skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes it is. It's one part of the solution to fluctuations in electricity production (renewables: wind, solar) and consumption (day / night, warm / cold).

It both is and isn't a problem, depending on your time scale, and opinions about how we should bridge the variations in supply and demand.

Today, on the short timescale (subsecond) this need is called frequency regulation, and we mostly do that with so-called "peaker plants", essentially natural gas turbines that run constantly and feed power onto the grid at subsecond notice.

This is a very expensive source of supply (easily 5x the median wholesale rates) because the natural gas is mostly wasted (not to mention the very high CO2 emissions: ~600g/kWh produced [1]).

Therefore, there are a lot of companies working toward solutions to this, that don't involve burning fuel, either by building stationary storage, or by aggregating negative demand, thereby participating in a very expensive electricity market with a low-marginal cost solution. In short, this is where the money is today.

The next level for storage is not yet a problem, but will be: storing excess renewable energy supply between different parts of the day or week. The value of this service to the climate is massive, but the economic value of this is not enough to justify the cost of Lithium batteries. To support this use case, we need batteries or other storage media that are 10-100x less expensive than Lithium batteries.

There are many candidate storage technologies for this use case, from pumped hydro to metal-air batteries, to compressed air energy storage, but no clear winners yet.

1. Estimated based on a rough average of .65tons/MWh for CA peaker plants from: https://www.psehealthyenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/...
I dunno, but lightning doesn’t support that anyway, so who cares?
Can you expand on this? What do you mean by it's "mostly not-a-shell."? I don't understand it.
Talking about inner platforms (and in case there's one person left who hasn't seen it): https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
It's funny that you can say that about pretty much all art.
Hah! That would be pretty interesting.

I guess the inbetween would be DungeonHack...

Be pretty wild to have a 3D interactive Rogue based on GeoGuessr realism.
Ubuntu 23.04 codename: Lunar Lobster
If it is, then I've just had rotten luck, because every time I notice "hmm, that's toasty" it's plugged in on the left side. Absolutely no science done, to be fair.
These are getting more and more ridiculous each time and I love it
Which companies are innovative to you?
>The 4th Amendment right to privacy has been so badly violated by the US Federal Government and TSA that the Constitution is no longer valid

Without the constitution, would you be holding all the cards or would the Army?
I think you're confusing what AP is supposed to do. It's adaptive cruise control + lane keep assist.
Dumb question: which appears most promising? Deno, Just-JS or Bun?

(Genuine question. Not trolling)
Pinterest Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]
> the fictional, fantastical cop-movie interface [is] a fakery to help the police feel OK about themselves, and more importantly to coerce us into accepting the need for their existence in the first place.

Before proselytizing the dissolution of law enforcement, perhaps one ought to spend time researching the basics of sociology. Max Weber's Politics as a Vocation is probably a good place to start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_as_a_Vocation
I have occasionally found people that think that "patent pending" means I am a litigious SOB but met other people who thought I was a lot more serious and worth talking to because I had a patent pending.

Many partners like the idea that they're getting to use unique IP that their competitors don't have access to. Consider those "as seen on TV" products such as the expanding hose: the inventor is working with the TV promotion company, manufacturers, retailers, etc. and they all appreciate that they are selling something unique.
Excuse my ignorance, not a native English speaker, what's sharecropping? Google's description doesn't make any sense to me.
There is also the intent vs letter issue.

Scammers will try to skirt rules by making sure to adhere to the letter of the law, even if it’s plainly obvious they are violating the intent of the rule in question.

Rule 407b: no real money gambling apps

Scammers: it’s not real money. It’s Linden Dollars. Or our company script. Or our new NFTs. You can’t reject us.

Should the rule have to list out every single thing that could possibly used as currency? Because there are people who will argue that point.
Outside of the implications it might have for the economy built up around SW dev, it's significantly better that AI modifiers deal with AI masters, than human modifiers with AI masters. Scary either way.
https://linkpack.io?

https://www.linkpack.io/lp/5nGYs4/
It doesn’t have the keys, but it can inject any javascript and do whatever the user can do.
Also once you get to like Carmack/Dean levels it's like pointless to talk about their compensation because the answer is "a lot" and super variable, I don't have that level of leverage so I can't tell you but it's not something even an above average, or even a really good engineer can begin to contemplate, we're talking one in several generations type of talent. You could tell me Jeff Dean clears 10M from google yearly and I'd be like sure, makes sense.
Quite a lot of pearl clutching going on in this article.

The overlay with street names and parcel numbers is life saving technology. Instead of reckless high speed car chases most agencies here in California now break off the chase and have a helicopter follow the individuals until they bail on foot, at which point the air unit can provide accurate guidance (with street names and house numbers) so they can be apprehended.

When the unit is overhead of a fixed incident like a traffic stop or an apprehension they zoom in to provide additional recorded evidence of the incident. Anyone who is a fan of police having body cams should be overjoyed at this additional level of situational observation that the air unit affords.
They couldn't. They already have mediocre market share here.
German government allows takeover of German chip factory Elmos
I’ve heard it, too, of course. It is gaslighting. The tyranny of constantly having to signal worship of humility and countersignal pride and pursuit of distinction.

The truth is, nobody who make an effective company did it because they cleaned the toilets or knew the janitor’s name. They might do those things strategically / instinctively almost with the sole purpose of conspicuous virtue signaling.
Destroy what, the glass protecting the painting?

Title is clickbait, no paintings were actually harmed in any way.
From a 2017 breakdown of the world's biomass, it appears that the "humans and livestock...of mammal biomass" were very carefully picked, to give the most extreme possible percentage -

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
Ask for a paper menu or gasp talk to the waitress a bit and keep it simple since often you won't need one if you know a bit about lunch.

(Also, try not to be insufferable to whoever presents you with something so poorly designed, but I think if you don't at least clearly print the URL, folks may assume it's a scam and look more intently than they would if you'd be open and transparent.)
You must not be from here. Never once did I have trouble cancelling anything, maybe it's a Dutch or even a European thing? I keep hearing of "retention department"s and such. Completely foreign to me.

Paying 30% more for all your subscriptions sounds like an interesting way of dealing with that problem.
This doesn't make sense. How can cost of groceries be up 30% over a three year period be normal. That would leave everyone starving within a decade, and obviously can't be right. Same with the rent increases.
I think they all serve different use cases. I'm not sure I could say one is more promising than another, because they're _all_ promising, and I don't see them as being in direct competition with each other.
Here is the paper for which this article is based:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0801918105

The paper is about megafauna rather than all mammels.

This highly cited paper calculates the biomass of every class of organism, figure 1 is especially fascinating.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115

Animals are tiny proportion of the world's biomass, with insects dominating that class, along with fish and molluscs.
The publishing is why I've avoided asciinema. Very easy to publish secrets. Can't easily share them around as an image either.
Maybe Spotify should take the lead.

Allow third party payment services and music stores in their app. With 0% cut of course.
You son is young, does not have young children and is most likely looking for socialization at work (like most young adults).
Meta is the new Yahoo

I’ve been watching for a while for it to drop below Costco ($COST 219.8B). Won’t be long now. I look forward us acknowledging that Zuck was merely lucky, not some visionary.
These protests are fantastic. They're keeping it in the public consciousness, doing effectively no damage since the art is all behind glass (beyond probably being incredibly annoying to the museum workers, who are likely ideologically aligned anyway), and doing so incredibly efficiently (for the cost of only a bottle of glue, a ride to the museum, and maybe bail). Point to any social issue and protests are divided into those that nobody pays attention to, and those which people disagree with the methods of. The world is at stake, better to be annoying than ignored.

Can anyone remember any other climate protests recently? I couldn't when this happened, but I'm sure I'll remember the Van Gogh soup and this Pearl Earring incident longer than anybody remembered the guy who burned himself to death 6 months ago.

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/24/wynn-bruce-climate-cha...
I am always disappointed in a survey's methodology when they try to assert their "truthiness" and explain their methodology.

The part that got me is the note about weighted responses to match the population. That needs mathematical explanation if its to be included, otherwise just say it's graded on a curve of "I'm pretty sure this response is more important."

Toward the article and similar authors:

Surveys are hard, sure but don't hide a 2006-respondent note and assert it actually represents anything. Sure I agree with the top line assertion, but I don't think this is reporting, it's just an opinion piece with a larger expense account.
I’m not concerned about the security of my cars. I’m concerned about entering it again and Spotify charging me for stuff.
Grossly overpaid? What are you basing that on? Every company that is paying big bucks is generating revenue that is 5x+ the cost of the employee.

Many tech employees are underpaid, if anything.
Wrong analogy - you hired a contractor, with a specified scope of work.

The right analogy is you hire a full-time handyman (whatever go with it), and you come home to find them on your couch in the middle of the day, their excuse is I fixed the dishwasher, and your response is likely to be “I’m not paying you to sit on the couch, go change the ac filters, fix the garage door, and re-seal the deck”
This is bigotry, to dismiss a person's sincerity because of their birth.
Gas is also transported by other means. I imagine those ships are not selling their load at negative spot price. What is “wrong” with waiting is that you’re losing money instead of being making money.
I'm a lefty and left-handed scissors are impossible for me to use. And not from lack of exposure I think, one of my memories from elementary school was the teacher trying to make me use left-handed scissors because she knew I was a lefty, but they simply wouldn't cut for me.

I think there must be more to the left/right handed thing, because I'm effectively right-handed in everything I do except writing. Even in novel tasks I haven't done before: I'll try first left handed, it doesn't work, then I try again right handed and it works fine. But when it comes to writing specifically, I'm very clearly a lefty.
I’ve been using ProtonMail with a custom domain and I love it !!

The web app is the best desktop email interface I’ve used and the iOS app is the best mobile email interface I’ve used
RC4 Is Still Considered Harmful
Yea… that’s why you vote for presidents that support the constitution. Avoid ones that see it as an obstacle.
Glue is made of oil or animal and isn't recyclable.

The irony.
That's a giant spoiler for Moon. Hopefully everyone has already seen it.
I'll be up front and admit that I don't know what activism FOR the cause would be effective. But that doesn't stop me from knowing what isn't effective and what is actually wholly counterproductive.

The reason why this doesn't look rational or 'for the cause' is because the target in question really has nothing to do with the petroleum industry. Johannes Vermeer painted this art in 1665 before the industrial revolution. The subject is just a woman with a pearl earring. So neither the painter nor the work of art have any persuasion or symbolism that encourages fossil fuel use. It seems totally illogical to commit an act such as this. I think the public at large sees no connection between what the activists went after and what they are trying to achieve. When that happens, it delegitimizes the movement in peoples eyes.
Actually, Lightning can support USB 3. The first generation iPad Pro did.

But I thought EU was trying to prevent incompatibility?
While the postcards show the pyramids standing in the desert, the city comes to within ~300m of the base. Downtown is only 10km from the pyramids.

https://i.imgur.com/eKq7Zcz.jpg
Honestly, after getting screwed over by so many companies making one jump through so many hoops to cancel a subscription, I rather have Apple's way.

Perhaps when law or credit card processors force companies to provide an easy way to cancel a service, as easy as it was to sign up for it, then I can worry about competition in IAP space.
Apple has been crystal clear since day one that they want a percentage of payments being facilitated through their platform.

For them they are a channel and channels have costs.
Very cool. I love their other projects as well.

https://charm.sh/
Fresh off of parole, Samsung heir ascends to chairman of the company
Synthetic Data and the ML Life Cycle
I actually expected this to have already been posted and couldn’t find it - so the submission went through.

Anyway I haven’t ever gone out of my way to hide my employers, and I’m a tech worker in the Bay Area so I’ve worked a multiple companies including Google and Apple.

That said if you’d rather I delete this and wait for someone else to post it I can do that?

Obviously anything I say is my personal view and not reflective of my employers, past or present, and I’m only ever going to submit things that /I/ think would be of interest to HN.

[edited to make sentence that conform to silly societal rules like “must follow basic rules of English grammar”, “must not have absurd amounts of ambiguity”]
Nope doesn’t at all provide the same functionality. I would love it if it did though.
No, I don't at all mind them trying to break the monopoly on audio books that is Amazon. (You can get them from the original publisher (not author/narrator) for 35 bucks, or 10 from Amazon. I'm willing to pay a premium for avoiding Amazon but I love audio books and I'm not as rich as Bezos.)

Podcasts was never a monopoly, but they're trying to make it one with the exclusive shows. That's what I hate. I have Spotify premium for music, so I could listen to those, but I unsubscribed from those podcasts immediately when they became exclusive. There's plenty more.

TV, I didn't know Spotify was trying to do, but same logic applies there.
Trump wanted to fill the reserve when oil was at 25 a barrel. Congress put a stop to that.
Development is primarily about automation, so I expect more and more tooling support to aid in working with more complex applications that have grown to absurd sizes (in terms of LoC). I expect, long after I'm dead, all languages will be tightly bound into IDEs, bringing us full circle (LISP, erlang, et al).
The most solvable to these people, anyway.
Fair point I missed. Thank you.

The symbolism's still shit though.
Bots don't really care about that, though.
Genuine question: why do you ask?
Lets take in mind that there is a problem to compare two groups when one group is much easier to measure than the other. The error interval in the mammal biomass should be much higher. The actual real values are probably not so extreme.

... I see, is just megafauna. The most competitive groups (rodents and bats) are deliberately excluded. The title is incorrect then.
I don’t know. I suspect the bias is towards the pre-dam ecosystem so it might be challenging to rationally compare them.

Certainly an ecosystem will grow up around nearly any situation.
"IAP is easy and simple and secure and well-known, and should be used."

Is that better?

I will never use a purchase method on iOS that isn't IAP. Never, and I'm not alone.
Devastatingly sad. Are plant-based meat replacements and lab-grown meat going to help fix this?
This is awesome! It's like being there. I always wanted a tour. Thank you!
Powershell, because it actually is a shell so it's great at easily invoking commands and using their outputs as actual return values, and because it has "programming language" constructs like dependency management in modules, etc.

It has some great tools for user interaction, too, including secure string handling for credentials, a TUI framework, easy parallelism, unit tests and lots more.
It’s just borrowed
Sounds great. I want to buy a new charger or adapter every time I travel to a different country.

If we're at it we should also stop using SI units and go back to the times where every city had a different unit of measurement. Maybe we should go further and let companies develop their own units of measurement to allow for more innovation.
My definition of "cumbersome" above is tradeability. Bitcoin can be transferred to anyone in the world in a few minutes (w/ on-chain confirms in ~10-60m or lightning confirms instantly).

I've done business with people all of the world in places that have weak or non-existent banking thanks to Bitcoin. None of the above options made that possible.
Yes that’s the word
1). There isn't one for big mammals any more. The majority of the ecosystem is locked up in plants and bacteria. For example fungi outweigh all _animals_ by roughly 6 times. Bacteria by 30 times and plants by 200 times.

2). We're the major drivers in the processes that used to limit biomass on the planet. The nitrogen cycle is dominated by humans [0] where depending on how you measure it we've done something between doubling it and increasing it by an order of magnitude. The same is true for all the other limiting cycles. By comparison the carbon cycle has been barely touched.

3). Mammals are rather big and we don't like big things trying to eat us/step on us. Mammal global mass has been decreasing since the last ice age when we figured out how to hunt mammoths to extinction and 8,000BC when we domesticated goats.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_impact_on_the_nitrogen_c...
I hope people realize this includes things like gait and gesture recognition and RF fingerprinting across multiple RF spectrums.
Yep, and part of that as needed/as assigned is to notify your supervisor that you are done with your assigned tasks and are ready for a new one, if they don’t have one for you great, play minesweeper, but if you’re done with your assignments (seriously who is ever in that position), and don’t say so, now you’re acting deceptively.
Love seeing all the Apple zombies malding over making society convenient for people.

This legislation wouldn’t have even happened if Apple had done the right thing to begin with. Instead of trying to eek out margins on proprietary cables
> So they pressured the EU to mandate the change to a standard that Apple helped pioneer so that Apple's environmentally-friendly record would remain unblemished.

Is this why apple's repairability index is always so low? Because by allowing their devices to be repaired they avoid being put in the landfills?

They totally don't use proprietary screws, and glue to help you repairing your device.

And again, they are changing thanks to.. legislation...
> A lot of people blame Meta's VR attempt, but I don't think that's the problem.

Analysts explicitly think the VR effort is overfunded. It's the problem according those who are trading.
Yeah but that's really just because of globalization and marginal cost. Lower-quality Lithium reserves are in a ton of places but most countries have punted the environmental cost and hassle to the cheapest places to mine it.
I'll add my voice to the Fastmail love. I've connected a couple of domains to my Standard $50/year (plus VAT) account, and as long as you follow all of their directions on adding SPF and DKIM settings to your domain, it works like a champ.

Setting up on-the-fly aliasing for my domains was also just a matter of following their directions, and I love the looks I get when I fill in [businessname]@[mydomain.com]. A middle-aged lady engaging in email nerdery really subverts expectations - I tell them if they're really hesitant to accept that address with their business's name in it that it's an organizational tool for me (true) with a bonus of free hacking detection for them (possibly true).

I do not say that the main reason is that I do not trust them to never ever misuse or lose control of my data.
I bet a lot of the zooms that didn't seem to go anywhere were because the camera operator thought they saw something and needed to check it out, but it turned out to be nothing. If you're looking for a fleeing suspect that kind of thing will happen a lot.
Maybe theres a way to functionally build up towards the same destination by collecting feedback and accepted changes. I don't know how that integrates with law, but is there something that influences the legal implications beyond what this kind of system would cover (provided a sufficient number of samples)?
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Rust is very cool. It is a language I have been waiting for since 1999

But it is not ready for critical infrastructure for two reasons:

1) It is not defined. the definition of rust is "the compiler accepts it"

2) There is one implementation

I use rust for a lot of things, things that I really want to be solid and reliable.

But I would not want to use it for systems where lives were at risk.

That is not a domain I work in, so I am hazy on what is available but I know the avionics people have systems and processes. Have they adopted Rust yet?

Rust will be excellent in this space. But it needs definition and alternative implementations first. Probably will not be long.
FWIW you can now disable the other streaming services, they annoy me as well and just today found a way to do it ( Settings -> Online Media Sources -> set all to 'Disabled' ).
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We have a Constitutional Convention, enact a new Constitution and a new Capital, then release all the dirty secrets from the old (current) government similar to how documents were released in the early 1990’s when the Soviet Union fell apart.

The armed services, being part of the old government would lose their authority along with the rest.

This assumes a peaceful transition of power, if violence is used instead all bets are off.