skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you're getting around a 8-10% capacity factor on a cloudy day in winter. Sounds pretty good to me especially if you're somewhere like NY.

No. This is Los Angeles. And this happens every day, not in winter. We might not have tons of rain, but we do have clouds up there all the time. Here's April of this year:

https://i.imgur.com/8lYKImD.png

> Also why 1.2TW?

Because that's what we need.

My model predicted a range between 900 GW and 1.4 TW. I could not confirm the accuracy of this model until recently. So, good news, don't take my word for it, here's Elon Musk confirming my number:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcI6FaaDp8g&t=3510s

I you want to argue against the 1.2 TW estimate, you need to argue against the guy who is, quite literally, pushing the EV industry forward.

These numbers are real. I will admit that they are counterintuitive. I didn't understand how it would work until I took the time to create a reasonably realistic simulation model to try to answer the question. Most people think "just charge at night" or "just charge at work", not realizing that none of those are solutions. You need a tremendous amount of power (again, talking about energy is the wrong metric) to support a full EV fleet. Power we do not have. And what's needed isn't trivial at all.

Even Elon mentions nuclear in that interview. He has to be careful because he can't scare people by painting a "this is impossible" picture. He knows the real numbers and he knows what it will take to get there. Policy and thinking has to get there eventually, because the dream is impossible given the current path.

Even worse, if we start talking about electric air and ocean freight it could easily add another 1.2 TW requirement.

This is easy to see when you consider there are over 60K merchant ships in the world and up to 15K sailing the oceans simultaneously. Each one of those ships is burning about 150 tons of bunker fuel per day. When we stop using oil for ground transport, we might have a situation where using bunker fuel will be impossible. Bunker fuel is, quite literally, the crap that is left after you extract all the other fuels and derivatives from oil. If you don't distill oil at the rate we do today, bunker-fuel powered ships will not have fuel. They will have to go electric. Which means a demand for power over and above what a full EV fleet would require.

So, yeah, the 1.2 TW estimate might be two low, by a factor of two, if not three. Solar panels are just not going to make that happen.
If the Iranians want out of the mess they’re in they’re going to have to fight, but it’ll be bloody. The police shoot protesters dead in the street. They need a full revolution.
The specification now details the eight cases for combining the pieces into the output string.
Ok, but one HN comment is not a misinformation trend throughout right wing media, per the parent comment.
the period accurate pigs don't look that weird.
Wouldn't python be a better answer, or is that cheating?
Corporations being this brazen are not going to go away by one lawsuit. These companies are smart enough to protect their interests even if you take down the company. They'll just rebrand. People with money rarely see any real consequences. Just a small slap on the wrist and they just get smarter and more creative in ways to get away with this stuff.
Aren't loom and nio somewhat orthogonal?

Agreed that the threading parts of this project might need to be looked at/reworked when loom is released.

More discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/nsb2w1/will_loom_rend...
The issue with high power lasers is heat dissipation.
Come on. It wasn't announced officially, but it was leaked all over the place and there were almost no surprises in the official announcment, including that they're going to focus more on work not only gaming.

As others have said, I love what youre doing with Simula, and the subpoena was out of place from Meta, but you've got to work on your communication.
PS: It's not a problem per se that one has to look up the words in the reference implementation(s). It must be a PITA to write a specification that enables anyone to write an independent implementation. It would only be a problem if using the MORA from the reference implementation obliged every implementation to use the 1BSD license.
> Elites are massing wealth to get off planet

Well... no. They're prepping to move to compounds in New Zealand. Even a global warming (and nuclear war, let's throw that on the pile!) ravaged Earth is vastly easier to live on than, say, Mars. Trying to escape that way would be a frying-pan-into-the-fire plan.

> and when the mass migrations really start and mid income countries start becoming failed states on their path, I hope you are in a place that can hold you safe for the remainder of your time here.

But yeah, that's basically the reason why, I reckon. Somewhere sufficiently stable and liberal that's also really, really hard to reach without a ship or airplane. Avoiding the various climate refugee crises and wars we're likely to see in the coming decades probably is their motivation. New Zealand's a clear front-runner in that race.
All that effort and the best ARM Windows development machine is still "a VM on an Apple Silicon Mac".
It totally depends on the state you are a resident of. Or the state they sue you in. Some states hold IP arrangements to be toilet paper. Some will enforce even the most egregious ones.

I am not a lawyer. It appears to me that being a contractor - rather than a salaried full-time-employee would be the route to go if you are interested in working more than one job. As a salaried FTE, the legal expectation is that you devote yourself 100% to your employer.

In business law classes, this is referred to as the "principal agent problem".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

Business-type people are going to use this viewpoint in order to perceive the situation. In India, there are some laws that basically say that you are required to put your main employer first and that it is effectively illegal for you to work more than one job - no matter how poorly that job pays you.

This is one post from very long ago about "work for hire" and IP assignment agreements:
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=153046

Another case that I can't fully remember the names of (so no links or references) was of a software developer in Texas or Oklahoma who developed something on his own time. His employer wanted the IP and pursued him in court for almost 2 decades bankrupting him and getting him thrown into jail (for contempt of court) when he refused a court order to turn over the source code and documentation.

How far will they go? Well, how much to they hate you? How much spite are they powered by? Narcissists and sociopaths will go to extreme lengths to destroy their "enemies". For a recent example, see ex-President Trump.
yeah.. the problem is that you are forgetting about charlie...

Alice want to talk and bob want to listen, but they need charlie to grab tapes recorded by alice with what she said recorded on them and transport them all the way to bob so he can listen to whatever alice said in those recordings..

The problem is that charlie find alice to be assholes and do not want anything to do with her, and thus is refusing to transport the tapes she record..

Now, Alice can still record the tapes and she can even go and deliver the tapes herself and bob can listen to those tapes when he get those, but neither of then can force charlies to transport the tapes for them..
This corporate capitalism system is evil, on the same level as gulags in the Soviet Union and concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
Workers can't perform according to the system? Then silently terminate them and nudge them into poverty.
"Freedom" in the Western world? No.
article's flagged by s/o. attn dang for moderation
One nice thing about Next.js is you don't need to use SSR unless absolutely necessary - it will statically generate all your pages by default (which is similar to but not the same as SSR - it runs once at build time rather than on every single request), so the result is similar to CRA but with quicker first page load times and a much better developer experience.

But you have the power to use SSR where necessary too, which is not really possible with CRA (without unscalable hacks).
From the article:

> “… a large number of young men chose to set out on extremely risky voyages in hopes of acquiring wealth and esteem in foreign lands.”

The present-day “incels” don’t seem inclined to set out on any kind of voyages or, more generally, to take any risks — they just complain online from the safety of their parents’ homes.
Off topic, but this is why all guns sound like they are just a bucket of screws being shaken around. It may surprise movie goers to realize that guns don't make noise unless you cycle the action or fire them.
I love this.

Similarly, the expression "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" was originally used ironically or mockingly, as it is physically impossible. Some time in the early 20th century it began to be used as an unironic exhortation.
Sounds like an interesting career with some bad luck and some risks that didn’t pan out. I think your three-year stint shows you’re capable of sticking around when it works and is possible. I can’t imagine anyone who had a conversation with you about your job history holding it against you.
I have my doubts. The number of people earning 6 figures programming dwarfs the number of tick tockers making 6 figures.
Some people certainly will.

My wife trains horses. It irritates her to no end seeing characters in movies who supposedly spend their lives in the saddle, played by an actor who has clearly never been on horseback before.
Would never choose Go unless I'm paid for me. Rust is so much better to work with, pattern match and algebraic data type just makes the programming so much fun.
When a company focuses on the management more than the product, technical expertise, and engineering culture, it’s doomed, with pruning of that management being the only way out. This is a song as old as time, in the tech world.
The situation is complex indeed.
Well that's pretty wild, I can now add "windmills were a tax thing" to the pile of random facts I never thought I'd know.
"I would buy if you had this feature..." is one of the most deceptive ways of saying "No thanks, I'm not interested."
As a side note, the apex of coconut use is in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grai...

>Originally the knight characters were going to ride real horses, but after it became clear that the film's small budget precluded real horses (except for a lone horse appearing in a couple of scenes), the Pythons decided their characters would mime horse-riding while their porters trotted behind them banging coconut shells together. The joke was derived from the old-fashioned sound effect used by radio shows to convey the sound of hooves clattering.
Except sideloaded apps are stuck in the "unknown sources" category which has no icons, no sorting, no search and is sorted in "last installed" order and nothing else.

Or you can install an app launcher which is also stuck in "unknown sources". So you have to find your app launcher and launch that first - which rather cancels out any advantage an app launcher would bring.

It's a huge disadvantage and and makes running sideloaded apps you use regularly a real pain.
It's crazy to think that the internet may have already peaked, at least in certain ways. 5 years ago I could Google anything and was confident (maybe more than I should have been) of getting close to the best answer, whether looking for a product recommendation or just general knowledge. That confidence has seriously eroded the past couple years.

That said, I'm optimistic that we can keep finding solutions to new problems. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to make purchasing decisions closer to the way we used to, by asking our friends what they recommend. That's essentially how appending " reddit" to a google search works today, but even that is vulnerable to manipulation.

I'm hoping that social media of the future builds in better tools for polling our network for recommendations, and for incentivizing us to respond to our friends' queries.
I think they mean Quest native.
I wouldn't me making this argument if I thought everyone thought like me. We have a great capacity for understanding and changing nature, yes. And also the need to believe we are apart and special. But we're not. High rise buildings and fiber optic cables are as natural as anything else that grows on the planet. Drawing a line and calling "artificial" or "designed" on this side is completely arbitrary.
The original scriptures did not use Arabic numerals.
Immune system-evading hybrid virus observed for first time
Can you give me an example of something that doesn't work correctly? I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure I know all of the movements and basic verbs and they all seem to work fine to me. I believe you that there are missing features but I'm wondering what I'm missing out on
David Lewis (Philosopher)
Congratulations - you're 0.3 cents off

So within acceptable legal tolerance. Good luck trying to collect 0.3 cents. Even the IRS accepts rounding to the nearest dollar. 0.3 cents is quite a bit different than your earlier claim --- "completely pukes at 4 decimals".

Too bad your method still fails for a whole range of valid mortgages :)

Wrong! You gave a specific example so I followed suit. My standard, generalized, library routine is equally brief and works for amounts up to $100 billion with any interest rate expressed out to 3 decimals --- with nary a float in sight.

No many places to make a mistake there.

But lots of places in the surrounding code for non-obvious mistakes due to floating point math. I know because I've been paid to find and fix them. Some of them may have been yours.
Success Isn't Linear
As this is a site for people trying accomplish something, this is a super important reminder.
I came away feeling similarly.

Their dedication to developing a true VR computer and focusing on specs that really matter for that (PPD and raw processing grunt) are commendable, but seeing them champion the idea of strapping an X86 computer to your face in what is an increasingly arm-powered world is... concerning. "But it can run real Adobe Acrobat through WINE" is not something that gets me excited about a VR platform, but I'm likely not the target audience either.

That being said, having tried out some remote-desktop apps on a Quest 2 earlier this year, the screens are absolutely not acceptable for that purpose in terms of viewable resolution -- so if the Quest Pro really is only slightly better in that regard, I think it'll soil the experience.

If Simula can manage to tune their x86 specs to run well enough under power-limited circumstances, have at least comparable poor battery life to other VR headsets, develop a VR computing environment with usage paradigms that make sense, and do it in a headset that's somehow still comfortable to wear for extended sessions, then they may truly be ahead of the curve in a way that matters. That seems like a big ask for such a small company's first outing, but they also seem the most passionate about this category of use-case despite their scale.

I wish them the best. VR computers like the one they're working on would be a lot cooler than Meta's vision for the category.
Kind of presumptuous of the author to assume he would be presented with a Nobel Prize. And by ‘kind of presumptuous’, I mean ‘arrogant to an extreme that puts Stephen Wolfram to shame’.

Even beside that, the very fact of publishing this has probably made it dramatically less likely that he will even be nominated, assuming he would be otherwise considered. (If he’d decline, why bother? Not even to Send a Message™, just as a practical matter.)
nautilus, nemo, etc support MTP and have done so for many years. You just plug your phone in and navigate to it in your file manager, which is the same thing you'd do on Windows.
> One-off tests in ideal conditions work 50% of the time. Sooo if we have enough nuclear weapons to kill everyone on earth 4 times over that means in an ideal case we only all die twice?

Yeah, I was having the same thought. Half as much overkill? What value does that have?

My strategy in the case of nuclear war is also to die as quickly as possible.
Show HN: Pyspark and Snowpark and Pandas data quality
State attorney general could get it to a court and stopped, but apartment renters aren't in the political class so not a priority.
they wouldn't reduce it to irradiated rubble, they would just use small yield nukes on certain cities to force capitulation.

they need ukraine to be usable for annexation so expect at most kyiv and maybe 1 or 2 other cities to be lightly irradiated.

like after a few months it would be cleaned up.

the real damage is to the people who would be in the areas, they could have generational dna damage.
I have not seen such a contract. I have seen employee handbooks/policy manuals that explicitly require written permission even to volunteer for charities outside of work.
What do you do with a teacher who has been credibly accused of child abuse? They deserve a right to be heard certainly, but at the same time it would be the height of irresponsibility to put them back in a classroom.
I think about this and drain any water bottle i pickup before either recyling or trashing them.

When you realize that a little bit of water in each bottle adds up to significant leakage from trash bags, what doesn't leak increases transport weight, and then what isn't lost landfill will live for ages (if not ruin the landfill liner over time)
It will be a long time before it makes sense to use python where longevity/portability matter.

Python breaks backwards compatibility with old scripts every six months or so. In practice, this means you have to port scripts every time you switch machines. Virtual environments sometimes address this issue, but they are hit or miss.

In contrast, perl scripts from 1999 often work unchanged on clean 2022 OS installs.
Well.. ya. I set up my aliases and then forget about it again. Globbing is mildly annoying but i think there's a dotglob option or something you can set
I do love these. I wonder if there is a collection of these sayings that have shifted entirely to mean something else.

Like "blood is thicker than water" was originally "blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb." The meaning is literally the opposite, but it got co-opted and changed at some point.

These things are fascinating.
Looks decent, pretty minimalistic.

The form / input styles should use :focus-within instead of :hover to apply styles, using "power-user" keyboard navigation with tab and such doesn't correctly show what you have focused. I was pretty surprised by this - it's sloppy to add new input styles that give less information than the default browser styles about what is focused

Textarea removing the little "resize" widget in the bottom left is also pretty disappointing, being able to resize textareas so they're massive when you're typing in them and small when you're done with them is very convenient. For instance check out the comment box on HN, the small angled lines in the bottom right let you resize the box. I understand it can sometimes break layouts but it's not a good reason to remove it.

It's good you have used CSS vars for lots of configuration but I find the choices of 7px and 11px for (highlight-)border-radius to be strange, usually powers of 2 are all the rage these days

Inline text blocks look clean, I like those a lot
not a direct answer, I think way to design this system would be to make an ENS (with a competing resolver technology) and point that to IPFS hashes

in parallel, you would also look into how to secure your address, where the ENS is stored in

IPFS doesn't offer compute nodes and databases, so you would design your web offering around not needing that, completely rule out that idea in favor of a different one, or incorporate a different solution in addition to your frontend

but basically the way you design web 3 applications is not the same as web 2 applications to begin with. trying to straddle both worlds results in the worse experience. most similarities I can think of are kind of like omnivores trying substitute tofu based foods and having a bad experience, and attributing that experience to non-meat diets when it is just worse than a pescatarian, vegan and vegetarian cuisine.
Software Update, macOS Ventura, and the Mac Admin
Perhaps its a hint at our economic structure being built on an assumption of steadily rising home prices? And the somewhat dire consequences of exceptions leading to sharp policy changes to resume the "norm"?

I could see that as a form of path dependency. Past decisions about our economic framework end up having an outsized effect on today's policy.
I enjoy helping people with Excel. There's a lot of money to be made with it. :)
2012. I had two probes. I was about 20.
In our experience, using Next.js reduced our complexity, because it has out-of-the-box implementations (and simple configuration) for lots of stuff we had to manually hack around with CRA as our project grew
Great article. Loved the illustrations and references to specific medieval laws. A good example of how an earlier generation's "common sense" was totally different from ours today.
>I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. You keep giving yourself second chances with snoozes and multiple alarms. Try not to.

I don’t think I’m really a fully conscious being during the period when I’m waking up. If someone tells me important information, I’ll forget it. It’s not until I’m fully awake that I remember my priorities and what I need to do during the day.

>What do you do when you need to catch early flight and be in the airport at 5.30?

I set the alarm at 3 AM, or more commonly just stay up all night.
I want free speech zones, but I also want to be decent and cordial in their debate.

In the early 90s every seemed decent online. There was this idea of online étiquette.

With the masses getting easy access to the internet, all that seemed to get thrown out the window.

Maybe we need a license like we do for driving?
> The Simula One has compute specs that are legitimately comparable to a premium office laptop. For example, it supports an x86 architecture (i.e. just like a premium laptop), instead of an ARM based architecture like the Quest Pro (an architecture which runs on mobile phones and other portable devices).

Pretty sure my ARM Macbook with 24GB RAM is a “premium laptop”
I strongly disagree, plastic wrapping is the same as clorinating chicken.

You are introducing an extra industrial step to save the additional cost of maintain sanitary conditions throughout the supply chain.

> Freezing ruins the texture of the meat.

Unless you are grilling some very premium beef cut and eating it without any rub or marination, I strongly doubt the majority of people would even know the 'texture' difference in a blind test.
Are you sure?
If the windmill didn't make milling more efficient, and if hand milling at home was an effective tax dodge, people would avoid using the windmills.

And the tax collector coming to the house is just as oppressive as being taxed at the windmill.

A quick web search suggests windmills increased grain production by a factor of 5.
Not about what I think, was wanting clarification.