skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly they rely on the fact that extraordinarily most Britons still buy their energy from a local "incumbent" electricity supplier even though that costs more.

Years ago residential customers in the UK were obligatory customers of monopoly government owned suppliers in each region. You could only buy (residential or small business) electricity from the same people who ran all the cables where you lived, thus a natural monopoly, which was government owned.

Then there was an era of government very enthusiastic about the Free Market even where it has no obvious place (again: natural monopoly) and even more enthusiastic about moving debts and long term costs off government books created a new system. The actual power grid - the natural monopoly - is now run by a single for-profit company but the consumer buys electricity from any of dozens of pointless entities that exist only to buy and sell notional electricity and bill customers on top of that supply network, many created from the carcasses of the old monopoly regional suppliers.

To bootstrap this situation consumers needed to start out with a supplier, and so they were all assigned the one that had previously been their monopoly supplier anyway, the "incumbent".

What was expected to happen was they'd all offer lower prices to new customers (this happened) and everybody would switch and create a new equilibrium in which almost everybody got lower prices and was more willing to change supplier. Your actual electricity supply would always come from the boring reliable (but now privately owned) grid, but you'd pay whichever imaginary "supplier" charged a few quid less, or had a cool mascot in their TV ads or whatever.

But almost everyone ignored it. Given the choice between paying an incumbent supplier £100 or finding out how to change supplier to get a cheaper £80 deal, almost all consumers just kept paying £100. If you can't leave (e.g. often short lease tenants even if the law says they can change supplier find that in practice they really can't) you're stuck paying £100 while a pro-Free Market politician struts about on TV saying how they've saved you £20.

But the biggest impact is that because the incumbents control so much of the market and consumers don't care, you can offer almost anything, even seemingly unrealistic things like "100% Renewable electricity for all customers" and know you'll only get a handful of takers anyway.

My mother switched to a tiny local "supplier", which promptly went bankrupt. Despite the fact that her power worked throughout (like I said these suppliers don't actually supply anyway) and she wasn't billed for that power (the bankruptcy appears to have made it difficult to even figure out what customers owe them) she found this traumatic enough that she now refuses to ever switch away from her incumbent again.
> what’s more important, code aesthetics or usability?

My guess is that the answer to this is similar to "what is more important, developer friendliness or minding resource use for users with less capable computers?" that gave rise to Electron.

And i'll also bet that there are way more users that have low end computers than users who rely on OS-supplied usability features.
Phonics will always be unpopular with teachers for at least 3 reasons.

1. Teachers are typically from good middle-class backgrounds, and will naturally assume children will just learn to read because their parents basically tutored them for hundreds or thousands of hours and they just magically taught themselves.

2. It's hard for an individual practitioner to have any idea whether their methods are wonderful or absolute garbage. Look at how long it took doctors to figure out hand-washing - now think about how hard it is for a teacher with 20 students (all of various ability levels) to know whether their methods have any real impact. The kids grow up and are reading better after a year, it must be the teacher, their method must be good.

3. Boring stuff is boring for teachers. How are they meant to be entertained in class if it's just mindless drill and kill routines?

So you've got "professionals" with no idea what actually works, some weird notion that reading is easy (because they're good at it) and a choice between boring methods that some researcher claims works, and interesting methods that some other (not so nerdy) researcher also claims works (and they use bigger words that are harder to understand when they explain their ideas).
Oh great, I've actually been there and saw two bighorn sheep near the "oasis" that is not too far from the visitor center.
It was super hot there, actually (42°C or so?). Probably my most extreme heat exposure ever.
Very cool. Worth emphasising that there is a distinction between the power you buy from an energy supplier and the energy mix that is actually flowing in the local distribution network.

Suppliers are responsible for delivering the right amount of energy to the transmission network for each half hourly period which needs to match the amount their customers are consuming. (This is estimated based on applying a set of models to customer meter data so there are multiple settlement "runs" carried out, some months after the HH period in question). Balancing within the half-hour is a service provided by the system operator which is currently a part of National Grid and for which a small charge is levied.

Injecting too much power into the grid when the grid is net over-supplied or too little when the grid is net under-supplied leads to the supplier owing balancing charges.

Stabilising the grid to prevent those under-deliveries or over-deliveries destabilising the grid is also the responsibility of the system operator.

So if your supplier buys 100% renewable power but you live somewhere far away from renewable generation your power both is and is not 100% renewable. In a certain sense it is because the whole grid is connected and higher a % of renewable power is demanded, the higher a % has to be generated in the system. In another sense it isn't because some of the energy you consume is being supplied by non-renewable sources. Of course in the latter view you also have to account that other people who have not explicitly paid for renewable energy are receiving it because you have.
>For instance, when opening a new tab, Firefox would flash a crazy huge white page before theming it.

I'm using a standard FF dark theme and I don't see anything like that. That's on Win7, FF 67.0.4 (64-bit).
The business REALLY should care as all of their transactions are at risk of being voided, and the money returned to the customers if they're found to be violating the terms of service.
As renewable credits are bought up and become scarcer, they become more expensive - bolstering demand for new, renewable power sources.
From idea to 100k uniques per week in two months
You may find this interesting: https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
I wouldn't shift the burden of the entire chain to wood alone. The tools are not wood-exclusive, and should be considered on their own.
Playable link:
https://parkertomatoes.github.io/v86/?type=mbr&content=uBMAz...
Sreelakshmi Suresh
Fun fact: often the same people here who are concerned about rights, intrusion, privacy, etc in meatspace are not concerned when this happens in their turf (software) with modern practices taking control away from users in the name of security in giving it to developers and big companies.
> There is vast swathes of them around where I live in Scotland and there is no bio-diversity there at all. They are planted so close that the canopy coverage allows very little sunlight to the forest floor, and even if it did not much could grow because of the heavy littering of dead needles that cause very acidic soil.

Be patient. Give it 80 years.
Just a quick warning - I've saved hundreds switching away from Ecotricity. Personally I'd rather give the money saved to a tree planting charity myself, should I wish to do so.
Ask HN: How to earn $0.5 per hour 24/12 hours?
Jokes apart. How can I earn 0.5 dollar per hour any SaaS PaaS idea?
I can invest $2000 for this.
Please
I would ask a more generic question.

What's the right level of control users should have over their data?

Then as a follow up I would ask what's keeping Facebook from implementing those controls.

Unless this was already covered in an acceptable way after the Cambridge Analytica f*ckup (I haven't followed what actions Facebook took afterwards to address the issue), I would also ask about what are they doing about policing bad actors, companies trawling or leaking users' private information or abusing it. How are they going to better prevent that in the future. Once it's outside of Facebook they've already lost control of the situation.
It would help if you can explain more.

If telomere's ending were of significance, then their lengths would be a good predictor of life span. The OP is saying that it's not the length but the shorting rate that counts.
I replaced my shower gel, shampoo, and face wash with Dr Bronner’s a few months ago. It is so good!
It's also the reason why we have to careful with files named (for example) "google.com".
How to survive in the web development industry
I have only taken a cursory look. So far a lot of the links are dead and it's a bit hard to see examples of the API.
Hyperledger Grid to Aid Supply Chains with Blockchain Components
The Sitka spruce problem has been an ongoing issue for at least the past 30 years (probably longer). The main problem is the acidification of the soil, resulting in a barren carpet of dead needles on the forest floor and a vastly diminished ecosystem. There’s a world of difference between a native deciduous forest and one of Coillte’s plantations. One of the most publicised hiking routes in Ireland, the Wicklow Way covers some beautiful countryside but a large proportion of it is marred by long, monotonous treks through fire-roads in between lines of Sitka.

Coillte have a remit for recreational use of Ireland’s woodlands but historically, they have always prioritised the commercial aspect over all other considerations. For a private enterprise, this would make sense as the income from tourism doesn’t appear on their balance sheets – but having a broader mission is one of the reasons why Coillte are a semi-state company.
Burning anything can be "actively" toxic and cancerous. You can argue about the process of anything, but that shifts the conversation away from the energy source.

Wood doesen't have to be burned in X place, and it _could_ be gathered and processed using clean procedures, but they're outside of the scope of wood being carbon neutral.
I'm not a big fan of certificates but there is already enough renewable to power all eon customers.

gas is 40%, wind 16.9% solar 4% biomass 6.3% [1]

E-ON is about 13% [2] of the market share, just wind is enough to cover that and more (and 13% is assuming the grid generates energy just for customers, not industries, which it isn't)

Point is, there is enough renewable energy on the grid, it's a matter of how energy suppliers are going to fight to package it to clients. If the fight becomes hard on their end, they will be incentivised to generate more renewable.

[1] http://www.mygridgb.co.uk/last-12-months/

[2] https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/data-portal/electricity-supply-mark...
Chans are seen as integration tests for censorship.

I doubt media has that much influence on platform choice today.
I like to think of cash as a kind of slack in the system. Yeah there's corrupt stuff going on, but I like its immediacy and utility. A digital currency that is under full surveillance would just cause the whole financial machinery to seize up like a rusted Rube Goldberg.
Another small thing (big for me) Zoom does is register their app as the handler for `tel:` links every time you launch it, with seemingly no way to disable that. Companies that make themselves the default for something on your machine by force are not to be trusted.

I’m not surprised they start a web server from under their users, and that their response to the vulnerability was lacklustre.
I just read the paper. Standard es bit counts are covered in section 7.2

Long story short: es=log2(nbits) -3
AFAIK using soap wouldn't do much to clean your teeth. Toothpaste work because it contains abrasive and to a lesser extent fluoride and other additives.

Most of the cleaning comes from the action of the brush on your teeth which physically removes bacterias, leftover food, &c.
China Sheds Millionaires as Slowdown Shaves Fortunes
Damnit! I could have been rich... Those filthy kid ruin everything.
For the python side there are Dabeaz talks at various pycon(s).

Also people should look into Common Lisp (Seibel book, and AMOP for more ceremonious stuff)
I live in the UK. Everybody complains about the public ("state" or whatever) schools. I'd never enroll my kids in public schools here (pre-university), only in private schools, if I had the means. Continental Europe is much better IMO/E.
Came here to add that. I'll add it is written in Rust by same author as fd utility (find replacement)
It does, but unfortunately without the -k flag.
It is more important that large volumes of biomass be grown to soak up CO2 than it is to build the idyllic fairey glens of old. The countries with air forces should think seriously about destroying thermal coal/oil/gas plants all over the globe that make electricity. Going forward we will need nuclear(preferably thorium based) or fusion(if we ever figure it out?) along with solar/wind/wave to save humanities collective ass
The stupidity of that new coal mine in Australia.....
I would strongly assume that them claiming 100% RES means they have bought so-called Guarantees of Origin (GoOs) [1].
You can only sell GoOs to the extent that you actually produce energy, so while the actual energy that eons customers receive could come from any given source, it is matched by production from RES (which in turn goes to customers who may or may not have an energy provider that provides renewable energy).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarantee_of_origin#Production...
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-Options.html

-mfpmath=unit

Generate floating-point arithmetic for selected unit unit. The choices for unit are:

‘387’

Use the standard 387 floating-point coprocessor present on the majority of chips and emulated otherwise. Code compiled with this option runs almost everywhere. The temporary results are computed in 80-bit precision instead of the precision specified by the type, resulting in slightly different results compared to most of other chips. See -ffloat-store for more detailed description.

This is the default choice for non-Darwin x86-32 targets.
One problem is that when the credits can only be used for virtue signalling, the same energy generation gets counted twice. For example, Norway produces virtually all of its power from renewable sources, and then sells the credits to Germany. The Norwegian consumers know that they are using renewable power, because they can see the hydro dams, and the Germans know that they are using renewable power, because they bought the carbon credits. Even though they can see coal or gas plants that are "obviously" actually powering their grid.

This doesn't work as well if you actually have cap-and-trade for carbon emissions, and fine countries that don't have the right amount of credits. In that case a country that sells all its credits ends up getting fined.
Bullet's captioned snippets make podcasts a lot more shareable
I'm using plata theme[1]. The only limitation is that FF Color doesn't apply to about:* pages, whereas SF does. I seldom change my settings anyway, so it's not an issue.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/tista500/plata-theme#extra-browser-suppor...
The CGA 320x200 graphics mode is horrible to program for and would have made a 512 byte implementation much harder to accomplish. Even and odd rows of pixels on screen are separated in memory by 8k bytes, for instance.

VGA mode 0x13, on the other hand, is widely known as the easiest graphics mode to program for -- all you do is throw bytes one after the other into 0x8000 + 64K and you're immediately putting 256-color graphics on the screen.

8-bit compatible VGA cards are somewhat of a rarity to find nowadays but it wasn't entirely uncommon to see 8088 or 8086 systems paired with VGA cards in the late 80's, although generally they were more common and useful with a 286 and up.
Will they honor GDPR related requests? The last I saw, the have some checkbox they require european users to "agree" to in order to continue using FB, which basically waives their GDPR rights.

In addition, you might want to review the questions from when Zuckerberg was in front of the European parliament. The MEPs asked some good questions and Zuck basically weasled out of it. I'd love to see the same questions brought up again.

And also, info about shadow profiles.
Often I only need clever for performance reasons.

I write a filter/map, which is slow in some languages, but looks readable and if I need better perf I rewrite it with a for loop.
This is quite literally ridiculous.

In the UK we have the national grid that supplies all connected homes in the UK. It is the sole supplier of electricity.

All electricity generated is fed to this national grid. Coal/Gas/Wind/Hydroelectric it doesn't matter. There are no separate streams from one generator of electricity that you can request from.

What you DO get is a choice of who bills you.

I'm unsure how these renewable energy certificates work. But it's likely a scam on the generation end that the suppliers will wave at naïve customers to hide the fact that there is zero difference between the electricity you by from eon or British gas, or any of the other billing agents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grid_(Great_Britain)

(Edit: added Wikipedia URL)
I think it's because it runs on a port higher than 1024, so it doesn't need root privileges to start a web server on that port.
As an Ecotricity customer I do wonder about this. My bills seem to go up every 6 months and are already pretty high.

Then again, I used to be with Eon and their customer service is outrageously abysmal - dropped calls, 30+ minute hold times etc. With Ecotricity I get straight through to a local human every time.
Click on the app icon, hold, move to Trash.
What happens after 80 years of acidification?
Linking to a document with file://...
0) Anti-competitive practices
The question is whether there is enough renewable energy at any time, not just on average.

Eon are not the only ones coming up with such tariffs, most suppliers are jumping on the bandwagon.
Uber’s plan is to become the AWS of logistics: Uber CTO
It's basically a barrel shifter; for addition you're going to need it anyways. Multiplication is a bit nastier, but most of multiplier gates are the adder gates anyways. I made a useful insight that negative numbers are basically the same as positives, with a "minus two" invisible bit.

Here is a sample 8-bit multiplier. All code was generated using a verilog DSL I wrote in Julia for the specific purpose. All verilog is tested by transpiling to c using verilator and mounting the shared object into a Julia runtime with a Julia implementation.

https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/mullinengine/blob/ma...
The really concerning part is that legislation of this nature often receives bipartisan support in the Australian parliament. I don't recall if it was this bill or a different one, but the opposition released a strongly worded statement saying "we have concerns with this legislation", then voted for it ASAP. A thinner fig leaf of an excuse I have yet to see in politics.
Lush sell bar soap and shampoo bars nowadays which are nice!
Some wide variety of picks for eclectic tastes :)

If you have any recommendations you think I'd enjoy please drop a reply.

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* LiveOverflow (security/hacking/CTFs)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClcE-kVhqyiHCcjYwcpfj9w

His Pwnie Island series is super fun and accessible for just about everyone about how to apply hacking concepts to a networked video game, with more in-depth other vids on smashing the stack, overflows, and lately, hacking JS engine.

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* Tronics Fix (repairs)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOrKQtC1tDfGf_fFVb8pYw

He repairs broken consoles, especially modern eg. Switch / PS4 / XBone. If you're interested in repairability / how these things work inside it's pretty interesting.

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* Helpful Vancouver Vet (pets)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtEnS6HGyK1oe71sxbJuhcw

Tips on how to look after your pet, with a general focus on cats, occasionally dogs.

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* People Make Games (gaming industry background stories)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZB6V9fUov0Mx_us3MWWILg

Stories on the stuff that goes on behind the games. How Neopets was owned by Scientologists. The history of a particular title. Shutdowns / layoffs at Blizzard / Telltale.

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* Middle 8 (music)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfeppgcy70ERp4gQrsYijsg

Focus on particularly indie/alternative music - how influential albums were made, how up and coming stars are changing the landscape

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* Marshall McGee (audio design)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoNgwHpavUi2UnC68cKgbw

He works for a AAA game developer. Focus on how to create engaging sound design, with a lean towards gaming, but also dipping into TV and movie audio design

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* Modern Vintage Gamer (emulation/DRM/anti-piracy)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFaPUcJU1vwk193mnW_w1w

Vids go into detail on how different consoles, arcade boards etc. implement(ed) DRM and anti-piracy measures. Also works on his own homebrew stuff, so some vids on that like getting Diablo running on Switch.

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* Summoning Salt (speedrun history)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtUbO6rBht0daVIOGML3c8w

Pick a game and run through the history of speedrunning a particular category in that game. How the record has progressed over time, major breakthroughs, glitches and the stories behind the records.
As for VGA, it only uses one BIOS call to set the graphics mode, then never again. After that, it just throws bytes directly at VGA memory.
I kind of doubt that you can do that because blind people still use their visual cortex when they make out the shape of objects by tough, or when they navigate the world, so I would assume the visual cortex is a specialized "hardware".
I think this issue was fixed. But it definitely used to exist. I used to use ShadowFox specifically because of it.
Yeah, but the impact isn't that great.

According to Our World In Data [1] a 20-year-old would expect to live to 60 in 1850 (before penicillin), versus to 80 now.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy#it-is-not-only-ab...
Yes!

Source code is config which type-checks.

If you want to "reconfigure" your app while it's running, why not give it some input, rather than tracking down a textual yaml file and editing that.
1. Do your apps upload metadata and/or thumbnails from photos to which they’re permissions to access, but which aren’t explicitly selected by the user for posting/uploading?

2. Do your apps “skim” the contents of device clipboards and send this info off device without user intent to do so?

And one open-ended question to try to gauge how open they’re being about the whole process:

3. What information do you collect that would surprise or upset privacy-conscious individuals?