skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Replacing those 2 trillion in renewable with nuclear for USD 40 billion? Germany is spending roughly EUR 10 billion a year on nuclear currently. If we replaced all nuclear stations with with new fancy "cheaper" ones we'd still be at EUR 7 billion.

Working from the very high level, since Germany started shutting down its nuclear plants in the Energiewende (started ~2011) electricity use has apparently cratered by more than 10% per capita [0]. That is evidence that something is going wrong, something so fungible dropping by 10% doesn't scream 'cheaper than the alternatives'. Especially since there isn't really any in-practice data on how expensive solar/wind farms are to maintain over a 20 year timeframe so we don't know what the costs will look like after the capital expenditure is done (hopefully very cheap, I'm not casting aspersions - just there isn't a lot of data for how grids go when they rely on these technologies).

We're still early days, so maybe you are spot on and just didn't feel like including sources, but there is not yet clarity on whether the money spent on renewables has been a true like-for-like replacement for the nuclear it replaced. The trends are big, slow moving and well underway though. The experiment in energy transitioning remains very interesting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Germany
Independently of the connection between PG and Lisp, many engineers are interested in Lisp because it's one of the simplest programming languages that is closely connected to the Lambda calculus.

E.g. https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/lambda/lisp.html
Priceless: http://www-math.mit.edu/~djk/calculus_beginners/chapter00/se...

0.1 What You Should Know

To study calculus it is essential that you are able to breathe. Without that ability you will soon die, and be unable to continue.

Beyond that, you will need some familiarity with two notions: the notion of a number, and that of a function.
You did say micro cap though. The ones you list are really small caps...
It's unfortunate that this sounds so tin foil hat because it is absolutely true.

There is no grand conspiracy to keep drugs illegal. There is a vast, semi well intentioned system built over a century that people adapted to over time to profit off of and now that they are profiting they are not going to give it up easily. Because of the governmental nature of the people who profit they are also very well positioned to lobby for themselves. The sheer number of small actors who benefit from this system has made it unbelievably entrenched.
The Black-Scholes Formula, explained
2) Some people have advantages. Eg Bill Gates was a millionaire before he ever finished college, many famous people had privileged upbringings.

Bill Gates was a billioniare multiple times over before he finished college, considering that he never received a degree.

Harvard did grant him an honorary law degree in 2007, but not before he acquired his wealth.
At work we joke about zip lines between buildings
Now seems like a good time to ask: does the loud, audible click of a mechanical keyboards increase the user's accuracy? Are our ears in the loop, consciously or not?

A family member had a mechanical keyboard with a cherry mx switch and I tried it out with an online typing test I'd tried before.

I could type about 20% faster than usual, which is already way up there. I easily hit 135+ in several segments[1], which is insane.

I easily felt when I was making a mistake, I had confidence in what I was typing. (because of each little click.)

But it was also really loud.

Is that necessary? Is it part of what made me fast and accurate?

The obvious way to test this which would not change the feel of the keyboard at all, would be to put in foam earbuds and then see if my typing rate or accuracy drops when I can't hear the keyboard. Unfortunately I didn't have any with me so I didn't try it.

Can someone who uses a mechanical keyboard comment on whether the audible noise from it is part of the typing loop? if someone here has the inclination and a mechanical keyboard and happens to have hearing protection with them could you try it and tell me whether your typing rate or accuracy drops if you can't hear the keyboard? (if you do an online typing test with strong hearing protection in.)

If it does not, then why aren't there any absolutely silent keyboards that just have the feel (tactile feedback) but without any loud click?

I plain can't decide if this clickety-clack noise is part of the feedback loop the typist uses or not. My family member's keyboard was incredibly loud.

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[1] I'm being very literal so just to show you, on my own keyboard now I took a screenshot 15 seconds into a test, before I made any mistakes: https://imgur.com/a/eOejvsu - this was really hard for me to do now. On my own keyboard I can average 100 wpm for 60 seconds but it's really hard: https://imgur.com/a/tClgZR4
> Paul Graham's essays are widely known among the HN user base

I'm not sure that's true anymore. I think there's a much wider variety of people here now than 10 years ago.
The best solution is to just compete with your previous self and be thankful for what you have. Easier said than done!
Illuminating analogy, thank you.
I’ve used the same pair since high school when “shirt stays” were mandatory for JROTC. Luckily I’ve grown so the longest setting is the right setting. I think it’s the best $10 I’ve ever spent; it doesn’t just keep me from re-tucking shirts, it makes me look sharper by not letting my shirt ever sag as it loosens.

Re-tucking a shirt just seems indecent to me since I was raised that to do it properly without shirt stays requires unzipping your pants, reaching through, and pulling the shirt down to remove any lack of trim to the front of your shirt.
Not OP, but I thought that response was very good. Rising above the problem first requires an accurate assessment of what the problem really is. 'Seething' over the success of others is an emotional problem, and it is likely that the root cause is fear that someone else is getting more (of whatever) than I am.

If that's true, then examining what it is that you think someone else is getting is worthwhile, as is examining what you actually already have. Comparisons are appropriate to make sure your expectations are calibrated to something more realistic than feelings.
I don't know why this was downvoted. As connectivity gets more and more pervasive my laptop is increasingly only a front to a cloud instance somewhere.

20 years ago I was running an e-mail client on my laptop. Now most of the client runs on Google's servers.
Interesting, AC uses a massive amount of electricity during the summer in Illinois, a place which doesn't spare on cold winters.
They need to stop slapping their name on every product launch. Look at Amazon, they have a lot of white label brands and almost none of the customers have a clue they are purchasing Amazon's own brands.

This clearly isn't the only problem Google is having. They need a top and mid level management purge, and new leadership needs to figure out why the hell they need over 200,000 employees and contractors to run a search engine and Youtube.
Could scraping through TOR be risky if site has different content depending on the visitor's IP? Or does TOR allow you to control for that (e.g. get only IPs from a specific location)?
This seems like the most rational stance to me now.

I had a pastor once attempt to teach me that all animals are basically robots, and that this justifies treating them however we want. In his mind, we're the only ones actually 'awake'. I suspect a whole lot of people think like this on some level in order to justify all the ongoing barbaric treatment they willingly endorse or carry out.

Hearing that shook me up for a bit, but in the long run it accelerated the process of me abandoning religion.
That may be how you choose your positions on issues, but it's not universal. I think circumcision is wrong and would not circumcise my child, but I was excellently circumcised and don't miss any sensitivity I hypothetically would have had.
I have ~6 years of experience since graduating, so I can give you my experience and what I am currently going through.

Two of us were hired as actuaries at the same time fresh out of college to work in the same department. Immediately, it was clear that he was much more competent, smarter, and and overall better employee than I was. The bosses would consistently praise him, call him smart, etc etc while I got average performance reviews. As someone coming out of college with a degree in mathematics, where I was constantly called 'the smart one' in my friend group, it was brutal. I was not mentally prepared to fall behind a peer like this in such an obvious manner. When I wasn't sulking, I was angry. I was the smart one, or so I had been told.

It took a change in perspective to get myself to a better place. I deleted social media and stopped comparing myself to other people. I started congratulating my coworker when he did well, because honestly, he deserves it. His success does not have to be my failure, working at a company does not have to be a zero-sum game.

Getting to this better place has helped me tremendously in my professional and personal life. I am a very high performer now, have a great girlfriend, great friends, a great job, everything I could ask for. I learned that it does not pay to stress about being the best, because you will never be the best, and if you are, you need to find a different company, friends, whatever.
Why? Why not kill it humanely first?

We don't boil cows/pigs/chicken alive.
This is the theme of Breaking Bad. :)
Landfill is underrated and recycling overrated
If we were going for "hard sci fi", you'd need some kind of drone or something to provide the chase cam perspective which seems like it would be a massive liability in combat.

I agree a virtual environment would be preferable, although rather than representing the surroundings visually (which has a lot to distract from tactical decision-making), I'm picturing something like a higher-definition version of Elite Dangerous' IFF interface (with the little dots showing their relative angle to the ship).
> In 10 - 15 years you'll have a small fortune.

More specifically, if you invest $150k per year for 15 years and get a 7% return, you'll end up with right around $4 million.
In the "kind of does what you need" case, I'd write my own but maybe borrow ideas from the original.

The moment you fork something, you've created work for yourself when you want to upgrade it.

That may be fine for a prototype. But I've seen it done on software that lasts 5-10 years and those are always the things that turn into maintenance headaches and blockers to unrelated upgrades.
When I was a child, black newborns were circumcised without their parents being asked.
I can't open my 14" laptop on a regular airplane seat. My (much slower) 11" fits comfortably.

I guess I should move to 15+" when I finally move completely to business class. Until then, I'll prefer to travel light.

And I really miss my first-gen Acer Aspire One.
Considering 70% of US population is overweight, and 30% is obese, I would say the foods I listed are addictive. Regardless of definitions of addictiveness, I still think education is a better force than prohibition for most vices.
This is all you need:

Replace the derivative with the little triangle.

Replace the integral with the sum sign that looks like that weird capital E.

Then just bash numbers into your calculator.

Your professor will have to give you a C.

If you are a good liar, you can hide your work, and then just con your way into a cheat sheet for all the theory garbage.

PS:

Newton was really really bad.

Infinity sign means Snake.

Eulers constant means throw snake into boiling oil.
My two cents on Stadia: people don't like platforms that challenge Steam.

Steam was the first big digital games marketplace, and people have been using it for a long time. They've amassed many games, the future playability of which depends on the continued availability of Steam to host the code.

If you threaten Steam, you threaten a lot of hardcore gamer's libraries. Any platform that tries to compete is always controversial.

That's why I think some may be rooting for failure, formed through anecdotal observation.
> .. as long as you never change endianness, structure packing, word alignment requirements, and always use types with explicit sizes.

#pragma pack(1) and byteswapping solve all this and neither are more work than specifying some intermediate format and calling some external tool in your build system. In C++ you can make types that swap automatically if required.

> And you have to keep the data in the structure itself, so as soon as you hit a pointer you need to write explicit serialisation.

I have yet to see a serialization format that does this well and quickly. Just make a new message type for it that follows the first.
That's a false dichotomy. Just because a system is profitable doesn't mean it will be moving forward or that there aren't more effective operating models out there. Long-term success of a company relies on its ability to adapt. IMO this kind of development cycle has worked up till now, but moving forward, I'd hope they're much more thoughtful and methodical about what they choose to launch and how as it is in fact hurting their brand.
> you can’t spread your bets widely enough to hedge them

What does hedging mean in startup investing? I'm used to the meaning in securities where you take an inverse position to limit losses.
Exactly; I don't think many folks deny Google has had a bit of an issue with shutting down widely used products after they stagnate, but this was none of the above. It was a beta that had "10,000+" installs according to Play Store, which I am guessing that places the active users a fair bit lower.

Products like Blog Compass are not new. Google has probably had hundreds of these smaller, more experimental products that got canned after a while, like Sidewiki (remember that?) but until relatively recently it's never been used as a sign that Google is unreliable; in hindsight most of them made sense. If I had to guess, I think the continued soreness from a few big ones like G+ and Reader have just left many jaded.

I mean I was bitten by the G+ shutdown, but honestly, looking for things to complain about is really worse than just beating a dead horse. In other words, you may as well just complain about the one that really frustrates you, since I doubt anyone here actually used Blog Compass.

Disclosure, I am a Googler, had no idea what Blog Compass was until today.
sometimes ego suspension fixes the problem.
>Because they produce value in the real world by producing something or making you more knowledgeable or capable.

So there's no value in happiness and joy according to you? If something doesn't produce something or teach you something it is worthless?

If your view on life is that bleak then I don't know that there's anything I can say to help you.
Host a couch surfer from https://couchsurfing.org, especially one a less-than-rich country.

I hosted a person from poor country in my San Francisco apartment. They had traveled here on a paid trip for a tech conference. They asked where they could buy food for less than one dollar per meal. It turned out they only had $6 to pay for their entire stay in San Francisco, including public transit fair for a return to the airport (which costs almost $10). I don't stress about finding money to pay for food or public transit, and occasionally being the one who has more helps me balance out feelings envy when I see people who have more than I do.
I probably should have said “diversify” instead.
How Much Do Airplane Parts Cost? From $4 Amenity Kits to $1M First-Class Seats
Nothing tinfoil hat about it. Drug dealers & cartels are well-known for using force to maintain monopolies.
In some US cities, San Francisco for example, possession and consumption of drugs is also basically decriminalized, just like in Portugal.

You can openly shot it up your veins in front of cops and nothing will happen to you.

I look forward to more cities adopting this policy of tacit decriminalization.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimdalrympleii/public-d...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/San-F...
This looks great so far. Eager to hear from all the people who are going to point out the other platforms that are similar so I can learn about them too.
Who is doing all that betting, really? I'm pretty excited about the service, honestly (and the prospect of game streaming services in general).

Given the partnerships and buyin they have developed with game publishers and studios, the infrastructure investment necessary for this kind of service, it would seem Google is actually betting pretty heavily on it.

The commentary on every new google product launch is the same tiring canards about sunlit services... at this point, most of it feels like astro-turfer generated FUD.
Requiring a family to wait until a boy is past puberty to consider a circumcision would be harmful, because the procedure is more difficult to perform, and poses a more difficult (and memorable) recovery period.

Parents have autonomy to make medical decisions for their infant children, and many are forced to make significantly more difficult decisions than a routine circumcision.

I was curious about the CIRP site you linked to and the policy statements they are referencing. I double checked just the first referenced policy statement, which is from the Australian College of Paediatrics. [1]

Interestingly, they reference a statement from 1996 which is no longer the current position. Evidence for the medical benefits of circumcision have gotten stronger, and the procedure has gotten safer and more likely to be performed with anesthesia. The updated statement [2] while still not advocating for routine circumcision for all male children, is, in particular, missing the passage which CIRP specifically highlighted in the 1996 position.

This calls into question whether CIRP is interested in presenting a factual list of current statements, or if they have a particular agenda they are attempting to serve in presenting cherry-picked out-dated statements with a specific viewpoint.

[1] - http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/acp1996/

[2] - https://www.racp.edu.au/docs/default-source/advocacy-library...
Same here. Some time in the past hearing of a new Google product got me excited. I'd sign up for beta, get my friends onboard etc etc, now I just think "oh something they'll shut down" and largely ignore it.
>you can build bases, Terra from areas, plant crops etc

This reminds me of the same confusion I had with Starbound: why do I have all these features that require me to settle down in one place to get the most from them when the game wants me to explore the far reaches of space? These things seem to pull in opposite directions.

Starbound at least lets you put a teleporter in your base so you can always return quickly no matter where in the universe you are.
I'm over here still using 1Password 6 Standalone... Subscriptions are not something I am going to do.
I'll be looking to migrate all my keys to BitWarden in the near future.
Depends on the library. If it's a good one, makes sense to adopt, I sometimes do: https://github.com/Const-me/nanovg

Some libraries have hundreds of megabytes of their own dependencies hard to remove.

Some libraries have very low code quality, makes it expensive to modify.

Some libraries are very hard to build, e.g. I've never managed to build Skia. When you can't build it you can't adopt it.

You should also pay attention to license, there're GPL licensed libraries out there, if you'll try to use or adapt them you'll have to open source your complete software under the same license.
I think that idea isn't really viable until we have a serious microkernel contender. We'll see how hurd goes, but personally, I'd put more stock in fuscia. A microkernel with a massive comlamy behind it (which employs much of the best software engineers there are and fully intends to bring it to market) is a seriously cool thought. Maybe we'll see debian 11/fuscia some time (though arch will still be better).
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It absolutely is standard in germany:
German Environment Agency does it this way [0]
Fraunhofer Society does it this way [1]
German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy does it this way[2]
Agora Energywende (important think tank) does it this way [3]
AG Energiebilanzen does it this way [4]

[0] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/bild/strommix-in-deutschland
[1]
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/de/documents/p...
[2] https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Energiedaten/ener...
[3] https://www.agora-energiewende.de/service/agorameter/chart/p...
[4] https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/
Accessibility and user experience are base level skills for calling yourself a front-end developer. If you don’t have them then the products you build will be unusable and illegal.

Or, the put it another way, full stack is a reformulation of jack-of-all-trades.
Drug use is seen as a moral failing that must be punished, not as an illness that should be treated.
"and the strictness of regulations"

Are you saying we should have laxer standards?
From Fear to Fitness: Ice Baths for Cold Water Immersion
But thanks to Reaganomics, prison turned to profits

'Cause free labor's the cornerstone of US economics

'Cause slavery was abolished, unless you are in prison

You think I am bullshittin', then read the 13th Amendment

Involuntary servitude and slavery it prohibits

That's why they givin' drug offenders time in double digits

Killer Mike, "Reagan"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
I will never sell my 103UB realforce 55g weighted keyboard. It is the best keyboard I have ever owned.
If I understand bitcoin correctly (I probably don't); Mining a block is finding some numbers (maybe they all have to be prime?) whose product is a large number ending in a specified number of zeros. Hence the zero sum game comment :)
This is where I've landed as well. Earlier in my 20s I thought it was required for me to work on side projects that I have zero real interest in just so that I can keep up with my peers who were clearly better than me, when in reality I despise the idea of working on anything software-related outside of work. This limits me to being an above-average/good engineer rather than an exemplary one, but I'm comfortable with that. It just takes some time for you to figure out what you want out of your career.
It's the visual equivalent of a duet sung by Gilbert Gotfried and Fran Drescher.
Take a deep breath, and a moment to realize that you still make n times more money than the average person and are better off than, hmm, 90% of the average people.
Came across this just when I was looking to deep dive into calculus, typed lambda calculus, differentiation, etc. I somehow have a hunch learning these, will help me down my road on language design and implementing compilers.

Only midway, but hands down this is the best material I came across on the subject. As light-hearted as much as detailed.

Update: Thank you, all. I guess the dots would never connect down my road. But I'm midway and the topic's still interesting enough for me to keep going.