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I just got a good tip on ground meat from Joshua Weissmann, use a potato masher to break it up while it's cooking into perfectly sized little bits
> renewables have won.

As evidenced by the fact that they have completely replaced fossil fuels and already sustain multiple grids in flat lands 100% now.
I've read that vitamin C over 500mg even oral causes mitochondrial damage.
Where the geography allows, pumped storage should be expanded.

There was an interesting proposal for a massive pumped storage Strathdearn[0]

It has the capacity of about 6800 gigwatt hours (283 gigawatt days)
which is about 1000 times the existing scottish current pumped storage in Cruachen.

The article claims to cover the existing daily power requirements of UK and be able to export to europe.

I am not a civil engineer or geologist so it might be too big, not practical and too expensive.
lots of smaller schemes might be better, but an interesting read

[0] https://scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/worlds-bi...
My local thrift store sells blu-rays (HD) for $1-$3. It’s bonkers. I’ll pick up movies on a whim because other than the library, there’s nowhere cheaper.
Fusion will become usable only elsewhere, not on Earth.

On Earth, fusion does not make sense unless it would provide more energy than the energy received from the Sun.

However, if an amount of energy comparable to that received from the Sun would be produced by fusion, after being used, that energy would become heat, causing an even more dramatic climate change than what we are facing now.

Fusion energy could be very useful, but only on spaceships or on planets/satellites/asteroids that are far from the Sun, and never on Earth.

The same is true for nuclear fission energy. In the short term, it can be useful to replace power plants that use fossil fuels with nuclear fission reactors, but the total amount of energy produced by nuclear reactions can never become so great as what can be obtained by capturing directly or indirectly solar energy, without causing climate changes.

The most important research direction should be for efficient methods of long-term high-capacity energy storage, e.g. in synthetic hydrocarbons or in flow batteries, and not in nuclear energy.
Failure of imagination indeed. There's much more to energy than the regular usage cycle of the average electrical supply grid.

What if creating easily-fusable isotopes is the most efficient way to store "renewable" energy? Fusion is the most concentrated release of power humans are able to muster. What's to say such concentrated power will never be required for any purpose?
I strongly disagree with this, given we have real examples of image based systems to compare with. You lose a significant amount of structural information that way.

Again, note that nothing stops you from ignoring the filesystem when navigating relationships. Nothing stops your IDE from indexing the data. Even ctags is decades old.

What the filesystem structure provides is additional context: "these things belong together for some other reason than the relationships directly expressed in code.

In a codebase where nobody bothered with that, or they've just dumped code together for superficial reasons sure, you will gain nothing, but you also lose nothing because you can fall back to querying your IDE or whatever.

In a well written codebase, on the other hand, the structure lets you follow a narrative.

Put another way: If you need to query a database to get a high level understanding, it's a strong signal that the person who wrote the code thought nothing about communicating the architecture to you, and to me that's a warning that the code base is going to be a massive pain to work with because that tends to extend to other areas.
The Venus is quite a lot closer to the Sun, though. A few degrees C change in the average temperature of the Earth indeed can cause absolute large changes, potentially killing of most more complex life forms, but even that would be very far off from the point where life is infeasible - especially that the bottom of the ocean won’t be reaching anywhere close to temperatures where proteins denaturate.
> Basically it was a...

It's a lot of words that amount to nothing. Advise i.e. don't have to listen to. So point is? If the government wants to ask experts it can already and regardless of if they are First People. It didn't require anything special.

I'm not against doing something but then do it properly.
I always look for words that can reduce a phrase or sentence into single word.
Nice list. Mildly surprised to see some terms in there that I thought were in common usage.

Also, the word "Absquatulate" ("to discreetly leave a gathering or party without informing the host") may be obscure, but I'd argue that's because it was replaced by the term "Irish goodbye".
I wonder if this was painstakingly copied by hand, or dumped out of the game files somehow.
Yep, it was my own personal issues that got me interested in the topic to begin with. My body temperature had dropped to 96.5-97.5 degrees F for a while. Now, excess omega-6 wasn’t my only issue at the time, but it was definitely something I didn’t need to add to the pile. I’m not currently familiar with potential thyroid effects, mine was “normal”. Though I’m not sure if that’s “it’s normal because everyone is fucked” or actually optimal. I’m more read up on the individual cellular activity, though I’m not a molecular biologist by any means.

To add to the warning: Keto/carnivores beware, pork and chicken fat in the west are very likely to have high omega-6 because of what we feed them. They can have linoleic acid content that even rivals or exceeds vegetable oils. Ruminants like cows don’t seem to have anything close to the same issue, likely protected by their large bacteria filled stomachs.
To make it safer they can add LittleSnitch or Lulu like functionality to their built in firewall.
Thanks, that I didn't know.

I'm kinda glad I tried to explain this, because I realize just how much I lack the proper words for it.

The earth rotation wobbles a bit, but the axis itself is also not tilted towards the sun (it has no specific reason to) nor tilted towards the inside of the revolution axis relative to the sun.

Basically the earth can be spinning on itself around any axis (let's call it A), while revolving around the sun on an unrelated axis (B). And neither A nor B has to be following the North/South axis. That's where the idea that a latitudinal timezone sees a similar solar cycle seems at odds to me.

If an image can help more, the earth's self rotation and sun revolution in this video are clearly not aligned, nor any of them follow the North/South axis:
https://www.britannica.com/video/151528/Earth-rotation-axis-...
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There is more to hip hop, than gangsta rap.
Allright, they are just changing of project and perspective.

People must understand: fusion research will stop the moment there is a set of scientific/mathematical proofs we cannot do it. If we are lucky, we still have a few millions of years to reach that point.
My sense is that HN's benevolent dictators really prefer to avoid anything as heavy-handed as your suggestions. If enough users here just don't want certain topics in their HN experience, then posts on those topics will get flagged.

HN is not the whole internet. If you have strong feelings about the current NCAA football rankings, or stupid policies of NYC's Dept. of Homeless Services, or the horrible ethical issues raised by Scorsese's new movie Killers of the Flower Moon - there are a zillion other sites where you can raise and discuss those.

And if the managers or users on those other sites are quick to flag and ban posts about the relative merits of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, or awesome CSS tricks - that's okay, too.
> Renewables have currently very difficult problems to solve with storage.

And fusion does nothing to solve these problems.

Even in an optimistic scenario, what you'd end up with fusion is a very expensive power plant that can generate large amounts of energy. Running that as a peaker plant to complement renewables is unlikely to be economically viable.

So your only bet really is to have fusion running as baseload power. However there won't be baseload power in the future, because we'll have times where renewables will provide more than 100% of the energy needed.

I really don't see how fusion fits into any of this. SUre, intermittency problems of renewables need to be solved. But Fusion ain't the solution. Look at hydrogen-fired power plants, advanced geothermal, or heat storage, those are promising options.
The Apple TV is round…
San Francisco Committee of Vigilance
The entire Usborne series of books was eye-opening to me when I was a kid: the future, how to be a spy, science experiments. They were translated to Spanish by Editorial Plesa.
so French words basically
Please discuss scrollbars issues while using slakc, Its getting tough to scroll upwards for more chats in history on slak, due to clunky behaviour of scrolls.
Happening now with appliances.
These sound like straightforward bugs to find. I found it weird/hard to believe he would just blame it on something out of his control and nobody would question it.
This has been bugging me for at least a decade. Hallelujah for the fix!
None, that was done 100 years ago, e.g. by Ramon y Cajal (Nobel prize 1906). But microscopic detail does not give molecular detail. What these current studies add is data on gene expression (mRNA molecules), chromatin accessibility (related to gene regulation), electrophysiology (in some cases), etc. We need such detail to connect disease genes inferred from genetics to specific brain cell types, for example.
It only has access to the encrypted payload, while the client has access to the decrypted payload.
Can NPTv6 be useful in these scenarios?

Disclaimer: I know only the basics of IPv6
I am learning x86-64 asm with it. It's great !
I know what Stephen King is saying here, but I disagree with your stance. I have read books that I need a dictionary with me to read them, and there are definitely words that, like in this list, deserve a wider use, but have very few spaces where they can be used properly.
> you put more hydrocarbons into making them than they will generate in their lifetime

They don't get used to make hydrocarbons. The stuff they're made from doesn't have to come from hydrocarbons.

In terms of energy, the same point hasn't been true in a long time (last I heard the time PV systems needed to pay off their own construction energy cost was measured in months, and that was a decade ago).

> and you don't get to pick when they generate

Fortunately storage and transmission lines exist. Fun fact: the material cost of building a global-scale 1Ω circumglobal power grid is a rounding error from the sale price of a year of current global coal mining (assuming almost all of the coal is the low-grade cheap stuff, so less in practice).

Politics will probably prevent that — if you think you can solve the political aspect of this, by all means defeat my cynicism — but technologically it's sound. It is, after all, always sunny somewhere on the planet.

> Hydro is ok, but it's fully installed globally

Also wrong. The unused places may be higher cost or lower quality, but plenty of places do exist.
Also with some gaming laptops just cant provide the power output from the battery so needs to be plugged in for full performance.
It is sad how few words see regular use anymore.
I am certainly guilty of this myself.
I like being lazy.
Also, it makes for easier conversations in a lot of cases
since other are lazy as well.

I recently read a book by Charles Stross in the Laundry Files series.
part of the book took place in the 1850s somewhere, (I think).
It was filled with words and slang I didn't know.
Presumably Stross did some research on English back in those days.

In a completely different context, I have read various letters that
date from somewhere 1800 somewhere 1930s. More on the older side.

I am surprised by how eloquent they were.
Thet had a much larger vocabulary than we see these days.
I think helped by snail mail being a bit more formal and
a lot slower process than banging away and emailing on a laptop.
It gave the writer more time and more impetus to the writing process.

It may be skewed by the fact that the leter are mostly from the
upper middle class.
Meh, let's stick to past 10-15 years
Lessons Learned from Startups
Just a dozen of lessons I learned from several startups. Cannot name them “valuable”, they are just lessons, nothing more. I’ve read some books of other founders, listened to some interviews, and hopefully you can read something new here. The lessons are short, there are no detailed explanations, so you can think by yourself.
Battery storage works just fine for intraday use.

And you don't even need batteries for industrial heat, which is a very substantial fraction of total energy demand. You can heat up a box of rocks/bricks/sand/graphite with resistive wires and run water through pipes to get the heat out again.

And you don't need to dig out massive reservoirs for pumped hydro in much of the world. You just need a decent-size mountain range somewhere convenient to your electricity grid. Much of the time you can repurpose conventional hydroelectric dams for the job.

Another alternative to storage is interruptible demand. If you're making hydrogen with electrolysis (another potential alternative energy storage medium)
you can just turn the electrolysers off when electricity prices are high. There are lots of studies and while the more time you're using your electrolyser the better, the economics of running them intermittently are likely to be quite reasonable.

Finally, it's worth pointing out that most people in the developed world seem likely they will have several day's worth of home electricity usage parked in their driveways by 2035 or so. Tapping just a small amount of that will make a huge dent in dunkelflautes.
Euclideon's method probably uses fine-grained acceleration structures and LoDs that are too expensive to rebuild in real-time. At least, that's how I took it.
But C assert.h checks can be disabled by setting NDEBUG and sometimes are for production builds. It’s not meant for bounds checking or anything that required for correctness, but for asserting invariants, hence the name.
I use a CalDigit TS4 dock. I love only plugging in a single cable to get everything at my work station. My old company bought it for me.
The sun is on 100% of the time.

The only reason that renewables can't provide us with reliable power is because of our human political problems: we can't reliably cable up the always-sunny areas of the planet to the areas where people live, because the governments in the always-sunny areas are unstable.
There's also Yggdrasil [0], an ipv6 based completely decentralised network.
You can join the public network or restrict access to known keys for a private network.

[0] https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
Came here for “cromulent”.

Was disappointed. But you’re not.
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Of course he was wrong, that's why they replaced him with nadela. What's your point though? Never heard of bad CEOs?

The only conclusion was that Balmer was wrong and Microsoft was right.
Money and price is a really poor information vessel for this kind of decision making, as they are disconnected from the actual physical flows involved.

Renewables require a lot of minerals compared to any centralized energy production facility, as they are really diffuse, and also they compete with the surface we need to grow our food and live. This is absolutely not present in current prices.
The UK's Association to Horizon Europe and Copernicus
And EINVAL is a perfectly valid fd.
It's a blog post to teach about Wayland, not a production app. If one creates an app by copy-pasting this code, blame them, not the author.
Doom 3 had a great journal entry to discover: "We requisitioned a crate of jackhammers, and the idiots sent chainsaws! What use is a chainsaw on Mars?"
I hadn't heard of LBRY before.

A quick look at it has me thinking that it's a content distribution platform, and the blockchain element is that it has its own token that can be used to pay content creators. Does that sound right?
Why Laser Weapons Didn't Work, but Are Now Coming Back [video]
It his Arc architecture one that can take on NVIDIA
for AI workloads once Intel expands and extends it?
I played the Unix version in the 80s. I guess that there is a Linux port in the games package of many distros. Let me check...

Not in a distro but probably this one will do
https://github.com/jj1bdx/bsdtrek
Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight
I bought Half-Life 2 physically, but it was effectively (and now is) a digital license. Nearly 19 years.
> the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die.

It seems all about the hope that you can keep the user engaged long terms. I don't blame them, competition for user attention is brutal in the age of the SEO content farms, oligopoly of social networks and the "Tyranny of the Marginal User" as posted here a few days ago.

But probably way less effective now that most users seem overwhelmed by so many push notifications and instinctively learned to mass ignore or dismiss them (myself included, just randomly noticed that background habit a while ago). And then we end-up with piles of installed unused apps just like lost websites in the browser history.
This prediction isn't about climate change, it's about the formation of a new super continent. Because it'll be such a large landmass, and the energy from the sun increases by about 1% every 100 million years, the inner parts of this continent are predicted to be too hot to support most life as we currently know it. Of course, who can really say what will happen / evolve / be there by that time anyway?
Ruben Fro is doing some cool stuff with animated gaussian splats: https://twitter.com/Ruben_Fro

Think of them as point clouds + lighting. Relighting is viable. Procedural deformation is viable. Animation is just a case of transforming sub-groupings.

Collisions might be a bit trickier but you can always derive a low-res collision mesh from the input data and use that as a proxy.

It's early days at the moment and people are still exploring the possibilities.
Biggest reason by far is saving cost, but there are also some important benefits for the end-user like having no moving parts and being easier to clean.
>“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” - Stephen King

>If I have to look a word up in a dictionary that is often the fault of the writer, too.

And when should I freeze my vocabulary and declare that all the words I haven't yet memorized are worthless? At the age of seven? Perhaps twelve?
If you want to refer to the symbol in a neutral way there is the term trema
It's for deep learning, not that much "for graphics".

The problem is "how do you do 3D deep learning 3D scene reconstruction" aka "how to make 3d equivalent of stable diffusion".

Voxels are bad as they take too much memory and are uniform (each voxel is eg 5x5x5 cm).

Gausians are kinda like "variable sized voxels" that also have orientation, color based on angle viewing and can stretch.

Imagine 3D blobs basicaly (3D capsules or more like 3D density bubbles with transparency).

So the scene can be represented in 3D much more efficiently using gausians splats, which is why they are used for "3d stable diffusion".

So now that this has come into use we also need efficient way or rendering them.
Apparently this is about minced meat, not meat that has an association with the ground in any way. Not sure why the article doesn't just say that.
PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno
Cromulent has some adoption, but it would be neat to see it further embiggened.
I can see that IPFS is decentralised/P2P, but I don't see how a blockchain is part of it.

Am I missing something?
I'm not sure how people learn how to write or read without using a dictionary and/or Thesaurus like this.

The more I think about it, I'm not sure how language would even develop in the first place if this were true.

The way I learned to write was by scouring the related words in the Thesaurus to find the closest word to convey the feeling I had.

Isn't every new word learned and invented using a similar process?

I'm just imagining the first ancient human inventing a word for "wolf" and another member of the tribe silently thinking to themselves that this overly intellectual showoff is just gatekeeping, but sadly can't express his thoughts without physicaly lashing out.
After the initial run, I have a feeling those drives will be hard to find and cost a bunch second hand.
Well, it will also cost an estimated £16 billion, to build two high capacity electricity transmission lines from Morocco to the UK. You can build a lot of capacity locally for that price.
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That's false. Renewables have not won. See Germany to understand why renewables can not replace stable energy sources. They burn lignite now and buy French nuclear energy to offset nuclear.

Renewables have two major issues that need to be solved: one is recycling, and the other one is storage. Nuclear is the only real "renewable" energy source worth pursuing until fusion is achieved.
I think you have hacker news confused with a police station.
Just installed and it works amazingly well.

I have YT premium and now this removed all the annoying integrated ads as well.
Reaction: Yet more "AI" hype. Land mines have been killing without human oversight for how many centuries now?
Okay, that's cute :)
While I agree unstructured code is unscalable after a certain point, I personally don’t find newbie code hard to add to, change, or understand. It’s still straightforward, that being a two-edged sword, in that it simply lacks abstractions that would improve a maintainer’s productivity.

I’ve seen worse codebases by mediors/seniors…
When code should be open or closed (2017)
Speaking Dutch/English/Japanese in Japan, I decided early on that teaching my son Dutch in a country where nobody speaks that language was a bad idea, so I spoke english instead.

Now he’s 5, and I regret that.
You are engaging in wrong think. Such words have never existed.

We have always been at war with David Foster Wallace.
There’s nothing wrong with using less common words. Using those words in the wrong context is.

Having a wide vocabulary is like having a well stocked tool box, you take out the most approximate tool for the job.

English is such a hodgepodge of languages and so with such a multitude of ways to express the same idea, that it is a shame to not use that full range where appropriate.

Expecting everyone to speak at and express themselves at the lowest common denominator feels like gate keeping to understanding personally.
Best way to forward phone calls and textmessages?
I am looking for a way to forward phone calls and SMS/Textmessages. Yes, I know, there are services like www.voip.ms and they are great but mostly only for the US. Foreign numbers can be very expensive and often SMS forwarding is not possible.

Any ideas? Currently I am thinking of just having a couple of phones at home on with an android app that can forward calls and SMS.

Any other idea?
Fusion doesn't have those problems. With fusion, you generate electricity 24h/day. Storage is needed for solar and wind for obvious reasons.