skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's going on in Queensland, Australia? "793g Carbon intensity" seems insanely high, especially as compared with Norway/France/Sweden (at 24-41g carbon intensity).

Does anyone have insight into this? I've never pictured Australia as a big contributor to pollution.
So are you saying that when a driver of car encounters slower traffic they collide with it? I don't think that's the case. In fact I've been driving my bike daily to work for 13 years, and never been hit from behind by a car. I've had a few close calls and they've always been on intersections with cars coming from the front turning left or from the sides. So velocity and acceleration are not important when sharing the road. Vehicles of different kinds have always shared the road without any problem. If you encounter a vehicle slower than you, you just need to slow down, adapt your speed and pass if safely to do so. It's that easy. By the way, those countries already had cyclists before they kicked them off the roads. Do they have more now or less? Also how do cyclists interact with other cyclists? don't they have to follow any rules either? don't they need any skills?
Context Managers in Python
Nuclear power is, by far, safer than fossil fuel power. The problem is that it has a branding deficit.

The BP logo is a green-yellow sun; it's happy, because it's capitalism-- shiny and happy on the surface, and please don't read the fine print-- whereas most nuclear projects require government involvement, and government doesn't invest money into advertising or branding, preferring quiet competence (when you hear a lot about your government, that's usually because someone screwed up). So, people have a relative over-focus on the problems with nuclear power (which are serious, and need to be addressed) compared to other sources of energy.
By some definition of "elected"
Please, use more words: How do we vote them out of office? How do we recall them or call for votes of no-confidence? You seem to think appointments by elected officials are themselves elections, but there's several hundred years of constitutional democratic history suggesting otherwise.
The problem with this is that car drivers usually just assume that the cyclists could just safely use the bike lane, while in reality many bike-lanes are statistically more dangerous than just driving on the road.

In Germany there used to be a a general obligation to use bike-lanes when present, which was overturned by court, because of the safety argument.

As a cyclist I'm harassed at least once a weak by drivers who think I should use the non-obligatory bike-lane. This makes it very difficult to consciously chose the safer road instead of the (too narrow, too badly lit, too close to foot-traffic, too damaged, full of glass shards) bike-lane.
Exactly, the exchange can work just fine processing each message in order without worrying about absolute time. Absolute time is needed for reporting or auditing purposes.
What are the odds that big tech and big brother are in bed creating a huge dog and pony show to counter the post-Snowden “going dark” reality?

Given: The public knows about mass surveillance. Big tech deploys supposedly unbreakable end to end encryption. The public feels more safe and protected from Big Brother yet again.

Theory: Meanwhile, behind the scenes, government and big tech have, in secret, the ability to recover such encrypted comms. The DOJ initiative would then be part of an elaborate psyop to further deceive people into believing that FB “has their back”.

I’m going to guess that third parties have extensively reverse engineered apps such as fb messenger to ensure that it is essentially impossible for the above to be the case, since E2EE occurs at the endpoints.

Can an encryption expert weigh in here?

Edit: this also raises general concerns I have about trusting an App Store to install what is supposed to be installed, and not a backdoor’ed version of an app. Something like: Let the reverse engineers have an unmodified app, while distributing alternate versions to other unsuspecting users.
Do Nuclear plants really create that many jobs though? Sure it's labor intensive during construction but it's highly specialized work and doesn't exactly create a lot of working class jobs. The key part of the green new deal is the "new deal" bit, not the "green" bit. The "Green" bit is just a good way of spending the money if you are doing a "new deal". If you don't get many jobs per dollar, it's a bad deal.
IBM sell services (aka "Cloud Paks") that you can run on anything that can run OpenShift be it your own servers or another cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Not sure what you mean, the C# compiler source code I looked at seems to be using a lot of mutable data structures.

Of course immutable data structures, like training wheels, make some things easier. You don't have to worry about certain classes of errors, because they just can't happen. It's the same with garbage collection, you can stop worrying about managing memory, for the most part.

However, if you can't do your job without these helpers at all, that's going to be a problem. At some point, there will be something that your garbage collector can not clean up for you. There will be state that is going to be mutated, whether you like it or not. Your brain should be prepared for that.
> kind of an indentured servant tied to a visa

indentured servant with a 1%er salary?
Perhaps you didn't read it?
We don't try to compete with the quality of top open source software. Our stack fundamentally consists of:

C# 8.0 / .NET Core 3.x / AspNetCore / Blazor / SQLite

Of these, SQLite is arguably the most stellar example of what open source software can provide to the world.

Everything else in our stack consists of in-house primitives built upon these foundational components.
> they could bucket orders by e.g. second resolution and then execute the orders in a bucket in random ordering. This will give predictable ordering at second resolution but would make front-running or racing impossible as the sub-second ordering would be unpredictable.

In that case I as a broker who knows that one of my clients has just channeled a big, market-moving buy order of some stock through me to the exchange would simply inject a few hundred of smaller orders that buy the same stock, but with a low limit price that's slightly above the current price, but likely below the price the stock will be traded at after the big buy order has been executed. Statistically I will then get half of my orders executed before the big one hits, the other half of them will be ignored because the limit has been exceeded, which results in a nice, nearly risk-free profit for me. I could even try to put some sell orders in there with a sell limit slightly above the estimated price after execution of the big order in an attempt to sell the same stock that I just bought in the same batch that I got them.

Similar stuff can also be done without direct knowledge about some big order coming through, but just on the assumption of such orders being placed into the market by various participants due to external events. The game just moves from being one in which everyone tries to beat the clock into one in which everyone tries to predict the orders in the next "execution batch" and how to best generate your own orders to profit from that. Since that's still a race against time (there's a limited window of time in which you need to get your orders in) the entire aspect of getting your orders to the exchange quickly is still relevant, hence there will still be massive investments into that. It's just that in such a case, you add another aspect into which people can invest massively: compute power to perform as many statistical simulations of the next execution batches' contents as possible in as little time as possible. I guess such statistical prediction stuff is already being done by HFTs today, but due to there being no clearly delimited time window granted to the HFTs that would be large enough to do very complex simulations, I guess this complex statistical modeling is done on larger timescales, like to devise trading strategies over weeks, months or years, and the modeling that produces the orders that quickly react to sudden market events is probably pretty simple because it must be absurdly fast, producing results in microseconds.

So what you would get is something very much like the Bitcoin blockchain hash race, just not for something as trivial as hashes, but for the best possible advance simulation of the next "order block". Doesn't matter in the end, though, because both are embarrassingly parallel problems and thus can and will easily be blown up to consume as much energy and hardware as you can provide. The one thing that prevents this from happening in our current trading system is the continuity of the timescale - which is exactly what you'd like to eliminate!
Ear plugs don't work well with low frequencies
Why 20-30 years? Russia started building of Belarus nuclear plant at 2011. It already works and will be completely finished at 2022. Is US nuclear industry significantly behind Russia?
I retract what I said. You were right.
If you don't know that it exists then you'll have to find it the first time, but you have that problem with python standard library modules too.

Except that, if its in the standard library, you don't have to choose between multiple implementations. I have written scripts faster than I have chosen dependencies.
I use firefox with cookies being cleared on every session and I get exactly the same behaviour described by the parent post. You may want to check whether your cookies are actually cleared.
There's defmt which I think i think is even better (it implements basically the same thing as I have used in a commercial C++ embedded project for a few years, and was sorely missing any open source equivilent when I was first trying to implement it). formatting strings on an embedded device is pointless and wasteful. Heck, formatting log lines before they are displayed to the user is actively harmful to interpreting them! Defmt basically gives embedded projects structured logging and a substantial bandwidth, cpu, and space overhead gain.

https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/defmt/
> costs increase rapidly as you attempt to reach 100% clean energy.

France has been running at 75%-80% nuclear for 30 years.
> Please help me, what real value does an investment like this yield for the economy as a whole?

Think of it instead like parcel deliveries. It should be plainly clear that delivering a package in two days is more valuable than delivering a package in a week, that delivering a package overnight even moreso. Oftentimes, an item is only valuable if we receive it as soon as possible - if we had to wait a month to receive a package, the whole arrangement might not have been worth it in the first place.

Furthermore, it is also plainly clear that delivery is worth more for more valuable items. This is typically communicated in the price of insuring a shipment, but plain common sense explains why people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars in delivery charges for automobiles but not for a box of tissues.

If you understand that logistics is valuable, that speed makes logistics more valuable, and that logistics is made more valuable by the value of the goods transported by it, then it really should not be such a stretch of the imagination to understand how the logistics of capital plays by exactly the same rules; it is only a question of degree and scale.
Government subsidies of an industry are an important tool where private sector investment is not sufficient to reach positive feedback loops and move up the manufacturing efficiency curve; either at all, or just not fast enough naturally.

The efficiency of public investment is often measured as the ratio of private dollars you can entice someone to invest in return for the public subsidy.

So for example, offer someone a $5,000 tax credit to install $55,000 of solar panels is a 10:1 private investment factor. This has two very important results;

1) If you have a high private investment factor it means that the thing you are subsidizing has substantial positive economic value in the real world. Those private dollars means someone has skin in the game, and actually wants the product they are buying.

2) It means the net total effect of resources being allocated to the industry is much higher per dollar of public funds being invested.

The problem I have with the Green New Deal or similar ideas is they seem to be trying to achieve a specific industrial energy base irrespective of the economic value of that basis, or the current limits of technology.

First, because it’s being driven primarily by public dollars — literally printed money whose only cost is the debasement of all savings. Second, because the goal is not fundamentally economic, it means a significant sustained drag on the economy due to more expensive energy which is a multiplicative negative effect going into the future.

Energy needs to cost less and less going into the future while also being produce cleaner and cleaner. Cheap abundant energy is a necessity for not only a growing economy but even a matter of equitable treatment and human rights.

Over the next 20 years the technological progress in renewables and storage will naturally and fundamentally change our national energy supply. Similar to the mythical man month theory, we can’t spend 10x as much and get there 10x faster.

Smart and efficient public spending with high ratios of private dollar participation has been and will continue to be successful in motivating an economical shift to clean energy. I don’t think we want to or should be spending trillions of dollars here, because frankly most of it will be wasted.

The fundamental solution to cleaner energy is in making the clean energy solutions abundantly cheaper and more reliable. Anything else is akin to trying to stay warm by lighting money on fire.
No trying to promote anything, I just did some research after reading this (in Spanish) https://elpais.com/tecnologia/2020-10-10/me-gano-la-vida-res... about people in Venezuela making money from resolving captchas
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No, we need a geothermal new deal. Nuclear is way too problematic, and MIT has estimated 240+ years worth of GT energy in the US alone.
In case people don't get the "white spray painted biycles" reference, see [1].

Berlin just got 15 more of those bikes this year already (which is more than usual, maybe due to corona).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_bike
Also, odds that the govt has secret radically advanced quantum computing tech and does have a QC to recover using Shor’s? (Yea, probably unlikely as it would takes millions of qubits to achieve this..)

How long before lattice based crypto is sufficiently vetted for wide deployment?
Australia is one of the worst offenders (per capita), let me get the numbers.

Edit:

Here are the per-capita emissions of a few countries for comparison. It's interactive, you can add and remove (click "+ Add country" for this as well) countries from the graph as you like:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-ghg-emissions?...

Article on this: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/australia?country=USA...
Have a look at the recent defmt project announced by the Knurling-rs group:

https://defmt.ferrous-systems.com/

(And consider sponsoring them if this is of value to you: https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/knurling-one-month/.)
None of them have to "win" for you to be able to use them. In fact, each excels in its own niche.
It would be interesting to gather hum-hearers together and run some experiments. I'm also in Seattle, I also hear the hum, and like you, my hum is very location-specific.
> Fifthly, the APIs were horribly designed (especially matplotlib, good grief)

I've seen comments like this fairly often, but am not really sure what about matplotlib's API makes it so bad. Hoping to learn why.

The only equal-basis competitor to matplotlib that I'm familiar with is Matlab, which is definitely worse. Declarative plotting libraries like ggplot2 have a nicer API, but the grammar of graphics approach is an entirely different paradigm, which gets as thorny as anything else if you have to do something unexpected. For the kind of medium-level plotting where you're given prepared plot elements, but have to explicitly specify where to draw them in data or figure coords, what would be an example of a "good" API (better than matplotlib)?
Please don't post this sort of snarky dross to HN, regardless of how bad an article is. The article may not deserve better, but this community deserves better if you're contributing to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: unfortunately, it looks like you've been doing a lot of this. Could you please not? We're trying for something else on this site.
What kind of Spotify automations do you have?
WHO Official Urges Halt to Lockdowns as Primary CCP Virus Control Method
I believe that's the one. Exactly the features either way.
The thing to remember about every major social/political issue is that the organizer class needs the issue more than they need the solution. Once you view the world through this lens the world begins to make more sense.
ERCOT puts their panning pipeline out in the open; I'm relying on an ERCOT expert that said this as a summary of the August 2020 XLS raw data [1]. About 950 MW is as far along to have an interconnection agreement.

Grids think of energy sources primarily in terms of power, not in terms of energy, so that's the number that gets reported to ERCOT. Grid ops dispatch W, not Wh. We may never know the exact GWh for these planned projects, but since it's likely nearly all lithium ion tech, we can expect 1-4 GWh per GW for each project, and probably an average between 2-3GWh/GW overall.

Going from less than a GWh storage currently in the entire US, to probably 20x that planned for Texas alone in the near future shows just how scalable battery tech is and how quickly it is advancing. This switch is unprecedented, and is going to catch a ton of energy folks by complete surprise. People aren't used to things changing so quickly when it comes to electrical grids. The next decade is going to be a wild ride and I can't wait to see the grid drop carbon-based generation faster than nearly anyone is imagining. Next, we need to decarbonize industry.

[1] http://mis.ercot.com/misdownload/servlets/mirDownload?mimic_...

PS: I originally replied to a "manfredo" and your username is "Manfredo_", which seems like a remarkable coincidence. Given the prevalence of paid astroturfing on these subjects, it would be good to clarify if this is just a coincidence, or if you have two accounts, or what else might be going on! Given our past discussions I'm sure your an honest commentator but it would probably help people that don't recognize your username.
They very carefully didn't mention hydrogen at all. They compared nuclear vs. renewables + batteries. It's almost as if they were setting up renewables to fail. Imagine that, in a study where half the authors are from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

Yes, if you had nuclear, you'd operate it at high capacity factor. That isn't nuclear filling in for renewables, that's using nuclear instead of renewables. It's really mostly one or the other.
Very interesting. Added my $0.02. Best wishes!
> The tools used for benchmarking were BenchmarkTools.jl for Julia, microbenchmark for R, and timeit for Python.

Is this a meaningful comparison? These benchmarks repeatedly call the function (with same input file) many times and then take the average of the time spent. However, in real world, we only read a specific file ONCE -- if we call the csv reader several times, it is almost always for different files.
But of course it’s Apple who is evil in Spotify’s eyes...
I really wanted to work for a few years in the US, but the hassle with visa put me off. I the chose the easy path to work in a fellow EU country instead.
Then I got kids quicker than I imagined, and thus all hopes to work in the US vanished instantly because of the dreadful healthcare system.

I find it sad that the ont reasonnable way to go to the US is to be healthy and single, whereas I can settle easily in any EU country knowing that there are safety nets for me and my family.
Javascript guy here, can you help me set up that Beowulf cluster so I can start testing my 2^64 cases?
Remote is more than a measure of distance on a map. Among climbers there is a logic about remote places: it took a week to get to the moon and back. There are places on rock faces and up mountians that take longer, that are more remote than the moon. In places like the alaska/canadian/russian north is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.
Another interesting place in Alaska is Whittier where almost everybody in the community lives in a single building:

https://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier...
Javis v0.2 and the Future
> <source src="myAudio.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">

I can't help but read the use of the full "source" instead of "src" for the tag name as that common human trait of desperately attempting to hide embarrassment:

<noHTMLSyntaxIsNotTheLoserYouAreTheLoser src="myAudio.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
It's not even just European lives that got better because of GDPR, we're all benefiting from having big companies forced to comply with it. I have used the "Right to erasure" multiple times with American companies just by saying I'm from Europe.
Yeah. I thought everyone knew Apple Music is shit wrt their recommendations.
Uranium seawater extraction vastly increases the accessible amount of uranium: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...

It's about an order of magnitude more expensive than mining uranium. But the cost of fuel extraction is negligible in the context of the rest of nuclear's cost.
I should apologize for reducing your response to that.

Agreed regarding "darkness within ourselves." I see (and perform, myself) plenty of self-defeat in the form of discarding possible paths because of hypothetically insurmountable external obstacles.

That said, I think there usually is a path, but many are unsure how to identify it.

Any way, clearly I need to consider and clarify my question!
I assumed the two were related - given [the real] Wellcome is quite active in COVID-19 stuff - and was very confused for a while.
Awesome and thanks, DDG! No longer need to use Google for all my direction inquiries.

Now if you could please offer a front end email service for iCloud, ProtonMail and or other privacy centric email clients (let the user choose) and a DDG full fledged news service (it could rank news sites which are privacy centric the highest) that would rock; allow me to further separate myself from using Google & support companies who share my values in one interface!
Wasn't that the NATO instead?
That still requires more tooling.
Consider also posting Aus renewables pipeline data. They’re on track to replace a large component of their fossil generation in the next 3-5 years (South Australia already has no coal) due to the amount of wind and solar ready to be (and currently being) built.

Edit: https://www.cleanenergycouncil.org.au/resources/project-trac...
Interestingly, CSV.jl can do all of those. This seems like a classic case of lack of composability in Python: you need a different CSV parser for each and every application even though the core logic of parsing the CSV format is the same. This is because anything fast has to be implemented in very concrete, specialized C code. In Julia, you can write something generic and let the compiler specialize it for you, so you get many different ways of applying the same thing for free.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone read a non-annotated version of Shakespeare.
In that case, the browser would always load the asset (it is not cached). So the rule would be that only stuff that is directly in the <head> may be cached (or stuff that is on the same domain).
You're really claiming this is a universal truth? Do you think it applies to OpenSSL? Chromium?
https://archive.is/0qZeA