I think the hazard they’re afraid of is that the employees will unionize.
Yup, typically I just mentally multiply by 1000 (nice round numbers). But obviously a 100MW farm in the Sahara is going to produce more in a year than the same 100MW farm in Germany. It’d be cool to see a list on a global scale that showed a table and maybe generation vs demand curves for the area they serve. Maybe I’ll put it on my “projects I’ll never get to” list.
Like capacity x capacity factor, e.g. if your 100MW site produces power 50% of the time (because of nighttime, clouds, etc) then it would produce, over the course of a year 100,000,000 x 24 x 365 x 0.5 = 438 GWh annually (very simplified).
Does anyone know of a site that tracks the typical GWh of these big installations?
I think these guys get headlines exactly because they target things that “belong” to all of us. PETA throwing red paint on some rich schmuck wearing furs? That might get a minute of airtime. But (safely) paint Stonehenge, throw baked beans on the Mona Lisa, etc and every news outlet will cover it.
When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.
It’s not like they swapped titanium for balsa wood. The origin docs were falsified or missing, which could mean anything from they weren’t the right purity but were shipped anyway to they were imported from Russia and illegally bypassing sanctions.
This is a kind of bromeliad right? I’ve had some outside for several years in south Florida that are still “flowering” like that. at least one of them has stalked off a new plant
I’d let all of these statues and monuments stand, but require the descriptions to all be preceded with “defeated traitor”. So instead of the Robert E Lee Memorial Park or whatever it would now be the Defeated Traitor Robert E Lee Memorial Park. Require it to be referred to that way on Google Maps, local newscasts, etc and see how quickly people suddenly want to rename them.
What do you hate specifically -- e.g. exercising in general, getting hot and sweaty, foot/leg/joint pain, your location or route, having to be alone with your thoughts for a while, etc? I've been running for nearly 3 decades now (yikes), and even as a kid I remember the thing that made it "click" with me is the realization that I literally could not be doing anything else at the same time (aside from listening to music, I guess).
I think that unless you are having physical pain (in which case the usual applies - check your shoes, modify your gait, reduce or restructure your runs to be more comfortable), you have to get into the headspace of just mentally doing nothing, which can be hard for some people.
FWIW I don't know anyone who, in the middle of a 10k run in 90 degree heat with a side stitch says "I feel awesome right now!", but I do know many, many people who will finish out that run, stop for a moment and then go "ahhhhhhh."
This is actually pretty clever. If he's found guilty then it's rigged since even Mother Teresa would have been found guilty. If he's found not guilty though, then he's even better than Mother Teresa, since he beat a rap that would have taken her down or whatever.
Only a matter of time before Ministry for the Future moves from fiction to non-fiction (well, the horrible part at least. The part where humanity fixes things will likely remain a fairytale)
Cat software running on dog hardware.
(As opposed to a cheetah, which is dog software running on cat hardware)
The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed.
There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.
Hangul
Oh, yup, these are not derived from Phoenecian, but considering how recent they are they were developed after the concept of a phonetic alphabet had already been widely circulated
Do you have any info on that? I’m not too familiar with Eastern languages, but all of the examples that I can think of have phonetic alphabets less than a millennium old.
Yes, but it’s quite recent, only a few hundred years old - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Hangul
The most insane thing to me is that — as far as anyone can tell — a phonetic alphabet was developed only once in all oh human history.
Swiss startup develops AI-driven humanoid hand
Zurich-based mimic has raised $2.5mn to further develop its AI-powered humanoid hand that can perform repetitive and demanding manual tasks.
Orthopedic Surgeon Uses Apple Vision Pro for Rotator Cuff Surgery
The ability to see and highlight critical details more easily or have surgery-aiding software could improve medical outcomes for all.
In this niche case the Vision Pro seems like it has some compelling benefits.
The Open Home Foundation: Home Assistant's new foundation - and goal to become a consumer brand
Can a non-profit foundation get Home Assistant to the point of Home Depot boxes?
Fourteen LLMs fight it out in Street Fighter III — Faster models make the best street fighters.
Smaller LLMs seemingly have faster reactions
Magnitude 4.8 Earthquake Strikes New York Metro Area and East Coast
The U.S. Geological Survey initially measured the earthquake at a 4.8-magnitude.
Raw data from the USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74/executive
The Raspberry Pi powers the show, but the real star is the exquisite build and test process to achieve 600 RPM
Some serious engineering makes for a pretty compelling voxel display. Plus the whole build saga is on Mastodon! Go Fediverse!
Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.
Starlink's Laser System is Beaming 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day
SpaceX's laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. Each of the 9,000 lasers in the network is capable of transmitting at 100Gbps, and satellites can form ad-hoc mesh networks to complete long-haul transmissions when there are no ground towers nearby (like when they're going across oceans).
It's not just you – things really are getting worse
Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we're closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech's power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.
Lemmy 0.19 should be called Turbo Edition
Noticed I was logged out of lemmy.ml this morning. When I logged in, everything looked the same, but... "All" loaded instantly. Switching to "Subscribed" was just as fast. Post thumbnails came up as quickly as I could scroll.
I don't know if it's the new software or if y'all cleared out some cruft when restarting the services, but from this end-user's perspective, Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.8 flies. Nicely done!
The Battle Over Books3 Could Change AI Forever
Increasingly, the authors of works being used to train large language models are complaining (and rightfully so) that they never gave permission for such a use-case. If I were an LLM company, I'd be seriously looking for a Plan B right now, whether that's engaging publishing companies to come up with new licensing options, paying 1,000,000 grad students to write 1,000,000 lines of prose, or something else entirely.
A new study has found that antioxidants like vitamins C and E activate a mechanism that stimulates the growth of new blood vessels in cancer tumors, helping them to grow and spread. The researchers say their findings highlight the potential risk of taking antioxidant supplements when they’re not…
“We’ve found that antioxidants activate a mechanism that causes cancer tumors to form new blood vessels, which is surprising since it was previously thought that antioxidants have a protective effect,” said Martin Bergö, a new study’s author. “The new blood vessels nourish the tumors and can help them grow and spread.” It's worth noting that there's no harm in consuming normal antioxidant-rich foods in normal quantities, though.
In an important breakthrough (to cats), scientists figure out why cats love tuna so much
Ever wonder why cats love tuna? Well apparently a bunch of scientists did too, and they found the answer: the umami flavor (savoriness in English, I guess), is a cat's most favorite (as opposed to mine, which is definitely sweet).
Study Finds Social Media Conversations Can Reduce Political Polarization, Particularly Among Republicans
Republicans seem to depolarize more than Democrats.
Researchers conducted a study to see if social media could help bridge the political divide by facilitating anonymous conversations between individuals with opposing political views. The study used an app called DiscussIt, which allowed users to have anonymous one-on-one discussions about controversial topics. The researchers found that these conversations reduced polarization, particularly among Republican participants. However, there are practical challenges to implementing this approach on a larger scale, as most people do not engage in one-on-one conversations with strangers on social media. Nonetheless, the findings suggest that displaying respect for political opponents and engaging in civil conversations can make a difference in reducing polarization.
Harvesting almost-unlimited energy (in tiny amounts) from ripples in graphene
Scientists have figured out how to harness Brownian motion -- literally the thermal energy of individual molecules -- to make electricity, by cleverly connecting diodes up to pieces of graphene, which are atom-thick sheets of Carbon. The team has successfully demonstrated their theory (which was previously thought to be impossible by prominent physicists like Richard Feynman), and are now trying to make a kind of micro-harvester that can basically produce inexhaustible power for things like smart sensors.
The most impressive thing about the system is that it doesn't require a thermal gradient to do work, like other kinds of heat-harvesting systems (Stirling engines, Peltier junctions, etc.). As long as it's a bit above absolute zero, there's enough thermal energy "in the system" to make the graphene vibrate continuously, which induces a current that the diodes can then pump out.
Original journal link: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.024130
LLaMA.cpp: A GPT3-level LLM that can run on your desktop
LLaMA.cpp is a project on GitHub that implements inferencing of a LLaMA model in pure C/C++. The performance is pretty amazing given the limited hardware it can run on (even a Pi, if you have patience), and the author gives an explanation of how that's even possible (hint: memory bandwidth).
This (theoretical) fusion rocket would get hotter than the Sun and go 500,000 MPH
Faster space travel has been the holy grail of space agencies for decades and a UK-based aerospace company says it might have a viable solution in the form of nuclear fusion.
A UK company plans to test a fusion-powered rocket capable of reaching speeds of up to 500,000mph, though they admit that the fact that nobody has gotten a self-sustaining fusion reaction to work yet is a bit of a stumbling block.