skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... so turning up and turning down power is often difficult which is why an application that is passive, droppable, and can withstand latency is ideal to consume such power.

Sure, so investing in smart load management is an optimal solution. With EVs and chargers coming online that's a huge load you can send a signal to in order to adjust demand. A country like Bhutan is very well suited to this kind of approach.

Or change the energy mix so you have a balance of baseload and variable load generation.

Or do something with it that isn't guessing random numbers on machines 99.7% of which will never successfully guess a single block and go from factory to space heater to landfill.

Can't remember which miner, but one of the majors, made more money in credits for pausing their waste than they did from the bitcoins that came out the other end last year. It's just extorting the public.

> Not sure about Bhutan's grid, or who they can interchange to, but there are frequently wind farms in TX that have to take a loss to generate power simply because they are forced to generate power, and there is no demand for power in the region, and the buses (power lines) are congested.

So invest in building more power lines.

The myth of stranded energy is toxic. Wasting it on bitcoin mining is an incentive not to connect it to the grid the way it should be connected. Either don't build it, or build it and connect it. The worst case outcome is to build and then waste it.

Transmission losses are only 2-3% per 1000km.
For what it's worth, the repo and package name is `locust-grasshopper`

https://github.com/alteryx/locust-grasshopper
Wider your horizon a bit. By and large, the world is getting better and better for more and more people. To take your first example: American political theatre is small fry compared to billions lifting themselves out of abject poverty.
Raydev appears to have no interest in learning anything about the music production process nor putting in any work.
I suggest that they are using "expensive gear" as a proxy for "effort, work, sweat, time"

mechanical skills are EARNED, and are a lot of fun to exercise when functioning.

*before anyone suggests "ableism" I refer you to Django Reinhardt, the drummer from Def Leppard, and anyone who has overcome physical disabilities to express themselves upon the musical instrument of their choice.
That quote still shocks me every time I read it. Such depravity.
I'm certain workarounds exist ... encrypt then add non encrypted text atop undoable by receiver for example
More Americans are using fake license plates
Thank you for providing that article; it was great. I was unable to find a reference to lab-grown diamonds and their contribution to diamond laundering. Can you help me find that here?
https://epr.sustainablepackaging.org/

As is standard, perhaps, the concept and ideas are already well-established, the only requirement is to enact them. I also suspect that many of the initiatives are pretty weak, watered down by packaging producers who don't want to bear the full cost of waste management.
> the perception of which shifted to becoming a more men-dominated employment after the war

That's a wee bit of revisionism. Read this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262535181
Wow, what a mess we’ve created for ourselves. It’s kind of tragic but I can’t help but laugh.

I don’t think the situation we’re in at the moment gives me much reason to believe we’re actually intelligent. Maybe we’re intelligent but we completely lack wisdom ?

Birds don’t sit around all day creating such huge problems for themselves. Only we seem to do that…time for a rethink?
The stock market has been declining for a while.

4% is better than a 10 - 50% loss.
Yet the toggle is automatically on for a number of applications even when it says its turned off.

That still makes its existence a misleading coercive lie giving you the illusion of control; for those that don't already know better. These dark patterns should be illegal (and in fact are if you take a strict constructional meaning from deceptive and unfair business practices already codified in law).

Its just effective enforcement of antitrust, and FTC violations simply isn't occurring at these monoliths.
Whoa whoa. The "association" OP speaks of is down to effective marketing - creating a common image of German product/industrial design as meticulous and high performing - not some objective engineering ranking.
Not necessarily. They gave scientists and industry 25+ years to develop ways to save excess renewable energy (e.g. by hydrolysis) and electrify industrial processes. Nothing happened, instead the industry lobbied the gov'ts for more Russian gas.

Plus, we have the European Power Grid which lets you import and export electricity to neighboring countries and e.g. France is so deeply invested into nuclear, they would always have excess energy (sidenote: due to mismanagement and droughts France heavily needed to import electricity from Germany).

Germany afair set a world record in generating solar electricity around 2012 while it was losing its whole solar industry (150k+ jobs) to China, bc the Merkel gov't suddenly stopped subsidizing them.
Lispers here, cackling with their S-expressions, listening to other languages complain about being unsure where a statement/expression ends.
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Both are real risks, but humans are biased to be disproportionately sensitive to near term risks and tend to underestimate long term risks. In addition, poor people tend to be disproportionately affected.
Things like this will make it interesting too:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22867090/bmw-color-changin...
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KDE tried something like that in KDE 4 but it wasn't well received so they toned it down in KDE 5.
Huh?

Quantity demanded increases as price decreases https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_demand

Bhutan controls the price they will sell at, and for hydropower the marginal costs can be very low, so surely they do control the quantity demanded.
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The difference is in the risk profile.

The risks of coal power are dominated by the typical case. People have been living near coal plants for generations, they know what the risks mean in the real life, and they have generally found the risks acceptable.

Nuclear risks are dominated by rare disasters. Because most people have not experienced nuclear disasters near home, they don't know what it would mean in the real life. As the risks are unfamiliar, many people find them scary.
> Plastics are just too cheap, light, and durable to move away from in a lot of applications that they won't go away

There's an easy answer for this, build the externalities into the price. They won't be cheap, and so alternatives will be used. Depending on the kind of plastic, of course, the externalities differ, and thus so too should the price.
I highly recommend looking for a protected night sky zone near you and going to see it at least once - it really is nothing that pictures can translate!

https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/finder/
It was slow / having issues as in the afternoon, but my last deployment was 6:59pm CST, and it at least responded at 7:43pm CST with a failed deployment. Between those time blocks the entire thing went down. Sites are up, but you can't authenticate with the CLI tools, or get a log in / dashboard with web.
> Randomly on a few of my projects, the functions don't work anymore

Yeah that happened to me like a year or two ago. Google changed something on the platform running my functions and my app stopped working without any notice.
When you say "many" you cited people in Australia. Does that speak or is that representative, for the entire world?

Also, my opinion of Australians is slightly shifted after reading that information, but who knows how they crafted that survey. Did they compare it to living next to a coal-fired plant? I am not able to easily find the survey methodology.

Anyhow,the science is abundantly clear that there is no reason to fear living near a nuclear power plant.

"In our study, living near an NPP was not associated with any significant risk of hematologic malignancies, except for CLL/SLL, for which risk was significantly reduced."(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.31116)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26638017/

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-risks...
This reminds me of the introduction to Walden where Thoreau is sitting on his porch one day, and he sees men laboring intensely to move logs one way down the street in front of his house, and then later that day, sees a different set of men laboring intensely to move the same logs back the other direction.

Only under a blind self interest system like capitalism can this kind of wasted effort be rationalized.
I think you can explain all this nicely with: "SD leader Gerhardt Schröder immediately joined as a Russian oil lobbyist after leaving politics".

Greens were useful idiots to Gerhardt's plan to power Germany's economy using cheap natural gas from then-nascent Putin regime in Russia.

It's arguable he wasn't wrong in fact, if you look at the fact that Germany drove a lot of the EU economy for the past 2 decades, he's probably feeling quite justified in selling his country's energy sector out to Russia.
This is very much something I've not thought much about. There's doesn't seem to be publicised cases where this is abused and having a system where any stolen vehicle can be pinged on major roads is a rather useful thing to have.
This why I want a space heater built out of BTC mining ASICs!
It's those above the poverty line but only just that should be worrying most: the rich will likely be mostly fine, it's everyone else who is going to suffer much more from it.
It isn't just a chemical, it's the "universal solvent."

The other funny thing on organic farming and chemicals is nicotinoids can be used. They break down, but before that happens, they're not great.
But the Russians didn’t use the energy leverage so far, did they? Germany seemingly decided to do the damage to themselves on their own. Wouldn’t it be better to take time and find alternative sources of energy first? This is what I don’t understand.
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> I still think that this decision was mindblowingly progressive and valuable at that time

In light on what is the real-world consequences of that decision; I would qualify it more as mindblowingly mistaken.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Odd timing, but Vercel launched databases today https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-storage. (I work there)
> here you go, like it or not

It's been tried. It's failed a lot. People find (weird, unpredictable, uncomputable) ways to rebel.

Also, you get around to it in your last paragraph, but I was implicitly avoiding designing a system isomorphic to slavery; I guess I'm trying to steelman central planning. Hence the requirement to take consumer preferences into account.
I mean, at most employers you literally can't publicly share any material produced on a work computer or context, unless you feel like being sued (for violating a non-disclosure agreement). When it comes to law-violating stuff, of course in that case the NDA won't apply to sharing stuff with law enforcement etc. .. but that doesn't mean the stuff can be shared publicly (unless it becomes part of a public court case of course). It's not all that easy to blow the whistle on something and "provide receipts" to the general public (unless you don't mind having lawsuits filed against you I guess). This is why you generally give such people the benefit of the doubt -- they basically have no other option but to make their case as fairly and reasonably as they can, while still protecting themselves to at least some basic degree. If it really came to it, the claims _can_ be verified, for example in a court case, where the process of discovery would reveal all the HR records and whatever else.
I sent out emails on a “Who is hiring?” thread and received zero responses. However so far in my career I’ve found success in seeking out opportunities.
Sometimes it’s “bomb threat”. I got a free day my last year of high school because someone claimed to have set them up the bomb.
> most bug bounties won't pay out XSS unless you can demonstrate that it actually leads to something. Because it almost always doesn't.

This is weird. XSS usually leads to complete session takeover, and being able to perform arbitrary actions as the victim. This is usually critical impact.

If you aren't seeing that, the most likely explanations seem to me to be that you have some kind of idiosyncratic definition of XSS (something preventing session takeover?), or a website that doesn't allow users to perform interesting actions or access their own interesting data.
Fair enough, but the housing prices in the area will take a huge hit while the non-supporters move out. It would be political suicide for a local government to support it.
I'm a Canadian who's been following C-11 and before that C-10 for the 2 years the government has been working to pass this legislation.

Here is the best summary I've read so far:

https://allenmendelsohn.com/2023/04/welcome-to-the-online-st...

Digital first creators, Canadian YouTubers and TikTokers (ex Linus Tech Tips), stand to lose the most from this. Their livelihoods are under threat.

This is because of a clause in the bill that seeks to regulate user generated content. Months of senate testimony concluding that user generated content is in scope of the bill. The senate introduced an amendment to exclude user generated content, but the government rejected the amendment, while insisting this will not affect user generated content.

The heritage minister claimed in an interview that the only opposition to this bill came from YouTube. This is despite months of testimony from digital first creators expressing grave concerns about this bill.

Other facts to keep in mind about C-11:

1. The heritage minister gets to define Canadian content only after the bill has passed
2. Cabinet can overrule any decisions made by the CRTC, the Canadian equivalent of the FCC.
I also speculate they have gotten all they can out of the arrangement. Or it just isn't as economically lucrative as holding back some of that power as a speculative bet on the future.
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Plus, if the CO2 certificates get horribly expensive in the upcoming years and there's only renewables left, then energy companies will invest all their money in renewables and developing ways to make it a stable energy source.
Apparently you're just interested in using other people as foils rather than having a discussion. Good luck with that.
I've tried all four, and Render is the closest experience to Heroku. It still isn't as easy to use as Heroku, but it is close.
I did visit parts of the area on my own. My issue was with the discordance between what the Chinese press and my more militant Chinese friends say and what I saw in the totality of my time there. I had no less than 6 seemingly non-extremist Uighurs express their desire to live in the states for religious freedom reasons.
The world is getting better (for many) but it's also getting weirder and crazier. Both can be true.

I have this hypothesis that the weirdness and craziness is a symptom of early stage post-scarcity. Scarcity constrains things. Without it we will just spread out across the state space of possibilities like an oil slick, doing all kinds of insane and crazy things for increasingly complex and bizarre reasons. The more resources we have the more the question ceases to be "why" and becomes "why not?"

I call this the singLOLarity hypothesis.

A real post-scarcity future won't look like Star Trek. It'll look a little more like Lexx.

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

If we are ever visited by super-advanced aliens, they will be really weird. Maybe they really are flying around in pimped-out spaceships with multi-color neon running lights mutilating our cattle for the lulz. The question is not "why?" It's "why not?"
It's a miracle that India was spared this fate.

All thanks to the East India Company being a soulless megacorp devoted to profits instead of religious zeal like the other colonists.
We've made pretty good progress. But the same problem that plagues explainabilty of ANN's rears its ugly head in neuroscience.

Low level descriptions provide shockingly little insight into high level behavior.
The Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz for building out renewables was decided for together with the nuclear phase—out as part of the Energiewende under Schröder. Of course they are strongly linked.
I think they care. Vercel is VC money. Not even close to profitability. Anyone building anything but a toy needs to take into consideration that Vercel might not be here in 2 years from now
It's daily cash from the Apple Card. All your daily cash (1-3% cashback from Apple card purchases) automatically lands in the account.

Also, Apple does not manage these accounts. Goldman Sachs does.

I figured I wouldn't use it, but having the cashback automatically get dropped in savings is an actual godsend. It may actually promote better savings habits for some folks.
It's a good point. The "Humanure Handbook" guy hasn't developed a prion disease, so there's that...

A quick search turned up this...

> As for pathogens, while there has been considerable research demonstrating the effectiveness of vermicomposting as a means of destroying pathogens, I still recommend taking a cautious approach with any material removed from the system. You may want to further process it via hot composting before using it – and you may want to avoid using it as fertilizer for food crops (even with additional measures being taken).

https://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/human-wast...
>On all of these things except language, a raspberry pi and a cheap memory card beats essentially all humans.

llama.cpp runs quite fast on a raspberry pi 8GB, beating most humans at language.
The field it is used is very different. So why not?
At the electricity generation, ironically, the two well regarded players are Siemens and GE, only Siemens for its quality (what may or may not reflect the reality of the last decades, no idea).
According to the "read more" link in the "humane" section(1), this friction seems to happen because the guy who came up with this proposal is painfully ADHD.

1: https://uxdesign.cc/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289
none of the problems you mentioned are caused by the internet.

These are human problems. Humans cause them, not the tool. I would not give up the tool, just because said tool could be misused by some people to do harm. Just like i don't stop driving just because there's some people who run others over.

May be some regulation is important - but only _after_ it has been shown to have caused harm, and that the harm is not outweighed by the good.
Can you recommend any good references to begin understanding the Spectrogram ? I work in DL based Noise cancellation - major part of my work involves analyzing spectrograms - I find it very difficult to do my work without having an ability to critically analyze these images. Any help from anybody ?
I'm honestly not sure if this is rhetoric that's coming from the point of view of like a die-hard cryptocurrency true believer free market US libertarian, or somebody that's fully on board with the Russian and Venezuelan governments' stated anti-dollar perspective on global economics.
You don't have to load-follow when you can use the power to mine bitcoins. /s

In all seriousness, nuclear power plants are also very controllable within a certain bound, you just can't turn them completely off or else they take a long time to turn back on. Control of power output is what reactor control rods are for. Coal power is similar - you can control the temperature of the boiler but you can't stop the turbine completely if you want to turn it back on any time soon.
> I still think that this decision was mindblowingly progressive and valuable at that time.

That's a very positively way to say "mind-blowingly stupid".
It's not the source of the funding that makes the CBC biased.

It's all the exemptions and correspondence between the CBC and cabinet, the treasury board, and other arms of the government that is absolutely not made public in any way whatsoever:

https://frpc.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-04-26-Hidde...
> there are no frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum we are not aware of,

How would we know if we aren’t aware of them though?
Sure, but let me be clear, I don't think that matters at all.

Again, I'm pretty sure the reason I always get downvoted to hell on this one is because people think I'm being "the thought police" or something. And I suppose it's kind of like that but not really?

Yes, personally, I do argue slightly against the name, but honestly, I lose no sleep on it on a personal level.

What bothers me the most is that GIMP feels like a huge missed opportunity. As in -- let's say for sake of argument that the creators are strongly attached to the name, I don't know, even if it was named after Richard S. Gimp and you wanted to honor him, so you have a theoretically "bulletproof" reason.

On balance, it still AINT WORTH IT. You guys had a SERIOUS shot of eating Adobe's lunch and strongly spreading a much better way to do picture editing, but you screwed it up by staying inside your own bubble. The name was just NOT WORTH KEEPING.
> Compare them to nuclear heavy, clean France.

France is heavily importing German electricity, so that does not work out. Sources are many, but here [0] is a random one from January "German Power Exports to France Surge to Highest in 30 Years"

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/how-much-...

edit: Edited to remove snark, add source
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The FED has few other tools but the USG is more than the FED. Look up Nixon's price freeze. Legislative or executive branches could enact windfall profits acts. The list is quite long in fact, but requires either a working congress or sympathetic & unrepentant executive.

That is, unless, of course, the mosquito swarm is a useful excuse to actually do the collateral damage you want.
If the one guy didn't get fired you probably wouldn't have either.
No one seems to care about the nuclear radiation release from coal-fired plants.
Emergency savings should NEVER be put anywhere where it would be at risk or inaccessible when you need it most.
Do you really think it's incomprehensible that someone who is quitting so that they can talk freely would avoid signing documents that curtail their ability to talk freely?
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