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Oh but I won't trust you unless you used an enterprise-level, ISO-certified, data-deletion service. Just upload your data and they'll give you an auditable proof-of-deletion certificate for a reasonable fee.

> Tables include countries with at least 100,000 IPv4 addresses and 20,000 km² of land.

For 2025 the grid carbon intensity in Texas was 363gCO2eq/kWh, while it was 22gCO2eq/kWh in Sweden, so 16,5x more in Texas. Right now it's 427 in Texas vs. 50 in Finland ie. 8,54x more, like in the article (yes I looked the wrong country at first).

The reason is half of Texas electricity production is still fossil fuels (gas & coal) while mostly hydro, nuclear and wind in Sweden. So it's not really about ai, the models or the hardware. Fossil fuels make CO2, that's it.

Camembert au lait cru.

"Our Daily Bread" is a very interesting documentary on modern industrial agriculture, just shows what happens, no commentaries whatsoever.

The last part shows the slaughterhouse process (at least live cow to half beef carcass anyway), fair warning you can't unsee that but imo more people could benefit from knowing how their burgers are made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbkKITF_7SE&t=5196s

On design we have aesthetics but also legibility and usability.

For legibility: the first examples are bad because they fail to easily communicate what/when/where/details in a couple seconds, mainly because the profusion of visual clutter obfuscates the message. The latter examples fare much better on that regard.

Usability is a constraint maybe more applicable to websites like the discussion I saw the other day on the design of claude-written pages (all look the same, feels ok but good UX probably lacking).

No, you would be cooked, but I had a hunch that obviously people already tried to see how long you could stay inside and yes there was a competition in Finland exactly for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Sauna_Championships#2010...

I said "was" because 2010 was, in fact, the last edition of the event:

> On 7 August 2010, two competitors were removed from the sauna and brought to the hospital in critical condition after six minutes of 110 °C (230 °F) heat

"We value your privacy" → "Your private data is valuable" (I guess)

Whole years! You'll are so lucky! The reincarnation roulette gave me this: 49 BCE, he lived 1 month, dying of dysentery. I guess I'll stop complaining about my life then...

I also heard the same thing, hence my surprise, but I guess I wouldn't rule out the possibility of a company simultaneously being paid for installing bloatware and also charging the customer for it...

Apart from the OS I got reimbursed for 4 or 5 additional items between 6 to 15€ each as far as I can remember, I don't have the details as she only told me on the phone and have no record of it. The original invoice had the following list (although it seemed different from the itemized price list that customer service had access to):

  Camera : Software for Integrated Camera (Only for standard Base )
  Windows Live
  Optical Software : PowerDVD Software for Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, WIN7 Home Premium, Pro or Ultimate
  Software Driver : Latitude E6420 Diagnostics & Drivers 1 S
  Operating System : French Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Professional (64Bit OS) 1 S
  OS Media : MUI Windows 7 SP1 Professional (64Bit OS) Resource DVD 1 S
  Software : Microsoft Office Starter 2010 1 S
  Operating System Recovery Dell Backup and Recovery Manager for Windows 7 SP1 1 S
  AntiVirus : Trend Micro Worry Free Business Service (15 Month subscription)Software MUI

I sure as hell did not order extra antivirus or other kind of software but I guess it's possible there was some "Office and 15-month antivirus included" marketing offer that turned out to to neither be free nor optional...

In 2011 I got a 143€ reimbursement from Dell for an E6420 laptop that I had bought for 910€.

Maybe I got lucky but I called the customer service, told the lady I did not agree with the Windows license terms, fully ready to argue my case and she just went "oh, ok, let me just edit a new invoice and wire you the money for Windows plus the Antivirus plus etc.".

Which was extra nice because I had no idea I was in fact charged for the bloatware, but I still got ~50€ for it on top of the OS license price.

This being 15 years ago it feels like a forever unsolved issue. My opinion remains the same, that a personal computer should not be tied to a specific OS. But now with smartphones the hardware/software (de)coupling situation seems even worse.

Seemed to me https://www.marinetraffic.com was the reference for tracking ships, and it's up.

For at least a few years, "common sense" has been hijacked by populist politicians, now it just means whatever simplistic idea that fits their worldview, even when it's not complicated to see that said idea is clearly misguided. The original meaning seems lost to me.

The three six rule is a low bar for dating: you should also have a 6 pack. If you only want three sixes, here are 666 cents I keep in my pocket!

You can go to the source website https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=nino3.4

There's is an interactive chart that's easier to understand

If it works it could reduce the electricity price in the evenings and mornings.

Now if I take the french grid example that I know best, for the past 7 days the usual spot price is around 100 to 150€/MWh but between 9am to 6 pm it is greatly reduced due to solar production, frequently down to 0 like today (current heatwave, lots of sun). And today between 1 and 3pm we had up to 5GW of solar production being curtailed. That is on top of the nuclear plants already reducing their output by up to 8GW around noon to accommodate solar power. Hydraulic storage was also running but tops at ~3GW.

That is to say there's already unused energy during the day, in theory, if you had a MWh battery you could have charged it for free today (sometimes even been paid to do so) and earned 100€ a few hours later.

One thing I see coming (albeit slowly) is EV cars phasing out IC engines, that once plugged on the grid with their big batteries could be a good distributed storage solution: they recharge during the day whenever the price is low and smooth out the expensive peaks when possible.

I guess you can have both positive and negative externalities.

I went back to re-read reflectorbital.com, indeed if you're only lighting a solar farm in the middle of nowhere maybe the light pollution is not so bad outside of the targeted zone.

Still fells like a complicated solution to me. Imo we need more storage innovation and investment, a lot more. We know we'll have more and more intermittent renewables electricity production, we just have to store it.

One question I have is about apparent magnitude: given the satellite's small size (relative to the apparent size of the moon) it would have to be very bright to match the luminosity of the full moon on the surface.

In this article: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/new-kind-of-satel...

> calculated that the Reflect Orbital spacecraft would appear as points of light with a magnitude of -15 [...] might damage the eye.

-15 seems ~10 times brighter than the moon (-12,6) if I got the formula right so it would indeed be very bright.

Reminds me of all the led lighting we have now: one evening on a random street I watched the cars, bicycles, shops, street lamps: all leds, yes a bit brighter and colder than the old bulbs I know, buuut the light sources being very small dots (with no diffuser), it feels very harsh to the eye, at least to me.

Anyway, even if it proves useful for something, it would join the long list of innovations doing one thing at the expense of everyone else (externality == light pollution in this case).

I once worked with smart meters for electricity consumption that do run 24/7. Leap seconds were not an issue but we had a very similar one now that I think about it: DST shenanigans!

Like how much time is there between 2 and 3 am? Usually one hour, but sometimes 2 and also sometimes 0. It looks simple at first but it creates a lot of edge cases that your business logic now needs to handle and we had a fairly complex system for this.

> age verification doesn't have to be a nightmare dystopia

But I feel there's not a lot of trust that whatever implementation we could end up with wouldn't be such a dystopia. The real world equivalent would be checkpoints at every intersection verifying the driver's age, the cashier who carded the 20 yo with a beer now does it for everyone, makes a copy of your ID and stores it in a big folder shared with their 427 "business partners".

Imo we should scrap the whole idea of age verification. Kids get a kidPhone with kidOS, whitelist of age-appropriate resources & capabilities. You wouldn't let an 8 yo drive on the highway, yet they can have a supercar to drive unsupervised on the information highway, no biggie. Internet is full of adults doing all sort of stuff while kids need supervision and education: design safe spaces for children, not checkpoints at every corner.

The Man vs Horse marathon is interesting but in a real race we have no actual chance of winning.

There are horse endurance races where the winner arrived in 7,5 hours after 160km[1]. That's a sub 2-hours marathon almost 4 times in a row (not to mention with a guy on your back).

[1] https://eatnstays.com/uaes-almazrouei-wins-almutadil-cup-at-...

It doesn't seem like owls have infrared vision, in that case an IR camera looks like the easiest way to go.

I understand the moral argument, yes tell me about your product or company from time to time, can be interesting or even funny sometimes but it should stop there.

I always use an adblock where possible. 1. I've seen too much ads trying to straight up serve malware. 2. I'm definitely not okay with the ad-industry data aggregation tracking my every move online.

Plus the algorithm is kinda dumb: I see you bought a mattress, how about another one, every day, for the next months? I was curious once about a product I would never buy but now, weeks later, I still have ten companies paying ads for the same product, each one claiming to be the real deal.

I still use google news on mobile, no adblock there, some publications are okay, others are, well... I take a screenshot when there's 0% of content on the screen → OnlyAds/NoContent folder.

Previous discussion (2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772065

Someone, somewhere, probably has a "% of commits co-authored by copilot" KPI.

> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport

Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...

I love the logo, go ahead and click it!

As much as we speak about slop in the context of AI, slop as the cheap low-quality thing is not a new concept.

As lots of people seem to always prefer the cheaper option, we now have single-use plastic ultra-fast fashion, plastic stuff that'll break in the short term, brittle plywood furniture, cheap ultra-processed food, etc.

Classic software development always felt like a tailor-made job to me and of course it's slow and expensive but if it's done by professionals it can give excellent results. Now if you can get crappy but cheap and good enough results of course it'll be the preferred option for mass production.