NO1-3, but not NO4. At least not to the same extent, although Sweden makes a killing buying cheap power from NO4 and selling it to mainland Europe, or even straight back to southern Norway. As such, connecting NO4 to the rest of Norway and by extention the European grid, would not be very popular in the north, but to be fair, the price increase has not exactly been popular in the south either.

The industry in Norway is highly electrified and some sectors are very energy intensive, such as aluminium production, which due to using electrolysis, runs almost entirely off the grid. Manufacturing used almost 37% of all power consumed in Norway in 2017, with power-intensive manufacturing accounting for over 80% of total energy use in the manufacturing sector that year.[0] This is also an issue which will need to be considered when talking about increasing transfer capacity between the two zones.

I hope this gives some insight, even if I rambled a bit and touched on a lot of different aspects. I'm by no means an expert, but have become interested in the subject as so many other Norwegians have lately. I'd love to answer more questions if you have any!

[0] https://energifaktanorge.no/en/norsk-energibruk/energibruken... (Source in English and published by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy)
It's a double-edged sword... if we want to have multiple competing civilizations, it's unavoidable they will conflict with each other (I'm pretty sure you'll always view the "other" guys as angry and evil no matter what they do, just as "they" see you the same way).

That may be a necessary evil though in the really long term.
And not just that. The people who decided not to go to college are paying for the "forgiven" loans of the ones who went.
Yes, in the context of an example where the scientific method does / did work, and provides a simple explanation, namely evolution. Her argument is that in the case of the origin of the universe, the scientific method doesn't work, instead. That doesn't make the religious "method" better, but also not worse.
Yes. The reason is lazy people expect to be able to ask five questions in one go and expect one single answer to answer all five of them.

The key is to realize that submitting a query is to ask a question. So how many queries to you think you have to issue if the number of questions you have is five ?

It is technically perfectly possible to "ask five questions at the same time" to any given truly relational DBMS. Said DBMS will give five answers at the same time (and not leave you to guess which answer corresponds to which question). That SQL doesn't do it, does not mean it's impossible.
The next step would be to charge electricity for the electric chair, analogous to the time tested "bullet fee":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_fee
> Pidän koirasta", which is using the "-sta/stä" ending of the elative case, which usually means "from". So, it's "I like from the dog".

I find it helps to think of it as "I think highly of the dog".

Or in Swedish, "Jag håller av hunden". Which, come to think of it, is pretty much a literal word for word translation -- because the base meaning of "pidä" is "to hold", not "to like".
> There is obviously another option that people don't want to point out - start buying Russian gas again

What I think is more likely is that coal is back on the menu.
The blocks with the "sactioned" transactions will be ignored by most of the people, so they will only live in forks that everyone will ignore.

Assuming enough hash rate and the exchanges (and the users) agree to ignore the "sactioned" transactions, then they will never be in the main chain, not even slowly.
IIRC they have something like that but different in the works, 'Software Defined Silicon' (SDSi) is what it's called.
Saw this really amazing video[0] the other day about American Chestnut Foundation's breeding program in Virginia to revive the American chestnut

Basically they hybridized it with Chinese/Japanese chestnuts (which are blight resistant). Then they take the offspring, test for blight resistance and rebreed those back with purebred American chestnuts. Then they repeat the process. Take those offspring, select for blight resistance, rebreed with American species, etc

After a few generations they created an American chestnut tree that looks almost exactly like the purebred versions but retains the blight resistance of the Japanese and Chinese species

Really amazing work

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbrY-J0bpto
Wealth inequality has grown to such levels that the poor can't even afford to go to prison these days.
There was a crime pays and botany doesnt podcast 2 weeks ago with an interesting interview with someone from this project. http://www.esf.edu/chestnut/
The group is mentioned in the first comment of the first link you posted from 2017, so people might be interested in a more recent update.

The interviewer is not for everyone but I thought it was pretty good discussion.
https://www.spreaker.com/user/16676611/restoring-the-america...
This is the sort of thinking that had the UK export criminals to Australia, no?
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Sadly, it gets much worse the more you look into it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/17/pennsylvania...
Usually people's motivations for ordering in are entirely different than going out to eat. If their importance was tied to their having neighborhood storefronts, wouldn't their primary competition be other storefront businesses in the neighborhood? Are they not sustainably serving their purpose as such? Why wouldn't you support them in person? Also, ordering using online services probably hits their bottom line harder than any given competing business across town.

Food trucks are as or more expensive to run than brick-and-mortar restaurants. Electricity is a lot more expensive coming from a generator, propane is a lot more expensive than natural gas, legally required commissary kitchens are less expensive to rent than brick and mortar restaurants but offer vastly less for what you pay, you can't purchase ingredients in the same quantity or store the same amount of prepped product because of limited storage in a commissary, lack of full-scale dishwashing facilities on the truck means relying on disposables, local laws and tight commissary access logistics might make it impractical or impossible to use unserved food left at the end of the day on your truck, your cooking schedule is tightly constrained by those who share your commissary and might be unpredictable if some of them do event-based business which is murder for planning and labor, your business is tightly coupled to the weather, etc. etc. etc. You're just swapping one set of operating expenses out for another. Not even in the same ballpark as opening a ghost kitchen.

A pop-up in another restaurant or unused restaurant space with a profit sharing or rental agreement is the only cheaper way to start out, but it's not sustainable, and at that point, you're pretty damn close to a ghost kitchen, anyway.

I think you're aiming your reasonable distaste for corporate entities at indie ghost kitchens when they don't deserve it.
What does the OS situation for these handhelds look like? Could they be usable with a pmOS or Mobian install? It might also be interesting to look into UX paradigms for a more general purpose use of this class of devices, as opposed to just gaming. E.g. they might supplement SBC's for some educational uses.
Nothing weird going on here... It's the free market doing it's thing. Apparently staying in prison is in high demand, driving up prices.

/s
However, the brewing and trucking industries have done the exact opposite. Maybe your model is broken.

De-regulation is a misnomer, and using it as a pejorative shows ignorance as to how regulation really works. Quality will always matter way more than quantity.
I sense you just expressing your view on the matter, but I think that this is a very weak argument for God's existence. It's completely plausible that we will at some point in the future have good materialist explanations for the existence of energy or the size of the multiverse etc.
Well, they also have some of the best silicon engineers in the Valley, and the world. It's not just TSMC, they only build what is designed.
A 6km high voltage transmission line will be much more effective still.
This argument always depends on what kinds of evidence you accept and trust as valid for faith. One big test for that is trusting any of the holy books as evidence for something faithful.

It's really weird to watch science and science-like ideas grow out of faith and religion, then the faith be blamed for 'persecuting' science after a certain philosophy took over in the late 19th century.
After I commented I realized you're referring to Toki Pona in the second part of your comment. Yeah you're definitely going to be limited with your thinking. That's not really a problem with Esperanto.

Check out this talk by Tim Owen where he goes over the basics of Esperanto and why it's so easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCiFMD8RNbg

Here's a cheat sheet you might find interesting: https://i.imgur.com/FKasIpP.jpg
The one servicing the loan is the student.
The states problem of prosecuting ponzi schemes has been publicly enabling everyone else to know exactly which pieces were and aren’t illegal

Which disclosure paragraph was missing in the 80 pages of disclosures

Which notice wasn't filed with a securities regulator

And then simply doing the exact same actions compliantly

There is only so much the state can do for investors that want to move money
I wonder if we really want to know, or if we'd rather enjoy speculating for all eternity. Seems like the journey is more fun than the destination.
Most of the time, supporters of these laws aren't brainwashed or stupid. They just prefer the status quo that these laws uphold, which tends to overlay nearly perfectly with class lines.
Not sure why this is being downvoted. This is just well-estatblished history. Keynesian economics came out of the Great Depression of the 1930s and was the leading economic theory until stagflation posed a major theoretical challenge for it and monetarism took over instead
The sewer note is more about this particular line:

> Any sink used to wash, prepare, store, or soak food must be indirectly connected to the sewer through an airbreak, and a water tank not being suitable.

Which I interpreted as a direct sewer connection for the sink being required.
Widevine isn't used on regular videos.
I think thisThis points back to what GP is saying.

> "enables directors to make short term decisions"

Ok but what does that do in regards to the business ? Does it increase profits and if so how much? Does it in cream efficiency and if so how much? Did it allow you to rapidly scale X and if so how ouch of X or at what rate ?

What’s the impact of your line item and how much I believe is what GP is getting at.
Well I was simply trying to light up the other side of the planet, but if you want to concentrate it to a small area..
Isn’t that what the UK did with Australia?
Exactly or simply biogas/biomethane as fuel.
Government[s]- plural, and international (though some are more progressive than others).
Not sure about others but I personally am not a big fan of generalising that much: I'd prefer it if people would ideally say that it was for example the "most power efficient general purpose CPU/SoC" or at least something in that regard, not just "the best".

For example, have a look at https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/AMD%20Ryzen%20Thre... (user benchmarks of M1 and Threadripper). Compiling Linux on the 2990WX appears to be about 4 times faster than on the M2. (There are lots of other examples of one of the two CPUs being faster than the other but compiling Linux is the most time-expensive task I regularly do on my 2990WX. The energy usage in this task on the 2990WX is almost certainly a lot higher of course; this will be true for most tasks. However, the 2990WX is also 4 years older of course, manufactured in a different node, not very optimized for power saving and not operated in a very power saving mode.)
Would be nice to some day take this one step further and develop some sort of floating mesh of solar arrays for covering the bulk of water reservoir areas.
Hmm... The USA has a six times higher incarceration rate than Canada or the UK. Are violent crime rates really six times higher there?
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This looks like a scheme to keep ex-inmates underwater. To rejoin the society they need legal income. Prisons watch out for such "deserters" and take half of their income, so they won't have enough for rent or food, and would have to go back to crime, and eventually to a prison.

Where is the profit for prisons? It's twofold: forced labor where inmates make license plates and some basic goods, and admin fees for managing prisons where taxpayers foot the bill.
Maybe UK could find a whole island for that specific purpose.
How are actions by a government... "the free market"?
Big fan of crime pays but botany doesn't. I'll need to give that podcast a listen, thanks!
You got the direction backwards. Increase in entropy means that the farther back you go in time, the less information the universe has in it in some sense. The initial state of the universe would therefore be very simple, having low entropy. If the state were simple enough, then in principle, we could figure it out in exact detail. The thing that thermodynamics says is unknowable is the distant future of the universe. We can predict that it will be dark and cold and empty and sparsely filled with ever-more red-shifted radiation, but it's impossible, even in principle, to know the details of exactly where each individual particle in going to end up.
In Norway you earn money in prison, and we still have lower percentage of people in prison.
Why don't they use agrobacterium transfection, gene guns, or molecular techniques to directly transfer the resistance genes over? Do we not know what the genes themselves are?

I'm not criticizing their technique! Nor do I think I know better. This is amazing and valuable work, and I'd love to know more.
Great question.

We’re building a “privacy mode” feature to address this exact problem that allows the host to black out the screen when entering sensitive information like credentials.

As for Hyperbeam getting access to credentials—we don’t store any input from users in the virtual computer. The only things we track are the time a particular IP is connected to the VM and the domains that are visited (this is anonymized).
This is amazing. My parents liked to tell me that roasted chestnuts used to be a ubiquitous street food in NYC until they disappeared.
As I say, you're using the words "complex" and "simple" in a fundamentally different way than Sabine (and most every scientist) is using them.

For science and scientists, it's the complexity/simplicity of the rules that matters.

You're arguing against a point Sabine doesn't make.
There are over 2 MILLION prisoners in the US prison population of a population of 330M.

This gives the USA the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world.

The next four?

* Rwanda

* Turkmenistan

* El Salvador

* Cuba

[1]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarcera...
Ideally, but many folks prefer that over a mortgage, and instead pay rents.
There is one in North Bergen, NJ. I won't say where. They can find it themselves!
> Did money suddenly become more important to you, or was there some kind of fallout between you and your employer, or did something trigger you want more meaning in, or validation of your work?

OP mentioned that "everyone tells me i should [feel aggrieved]"

"I'm currently earning £60K a year ($70K) and I'm beginning to feel "aggrieved", everyone tells me I should."

So it appears that it is outside influences that have changed his heart towards his salary. His wording in particular leads me to think this. "Everyone tells me i should". Not "I told my friends that i was upset about my salary and they agreed".
> Imagine if the US government would let you easily get a $200k loan to buy a car.

Or have Fannie and Feddie artificially lower interest rates with a government bailout guarantee so you can get the same house... but pay 50% more for it (total, not monthly payment).
Impossibility: the limits of science and the science of limits by John D Barrow — rest in peace — is an excellent book about the aspects of the Universe we can never know. For example, the visible Universe and whether constants are constant.

When this blogger starts by pushing back on philosophers, I think they may mean scientists like Barrow, which is a shame because he makes for very compelling reading. In fact, have I not seen warnings here, from reputable posters, about this Backreaction blog?

In any case, I recommend the ahem “philosophy” book heartily.
Did I end up in a parallel universe where costco is now sysco?
This trends chart[1] suggests that "Apple silicon" is very much a marketing term versus a colloquial term for chips in general.

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
> wrote my own tool, which I run on my [work] computer

Could you elaborate on this? I'm still on the fence about even having independent dotfiles in a separate repo.

Perhaps it is different because it's governmental work, therefore for the public good?

If I may ask yet another question: if your tools make you more efficient, does that impact perception of other examiners' "KPI metrics?"

Automation is a sensitive topic at the best of times, so just trying to learn some context from different fields. Thank-you.
This is the very opposite of the free market.
… and the internet overlords, like Google and Facebook.
It doesn’t make it right, but it does make them hypocrites.
If this tree had a secret to cultivating a resistant strain that would be very awesome.

Is there a good app which lets you input your zip code, maybe also sun exposure and soil conditions, how many feet of width and height you have available, and then where it will spit out a list of well-suited tree specimens with some nice pictures of each?
Biden’s student loan ‘fix’ will likely make the problem worse
My god, please don't give the US any ideas!
> always are, sometimes.

Heh.

For real though, fines that aren't adjusted to the offenders wealth seem to give legal impunity to the wealthy. But performing that adjustment without a floor essentially gives legal impunity to people at rock bottom. The trick is finding some middle ground where all criminals, poor and rich, can be effectively punished to deter crimes of opportunity.
Back when I was a product manager, no small part of my job seemed to consist of making a decision--ANY decision--so that things could proceed. Often it fairly obviously didn't matter and, even if it somewhat did, there was often no clear way to inform an optimum answer. (Of course, sometimes there was--but it was probably the minority of the time.)
Perhaps I phrased it poorly. The inference seems to be Google using this data for their gain (beyond operational needs). Is there any proof of that? Or is my inference incorrect?
i think for a lot of us it came out of left field: i assumed our congress was too divided to pass something of this sort, so i never really sorted out my thoughts on the actual idea.

turns out i neglected to consider that loan forgiveness could happen without congress. my jerk reaction was fairly negative: not because i had thought critically about loan forgiveness, but because at a certain level i recognized that we just engaged in a very large act of redistribution almost completely outside the democratic process, and it’s hard to move past that mental shock and confront the outcomes objectively and separate from the process.
Litigated for racism? I genuinely do not understand how this could be possible. These services aren’t showing the race of the people attending, are they?
>[...] For-profit prisons with state minimum occupancy clauses. [...]

>What exactly is the point of any of this?

At least for that there's a pretty simple non-nefarious explanation. The state wants to outsource their prisons/jails to some private entity. They agree to pay the private entity per prisoner housed. However, since the private entity needs to invest upfront cash to build the facility, they want some sort of assurance that the demand will materialize and they won't be left with a facility that's only 50% used, hence the minimum occupancy clause.

I haven't seen the actual minimum occupancy clauses, but realistically speaking they probably involve the state paying for the minimum occupancy even if actual prisoners are less (eg. if minimum occupancy is 800 prisoners but actual occupancy is 700, they still pay for 800 prisoners). It's not like the state has to come up with 100 extra prisoners to meet their obligations.

I agree this causes skewed incentives (ie. the marginal cost of imprisoning someone can potentially be zero), but if you're deciding to lock someone up or not hinges on whether it costs $30k or $0, you probably have other issues. If a convict is dangerous then he should be locked up, if he's not he shouldn't be. Money shouldn't play a factor in this.
And how much all that solar equipment garbage is going to be disposed soon.
So much judgement against kids who sought an education they could afford and opted for a state university at home instead of taking a loan to go somewhere else.
You want to see a bribe, check out the 2017 Tax cut and jobs act.
Very true, though the US had an outsized role in convincing other governments to enact zero-tolerance drug laws under multiple UN conventions. It's only in the last 20 years we've seen nations willing to buck the trend.
Saw that video recently as well. What's remarkable about this find is the size of the specimen, and that it's confirmed to be 100% American Chestnut. Hopefully with the hybrid approach, this find, and further breeding/propagation work, we can see a large scale return of this incredible species.
> There used to be about 4 million American chestnut trees in eastern U.S. forests, until chestnut blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) arrived in New York via infected plants and spread rapidly, nearly wiping out the majestic trees

Fwiw this is wrong -- it used to be 4 billion.
Jai has not been released to the public. If people are looking for a language that has been very heavily influenced by it and is in a near category, then that would arguably be Odin (https://youtu.be/M763xHjsPk4). Odin is open to the public, where nobody knows for sure when Jai will.

If looking for a more general purpose feature rich newer language then people might want to also check out Vlang (https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md).
I can browse the Web like I'm in a data center. Speedtest.net shows 776 Mb downloads, 928 Mb uploads. That's way better than the Internet access where I live.
The value of that intermarriage was ability to maintain an empire of significant power and influence, as well balance relationships with nearby royals, who were all cousins.

"no value" here is probably in tens, maybe hundreds of trillions of dollars in the present time PPP basis.