skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know expat Jamaican and Dominican communities in New York that celebrate festivals yearly. I ate jerk chicken with red beans and rice last week, I don’t think that was an Anglo-Saxon invention, nor was chitlins, collard greens or other dishes. And we don’t listen to Anglo-Saxon music, as African American music isn’t descended from anglo-Saxon music at all. The fact that it’s been widely adopted in Anglo-Saxon culture doesn’t mean that they claim it’s origins at all. Gospel music and hymns do not come from Anglo-Saxon culture at all, nor does jazz, rap or blues. Gullah culture isn’t Anglo-Saxon, nor is the creole language and culture practiced around New Orleans and Louisiana. Trying to label African-American culture as Anglo-Saxon erases most of the actual history, which again comes from the African diaspora. Mexican-American culture doesn’t become ‘Anglo-saxon’ just because they now live in America and can speak English.
I wake up after about 4.5 hours of sleep "no matter what". Bedtime of 10pm or 2am, exercise or no, light exposure or no, late eating or no - always the same result. Then I'm awake for a few hours, then get my "second sleep" of 1 to 2 hours. I've been going like this for a decade without daytime sleepiness (a few oz of coffee and I'm charged up for the day), but these kinds of articles really worry me.

I have light sleep apnea, but a CPAP didn't help either. I'm old (60) so I'm considering trying melatonin to replace what I'm no longer producing, but I'm also wondering if I'm missing some other potential "staying asleep" lifestyle factors. Anyone here successfully dealt with the "stay asleep"issue other than with the variables I listed?
He's a customer, but you can verify that all the other comments are organic.
That reminds me of the old USB/IP project - something I have never used, but which always seemed interesting:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB/IP
For a long time, bromine was an important product made from brine. But that market has fallen away, since the lions share used to be made into lead scavengers for leaded petrol. The bromine works at Amlwch on Anglesey closed in 2004: https://www.octelamlwch.co.uk/

The other obvious product would be magnesium, but they didn't isolate magnesium chloride at the bromine plant. The Wylfa nuclear power station was nearby, and Rio Tinto had an aluminium smelter nearby to provide a base load. Since magnesium is oftentimes produced through electrolysis a magnesium plant would have made sense, but somehow they didn't build one, likely for economic reasons.
Germany counts a bunch of incredibly dumb stuff as "renewables," including wood burning, which is just one of the many reasons Germany's emissions are far higher than France's (another is continued support for coal use for political reasons). It gets only about 10% of its energy from solar.
Since you seem to be from Germany, you must be fully aware that the emissions problem we have is one caused by our coal power plants and not by renewables (which also means that the emissions stats that you repeatedly posted here no longer feel like an honest mistake but rather disingenuous)

You are also conflating production cost and end user prices.
The business of being a YouTube influencer with MKBHD
Well, I read this in The Economist:

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/10/17/the-persecution-of-the-uyghurs-is-a-crime-against-humanity
Using Plenti to make a simple Svelte static site
As an incognito scientist n=1 says I have seen "more church" happen, and I will probably always prefer more cowbell instead.

Sometimes a wayward son needs to carry on if they're going to find truth before they're done.
I have ~5 extra invites sitting. Let me know if you want one. Bio has my Twitter.
Oh wow, so we are spamming with fake comments on the Hacker News now?
I like it. Some of the best ideas are the simple ones.
Sydney is such a nice place. We've really fucked this planet.
Let’s please solve Nimbyism like this, before we declare that home ownership and suburbs are dead?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/business/economy/single-f...
considering divorce rates in developed countries i believe they’re wrong
Waste disposal or reprocessing are neglectible if you keep in mind that a single nuclear reactor produces electricity worth over one million US Dollars per day.

See: https://youtu.be/cbeJIwF1pVY
Creators, Not Consumers
You’re messing with these stats a lot (I assume this is not malicious). The 50% renewables are not the cause of the extra 350g of CO2 in Germany.

The way you word this it sounds like renewables == bad, when in reality Germany is burning a boat load of coal which is causing the extra emissions, while France’s emissions are offset because they have lots of Nuclear power.

Nuclear power takes 20-50 years to come online- it’s too late to rely on it and burn fossil fuels in the mean time. That ship sailed long ago.
> As a result, the right-wing tends to be a hodge-podge of largely unaffiliated political factions whose antipathy to one-another is only constrained by their unified foe.

That is the best description I've ever heard for the US political right.
Yes, I know this will be protocol too - I don't even have any expectations Poland will handle it better too, but that's a different topic. But that's why I mentioned "Jumping head first". Because that's what they effectively did.
> Which server was the experiment done on and which servers were federated with?

They discuss this in their earlier post (https://infosec-handbook.eu/news/2020-05-31-monthly-review/#...):

"We experienced the shutdown of our Mastodon instance twice. So, we migrated from securitymastod.one to mastodon.at, and then to chaos.social. Each time, we lost all of our posts, leaving behind a considerable number of dead links."

IMO organizations should self-host (same as with email, if you have a domain name that you are commonly associated with). If you aren't doing this, you don't fully understand the mechanics of the Fediverse or the underlying W3C ActivityPub protocols.

edit: by self-host, I mean either run your own infra or subcontract that out to a competent vendor. I don't literally mean self-host in the strictest sense.
The hardcore option (within my ability to conceive of, possibly beyond my ability to execute):

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/117066/Can+I+Mod+an+earl...

This will involve some kind of DisplayPort-to-LVDS board (or HDMI/DVI/VGA-to-LVDS). LVDS is the type of input on LCD panels.

If "amazing screen" means retina, one question is whether there is even a board available that can output high enough resolution for good results.

This page seems to have good info: https://jared.geek.nz/2015/apr/driving-fpdlink-displays

Anyway, the advantage would be you can plug directly into it and get full performance (no lag, full bandwidth) because you've basically converted it into a monitor.
I don't remember saying you didn't... Of course you still have to check RAIM availability, but you don't have to plan an alternate with a different approach type.
I'd guess because of "check" from Cyclic Rendundancy Check. It's not an actual CRC, and the check is intended for human eyes rather than for a machine, but it's still a checking tool.
> The expectation going forward is that something like 80 percent of new households that will form over the next 15 years will be these one to two person households. A lot of them would prefer an apartment or a condo—smaller units.

I don’t get their conclusion, because I think there are many other benefits to home ownership outside of size typically being bigger than an apartment or condo. Having outdoor space, no HOA that can impose restrictions, added privacy, etc...
Well, certain tweets from certain embassies have been close contenders recently.
Psychology is such a garbage field. It seems like every feel-good counterintuitive TED talk myth of the past few decades is falling apart under scrutiny.
The horror of Apple: not just one repairshop, but a whole street full of them.
Let me rephrase. Codepoints are even less useful than abstract glyphs, cf. https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing... (I don't agree 100% with the write-up, and in particular I would say that working on EGCs is still just punting the problem one more layer without resolving it; see some of my other posts in this thread. But it makes an attempt at clarifying the issue here.)

The choice of the bytes view specifically is just that it's the most popular view from which you can achieve one specific primitive: figuring out how much space a (sub)string occupies in whatever representation you store it in. A byte length achieves this. Of course, a length in bits or in utf-32 code units also achieves this, but I've found it rather uncommon to use utf-32 as a transfer encoding. So we need at least one string type with this property.

Other than this one particular niche, a codepoint view doesn't do much worse at most tasks. But it adds a layer of complexity while also not actually solving any of the problems you'd want it to. In fact, it papers over many of them, making it less obvious that the problems are still there to a team of eurocentric developers ... up until emoji suddenly become popular.

Now, I can understand the appeal of making your immediate problems vanish and leaving it for your successors, but I hope we can agree that it's not in good taste.
I find that writing React apps is easier for me than writing HAML apps. I have a system now where I can get both but I was wondering if that system is encoded as a framework. I tried the next.js suggestion from the other guy and it’s far short of rails so I think I’ll stick to my thing for now.
New free course: Liquibase Commands for Troubleshooting
Funny, I've been looking at buying large plots (50+ acres) of land with similar ideas. I have a hard time with pulling the trigger knowing that the projects become all-encompassing once you get started.
Not to mention the large amount of real-estate that a solar farm requires. Which isn't always convenient either given that it only works in sunny places.

Solar will only ever be a part of the picture, not the whole thing.
hack the planet, man.

(really, just use responsibly, like any tool. You’re overthinking it)
Yep, and Germany proves that renewables don’t help to drive down emissions in the energy sector unless you can use abundant amounts of hydro power.

Germany has 50% renewables, yet their kWh causes 400 grams of CO2 on average while France with 70% nuclear causes 50 grams of CO2 per kWh on average.
Exactly how it looks - “Spack”
Let's be honest here--nuclear is not "ideal" for baseload, and it is indeed inflexible w.r.t. power output. What's actually ideal for baseload are fossil fuels. Unfortunately, those aren't going to be an option going forward, so we have to choose between a number of less-than-ideal options. I think it would be better to be realistic about the tradeoffs of those options than to try to argue that we actually aren't giving anything up.
The WEF 'weforum' website is often laughably weak. McKinsey & the WEF are endlessly trying to portray what their ideal future will look like and will cherry pick statements that back up their goals.

Here is the IEA web page for their 120 euro 'World Energy Outlook 2020' publication.

https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2020
Solar
https://www.iea.org/fuels-and-technologies/solar

I couldn't find the assertion about 'cheapest electricity in history' has anyone else seen the actual report?

The International Energy Agency is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation established in the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in 1974 in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis. ~ Wikipedia
transform is not a shorthand: rather, it’s a set of transformation functions, akin to how background-image is a set of background images.

The new properties for individual transforms (translate, rotate, scale) are new, supplementing the transform property and not supplanting it. See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms-2/#individual-transf... and https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms-2/#ctm for details.
> This makes perfect sense, the US has almost 5 times more population than the UK.

5 (UK Police-induced deaths including Terrorists and the like) times 5 is not 1000.

> You can't just change GP, you have to do some bureaucratic BS first afaik.

The website I linked says change GP, and it's not that difficult to do in my experience (It's still annoyingly non-automated).

> Do you have the option to leave the country in order to get a second opinion from a doctor in the EU?

Practically I think it would arguably be malpractice if your GP ignored you if you did of your own accord, but with Brexit I genuinely don't know what the framework is anymore.

https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/healthcare-abroad/going-abr...

But contrary to what you seemed to be implying they don't stop you from doing that or paying for it yourself.

The NHS is not without flaws, and is arguably (I would certainly argue) empirically worse than other alternatives in Europe, but all this death-panel crap is literally just regurgitated anti-Obamacare talking points from a decade ago with almost no relevance to the ills actually plaguing single-payer healthcare.
That's a non-sequitur. The person I was replying to said you always have to plan at least one airport with a non-GPS approach.
As someone who’s never used any fediverse software, I found this post entirely uninteresting and irrelevant. It sounds like the author had some beef with random people they found online and want to portray this as a systemic issue.
I'm pretty bearish on SPACs tbh. Not in the immediate future but 2-3 years out (most of 2021 will be spent on vaccines so I'm sure there will be more stimulus added to the economy).

It's just bonkers that there's so many companies that you can take public with this mechanism without more than a handful being duds so it just seems like market participants who are able to launch SPACs are doing so to take advantage of the mkt conditions to cash out. Also, there are no incentives to keep the SPAC promoters as long term shareholders so they really don't have any reason to not dump their shares after a little bit of time unless they see that these companies will have sustained growth. So to me (with a few exceptions) this seems like a massive pump and dump scheme but with more sophisticated players.

I had initially assumed that there was only a little bit of extra cash floating around in the US on the account of the two stimulus bills passed but I recently read in an article on Bloomberg that the US Govt/Fed bought something in the neighbourhood of $5 TRILLION worth of corporate bonds in 2020 alone to keep the mkts from freezing, etc. And that number that really seemed absolutely unreal to me. Out of that, a lot of it went to companies (esp. those controlled by Private Equity) to pay dividends to their owners. Lots of share repurchases as well I'm sure. So lots of cash floating around with investors for SPACs to keep chugging along till the US keeps adding more money to the mkts.
The costs of disposing of nuclear waste don't come out of the energy bill, they come directly out of taxes. This needs to be factored in, because this cost continues long after the plant is decommissioned.
I recently tried advocating for using htmx for our frontend, but had a hard time even articulating what it is. Calling it a framework seemed disingenuous because, well, HTML+HTTP is the "framework," htmx is just an extension on top. At the end of it all, we went with InertiaJS with a component library -- not a bad alternative in its own right -- but I was hoping to do away with the frontend/backend distinction entirely. I hope I get to use your library in production someday, tho! Nice work!
This seems perfectly healthy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biphasic_and_polyphasic_sleep
"The toxic “us vs. them” ideology"

Very good point.

On the one hand, Twitter is full of shit and people need to protect themselves from it.

On the other hand, people tend to protect themselves too much and end up in a bubble that can be toxic too.
One of my cars does 30 miles a day and is in the driveway from 1600-0730, so needs 10kwH in 15 hours, or a draw of 700W. 10 years ago the lights in my house drew about 700W.

The other car does 6 miles 3 times a week and is in the driveway almost all the time.

Sure, there are whales that do 300 miles a week, but that's not most people.

Looking at a sample of about 13 million vehicles that passed MOT tests in both 2018 and 2019, and thus reported the milage

Percentiles
20%: 2700
40%: 4800
50%: 6000
60%: 7000
80%: 10500
90%: 14000
95%: 17000

Lets assume that's all commuting over 5 days a week, 47 weeks a year. That means in an average 12 hour night:

20% of cars would need less than 11 miles of charge, or 4kWh -- 350W

Another 20% of cars would need less than 21 miles of charge, or 7kWh -- 600W

Another 20% of cars would need less than 10kWh -- 850W

Another 20% of cars would need less than 15kWh -- 1.25kW

Another 15% of cars would need 24kWh -- 2kW

All of that is less than a kettle, an average 13A plug is more than enough.

Now if those mileages include many people doing long distance drives at weekends and not regular commuting, the actual top-up needed every night isn't anywhere near as much. Some cars will do lots of miles at the weekend and need to draw the full 3kW out of a standard socket, sure. My kettle doesn't have an issue with doing that. For every car needing that full charge on a Sunday and during the rest of the week, there's a dozen that don't. OK, your battery might be down to 10% on Sunday night, but then you charge it to 20% for Monday morning, drop to 17% after your commute, charge to 27% Tuesday, and so on.

100A, or even 60A, house breakers aren't going to have an issue with keeping 95% of cars topped up, so you're at the next level. On the rare occasion you need to fully recharge really quickly, go to a specialist location with a 20kW+ charger. The data shows that most people won't need that most of the time.

Looking at newer cars -- ones made in 2016 (and thus having first MOT in 2019), you'd think they'd have a higher mileage. And they do, median is 8400, and 80%ile is 13,300, 95% 22700 -- about 30% higher in each bracket, but that's still well within a home charge range, even for the 95%ile, and only 1 in 4 cars are new enough to be in that category, so median mileage of all cars would be under 7,000 miles a year range.

You're right there's a grid level problem -- the dip in power generation in the UK overnight is about 10GW, which could sustain about 14 million cars - not too great when there's more than twice that needing power.

Assuming that in a given area cars are distributed fairly evenly as above, with some cars needing 24kWh a night, but others needing 4kWh, the average overnight draw would still only be 700W, that doesn't feel like it's going to trip neighbourhood substations, but further upstream could be problems.
The price of electricity is not only generation cost, which represent c. 30% of your total energy bill.
You probably have a very natural sleep rhythm. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sleepless-in-america...
The OP misrepresents every time there is a positive solar energy story, using the same Germany story as an example.
A significant student population definitely helps lead to a happy medium between the hollowed out downtown and the boutique/art gallery/wine bar extremes.
I think that's just the rat race. Wherever you go, there you are. The company you keep at 50k / yr is probably different than at 100k / yr and certainly different than at 500k / yr.
I think that is quite manageable, if the decline is gradual. Especially if there people in other, less demographically challenged countries, that are willing to emigrate.
Also a lot of pressure is being put on being a child in SK so no wonder people refuse to have children and put them through a torturous schooling system.
I know what you mean but your opinion is convenient since you don’t live in a lithium mining town. Look up documentaries about that.
I work in CGI and I'm happy to see Python moving forward, I'm so sad CGI is still lacking of broad Python 3 support. This industry was top notch 10 years ago but its inability to handle Python 3 migration since years despite its ubiquitous usage make me realize it's no more an industry driving domain.
I think you are just describing the difference between a bill (what is debated and discussed during the legislative process), and the compendium of statutes (or regulations, etc.) that is updated via the legislative process.

My understanding is that there are always administrative departments responsible for updating and publishing the statutes based on the bills that have been passed. This is effectively applying a patch approved by the legislative process to the repository of statutes.

If you try to dig into a mainstream news story about legislative actions to the actual bill text you'll quickly find that for all but the simplest actions the bill text is useless for understanding the effect of the bill. The problem is that you need the surrounding context of the statute or regulation that is being amended in order to understand. At least for my state and the US federal legislative systems, the web based UI for understanding all this is abysmal.

The cynic in me thinks that legislators don't even understand the true nature of their own legislation. They are making voting decisions based on staff summaries, verbal discussions, media reports, constituent sentiment analysis, etc.
Ask HN: Do you identify your website’s visitors?
If yes, what do you do with the identified companies/persons?

From technical point, are you using a 3rd party service, a custom solution, or Google API?

Also, if you have any opinion on privacy/ethics of doing this, curious to hear what you think.
I have one friend who has a PhD in Future Studies. He said there are benefits to a slow population decline and the downsides are completely manageable.

It's very hard to convince leaders of that though. You'll notice the conclusory comment in the FA, 'Falling fertility rates have been a problem in the world’s wealthiest nations – notably in Japan and Germany – for some time.' Most will skip right past that nodding their head despite the author providing zero evidence or support for that.

I think part of that is people associate population decline with places that suffered some economic insult and lost sustainability. Mill closed everyone scattered to the winds kind of thing. That's not the same thing as declining fertility.
Of all the things people complain about with solar, this is by far the strangest. Perform any calculations you like and you'll find that the area required to power the entire world with solar would be quite small; the only issue it has (but don't get me wrong, it is a big one) is the need for storage.
California man blasts Texas 'dystopia' in Op-Ed after moving to Austin