Hybrids are legacy auto companies trying to remain relevant.
By this point all (?) the legacy auto companies also have had at least some BEVs for 5+ years and HEVs for longer. As massive corporations they're relatively soul-less and are going to sell whatever sells and they can money on. on BEVs apparently even what they can't make money on...
The Toyota / Ford hybrid (and phev... they're basically the same) power train are really cool and surprisingly simple mechanically.
probably the pinnacle of ice gas engine application. Atkinson cycle engine and eCVT (with no belt and relatively light use of clutches)
Sting?!?!
You might wanna double-check that, bro!
i was right there with you... but then:
The song features a guest appearance by Sting, who sings the signature falsetto introduction, background vocals and a backing chorus of "I want my MTV" set to the same notes as the chorus of the Police's hit "Don't Stand So Close To Me"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(and it does sound like him...)
and you have to dig into each one to see how much was spent and where it came from like:
Pequannock received $10 million from FEMA, including a grant to
purchase for Severe Repetitive Loss properties. The $10 million provided the bulk of the funding
for the buyouts, which were used to purchase 55 homes.
it solves a problem... in a rather expensive way.. but it's better than what FEMA (and HUD) normally does
In FEMA’s case, we find that just 14 percent of the 81 billion dollars in total disaster grant funding spent since 2005 have gone to programs that aim to advance resilience to climate related disasters—smart building and rebuilding. Outside that tiny fraction, most of FEMA spending has gone into activities, such as rebuilding, that have the unintended effect of encouraging risky siting decisions and other behaviors that may discourage those best prepared to address these risks from being fully responsible for adverse outcomes.
( https://www.brookings.edu/arti... )
(and i'm somewhat ok with the flood insurance program... even though that too is subsidized... but at least provides some strong market signal of the risk. but the rebuilding grants (e.g from HUD) for people who don't even pay in... less of a fan. )
eh... it definitely leans left, and you see that in various ways, but it's still does decent on basic factual reporting afaict.
did you argue the same when the Obama administration approved Keystone XL pipeline only to then unapprove it. Going so far as to veto a bill on the subject?
On January 20, hours after swearing his oath of office, President Biden took unilateral action to rescind a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20250309133053/https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/biden-resurrects-failed-obama-energy-strategy )
You may well have. But after reading about these kinds of things for decades and green tech and loggers vs owls (remember those?)
overall no particular project is a hill worth dying on. Just try to position yourself to profit, or at least not lose too much money, on whatever it is and then ride the waves... it's not going to save/destroy the world one way or the other. And w/ your political speech cash support your PAC of choice.
btw, re owls... here's where we are now:
The plan calls for killing up to 470,000 barred owls over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the territory of two West Coast owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls. The smaller spotted owls have been unable to compete for food and habitat with the invaders.
The new plan follows decades of conflict between conservationists and timber companies that cut down vast areas of older forests where spotted owls reside.
Early efforts to save the birds culminated in logging bans in the 1990s that roiled the timber industry and its political supporters in Congress.
Yet spotted owl populations continued to decline after barred owls first started showing up on the West Coast several decades ago.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...
i challenge you to cast this one in a "moral environmentalists" vs "evil corporates" or any such easy frame.
Third explanation: Putin's pawn is continuing to damage the United States at Putin's behest.
Do you actually believe this ? or, what chance do you think that this statement is true: "Pres. Trump banned off shore wind at Putin's behest in order to damage the United States" or maybe differentially w/ and w/o the "to damage the United States" part.
Makes no sense to build natural gas generators which aren't 100% hydrogen ready though. Costs very little extra and if there is some breakthrough in low cost electrolysis, it can come in handy to use intermittent power in the future.
right so the capability is nearly fluff...
like flex fuel vehicles, remember those?
burning green hydrogen is even less cost effective than our seldom mentioned E85 push from like 20 years ago.
I'm still eagerly awaiting that enzymatic ethanol from grass that was right around the corner. instead of distilling corn.
(and of course holographic solid state memory with thousands year stability).
the issue with these power guys is that they're committing to pay for this hydrogen starting next year. not "when it's cost effective" or even "when it's less than 2x the cost of gas" or whatever.
Before WASM there was asm.js (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js) which is an efficient subset of js used as a target for "transpilers". Yes it's "code" is legal javascript, but it's not something people would actually write to.
as to TeaVM it describes itself well as:
TeaVM is an ahead-of-time compiler for Java bytecode that emits JavaScript and WebAssembly that runs in a browser. Its close relative is the well-known GWT. The main difference is that TeaVM does not require source code, only compiled class files. Moreover, the source code is not required to be Java, so TeaVM successfully compiles Kotlin and Scala.
As to why you'd want to use one... well maybe you want to package existing logic. Or you just want to write some complex stuff but not deal w/ the hell that is maintenance of a large JS project. and by "some complex stuff" i mean idk... like a game engine or a simulator or fancy graphics / video processing; not just a DHTML type app. And then you use the browser as a convenient distribution method / "zero footprint" scheme.
isn't all that revolutionary now that ng is relatively cheap.
These new units currently run on natural gas, but they're designed to burn a blend of natural gas and up to 30% green hydrogen, and eventually 100% green hydrogen. LADWP plans to start adding green hydrogen to the fuel mix in 2026.
and green hydrogen is still something of a mythical beast... where they're going to get it and how much it'll cost...
https://www.nature.com/article...
And that's on top of how inefficient it is to generate electricity by burning any type of hydrogen. CA people will cry even more about our electricity bills.
TI, Intel and AMD have zero interest in selling their chips for this purpose. the number of chips used for this is a tiny fraction of their production.
Not even a rounding error.
And these are commodity chips sold all over the world which people can resell.
This is roughly like suing Toyota because various warlords around the world use Toyota trucks for their technicals.
sinij, here's to hoping you get your deportation processed soon. Moscow has a home for you.
uncalled for
The retraction note is all innuendo. It doesn't cure any actual wrongdoing, nor the actual basis of it's suspicions.
just that "questions have been raised".
The guardian article purports to quote smoking gun emails the closest that seems shady is from 2015 , 15 years later, where some Monsanto dude suggests ghostwriting a paper.
About the original paper it looks like normal corporate communication about a good event. There's no indication of saying anyone cheated or convinced scientists of untrue things or anything like that.
This overall seems more some sort of political purity declaration than about knowledge it even about scientific standards.
This is surprisingly on point. TFA ends with this:
Instead, the most obvious outcome is nothing more than a common-sense repository. Yes, an AI system might remix and recycle our knowledge in interesting ways. But that’s all it will be able to do. It will be forever trapped in the vocabulary we’ve encoded in our data and trained it upon — a dead-metaphor machine. And actual humans — thinking and reasoning and using language to communicate our thoughts to one another — will remain at the forefront of transforming our understanding of the world.
and it may be true that the LLMs can't make paradigm shifting breakthroughs. But then
and the rest of people become no more ECONOMICALLY useful/competitive/viable than pets. Then what do we do ?
Which is to say that TFA may be right that LLMs aren't going to be AGI no matter what.... but they may yet totally upend (and possibly destroy) society.
Barring the issue of losing private keys
Getting normal people to have / manage / distribute a key pair has been an ongoing / unsolved practical problem in just plain encryption/ authentication for like 35 years. The protocols have always supported it (or close enough to "always") but it just never took off.
Technically when you hit your bank's site in a browser, your browser COULD prompt you to present a client cert that you'd pre-registered with the bank and not even let you connect otherwise. And it's been able to do that as long as HTTPS has existed.... but it never took off for that use for whatever reason.
Military and some enterprise users have used the stuff for decades, primarily via smart-cards. (and yubikeys / fobs)
Devs finally started using some keys en masse when git and remote dev became popular.
But for straight up normal people? it's still an ongoing challenge.
The newish attempt is "passworldess" via "passkeys" (https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/ ) which are PKI under the covers, and quite neat. but
Real Users hate Real Programmers.
