skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many folks overlook the impact of China on todays energy landscape.

First of all renewables. People keep talking about how solar is now so economical and it's price has fallen 90%+ in a decade. How did this happen when US and Australia (previously solar research juggernauts) threw their solar industries under the bus to protect oil and coal interests?

Simple. China. When everyone else was bitching over whos pocket the energy budget should go into China didn't have a choice but to simply build everything at once just to try keep up with demand (they still failed the last few winters to go without blackouts of industrial workloads).

As a result they simply dogpiled money into solar, nuclear, coal, everything. Their eventual goal is to be self-sufficient on energy which they are still a huge chunk away from and will also necessitate sunsetting the coal plants because they don't have the thermal coal necessary to keep going down that path.

So China almost single-handedly (I say almost because there are other players involved) willed the current solar prices into existence.

They are going to do the same with nuclear whether people believe it or not. Maybe not as dramatic as the price drops we have seen from solar (because it benefits much greater from mass production efficiencies) but they are going to build a ton of nuclear plants all with a few common designs.

I hope my home country of Australia wakes up to this and leverages our strong trade (and hopefully improved relations) with China to negotiate technology transfer of Chinese nuclear to Australia at some point. No amount of renewables is going to be enough for Australia because we simply don't have the geography necessary for renewable baseload or storage.

Nuclear would change the game entirely for Australia, with an abundance of cheap energy we could build desalination plants to overcome our susceptibility to drought, use electric arc furnaces to revive our steel mills which have largely been chased out of Australia because coking coal is too polluting, etc.
That was, for me, the least interesting of the failure modes mentioned, the most alarming being:

> The phenomenon behind this is called creep rupture—the disentanglement of the molecules of plastic over time, at a stress level significantly below the yield strength—yes, below the yield strength—of the plastic.
If you really want to run linux, get a Lenovo Thinkpad. They actually test the hardware with linux distros and even have bios options for Linux sleep states, labeled as such. Give the Macbook to someone who wants to run MacOS. The X1 Carbon line is my favorite, with excellent battery life for basic coding and video watching. Also, power options to set the maximum charge to 80% to preserve the life of the battery. (lithium ion batteries last nearly forever if you keep the charge between 20% and 80%) And yes, it has so much battery to spare that that middle 60% is enough to last a day of coding.
I agree that humans do some pretty crappy things. I'm all for equal rights and treatment for trans folks. However, that sounds like a straw man: I don't think I've ever read or heard anyone claim that trans folks shouldn't be treated as humans.
Alphas were incredible when they first came out. The one I have is a DS10, probably also 20 years old-ish. It still feels responsive.
> The FBI cannot censor people, period. That’s fascism and illegal in the US

The FBI emailing Twitter to report possible violations of Twitter's terms of service is not censorship and it is not illegal.

> This effectively gives trump, et al a direct path to a lawsuit against the federal government

The FBI reported to Trump during the 2020 election cycle. It was headed by his own handpicked director, under the supervision of his own handpicked Attorney General.
Tellingly, none of these journalists have actually released the full set of emails on which their conclusions are based.
IMO when UBI becomes a global standard country by country the tax-free threshold should be the UBI amount.
If my kid asked me about heroin, he'd be asking for advice, not permission. Kids do much more than their parents know about; they always have, they always will. Imagine if your kid came to you asking for advice, and you responded as if you were asked for permission.

| "Dad, what do you think about heroin?"

| "If you go near that stuff, you'll be grounded for a month."

| "Thanks, Dad." (proceeds to try heroin)

In the time I typed this, probably 1,000 kids around the world had the very same conversation with a parent about various difficult subjects including drug use. That's 1,000 missed opportunities for parents to have real conversations with their children.

I have a few thoughts about the rest of your comment.

First, you're defining "addiction" very broadly. It's hard to reconcile why your girlfriend is a "victim," but "literally every parent" on the playground was doing the same thing. At a certain point, behaviors become norms. If phones didn't exist, what would those parents on the playground be doing instead? Probably not heroin, but probably not work that society highly values, either. And nothing so extreme that it's my business to judge them.

Second, it's very difficult to address your "the question is really about addiction" point without conceding a false premise. My comment wasn't about how I deal with it; it was about how to prepare my children to deal with it. Which absolutely is about addiction, or rather about avoiding addiction. (To be clear, I'm talking about addiction in the classic sense that causes a person to make destructive life choices to feed their addiction, and absolutely not about the "addiction" that declares that there is a problem with a parent's manner of sitting on a bench on a sunny day in a park.)

If OP were asking how to stop mobile-phone usage, I'd have ignored the post entirely, because in my opinion that's a misguided goal. OP asked "do you take any precautions to help your children avoid falling prey to [internet addiction]?" That's a very different question. And my answer was to teach my children not to become prey.
Taibbi's thread shows examples of the FBI reporting left-wing accounts for misinformation.
There are many hn apps on the stores that let you change font size. You can also change your browser font size.
That was a good read. But I'm not sure about Carmack being the canary.

The idea was then that if he left quickly over ethical matters, it would be a sign of something was really wrong. But Carmack didn't leave quickly. It's been almost 9 years. And none of the reasons he cites have to do with openness, transparency, or abuse of user data.
To extend the metaphor a little, the farmer would be bringing in carrots in a ready-to-sell condition and putting them directly in the Safeway stores on the retail shelves.

That's a little different than forcing Safeway to pick them up at the wholesale distribution warehouse (at full retail price) and truck them around themselves and stack the stores themselves.

In the PG&E case, the residential rooftop solar power is delivered directly into the retail last-mile networks just like the carrots on the Safeway shelves metaphor.

However, the NEM2.0 model is still needed a tuneup. Last-mile networks still need maintenance. Suppose each neighborhood reached self sufficiency, somebody has to pay for the grid maintenance and run the whole thing.

IMHO, buyback at a discount makes sense, but NEM3.0 seems like a Christmas gift to PG&E. They get ToU, capacity fees, wholesale rates, and minimum usage fees. They asked for the sky and got it all.
What is the law that is being broken here, and how are punishments measured for its infraction? Is it based on amount of impact? Because if so, then asking moderation for a dozen or two accounts with limited reach is something that might carry a small amount of punishment, if any at all.

The first amendment is about the government making laws to infringe upon free speech. I see no laws being made here. So it is the government behaving exactly like a private company. Which may be problematic, but not unlawful.
yah for another month. The official paid support is "Extended Security Updates (ESU) through January 2023"

But, it wouldn't surprise me at all if a couple large (or important) customers with some special cases have some kind of incident support contracts which basically dictate that MS fixes exploits or bugs in embedded systems/whatever. Its happened in the past, so no reason to think that some nuke plant tied to windows7 can't get a timezone update or whatever in a couple years after paying $$$$$ for it.
Now, it's also perfectly fine advice that if a person wants to be rewarded, they should pursue projects that move the metrics of what's normally perceived as important. But that is also trivial advice.

A common chokepoint in an engineer's career development is challenging others' preconceived notion of what is important. Often this is with non-technical management, but unfortunately this is sometimes needed with technical peers too. It's politically convenient to just go with the flow and align oneself to the most visible metrics, but that way only a limited amount of bottom-up innovation can happen, and those can be critical to the business.

The best one can do is to establish the importance of the project before you do it, but I've seen important projects that were initially not supported by management, and only got traction when an IC did it anyway and demonstrated the value. Sometimes ICs were lucky that the impact was measurable and recognized, sometimes not so much and were deemed to have wasted precious company resources.

The world is not perfect and we often have to choose between taking a calculated risk or to conform. It's hard to get business processes 100% right, and not easy for a person to do things with guaranteed outcome, so we just have to live with it and try our best to navigate strategically.
If the FBI was legally compelling or coercing Twitter into banning users, that would be unconstitutional. That is not what has been demonstrated here.
PTZ = pan tilt zoom

SDI is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_digital_interface

NDI and 2110 are video-over-IP standards. https://renewedvision.com/blog/guide-to-video-standards-sdi-...

HoW I can't figure out.
Wouldn't it be better to help a child learn self moderation without giving them such a strong addictive substance?

Like for some kids, having to leave a fun play date at their friends house because they have school the next day is crushing enough but probably a good lesson in self moderation and preparedness. That's probably a simpler way to teach self-moderation rather than, here is a bag of cocaine, try not to eat all of it please.

"You see billy, there is a company who is out to get you by stealing all your attention and ruining your life by maximizing profits" is probably a bit complicated for a child.

Also I don't think adults are great at overcoming all their weaknesses, for example, I absolutely love chocolate, so much so that if it's in the house I wish ravish it. So what I do is, I don't have chocolate in the house and it's problem solved.

For some kids not having you tube in their face is probably similar to not having chocolate in the house?
Not only have they missed a lot, but what they have presented is laughably devoid of context. So a user tweeted "mostly jokes"? What about the exceptions? Ten jokes and a death threat is still a problem. What about the DMs? What about the follow rings, building up social capital (including with jokes) for the accounts that did much worse? What about steganography? It's not like these are obscure tactics in modern disinformation campaigns. They're standard tools of the trade.

It's absurdly easy for Musk and his cronies to cherry-pick which pieces of context they do or do not include, to make any user's behavior seem more benign or nefarious than it really was. Every time they reveal something, we should ask what they're leaving out. Anyone who fails to do so, whether they're a journalist or an HN commenter, is effectively doing Musk's dirty work for free.
The problem is that there is this assumption that the FBI is working in good faith. There is a mountain of evidence that they have arbitrarily acted in the interests of the ruling class and not within the confines of the constitution.

Just look at COINTELPRO for the most egregious example.

Then there's Waco, Ruby Ridge, the campaign finance corruption, infiltration of latin American governments, and modern operations similar to COINTELPRO to take down various movements like occupy wall street.

They are a mafia, not some benign group that can be blindly trusted with secret carte blanche powers.
Sure let me provide an excuse for you.

Most people don't care about things unless it affects them. They were taught this by their parents and peer. They don't think they are wrong.

That's it
> with an AD-authenticating-HTTPS-to-Telnet bridge

Apache Guacamole supports AD auth and (surprisingly) telnet.
People don't have a constitutional right to post on Twitter.
Thunderbird!
Why is culture important? Is that value greater than the suffering?
> And those people are wanting to maximize their pay, not the quality of their work.

Nobody is able to hire very many people who want to optimize for the quality of their work. Few people put 110% effort into executing someone else’s vision for someone else’s profit.
Just because relatively few residents are affected by each outage does not mean CMP is particularly reliable outside of urban centers. Within the bounds of "major" metropolitan areas (by Maine standards) a number of multi-day and sometimes week-long outages have occurred in the last 5-10 years. It's always trees on ridgelines falling onto powerlines, often in the same places. Burying them would absolutely improve reliability. As it stands, everyone in these areas who can afford it _has_ to have a generator, since their water (well) and sewer (septic system or pumps to a city system) requires electrical power.
I wonder how much of this is the result of a over bloated product management arm.....
Have you heard of the concept of an "ideological turing test"? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2011/06/the_ideological.htm...
Someone like Zuckerberg has access to your data as well. And what about the government having access to DMs? That’s far scarier. Has Snowden not taught us anything? We are only just now worried about this? Complaining about Musk without complaining about Zuckerberg or the government is just hypocrisy.
Why do people keep saying they knowingly allowed child exploitation. Do I need to be deep in the qanon to get this reference or something?
How is this not whataboutism?

I suspect there's significant overlap between the group of people opposed to shark finning and the group of people opposed to factory farming. We don't need to solve one before the other. Why not make progress on both in parallel, rather than use lack of progress in one to drag our feet on the other?
> wasn't what they were goaling you on

This is the problem in a nutshell, no? A company that does not value a team that delivers measurable value to non-technical teams, and that provides no "alternate paths" for its non-technical users to vouch quantitatively for the promotability of technical team members, is creating a culture that is suboptimal for its financial goals. That quantitative bar must be high, of course, but if I heard as a C-level that people were getting advice "don't work for products for business users" I'd clear my calendar and get to the heart of why that was, because the very "routing fabric" of the company would be at stake. If they're not allowed to build i-tools, your technical teams will miss insights they need to build the right things, from the users who know more about the domain than anyone else.
Agreed, writing is necessary but not sufficient. But writing is still much better than nothing.
I published a fast and lightweight starter pack with Vite and wrote about it here:
https://cpojer.net/posts/fastest-frontend-tooling-in-2022
Here you go:

https://www.dhillonlaw.com/lawsuits/meghan-murphy-twitter/
I didn't know him before and think it is interesting. I appreciate his work.
Actually the way the grid works, in this analogy the farmer would deliver the carrots directly to the absolutely geographically ideal consumer's refrigerator.

The only kinda grey lining here is the incentivization of house scale battery storage thru gutting all other routes to solar profitability... Sort of like saying that police speeding ticket quotas 'encourage' alternative transit like bicycles and trains just by adding misery to driving.
Quite sad to see this hands-off approach being praised. I was raised in this kind of environment, along with most others I know, and that's how we all got to see our first beheading, suicide, or some grotesque sexual content before we even hit 12. It's not something you seek as a kid, but you get presented with it.

Sure, this would be considered the "excess", but I'm not sure if it's the kind that children should be made to deal with at such an age in such high volumes.
Thanks for the response. While I hadn’t read the novel, I thought Children of Men was an excellent film and your comment had piqued my curiosity of how the film’s story came about. I found the following interview by Film Maker magazine¹:

> Filmmaker: How did you become interested in adapting and then making Children of Men?

> Alfonso Cuarón: It was when I realized that the premise of the book, the premise of infertility and humanity, could serve as a metaphor for the fading sense of hope that I feel humanity has [today]. It was an amazing opportunity.

> Filmmaker: I also read that 9/11 was a motivating factor to wanting to do this.

> Cuarón: Definitely. I was trying to cope with the reality we’re living. Even before September 11th things were changing. The big phenomenon of globalization that started becoming so obvious in the ‘90s was really having a lot of repercussions. That was pretty much what I was trying to explore.

> Filmmaker: Your adaptation of the novel is quite loose. How did you approach your source material?

> Cuarón: Once we decided to do this exploration on the state of things – and you don’t have to go very far to realize that the environment and immigration are pretty much on the top of the list – then we had to craft a story. I had the story I wanted to tell so clear in my head that I was very afraid of reading the book and getting completely confused. I read an abridged version of the book, and Timothy J. Sexton, my writing partner, read the [entire] book. But our whole idea was lets find out what elements are relevant to what we’re doing and lets disregard what we think is irrelevant.

I don’t think I’d call that bragging. It seems more like Cuarón had a set of ideas he wanted to explore and the book was a suitable hook on which to hang them.

¹ https://web.archive.org/web/20081009182846/https://www.filmm...
What ideology do you believe the Federal Bureau of Investigation to share with Twitter's former leadership?
There is promising process to burn biomass a low oxygen environments producing biochar(black carbon residue) without releasing CO2. This process is still in testing stages and is not deployed at scale with unclear scaling and costs.

https://www.american.edu/sis/centers/carbon-removal/fact-she...
I kinda wonder if there is a type of employee who likes working at dying firms. Every year their job gets easier with fewer demands. Failure becomes kinda expected.
Also known as crack propagation, but yes interesting to see in non metals.
I'd consider myself a centrist democrat (registered Democrat, vote mostly for Democrats, had a wonderful childhood in a very multicultural region of California, spent several years living in Berkeley CA, my sister who I'm close to works for her local Democrat party) and I've been surprised by the strong element of left-wing extremism on HN. The culture of the site has changed quite a bit in the past few years. It used to be that there was room for more perspectives here. I feel that my interest in building a coherent political worldview puts me in a minority compared to HN users who just want to sling mud at people they see as their opponents.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FBI_controversies

And these are just the big ones. They've pushed for back doors into iPhones for instance.

I don't care how trustworthy anyone thinks they are. No one should be able to just arbitrarily transcend the law because they are "clean".
iirc it works through building code. it has some parts related to grid hookup and without it house won't be up to code/pass inspection. Not sure what are implication in this case
He means someone who doesn't share your political perspective. Not someone with actual threat of force.

We haven't seen Twitter arbitrarily leak DMs yet. Even Matt Taibbi said they only have access to screenshots of admin interfaces directly related to their specific stories around uncritical FBI/DHS access, shadowbanning for questionable political purposes, and the whole Trump thing. It's far from the ideological free-for-all people are suggesting.

But Elon has already shown he's willing to play dangerous games with his power. So far we haven't seen the FUDy stuff yet beyond the stupid new doxxing rule for which he's burned tons of good will. Nothing comes without costs.
That's not hypocrisy at all.
I am not saying that factory farming is perfect or even good. But to compare it to shark finning is a huge leap.

Are factory farmed animals stuffed with antibiotics, force fed obscene amounts of food, and shoved into crowded environments? Yes to all of those.

But they aren't mutilated while still alive and left helpless, unable to move, while they slowly die over the course of hours or days with nearly all of their meat is left unused in favor of a single bodypart. Further add that many of these shark species are endangered and their diminishing populations endanger thousands of other species. Sorry, but that's worse than factory farming.

Not saying that factory farming is good. There's plenty of improvement to be made there and plenty of horrors to talk about. But as bad as it is, its no where near as bad as shark finning. At least factory farming are killed humanely and their meat is put to good use.

Once factory farming starts taking cows, chopping their legs off to harvest the hooves and then leaving the cows alive in a field while they bleed out slowly, unable to move, eat, drink where they die several days later after days of suffering. Once that happens, then you can start comparing factory farming to shark finning.
Seems like Meta is not a good fit for John Carmack.
The forever relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/1831/
The FBI investigated both Trump and Clinton in 2016. The difference is that they made a big announcement about Clinton immediately prior to the election.
He includes ~5 minutes of the cameras working at various resolutions and frame rates in the project video.

See: https://youtu.be/dwXs9RB6uD0?t=2621
“When Alienkind sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” - Trump (probably)
20 years from moment that system connected to the grid
Another lie that is said so often that they think it's true.
Pobox also had a few racks of hardware running Illumos/SmartOS as parts of their older stack. it was a pleasure to use once I wrapped my head around it, which was little enough because it was so reliable.
Content moderation at the request of the government is the very definition of censorship.
We're eventually going to get to so many caveats and inclusions in sentences, it's going to be impossible to read.
I don't think LXE works for Meta, but is just an awesome human, who knows people that do.
But agree with your post and am sorry for your step-son.