skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no conspiracy by Big Oil to control investment flows, but there is most certainly one to denigrate renewable energy. Example:

https://www.energyandpolicy.org/renewable-energy-state-polic...

I can't evaluate the counterfactual of what would have happened if they hadn't done that, but it may have deterred even more investment in renewables that should have been occurring over the last couple of decades.
Interesting, I guess that means some people default to all actions are justified and then carve out exceptions vs others who default to unjustified and carve out justifiable exceptions? What's your null hypothesis of justifiability?
Yeah, it's pretty incredible wasted opportunity. I think maybe 5ish or so years ago they did a big revamp which shifted the focus to obviously coordinated promos of big company stuff, and a more, I don't know, fluff editorial format, and it just become completely uninteresting as a discovery vector.

It's absolutely outrageous that they run confusing ads next to search results -- probably millions of people getting confused and having a bad outcome because of that. Just straight up selling out a good user-experience for $. Shameful.
Is that by using that radarr watchlist integration?
Apple's CPUs are worth noting here.

Software/hardware integration as well.

Hardware design is surely top notch.

Supply chain management.

They've pushed smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, and wireless earbuds to the masses, and turned them into product categories that rival or exceed Mac computer sales.

They don't get the features right all the time. Their software is rotting over time because users can't ogle it the way they can ogle hardware. The push for fake innovation, like wireless buds and eSIM, is slowly driving me insane. They constantly hide behind "eco-friendliness" when they make customer hostile decisions, like sticking with a proprietary Apple-only charging port and removing charging bricks from iphone boxes.

But goddamn they have had an innovative past 15 years.
It's a recession.
I find it really annoying when I typo an argument and now my shell scrollback is pooped full of help text and you first have to scroll up to find the actual error message (like "invalid choice for --mode" or whatever). Don't remember the most recent offender, but it's typically ancient software that is not in widespread use that does this. Often C or Perl (maybe because those languages are also the oldest).

Running without any arguments? Yes, that should output info in most cases, identical to -(-)h(elp) or even /? and /h(elp) if you're feeling Windowsey that day. Outputting your full usage info, especially when spanning more than half a terminal in full screen on a modern resolution, when "nothing matches"? Please no.
Yeah, and it's so weird to me. Who looks and this and thinks "good for them, go guys"??
Knowledge, education, art, and the general development of human talent.
> Rich people funding the dandy version of terrorism deserves scorn.

They are doing it for their own good.
From a long time.

As long as profits increase nobody gives a damn. See for example "America's most beloved war criminal".
For me, having a really fast laptop with a battery that lasts over a day is pretty great value compared to other laptops on the market.
If a Junior Software Developer can possibly destroy a production database on any day never mind the first, the fault is with the processes that allow this to happen rather than the new jr employee.
Advertisements used to be that exactly, telling you about a product for a use case.

You probably didn't see that ad at the super bowl.
> There is a risk Tesla is hiding data

Is there? That's a weird frame to argue in. There are existing regulations on accident statistics and reporting. Tesla does that. That they also release data split out by autopilot usage certainly can't be construed as "hiding" anything, given that (AFAIK) other manufacturers have varying levels of assisted driving technology too and don't do any public reporting at all.
You are making a case for your own poor mental health, and nothing else.
I will admit publicly this post is so terse yet comprehensive I am aggressively searching your history on this site for more nuggets like this one.

UPDATE …and, not disappointed. World-class commentary. Not sure how PP flew under my radar so long.
Ah, not surprising, considering it's one of the most desirable places to live in, and you are competing with a growing global rich class to live there.
No sorry. If I don't look it up then I can feel justified in dismissing it without evidence.
Is your number all New Metal (not to be confused with the equally important to the world's economy Nu Metal production) or is part of the 1.9 billion recycled/reclaimed? It appears this number includes 450-500 million tons of reclaimed steel?
People with insecure attachment styles have strong emotional bonds with pets
I guess I have a hard time seeing how Object.freeze() protects against malicious code, when any malicious script can still access the global object? I can understand something like the "Shadow realms" proposal, where a modules access to global objects can be constrained.
If only one of the company names started with the letter E, then we could make the meta-joke of META standing for Meta, E*, Tesla, Alphabet.
I was using the MacBook Air in 2013 and was impressed with its reliability. Prior to that I'd been on Dell XPS laptops.

The MacBook Air M1 is just another level of solidarity and speed and battery life.

It just works.

So long as Apple continues on their existing pathway I'll forgive them pretty much anything.
> Europe now has so much natural gas that prices just dipped below zero

Is canabis legal in US ?
5 years later, the system (not just GAdds) remains broken. The same kind of ads that Ground Up refers to, everywhere.

MS Edge's launch page is riddled with these ads, they appear on otherwise high profile news outlets.

The other irritating thing with the tracking. You could look for a fridge, find, buy, receive it. But you'll remain getting ads about fridges for a week. Repeated ads, go to the speedcheck website, I sometimes get the same thing plastered all over the page.

As long as the listicle websites receive traffic, there'll be buyers for these nonsense and scammy ads.
Other than maybe games I'm not really sure why/how the app store itself would be useful for discovery?

I think when most people got a phone it was novel to have an app for different purposes - but nowadays people only really want apps they will use. They already have dozens they like so something has to be offering something unique.

And when it comes to finding a new app (like how I recently picked a new app for cycling) just seems like youtube and reddit forums are always going to have more info than an official marketplace.
Their domestic business is losing money as well.
I'm honestly impressed by Zuck's willingness to completely ignore market conditions.
No, Amazon had negative margins this and was not profitable this quarter ex AWS

I recommend investing on real data, not what you may imagine up the company is doing
The problem is that it is in the political interests of a lot of groups that many people believe it...
Well, since 1 year ago, Apple stock is down 2.7% whereas Facebook is down 69%.

I think there may be some FB-specific issues at play...
What is "customer support and success"? Is this just a new euphemism for "customer service" or is there something else going on here?
The linked paper (if you can get past the intro paragraphs which are full of babble) is a review that answers those questions. As you suspect, the studies are not huge, and some are not double blind.

I don't want to defend the experiments by any means because all of my pseudoscience alarms are ringing. However, some of them are... kind of intriguing. I wouldn't hold my breath for this panning out. But would be curious to know if any of them have been replicated since this review was published in 2012.
The recent appearance of hydrogen energy storage has basically refuted this argument. We can now store all of the renewable energy we want. The only problem is the lack of awareness among environmentalists and engineers.
they aren't any of those, they're Irish, and that's no accident either.
> Anyone interested in learning AppleScript can search it online or in their documentation, they're not going to distill the full scope and usage for AppleScript for every corner of the operating system where it can be utilized.

…In case anyone was still wondering why AppleScript is already dead.
Yes—the developer can simply move into a different line of business, that doesn't require having a mobile app.
Why bonuses worsen pay gaps
I previously shared your impression but this report seems to suggest otherwise; see p24 in particular:

> • Battery:PV capacity ratio always at 100% in HI; lower on the mainland (but increasing over time—see bottom right graph)
• Storage duration ranges from 2-8 hours; 50 of the 61 plants have 4-hour duration (other 11 are 5x2 hr, 1x3.7 hr, 4x5 hr, and 1x8 hr)

And there are some detailed case-studies that give other examples too:

The first one (Pine Grove substation) gives a sort of "emergency button" to provide 12 hours of load relief, when they call it in. This seems like it's basically just shaving off extra load that occurs on particularly busy days (~40/year), it's not solving the core demand-curve mismatch. (It looks like the batteries function as essentially very-short-term demand smoothing/arbitrage when they are not being called in).

The second one (Wheatridge) is 4H of 30MW (~10% of the power of the whole facility); I don't have a feel for whether this is closer to the full demand-curve mismatch.

Edit to add: There's actually another case study that might be even better, Slate PV + storage plant in CA, which is ~50% power for 4 hours, which is very substantial.

I think you're right that you can't store much energy overnight -- but that's not really required I believe. My understanding is that if you have a mix of solar and wind in your grid, you tend to be fine overnight since it's always windy somewhere at night. The challenge for solar&wind is supplying the afternoon/early-evening peak.

Previously you'd conceptually have "baseload" which is sized at the daily minimum, and then "peakers" (or these days just rapid-dispatch gas) which are turned on as needed to supply the daily peaks. With solar this isn't an option; the supply curve is fixed. So you either have to massively overbuild to have enough generation to meet the demand peaks, or have some way of shifting the peak solar generation (midday) to the right, to match the peak utilization. So I think your storage ends up needing to look more like "store 25% of the midday generation to be used by 6pm" (numbers made up for the sake of example). Which seems to be the OOM that these projects from the report are achieving.
You have to be careful you aren't comparing apples to oranges. You might be looking at the Meteoblue MOS (statistically corrected) predictions which might be based on their regional weather simulation. This regional simulation might be nested in a larger global model, probably from ECMWF. If you compare this ECMWF model to GFS, then you are comparing apples with apples.

I find global models like GFS are great for understanding the large scale weather systems. The regional high-resolution models, which are usually nested in a global model, give better definition of local weather phenomena like wind shadows or cooler temperatures in valleys.

Dues to averaging, weather simulations usually have a bias error in temperature predictions. These errors are corrected using statistics (look up Model-Output-Statistics) but is hyper-local, i.e., you loose the big picture. This is probably what you're looking at with Meteoblue.
Open source Winamp clone. Wait does your hypothetical require that we have something that will make money?
M.2 for Hackers – Expand Your Laptop
How I see this unfolding, at the very least, is full-on militarization of the youth (mass protest, boycott, and terrorism) when they see that no one is doing anything substantive to solve the problem. You can already see quasi-violent climate change protests in the EU/UK.

They will organize via TikTok, or whatever social media dujour, and stop life as we know it.

Just keep bickering.
As are all good people. The rest of us are just neutral...

And ultimately, their crime is disrupting some museums, so they might be bad, but no more than people who litter or cheat on their taxes...
> without putting in effort or sustained, deliberate sacrifice

Ah, the hubris of 21st century software engineers
You don't use batteries to cover that worst-case scenario.
And considering you probably use your laptop 10x more often than your car spending $2 grand on the best around isn’t really much to ask. Especially if they last long which they tend to, especially do if you get AppleCare.
I would imagine energy density to be a bigger shortcoming (gravitational acceleration times height difference) -- especially for typically accessible height differences. Eg for 500m this is something like an order of magnitude lower than chemical batteries (which are themselves presumably at least an order of magnitude lower than gasoline). This would mean that we need reservoirs to be much larger than equivalent chemical batteries.

> simply damming up a mid-sized valley can store such a ginormous amount of water that is it hard to compete.

I would love to see an analysis of whether it is feasible to build enough such large scale reservoirs (and how many we would need) to store an order one fraction of the daily energy needs. (at city/country/world levels)
It was on CNN some 5 hours ago.
I don't think they're abandoning it, they are just going to hire a new team to remake W1 in Unreal Engine, while the core team works on new games using proprietary tools
World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major studies
> I'm confused now.

Agreed.

> You claimed to not really understand who makes these estimates and have no knowledge about how they are formed but it sounds like you do know a tiny bit about guidance?

Where do you think I made this claim?
I'm on mailbox.org . Been using them for 5+ years. I like it a lot! I use it for everything besides "cloud storage" (use Mega instead). Great for email, XMPP, etc.

Set up the DKIM with your DNS and you'll be fine with your own domain. Aliasing is great, too. There webmail / portal is okay (I use desktop / iOS instead). Help pages are really good.
I don’t disagree that those things are innovative, but apple is a hardware company, Google is software. I could list an equally impressive list of deep learning, nlp modeling and cloud orchestration innovations that have been release in the past 15 years too
> Food delivery robot crushed by train.

Train detection will be implemented in the next release. /s
I'm running an online game on the side and am thus commonly the target of DoS attacks. I guess it's related to this.
Google's insistence on paying the $15B a year is odd to me. I'm sure they've run a bunch of experiments and they view it as making sense financially but I'm not sure how many people would settle with Bing as default search. Their #1 search term being "Google" is pretty telling.
> 10 April 2017 | By Nathan Geffen

I think it's helpful for viewers to put the year in the title, which is an important signal in that this site was able to survive for 5 years without ads.
In the United States, the research arm of banks are explicitly forbidden from working with the investment arms. So they are not the same people.
But we need a net positive. We must stop pumping CO2 in the atmosphere, and we're merely pumping it a slightly slower rate, and the quantity still goes up.

The US has replaced lots of coal with gas, and that's most of the reduction. But we're not gonna make it this way. Remember: we're heading towards +2.5°C in 2100, but northern continents heat much faster than the average (oceans are cooler and represent 70% of Earth's surface): it could be from +4 and up to +6°C in Canada, Europe, etc. The situation is going to be absolutely catastrophic much sooner than 2100. Arguably we may have catastrophic, repeated crop failures this decade for instance.
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Apple has 150k employees. Probably get <$15 revenue on average per employee/day, 230 days a year. So <$500M of revenue a year, and with the price/quality of the food, I doubt it's being run at a profit (It's not like they have a wine menu to boost their bottom line).
I did the same and had the same result. From reading the the other comments, I suspect a high-end pair of scissors is more tolerant of technique whereas as low end scissor you have to push and pull the blades just so for it to work.
I don't know if the number comes anywhere near the truth, but if for the sake of the idea imagine that the average iPhone costs $750 USD then $205 billion USD worth of iPhones is around 273,000,000 units. That means there is about 750,000 iPhones sold every day, or 31,250 iPhones sold every hour.
But has their resource consumption per capita leveled off?

Population numbers aren't the scary thing about our CURRENT population.

What's scary is that China and India, which is almost 3 billion people, want US-levels of resource consumption, and they are full steam ahead in doing so.

Oh, so the curve will tail off around 11 or 15 billion? Who cares. Each billion is 3x the population of the US, and they all want our standard of living, or BETTER.
Ask HN: Suggestions for academic/research journals discussing AI-generated art?
I'm a first year engineering student, and for my technical writing class we need to write an informative paper. I chose AI art and its influence on our society as my topic.
One of the criteria is to have at least 5 academic/research journals in your references. I'm having difficulty with this because AI art is such a new topic. Does anyone know some academic/ research journals that they're willing to share? Even if the article is just about generative algorithms in general that's a great help. Thank you in advance.
Which is wild to say, because it really isn't a very open platform. It's just open enough to be a cesspool while being policed enough to piss off developers and regulators.

So like... worst of both worlds. Nice.
The people writing this paper however,
write like they don’t even have freshman
physics levels of understanding of electricity.

Agreed. If you can get past the absolutely dreadful introduction, however, the remainder of the paper is a review of other studies. Some of which seem kind of decent, though I wouldn't get excited until they are replicated.

although the much simpler explanation is that
feeling nice walking around on bare feet has
small positive effects on health.

The "grounding" studies in the linked article (which are of varying quality) seem to try to separate the "being outdoors in nature" aspect from the "grounding" aspect by using grounding pads indoors.

This seems wise, because the positive benefits of time spent outdoors in nature are pretty well documented.[1]

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[1] The positive effects of spending time in nature (not the grounding part) are pretty well documented: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/04/nurtured-nature
I thought that at least some ZKPs rely on responses to one or a set of specific challenge(s) randomly chosen by the interrogator. So, as long as the challenge space is big enough, it seems unlikely that you can easily collect enough responses to satisfy such a random (set of) challenge(s) with any significant probability.

Please correct me, if I got that wrong.
The Delta facility is in its preliminary stages. It could be expanded by something like 50x that of current listed capacity.
Isn’t it Q3? Q4 just started (Oct 1 - Dec 31).
While Blackberries were some of the most popular early smartphones, the overall market size pre 2007 was way smaller than post 2007.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone...

The market for smartphones was miniscule before Apple made the mass market decide they really wanted one. I don't deny there were smartphones which existed before the iPhone, I used them and enjoyed them. But most consumers didn't have them. These days most people over the age of 16 have a smartphone, you can't say that was true in the Blackberry heyday.

Apple didn't make the smartphone. Apple made the public want to buy a smartphone.
I remember when I got my first Retina laptop screen, it was nice but I quickly just got used to it.

Then, I found myself using the earlier machine, without the high DPI. That learned me. It was hard to imagine all the work I'd done staring through a screen door at those pixels.

Similarly, I've been using the M1 MPB since I got it. I only remember that it never makes noise when I'm reminded of it, such as in this conversation.

At some point, I'll end up using an Intel laptop of any sort, and I'll hear that whirring noise. It will be jarring, I've grown used to laptops not making sound they way phones and tablets don't.
Yep, I do remember both mom and moo. Moo was the better game though.
Except it's per-user. There's no way for a Plex administrator to disable it for all users.
exactly; I think it would be worthwhile to help startups get away from that default thinking, and sooner get started on what they will eventually want to do once they realize it's part of the game / shouldn't be ignored. It's just about getting them to not suffer the damage of being late to the game that they will inevitably need to play if they get serious
For the record, they have now stopped serving gambling ads. As well as a few other categories.
OpenSSL warns of critical security vulnerability with upcoming patch
These are absolutely gorgeous. Very well done.
>It's obviously not an easy problem to solve

It probably is at least relatively. The problem is that you (or at least a lot of people) wouldn't like the answer. Make it a very curated marketplace. Yes, that would take some labor but you can also take into account ratings etc. (Though not sure how to deal with the legit crappy online banking app that people give low-ratings too.)

But cue the outrage over my app dropped below a 4.0 rating and Apple kicked me out of the App Store. Or Apple decided I wasn't popular enough. Or any of the other ways in which curation produces losers that will be at least somewhat arbitrary at the margins.
The more people get off of Gmail, the lesser the probability that Google will see a given mail (even if currently it is pretty high given the abundance of people using Gmail)
Prepare Now for Critical Flaw in OpenSSL, Security Experts Warn
its over for catgirls
Yea I get calls all the time from some sheriff in the country asking me for money for sheriffs.