skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interesting graphic is the area burnt by year. If we take the years with more than 3 million hectares burnt we have some "specially hot years" falling over yearly average. This set includes:

94-95 Crimean referendum to choose between Russia or Ukraine

98 Russian financial default, start of the Yeltsin demise

Ukrainian presidential elections of 1994, 2004, 2010 and 2014 (but curiously not 2019). Would be specially interesting to check if the wildfires happened after or before the elections.

2013-2014 Euromaidan. Russia anexionates Crimea. Start of the Dombas war.

2017 This is an outlier. The year of Voronenkow saying that Crimean annexation was illegal and fleeing the Duma before to be assasinated. The year of Petya also.

We could probably add 2023 to this list at the end of the year

In the country with the second largest expatriate Ukrainian population. Most probably happened by random (and I'm surely cherry-picking) but still a curious chain of events. I assume that the data shown in this graph is correct (I could be wrong about this).

2020 is also interesting. People at home = no wildfires
Curious, who is your target audience? I can't figure out whether you're selling to the CEOs or the Engineering Managers. and how do you target them?
I agree with your point. I'll find a more readable font. Thanks!
I’m questioning the benefits of not having an unlimited government. Who exactly is Google - an adtech company “harming”? You have the agency to not use Google as does everyone else.
> If we could wave a magic wand and completely stop our CO2 emissions it wouldn't move the needle on global warming at all.

That stance could be held by virtually every country, condemning us to collective inaction.
At the same time YouTube is testing its live-tv style service with channels such as LTT. The channel makes a list of uploads and then its displayed to the user in a 24/7 tv style broadcast.
CS:GO is free to play since 2018. The player base and the daily players have grown threefold since then. We know at best that 1/3 of the player base paid money for it. Not saying it's not shitty but your comment was missing a bit of context.
I've started using "mistress"

Meh
Germany also clocked in at 52% for this year [1] until now.

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-covers-52-perce...
>Let's say there was a widely publicised murder in your neighborhood. You get picked up by the police, your mugshot and name get plastered all over the newspapers. It's a mistake. They catch the real perp a few days later and you go free. Now every time someone searches your name they are greeted with your mugshot. You don't get jobs, you don't get to rent an apartment and so on. It's not fair, it doesn't serve society in any way, shape, or form. You should be able to get that information removed.

Rather than gaslighting the world, shouldn't you just prevent the problem? That is, just ban posting that sort of information before a conviction.
It's so typically Portuguese to look at good news and somehow see it as bad news. I'm Portuguese, and I too suffer from this syndrome at times.

Not this time. Glad to see Portugal is on the right track.
I don't think there is any context in which a bus mastering DMA controller would be mistaken for a plantation owner.
Are you selectively reading from that Wikipedia article or something? It doesn’t back up your assertion at all.
i ended up going with the cheapest one that can still carry me around far enough (both ways) comfortably: https://www.amazon.com/HITWAY-Electric-Removable-20-55mile-B... (it was 800 when i purchased, also available under a number of different brand names if you search for things like 'foldable 20 inch fat tire ebike')

every brand's advantages just started blurring together until someone said "it's just going to be stolen anyway..."

with the money i saved by getting a cheaper bike, i bought the most expensive lock, to keep the thing from riding away :)
You can get things like [1] - an RF blocking box with a window and attached RF-blocking gloves. This equipment is not at all exotic.

And if you don't like that option - you can also place test calls to 911 [2] by calling their non-emergency number and arranging a time. It would be easy to perform a once-a-month test call.

[1] https://jretest.com/product/jre-1812f-forensics-analysis-enc...
[2] https://www.911.gov/calling-911/frequently-asked-questions/
> debt can only be paid off with more debt

This is totally untrue. Debt can be paid with new debt or growth.
I welcome published papers that aren't PDFs. Give me a published paper (fingerprinted) on a website that's imminently readable. Hell, maybe even has interactive elements! Bring the whole damn thing into the 21st century.
By no means is it perfect. Never claimed that. But generally you find that mass egregious bad practices by the government either get stopped or legalized (eg Bush’s NSA tapping into telephony systems directly and spying was quite a scandal). So yes, the government does all sorts of shady shit and have forever and they usually try to keep it as quiet as possible for as long as possible. That has nothing to do with private companies misbehaviors which is what we’re talking about here. Two wrongs don’t make a right.
'Right to be forgotten' is kind of absurd law. If you did something notable that is mentioned by press, then by press webpages, then indexed by search engines, you could ask search engine to hide that information, despite the original information is still publicly available (at least in libraries archiving paper press).
How much total memory are we talking and what speed were you able to run it at?
> Bengston's "The Energy Cure" is a pretty good example of what happens when you start doing that

Curious about this. Could you explain a bit more what happened? Thank you
Sure, take your time!

After reading your reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36693161, it resonated with me because I am this type of learner. I need to break things fast, reach the wrong answer, and get stuck so that I can see examples and learn from them. It is really good at getting what is out there. But being in academia surrounded by people who learn from abstraction and words, I can't get any confidence to speak about myself. It feels like I have seen the other side and now I am constantly evaluating myself with that.

I always thought this way of learning was fake learning because everything relied on intuition and most of the time my intuition was wrong. I had to go back re-read and attempt again. Once I fixed it, I was done with it and next time I had to restart from scratch because to me, it's a completely new situation. This made me feel like I never learnt anything in the past and I was actually someone who cheated the system because I knew exact things to be said in the right way. Like an incantation of a magic spell.

But after reading your reply, I will now dive a bit deeper into this kind of learning and see how it resonates with my internal world and learning! Thanks for sharing it!

> The downside is always when I’m around strong people of the other type I get the sense they don’t respect this style of learning sometimes. It comes through in their words, tone, subtle body language cues.

This is also one source of in-confidence. Everything started with the introduction of LLMs. It just punishes the person like me because I have a unique way of doing things. I claim this because I rapidly process information, try to understand behaviors and execute it. In any case I can't do it, I resort into finding other sources who has done it. I can understand the solution as long as it is written in clear way. It can be research paper, books, equations, code, blog, even just some random discussion as long as it hints into certain direction to trigger a spark. After that I try to use whatever I think is the best.

Simply put, I can give a solution, not just the best one but one to get 80% job done.
Even if carbon credits do absolutely nothing else, at least they impose a cost on carbon release.
I do wonder how the danger level compares to scooters or bicycles.
> I'm thinking about the solar panels

Does not sound as industrial scale
I really don’t think there’s much passion for nuclear power generally, I never see it discussed in any context other than as a contrast to renewables.

I’ll believe it has a future when I see people randomly bringing it up in oil price discussions or things like that.
The whole website and all links mentioned here looks as if this was just a hoax but i still like to think this could work.
The design, maintenance, and alteration of parachute equipment is regulated by the FAA; equipment must be approved under the FAA’s technical standards, and anyone packing a parachute must be an FAA-licensed rigger.

AFAIK there are no such standards (mandatory or voluntary) applied to Onewheel’s devices.

They could have voluntarily applied hardware and software standards from other safety fields (e.g. automotive engineering), but they apparently chose not to.

As the peer commenter said: move fast and break bones.
Does anyone know if this could have caused substantial accelerated degredation of the battery?

From the Googling I did, it sounds like probably not. But Apple themselves says "It’s especially important to avoid exposing your device to ambient temperatures higher than 95° F (35° C), which can permanently damage battery capacity."

One guy on Reddit posted a temperature reading of his phone at 42 C. There are probably examples of it getting even hotter.
The world as a whole has a positive birth rate. The number of arbitrary land sections with negative or positive birth rates is quite irrelevant.
> tune most people to value more things that needs less work/energy

They will be outcompeted and eventually replaced by those who value growth. (Plenty of the world has similar living standards to a hundred years ago.)
Another comment about this got flagged for tone/snark, but I think the Wikipedia link for one of the coauthors is actually really valuable information, so posting without the snark:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shaw_(laboratory_own...
Making a Living Is More Than Work: Thoreau’s Loafing and the Purpose of Life
In all my years I’ve never seen such a polarising technology as tailwind. It’s really weird the lengths people will go through to defend their method of outputting key/value pairs to move things around on a webpage.
But those 10 years are where I have the body to do the things I want to do.

There is no guarantee that my body will be healthy and capable of things like extreme sports and adventures later.
Byte and PCW are the two magazines I really miss. I know we have a wealth of information available to us now that we didn't back then so I shouldn't be sad... and yet :'( If someone put out a physical general computing magazine of a similar quality today I'd subscribe in an instant, but I suppose there's just not enough cranks like me to make it viable.

Speaking of quality material, any plans to revive NTK?
And you make that assessment based on what? I would wager taht there is significantly more fraud amongst car mechanics than social science researchers. Let's not even talk about the massive fraud that car companies have been engaged in (VWs Diesel scandal, Teslas autopilot...), but somehow you find them more trustworthy than social science professors?
I find reading from paper books better than digital for this reason. Spatial memory. Its quick for me to find a passage as I seem to know where to look. I don't remember the words or the passage I want but I know where to locate it. The section of the page, the bit of the chapter, the pattern and shape of the text (better if there's illustrations) the weight of the pages. I imagine it would be a little bit of a jump to use it to memorise the words themselves. I should give it a try with some bible verses but thinking about it all my bibles are formatted differently depending on translation edition etc. Different than most books.

With digital this seems to not be active and instead I have to guess the likely words and jump around the search results.
Well, I am in germany and I am already not happy how our own government uses the tax money, despite that it pays also other members who do even worse things.

I would change lots of things if I could. But my point was that I don't think the problem of the EU is that it does not have too much centralized power.

Still, it mostly works. We have peace within the EU. We can go anywhere and start a new life just like that, that is pretty amazing.

Especially if you consider how it was before.
What's the deal with these things being lumped in with physics? This isn't physics this is just regular philosophy with some scientific sounding language. I feel like this is people reaching for religion but not wanting to admit it to themselves.
there was a much larger variety of these exact kinds during the pandemic, but trying to find one these days is hard, and the used ones have company names that no longer exist

the smaller and lighter they are, the more integrated and specialized parts they have, for which replacements need to come directly from the manufacturer :(

still kind of crazy, the sheer variety of models that are still on youtube videos from just a couple years ago, that are no longer even possible...
> it would hurt investment in promising startups. Today, “company failed, but produced valuable IP” is a fallback outcome for investors.

As long as those investors end up actually using those patents for something other than what is effectively legalized extortion who cares?

Though I do generally agree reform is necessary, and it should have a bias against trivial nonsense getting patents. But also against people who stockpile patents for no other reason than to sue people.
Related threads about Byte Magazine itself (I've omitted submissions of specific articles/issues since there are so many of those):

Byte Magazine – Archived Copies on Internet Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35960210 - May 2023 (2 comments)

Byte Magazine 1975-1995 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397245 - Jan 2023 (98 comments)

Ask HN: Is there a modern equivalent of Byte Magazine? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538743 - Aug 2022 (8 comments)

Vintage Byte Magazine Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684406 - Sept 2021 (94 comments)

The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607038 - Sept 2021 (66 comments)

BYTE Magazine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683184 - Aug 2018 (111 comments)

Byte Magazine Covers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9299544 - March 2015 (1 comment)

Byte magazine archives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6113561 - July 2013 (15 comments)
Ok but row level locking. I love this conversation btw. We could be having this same discussion in 2013 with seemingly very few differences. Shows what shit oracle’s stewardship of MySQL has been.
Here's the domain using Water.css: https://ibb.co/yfYzXGW

Love the website and found a few domains that I love. Great job.
In fact I believe my account has been deleted, but I've not been informed. I can still log in and view my account, and my posts in the threads they were made in - but if I view Reddit when I'm logged out, all the posts I've ever made have been deleted.

If you have been using that sub, please instead keep an eye on the RRP blog, or use the forums on the RRP site, which are here;

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/slforum/index.html
You have a presented a great argument on why you will not be using smart eyewear. Nothing convincing about why it won't be adopted by the general population. Smart watch doesn't have and will never have anywhere close to the capabilities smart eyewear eventually will.
> If not for that defect, it would have been the best tool for commuting in the city.

Except for that part where you're going faster than the fastest sprinter, with a high center of gravity. Even with a helmet, and no explicit defect, these things are inherently extremely dangerous by their very design.
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Yes it is exactly equivalent to that as far as I can see. But it's a big improvement for it to be built into ChatGPT for people who want to use speech input so they don't have to use an external tool.
Sure you can. Personally, I view the fossil fuel plants differently than nuclear, I would much prefer that the majority of steady state power generation was nuclear, but that does present quite a target and threat to the rest of the world during a time of war. I don’t have all the answers here, just wanted to start with my thinking.

Getting away from fossil fuels is not a pie in the sky proposal these days. You could look at the success of the lithium storage battery in Australia, previously serviced by fossil fuel peaker plants. There is pumped hydro, and all manner of other non-chemical storage that is possible.

There are certainly a range of options that are 100% renewable with storage, but at this moment don’t compete on price with natural gas or even coal if you only factor the cost of the input to the system. Can we agree on that?

I would say the inexpensive nature of fossil fuels ignores the total cost of the fuel. We’re basically setting up future generations for a complicated terraforming process to recover the atmosphere to something that supports our farming needs and temperature needs to support life, not just our own but the natural world we rely on.

This cost might not factor in to the per/MW cost of coal or NG, but it should. This is factored into nuclear (waste storage) so to ignore its cost for fossil fuels is disingenuous.
That greatly depends on the surfaces involved and the persons skills.

I’ve fallen off the back of a galloping horse before as an overweight 6+ foot guy and been fine, but that frequently causes severe injuries. I doubt a one wheel rider is dealing with significantly more energetic collisions. They are however dealing with the dangers of urban environments.
No idea. I really liked their vibe, but found nothing commenting on the apps, so decided to post here in HN.
ACC, TC are all things people want.
I remember when these sort of blurbs by Chris would appear on CSS tricks. Sadly CSS tricks is pretty much dead now, with their last new article going out in April.
GP's point is that Portugal wasn't the best placed country to go all-in on renewable energy because it was already economically in trouble and that the last thing Portuguese people needed was higher energy prices.

There are other countries that have stronger economies which are better placed to "go green".
It's down at the bottom of the stack.
PoW gets his life back after 55 years (2000)
Spain has quite a few solar plants that generate power even at night.
> For safety, I wear motorcycle armor and wrist guards with it

Does that include a helmet?
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
As long as we continue to either produce more value than before, or the same amount of value with less costs, it’s not a big deal. Population growth makes things easier but it’s not strictly necessary.

The biggest problem is dealing with the “transition” of the population pyramid. Public pensions and such usually don’t account for the shape - namely the ratio of economically productive people to economically unproductive (dependents and retirees) - changing. Most likely, whichever generation gets to be retirees along the demographic transition from positive population growth to neutral population growth will get a free ride in the form of lower taxes/contributions in their productive years relative to what they consume in their retirement years. This is kinda sorta happening with Boomers in many developed countries although it’s greatly mitigated in eg the US by immigration.
The VESC community is extraordinarily impressive.

At the same time, I’m doubtful that software bugs in the proprietary code are related to the vast majority of these failures people describe. The only legitimate issues I’ve seen are caused by sensors (either the foot sensor itself, or improper mounting usually related to grip tape) or water damage.

A Onewheel attempts to self balance. To accelerate, you lean the direction you want to go. As your speed increases, the board starts tilting the nose up to signal it’s reaching its limit. Powering the motor requires energy, and self-balancing requires additional energy beyond that, so a safe amount of headroom needs to be reserved to accommodate for variations in terrain and rider movements.

When the noise starts tilting up, there’s nothing to stop the rider from leaning forward more, which also signals to accelerate. This is called “pushing through pushback” and it’s required to go more than ~16-18 mph.

Imagine the extreme case where you quickly lift your rear foot off the board. Obviously it’s going to stop suddenly, and you’ll fly through the air and smash into the ground. Every nosedive is exactly this scenario, just slightly less extreme.

Once I grasped this simple concept it became obvious that every fall was my own fault. This is why I recommend new riders practice balancing with the board powered off. If you can’t easily do that, you have no business pushing through pushback.

The boards being “fixed” by this recall are getting a new feature that makes the board vibrate at high speeds. This is done by modulating the motor, it requires no new transducer. The only “failure” is of the rider being oblivious to the signal the board is sending.

Source: own a V1, Plus, and GT; ridden thousands of miles on my own and other’s boards; ran a meetup and met a huge variety of rider types; once raced in the GoPro Games; crashed hundreds of times including the obligatory bone-breaking incident resulting in surgery

tl;dr: Future Motion is anti-consumer, haptic feedback is overdue, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with the Onewheel. Every nosedive is ultimately due to rider error.
That’s for AC thought right? Ultra high voltage direct current is pretty efficient for transmission I thought
Indeed.

I wonder what happens in summer in case of drought.

This links partially answers my question.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/PT

Apparently 33% was pumped storage (wow). And it’s a windless night so no other renewables. 17% gas that produces the CO2.

That is quite impressive. Won’t compete with the crazy hydro of Norway/Sweden or the nuclear of France. But it’s quite a decent chunk of carbon free power.
Author here. Enzyme polymorphisms are tricky and would require a whole different blog post. Some drugs they matter a lot for, some drugs they do not. I actually have not found any drugs with 10-fold variability that could be ascribed solely (or even mainly) to polymorphisms, although it doesn't seem impossible.
Pumped storage is definitely the most efficient method of energy storage, but is it the cheapest when taking infrastructure costs and land use into account?

I remember reading about plans to use renewables to pump Colorado River water back up into Lake Mead to increase the amount of power the dam can generate during low generation periods for solar and wind.

That seems like an efficient approach, because the dam and reservoir are already there.
US-China 'tech war': AI sparks first battle in Middle East
English is not my first language but i think the "a" is for the infrastructure. It's software for a hyper-converged infrastructure.

If you remove the "a", to me, it sounds like the software is hyper-converged instead. Which seems less correct.

Anyway I agree. The very next couple of sentences describe it better in my opinion. Maybe they should put those two first:

"It is a hosted hypervisor that can run operating systems including Linux and Windows on x64 hardware. It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers"
That's just wrong. If China (29%) and the US (14%) waved the said wand we'd cut down emissions by almost 50% and would be looking at a completely different scenario.