skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The atmosphere attenuates our 1300W/m2 of solar energy down to 300W/m2 so for a 125M km2 planet you only get 40PW of available power, or 5PW after 80% loss in solar panels and distribution.

I think you've got a mistake and a bad assumption here, too. I think the atmosphere attenuates by not to 300W/m^2, but you might also mean that the earth being spherical rather than flat geometrically reduces the solar irradiation to an annual average of 340W/m^2? But then you'd be double-counting the effect of night, and ignoring weather. The currently installed PV systems produce about 10% of their nameplate capacity, so I tend to just use that in my approximations of all the different effects together, so a 20% efficient cell[0] would produce 1kW/m^2 * 10% (capacity factor) * 20% (efficiency) gets 20 W/m^2 in practice.

1% of land with those percentages gets us 29.79 TW[1] which is indeed only about 1 order of magnitude away from current use (and we definitely want to use more energy than we do as most people don't have the luxury of energy abundance found in developed nations), but that already accounts for it being "neither sunny nor midday all the time either".

But also, 1% of Earth's land area is already built up[2], so I think this may be too tight a constraint (after all, PV can be used as a surface covering for buildings and even vehicles).

With sufficient political will (yes yes, I know that's wishful thinking), it's not unreasonable to build a thick enough set of conductors to make even a global power grid have negligible resistance — you'd need a 1m^2 cross section for an equatorial ring of aluminium[3] to have 1Ω resistance, and while this would be a big project today, it's not so large as to be absurd for a decade-long project.

[0] The record for efficiency is 47.6%, though this will only matter if we ever ran out of land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-cell_efficiency

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=land+area+on+earth+*+1%...

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

[3] Don't put 20 TW through a single ring. If I did the maths right, the magnetic field at the surface will be in the order of 1 tesla depending on how you choose to distribute current and voltage.

Also, I have no idea how much energy such a thing would absorb from a CME, but I think the big CMEs can be in the range of 5e25 J, and if that's efficiently absorbed it would vaporise even a ring that big.
But my customers enjoy the personal touch of me manually editing their SSN in my local MS Access database.
Mine is a 2012 MBP. I am only just now seeing real performance issues; until about mid last year it worked as well as the day I bought it aside from some battery degradation (I put an SSD in it around 2018). Pretty excited to upgrade and hope I can get at least 5-6 years out of a new MBP. This was my first MacBook, and 12 years of use is pretty insane value.
So beautifully put.

When I lost my son, I found comfort in two thoughts—

- A big life can be very short
- "Why NOT me?"

Grief is an illness that can only be cured by time. Your wounds heal over, but never completely fade. You gradually pack it away in a little box alongside a few physical things—small clothes, toys, photos—and try not to open it too often in case you let it all spill out, or the smells to fade. Every now and then, someone knocks the box without realising and your grief tumbles onto the floor. It can take days to fit it all back in.
As an NLP researcher, I've come across no convincing research indicating LLMs are "the possible digital twin of human intelligence."

Claims certainly get made, but they are subsequently shot down by future research. This has happened for discussions of emergence [1], reasoning [2], and other human attributes people have ascribed to LLMs.

[1]: https://neurips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/72117

[2]: https://m-cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/276268-can-llms-reall...
Would like to see chart of Chrome/Edge superimposed on Google/Bing. Usage Rates.

I'm using Google less and less, but not using Bing. It is more like Google is not as useful anymore.

So would like to see a trend of usage rates, to see if Bing market share didn't go up much, did overall Google usage go down?

Market share might have only gone up 1%, but did the overall market shrink.
I cant find a company that doesnt implode in less than a year.

Edit: Subcontractor at bp. Opec crunch. entire floor fired. Hardware startup, unexpected giant bill overnight. Layoffs. Fullstack webshop, sales didnt land. Crypto finance gig, asset prices crashed, clients all went broke instantly.

Sometimes thats just how it is.
Based on the title simply can’t read this with kids of my own that I fear for daily. I have it an upvote because I believe it’s well deserving of attention but I just… can’t… read it myself. Whatever the circumstances I am very sorry for what you have had to go through.
You can still use virtual function calls in plain C, you just do things the same way that C++ does things internally. Your first member of the struct is a Vtable, and you need to assign that member when you create the object. Your first parameter for the virtual method calls is a "this" pointer.
I'm a Pulley customer for our startup - it's great, relatively straightforward and no hassle. Also much cheaper than Carta with less overhead
IMO, an hour spent commuting is an hour stolen from one’s children.
Elevate your vlang project with Unit Tests
> Are you going to fine Google everytime a throwaway account uploads to YouTube.

That kind of depends on Google's modus operandi, doesn't it? Like telecom network not doing enough to combat robo-calls.

If Google wants to reap the profit from allowing people to upload content, they should also perhaps share a part of the responsibility of anything that happens from their own (in)actions?

If Google has ha habit of taking down malicious content, then less responsibility perhaps?

If Google attempts to put into place safeguards versus repeat offenders, then less responsibility again perhaps?

Like if a person is speeding and causes an accident, the government could in theory share part of responsibility if the road they designed and built did not have adequate best-practice safeguards against head-on collisions. A news network could also face legal issues for lies said on it's programmes by guests and hosts regarding voting machines.
so is every for-profit business...
A liqueur rather than a spirit, to be pedantic. I agree that it's very nice - a bit like popcorn, but not in a tacky way!
100 F will absolutely kill you at 100% humidity.
Did the answer's author just misspelled his surname, which should be "Brown" instead of "Bron"? /s This was definitely a thriller-like read!
I always found it interesting how many western religions and their followers maintain their faith in a “good” God, even in the face of terrible personal tragedy. I’m happy that people do, since it seems to help them and anything that does that is great.

I’m personally more beholden to the Warhammer (yes, out of anything…) quote: “it was the moment I began to believe, God was real, and He hated us.”.
Suzuki Jimny is your answer. Look it up. A friend who lives in the Alps has had one for a long time. It's light (>32mpg), AWD, no BS feature. The only problem is that it's been difficult to find.
I would change the url to the original article: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/police-must-return...
OP, if you do want to go the route of actually helping him make something, I wonder if Dreams on Playstation would be a good fit.

Of all the accessible game creation tools I know of, this is the only one which:

- Is made for 3D by default.

- Is reasonably flexible in terms of the type of game you can create.

- Isn't Roblox (aka extremely exploitive).

The other tools suggested in this thread are great (I love Scratch, I use it extensively at my school), but they all fail the first requirement. And I suspect that is a requirement: if a kid is set on 3D, they usually really want that.
Yeah, that would be the ideal — take just the simplest, cleanest version of C++'s good parts and integrated them. But lile the sibling post said, that's not what they're doing. Instead they're designing their own new versions of each feature that they add, and because it seems they're not willing to fully commit to new features or changing the language much, the features are always weirder with more gotchas and less baked than thr C++ versions. It isn't so bad right now because the language is overall much smaller, but if they eventually grow to anything close to the size of C++ (and C++ isn't even that big of a language anymore compared to other modern languages) it'll actually be way worse.
What on earth is going on here? Is Delta Airlines paying for spam, or is someone testing out a terrible bot?
I haven't but I'm going to go on a limb and say that if a reactor design is fine for north France, southeastern Finland, south China... it's probably fine for south England.
And then complain all the way up to the provost when they do fail.
Yes, I agree that facts can be offensive and uncomfortable.

I don’t think either of us has shown any useful facts lol. “Some of my best friends are women and I’m offensive and dismissive to their face and they’re fine with it” isn’t exactly peer reviewed science.
A better question

Why should so many unprofitable businesses and products exist?

Ok that covers a great deal of it.

But then how much return are even profitable companies seeing on hiring? If you’re an investor, you see a company that hired 2x or so have not the same proportional growth. And that even small amount of growth would seem unlikely to happen given the economy.

So, it really sucks. It’s borderline incompetent and immoral management. But this is the nuts and bolts of it sadly. And tech companies are prone to boom and bust.
Google takes every step you mentioned and has departments working on it daily.

It's still just as common as it was 2 years ago.
> still impossible to regulate

That's not actually true, as the problem with most of these deepfakes video ads is the fact that they are auto-approved on various platforms with no human oversight.
Wonder if it'd ve possible to have our cake and eat it too by treating layer outputs as log(state space) in that case?
The original post reads like satire.

I assume your post is also sarcastic, or at least tongue-in-cheek.

Fahrenheit is the most insane unit ever created. It is a snapshot of two random temperatures that just happened to be lowest temp easily achieved in 1724, and human body temperature (not a constant LOL), which he perversely assigned 90, not 100.

Even acres seem to be derived from ploughing. I'm a farm boy, so I can relate to that, but I bet no city dweller has any vision of an acre in their mind's eye. Even a farm boy like me has trouble converting acres to sq. miles or sq. feet.
Not just time cost, but also monetary cost. At least in tech, most jobs exist in a small set of metro areas where housing prices are incredibly high. Pushing for more remote work enables more flexibility in where people live / can ease some of the housing pressure on these congested metros.
So in this case the two parties both need to be registered with the app and then can exchange money that they easily know e.g. the phone number.

The phone number is an id into the bilk system.

With bank transfers both parties do not need to be register with an app they just use the id that they have already for other reasons the bank sort code and id. So needs less extra infrastructure but the user interface is more unfriendly (people don't remember their bank account number).

Now if banks linked your phone number to the account number and sort code.....
TL;DR - The pilots failed to engage in a 'positive exchange of flight controls' procedure and ended up providing opposite control inputs at the same time, so it felt to both of them like the controls were unresponsive / jammed.

This is a well understood and generic problem in dual-control aviation - see https://www.faasafety.gov/files/helpcontent/Courses/ALC-36/c... for example. The standard exchange of flight control procedure is designed to create a common understanding between the pilots as to who is in control of the plane. Interestingly it's similar to a TCP three-way handshake:

Pilot A: You have control of the plane.

Pilot B: I have control of the plane.

Pilot A: Acknowledge you have control of the plane.
Productivity in software development: the lean response to McKinsey
The pain or disgust is a strong hint that you're thinking about it wrong. If you have a bunch of repetitive CSS, how do you typically eliminate that? You create a class that bundles it all together and then just use the class name on the HTML.

But notice how you're then left with a bunch of repetitive HTML on which you apply those classes. If you bundle up the repetitive HTML into a reusable abstraction (like a component), then you're no longer repeating the CSS and so you don't need to bundle the CSS into classes anymore, thus reducing work. A type of inline styles, without the limitations, then gives you more direct control over styling on the bundled HTML itself. That's how you should use Atomic CSS/Tailwind.
Google is also less and less “useful” because social media has essentially turned most of online content into content that cannot be indexed by google
this is nice and odd, a great candidate for national coverage.
I'm liking the yellow theory as the "axe head" looks a log like the top of a paint tube like the one in this poster: https://www.kingandmcgaw.com/prints/david-booth-malcolm-and-...
The article I linked touches on that much more elaborately than I possibly could, so forgive me the large quote:

> But a saddening thing is that if it were not those particular identifiable individuals who were culpable (and they certainly should be held to account) then it would have been other individuals doing the same things. And this is because of legal and corporate contexts that facilitated this wrongdoing.

> This is not to say that the guilty people can themselves blame the system - the culpable individuals could and should have done different things, at each and every step. Indeed, exceptional individuals could have stopped the nonsense and the cruelty.

> But these were not exceptional individuals - they were individuals doing what they (wrongly) believed to be their job or performing what they (wrongly) believed to be their function or protecting what they (wrongly) saw to be legitimate interests.

Those people are culpable for their actions, but they did so in a system that made doing the wrong thing easy, and such shortcomings will lead to another case like this.
Yes, a fix inside a realloc wrapper is a defensive fix, if nothing is actually calling with the zero size in the current code base, and/or we are not yet compiling with C dialect selection that corresponds to the vandalized standard. It's an example of defensive programming, coding intended to anticipate and thwart a future problem.

Code that calls realloc(p, 0) and does not assume any one of the behaviors that are described is not incorrect according to C99.

That's par for the course in C. In C, there are situations left and right in which you're stepping on implementation defined behavior and mustn't assume a particular one.

A lot of portable coding is defensive. It can end up more portable than required. That is to say, if we consider all the platforms but the program actually ends up used over its lifetime, we can deduce that a less portable approach in some part of the code would have worked just fine.
They don't do this right now because they get revenue from Apps built using their SDKs. If they can no longer get that revenue they may well decide they'd rather just build their own versions and get 100% of the revenue instead, and for everything else just push developers into a web view.

Hell, without the revenue they could just turn around and say "We're not going to charge a 30% fee. But you need to pay us $10m per quarter to license our SDK". There's tonnes of options that Apple can use to squeeze developers for something that genuinely is hugely valuable.

I think people lose sight of the fact that before the App Store the way applications got onto phones was far far more favourable to the hardware vendor.
Same! Coincidentally, I recently backed up my Angelfire site from the late '90s. A lot of the original links were missing but thankfully they provide a `sitemap.xml` and I used HTTrack to make a local copy.
No historian would, but plenty of amateurs still do. Although possibly less than 30 years ago.
FAANG are the best case scenario for your argument, with billion dollar real estate portfolios and more RTO-heavy. Just because this study reached a conclusion doesn’t mean that it’s the same conclusion other companies’ reach. Especially when those companies’ have their bottom line at stake, “skin in the game.”

Again, by what plausible incentive do you think non-FAANG companies, with tiny real estate assets, usually leases for a multi-billion company, would impact their productivity for tiny help in the overall real estate market?
that is the point. the significant wear on a modern car is things that are common. ICEs last a lot longer than the rest of the car these days.
Mine's a 2014 MBP, and even the battery is still mostly okay. My biggest annoyance at this point is because it no longer gets updates, it's not on par with my new iPhone and I've lost functionality like copy/paste between computer and phone.
The absense of the need for optimism is not the same as optimism.
Interesting thoughts.

Makes me realize I never wanted to learn to code. I never set out for it. I want to learn to code things now, but back then? I wanted to make an executable that did something. Sometimes it was a game. Sometimes it was some weird graphical screen saver like thing. Coding was just to make it happen. That became something interesting too, eventually.

It is something we as programmers forget. Why we did it in the first place. It usually shows up when those analyst show up and want some program. Cant they see how amazing our code is? /s When what they want is a program that does something.
That's one the main points of using AI for censorship, they'll be able to ban all that (parodies, political cartoons and more) while "blaming" AI, going by the: "it was the algorithm/computer code, not us!".

In fact the whole process of outsourcing the implementation of censorship to private entities (Facebook, Alphabet etc) is part of that same shtick, and it's pretty effective in the short to medium term. Of course, in the long term it only helps bread more discontent when it comes to the system, which discontent this time around also involves private entities (just notice how trust in the privately-owned mainstream media has cratered almost everywhere in the Western world in the last ten or so years), but I guess the powers that be have stopped caring for the long-term health of the system a long time ago.
"too costly"... remind me how much was taken as profit or handed out as bonuses in relation to Horizon?
Why would they pay the per-job API charge for RoboMario when an actual sweatshop worker is cheaper than the first-world electricity to run the server farm?
> Twitch subscriptions and Patreon has shown, that if you bind a website/project to a creator

> Most websites, and indeed open source projects are pretty faceless, and require limited interaction with it's creator

This is ultimately a polite way of saying that the "author" (which can be a content creator, a OSS maintainer) needs to establish a parasocial relationship, use a self-aggrandizing approach, and create drama to entertain its users.

This does work for content creators on Youtube, Patreon or Onlyfans, but ultimately detracts from the mission of delivering quality content that is useful or positively entertaining for the consumers of said content. The fans created in this way can go on to defend your failings or can be taken advantage of in a weakness, as can be seen in the case of the LTT sexual harassment allegation case and the health situation of Physics Girl.

However, I see no way for this to work in an open-source project, because users of an open source project mostly care about the functionality provided. Creating a parasocial relationship is mostly not viable in this space due to limited interaction, as you pointed out.

I've seen a few instances of OSS project maintainers using a chest-thumping, holier-than-thou approach to create drama, and said projects have either mostly become irrelevant over time or the open source project has continued to get attention only because the character of the maintainer has been buried and not well known to most.
Have “men” been rejected by every woman? Aren’t men rejecting some women by not pursuing them? That means they have options.
What's happening in the fediverse nowadays? Any exciting projects to check out? It's something I feel I should be involved in, but never really got around to investing time in looking at properly.
Quite incredible that the aviation industry haven't introduces sticks with force-feedback despite video game industry having them for about 30 years.

Probably because it's a patent lawsuit minefield.
Added it to the App Store now!

Here is the link:

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6476067130
This seems to be the core reason why pure capitalism is a failed concept. There must be regulatory oversight to ensure that what is done MOST RIGHT and not CHEAPEST.
And if they were an SV startup, they'd be receiving abundant praise for rapidly disrupting their market...
I am still on the 1 November 2023 security update on my AU S22 Ultra.
We need laws that allow historical clawback of bonuses/rewards that later turn out to have been given in the context of significant failures.
Market share should be relative, so if there was a stark decline in search bing would have declined close to as much as Google. Unless this is some other measure erroneously labeled as market share
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Oh yeah, obviously. It's all a bit embarrassing. But easiest to get one message across at a time.
I mean we have DMCA that requires mass enforcement of copyright, so the "fine YouTube every time some throwaway account uploads" ship already sailed.

Honestly, in this age of bulk uploaded disinfo, I'm kinda disappointed that only copyright gets that kind of extreme protection... but I suppose it's much easier to do copyright since IDing an exact copy of a given source is infinitely simpler than detecting eg defamation.
This is a really great article. Good collection of (probably minor) mistakes in RISC-V, and I did not know that Apple has optional TSO memory ordering!
Every unhappy ending is unhappy in its own way...To paraphrase half of a famous opening line.
That sounds like a self-discipline problem.
Note that here a breakout is exactly what happened and the behaviour of the controls in case of breakout is similar to Airbus’s:

> in the event of antagonistic inputs exceeding the breakout mechanism’s activation threshold, the controls would be desynchronised and the control surface would react according to the mean control position.

The breakout threshold is 50lbs, but it’s the combined thresholds, so sudden opposite force applied by two pilots (as apparently happened here) can unexpectedly trigger it. The report confirms there is no warning of breakout situation whether visual or aural.
My burning question about this: What was the 'state of mind' of the higher-ups at the post office when they started prosecutions and then continued prosecutions into the hundreds? It's clear that the higher-ups at the post office knew these issues were caused by software rather than the postmasters, they must have known as early as 1998 or 1999.

Maybe at first they must have thought that these were one-off issues and that they could just prosecute one or two postmasters, sweep the whole thing under the rug and forget about it. But that doesn't explain how they continued prosecutions into the hundreds years down the road. Like what did they think the endgame here was? Just prosecute indefinitely to cover up for the system?
Identifying Rust's collect:<Vec<_>>() memory leak footgun