skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that someone can compel a company to keep doing business with them after the vendor decided they don’t want to anymore and hold no contractual obligation to continue doing business with the customer is hilarious. This is the equivalent of people getting the Car Dealer Chatbot to sell them a Tesla for $1.
Tennessee Valley Authority - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority
What about the CRA is so bad? The requirements seem like common sense. Can anyone point out something specific that seems overly onourous? Debian couldn't...

Our industry desperately needs better regulations, IMO.
Unfortunately, this more the rule than the exception. Same thing happened on Long Island, NY with Lilco's Shoreham reactor that took years to build (construction was riddled with all sorts of problems, theft, etc.)and when finally finished, people realized if something went wrong, the narrow, 128 mile island would be impossible to evacuate. After completion, it was never put online and despite the mass incompetence, no one was fired. In fact, management bonuses were as big as ever. Rate payers on LI are still paying for this debacle 40 years later thanks to then Gov. Mario Cuomo. LI utilities, like many utilities, are so poorly managed.
Try and imagine how much solar/wind and grid-scale energy storage that money could have bought …

I don’t think nuclear power is the future. In my country, 7% of the time electricity prices are like 1 cent or even negative. Try to run your nuclear reactor at a profit in this environment.
The completely serious answer is there are multiple approaches.

The young American nation fell in lockstep with the Webster approach of a prescriptive dictionary whereby a self appointed gatekeeper decided for others what was and was not correct English.

They further pursued this path by embracing the doctrines of Strunk & White in The Elements of Style.

Meanwhile, back in the cradle of the English hodgepodge the multi-volume wall lining known as The Oxford English Dictionary took a descriptive path that described English as she is wrote.

"Proper English" is a car crash caused by a train wreck of Romance and other languages uttered by survivors wandering about a global incident site.

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."

~ Some guy with a green carnation.
For all the concern about land use for renewables, it really feels like subsidized ethanol has got to be the most wasteful use of energy investment dollars in terms of farmland used and every other possible metric. It's very interesting to think about using that money and land for other energy generation uses.
It's not paused during appeal, it's only paused until motions close on Jan 16th (or around then)

This was an ex parte stay, so is only in place until everyone finished briefing.

The bond requirement is still in place but the ITC set the bond at $0 so the appeal bond is also $0 anyway ;)
Right, but that's a standardized fortification so any iodized salt you get anywhere in the world now would make that statement true.
I've been using this on my Dreame Z10 pro for over a year now, and it's been great. I will never buy a robot vacuum that doesn't have valetudo compatibility (or similar in case an alternative ever shows up I suppose).

While I haven't done much with it yet, I also appreciate the relatively straightforward HomeAssistant integration.
Using Solar Star as another datapoint [1]. 579 MWac x 32.8% capacity factor ≈ 190.

I found mention of a bond issuance and someone purchasing the project here [2]. If it’s $1b, then it’s $5.26. If $2b then $10.53.

So they’re in the same ballpark. But one type of plant runs 20-30 years and the other for 50-80 years @ 90% capacity factor. The CANDU reactors are especially cool in that they can use natural uranium and refueled without a shutdown [3].

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[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Star
[2] - https://www.sustainablebusiness.com/2013/06/1-billion-bond-o...
[3] - https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/On-line_refueling_of...
Yeah that works well for browser stuff, but this works with IDEs etc too

and totally. Haven’t added direct local interaction yet, but on the roadmap.
> Culture and tradition also relies on experiential knowledge—that doesn’t make it a science.

What's "science"? In mediaeval Europe, theology was viewed as a "science", indeed the "queen of the sciences", more noble than all the others. It may be objected that "science" was used in a broader sense in the Middle Ages than today; maybe that's true, but on the other hand, it is unclear exactly what the contemporary definition actually is - nowadays, people talk of "science" or "sciences" which are variously described as "natural", "empirical", "observational", "experiential", "experimental", "formal", "theoretical", "mathematical", "psychological", "medical", "clinical", "social", "legal", "human", "historical", "philological", etc - what is it that all these things actually have in common?

> Indeed, my problem with the social sciences is that they intrude on the province of culture, tradition, and religion. It fills the vacuum of authority resulting from the secularization of society

As well as the traditional Christian understanding of "theology as a science", I might also point to the phrases one sometimes encounters in Islamic contexts, such as the "science of hadith" or "science of fiqh". The idea you have of culture/tradition/religion and science as opposed is in itself rather non-traditional, not how mediaeval thinkers thought.
She didn't work for the money and has redistributed it into the economy - who cares.
It's definitely possible. Try meitetsu station sometime. It's directly adjacent to the sprawling monstrosity that is Nagoya station (where it's also easy to get lost). Not only does it use a different, color-coded system of notation than other stations I've seen, trains stop at multiple platforms unlike virtually everywhere else. Consequently there are places where multiple signs are visible giving you different directions to the same train.
I say this about myself.

My solution is trying to spend an appropriate amount of that effort on work that directly benefits me.

I want to work, I don't feel complete without having a bigger mission. So I'm just selfish about what I work on.
The ITC could have set a bond though - here the bond was set at $0 so there is no penalty for apple importing anyway during appeal.

(Masimo did not ask for seizure yet afaik)
14500 million toe per year is 19 terawatts, roughly world marketed energy consumption; 1000 watts per m² (nominal solar constant below the atmosphere) times 1.28 × 10¹⁴ m² (area of a circle with radius 6371km) is 128000 terawatts. 19 is 0.015% of 128000, not 2%. so why do your calculations differ? let's see

possibly by '510mm sqkm' you mean 510 million square kilometers, as opposed to, say, 510 millimeter square kilometers (which would work out to 510'000 m³). 510 million square kilometers is a good value for the surface area of earth (4πr² ≈ 510066 km²) and 340 watts per square meter is a reasonable estimate for 24-hour mean insolation, disregarding clouds. but 340 watts per square meter times 510 million square kilometers gives 173000 terawatts, higher than my estimate. in terawatt hours per year, that's 1.52 billion terawatt hours per year, which is definitely a lot more than 50 times 26936 terawatt hours

i think maybe your error there is that you were trying to convert from square kilometers to square meters by multiplying by 1000. but actually a square kilometer contains a million square meters, not a thousand. so you ended up calculating about 2% instead of about 0.002%, which is what your inputs give if calculated correctly

using the units(1) program from unix is a good way to avoid errors like this; in this case you can do the calculation as follows:

You have: 26936 TWh / (340W/m^2 * 4 pi earthradius^2 * 1 year)
You want: %
* 0.0017718851
/ 564.37068

however, you also made a smaller error in the opposite direction. the 26936 terawatt hours per year figure is only a small fraction of the total energy supply; as the paper you linked explains:

> Considering electrical energy, while 6,131 TWh of energy was produced in 1973, 26,936 TWh of electrical energy was produced in 2019 (IEA, 2021c).

that's only about 3 terawatts, not 19, because it excludes virtually the entire transport sector, coal consumption by steel mills, climate-control heat and process heat provided directly by fossil fuels, inefficiencies in the electrical generation process, etc. using the correct figure of 19 terawatts, we derive that world marketed energy consumption is currently 0.01% of global terrestrial insolation, including light that hits clouds and oceans but not including light absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere

growing energy consumption by this factor of 6700 at 1.66% per year would take 535 years, but in fact now that pv has dropped the cost of energy so dramatically, i expect energy production growth to speed up. also presumably there will be power-production satellites in solar orbit within decades, permitting progress past kardashev type 1

hope this helps!
Double dipping will always be more profitable.

Think about it, people pay you a monthly sub and you get paid per ad you show?

From an executive POV it’s delicious. And there’s no real way of competing with a flat fee all you can eat sub unless you hike up that price astronomically, because pay per ad will almost always outpace the sub fee.
Ah, gotcha, no worries, thanks for the reply!
It's not circular reasoning if multiple municipal states are coming around to it. It's controversial, but the demand for regulation is self-evident. Take the example how you'd like, but they're still independent markets and the legislative demands hold water.

As for examples of preferential treatment, there's pretty obviously the 2013 Obama ITC intervention that overrode Samsung's complaint despite a fully substantiated prosecution (and now the Masimo case). In the Trump administration, Apple was one of the few companies operating in China offered specific tariff exemptions for their manufacturers. And then speaking generally, you have the lack of interest in regulating the progress of mobile experiences. Software is moving forward, and the technology to facilitate things like multiple app stores, payment processors and browser options have existed since the 90s. Apple and Google's objections to these features are obviously both petty, and their inability to negotiate is why we're seeing nuclear-option legislation in non-US markets.
Game-icons.net: Free icons for your games
Sounds like the Haskell version of Eric S. Raymond's oft quoted claim about Lisp: "Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."
That's correct. Our local public heath department, like many others in communities located near nuclear power plants, has a program for utility-funded distribution of KI to households in designated areas.

It is only taken when the nice person on the radio tells you to do so (you know to tune in from the blaring emergency sirens, tested semiannually). Rather interestingly, the emergency instructions for evacuation state that parents should not go to schools to get their kids, because they'll already be gone: in an emergency, municipal transit buses head to the schools, then take loads of kids to designated areas well upwind of the plant.

All of this info and more is available in a rather well-produced section of the local phone books. Since phone books tend to end up unopened in recycling bins these days, I suspect most newer residents have little idea of what I'm talking about.
Apple does not control what photo, video or PDF gets sent to you via iMessage.
> I've also seen indie games use copyrighted material with no issues, but AAA titles seem to avoid that like the plague.

They use copyrighted material or they commit copyright infringement? The former doesn't necessarily constitute the latter. Likewise, given it's an option legally, there are other factors that go into the decision to use it that likely make it less attractive to AAA games.
Regarding (b) ... while a specific method of training that involved persistent copying may indeed be a violation, it is far from clear that the general notion of "send server request for URL, digest response in software that is not a browser" is automatically a violation. If there is deemed to be a difference (i.e. all you are allowed to do without a license is have a human read it in a browser), then one can see training mechanisms changing to accomodate that.
How does the T3 produce the result? Is it possible that conversion to T2 - liberation of iodine - is what does it? I have not head of this condition so I'll do some reading. Also, does simple iodine supplementation help?
Osaka is notorious for very poor exit labelling
Operation Triangulation:What You Get When Attack iPhones of Researchers -YouTube [video]
Osaka makes it possible.
Yeah, I read complaints from people about more and more sites not working after updates and over time (banks, etc).

How can they fulfill their mission if they aren't meeting users where they are at and being aggressive about being the best browser experience for users and developers?

And they can't do that by thinking they know better than everyone else. They need to read the room and know which way the wind is blowing.
There can still be periods of several weeks with very little sunlight. And energy demands will be massive if we switch all heating to heat pumps instead of natural gas which we mostly now use.

What actually helps us during winter is hydro and wind power. And Krško nuclear power plant.
I prefer x2x, which supports multiple Linux hosts very well.

https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/x2x/x2x.1.en.html
Yes, science as a public service as retribution
I know of two, one from my team. Don't know how long they stayed there, though.
> The more kids difficulty kids had seeing at distance, the less likely they were to spend outside.

This is logical, but the evidence still points to something environmental causing a major shift in levels of myopia. In one generation the rate of myopia in some countries went from 20% to 80%[0]. This means that it isn't genetic, something environmental must have changed to cause this.

[0] https://archive.ph/9TlOG
It’s all about the purpose the transitory copy serves. The mechanism doesn’t really matter, so you can’t make categorical claims about (say) non-browser requests.
In your head, did that sound wittier than it reads?
A return to US net neutrality rules?
That I didn't win the lottery last time I bought a ticket doesn't mean I couldn't have.
Every single part of this is a red flag for the "failure to launch" crowd. Welcome to professional victimhood.

> They got a master's degree but didn't learn anything about how interest works?

I don't know where and when it started, but the advanced degree is the cherry on top-- people with no need for them seeking advanced degrees to delay adulthood another four years. They rarely have jobs in the interim, because someone else is footing the bill.

> But they do nothing quickly, it's like their neurons don't fire. They'll spend 30 minutes in a dazed state trying to figure out how to arrange groceries in a single bag.

Nah, their neurons are firing. They got a Master's, remember? Or are advanced degrees actually that worthless that we give them out to people this braindead?

They're quick to respond to "triggers," and very quick to point out anything you do that could be problematic to someone in a remote region of Laos. They don't miss a fucking beat to detect transgressions of others.

Bagging groceries isn't as exciting as scrolling Instagram, so they put as little effort into it as possible. If they get fired, they get unemployment, or can try to make a discrimination claim for someone not respecting which pronouns they were wearing on Tuesday.

You'll find these types on /r/illnessfakers and /r/maliciouscompliance deliberately sabotaging anything they're expected to do for themselves so they can throw themselves into their safety net (usually parents, other times e-begging).

Provocation and lying by omission (crybullying) is the name of the game. See also the "parents threw me out for being gay" crowd. Never get involved until you've dragged the kid back to their house (they will fight and resist, hard, alleging violence, but you as a witness should only help their case, right?)-- you'll often find their room intact and worried parents waiting for their return. Anyone who legitimately hates their kids will throw them and every memory of them out into the street, like dogshit-- and be quite transparent about why. That's what hatred looks like.

The precursor will have been being asked to stop bringing up the subjects of enemas and anal prolapse at the dinner table, at which point they cried oppression and ran away.
What’s different between a baker liable for flour content and an SDE liable for packaged library vulnerabilities?
Read the study you linked to. Jesus.
Reads a bit like the article touched a nerve with Elon directly.
> Performance gains are greater given greater incentives.

Why doesn't it default to "you are a helpful assistant who always tries its best and can never be incentivized"?
Apple only publishes all iOS and macOS updates to the latest version of their operating systems. They release important updates to older operating systems (which is better than much of their competition!) but not all vulnerabilities are fixed for old versions.

You'll probably always be safe from remote code execution on supported versions of iOS/macOS, but exploits like these aren't always fixed. Unfortunately, you can't install an alternative browser engine on iOS/iPadOS, so I guess you should expect all websites to be able to read all of your cookies just in case.
Sounds like they pointed it in the wrong direction, but it's good to know that the IR camera is working well. XD
Which I believe was the inspiration for the Time Variance Authority in the Loki TV Series.
Is there a place in this century for small data center providers?
Hi HN !

I work for a small data center services provider in a developing country.
We manage 4 sites with capacity for 2k racks, all in the same country.

Lately all I can hear is how cool AWS, GCP, Azure or even Digital Ocean are, and we can't figure if we would ever provide any service other that colocation services.

Do you guys know any data center service that a small data center provider could offer (other than colocation) while not being completely overtaken by the big guys above?

If you guys have any experience that you could share It would be cool :-)
Even though it would make the language a little more verbose, I would love if Lua had a 'global' keyword and declaring global/local was required. With that one change, I think Lua would have the best implementation of scope out of any language I've used.
Something that I've noticed is how far more young people use glasses today compared to the 80's.
It could be the result of people getting richer and having more access to medical care, but then, I don't remember rich young people using glasses too much.
If only it were possible to transmit electricity from one place to another...

Seriously, while a lot has been written about the need to update the grid and install more long distance transmission lines to support renewables, even with the current grid it makes much more sense to install wind and solar in locations where it is more efficient and then transmit the electricity elsewhere. In Texas, most of the wind farms are in West Texas hundreds of miles away from Houston, for example.
> 1) “Social science” isn’t science.

Have you ever read anything by Eric Kaufmann? He's a political scientist (like Claudine Gay), but one whose conclusions I think you'd find have a lot in common with your own thinking (unlike Claudine Gay).
If you remove the context of this quote, "The best service is no service" is a wild thing to hear from a car manufacturer. Did anyone proofread this?
I understand that, I’m just saying that they claim it gets security updates, so it seems like the kind of thing they should include.
This is really lovely, it looks like something I'd see in a Deus Ex game on a giant screen.

On a different tip, this Catalan chap has done nearly 900 3D models of stations, ranging from huge and complex, to tiny and simple. They've been quite a hit in r/nycrail.

http://stations.albertguillaumes.cat/
187 million m³ of solid wood products is on the order of 187 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is an insignificantly small number in this context

currently we need to sequester 950 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, or about 300 gigatonnes of carbon, to get back to pre-industrial levels. this number increases by 40 gigatonnes carbon dioxide or 13 gigatonnes carbon per year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_at...

so roughly we need to sequester 1500 times as much carbon dioxide as the us forest service number, every year. so if the usa builds enough wood housing and other buildings for 450 billion people next year, and another 450 billion people the year after that, and so on indefinitely, that would compensate for current carbon emissions

but this is not a plausible plan

by contrast, direct air capture followed by injection into the crust where carbonatation of olivine and similar minerals sequesters the carbon is a plausible plan, but one that will require a lot of energy

why are you extremely pessimistic about mass production of synfuel? fischer-tropsch produced 25% of germany's wartime automotive fuel, though of course that was starting from coal rather than carbon dioxide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_proces...
I rely on HA pretty heavily for everything, and that covers anything I'd want out of Alexa and more.
I've also had floaters and sometimes flashes (pin pricks) of light since childhood. Still have 20/20 vision, and every time I've gotten an eye exam they've said the retina looks healthy. From what I understand it'll be more of a "blizzard" of floaters when detachment is happening. At least for me the number of floaters seems to be highly correlated with my sleep quality. The flashes seem correlated with my blood pressure.
The most common cause of hypothyroidism is the autoimmune destruction of the thyroid gland. No amount of Iodine helps; you need T3 (usually administered as T4 which is then converted to T3 endogenously).
Free culture remixing and reusing is fine with me, when it's done creatively by people. When a company systematically automates and productizes the concept it becomes an issue.

I don't mind if another artist paints with my brush...

I wouldn't like a factory set up producing works with my brush en masse.
Hey! I'm also from Argentina, and what seems to work for me is to budget in dollars.

I use beancount and load the blue ARS-USD exchange rate and record all my transactions in the currency it actually happened. I am a bit flexible as to avoid lifestyle creep and ARS appreciation (like this month)
I don't think it's that surprising if you consider culture as just another process of evolution. It took billions of years of single cells swimming around before the transition to multicellular organisms. It took millions of years of hominids living in tribes and making stone tools before the transition to building rockets and semiconductors.
Read about DHH and Deft and copy that.
Apple to restart watch sales after court temporarily blocks import ban
510 million square kilometers is a good value for the surface area of earth (4πr² ≈ 510,064,000 km²)

(using R = 6,371 km a figure between the equatorial and polar radius of the ellipsoid)
I never go to Shinjuku station, just isn't worth it.
Many kids in the US and Europe grew up with computers[1]. There's a large large population of people from Africa, South America, Asia, etc. who just got internet access in the last 10-20 years.

[1]: Or came from wealthy families elsewhere.