skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has deployed more wind power this year than the UK's total aggregate generation capacity, and double US total aggregate solar generation. Yes, South America has a substantial amount of existing hydro power, but this is no excuse for developed world laggards. It is a choice to prioritize oil, gas, and other fossil fuel subsidies and infra support, but it is hopeless with global EV and renewables manufacturing flywheels coming up to speed (China is selling ~1 million EVs per month as of 2023Q4, solar PV manufacturing will reach 1TW next year). Just as Tesla (and BYD in China, credit where credit due) was the underdog and "David" until they rocketed passed legacy auto and became "Goliath", the same will happen to clean energy vs fossil tech. Like a recession, you're not going to be able to call it until looking back at trailing indicators.

https://www.iea.org/reports/renewable-energy-market-update-j...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carb...

> The most striking growth has been in solar power, according to Myllyvirta. Solar installations increased by 210 gigawatts (GW) this year alone, which is twice the total solar capacity of the US and four times what China added in 2020.

> The analysis, which is based on official figures and commercial data, found that China installed 70GW of wind power this year – more than the entire power generation capacity of the UK. It is also expected to add 7GW of hydro power and 3GW of nuclear power capacity this year, said the report.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to...

> China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are set to fall in 2024 and could be facing structural decline, due to record growth in the installation of new low-carbon energy sources.

(my note: pedal to the floor, no one ever said "we have too much clean energy!")
I meant it in a general sense, I think we'd be in a better place as a society if this model of work was easier to follow/more mainstream.
> Also, where are trousers supposed to go now?

In the Kickstarter video she shows how you can hang pants with it: You split the coat hanger in half (where the 2 'triangles' are connecting by a plastic piece), and then just put the pants on half of the coat hanger. I guess it is the same as just folding the coat hanger and only using one half, but it looks tidier this way.
Agents must use a template approved by their broker (who has their own lawyers who drafted that contract, of course). Typically they can't do anything custom.
> B: Be clearly labelled, in its public-facing information, as being offered as-is, without any implied updates or future development.

So if I had a text file in the root of my repo that said:

THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Would that be sufficient?
What levels are you seeing?
And standardized bribes are The American Way™
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer
That's not true, the agent fees come from the seller's money.

It's only true if you consider your employer to be paying for everything you have in your house, because they gave you the money you used to pay for your stuff.
That seems just very obviously untrue. Take an example, say literature: Are you saying the classics of literature were produced shortly after the invention of the pen/paper (clearly untrue)? Or maybe after the invention of the printing press? (Also clearly untrue).

It seems like a banal observation to say when there is a technological breakthrough there are new discoveries made. Like say astronomy, every time we invent a new method to see further/measure better we discover new stuff. And equivalently in art as new media and methods are discovered, artists take advantage of them to produce new work. It's obvious both that this is the case and why that should be so.

Otherwise, we are clearly going to evaluate works that have stood the test of time to be "classics" and have difficulty making an objective evaluation in many fields of how new works stack up relative to them. History winnows out the things which aren't that great and then you have a new generation of classics that "by pure coincidence" (not really) are closer to when the new medium or technique than your time of observation.
Ah yes, "Thick Ethernet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5 and "Thin Ethernet" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2

Ten whole megabits to share between up to 30 computers, on a single multidrop bus.
Regarding the first half of your comment, yeah, they didn't find intentional discrimination so they focused on disparate impact. That's what I said. Perhaps you're not familiar with the concept of disparate impact. And please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304973 for how this is not like other disparate impact standards in American law.

>The fact these companies have received significant subsidies and have such little to show for it gives more reason to have regulations in place such as this. No regulations only work if companies aren't greedy profit-first motivated entities. Regulations are important for shaping and limiting the inherit greed that humanity as a collective has.

This is a really broad near-truism that doesn't engage with any of the particulars. The point is that the FCC is requiring you to practice discrimination/affirmative action with regards to your build-out (and other) decisions. You have to figure out where the minorities are and make a point of building out to them, and make less money as a result (how much less? they won't tell you. better hope you guess right). Let's say this law didn't exist and you were doing just that, but in favor of white people, contrary your profit interests. That would be a slam dunk racial discrimination case. But that's exactly what the FCC is requiring here, just with good feelings attached because it's in favor of minorities. This is affirmative action, which the Supreme Court has recently said is no longer legal in the United States.

As for the subsidies, the way they work is, roughly, the government offers you a certain amount of money to build an area, and if you don't, they either give you an extension or fine you or take the money back or some mixture of the three. There's also been reverse auction type approaches, where the government takes bids for people to build out to an area and awards the subsidy to the lowest bidder. It's not like the government just cuts AT&T a $10 billion check and says go forth and build broadband where you see fit. If you have a problem with how the subsidies work, then redesign them.
“Protected classes” already exist and have been tested in courts.

It’s a lot easier to use that than to come up with completely different criteria businesses will find loopholes in or create loopholes through lobbying.

Personally I don’t like that our best option is to use protected classes to enforce better behavior. But most of the time it’s a good equivalent, and it’s a good example of those nasty compromises that allow democracies to work effectively.
I was mostly referring to the way their E2EE key server is client locked. RCS is open but you’ll have a poor experience unless you only use Google’s own app.
> The right to petition for redress of grievances is not abridged by the creation of methods other than a civil suit to redress a grievance.

What a strange comment. Of course they aren’t. They’re abridged by the de facto obligation to get vaccinated (unless you want to lose your job) and — crucially - the total waiver of liability on the part of pharmaceutical companies.

It’s telling how you went from “you don’t have that right” to “okay, you have that right, but some particular thing isn’t violating it”. Im guessing the next stop is “okay, it was violated, but it’s not a big deal”.
Its simpler than you think.

China is a big market with a growing middle class. Read that to mean - they have money to spend. They also have a large labor pool and world class manufacturing.

More consumers, more labor - that's opportunity.

It doesn't even matter if a world leader orders the dismemberment of journalist. [1] The values and morals of American business leaders is always up for sale.

[1] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2019/10/29/saudi-arabia-ho...
> Him and his colleague Charles Munger fawn over China exactly as the grandparent post said

I've noticed the same thing. At least since the BYD investment they do.

And it's not just not criticizing, some times they actually praise him. For example, I remember an interview where Charlie Munger was asked what he thought about bitcoin (he hates it) and he went out of his way to say that Xi Jinping was much smarter than American leadership in banning it.

Now I agree it should be banned, but could he not have made such point without bringing Xi Jinping into it? It was really weird.
Agree the incentives are a mess. SEC needs to change the incentives.

For example, the process for filing complaints could include a $1M fee refundable at 2X if you're right and a tax-paying citizen and/or entity.

These types of hackers exist outside of a society ruled by law, and it's unacceptable to let them leverage the tools of a civilized society if they don't live within its rules and pay taxes.

If someone has a better idea for how to fix the incentives, I'd be sincerely interested to hear it.
seL4 was heavily inspired by prior capability based operating systems like EROS (now CapROS) and Coyotos. Tying all storage to capabilities was core to those designs.
Real problems can occur when you only have one plan:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB130/

Particularly if that plan, as Daniel Ellsberg described, would kill about a billion people.
It crazy how they so eagerly hasten their own destruction of a short-term profit.
As China becomes stronger their bargaining power weakens. What use will China have for them once it moves up the technological ladder? Only screw-ups of Chinese leadership like single child policy or too aggressive foreign. policy might prevent China from becoming the by far the largest economy now. What will US business elite do then?
Then is seems like you do understand why Signal isn’t as open as you’d like.
I'm sure others have said it too, but Simone is especially talented.
nope, they look as terrible as everything else in the generative space, and consumers will reject them outright
The FCC literally tried to find and couldn't find any evidence of this actually happening but pushed this through anyway.
This is similar to how weed was "illegal" for decades in the US. Note the quotation marks. "illegal" is different from illegal.

Saying china is "communist" is different then saying china is communist.
> In my opinion, the most grim and dystopian elements of China’s system (Social Credit, censorship, mass surveillance, extreme bureaucracy) are either already present in the U.S., but with a decentralized/capitalist bent rather than a centralized/communist one

A lot of these are over-hyped by Western media. For example's China's "social credit" system seems even more basic/low-tech than America's "credit score" and has less of an impact on people's lives than the American Credit Score. It's actually almost only used for business executives, judges, and other people in power rather than ordinary citizens.[0-3]

Similarly, "mass surveillance" has actually been going the other direction in many areas. Back in 2021 the Supreme People's Court basically made facial recognition illegal in public and nationally they're moving to even restrict business uses of it. Which puts them pretty far ahead of where the US is on the issue currently.[4-5]

[0] https://jamestown.org/program/far-from-a-panopticon-social-c...

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkpe3z/china-social-credit-m...

[2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-sys...

[3] https://merics.org/en/comment/chinas-social-credit-score-unt...

[4] https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-08-15/chi...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/08/china-releases-plans-to-rest...
Finally finished "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by by Douglas Hofstadter. Hugely original and entertaining, and although it's pretty old now, some ideas still very relevant to current AI debates.

Also "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. Entertaining.

And "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges. Mostly a bit disappointing but some high points.

Monthly thread would be fun.
That's kind of what EPB did in Tennessee.

There should be a federal law that stops telecom companies from getting cities to give them a monopoly in exchange for service and allow cities and counties to create their own ISPs as well. Ideally there would be fiber to every home and then allow any ISPs to come in and provide service similar to DSL back in the day.
Apple files legal challenge to EU's Digital Markets Act
I would welcome it too, but it's never going to happen. The masses just don't care enough to change their habits, especially when there's any friction to switching. It's why tactics like MS's aggressive edge pushing actually work to some degree.
Basically THE plan then?
US-China Economic and Security Review Commission 2023 Report to Congress
Worth trying on a shorter run of CAT3, yes. Worth trying on a standard untwisted two pair phone line? Nope. Good luck getting even 5meters.
Obvious vulnerabilities in self-proclaimed "most secure messenger"
men are fired more quickly, and discriminated Against for dubious reasons
>>> Crappy time to be alive in the USA, where a private business can be forced by the federal government to do something against their will.

That's an ironic statement, considering 13 hours ago you were begging the federal government to force RealPage and Apartment owners to stop colluding on rental pricing...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298350
It used to be a fundamental premise of American society that we all collectivey pay to promote the social mobility of our citizens.

Pay to play has gotten more ubiquitous. I'm curious if you defend it in general.
> I ask: are we stuck as a monoculture, not making new, interesting things, but simply replicating older ones?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. It's such an interesting side effect of the streaming era that some of the biggest TV hits with teenagers are Friends and The Office. Not to knock either show but I'm fascinated by what it means for culture.
10 years ago, Batkid was fighting bad guys and cancer – now he's 15 and healthy
Pretending that counterforce is "disarming" is cute, but the public understanding of nuclear weapons as being countervalue is the more realistic view of what counterforce will actually do. And countervalue does indeed just need a few dozen weapons as city sizes are approximately powerlaws, so there just isn't that many large ones to hit.
Benchmarked: Dataloader vs. GraphQL to SQL Compilation
OK, but if you are willing to pay 3-5x vs the cheapest LEDS, that seems like an odd comparison. Are the ones at Home Depot that are 3-5x the cost of their cheapest bulbs also underperforming compared to the ones you bought?
The first Ethernet was on coax yes. It was also a shared physical bus so the 10 megabit was often shared among a room full of computers. Despite this it felt speedy!!

But times have changed a lot. In those days there was more focus on collision detection and avoidance which is no longer relevant with today's switches.

Ps it was not the same coax as for TV. TV coax has 75 ohms impedance. Ethernet (and most radio equipment) uses 50 ohms. It was annoying not being able to those cable TV stuff but handy for me as a radio amateur to be able to use the same cables.
A warranty is about the code which already exists, and whether the code is fit for a particular purpose, etc. (all legal terms). The warranty disclaimer in free software licences all say basically “Although this specific version of the software is meant to be helpful to you for a certain purpose, you can’t sue the developer if there’s a bug or an omitted feature, since we don’t make any guarantee that it will work.” But this is not what I was talking about. I was talking about disclaiming any implied support, security bugfixes, and future development, all three of which are usually heavlily implied (or outright stated) to be available in official project information (such as on an official web site).
You guys are reading a LOT into this headline. The only direct quote:

> On his way into the Hyatt, Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio told the Financial Times he was “excited to have this relationship [with Xi]”.

All this is saying is they just showed up to a conference with Xi. These guys do business in a place that is very hostile to American business. Keeping a good image in their eyes helps keep all of those factories the average American depends on chugging along without interference. Image matters a lot to small minded leaders and certain Asian cultures.

But otherwise I don't see any evidence they are hyping Xi up or something. It's just "big american companies show up at conference with Xi Jinping and one guy said he's excited".
I think many of us here think the industry sells them opium, not a band-aid.
Actually they are. It’s about volume not the few extra pennies they get on a sale - especially once you consider the brokerage takes some of that money.

The Freakonomics book went into this in detail.

https://freakonomics.com/2008/02/real-estate-agents-revisite...

If your house sales for $50K more, each agent gets $1500 more and the brokerage gets 20-40% of that. Let’s say 30%. That means the agent will get a little over $1000 extra.

They would much rather sell your house for $50K less and move on than convincing you to hold out for $50K more.
Do you have a source at hand for the flouride in drinking water being linked to atomic weapons?
Ethernet has been redone from scratch several times. What has remained fairly constant is its frame and address layouts - an example of Kleinrock’s “narrow waist” pattern in protocol design.
The article really misses out the full power of Web Components <slots> ... that's how you would inject plain html tags into them
Note that the companion cubes have full physics interactions with the world, something that I don't think was ever done on the N64.

Also, looking at the video, the framerate is significantly smoother than the famously choppy GoldenEye.
I was left with the distinct impression at town meeting that our town moderator got the role because he bought the previous town moderator's house.

Good luck with your campaign, and thanks for helping make your town run!
> Some people want a Pro computer. That category has an image of prestige. They may not need Pro characteristics, they do not want to pay for Pro prices, but they want to be part of that group.

Since when does a market's price preferences ever stopped Apple from charging more money for prestigious products? Does anyone remember those $400 wheels and $1,000 monitor stands?
Imagine living in Dover, and deciding to move just 26 miles to Calais. Quelle horror! You will need to do the licensing all over again!

(at least, you certainly will post-Brexit; not 100% sure what the pre-Brexit story was on that, but I have a feeling it may have similar)
> MV3 now brings "offscreen documents"

Yeah, at first I thought of using offscreen documents as a replacement, but it appears that:

1. They're not persistent too.

2. They have a different purpose, they're supposed to be used as a temporary crutch that gives access to DOM features for the time until it's brought to service workers.

> persistent service workers

You're right to write it in cursive, there're ways to prolong the lifetime of a service worker, but they're not persistent anyways. All in all, the only reliable way to live with service worker is to rewrite extensions in a way that allows them to very quickly initialize after the service worker is brought back to life. For some extensions it's easy, for some it's quite a complicated task.

edit: formatting
They have to, since big silicon valley companies just copy things and sell it as their own, like everyone exists to wipe their arses. Essentially they are stealing whatever they can find. If you copy and coexist with them they can't steal shit, and since they can't innovate, because they lack the brainspace for it, they'll slowly die. Maybe this is one of the reasons Firefox acts like a braindead monkey.
I'm from a gambling state (Nevada) and every 6-8 months, there's a story about a small business employee that is caught embezzling around $200k-$400k from their employer. It's usually not stated in the articles, but it's a very good guess (based on the demographic and asking "where did the money go?") that the stolen funds were played (and lost) in a casino. It always bothered me that casinos never have to pay this stolen money back, but if you or I buy stolen property, it will be immediately confiscated even if we had zero knowledge that it was from a crime. That's what this case makes me think of.
Most states require some years of experience before you can become an independent broker, in Florida it's 2 years of active work / 5 years in the system.
The problem is their fee is also that much. So it doesn't benefit you to get 6% higher price if you have to pay it to agents. It's just more tax and fees you have to pay on a higher house price.
It works fine on sites that mostly don't do anything to bypass adblockers. It technically can't work fine on sites that do it. Restricting what the adblocker can do will also affect the way they mitigate adblocker avoidance in the future.
Purely in hardware costs. More like $200/mo payment can be replaced by $100-130 in hardware.

For $600 I can get hardware that outperforms a $1200/mo ec2. Easy.
Ask HN: How to create video for multiplayer game
This is for demoing a multiplayer quiz game. Host starts the game in Chrome on a laptop, players join the game with phone scanning QR code. How to create a short video for demo? Thanks
You're cherry-picking to establish your conclusion. Lots of classic authors from that period (George Eliot for example) didn't serialise their works in magazines.

Also the 19th century is not by any means considered generally superior to any other period in English literary history. Eg Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf and James Joyce are looking sternly in your direction from either side of that timeline for example.
NYM Publishes NymVPN Litepaper
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>navigating bidding wars,

A lot of anecdotal evidence they encourage this.
There's a big difference between banning discrimination against protected classes and mandating discrimination in their favor, which is what this basically does, see the comment and discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38304639
Strong claims? So you want proof that an increase in the price of energy, which is an input into absolutely every good and service, causes less goods and services to be produced? I don't think we have a basis for discussion here.
Bits of Advice for 30 Years
I must correct myself, apparently he didn't write him a letter but rather actually asked him in person with other people present in the room.
Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...

Bloomberg clip: https://youtu.be/S20BoxH8W9g
If this gets popular and more common in society, we're going to see somebody harm a person who put their voice/mannerisms into this AI because they're not going to be able to differentiate between the AI and the actual person.

I'm not going to lie, would be neat to pretend that you're interacting with someone famous, but it's going to open a big can of worms when someone "forgets" it's fake and goes full on stalker in real life.