skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Germany has/had extensive coal production (complete exit by 2038 IIRC) with lots of employment tied to it; of course that has subsidies.

I get that and I am glad it happened, it's just way too late for my liking. At least it's done, I can agree on that.

>That sounds more like a conspiracy theory. You don't stop stuff for being "too flexible" but because of other problem, e.g. offshore vs. onshore, transmission to the south, environmental concerns, wanting a different mix of renewables etc. .

You can't have energy produced disappear. So if you overproduce, it has to go somewhere and you need to stop production to not fry your energy grid. If you overproduce, and your coal energy can't shut down, so your network becomes more green/clean, the obvious choice is to shut down the flexible generator, i.e. wind energy.

>Yeah, so? Consumer electricity prices were never even mentioned in the "end-goal"?

That is true, but the EEG is making renewable energies more expensive for end-consumers. And I think that is the main point of this article.
One challenge here is seen in the types of articles researhers in comp sci have published over the years. I believe that there has been a massive decline in case studies and field trials of software and a rise in analytic and empirical algorithm development. To unlock the super power for people we will need more good hci and the wheel will have to turn in research practice once more.
Riot OS – Real-Time, MMU optional and threads
Why cars and cities are a bad match (2016)
It may not be quite the same thing, but this reminds me of Venkatesh Rao's "Posture talk" from his Gervais Principle series:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/11/11/the-gervais-principle-...
It would have been called Ciara even if the storm was named by the Met Office. The names are unified and a list is published every September:

https://www.countryliving.com/uk/news/a28924357/met-office-s...

> The names are a mix of British, Irish and Dutch monikers.
I am wondering how people deal with complicated domain models, I have many objects that have a lot of properties (from 10 to 30), in Clojure I should represent them somehow, probably with maps, the problem is I would have to memorize all the keys... How this is approached in Clojure in a proper "clojurian way", that is without doing something like using Java classes?
> nuclear power is green and just better than renewable and coal

How do you arrive at that conclusion? Better in what regard?

AFAIK nuclear power has all sorts of problems, the main one being that nobody knows what to do about the waste. Building nuclear power plants isn’t exactly carbon emission free either.
Recruiters sometimes look at github. I've certainly had random "I'm a recruiter and I've seen your github project X" spam in the past.
Bear in mind that the definition of "mode" includes a subjective part in its definition, i.e. an interface is in a mode if the user thinks of the input in a state as the same action with different results than the same input on a different state. [1] For example, single click on a web link navigates to a new page, but single click on a desktop folder merely selects it.

But this does not necessarily applies to content. If you have two different apps, with very different media and data (e.g. one is a spreadsheet, the other a slide presentation), they don't represent different modes if they respond the same to the same actions. You may have a zoom button in both which works the same, a similar color palette, similar scroll bars...

This is the reason why GUIs are composed with a small set of widgets, and these represent standardised behaviours that work essentially the same across all applications that use them (and also, this is why it's such a terrible idea to build widgets that deviate from these expected behaviours). Tesla should know, he was there when they invented them. [2]

You have a point that it's too easy to find applications that don't follow the standards and reinvent the wheel for no benefit, and also that the standards only extend to low-level interactions - before mobile OSs, there never was a unified metaphor for reading, storing and sharing information at the end-user space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface)#Definiti...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20040511051426/https://computerh...
ScmRTOS: Single-Chip Microcontroller Real-Time Operating System
I mean, I can be more lenient. Europe had good researchers. They were the Athens, between the Germans ones of the 20-50's, and Turing, there was a lot. The Russians got a lot done too. But again, all research. Nothing profitable. It was never self propagating. Rome was self propagating, they conquered. Athens, only sustained intellectualism until it bled away.

(I'm not counting the mathematicians of the 1700s that did amazing work, I'm referring to modern Europe and the US, 20th century and beyond)

It's kind of sad that a huge market for businessmen is taking an American business, and just doing the same thing in Europe or Latin America. It's, it's sad. There's uh, absolutely no foreign competition in most situations that we have to meet. The ratio is clearly wrong, and we compete with more companies than we can found so Europe should statistically be represented in the other direction. It's not even that profitable, American consumers are a gold mine they're so price insensitive. And the modern world is mostly what was invented in the roaring 20s in the US, and computing technology that was developed almost entirely in the US.

(The Japanese were trailing along in the 80s I guess, but they were mostly our China, they were just a factory line that we abandoned when China caught up and their GDP has stagnated for 20 years. They had a few great companies, and they still do. South Korea is the only actual one that goes toe-to-toe but they're too small to profit off 300 million people like we can, per capita I do think they are more entrepreneurial and inventive than us though)

There's not even VC money in Europe it's almost impossible to get funded, you need American or Chinese money which means they own most of the business anyway. Like in the US, take the money away, you can get started again. But in Europe? You better buy a plane ticket. No one will fund you. The non-tech companies are mostly incumbents. Or brands like WeWork that are much more expensive than other co-working spaces but they have the brand to hold them up.
absolutely. I'm telling people to always use `git add -p` to help them produce self-contained commits.

And if you screw something up, there's always `git commit --amend` or the sledgehammer of `git rebase -i`.

Note: I'm not advocating doing this to public history, but I'm saying: Use these tools in order to create self-contained changes on your end before committing them to public history.

When I'm doing archeology trying to find out why Foo is doing Bar instead of Baz, I don't want to know that back then, 10 years ago, you fixed a typo or added a "forgotten file".
Yeah, I quite like the look of it. I’m still scared of actually running it myself though since the master node requirements are a few servers. I guess I need to look into it again.
The Future of Coding Is ‘No Code’
Domain Logic and SQL (2003)
That’s crazy. I use Griddy in Texas and my price has been generally below $0.02c/kWh the past two months.
Ask HN: Starting an LLC or LP as a Foreigner in USA?
Stripe Atlas and Firstbase.co offers foreigners to start a company in USA.

Is it profitable and Sustainable ?
‘Root cause’ is neither redundant nor simply a ‘corporate buzzword.’ It represents a clear concept of a causal chain with an underlying factor that gates all other contributing causes. The term has been around for a century and ‘root cause analysis’ is a formal construct in a number of professional contexts, including analysis of aviation incidents.
I wonder why the comparison table does not include FreeRTOS or Zephyr.

From a high level view, I don't really what's really different for RIOT OS
>Aren't air pumps less power efficient then ground ones?

Not modern ones. When outside temperature is above 5C, they're actually more efficient.

> Also, is it possible for air pump to heat a liquid in pipes? I mean can I have air pump that provides heating to the floor?

Yes, via a heat exchanger. This isn't new techonology, I have a 10 year old version of this warmning my house as I type: https://www.nibe.eu/sv-se/produkter/varmepumpar/luft-vattenv...

>I know air pumps only as air conditioners and they just blew warm air around, which is not that comfortable if you are just where the warm wind blows :)

The pump linked above connect to the water based heating system in my house. Works like a charm and I heat ~260 m2 (badly isolated) with 1500 kWh per month (wintertime)
Forgetting Curve
Ask HN: Would you be able to explain a trillion dollar GREEN company idea?
For example: recycling.

Current recycling is far from optimal. A company could exploit this and raise recycling to a whole new standard.

Its raw material costs would be zero or very low, its logistics costs would be high, but by using technology and automation it could definitely become (very) profitable.

And to take on the task of retransforming, by extensive chemical engineering, all the discarded products into vanilla raw material, and to exploit the non-renewable rest as a source of energy for the whole system by burning it.

Any other ideas, guys ?
The author sure lost me at "the delightfully redundant root cause" (the last two words in italics). Root cause might be redundant, perhaps even delightfully so, but only if causation chains didn't exist. Almost seems as if "delightfully redundant" might be a buzzword phrase that The Atlantic writers use to pretend to be adults. This may be a bit harsh, but a text about bad language is just asking for scrutiny. (and "glasshousian" would make a fine addition to the arsenal important-sounding words, as I'm sure this comment will end up an incomprehensible mess when I hit reply)

What disappointed me more, though, is that the examples are just not very strong. I was hoping for examples far more juicy and over the top than the tired "disrupt" and "pivot".
On the other other hand, something only needs to be able to eat us to be a threat. A slightly better bacteria could count.

I wouldn’t call that “grey goo”, but the threat model is a spectrum not a Boolean.
Collab between Samsung + Microsoft + UofW + U of Maryland that is also trying CheckedC.

https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc-clang

https://github.com/Microsoft/checkedc
Homeland Security Algorithm Revokes Visa of War Crimes Investigator Eyal Weizman
Yeah. This is where I find libraries like Retrofit / Refit suit the model will. Very easy to just declare clients. I like using the models generated by OpenAPI tooling in conjunction with those type of libraries to build clients quickly while being able to maintain control over how the HTTP calls are happening.

I'm bearish on 3rd party SDKs for apis these days as most are fairly thin wrappers around apis that don't add much value but give you little to no control over how the actual http calls are being made.
> An enslaved person can't give consent.

Yes they can. Consent means you agree to do something: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consent

Prisoners are effectively slaves and they frequently consent to have sex with each other.
FWIW, there are systems/installations in Germany for having different electricity prices at day and at night (source: my home). There used to be a large difference (like 10 vs 20 cent/kWh according to landlords), but now it's pretty insignificant with 23 vs 25 cent/kWh.
Bitcoin Halving Has Not yet Been Priced In, and These 5 Arguments Prove That
I believe that this usage is archaic in British business English rather than an innovation! However, it was conserved in business English in India and some other countries, and perhaps the increased interaction between Americans and Indians and in the software industry means you're just exposed to it more often?
whoosh :-)
Alignment: Chaotic Good!

Those places are fun to work in, especially if you have already found another job and you are counting the days before you walk out the door.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10022729

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411075
So one person uses a different heat source. So what? Why is that important? Nobody else has to just because they do.
I've seen some startling performance claims about LMDB, but don't know anyone using it.

Why isn't LMDB used as an engine for e.g. MySQL? Why, for example, did Facebook go with LevelDB in MyRocks instead of LMDB?
Wouldn't work if you were implementing a library like Pandas when the data can be almost any tabular structure that you need to clean and wrangle into shape before you can be sure what types you're dealing with.
Google teaches AI to play the game of chip design
Maybe off topic, but isn't that true for a lot of so-called tech start-ups in general? E.g. companies like Voi or bird? At least from the outside it looks a lot like the company with the biggest marketing budget and best marketing team wins. So basically the company that raises the most VC money wins. So a different kind of marketing.

One example I know that played out exactlly like that, Flixbus. The operations part comes from a company, meinfernbus.de, which was acquired by Flixbus (officially they merged) after Flixbus won the marketing battle over customers and had more VC money. The same happened in other countries, e.g. Austria. And Flixbus was totally aware of that and had a marketing strategy to match. Like buying AdWords against their competition and such things.

Valid strategy, but by no means a tech business.
At First Glance, a Rendering Flaw; Ultimately, a Compiler Bug
Agree on this...
I don't get it. Why would they pay CO2 tariff for heating with wind powered electricity?
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/3ZDN9RFsBh

This might be simpler.
Does insurance cover IVF in India?
I would read the extensive list of features and look at the code first before hurling content-free FUD. It even supports Arduino too.

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/cpu
SSL Certificate Validity Will Be Limited to One Year by Apple’s Safari Browser
yes but the line is not assisted suicide or not. it's "unnecessary care or not", at least in france. I don't know how it is in the us considering the cost such care would entail..
> All areas of practice have their own jargon, words that superficially sound similar to regular English but actually have specific insider meaning

Related: coverage of the recent cum-ex scandals has often included the factoid that "cum-ex" is from the Latin for "with-without".

Of course this isn't true. While cum is Latin for "with", the Latin for "without" is sine -- ex is Latin for "from". Instead, as used in the name of the scandal and the operations behind it, ex is ordinary English financial jargon for "without".
Bitcoin has a great use case as internet native money, which can be thrown around programmatically, without being reliant on any private, corporate, or nation controlled services. Considering how much of a shitshow the payments industry is, I think this is a huge opportunity for bitcoin. Sure there are cases where regular payment methods are preferable, perhaps even most, but that doesn't mean that there is no place for true peer-to-peer permissionless money transfers.
> massively increases the number of people on benefits

You have a very different definition of 'massively' than I do.

> You've just invented tax, congratulations.

Positive taxes can balance out negative taxes, ~tada~.
Amb
bullshit; Agree on that "lower-level" do not always respond linear to better wage, however that's not the only thing of motivation. What about trainings? Holidays? And not the stick...
When does he catch flak? Leo is one guy, you could list a whole bunch of ceos and famous people's private lives as counter-examples. Bill gates has been married to Melinda forever.

That story is an advertisement for Leonardo, not a fundamental truth about human sex lives.
x1000 this!
Lots of EU and German government decisions seem to be made for PR reasons rather than for the benefit of their citizens.
> But for computer scientists, modeful editing may be better. The article mentions modeless editing to be better for no scientific users only, not necessarily for everyone.

That's why they kept on investigating, and concluded that modes are bad for anyone; as long as they are human, using modes increase their rates of error. Jef Raskin went so far as to invent quasimodes, to get the benefits of modal interfaces without the burden on short-term memory. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface)#Quasimod...)
"And here lies the final problem. Germany taxes natural gas very lightly. "

Cannot cut into the action of Putin and Gazprom Schroeder.

[We can bet that this entirely correct comment will be deleted by the censors.]
Technically attempting treatment should be part of that checklist.

Just like palliative treatments, this is ultimate last resort of exclusion.

Presuming there is any reason it's depression, and one of the risks of depression treatments is increase in risk of suicide. Could lead to the same end, or even kill the patient anyway with other side effects. And when do you decide "garbage" therapies like counseling or socialization fail?

In the case above, the problem is that treatment requires the person to be committed, and person committed is declared not of sound mind. That's the catch-22 of euthanasia laws. You would have to change the part "of sound mind".

And then the doctors could be sued anyway, because some alleged treatment was missed. Either you trust the doctors made a diagnosis correctly or not.
A team reborn after the fiery departure of its misanthropic guru
That sounds unaligned. Please report to the Alignment Center at your earliest convenience. Escorts will be available for your use in 20 seconds.
>And simply increasing savings doesn't automatically lead to more investment

Yep, but in the longer term (decades), all other things being equal a country that is saving 2% will have less investment taking place than that same country saving 5%.

> Banks most reliant on retail deposits have the strongest incentive to convert their EL (excess liquidity), created by the APP, into loans - and our results document that they did so.

One problem is we don't have clear insight into how risky these loans are. If a bank is incentivised to give out loans just to avoid having to pay the central bank interest, it may end up taking on riskier loans than it otherwise would have (if it didn't think they were too risky, it would already have made them). And even if this is not the case, and it's only giving loans because now even a low return of e.g. 0.5% looks good, there's a limit on how cheaply it can offer loans because it still has to cover all its own costs.

>Isn't the problem that the market rate would lead us to deflation?

Empirically it's not clear that would definitely lead to worse outcomes. Europe and the US managed to sustain high rates of growth during deflationary times throughout the 19th century, and while there were crashes during that period they weren't as severe as the Great Depression. In the short run it would definitely be painful, as savings rates increased, but there's a hard cap on this. E.g. everybody needs to eat, they're not going to starve themselves for a week just because food will be marginally cheaper next week. Like how people kept buying computers during the 2000s even though the price of compute was halving every year.

There's an interesting argument for why deflation is bad that I read in a labour economics textbook once, termed wage stickiness. Essentially, if there's deflation we might see labour prices falling every year (but falling less than other prices, so purchasing power still increases). Wage floors (minimum wages, inflexible contracts) however prevent this from happening, prevent the market from clearing. This is one reason unemployment was so bad during the great depression: wage floors introduced by the government to stabilise things ended up preventing wages from adjusting to the new price levels, causing unemployment as the value of good produced wasn't enough to pay those wages. Imagine if the price of every good fell by 90% today: suddenly a $10 minimum wage would be the equivalent of a $100 minimum wage in real terms, causing massive unemployment.

Politically, that's a hard problem to solve, so I can see why many people prefer inflation.
It's a DeskMini A300, so not an official "Mini PC", but bunch of bits stuck together. Still has 1.5Tb of disk space though - turns out that you can get 500Gb HDDs for free, since no-one wants them!
Thought-Controlled Music via CV
"Planning for your learning will be relentless as your knowledge (not information) will be manageable"

I think a proof reader might be valuable for your site, I've no idea what the above sentence, and several like it, really says.
> When an Air Force missile crashed, it “impacted with the ground prematurely.”

When I was a youngster in the Army Cadets in Australia I was told by one of the regular Army seargeants that no one in his company was ever “lost”. They could be “temporarily spatially displaced” but getting lost was strictly forbidden.
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Well, the UK is apparently not very interested in unifying things, nor in being part of the EU...
What does 'willing to pay' mean, exactly? Surely they're not turning down a raise out of stubbornness. And pay of that caliber is not often hourly.
Ask YC: would you fund a founder with high school?
I observed that most of the founders you pick have a good education.

I only have a high school.
Would that affect my application?
I really, sincerely hope you will consider educating yourself on what ALEC is about.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/hidden-history-ale...

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/alecs-horror-show-is-comin...
I can see part of your point. The title is slightly awkwardly worded - maybe because the author of the article isn't a native English speaker?

Instead, perhaps:

'Why won't Germans heat their homes with free electricity?'

...or maybe all of it be rephrased a little:

'Why won't Germans heat their homes with electricity, even when it is free?'

(I think the second version best captures the two questions dealt with within the article - the German propensity to heat their homes with natural gas, and the odd taxation system meaning that 'free' electricity isn't really free.)
The library ecosystem is accessible from the many compile-to-JVM languages.

Half tongue-in-cheek, half serious: not having Java's dev mindshare is actually a benefit.
Yeah a guy working for an organization who would outright murder you for leaking sensitive information sure wouldn’t bother covering his tracks while leaking sensitive information.

Or, you know, this data was copied to a USB by Wikileaks at some point before publishing.
Ask HN: Would you use an app for discovering/searching for shortcuts?
I’m researching if there would be an interest in an application that you can search and discover keyboard shortcuts in.
Eg. I know that the specific shortcut exists but I don’t know the combination. I want a quick easy way to just execute it. For me, this is common for rarely used commands. But it can also be used to discover new ones.

What I’m building is a mix between Spotlight/Alfred and a cheatsheet. You have your application in focus, the shortcut application pops up and you search for a specific command. Hit “Enter” or the key-combination to execute the action.

I have a gif demonstration over at: https://burk.app
I wonder why we even name storms in the first place. All it does is feed the 24 hour news monster
I agree that Notion has a different direction, it just occurs to me that you could do that in something like Notion, which also has other features
Or VERY high framerates.