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Solar power is def shaking up the energy landscape, with plummeting panel costs making it a real contender against fossil fuels and disrupting energy markets and grid dynamics. Will that hold with TRUMPian global economics remains to be seen. The article also points to challenges like storage and integration, but what’s interesting is the mention of direct air capture (DAC) as a potential game-changer. While evidence from others about the feasibility of DAC is slim, if the lofty claims hold up, it could reshape renewables and open up big investment opportunities.
Curious on HN's take—is this just Hyperloop tech-bro hype, or is there something worth betting on here?
Sounds very interesting. So I’m interested in learning more about the environments goals and focus. Could you tell me more about the type of educational content you envision prioritizing and the audience it’s meant to serve? As well, I’d love to understand how artificial intelligence will specifically support users within this educational environment. Give a use case? How will the platform bridge the gap between education and the labor markets?
Are there goals for partnerships with particular companies or industries to support this? Oh and I’m also curious if the platform or whatever will focus on developing skills for specific professions or if it has a broader educational scope.
This is just an opinion.
The only way forward with automated and autonomous vehicles is through industry cooperation and standardization. The Tesla approach to the problem is inadequate, lacking means for interoperability, and relying on inferior detection mechanisms.
Somebody who solves these problems and does it by offering interoperability and standards applied to all automakers wins.
Sold Tesla investments. The company is on an unprofitable downward spiral trajectory. The CEO is a total clown. Reinvested on advise in Diamler, after Mercedes-Benz and Diamler Trucks North America demonstrated their research and work into creating true autonomous technology and safe global industry standardizations.
Estonian E-citizenship saved my butt a few years ago when due to fire I was forced to be homeless in the US, and as a nomadic van dweller found it very hard without a physical address and documents to prove I exist. My Estonian E-citizenship was all I had left, and offered me a lifeline when I got forced into a nomadic lifestyle without a permanent physical address. This sucks, especially in a country like the U.S., where residency requirements can hinder almost all essential activities. For someone like me working as a contract engineer, that access to e-services—like banking, digital signatures, and business registration allowed me to maintain some seamless continuity of professional operations throughout the ordeal. The digital infrastructure allowed me to maintain financial and legal stability, despite lacking a documents and a U.S. address. Estonian E-citizenship, as a US citizen was ironically easier to get than replacements for the national documents that were lost in the fire. Worth having! Pretty powerful tool for maintaining professional independence and resilience. Our systems in the U.S. seem totally cave man rock and stone in comparison.
After seeing the Chinese company Unitree tease this https://youtu.be/GzX1qOIO1bE, Optimus seems very unarticulated and clunky. And Unitree claim it would be a bit more than half the projected cost of the Tesla offering.
Time will tell.
My bets right now are not on Elon leading a Tesla supremacy in anything in the future—and that is unfortunate. I wish an American company could pull it off.
It's a sad affair. Our hearts go out to the longshoremen and freight workers. But this isn't going to end well for them this time. Striker tactics only work when you're effective at suppression of all possibilities for the employers to fill the work gaps. The more you strike in 2025 and onwards, the more you incentivize the move to replace the missing human bodies with a robots.
Maybe it's time to "publish" a revised version of your work to include a preamble to the pirate readers with your crypto wallet address. You might be surprised when you find that many pirates are very generous individuals if you provided them the motivation and means.
Using discord, etc for any open source project discussions is really unproductive.
Get it that people like the immediacy of chat style communication. But it seems to encourage way more noise and less thoughtful dialogue. The worst aspect is that it locks away a lot of useful information. Trying to dig through chat histories for information is a horrible experience.
Adult with ASD here. Been taking therapeutic doses of quasi-legal lysergic amides for years and it has been a huge help in allowing me to temporarily alter perception and increase empathy, openness, and cognitive flexibility. Greatly aids my ability to process social signals and reduces anxiety and sensory overload, making social interactions with non-autistic adults feel a lot less overwhelming and more manageable. It also helps give me a sense of connection, and that helps me engage more comfortably in social settings. My use has been entirely self-exploratory. I wish there were more funded studies that could bring these substances health benefits medical approval and extension to a wider audience.
We don't have explicit trade with ants, they don't explicitly trade with us, yet the ants are doing just fine. One of the most prevalent and prolific species of life on the planet Earth, Ants will arguably be here long after the stupid humans and their super intelligent computers are long gone.
Yes! The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the prior 2023 ruling against IA, the case stemming from the IA's National Emergency Library (NEL) initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed users to access digitized books without the usual lending caps.
This prompted the lawsuit from several major publishers, who argued that this violated copyright law.
The appeals court rejected the IA's argument that its activities fell under the "fair use" doctrine, specifically noting that the IA digital library acted as a substitute for original books, depriving publishers and authors of revenue.
While the court acknowledged that the Internet Archive's activities were non-commercial in nature, it still concluded that the wide availability of digitized books due to unregulated replication harmed the market for the original works.
This decision has significant implications for the IA’s future operations, potentially limiting its ability to continue its broad digitization efforts without publisher consent.
The ruling reinforces the legal rights of publishers and authors to control the reproduction and distribution of their works, even in digital formats.
The Internet Archive has few remaining legal options, with the Supreme Court being one of its last possible avenues for appeal.
Meanwhile, the organization faces additional lawsuits related to its music digitization efforts, those litigations are ongoing.
The ruling today highlights a broader conflict between the rights of creators and the push for wider public access to information, with the court siding firmly with the former. The case sets a strong precedent for how copyright law is applied to digital libraries in the U.S. moving forward.
Oregonian here. Living through Oregon’s experiment with decriminalization was tough. The law was flawed and ultimately failed, but did succeed in demonstrating why legalization, along with regulation, and taxation are the only real winning way to solve these problems. Look at our Cannabis programs. Massively successful and pumping millions into our public programs. Sure, Decriminalization reduces arrests but it leaves dangerous, unregulated substances in the market. Where legalizing and regulating recreational drugs ensures safer, controlled products, reducing health risks. Without the tax revenue from a legal market, there’s no funding for vital public health initiatives, like addiction treatment, or education programs. Oregon’s approach missed this by a long shot, leading to huge gaps in our support systems and funding. Also, regulation promotes real social justice by allowing those who get hit hardest by the total failure that is the "war on drugs” to benefit from better legal opportunities. This backstep is horrible for sure, but decriminalization wasn’t enough and without a plan to move further forward it's the only last-ditch effort to fix the problems the weak policy has caused. The better way forward would be restructuring the decriminalization to include some form of legalization along with regulation and most importantly taxation, but I won't hold my breath waiting for common sense to have a place in US state or federal politics.