skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Electric cars are primarily charged at off-peak times

When would that time be? I get home from work after 17:00/5:00PM. Plug in my EV, and set the air conditioner to a few degrees lower. I get up and leave for work at 7:00. EV cars with Level 2 charging take from 5h (Mini SE Hardtop) to 12h (Tesla Model S). The average is 8.6h, and median at 8h. [0,1] At Level 1 charging, the charging time can take days, depending on the vehicle.

> According to California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), the California Energy Commission (CEC) and California Independent System Operator (CAISO), the state’s electricity grid reaches its peak level of usage between the late afternoon and early evening – a time frame in which electricity produced by renewable resources is less available and thus costs more to produce. The peak demand period is generally defined as the hours between 4 to 9PM ... [1]

With the above details, with the best case scenario on timing & charging, that means I must not plug in my vehicle before 9:00PM, but have to before 10:30PM.

If California is hoping that people will plug in their vehicles "at the right time", that is not a re-assuring strategy.

[0] https://www.carcareportal.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-charg...

[1] https://www.carcovers.com/carresources/how-long-does-it-take...

[2] https://energyupgradeca.org/time-of-use-faqs
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In full? 1776

In practice what happens is that some boondoggle results in a catastrophic too big to brush aside and the part of the executive branch in question decides that just not doing that thing going forward is better than the scrutiny from the legislative branch and change their policy. Nobody is ever meaningfully held accountable. Sometimes there's a token scapegoat. The above pattern holds both at the federal and state level.
iPhone US market share hits all-time high; dominates global premium sales
I used to but it seems things move too fast now, my latest Python book was outdated in 5 years, so I'd highly recommend reading online documentation instead
The metaverse is evolving from fiction into fact
I guess it can be in a specific case: minigames servers (such as Hypixel), which are just a bunch of servers "connected" together. Players start into a "lobby" server, where they can choose a minigame, and are then sent to another server where they spend a few minutes.
I've learned to never underestimate HN's capacity for pedantic literalism.
Yeah, tragic. They are no less human than you are. They had no clue what they were doing, like all of us in general. What fraction of the population is aware of the effect of radiation and the toxicity of medical sources? How would they go about assessing the risk in this situation?

Uncontrolled contamination can also harm innocent bystanders, in this case children.
No. Only Fessenheim has been closed and it accounts for a very small % of the power that currently lacking (1.8 GW at best vs 37.8 GW of the whole fleet).

34 reactors are off now + 4 partially down. You can't blame this on a single plant and politicians, especially when we can't build a working EPR [0], and when the old ones have defects (corrosion) that require them to be turned off in the middle of an energy crisis [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

[1] https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220825-france-prolongs-...
Design for Security Now Essential for Chips, Systems
I use GraalVM as my standard non-native JDK (OpenJDK replacement) and I'd say the performance is somewhat better.

There are a lot of non-biased benchmarks you can find online, most of them showing that Graal (both CE/EE, though particularly EE) are more performant than OpenJDK.

You then also have the option to compile to native, or to embed/run code in other languages baked in.

It's a no-lose scenario IMO.
Misleading headline. This article is about student protests at the Design Tech Charter School next to the Oracle campus in Redwood Shores, there's no direct relation to Oracle and the students were not protesting on Oracle's campus.
Also works well when the GreenScreen is a telnet window in Windows.
recent US Supreme Court rulings have shown the implications of that as e.g. Roe v Wade and other decisions that used to cement various civil justice issues ranging from interracial marriage and the abolishment of anti-sodomy laws to legalizing abortion were apparently literally based on the "right to privacy", which the Supreme Court ruled doesn't exist.

The SCOTUS decision in Loving (the anti-miscegenation laws, i.e., interracial marriage)[1] doesn't rest on right to privacy. This decision is built (approximately) on the equal protection clause. As such, the reversal or Roe doesn't put Loving on shaky ground at all. A good thing for me, since my wife and I are of different races.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
So many great products have been hamstrung by designing for the nearest-term metrics available. I don't understand why so many highly intelligent people keep making the same obvious (to the consumer) mistake.
> QHD (2560x1440)

That should be 2.5K or something if they want to downscale that silly naming system. 2K means 1920x1080.
OMG, finally a audacity version that won't crash my Wayland window manager. Unfortunately the recorded audio is really weird. Basically it tunes down the audio once I'm speaking, maybe some weird autogain racecondition between PulseAudio/Pipewire and Firefox?
Hackers created an enormous traffic jam in Moscow
Biology kills us first, and in a manner that's contingent, not necessary; there are universes with physics similar to ours where life could continue forever. (Just add some rare non-energy-conserving interactions to be exploited).

Eventually, over 10^100 years of operation you get into interesting problems with the number of possible states a mind of a given size has being finite; but if you can continually add more matter via non-energy-conserving interactions, you could add more memory/processing up to fundamental physical limits:
you can only fit so much information in a given volume before it collapses into a black hole;
you can only communicate at c, so if you make your mind bigger, it has to parallelize or slow down;
Given the expansion of space, at some scale, light signals from one end of your mind can't reach the other (the space inbetween expands faster than C), which would be the the fundamental limit... except that gravity counteracts the expansion of space, and I'm not sure what the expansion properties of a visible-universe-filled volume of just-barely-black-hole-subcritical computronium is. I imagine you're in a big crunch regime at that point, except... Isn't that the same thing as a black hole collapse?
Nonetheless, there's presumably some balancing density that perfectly avoids both expansion and contraction, though it's presumably unstable. Ignoring the instability-difficulties, though, that means you can continue growing the amount of memory you have by slowing down your processing speed to one clock cycle every ~2*the diameter of your mind in light-years years. I'm not sure what the ultimate limiting factor is here, given infinite time; does the amount of computation of this system in infinite time go to infinity as your scale goes to infinity, or does it asymptotically approach some finite upper bound?
Isn't the K relating to the horizontal axis? 1K being close to FHD doesn't seem to make sense.

1K (1024x540) ~= qHD (960x540)
2K (2048x1080) ~= FHD (1920x1080)
4K (4096x2160) ~= UHD (3840x2160)
8K (8192x4320) ~= QUHD (7680x4320)

Vertical axis is the same, just different aspect ratio and horizontal axis.
> Also, there are mods for the Java server which allows both Java and Bedrock clients to connect to the same server and play together.

This is correct. I am running a vanilla SMP for my son, and he plays primarily on the switch. I use a Java server running Fabric and Geyser/Floodgate in order to allow his switch to connect to the server. Everything runs smoothly, so far.
Posting video of the Christchurch massacre is illegal.

And if you don't think the London police department didn't put out a fact based narrative about three swatting, you are straight up unwilling to engage in any sort of reasoned discussion, and are appealing purely to your emotional attachments to your ideals.
How fast do you want? My bet is that you can get EC2 to boot up very quickly, ie: ~1 minute or less with a bit of effort.
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You have elegantly outlined my major concern with everything related to freedom of speech/expression online.

Society, generally speaking, functions by collective agreement. So as corporations begin to control the ways that collective agreement is reached, all the ways that corporations are different from real people (as opposed to being “legally people”) and different from the government begin to make the decades/centuries of legal mechanisms, built up to protect this crucial delicate and completely imperfect balance that underlies the functioning of society, begins to break down.

It’s like a corroding bridge. It’s still structurally sound… (a.k.a. “The system works”) … until it doesn’t. I have no idea what the breakdown will be, when it might be, or how it might unfold. I’m not a bridge inspector, or a structural engineer, but I know the bridge didn’t squeak or sway when it was built, and now it does, and that there’s lots of examples from history of how bridges like this eventually fall down when something important gives way.
Bank of America just launched a zero down payment mortgage in 21 cities
Me too. Maybe just a blog post with the big details and some lessons learned. I tried a Qt app once to wasm. and it was just painfully slow and so buggy when I got done (mostly just unexplained crashes). I'm no pro though, it was just a weekend project.
There is an elaborate joke here that I find hilarious. I am in awe of the author.
Try Lambda Labs or Core Weave for affordable GPU servers. I'm sure there are more, but I've had good experiences with these in the past.
New method to find optimal quantum operation sequences for quantum computers
Unsurprisingly, HN is going to be tough on an offering like this. I know there is a need for this tool though.

Questions:

1. How do you capture phone numbers even for optin? Does the restaurant port over their phone number to your automated answering before reaching a member of the staff?
2. What POSs do you integrate with and how? Does the server need to ask a customer for their phone number and enter it in the POS which then you pull periodically from?
3. When a customer redeems a promo, do you process orders or let the POS/server/other online ordering do it?
4. Do you tie promos to specific items that the business has higher profit margins on?
Admittedly Turboprops can be somewhat more efficent at lower altitudes than turbojet and turbofan engines. But still not terribly efficient at say sightseeing or cropdusting altitudes, and they are still a lot more expensive than avgas engines (and that is not even accounting for the fact that the aircraft designed to use them are bigger and more expensive than many avgas based prop planes).
I wish - but if that was going to happen, it would have happened already. By the time enough people wake up to the necessity of an uncensorable communications network to make it feasible, it will be too late to make it happen.
A cellular watch lets them get directions, text/call me, etc. and don't rely on phones being nearby like AirTags do.

Are you not washing your kids' underoos?
What do I need for the in painting? is there a source for the models/ldm/inpainting_big/last.ckpt' file?
Dysthymia is, in fact, Greek, not Latin, but anyone who knows ancient Greek would immediately understand the word. Greek and Latin used to be normal parts of a basic grammar- and high-school education, even at the beginning of the twentieth century; by the end of the century, we were instead teaching remedial English in universities. The consequent narrowing of both vocabulary and roots from which neologism might arise may be responsible for the growth of the unwieldy and confusing noun phrases serving as terms of art: would not "psychotrophium" sound better than Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic?

There's another factor at work in lengthy periphrasis, too: people seem to need length these days to lend credibility. For example, my church never calls itself a church now but always a "community of believers" or "faith community." Missionaries report not on tribes but "people groups." Monosyllables have fallen out of favor, because professionals must embrace sesquipedalian verbosity.

Many of the ridiculously generic Latinate terms, by the way, especially in anatomy, were imposed in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. The "hippocampus," for example, was a seahorse until 1587, when the term was applied to part of the brain. At the time, surgeons learned entirely in Latin, and they probably had no difficulty differentiating between medical and marine definitions based on context. As far as ancient Rome goes, or ancient Greece for that matter, homonymy (which is really what the author of the article means) and amphiboly were taught and warned against in the schools: clarity is a virtue for rhetoricians and a duty of dialecticians.
Speaking as a physicist, I have always hated this nomenclature. There is no vacuum at all. The universe is filled with quantum fields, they are the source of the Casimir effect. Terms as "vacuum energy" are simply a bad naming, the energy comes from the quantum field, which is a very physical object even if not intuitive, as anything quantum.
It has been done and many of us are using it although we are a small minority. Most people are unable to make the changes needed as the implants are too embedded in them to remove. Try getting someone to switch to degoogled Android from Iphone to see the difficulty.
Since when has the "K" designation referred to the vertical? 2K = 2048 horizontal. 4k = 4096 horizontal.

I have personally never seen 1080p referred to as 1K
That is an extremely cavalier take, especially considering:

> His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate an egg while sitting on this floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the egg she was consuming; she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment.

Maybe read the article before commenting?
Unfortunately, that's my current thinking.

Reckon if we got into the Tardis and went there it'd take a research effort to recognize that we were actually in the same country!
This madness needs to stop. What features does USB-C not have that the masses have been clamoring for? The only one I can think of is fixing the confusing sub specs that make different cables and ports incompatible with each other, which seems like it was a problem solved with earlier versions of USB.
> I'd say it's basically impossible that he figured out a way to refine uranium for $2000.

I'm sure you could get the cost way down if you traded throughput/time. Tub grinder vs homeowner wood chipper.
FIFA launching NFT collectables platform
Restoring a key hormone could help people with Down syndrome – Science – AAAS
BTW, I've just tried running Kawipiko on an Android tablet (ARM64) to export the same demo as available at the link in the repository, and it works great!

In fact, benchmarking it over wireless + Wireguard with 128 concurrent connections yielded around ~2K requests/second and the overall CPU stayed under 1% (for the server process). (Granted the main issue was latency, but the average was well under 25 ms.)

Thus for a portfolio site that you take with you at conferences / meetings it works very well.
A small child in a vacuum chamber is going to have larger concerns.
The game servers don't restart after the end of a round, though, do they? I'd imagine they kick the players back to the lobby, reset the in-server game, and then tell the lobby to send the next batch of players.
> Alternately, I wonder if there's any way to lay down fiber long distance that doesn't require govt authorization...and doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

That’s a hard no.

Just the materials for a 100+ mile fiber network is hundreds of thousands.

Then there is the matter of right of way across all those miles. It would be nigh impossible to find a route that does not cross a road or land parcel that isn’t government owned.
The Missing Chinese Mechanical Clocks
The story is about how medieval Europe which was in many ways regarded as technological backwards could develop mechanical clocks in the 1300s while China, a far more advanced civilization, did not.
The word "absurd" doesn't show in the article, that's your characterization.

What the referenced article is saying is that to the extent that these things are "civil rights" issues, everything is thus a civil rights issue, and thus a focus on civil rights is meaningless.
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Why is this? I thought the JVM already did somewhat decent JIT compilation ...

If I understand the article correctly, you're preempting all possibly unoptimized/expensive code paths (reflection) by attempting to literally execute all of them? While it's a cool experiment, isn't it a bit error-prone (besides being a lot of effort of course, but playing Minecraft on the side does sound pretty fun!)?
Sadly, for whatever reason, people who aren't doing their job also aren't being fired nearly as often as they used to be either. This fact can also contribute to a feeling of despair which leads good hard working employees to feel like giving up as well. When you're working your butt off and doing a great job, and the guy/gal next to you is constantly slacking, and somehow you're both getting paid the same, while some weasely little manager talks down to everyone all the time, it kinda makes you wanna just do the absolute bare minimum you can get away with doing.
I've been thinking about very similar needs, but perhaps accomplished in a somewhat different way.

It would be really neat if SQLite or DuckDB implemented a way to create (register) read-only external tables (like Apache Iceberg). That way your large OLAP database (Snowflake, etc) could manage (DDL & CRUD) the external table, while SQLite and DuckDB would consume from it and automatically get all of the updates/deltas to the external table.

clicks --> Iceberg
bits --> Snowflake/MPP <--> table --> DuckDB
pieces --> on S3

Snowflake could take care of all the analytical heavy lifting continually preparing/updating/unloading data to the Iceberg table in an analytics ready/friendly form (lags, leads, etc built into data).

DuckDB could watch for changes on the Iceberg table (manifest) and update its internal representation of the external table as it changes. DuckDB can already read parquet files out on S3 so it should be somewhat trivial to implement? DuckDB could then handle all of the lightweight slicing/dicing of the analytics data; projections, counts, pagination, etc

Here's an example of Snowflake managing an Iceberg table: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz5cWY_vRwU
Ooh, the Cobalt-60 incident in Mexico is also pretty crazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...

There were houses built of contaminated rebar! The story gets crazier the more you read about it.
We are talking about internet shutdowns not "bans", so how are you going to "circumvent it with a bit of knowledge", unless you plan to break into isps buildings and you need a license to operate an ISP in India in case you didn't know.
Unless you have a legal requirement to provide accessibility, I encourage everyone to ignore this advice. It is basically letting perfect be the enemy of good. Especially if your project is opensource. Someone that cares, which may even be you at a later date when other things on the to-do list are done, can submit patches to address accessibility later.
I honestly think it is the same as the iGPU.

It is cheap enough that it is bundled with everything. But that doesn't make it better than a discrete GPU/Audio chip.

Intel GPUs are barely good enough to run an OS desktop yet they hold the majority of the market.
Does This Area 51 Image Show a Secret Aircraft or Cloudshade?
Well, why not dump all the money into units then? Right? It's fundamentally about the adaptability not the defence depth.
It's not uncommon to block those nations (and others) if there's no reason to serve them. When I was last in the networking world it was very common for companies to do so.

It blocks more malicious traffic than you might expect. I would have assumed that bad actors in those nations wouldn't be scanning FROM them as much but that's not the case. I suppose anyone blocking them is just off their list of targets as they're not being low hanging fruit.

For some companies it is like flipping off a light switch, malicious traffic goes from 100 to near 0 immediately.

I don't like the idea of doing it, but as an admin seeing that effect and having limited resources, you do it.
Hrm that link doesn't seem to be relevant:

> … is not defined in the TIA Act but is generally understood to refer to information about a communication that is not the content or substance of a communication.

I'm asking asking about content.
If you want well researched content with working code along with the fact that a book in not connected to the internet(yet, smart book anyone?) it's still worth it.
> The company admitted in a statement to the German website 24auto.de that it used pyrotechnics to ignite the fire.

Despicable. Somewhat ironically, it's remeniscant of the demonstrations that Edison staged to spur panic about the dangers about AC electricity, favoured by his competitors including (Nikola) Tesla. Although those didn't have to resort to outright faking the effects, so this is arguably worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_currents#Collusion_...
Making the logo program optional is just plain stupid. If a cable supports 40gb or 80gb but otherwise looks exactly the same, that’s just bad. Having s logo program to fix this, but not requiring it is even worse - it shows you see the problem but really don’t care about users enough to fix it.