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cold reserve

>But despite warnings of multi-hour blackouts, Economy and Climate Action Minister Robert Habeck confirmed the country’s planned nuclear power phase-out by the end of 2022.

>Germany’s nuclear exit will only be forestalled by a temporary cold reserve of two power plants, which could be reactivated if needed to ensure grid stability in the country’s South

They will use "oil power plants can be deployed here at short notice in the form of power ships, so-called ‘power barges’" instead, Brilliant!

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/berlin-eyes-oil...
That’s why they named it “Reason” magazine, not “Reasonable” magazine!
You're right; I was elaborating on what "voluntary" would mean, and attempting to answer the question in your second paragraph. A thread should progress towards some sort of resolution, ideally.

As for "the world is failing to give them a better answer than death" -- what would that be? Other than drugs or curing the disease, of course.

My mother died in a hospice room at the assisted care facility. Her hospice nurse said "there's no reason why anyone has to suffer anymore." I was also around when her mother died, and that was much, much worse.
true as elon musk says it won't be economically viable for quite some time but fusion is the right step, what I'd be interested is if they can miniaturized to fit on rocket payloads.
Super happy to hear this, some of the best TV sci-fi ever created are episodes on that TV show.

In particular the Babylon 4 episodes are just mind blowing. I can’t say anymore other than the pay off as well worth it to get through, as others have mentioned, the end of season four which is really the main plot arc fully realized, and it’s quite impressive.
> That you can zip a large movie file, for example, owes to the fact that pixel colors have a statistical pattern, the way English words do. Engineers can build probabilistic models for patterns of pixel colors from one frame to the next.

This is, in fact, incorrect generally. Movie files are generally compressed via _lossy_ compression, which escapes the Shannon entropy limit. Entropy based encoding, as described in this article, is generally only the final stage in a video "codec" (algorithm to compress, and decompress video). The first stage relies of finding information in the visual field that humans are unlikely to notice the loss of and discarding it. The second stage does interframe (between frames) compression by simply searching for blocks of pixels that match. Entropy coding is generally the final stage.

This, by the way, is why zipping a video file can make it... larger.
It is being used to refer to pro cycling fraternity. "The rumour going around the peloton..."
> Isn’t hide my email receive only?

No, there're two ways to send messages from Hide My Email addresses: 1. reply to an incoming message; 2. select "Hide My Email" option when composing a new message via any of Apple's mail apps.

> Who would be seeing this header except the person in control of the alias? Can anyone untrusted see it?

Any recipient can see it, the screenshot is from one of my Gmail mailboxes.

> As it stands, this looks like an incoming message which has been assigned a thread ID on your domain for _your_ reference, rather than any information going outward

It was an outgoing message from my Custom Email Domain address to one of my Gmail addresses using the Hide My Email feature, which was supposed to *hide* my Custom Email Domain address.
What I don't understand about the TOR feature is how someone might be concerned enough to want to use TOR, while at the same time trusting the usage of TOR as bundled in a non-transparent way by a third party crypto company of all things.
was curious about mirrors, which are used to boil water, "most concentrated solar power technologies will have an efficiency somewhere between 7 and 25 percent."

"Though most commercial panels have efficiencies from 15% to 20%, researchers have developed PV cells with efficiencies approaching 50%."

"Both nuclear and coal plants show a range of efficiencies. Nuclear plants currently being built have about 34-36% thermal efficiency, while one of the new reactor designs boasts 39%. In comparison, new coal-fired plants approach 40% and CCGT plants reach 60%."
"To live" is to act to sustain your life and have a life worth living. To live maximally it to not half ass living. Neither being biologically operational while having a life you hate, and also not having a life you enjoy presently at the expense of greater values you have in the future.
There was an extended repair program for AirPods Pro, so they would've got them replaced anyway.
Apple and co offer Siri which is way more complicated than an IVR which is just recordings. The whole point of what I suggest with an IVR is so simple and so easy to understand and I know it works because I have deployed this across many, many customers and my own gear for roughly 15 odd years. I run quite a few Freepbx setups.

I also run SMTP for several sites, despite the HN concorde against self hosting email.

Silly me!

Apple can do pre call selection, just as a competent SMTP filter does the same - ask for DATA, scan it and then either accept or drop. Naiive filters accept DATA unconditionally and then scan it. As far as the sender is concerned - you have accepted it and that scores the ad. spend.

VoIP works just like say SMTP - allow/deny lists first and then do some analysis up the stack and then allow or deny data.

Anyway, compared to a Siri session, SMTP filtering is trivial from a cpu perspective. A simple IVR is trivial compared to a full on inbound telephony session analysis.
Interesting, I’m not a French speaker but my Spanish is OK. Always thought it was rooted in “pelota” as ball - but after looking both meanings are accurate just one being a bit more literal
It'd be interesting to know whether this is uplink-only, like most devices of the Spot series of devices on Globalstar, or whether the iPhone can also receive acknowledgements from the satellite.

As far as I understand, Globalstar's downlink capacity is (or at least was) severely limited and also uses a different frequency band than their uplink.
So it’s like a form of munchausen?
For some reason on Windows AirPods show up as two different types of devices (not left and right) one of which sounds very bad with a lot of noise. And of course if you connect AirPods with your iPhone and your Windows laptop they’ll start fighting over who gets to connect.
Airplane mode.

Of course if you don’t trust that, you shouldn’t be buying an Apple product anyways. They could ship an always on microphone streaming to their servers if they wanted to. But we trust that they won’t.
This is also nice because you can clean up your build files all in one go. Every now and again I delete my cargo target directory and get 5GB back.
Even with fusion, it's very clear that many politicians are afraid of it simply because of the word “nuclear” in it.

As nuclear fission, nuclear fusion might simply not be used because of that scary word alone.
ripgrep is in a rather special situation of processing files that can contain literally anything without declaring any structure whatsoever, from binary data to text in any encoding, including mojibake.

It's good that this library exists as an option, but it isn't necessarily the right default for all strings.

The "it's UTF-8 or maybe not" string encoding approach of Go and Zig adds overhead from having to handle broken UTF-8 sequences (Rust can safely assume they don't exist), weakens safeguards against encoding errors, and makes lossless roundtrip of string -> codepoints -> string impossible.
Except this (currently) requires users to point their phone at a satellite so it can connect and transmit, with clear line of site of the sky. It seems it will be more likely something you'd do when you get to your "campsite" and want friends/family to know where you are located.
Sorry, I was speaking from an American mind. Here, 45% don't have access to public transit. Around 5% use it daily or weekly [1]. Statistics are much better in dense cities.

1. https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/us-public-transit-has-strug...
So peloton is the most efficient and Peloton is the most inefficient?
I got the feeling it's one of those products designed for regular people who like to roleplay as explorers
They are absolutely just giving you new ones. Id suggest it's largely possible because the profit margins are quite high on them so giving you new ones is way cheaper than the retail price.
Wow I use the app since a long time ago and had never noticed it. Thanks for that!
Doesn't matter if you waste half the energy if it's still a cheaper way to boil water than the next best thing.
That report missed that the issue was because the cap was designed to prevent suppliers exploiting customers who don’t switch supplier regularly to get better deals. It ended up with smaller suppliers that act as brokers to lose money in the current market. It was not a catastrophic issue.
I've had this happen three times now in 2.5 years. The first symptom is that the noise cancellation gets worse. Some months after that, you start hearing a crackling sound, particularly while speaking, or if you adjust the airpod in your ear.

I believe what is happening is that earwax is building up in the grille on the top inside of the airpod which houses a microphone. As the sound from this microphone gets more distorted, the noise cancellation gradually stops working. You can also see this because after you've had the airpods a couple of months you will never get the ear tip fit test to pass.

Every time this has gotten to the crackling stage, Apple has replaced these without charge, even though I didn't have Applecare. They have some sort of machine in the back of the store that they use to test them, and if your set fails the test, they give you a new pair (sometimes just one).
AssemblyScript – Standards Objections
Stable diffusion, backwards on the device, targeting a photo. send photos with only the prompt.
Then let those users rot. To give up a fundamental component of computing because a few desperate users figure out how to sideload some garbage on their phones is one of the silliest arguments I've ever seen. Apple locks shit down because it makes them more money, plain and simple.
Yes maybe self-sovereignty of digital assets, but certainly not democracy. I wonder how suoduandao2 got that democracy idea.
Thought experiment: what’s the highest price Apple could charge for them, after which you’d pass on the purchase?
Loved the stories of B5 but loathed the acting. Felt like a weird soap opera or an overly dramatic play
Recreating Office products inside Roblox? Sounds interesting, but why?
How is this not BackFAT?
Ok, newbie here!

In Haskell I can add a handful of lines to parallelize an "embarrassingly parallel" computation. For example, there are 66,960,965,307 atomic lattices on 6 atoms. A 20 core Mac Studio can figure this out by reverse search in just over four minutes; divvy the work up into piles, and have everyone count the work in their pile. For the problems I care about, everyone's looking for needles in a haystack; they can report what they found with no concern for what anyone else is doing.

So what's the dumbest "try this first" approach in Clojure?
Naming is hard they say
I am not sure the /intent/ of the article is to answer the question.
AirPods Pro will "pair" to an unlimited number of devices (or at least a very high number). But it can only be connected to one device at once.
Startup Behind Stable Diffusion in Talks to Raise at Valuation Up to $1B
I'm a bit worn out by all the "tardigrades are indestructible" articles but as long as people are actually doing biophysics experiments to understand the mechanism I'm interested. In this case I don't think this is the only mechanism they use but it's interesting that it's a gel, which are an underappreciated phase of matter, whereas most of the tardigrade desiccation literature I've read remarks that it looks more like they're virtrifying.

For popular science articles about tardigrades it's hard to beat Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/scientists-glean-new...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/nifty-biomechanics-o...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/water-bears-can-repl...
Hasn't he filed multiple lawsuits against different entities who have called him out on this?

If he was just pushing a false narrative of high scores on video games, I'd probably shrug at the whole situation. But this guy seems to be willing to die on the hill he has made for himself.
The percentage of people with self discipline and focus has always been rather small.
Pain killers weren't doing fuck all for me. I once told a friend "I would sell my soul to the devil for 24 hours without pain."

I've seen articles that suggest that many coma patients are aware and it's a living nightmare to be aware and trapped in a helpless body.

Anyone saying that no one has to suffer anymore is full of shit.

Yeah, a means to actually be healthy is the only real answer and if the world can't give you that and your condition is torture and you want out, you should have the right to end your suffering.
Packaging motto suggestion offered: "Mastery Over 'Ni!' Triumph Yields" (MONTY)

Need to revive the MONTY Python spirit as a hedge against the general dreariness of the day.
I haven't actually read the announcement, but I assume the tremendous temperature is in a tremendously small quantity of plasma. Basically, it's a few extremely fast nuclei.
The article fails to answer the question in its title: why?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t a huge amount of released energy in this scale eventually heat up the planet?

I mean, doesn’t the atmosphere in our big greenhouse always retains a non-zero amount of energy, no matter the CO2 etc. in the air? If that is true, then so far the net energy out flux was positive, but now we see with rising greenhouse concentrations that it’s turning. If we then raise the stock of energy inside the greenhouse, it overheats, no?
If they did this, I bet you would be complaining that they're using something proprietary and that its not compatible with Android phones.
You do realize that number of simultaneous connections to different networks is an actual hardware thing, not just an arbitrary limit, right ? And what's the use case for more than 2 at the same time ?
Adding one data point. I started doing exactly that a few years ago as a single man. Works wonder to fix sleep disorders, sync sleep cycle with the sun. Also helped with mood swings and boredom.

The last great point is that as soon as I know I don't have access to a screen, I get a lot done. Merely having the possibility of turning on hacker news or else makes me terrible at doing any kind of chore.
The announcement showed a conversation. "Do you have enough water?" "I have half a bottle." Then they talked about some new compression.
The list of technologies the CIA has evaluated since it's inception is long and full of quackery.
MBTI is astrology for grad students
Paceline has nothing to do with road closures.

Riders form a paceline because of the crosswind which forces everyone to look for draft on the left or the right side of a rider in front of you. Eventually, there's not enough road for everyone to be in the draft and the first paceline is formed (also called an echelon).

More specifically though, paceline refers to the mechanics of the echelon, the way riders rotate, or take turns at the front to stay in the echelon. This rotation is the paceline.
That's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity. It's uncomputable in general.
One of the biggest suppliers is boycotting them. Russia has turned off the gas to try to break the European resolve to assist Ukraine.
I am not a lawyer.

That doesn't seem likely. Offering something for free doesn't mean you're legally off the hook for what it does. That's especially true when the "free" thing you're offering is part of a package deal that you're selling to the public. If they're rolling out an emergency relay, they'd better be confident that it'll work the vast, vast majority of the time.
Please let me know when you've got an android app or website I can use.

Love otter but open to others
Isn't the intermittency of the energy source the issue? And there's currently no scalable solution to efficiently store excess energy generated from solar panels?
Releasing My First Game Part 2: Soft Launching in Japan and Learnings
This critique of typology applies to the way humans think about so many things though. Imagine a world in which we broke free of the unreasonable typology of the traffic light! Really, typologies are super helpful for solving lots of problems.

And a nice thing about MBTI in the comparing-humans world is that it's way more objective _and_ uses more than one dichotomy unlike lots of other default typologies (cf men-women, especially when MBTI was first developed) _and_ can also resolve down into things like cognitive processes, which provide even more leverage and depth.

Not that MBTI is everything, but it's damn impressive for where it came from.

And, it usually works better to criticize specific typologies using qualitative means than quantitative, just IMO.
I have no idea what your logic is right now beyond making a point that's spoken from a place of complete ignorance of an industry one doesn't work in and, upon being confronted with that ignorance, doubling down with even less logic.

The original point of issue was the claim that industry-specific news pertaining to writers isn't needed. Whether or not computer scientists are writers has nothing to do with the incorrect claim, which I've given examples to portray its incorrectness.
I often refer to it as an HTML firewall - a security necessity.
Thinking about this a bit more, I realized that Duolingo, the language learning app, does exactly this.

It breaks up a large task, learning a language, into smaller bite-sized chunks. It rewards users with coins that can be used to do power-ups. It turns learning into a rewarding game.

Perhaps this principle can be applied to other domains as well.
Yeah that's good scare mongering but I dont buy it. I betcha most of that stuff is megacorporate bloat that can be extricated without hindering the average users experience.

Mozilla, unfortunately, is dead. Like Firefox did from Netscape before it during the dark times of the IE ubiquity, when people claimed what you claim now, a new browser that supports true freedom must rise from Firefox's ashes to begin the cycle once again.

43% is huge. Firefox had significantly less when it won hearts and minds.
You're spot on with the particular niche of struggles that immigrant kids have there - seen it in a very real way with my mother and her parents. Thank you for mentioning it out loud, the first step to fixing things fairly for everyone is always that awareness.
ITT: lots of opportunity to take note of HN regulars that don't even click the link.
>International travelers who visit the U.S. and Canada can use Emergency SOS via satellite

So the international versions do have the hardware. That's good to know.

>except if they bought their phone in China mainland, Hong Kong, or Macao. Emergency SOS via satellite isn't offered on iPhone models purchased in China mainland, Hong Kong, or Macao.

No comment.
No, it wouldn't. The sun dumps untold petawatts of heat on us 24/7. We will never produce anything as much as the difference from one week to the next.

In any case this stuff will never produce so much as one solitary kWh of commercial power, so the question is wholly academic. Fusion heat would cost much, much more to extract in usable form than fission, and fission is already not competitive.

The dream of unlimited power without spending on fuel -- capex but no opex -- is already here, and we call it renewables + storage. We just need to build it out fast enough that civilization doesn't collapse first. Fusion is a pernicious distraction, in present circumstance.
It's the clipping back that's more dangerous
It's explained in the section on SCO at the link in my original comment:

> Bluetooth supports data rates of up to 3 MB/s and fully uncompressed stereo audio only needs about 1.4 MB/s. But, the 3 MB/s data rate is for an Asynchronous Connection Less (ACL) transfers under ideal circumstances. In practice, even 990 kb/s (what Sony’s LDAC codec uses) is not trivial to transmit reliably. But the Hands Free Profile doesn’t even use ACL, but Synchronous Connection Oriented (SCO) transfers. These have a fixed data rate of 64 kbit/s (bidirectional).

More here:

https://habr.com/en/post/456182/

> Synchronous Connection Oriented (SCO) and its enhanced version Enhanced Synchronous Connection Oriented (eSCO) are the modes used for Bluetooth voice transmission. The mode allows you to transmit sound and voice strictly in order, with a symmetrical speed of sending and receiving, without waiting for confirmation of transmission and re-sending packets. This reduces the overall delay in the transmission of audio over the radio channel, but imposes serious restrictions on the amount of data transmitted per unit of time and adversely affects the quality of the audio. When this mode is used, both the voice from the microphone and the audio are transmitted to the headphones with the same quality.

You should also know that (as mh- points out), BTLE is an separate protocol that is not used for audio. Audio devices use Bluetooth classic. That's also explained at https://habr.com/en/post/456182/ in the "Bluetooth 5, Classic and Low Energy" section.
> crash detection

physical crash, not the kind that can be caught
Source? I see a lot less when I search for stats
> Wouldn't a sliding scale imply that one score could affect how another was graded?

Not to me; I am actually not familiar with any clear meaning for the phrase "sliding scale". It's just a thing people sometimes say.

If you wanted to say that your score on one axis could affect how your answers to questions on another axis are interpreted, you'd need to call them something like "non-independent". Not much call for that kind of terminology.

Can you provide any examples of someone using "sliding scale" in the sense you suggest?
If you want to listen to music at maximum quality, you really ought to get a set of speakers or cans with a larger driver than these.
Sure, but we can divert some of that energy to power wind turbines, which ought to cool things down a bit.
> I guess, but I've always felt apple deliberately thwarts such efforts for product lock in

Deliberately thwarting efforts would be not having a button.

There's a button. Like every other Bluetooth headphone case. Push the button.

> Lol but like I said you also have to arbitrarily open the lid and place both airpods inside

Oh come now. In what scenario do you get handed an AirPods case and two loose AirPods and are expected to pair them? Is that what happened to your sister-in-law?
Yep, he's an expert in antenna design and some high voltage electronics that I don't understand. We've done a couple of projects together designing arcade hardware and have a really interesting project in the pipe.