My knowledge may be out-of-date, but sodium-ion battery has a 30-50% lower energy density to lithium (200 Wh/kg vs 300-400). My understanding is it will be confined to cheaper solutions.
I'm always curious why homes in the US need energy storage systems, basically UPS for the house? I live in China, and the only times my UPS for the home server tripped in the last 5 years were scheduled maintenance that lasted for no more than 30 minutes, and even that was rare...
We live in a big city now (though not exactly close to hospital or government), but my wife's hometown is a smallish rural town, and power outage is also extremely rare (less than once per year?) in the past decade or so. If you need e.g. oxygen ventilation at home, probably safer to have a backup generator or UPS, but I don't think anyone I know would need one at home.
I don't know about "remote rural". But in those places, I don't think anyone could afford an energy storage system even if needed......
UPS is as much about smoothing through "glitches" (lights flickering isn't a power outage but it will shutdown a desktop computer / NAS) as it is about power for a 20 minute outage.
Which prompts a question- do you run a server / destop / NAS type system, or are you one of the many phone / tablet / other device users that are already somewhat independant of the power grid being fully on 24/7?
Asking about "remote rural" wasn't about whether people there could afford off grid power of their own, rather it was about the grid quality and delivery for people that live there and rely on it.
Where I am we get relatively few "outages" (minutes without power) but glitches and 20 second outages are common enough in lightning season ( we get a lot of ground strikes compared to other ares of the world ) and the power lines and transformers are surge protected which is seen as glitching on the long arms of the delivery network.
That makes sense. I am running a desktop PC as server, and a NAS for backup. Only the PC is protected by a UPS, and the NAS is directly connected to the socket. I can't recall experiencing any glitches actually...it was a bit more common ~20 years ago. Most of the outages were things like maintenance, or some guy at a construction site did something stupid.
As for the remote rural argument, I totally agree with you: it's just that I don't know about those places. What I said about affordability was regarding the article: I don't think Anker would be able to sell those in China, since those who might want one probably couldn't afford it.
I'm in Australia, typically I work remote areas, in the past globally (geophysical exploration) so I see power outages as "the norm" that you plan for.
Our cities (we only have a few big ones) all have pretty solid power delivery - as do most US large cities.
The US has "two" major grids, \1 most of the USofA, and 2\ Texas (which traditionally had minimal connection to elsewhere)
The \1 grid is most robust in the north east, patches into Canada (IIRC), and has some long connections to the West Coast.
Texas had some major outages in severe winter conditions, there's a whole story about that
Elsewhere in the US it's a function (by my guess) of how far some people are from major centres, whether there are major wildfires (california, and other parts), and if they're bridged across via "private" operators that have poor standards.
The US doesn't have uniform federal / state capital infrastructure (roads, rail, powerlines, telecomms, sewerage, water, etc) which is a strength / weakness depending on how people view these things.
American regional grids aren’t strongly connected, you aren’t getting much electricity between America west (eg Washington state) and the mountain west grid (eg utah). There is one big connection between a coal plant in Utah and LA, everything else is just connected by lines with very small capacity. If the west coast somehow tripped…we have better chance of getting help from BC than Wyoming or Utah.
Fair comment, my apologies if I conveyed that they were.
There's enough weak connection to accomadate some slosh that helps to smooth things and enough long connections to have potential issues in geomagnetic storms - although these should be well and truly mitigated by now.
I just wanted to point out that while Texas is completely disconnected, the regional grids are still only partially connected, but I guess this is only relevant for the west where areas of sparse population densities make strong connections very difficult. This is relevant when someone complains about EVs on the west coast using coal powered electricity rather than hydro and renewables that makes up much of the west coast's energy mix. Technically kind of true since Utah is connected via socal (they are changing this to a renewable link though), but not really since the other connections are pretty small.
Well, in the books the three laws were immediately challenged and broken, so much so it felt like Mr Asimov's intention, to show that nuances of human society can't be represented easily by a few "laws".
Were they actually broken, as in violated? I don't remember them being broken in any of the stories - I thought the whole point was that even while intact, the subtleties and interpretations of the 3 Laws could/would lead to unintended and unexpected emergent behaviors.
Oh I didn't mean 'violated', but 'no longer work as intended'. It's been a while, but I think there were cases where the robot was paralysed because of conflicting directives from the three laws.
If I remember correctly, there was a story about a robot that got stuck midway between two objectives because it was expensive and so its creators decided to strengthen the law about protecting itself from harm.
I'm not sure what the cautionary tale was intended to be, but I always read it as "don't give unclear priorities".
Yeah, the general theme was the laws seem simple enough but the devil is in the details. Pretty much every story is about them going wrong in some way (to give another example: what happens if a robot is so specialised and isolated it does not recognise humans?)
I meant the enforceability of such clause: to the extent of my limited understanding of law, you would need to at least appear to prove that: someone has breached the agreement by, for example, using your code to train AI. I am not sure how it is possible.
I should have posted the reference audio used with the examples. Honestly it doesn’t sound so different from them. Voice cloning can be from a cartoon too, doesn’t have to be from a human being
A before / after with the reference and output seems useful to me, and maybe a range from more generic to more recognizable / celebrity voice samples so people can kinda see how it tackles different ones?
(Prominent politician or actor or somebody with a distinct speaking tone?)
I doubt it's that much but with the same logic you could also ban HN, SSH and basically any protocol thats not https "with no one noticing" because 99.9+% doesnt use it.
As a native Chinese, the recent years of US politics definitely made me more unsympathetic for people like Jimmy Lai and the (for lack of better words) campaigns related to them, and, at least from my personal experience, my sentiment (that such people and campaigns are inconsequential at best) is shared amongst a significant portion of Chinese.
I have to emphasise that this is all my personal feeling and experience: I used to think these people and their actions actually mean something, and could lead to a different future. I was uncertain of this future, but willing to try.
Seeing recent US politics makes me reconsider: if this is democracy, or at least what it could very well turn out to be, is it really something I would want in my own country? I know my answer would be no.
Honestly, nowadays, if given the choice of "one person one vote" for the head of state tomorrow, I would strongly oppose such an idea and prefer the status quo.
Given such sentiment, I really don't care about these people and their campaigns anymore.
I mean, we went after Assange and Snowden who are in a gray area. Jimmy Lai actually went to top US officials and advocated military assistance to coup the government. No nation would ever go easy on that and it's scary to see all these comments on HN are mindlessly chanting without actually more research
Hong Kongers would very much like to choose their own leadership. I understand that you're arguing from a mainland Chinese perspective, but in so doing you're ignoring the people who ought to have the most to say.
I used to have your viewpoint, but after reading Lee Kuan Yew, and after several hours of cross referencing various interviews with the pro-rioters/hk democracy, and pro-engagement/neutral hongkongers, I conclude that most of the pro-rioters like Joshua Wong/Jimmy Lai at large fail to articulate anything of value other than "I want to turn the system upside-down" , while pro-engagement/neutral people know they want upward social mobility and more government involvement in fixing the housing and employment crisis.
Good for you. But I didn't refer to any specific pro-democracy figure. I am advocating for free and open elections where everyone, pro-mainland or localist, can choose the direction of the city.
America doesn't speak for Hong Kong and many people don't want America sticking its nose deep into their business especially through someone breaking the law by acting as a pseudo-foreign agent.
The irony is that Trump getting involved in pressuring for the release of Jimmy Lai just makes him look even more like an American asset.
You claimed he urged top US officials to give military assistance to a coup. This video is just him pleading to the US public "They'll listen to you because you're as powerful as they are".
I live in China, and even I am surprised to see completely electric heavy trucks that are eerily quiet compared to diesel ones and carrying building materials, just cruising by on public roads. No idea how well or expensive they run, though.
